the hurdles in 110M hurdles don't behave consistenly for each race. I did try to optimize the handling of hurdles for the first race, but it doesn't matter since you have to wait for the opponent to finish anyway.
As a possible suggestion, I really enjoyed watching the previous TAS' DVD icon bouncing approach, especially if you can get it to work out for the fireball / missiles bits for example and make the game look trivialised as a result, strong superplay vibes :O Anyways, I don't wanna be asking too much of you. The run is in an acceptable state as is, though I appreciate the effort you've gone through already to receive feedback and improve on the entertainment aspect.
More specifically, is including the message that I do in the level worth the time? Or should I scrap that to do something else? In case you didn't notice, at 9:22 in my encode of this submission, I spelled out "Lobsterzelda was here" on the screen using the movement of the toads' jets.
nor can I use RAM search or savestates for checking values or optimization
To me it's incongruent with previous judgments that have been made. For example, the version of Samurai Shodown II in [3739] Arcade Samurai Shodown II by NhatNM in 11:36.43 is near identical to the version in [2709] PSX Samurai Shodown II by NhatNM in 17:10.02. When I discussed it with you, you suggested that the fact that they were different platforms was enough to not warrant obsoletion. Meanwhile here we have two games with differing rules, and yet we must only pick one or the other. These two games are far more different from each other than that previous example. This is why I feel there is a bias present. It makes little sense to me otherwise.
They both explicitly aim for ingame time. It's just one aims to manipulate the ingame time in a specific method that the other one bans.