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NES Battle of Olympus (USA) in 10:40.78 by Mário de Almeida Azevedo Junior (aka. FODA).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 19 MB, length: 12:52)
Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-09-02)
Read author's comments in submission #1175
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Obsoletes movie #292 (19:51.85)
Rating: 7.2 (30 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses death as shortcut
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Uses no passwords
- Genre: Adventure
- Genre: Platform
The Battle of Olympus (オリュンポスの戦い) is set in ancient Greece. A mortal man named Orpheus receives help from the gods and nymphs in his quest to save his lover Helene from Hades. People often compare this game with Zelda 2 because of its similar gameplay.

This movie is 9:11 faster than Arc's version, mostly because of the utilization of a gameplay-altering glitch: pressing Left+Right simultaneously in order to make Orpheus move with almost unlimited velocity growth. The trick is documented at Battle of Olympus Tricks.

The route used in this movie is decided by a few things the hero (Orpheus) must do:

  • Collect three fragments of love in order to activate the Tartarus entry.
  • Get a key to access the second fragment's location.
  • Get the Eyeball of Graeae to see invisible doors (to access the first fragment's location).
  • Get a sword in Peloponnesus. It is needed to kill the three-headed guardian with respawning heads (Cerberus) in Tartarus.
  • Collect 60 olives in order to buy the ocarina, which will be needed to cross the sea to get to Crete and Tartarus.
  • Get a harp in order to call Pegasus. It makes the route faster.
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Added [590] NES Battle of Olympus (USA) by foda in 10:40.78 (2006-09-02)
- obsoletes [292] NES Battle of Olympus (USA) by Arc in 19:51.85 (2005-02-04)
- - obsoletes [80] NES Battle of Olympus (USA) by Jackic in 23:24.73 (2004-05-31)
- - - obsoletes [612] NES Battle of Olympus (USA) by Jackic in 25:30.97 (2004-05-23)
- - - obsoletes [615] NES Olympus no Tatakai (JPN) by Jackic in 27:40.58 (2004-05-14)
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