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Genesis King's Bounty (USA/Europe) in 00:09.93 by Giancarlo Rivas (aka. gia) & Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq).
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Download Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-07-20)
Read author's comments in submission #2025
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Obsoletes movie #740 (00:10.17)
Rating: 7.3 (22 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: RPG
- Genre: Strategy
At TASvideos.org even 10 second long movies are improved. The author of the previous movie joins forces with the author of a VBA bot used in a glitched-out movie. As a result, this is a 14 frame improvement over the previous movie due to improved luck manipulation from a similarly-designed bot for Gens. Now the main character does not even have to move in order to complete the game.

While input length is 10 seconds long, less than .3 seconds of it is actual gameplay!


Genesis King's Bounty (USA) in 00:10.17 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq).
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Download Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2006-12-18)
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Rating: 7.0 (35 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: RPG
- Genre: Strategy

This movie has been obsoleted!

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King's Bounty is a turn-based strategy game. The objective is to recover the Sceptre of Order. Map pieces that reveal the location of the sceptre are gained by defeating villains and finding special artifacts.

A normal play session would involve exploring four large continents and battling hundreds of creatures, but in this movie nobody gets killed and everyone is happy.

The input length is 10 seconds long, only 25 frames of which is actual gameplay!


NES Donkey Kong Jr. (JPN/USA) in 01:13.05 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq) & Ferret Warlord (?).
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Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-05-13)
Read author's comments in submission #1556
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Obsoletes movie #423 (01:13.23)
Rating: 7.0 (18 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Genre: Platform

This movie has been obsoleted!

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A very important part of Nintendo's history is being presented here in the manner of our website — as a tool-assisted speedrun.

Donkey Kong Jr. (read Wikipedia article), among with Donkey Kong, were classic games that were played by millions of players on different consoles, including NES, Atari 2600 and Game and Watch.

Although one would not expect a movie of Donkey Kong Jr. to be interesting to watch, except in the retro sense, this movie is actually quite surprising. The vines are cleverly utilized to move the hero forward faster than any member of the Kong family before or after this game.

This is an 11-frame optimization to the level 1 of Ferret Warlord's previous movie. The rest of the levels are copied without changes.


Genesis Splatterhouse 2 (USA) in 14:15.5 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 46 MB, length: 17:17)
Download Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-05-28)
Read author's comments in submission #1534
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Rating: 6.9 (15 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Action
Splatterhouse 2 is a splatter-themed beat 'em up/action game featuring a skull masked guy fighting against undead creatures to save a girl.

Genesis Wonderboy in Monster World (USA/Europe) in 42:10.45 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 99 MB, length: 45:41)
Download Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2006-07-31)
Read author's comments in submission #1041
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Rating: 6.7 (18 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Adventure
- Genre: Platform
This movie is about Wonderboy fighting against (or running past) a horde of cute monsters.

The Oasis Boots that are normally required to cross the desert were not used in this movie, because it was slightly faster to go without them.

In Japan the game is known as Monsterworld 3.


Genesis Gods (USA) in 07:34.47 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq).
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Download Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2006-06-28)
Read author's comments in submission #898
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Obsoletes movie #384 (11:41.42)
Rating: 6.7 (19 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses death as shortcut
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Platform

This movie has been obsoleted!

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Gods is a game about someone who wants to become a god and gain immortality. This is a delicate and paradoxical issue, because temporal immortality can be bought at just about every shop in this game, but the hero still dies 9 (nine) times, which is two deaths less than in the old run.

Another fun aspect is bomb-jumping, which allows both higher jumps and traveling vertically through walls. Almost the whole 2nd half of the game is skipped with this trick!

This is the author's latest version, improved by over 4 minutes!


Genesis Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle (USA) in 05:27.8 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 15 MB, length: 07:15)
Download Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-02-28)
Read author's comments in submission #1865
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Obsoletes movie #788 (06:46.77)
Rating: 6.6 (14 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Before Sonic the Hedgehog, there was Alex Kidd.

This movie improves on the previous movie by a whopping 79 seconds thanks to a new trick allowing Alex to ascend through walls Rockman style.


Genesis Dark Castle (USA) in 00:56.55 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq) & Joe Stanski.
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Download Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-02-04)
Read author's comments in submission #1439
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Obsoletes movie #757 (00:59.87)
Rating: 6.6 (20 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Platform
Dark Castle looks like a Genesis version of Donkey Kong. This new movie is three seconds faster than the previous version by Aqfaq.

Selected comments from Aqfaq:
I managed to skip most of the game, which is good because Dark Castle sucks.


Genesis Mystic Defender (USA) in 05:38.32 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 30 MB, length: 07:34)
Download Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-02-21)
Read author's comments in submission #1862
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Obsoletes movie #370 (06:13.45)
Rating: 6.6 (12 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Platform
Mystic Defender is the USA version of the Japanese game "孔雀王2" (Kujaku-Oh Ni, which means "The Peacock King 2"). Except for changing the clothing of the hero and deleting the intro and the names of the stages, everything seems to be the same.

Because Peacock the hero is not a very smart hero, he cannot walk and use his arms at the same time (a common video game character disability). Thus he must jump to be able to use his arms. If he is charging a bigger shot when he lands, he forgets to walk for a few frames, so you cannot charge up a shot too early. It's all very delicate.

This is a 35 second improvement over the previous movie by highness. Much of the improvement comes from an interesting glitch in the last level.

Warning: This movie has been rated PG-13 for Tool-Assisted Violence, Brief Nudity, and Inappropriate Glitch Abuse. Viewer discretion advised.


NES Donkey Kong Jr. in 01:12.95 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq) & Ferret Warlord (?).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 2 MB, length: 01:23)
Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-03-13)
Read author's comments in submission #1883
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Obsoletes movie #855 (01:13.05)
Rating: 6.5 (22 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Genre: Platform
A very important part of Nintendo's history is being presented here in the manner of our website — as a tool-assisted speedrun.

Donkey Kong Jr. (read Wikipedia article), among with Donkey Kong, were classic games that were played by millions of players on different consoles, including NES, Atari 2600 and Game and Watch.

Although one would not expect a movie of Donkey Kong Jr. to be interesting to watch, except in the retro sense, this movie is actually quite surprising. The vines are cleverly utilized to move the hero forward faster than any member of the Kong family before or after this game.

This is a 6 frame optimization of level 4 compared to the previous movie by the same authors. The rest of the levels are copied without changes.


Genesis Gods (USA) in 07:31.93 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 22 MB, length: 09:57)
Download Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-03-04)
Read author's comments in submission #1446
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Obsoletes movie #551 (07:34.47)
Rating: 6.5 (20 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses death as shortcut
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Platform
Gods is a game about someone who wants to become a god and gain immortality. This is a delicate and paradoxical issue, because temporal immortality can be bought at just about every shop in this game, but the hero still dies 9 (nine) times.

Another fun aspect is bomb-jumping, which allows both higher jumps and traveling vertically through walls. Almost the whole 2nd half of the game is skipped with this trick!

This is the author's latest version, improved by a mere 2.5 seconds.


NES A Boy and His Blob (USA) in 01:57.95 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 3 MB, length: 03:20)
Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-06-04)
Read author's comments in submission #1561
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Obsoletes movie #851 (02:09.03)
Rating: 6.3 (37 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Adventure
- Genre: Platform
A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia (1989) is a popular, whimsical game in which a shapeshifting blob (named Blobert) from the planet Blobolonia teams up with an Earth boy to overcome obstacles on both planets and to defeat Blobolonia's evil emperor.

This movie is ~11 seconds faster than the previous version by the same author, due to better control of the boy's acceleration.


NES A Boy and His Blob (USA) in 02:09.03 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq).
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Read author's comments in submission #1557
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Obsoletes movie #527 (03:24.23)
Rating: 6.3 (20 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Adventure
- Genre: Platform

This movie has been obsoleted!

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A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia (1989) is a popular, whimsical game in which a shapeshifting blob (named Blobert) from the planet Blobolonia teams up with an Earth boy to overcome obstacles on both planets and to defeat Blobolonia's evil emperor.

This movie is 75.2 seconds faster than the previous version by GuanoBowl, due to a dramatic game-glitching route shortcut.

Note: Death was no longer used as a shortcut.


Genesis Dark Castle (USA) in 00:59.87 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq).
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Download Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-01-01)
Read author's comments in submission #1308
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Obsoletes movie #482 (01:00.75)
Rating: 6.3 (10 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Platform

This movie has been obsoleted!

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Dark Castle looks like a Genesis version of Donkey Kong. This new movie by Aqfaq is one second faster than his previous version.

Selected comments from author:
I managed to skip most of the game, which is good because Dark Castle sucks.


Genesis Dark Castle (USA) in 01:00.75 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 3 MB, length: 01:36) (currently unavailable)
Download Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2006-02-21)
Read author's comments in submission #971
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Obsoletes movie #211 (02:43.95)
Rating: 6.1 (19 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Platform

This movie has been obsoleted!

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Dark Castle looks the Genesis version of Donkey Kong. It is a game that is so horribly bad it's almost comical. This new movie by Aqfaq is less than half the length of its predecessor by Dan.

Selected comments from author:
I managed to skip most of the game, which is good because Dark Castle sucks.


Genesis Gods (USA) in 11:41.42 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq).
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Download Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2005-07-29)
Read author's comments in submission #661
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Rating: 5.7 (8 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses death as shortcut
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform

This movie has been obsoleted!

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Gods is a game about someone who wants to become a god and gain immortality. This is a delicate and paradoxical issue, since on one hand temporal immortality can be bought at just about every shop, and on the other hand the hero dies 11 (eleven) times, which has to be some kind of Nesvideos record.

Another fun aspect is bomb-jumping, which allows both higher jumps and traveling vertically through walls. Almost the whole final level is skipped with this trick.


Genesis Magical Taruruuto-Kun (JPN) in 15:12.22 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 56 MB, length: 16:19)
Download Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-04-29)
Read author's comments in submission #1852
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Rating: 5.3 (9 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Platform
This colorful game is based on the manga of the same name and features what appears to be a magical baby navigating through some unusual and fairly friendly looking enemies. Everything, particularly inanimate objects, has a face. The levels vary from suburbia to castles to clouds, and end with particularly unique bosses.

The main character's ability to glide sets this apart from many other platformers. The author uses this power frequently to both gain speed and to simply hover above helpless enemies.


Genesis Humans (USA) in 43:19.22 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq).
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Download Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-05-31)
Read author's comments in submission #1520
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Rating: 5.3 (15 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses death as shortcut
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Puzzle
Humans (1992) is a kind of a crossbreed between Lemmings and Lost Vikings. Its gameplay contains both puzzle solving and action sequences.

This movie by Aqfaq features all 80 levels solved in fast and unexpected ways. The strategies used to attain this result rely on several interesting tricks and glitches described in the submission comments.


Genesis Immortal, The (USA/Europe) in 10:32.92 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq).
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Download Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-04-03)
Read author's comments in submission #1873
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Obsoletes movie #593 (12:04.4)
Rating: 5.2 (9 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses death as shortcut
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Adventure
The Immortal is a dungon game with spells, goblins, and of course countless traps of instant death. The story is quite humorous at times.

In this movie, the protagonist wizard uses various unorthodox methods for completing the game as fast as possible. He dies four times in the process, but that does not slow him down at all. In fact, dying is one of the tricks that make this movie 1,5 minutes faster than its predecessor movie.


Genesis Prince of Persia (USA) in 19:03.48 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 29 MB, length: 20:10)
Download Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-09-19)
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Read author's comments in submission #2084
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Obsoletes movie #173 (19:45.35)
Rating: 5.2 (10 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: Puzzle
This game, a version of the classic PC game, is a puzzle/platform game done as fast as possible, with some quick fighting thrown in.

This version improves the previous Prince of Persia run by 42 seconds. During the run, the author manages to pull off daring leaps of faith, enemy dodging and even manages to pass through a solid metal gate.

Added [1193] Genesis Prince of Persia (USA) by Aqfaq in 19:03.48 (2008-09-18)
- obsoletes [173] Genesis Prince of Persia (USA) by SprintGod in 19:45.35 (2004-08-26)
Added [1145] Genesis King's Bounty (USA/Europe) by gia & Aqfaq in 00:09.93 (2008-07-20)
- obsoletes [740] Genesis King's Bounty (USA) by Aqfaq in 00:10.17 (2006-12-18)
Added [1102] Genesis Magical Taruruuto-Kun (JPN) by Aqfaq in 15:12.22 (2008-04-28)
Added [1084] Genesis Immortal, The (USA/Europe) by Aqfaq in 10:32.92 (2008-04-02)
- obsoletes [593] Genesis Immortal, The (USA) by Tool23 in 12:04.4 (2006-09-09)
Added [1078] NES Donkey Kong Jr. (any) by Aqfaq & Ferret Warlord in 01:12.95 (2008-03-13)
- obsoletes [855] NES Donkey Kong Jr. (JPN/USA) by Aqfaq & Ferret Warlord in 01:13.05 (2007-05-13)
- - obsoletes [423] NES Donkey Kong Jr. (JPN/USA) by FerretWarlord in 01:13.23 (2005-10-15)
Added [1072] Genesis Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle (USA) by Aqfaq in 05:27.8 (2008-02-28)
- obsoletes [788] Genesis Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle (USA) by foda in 06:46.77 (2007-02-04)
- - obsoletes [251] Genesis Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle (USA) by foda in 06:55.75 (2004-12-04)
Added [1068] Genesis Mystic Defender (USA) by Aqfaq in 05:38.32 (2008-02-21)
- obsoletes [370] Genesis Mystic Defender (any,r0) by Highness in 06:13.45 (2005-07-04)
Added [883] NES A Boy and His Blob (USA) by Aqfaq in 01:57.95 (2007-06-04)
- obsoletes [851] NES A Boy and His Blob (USA) by Aqfaq in 02:09.03 (2007-05-11)
- - obsoletes [527] NES A Boy and His Blob (USA) by GuanoBowl in 03:24.23 (2006-04-19)
- - - obsoletes [378] NES A Boy and His Blob (USA) by TheAxeMan in 03:37.0 (2005-07-15)
- - - - obsoletes [375] NES A Boy and His Blob (USA) by GuanoBowl in 04:05.47 (2005-07-07)
- - - - - obsoletes [79] NES A Boy and His Blob (USA) by SjoerdH in 05:36.55 (2004-05-12)
Added [879] Genesis Humans (USA) by Aqfaq in 43:19.22 (2007-05-31)
Added [876] Genesis Splatterhouse 2 (USA) by Aqfaq in 14:15.5 (2007-05-28)
Added [812] Genesis Gods (USA) by Aqfaq in 07:31.93 (2007-03-04)
- obsoletes [551] Genesis Gods (USA) by Aqfaq in 07:34.47 (2006-06-28)
- - obsoletes [384] Genesis Gods (USA) by Aqfaq in 11:41.42 (2005-07-29)
Added [790] Genesis Dark Castle (USA) by Aqfaq & Stanski in 00:56.55 (2007-02-04)
- obsoletes [757] Genesis Dark Castle (USA) by Aqfaq in 00:59.87 (2007-01-01)
- - obsoletes [482] Genesis Dark Castle (USA) by Aqfaq in 01:00.75 (2006-02-21)
- - - obsoletes [211] Genesis Dark Castle (USA/Europe) by Dan in 02:43.95 (2004-10-10)
Added [570] Genesis Wonderboy in Monster World (USA/Europe) by Aqfaq in 42:10.45 (2006-07-31)