Speaking of, do we mandate 1CC? The Movie Rules page is worded rather ambiguously. I'd vote for single-coin-only because coins are pay-to-win both technically and in spirit.
I tried console verifying, but it crashes in various ways at the axe grab. Not sure what this means. EDIT: Upon reading the submission text, it seems it's probably crashing at the unofficial opcode, or maybe the payload is not getting written properly.
The objective is not to grab the axe as fast as possible, the objective is to run arbitrary code and complete the game in 8-4. (the code changes the world and level from N-2 to 8-4) the arbitrary code requires killing Bowser with a fire flower, and world 'N' is the only world where killing bowser can be used to jump the PC to RAM that could be manipulated.
Judges will check your movie's technical quality: they should not be able to easily improve your movie by large amounts of time.
When it comes to the listing of games in our system, all games that start with the word "The" are currently placed in the "T" section of alphabetical lists. For example, in the NES tab of the Games page, there are currently 49 entries that start with the word "The." These are all in the "T" section. I think we should we consider renaming these game entries by having "The" moved to the end of the game entry (i.e. changing The Goonies into Goonies, The) so that these games show up in the alphabetical list based on the first main word in the title instead of the word "The"? This is a standard way of alphabetizing titles in various other areas of life--one example being bibliographic notation. Using The Goonies as an example, instead of being listed after The Flintstones: The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak!, making this change would instead move it to being after Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode. Here is an example of such alphabatizing using NES games from Wikipedia. EDIT: If there's a way to have the games alphabatized the way I'm describing, but still displayed with "The" at the beginning of the name, that would also be fine. I just feel the alphabitizing needs to happen on the next word instead of "The."