= Special star
= Console-verifiedTotal movies: 19
![]() | ![]() NES Tetris (USA) "fastest 999999" in 03:11.78 by Acmlm. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-08-09) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 4.38 MB, length: 03:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2786 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #924 (03:29.67) Rating: 8.3 (34 votes) View Publication | - Aims for maximum score - Best ending - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Puzzle | |
| This movie aims for the fastest possible time to get a score of 999999 in this game. A surprising 17.53 seconds have been shaved off the previous movie through the discovery of a new glitch.
It warps directly to the 18th level and fills half of the field quickly to be able to operate short distances in the top part of the field. From there on, it only gets tetrises (4-line clearings) until the score is maxed out.
A glitch involving pressing several directional buttons at once is used to manipulate luck for the next pieces. Flickering of the next piece block and piece in play results. Of course, the fun doesn't stop there, the L blocks also have their say in getting tetrises.
For the record, this is the fastest speed the NES game is capable of. For more extreme Tetris fun, please see movies
from Arika Online. There's some really awesome stuff there. (Click to download - 14 MB) This run played on a real NES | ||
![]() | NES Tetris (USA) in 03:41.9 by Acmlm. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-08-28) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 3.45 MB, length: 05:07) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #784 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #386 (03:56.42) Rating: 7.7 (37 votes) View Publication | - Aims for maximum score - Best ending - Uses warps - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Puzzle | |
This movie has been obsoleted!Click here to see the new movie.This movie aims for the fastest possible time to get a score of 999999 in the Nintendo Tetris. It warps directly to the 19th level and fills half of the field quickly to be able to operate short distances in the top part of the field. From there on, it only gets tetrises (4-line clearings) until the score is maxed out. The occasional blinks in the movie are caused by rapid pausing to manipulate luck. This run played on a real NES | ||
![]() | SNES Tetris Attack (USA) in 01:31.28 by Acmlm. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2005-11-27) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 13.33 MB, length: 06:12) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #860 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #427 (02:22.82) Rating: 7.6 (24 votes) View Publication | - Aims for maximum score - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Puzzle | |
This movie has been obsoleted!Click here to see the new movie.This Tetris Attack movie aims to get the highest score in the shortest amount of time possible. The result is obtained by executing multiple combos simultaneously, building them up to level 13. Strangely enough, combo bonuses are no longer awarded after getting 13 consecutively. The level of play is far and above what any human could do in real-time on this game. | ||
![]() | SNES Civilization, Sid Meier's (USA) in 05:07.78 by Acmlm. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-06-11) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 4.48 MB, length: 05:37) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2695 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.6 (20.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Strategy | |
| In this port of the famous strategy game to the SNES, watch as the AI opponents all miraculously begin close to the player, an army is pulled effectively out of thin air, and settlers prove their worth as vicious assailants. The game ends in an astonishingly short time of fourteen turns. | ||
![]() | SNES Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind (USA) in 13:47.57 by Acmlm. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-07-23) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 61.68 MB, length: 14:43) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2751 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1204 (15:16.9) Rating: 7.1 (15.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Bubsy is on a hunt to get back his yarn, which the Woolies stole. Bubsy can run very fast, but unfortunately he almost never gets a chance to, because there are obstacles everywhere. Unlike most bobcats, Bubsy can die by touching anything remotely dangerous, like eggs or water. Also unlike regular bobcats, he can glide through the air, has a t-shirt with an exclamation mark, and a smile you'll just be dying to wipe off his face. This new movie by Acmlm is almost a minute and a half faster than the previous movie | ||
![]() | NES Dragon Warrior (USA PRG0) in 17:47.74 by Acmlm. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-03-06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 20.07 MB, length: 20:05) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2590 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #469 (18:10.47) Rating: 7.1 (16.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
This is the sixth published movie of Dragon Warrior, a seemingly complex, but ultimately, fairly simple NES RPG. This is an improvement of 20.96 seconds from the previous run. The character completes his quest at Level 7. There are several things about this movie that might seem odd if one is not aware of them beforehand:
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![]() | N64 Tetrisphere (USA) in 07:00.0 by Acmlm. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2006-04-29) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 22.83 MB, length: 07:14) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1065 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.8 (74 votes) View Publication | - Aims for maximum score - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Supposedly, the goal in each level is to smash Tetris blocks into a sphere until the core is exposed, which ends the level. Along the way, the player racks up points from various block-breaking combos. In this movie, Acmlm rapid-fires Tetris blocks so fast that no one else has any idea what's going on. Even the game itself is confused. Levels do not end properly until the entire sphere is blown apart. As for the timer when it reaches zero, well, see for yourself. :) | ||
![]() | NES Dragon Warrior (USA PRG1) in 18:10.47 by Acmlm. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-02-08) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 22.30 MB, length: 20:25) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #967 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #440 (18:43.0) Rating: 6.8 (32 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
This movie has been obsoleted!Click here to see the new movie.This is the fifth published movie of Dragon Warrior, a seemingly complex, but ultimately, fairly simple NES RPG. The character completes his quest at Level 7. There are several things about this movie that might seem odd if one is not aware of them beforehand:
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![]() | NES Monopoly (USA) in 00:30.03 by Acmlm. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-04-04) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 1.68 MB, length: 01:27) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1011 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #488 (00:33.62) Rating: 6.7 (67.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Sport | |
| This movie aims for the fastest time to get the CPU player bankrupt, and abuses luck to its fullest to make that happen. After a few turns of Monopoly war in the submissions, this version won out. It utilizes the same strategy from the previous one, but several seconds have been shaved by reverse engineering the random number generator and a brute force computer search to achieve the desired randomization with the least possible delay. Details can be found in the submission comments. Under assumption of pure randomness, the odds of reproducing this dice and card sequence on a console is 1 in a few (North American) trillions (22 568 879 259 648, divided by the few slight variations that could work). FractalFusion has produced an alternate superplay of Monopoly that is 3 seconds faster, but controversial. It has been cancelled. | ||
![]() | SNES Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind (USA) in 16:31.78 by Acmlm. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2005-07-10) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 62.92 MB, length: 17:06) Mirror www.archive.org Submission #615 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.6 (21 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
This movie has been obsoleted!Click here to see the new movie.Bubsy is on a hunt to get back his yarn, which the Woolies stole. Bubsy can run very fast, but unfortunately he almost never gets a chance to, because there are obstacles everywhere. Unlike most bobcats, Bubsy can die by touching anything remotely dangerous, like eggs or water. Also unlike regular bobcats, he can glide through the air, has a t-shirt with an exclamation mark, and a smile you'll just be dying to wipe off his face. | ||
![]() | NES The Krion Conquest (USA) in 16:30.73 by Acmlm. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-05-09) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 23.08 MB, length: 17:54) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #509 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.2 (12 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
This movie has been obsoleted!Click here to see the new movie.The Krion Conquest is a platform game remarkably similar to the early Mega Man games. In fact, you could almost think it's a rip-off, which it probably is. This is Acmlm's second TAS of this game. We recommend reading his comments about this movie ― it might make it more interesting to watch. | ||
![]() | NES The Blues Brothers (USA) in 04:51.98 by Acmlm. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-06-26) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 11.02 MB, length: 05:32) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #722 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #75 (06:19.53) Rating: 6.1 (20 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
This movie has been obsoleted!Click here to see the new movie.The story of The Blues Brothers is that The Blues Brothers have to take unorthodox routes in order to sneak their way into a gig. This game is really fast-paced. Do a TAS of it, and… see yourself :) This new version is about 45 seconds faster, and not 1:28. The previous version ended the movie recording very late. | ||
![]() | NES Quarth (JPN) in 01:01.45 by Acmlm. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-06-15) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 3.53 MB, length: 02:32) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1001 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.4 (31.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Single level - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Puzzle - Genre: Shooter | |
| Quarth might be best described as a mix of a shooter and Tetris. You control a ship that moves horizontally at the bottom, and shoot incoming blocks or groups of blocks (adding tiles to them) to give them a rectangular shape and make them disappear. Each level scrolls at an increasing speed until you reach the end, and you lose if a block reaches the line floating above the ship. | ||
![]() | NES Destiny of an Emperor (USA) in 1:21:09.61 by Acmlm. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-05-10) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 134.36 MB, length: 1:23:40) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2656 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #556 (1:46:41.87) Rating: 5.4 (10.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
Destiny of an Emperor was Capcom’s first RPG, released in 1989―90, and is based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The battling style of this game can be described like Final Fantasy meets Pokémon; your team of warriors versus the opposing team of warriors, and any opponents freed from their posts can be later picked up in the wilds and converted to your side!Acmlm bests the previous movie by over 25 minutes by reverse engineering the game and brute forcing luck manipulation. Critical hit, it's super effective. | ||
![]() | Genesis Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom (USA) in 1:37:55.98 by Acmlm. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2006-11-11) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 250.26 MB, length: 1:41:37) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1068 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.7 (20.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Phantasy Star III is often considered to be the black sheep of the series, but is still a unique RPG on its own, featuring 3 generations and multiple paths through the game. However, this run breaks the plot halfway through by glitching past the second generation quickly. Like in other RPG runs, luck has been manipulated for many things. Although random encounters can't be completely avoided, no damage is ever taken except from bosses, and most of the leveling is done in a final rush. Read the author's comments for more details on luck manipulation and the path taken through the game. | ||
![]() | NES Dragon Warrior (USA) in 24:03.03 by Acmlm. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2004-11-28) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 23.40 MB, length: 26:10) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #440 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #71 (26:58.95) Not rated View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Genre: RPG | |
This movie has been obsoleted!Click here to see the new movie.Beats the game at level 7. Manipulates luck to avoid random battles. The battle agains the final boss (Dragonlord) is quite long, but not really avoidable. | ||
![]() | NES Dragon Warrior (USA PRG1) in 19:31.13 by Acmlm. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2004-12-05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 19.94 MB, length: 21:39) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #453 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #247 (24:03.03) Not rated View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
This movie has been obsoleted!Click here to see the new movie.Beats the game at level 8. Manipulates luck to avoid/get random battles. We recommend reading the author's comments - there were some new techniques involved in getting this result. | ||
![]() | NES Monopoly (USA) in 00:35.17 by Acmlm. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2004-11-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 1.54 MB, length: 01:30) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #433 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Not rated View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Sport | |
This movie has been obsoleted!Click here to see the new movie.This movie aims for the fastest time to get the CPU player bankrupt. It accomplishes it in 53 seconds in which only the first 35 seconds require player's input (to heavily manipulate the luck). | ||
![]() | NES Tetris (USA) in 04:06.07 by Acmlm. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2004-11-19) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 10.48 MB, length: 05:28) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #419 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Not rated View Publication | - Aims for maximum score - Best ending - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Puzzle | |
This movie has been obsoleted!Click here to see the new movie.This movie aims for the fastest possible time to get a score of 999999 in the Nintendo Tetris. It warps directly to the 19th level and fills half of the field quickly to be able to operate short distances in the top part of the field. From there on, it only gets tetrises (4-line clearings) until the score is maxed out. The occasional blinks in the movie are caused by rapid pausing to manipulate luck. This run played on a real NES | ||
[1596] NES Tetris (USA) "fastest 999999"
by Acmlm in 03:11.78 (2010-08-09)