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NES Sword Master (USA) in 05:26.88 by JCS (aka. ventuz).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 13 MB, length: 07:04)
Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-03-22)
Read author's comments in submission #1465
Discuss this movie
Obsoletes movie #257 (05:54.6)
Rating: 5.9 (14 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Platform
Even though the gameplay of this game doesn't look very interesting, the creators have been playful with the graphics of the game. It almost looks like NES supports layers, which it doesn't.

The author improves the previous movie by 28 seconds.