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NES Metal Storm (USA) in 12:54.23 by Frank Amoroso (aka. TheAxeMan).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 143 MB, length: 14:35)
Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-02-27)
Download from mirror site (www.archive.org)
Read author's comments in submission #545
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Rating: 5.8 (17 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Second quest
- Uses a level password
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: Shooter
An ultra-powerful gigantic mechadroid that can take one hit before exploding into confetti. Pah.

This video uses a password to go directly to the second, harder version of the game. Note that the password shown on screen is not the one actually accepted by the game - the password is entered so fast the graphic function glitches. Another (more useful) glitch is that you can stand on spikes and other sorts of materials which ultra-powerful gigantic mechadroids have a natural weakness against if you jump all the time.

The fireball form used for the first few levels more or less grants invulnerability when used constantly, as well as being a strong offensive weapon. It is not very effective against the last boss, so the author switches to a better projectile weapon before that. This switch entails that the rematches against the earlier bosses are slower, but the improvement on the last boss makes up for it.