The run seems very... unoptimized.
Your movements are unimpressive. You do microadjustments from time to time. That kind of screams normal play, not TAS.
And in the battles I saw that you get some Good hits instead of Excellent for no apparent reason. And Mario jumped before an attack for no reason. It seems like you made a mistake and thought the enemy would attack Mario instead of Luigi.
It just... looks bad.
I'm thrilled that you're doing a run of the game, but IMHO, you should optimize some more. It looks bad. To me, at the very least.
The run is unoptimized because it is both a test TAS and my first tas. Also, what do you mean by microadjustments? And Mario jumping before an attack doesn't really matter for a test. I get better in the later levels.
Perhaps I should TAS the first game for experience then do this game?
Part 2 is now online! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwSoErwGUKI
It went pretty good, with about .75-1.5 seconds wasted. I don't know if I chose the best stopping point, but that doesn't matter.
I am currently at the wiggler battle at about 1:18, but I am currently taking a break to upload what I have so far.
Not that I know of. As far as I know, lucky hits are predetermined. I tested this and if you save a state, get a lucky hit, then go back, you will get a lucky hit again. The same goes with non-lucky hits. The only thing that might affect this is either doing stuff out of battle to make more lucky hits in the random number generator, or intentionally failing a hit.