Found a small sequence break involving a bit of jumpery around the Fish Hatchery. Takes about two minutes to get to the western entrance to Sequoia from there with no fights.

As you can see, I got in to the 5 crystal checkpoint without having 5 crystals. Could be a 0 crystal trip, but I didn't want to make a new file just yet.

I'm interested in speedruns, and have wanted to try my hand at it. I just wanted to check if the internal SSD swap would immediately make all runs illegitimate. I have no problem sticking games on an external usb 3.0 ssd if that's the limit.