It also demonstrates that you can change your luck slightly by flashing your status screen briefly or moving around in battle menus. There were a number of time-saving tricks employed in this run that I would never have thought of on my own (teleporting over photo shoots, for example). Halamantariel and Nitrodon's tool-assisted speedrun (often referred to in my comments as just, 'the TAS').

The run in its current form would not have been possible without the following sources of information and/or support: In the end, it's done and I can't change it without redoing the whole thing. There are other segments where my luck is so good that I'd have to categorically accept the run (skip ahead to Stonehenge to see what I mean). There are mistakes that would make me categorically reject the run if I were a verifier, but these mistakes occurred after periods of such ridiculous luck that I was unable to improve the segments in question, even after 50 or more tries. It's much shorter than any estimate I've seen for running EarthBound on a console (I was praying I'd make it under 5 hours when I first started), but it's still full of places where, looking back, I can see how I might've saved a total of at least 5 minutes.

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Speed run of Final Fantasy VII in 42 segments, completed on December 28, 2008.

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