Well, this is a run, so now I can say I did it.

Since this is such a massively long video, here's an edited highlight video that takes a little less time to watch:

As far as I know, this is the only speedrun of this version that has been recorded thus far. It's not a particularly good run. Apart from resetting twice in Earth Cave and once in Temple of Chaos, I went the wrong way several times and mismanaged my equipment a bit. So there's lots of room for improvement, for someone. Probably not me.

The key difference between MSX and Famicom is that MSX has a game-breaking bug where monsters' elemental weaknesses are ignored, and their elemental resistances are treated as weaknesses. That means that magic is extremely effective during the endgame. So my strategy is heavily focused on spamming as much magic damage as possible.

Note that this is done using a flash-based virtual disk drive, so load times are almost instantaneous. That may affect how this run compares to any future runs played on physical floppies.

Played on a Panasonic FS-A1WX using a Carnivore 2 flash cartridge. Captured with a RetroTink 2X SCART. Final time determined by counting frames in Avidemux.