hey i would love to see a speed run of it. i'm just saying that it would be extremely hard to do. i myself could'nt sit around a whole day watching it, but if the author could make say 10 "parts" or seperate movie files to view them in mabye an hour at a time that would be perfect to me. to me this is jsut a very rough estimate of how long it could take.
1.) running around leveling. you cant skimp on this. depending how hard the author is making the game for himself, 2 - 10 hours. for numbers sake, say 4. (this is killing all monsters on the way to the next person/area you need to go to)
2.) getting cash required for items. again you cant skimp on this. mabye 2 hours all up.
3.) leveling spells. this can be done with leveling, however at times you need to spend excess time getting spells 1 or 2 levels higher. if you want to do this game, you MUST do this. level 0 - 2 spells half way into the game (if you even make it that far) will get you killed by most bosses. this is where the time hit is. if you wanna do it right, i'd say about 4 - 8 hours.
4.) whole story line doing everything fast as possible without needing to level or anything. 7 - 10 hours.
so all up about 21 hours. lol yes this is'nt a game that can be rushed. unless someone makes a hacked game run, where you start off with everything maxed then i can see it being done in mabye 4 - 5 hours. RPG games beyond secret of mana's time just are'nt doable in speed runs. Secret of Mana 2, or Seiken Densetsu 3 as its known in japan, is about 2x the size of SOM eaisly. me and my friend played together, worked our party out and everything and it still took us over 16 hours to get about 3/4 of the way knowing exactly what we were doing. we still did'nt finish it either...
EDIT: Yggdrasil, if you mean the mana sword as in, trick the game to put you back at the 1st boss, the mantis ant, then yes it is doable. i did it with my rom that i had no problems. it is hard to do, but it can be done
