wow, very cool read and amazing to hear you are planning to pick the game up again. while i know you from the TAS, i didn't know you were an RTA runner prior to that. i'll let you know that TSA did indeed splice his ALTTP runs, as was revealed by drops not being consistent with the prizepacks, and also other highly suspect things like gathering large quantities of rupees from drops alone.

as for discoveries and low hanging fruit i think you will get a kick out of knowing that the trick where you throw the rock outside of the catfish rock circle ( in your TAS) wasn't picked up on by RTA runners until quite recently (2018). it simply fell out of memory and nobody had any idea until it was rediscovered by watching tompas TAS.

i just rejected my own run because theres something wrong with the video. its like 15 s faster than what it should be. obviously nobody cares but its gone now

Simple question. Are there any differences between the psx and sfc versions of this game, and do these differences affect the run? if so, how?