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NES Zanac (USA) in 03:26.22 by Andrés Delikat (aka. adelikat).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 10 MB, length: 05:08)
Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-12-15)
Read author's comments in submission #1344
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Obsoletes movie #505 (03:49.88)
Rating: 6.1 (22 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses death as shortcut
- Uses warps
- Genre: Shooter
Zanac is one of those space shooter games in which you are trying to save the earth.

Due to the highly repetitive nature of this game, the hidden 9th input button (the console's Reset button) is used to warp to the last level. This results in an unsually long grey screen at the start of the movie. Starting on the final level with 3 lives and only the initial pea-shooter for a weapon normally makes the game near impossible to win.

The author takes advantage of frame perfect timing to upgrade rapid fire to the maximum in a single level; this allows for an improvement of 3 seconds during the boss fight.