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Genesis Ristar – The Shooting Star (JPN) in 26:44.15 by Jody Northup (aka. Upthorn).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 98 MB, length: 31:09)
Download Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-05-18)
Read author's comments in submission #1506
Discuss this movie
Obsoletes movie #547 (28:17.37)
Rating: 6.4 (11 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Platform
Ristar is a large, colorful game with good music. It also has water-themed levels that aren't slow and boring, which is a true rarity.

The author of this TAS chose to get maximum height bonuses instead of using the end pole for a small, boring speed boost.

As Bag of Magic Food so excellently put it, "Starface has stretchy arms and wastes time spinning on poles."

This is a 1 minute 33 second improvement over the author's previous movie. Details about the improvements can be found in the authors comments.