I was saying the exploit with the time not running in the menu. That is my fault for not checking if time was running in the menu screens.
Let's see, I started playing roughly 2:41am, went to bed at 3am, woke up at 12pm, and sent the message saying i beat the game abit before 5pm. Ofc, I did still have breakfast etc and checked my email before actually playing the game.
So, my time would probably be roughly 14 hours 15 minutes, assuming the clock would still count the time I was asleep, eating breakfast, etc.
Played the newest version; i'm now unsure if it's even possible to get into a store .-. My team just keeps battling until they get to a splitter slime who has something like 12+ attacks per turn, and then they (unsurprisingly) die. I've found some directional stuff, but i have no idea how to activate or put it on them. I tried using it just like all the other morale stuff but there's no indicator, and it seemed to have no effect on the outcome.