This is a no-hit playthrough of Mega Man 5 in 37m06s, completed on Oct. 8, 2022. I originally tried to finish a damageless run in 2018 and the farthest I got was the Wily 1 crusher. This came together relatively quickly -- I put some work into rerouting the game and introducing more guaranteed safe strats than the speedrun route. There are lots of little moments of panic, but the routing and practice held up.
This run was played on FCEUX 2.2.2 emulator without savestates or turbo. The framecounter at the start and end of the run is to demonstrate that a movie file isn't being played back, and to assist in verifying the framecount is accurate.
The cutscene at 27:05 is unavoidable and the player cannot avoid the damage dealt by the fake Proto Man. This challenge only counts damage sustained while actually playing the game :3
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