Decided to submit this to see if we can get decimal timing. I played this back in March on original NES console.

This WR is 4 frames faster than my previous WR. Might need decimal timing now.

From the frame the sprites disappear on character selection to the frame GOAL appears for the 10th goal, I get 2:02.767. The previous record is a 2:02.833 timed the same way.