Recorded on Snes9x 1.52. So far, this is an improvement of 1295 frames over Fladdermus' movie (I know it's not a completely accurate comparison, seeing as how his run was done on Snes9x 1.43). No clue if I'll be able to see this to the end, though... Anyway, waiting to equip the Short Sword at the same time as the Power Ring (needed to bypass the slimes at low levels) saved something like 1/4 of a second, due to pulling up the equipment screen only once. It would've been a little more time saved, except I had to sacrifice some frames to jump over the enemies (particularly the first ones) prior to that, instead of slashing right through them (unless traversing slopes, jumping wastes 2 frames vs. normal walking). Also, the blue ogre enemy I took damage on seemed to be unavoidable without a weapon equipped, however, it's still better than equipping the Short Sword as soon as possible (same for the bird just before Dulan, but there's nothing to be done about that without waiting, or equi...
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