I saw zarc0nis doing runs in this category and getting some good paces so I took a few cracks at improving my time. This was a pretty good run. Unfortunately I got bad chicken RNG in the Desert and had to kill a chicken rather than walk by it and death abuse on it to wrap to the beginning of the screen. Oh well.

Absolute miracle that I didn't get hit in Hell.

5:4x is possible in this category but that will be the limit. There's no way to get 5:3x without screen skip glitches.

Played on RGB-modded NES console using EverDrive N8 Pro.

[MOD NOTE] Retimed to 5:54.167 (Video Time - frame 108 to frame 21358), though milliseconds are not very relevant for the category yet