Tool-assisted movies

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Please read the Why and How page if you haven't already done so. It explains the rules and methods that apply to all of these movies, particularly the use of savestates and slow-motion.

NES Conquest of the Crystal Palace (USA) in 11:18.75 by Andrew Araki (aka. arkiandruski).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 25 MB, length: 13:08)
Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-05-08)
Read author's comments in submission #1491
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Rating: 5.9 (17 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Platform
Conquest of the Crystal Palace is the story of a boy and his dog who overthrow an evil rock (or is it a brain?).

Genesis Batman (USA/Europe) in 11:06.2 by Andrew Araki (aka. arkiandruski).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 34 MB, length: 13:39)
Download Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-03-21)
Read author's comments in submission #1458
Discuss this movie
Rating: 6.6 (17 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses death as shortcut
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Batman is a game that closely follows the plot of the Tim Burton movie of the same name. In it, you follow Batman from the beginning of the movie through the birth and the death of the Joker.

Of course the movie doesn't involve Batman going through walls or dying to achieve his objective quicker.


Genesis Gunstar Heroes (USA) in 35:28.92 by Andrew Araki (aka. arkiandruski).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 229 MB, length: 39:00)
Download Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-08-18)
Watch online (www.youtube.com)
Read author's comments in submission #1645
Discuss this movie
Obsoletes movie #133 (32:59.0)
Rating: 7.7 (25 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
- Takes damage to save time
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: Shooter
Gunstar Heroes (1993) is widely considered to be one of the best action games on the Sega Genesis — ironically, being comercially unsuccessful due to poor promotion. It features a variety of melee attacks, as well as 4 basic weapons which you can combine in pairs (making a total of 14 combinations) — all densely packed in a swift and explosion-heavy gameplay spanning over seven uniquely designed stages. The author takes special care to showcase all the moves the game is capable of, using every possible attack and having lots of fun playing around in autoscrolling sections.

This movie is 3 minutes longer than the previous one due to playing on hardest difficulty and using both Gunstars at the same time. See the author's comments for more details.

The AVI for this movie is also slightly larger than usual — this is due to an amount of colors and on-screen motion even the best codecs have problems coping with.