After my toughest competition ever in speedrunning, here is my end result. Huge thanks to dxtr (http://www.twitch.tv/dxtrslab) for pushing the game to this point, and everyone who found new strats! Sub-10:20 is possible with perfect execution and even better luck than I got in this run, but because of all the luck you can't realistically optimize this game to Ninja Gaiden levels.