Tool-assisted movies

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Like the precedent movie, this movie uses several techniques for speed:

• (Ab)using monsters as a platform for shortcuts
• Optimized usage of weapons
• Luck abuse for items (Ⅱ and Ⅲ) ― nearly impossible to duplicate
• (Ab)using the main character as a critical hit weapon at bosses
• Using bottles to restrain and pass through enemies

This TAS is about 13.6 seconds faster than the previous version by the coauthor of this movie, Morrison.

In this joint effort by Phil and Morrison, thorough optimizations are carried out at all levels of magnitude in order to get the maximum completion speed as well as lots of score points in the process.

It is a large game that normally takes days to beat, but at TASvideos, we often reduce games to the minimum necessary in order to complete them.

This is the fifth Legend of Zelda TAS at this site (not counting the second quest movie), and is ~85 seconds faster than the previous movie, due to a completely new route, better strategies and luck manipulation, glitches and some new techniques according to the authors. It took about 1½. years to complete.

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

This version is really faster than the previous on some levels, but emulator differences (specifically Famtasia's faster loading time) balances out the time.

This is the real Super Mario Bros 2. It was never officially released in the USA and Europe. It was later ported to SNES, and released as "Lost Levels" on Super Mario All-stars. Phil remembers there were pirate copies of this game under the name Super Mario Bros. 3.

FDS means Famicom Disk System. It was a Japanese disk-unit version of the NES.

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

This version is faster than the previous version, due to a different warp zone entry technique in the level 5–2. Also some other levels were changed (after 5–1).

This is the real Super Mario Bros 2. It was never officially released in the USA and Europe. It was later ported to SNES, and released as "Lost Levels" on Super Mario All-stars. Phil remembers there were pirate copies of this game under the name Super Mario Bros. 3.

FDS means Famicom Disk System. It was a Japanese disk-unit version of the NES.

This run displays how quickly the whip can be used, especially during the boss fights.

This is an 85 frame improvement over the previous movie by Deign.

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   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            Heike Kagero 10.60
   Mad Clown 09.24            Super Machoman 09.43*

   Narcis Prince 08.50*       Hoy Quarlow 08.35
   Rick Bruiser 10.71*        Nick Bruiser 08.41*

Category "Abuses programming errors in the game" is selected because a pause glitch is used that let you hit opponent faster by lowering his guard faster or let your Special power to replenish while pausing.

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The previous Zelda movie which was designed together by many masterminds at the Nesvideos forums and played by Sleepz has now been beaten by Phil by 86 seconds because of tactical changes mostly.

The Up+A trick (save and restart) was used in this movie several times. It was judged to be acceptable because it's mentioned in the instruction booklet of the game, and is a part of normal playing.

This video is certainly quite a surprise to anyone who has used hours and hours exploring the Hyrule world. :)

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This is a 9 second improvement over the previous movie. Read the authors' comments for details.

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A very colourful movie.

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Read the authors' comments for details.

In the strange-looking screenshot of this entry, we see Luigi becoming taller.

NOTE: The AVI has been updated; please download the new torrent file if you haven't already.

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The −1 stage is completely different. In the NES and Unisystem versions, the −1 stage repeats infinitely and cannot be completed, but in FDS, it can be completed, and then come −2 and −3.

The −3 stage in FDS is a castle level, and completing it ends the game, even though it says "princess is in another castle". The princess is not seen in the ending, but she is sighted twice in the −1 stage, as shown in this movie.

This is a 43 frame improvement to the previous movie; 42 frames of which were due to a glitch discovered by klmz. For details on this glitch read the submission text of the normal run.

Maybe you thought Battletoads was a game full of amphibians, but it is actually full of bugs. Those beta testers really should have spent a little more time on this game...

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The −1 stage is completely different. In the NES and Unisystem versions, the −1 stage repeats infinitely and cannot be completed, but in FDS, it can be completed, and then come −2 and −3.

The −3 stage in FDS is a castle level, and completing it ends the game, even though it says "princess is in another castle". The princess is not seen in the ending, but she is sighted twice in the −1 stage, as shown in this movie.

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This movie is interesting, because the game is complex and difficult and the soundtrack is good.

This movie features the Sypha path, which is 2:37 slower than the Alucard path played by Genisto.

This movie requires FCEU 0.98.12.

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The author of this movie manipulates luck so that Mister Jumpman (who later became Mario) never needs to jump over, wait for, or otherwise evade deadly objects.

Note: Previously, every attempt at this game had been rejected ― either because the movies had been imperfect or just because the game is too simple.
(Isn't it? Even the video codec thinks that it can encode the movie without loss at a mere 251 kbit/s rate.)

But persistence prevailed (take no hint!); the competition between players entailed a movie's publishing. Soon thereafter, it was improved 4 more times. Here's the latest version, made by Phil.

The following other authors should be acknowledged for their contributions:

• aaa2: the first person who submitted a Donkey Kong movie
• CoolBumpty: submitted a much better movie
• OmnipotentEntity: submitted the first movie that was published
• Arc: submitted movies with improved tactics on levels 2 and 3
• Bisqwit: for discovering how to avoid jumping in the last level

Released on many systems, this game was so popular they even released it for cellular phones and made a board game. Even a hollywood movie has been made.

This movie beats Randil's previous movie by 24 frames.

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In this version, the author uses the "flying knee" technique more often but still manages to keep it as interesting as the precedent version.

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This movie plays "1 player game A" (easy).

Stage times: 3410, 3560 , 3750 , 3890 , 4270

This version is a hexed version of their previous run and has a strategic use of the select button to have less gray screen at the beginning. The result is a run that is .5 sec shorter but identical in actual gameplay.

This version is 13 seconds faster than the previous version.

Selected notes from the author:
One of the games with the most randomness I have ever seen. Each game has a different starting location for the player and even Jason Voorhees himself.

There is also a Game Boy sequel that is known as Kid Dracula.

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Improved version - by 2:50!

The author simply speeds through this game, beating up all the bad guys. Impressive character-switching too.

The USA version is almost twice as slow as the Japanese version.

We recommend reading the author's annotation of this movie.

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It can be beaten because of shooting event but Phil want to show people other possibilities.

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This movie plays "1 player game A" (easy).

Stage times: 3410, 3560 , 3750 , 3890 , 4270

This version is several seconds faster than the previous version by Walker Boh and also several frames faster than Walker Boh's unreleased improved version.

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The American version of this game is a lot more difficult than the Japanese one (Mad City), although this video makes it seem easy.

P.S. Check the picture and guess who won the duel ;).

Selected notes from the author:
It is not a complete [walkthrough] but single track only. It is for competition purpose. The track is: Bordeaux/France as fast as possible and the total timeunits is 3'24"76.

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Note that the second player dies at some point. This is because of a bug in the game: the beta testers probably never got that far in the game with two players. Thanks to "Cyntalan Maelstrom" for this information.

Graphically this game features some really nice scenes.

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This movie uses several techniques for speed:

• (Ab)using monsters as a platform for shortcuts
• Optimized usage of weapons
• Luck abuse for items (Ⅱ and Ⅲ) ― nearly impossible to duplicate
• (Ab)using the main character as a critical hit weapon at bosses
• Using bottles to restrain and pass through enemies

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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... TODO describe it? :)

Note: This may be the wrong FMV file.

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This version is 51 seconds faster than version 3.

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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... TODO describe it? :)

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This is not a perfect timeattack. To make it perfect would require using the "flying knees" technique almost all the time, and it would be somewhat boring to watch. This movie uses different techniques more.

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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... TODO describe it? :)

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This version is 53 seconds faster than the previous version.

Selected notes from the author:
"The game with the most randomness I have ever seen. Each game has a different starting location for the player and even Jason Voorhees himself."

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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... TODO describe it? :)

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The completion times for each floor in this movie are: 1547, 1557, 1551, 1545, 1549. It is 38 timeunits faster than Michael Fried's previously published version and 4 timeunits faster than Deviance's last known record.

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Uses a password to get directly the Mike Tyson fight.

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

Like it's predecessors, this run uses the famous code 007 373 5963 to jump directly to Mike Tyson and deliver a pounding :) He is defeated at 2:08.xx in round 1 which surpasses any console world record.

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Record times in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out:

   Glass Joe 0:42.00          Von Kaiser 0:35.97
   Piston Honda 0:42.82

   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 1:00.48
   Mr. Sandman 2:19.25        Super Macho Man 0:46.48

   Mike Tyson 1:58.XX

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This is a new strategy devised by Phil. Details can be found in the submission comments.

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Selected quotes from the authors:
We sincerely thank Mana for showing us some strategies. It helps us in this version. Also, thanks to Michael Fried, his video inspires me to collect some more points where Mana failed to achieve.

Even in simple-looking games you can always find more time-saving tricks to exploit if you look hard enough. See what we've found at the Super Mario Bros tricks page.

The completion times for each level are:

• 1-1: 370
• 1-2: 347
• 4-1: 341 (fireworks)
• 4-2: 356
• 8-1: 200
• 8-2: 342
• 8-3: 244
• 8-4: 316

For extra curiosity, see a slightly edited version (for Famtasia). It introduces the hat-stomping trick in 8-2 and ends the movie properly at hitting the axe.

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All of the tricks are however the same ― tricks which were invented by various authors, such as Sleepz and Genisto.

If you are wondering how some of the tricks in this video work, see the Super Mario Bros. 2 tricks page.