Feel free to create a thread for this game in https://tasvideos.org/Forum/Subforum/20 so it's more easily available, and people who want to follow your progress will subscribe to that thread.
There's also this page I wrote about tasing mindset https://tasvideos.org/TasingGuide/TASArt
I've discovered that you can unlock the Director's Cut mode through an in-game cheat: on the ''select a slot'' screen, hold L and tap up, R, select, R, up, select, select. Source: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/gba/589599-bruce-lee-return-of-the-legend/cheats This is allowed for submissions.
From watching casually it seems good, but from looking at it in TAStudio it becomes clear that there are small pauses across the whole movie. In order for a movie to be published, it should feature typical TASing optimization. Specifically, each input should be done as soon as possible, without waiting.
That being said, here's the entire Act 1 done on Director's Cut difficulty which is equivalent to Time Challenge in terms of damage dealt and taken. It's 1189 frames faster (gameplay alone) that the submission file.
First I'm going to provide a correction to the author's verification movie it erases Slot 1 and 2 making them accessible from the start as "Reset Memory" would delete the unlocks from the game (and in making this post I just found out there's a cheat that allows you to unlock these faster). Second. I don't think this should be branched, or well using this mode as it's just the game with a timer counting down in the bottom left running at whatever difficulty it's equivalent to. In saying that, I also have my own file which is 307 frames faster (gameplay alone) before entering the swarm of enemies fight. The author has a lot of very RTA like input going on with mashing about before the title screen (that's input being held down) and late start presses when they're needed to be sooner, basically saying there's a lot of room to be cleaned up. It's a good opener by the author, but there's a lot of room to be improved. Best of luck.
First I'm going to provide a correction to the author's verification movie it erases Slot 1 and 2 making them accessible from the start as "Reset Memory" would delete the unlocks from the game (and in making this post I just found out there's a cheat that allows you to unlock these faster). Second. I don't think this should be branched, or well using this mode as it's just the game with a timer counting down in the bottom left running at whatever difficulty it's equivalent to. In saying that, I also have my own file which is 307 frames faster before entering the swarm of enemies fight. The author has a lot of very RTA like input going on with mashing about before the title screen (that's input being held down) and late start presses when they're needed to be sooner, basically saying there's a lot of room to be cleaned up. It's a good opener by the author, but there's a lot of room to be improved. Best of luck.
We only allow runs starting from a savestate if it is the only option to access the particular feature that the run uses. For example, Super Mario Land "hard mode" is allowed to start from a savestate because SML doesn't have saves, and hard mode requires beating the game and immediately continuing into hard mode from there. This is because we can't really verify the legitimacy of a savestate by itself. A state could appear completely legitimate, but it could have been created through illegitimate means, and theoretically it would be near impossible to tell. Time Challenge mode in this game requires beating the game twice, once on Normal mode and again on the unlocked Director's Cut mode. In this case, we'd require a separate verification movie that beats the game twice in order to set up the save file, and this run would have to start from reset using that save file. VBA supports doing this, and while we don't exactly recommend using VBA anymore (it's severely outdated, inaccurate, and unsupported), the fact that it supports starting from SRAM at all means that a savestate should not be used for this run.