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NES Mega Man 2 (JPN) in 25:01.72 by Timo Taipaleenmäki (aka. Shinryuu).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 46 MB, length: 28:31)
Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-12-18)
Read author's comments in submission #1375
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Obsoletes movie #588 (25:10.0)
Rating: 8.5 (35 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses death as shortcut
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Uses no passwords
- Genre: Platform
Mega Man 2 is a game that hardly needs any introduction. This movie plays Rockman 2, the Japanese version, which is essentially Mega Man 2 in difficult mode.

This new movie, played by Shinryuu, is about 8 seconds faster than the previous movie by Shinryuu and Bisqwit. The major timesaver in this movie is:

  • a zip+death shortcut in CrashClashman and Woodman stages

Other new tricks were also used.
Most of the techniques in this movie have been architected by Finalfighter and Morimoto.

See Rockman Tricks and the submission message for in-depth explanation and answers to various questions regarding this movie.