Done.

The session started really well; but after that the RNG turned worse and worse, the game ate more and more inputs, and mental and physical exhaustion started affecting my level of play. This would have been the last run of the session (and almost certainly the whole SQ1 grind) anyway; and I'm very, very glad it ended as it did.

Timesaves compared to the 3:47 came from better execution, even better RNG, a tiny command optimization ("fill card") that I discovered while playing 100%, and a couple of extra zips on Arcada that I also originally added while playing 100%. Thanks to everyone who watched the stream and cheered me on!

Played in DOSBox 0.74, 38720 cycles, Tandy emulation. (Technical note: I experimented with various cycle rates during the stream, and 38720 seems good, since it positions you really well for the timed zips on Arcada, and also works nicely for the risky zip on Kerona. I think the 3:27 was at 39930 cycles, but I moved away from that after a massively frustrating streak of deaths by input loss during the Kerona zip. One cause of eaten inputs in AGI games is a key being hit or registered during a screen transition, and I think the cycles tweak helped me there by slightly affecting when the screen transition happened.)

Stream VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1976173820