The HD encode is being uploaded right now. edit: Link to video Hasn't been fully processed yet.
Cool. How are those made?
Sometimes you collect all the end-of-level bonuses at once, and sometimes you collect them one at at time. Why don't you always collect them with one jump?
Where did you come up with that rerecord count? It seems really high and if you used fceux 2.1.5 with TAS Editor as you said it would have returned a rerecord count of 0. Also this run looks pretty good overall. I tried to run this before and it was frustrating so I gave up so good work making it through.
In the end I saved much more time than I initially expected.In the end on ever section (from fade in to fade out) I either saved frames or matched the previous attempt, excluding the final boss