Another thing to consider is that if you have Moguri mod installed, I believe it changes the memory values that would normally start the auto-splitter. This may not apply to you but I felt like I should share just in case.

Is there any particular reason for why turbo is banned?

I definitely would like to get into learning how to run it, but I have no interest in mashing a button for 2-3 hours. (hats off to those of you who can)

I figure around 1:45 on Prison Cage, another ~45 on hedgehog, and around 1:15 on memoria. I don't think with this alone we can break 4 minutes, but I know before a card game ruined a run, I was plus around 2:10 before the latter two skips.

So, today's realizations: You are able to skip the clowns at burmecia, but the trigger window is rather large. No time save here.

You cannot use menu buffering in order to get past the guard in Lindblum, you have to steal the guys clothes. You can get past the guard, but Garnet does not appear near the telescope.

You cannot bypass talking to people at the south gate and head directly for where Garnet changes clothes. It is, however, definitely worth it to try because the mess that happens is totally worth it.

The biggest bummer was finding out you cannot skip the iifa tree fmv, but also not Hilgigars.

From my testing, the best skips for saving time: Prison Cage Hedgehog Mini-Game Memoria: You are able to skip every fight aside from trance kuja and Necron. If you are careful, you can save around a minute and 15 seconds on Memoria alone. If you are immaculate in placement before buffering, I could see another 10-15 seconds added onto that.

I was definitely curious about skipping Madain Sari 1, i figured the trigger for causing eiko to interact was just her needing to be in the party, regardless of going to MS first.

Hedgehog skip, you just immediately menu cancel entering that screen? I'm interested to learn that particular process.

Awesome work as usual dude, this is the leap that the game needed to decrease further, not to mention non-boostered runs.

This is really really interesting. It's pretty easy to do this skip of prison Cage, but I feel that may be the most meaningful time skip of the game. There are a couple of places I imagine you can skip, but it wouldn't be time efficient to do so.

It's established you can skip beyond the physical trigger of both dialogue and battles, it's just a matter of finding the ones worth skipping.

As you proved with your prison Cage vid, if you go back to the trigger point, you'll be able to still fight. What happens when you try to skip something you have to pass by several times, such as Zorn and thorn in burmecia?

I watched a run, and intend to go through the game testing places that I feel could be skippable and will update then.