This is a video of my speedrun on the Easy skill level of Super Turrican 2 for the SNES. It was done on the NTSC version of the game.
I started timing from when I clicked on 'Start' on the main menu and I stopped timing when the screen went black after completing the last level.
This was done without using cheats, save states or the glitch that lets you skip most of Level 6.
Decent run overall. Some levels were good and I had a few obvious mistakes and some things went wrong on other levels. I died twice on this run. The best that I've done without dying is 29:36 and I've had a 29:28 with one death. This run is about 13 seconds quicker than the PAL 35:31 speedrun that I did back in 2014 if you adjust the timings for NTSC running faster than PAL.
Here are some notes about the run:
I deliberately try to avoid picking up gems throughout this whole speedrun to save time having to wait for them to be counted up at the end of a level.
Level 1 (0:10) - Bad start but the enemies there are really annoying and their positions are random so it's hard to get even close to a clean run up to the buggy section. Good boss kill.
Level 2 (2:16) - Mediocre start but the rest was very good. This is probably the level I'm happiest with on the whole speedrun as I've only got to the end with 161 seconds left on the timer a few times and I had a good boss kill.
Level 3 (4:23) - Good up to the end but you can get badly trolled at the end like on this run if you're speedrunning it.
Level 4 (5:06) - OK, slight mistake at the end but there's not much you can do to save or lose time on this level.
Level 5 (7:00) - This is the most frustrating level to speedrun on the whole game because it's random whether it dies quickly or not. On over 80% of runs, it will become invincible for a while after the third tongue explosion and it takes about 15 seconds longer to complete on those runs so I kept having to restart the whole run when that happened.
Level 6 (7:50) - Good. The final boss can be frustrating sometimes and it's easy to lose a lot of time there but I got a quick kill on this run.
Level 7 (10:01) - There's nothing you can do to save or lose time on this level. I don't normally take any damage on the level but made a few mistakes on this run.
Level 8 (11:25) - Bad, I got stuck a bit more than I normally do.
Level 9 (13:32) - Good. It's easy to take a lot of damage really quickly if you mess up the second half of the level which makes it more difficult to speedrun but it went well on this run.
Level 10 (14:57) - Good. There's nothing you can do to save or lose time on this level.
Level 11 (16:28) - Really annoyed to have died here as it's only the second time I can remember dying on the easy skill level with this strategy. More of the spider's shots normally go above or below me than on this run and I usually only get hit about three or four times compared to six times on this run.
Level 12 (17:16) - Good. I find that when I'm speedrunning this level then I'm going to take a lot of damage and have to waste time collecting extra health but I didn't have to collect as much as I usually have to on this run.
Level 13 (21:26) - OK, it's normal for me to finish the level on low health. There's nothing you can do to save or lose time on this level.
Level 14 (22:47) - Good. I managed to avoid most of the gems and got a good boss kill.
Level 15 (25:20) - The videos always seem to glitch when I use Windows Capture to record my runs so some of my bullets aren't appearing despite me shooting continuously throughout the whole level and some of the lasers keep flashing on and off when they should be displayed all the time. This is the hardest level on the game and it went badly on this run. I probably die on about one in three runs but I died on an easy part that I don't ever remember dying on before. Good boss kill.
Level 16 (28:12) - This level went badly. The start didn't go well because you don't usually take two hits with the continuously run forward while shooting strategy and then I took a few stupid hits on the boss which left me one hit away from dying. I had to be careful after that and lost about 4-5 seconds compared to a normal run on the level.