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There we go, new Marina% Deluxe WR! So.. I actually beat the WR 5 months ago back in July (6/7/24), same time as I beat the Marina% Deluxe Decathlon WR, but because of forgetting to upload it, and then clearing some space on my hard drive, I guess I ended up deleting that run. So WR would have been 1:39:47. After realising that run was lost, I wanted to not only get a new WR for the board, but beat that lost WR. I thought since that happened first try, this would happen first try. But it didn't. I had 2 failed runs, one that got to 11-5 that would have had a minute of time save that I gave up on due to big helix difficulties, then I had a finished run that just bled all the time save in the late game, mainly 11-4 being the nail in the coffin, but I finished that run for practise. This was the 3rd run and I'm glad I stuck with it because this is a solid PB!

The early game is actually not great in this run. I was pretty slow compared to my PB. Was close to resetting. But kept going, pushing through, and played pretty strong. Overall, there were 3 losses I think, 3-3, 4-5 and 10-5, but there was also a lot of slow down and too many close calls. Also, 2 moments in the run where the game spent 20 seconds EACH TIME "writing" my save file. Don't know if there's something that triggers that or how to avoid it. But yeah, a flawless, strong run of this could definitely sub-1:30:00. Don't know if I'd try to make that happen one day. But this a solid WR for now! Also, it's cool someone else was able to take the WR for a while in this obscure category.