My first any% new game run on Dreamcast, pretty happy with it. Did pretty good on the stairs, had a pretty good Dou Niu fight too. Made mistakes that cost me a several minutes overall, but nothing went majorly wrong.

This is on the JP version which crashes when finding Ren in Pigeon Park if you don't trigger the Joy cutscene in Lucky Charm Qr when the road to Wise Man's Qr is under construction. That loses some time, especially in this category because of the cutscene.

I split late at the end because I didn't even see the prompt while mashing, splits say 5:05:49 but it's really 5:05:46 looking at the video.

Sub-5 hours should be totally doable for a consistent runner. Gonna leave this category here and play new game+ though!