Tool-assisted movies

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This movie beats the previous SMW movie by a mere 3 seconds. Strategically, this is very similar to the previous movie, but a new technique which involves keeping flight status through doors and pipes saved the majority of the time. This game is now extremely tightly optimized to minimize lag between levels.

This movie is a joint venture between Fabian and JXQ, but small and big optimizations were contributed by several people: skamastaG, thegreginator, mrz, jimsfriend, Flagitious and Arne_the_great.

See also: SMW 100% completion (96 exits) in 1:21:30 by Fabian

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This movie beats the previous SMW movie by mere 4 seconds ― which is a lot considering how the difference was gained.

Strategically, this is exactly the same movie as the previous one, but there are new techniques that dive directly into how the game works. The author has of course explained them here.

See also: SMW 100% completion (96 exits) in 1:21:30 by Fabian

Super Metroid has a wide variety of time-saving glitches to exploit, many of which are explained on the SuperMetroidTricks page.

The in-game completion time of this run is 00:37:54, but since game timers have never really been good at rounding things up, it is shown as 00:37 after the game has been completed.

If you prefer to watch the fastest completion without getting all the items, check out Super Metroid in 39:32 by hero of the day.

NEW: Added a second AVI file that shows the gamepad input on top of the game video. The author has hidden some secret messages in it that might be interesting to see!

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The homepage for Super Demo World, including the patch against Super Mario World, is available online.

Note: Even though this is a hacked game, we don't accept all hacks. Read more in the Rules.

Apparently, the team of adelikat, Deign, Cardboard and JXQ had been working some time on this movie, which improves the previous movie by some 5.5 seconds (no small feat at this point), due to a wide variety of different improvements discussed in the submission message.

And of course, a wadload of extra lives are again achieved in the mandatorily slow autoscrolling levels.

For those that still prefer to see 99+ lives, the authors have also put together an alternate run that sacrifices time in order to gain those extra lives.

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Super Metroid has a wide variety of time-saving glitches to exploit, many of which are explained on the Super Metroid Tricks page.

The in-game time of this run is 39 minutes 55 seconds, but since game timers have never really been good at rounding things up, it is shown as 00:39 after the game has been completed.

Times for each track are:

• 0 = 36.54 (0.96 improved)
• 1 = 38.24 (0.97 -"-)
• 2 = 38.86 (1.57 -"-)
• 3 = 41.98 (0.02 -"-)
• 4 = 41.02 (0.02 -"-)
• 5 = 31.74 (0.02 -"-)

Main improvements come from better speed handling and using more ramp boosts. Look for further info in the author's comments.

This movie is a whopping 24 second improvement to the previous movie. Full list of changes can be read in the authors' comments.

The homepage for Super Demo World, including the patch to be used on a Super Mario World ROM, and the program used to make the hack, is available online.

Note: Even though this is a hacked game, we do not accept all hacks. Read more in the Rules.

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The homepage for Super Demo World, including the patch to be used on a Super Mario World ROM, and the program used to make the hack, is available online.

Note: Even though this is a hacked game, we do not accept all hacks. Read more in the Rules.

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Super Demo World is huge, refined, well-planned, surprising, and, at times, downright beautiful. This TAS aims to capture those same qualities with maximum speed. The discovery of new techniques, along with improvements of existing ones, pushed the envelope on what could be done quickly in Super Mario's world.

The homepage for Super Demo World, including the patch to be used on a Super Mario World ROM, and the program used to make the hack, is available online.

Note: We do not allow all hacks. Read the rules for our reasons and what hacks we allow.

Although this movie doesn't use the magic whistles, it does skip stages, and actually skips them quite a lot, with the aid of various items such as the hammers.

Note: This movie no longer uses death as a shortcut.

This is an improvement of about 56 seconds over the previous movie.

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This is the first run of this game. Just like Sonic 2, this game has been considered to be "cursed" for a long time, with many people trying to make runs and giving up halfway.

This is the fourth run of this game, improving on the previous effort by almost two minutes.

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Although this movie doesn't use the magic whistles, it does skip stages, and actually skips them quite a lot, with the aid of various items such as the hammers.

Note: This movie contains death(s). They are intentional, and save time. Read the author's comments for more details.

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This is the third run of this game, improving on the previous effort by nine seconds.

There is more than just an appearance change to this game. Knuckles' abilities remain intact. If you haven't seen Sonic the Hedgehog completed before, you may wish to do so before seeing what a character with a spindash and gliding can accomplish.

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Note: The previous version was made with the Japanese version, whereas this version is made with the USA version. There was actually a large debate on this site regarding which version should be used -- both versions contain something good and something bad that the other does not. The question is still open, but in the mean time, here is this new movie. In where it matters, it is faster than the previous movie.

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This is the second run of this game, improving on the previous effort by over ten seconds.

This is Cardboard's and JXQ's second contribution to Bionic Commando, this time improved by about 4.5 seconds.

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However, if you still find this movie to be too long, make sure to see the second quest completed in less than half a minute!

Selected quotes from the author: Come follow on the adventure through a castle that contains no less than eighty clashing colors in each room! Be amazed as Juste Belmont, Simon's grandson, has to do the usual vampire hunting despite looking nothing like his grandfather (or a man at all). Question his motives when he takes time out of his rescue mission to decorate the basement he will soon destroy! Feel the pain as Juste struggles to understand that there actually are two castles!! (Ouch my brain!)

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This game consists of four heroes with very different strengths and weaknesses. The object (and fun) of the game is to use these traits to your advantage depending on the situation.

In this run, however, one hero ends up being used the vast majority of the time, with the others usually standing in as little more than extra life meters.

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The bosses of this game can be difficult due to a glitch that improperly resets the boss's vulnerability after being hit in certain circumstances.

This movie is several minutes faster than the previous unpublished movie by kirbymuncher, and is well over ten minutes faster than the original by Bisqwit.

This run is played in two-player mode with the author controlling both characters. It aims for showing off and being entertaining while still being reasonably fast. A code is used to access the highest difficulty level.

Items that can be obtained include boots which allow a double-jump maneuver, and a sword, which causes multiple hits when the character's energy is low. Bosses are defeated quickly by using this sword power-up, after taking enough damage to activate its extra power.

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This is a 13-second improvement to the previous author's movie.

This run uses the 'Extra Game' password (up+select+A at title screen), which makes the enemies and bosses much more aggressive and damaging than usual.

This is a 32 second improvement over the previous movie by Spezzafer.

This movie by JXQ is about 108 seconds faster than the previous version by Juan Pablo López. Most of the improvement comes from finding clever ways to reduce the immense lag that this game experiences at some points.

Selected Quote from the authors:

We looked at previous submissions and demonstrations of this game and tried to include the most entertaining parts of what was available, and add in a few ideas of our own along the way. Hopefully you'll get a kick out of it.

This movie abuses death to a large degree to obliterate the game in record time.

Skate Or Die 2 is quite an unpopular NES game, mostly due to the game sucking and the controls being unresponsive. Luckily, bad programming can work to one's advantage in a project like this. Luck manipulation is also a big part of getting through this game quickly.

Skate straight!