Sorry about the double post.
I completed my slots test run of the game. I used only menu skipping to skip encounters. I did fall into redoing some battles on accident(twice). Aps and the attack squad battle that can be escaped. I didn't get a perfect elevator outcome because I was unaware that all you had to do was get the right numbers. I thought that the enemies or the employees would be random too.
I didn't do any extreme luck manipulation. Crits in every battle, steal anything I can, etc. But getting crits is just as easy as stealing is. Its all cpu based. I did start getting first turns once I got to Jenova Birth. Getting those first turns became a real pain during disc 2.
Here's disc 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVXwvhu5PPE You can watch the rest on the other videos on my channel. During the snowboarding mini game, I will not accept any crashes in that. It would be really embarrassing if I did.
My time at the end was 7:38(somewhere around that). Yeah, I know, the world record is much more than that with RTA, but, I didn't do much encounter manipulation, which is apparently vital in this speedrun. Seriously, you lose like an hour worth of time overlooking that.