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I'd be impressed if you could do that. I don't think there's any mistake that egregious, but hey, I could be wrong. A run like that would impress me, although it would make an ironclad case for a "no (whatever glitch that was) run" to be maintained as a separate record as well.
If you look around at video game speedruns, taking advantage of glitches is extremely common. It's the norm, in fact. If you're trying to win as fast as possible, you do whatever it takes to do that (short of, say, cheat codes). Finding such things is one of the challenges in speed running.
This one doesn't actually skip THAT much of the game. A lot of speedruns feature much bigger skip glitches, like the shorter runs of Mario 64 here. Or the skip-glitch run of Ocarina of Time. Of course, as you can see, they also feature regular runs, so I can't see any reason not to live and let live on this.
If you look around at video game speedruns, taking advantage of glitches is extremely common. It's the norm, in fact. If you're trying to win as fast as possible, you do whatever it takes to do that (short of, say, cheat codes). Finding such things is one of the challenges in speed running.
This one doesn't actually skip THAT much of the game. A lot of speedruns feature much bigger skip glitches, like the shorter runs of Mario 64 here. Or the skip-glitch run of Ocarina of Time. Of course, as you can see, they also feature regular runs, so I can't see any reason not to live and let live on this.
