After what feels like an eternity I've finally made some progress. Only a ~2 second improvement, but an improvement none the less.
Not that great compared to my Texmaster time (10:50:81) but it's something. Played on MAME. Edit: new Texmaster PB 11:08:10 -> 10:50:81
I imagine it's going to go down over the next couple of days, so I'm not going to cut the video yet, if it doesn't I will. But I got an 11:11:00 GM.
9:41:93 Last week got 9:51, now :41. Maybe I should seriously start recording these, only if my pc wasn't such a piece of crap.
Got a nice run in that has about 5-6 pieces of level stop (mostly at just one section) keeping it shy of sub-10:30. Derp. But it's damn close to a tie with my 20G time now. GM at 10:31:85
After watching the European Masters I decided I might give TGM another shot after grinding TAP and got a PB on first try. There's still a lot of derp in there (especially awkwardG was terrible) but it's a Sub-11!
Got my PCB today along with a new PB! GM in 11:00:48 Sorry about the blurry picture, I need to work out a way to capture it.
Honestly, at the end of this game I was thinking "how bad must I've played before when THIS is a PB". Loads of recovery in 20G, but I probably managed to keep the number of singles lower than before. But hey, a PB is a PB (and I know where to look for timesaves). EDIT: Looking at this a few hours later I might be a bit too harsh on myself. I often see what didn't work, but not what did. Anyways, there's still a lot to work on and I'm looking forward to it!
TGM1 PB from last night.. first time getting S4, level PB of 568, and also my second-ever BRAVO! Really happy with how it turned out: