Dennis Möller died of cancer at only 17 years old. He was always one of my best friends from when we were six years old until the day he died. I didn't knew what to do when he left us. I have a very good memory about when we played this game as kids so I decided to do a run for him. He didn't care about my speedruns very much and I know its just a poor easy run but thats something. Another friend played this game for a while and he decided to do a run of it. After have been waiting over one year I decided to do it myself. I was very sad and angry this days and played it in two days straight.

I really love the game, I love the music, the game is very easy, very easy and fun to run, with one damn exception. The "stone golem", the boss in Mu-island. That is the reason why I choose that stage first. And that's the reason why it took me two days to do the run, also the reason why the run isn't perfect.

In my 1-200 attempts or more on the mu-island boss I finally made it to kill him pretty quickly. He's so random that the hands in mario 3 is nothing compared to this boss. I could write long comments about how to get the perfect mu-island boss fight but I'm too lazy. I'm still 10-20 seconds from a perfect boss fight. And the chance to get as great a fight as the TAS (in theory possible) is 1 in 1000. The perfect stone golem fight includes two very tight double pogo hits. To do that he needs to throw down two stones just beside him in a row.

I have done close to perfect runs through this game but none includes a good boss fight in mu-island. When I finally got the chance to kill him quickly I was too nervous to get a very good time. Still I did a lot of tight moves. I'm very satisfied with the time I got. But still it can be improved with 20-30 seconds at least. But I'm pretty sure of that no one will ever beat this speedrun with a PAL cartridge. And if so I will spend my life trying to beat it ;)

There is a chance that I will do a hard mode run on the NTSC version some day. But for now I don't have the cartridge.