Don't worry tmont, I still love you even if the n00b doesn't. <3
I knew I could at least do it better than the currently published run.
The rest of the improvement came from manipulating the beezos at the beginning, an improvement that had been mentioned by tmont in 2006, but had been forgotten.
The run is complete in 1:50:17.
Finally got Stom figured out. Stom's behavior is a combination of the random seed at $000E and a special "Stom Counter" at $657F. The Stom Counter starts out at 0 and increments as each duel starts. If you hex that you'll see that he becomes way easier. At 3 it seems he's always beatable. Note that this is in the battery area and is saved along with your savegame. However, it may be possible that at 1 or 2 it is possible for some seed values. Looks like a job for lua!
-The death glitch (even though it doesn't save time)
Unfortunately, because of lag and very strange random factors in enemy spawning and movement, you can spend A LOT of time tweaking fights. It's also not something where a bot works very well.
So yes from me until some day when I get the nerve to obsolete it myself!
The SourceForge page still works... It's 2.0.2, and that page doesn't have the latest test build. I don't either, so I can't help you there. Lua package, extracted in the same directory.
Also the good thing about SS runs is that you can just ignore all the mistakes ;)
Actually I have it from a reliable source that he is ignored because he has been harping at people to do that for 2 years and never actually produced an fcm himself to test and/or demonstrate whether it actually is faster.
By the way, your name is really hard to spell (for Americans, anyway); too many interchangeable i's and y's. I had to look it up every time I wrote it. :)
Here I go : if you crouch just after firing, it eliminates the delay needed between 2 arrows. Consequently, when you rapidly alternate the fire and the crouch buttons, you can shoot arrows at a much greater rate, about 4 or 5 times I'd say.