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Tool-assisted console game movies
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Genesis Sparkster (USA) in 27:51.32 by Ferret Warlord (?).
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Download Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-11-04)
Read author's comments in submission #2103
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Rating: 7.7 (19 votes)
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Platform
The kingdom of Zebulos is once again attacked, this time by the neighboring Gedol Empire, whose ruler King Gedol decides that he can kidnap Princess Cherry as Bowser can kidnap Princess Toadstool. The rescuing hero, Sparkster, thinks that espionage is boring. So instead of infiltrating the Gedol empire by stealth, he goes in sword swinging and jetpack blazing, cutting down swaths of whatever poor lizardmen decide to get in his way.

This game is the official sequel to Rocket Knight Adventures, whereas the SNES version with the same title is some sort of spinoff. Although the control is sluggish compared to the other two games, the author generally keeps the speed and pace fast, and exploits a bunch of tricks that make some bosses fall very, very fast.


SNES Kendo Rage (USA) in 10:19.8 by Ferret Warlord (?).
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Download snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2006-07-03)
Read author's comments in submission #810
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Rating: 6.8 (19 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Platform
Why, when I was your age, I had to take several buses to get to school, and carry a sword with me to fight off those evil creatures that attacked me on my way. You kids have it so easy...

This is an anime style platformer game.


NES Wizards & Warriors 3 (USA) in 17:27.95 by Ferret Warlord (?) & Dacicus (?).
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Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-08-29)
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Read author's comments in submission #781
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Obsoletes movie #316 (17:53.23)
Rating: 6.8 (19 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Uses no passwords
- Genre: Platform
The third game in the Wizards & Warriors series. Having been tricked out of his victory in the previous game, Kuros once again returns to do battle on evil and pretend he will marry every princess he meets.

There is some major sequence-breaking going on in this movie. Only 6 out of the 9 supposedly mandatory quests are cleared, meaning the author has to find original ways of passing obstacles he's not supposed to pass.

The ending of this game is epilepsy-inducing.

This particular movie is an updated version of the second TAS, with Malkil beaten with some magic not even the game programmers knew about.

The first 17 minutes are identical to the previous version, and were played by Ferret Warlord. The Malkil battle was played by Dacicus.


NES Donkey Kong Jr. in 01:12.95 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq) & Ferret Warlord (?).
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Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-03-13)
Read author's comments in submission #1883
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Obsoletes movie #855 (01:13.05)
Rating: 6.5 (22 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Genre: Platform
A very important part of Nintendo's history is being presented here in the manner of our website — as a tool-assisted speedrun.

Donkey Kong Jr. (read Wikipedia article), among with Donkey Kong, were classic games that were played by millions of players on different consoles, including NES, Atari 2600 and Game and Watch.

Although one would not expect a movie of Donkey Kong Jr. to be interesting to watch, except in the retro sense, this movie is actually quite surprising. The vines are cleverly utilized to move the hero forward faster than any member of the Kong family before or after this game.

This is a 6 frame optimization of level 4 compared to the previous movie by the same authors. The rest of the levels are copied without changes.


NES Cattou Ninden Teyandee (JPN) in 09:02.92 by Ferret Warlord (?).
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Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-09-02)
Read author's comments in submission #823
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Rating: 6.5 (17 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Genre: Platform
A game based on the show Samurai Pizza Cats. Five characters are available, but one (Batcat) is used extensively because his ability of flight leads to many shortcuts.

This game has a glitch enabling one-frame boss fights. To quote the author: If the team leader executes a level three ninpo attack on the first frame of combat, the boss is dead. Right there, dead, even the ones that don't show up immediately. As pulling this off requires your weapon to be maxed out, this saves anywhere from a great deal of time (first level) to a little bit (last level).

This movie was recorded with a bad ROM dump (b1); see the author's submission notes for more information regarding this.


GB "any%, glitched" Metroid II - Return of Samus (USA) in 23:40.92 by Ferret Warlord (?).
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Download VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-08-13)
Read author's comments in submission #2049
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Rating: 6.2 (15 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Selected words from the author:
"After parsing through the user's manual for her Power Suit, Samus discovered that the Chozo have endowed it with the power to interact with the fabric of reality immediately surrounding the planet SR-388 by simply switching between her beam and her missiles. What luck that she should receive an assignment to go to that planet!"

This run extensively glitches the game to the point where Samus moves to rooms that are glitched and/or weren't there before. Viewers are advised that this run may induce feelings of confusion and disorientation.


GBC Daikatana (Europe) in 36:30.6 by Ferret Warlord (?).
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Download VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-05-30)
Read author's comments in submission #1864
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Rating: 4.9 (10 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Action
- Genre: RPG
John Romero made you his bitch. Ferret Warlord also does this in about 36 minutes. Daikatana revolves around a man named Hiro Miyamoto, who may or may not be related to Shigeru Miyamoto, and his quest to have flashbacks or something and maybe destroy a boss or two.