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NES Dragon Warrior (USA PRG1) in 18:10.47 by Jean-François Lapointe (aka. Acmlm).
Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-02-08)
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 23 MB, length: 20:25)
Read author's comments in submission #967
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Obsoletes movie #440 (18:43.0)
Rating: 6.9 (30 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses death as shortcut
- Takes damage to save time
- Manipulates luck
- No predefined saves
- Uses no passwords
- Genre: Adventure
- Genre: RPG
This is the fifth published movie of Dragon Warrior, a seemingly complex, but ultimately, fairly simple NES RPG. The character completes his quest at Level 7. There are several things about this movie that might seem odd if one is not aware of them beforehand:

  • All unnecessary random encounters have been manipulated into not happening
  • The player dies several times in order to get transported back to the beginning
  • Action commands are often intentionally not entered as soon as possible to manipulate critical hits and such

Note: The first AVI release of this movie had wrong author name in it. The AVI was replaced a couple of hours later. Download statistics of 91 downloads was lost.