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Tool-assisted console game movies
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Genesis Kid Chameleon in 14:17.63 by A. Berglin (aka. Truncated).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 101 MB, length: 15:58)
Download Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2004-12-29)
Download from mirror site (www.archive.org)
Read author's comments in submission #479
Discuss this movie
Rating: 6.7 (20 votes)
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses warps
- Ignores delays caused by bonus effects
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Platform
Kid Chameleon is a platformer known to be hard. Dying is easy, as is getting lost in the multitude of teleporters and levels. Getting and keeping the correct helmet, as well as choosing a good path through the level system, can drastically cut down time. There are also a good number of tricks used to speed up this game, listed at Kid Chameleon Tricks.

There have been many attemps to TAS this game, but this is the first one to be published. We recommend reading the author's comments for this video.