Dude.

Plenty of new tech here. We discovered that pressing Esc on every hop helps mitigate the crashes, finally eliminating the 15-second intentional quit-and-relaunch. (It's also hell on my left pinky.) Rope skip saves about 40 seconds; add the wait cancels in the water rooms, and there was a minute of timesave just from new strats.

That aside though, this run was really clean. Did lose a few seconds at the pillars, and the dragon arcade could have been a bit faster, but I'm very happy with this. Will leave this category here... until inevitably we find new tech again...

Played in DOSBox 0.74, maximum cycles. Stream VOD: