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Total movies: 5


☆GBC The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (USA v1.0) in 1:00:02.68 by Swordless Link.
VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-02-15)
MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 81.97 MB, length: 1:05:34)
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Submission #2565 — Author's comments
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Obsoletes movie #863 (1:09:49.93)
Rating: 8.9 (27.5 votes)
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- Best ending
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses a game restart sequence
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Adventure
Award - GBx TAS of 2010
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX is an updated version of an older GB game to add colour graphics, an additional dungeon, various other minor features, and a lot of bug fixes. Link, after rescuing Hyrule (again?), sets off on a journey and subsequently shipwrecks on the mysterious Koholint Island, which has been overtaken by evil monsters which he must defeat in order to find a way back home.

Through a wide variety of glitches and general optimisations, this is now almost ten minutes faster than the previous full run of this game.

This run does not make use of a form of warp glitching, but still demonstrates that they obviously didn't fix as many bugs as they thought.


GBC The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (USA) in 1:25:57.22 by Swordless Link & Tompa.
VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2012-02-01)
MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 126.55 MB, length: 1:32:17)
MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 126.58 MB, length: 1:32:17)
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Submission #3442 — Author's comments
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Rating: 8.8 (9 votes)
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- Takes damage to save time
- Uses a game restart sequence
- Heavy luck manipulation
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Adventure
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons is a Game Boy Color game that carries over much of the graphics from Link's Awakening. Surprisingly, much of the game engine is completely different and developed by Capcom. In it, the Oracle of Seasons, Din, is kidnapped by Onox, General of Darkness. Link must travel throughout both Holdrum and Subrosia to collect the 8 Essences of Nature, power up the Rod of Seasons, and defeat Onox.

This game has been attempted by various authors over the past 5 years. Finally, SwordlessLink, along with Tompa, who joined the project after dungeon 4, beat this legendary game in 1:25:57.21 primarily through the use of pitwalking, Pegasus Seeds, and enemy manipulation. Please see the authors' notes for more details.


N64 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (JPN v1.0) "All Dungeons, Temples, & Ganon Trials" in 2:04:45.22 by Swordless Link.
Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2012-04-25)
MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 499.22 MB, length: 2:12:20)
MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 471.03 MB, length: 2:12:20)
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Submission #3474 — Author's comments
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Obsoletes movie #1229 (2:51:19.1)
Rating: 8.7 (21.5 votes)
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- Uses death to save time
- Takes damage to save time
- Heavy glitch abuse
- Forgoes time-saving glitches
- Heavy luck manipulation
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Adventure
In this TAS of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the author aims to beat the game as quickly as possible while completing all dungeons, temples, and Ganon Trials. This goal is commonly referred to as "all temples", "all dungeons", or "MST (Medallions/Stones/Trials)".

This run has roughly 35 minutes of improvements in gameplay over the previous TAS of its kind.

This movie contains several new glitches and sequence breaks which allow for a much faster completion than were possible when the last run was made. Several large glitches in the game are not used in the run, such as those which allow the player to manipulate memory addresses to obtain items without physically picking them up. These are avoided because it would make the completion of any dungeon completely arbitrary, and they can be seen in the any% run.

Unlike the previous movie of this category, this TAS is played on the Japanese version of the game. The reason for this is that the text is significantly faster than in the English version, which means that far less time (roughly 12 minutes) is spent waiting for text boxes and cut scenes to end before getting back to the action. English subtitles were added to the encode for people interested in what was said.

The author's notes explain in great detail many of the things done in this TAS which may be confusing to those who aren't familiar with Ocarina of Time speedrunning. Reading them is strongly advised.

Note: There are encodes of higher resolutions in the discussion thread.


N64 Wildwaters Extreme Kayak (USA) in 01:30.93 by Swordless Link.
Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2012-05-08)
MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 16.06 MB, length: 01:41)
MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 15.49 MB, length: 01:41)
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Submission #3555 — Author's comments
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Rating: 6.5 (4.5 votes)
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- Aims for in-game time instead of real-time
- Single level
- Unofficial game
- Genre: Racing
Wildwaters (also known as "Extreme Kayak" and "X-Stream") is a cancelled racing game that was in development by Looking Glass Studios for the Nintendo 64 in 1998 / 1999. The project was announced at E3 1999 by Ubisoft (that was interested as a publisher) while the studio was working on Destruction Derby 64 (published in the same year), but sadly it was never finished.

In this run, the author manages to complete the first level (the only playable one) by using the fastest character and abusing of rocks, walls, everything on his way!


NES Action 52: The Cheetahmen (USA) in 03:56.06 by Swordless Link.
FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-08-02)
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Submission #2754 — Author's comments
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Rating: 5.7 (29.5 votes)
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- Takes damage to save time
- Uses warps
- Unofficial game
- Genre: Platform
Even the worst video games ever made can make up for a good TAS.

This movie plays through game #52, known as "The Cheetahmen", of a compilation of horrid games called Action 52, in a fast-paced way. While this game is pretty horrible in general, it has a rather catchy BGM.


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