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NES Power Blade (USA) in 17:10.7 by Jean-François Durocher (aka. Genisto).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 62 MB, length: 17:48)
Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2004-09-18)
Download from mirror site (www.archive.org)
Read author's comments in submission #326
Discuss this movie
Obsoletes movie #140 (19:04.8)
Rating: 6.9 (20 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
This is another one of the "umpteenth version" movies.

Cheez and WalkerBoh had a long competition at this game, but then Genisto came and beat them both by improving Walker's previous attempt by 1:54.

We recommend reading the author's comments.

The movie features very precise boomerang handling, a glitch to cut the boss-fights short and other tricks to keep it quick.