This is by far the most difficult category in Magic Sword (Arcade) speedrunning. It is an All Floors No Death (Hard) run, which means you start with only 1 full bar of health and level skips are not allowed.
This run has never been completed outside of TAS because of its difficulty. Many of the tricks in the TAS are frame perfect but all are humanly possible (probably).
What makes it so difficult is that there is a constant health drain every 4 seconds, which means most of the run you will be at 0 health, so it basically turns into a no-hit run.
Magic Sword speedrun timing starts when you first gain control of the Brave One (Frame 800) and ends when the yes/no is selected (Frame 61762).
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New_King_James and welcome to TASVideos! Your first attempt here is a really good effort, in fact...you destroy this game on the hardest difficulty, even when compared to "Normal". Since I don't really have a similar run to comapre it with, I would imagine that more time would have been c0nsumed, based on the difficulty alone. So this is an impressive run that is more than 2 minuter faster than the WR comparison. Great job on this!
Accepting to "Standard" as the new branch of "all floors, hard".
Changing the timing metric from IGT to RTA as it appears the author mixed up the two and because there's no in-game timer. For reference, the run starts at frame 800 and ends at frame 61762 when the final text prompt disappears.
