The first 2/3rds of the run were pretty poor to be honest, leaving me far behind, yet somehow I managed to pull it back to -35s on collecting the last Power Bomb, only to throw it all away missing the Energy Tank spark, running out of Supers against Iron Ted and then not quite getting the Exit Spark.
1:03:15, a whopping 1:26 faster IGT. There's still a fair bit of time I can make up too, as early in the run I was -30 but Ridley (as usual) had other plans and I came out of there on +11. Pulled it back to end the game on -1:40, but it could easily have been a 2 minute saving.
Should have been much faster - I had a stonking Ridley area, hitting the Unknown Item at -1:14. However I then proceeded to completely balls up the Mother Brain fight, eventually escaping in the ship on even time. Still, managed to claw 33 seconds back to hit the PB but I'm honestly upset at that :/
Twitch was having kittens so the video is split into the four parts below:
Oh my God, I'm so happy ! I did a very nice run (well, for me it is =p), so I improved my PB on any% SS from 34:17 to 31:53. I didn't think I could do it, but here I am. I am still so far away from great times by Eagle or Kirby for example, but I'm very happy for what I have done =)
Other than losing 10 seconds between Unknown Item I and Speed Booster and a further five before Hi-Jump, this run was all green and gold - I ended up 3 minutes ahead RTA and shaved 2:40 off IGT. That Sub 1 hour will be mine!
I will be! I made a large mistake in Ridley, falling down the shaft before the Super Missiles and two Missile Packs, and had to shinespark back up. The timeloss there coupled with the time I lost earlier should be enough to make up the 15 seconds I need for sub 1 hour. :)