I will be looking into this tonight since I see yet another run inching closer to sub 1 hour without it. I wonder if perhaps it would be good to grind fire ghosts in the area after the ladder for a few levels instead of going directly downstairs. I'm not certain, but I feel like having the levels and being strong enough to one or two-turn most encounters in the game might be faster than the ~9 minutes "saved" by generator skip, followed by having to grind to meet the level gate requirements... Would love especially to hear TheSiege's thoughts.

Splits and deltas for comparison's sake between Rane's 1:04:16 (without) and my 1:05:56 (with). My PB has some mistakes and poor luck in it, so take this with a grain of salt.

Dynamo Skip Room - 11:54 (without) - 4:12 (with) Δ 7:42 Courtyard IN - 18:26 - 9:45 Δ 8:41 Low Key - 22:00 - 14:08 Δ 8:08 Basement IN - 25:24 - 17:48 Δ 7:36 Diary Key - 28:38 - 23:12 Δ 5:26 2Key - 34:13 - 29:36 Δ 4:37 Yamamura Death - 43:18 - 35:19 Δ 7:59 Projector Stairs - 49:00 - 49:19 Δ +:19 Coffin (Level 16) - 1:00:22 - 58:32 Δ 1:50 Mamiya (end) - 1:04:16 - 1:05:58 Δ +1:42

There are some factors like not having to set up the skip again in order to go get the Diary/Tool for the final boss battle, having to carry around the mallet all game just to use it to go get the one projector slide... I'm not so sure this skip actually saves time without insane luck, but I'm not really sure how to go about testing since there's so many different factors.

At it's peak Dynamo is definitely faster, the issue is it MASSIVELY increases the runs difficulty so it isn't reflective of it's peak. The TAS with Dynamo has about a 40 minute run