I'm amazed this went faster than my Hard mode PB considering the rough start I went off to. But some of the things I learned from this:

1. My other SNES controller does not work, so I can't plug it into the player 2 slot and have it put in the password for me.
2. I can just play this game with my working controller in the player 2 slot and just not move it back to the player 1 slot.

So there we go. Also I'm only 10 seconds slower than the WR (at the time of posting) now, so uh, that's looking to be within reach.