Not sure if this is the ideal place to mention it, but there's a small error in the publication description: you're not throwing footballs to a quarterback, you're playing as a quarterback throwing footballs to a receiver.
This TAS in my opinion barely scratches the surface. It's a great start, but more can be done.
Btw, it my be possible to improve the time by collecting more diamonds. The extra life sparkles delay end of level. Ideally you wish to get them early in the level, isntead of during the coutdown, but as long as it stops sparkling before the end, you are good. On cave B, you get sparkles during the countdown. but if you collected two more diamonds on that level, the sparkles would be before the cooldown, and if the last gem was taken far away enough from the exit, you could avoid the delay. This may or may not save time immediately, but... With the 100 extra points, there will be no more delay on cave C at all. the sparkles will stop in time, and no delay that level. Cave D would likewise trigger the sparkles before exiting, and thus save some more time there. Keeping an eye out for opportunities to manipulate the score by collecting extra diamonds to time your extra live animations may save time overall.
I will see what I can do I would love to TAS Mr. Do! but I don't know which version I will pick what is your favorite version?
What a strange game.
I could probably live without it going BRRRRRR every couple of seconds though. That was genuinely quite unpleasant.
Anyway, the TAS itself seems neat enough. It's obvious a lot of planning and revision went into the routing, especially considering how it has gone through a second pass. It's sad there's not much more in the way of obviously visible skips and speed strategies, but there's only so much you can do in a game like this. For what it's worth, the gameplay was smooth enough to warrant a Yes Vote. Good work.
Great improvement! You even beat the SNES version for some seconds xD
I think one of those times was my bad when I claimed it. I started to edit it in the morning but didn't finish until after work.