Sonic 1 (SMS) Speedrun:

"Beat the Game" category of Sonic 1 for the Sega Master System completed in 16:25 (timer shown on screen slowly veered off). Timing starts when you start the game (when the title screen disappears), and ends once you enter the final teleporter after defeating the final boss. Timing method is RTA-TB, which means that all time spent counting down time bonuses is not considered. This run was compared to 16:31 splits completed two weeks before. The sum of best segments after this run was over stood at 15:53.
FUCK
YES
HOW MUCH I SUFFERED TO GET THIS
LET ALONE IN VIDEO

This is not the first improvement I've had on my old 16:50 I achieved early January this year. I had a 16:40 recorded on July 13, but with no audio (see    • Sonic 1 SMS 16:40 session  ) and a 16:30 recorded on July 28, but with terrible laggy gameplay thanks to Streamlabs (see https://youtu.be/V7nbYNx0pik/edit). I am so glad the video is not shit for once.

Literally third run of the session. First one was to get the autosplitter going, second one I died to the first enemy and the third one, well is this one. I literally practiced nothing before. What you see is basically what I had on screen today.

As for this run, it went pretty well. Lab1 ending saw me drop some inputs so I botched the ending, and Sky Base 2 handed me horrible RNG. Those were pretty much the only non-forced mistakes. I decided not to go for a slightly faster strat in Lab1 because I didn't practice it before; and Lab2 had bad spear RNG so I couldn't do a cool underwater strat, but oh well, maybe next time.

The speedrun of this game is really easy to learn, I highly recommend that if you decide to start running this category, you go watch The8bitbeast's tutorial, which can be found here: https://www.speedrun.com/s1sms/guide/...