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NES Castlevania (USA PRG1) in 11:20.5 by Phil. Côté & Joshua Horst (aka. Morrison).
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Obsoletes movie #694 (11:34.12)
Rating: 8.2 (27 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Platform
The original Castlevania is set in the year 1691. Simon Belmont must fight his way through the castle and destroy Count Dracula.

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.

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NES Legend of Zelda (USA PRG0) in 24:04.05 by Phil Côté (aka. Phil) & Lennart W. (aka. Baxter).
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Obsoletes movie #191 (25:28.6)
Rating: 8.2 (40 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses a game restart sequence
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- No predefined saves
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Adventure
Legend of Zelda (ゼルダの伝説) is an adventure game that needs no introduction to most NES players.

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.


SNES Super Castlevania 4 (USA) in 31:15.7 by Phil Côté and Jean-François Durocher (aka. Genisto).
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Rating: 7.9 (34 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Here we have the Castlevania's first step into the 16-bit realm. With bigger and better graphics and an amazing soundtrack, the game is a treat to watch.

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


NES "Luigi Version" Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) in 08:16.42 by Phil Côté.
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Obsoletes movie #1027 (08:17.83)
Rating: 7.9 (16 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Plays using a suboptimal character
- Uses warps
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Platform
This is a TAS of the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2, a.k.a. 'The Lost Levels', using a suboptimal punk called 'Luigi'. He jumps higher than Mario, but acts slower in many ways. However, the movie is in no way worse than the Mario version - some new creative solutions have been found.

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


SNES Super Punch-Out!! (USA) in 15:59.37 by Phil Côté.
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Obsoletes movie #878 (15:59.88)
Rating: 7.6 (17 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Fighting
- Genre: Sport
This run improves on the time taken to defeat Bear Hugger.

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


NES "1p warps" Battletoads (USA) in 13:27.98 by Phil Côté and Jean-François Durocher (aka. Genisto).
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Rating: 7.2 (29 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses death as shortcut
- Uses warps
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Fighting
- Genre: Platform
Battletoads (1991) is a futuristic beat-'em-up game that is known for its graphics and extreme difficulty. The story is that the sexy Dark Queen who wants to rule the universe has kidnapped Princess Angelica and a toad named Pimple. Two other toads, Rash and Zitz, attempt to rescue them and defeat the Dark Queen. This single-player attempt uses warps.

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...


NES "1p warpless" Battletoads (USA) in 24:20.12 by Phil Côté and Jean-François Durocher (aka. Genisto).
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Obsoletes movie #284 (26:31.67)
Rating: 7.0 (23 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses death as shortcut
- Uses no warps
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Fighting
- Genre: Platform
This is a 1-player warpless TAS on this hard game. As usual, the author shows off many bugs in this fighting/autoscrolling hybrid.

This movie requires FCEU 0.98.12.


NES Double Dragon (USA) in 08:57.47 by Phil Côté.
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Obsoletes movie #52 (09:35.15)
Rating: 6.9 (29 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses death as shortcut
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Fighting
Even the most unconventional means of fighting are nothing uncommon on this website, as shown in the screenshot. This is Phil's fifth movie at Double Dragon, now 38 seconds faster than the previous version.

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.


NES Goonies, The (JPN) in 02:33.63 by Phil Côté.
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Obsoletes movie #1032 (02:34.03)
Rating: 6.4 (18 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses death as shortcut
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Platform
The few players who have seen this game know that it's an evanescent one. An average speedrun might achieve a time such as 6 minutes. A 5 minute record is an excellent time for speedruns of this game, but requires a lot of luck.
But here we have a movie that is 50% faster than even that!

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


NES Track & Field (USA) in 12:55.43 by Phil Côté.
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Obsoletes movie #34 (08:28.05)
Obsoletes movie #35 (09:05.4)
Obsoletes movie #36 (08:56.48)
Rating: 6.3 (23 votes)
- Aims for maximum score
- One player controls two characters
- Ignores delays caused by bonus effects
- Genre: Sport
This movie of Track and Field plays with two players: One of them aims for a maximum score, and the other aims to demonstrate clumsiness, quirks and other humor.

NES Friday the 13th (USA) in 03:03.9 by Phil Côté.
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Obsoletes movie #63 (03:16.92)
Rating: 5.8 (26 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes no damage
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Some people have been requesting a TAS of this game, so here it is.

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.


NES Akumajou Special - Boku Dracula-kun (JPN) in 20:41.57 by Phil Côté and Jean-François Durocher (aka. Genisto).
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Rating: 5.6 (22 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
For the fans of the Castlevania series ― here's a TAS of a Castlevania game that is hmm.. much much more aimed toward children than the darker-themed games. The game was only released in Japan.

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


NES Dragon's Lair (JPN) in 03:58.68 by Phil Côté.
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Obsoletes movie #116 (05:17.52)
Rating: 5.4 (24 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Action
This game has very smooth animation and the characters, including the last boss (which isn't much seen in this version of the movie), look somewhat funny, despite the theme of the game.

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

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


SNES "one track" Top Gear (USA) in 03:51.17 by Phil Côté.
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Rating: 3.6 (23 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Single level only
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Racing
This track is known to be hard.

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.


SNES Combatribes, The (USA) in 13:08.07 by Phil Côté and Jean-François Durocher (aka. Genisto).
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Rating: 3.5 (21 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Two players
- Takes no damage
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Fighting
Combatribes is a side-scrolling fighter without much side-scrolling, but all the more fighting. Mostly jumping on poor defenseless bad guys and repeatedly polishing the sidewalk with their faces.
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Added [1067] SNES Super Punch-Out!! (USA) by Phil in 15:59.37 (2008-02-20)
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- - obsoletes [732] SNES Super Punch-out!! (USA) by adelikat in 15:57.35 (2006-12-13)
- - - obsoletes [143] SNES Super Punch-Out!! (USA) by Phil & Genisto in 15:58.98 (2004-07-24)
- - - - obsoletes [127] SNES Super Punch-Out!! (USA) by videogamefreak in 16:57.27 (2004-07-19)
Added [1051] NES Goonies, The (JPN) by Phil in 02:33.63 (2008-02-06)
- obsoletes [1032] NES Goonies, The (JPN) by Randil in 02:34.03 (2007-12-22)
- - obsoletes [83] NES Goonies, The (USA) by Phil & Genisto in 02:34.81 (2004-06-10)
- - - obsoletes [609] NES Goonies, The (USA) by Walker Boh in 05:05.83 (2004-06-05)
Added [1042] NES "Luigi Version" Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by Phil in 08:16.42 (2008-01-17)
- obsoletes [1027] NES "Luigi version" Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by Deign in 08:17.83 (2007-12-17)
- - obsoletes [831] NES "Luigi version" Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by Phil in 08:20.98 (2007-04-11)
- - - obsoletes [270] NES "Luigi version" Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by Phil & Genisto in 08:29.82 (2004-12-25)
Added [1031] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by klmz in 08:09.23 (2007-12-22)
- obsoletes [754] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by Phil & Genisto in 08:12.25 (2006-12-30)
- - obsoletes [346] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by Phil & Genisto in 08:21.37 (2005-05-24)
- - - obsoletes [261] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by Bisqwit in 08:20.57 (2004-12-12)
- - - - obsoletes [256] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by Bisqwit in 08:21.43 (2004-12-09)
- - - - - obsoletes [254] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by Bisqwit in 08:21.79 (2004-12-05)
- - - - - - obsoletes [11] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by Bisqwit in 08:24.37 (2004-06-09)
- - - - - - - obsoletes [683] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by Michael F in 08:25.15 (2004-02-06)
- - - - - - - - obsoletes [682] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by Bisqwit in 08:27.55 (2004-02-05)
- - - - - - - - - obsoletes [684] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by Bisqwit in 08:30.95 (2004-02-01)
Added [1002] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (USA PRG0) by adelikat & Cardboard in 07:52.67 (2007-11-25)
- obsoletes [510] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by DonamerDragon in 07:53.32 (2006-03-23)
- - obsoletes [400] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by Phil in 07:53.63 (2005-08-28)
- - - obsoletes [309] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by Sleepz in 07:54.23 (2005-03-17)
- - - - obsoletes [234] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by Genisto in 08:14.23 (2004-11-09)
- - - - - obsoletes [99] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by Genisto in 08:31.3 (2004-06-25)
- - - - - - obsoletes [637] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by Sleepz in 08:43.45 (2004-03-31)
Added [1001] NES "warpless" Super Mario Bros 2 (USA PRG0) by adelikat & Cardboard in 19:39.93 (2007-11-24)
- obsoletes [494] NES "warpless" Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by DonamerDragon in 20:14.2 (2006-03-04)
- - obsoletes [390] NES "warpless" Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by GuanoBowl in 21:24.85 (2005-08-13)
Added [976] NES "princess only" Super Mario Bros 2 (USA) by adelikat in 08:29.57 (2007-10-06)
- obsoletes [960] NES "princess only" Super Mario Bros 2 (USA PRG0) by laughing_gas in 08:43.23 (2007-09-20)
- - obsoletes [10] NES "princess only" Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by Genisto in 09:07.3 (2004-03-23)
- - - obsoletes [651] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by Bisqwit in 09:18.6 (2004-03-01)
- - - - obsoletes [653] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by Bisqwit in 10:05.6 (2004-02-29)
- - - - - obsoletes [676] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by Bisqwit in 10:12.95 (2004-02-03)
- - - - - - obsoletes [677] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by Bisqwit in 10:48.15 (2004-02-02)
- - - - - - - obsoletes [678] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by Bisqwit in 11:15.75 (2004-01-01)
- - - - - - - - obsoletes [679] NES "Luigi only" Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by Bisqwit in 11:36.25 (2004-01-01)
Added [970] NES Track & Field (USA) by Phil in 12:55.43 (2007-09-30)
- obsoletes [34] NES Track and Field (USA) by Arc in 08:28.05 (2004-04-29)
- obsoletes [35] NES Track and Field (Europe) by Phil in 09:05.4 (2004-04-29)
- obsoletes [36] NES Track and Field (USA) by Phil in 08:56.48 (2004-04-29)
- - obsoletes [644] NES Track and Field (USA) by Arc in 08:48.55 (2004-03-14)
Added [901] NES Castlevania (USA PRG1) by Phil. Côté & Morrison in 11:20.5 (2007-06-26)
- obsoletes [694] NES Castlevania (USA PRG1) by Morrison in 11:34.12 (2006-10-09)
- - obsoletes [524] NES Castlevania (Konami Classic) by Phil in 11:41.17 (2006-04-11)
- - - obsoletes [3] NES Castlevania (USA PRG1) by Phil & Genisto in 11:43.13 (2004-04-27)
- - - - obsoletes [636] NES Castlevania (USA PRG1) by Bisqwit in 12:09.22 (2004-04-03)
- - - - - obsoletes [654] NES Castlevania (USA PRG1) by Bisqwit in 12:23.1 (2004-02-28)
- - - - - - obsoletes [672] NES Castlevania (USA PRG1) by Bisqwit in 12:41.25 (2004-01-15)
- - - - - - - obsoletes [673] NES Castlevania (USA PRG1) by Bisqwit in 12:51.6 (2004-01-12)
- - - - - - - - obsoletes [674] NES Castlevania (USA PRG1) by Bisqwit in 13:15.55 (2004-01-10)
Added [868] NES Legend of Zelda (USA PRG0) by Phil & Baxter in 24:04.05 (2007-05-22)
- obsoletes [191] NES Legend of Zelda (USA,PRG0) by Phil in 25:28.6 (2004-09-17)
- - obsoletes [100] NES Legend of Zelda (USA,PRG0) by Sleepz in 26:55.15 (2004-06-25)
- - - obsoletes [658] NES Legend of Zelda (USA,PRG0) by Michael F in 31:27.15 (2004-02-19)
- - - - obsoletes [659] NES Legend of Zelda (USA,PRG0) by SuperHappy in 35:59.4 (2004-01-25)
Added [485] NES Double Dragon (USA) by Phil in 08:57.47 (2006-02-25)
- obsoletes [52] NES Double Dragon (USA) by Phil in 09:35.15 (2004-05-18)
- - obsoletes [624] NES Double Dragon (USA) by Phil in 10:25.92 (2004-04-17)
- - - obsoletes [632] NES Double Dragon (USA) by Phil in 11:15.12 (2004-04-07)
Added [416] NES Friday the 13th (USA) by Phil in 03:03.9 (2005-10-01)
- obsoletes [63] NES Friday the 13th (USA) by Phil in 03:16.92 (2004-04-17)
- - obsoletes [626] NES Friday the 13th (USA) by Phil in 04:09.92 (2004-04-15)
Added [355] NES "2p warpless" Battletoads (USA) by foda in 24:57.47 (2005-06-07)
- obsoletes [291] NES "2p warps" Battletoads (USA) by foda in 15:29.03 (2005-02-02)
- - obsoletes [69] NES "2p warps" Battletoads (USA) by Phil & Genisto in 19:18.78 (2004-04-29)
Added [320] NES "1p warpless" Battletoads (USA) by Phil & Genisto in 24:20.12 (2005-04-14)
- obsoletes [284] NES "1p warpless" Battletoads (USA) by foda in 26:31.67 (2005-01-22)
- - obsoletes [70] NES "1p warpless" Battletoads (USA) by foda in 27:33.38 (2004-05-20)
Added [310] NES "1p warps" Battletoads (USA) by Phil & Genisto in 13:27.98 (2005-03-18)
Added [230] SNES Combatribes, The (USA) by Phil & Genisto in 13:08.07 (2004-11-04)
Added [192] NES Dragon's Lair (JPN) by Phil in 03:58.68 (2004-09-18)
- obsoletes [116] NES Dragon's Lair (JPN) by Walker Boh in 05:17.52 (2004-07-09)
- - obsoletes [101] NES Dragon's Lair (USA) by Walker Boh in 09:08.75 (2004-06-26)
Added [126] SNES Super Castlevania 4 (USA) by Phil & Genisto in 31:15.7 (2004-07-18)
Added [113] SNES "one track" Top Gear (USA) by Phil in 03:51.17 (2004-07-06)
Added [89] NES Akumajou Special - Boku Dracula-kun (JPN) by Phil & Genisto in 20:41.57 (2004-05-13)
Added [8] NES "2nd quest" Legend of Zelda (USA,PRG0) by Sleepz in 29:15.9 (2004-05-13)
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