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No death, could be a sub 10 : 50 if I managed to get the jump over the shielded enemy in the 4-3 stage and get the huge trick that despawns at least a dozen of enemies, including the annoying pink ninjas. Beat the previous WR by 1 min 17 sec.

Timer starts after Insert coin & Start, timer ends with the last hit on the Final Boss (when her lifebar completely disappears). Dipswitches shown at the end (Normal difficulty).

Awesome game, much better than the Mega Drive/Genesis version IMO in basically every possible way. More fun for regular playthroughs/1CCs, for speedruns and even for the No Shuriken challenge.
Unfortunately not many people run it due to it being an arcade-only game (the Master System port is terrible).

Played on December 1st 2021.
No save states, no turbo/autofire, no cheats