Very bad Taros, it's a miracle that this run even finished. I was actually about to reset, so I just tried a few to see if the run could be saved and then we had the best grind I've ever had, which made up more time than we lost on Taros (as compared to my old PB). I think the best time to expect on the current route is somewhere around 2:25:xx taros, but how much attack peter has and what his experience is at makes a difference. 2:30:xx taros is pretty attainable so that's easily 8 minutes we can save by then.

Unfortunately we still had a ton of mistakes other than Taros with having to fight polca 2x, reaper 2x, not putting mithril on eric before red baron and not promoting him before dwarven village manipulation. And I'm not even sure how much time Jaro going down in the Zeon fight lost, plus a handful of other smaller mistakes. Thankfully for the most part we only lost about 3 minutes at a time. So while I do think we could save another 15-20 minutes, theoretically there's probably over 30 minutes of time-save still. You're just never going to get all of your gold splits in the same run, so it's a bit tough to say that the time could go much lower than that with current tech. Sure, maybe I could have documented some of this stuff before sniping WR, but what fun would that be?!

Time for a category split?

Emulator: Bizhawk 2.3.2