Seems there's a bit of controversy over this run, but I voted yes because even if some tricks are missing, it's better than having no run of the game at all. I found it entertaining, even thought my untrained eye spotted a few questionable tactics.

You didn't go through the spot with the platforms where you have to duck as fast as possible. There was another platform you have to wait for in this level - But it has to spawn first. So maybe you thought, it didn't matter how fast you manage the first platform spot? (not sure about this anymore)

Questions: 1: Could you have gotten into the pipe at the end of the last level of Space Zone any faster? 2: Macro Zone 1: Were the weird waits necessary for the platforms? No way to get though faster? 3: Turtle Zone 2: Was the wall glitch (and assumably 2 hits you took in order to do it) necessary? If so, why and how much time did you save?

1. When I just checked that out, it appeared to be improvable by 6 frames..

"Voted yes", liked the movie a lot. This game is really neat and I appreciated seeing more of it this time. Not too many "extra"ordinary events, but certainly it appears to be fast. So is anyone working on an improvement, if that is in fact possible?

Using the J rom for something as mundane as ~2 seconds of boss animations a few times in the run is silly. The game mechanics are the same, and all this selection does is frusterate the people watching your runs. only use a non-(u) rom if you have a good reason to do so. Voting no for bad rom choice.

Use the (U) version of a ROM unless there is a good reason not to (as an example a shortcut/trick which only works in a different version, or superior music), or the version does not exist. If you decide to start to a run using a version other than (U), make a post on the forum detailing why — this is to prevent future complications.

Everything else is the same, even the credits!

[23:45:13] <adelikat> faster cutscenes/text is not a good reason [23:45:16] <adelikat> for J rom [23:45:29] <adelikat> however, what you describe the submission text doesn't sound like cutscenes [23:46:01] <Xkeeper> The reason why I picked the (J) ROM is simple. When a boss dies, it flies up, and then down, quite slowly. In the (J) ROM, if the boss is sent outside the screen on its way up, the battle will end there, saving ~2 seconds each fight it's applicable (Moon boss and the three pigs). There is close to no text in this game anyway, so no entertainment value is cut off. [23:46:08] <Xkeeper> adelikat: slightly shorter animation in any case. [23:46:15] <adelikat> but not a cutscene [23:46:31] <Xkeeper> what do you define "cutscene" as [23:46:38] <adelikat> I think the rule had something in mind related to shorter text = shorter text scenes

Shits and giggles? I beg to differ, the run is ~6 seconds shorter because of this.

Shits and giggles? I beg to differ, the run is ~6 seconds shorter because of this.

I am just going to say that I don't think anybody considers this a "shortcut" that was removed from the US; I think that was made with things like Rygar (which had a huge warp glitch in only one version) in mind. I don't see how saving 6 seconds because of a shorter animation is any different than saving 6 seconds by, say, a shorter conversation with Dr.Light or whatever. You're not actually doing anything to save time other than loading a different ROM. But that is my opinion and I am not a judge, so take it however you want. (Printing it out and using it as a ball for trashcan basketball is always an option.)

Near 17:00, you get two hit, to get inside a wall, and then you have to wait for the two wooden spike to go down and up, wouldn't it be faster if you got hit by those two spike instead of waiting ?