Lots of new strats made the sub-8 much easier. We had:

• Prospect missions, to get two items from each 1F wondermail mission (couldn't prospect for Unown stones though, so had to get creative with the routing)
• Dinner skip (free minute saved)
• Shadygamer's brute-force wondermail generator (at the time of this run, I had only used it on some codes, so still some timesave there)
• Better Infinite Revives; used a broken Treasure Hunt mission that turned Beach Cave 1F into Zero Isle North 75F's reward chamber, where all the items could be turned into revives without having to open the boxes like before.

This run itself was ultimately only about as good as my old 8:03; after a rough start, I ended up with the greatest Any% I've ever seen in a Darkrai run (5:07), but it was immediately ruined by an abysmal postgame. I got trolled left and right as soon as I set foot in Sky Peak, even losing the Mobile Scarf to a trip trap and having to wondermail it back in. I had to do one other extra code later as well, because at one point I chose the wrong mission to complete. This mistake at least gave me extra Pure Seeds for me to cheese Dark Crater with, however, so that was a free couple of golds lol.

All in all, not a bad demonstration, but definitely improvable with better luck in postgame.