I GOT MY FIRST ENDING WORLD RECORD!!!
I'm still shaking as I'm writing this. I'm so fucking happy right now! I never thought I would see the day that I could pull of a world record on an ending, but here we are. I must give all thanks to Ico (my brother) who was the one to push me to even go for the record in the first place. After getting so close and countless hours of failing, a lot of anger and frustration, I eventually broke through my mental block.
I had major issues with getting past F56, and it really started to get at me badly and affecting my mental attitude. After discussing a bit with my brother he suggested I do a slower, but more safer and consistent strat instead. I then decided to implement it, and it seems in the end that it payed off! While it does lose a lot of time, I don't think I would've otherwise managed to get the record without going insane.
This run is now the official world record, and beats the previous record of 3:01.45 by Guterham, which was originally achieved on the 13th of September, 2016. (No video exists of said run)
I've been thinking the last couple of days of even more changes, albeit not too large ones. The biggest one is the removal of the 3DS version. Both me and Ico came up to the conclusion that it's too different, essential "a different game".
This is due to it being: 30FPS, 10 Less Stages, 5 Less