Tool-assisted movies

This Contra game combines elements from the original Contra and Super C while adding some elements into one action packed game. Watch our hero cruise through 5 levels of steadily increasing difficulty yet still crushing those aliens in record time.

This movie is a 12 second improvement over the previous movie. Improvements come from use of the homing gun and from a bug that allows horizontal screen wrapping.

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The author takes many shortcuts, specifically the kind that were not intended to be used. Read the author's submission for more information about the bugs used.

The author takes many shortcuts, specifically the kind that were not intended to be used. Read the author's submission for more information about the bugs used.

This movie is over 4 minutes faster than the author's previous movie.

Whereas the previous movie's goals went for both speed and points, this movie's primary goal is speed, and only gets as many points as possible when it doesn't waste time. For example, targets and swimmers are deliberately missed to reduce score-counting at the end of levels. Altogether, this is 54 seconds faster than the previous version.

Stray shots are used to manipulate luck.

Trivia: This game was released as Probotector in Europe with slightly modified graphics. It is also known as GryZor on some other systems.

This movie is 46.95 seconds faster than the preceding version due to better boss fights, a jumping glitch in lv 3, and the use of the spread gun. The ROM change counts for about 27 seconds of the improvement. Also, the author better achieves the pacifist goal by not killing the level 5 tanks costing about 9 seconds.

This movie shows the true value of teamwork. Despite sibling rivalry, Billy and Jimmy help expedite their common goal with well-timed knees to each other's faces.

The author intentionally kills off his party in order to save some travel time.

This is the fourth TAS of Duck Tales. This time, due to a bug in the Moon level found by HHS, it is almost a minute shorter! Other minor tricks here and there contributed an additional few seconds of improvement.

A new TAS of Duck Tales 2. adelikat completes this new version of Duck Tales 2 in a little more than 5 seconds faster than the previous movie by himself and Guybrush

Quote from Exim (the author of the first Duck Tales 2 TAS):
This one has the "bad" end. (not the worst)
There are 3 endings: no money earned; earned some money and found all 7 map pieces. I'm thinking about doing the best end but I don't know if this would be interesting because I'd have to visit some places twice and it would be a lot longer.

This is probably one of the best illustrations on how to create art out of a simplistic and otherwise uninteresting game to watch.

What is also different about this movie is an extra warp which significantly shortens the game, and the use of a new tool (input macro) as described in the submission text. Bots were occasionally used to generate pseudorandom input while still avoiding death.

In this TAS of Jaws, the attack level is upgraded to 3, which is the minimum required to kill Jaws in a single encounter. 30,000 points are needed to get the mini-sub which has double attack power. Because of this, a regular encounter is substituted for a Jaws encounter, so that Jaws can be hit for more points.

This movie is a 42.6 sec improvement over the previous one.

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This is a 64 frame improvement over the author's previous movie.

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Clock Times:

   Glass Joe 0:42.00          Von Kaiser 0:35.95
   Piston Honda 0:40.25
   
   Don Flamenco 0:14.97       King Hippo 0:37.25
   Great Tiger 0:47.48        Bald Bull 0:57.82
   
   Piston Honda II 0:50.25    Soda Popinski 0:45.25
   Bald Bull II 1:08.97       Don Flamenco II 0:58.61
   Mr. Sandman 2:18.00        Super Macho Man 0:45.25
   
   Mike Tyson 1:58.XX

This is the 4th published version of this game. This run improves the Mr. Sandman fight by 1 game clock second.

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Record times in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out:

   Glass Joe 0:42.00          Von Kaiser 0:35.97
   Piston Honda 0:40.25

   Don Flamenco 0:14.97       King Hippo 0:37.61
   Great Tiger 0:47.48        Bald Bull 0:57.82

   Piston Honda II 0:50.25    Soda Popinski 0:47.00
   Bald Bull II 1:08.97       Don Flamenco II 0:58.99
   Mr. Sandman 2:19.00        Super Macho Man 0:45.25

   Mike Tyson 1:58.XX

Note: The AVI of this movie was encoded using the H264 codec. If you have problems playing the AVI file, read the Codec Problems page for help.

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Record times in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out (several fights were played a little faster than in the previous version):

   Glass Joe 0:42.00          Von Kaiser 0:35.95
   Piston Honda 0:40.25
   
   Don Flamenco 0:14.97       King Hippo 0:37.25
   Great Tiger 0:47.48        Bald Bull 0:57.82
   
   Piston Honda II 0:50.25    Soda Popinski 0:45.25
   Bald Bull II 1:08.97       Don Flamenco II 0:58.61
   Mr. Sandman 2:19.00        Super Macho Man 0:45.25
   
   Mike Tyson 1:58.XX

The concept for this run originated long ago because Princess was the only character not used in the normal run aiming for fastest overall time. Since then, improvements have removed Mario from that run as well.

In addition, the author exploits a number of bizarre bugs, such as CPU players tackling their own teammate, and a very unorthodox final play.

True tecmobowlers will enjoy the team choice and final score.

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This movie is more than a minute faster than the previous version. Besides from being more precise in movements and minimizing lag, time was saved with a glitch that places weapon sprites in unexpected locations, and by clever use of damage to avoid two cut-scenes.

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This is the second of two movies by adelikat which improved greatly on the previous versions. In the precedent movie, time was saved with a glitch that places weapon sprites in unexpected locations, and by clever use of damage to avoid two cut-scenes. In this one, time was saved with a glitch which allows Raphael to pick up items through walls, and figuring out how to get shurikens more often.

This is the third movie by adelikat which improved greatly on the previous versions. In the precedent movie, time was saved with a glitch which allows Raphael to pick up items through walls, and figuring out how to get shurikens more often. In this, time is saved by changing the turtles less often and some scattered optimizations, including more effective luck manipulation.

Although it may not seem like it, this game is somewhat similar to Mega Man in idea. There are multiple stages you can visit in any order and you gain new abilities from winning each level. Like megaman games, the new abilities include platform generating items which the author uses to create many shortcuts.

The syndicate turns out to be selling drugs, but the Black Manta sets them straight: Drugs kill you think you're cool but you're not. Yeah!

This version is 20 seconds faster than the previous version by Walker Boh. We recommend reading the author's comments for this movie.

This game has a crazy main music theme.

Due to the highly repetitive nature of this game, the hidden 9th input button (the console's Reset button) is used to warp to the last level. This results in an unsually long grey screen at the start of the movie. Starting on the final level with 3 lives and only the initial pea-shooter for a weapon normally makes the game near impossible to win.

The author takes advantage of frame perfect timing to upgrade rapid fire to the maximum in a single level; this allows for an improvement of 3 seconds during the boss fight.

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While the game is primarily an auto-scroller, the author attempts to finish the game as fast as possible with fast boss fights, and of course level warping. Aside from that, he tries to provide as much variety as possible and show off all the interesting weapons this game has.

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Due to the highly repetitive nature of this game, the author uses the hidden 9th input button (the console's Reset button) in order to warp to the last level. This results in an unsually long grey screen at the start of the movie as the author mashes 'Reset'. Starting on the final level with only the initial pea-shooter for a weapon normally makes the game impossible to win.

This movie is a 47.4 second improvements over the previous movie. Much of the improvements are a result of using the 2-player option where the player can control both characters simultaneously rather than one at a time.

In this movie the author takes the secret "fifth ending", thereby skipping most of the game. The Japanese version was chosen because, for some reason, it gives the players a health bar, allowing them to take some damage without dying.

This is a 2.19 second improvement over the previous movie.

This game has four completely different final stages, each with a different ending, depending on the choices you make earlier.

The Japanese version was chosen because, for some reason, it gives the players a health bar, allowing them to take some damage without dying.

Fang is used due to a glitch that allows him to deliver fully charged D weapon shots, without taking time to charge it.

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This improvement by Adelikat is 1.5 seconds faster than Sprintgod's previous version.

This is a 26.5 second improvement over the previous movie. Details can be found in the author's comments. A password is used to access the hardest difficulty level.

Selected quotes from the author:
Story: an evil enemy kidnaps the hero's family. The hero is pleased, as this gives him a reason to wear a tight sleaveless shirt and blow up stuff with big guns.

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The record times are:

   Gabby Jay 06.26                 Bear Hugger 13.49
   Piston Hurricane 05.49 *        Bald Bull 08.24 *

   Bob Charlie 05.50               Dragon Chan 07.30 *
   Masked Muscle 06.33             Mr. Sandman 13.13

   Aran Ryan 08.45                 Heiki Kagero 10.60
   Mad Clown 09.05 *               Super Macho Man 09.43

   Narcis Prince 08.43 *           Hoy Quarlow 8.35
   Rick Bruiser 10.67  *           Nick Bruiser 07.52 *

Note: The actual movie is longer than the previous. This is due to Snes9x 1.51 adding extra fadeout lag during emulation, where Snes9x 1.43 does not.

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The improvements were due a new strategy (which was used in Nick Bruiser) and better optimized luck manipulation.

The record times are:

   Gabby Jay 06.26                  Bear Hugger 13.49
   Piston Hurricane 05.50           Bald Bull 08.64

   Bob Charlie 05.50                Dragon Chan 07.49
   Masked Muscle 06.33              Mr. Sandman 13.13

   Aran Ryan 08.45                  Heiki Kagero 10.60
   Mad Clown 09.22 - 0.02 faster    Super Macho Man 09.43

   Narcis Prince 08.47 - 0.03       Hoy Quarlow 8.35
   Rick Bruiser 10.71               Nick Bruiser 07.54 - 0.87