Tool-assisted movies

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NES Atlantis no Nazo (JPN) in 02:46.0 by もりもと (aka. Morimoto).
Download Famtasia movie (.fmv) (date: 2003-05-08)
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- Aims for fastest time
- Uses warps
- Genre: Platform

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Evidently, not many people from Western countries know about this game.
This game seems to have obscure secrets, similar to Zelda's.

Nazo = riddle, puzzle.

(Original filename: アトランチス完全版.fmv)


NES "weird" Ghosts 'n Goblins (JPN) in 12:16.75 by もりもと (aka. Morimoto).
Download Famtasia movie (.fmv) (date: 2003-04-28)
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This is a historic movie, submitted and obsoleted before the creation of the database-based (and wiki-based) site engine, before July 2004.

It was inserted to the database in a history revival project by Bisqwit in autumn 2006.

It was a weird incomplete movie. I published it because it was requested many times. --Bisqwit

NES Gradius in 14:12.0 by もりもと (aka. Morimoto).
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Rating: 6.6 (27 votes)
- Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Shooter

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Morimoto picks only "Speed" upgrades and has fun with perfect reflexes. That's certainly something nice to do, because the game scrolls automatically and the player can't affect the speed.

(Original filename: グラディウス.fmv)


NES Hi no Tori (火の鳥 鳳凰編 我王の冒険) (JPN) in 14:32.25 by もりもと (aka. Morimoto).
Download Famtasia movie (.fmv) (date: 2003-05-22)
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Rating: 6.0 (12 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses warps
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform

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Despite the fact that this is a Konami game, this game is not well-known in western countries.
This game is really quite difficult.

火の鳥 = bird of fire (Japanese name for phoenix)


NES Mega Man (JPN) in 21:52.1 by もりもと (aka. Morimoto).
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- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time

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Loses no energy. Uses all the weapons, tools and glitches creatively. Very nice.

Rockman is known as Mega Man in the rest of world. It sometimes happens that names change when things are imported to USA.


NES Mega Man 2 (JPN) in 28:24.65 by もりもと (aka. Morimoto).
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- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Uses no passwords
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform

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This game was originally known as Rockman 2 in Japan.

This is a prime example of how timeattacks should be done.
Very creative, very nice.

Morimoto has been working on a significantly improved version of this movie with the aid of Finalfighter since the beginning of year 2004.
If you know where to look at in the Internet, you can find clues to what it will look like, but even if you don't want to, you can be sure it will be published at this site when it's ready!

(Original filename: ロックマン２.fmv)


NES Super Mario Bros 3 (JPN) in 11:03.95 by もりもと (aka. Morimoto).
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- Aims for fastest time
- Uses warps
- Genre: Platform

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This is a historic movie, submitted and obsoleted before the creation of the database-based (and wiki-based) site engine, before July 2004. It was inserted into the database for a history revival project by Bisqwit in autumn 2006.

When this video was first released on the Internet in mid-2003, its incredible quality of play became a phenomenon; since few people knew how the video was made, it was widely believed that it was played in real-time by an extremely skilled player. When Morimoto detailed the making of the run on his website (which can still be read here), many felt deceived and turned to criticizing the video's "illegitimacy" instead. During this time, the concept of tool-assistance was still mostly unknown, and people even went as far as claiming that Morimoto had constructed the movie in several years' time by performing video editing on every single frame of the WMV.

While this video was not the first of its kind, it was the first to gain widespread interest, and contributed greatly to the popularity of speedruns in general.


NES Youkai Douchuuki (JPN) in 14:31.1 by もりもと (aka. Morimoto).
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Rating: 6.1 (11 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Adventure
- Genre: Platform

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This is a very Japanese game - with its praying and all - but it isn't hard to follow even if you don't know the language.
Just how many games have you seen that measure the piousness of your character?

Youkai douchuuki = demon travel journal (literal translation)

Because of an irritating emulation bug in Famtasia, this new AVI is a joint work of of two emulators: Famtasia to create the video, and Nintendulator to create the audio - thanks to Quietust.
As a side effect, the download statistics for this movie were reset to zero (was: 327).

(Original filename: moukaidoutyuuki.fmv)

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