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

As for the movie itself... This is Bisqwit's 3rd attempt and is about 3 seconds faster than the previous. The time saved comes from small improvements starting in 4-1.

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

As for the movie itself... This is Bisqwit's 2nd attempt but our first publication on record. It uses the same warp route as modern movies but does not use modern time-saving glitches (as they were not known at the time). Power-ups are avoided in this movie. In 1-2 there is a nice use of a wall-jump to save time.

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This time we see Mario eat a mushroom and a fireflower. Lots of more action than before. Also more glitches. Read the submission comments for more details.

In the strange-looking screenshot in this movie entry, we see Mario ducking and shooting at the same time.

Wondering how some tricks work? Information is available at Super Mario Bros. Tricks page.

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This is the real Super Mario Bros 2.
Yes, this game is real. It just wasn't released in the USA.
It was later ported to SNES, and released as "Lost Levels".

Wondering how some tricks work? Information is available at Super Mario Bros. Tricks page.

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Wondering how some tricks work? Information is available at Super Mario Bros. Tricks page.

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This is the real Super Mario Bros 2.
Yes, this game is real. It just wasn't released in the USA.
It was later ported to SNES, and released as "Lost Levels".

Wondering how some tricks work? Information is available at Super Mario Bros. Tricks page.

This movie has been obsoleted!

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

As for the movie itself... This movie by Bisqwit improved upon Linnom's version by 1 minute and 20 seconds. Improvements came from taking damage to save time, better weapon usage, and overall better precision.

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

Bisqwit's 7th attempt, about 18 seconds faster than the previous. Improvements come from better precision and a few optimizations (such as, in level 1, getting the whip upgrade while waiting for the bat instead of earlier).

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

This marks the earliest Castlevania publication on record (but Bisqwit's 4th attempt). This movie was one of the first tool-assisted speedruns to use damage boosting as a shortcut.

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

Bisqwit's 8th attempt, about 14 seconds faster than the previous. This one shows greater planning with heart usage such as collecting hearts to kill the level 1 boss without needing a whip upgrade. In addition, this one manages to use wall glitching to save time.

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The timeunit count for this movie is 3:15:11.

There are several items that are required for the completion of the game, and you can't buy them without killing a certain amount of monsters, thus this movie has quite much of running back and forth, collecting hearts.

There are a few very impressive glitches in this game - using them could cut the time down significantly. We will probably see a version utilizing them in the future.

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Note: Famtasia plays PAL games at NTSC speed, that is 16.7% too fast. Thus the AVI is significantly faster than the movie should actually be.

With some heavy support from a bot and the help of an unusual glitch on two tables, the game is completed in record time.

The friction of the pool table can be adjusted; in this run it is left alone. See also the frictionless run. Reading the submission text is recommended.

The emulator movie requires FCEU 0.98.15 or an earlier version of FCEU. On later versions of FCEU, the last table desyncs.

With some heavy support from a bot (and massive loss of sanity), the author manages the nigh-impossible feat of making it all the way to the end of all 60 tables even in the face of this overwhelming opposition.

Reading the submission notes is highly advisable to explain some of the oddities such as the occasional pocketing of the cue ball. (In short: The cue ball is deliberately pocketed in order to avoid getting a perfect score on every level because the point counter would take unbearably long to tick all the points, up to a half minute per level.)

For more heavy optimization of pool tables, see also the run of this game with the default friction level.

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"Ninjas should think beyond normal."

This movie extends the physical laws of Rockman world beyond the impossible and ends up being 3.5 minutes faster than the previous Rockman movie by Morimoto.

There are countless difficult tricks and techniques involved, most of which have been added to the Rockman Tricks collection page.

The author is now working on a new version that will be at least a minute faster than this movie.

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It is 1 minute and 23 seconds faster than the previous Rockman movie by the same author.

This movie abuses the minor glitches of the Rockman physics more than ever before. And this is an understatement. Many new techniques were discovered during the making of this movie. Even the route changed completely. Watch it...

There are countless difficult tricks and techniques involved, most of which have been added to the Rockman Tricks collection page.

Some interesting pieces of information:

• The making of this movie took 8 months - most of which was spent planning how to play the Bombman stage.
• Certain small parts of this movie have been played by a robot (approximately 8 seconds in total).
• The ROM of the game was disassembled to find out how to manipulate the bonus drops.
• When more than 50% of this movie was completed, this movie was constantly in state of being made obsolete. New strategies were continuously found for already-played levels. Therefore, most levels have been completely done over at least 3 times. For this, copypasting was invaluable.

See the submission comments for details.

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We recommend reading the rest of the author's comments.

Note: Famtasia plays PAL games at NTSC speed, that is 16.7% too fast. Thus the AVI is significantly faster than the movie should actually be. The real length is 11:04.

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This movie plays all the rooms of the game, including the hidden rooms with Page of Time, Page of Space, and even a princess of some kind. (Fairy collection rooms were not included.) No warps were used. Due to those secrets, it accomplishes the best ending of the game.

Almost all rooms were improved from the previous movie ― many of them even several seconds faster. The precise times can be found in the submission message.

NOTE: In case you are wondering, the author could have used death as a shortcut in one room like he did in the previous movie, but chose not to.

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This timeattack exceptionally contains one death. It was intentional to save time.

There are many more goals in this game than to just pass all levels... Including some secret levels. Many levels are much more difficult when you try to collect the items required for those quests. This timeattack ignores all those goals.

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In case you're wondering... the monster and the flame it breaths are two different objects. It's possible to jump between them.
This video could probably be improved by ~10 seconds by better planning and ~1.5 minutes by finetuning Dana's jumps. The game is quite hard, and I'm happy I got this done anyway :)
There are many more goals in this game than to just pass all levels... Including some secret levels. Many levels are much more difficult when you try to collect the items required for those quests. This speedrun ignores all those goals.

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

This movie is the earliest attempt by Bisqwit (his 2nd version). This movie makes a number of mistakes and detours.

Note: Famtasia incorrectly reports this movie file as only 794 frames. However, it plays fine.

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

This marks the third SMB movie by Bisqwit and is approximately 2 seconds faster than his first. It does not take advantage of many glitches & tricks known in modern times but does a good job focusing on entertaining the audience while not losing time.

The improvement from the previous movie seems to be simply the removal of a few seconds mistake/entertainment decisions in world 8 (where Bisqwit chose to play around with a koopa shell or hit a random coin block).

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This movie is the 2nd of Bisqwit's movies published (his 3rd attempt). It is a mere 3 frames faster than the previous version.

This versions takes a number of detours such as playing with a koopa shell, getting a random coin, and taking time to show off a wall jump.

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This is a sidestroller, speedwalk, or whatever you want to call it...

This is a 7 seconds improvement to the previous walkathon movie that was submitted (and published) on April 1st, 2005; submitted at April 1st, 2008.

Among improvements are a commentary from the actors of the movie and some glitch applications not seen before in SMB TASes.

Note that a 20-frame (0.3 seconds) improvement to this movie is known to be possible, but this version was chosen because it is more entertaining to watch. The faster version can be downloaded here.

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This is a sidestroller, speedwalk, or whatever you want to call it...

Note: This movie was submitted (and published) on April 1st, 2005. It was not intended to be a serious TAS movie.

This movie has been obsoleted!

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

This is Bisqwit's 2nd attempt at this game, about 15 seconds faster than his previous attempt.

This movie uses a variety of characters and not just Luigi. Like the previous, this one uses the warp in world 5 instead of world 4, and fails to use the shortcut in 1-1. This movie also makes an interesting choice of Mario for 5-1.

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

This is the earliest Super Mario Bros 2 (USA) TAS on record. It uses only Luigi. It doesnt' utilize the many tricks we know of today.

It also fails to use the shortcut route in 1-1. It does manage to avoid using the carpet in 1-2. More significantly, it forgoes the World 4 route and takes the World 5 one instead.

This movie has been obsoleted!

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

This is Bisqwit's 3rd attempt at this game, about 30 seconds faster than his previous attempt. It is simply a revision of level 7-2 where he picks Mario and takes advantage of getting on the ceiling to score a shortcut.

This movie has been obsoleted!

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

This is Bisqwit's 5th attempt at this game, about 7 seconds faster than his previous attempt. This movie uses Luigi for 1-1 (and still takes the long route), otherwise it is the same route & character choices as previous attempts. This seems to be the first movie to fully use the ceiling route in 7-2 in the way it is done today.

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

This is Bisqwit's 6th attempt at this game, about 47 seconds faster than his previous attempt. The time comes from being the first of his movies to use the world 4 warp.

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Comment from Bisqwit:
The warp from 4-2 goes to 6-1, not to 7-1. (Several people have asked me why I didn't use it.)

This movie takes the same route and character choices as previous movies but is a complete redo with greater precision.

Speedrunwise, this game is all about luck manipulation. Like any good ninja game, it hides many secrets inside, and the player (Bisqwit) set out to discover every one of them that is important in making a TAS. A detailed story of those secrets can be found in the submission message, but in conclusion it lead into this 28-second speedup compared to the previous movie by Walker Boh.

The theme music of this game sounds a lot better if you imagine it being played on a Japanese koto, like this: http://bisqwit.iki.fi/music/misc/kage.mid