I've long been a proponent of changing the question to "Which tier does this belong to?" "Moon / Vault / Reject" since the current question doesn't distinguish between the latter two categories and is all but worthless for improvements. Alas.
Using the ladder for the downward wall clip is brilliant. It inspired me to go back and look at the routes again. I might have found something. I got the Dark World right wall clip to work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3x-NnF59Zg Currently, Girl-to-Warp takes ~56 seconds. This route is very close to that time. It has to be optimally TASed to find out whether it's faster or slower. It's about a 50/50 chance I think. Here is the route to take: http://i.imgur.com/O2kpqAq.png The trick is that you have to spawn a flying dark reaper that drops stuff on you. You have to go just a little bit to the left when you reach the bottom. Then have him follow you over to the right side. When you go down the long ladder in this route, it should be possible to manipulate some of those quick downward slides by randomly stopping. That might be enough to make it faster. Another issue: is every gunshot necessary? It seems like a loss of time to pick up the second gun.
I'm really motivated to begin the 32 track MKW TAS, but currently Dolphin's Wiimote TAS Input doesn't offer full range of inputs possible.
Not fully sure what you're asking, but yes, it is possible to complete the Pokedex in any one Gen II game without ACE. A movie that did that would likely be quite boring, though it might arguably be vaultable as a 100% category.
If I recall correctly, Arc or FODA figured out this kind of way to trigger the credits around the time of the last published run. There was some discussion in the forums that ultimately rejected this kind of ending for looking sloppy. I guess standards about input endings have changed enough, though, in the last years. It's a pretty good-looking improvement of a pretty mediocre game. It is annoying how many lives you have to lose, though, to get the Game Over.
