Tool-assisted movies

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NES Boulder Dash (USA) in 20:07.68 by Chris Strake (aka. CtrlAltDestroy).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 51 MB, length: 21:31) (currently unavailable)
Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-05-23)
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Read author's comments in submission #656
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Rating: Too few votes (2) to display
- Aims for fastest time
- No death
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Uses a level password
- Genre: Puzzle

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Boulder Dash is a wellknown action-puzzle game where you must collect a quota of diamonds and reach the exit. Normally, standing under any falling object or just getting close to an enemy means instant death, but in this movie the player fearlessly dives through heaps of falling objects and walks past enemies without a scratch. It's quite pleasureable to watch if you have ever sat screaming at this game for getting stuck or killed repeatedly.

This playthrough uses a password to skip to level 19-1, which begins the hardest set of levels. The amoeba levels have long unavoidable waits, it is advised to fast-forward through these.


NES Boulder Dash (USA) in 19:42.32 by Chris Strake (aka. CtrlAltDestroy).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 36 MB, length: 21:28)
Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-05-28)
Read author's comments in submission #1069
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Obsoletes movie #343 (20:07.68)
Rating: 6.7 (27 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- No death
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Uses a level password
- Genre: Puzzle
Boulder Dash is a well known action-puzzle game where you must collect a quota of diamonds and reach the exit. This version improves upon the previous one by 25 seconds!

Normally, standing under any falling object or just getting close to an enemy means instant death, but in this movie the player fearlessly dives through heaps of falling objects and walks past enemies without a scratch.

It's quite pleasureable to watch if you have ever sat screaming at this game for getting stuck or killed repeatedly.

This playthrough uses a password to skip to level 19-1, which begins the hardest set of levels. The amoeba levels have long unavoidable waits, it is advised to fast-forward through these.


NES Widget (USA) in 05:35.62 by Chris Strake (aka. CtrlAltDestroy).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 9 MB, length: 07:54)
Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-08-27)
Read author's comments in submission #2068
Discuss this movie
Obsoletes movie #813 (05:48.83)
Rating: 6.8 (10 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Platform
This game is a platformer about a purple alien shape-shifter named Widget. Along with being able to turn into a few different animals to run faster or get through small passageways, he has the power to zip through walls, shoot at ridiculous rates, and find doors where there were no doors before!

..all the while, keeping that creepy, stupid grin on his face.

This is an improvement of 793 frames (~13 seconds) over the author's previous run.

An in-depth explanation of the routes and glitches used in this movie can be found in the submission text.


NES Widget (USA) in 05:56.05 by Chris Strake (aka. CtrlAltDestroy).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 10 MB, length: 08:13) (currently unavailable)
Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-01-07)
Read author's comments in submission #1374
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Rating: 5.9 (9 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Platform

This movie has been obsoleted!

Click here to see the new movie.
This game is a platformer about a purple alien shape-shifter named Widget. Along with being able to turn into a few different animals to run faster or get through small passageways, he has the power to zip through walls, shoot at ridiculous rates, and find doors where there were no doors before!

..all the while, keeping that creepy, stupid grin on his face.


NES Widget (USA) in 05:48.83 by Chris Strake (aka. CtrlAltDestroy).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 10 MB, length: 08:06)
Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-03-05)
Read author's comments in submission #1442
Discuss this movie
Obsoletes movie #767 (05:56.05)
Rating: 6.6 (18 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Platform

This movie has been obsoleted!

Click here to see the new movie.
This game is a platformer about a purple alien shape-shifter named Widget. Along with being able to turn into a few different animals to run faster or get through small passageways, he has the power to zip through walls, shoot at ridiculous rates, and find doors where there were no doors before!

..all the while, keeping that creepy, stupid grin on his face.

This is a 7 second improvement over the author's previous movie by the use of even more glitching.