Just over 26 minutes to beat again, with 12 continues used , as shown in this unedited playthrough. This was a game I beat several times over the years, but its been a while. My last playthrough of the SNES version was on this channel and took around 1 hour 41 minutes. I shaved off around 1 hour 15 minutes by checking my previous video, seeing the final boss strat, and trying it out on all the opponents. Orchid is very effective with her crouching attacks, from a jumping attack to get in close. It exploits the AI well. I was using the wrong strike, so that may have slowed things down. The faster crouching strike seemed to be the right one, atleast to get the final boss stun-locked. The slower crouching strike worked well enough for the regular opponents.
I decided to leave this run unedited for a little variety. I have an edited run of the SNES version up on the channel already. I completed all other ports and sequels, I believe, including the arcade originals, but most of that was before I had recording capabilities in 2016. All 2000 + playthroughs on this channel were done from 2016 until the current year, except for maybe 2 playthroughs I was able to capture with another method (Super Adventure Island and Jim Power for SNES, from 2014)