Geeze, even with TAS skill you only have 15 left on the timer (~45 seconds). I can't believe anyone's ever managed to beat Mania difficulty with the good ending on console.
IIRC the rooms you need to enter are selected randomly
Looking ahead and testing with the robot AI, it seems that the white robots don't self-destruct at all (or at least I can't get them to). All the other robots can, but only if they have 1x or more starting health, and they only gain the ability to self-destruct when their health drops to a certain value (just above a lifebar). For example, I grabbed a robot with that much health as its starting health, let go, and it instantly self-destructed. There's also one last piece to this puzzle, and I think it may be a random factor. Sometimes robots self-destruct after interaction with the player, sometimes they don't (unless you change what you're doing), and sometimes they'll explode only because a player is close to them (like in Stage 6). This is just what I've observed, so it could be inaccurate. There's only so much I can determine without looking at the game's code/memory.
Will you get all the racing robots in beginning of the factory? I don't know if it's possible, but it probably is. You can get the robots on screen to stop temporarily by grabbing and throwing a different robot.
Any plans for Robot Y? It would be cool if you didn't just cheese him with constant jump kicks like everybody usually do.
This glitch will be help from future improvements? http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xr480s_bare-knuckle-iii-wall-glitch_videogames?search_algo=2#.UbtbmNgQPSg
Not sure if it could be applied in a way that would be suitable for max speed in a TAS, but you can apparently skip the credits scene by dying and opting to quit out while getting Neo X/Robot Y to kill himself with your flying body: http://youtu.be/pP5cksstsvI Would that count as beating the game by TASVideos standards?
