Tool-assisted movies

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SNES "120-exit" Super Demo World - TLC (USA v1.1) in 2:08:01.68 by Stefan Roger (aka. Chef Stef).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 350 MB, length: 2:13:19)
Download snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-06-25)
Read author's comments in submission #2004
Discuss this movie
Obsoletes movie #858 (2:08:50.32)
Rating: 8.3 (10 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- All levels&secrets
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Platform
This movie utilizes all of the tricks found in the SuperMarioWorldTricks section in addition to new recently discovered tricks to beat the previous movie by 48.6 seconds. See the authors comments for more details.

Arguably one of the most well known and well developed SNES hacks in existence, Super Demo World puts Mario into a new realm that spans well beyond his original adventure.

Features of Super Demo World include:

  • Ability to store more unconventional items in the reserve box, such as a koopa, springboard, message box, or vine
  • 120 exits in total, including two secret worlds
  • Creative and challenging level design, with some puzzle elements thrown in
  • "New" graphics (mostly backgrounds taken from other games, such as Donkey Kong Country 3 and Mega Man X)

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.


GBC Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (USA) in 1:09:49.93 by Stefan Roger (aka. Chef Stef).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 119 MB, length: 1:14:56)
Download VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2007-05-19)
Read author's comments in submission #1538
Discuss this movie
Obsoletes movie #599 (1:14:25.65)
Rating: 7.3 (21 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- No death
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses a game restart sequence
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Adventure
After becoming the Hero of Hyrule, Link is sent off by Zelda to study to be a proper Elf. On the way, he gets shipwrecked on a mysterious island taken over by evil, which he then tries to free to make his way back home.

In this movie Chef Stef takes a unique route through the game exploiting many glitches to completely skip parts of the game that you are normally required to play. If you like Zelda, and you like glitches, this is the movie to watch.

This is movie is nearly 5 minutes faster that the author's previous movie. There were many improvements. We recommend reading the author's comments.

We also have a movie of the Game Boy version (no DX), which skips a lot more of the game.


GBC "glitched" Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (USA v1.0) in 05:40.05 by Stefan Roger (aka. Chef Stef).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 11 MB, length: 10:16)
Download VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-08-11)
Read author's comments in submission #2031
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Rating: 6.9 (9 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses death as shortcut
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Adventure
In this movie, the author utilizes a warping glitch, along with through-the-wall glitches, to send Link directly to the final boss (after stealing powerful weapons from the shop, of course). The game, normally hours long, is beaten in a mere five minutes.

There is a movie of this game that does not use the warp glitch.


GBA Mario vs. Donkey Kong (USA) in 44:52.42 by Stefan Roger (aka. Chef Stef).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 148 MB, length: 46:55)
Download VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-01-23)
Read author's comments in submission #1779
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Rating: 5.9 (16 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Platform
"Mario vs. Donkey Kong" is an evolution of the ever popular Donkey Kong franchise that pits "Jump Man" (aka Mario) yet again against the ape "Donkey Kong." This time, Mario faces puzzling levels that require him to hit switches that activate/deactivate colored walls in an attempt to save the "Mini-Mario" toys.

The author abuses game physics and collision detection to complete the levels in record time.