Tool-assisted movies

This movie is a joint venture between AnS and Randil to improve the previous Darkwing Duck run by Walker Boh, resulting in 35.7 seconds saved through means of extensive optimization, luck manipulation and lag removal. We recommend reading the authors' comments for more details.

This game is about a man named Stanley Ippkiss, who finds a powerful mask known as The Mask. However evil has also become aware of this and kidnaps his girlfriend in order to obtain it.

One of the traits The Mask seems to give Stanley is extreme speed, so naturally, aside from a couple boss fights, the game play is extremely fast throughout the movie.

This is a 3 minute 30 second improvement over the previous movie by the use of a new shortcut in level 1, improved boss fights, and many other optimizations. The author left detailed comments about them.

In this movie the authors control two characters (Goofy and Max) simultaneously. This allows for a good deal of team work as one character can go get an item while the other heads for the exit. When there is no multi-tasking to do, the authors do a good job performing antics with one or both of the characters.

This is a nearly 4 minute improvement over Frenom's previous movie. Improvements come from new tricks, better teamwork, luck manipulation and optimized movements.

The teamwork of the two ninjas is remarkable. One of the ninjas often transforms into a tiger on which the other ninja can ride.

This along with Furball's "walljumping" is heavily abused in this movie, resulting in an impressive 34 second improvement to the previous movie by the same author.

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This game is yet another example of Konami's fascination with Easter Island statues.

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Tiny Toons is an easy and simple game to play, but not as straightforward to TAS. There are several tricks to keeping the character running at maximum speed. To learn more, read the author's short but informative comments at the submission page.

In this game, if you press right+left at the same time, a strange thing happens. Peter Bucher aka. Exim has made a 11:52 long TAS of this game using that glitch. His movie is available for BitTorrent download: here (FMV here).

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For the first time we have an NTSC version here. All previous versions were PAL.

This movie may look like it's dramatically faster than the previous version, but actually, it is more complicated than that.

• The previous movie was 21035 frames long. In the PAL version, the intro takes 967 frames, thus the movie was 20098 frames from beginning to completion.
• This movie is 20847 frames long. In the NTSC version, the intro takes 1333 frames, thus the movie was 19514 frames from beginning to completion.

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Previously the left+right glich movie was a separate category, but this version obsoletes both that and the normal movie. The previous left+right movie was 11:52, so this one is 23 seconds faster.

This movie is a 35.5 second improvement over the previously published movie.

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This game is really fast-paced. Do a TAS of it, and… see for yourself. :)

This new version is about 14 seconds faster than the previous movie by Acmlm.

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• Monday & Tuesday: Object crashing day
• Wednesday & Thursday: Window crashing day
• Friday: Moving objects crashing day
• Saturday: Daredevil day
• Sunday: Lawful day

The torrent file was replaced shortly after publishing because of error in file naming, and download statistics (256 complete downloads) were reset.

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In this one you star as Ace Harding, a detective who wakes up having no idea who or where he is. As the game progresses you discover that you have been framed for a crime you didn't commit, and must find a way to clear your name.

This is a 22 second improvement over the author's previous attempt by a slight route change and improved menu navigation.

Further reading:

• GameFAQs knowledge about this game

The route hasn't changed from the previous movie, but all movements are much more precise. The author has been able to manipulate luck favorably in almost every room by waiting or jumping differently.

This movie improves the previous attempt by over 30 seconds, which goes to show that polishing older movies can really pay off! ;)

This movie is 1:59 faster than the previous version by Ziplock.

In this one you star as Ace Harding, a detective who wakes up having no idea who or where he is. As the game progresses you discover that you have been framed for a crime you didn't commit, and must find a way to clear your name.

This is a 22 second improvement over the author's previous attempt by a slight route change and improved menu navigation.

Further reading:

• GameFAQs knowledge about this game

This is a pretty straightforward and simple game, but the author was still able to improve the old movie by 15 seconds primarily by getting more speed shoes.

This run is 462 frames (7.7 seconds) faster than the previous run of the game. The improvements come mostly from using the spell Illumina on the first visit to the Gargoyle-room, as well as throwing the key1 in the lake.

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The goal in the game is to collect all hearts in every stage, and when that is done, get the ball in the chest to open the door to the next room.

This run aims to beat every room as fast as possible, often by using strategies the game developers never thought about. Strategies were developed by many players, such as Bag of Magic Food, CtrlAltDestroy and of course Randil and Hanzou.

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This run is 818 frames (13.63 seconds) faster than the previous run of the game. The improvements come from using torches in better places, manipulating the last boss, doing things in a different order, and better menu navigation.

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In this one you star as Ace Harding, a detective who wakes up having no idea who or where he is. As the game progresses you discover that you have been framed for a crime you didn't commit, and must find a way to clear your name.

This movie features even ultrafaster menu navigation than the previous version, some luck manipulation and generally a very precise walkthrough doing only what is absolutely necessary.

Further reading:

• GameFAQs knowledge about this game

The speed at which the author manipulates the menus is impressive. This is an 4.12 second improvement over the author's previous movie.

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Hard game made easy - I like it. -Bisqwit

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It tells a story about a boy, Tarosuke, who seeks to meet Buddha, who will decide about Tarosuke's next life.
In order to meet Buddha, Tarosuke has to do lots of good deeds which earn him "piousness".

Because there is a lot of interesting dialog in this movie, but all in Japanese, the provided AVI is made to contain English subtitles for all in-game dialog text, as well as some explanations. It should help understanding the game events as well as enjoying its weird sense of fun.

This movie is ~80 seconds faster than the previous movie by Morimoto, which was the oldest non-obsoleted movie on this site at the time, being almost 4 years old.

The goal in the game, however, is not to get the money - instead you're supposed to frame the mobsters. You do this by planting certain items in desks and stuff like that.

Overall, this movie is a lot like the other storybook TAS: super-fast menu navigation, a lot of route planning, and the general feeling of "What in the world is going on in this movie?"

This movie plays "1 player game A" (easy). Ironically, this is MORE challenging for tool-assisted gameplay.

Stage times: 3410, 3560, 3750, 3890, 4270.

Yet another "perfect" movie beaten. This time by 18 frames.

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The speed at which the author manipulates the menus is impressive. This is an 8.05 second improvement over the author's previous movie.

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This movie plays "1 player game A" (easy). Ironically, this is MORE challenging for tool-assisted gameplay.

Stage times: 3410, 3560, 3750, 3890, 4270.

This movie obsoletes the previous movie by a mere 1 frame. This was done by a changed strategy in level 3. The unprecedentedly small margin of improvement is a result of how close to perfection this movie has become. This is most likely the final optimization of this game.

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This is a pretty straightforward and simple game, but the author was still able to improve the old movie by 15 seconds.

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This play consumes only three torches and collects only one of the six items required by the Sphinx, but manages to beat the game.

This movie is an improvement of 10 seconds over the previous version by Walker Boh, and it plays the same route.
All of the improvement comes from more precise menu manipulation. Read the author's comments for details.

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While watching this video, you will be amazed at the speed at which the author manipulates the menus.

This is a 2 minute 48 second improvement over the previous movie. Like the previous movie it uses 2 players and does not take warps.

Note: The avi of this movie was encoded using a 95 frame slower version of the movie by the same author although the subtitles misreported it as this version. If you downloaded the avi prior to 12/22/07, you have the wrong version.

This is a 20.47 sec improvement over the previous version by WalkerBoh. This is primarily due to better boss fights, and some lag reduction.