Doomsday31415

No problem! Unfortunately, I have no experience with OBS on a Mac, so I can't help you there.

There's a few issues with adding more than 6 spells. The first issue is the Special screen. Unlike the battle menu, having more spells causes a buggy cursor that can scroll beyond the border of the box. The second issue is the FP cost. In case you haven't noticed, using a spell on the second page actually deducts FP based on the cost from the same spell on the first page. The third and biggest issue comes down to space. The game only has slots for about 30 ally spells, and many of those later slots have no existing animation. In v9, we actually worked around the first issue and fixed the second in order to let certain characters have 7 spells. However, that's the limit without a proper fix for the first issue.

Now with a proper link: https://www.twitch.tv/FeinLife

You mean Live Split? http://livesplit.github.io/

Most of these have actually be addressed in v9. Auto-life can be used to counter meteor, and mortality protection can be used to counter dark spells. The latter was already in v8 as well, though.

Just practicing them. As far as the number of flowers, in my route you need a certain number of flowers in order to cast all the spells. There are backup flowers, but they take time to get. You just answered your own question

Considering in the easy mode speedrun Punchinello is tough and Axem Black can just destroy you, I'm not surprised. The cake is also far harder, due to a combination of healing two candles per turn and using dark attacks... But yeah, once you've cleared that, you can just get the Siren and farm Gold Dragons until you're whatever level will be needed to set up for Smithy.

I haven't played hard mode in years. If you were streaming, it might be easier to see what you're talking about

Lack of competition, coupled with the length of the run. Not to mention I'm not speedrunning anything right now...

Back before I switched to doing v8 beta, Mack was the first big place that would make me reset. The way I did it, I would tank a turn of damage and use a USS on the second turn. That's the only reason I'm confident you can use an USS on the first turn and rush Mack down.

Just in case you're not aware, Shocker can deal significantly more damage if you're frame perfect. Ideally, Mario uses a USS, Mallow uses Shocker, and the Mario+Mallow finish Mack the next turn, leaving the bodyguards. You should be able to beat Bowser at level 1 with proper jumping. This seems out of order, since you don't get the master ball until after exor... For what? I like this part. Right... so where did you come up with 24 hours from?

Considering you can go through the entire game to Smithy in about 3 hours (ignoring grinding)... how does the 24 hours break down?

You'd have to beat General Guy for that. That's a much shorter run than I thought it was. Might have to give it a whirl. When exactly does time start and end?

As an alternative after you beat Exor... Dark Dayzee gives 400* exp (compared to 200* per pair of gold dragons). Don't forget your Siren! For Smithy%, I cannot stress enough the value of demon mail+. He has 150,000 health after transforming, and you have 6 turns to defeat him before Ultimatum. *Per character exp gain will be one third of that due to how exp gain is calculated.

Your goal for Smithy shouldn't be to survive Ultimatum... it should be to beat him before he uses it. You'll still need to be able to survive his barrage of attacks (mainly his auto attack...), but it shouldn't be 227.

Yes.

100% would be "All Superbosses Defeated". This is more or less what you said above. Whether or not getting Lazy Shell should be required would be debatable. As for who would do the debating, it's typically decided by the runners.

I used them in the places where perfect blocking was the most important. For Hyper M. Guard, I used them in places where status effects were a threat (the run doesn't have status protection for the most part).

It doesn't. Also, the 9999 rate is lower on easy mode.

In that case, the four mails do have similiar if not identical stats.

I don't have a list, but you can just open it in Lazy Shell to see everything.

Weren't you planning to stream your "official" run?

You know, if you were streaming it, people might be able to give you advice as you're doing the routing. Just a thought.

My stream is the same name as here: Doomsday31415. I stream various games every Saturday at noon PST. Currently doing Super Metroid. All that aside, I do plan to stream v9 when it comes out...

Yeah, the hard mode route will likely involve some grinding in various places. You might even want to get the Lazy Shell for Smithy! I wonder if there's a consistent way to do Mack without the flame ring on hard, though...