In this speedrun I rush through the main storyline, which involves jumping from planet to planet, running errands and gleaning information wherever possible. Along the way you accrue enough cash for a couple of medium 'mechs, but the final battle pits you against multiple heavy and assault class battlemechs, so two mediums are not enough... unless you activate the "instant win" bug like I do. I don't yet fully understand the bug, but if you take two Phoenix Hawks into battle, you magically win every encounter without ever seeing actual combat. I initially thought this bug might be related to performing a class mismatch (making planetfall with no 'mechs on hand, so all the contracts generated are against single lights or mediums, then buying a lance of heavies on-planet and smashing everything in sight), but it doesn't seem to happen with heavier 'mechs, and I've seen this bug occur with Jenners and Locusts. I currently believe it is to do with the length of the 'mech names as another youtuber () unknowingly triggered the same bug by deploying a Battlemaster and a Phoenix Hawk, both of which have 12 character names. This was played in DOSBox 0.74, with MIDI type set to "None" as is required to stop Mechwarrior 1 from crashing when entering combat. CPU cycles were set at 6000. Due to the way DOSBox makes video recordings, the linked is actually spliced together from 3 separate files - one covers from the first frame to when the screen goes blank to load the combat mission on Albiero, the second is a couple of seconds of a DOS cursor blinking, and the third is the ending cinematics. The videos were also all resized to 1280x800 using VirtualDub and joined together using Avidemux. This does not affect the run's legitimacy in any way as 100% of game-changing user inputs are completed before the first splice, and this speedrun is easily reproducible and verifiable at any speed.