Tool-assisted movies

Webmasters, please don't link directly to the files. Link to this page or the front page instead.
Republication of movies from this site is only allowed under the following conditions:
  1. Video and audio content must not be changed (including the pointers to this site),
  2. The movies must be prominently labeled as tool-assisted speedruns,
  3. The actual player(s) (always shown at this site) must be properly credited.
Do not label them with speculations. If unsure, read Why And How or ask for details.
When downloading with BitTorrent, please leave the download window open as long as possible after your download has finished. This is important to ensure people can continue to download these files!
Every uploader is helpful, even if not very fast. Thank you!
「.torrentファイルって、何でしょうか?」こちらには、BitTorrentの日本語で導入がございます。
Please read the Why and How page if you haven't already done so. It explains the rules and methods that apply to all of these movies, particularly the use of savestates and slow-motion.

NES Castlevania 2 – Simon's Quest (USA) in 32:08.22 by Deng Peng (aka. zggzdydp).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 76 MB, length: 33:50) (currently unavailable)
Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-08-03)
Read author's comments in submission #1652
Discuss this movie
Obsoletes movie #290 (32:35.57)
Rating: 6.6 (15 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses warps
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Uses no passwords
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: RPG

This movie has been obsoleted!

Click here to see the new movie.
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest is the story of Simon Belmont's horrible weekend without sleep. Two years after defeating Dracula, Simon is physically weakened by Dracula's curse. Simon must gather Dracula's remains and incinerate them at the ruins of Castlevania in order to end the curse.

The timeunit count for this movie is 03:01:08, which is 9 "minutes" better than the previous version by Walker Boh. The actual movie is 27.35 seconds faster because of significant improvements in two mansions.
It also abuses the falling-through-floor glitch, which is insanely difficult to perform.

There are several items that are required for the completion of the game, and you can't buy them without killing a certain amount of monsters; thus, this movie has some running back and forth in order to collect hearts. There's also the factor that shops are open only at daytime and monsters are twice as evil at nighttime... Hence, there is some necessary waits that may appear as sloppy, but are not.