First and foremost, I am a player at TASVideos. I enjoy the process of making a TAS, from the beginning discoveries, to the construction of scripts, to the final product. I started getting published runs as a one trick pony, doing only runs of Shining games. However, I have expanded to be a two trick pony, doing many multi-player arcade games.

Runs in Progress:

• Final Fantasy VII

Runs in hiatus:

• Turbografx16 Neutopia II
• Arcade Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (with Sonikkustar)
• Arcade Sunset Riders (with Sonikkustar and ....)
• NES Dragon Warrior 4 (with adelikat, in Chapter 2)
• GBA Shining Soul I improvement (delayed indefinitely)
• Genesis Shining Force CD (1/3rd done with Book 1)
• PCECD Last Alert (w/ arukAdo)
• PSX Arc the Lad II
• PSX Final Fantasy VIII improvement

Runs I'd like to do:

• Final Fantasy IX, X, X-2
• Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones improvement (w/ Rolanmen1)
• Shining Force III, Scenarios 1,2,3 (Need Lua in Yabause)
• Shining Wisdom (Doesn't work in Yabause... but says supported?)
• Shining the Holy Ark (See SF3)
• Quest for Glory I & II
• Gauntlet Legends
• Burger King Pocket Bike Racer (Need an XBOX emu)
  • Seriously, this is one of my top ten favorite video games of all time. My buddy and I probably know more tricks and shortcuts in this advert-game, than anyone in the universe.

I have 17 published runs here.

	Genesis Shining in the Darkness (USA) in 43:27.2 by DarkKobold.
	Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2009-08-15) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 95.65 MB, length: 45:49) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2322 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (13 votes) View Publication	- Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Uses death to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG
	Shining in the Darkness is the first in the Shining series, which includes Shining Force. Unlike the later games, it is a first person dungeon crawler. The author dissected the game with the help of Lua scripts to find optimal battles and avoid random encounters.

	Genesis Shining Force (USA) in 1:59:59.05 by DarkKobold.
	Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2009-06-23) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 284.86 MB, length: 2:08:11) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.flurret.net Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2258 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1146 (2:04:26.37) Rating: 7.4 (13 votes) View Publication	- Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG - Genre: Strategy
	Shining Force is just under two hours of luck manipulation action. The random number generator is abused to the highest degree. The author used MATLAB, a math scripting language, to optimize the battle speeds. This is a 4 minute 27 second improvement over the previous movie by the same author.

	Genesis Shining Force II (USA) in 3:11:04.65 by DarkKobold.
	Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-05-19) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 408.22 MB, length: 3:15:05) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2667 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1467 (3:26:17.75) Rating: 6.2 (6 votes) View Publication	- Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: RPG - Genre: Strategy
	In this second game of the series, watch nearly three and a half hours of luck manipulation so intense that it took scripting and bot-work to perform most of it. Most of the bosses in the second half of the run die in one or two rounds. This is an improvement of 15 minutes and 13 seconds over the previous movie, due to a variety of improvements, and in spite of playing on "Super" difficulty, which is functionally the highest difficulty level. If you enjoyed this, be sure to check out the first game in the series as well.

	GBA Shining Soul (USA) in 49:46.88 by DarkKobold.
	VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-06-01) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 106.91 MB, length: 54:33) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 112.72 MB, length: 54:33) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2683 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (8 votes) View Publication	- Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: RPG
	Shining Soul is an Action RPG by Atlus. It is the first 'Shining' game to not be produced by Camelot Software Planning, and thus is not considered canon in the 'Shining' universe. However, the game serves as an internal homage to much of the 'Shining' series. All of the bosses are major villains from a previous 'Shining' game. The author manipulates randomly-placed monuments to appear, increasing attack power as much as eight-fold during the run. Additionally, hundreds of critical attacks had to be painstakingly manipulated to allow for enemies to die in a single hit.

	GBA Shining Soul II (USA) in 1:12:02.43 by DarkKobold.
	VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-09-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 129.57 MB, length: 1:19:11) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2833 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1557 (1:30:01.18) Rating: 6.2 (6 votes) View Publication	- Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG
	Shining Soul II is the last 'Shining' title to reach American shores, and the author's 5th 'Shining' TAS on the site. Unlike some previous games in the series, this game and its prequel play more like traditional Action-RPGs. This game, like its prequel, allows the player to pick a character type. In this run, the character chosen was a ninja, for his ability to use speed magic. The author uses a glitch to dupe power wines and bombs, the former massively increasing his attack strength, and the latter making the run look more like Bomberman than a 'Shining' game! This run is 17:58.75 faster than his previous Shining Soul II publication due to some very impressive manipulation to slaughter bosses in mere seconds. It is recommended that you read the authors comments for more info about the run and the game.

	Arcade The Simpsons (World) in 13:37.73 by adelikat & DarkKobold.
	Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2010-09-01) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 64.60 MB, length: 15:50) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2821 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.6 (25 votes) View Publication	- Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - 4 Players - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Fighting
	¡Ay, caramba! The Simpsons Arcade Game is Konami's 4-player beat 'em up based on the ultra-hit TV show, The Simpsons. The Simpsons cartoon has now (at the time of writing) spanned 21 seasons, a world-wide movie, and licensing from here to kingdom come. In this TAS, adelikat and DarkKobold use four of the five Simpson family to track down the missing 5th member, Maggie. All right now, play friendly!

	Arcade Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (World) in 12:14.85 by DarkKobold.
	Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2010-08-14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 87.28 MB, length: 14:50) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2795 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (20.5 votes) View Publication	- 4 Players - Forgoes time-saving death - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform
	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an arcade game based on the TMNT cartoon released in December of 1987. Konami released this mega-hit in 1989, as one of the first arcade games to offer 4-player beat-'em-up action. In this run, DarkKobold uses all 4 ninja turtles to freak the foot soldiers, mangle the mousers, total the Technodrome, and kick Krang and The Shredder back to Dimension-X in a little over 12 minutes.

	PCE Dungeon Explorer (USA) "5 player" in 20:19.3 by DarkKobold.
	Mednafen/PCEjin movie (.mc2) (date: 2010-10-16) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 44.37 MB, length: 37:46) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2867 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (12 votes) View Publication	- 5 Players - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: RPG
	Dungeon Explorer is based off of Gauntlet, but adds a plot, bosses, magic spells and RPG elements. Notably, it also one-ups Gauntlet by allowing for five players. The author races through the dungeons with all five players, making short work of bosses. The five characters were selected for their high starting agility, and include a fighter (blue), a warlock (purple), an elf (green), a bard (orange), and a thief (red). Also, the only exit that matters is the last one used by a player, and the author uses this extensively to use the fastest character, the thief, to run when an earlier exit is available for the other characters to use.

	PCE Shockman (USA) in 21:50.11 by DarkKobold.
	Mednafen/PCEjin movie (.mc2) (date: 2010-12-08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 65.26 MB, length: 25:58) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2924 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (8 votes) View Publication	- 2 Players - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform
	Doc, the creator of the two cyborgs Arnold and Sonya, has been kidnapped as a prelude to an alien invasion. It's up to the two of them to stop the invasion and rescue their creator. The author uses an unconventional mode of transport in this run. A dual-player charge shot that is done incorrectly causes the players to be ricocheted around the screen. This provides a faster form of movement than walking, when aimed correctly!

	PCE Legend of Hero Tonma (USA) in 05:16.92 by DarkKobold.
	Mednafen/PCEjin movie (.mc2) (date: 2010-11-28) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 15.61 MB, length: 06:10) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2918 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.9 (7.5 votes) View Publication	- Genre: Platform
	Legend of Hero Tonma is a simple platforming game where Tommy, the main character, goes on a quest to rescue a princess. The game also has some amusing examples of awkward English in between stages. DarkKobold completes this quest very quickly and without taking any damage.

	PSX Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles (USA) in 46:31.18 by DarkKobold.
	PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2010-10-24) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 657.43 MB, length: 51:40) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2851 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (7 votes) View Publication	- Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform
	Jedi Power Battles is Star-Wars-meets-Double-Dragon with a ton of crazy platforming. The author uses Obi-wan to run through all of Star Wars Episode I, ignoring tons of battle droids and droidekas to get to the final confrontation with Darth Maul. Look for a tribute to SW:EP1 in the final battle! Also, the author takes an intentional death to make Jar Jar Binks disappear at one point in the run. I'm sure everyone has wished they could die and make Jar Jar disappear, at least once.

	NES Mendel Palace (USA) in 19:02.97 by DarkKobold.
	FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-11-11) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 50.38 MB, length: 21:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2904 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.3 (8.5 votes) View Publication	- 2 Players - Genre: Action - Genre: Puzzle
	Mendel Palace is an action-puzzle game. When playing in real-time, it becomes more action than puzzle, and when TASing, it becomes more puzzle than action. The idea is to shove your opponents into the walls of the arena by flipping over ground tiles. This is harder than it looks, since the enemies often approach in swarms and can kill you with one touch. Flipping can also reveal some other tile types. For instance, the sun tile flips over everything else, which often cleans up the arena in a hurry. However, there are also extra enemy spawn areas that can be uncovered, especially in the last levels. For more details, see the run's submission comments. DarkKobold beats the game in just over 19 minutes by using 2 players at the same time.

	NES Kid Dracula (JPN) in 19:49.12 by adelikat, Randil, arukAdo, DarkKobold.
	FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-08-09) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 29.15 MB, length: 21:54) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2359 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #89 (20:41.57) Rating: 6.7 (16.5 votes) View Publication	- Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform
	For the fans of the Castlevania series ― here's a TAS of a Castlevania game that is hmm.. much much more aimed toward children than the darker-themed games. The game was only released in Japan. There is also a Game Boy sequel that is known as Kid Dracula. This is a 50+ second improvement over the previous movie by Phil and Genisto.

	PCE Bloody Wolf (USA) in 14:19.74 by DarkKobold.
	Mednafen/PCEjin movie (.mc2) (date: 2010-12-23) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 41.17 MB, length: 17:36) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 36.73 MB, length: 17:32) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2938 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.2 (7 votes) View Publication	- Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter
	Bloody Wolf is an Arcade port of a Heavy Barrel-esque game. The goal is to rescue the president, and then rescue the man who rescued the president, due to insufficient leg room in the rescue helicopter. In this run, the author bunny hops through the game, throws grenades at everything, and dies for no apparent reason.

	Arcade Moonwalker, Michael Jackson's (bootleg) in 11:49.83 by DarkKobold.
	Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2010-12-29) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 58.86 MB, length: 13:49) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2943 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (14 votes) View Publication	- 3 Players - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Fighting
	Not only does Michael Jackson have a Genesis video game, he also has an Arcade game! This game is loosely based on the movie of the same name, featuring Michael Jackson saving children from Mr. Big. When Michael meets his pet monkey Bubbles, he turns into a killer robot! Michael Jackson's Moonwalker is a 3 player arcade game, where you play either a white-, red-, or black-suited Michael Jackson. The author uses all three players to complete this game as fast as possible.

On Thursday, October 28th, 2010, I was given the title high magistrate judge of the lily people, to rule over their shattered world with an iron fist. There, I enacted policies that made their lives a living nightmare of slavery and pain.

Ironically, on that day, I was also made a judge at TASVideos.org. I will fill in more once I've figured out how to be the most biased best judge I can be.

And doth DeHackithEd bring down from the heavens, a scripting language which becomith part of thyne emulators, and thus code shall flow freely through the wafers of the video game universe. And thy TASers shall have mighty TASes, for they have integrated with game, each running there own divine code.

Where to begin? Lua scripting is what makes me come back to TASVideos every day. I have done all of one TAS in the last five years that did not heavily rely on Lua. There is something irreplaceably exciting the first time a Lua script performs in a TAS the way you are hoping it will. Also, Lua gives a chance to achieve things in luck manipulation that would have nearly impossible before.

TODO:

• Finish the template scripts for the advanced luck manipulation page.

I try and keep the riff-raff out of the TASVideos forum. I enjoy researching the trolls, and trying to figure out who the bad eggs are. Also, I try and clean up double posts, and the normal housekeeping things required. Now, I just ask one thing, alright? Play friendly.

I started coding emulators, because there are so many runs I want to do that are held up by the current state of the emulators. While I never expect to be a coder at the level of zeromus, paul_t, or gocha, I hope to be able to contribute enough both to enable my own TASes, as well as help other TASers.

Things I'd like to accomplish:

• Add re-recording and Lua to Mupen64plus
• Add Lua to Yabause
• Add re-recording to Stella
• Make Mednafen work as a Game Gear Movie Maker, or make SMS/GGjin

In the vein of the CAD Forum Laws, I felt tasvideos needed its own set.

The WIP Law
There is a 50% chance that a WIP created for any game will be abandoned. If this WIP is of the first level, and uploaded to youtube, this increases to 90%.

The Randil Law
If there exists an NES game without a published run, any surprise submission of this game will be met with a TAS of the first level which is faster.

The Completist Law
Any time a 100% run is suggested for a game that does not directly track completion will result in a multi-page debate on what qualifies as 100%. This run will never actually be completed.

The Less Than 1% Travesty Law
Any extremely popular submission will accrue around 1% No votes of the total votes. These No Votes will have no effect on judging or publication; However, at least one user will suggest drastic measures, such as banning, mutilation, or death, to deal with the No Voters.

The Good Ol' Days Law
Any minor change to the site layout or mechanics will create great controversy, and a poll will be created to debate whether or not the change is a good idea. At least one user will threaten to quit over this change.

The Blank Screen Law
The longer a submission goes without a streaming encode, the less number of votes it will get. If any user posts a request for an encode, that submission has reached its limit, and will get less than ten votes before being judged.

The Encoder Babble Law
Any submission thread for a relatively-unknown game will consist of at least 30% posts from encoders on the status of encodes. If the workbench is full, this goes up to 70%.

The Every Nintendo Child is a Star Law
A submission featuring Mario, Samus, Mega Man, Link, or Sonic is guaranteed that at least one user will suggest it for a star, before it has even been published.

Feel free to suggest some!