the only thing that sucked about my run is the key pickup. and perhaps usage of cruise and not 1.2.
7 boosts is more often worse than not. shows what you know.
I will try it on ntsc, and I bet it won't take me 150 (!) hours then..
I'm guessing ntsc you're more likely to get good boosts, wasn't the theory that ntsc has more accurate guards? why would it take me so long to get 17, and every other run that was almost as fast was 18 (watch them all, there's sure as hell some better than some of the 17s..)?
also, there could be differences with the doors, it being easier to actually analyze the key in time... I remember mine was insanely lucky and that was the only time I had such an ending that it just went smoothly from analyzing to switch and warp. perhaps ntsc analyzes faster. you know NOTHING about the PAL record, you may only have seen the vid. Why don't you get PAL and prove me wrong? All us PAL players have to get NTSC, so why not vice versa? as if the NTSC advantage isn't unfair enough..