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NES Final Fantasy (USA) in 1:12:59.52 by Frank Amoroso (aka. TheAxeMan).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 138 MB, length: 1:18:13)
Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-09-20)
Download from mirror site (www.archive.org)
Read author's comments in submission #815
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Obsoletes movie #338 (1:30:47.67)
Rating: 7.0 (33 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: RPG

This movie has been obsoleted!

Click here to see the new movie.
Luck manipulation vs leveling up. Luck manipulation wins!

TheAxeMan polished up the previous version by mookish by over 17 minutes! One of the biggest time-savers is only keeping alive the characters you need, so less commands have to be issued. In general fewer weapons and no armor at all is aquired, and no inn is ever visited.

There is a weapon in this game that has a very slim (but not zero) chance of instantly killing any enemy. This is abused heavily towards the end to devastate big enemies fast.

An item of interest is that the author actually saves and resets the game as a tool for luck manipulation.