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NES Mega Man 4 (USA) in 34:34.38 by Yashar Nasirian (AngerFist) & Sean P. (DeHackEd).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 73 MB, length: 39:10)
Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-06-04)
Read author's comments in submission #1093
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Obsoletes movie #442 (35:11.48)
Rating: 8.0 (36 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Uses no passwords
- Genre: Platform
This is the fourth published movie of Mega Man 4 (ＵＳＡのロックマン４), played again by AngerFist and DeHackEd.

There are improvements in all of the stages, some more visible than others. The total amount of time saved is 37.1 seconds, achieved by being more accurate and using some cool glitches.


SNES Mega Man X (USA v1.1) in 30:43.92 by Sean P. (aka. DeHackEd).
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Download snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2005-02-27)
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Read author's comments in submission #568
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Obsoletes movie #148 (32:00.6)
Rating: 7.7 (21 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Uses no passwords
- Genre: Platform

This movie has been obsoleted!

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Since moving to the SNES 16-bit land, Mega Man has taken the secret identity X, but everyone knows it's still him because he's the only blue robot who shoots three pellets at a time at other robots and steals their weapons.

This version by DeHackEd beats Wodball's previous version by ~77 seconds.

For extra curiosity, there is a page "Mega Man X Tricks" that explains some of the tricks that are and/or can be used in the X series games.

This video takes no damage except where it belongs to the plot... sort of. You'll see.


SNES Mega Man X & X2 (USA v1.1) in 41:41.43 by Sean P. (aka. DeHackEd).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 184 MB, length: 48:05)
Download snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2005-07-17)
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Read author's comments in submission #750
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Rating: 7.5 (62 votes)
- Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
- Two games in one movie
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Uses no passwords
- Genre: Platform
One person's silly idea is another person's inspiration.

This movie is essentially constructed by taking one controller and wiring it into two SNES emulators at once. The same input is used to play both games to completion.

In other words, the player plays two games simultaneously with one controller.

There is a visual anomaly during the battle with Serges in X 2. This is an emulator bug relating to the Cx4 chip used in the Mega Man X 2 cartridge.


NES Mega Man 4 (USA) in 35:11.48 by Yashar Nasirian (AngerFist) & Sean P. (DeHackEd).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 84 MB, length: 39:38) (currently unavailable)
Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-11-29)
Download from mirror site (www.yuko2ch.net)
Read author's comments in submission #896
Discuss this movie
Obsoletes movie #168 (36:14.83)
Rating: 7.3 (12 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Uses no passwords
- Genre: Platform

This movie has been obsoleted!

Click here to see the new movie.
This is the fourth version of Mega Man 4 (ＵＳＡのロックマン４), this time played by AngerFist and DeHackEd. It improves the previous version by Kopernical about 1 minute due to a new route, some new bugs (mostly with the balloon item) and overall frame precision.

This is AngerFist's first published movie. Scrolling levels were mostly played by him and bosses were mostly played by DeHackEd. Rumor has it they are already planning a new version.

More movies:
Added [725] SNES Mega Man X (USA V1.1) by FractalFusion in 29:57.88 (2006-12-02)
- obsoletes [300] SNES Mega Man X (USA v1.1) by DeHackEd in 30:43.92 (2005-02-26)
- - obsoletes [148] SNES Mega Man X (USA v1.1) by Wodball in 32:00.6 (2004-07-31)
- - - obsoletes [139] SNES Mega Man X (USA v1.1) by Frenom in 33:47.43 (2004-07-22)
- - - - obsoletes [120] SNES Mega Man X (USA v1.1) by Wodball in 34:48.42 (2004-07-15)
Added [545] NES Mega Man 4 (USA) by AngerFist & DeHackEd in 34:34.38 (2006-06-04)
- obsoletes [442] NES Mega Man 4 (USA) by AngerFist & DeHackEd in 35:11.48 (2005-11-29)
- - obsoletes [168] NES Mega Man 4 (USA) by Kopernical in 36:14.83 (2004-08-20)
- - - obsoletes [40] NES Mega Man 4 (USA) by Kopernical in 37:15.68 (2004-04-24)
- - - - obsoletes [640] NES Mega Man 4 (USA) by Kopernical in 39:45.05 (2004-03-22)
Added [380] SNES Mega Man X & X2 (USA v1.1) by DeHackEd in 41:41.43 (2005-07-16)
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