Well, for the first run, I downloaded a walkthrough which is already very much optimized for speed - it won't be as much a time attack completely of my own as a "visual adaptation" of the walkthrough. The later versions (if there will be later versions) will attempt to improve.
I hope that's not much a strike against me. I even considered writing a program that would try to determine the best route, but this was faster :)
Oh yes - and this is my first time attack, so I'm still learning my way about the interface.
You can check the walkthrough on
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/genesis/game/586175.html - I have contacted the author and I hope to get a permission to use his walkthrough.
Now, I decided to do this run in the best takes-no-damage way, since it's so darn easy for Dizzy to get hurt. The strange thing is that there is SOUND of getting hurt sometimes, but the "damage" bar never appears, and when I grab a fruit afterwards, no health restoration is shown. I decided to count this as "no damage" :)
The bad part of this are spiders. Often, a spider is on the inclined path in such a way that it's impossible to jump over it when you are lower without being damaged. Dizzy has to wait a substantial fraction of second, in most cases, before he can safely pass. (similar problem is with some of the rats, especially on pirate ship.)
Right now, the time attack has logged 15 minutes. I would like to upload it somewhere, but I don't have a site.
What's in so far:
After getting through the start screen, Dizzy clears his hut and makes a quick side-trip to the countryside and mines in order to obtain Mushroom (for Grand Dizzy's medicine) and Grand Dizzy's Elevator Key. He gets back to the village with about 2 minutes on the clock. Next six minutes are spent in the village, gathering and using items. He manages to unlock almost all huts (with exception of Dozy's), he saves Grand Dizzy and gives caged Pogie to Dylan, and finally he takes a big plunge left with Dora transformed in frog, and gives her to the prince in exchange for a crossbow. All the time gathering stars like mad.
In next part, he moves over to the city with its maze of streets, gets winch handle and winch wheel from the pirate ship (VERY ANNOYING part), and moves onto the castle. I managed to clear the "castle siege" minigame in about 4 seconds by shooting the first four soldiers to appear and avoiding all the rocks.
Then Dizzy clears the castle, grabbing all the stars and the important Bridge Kit, gets out of the city and uses the Bridge Kit in the graveyard. That's 15 minutes, I will continue. In the 15 minutes, Dizzy grabbed 102 magic stars, so if he keeps up the speed, the whole run might be around 36-40 minutes, since there are 250 stars.