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![]() | Arcade Bionic Commando (USA) in 05:48.1 by Mukki. | |
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| Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2010-09-12) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 19.84 MB, length: 06:32) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2822 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (16 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Forgoes time-saving death - Genre: Platform | |
| Before reminiscing about a man I knew when I was young, before rescuing a hero named Joe, there were games where you played as Joe himself! The Bionic Commando arcade game, sequel to Commando, introduces the first hero in a platform game who couldn't even jump, which spawned many sequels.
Just when you thought all the early Bionic Commando games were TAS'd and done with, Mukki brings Bionic Commando back to life, as if it were a long dead World War II dictator resurrected by a madman as part of a plan for world domination.
In this game, Mukki demonstrates grappling and kicking ability, whilst avoiding hordes of soldiers futilely attempting to prevent Joe from doing his duty and destroying their weapons of medium sized destruction.
Mister Epic: Changed mirror + torrent file. | ||
![]() | Arcade Ganryu (USA) in 07:50.2 by x2poet. | |
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| Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2011-02-27) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 28.09 MB, length: 08:49) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3013 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.9 (12 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Musashi Ganryuki, known outside of Japan as Ganryu is a simple platform Hack and Slash game on the Neo Geo. In this game, you play the warrior Musashi on a quest to fight your old enemy Kojiro who has risen from the dead. Watch as Musashi slides past most dangers and chops up bosses in record time. | ||
![]() | Arcade Ghosts 'n Goblins (World) in 06:27.17 by FerretWarlord. | |
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| Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2012-01-25) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 16.51 MB, length: 06:43) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 13.99 MB, length: 06:43) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3421 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #853 (08:23.13) Rating: 6.3 (8 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Ghosts 'n Goblins (1986) (known in Japanese as魔界村 makaimura, "Demon World Village") begins with a normal scene: a half-naked knight is on a date in a graveyard with a princess. Suddenly, a demon appears and abducts the princess! The knight quickly suits up and makes rapid progres (sic) through the demon world in an attempt to rescue his royal girlfriend. This run of the original arcade game completes the first cycle 1:55.96 faster than the previous run of the NES port, but the game engines are so different that a comparison between the two times doesn't make any sense. Reaching the end credits requires a second run-through of the game which would be identical to the first run-through; this is omitted in this run. | ||
![]() | Arcade Ghouls 'n Ghosts in 13:18.18 by 韩晖 (aka. 西坡 (xipo)). | |
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| Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2009-06-14) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 55.52 MB, length: 17:45) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2266 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (23 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action | |
| Ghouls 'n Ghosts is the sequel to the brutally hard Ghosts 'n Goblins, and is brutally hard in its own right. This run is of the original coin-op version, which is most similar to the Genesis one. One of the major differences is less armor from chests. Creative use of damage and picture perfect boss fights combine with some glitchy looking jumps as xipo takes on Lucifer's many demons. The game is completed twice (which is necessary to get the ending) and along the way we are treated to some fabulous Engrish and more information than necessary about the damsel in distress. | ||
![]() | Arcade Mercs (World) in 10:23.03 by DarkKobold. | |
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| Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2011-03-16) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 75.19 MB, length: 14:45) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3034 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.5 (14 votes) View Publication | - 3 Players - Genre: Shooter | |
| In Mercs, an arcade game that is also available for the Genesis, each player takes control of a member of the Wolf Force, to rescue the former President in Africa.
DarkKobold uses all three guys to save him as fast as possible.
To play the FBM file without any problems, it is important to disable the Use M68000 assembly core option in the emulator. | ||
![]() | Arcade Metal Slug (World) in 12:10.23 by x2poet. | |
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| Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2011-03-23) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 68.31 MB, length: 16:08) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3040 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.3 (18.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Shooter | |
| Released in 1996, Metal Slug is a widely popular game about two soldiers named Marco Rossi and Tarma Roving, enrolled in the Peregrine Falcon Squad, fighting against General Morden and a bunch of other Nazi impersonators in giant mechs & machines in order to stop his New World Order under his power. Watch as x2poet sends Marco & Tarma to literally destroy everything in their path and stop Morden's plans in 12 minutes through wide use of bombs & guns! You can also see more of x2poet's Metal Slug work by looking at his runs from Metal Slug X, Metal Slug 3, Metal Slug 4 and Metal Slug Advance. | ||
![]() | Arcade Metal Slug 3 (World) in 27:09.55 by x2poet. | |
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| Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2011-06-09) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 113.43 MB, length: 31:04) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3168 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.3 (13 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Shooter | |
| In this entry of the popular Metal Slug series, the evil would-be dictator General Morden launches another attempt to take over the world - or so it seems on the surface; this game proves that Morden is no Dr Wily by having the true villains turn out to be something else entirely. Several of this game's stages branch; this run takes the shortest possible route through the game. You can also see more of x2poet's Metal Slug work by looking at his runs from Metal Slug, Metal Slug X, Metal Slug 4 and Metal Slug Advance. | ||
![]() | Arcade Metal Slug 4 (World) in 17:11.97 by x2poet. | |
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| Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2011-08-25) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 84.89 MB, length: 20:56) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3257 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1841 (18:04.78) Rating: 8.5 (11 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - 2 Players - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Shooter | |
| This is a run of the fourth game in SNK's big franchise, Metal Slug. x2poet dual-wields Trevor Spacey and Nadia Cassel and conquers General Morden's army like an army of two controlled by a single person! This run has a much more entertaining final battle than the previous, as well as beats it by 52.81 seconds. You can also see more of x2poet's Metal Slug work by looking at his runs of Metal Slug, Metal Slug X, Metal Slug 3 and Metal Slug Advance. | ||
![]() | Arcade Metal Slug 5 (World) in 17:37.27 by x2poet. | |
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| Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2011-12-12) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 87.60 MB, length: 20:59) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 92.22 MB, length: 20:59) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3375 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1909 (17:56.53) Rating: 8.6 (6 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Shooter | |
| This entry in the Metal Slug series features the theft of information on the next generation of Metal Slug by the "Ptolemaic Army", wherein our heroes are tasked with recovering that data and putting an end to the evil group.
The author improves his previous version by using a new strategy on the last boss. You can find out the details in the submission text.
You can also see more of x2poet's Metal Slug work by looking at his runs from Metal Slug, Metal Slug X, Metal Slug 3, Metal Slug 4, and Metal Slug Advance.
In addition to the standard downloadable encode, there is a second experimental downloadable encode produced in 10-bit YUV444 h.264, providing higher visual quality. You will need a very recent codec / media player (such as ffdshow or LAV Filters or mplayer2) to be able to play this experimental encode back. | ||
![]() | Arcade Metal Slug X (World) in 18:32.2 by x2poet. | |
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| Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2011-05-18) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 87.43 MB, length: 23:24) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Submission #3125 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1385 (18:48.4) Rating: 8.6 (16.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Forgoes time-saving death - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Shooter ![]() | |
| Metal Slug X (2001) is a remixed version of Metal Slug 2, the second installment of an immensely popular run'n'gun series released on the Neo Geo MVS. The games are notable for incredibly detailed pixel graphics, fluid animation, and good humor; but the real key to their longevity is, of course, their high difficulty as far as survival goes.
This is x2poet's 16.42 seconds improvement over the previous movie, despite now using the hardest difficulty setting. One notable improvement is the use of both players, compared to one in the obsoleted run.
You can also see more of x2poet's Metal Slug work by looking at his runs from Metal Slug, Metal Slug 3, Metal Slug 4 and Metal Slug Advance.
You may experience desync issues if you try to play the FBM file. You can download a set of save states, from the author, to watch it from the beginning to the end. For more information about this, you can read the author's comments. | ||
![]() | Arcade Moonwalker, Michael Jackson's (bootleg) in 11:49.83 by DarkKobold. | |
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| Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2010-12-29) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 58.86 MB, length: 13:49) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2943 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (14 votes) View Publication | - 3 Players - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Fighting | |
| Not only does Michael Jackson have a Genesis video game, he also has an Arcade game! This game is loosely based on the movie of the same name, featuring Michael Jackson saving children from Mr. Big. When Michael meets his pet monkey Bubbles, he turns into a killer robot! Michael Jackson's Moonwalker is a 3 player arcade game, where you play either a white-, red-, or black-suited Michael Jackson. The author uses all three players to complete this game as fast as possible. | ||
![]() | Arcade Spinmaster (World) in 13:19.07 by x2poet. | |
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| Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2011-03-13) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 103.34 MB, length: 15:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3037 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (10 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Yippie-ki-yay! In Spinmaster, known in Japan as Miracle Adventure (ミラクルアドベンチャー), you play as Johnny and Tom, two treasure seekers. They have to save Johnny's girlfriend and gather map pieces in order to find the biggest treasure in the world! Along the way, they must fight past lots of quirky henchmen, large bosses, and more, all accompanied by cartoony graphics and stereotypical cowboy voice clips. In this game, Johnny and Tom can use several different types of weapons, such as the elements of ice, fire, and thunder. They can collect a limited number of super attacks, denoted by the letter "B" under their health bars, to hurt everything on the screen and damage bosses heavily. Also, health does not refill between levels. If you want to see another Arcade game involving two treasure hunters fighting lots of enemies, be sure to check out x2poet's run of Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy. | ||
![]() | Arcade Street Fighter Alpha 3 (USA) "Rose Dhalsim Dramatic Battle" in 05:21.45 by error1. | |
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| Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2012-03-22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 55.95 MB, length: 07:15) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 62.58 MB, length: 07:15) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3349 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1300 (03:19.0) Rating: 7.7 (4 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - 2 Players - Uses a level password - Genre: Fighting | |
| Dramatic battle is a special mode in the Street Fighter Alpha games that allows both players to fight on the same side. As in the previous movie, error1 again uses this mode to show a variety of entertaining combos with Rose and Dhalsim. Note: See this post for an explanation about why this movie obsoletes the Street Fighter Zero 2 one. | ||
![]() | Arcade Street Fighter II: Rainbow Edition ( Rainbow set 1 ) (unknown) in 11:11.17 by error1. | |
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| Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2010-08-27) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 72.37 MB, length: 12:49) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2815 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (24 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - 2 Players - Unofficial game - Genre: Fighting | |
| This is a playaround of what is considered the most popular hack of Street Fighter II - Championship Edition. The hack was found in bootlegged arcade cabinets throughout the world, surpassing the original in availability in some places.
This hack features several modifications, such as the ability to change characters mid-match, teleportation, midair special moves, and new projectile attacks. Capcom later incorporated some of these new moves into Street Fighter 2 Turbo.
In this run, the author shows off all the fighters and makes good use of some of the craziness added to the game. He also shows off quite a few glitches that are quite amusing to see.
Note: As it is widely available in stand-alone form, no patch is available or necessary. | ||
![]() | Arcade Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (World) in 12:14.85 by DarkKobold. | |
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| Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2010-08-14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 87.28 MB, length: 14:50) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2795 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (20.5 votes) View Publication | - 4 Players - Forgoes time-saving death - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an arcade game based on the TMNT cartoon released in December of 1987. Konami released this mega-hit in 1989, as one of the first arcade games to offer 4-player beat-'em-up action. In this run, DarkKobold uses all 4 ninja turtles to freak the foot soldiers, mangle the mousers, total the Technodrome, and kick Krang and The Shredder back to Dimension-X in a little over 12 minutes. | ||
![]() | Arcade The King of Fighters 2001 (World) in 07:12.25 by x2poet. | |
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| Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2012-02-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 33.90 MB, length: 10:26) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 37.11 MB, length: 10:26) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3418 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.4 (8 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Fighting | |
| In this first publication from the King of Fighters series, x2poet uses the game's female characters to swiftly humiliate their opponents, showing off multiple combos and AI manipulation along the way. | ||
![]() | Arcade The Simpsons (World) in 13:37.73 by adelikat & DarkKobold. | |
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| Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2010-09-01) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 64.60 MB, length: 15:50) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2821 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.6 (25 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - 4 Players - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Fighting ![]() | |
| ¡Ay, caramba! The Simpsons Arcade Game is Konami's 4-player beat 'em up based on the ultra-hit TV show, The Simpsons. The Simpsons cartoon has now (at the time of writing) spanned 21 seasons, a world-wide movie, and licensing from here to kingdom come. In this TAS, adelikat and DarkKobold use four of the five Simpson family to track down the missing 5th member, Maggie. All right now, play friendly! | ||
![]() | Arcade Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy (World) in 12:49.1 by x2poet. | |
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| Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2011-04-05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 83.07 MB, length: 14:53) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3059 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (9 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Fighting | |
| Top Hunter stars the galaxy's best bounty hunters, | ||
![]() | Arcade X-Men vs. Street Fighter (Europe) in 11:38.38 by SDR. | |
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| Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2009-08-14) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 78.59 MB, length: 14:12) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2291 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (15.5 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - 2 Players - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Fighting | |
| SDR appears to have MPD while abusing computer opponents - and himself - in this playaround. | ||
![]() | DOS Alien Carnage (1.2) in 20:31.67 by Ilari. | |
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| JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2011-07-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 84.29 MB, length: 23:16) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3229 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (7 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Formerly known as Halloween Harry (also the name of the protagonist), Alien Carnage (1993) follows our hero as he single-handedly fights off an invasion of aliens intent on zombifying the populace while rescuing a large number of hostages they have taken. It is fast-paced at the general expense of control quality. This run plays through all four "missions" (episodes) back-to-back, as playing through the first three missions is required to unlock the fourth mission. | ||
![]() | DOS Commander Keen 1: Marooned on Mars (v1.31) in 03:40.7 by turska. | |
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| JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2012-05-11) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 4.71 MB, length: 05:48) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 4.59 MB, length: 05:48) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3593 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (6.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Commander Keen 1: Marooned on Mars started the iconic game series. In this episode, aliens from the planet Vorticon VI find out about the eight year-old genius and plan his destruction. While Keen is out exploring the mountains of Mars, the Vorticons steal vital parts of his ship and take them to distant Martian cities! Keen must wrest the parts back from their wicked, clawed hands. In this run, the author takes back what is Keen's without firing shots at any organic lifeform. Reading the author's comments is recommended. | ||
![]() | DOS Commander Keen 2: The Earth Explodes (v1.31) in 04:59.79 by turska. | |
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| JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2012-05-03) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 7.27 MB, length: 06:35) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 7.30 MB, length: 06:35) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3585 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Commander Keen 2: The Earth Explodes (1990) is the second game in the Commander Keen saga. In it, the Vorticon mothership intends to destroy Earth, and only eight-year old Billy Blaze, as Commander Keen, can save us. Here the author beats back the Vorticon invasion in slightly under 5 minutes, leaving one to wonder why we here on Earth bother with military defense at all. It's not quite that easy though; reading the author's comments is recommended to understand the planning and manipulation required for Keen to waltz by Vorticon after Vorticon. If you enjoy this movie, check out these other Commander Keen TASes, all by the same author. | ||
![]() | DOS Commander Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle (any v1.0) in 10:28.28 by turska. | |
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| JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2012-02-24) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 28.04 MB, length: 10:36) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 31.35 MB, length: 10:36) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3467 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.0 (7 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Commander Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle (1991) is a part of the popular Commander Keen saga, developed by id Software, and is the first episode of Commander Keen in Goodbye Galaxy. Several months after the freeing the Vorticons from Mortimer McMire, Commander Keen (Billy Blaze) finds out that an unknown race called the Shikadi are planning to destroy the Milky Way. He sets course towards Gnosticus IV on a quest to discover their location with the Oracle's aid. Upon arrival, he discovers that the Shikadi have captured the Council Members. In order to save the universe, Keen must fly to the Shadowlands and rescue them. Using a series of tricks listed in the submission text, Keen reaches the ending in a mere 10 minutes. Be sure to also watch the exciting conclusion to Goodbye Galaxy. | ||
![]() | DOS Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine (v1.4) "glitched" in 02:02.46 by turska. | |
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| JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2012-03-03) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 5.36 MB, length: 02:12) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 5.82 MB, length: 02:12) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3478 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1508 (02:42.43) Rating: 7.7 (6.5 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine (1991) is a part of the popular Commander Keen saga, developed by id Software. It is a direct continuation of the previous episode of Goodbye Galaxy, in which Commander Keen (Billy Blaze) has learned from the Oracle of Gnosticus IV that the evil Shikadi plan to blow up the galaxy with their doomsday device, the Omegamatic (It slices! It dices! It causes a 100,000 light year-diameter quantum explosion!). Naturally, he sets out to sabotage the machine and stop the Shikadi. Using a series of glitches, Keen completes only four stages to get to the end game, only one of which takes any significant length of time, and destroys the Quantum Explosion Dynamo, the core of the Omegamatic in the impossibly short time of 2:02. In the process, he manages to inadvertently prevent the Shikadi from accomplishing their escape (though you have to watch the ending very closely to figure out that this has happened here). | ||
![]() | DOS Commander Keen 6: Aliens Ate My Baby Sitter! (v1.0) in 03:20.25 by turska. | |
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| JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2012-04-03) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 8.88 MB, length: 03:27) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 9.46 MB, length: 03:27) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3514 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.8 (7 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Commander Keen 6: Aliens Ate My Baby Sitter is the final chapter in the Commander Keen saga. Eight-year old Billy Blaze, as Commander Keen, must save his babysitter from being eaten by Bloogs. Commander Keen 6 is also the third Keen game to get absolutely destroyed at TASVideos. Watch as Keen goes over, around, or through everything in his way to beat the entire game in a bit over three minutes. Reading the author's comments is recommended, and probably mandatory if you want to know what happened. | ||
![]() | DOS Dangerous Dave (unknown) in 06:32.8 by Ilari. | |
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| JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2011-01-11) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 10.73 MB, length: 06:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (youtube.com) Submission #2961 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.0 (10.5 votes) View Publication | - Forgoes warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Dangerous Dave is a simple platforming game by one of the designers of the famous game DOOM. The goal is to pick up the trophy sitting somewhere in the level and then to get to the door. Do this 10 times and the game is finished.
Before playing the movie, no matter the format, it is suggested to lower the volume of your speakers, headphones or earphones, since this game has loud sound effects! | ||
![]() | DOS Duke Nukem (v2.0) "Episode 1" in 07:08.14 by Foone. | |
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| JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2010-06-11) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 17.28 MB, length: 07:11) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2697 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.5 (15 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Long before Duke Nukem ever starred in a 3D game, he was the hero in two platform games. This is the first game in which he starred, battling Dr Proton to save the Earth from his evil Techbot army. This run plays the first (shareware) episode of the game. | ||
![]() | DOS Epic Pinball (shareware v2.1) "Super Android" in 05:07.53 by dwangoAC. | |
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| JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2010-10-05) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 26.01 MB, length: 07:42) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2830 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (11 votes) View Publication | - Aims for maximum score - Genre: Action | |
| This table from Epic Pinball was widely distributed as shareware in the mid 1990s. The stated objective is to "[b]ring the android to life!" The author of this run does just that, maxing out all of the game counters and achieving a very impressive final score. | ||
![]() | DOS Hocus Pocus (any v1.1) "Episode 2" in 13:48.61 by IsraeliRD. | |
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| JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2011-01-26) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 30.05 MB, length: 13:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (youtube.com) Submission #2983 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (6.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Hocus Pocus, published by Apogee Software (developed by Moonlight Software) in 1994 sees a "puny" dropout wizard setting on a quest to collect crystals which will make him powerful. On his way, Hocus is ignoring important information given to him by Terexin while defeating enemies and bosses so that Land of Lattice will become more safe to travel. By completing four tests, he will also be accepted into the Council of Wizards and marry Popopa, daughter of Terexin who leads the Council. IsraeliRD completes the second of these tests in 13:48.61 minutes, while the player doesn't care about the enemies and get through a horde of them without taking a lot of damage. You can check the author's comments to learn more about his techniques. The same player did a run for the first episode as well. | ||
![]() | DOS Hocus Pocus (any v1.1) "Episode 1" in 15:09.62 by IsraeliRD. | |
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| JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2010-11-24) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 32.18 MB, length: 15:12) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2915 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (7.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Hocus Pocus, published by Apogee Software (developed by Moonlight Software) in 1994 sees a "puny" dropout wizard setting on a quest to collect crystals which will make him powerful. On his way, Hocus is ignoring important information given to him by Terexin while defeating enemies and bosses so that Land of Lattice will become more safe to travel. By completing four tests, he will also be accepted into the Council of Wizards and marry Popopa, daughter of Terexin who leads the Council. IsraeliRD completes the first of these tests in 15:09.62 minutes, while the player doesn't care about the enemies and get through a horde of them without taking a lot of damage. You can check the author's comments to learn more about his techniques. The same player did a run for the next episode as well. | ||
![]() | DOS Jazz Jackrabbit (unknown) "Holiday Hare '94" in 02:23.76 by Ilari. | |
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| JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2010-12-28) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 16.48 MB, length: 03:42) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (youtube.com) Submission #2950 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (12.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Jazz Jackrabbit is one of the earliest products released by what was then known as Epic MegaGames, better known these days for producing the Unreal engine. It was viewed initially as being a pastiche of the Sonic the Hedgehog games and arguably developed along those lines, bearing much of the same fast platformer action. This run completes a special Christmas episode called Holiday Hare. This is the 1994 version of this episode. A run has been made for the 1995 version of Holiday Hare. There is also a run from the original game. | ||
![]() | DOS Jazz Jackrabbit (shareware) "Episode 1" in 04:43.79 by Ilari. | |
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| JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2010-10-14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 38.21 MB, length: 06:17) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2872 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (17.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter ![]() | |
| Jazz Jackrabbit is one of the earliest products released by what was then known as Epic MegaGames, better known these days for producing the Unreal engine. It was viewed initially as being a pastiche of the Sonic the Hedgehog games and arguably developed along those lines, bearing much of the same fast platformer action. This run completes the first (shareware) episode of the game. You can also watch runs, made by the same author, that complete the two Christmas special episodes of this game. | ||
![]() | DOS Jazz Jackrabbit (unknown) "Holiday Hare '95" in 02:52.25 by Ilari. | |
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| JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2010-12-28) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 19.15 MB, length: 03:02) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (youtube.com) Submission #2951 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.5 (13.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Jazz Jackrabbit is one of the earliest products released by what was then known as Epic MegaGames, better known these days for producing the Unreal engine. It was viewed initially as being a pastiche of the Sonic the Hedgehog games and arguably developed along those lines, bearing much of the same fast platformer action. This run completes a special Christmas episode called Holiday Hare. This is the 1995 version of this episode. A run has been made for the 1994 version of Holiday Hare. There is also a run from the original game. | ||
![]() | DOS Lada: The Ultimate Challenge (unknown) in 04:22.46 by Ilari. | |
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| JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2010-10-27) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 28.11 MB, length: 04:32) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2870 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.0 (9.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Racing - Genre: Shooter | |
| If you've been in Europe long enough, you've probably heard of the Lada car company. However, you probably haven't heard of this relatively obscure tie-in game, involving racing - yes, you guessed it - a Lada... which happens to have a rocket launcher and machine gun (those are almost certainly not standard features). | ||
![]() | DOS SkyRoads (unknown) in 15:53.26 by Ilari. | |
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| JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2010-10-18) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 43.30 MB, length: 16:02) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2868 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1513 (15:55.91) Rating: 5.5 (8.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes warps - Genre: Racing | |
| Skyroads is a short game where one controls racer on tracks containing lots of bottomless pits and obstacles, but our author doesn't care about that, he just bounces to the music and blast through levels. Don't blink. This second version of the run is 2.65 seconds faster than the first. | ||
![]() | DOS SkyRoads Xmas Special (unknown) in 12:08.04 by Ilari. | |
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| JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2010-11-07) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 38.94 MB, length: 12:22) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2869 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (8 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Racing | |
| Not satisfied with regular Skyroads, the developers decided to create a new set of significantly shorter yet excessively difficult tracks under the excuse of a holiday theme. Here, you can feel vindicated that you don't have to play through those tracks yourself. | ||
![]() | DOS Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers (USA) in 07:36.51 by c-square. | |
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| JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2011-10-23) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 25.68 MB, length: 13:56) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3317 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.5 (7 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers is the fourth installment of the Space Quest adventure series, and the first Space Quest game with point-and-click gameplay, as compared to its text-based predecessors. In this game, Roger Wilco is thrown into the future at Space Quest XII, and must stop Vohaul, whose consciousness lives inside another person. To do so, he must time-travel within the future (Space Quest X and XII) and to the past (Space Quest I) to gain information needed to achieve this goal. The author, c-square, completes this game using major sequence breaks that are almost impossible to perform unassisted without abusing saves. To help with this TAS, the source code of JPC-rr was modified to support mouse input fully. See the submission text for details. | ||
![]() | DOS The Amazing Spider-Man (unknown) "glitched" in 00:18.62 by nitrogenesis. | |
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| JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2011-04-17) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 459.83 KB, length: 00:33) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3112 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.2 (21.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| In this DOS game, watch as Spider-Man lives up to the adjective in the title as he glitches his way to the final screen of the run and completes the game in record time. | ||
![]() | FDS Arumana no Kiseki (JPN) in 08:26.67 by mmbossman. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-12-20) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 8.51 MB, length: 09:13) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2486 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1209 (08:51.77) Rating: 7.3 (13 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Arumana no Kiseki (アルマナの奇跡, Miracle(s) of Almana) is a Japan-only game by Konami with a protagonist that heavily resembles Indiana Jones. Unlike Dr. Jones, the unnamed hero does not wield a whip. Instead, he has an even more useful grappling hook that allows him to do tricks that Indiana Jones would envy and perform shortcuts that skip large portions of levels. This beats the previous publication by 25.1 seconds. An encode with the loading screens removed can be viewed here. | ||
![]() | FDS Eggerland (JPN) in 36:58.98 by adelikat. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-11-07) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 48.16 MB, length: 43:25) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2438 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #207 (36:16.05) Rating: 5.1 (11 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Eggerland is a predecessor of the NES Adventures of Lolo games, and in certain ways, it has much more features than Adventures of Lolo 1. This movie abuses a couple of the game bugs in a surprising way. Note that this is a Famicom Disk System game. Read What is FDS for more information. Also note that this movie is about 42 seconds longer than the previous movie. This is due to the inaccurate (shorter) FDS load times emulated by famtasia. | ||
![]() | FDS Otocky (unknown) in 17:52.02 by dwangoAC. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-07-24) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 28.21 MB, length: 19:00) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 19.15 MB, length: 19:00) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2739 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.6 (13.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Shooter | |
| Otocky was created by Toshio_Iwai in 1987 and was only released in Japan for the Famicom Disk System. It is best described (at least by Wikipedia) as a musical side-scrolling shoot'em up where the primary weapon is a ball which, when fired in one of eight directions, plays different musical notes on the primary instrument quantized to the beat of the background music. Needless to say, when such a weapon is put into the hands of a tool assisted speedrunner, you might just find yourself humming along to the end result. | ||
![]() | FDS Super Mario Bros. (JPN) "-3 stage ending" in 02:44.61 by HappyLee. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-10-23) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 2.39 MB, length: 02:55) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2426 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1258 (02:46.3) Rating: 7.9 (31.5 votes) View Publication | - Demonstration - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| This game is Super Mario Bros, the original, but on Famicom Disk System. It is much similar to the ROM version of the game, except for one minor difference that is demonstrated here. 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 movie is 84 frames faster than the previous one due to the use of a "cheap trick". | ||
![]() | FDS Super Mario Bros. 2 (JPN) in 08:05.28 by HappyLee. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-09-25) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 7.37 MB, length: 09:24) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 7.52 MB, length: 09:24) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3287 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1360 (08:06.96) Rating: 8.6 (19.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Mario has eaten too many poisonous mushrooms and as a result, decided to go on a furious killing spree. In this berserker state he has also gained the new secret ability to walk through walls at will.
Wondering how some tricks work?
Information is available at Super Mario Bros. Tricks page.
This movie is 1.68 seconds faster than the previous version due to new routes in 1-1 and 1-2.
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. FDS means Famicom Disk System. It was a Japanese disk-unit version of the NES. In addition to the standard encode, there is an experimental encode produced in 10-bit YUV444 h.264, providing higher visual quality. You will need a very recent codec / media player (such as LAV Filters or mplayer2) to be able to play this experimental encode back. Feedback on this encode would be appreciated - please use the discussion thread for this movie for that purpose. | ||
![]() | FDS Super Mario Bros. 2 (JPN) "Luigi Version" in 08:16.42 by Phil. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-01-17) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 19.57 MB, length: 09:33) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1822 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1027 (08:17.83) Rating: 7.9 (33 votes) View Publication | - Uses a suboptimal character - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - 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. | ||
![]() | GBA Advance Wars (USA v1.0) "glitched" in 13:43.97 by criticaluser & sgrunt. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-11-28) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 36.92 MB, length: 17:54) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2919 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.5 (14 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Strategy | |
| Without warning, the forces of Blue Moon mount an assault on the nation of Orange Star. Only Orange Star's new advisor, in collaboration with Orange Star's commanding officers, can stop them and get to the truth behind this sinister plot. At least, what they'd normally do if they weren't capable of just magically compelling their opponents to surrender at the sight of them. Using a glitch in the design maps mode of the game, this run completes the game impossibly quickly by forcing opponents to yield, allowing instant wins in the campaign missions. | ||
![]() | GBA Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising (USA) in 1:08:21.25 by fetofs. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2009-12-23) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 148.12 MB, length: 1:15:41) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2497 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (14 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Strategy | |
| In the second game of this popular series, the four warring countries from the original game find themselves uniting against a common foe who, at the game's opening, has almost completely overrun the planet. With the help of carefully devised strategies, a little bit of luck manipulation, and moving the cursor at inhuman speed, the author repels this planetary invasion over the course of slightly more than an hour. Reading the author's comments is strongly recommended to help keep track of what's going on. | ||
![]() | GBA Asterix & Obelix: Bash Them All! (Europe) "Asterix & Obelix" in 21:08.9 by TimmyAkmed. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-12-17) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 74.47 MB, length: 24:40) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 70.68 MB, length: 24:40) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3360 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (3.5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Rome has conquered Gaul and put a wall around the last village of resistance. Asterix and Obelix decide to tour the Roman Empire and collect souvenirs in order to show Caesar the futility of walls. It's hard to get the story from this TAS, however, because they fly through the levels so quickly, absorbing damage and rarely bothering to fight back. They do take some breaks to participate in local sports. After all, if you're trying to send a message to Caesar, why not beat his athletes in one Olympic event--or all of them? | ||
![]() | GBA Batman Begins (USA) in 18:34.52 by adelikat. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-08-05) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 72.71 MB, length: 25:45) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1999 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (22 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Batman Begins is a game where Batman basically acts like a ninja. A few glitches, especially the mid-air jump glitch, speeds up a game otherwise bogged down by a lot of lag. The game's engine also appears to be recycled from other GBA titles, such as Splinter Cell. Because the game was new at the time of submission, the author had no other runs and almost no walkthroughs to rely on. | ||
![]() | GBA Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (USA) "all souls" in 24:56.1 by Kriole. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-03-13) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 98.52 MB, length: 26:55) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 97.59 MB, length: 26:59) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3039 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1628 (25:47.05) Rating: 9.1 (26.5 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Starts from a saved state or SRAM - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| Everyone who has at least once attempted to gather a soul from each of the 120 different enemies in Aria of Sorrow, especially during a speedrun, knows the frustration it incurs after a hundredth failed attempt to get the required drop. That just makes this all-souls TAS, in which the player beats the game on hard mode and without using glitch warps in a little less than 25 minutes, even more impressive.
Upon completing his warpless run, Kriole decided to take another jab at this category, improving upon his earlier effort by 51 seconds.
However, if you would like to see the game beaten to a pulp in a mere quarter of this time, don't miss the glitched run by klmz.
Note: While the player doesn't use glitch warps (neither by death nor by getting out-of-bounds using transform souls), he uses the normal warp rooms present in the castle. Note: Starting from reset was necessary to use hard mode. However, doing so is normally not allowed — refer to the rules to see the reasons. | ||
![]() | GBA Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (USA) "warpless" in 20:58.62 by Kriole. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-03-03) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 69.35 MB, length: 23:05) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2576 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #456 (27:45.57) Rating: 8.4 (16 votes) View Publication | - Forgoes time-saving damage - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| In this run of the third Game Boy Advance entry of the Castlevania series, the author neither uses major warp glitches nor collects 100% of the souls, but still manages to beat the game in just over 20 minutes - almost 7 minutes faster than the previous run. | ||
![]() | GBA Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (USA) "Julius version" in 04:38.9 by Cpadolf. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2009-01-24) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 17.63 MB, length: 06:49) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 19.65 MB, length: 06:49) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2163 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1127 (04:51.98) Rating: 8.0 (33 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Second quest/Post game-completion - Starts from a saved state or SRAM - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Those who greatly dislike that Aria of Sorrow's main character isn't related to the Belmont clan whatsoever can safely relax, because the powerhouse known as Julius Belmont enters the stage in the relatively short run of this Castlevania installment.
Julius is only available to those who have completed the main quest, but unlike Soma Cruz, Belmont can't go through walls or use other fancy tricks like that. Being very upset about it, he hops around the castle madly, producing almost inhuman sounds with every jump.
This is an improvement of almost 13 seconds, mostly due to better boss fights.
Note: this movie starts where a main quest TAS left off. We do not usually accept movies beginning from a save. Please read our rules to see our reasons. | ||
![]() | GBA Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (USA) "warp glitch" in 06:14.48 by klmz. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-11-25) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 22.43 MB, length: 08:06) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2914 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1129 (06:46.2) Rating: 8.1 (17 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| The glitched Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow main quest TAS has become even more glitched. Using an obscure out-of-room travel technique involving in-game saving and subsequent dying, klmz ploughs through the game with confident pace of a cold-blooded killing machine in a little under seven minutes — a whole 31.72 seconds faster than the previous movie by the same author! We recommend reading the author's comments for more information on the death warp glitch and other time-saving techniques used to make this improvement happen. If you would like to see more of the game, we also have a "100% souls" Aria of Sorrow movie by Kriole here. | ||
![]() | GBA Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (USA) in 21:40.22 by Cardboard. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-04-07) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 67.67 MB, length: 23:55) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1900 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #821 (21:51.08) Rating: 8.0 (27.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| Nathan Graves is a vampire hunter trying to save his master, Morris, from the clutches of Dracula. Normally this would require collecting lots of different items as well as hours of leveling, but Cardboard proves collectible cards passé by gathering almost none of the cards required for spells and blazing through the game at warp speed without regard to levels or his own safety. This movie is a 10.5 second improvement over the author's previous movie through various small & thorough optimizations. For those interested in the areas of the game which this run skips, make sure to check out zggzdydp's run which achieves 100% map completion. | ||
![]() | GBA Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (USA) "glitched" in 05:21.58 by Cardboard. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-08-11) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 16.85 MB, length: 07:30) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2040 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #996 (05:21.93) Rating: 6.9 (26 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| When played normally, Castlevania: Circle of the Moon is a rather long game, in which exploration, leveling up, and killing bosses in order to gain access to different items or portions of the castle is necessary. However, a bit of luck manipulation and a series of glitches involving DSS cards throw all these aspects of gameplay out of the window, allowing the player to warp directly to Dracula and kill him humiliatingly in just over 5 minutes. This movie is a 21 frame improvement over the previous movie by the same author due to some small optimizations. | ||
![]() | GBA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) in 11:13.12 by klmz. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-11-08) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 42.69 MB, length: 12:24) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2124 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #995 (14:04.85) Rating: 8.6 (36 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Uses warps - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| The first quest completion time of this fast paced game got nearly cut as much as 2/3 thanks to Juste's ability to sink into walls when going at very high speed. Please, don't try this at home!
This is a 171-second improvement over zggzdydp's movie. Like in the previous movies, the author picked up an item to display those cool CRITICAL's for entertainment, at the cost of some time.
However, if you still think there is not enough zipping through walls, make sure to see the second quest completed in less than half a minute!
Note: This movie requires conversion in order to be played in sync on VBA rerecording v23. | ||
![]() | GBA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) "Maxim Version" in 00:22.73 by Yuzuhara_3. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-10-13) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 2.91 MB, length: 01:56) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3326 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1733 (00:22.75) Rating: 8.8 (18.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Starts from a saved state or SRAM - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| This is a really, really fast TAS through Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance played with Maxim, who is only available after the game is beaten once. Most of the game is glitched through by being stuck in different walls, so it's hard to explain what happened in this run; see it for yourself.
This is a 1 frame improvement over the previous run by gstick.
If you like this run but have a craving for more Maxim action, be sure to check out the Maxim warpless run.
Note: This movie starts where the main quest movie left off. We do not usually accept movies beginning from a save. Please read our rules to see our reasons. | ||
![]() | GBA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) "Maxim in bounds" in 12:45.68 by Comicalflop & zggzdydp. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-08-10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 48.69 MB, length: 14:28) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 54.73 MB, length: 14:28) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2019 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.7 (28.5 votes) View Publication | - Forgoes warps - Starts from a saved state or SRAM - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Castlevania, again, only this time played with Maxim and without glitching through walls and completing the game intended, unlike the glitch-warped run. What constitutes as intended in this run is debatable, since Maxim zooms through the castle faster than Sonic on espresso, and sends shurikens ripping through bosses before they realize they can attack you.
Note: This movie starts where the main quest movie left off. We do not usually accept movies beginning from a save. Please read our rules to see our reasons. | ||
![]() | GBA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) "all furniture" in 24:58.0 by sksk1990. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-10-12) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 112.28 MB, length: 26:14) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3293 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1765 (28:27.17) Rating: 8.0 (7.5 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Uses warps - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| In this game, the player controls Juste Belmont, one of the later descendants of the Belmont clan. The goal of the game, as usual for Castlevania games, is to defeat Dracula in his castle. Along the way, some bosses are beaten, and some abilities and items are obtained. Furthermore, to obtain the best ending, Juste is supposed to acquire all of Dracula's remains and Maxim's bracelet. This run collects all of the pieces of furniture, which causes a certain room in the castle to become heavily decorated. This run uses wall-sinking glitches to warp very quickly between different parts of the castle, but it still explores a large portion of the castle. For another run featuring Juste which uses wall-sinking and ignores the castle decorations, please see this run. We also have movies featuring the unlockable character Maxim, with wall-sinking or without. | ||
![]() | GBA Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced (USA) in 34:19.83 by wwmarx. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-10-30) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 183.78 MB, length: 34:34) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2879 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (9.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced is similar to Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped for the PlayStation. The game's story is about Crash Bandicoot rescuing his friends from the hypnosis of Doctor Nefarious Tropy and his ally N. Trance. | ||
![]() | GBA Densetsu no Stafy (JPN) "glitched" in 03:32.45 by jlun2. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2012-02-03) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 16.89 MB, length: 08:44) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 18.71 MB, length: 08:44) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3437 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1655 (06:34.6) Rating: 6.6 (4.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| 'Densetsu no Stafy' ("The Legendary Starfy") is a Japanese game that features a cute little star named Starfy. This run uses several glitches involving the demo reel that allows the author to skip almost immediately to partway through the final boss (much in the fashion of the published Arkanoid run). Since it's not necessary to play through the final stage, this shaves 3:02.15 from the run. | ||
![]() | GBA Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure (JPN) in 44:34.07 by AnotherGamer. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2005-07-01) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 131.60 MB, length: 47:19) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #723 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (26 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform | |
| Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure (ドラゴンボール アドバンス アドベンチャー) is mainly a platformer/fighting game with some one-on-one fights with more important characters thrown in. The author tries to complete the game moderately fast, while showing off different things you can do and getting a high score in progress. Doesn't get hit, except in 2 vs fights where losing is part of the game's plot. Ending score: 32074970. | ||
![]() | GBA Fire Emblem (USA) in 1:25:02.9 by Rolanmen1 & Nitrodon. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-09-12) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 151.39 MB, length: 1:41:49) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3266 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.9 (9 votes) View Publication | - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG - Genre: Strategy | |
| Fire Emblem is the seventh game in the series of strategy RPGs, and the first to be given a release outside Japan. When Eliwood discovers his father is missing, he sets out to find him, but what he discovers is far more amazing and terrifying than he ever imagined. With carefully planned strategy, the runners complete this game in a timely manner, knocking off the entirety of the first modes available in a mere 140 turns. | ||
![]() | GBA Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (USA) in 1:08:51.2 by Vykan12. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-07-17) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 121.85 MB, length: 1:19:28) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 136.38 MB, length: 1:21:26) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.nicovideo.jp) Submission #3214 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1170 (1:06:48.93) Rating: 7.4 (5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: RPG - Genre: Strategy | |
| The Fire Emblem series is popular for its tactical-role-playing element. This is the eighth installment of the series, usually taking many hours to finish and hundreds of turns. In this playthrough, Vykan12 takes the game one step further, playing on the hardest setting - this takes a couple of minutes longer than the previous version, but reduces the turn count to a mere 93 turns. | ||
![]() | GBA Gunstar Super Heroes (USA) in 18:32.22 by Comicalflop. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2009-11-18) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 61.42 MB, length: 20:18) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2442 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.2 (17 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter ![]() | |
Gunstar Super Heroes is the sequel to Gunstar Heroes for the Genesis. Compared to Gunstar Heroes, in this game, you can go much faster. You can also yell and shout more than should be possible in a game!
Warning!
Those who experience motion sickness easily might not want to watch the autoshooter segments too closely. You have been warned.
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![]() | GBA Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting! (JPN) in 04:19.85 by error1. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-03-11) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 14.33 MB, length: 06:17) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3031 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.6 (8.5 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Sport | |
| Based on the manga known in North America as Fighting Spirit, Hajime no Ippo - The Fighting! is a game where you fight your opponents a bit like in Super Punch-Out. You gain more special moves as the game progresses. In the run, the author makes usage of those special moves gained in-game to beat the opponents as fast as possible. He also takes advantage of an interesting quirk in the opponents' AI, ensuring that they do not get up after the first knockdown. For more details, see the run's comments. | ||
![]() | GBA Kirby & The Amazing Mirror (JPN v1.1) "100%" in 58:10.02 by MUGG. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2009-10-08) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 120.93 MB, length: 1:00:56) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2366 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.0 (18 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Not content with merely constructing the mirror and saving the day, Kirby and his multi-coloured clones have decided that they must also collect anything and everything that they come across. | ||
![]() | GBA Kirby & The Amazing Mirror (JPN) in 26:11.52 by MUGG. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2007-08-20) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 106.00 MB, length: 28:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1656 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (24 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Kirby and his multi-colored friends are out to collect pieces of a magic mirror which aid him in his latest quest. As Kirby games usually are, this game has a lot of color. The run also shows off a variety of different enemy abilities, used to help speed things along. | ||
![]() | GBA Kuru Kuru Kururin (Europe) in 10:22.08 by Ryuto. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2009-06-19) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 55.00 MB, length: 12:30) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2261 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.8 (18.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Genre: Puzzle - Genre: Racing | |
| Kuru Kuru Kururin is an unusual game that is a mix of racing/puzzle genres. The player controls a slowly spinning stick called the Helirin, and must maneuver it through a series of mazes. The player controls the direction and speed of movement but not the Helirin's constant rotation. In this fast paced TAS Ryuto chooses to ignore damage penalties in exchange for blazing fast realtime completion and creative methods of getting around the Helirin's forced rotation to squeeze into even the tiniest of gaps. | ||
![]() | GBA Kururin Paradise (JPN) in 20:07.72 by Ryuto. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-01-09) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 120.63 MB, length: 23:38) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Submission #2967 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1315 (20:35.53) Rating: 6.9 (6 votes) View Publication | - Uses a game restart sequence - Genre: Puzzle - Genre: Racing | |
| Kururin Paradise is the sequel to Kuru Kuru Kururin. Once again you control the Helirin, but this time you have a small measure of control over its rotation. This extra control allowed Ryuto to create a movie that can aim for fastest time without taking damage. Also added to the sequel are several strange and entertaining minigames, such as using the Helirin to mow grass or attack intruding enemies Space Invaders style. This is a 27.81 second improvement over the last attempt by the same author. | ||
![]() | GBA Lode Runner (JPN) in 16:53.6 by klmz. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-01-21) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 39.23 MB, length: 18:44) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2520 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (10 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Lode Runner is a long-running series of action/puzzle games where the objective is to collect all of the gold in a level while avoiding enemies. This iteration of the series for the GBA was released only in Japan. This run completes Small World, the initially available set of levels; this is the only set of levels accessible without SRAM. | ||
![]() | GBA Mario Pinball Land (JPN) in 08:01.7 by cetaka. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-11-19) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 17.87 MB, length: 08:06) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2905 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #875 (09:29.72) Rating: 7.3 (14 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action | |
| Super Mario Ball (スーパーマリオボール), also known as Mario Pinball Land in the US, is an adventure quest combined with pinball type game similar to Pinball Quest. In the game you need to flip Mario like a pinball to obtain stars, keys, defeat enemies, and advance levels. Of course the author completes these objectives with speed and precision and often while juggling multiple balls. This run improves upon the previous movie by 2710 frames (45.17 seconds). | ||
![]() | GBA Mario vs. Donkey Kong (USA) in 44:52.42 by Chef Stef. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-01-23) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 140.76 MB, length: 46:55) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1779 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (22.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| "Mario vs. Donkey Kong" is an evolution of the ever popular Donkey Kong franchise that pits "Jump Man" (aka Mario) yet again against the ape "Donkey Kong." This time, Mario faces puzzling levels that require him to hit switches that activate/deactivate colored walls in an attempt to save the "Mini-Mario" toys. The author abuses game physics and collision detection to complete the levels in record time. | ||
![]() | GBA Mega Man Battle Network (USA) in 55:40.65 by Bag of Magic Food. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-07-05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 155.34 MB, length: 58:17) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2727 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.4 (9 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: RPG | |
| Imagine Mega Man as an RPG set in an alternate universe where he and his fellow robots aren't robots but computer programs, and you end up with this series - but even this unique take on the premise is no barrier to continuing TASVideos' long history of quality Mega Man runs. If you care to know more about the run, be sure to read the extremely long set of author's comments (which comprise, in fact, the longest such set of comments on the site - you have been warned). We also have a run for the second game in the series. | ||
![]() | GBA Mega Man Battle Network 2 (USA) in 1:40:14.35 by mtvf1. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2012-02-09) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 271.56 MB, length: 1:41:07) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 247.55 MB, length: 1:41:07) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3385 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: RPG | |
| The Mega Man Battle Network series envisions Mega Man and his friends and enemies as computer programs rather than robots. It also changes gameplay from platformer to RPG, with battle mechanics similar to collectible card games. The second game has Lan and Mega Man fighting a terrorist organization called Gospel, but this TAS divulges little of the plot. mtvf1 races through the game, avoiding unnecessary random battles and precisely manipulating battle chip winnings and order to quickly overcome all foes. We also have a run for the first game in the series. | ||
![]() | GBA Mega Man Zero (USA) "All Stages" in 34:09.83 by Rolanmen1. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-10-04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 97.13 MB, length: 38:37) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2847 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1538 (34:11.75) Rating: 7.2 (7 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes warps - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| After a long hibernation meant to purge his body of the Wily Virus, Zero is awakened to save Ciel and the resistance. Zero decides to help, but what he really wants is to have some slashing fun. Unlike the other run of this game, this run doesn't use mission skips, which means that the author had to beat every mission as fast as possible. This improves the previous movie by 1.91. | ||
![]() | GBA Mega Man Zero (USA) in 16:52.42 by computerbird & hellagels. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-07-19) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 43.50 MB, length: 20:59) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3197 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1831 (16:56.98) Rating: 7.8 (9.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| This is the first Mega Man Zero game in the series for the Game Boy Advance. Unlike most other Mega Man games, Zero really is not in the mood for fighting all the bad guys, and decides to call it quits in the first few missions so that he can skip ahead to the last stages. This run beats the previous run by 4.56 seconds due to a new trick called the "spike jump" which allows Zero to climb on the spikes without taking damage. If you liked this movie, be sure to check out the all stages run. | ||
![]() | GBA Mega Man Zero 2 (JPN) in 50:54.88 by computerbird. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-08-03) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 124.76 MB, length: 55:23) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 128.34 MB, length: 55:23) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2760 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #750 (59:17.97) Rating: 7.3 (9.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Zero is back in his second personal adventure, facing his greatest challenge yet. This time, the Japanese version is used instead for a glitch only available on that ROM. This run beats the previous run by 8 minutes and 23 seconds. Sonikkustar has done some live commentary on Ustream as well. | ||
![]() | GBA Mega Man Zero 3 (USA) "100%" in 1:03:53.15 by Rolanmen1. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-03-12) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 190.81 MB, length: 1:07:36) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3018 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.4 (6 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| The third game in the Megaman Zero subseries takes place two months after its predecessor. It features mostly the same game play as its predecessors, but with a different Cyber Elf system and customizable armor. Also new are the Secret Disks, which can be analyzed for information about the series, enemies, items, and the characters. Unlike the other run, this run aims to collect all disks, all sub-tanks, and all Ex-Skills. It also gets a special rank when the final stage ends (Disk Capturer) and unlocks Ultimate Mode afterward. | ||
![]() | GBA Mega Man Zero 3 (USA) in 56:44.55 by hellagels. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-03-03) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 170.50 MB, length: 1:00:21) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3021 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1142 (58:00.98) Rating: 7.4 (8 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| The third game in the Megaman Zero subseries takes place two months after its predecessor. It features mostly the same gameplay as its predecessors, but with a different Cyber Elf system and customizable armor. Also new are the Secret Disks, which can be analyzed for information about the series, enemies, items, and the characters. This run is 1:16.43 faster than the previous version. | ||
![]() | GBA Mega Man Zero 4 (USA) in 37:07.48 by klmz. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2009-05-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 85.61 MB, length: 39:42) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2239 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #403 (41:27.12) Rating: 7.7 (16 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Zero has a new body which he does all the same old stuff with. Once again, it's on the Game Boy Advance. As with the other games in the series, there is a delay with every hit of the Z-Saber, so many enemies are killed in other ways. (In particular, in this game, Zero can pick up guns from some enemies and use them for added variety.) This run is almost 4 minutes and 20 seconds faster than the previous movie, in spite of having over 30 seconds more text due to game version differences. A large part of this improvement is due to new combos. Also, the invulnerability times of midbosses are abused even further with midair wobbling of the Z-Saber or the Z-Knuckles. For more details, see the run's comments. | ||
![]() | GBA Metal Slug Advance (USA) in 11:43.2 by x2poet. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-08-16) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 32.25 MB, length: 13:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3247 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1787 (12:52.62) Rating: 7.8 (11 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Shooter | |
| Metal Slug Advance is an action shooter game from the popular series Metal Slug. In it, you are a recruit for Peregrine Falcon, training on an unnamed island with limited equipment. All seems to be going as planned, but when General Morden's troops invade the island, captures many of your allies, and attempts to build a base, you must rise to the task of fending off the approaching army. In this run, the author, x2poet, utilizes Tyra Elson to finish the game in just less than twelve minutes, 1:09.41 faster than before, thanks to some new glitches and a route change in the final mission. See also x2poet's runs of Metal Slug, Metal Slug X, Metal Slug 3 and Metal Slug 4. | ||
![]() | GBA Metroid: Zero Mission (USA) "100%" in 1:01:08.0 by Cpadolf. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2009-11-06) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 128.75 MB, length: 1:05:23) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2436 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #981 (1:01:43.7) Rating: 8.7 (21.5 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Samus's first adventure is retold in Metroid: Zero Mission with extra storyline, extra items and on a system with a better graphics processor. This run completes the game with 100% item collection. At least as far as the end-of-game display is concerned. This is an improvement of 35.70 seconds, over Dragonfangs's previous movie. The improvements come mainly from greater optimization in movement and better ammo management. Unlike the previous author, Cpadolf aimed for lowest real time, finishing the game in 42:07 on the in-game timer. | ||
![]() | GBA Metroid: Zero Mission (USA) in 32:33.43 by Dragonfangs. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-05-13) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 79.52 MB, length: 36:26) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1946 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #885 (33:07.53) Rating: 8.3 (25.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Metroid: Zero Mission is a retelling of the original Metroid's story with a couple of new plot twists and updated gameplay. This movie improves on the previous attempt by the same author by 12 in-game seconds and 34 seconds of real time. It was achieved by using a different route (killing Ridley before Kraid), allowing more efficient time saving tricks and skipping an elevator cutscene. The in-game clear time is 0:21:27. The item collection rate is 21%. | ||
![]() | GBA Metroid Fusion (USA) "100%" in 1:35:49.53 by BioSpark. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-12-17) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 230.92 MB, length: 1:39:21) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2148 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #815 (1:36:57.52) Rating: 8.9 (36 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| After a major surgery, Samus's Power Suit has been reduced in appearance. To compensate, she decides to arm herself to the teeth with 250 missiles and more power bombs than she really needs. It's her favourite thing to do when sequence breaking isn't as feasible. This run collects all 100 capacity increasing items for Samus's health, missiles and power bombs. The abilities recovered from the Core-X are not part of this number. This is a 1 minute and 11 second improvement of the author's previous movie. In-game completion time is now 0:56. | ||
![]() | GBA Metroid Fusion (USA) "0%" in 1:13:26.73 by Dragonfangs. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2007-04-19) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 182.26 MB, length: 1:16:44) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1512 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #497 (1:16:14.23) Rating: 7.7 (28.5 votes) View Publication | - Low% completion - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Rather than being able to explore the world freely and sequence break to her heart's content, Samus is at the mercy of a computer's will. As a result this game is very linear with virtually no chance to collect items out of order. The in-game completion time is 0:40 and no unnecessary items are collected (0%). | ||
![]() | GBA Metroid Zero Mission (USA) "Low%" in 34:42.27 by Cpadolf. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2012-04-03) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 108.91 MB, length: 39:10) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 111.02 MB, length: 39:10) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3511 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.9 (6 votes) View Publication | - Low% completion - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Metroid: Zero Mission is a retelling of Metroid with new plot twists and updated gameplay. This run aims to complete the game as quickly as possible while collecting as few items as possible. This changes the gameplay, requiring more careful ammo management and new solutions to complete certain areas without powerups. Reading the author's comments is recommended. The in-game clear time is 0:23:48. The item collection rate is 9%. | ||
![]() | GBA Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition (USA) "tag team" in 05:56.4 by AKheon. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-04-28) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 44.52 MB, length: 08:02) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3120 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (10.5 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Starts from a saved state or SRAM - Genre: Fighting | |
| Mortal Kombat - Tournament Edition is a stand-alone game which acts as a sort of expansion to the GBA version of Mortal Kombat - Deadly Alliance. It has different characters, better A.I. and some bug fixes compared to the original GBA game. AKheon plays the Tag Team mode, where he chooses a team of two fighters to fight against other teams. The character can be swapped at any time during a match. If you're looking for a run that abuses a lot of crazy glitches in a handheld fighting game, then don't look further, you have it right here! The author also did a tool-assisted playaround on Mortal Kombat II (Game Boy version) and on Mortal Kombat Advance. | ||
![]() | GBA Mortal Kombat Advance (USA) in 16:32.02 by AKheon. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-07-17) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 22.16 MB, length: 17:41) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.radiokj.com Mirror www.flurret.net Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3220 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (12 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Fighting | |
| Mortal Kombat Advance is a port of the classic Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, for a handheld console. A terrible one at that. This one features a different engine, full of glitches, lousy controls and an even cheaper AI. AKheon makes the in-game fighters look like idiots by glitching the game in a lot of possible ways! The author also did a tool-assisted playaround on Mortal Kombat II (Game Boy version) and on Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition. If you want your SNES UMK3 fix, you can check out this movie and this staff-recommended movie. | ||
![]() | GBA Mr. Driller 2 (USA) "Time Attack" in 07:28.8 by Kyman. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2012-04-16) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 14.83 MB, length: 09:02) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 14.82 MB, length: 09:02) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3558 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1879 (07:33.57) Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Mr. Driller 2 is a fast-paced puzzle game where you have to drill to the bottom of the level within a fixed time limit. In this run, the author drills through the ten time attack courses in slightly under seven and a half minutes. Furthermore, he aims primarily for in-game time, as it adds to the entertainment value and adds also to the strategy, as there are time bonuses in this mode which subtract time. This is an improvement of 4.76 seconds over the previous publication, with the improvement coming from better routes and better optimization. | ||
![]() | GBA Naruto: Ninja Council (USA) in 11:01.28 by Cardboard. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-08-13) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 34.14 MB, length: 12:22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 36.28 MB, length: 12:22) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2044 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (17.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Fighting | |
| Naruto: Ninja Council is the first of a series that is loosely based on the plot of the anime, with gameplay that is a mix between side-scrolling and fixed fighting. In this run, Cardboard demonstrates his ninja skills using Sasuke as he effortlessly charges through levels and beats the end bosses so fast they barely have enough time to fight back. | ||
![]() | GBA Ninja Five-O (USA) in 16:35.62 by Cardboard. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2009-02-10) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 37.73 MB, length: 19:30) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2172 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #415 (18:06.9) Rating: 8.3 (36 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Ninja Five-O features a ninja cop battling evil ninja masters and terrorists. Joe Osugi, bizarre 'anti-terrorist ninja', is called in to assist the local police, who seem to be completely useless in rescuing some hostages. The game is basically a series of rooms connected together. Your job is to rescue the hostages and then escape the stage through the red door. You have in your arsenal a three-level shuriken, a sword, and a grappling hook similar to the one from Bionic Commando. Joe also has two special abilities: to make himself invincible and to attack all enemies on screen. This new version by Cardboard is 1 minutes and 31 seconds faster than the previous one by Nitsuja, containing even more ropeswinging acrobatics and ninja madness. | ||
![]() | GBA Pokémon: Ruby Version (USA) in 1:31:45.43 by FractalFusion & GoddessMaria. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-06-27) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 106.20 MB, length: 1:37:14) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3186 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #923 (1:35:07.97) Rating: 7.3 (16 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Pokémon: Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald form the third generation of Pokémon, after Pokémon Gold and Silver. Noticeable differences include the graphics and interface, Pokémon abilities, and the running shoes that allow the player to move around in the outside overworld very fast, before getting the bike. FractalFusion and GoddessMaria complete this run in a mere 1:31:45, 3 minutes and 22 seconds faster than the previous Pokemon Sapphire run. Instead of using Machop/Machoke, this run now uses Taillow/Swellow, which is obtained far earlier in the game, also has Guts as an ability, and has powerful moves early on and throughout. The movie also uses advanced methods of luck manipulation, with the help of RNG analysis. For more details, see the submission text. Note: You need to have Real Time Clock on and use Flash 128k as Save Type. Real Time Clock is for sync, while Flash 128k is to prevent the game from giving a white screen. | ||
![]() | GBA Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (USA) in 36:17.73 by theenglishman. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-11-03) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 112.06 MB, length: 37:28) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2123 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1045 (42:15.0) Rating: 8.3 (32 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Everyone’s favourite gymnastics winner is back in this remake of the classic console game. This time the Prince of Persia accidentally unleashes the Sands of Time, turning everyone except him, an evil Vizier and a mysterious girl named Farah into zombies. The Sands also gave the Prince a few new unexpected powers, like the ability to walk through walls and repeatedly jump underneath platforms. This run features an impressive improvement of 6 minutes over the preceding movie. | ||
![]() | GBA Shining Soul (USA) in 49:46.88 by DarkKobold. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-06-01) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 106.91 MB, length: 54:33) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 112.72 MB, length: 54:33) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2683 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (8 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: RPG | |
| Shining Soul is an Action RPG by Atlus. It is the first 'Shining' game to not be produced by Camelot Software Planning, and thus is not considered canon in the 'Shining' universe. However, the game serves as an internal homage to much of the 'Shining' series. All of the bosses are major villains from a previous 'Shining' game. The author manipulates randomly-placed monuments to appear, increasing attack power as much as eight-fold during the run. Additionally, hundreds of critical attacks had to be painstakingly manipulated to allow for enemies to die in a single hit. | ||
![]() | GBA Shining Soul II (USA) in 1:12:02.43 by DarkKobold. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-09-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 129.57 MB, length: 1:19:11) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2833 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1557 (1:30:01.18) Rating: 6.2 (6 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Shining Soul II is the last 'Shining' title to reach American shores, and the author's 5th 'Shining' TAS on the site. Unlike some previous games in the series, this game and its prequel play more like traditional Action-RPGs. This game, like its prequel, allows the player to pick a character type. In this run, the character chosen was a ninja, for his ability to use speed magic. The author uses a glitch to dupe power wines and bombs, the former massively increasing his attack strength, and the latter making the run look more like Bomberman than a 'Shining' game! This run is 17:58.75 faster than his previous Shining Soul II publication due to some very impressive manipulation to slaughter bosses in mere seconds. It is recommended that you read the authors comments for more info about the run and the game. | ||
![]() | GBA Silent Scope (USA) in 03:41.98 by jlun2. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-08-02) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 9.48 MB, length: 03:45) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2764 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #799 (05:29.28) Rating: 7.0 (9 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Shooter | |
| In Silent Scope, you're a sniper trying to take out a band of terrorists who have kidnapped not only the President, but his entire family as well. However, in this version the sniper apparently drank 25 cups of coffee and may possibly have ADD. This version is 1 minute 47.3 seconds faster than the old version thanks to skipping the credits, killing multiple enemies with one shot in some circumstances, and lag avoidance. | ||
![]() | GBA Snood (USA) "time attack mode" in 05:51.02 by theenglishman. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-04-05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 16.49 MB, length: 06:03) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2628 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.9 (14.5 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Demonstration - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Snood is a | ||
![]() | GBA Sonic Advance (USA) in 10:46.52 by Mukki. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-11-02) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 66.18 MB, length: 14:27) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 97.17 MB, length: 14:27) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2894 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #568 (11:17.47) Rating: 8.7 (19.5 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| This movie of Sonic Advance is unique as a speedrun in one aspect: Sonic moves so fast that the "camera" of the game cannot even
follow him. Therefore, he is rarely seen in the movie.
On the rare occasions we get to watch Sonic, we get to enjoy seeing him
moving through walls, charging up for another dash, or making short work of bosses.
Besides the super fast speed itself, the speed also provides Sonic an ability
(glitch) to pass through platforms and walls under certain conditions.
Mukki's TAS improves the previous run by 30.94 seconds, thanks to new routes and glitches explained in his comments.
Note: There are two encodes available for download; the first one is the original version, and the second one is made with a special emulator, hacked to force the game's camera to focus on Sonic, making it much easier to follow what Mukki is doing with him. The second YouTube stream displays these views side-by-side. | ||
![]() | GBA Sonic Advance (USA) "Sonic, no Ultraspindash" in 13:17.22 by Mukki. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2012-05-05) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 74.58 MB, length: 16:59) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 76.96 MB, length: 16:59) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Submission #3548 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.8 (6 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| In this run of Sonic Advance, the author declines to use the game-destroying spindash glitch featured in the normal run. It goes somewhat slower because of this, but new inventive solutions are used to get through each act, and the result is still much faster than any oversized ferret ought to be moving. | ||
![]() | GBA Sonic Advance (USA) "Knuckles" in 14:59.28 by GoddessMaria. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2012-03-29) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 80.26 MB, length: 18:35) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 90.37 MB, length: 18:35) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3492 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.2 (5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Uses a suboptimal character - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Sonic Advance is Sonic's first appearance on the Game Boy Advance, and he brings all his friends with him. Here Knuckles the Echidna proves that he's up to the task of zipping through levels at warp speed and defeating Dr. Eggman yet again. Watch out for the glitches, especially the complete breakdown in Egg Rocket 1. Be sure to read the author's comments for more information about techniques used. Don't blink! | ||
![]() | GBA Sonic Advance 2 (USA) in 18:01.78 by Mukki. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2012-01-28) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 101.40 MB, length: 21:10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 98.38 MB, length: 21:10) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3426 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #468 (18:44.97) Rating: 9.1 (9.5 votes) View Publication | - Aims for maximum score - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Disappointed with good movies where characters move just too slowly? Look no further! In this extremely high-speed run, Mukki demonstrates how to break the sound barrier and why Sonic is the fastest character in the video game universe. Mukki's TAS improves the previous run by 43.18 seconds. Individual act improvements are listed in the submission text. The author doesn't collect any of the Chaos Emeralds in this movie, but it demonstrates almost every single move that Sonic is capable of in this game. | ||
![]() | GBA Sonic Advance 3 (USA) in 35:56.75 by nitsuja. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2006-09-10) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 152.90 MB, length: 41:21) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1192 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.7 (36.5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Forgoes time-saving death - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Yet another Sonic run by nitsuja. This time around the game doesn't allow running faster than the camera can follow. However it does allow team play constantly. This run is refreshing compared to other Sonic runs because of how different it is. Yet like the others, it does not collect the Chaos Emeralds. It is recommended to read the author's novel to see why he chose to do many of the things he did. | ||
![]() | GBA Spider-Man 3 (USA) in 15:38.73 by mmbossman. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-08-24) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 71.85 MB, length: 21:42) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2062 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.1 (22.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform ![]() | |
| In this game, based loosely on the 2007 summer blockbuster, we see our friendly neighborhood Spider-man zip through 15 levels and 5 bosses with speed, style, and a sexy new black suit. In this run, mmbossman heavily abuses a technique that allows him to maintain a very high speed throughout each level, stopping only to rescue civilians or disable bombs. However, since speed isn't as important in boss fights, Spidey also gets a chance to show off some of his acrobatic and martial arts skills. | ||
![]() | GBA Splinter Cell, Tom Clancy's (USA) in 36:04.7 by FractalFusion. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2007-08-05) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 109.50 MB, length: 37:14) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1603 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (23 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Forgoes time-saving death - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Splinter Cell is a well known stealth action game where agent Sam Fisher tries to rescue CIA agents from the bad guys. However, in this run the author doesn't care about stealth at all and runs through the levels as fast as possible. FractalFusion has also created a TAS for the game's GBA sequel. | ||
![]() | GBA The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (USA) "Palace of Four Swords" in 05:37.9 by jlun2 & Tompa. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-02-10) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 29.97 MB, length: 12:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2995 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1615 (06:35.13) Rating: 7.4 (14.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| If there's one problem with the SNES glitched run of this game, it's that it's over too quickly - there isn't enough time to enjoy the glitches. If you agree, this run is for you - it completes the Palace of the Four Swords available only in this GBA port of the game in a very bizarre fashion so glitchy that not even the game's palette retains any sense of normalcy. This run improves the previous by just under a minute thanks to a new route. | ||
![]() | GBA The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (USA) in 1:48:09.75 by Tompa. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-09-03) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 230.68 MB, length: 1:52:25) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3262 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.0 (14.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure - Genre: RPG ![]() | |
| The Minish Cap is an addition to The Legend of Zelda series, that sees our hero fight | ||
![]() | GBA The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (USA) in 28:18.78 by jlun2. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2012-02-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 148.60 MB, length: 28:30) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 141.26 MB, length: 28:30) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3449 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1479 (29:45.32) Rating: Too few votes (1) to display View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| This is a game unusually suited for a run for a game based on a movie based on a (famous) TV series. While the game follows the movie's plot quite closely, the author manages to make it look almost incomprehensible thanks to sheer speed in glitching through the stages. This is an improvement of 1:26.53 minute over the previous published run by the same author. | ||
![]() | GBA Turbo Turtle Adventure (USA) in 18:36.07 by cetaka. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-01-02) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 119.51 MB, length: 21:39) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2957 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.8 (6.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action | |
| Turbo Turtle Adventure is a game like Super Monkey Ball and Marble Madness where you make a turtle roll accross various stages. The player rolled all the way through as fast as possible, using various techniques and some glitches. You can read the author's comments to learn more about those tricks. | ||
![]() | GBA Wario Land 4 (USA/Europe) in 40:04.88 by andymac. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-02-16) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 253.40 MB, length: 48:37) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3002 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #752 (1:02:35.57) Rating: 8.3 (13.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Arguably better known these days for the WarioWare series, our anti-hero Wario started off as the villain in Super Mario Land 2 before starring in his own series of platformers of which this is the fifth (everyone forgets Virtual Boy Wario Land). Through strategic use of save-and-restore and a glitch allowing rapid diagonal movement and zipping, Wario gets away with all the loot in this Hard mode run (the hardest difficulty available from the outset) 22:30.68 faster than before. | ||
![]() | GBA X2: Wolverine's Revenge (USA) in 13:57.28 by nitsuja. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2006-12-30) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 57.38 MB, length: 16:37) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1084 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (24 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| A fast-paced platformer game. We apologize for the less-than-average video quality in this AVI, but this game is really unfriendly to MPEG4 compression utilized by codecs such as XviD and H.264. | ||
![]() | GBC Blaster Master: Enemy Below (USA) in 42:43.17 by TwistedEye. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2007-01-25) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 78.20 MB, length: 45:16) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1185 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.2 (14.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Blaster Master - Enemy Below looks, sounds, and feels like a fanmade version of the top-notch NES platformer, Blaster Master, but it is actually a bona fide legitimate sequel on the Game Boy Color put forth by Sunsoft. In this movie the author abuses many glitches to take massive shortcuts in the game (including skipping an entire level). He also intentionally kills off the character several times in order to avoid backtracking. | ||
![]() | GBC Daffy Duck: Fowl Play (USA) in 07:32.02 by Aqfaq & Sonikkustar. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-10-30) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 12.37 MB, length: 09:48) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2889 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.6 (8 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Daffy Duck is hunting treasure and Bugs Bunny tries to stop him. If you know who these guys are, then you can imagine how funny this movie might be. Or fast, depending on how you look at it. TODO: Expand description | ||
![]() | GBC Daikatana, John Romero's (Europe) in 36:30.6 by FerretWarlord. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-05-30) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 51.27 MB, length: 38:48) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1864 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.9 (14.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - 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. | ||
![]() | GBC Deja Vu 1&2 (USA/Europe) in 10:05.0 by Randil. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2006-07-21) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 9.66 MB, length: 12:57) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #785 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.4 (17 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Storybook | |
| This is a TAS of the game Deja Vu 2, the sequel to the popular Deja Vu for NES. This time, however, you do remember who you are, and you also remember that you owe some mobster a lot of money. The goal in the game, however, is not to get the money - instead you're supposed to frame the mobsters. You do this by planting certain items in desks and stuff like that. Overall, this movie is a lot like the other storybook TAS: super-fast menu navigation, a lot of route planning, and the general feeling of "What in the world is going on in this movie?" | ||
![]() | GBC Dragon Warrior Monsters (JPN v1.0) in 30:36.72 by tetora_X. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2012-05-08) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 30.07 MB, length: 33:46) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 32.33 MB, length: 33:46) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3570 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #993 (38:23.2) Not rated View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Enix decided to hop on the monster collection/battling bandwagon with Dragon Warrior Monsters, in which the main character, Terry, makes friends with various monsters from previous Dragon Warrior games so he can win the Starry Night Tournament and rescue his sister. This movie is 7:46.48 faster than the previous version. Some time is saved by using the (JPN) version over the (USA) version, but much more time is gained through heavy bot-assisted luck manipulation. Reading the author's comments is recommended. | ||
![]() | GBC Evel Knievel (USA) in 15:03.12 by Aqfaq. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-01-15) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 58.30 MB, length: 17:36) Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2977 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (11 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Sport | |
| Evel Knievel is a game by the creators of the famous Grand Theft Auto, and is a motocross game that looks a lot like Elasto Mania and Trials. Aqfaq defies the law of physics by doing tricks that are impossible to perform in real life. If you are looking for crazy motocross action, don't look further, you have it right here! | ||
![]() | GBC Gex 3: Deep Pocket Gecko (USA) in 27:22.7 by mmbossman. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2009-11-06) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 46.33 MB, length: 28:43) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2424 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.7 (10 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| In this condensed version of it's big brother, Gex runs, bounces, and collects remotes through 2D levels, while taking time out to visit a huge mound of poo, fight giant mechs, kick Santa's ass, and fight crime by tail-smacking stray cats. | ||
![]() | GBC Keitai Denjuu Telefang - Speed Version (JPN) in 07:44.0 by jlun2 & MisterChess. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2012-05-04) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 6.82 MB, length: 10:38) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 7.03 MB, length: 10:38) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3504 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1791 (14:44.07) Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Keitai Denjū Telefang (携帯電獣テレファング) is a series of video games produced by Smilesoft and published by Natsume. The games are monster-battling games, where the player contacts various creatures using a cell phone-like device called a D-Shot in order to get them to battle the foes he or she will encounter. The name of the series derives from Keitai, which is Japanese for "cell phone," since phoning creatures is an integral part of the game, and "fang," to symbolise the various beasts involved. This movie is about half as long as its predecessor. Significant glitching is used; you will likely have to read the authors' comments to understand what's going on. | ||
![]() | GBC Looney Tunes (USA) "glitched" in 03:53.97 by Aqfaq & Sonikkustar. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-05-25) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 9.61 MB, length: 07:44) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2673 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1375 (09:28.88) Rating: 7.5 (17 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| In this special episode of Looney Tunes, Bugs, Daffy, Tweety, Porky, Taz, Speedy Gonzales, and the Road Runner decide to rip off popular games such as Atomic Runner, Sonic the Hedgehog & Gradius. They do this by going through this Sunsoft classic as fast as possible so that they don't die from all of the ripoffs. This has led to even stranger results than the old run, clearing five and a half minutes thanks to a glitch that allows for skipping several levels. | ||
![]() | GBC Mega Man Xtreme (USA) in 27:33.58 by FractalFusion. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2009-08-06) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 67.11 MB, length: 27:59) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2286 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.9 (14 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Starts from a saved state or SRAM - Genre: Platform | |
| Mega Man Xtreme is a port of the popular Mega Man X series to the Gameboy Color. It adapts the Mavericks and their stages from that series and wraps it into gameplay more suited for the portable console.
Note: This movie is played from a savestate to unlock "extreme" mode, which allows you to play all levels in one game. The author exploits glitches and the fast gameplay to create a movie worthy of what we have come to expect from Mega Man at TASVideos. Note: This movie requires VBA rerecording v19, v21 or v22. | ||
![]() | GBC Mission: Impossible (Europe) in 10:34.62 by Randil. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-11-10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 18.66 MB, length: 10:37) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2903 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #806 (10:51.05) Rating: 4.6 (7 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action | |
| This GBC game is based off the popular television series Mission: Impossible. Following the spirit of that series, this is a stealth-based game. Supposedly tricky tasks are to be performed covertly. But in this movie, stealth is clearly not one of the author's highest priorities. It's all running through guards, as if they weren't there. Yet the player does not die. This movie is 16.43 seconds faster than the predecessor movie. | ||
![]() | GBC Pocket Bomber Man (USA) in 06:51.08 by Robert_Ordis. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-05-24) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 11.23 MB, length: 07:59) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2674 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.6 (15 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Pocket Bomberman is a game that fuses platforming with Bomberman. In this TAS, the author uses various glitches and completes the game in just under 7 minutes. | ||
![]() | GBC Pokémon: Gold Version (USA/Europe) in 2:54:27.15 by FractalFusion. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2006-07-17) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 96.80 MB, length: 2:58:42) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 107.43 MB, length: 2:58:42) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1123 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (36 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Pokémon Gold and Silver form the second generation of Pokémon, after Pokémon Red and Blue. The main differences between the generations is that the game is now in full color, and that there are 250 Pokémon instead of 151.
This movie plays through Pokémon Gold in a fairly fast manner, catching only
a half dozen Pokémon in the process, but acquiring all the gym badges, and
ultimately beating the protagonist of the previous generation of Pokémon games.
The author of this movie, FractalFusion, has written very extensive
details of anything regarding this movie, including even some of the
mathematical formulas used by the game. As usual, we recommend reading these comments.
This movie requires VBA1.7.2 v17 to synchronize. See the submission text for details. | ||
![]() | GBC Pokémon: Trading Card Game (USA) in 21:40.67 by p4wn3r & FractalFusion. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-10-08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 25.76 MB, length: 26:45) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2824 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (11.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Pokémon Trading Card Game is the video game incarnation of the popular Pokémon Trading Card Game (Pokémon TCG). Rather than spending countless hours collecting cards to fight the various Masters in this game, FractalFusion and p4wn3r take one of the basic decks, and with a whole lot of luck manipulation, deal out a series of crushing victories in rapid succession in order to become the Pokemon TCG Champion. | ||
![]() | GBC Pokémon: Yellow Version (USA/Europe) in 01:09.63 by p4wn3r. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-08-15) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 1.11 MB, length: 03:11) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3256 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1702 (01:27.23) Rating: 8.3 (24 votes) View Publication | - Uses warps - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Corrupts save data - Corrupts memory - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Ash reveals his dark side, using save corruption and direct memory manipulation to catch 152 Pokémon in the blink of an eye. Then he beats the game in less than a minute (in-game time) - without ever leaving his own room, bypassing Professor Oak's speech by walking through a television, bumping into a wall, and having the game inform him about 1 error.
This run is so glitchy that it's near impossible to follow what's going on without help; reading the author's notes is highly recommended.
To see a run of the first generation of Pokémon that doesn't take advantage of save data corruption, watch the movie of the Red Version by the same author.
Note: This movie requires VBA rerecording v19, v21 or v22. | ||
![]() | GBC Rayman (USA) in 28:01.67 by CtrlAltDestroy. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2009-12-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 45.04 MB, length: 29:17) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2479 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.6 (10 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| This is a port to the GBC of much better known PlayStation game of the same name, with surprisingly good graphics for the platform and surprisingly poor imitations of the music from the sequel to the original game. Rayman, the original flagship character of the now-renowned company UbiSoft, has no arms or legs, but that doesn't stop him from making surprisingly quick progress through this slow-paced game. | ||
![]() | GBC RoboCop (USA) in 11:04.78 by AKheon. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-02-04) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 18.04 MB, length: 12:36) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2988 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.6 (7.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty | |
| Robocop for the GBC is a top-down shooter made by Mirage Interactive and Titus. The game itself consists of large maze levels and the slow movement pace of Robocop. The difficulty in this game can be very obnoxious. In this run, the author makes usage of a simple L+R glitch which doubles Robocop's speed without affecting camera speed if three directions at once are pressed. In addition to this, it even allows him to warp to the next screen immediately when he catches up to the edge of the camera view while performing this glitch, and if there is an adjacent room to the direction where he's going. This allows him to get through most troublesome walls. The author provides detailed comments which help understanding what is going on. | ||
![]() | GBC Speedy Gonzales: Aztec Adventure (USA) in 30:17.5 by adelikat & JXQ. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2009-10-25) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 35.36 MB, length: 32:48) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2390 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (11 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| ¡Ándale! ¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba! A super fast hero and ethnic stereotyping, what more can you ask for in a TAS? | ||
![]() | GBC SpongeBob SquarePants: Legend of the Lost Spatula (USA) in 06:02.37 by CoolKirby, nitrogenesis & jlun2. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-09-06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 11.46 MB, length: 07:57) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3269 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1801 (07:21.77) Rating: 6.0 (7 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| In this game featuring the famous SpongeBob SquarePants, SpongeBob stumbles upon a legendary statue that opens the way to the Dutchman’s Underworld. SpongeBob must unlock the statue and defeat the Flying Dutchman to get the Golden Spatula and become the Master Fry Cook.
The authors improved the previous movie by 1:19.40, because of a new route and the fact that SpongeBob has | ||
![]() | GBC Super Mario Bros. Deluxe (USA v1.1) "You vs. Boo" in 05:00.23 by TheKDX7. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2012-03-06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 5.14 MB, length: 05:22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 5.25 MB, length: 05:22) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3444 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.5 (9.5 votes) View Publication | - Second quest/Post game-completion - Starts from a saved state or SRAM - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Super Mario Bros. Deluxe is the Game Boy Color version of the original Super Mario Bros. It was released in 1999. In addition to the standard game, it also features a challenge mode which is available after beating the game. In this movie, gameplay starts after having beaten the game and unlocking the "You vs. Boo" mode by having collected 100,000 points. Mario must race Boo through several worlds which have been modified to make them more interesting in a race. | ||
![]() | GBC Survival Kids (USA) "ED 1" in 05:37.5 by klmz. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-12-18) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 7.13 MB, length: 08:44) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2937 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (8.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses a game restart sequence - Genre: Adventure | |
| Survival Kids is a game about a boy or girl who gets trapped on an island and tries to survive and escape. There are multiple endings in the game. This TAS aims for the fastest ending, ED 1. It is 35.64 seconds faster than the cancelled submission by Aqfaq due to new tricks, shortcuts and overall better precision. | ||
![]() | GBC Tetris DX (JPN/USA) in 00:35.18 by veup. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2009-11-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 634.12 KB, length: 00:38) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2471 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #927 (00:39.2) Rating: 7.3 (22 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Puzzle | |
| The author plays the GBC version of tetris this time. This movie aims to complete the required number of lines as fast as possible. Of course the best course of action is to get only "tetrises" (4 lines at once). This is a 4.02 second improvement over the previous movie. | ||
![]() | GBC The Castlevania Adventure (Europe) in 14:58.7 by arukAdo. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-08-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 19.55 MB, length: 17:22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 17.57 MB, length: 17:35) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2817 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (17 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| Set before the events of the first two NES games, the player gets to play as Christopher Belmont, one of Simon's ancestors. Unlike most Castlevania games, there are no sub-weapons, and the player loses whip upgrades upon damage. Additionally, the Castlevania Gameboy games unlike their NES counterparts have ropes and moving spike walls instead of stairs. This game being one of the first to come out for the Gameboy was programmed poorly, exhibiting lots of lag, and also suffers from poor jump controls. Seizing upon that, the level designers took it upon themselves to create fake difficulty by requiring pixel perfect jumps throughout. In this movie, arukAdo eliminates lag by killing enemies as they appear on screen, destroying candles, collecting coins, and ducking when possible. In addition to that, luck is manipulated via pausing to prevent certain enemies from appearing or to force bosses to enter attack range sooner. Note: The Konami Collection version was used instead of the original, as it lags a bit less, and is also fully colored. | ||
![]() | GBC The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (USA v1.0) in 1:00:02.68 by Swordless Link. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-02-15) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 81.97 MB, length: 1:05:34) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2565 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #863 (1:09:49.93) Rating: 8.9 (27.5 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure ![]() | |
| The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX is an updated version of an older GB game to add colour graphics, an additional dungeon, various other minor features, and a lot of bug fixes. Link, after rescuing Hyrule (again?), sets off on a journey and subsequently shipwrecks on the mysterious Koholint Island, which has been overtaken by evil monsters which he must defeat in order to find a way back home. Through a wide variety of glitches and general optimisations, this is now almost ten minutes faster than the previous full run of this game. This run does not make use of a form of warp glitching, but still demonstrates that they obviously didn't fix as many bugs as they thought. | ||
![]() | GBC The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (USA v1.0) "glitched" in 05:38.8 by hogehoge61. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2009-06-04) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 8.46 MB, length: 10:14) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2249 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1169 (05:40.05) Rating: 7.3 (24.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| Proving yet again the lengths a TAS can go in destroying a game, this run features a warping glitch that allows for severe sequence breaking. The final boss is reached within a handful of minutes and defeated with minimal weaponry. In this update, hogehoge61 uses increased frame precision and a further optimized boss fight to shave 75 frames from an already short movie. There is a movie of this game that does not use the warp glitch. | ||
![]() | GBC The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (USA) in 1:25:57.22 by Swordless Link & Tompa. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2012-02-01) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 126.55 MB, length: 1:32:17) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 126.58 MB, length: 1:32:17) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3442 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.8 (9 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons is a Game Boy Color game that carries over much of the graphics from Link's Awakening. Surprisingly, much of the game engine is completely different and developed by Capcom. In it, the Oracle of Seasons, Din, is kidnapped by Onox, General of Darkness. Link must travel throughout both Holdrum and Subrosia to collect the 8 Essences of Nature, power up the Rod of Seasons, and defeat Onox. This game has been attempted by various authors over the past 5 years. Finally, SwordlessLink, along with Tompa, who joined the project after dungeon 4, beat this legendary game in 1:25:57.21 primarily through the use of pitwalking, Pegasus Seeds, and enemy manipulation. Please see the authors' notes for more details. | ||
![]() | GBC Tom and Jerry in Mouse Attacks! (USA) in 14:06.17 by Mukki. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-12-28) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 27.28 MB, length: 16:23) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2949 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (7 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Tom and Jerry in Mouse Attacks! was released by Ubisoft (more well-known for their Prince of Persia games for the PS2) in 2000 for the Game Boy Color system. A series of glitches and tricks are used to quickly obtain all the special items and free Jerry's friends after a boss battle. More information can be found on the movie's submission page regarding the tricks and glitches used. | ||
![]() | GBC Wario Land II "100%" in 1:51:36.1 by mike89. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2009-11-05) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 102.11 MB, length: 1:59:38) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2414 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (11 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Uses a game restart sequence - Genre: Platform - Genre: Puzzle | |
| This is a 100% run of Wario Land 2, collecting all treasures, completing the picture panel and completing the extra time attack stage (the Really Final Chapter.) We recommend reading the authors Submission Text, it has a great deal of information. | ||
![]() | GBC Wendy: Every Witch Way (USA) in 17:47.28 by Kumquat. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-11-08) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 50.41 MB, length: 19:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2899 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (10 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Wendy: Every Witch Way is a fun little platformer for the Game Boy Color. In it, Wendy the Good Little Witch accidentally releases the Chaos Emeralds from a treasure chest after clipping through the wall to her attic. The restless emeralds then proceed to knock down a floating castle that was blocking their view of the moon, and Wendy must flip her way through the castle to get them back. This speedrun abuses the game's gravity mechanic heavily, essentially making it a cuter version of Metal Storm. | ||
![]() | GBC Xena: Warrior Princess (USA) in 03:18.97 by AKheon. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-12-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 21.95 MB, length: 05:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2948 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1598 (03:37.25) Rating: 6.4 (13.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Adventure | |
| In this game, Xena finds herself in a dream, set in a colorful, simplistic world, naive in its exaggerations and lack of realistic attributes. It's an open plain where the sun always seems to shine. But it's a foreign place, with Xena apparently having wound up there by an accident. She is lost, and has to free herself from the dream world. Now, this nightmare of a game ends 18.28 seconds faster than before! To learn more about AKheon's improvements on this movie, you can read the author's comments. | ||
![]() | GB A Boy and His Blob: The Rescue of Princess Blobette (USA) in 01:41.73 by Aqfaq. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-11-27) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 2.14 MB, length: 02:37) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2137 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (28.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Puzzle | |
| A Boy and His Blob: The Rescue of Princess Blobette is a sequel to the NES game with equally silly title. This time, the boy and his obedient friend save a princess, who is caged in a castle tower. The rescue operation is supposedly executed as efficiently as possible, even though it means that the boy needs to sacrifice one of his lives just to save some time. | ||
![]() | GB Avenging Spirit (USA) in 08:29.18 by Mukki. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-02-19) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 19.36 MB, length: 12:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2568 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.8 (9 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| In this port of an arcade game, the eponymous avenging spirit has been summoned by his girlfriend's father to rescue her from a crime syndicate holding her hostage. As a ghost, the protagonist has the ability to possess enemies with a selection of different abilities, but that's rarely seen in this run. In order to pull off the rescue, three keys are needed; these are retrieved in this run so as to obtain the best possible ending. | ||
![]() | GB Batman in 10:06.42 by MiezaruMono. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2009-12-28) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 19.91 MB, length: 12:04) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2500 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.5 (15 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| In this game, some short fat guy decides to prove that the police as well as Batman are incapable of doing their jobs. So he steals Batman's outfit, some of his toys, and brings along with himself advanced military weapon prototypes to wipe out the Joker | ||
![]() | GB Batman: Return of the Joker (USA) in 03:41.13 by adelikat. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-12-28) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 8.83 MB, length: 05:12) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2955 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1455 (04:01.77) Rating: 7.3 (13 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Batman returns to stop the Joker's latest insane criminal plot once again, 20 seconds faster than the last time!
This game is one of those grappling hook games, with which Batman can just swing through areas quickly. Much of the improvement comes from | ||
![]() | GB Battletoads (USA) in 09:59.73 by Cardboard. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-10-21) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 14.96 MB, length: 10:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2882 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (9 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform | |
| Battletoads is a classic video game by Rare for the NES, but different versions of the game were also made for many other systems, such as the Genesis and the Game Boy. All of these games are known for their comical animation style (such as gigantic fists and boots when the toads attack) and their high difficulty, essentially requiring the player to memorize the upcoming dangers to react fast enough to survive. In this version, the player plays as the Battletoad Zitz on a quest to rescue the other two Toads, Rash and Pimple, from the Dark Queen. This game has only 9 stages, as opposed to 12 in the NES version. However, unlike the NES version of the game, there are no warps, and there is no two-player option. There are also fewer time-saving glitches. That doesn't stop Cardboard, though, from beating up tons of enemies and completing the game very quickly. For more Battletoads madness, you can also see our movies of the NES version. | ||
![]() | GB Bionic Commando (USA) in 19:41.53 by JXQ. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2007-11-12) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 33.32 MB, length: 22:26) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1728 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (24 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Similar to the NES game of the same name, Rad Spencer must defeat evil using only his grappling hook hand and various big guns. The author abuses the grappling hook to move very quickly and through seemingly solid floor. | ||
![]() | GB Bubble Ghost (USA) in 04:41.07 by MUGG. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-07-09) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 6.23 MB, length: 05:56) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2726 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.6 (14.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses warps - Genre: Action | |
| Bubble Ghost, a game ported to a great many platforms, has the player, as a ghost, guide a bubble through a house by blowing at it; if the bubble hits anything at all it pops and the player loses a life. If that sounds difficult, well, it is - but that doesn't stop this run from making it look easy. | ||
![]() | GB Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge (USA) in 25:05.7 by zggzdydp. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2009-01-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 29.40 MB, length: 31:02) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2164 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #937 (25:39.7) Rating: 7.2 (19.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| In this second outing for Castlevania on the Gameboy, Simon's ancestor Christopher must defeat 5 castles, rescue his son, and destroy Dracula yet again. Featuring exceptional boss strategies and clever damage management the author dominates this handheld game. This is 34 seconds faster than the previous version due to optimized details and boss fights and some new strategies. | ||
![]() | GB Final Fantasy Adventure (USA/Europe) in 1:33:09.43 by MattyXB. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2006-07-03) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 115.79 MB, length: 1:38:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #943 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.5 (20.5 votes) View Publication | - Forgoes warps - Genre: Action - Genre: RPG | |
| Another run of Final Fantasy Adventure, but this time it's the whole game without any warps. Watch MattyXB defeat the evil Dark Lord and others using the "Power" option for every level-up, and glitching out the game where possible. It's easier to follow the story in this run, but still tricky at times because both main characters were named "A". | ||
![]() | GB Final Fantasy Adventure (USA) "warp glitch" in 17:41.33 by Touch-me. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-03-09) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 21.51 MB, length: 23:00) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.flurret.net Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3020 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #501 (1:09:03.9) Rating: 7.7 (8 votes) View Publication | - Uses warps - Uses a game restart sequence - Genre: Action - Genre: RPG | |
| Final Fantasy Adventure is the first game of the Seiken Densetsu (聖剣伝説) series but it does contains some classic Final Fantasy elements. The series is probably best known for the SNES game Secret of Mana. This game was later remade on the Gameboy Advance as Sword of Mana. Gameplay is quite similar to a Zelda game, however there is level building. In this run, Touch-me demonstrates how to flawlessly beat the game. What's unusual is that he also uses some glitches to completely skip parts in the game. This run is 51 minutes and 22 seconds faster than the previous run. | ||
![]() | GB Final Fantasy Legend II (JPN v1.0) in 29:55.57 by knbnitkr. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-10-30) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 54.55 MB, length: 34:38) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2837 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.5 (6 votes) View Publication | - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: RPG | |
| Final Fantasy Legend II, originally released in Japan as SaGa2: Hihō Densetsu, is a role-playing video game developed by Square Co. for the Game Boy handheld console as the second game of their SaGa series. This run abuses several glitches (One of which can only be performed on the initial Japanese release) to beat the game far quicker than intended. TODO: Elaborate the description. | ||
![]() | GB Fortified Zone (USA) in 09:38.57 by TASeditor. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2012-04-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 10.21 MB, length: 14:06) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 9.98 MB, length: 14:06) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3567 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.6 (3.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action | |
| Fortified Zone follows heroes Masato Kanzaki and Mizuki Makimura as they infiltrate a... fortified zone. The gameplay is much more interesting though. The author fully utilizes the ability to switch between the two characters on the fly. Weapons are fired very precisely, and some interesting glitching is used to skip parts of the first two levels. | ||
![]() | GB Gargoyle's Quest: Ghosts'n Goblins (USA/Europe) in 22:38.72 by Jigwally. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2012-05-10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 20.75 MB, length: 26:34) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 20.66 MB, length: 26:34) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3588 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #479 (24:56.6) Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Gargoyle's Quest is another platform game made by Capcom, where you play as Firebrand, a gargoyle predestined to become the Red Blaze and take down King Breager. This run is an improvement of 2:17.88 minutes over the previous movie. The improvement comes from more optimization, different routes, and better lag management. Reading the author's comments is highly recommended. | ||
![]() | GB Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (JPN) in 1:27:43.3 by Ryuto. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2009-10-23) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 55.58 MB, length: 1:28:28) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2306 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.8 (9 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Kaeru no tame ni kane wa naru (カエルの為に鐘は鳴る) is an adventure game, but it looks like a mixture of adventure, action, and RPG. It is a funny, cool, and unique game. The title of the game means "For the Frog the Bell Tolls". It was released only in Japan. The major characters are a pair of princes called Sabure and Richard. You will play with the prince Sabure in his quest to save the Mille-Feuille Kingdom from Delaling. Prince Richard is known as one of the characters who make an appearance in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. | ||
![]() | GB Kid Dracula (JPN) in 19:10.83 by Sir VG. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2007-11-27) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 28.62 MB, length: 21:42) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1735 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.2 (17 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Akumajou Special - Boku Dracula-kun (also known as Kid Dracula) is the sequel to the Famicom game of the same title. This movie requires VBA rerecording v20. | ||
![]() | GB Kid Niki (JPN) in 08:49.38 by MUGG. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-01-07) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 15.25 MB, length: 11:35) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2498 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.4 (9.5 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Genre: Platform | |
| This is a run for the Game Boy port of the first Kid Niki game from the NES. The game is about a Ninja called Yanchamaru whose girlfriend has been kidnapped. Mugg, the author, uses Yanchamaru-san's spinning sword liberally in the run, often killing enemies in one hit. | ||
![]() | GB Kirby's Dream Land (USA/Europe) in 08:44.65 by MUGG. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-05-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 15.16 MB, length: 13:22) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2685 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #986 (09:19.0) Rating: 8.1 (16.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| A quick run-through of the first Kirby game ever released, which predates Kirby's ability to absorb enemy powers. This run uses the 'Extra Game' password (up+select+A at title screen), which makes the enemies and bosses much more aggressive and damaging than usual. This is a 34 second improvement over the previous movie by JXQ. | ||
![]() | GB Kirby's Pinball Land (USA) in 01:55.98 by pirohiko. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-06-26) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 3.45 MB, length: 02:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1992 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (29 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action | |
| Kirby is a little round thing, and like Sonic, makes for an excellent pinball. Kirby must navigate through three boards to defeat his usual foes by knocking into them repeatedly, with the help of traditional pinball flippers. This movie skips most of the normal pinball aspects of the game and goes right to the bosses. Clever luck manipulation is used to position them perfectly for optimal damage from Kirby. | ||
![]() | GB Knight Quest (USA) in 23:22.73 by DarkKobold. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-10-02) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 20.74 MB, length: 24:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3297 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.3 (3 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Knight Quest is a rare RPG for the GameBoy. In it, you take control of a 14-year-old boy named Will who sets out to defeat baddies and save a princess. Nothing groundbreaking to see here, move along... This run was created by DarkKobold while he was testing the game out as a potential candidate for Dream Team Contest 4. For more details, please see the author's notes. | ||
![]() | GB Kung-Fu Master (JPN) in 03:29.08 by MUGG. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-10-01) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 3.79 MB, length: 04:46) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3280 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1196 (03:41.82) Rating: 5.9 (6 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform | |
| Everybody is Kung Fu fighting… The player is as fast as lightning… In Kung-Fu Master, the player displays frightening reflexes that would be enough to obliterate any opponent. In this run, the author, mugg, improves his previous run by changing the goal to getting the best in-game time, ignoring lag caused by enemy drops, among other things, in order to make for a more entertaining run. In addition, he changed the ROM used to the Japanese version, sacrificing some elements in order to make the fastest possible run. Please see the author's notes for more details. | ||
![]() | GB Kwirk (USA/Europe) in 15:46.25 by Nitrodon. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2007-05-14) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 16.83 MB, length: 16:18) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1501 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (19 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Kwirk the Chilled Tomato was exploring with his girlfriend when she suddenly disappeared! To find her, Kwirk must travel through puzzles consisting of turnstiles, pushable blocks, and pits which must be filled before crossing. Sometimes his friends are available to lend a hand. This movie completes all 30 levels of the "going up" mode. | ||
![]() | GB Little Master (JPN) in 05:35.37 by Ryuto. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2009-11-26) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 7.62 MB, length: 09:57) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2450 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.5 (10 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: RPG - Genre: Strategy | |
| Little Master is a Japan only strategy RPG. Normally, it'd be a long and winding game. This TAS makes it look like a walk in the park, albeit, a very large park. | ||
![]() | GB Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge (JPN) in 17:11.3 by Bag of Magic Food. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2005-05-09) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 18.77 MB, length: 21:50) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #664 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.5 (33 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| This game, also known as Rockman World (ロックマンワールド), is the first of a GB series of Mega Man games. The Game Boy series is a little different from the NES series in that there are only four Robot Masters to fight at the start. Those four are borrowed from the NES game of the same number, while four more Robot Masters from the next NES game guard Dr. Wily’s fortress. Game Boy Wily also likes to have a backup fortress in space after his first one is beaten. Another recurring concept in the Game Boy games is a ninth robot boss unique to the game who gives you a new weapon that is usually the only weapon effective against the final boss. We recommend reading the author’s comments of this movie ― there is a lot of it. | ||
![]() | GB Mega Man II (USA) in 17:41.28 by dezbeast. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2007-05-02) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 17.06 MB, length: 24:08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 17.38 MB, length: 24:08) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1466 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #594 (17:49.45) Rating: 6.4 (26 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| This time Wily is back, or actually forwards – in time that is; where he plans to destroy the future and bring back technology to destroy the past. Join Mega Man as he too travels to the future to prevent Wily and face his greatest enemy yet. This run doesn't really perform any mind boggling glitches like some other Mega Man runs on this site, but it still has the same classic action, and pulls off some very unlikely maneuvers that are enjoyable to watch. This is an 8 second improvement over the author's previous movie. | ||
![]() | GB Mega Man III (JPN) in 23:02.1 by Bag of Magic Food. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2006-11-26) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 24.92 MB, length: 29:09) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 24.86 MB, length: 29:09) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1362 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.4 (28 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Another installment of the Mega Man series. Unlike some of the other games in the Mega Man series, this one is quite solid and has no noteworthy glitches in it. Despite that though, many creative techniques were employed by Bag of Magic Food to beat each level as fast as possible. There is also many near misses of enemy fire in this game, making it very enjoyable to watch. For those of you who enjoy listening to the music, the background music in this one is quite good, and the sound quality is much better than previous Mega Man games for the system. This run was done on the Japanese version, Rockman World 3 (ロックマンワールド3). | ||
![]() | GB Metroid II: Return of Samus (USA) in 45:08.42 by Cardboard. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2007-08-20) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 76.90 MB, length: 47:24) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1667 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #866 (46:17.4) Rating: 6.6 (25 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Metroid II: Return of Samus is the second game in the Metroid series, taking place immediately after the events of the NES Metroid. Samus arrives at the planet SR388 to exterminate all metroids and eventually succeeds.
This movie by Cardboard puts the Spring Ball and Spider Ball to great use to compensate for the lack of items, and achieves victory in the shortest time possible.
This is a 69 second improvement over the author's previous movie. The in-game time is 43 minutes.
Note: This movie does not use secret worlds, also known as "the select glitch".
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![]() | GB Metroid II: Return of Samus (USA) "glitched" in 23:40.92 by FerretWarlord. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-08-13) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 30.59 MB, length: 25:54) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2049 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.5 (26.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - 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. | ||
![]() | GB Metroid II: Return of Samus (USA) "100%" in 49:22.82 by Cardboard. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2007-10-08) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 81.75 MB, length: 51:37) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1710 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #865 (55:18.43) Rating: 6.1 (20 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| This is Metroid II: Return of Samus completed with all the items collected. Being truthful to the original Metroid values, the game holds many items cleverly hidden, so finding all of them is not an easy task. That being said, Metroid II doesn't keep track of the collected items' percentage. Moreover, the game has two excessive Energy tanks and an additional copy of each beam. It's been agreed that the author should take all the E-tanks, and at least one copy of each beam. However, due to the apparent linearity of this game, collecting so many additional items doesn't make the movie dramatically slower. This movie is nearly 6 minutes faster than Alter's previous movie due to better precision, faster Metroid fights, and missile planning. Note: This movie does not use secret worlds, also known as "select glitch". | ||
![]() | GB Minesweeper (JPN) in 00:29.65 by Ryuto. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2009-12-11) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 1.03 MB, length: 01:03) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2481 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1185 (00:32.17) Rating: 6.0 (24 votes) View Publication | - Uses a level password - Genre: Puzzle | |
| This run demonstrates Minesweeper's Last level of 7 missions being destroyed by Ryuto in just under 30 seconds. In fact, the face at the top of the screen is so impressed it's constantly in awe. This also beats the previous run by 2.51 seconds. | ||
![]() | GB Mortal Kombat II (USA) "playaround" in 09:04.22 by AKheon. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-10-26) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 7.44 MB, length: 10:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2886 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.6 (10 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Fighting | |
| Mortal Kombat II was the first game of the Mortal Kombat series to feature a playable character-changing fighter (the sorcerer Shang Tsung). This run is played on the Game Boy port. Watch as AKheon humiliates the computer opponents, demonstrates some major glitches, and beats the game in just over 9 minutes. The author also did a tool-assisted playaround on Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition and on Mortal Kombat Advance. If you want even more MKII action, check out our run for the SNES version as well. | ||
![]() | GB Ninja Gaiden Shadow (USA) in 11:28.97 by klmz. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-11-05) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 17.55 MB, length: 14:48) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2105 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (26.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Ninja Gaiden Shadow (aka. Shadow Warriors) is actually a licensed GB port of Shadow of the Ninja on the NES console. Because of this, it is fairly faithful to the original despite starring Ryu Hayabusa, the main character of the Ninja Gaiden series. In this Gaiden of a gaiden, Ryu Hayabusa manages to defeat Emperor Garuda and save mankind in under 12 minutes, notwithstanding running slower than in other Ninja Gaiden games. | ||
![]() | GB Ninja Spirit (JPN) in 05:40.42 by Primorial#soup. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2006-12-12) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 15.09 MB, length: 07:22) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1196 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (19 votes) View Publication | - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| This game is one of many ports of an arcade game (there is also a movie of a different version of the game here). In it, an evil force has corrupted all ninjas except for you, and you must defeat the evil force. You have four different weapons, and you can also obtain shadow clones which work similarly to the options from Gradius or the clones from Ninja Gaiden 2. Sit back and enjoy the fast-paced ninja action and the weapon variety. | ||
![]() | GB Oddworld Adventures (USA/Europe) in 09:07.88 by applepieman. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2009-06-19) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 5.99 MB, length: 09:49) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2260 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.1 (13 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Join Abe, your favorite Mudokon, as he runs and jumps his way to victory while in a portable RuptureFarms. On a more serious note, Oddworld Adventures is an attempt to take the popular Oddworld series to the Gameboy, many of the features found in the Playstation version won't be found here. This run features the use of a pause glitch to allow extreme jumps, saving time from normal platforming or creating otherwise impossible routes to beat the stages in unintended ways. | ||
![]() | GB Operation C (USA) in 10:53.35 by adelikat. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2007-05-19) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 19.28 MB, length: 13:14) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1563 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #730 (11:05.57) Rating: 7.2 (23 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| The barechested alien crushing ultra macho hero is back, and he's portable this time! 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. | ||
![]() | GB Rolan's Curse (USA) in 04:20.58 by mmbossman. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-02-14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 3.52 MB, length: 05:35) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2562 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1233 (04:20.83) Rating: 6.5 (16 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| Rolan's Curse is like a simplified version of the NES Legend of Zelda with slower gameplay and more restricted game world, resulting in a primitive hack-and-slash experience. Nevertheless, there exists an interesting storyline: The kingdom of Rolan has been invaded by the forces of some evil being called Barius. However, in this movie the final boss is never actually seen. Instead of meeting Barius face to face, the hero dies while defeating the first level boss. The game then decides to freak out and end right there, declaring the rest of the story unnecessary. This is 0.25 seconds faster than the previous movie, arising from a substantial amount of testing and optimisation. | ||
![]() | GB Super Mario Land (any v1.1) "hard mode" in 12:14.77 by MUGG. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-08-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 15.26 MB, length: 15:06) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2812 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.6 (18 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Second quest/Post game-completion - Starts from a saved state or SRAM - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Tatanga is back after being beaten in the regular-mode run of this game, and he kidnapped Princess Daisy again. Daisy is not a pilot, so she is unable to escape from her prison in the sky, despite there being a freely accessible aircraft in the vicinity.
Mario must travel through the four Kingdoms of Birabuto, Muda, Easton, and Chai once again to rescue Daisy. Although this time around, they're packed with much more enemies than before.
This run has much more action than the regular mode of Super Mario Land, due to the increased amount of enemies, yet it is only slightly slower. If you liked TASs of Super Mario Land before now, wait until you see this.
Note: This movie begins from a save state from the end of regular mode in order to access hard mode. There is no other way to access it outside of a hack. We normally do not accept movies which begin from a save state. Note: This movie requires conversion in order to be played in sync on VBA rerecording v23. | ||
![]() | GB Super Mario Land (any v1.1) in 12:13.08 by MUGG. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-08-23) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 14.62 MB, length: 14:28) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2808 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1503 (12:13.15) Rating: 7.4 (16 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Aside from Tetris, Super Mario Land is probably the most well-known cartridge for the original Gameboy. It features a marked departure from traditional Mario enemies and themes, including Sphinxes, seahorses, fists emerging from pipes, Egyptian-themed levels, Chinese-themed levels and UFO-themed levels. This obsoletes the previous movie by just 4 frames thanks to a new trick. If you enjoyed this movie, be sure to see hard mode. | ||
![]() | GB Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (USA/Europe v1.0) "glitched" in 02:08.98 by andymac & MUGG. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-10-01) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 5.22 MB, length: 05:39) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3299 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1721 (02:28.08) Rating: 8.4 (12.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Corrupts memory - Genre: Platform | |
| This is the second and last true Mario game for the Game Boy. It features unique power-ups like carrots and bubbles, and allows the player to go through each of the worlds in any order. It also meant the first appearance of Wario, who would become a staple character for Nintendo. This run improves the previous movie by 19.08 seconds, mostly by finishing the first level quicker by taking a shell and performing the pipe glitch death. | ||
![]() | GB The Final Fantasy Legend (JPN v1.0) in 01:47.17 by knbnitkr. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-10-05) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 4.78 MB, length: 04:29) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2836 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (11 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: RPG | |
| The Final Fantasy Legend, known in Japan as Makai Toushi SaGa, is a video game released for the Game Boy in December 1989 by Square Co. It is the first game in the SaGa series and the first RPG's game for the Game Boy. However, rather than deciding to engage on a long quest of epic proportions, the author decides to just kick in the Japanese edition of the game and breeze through it in under two minutes. | ||
![]() | GB The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (USA v1.0) in 03:49.12 by bobmario511. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2012-02-07) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 8.05 MB, length: 08:15) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 9.32 MB, length: 08:15) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3453 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1122 (03:49.28) Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is a classic Game Boy Zelda adventure. Link must travel across the dream world of Koholint Island, collecting the 8 Instruments to wake the Wind Fish and go home after a terrible shipwreck. bobmario511 (the author), however, decided collecting instruments for a one-man band was a waste of time, so he skipped all of that and went straight to the Wind Fish (with a pesky boss battle in the middle). The author improved the run by 0.16 seconds merely by delaying the third screen warp by one frame. Doing this causes the object on the screen to disappear, reducing the lag by 15 frames. After encountering 5 frames of seemingly unavoidable additional lag, the author produced a run with a net improvement of 10 frames. See the author's notes for more details. If you liked this, be sure to also check out the Game Boy Color version (DX), which completes all the dungeons. | ||
![]() | GB The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (USA v1.0) "Playaround" in 40:22.78 by bobmario511. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2012-04-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 56.69 MB, length: 45:41) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 66.13 MB, length: 45:41) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3579 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.6 (9 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is a classic Game Boy Zelda adventure. Link must travel across the dream world of Koholint Island, collecting the 8 Instruments to wake the Wind Fish and go home after a terrible shipwreck. bobmario511 (the author), however, realized that "Hey, I'm in a dream. That means I can do anything I want!" With that in mind, he embarks on a journey as the legendary hero THIEF to live out his wildest fantasies. Unfortunately, he would soon find out that this dream would end up being the worst nightmare of his life, traveling through a chaotic world devoid of any logic, meaning, or consistent appearance. Summoning the power of all of the allies he can get, our hero, BowWow, Marin, a ghost, and a flying rooster travel together to make sense of the nonsensical hell of Link's own imagination, collecting what he believes to be the 8 Instruments and Secret Seashells on their way. To see a run of the "normal" completion of this game, see this movie by the same author. | ||
![]() | GB The Smurfs (USA/Europe v1.0) in 08:28.18 by MUGG. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-07-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 12.39 MB, length: 10:37) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3227 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1581 (08:52.27) Rating: 6.8 (8.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| A Game Boy sidescroller with much variety to keep one entertained.
The Smurfs was a once popular comic book and TV series that spread across the world in many languages.
This is an improvement of 24.09 seconds over the previous movie, mostly thanks to a warp glitch which ends Act 1 a lot quicker, but also thanks to better strategy.
Note: This movie requires VBA rerecording v23. | ||
![]() | GB Tiny Toon Adventures: Babs' Big Break (JPN) in 15:23.2 by x2poet. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-05-11) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 13.43 MB, length: 19:45) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.flurret.net Mirror www.radiokj.com Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3148 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.4 (7 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Tiny Toon Adventures: Babs' Big Break was the first Tiny Toon Adventures-related game released on the Nintendo Game Boy. In this game, the player takes control of the main Tiny Toons as they attempt to stop Montana Max from breaking Babs Bunny's dreams of becoming a big star. To learn more about the glitches x2poet used in his run, you can look at the author's comments. | ||
![]() | GB Tiny Toon Adventures: Montana's Movie Madness (USA) in 18:21.3 by jlun2. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-04-25) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 18.14 MB, length: 20:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3116 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1371 (18:39.95) Rating: 6.4 (7 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| In Tiny Toon Adventures 2 - Montana's Movie Madness, Montana Max has opened a new theatre in Acme Acres, but the only movies he shows are ones where he's the hero, and Buster Bunny is the villain. It's up to Buster Bunny to go into the films and change the plots. jlun2 improved his previous work by 18.64 seconds due to an emulator bug fix & a better final boss fight. You can check the author's commentary to learn more about these improvements. | ||
![]() | GB Tom & Jerry (USA) in 08:22.45 by Randil. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-11-07) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 7.96 MB, length: 10:01) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2890 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #807 (08:52.73) Rating: 6.3 (10 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Based on the famous cartoon series, this game is a simple platformer (similar to some Mario games) that illustrates damage abuse well. The player does not go out of the way to pick up items. This is a 30.28 second improvement over the previous run. | ||
![]() | GB Trip World (JPN) in 05:40.05 by MUGG. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-08-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 8.15 MB, length: 09:12) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3238 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1597 (06:11.42) Rating: 7.8 (11 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Trip World (1992) is an aptly named game developed by Sunsoft, a video game company you might know by titles like Gimmick!, Ufouria and Journey to Silius. It follows a rabbit-like creature called Yacopu on his quest to retrieve a flower and his kidnapped girlfriend so that peace will return to his world. Along the way he gains abilities including turning into a ball and a big, scary godzilla-like rabbit. This is an improvement of 31 seconds to the previous movie, mostly thanks to a pause trick which helps keeping his flying speed and better luck manipulation. | ||
![]() | GB Uchuu no Kishi Tekkaman Blade (JPN) in 08:16.05 by Cardboard. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-08-06) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 16.15 MB, length: 10:08) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2024 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.5 (19 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes warps - Genre: Platform | |
| Uchuu no Kishi Tekkaman Blade (宇宙の騎士 テッカマンブレード, Space Knight Tekkaman Blade) is a game based off the Tekkaman Blade series, where the story involves Space Knights fighting against aliens. As can be seen from this movie, one of them is capable of ninja-style moves, such as jumping, sliding, and using a grapple hook. | ||
![]() | GB Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 in 21:49.15 by Greenalink. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-12-06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 24.87 MB, length: 29:24) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2923 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1650 (29:24.77) Rating: 7.9 (12 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Originally meant as a sequel to the Super Mario Land games, Wario Land eventually proved popular enough in its own right to launch its own series. Wario, having been kicked out of Mario's castle in his first appearance, decides, in his eternal greed, to search for a statue stolen by the nefarious Captain Syrup and the Black Sugar Gang. Along the way this would normally involve the occasional side quest for hidden treasures and collecting as many coins as he can possibly amass. Here, however, Wario decides this isn't worth his time and proceeds as quickly as possible towards the final confrontation - going so far as to skip entire levels and otherwise make a mockery of the game engine. This movie is a 7:35.61 improvement over the previous movie, thanks to even more level skipping and further optimized levels. | ||
![]() | GB Wizards & Warriors X: Fortress of Fear (Europe) in 09:59.32 by Dacicus. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-02-04) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 14.50 MB, length: 10:42) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1817 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.1 (19.5 votes) View Publication | - Forgoes time-saving damage - Genre: Platform | |
| According to the dates given in the manuals, this game takes place after Wizards & Warriors III, although it was published earlier. Malkil is back at his evil deeds. He has abducted Princess Elaine and taken her to his Fortress of Fear. It's up to Kuros to save her.
Note: This movie requires either VBA rerecording v20 or v24. | ||
![]() | GG Ninja Gaiden (USA) in 07:33.02 by adelikat. | |
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| Dega movie file (.mmv) (date: 2010-10-05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 24.39 MB, length: 12:08) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2835 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.5 (11.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Ninja Gaiden for Game Gear is quite unlike that of the NES version or even its cousin on the Master System. It has a similar (but simpler) feel as the Master System version, but has the wall climbing element of the NES game. But like the others, it has ninjas. And ninjas are cool.
Please note that the torrent was replaced shortly after publication, as this movie was originally published with an encode of an earlier version of this movie. | ||
![]() | GG Sonic the Hedgehog in 19:18.7 by sgrunt. | |
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| Dega movie file (.mmv) (date: 2009-12-23) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 34.54 MB, length: 22:15) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2493 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.9 (19 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| The Sonic games for the Sega Master System and the Game Gear are much less well known than their Genesis/Mega Drive counterparts and have a reputation for being quite challenging, especially in handheld form. You'd never know this from the speed Sonic blazes through the game here. Unlike later 8-bit Sonic games, there are significant differences in levels between the SMS version and the Game Gear version; here the latter is used primarily for faster boss fights. If you like this run, also check out the run for SMS Sonic 2. | ||
![]() | GG Tails' Sky Patrol (JPN) in 06:53.37 by Kumquat. | |
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| Dega movie file (.mmv) (date: 2009-10-27) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 10.11 MB, length: 08:37) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2421 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (16.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Shooter | |
| Wendy Witchcart is an old human witch who rides around in a specialized rail cart on an island that she claims as her own, and is the main villain who turns the islanders into crystals. Miles "Tails" Prower, better known as Sonic the Hedgehog's sidekick, is afraid of seeing a world filled with the witch's rails and decides to stop her on his own. Unlike Sonic collecting Rings to protect himself, Tails carries a special Ring that he can throw like a boomerang or grab things with. Since collected crystals will cost time on the score tally screen, the author simply ignores them all. | ||
![]() | MSX Contra (JPN) in 10:21.37 by scrimpeh. | |
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| openMSX replay (.omr) (date: 2011-03-12) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 8.74 MB, length: 11:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3030 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.5 (11 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Of the many Contra ports, the MSX version perhaps differs most notably in that taking damage is not instantly fatal. There's also significantly less horizontal scrolling due to the limitations of the system. | ||
![]() | MSX Invasion of the Zombie Monsters in 04:15.31 by scrimpeh. | |
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| openMSX replay (.omr) (date: 2011-11-27) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 4.52 MB, length: 06:39) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 4.49 MB, length: 06:39) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3379 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1771 (04:53.21) Rating: 6.8 (5.5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Invasion of the Zombie Monsters is a B-Movie style platformer for MSX. You take control of Ned, a geek trying to save his girlfriend from a giant demon terrorizing the city. This game was designed to be a throwback to games like Legend of Hero Tonma and Ghouls 'n Ghosts.
This is an improvement of 37.88 seconds over the previous run, courtesy of better boss fights and other general optimisation.
In addition to the standard downloadable encode, there is a second experimental downloadable encode produced in 10-bit YUV444 h.264. You will need a very recent codec / media player (such as LAV Filters, recent builds of FFDShow-tryouts, or mplayer2) to be able to play this experimental encode back. | ||
![]() | MSX Knightmare 2: The Maze of Galious (JPN) in 25:04.67 by zggzdydp & scrimpeh. | |
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| openMSX replay (.omr) (date: 2011-07-03) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 29.59 MB, length: 27:28) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3188 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| You take control of two Knights, Popolon and Aphrodite out to rescue their baby Pamperse from the evil high priest Galious. They have their own subtle differences in gameplay, but for the most part, they just act as two separate health bars. zggzdydp and scrimpeh run through the game at breakneck pace, and take much more damage than they should be able to. | ||
![]() | MSX Rambo, Sylvester Stallone in (JPN) in 01:39.64 by nitrogenesis. | |
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| openMSX replay (.omr) (date: 2010-11-11) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 3.00 MB, length: 02:27) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2895 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.0 (16.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure - Genre: RPG | |
| In this first-published MSX TAS, Rambo decides to skip rescuing the VIP and just make a leeway to the helicopter himself.
Reality is not all it seems, with spiders being as difficult to kill with a knife as a human, and foodlike substances adopting an alternate name.
To play the OMR file, make sure you have the Panasonic FS-A1WSX bios installed. | ||
![]() | MSX The Treasure of Uşas (JPN) in 37:11.44 by zggzdydp. | |
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| openMSX replay (.omr) (date: 2011-05-23) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 33.30 MB, length: 39:41) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3149 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.5 (7 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| The Treasure of Uşas is an adventure and platforming game where the character's attacks depends on his mood, which is changed by touching one of four special emotion icons found in various places within the game.
The player uses these emotions and each of the characters' powers to find the four pieces of Uşas' jewels as fast as possible.
To play the OMR file, you have to have the Panasonic FS-A1WSX bios installed. | ||
![]() | MSX Vampire Killer (JPN) in 17:02.65 by scrimpeh. | |
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| openMSX replay (.omr) (date: 2011-05-05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 20.72 MB, length: 18:53) WebM file via BitTorrent (size: 23.18 MB, length: 18:53) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3126 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1711 (17:32.07) Rating: 6.3 (9 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| As you can see here, the original Castlevania wasn't only on the NES, but also on the MSX computer. scrimpeh did on the MSX Castlevania what Phil Côté & Morrison did on the NES Castlevania.
This version is different in some important ways. For instance, you must collect a white key in each stage to advance to the next stage. The chain whip is lost after each boss battle. Some subweapons can be bought from sitting bystanders in white or red clothes.
This is an improvement of 29.03 over the original run thanks to a few new time-saving tricks.
Note: To play the OMR file, you'll need to have the Panasonic FS-A1WSX bios installed and openMSX 0.8.1.dev-12131 (or official 0.8.1). In addition to the normal encode, an experimental WebM encode is available for download. Feedback would be appreciated. | ||
![]() | N64 007: The World is Not Enough (USA) in 31:29.53 by Wyster. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2007-10-03) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 115.04 MB, length: 34:30) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Submission #1665 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (35.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty | |
| After beating 006 in Goldeneye 007, Bond returns to fight Renard, another evil genius attempting to take over the world in a plot similar to the movie this First-Person Shooter is based on. Armed with various new weapons, Bond skis down the Caucasus Mountains, infiltrates a nuclear bunker, and even makes his way into a sub, all within half an hour. Various glitches are abused here, particularly some that allow Bond to skip some of his objectives, and even some entire levels. For more information, see the author's comments. | ||
![]() | N64 Banjo-Kazooie (USA v1.0) "100%" in 2:24:32.63 by Sami O.. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2009-04-17) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 429.72 MB, length: 2:39:06) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Submission #2227 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.6 (65 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Best ending - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Banjo-Kazooie is a game that needs little introduction. For those of you who need one, the bear-bird team of Banjo and Kazooie are searching for Jiggys (Jigsaw puzzle pieces) to unlock doors and save Banjo's sister from a rhyming witch. Even though Banjo's name is first, Kazooie ends up doing most of the heavy lifting as new skills are developed. This run collects all 100 Jiggys hidden throughout the game and ends with the in-game clock reading 2:00:28. Comicalflop has provided an interesting commentary on the run. It might help explain some of the tricks and make the movie more enjoyable to watch. | ||
![]() | N64 Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness (JPN) in 14:00.97 by zggzdydp. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2009-10-15) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 58.81 MB, length: 18:13) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2183 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.8 (27.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Legacy of Darkness is the second Castlevania game on the N64. This quick run uses the gun slinging Henry, who is available from the start in the Japanese version. Henry's objective is to rescue 6 children found in 6 stages within a specified time. | ||
![]() | N64 Chameleon Twist (USA) in 11:15.7 by Nahoc. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2011-02-21) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 61.98 MB, length: 14:57) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3007 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1238 (12:40.33) Rating: 7.1 (13 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| The protagonist of this game is a blue chameleon named Davy who, upon following a rabbit (closely resembling the one from a Lewis Carroll book) into a magical hole in the ground, finds he has taken on a humanoid form. Chameleon Twist has a total of 6 levels, of which only 4 need to be played through in order to reach the end. This run is 1:24.63 faster than the previous run. | ||
![]() | N64 Chameleon Twist 2 (USA) in 21:57.27 by Nahoc. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2012-03-15) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 161.08 MB, length: 26:13) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3468 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.5 (10 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Chameleon Twist 2 (カメレオンツイスト2) takes place after the events in Chameleon Twist. Davy and his friends (Jack, Fred and Linda) are playing in the forest, still carrying the backpack from his last adventure, when suddenly the rabbit from before falls down and knocks one of the chameleons into the sky. Contrary to the Chameleon Twist run, all 6 levels need to be played through in order to reach the end; Sky Land, Carnival Land, Ice Land, Great Edo Land, Toy Land and Pyramid Land. | ||
![]() | N64 Diddy Kong Racing (USA v1.0) in 2:03:02.08 by xenos. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2007-08-18) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 343.14 MB, length: 2:09:53) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1617 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (46.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Racing | |
| Annoyed with the success of the Mario Kart series, a bunch of Rare characters got together and held a racing competition of their own. Along with the availability of several types of vehicles, this game has something of a storyline to it and full completion requires reloading a saved game after the credits run for the first time. More races occur after the initial credit roll, so don't stop watching once the ending plays. | ||
![]() | N64 Duke Nukem 64 (USA) in 11:58.87 by AKA. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2007-09-14) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 45.16 MB, length: 14:40) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1675 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.9 (33.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses easiest difficulty | |
| Duke Nukem 64 (1997) is a classic PC shooter ported to Nintendo 64 — unfortunately, in a heavily censored state, and without much concern for the game's performance. As such, the movie is played on the easiest level in an attempt to reduce the framerate drop issues arising from big amounts of enemies shooting at Duke. However, the sheer speed the player is blasting through levels will likely confuse you regardless — we recommend reading the author's comments to understand all the tricks he used. | ||
![]() | N64 Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko (USA) in 54:16.25 by Mukki. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2008-12-24) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 156.83 MB, length: 1:02:01) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2139 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.6 (21 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Not quite defeated after his first world-conquering in Gex 64, the evil Rez has returned. This time he has kidnapped the do-able Agent Xtra in order to pull Gex the gecko back into the media dimension to rescue her. You can bet that Gex will get into even more silly costumes, collect TV remotes, and bounce himself silly in this second installment. | ||
![]() | N64 Gex 64: Enter the Gecko (USA) in 49:59.93 by Mukki. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2007-03-02) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 155.76 MB, length: 58:32) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1348 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (33 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| This game is the story of Gex the gecko, a former secret agent. His enemy, Rez, has taken over the media dimension (TV) and Gex is the only one who can save the day. | ||
![]() | N64 Glover (USA) in 37:15.28 by adelikat. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2007-09-21) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 141.43 MB, length: 50:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1681 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #860 (41:23.88) Rating: 6.2 (32.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Glover is an animated cartoon-like glove (go figure), complete with only 4 digits. With a ball he can transform into several different forms, and he must complete puzzles and navigate dangerous terrain. 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. | ||
![]() | N64 GoldenEye 007 (USA) in 30:42.48 by Wyster & Scaredsim. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2011-03-08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 127.55 MB, length: 32:40) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3011 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1007 (29:58.27) Rating: 8.4 (21.5 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Shooter | |
| The name's Bond... James Bond... 007 is ready for his incredibly popular first person shooter for the Nintendo 64. Rather than taking the usual stealthy strategy, secret agent 007 treats this first person shooter like any other and runs around shooting things with a complete disregard for human life, including his own. While this run seems to be slower than the previous run, it actually plays all the regular levels faster and also plays two additional bonus levels! Note: There are encodes of higher resolutions in the discussion thread. | ||
![]() | N64 Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards (USA) "all shards" in 1:06:15.62 by Nahoc. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2012-02-14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 329.58 MB, length: 1:08:56) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 299.50 MB, length: 1:08:56) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3425 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.4 (5 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards is a 2.5 dimensional side-scrolling adventure game featuring Kirby, our little pink hero. This time around, it's up to Kirby to collect the seventy-four crystal shards and save the fairies' home, Ripple Star. In this run, Nahoc collects all shards while showing off some of the abilities this game has to offer. Please read the submission text for more information. Note: There are encodes of higher resolution in the discussion thread. | ||
![]() | N64 Mischief Makers (USA) in 55:04.28 by Comicalflop. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2008-10-24) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 200.19 MB, length: 57:58) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Submission #2083 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.1 (35 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Mischief Makers (1997) is one of the rare 2D sidescrollers released for Nintendo 64. The player controls Marina, the robotic maid of a lecherous and absent-minded professor Theo, who has a habit of being kidnapped constantly. The ones who abduct him every now and then are Clancers from the evil Empire. (And make sure to watch out for the plot twist at the end!) Marina is quite a versatile cyborg. She can boost continuously in the air, ride vehicles, slide and jump like a maniac, and most importantly, shake. Make no mistake, you'll be seeing Comicalflop shake this thing, and even that thing quite a lot in this fast-paced run. The game is broken down into 52 short areas, each of them having a separate timer. Because of this, the author aims to optimize the movie for shortest in-game time. Each stage is given a rank based on how fast the stage was completed; this run gets all S Ranks. The game has some emulation errors, such as unnatural amounts of lag in some stages, and graphical glitches. See the author's comments for more details. | ||
![]() | N64 Mortal Kombat 4 (USA) in 09:13.72 by Xyphys. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2007-01-02) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 29.19 MB, length: 11:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1387 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (47.5 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Fighting | |
| A Nintendo 64 installment to the Mortal Kombat series. This run aims for a fast and entertaining completion of the Master II destiny match. Note: This movie is unofficially rated "PG-13" for having lots of blood and gibs. Viewer discretion is advised. | ||
![]() | N64 Mortal Kombat Trilogy (USA v1.0) "Endurance Mode" in 23:55.92 by SDR & TheVLACKDEMONN2294. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2011-08-24) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 130.56 MB, length: 26:03) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3245 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.7 (14.5 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - 2 Players - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Fighting | |
| Mortal Kombat Trilogy is a compilation of content from the previous Mortal Kombat titles, based primarily upon the gameplay mechanics of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. It follows the same story as UMK3, but contains all characters and most of the stages from Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat II as well. If you're eager to see more highly glitched Mortal Kombat action, consider watching the SNES run. | ||
![]() | N64 Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon (USA) in 2:04:49.35 by zggzdydp. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2010-02-10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 580.44 MB, length: 2:13:37) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2549 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.5 (10.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure | |
| Mystical Ninja, otherwise known as Ganbare Goemon, is one of Konami's longest-running series, yet remains mostly localised to Japan (thanks in part to cultural differences; the series is very Japanese). This is the first of three games for the series released for the N64.
What begins as a quest to investigate an attack on a castle quickly evolves into a race to stop a plot to transform Japan into... a giant stage.
As of 2010/07/08, the encode has been replaced with one that has the correct video/audio time and with video that has been anti-aliased. | ||
![]() | N64 Rocket: Robot on Wheels (USA) "100%" in 1:14:52.8 by Azorae. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2010-05-22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 322.75 MB, length: 1:15:37) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2644 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.2 (14 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Jojo the raccoon, discontent with only getting second billing at the impending opening of Dr. Gavin's new theme park Whoopie World, decides to sabotage the park in favour of founding his own Jojo's World. It's up to Dr. Gavin's robot, Rocket, to stop Jojo and get the park back in working order in time for opening. This run collects 100% of the Tickets, Tinker Tokens and life upgrades. | ||
![]() | ![]() N64 Super Mario 64 (USA) "0 Stars" in 05:02.25 by snark, Kyman, sonicpacker, Mickey/VIS & ToT. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2012-04-14) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 43.60 MB, length: 10:21) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 45.47 MB, length: 10:21) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 79.85 MB, length: 10:21) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3476 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1893 (05:03.8) Rating: 9.2 (17 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| At first there were 70 stars because Bowser demanded it. Then there were 16 stars because MIPS the rabbit demanded it. Then there was 1 star because Bowser's Sub demanded it. Now there are none because the viewers are impatient and demanded the game be quicker. As with many other runs on this site, the goal of pure speed has resulted in the complete breaking of the game. Very little of the game's normal play remains. If you'd like to see more of what Super Mario 64 offers, see the 120 stars run. This movie is 47 frames faster than the previous movie due to new strategies and extreme optimization, explained in the submission text. Super Mario 64 has a history of publications on this site. If you wish to see how it unfolded since the beginning, see the page SM64TASHistory. Also, if you have a hankering to see MIPs the rabbit, the 16 stars route has been improved. See this movie played back on a real console. If you're looking for a TAS on the Nintendo DS remake, you can watch it here. | ||
![]() | N64 Super Mario 64 (USA) "120 stars" in 1:39:02.13 by Rikku. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2007-05-10) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 269.13 MB, length: 1:43:34) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1544 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #723 (1:42:41.33) Rating: 8.4 (74 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| In a shocking twist of events, Bowser kidnaps Peach inside her own castle. Mario shows up and rains on Bowser's parade by collecting all 120 stars and winning in record time. Numerous bugs are exploited in order to speed up Mario's progress and the physics engine is abused to its fullest. If you prefer to see the game beaten in the fastest time, then watch the "0 star" run. See this movie played back on a real console. If you're looking for a TAS on the Nintendo DS remake, you can watch it here. | ||
![]() | N64 Super Smash Bros. (USA) in 08:19.67 by Blaze. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2008-09-03) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 36.70 MB, length: 10:04) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2077 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.9 (47 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform | |
| Super Smash Bros began a series of games that mixes characters from several Nintendo-made games in a unique fighting game. It relies not on wearing down the opponent's "life" but increasing damage until he or she can be literally knocked off the stage. Wildly popular, this game has inspired many lazy days of casual multiplayer gaming but also intense competitive tournaments that happen to this day. We have seen several submissions for this game here but this is the first one to be published. The author shows off fancy fighting with Yoshi on the hardest difficulty. Rather than the usual goal of speed, this movie aims to be as entertaining as possible in the tradition of all fighting games here. Another submission by the same author but which is based upon fastest completion time instead, can be watched via emulator movie at its submission page. There are also several other submissions of various quality that can be watched on an emulator. | ||
![]() | N64 Tetrisphere (USA) in 07:00.0 by Acmlm. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2006-04-29) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 22.83 MB, length: 07:14) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1065 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.8 (74 votes) View Publication | - Aims for maximum score - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Supposedly, the goal in each level is to smash Tetris blocks into a sphere until the core is exposed, which ends the level. Along the way, the player racks up points from various block-breaking combos. In this movie, Acmlm rapid-fires Tetris blocks so fast that no one else has any idea what's going on. Even the game itself is confused. Levels do not end properly until the entire sphere is blown apart. As for the timer when it reaches zero, well, see for yourself. :) | ||
![]() | N64 The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (USA) in 1:29:32.02 by MrGrunz. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2011-08-04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 318.71 MB, length: 1:36:16) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3194 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #963 (2:14:03.08) Rating: 9.4 (39 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure ![]() ![]() | |
| In the direct sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Link is back to being a lone boy without a fairy. One day, he is attacked by Skull Kid and his two fairies, Tatl and Tael, and they steal his ocarina. After pursuing Skull Kid, he is transformed into a Deku Scrub. Link continues pursuing Skull Kid all the way to the Clock Town (now with the help of Tatl the fairy, a more 'in yo face' version of Navi). This TAS of the game is the result of three years of hard work and many restarts due to new discoveries. It features many never-before-seen tricks and glitches, and completes every dungeon without getting a single boss key. Everything is done out of order, in ways that will amaze the viewer and keep them on the edge of their seat the entire way through, including a whole new way of warping between the areas in the game's over-world, and a new method of traveling that makes even the longest stretches in the game seem tiny. The author beats the game in two 3-day cycles (the previous route used three), and does so in a way that puts every past attempt at a 6-day challenge to shame. Note: There are encodes of higher resolutions in the discussion thread. Also, if you know the cutscenes of this game by memory at this point and would rather watch an encode without them, it's your lucky day. | ||
![]() | N64 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (USA v1.0) in 56:54.2 by Bloobiebla. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2010-09-07) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 217.25 MB, length: 1:04:33) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 422.46 MB, length: 1:04:33) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 1.25 GB, length: 1:04:33) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 1.04 GB, length: 1:04:33) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2793 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1492 (58:25.47) Rating: 8.7 (32 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Corrupts memory - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||
| In the revolutionary 3D debut for The Legend of Zelda series, Link must travel around the colorful land of Hyrule and awaken six Sages in order to save it from the evil Ganondorf.
This movie uses a variety of sequence breaks and shortcuts to complete the game in under an hour using a minimal number of inventory and quest items. Of central interest are the ability to glitch through the Door of Time, meaning that no dungeons need to be entered as young Link, and a memory manipulation glitch known as the Reverse Bottle Adventure, allowing the medallions collected from adult Link's dungeons to be pulled out of thin air; therefore the only dungeon that is ever entered in this run is Ganon's Castle.
While this run seems to be only 1:31.26 faster than the predecessor movie, the saving is a bit over 8 minutes. This is due to the fact that the Japanese ROM image used for the previous run had a faster text speed, shortening the cut-scenes by 6.5 minutes.
If you know the cutscenes of this game by memory at this point and would rather watch an encode without them, it's your lucky day!
Note: There are multiple encodes for this run. All encode lists follow this order:
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![]() | N64 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (JPN v1.0) "All Dungeons, Temples, & Ganon Trials" in 2:04:45.22 by Swordless Link. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2012-04-25) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 499.22 MB, length: 2:12:20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 471.03 MB, length: 2:12:20) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Submission #3474 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1229 (2:51:19.1) Rating: 8.7 (22.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| In this TAS of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the author aims to beat the game as quickly as possible while completing all dungeons, temples, and Ganon Trials. This goal is commonly referred to as "all temples", "all dungeons", or "MST (Medallions/Stones/Trials)". This run has roughly 35 minutes of improvements in gameplay over the previous TAS of its kind. This movie contains several new glitches and sequence breaks which allow for a much faster completion than were possible when the last run was made. Several large glitches in the game are not used in the run, such as those which allow the player to manipulate memory addresses to obtain items without physically picking them up. These are avoided because it would make the completion of any dungeon completely arbitrary, and they can be seen in the any% run. Unlike the previous movie of this category, this TAS is played on the Japanese version of the game. The reason for this is that the text is significantly faster than in the English version, which means that far less time (roughly 12 minutes) is spent waiting for text boxes and cut scenes to end before getting back to the action. English subtitles were added to the encode for people interested in what was said. The author's notes explain in great detail many of the things done in this TAS which may be confusing to those who aren't familiar with Ocarina of Time speedrunning. Reading them is strongly advised. Note: There are encodes of higher resolutions in the discussion thread. | ||
![]() | N64 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (USA) in 05:09.63 by Nahoc. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2011-04-15) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 51.19 MB, length: 13:54) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3105 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (15.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Sport | |
| Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (1999) is the first entry in the Tony Hawk series of video games. In this run, Nahoc aims to reach the ending credits as fast as possible. Thus, only bronze medals are collected in the 3 competitions and 4 tapes are skipped in the entire run. If you want to see more THPS action, please see the THPS 2 and the THPS 3 runs. | ||
![]() | N64 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (USA) in 05:18.72 by Nahoc. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2012-03-12) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 44.66 MB, length: 11:13) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 40.14 MB, length: 11:13) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3464 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.0 (7.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Sport | |
| Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (2000) is the second entry in the Tony Hawk series of video games. Unlike the first game, completed tasks result in cash rewards here. In this run, Nahoc aims to reach the ending credits as fast as possible. If you want to see more skating action, make sure to check the runs of the first and the third installments in the series. | ||
![]() | N64 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 (USA) in 14:35.22 by emu. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2007-12-17) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 54.56 MB, length: 14:46) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1733 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (32 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Genre: Sport | |
| The third installment to the Tony Hawk series of skateboarding games. Since there is no real use in aiming for the fastest time, emu instead opts to show off by performing crazy stunts, large combos and making a really high score. It is intended to be judged by its mastery of the game rather than how quickly it reaches completion. If you want to see more THPS action, please see the THPS 1 and the THPS 2 runs. | ||
![]() | N64 Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion (USA) in 41:45.55 by nfq. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2010-05-03) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 483.16 MB, length: 50:34) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2637 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (10 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action | |
| It's Turok 3! Not very many dinosaurs in this game though, mostly just weird mutants and monsters. nfq blows through the game with multiple sequence breaks and kills several bosses very swiftly. | ||
![]() | N64 Turok: Dinosaur Hunter (USA v1.2) in 36:37.42 by mmbossman. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2008-04-08) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 116.32 MB, length: 45:25) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1872 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (22.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Shooter | |
| Turok: Dinosaur Hunter is a critically acclaimed first-person action game released on the Nintendo 64 in 1997. It stars a hero of controversial descent, being a pre-Colombian Native American time-travelling warrior, referred to as Turok. As such, he must stop an evil entity known as The Campaigner from conquering the universe with a time-controlling artifact called the Chronoscepter (amazing, really). This also was the reason for stuffing the game full with anachronisms, so you'll see high-tech weapons and teleporters together with magic crossbows and dinosaurs. Turok has been famous for being the first fog navigation simulator of its time. The omnipresent fog was included to obscure the low rendering distance that was used in order to increase performance on N64's hardware, but it also resulted in a somewhat claustrophobic feeling throughout the game. To further confuse the disoriented player, the majority of wall textures are nondescript and repetitive, making it easy to get lost at times. Disclaimer: Due to various complaints of motion sickness caused by the strafe-running technique utilized, the viewer is encouraged to keep an airsickness bag handy in case of sudden nausea. | ||
![]() | N64 Wetrix (USA) in 00:49.72 by Deign. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2007-06-08) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 3.71 MB, length: 01:08) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1569 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (46 votes) View Publication | - Aims for maximum score - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Wetrix is a strange, Tetris style game in which you place blocks onto a large playing field and score loads of points by making lakes and surviving (every drop of water that leaks off the field counts against you). This run aims to get the highest score possible in the 1 minute challenge. The final score is 2,613,944 points. In contrast, the best current unassisted record is only about 18,000. There are huge bonus multipliers which stack together to produce the massive score. | ||
![]() | N64 Wildwaters Extreme Kayak (USA) in 01:30.93 by Swordless Link. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2012-05-08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 16.06 MB, length: 01:41) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 15.49 MB, length: 01:41) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3555 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (5.5 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Single level - Unofficial game - Genre: Racing | |
| Wildwaters (also known as "Extreme Kayak" and "X-Stream") is a cancelled racing game that was in development by Looking Glass Studios for the Nintendo 64 in 1998 / 1999. The project was announced at E3 1999 by Ubisoft (that was interested as a publisher) while the studio was working on Destruction Derby 64 (published in the same year), but sadly it was never finished. In this run, the author manages to complete the first level (the only playable one) by using the fastest character and abusing of rocks, walls, everything on his way! | ||
![]() | N64 Yoshi's Story (USA) in 10:39.67 by bobmario511. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2012-03-09) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 116.86 MB, length: 16:03) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 113.00 MB, length: 16:03) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3469 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1849 (11:00.23) Rating: 7.7 (5.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses a game restart sequence - Genre: Platform | |
| Yoshi's Story (1997), a loose follow-up to Yoshi's Island, tracks the adventures of the Yoshi clan as they attempt to reclaim the Super Happy Tree after it is stolen by Baby Bowser. This apparently involves eating copious amounts of fruit in an effort to find happiness for themselves. Here, the Yoshis stuff their faces so quickly one wonders if this is an adventure or an all-you-can-eat banquet. This is an improvement of 20.53 seconds over the previous movie by Comicalflop. | ||
![]() | DS Barbie in The 12 Dancing Princesses (USA) in 29:49.94 by AKheon. | |
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| DeSmuME movie file (.dsm) (date: 2011-11-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 79.47 MB, length: 31:20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 98.55 MB, length: 31:20) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3344 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.3 (6 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Released as a tie-in to a toy line and a movie, this remake of a GBA game features the eponymous twelve princesses attempting to save their father, the King, and their kingdom from the evil machinations of the Duchess Rowena. This run completes all seven worlds. | ||
![]() | DS Brain Age (USA) in 06:33.66 by Ryuto. | |
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| DeSmuME movie file (.dsm) (date: 2011-02-10) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 9.79 MB, length: 06:48) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2990 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1569 (04:08.1) Rating: 8.3 (29.5 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - Demonstration - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Puzzle ![]() ![]() | |
| Brain Age (also known as Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training) is a puzzle game designed on the premise of exercising your brain. In this run, for example, the idea is to solve a series of simple mathematical puzzles. And yet, the answers given... are not exactly what you'd expect. The same author of the previous run brings you a set of 51 new ... answers, with extra time taken to provide you, the viewer, with the greatest possible attention to detail. Additionally, the increased detail provides a higher level of difficulty, to prevent the number recognition from checking the answer before the image is complete. | ||
![]() | DS Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (USA) in 08:20.12 by gocha. | |
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| DeSmuME movie file (.dsm) (date: 2009-10-17) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 41.24 MB, length: 10:35) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 43.68 MB, length: 10:35) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 42.65 MB, length: 10:35) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (dic.nicovideo.jp) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2392 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.7 (21.5 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Uses warps - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| Dawn of Sorrow (2005), the first installment of Castlevania on Nintendo DS, is a direct sequel to GBA hit Aria of Sorrow. Everyone is trying to kill our hero Soma Cruz, since in the previous game he absorbed all of Dracula's attributes. You can always trust weird cults to try and bring about the end of the world by unleashing this power. This short glitched movie beats the game in a mere 8 minutes and 20 seconds. It is achieved by collecting souls and setting important flags just by zipping around the castle, allowing the player to complete it without even seeing the last boss. | ||
![]() | DS Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (USA) "Albus Mode" in 18:03.21 by mtbRc. | |
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| DeSmuME movie file (.dsm) (date: 2011-11-29) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 124.36 MB, length: 22:44) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 105.42 MB, length: 22:44) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3358 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.9 (7 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Starts from a saved state or SRAM - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| "YOU CAN'T HIT ME!"
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia, the third game in the series for the DS, takes a different direction from its direct predecessors in that it is more of a stage-based game, similar to the earliest entries in the series, rather than the "Metroidvania"-style first established by Symphony of the Night.
This run plays as Albus, only available as a character after the player has cleared the game as Shanoa. As such, this run starts from SRAM; the movie generating it, a test-run of the game as Shanoa by gocha, is available here.
In addition to the standard downloadable encode, there is a second experimental downloadable encode produced in 10-bit YUV444 h.264. You will need a very recent codec / media player (such as LAV Filters, recent builds of FFDShow-tryouts, or mplayer2) to be able to play this experimental encode back. | ||
![]() | DS Castlevania: Portrait Of Ruin (USA) in 04:27.52 by mtbRc. | |
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| DeSmuME movie file (.dsm) (date: 2012-02-29) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 45.96 MB, length: 08:04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 45.01 MB, length: 08:04) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3447 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1823 (04:55.42) Rating: 8.3 (7 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| The second Castlevania title released on Nintendo DS after Dawn of Sorrow, this game is a direct sequel to BloodLines on Sega Genesis. Dracula rises from the dead yet again (cue groan), and it's up to Jonathan Morris, helped out by Charlotte Aulin, a powerful mage student, to defeat him. This run is an improvement of 27.81s over the previous run by the same author and uses many of the same glitches. The areas of improvement include reduced lag, shopping optimization, and manipulation of the enemy used to gain levels prior to the final boss. | ||
![]() | DS Contra 4 (USA) in 22:31.42 by cpadolf & zggzdydp. | |
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| DeSmuME movie file (.dsm) (date: 2009-07-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 193.68 MB, length: 31:06) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2337 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (27 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
Contra 4 (2007) is largely a combined remake of the early NES and SNES Contra titles, featuring remixed music and vastly improved visuals utilizing both screens of the DS as if they were one contiguous screen.
Watch Bill Rizer embark on a new colorful adventure in the shirtless land, this time making even less sense than ever before. To quote the game's ending: Whatever the truth may have been, it was lost to time as the invaders became a mere footnote in the pages of history. A footnote which read: they sure blew up good.Amen. | ||
![]() | DS Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (USA) in 03:42.93 by jlun2. | |
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| DeSmuME movie file (.dsm) (date: 2010-04-05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 62.93 MB, length: 10:15) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Submission #2630 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1412 (03:47.83) Rating: 6.7 (20.5 votes) View Publication | - Corrupts save data - Genre: Action | |
| The only war going around here is breaking at least 23 traffic laws and shooting goons with what ought to be a Gatling gun. The author completes the game in record time, using a glitch that corrupts the save game data to unlock the mission Salt in the Wound, the only one required to unlock the credits. This run beats the previous version by 4.9 seconds. | ||
![]() | DS Ivy the Kiwi? (USA) "100%" in 15:23.86 by Ryuto. | |
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| DeSmuME movie file (.dsm) (date: 2011-03-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 65.62 MB, length: 17:01) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3033 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.2 (18 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Genre: Platform - Genre: Puzzle ![]() | |
| Ivy is a lost bird who is wandering aimlessly around looking for her mother. Normally when you play the game you simply draw vines for Ivy to walk on and you can pull them to bounce her over an obstacle. With tools, this turns into a mad orgy of bouncing and springy physics action that is difficult to follow with the naked eye. Don't blink or you'll miss it! | ||
![]() | DS Kirby Squeak Squad (USA) in 36:40.55 by MUGG. | |
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| DeSmuME movie file (.dsm) (date: 2010-11-24) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 241.72 MB, length: 41:59) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2911 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (12.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Kirby Squeak Squad, known as Kirby Mouse Attack in Europe and Kirby of the Stars: Calling on the Dorotche Gang (星のカービィ 参上! ドロッチェ団) in Japan, was beaten in 36:40.53 minutes by MUGG, by taking advantage of glitches and of the bottom screen, which is used to keep and mix the things Kirby swallowed during his adventure. You can check the author's comments for more information.
To play the DSM file, you'll need to use the "DeSmuME 0.9.4+ svn2964 x86" emulator, and the "Fast-Fetch Execute" option must be enabled. Otherwise, the movie won't sync. | ||
![]() | DS Mega Man ZX (USA) in 1:09:14.29 by Mothrayas & Rolanmen1. | |
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| DeSmuME movie file (.dsm) (date: 2011-01-13) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 310.57 MB, length: 1:12:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2968 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.4 (7 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Mega Man ZX is the first Mega Man platformer on the DS. It is also the first Mega Man game to have the choice of a male or female protagonist (the latter is used in this run). Unlike previous Mega Man series, this series features a new system where the protagonist is actually a humanoid who changes forms using different biometals (collected mostly from bosses). | ||
![]() | DS Mega Man ZX Advent (USA) in 1:19:26.35 by Mothrayas. | |
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| DeSmuME movie file (.dsm) (date: 2010-12-05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 311.67 MB, length: 1:22:55) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2922 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (6.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Mega Man ZX Advent is the second game in the Mega Man ZX series. What's so different between the classic series and ZX Advent? First, you get to choose between a male (Grey) and a female (Ashe) character. Then, instead of stealing weapons from the bosses, the player steals the boss itself! Instead of switching between weapons, the player switches between forms using the Biometal Model A. Finally, the player has less freedom to pick the stages of his choice.
Mothrayas picks Ashe, the female character, to minimize the cutscenes and to save time.
To play the DSM file, make sure that "Enable Advanced Bus-Level Timing" is unchecked in the "Emulation settings". | ||
![]() | DS Metal Slug 7 (USA) "Marco" in 23:10.7 by mtvf1. | |
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| DeSmuME movie file (.dsm) (date: 2011-11-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 118.37 MB, length: 25:33) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3309 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.5 (7 votes) View Publication | - Forgoes time-saving death - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Shooter | |
| The classic Metal Slug series comes to DS with Metal Slug 7. Although there is only one player this time, this version is notable for allowing the player to keep two weapons and switch freely between them. The author, mtvf1, completes this game without deaths in a mere 23 minutes and 11 seconds, using Marco. You may also check out other Metal Slug runs such as Metal Slug, Metal Slug X, Metal Slug 3, Metal Slug 4 and Metal Slug Advance. | ||
![]() | DS New Super Mario Bros. (USA) in 21:08.08 by adelikat, terrotim, mindnomad & Y05H1. | |
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| DeSmuME movie file (.dsm) (date: 2011-08-17) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 87.72 MB, length: 26:37) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3237 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1530 (21:41.54) Rating: 8.0 (19.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Genre: Platform | |
| New Super Mario Bros. was released in 2006 for the Nintendo DS. It features your typical side-scrolling plumber, but in this case he comes with enhanced abilities, like wall jumping and doing flips. This run beats the previous run by 33.46 due to a new method of going through World 8-Tower 2 as well as various in-stage improvements. | ||
![]() | DS Rubik's World (USA) in 01:20.23 by Kumquat & alden. | |
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| DeSmuME movie file (.dsm) (date: 2010-04-16) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 8.68 MB, length: 01:35) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2622 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.9 (21 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Combining the Nintendo DS's touch screen capabilities with a classic puzzle game and adding in a touch of the tool-assisted yields... a tool-assisted run of a classic puzzle game, joining the ranks of several other quirky movies similar in character. While tool-assistance may on the surface seem trivial in this case, a decidedly non-trivial amount of luck manipulation was used to create a cube solvable in the fewest possible moves. Further, the game only counts moves in quarter turns, making the number of moves used even more impressive. Note: If you are watching the .dsm, your nickname and comment must be set to something specific in order to watch the movie. It will desync otherwise. See the author's comments for combinations that work. | ||
![]() | DS Sonic Colors (USA) in 26:37.8 by VanillaCoke. | |
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| DeSmuME movie file (.dsm) (date: 2012-05-11) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 234.64 MB, length: 33:43) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 243.08 MB, length: 33:43) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3590 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.3 (6 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Sonic Colors (2010) is a fast-paced platform game for the Nintendo DS featuring Sega's mascot Sonic the Hedgehog. It makes good use of the dual screens, with Sonic freely zipping from screen to screen. The gameplay is fast paced and features unique "wisp" powerups, by which Sonic turns into various other fast-moving objects. Here the author makes very good use of the super human speed and reactions of tool assistance to navigate Colors much faster than a human ever could. Sonic's motion is very carefully tracked at all times to ensure the fastest possible completion. You can read the author's comments for more information. | ||
![]() | DS Space Invaders Extreme 2 (USA) in 07:56.48 by FractalFusion. | |
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| DeSmuME movie file (.dsm) (date: 2010-07-10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 84.27 MB, length: 09:07) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2734 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (22 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Forgoes time-saving death - Genre: Shooter | |
| Space Invaders needs no introduction. Space Invaders Extreme 2 is part of a recent revival of the series, introducing power-ups and a variety of new gameplay modes. This run plays Score Attack mode on the hardest available path. Note that it doesn't aim for highest score because doing so would make the movie considerably longer. | ||
![]() | DS Spider-Man 2 (USA) in 14:20.21 by adelikat. | |
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| DeSmuME movie file (.dsm) (date: 2010-10-10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 157.45 MB, length: 17:59) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2832 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (12.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| In this fast-paced platformer for the Nintendo DS, observe Spiderman beat up a selection of his common foes in record time.
Mister Epic: Changed mirror and torrent file for full compatibility. | ||
![]() | DS Super Mario 64 DS (USA v1.0) in 09:50.64 by MKDasher & ALAKTORN. | |
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| DeSmuME movie file (.dsm) (date: 2012-01-30) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 91.00 MB, length: 16:24) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 97.47 MB, length: 16:24) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3439 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1902 (14:23.34) Rating: 9.0 (4 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Super Mario 64 DS is, as the title says, a Super Mario 64 remake for the Nintendo DS, released in 2004 along with the system. It features improved graphics, new levels, new playable characters and, most importantly in this case, a different "polish". More importantly, it features new glitches relative to the runs of the original SM64. This is an improvement of 4:31.69 over the previous movie by the same authors due to several new glitches and tricks that allow the authors to finish the game while collecting only a single star. | ||
![]() | DS Tetris DS (USA) in 01:37.53 by veup. | |
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| DeSmuME movie file (.dsm) (date: 2009-11-24) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 8.61 MB, length: 02:41) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2459 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.5 (28 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Puzzle | |
| At TASVideos, we see a lot of feats made, among the most popular however is smashing Tetris. The game seems to have the uncanny ability to agree, be sure to enjoy the sight of 'Back to Back Tetris' because you're going to see it a lot. This movie requires DeSmuME v0.9.4+. | ||
![]() | NES 8 Eyes (USA) in 16:40.28 by Slotermeyer. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-08-09) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 35.07 MB, length: 19:41) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1985 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (28 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| 8 Eyes (1990) is a Castlevania clone that was made by Thinking Rabbit, the originators of Sokoban. But, unlike Castlevania, this game is set in a post-apocalyptic future in which eight nuclear explosions almost destroyed Earth. The game features two characters—the human Orin and his falcon Cutrus—in either 1- or 2-player mode. Cutrus can attack enemies, hit switches, collect items, and generally do all sorts of useful things. The game allows the player to recover the eight jewels in any order. The player can save time in the boss fights by choosing the optimal sequence. | ||
![]() | NES A Boy and His Blob (USA) in 01:41.73 by Kyman & SilentSlayers & Aglar. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-08-25) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 2.45 MB, length: 03:04) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.flurret.net Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3261 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1514 (01:56.67) Rating: 7.3 (15 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia (1989) is a popular, whimsical game in which a shapeshifting blob (named Blobert) from the planet Blobolonia teams up with an Earth boy to overcome obstacles on both planets and to defeat Blobolonia's evil emperor. This movie is 14.96 seconds faster than the previous version by Aglar, by using a new route. | ||
![]() | NES Action 52: The Cheetahmen (USA) in 03:56.06 by Swordless Link. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-08-02) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 4.53 MB, length: 04:03) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2754 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (29.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
| Even the worst video games ever made can make up for a good TAS.
This movie plays through game #52, known as "The Cheetahmen", of a compilation of horrid games called Action 52, in a fast-paced way. While this game is pretty horrible in general, it has a rather catchy BGM.
Important note about movie syncing: The version labeled as (Rev A) has to be used in order to get the movie to sync. However, before playing back the movie, make sure that you select "Ooze". | ||
![]() | NES Adventure Island 2, Hudson's (USA) in 22:22.41 by red-crowned-crane & hellagels. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-08-25) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 49.79 MB, length: 24:15) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3264 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #689 (22:37.23) Rating: 4.7 (8.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses warps - Genre: Platform | |
| The second in a series of Hudson's Adventure Island games. Much like its predecessor, it's extremely straight-forward but by no means easy.
This run is 12.61 seconds faster than the previous, thanks to a new glitch.
Watch this movie on a real NES.
The encode has been replaced on August 29th, 2011 with an encode which should play back properly in VLC media player. Please redownload the torrent. | ||
![]() | NES Adventure Island 3, Hudson's (USA) in 18:44.95 by ECCO. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-04-13) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 35.97 MB, length: 20:28) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1486 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #475 (25:10.38) Rating: 5.3 (21.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Genre: Platform | |
| The Adventure Island game series is known for its extreme straightforwardness. Regardless, the games are pretty fast-paced so if you have some free time on your hands, shut down your brain and watch this carefree TAS. This version is significantly shorter than the previous movie mainly due to the use of warps, but also from better precision and some new tricks. | ||
![]() | NES Adventure Island 4, Hudson's (JPN) in 19:32.15 by Cardboard. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-06-18) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 40.13 MB, length: 22:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2247 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (15.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| This is the fourth in a series of Hudson's Adventure Island games. It was only released in Japan as Takahashi Meijin no Boukenjima 4. Unlike the first three games in the series, the gameplay behaves more like Metroid, where you explore the world freely, you collect items (and dinosaur helpers) to gain new abilities, and the ending is triggered by defeating all the bosses. Also, there is no timer, and the hero can survive more than one hit, using fruits to replenish his health. In this run, Cardboard beats the game very quickly by using damage boosts to proceed at high speeds. For more details, read the submission comments. | ||
![]() | NES Adventures of Lolo (USA) in 22:24.68 by Baxter & Zugzwang. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-04-04) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 40.13 MB, length: 23:58) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2202 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1131 (22:37.07) Rating: 5.9 (16.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Adventures of Lolo (1989) was the first game of the Eggerland series that received a Western release. The series itself is rather loosely related to Kirby series: both have been developed by the same company (HAL Laboratory), and Eggerland protagonists Lolo and Lala make cameo appearances in Kirby games as Lololo and Lalala.
The goal of the game is to collect all hearts in every stage, then get the ball from the chest to open the door to the next room.
Lolo may seem simplistic, but it remains being a truly well-made puzzle. Finding optimal solutions to most of the rooms has proven to be a very nontrivial task, and every once in a while a new improvement is found.
As such, this is Baxter's 10th attempt at this game, this time 10.16 seconds faster than the previous. Eleven rooms have been improved.
Important! For the weak-spirited who aren't willing to watch the run all over again only for the improved rooms, the author has inserted an easter egg into the key input movie! If you run the same .fm2 on the NES game Defenders of the Crown, it will as well complete it in just 3 minutes and 38 seconds. Use "Defenders of the Crown (U).nes" ROM to watch it. | ||
![]() | NES Adventures of Lolo 2 (USA) in 23:31.52 by Hanzou. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-08-11) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 45.12 MB, length: 24:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1659 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #514 (24:10.65) Rating: 5.9 (24.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Adventures of Lolo 2 is the second game in the popular Lolo-series. This run aims to beat every room as fast as possible, often by strategies the game developers had not intended, including glitch abuse. In addition to Hanzou, strategies were developed by many players, such as Bag of Magic Food, CtrlAltDestroy, Deign, Nitrodon, and Randil. This update beats the previous submission by 39.13 seconds. | ||
![]() | NES Adventures of Lolo 2 (USA) "Pro levels" in 02:04.72 by Baxter. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-11-27) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 3.31 MB, length: 02:41) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #879 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.9 (37.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses hardest difficulty - Uses a level password - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Lolo 2 contains four so called PRO levels that can only be accessed by inputting a level password. This movie plays those four levels quite fast. This movie is actually a result of competition/co-operation between Baxter, Randil and Hanzou. | ||
![]() | NES Adventures of Lolo 3 (USA) in 1:07:19.17 by Nitrodon. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-06-09) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 87.29 MB, length: 1:09:17) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1920 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.0 (18 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Puzzle | |
Lolo 3 is the third in the series of Lolo games based on the Eggerland series. From the author's description:
The great devil turned all of the inhabitants of Lala's kingdom to stone. Lolo and Lala go through 100 rooms to defeat him, or something like that. This run is 14 minutes and 50 seconds faster than windeu's rejected submission, and [ 1:49.38 seconds] faster than my test run. | ||
![]() | NES Air 2 (JPN/USA) in 08:03.37 by mushroom. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-02-19) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 11.60 MB, length: 08:21) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1828 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #434 (09:12.42) Rating: 6.0 (40.5 votes) View Publication | - Demonstration - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform - Genre: Puzzle | |
| This hack of Super Mario Bros. is the sequel to Air, created by the same author, U1. The vast majority of this hack is exactly the same as its predecessor, but with two major changes: all invisible coin blocks are marked and infinite jumps are no more, which results in a few changes in level design accommodated to it. Air 2 is a trial-and-error platform puzzle game. Savestates are practically required to beat the game. Abuse of Super Mario Bros. glitches is required by design. This run does not aim for fastest completion. | ||
![]() | NES Amagon (USA) in 18:01.79 by Tanooki Teabag. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-11-22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 26.21 MB, length: 19:22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 29.15 MB, length: 19:22) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3357 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #710 (18:27.6) Rating: 6.7 (5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Amagon the Marine has crash-landed on a mysterious island in the South Pacific and must get to the rescue boat. In his way lie wild animals, dinosaurs, and aliens, all of which are likely to be endangered or extinct after their encounter with this gun-wielding man who can double his muscle mass to punch them into oblivion. This is an improvement of nearly 26 seconds over the previous run by Tailz due to increased use of the Megagon form, lag reduction, improved boss fights, and a time-saving death in level 5-1. | ||
![]() | NES A Nightmare On Elm Street (USA) in 13:25.57 by goofydylan8. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-04-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 30.76 MB, length: 14:03) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 41.10 MB, length: 14:03) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3509 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #780 (14:32.88) Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Everyone knows Freddy Krueger, who turns the peaceful dreams of people living on Elm Street into lethal nightmares. In this game, the teenager(s) must stay awake and combat Freddy's various forms while collecting his scattered bones so that they can be incinerated. This movie is 1:05.98 faster than the previous version by Randil. This is accomplished by using 2 players, which allows for faster bone collection without losing time thanks to the excessive lag created by using 4 players (Displayed in the 4 Player run). For more details, please see the author's notes. | ||
![]() | NES A Nightmare On Elm Street (USA) "4 Players" in 16:15.75 by chupapi. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-02-03) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 31.79 MB, length: 16:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1424 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (31.5 votes) View Publication | - 4 Players - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Everyone knows Freddy Krueger, who turns the peaceful dreams of people living on Elm street into lethal nightmares. In this version, a single author controls four characters at once! The Author aims for the fastest completion using 4 characters but treats us to some interesting character movements along the way. | ||
![]() | NES Arkanoid (USA) "Warped" in 04:26.72 by Baxter. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-11-02) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 4.42 MB, length: 05:17) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1705 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #765 (04:32.12) Rating: 6.8 (45.5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Uses death to save time - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action | |
| This run exploits a programming error that allows the author to start playing from level 23. If you notice that there's nothing meaningful going on in the first minute of the movie, this is normal: the actual gameplay takes place only after triggering the "game over" screen. See the author's comments for more information on this glitch. This improves the author's previous movie by about 5 seconds. | ||
![]() | NES Arkanoid (USA) in 12:26.8 by Baxter. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-09-20) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 18.91 MB, length: 13:16) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1693 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #66 (16:30.47) Rating: 8.0 (48 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Forgoes warps - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Arkanoid (1987) strongly resembles the arcade game Breakout (1976). In Arkanoid, the paddle is actually a spaceship, and the bricks are space walls. The goal of the game is to break through the space walls and defeat the villainous Doh in order to escape from the space labyrinth. This incredible TAS of Arkanoid, made by Baxter, inspires awe in a manner comparable to the Gradius movie. No ball is ever lost, even though three balls are juggled in every level where possible. | ||
![]() | NES Asterix (Europe) in 05:43.05 by Aglar & Randil. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-12-23) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 11.25 MB, length: 08:24) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2944 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1693 (06:04.05) Rating: 6.3 (14.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| The story of Asterix takes place in the year 50 BCE. All of Gaul has been occupied by the Romans except for a little village. Asterix and his Gallic companions live in that village, fighting the Romans. In this game, Julius Caesar has snatched Obelix, Asterix's best friend, and is about to feed him to lions! But before anyone can even blink, Asterix comes, kicks Julius' ass, and comes to the rescue of his friend! This game is based on one of the most successful French comic book series of the same name. It has been successful since 1959, with more than 325 million comics sold worldwide. By Toutatis! A bit more than a week after the latest published movie, it already got improved by 21.00 seconds! | ||
![]() | NES Astyanax (USA) in 15:43.25 by dragonxyk. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-08-06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 32.27 MB, length: 20:13) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 31.25 MB, length: 20:13) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2007 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #259 (17:08.58) Rating: 5.8 (21.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Astyanax (1990) is the story of a studly 16-year-old boy named Astyanax who is summoned to the world of Remlia in order to save the enchantress Princess Rosebud from the evil wizard Blackhorn, who wants to rule the world. It is a somewhat clumsy game. For one, Astyanax is twice as big as he appears, and so he is easily hit unless one plays carefully. The controls are also very bad. The sum of these factors is that it's a difficult game to play, but that's part of what makes this movie interesting—especially for those who have played this game. Thanks to effective lag management and using a different weapon, the author has achieved 85 seconds worth of improvement over the previous movie by Walker Boh. | ||
![]() | NES Atlantis no Nazo (JPN) in 02:23.11 by Sonikkustar. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-07-08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 3.37 MB, length: 02:45) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.radiokj.com Mirror www.flurret.net Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Submission #3211 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1603 (02:23.33) Rating: 5.9 (15 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Uses warps - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Atlantis no Nazo (アトランチスの謎) is a game where an explorer is trying to save his friend and must find his way through a maze of rooms. In this case, levels. This is an improvement of a couple centiseconds over the previous run, by optimizing the pause trick introduced in the latter. Author commentaries are available through the run in the form of subtitles. They can be enabled or disabled in the YouTube and Dailymotion streams. | ||
![]() | NES Bad Dudes (USA) in 13:25.36 by Kirkq. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-01-22) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 27.23 MB, length: 15:53) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2161 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.8 (29.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Fighting | |
| "The President has been kidnapped by ninjas! Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the President? The answer is a resounding "yes", though we're not sure if Karnov counts as a ninja or not. In this run, Kirkq utilizes obscure and unusual jump patterns to move quickly. During the game's lengthy scrolling sections, optimization shifts more toward entertainment. | ||
![]() | NES Bananan Ouji no Daibouken (JPN) in 09:30.16 by khv-user. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-10-22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 15.78 MB, length: 10:36) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3332 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (4.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| TODO: describe this movie here | ||
![]() | NES Batman (USA) in 09:21.93 by Aglar. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-02-04) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 17.89 MB, length: 11:04) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1839 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #350 (09:24.42) Rating: 7.4 (36.5 votes) View Publication | - Forgoes time-saving damage - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| The hero of Gotham City goes against the villain of Gotham City. His fists are more powerful than any weapon in the world, but he rarely kills anyone. It's not like his enemies can hurt him anyway. After all, he's the hero, and heroes are supposed to be invincible. Here Aglar has managed to improved the previous movie by 2.5 seconds. Enjoy the movie, and the excellent soundtrack and the graphics of this game. | ||
![]() | NES Batman: Return of the Joker (USA) in 11:21.57 by Aglar. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-04-03) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 36.80 MB, length: 13:17) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1898 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.8 (26 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Batman: Return of the Joker (1991) is the sequel to the first Batman game for the NES. Being one of the later NES titles, it shows surprisingly good and fluid visuals, fullsize art, and decent sound — all without slowdown issues! The gameplay has undergone some changes compared to its predecessor. A welcome addition to it is a slide movement, similar to the one in the Mega Man series. A not-so-welcome addition is that half the stages are autoscrolling, and there are no close combat weapons now. | ||
![]() | NES Battle Formula: Super Spy Hunter (USA) in 23:38.42 by adelikat & Randil. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-08-08) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 54.55 MB, length: 25:02) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2014 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #102 (24:52.62) Rating: 4.9 (18.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Shooter | |
| Super Spy Hunter (1992) was originally released in Japan under the name Battle Formula (バトルフォーミュラ). The game has "become" a sequel to Spy Hunter, the arcade classic from 1983, already after its initial release — when the developer purchased the license from Midway. Since the main character drives a wheeled vehicle, this game shows to be the rare kind of a variable scrolling speed shooter, where you can slow the car down if you can't keep up with the action (which obviously never happens in a TAS). The core gameplay holds true to its spiritual predecessor, but this time it's spiced up with stage bosses and various sorts of powerups. This movie is a 1 minute 14 second improvement over the previous one thanks to increased precision, lag reduction, and better boss fighting. | ||
![]() | NES Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril (any v1.1) in 34:49.59 by Aglar. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-04-24) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 38.42 MB, length: 39:09) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3115 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (10.5 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Best ending - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril may look old, but it's actually released in 2010! It's still possible to buy a new NES cartridge of this game online! Mainly inspired by the PC game I Wanna Be the Guy, this game is classic platforming action, where anything can kill the player in one single hit. While it's not unfair (as opposed to I Wanna Be the Guy), it's still really hard. Aglar collects every item and key before going to the last area, and takes the right path to get to the best ending, all of this on the hardest difficulty possible and without taking any damage! | ||
![]() | NES Battletoads (USA) "2p warpless" in 24:57.47 by foda. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-06-07) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 78.22 MB, length: 25:56) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #693 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #291 (15:29.03) Rating: 7.8 (45.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform | |
| This run has two players and does not use warps. As always, a bug on level 11 prevents player 2 from moving, so he gets a game over for that level. Player 1 plays level 11 alone and player 2 comes back for level 12. This is a bug in Battletoads itself. | ||
![]() | NES Battletoads (USA) in 11:04.72 by feos & MESHUGGAH. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-11-16) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 34.73 MB, length: 12:09) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 33.96 MB, length: 12:09) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3356 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #310 (13:27.98) Rating: 8.7 (18.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform ![]() | |
| Battletoads (1991) is a futuristic beat 'em up game 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 two-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... In this run, feos and MESHUGGAH, beat the previously fastest TAS of this game by 2:22.16, this time using 2 players instead of 1. You will laugh, you will cry, but most of all, you will wonder how in the world they broke this game so much. Do yourself a favor and read the authors' notes. | ||
![]() | NES Battletoads (USA) "1p warpless" in 24:20.12 by Phil & Genisto. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-04-14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 77.24 MB, length: 25:29) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #604 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #284 (26:31.67) Rating: 6.8 (32.5 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Uses death to save time - Forgoes warps - 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 Battletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team (USA) in 17:41.14 by feos. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-05-25) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 50.15 MB, length: 18:30) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3154 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1356 (17:50.27) Rating: 7.9 (21.5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action | |
| Battletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team is an action packed Beat 'em Up cross over. It features essentially the same physics as Battletoads. Together, these heroes must defeat the Shadow Boss, the Dark Queen, and a whole assortment of other baddies. Unlike the run of the SNES version this obsoletes, the author, feos, uses both a Toad and a Dragon. In addition, he constantly exploits glitches removed in the SNES version. The result is roughly 18 minutes of ridiculous antics! For more information on the glitches used in this run, please see the author's notes. | ||
![]() | NES Bio Force Ape (unknown) in 04:30.02 by RT-55J. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-05-06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 10.38 MB, length: 04:56) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3138 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (14 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Unofficial game - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Bio Force Ape was a game developed by SETA set to be released in 1991 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. After SETA folded, a prototype cart was picked up by Lost Levels, who then released it to the public. In this prototype, you take control of a genetically altered super chimpanzee with pro wrestling-style moves and guide him through a hi-tech maze to rescue his adopted family. Why wasn't this released again? In this run, the author, RT-55J, tries to complete the game in the fastest in-game time. To do this, he uses many exploits that might have been removed if this game was actually released. For more details, as always, please see the author's notes. | ||
![]() | NES Bionic Commando (USA) in 13:45.26 by Phil. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-11-21) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 31.48 MB, length: 16:30) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2458 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #852 (13:58.98) Rating: 7.8 (28 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Bionic Commando is a platform game with a hero who can't jump, but can quickly latch onto objects with his bionic arm. This TAS is praised for its inhumanly fast grappling and swinging. This is Phil's first contribution to Bionic Commando. It is an improvement of 12.36 seconds over the previous run and proves he is a cat burglar. For more swinging goodness, check out Bionic Commando for the Game Boy. | ||
![]() | NES Blaster Master (USA) in 33:17.52 by Namflow. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-06-26) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 80.30 MB, length: 35:12) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #724 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #145 (34:10.52) Rating: 6.8 (40.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Jason's pet frog escaped and got into some radioactive material underground. Naturally, there's a tank handy and Jason's first reaction is to go after his frog. This game is considered to be very difficult to beat. | ||
![]() | NES Blaster Master (Europe) in 04:25.44 by andymac. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-12-06) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 5.50 MB, length: 06:22) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2477 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1391 (04:34.24) Rating: 7.3 (19 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Blaster Master is a fairly long game involving a random hero that jumps down a hole after his mutant frog, finds a tank, and proceeds to blow up a few bosses and rescue said frog. It's complicated. In this movie the hero gets bored with the tank early on, skips the bosses and mostly decides to just go straight to the final boss and blow him up. The frog is saved and dissected, and Biology 101 is passed. Hooray! This movie plays on the European version of the game, which includes a few bugs such as stopping movement by pausing and allowing double (and more) jumping. A changed zip mechanism is also in the European version which allows warping through things you really shouldn't be able to warp through. This publication beats the previous movie by 9 seconds. If you would like to see more of the game, we also have a warpless Blaster Master movie here that plays on the US version. | ||
![]() | NES Boulder Dash (USA) in 19:42.32 by CtrlAltDestroy. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-05-28) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 34.40 MB, length: 21:28) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1069 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #343 (20:07.68) Rating: 6.7 (33.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses hardest difficulty - Uses a level password - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Boulder Dash is a well known action-puzzle game where you must collect a quota of diamonds and reach the exit. This version improves upon the previous one by 25 seconds! Normally, standing under any falling object or just getting close to an enemy means instant death, but in this movie the player fearlessly dives through heaps of falling objects and walks past enemies without a scratch. It's quite pleasureable to watch if you have ever sat screaming at this game for getting stuck or killed repeatedly. This playthrough uses a password to skip to level 19-1, which begins the hardest set of levels. The amoeba levels have long unavoidable waits, it is advised to fast-forward through these. | ||
![]() | NES Bram Stoker's Dracula (USA) in 13:19.85 by Randil. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-01-18) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 21.14 MB, length: 15:00) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 20.33 MB, length: 15:00) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3396 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.8 (5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Bram Stoker's Dracula is a platformer based on the famous 1897 book of the same name. In it, Count Dracula cast his hypnotic spell on the lovely, Mina Murray. To save her from eternity as a vampiress, you take control of Jonathan Harker as you ram through hordes of enemies, bombard bosses with stones, and...dance with ghosts? This is an improvement of 59.00 over the previous submission by Shiru. The author, Randil, does this primarily by taking more damage and using better strategies for the boss fights. See the author's notes for more details. | ||
![]() | NES Bubble Bobble (USA) in 24:37.7 by Tompa, adelikat, Bablo, Baxter, CtrlAltDestroy, & Cardboard. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-02-04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 39.44 MB, length: 26:40) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Submission #2551 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #64 (27:18.38) Rating: 6.8 (24.5 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Uses warps - Genre: Platform | |
| In Bubble Bobble, two magical, bubble-blowing dinosaurs (Bub and Bob) fight through an evil, deep forest in order to rescue their kidnapped dinosaur friends. This movie features one... no, wait, six players controlling two characters simultaneously while smashing the previous time by 2 minutes and 41 seconds. However, this publication chooses to use warps. Authors adelikat, Tompa, and Cardboard recorded some live commentary as well. | ||
![]() | NES Bucky O'Hare (USA) in 22:13.6 by AnS. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-11-12) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 29.68 MB, length: 27:44) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1738 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #472 (25:02.32) Rating: 7.6 (28 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Uses death to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| A rare instance of a Japanese-made NES game based on a U.S.-originated comic book, Bucky O'Hare (1992) provides a player with a good combination of platforming action similar to Mega Man, an interesting plot, and convincing production values. You can play as one of the five unique characters, which you are free to select at any time, after saving them from the clutches of the Toad Empire. Each character has special abilities required to take advantage of in order to pass through the game's numerous variably designed stages, ranging from single-screen puzzle rooms to autoscrolling shoot-'em-ups. Interesting fact about this game is that Konami used to implement unconventional ways of piracy protection, in this particular case by making each hit or an otheriwise harmful collision in the game result in an instant death if you play it illegitimately. Apparently, this was how a large amount of people were used to playing it in pre-emulation era, without ever finding out Konami's little sabotage. This movie by AnS is set up in a fashion that imitates this handicap by playing the game in hard mode (accessing it through a password), where every hit results in death. Other than that, it also improves the previous movie by 2 minutes 48.7 seconds, using several major glitches and a lot of small tricks explained in great detail in the author's comments. | ||
![]() | NES Castle of Dragon (USA) in 06:28.44 by adelikat & Randil. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-12-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 22.67 MB, length: 08:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2940 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #244 (06:59.7) Rating: 6.0 (16 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| In this game, the hero—Duke Geraden—travels to Darklarza Castle in order to rescue Princess Amoreena from the Dragon Master. Castle of Dragon has all the elements of a bad game: it's clumsy, it looks and sounds horrible, and it has been made almost impossible to beat by implementing a lot of random factors into it. This run improves the previous movie by over 30 seconds. | ||
![]() | NES Castlevania (USA PRG1) in 11:20.5 by Phil. Côté & Morrison. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-06-26) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 29.47 MB, length: 12:45) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1609 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #694 (11:34.12) Rating: 8.3 (44 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - 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. The MSX version has been TASed as well! Click here to watch it. | ||
![]() | NES Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (USA) in 29:45.02 by zggzdydp. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-06-07) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 66.72 MB, length: 31:29) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1997 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #933 (32:08.22) Rating: 6.9 (29.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| If science fiction is to be believed, the ultimate evolution for biological beings is to discard the physical body and become an entity of pure energy. For video game characters, it seems to be the ability to zip through walls. In this latest TAS by zggzdydp, Simon Belmont joins the league of characters possessing this ability. Castlevania II: Simon's Quest is the story of Simon's horrible weekend without sleep. Two years after defeating Dracula, the hero is physically weakened by Dracula's curse. He must gather Dracula's remains and incinerate them at the ruins of Castlevania in order to end the curse. This movie is 2 minutes and 23 seconds faster than the previous effort by the same author. We recommend to read his comments for explanations on how this improvement was achieved. | ||
![]() | NES Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (JPN) "Grant path" in 28:35.19 by scrimpeh. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-03-04) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 42.67 MB, length: 31:31) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 52.39 MB, length: 31:31) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3475 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #762 (28:57.55) Rating: 6.7 (5.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses a suboptimal character - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (originally known as 悪魔城伝説 or Akumajō Densetsu, meaning "Legend of the Demon Castle") is the story of Trevor Belmont's battle against Dracula from the times before Simon's battle in Castlevania. In this complex and difficult game, there are three playable allies whom Trevor can recruit: Alucard (Dracula's son), Grant DaNasty (a pirate captain), and Sypha Belnades (a mystic warlord). This game has a technically high-quality soundtrack because it uses a VRC6 sound chip that works in the Japanese Famicom but not in the NES. Thus, the movie was made with the Japanese version of the game instead of the USA version. This movie takes the path that recruits Grant. It is about 22 seconds faster than the previous version. Improvements come from more optimization, better heart management, and new tricks like manipulating moving platforms and entering walls. There is also a Sypha path movie and an Alucard path movie. | ||
![]() | NES Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (JPN) "Alucard path" in 25:17.73 by Samhain-Grim. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-01-04) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 49.88 MB, length: 28:17) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1407 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #57 (25:56.92) Rating: 7.3 (24.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (originally known as 悪魔城伝説 or Akumajō Densetsu, meaning "Legend of the Demon Castle") is the story of Trevor Belmont's battle against Dracula from the times before Simon's battle in Castlevania. In this complex and difficult game, there are three playable allies whom Trevor can recruit: Alucard (Dracula's son), Grant DaNasty (a pirate captain), and Sypha Belnades (a mystic warlord). This game has a technically high-quality soundtrack because it uses a VRC6 sound chip that works in the Japanese Famicom but not in the NES. Thus, the movie was made with the Japanese version of the game instead of the USA version. This movie takes the path that recruits Alucard. It is about 39 seconds faster than the previous movie, played by Genisto. There's also a Grant path movie and a Sypha path movie. | ||
![]() | NES Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (JPN) "Sypha path" in 27:50.57 by Samhain-Grim. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-01-04) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 56.51 MB, length: 31:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1406 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #58 (28:32.15) Rating: 6.9 (24.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses a suboptimal character - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (originally known as 悪魔城伝説 or Akumajō Densetsu, meaning "Legend of the Demon Castle") is the story of Trevor Belmont's battle against Dracula from the times before Simon's battle in Castlevania. In this complex and difficult game, there are three playable allies whom Trevor can recruit: Alucard (Dracula's son), Grant DaNasty (a pirate captain), and Sypha Belnades (a mystic warlord). This game has a technically high-quality soundtrack because it uses a VRC6 sound chip that works in the Japanese Famicom but not in the NES. Thus, the movie was made with the Japanese version of the game instead of the USA version. This movie takes the path that recruits Sypha. There's also a Grant path movie and an Alucard path movie. | ||
![]() | NES Cattou Ninden Teyandee (JPN) in 09:02.92 by FerretWarlord. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-09-02) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 19.84 MB, length: 12:45) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #823 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (23.5 votes) View Publication | - 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. | ||
![]() | NES Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (USA) in 09:54.37 by Aglar. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-06-06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 14.24 MB, length: 10:47) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.flurret.net Mirror www.radiokj.com Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3166 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #473 (09:57.17) Rating: 7.2 (9.5 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Chip 'n Dale - Rescue Rangers is based on the animated TV series. In this ridiculously easy and straightforward game, the Rangers look for their neighbor's kitty and end up fighting against their old nemesis, Fat Cat. Aglar improved Genisto's movie by 1.81 seconds, by using different routes and by improving the zip method. You can check out the author's comments to learn more about the improvements. | ||
![]() | NES Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (USA) "2 Players" in 09:25.73 by dragonxyk. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-06-17) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 17.11 MB, length: 09:59) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1978 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1026 (09:29.22) Rating: 7.2 (30.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| This run illustrates very well the advantage of using two-player mode. Much faster than the single-player version, Chip and Dale carry each other, throw each other, abuse balloons and zip as they once again go after Fat Cat. The improvement by dragonxyk comes now with Chip and Dale zipping on each other. | ||
![]() | NES Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers 2 (USA) in 11:04.65 by dragonxyk. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-12-17) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 22.37 MB, length: 14:22) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1790 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #918 (11:23.2) Rating: 7.0 (28.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers 2 is quite an improvement over the original Chip 'n Dale in terms of graphics and a whole lot of other things. Thankfully, the original game's solid controls haven't been changed. The plot of this game is that Fat Cat has stolen the Pharaoh's Urn and wants to use its power (for evil purposes, of course). Like the first movie, a two-player run makes for some interesting things, like Chip and Dale carrying each other around, and heavy abuse of death to take advantage of balloons. By killing off one character, he respawns on a floating balloon, thus going ahead of the other character. Unlike the first, however, this run frequently destroys bosses by using one of the characters as a weapon. Only in the Chip 'n Dale series can such apparently irrational action be justified. This movie, the second submission for this game by dragonxyk, is a 18.55-second improvement over the previous movie. See here for a run with just Dale. | ||
![]() | NES Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers 2 (USA) "1 player" in 15:13.79 by feos. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-05-20) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 21.86 MB, length: 19:09) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 24.02 MB, length: 19:09) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3597 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1995 (16:33.2) Rating: 7.2 (6 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers 2 is quite an improvement over the original Chip 'n Dale in terms of graphics and a whole lot of other things. Thankfully, the original game's solid controls haven't been changed. The plot of this game is that Fat Cat has stolen the Pharaoh's Urn and wants to use its power (for evil purposes, of course). This run only uses Chip. It's an improvement of 1:19.53 over the previous "1 player" publication, through careful optimization and some new tricks. For a 2-player run of the same game, see [1028] NES Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers 2 (USA) by dragonxyk in 11:04.65. | ||
![]() | NES Choujin Sentai Jetman (JPN) in 09:23.95 by AnS. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-07-21) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 17.80 MB, length: 12:28) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1622 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #914 (09:24.87) Rating: 5.8 (22.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform | |
| Continuing the trend of NES games based on popular Japanese TV shows, Jetman is apparently about multi-colored heroes and robots duking it out. No, it's not Power Rangers. This movie probably qualifies for "Quickest Giant Robot Fights." | ||
![]() | NES Circus Charlie (JPN) in 03:24.05 by Randil. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-02-04) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 5.79 MB, length: 03:32) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1834 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #775 (03:24.35) Rating: 5.4 (34.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Circus Charlie is a simple game that most people probably know from pirate multigame carts. The first stages are easy for anyone even on real NES, but stage 3 is already quite challenging. This movie plays "1 player game A" (easy). Ironically, this is MORE challenging for tool-assisted gameplay. Stage times: 3410, 3560, 3750, 3890, 4270. Yet another "perfect" movie beaten. This time by 18 frames. The currently fastest "game B" (hard) TAS can be found here. | ||
![]() | NES Clash at Demonhead (USA) in 22:16.53 by Spoony_Bard. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-02-10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 29.51 MB, length: 24:59) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #482 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.9 (22.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Clash at Demonhead is a complex game to say the least. There are over 40 levels in the game, and they are all connected to each other. In the network of levels the player must find 6 medallions and then rescue the kidnapped professor. This is no simple task. To make things even harder for a (tool-assisted) speedrunner, there are items available that greatly increase the player's speed, but in return cost money. This means that the route and strategy must be carefully planned. This movie certainly does not lack speed or complexity. The movie is especially entertaining if you have played the game and know how hard it is. | ||
![]() | NES Cobra Triangle (USA) in 17:01.23 by adelikat. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-10-16) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 41.42 MB, length: 18:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #840 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #85 (17:54.82) Rating: 6.2 (28.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Shooter | |
| This unusual boat game includes racing to the finish, preventing swimmers from being abducted, disposing bombs, killing sea monsters and shooting targets. 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. | ||
![]() | NES Conquest of the Crystal Palace (USA) in 11:18.75 by arkiandruski. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-05-08) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 24.02 MB, length: 13:08) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1491 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (24.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Conquest of the Crystal Palace is the story of a boy and his dog who overthrow an evil rock (or is it a brain?). | ||
![]() | NES Contra (JPN) in 08:51.73 by zyr2288. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2011-04-19) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 17.97 MB, length: 10:57) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3108 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #797 (08:57.98) Rating: 8.2 (20.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Contra, is a classic action game. Equipped with heavy artillery, you must save the world by defeating the organization Red Falcon. To do this, you must make it past over 10 areas full of flying bullets and explosives and defeat many baddies.
Like this run's predecessor, the author, zyr2288, uses both commandos, Bill and Lance, simultaneously to fire through each level. In addition, this run makes use of some better routes, boss fighting strategies, and lag manipulation.
Note: This game was released under different names, such as 魂斗羅 (kontora) in Japan, and Probotector in Europe. GryZor is also used in Europe on some other systems. | ||
![]() | NES Contra (JPN) "pacifist" in 09:29.08 by Soig & zyr2288. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-11-27) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 16.11 MB, length: 12:22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 15.36 MB, length: 12:22) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3372 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1883 (09:35.93) Rating: 7.2 (8 votes) View Publication | - Pacifist version - One player in a multiplayer game - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Contra completed fast, with an additional goal: do not kill enemies directly unless absolutely necessary to complete the game.
The hero shows the ultimate display of pacifism by sacrificing his own life in order to not destroy the Level 5 tanks.
This movie improves upon the previous movie by 6.85 seconds.
Note: This game was released under different names, such as 魂斗羅 (kontora) in Japan, and Probotector in Europe. GryZor is also used in Europe on some other systems. In addition to the standard downloadable encode, there is a second experimental downloadable encode produced in 10-bit YUV444 h.264. You will need a very recent codec / media player (such as LAV Filters, recent builds of FFDShow-tryouts, or mplayer2) to be able to play this experimental encode back. | ||
![]() | NES Contra Force (USA) in 12:23.62 by GlitchMan. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-07-05) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 20.70 MB, length: 15:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2720 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (14.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| This game, ostensibly a spin-off of the Contra series, began life as a completely unrelated game, yet still manages to invoke the spirit of the other games in being an insanely difficult, one-hit-kills-you shooter. Contra Force offers a selection of one of four characters, a jumping glitch involving the pause screen, and lots and lots of lag - and yet the game is still completed remarkably quickly. | ||
![]() | NES Crystalis (USA) in 40:40.43 by TheAxeMan. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-03-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 88.38 MB, length: 42:58) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 96.77 MB, length: 42:58) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3463 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1322 (52:44.47) Rating: 8.6 (3 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Genre: RPG | |
| Crystalis is an awesome action rpg by SNK. What little plot there is involves the world ending on October 1, 1997. Naturally, after that the world became full of mutants and monsters. Technology regresses and people can use magic. There is an evil empire trying to revive the ancient technology, specifically the obligatory tower floating in the sky. The hero pops out of some sort of stasis chamber and proceeds to topple the empire and take down the tower with the help of some wise men and a friendly dolphin. There's a heroine named Mesia, but she only shows up a few times, most of which are skipped in this run. This beats the previous run by almost 12 minutes. As with that run, the second-controller cheats are off-limits (the fm2 only has data for controller 1). Other than that, no holds are barred. Many new glitches are used. For a complete list, see the game resources page. Movement is faster by abusing the no-subpixel engine. Much effort went into lag reduction, especially in certain areas. However, the vast majority of the time savings is due to better experience management. We recommend watching the movie on an emulator and using the author's LUA script. There's quite a bit of useful information. | ||
![]() | NES Darkwing Duck (USA) in 10:59.5 by AnS & Randil. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-08-24) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 24.96 MB, length: 12:21) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1673 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #174 (11:35.15) Rating: 7.9 (42 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Darkwing Duck (1992) is a platformer somewhat similar to Mega Man in gameplay and difficulty. The arrow gun allows the player to climb up walls and use creative shortcuts so that the absolute shortest route can be taken. In case you are wondering why the character keeps on jumping so much, it is because he has to wait a short amount of time before being able to walk. With constant jumping these stops can be avoided. This movie is a joint venture between AnS and Randil to improve the previous Darkwing Duck run by Walker Boh, resulting in 35.7 seconds saved through means of extensive optimization, luck manipulation and lag removal. We recommend reading the authors' comments for more details. | ||
![]() | NES Deadly Towers (USA) in 15:20.27 by Luke. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-03-17) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 27.73 MB, length: 19:13) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #979 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #117 (18:45.7) Rating: 5.2 (29 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| Deadly Towers is an annoying enough game to play, let alone make a TAS of, but the author manages a final time almost 3.5 minutes faster than the previous version. This improvement is mainly from buying orange scrolls, which are used to teleport from the top of each tower back down to the Holy Flame. Check the author's comments for more detailed information. This game suffers from sprite overload very frequently. | ||
![]() | NES Demon Sword (USA) in 06:11.57 by 韩晖 (aka. 西坡 (xipo)). | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-08-10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 16.28 MB, length: 07:50) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 15.83 MB, length: 07:50) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2023 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #968 (07:59.63) Rating: 7.0 (23.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Demon Sword (1989) is the kind of a game that Legend of Kage should have been.
It features a hero named Victar, who can easily jump on a tall tree (and sometimes over it, since he just can't jump much lower) and is willing to defeat the evil demon that conquered the world. The key to defeating it is Victar's sword, which is conveniently broken into pieces that must be collected over the span of the game.
So watch his sword get bigger and more powerful every few minutes, until its wielder | ||
![]() | NES Destiny of an Emperor (USA) in 1:21:09.61 by Acmlm. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-05-10) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 134.36 MB, length: 1:23:40) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2656 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #556 (1:46:41.87) Rating: 5.4 (10.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
Destiny of an Emperor was Capcom’s first RPG, released in 1989―90, and is based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The battling style of this game can be described like Final Fantasy meets Pokémon; your team of warriors versus the opposing team of warriors, and any opponents freed from their posts can be later picked up in the wilds and converted to your side!Acmlm bests the previous movie by over 25 minutes by reverse engineering the game and brute forcing luck manipulation. Critical hit, it's super effective. | ||
![]() | NES Digger: The Legend of the Lost City (USA) in 03:26.93 by Kyman & SilentSlayers. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-07-15) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 5.57 MB, length: 04:14) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2740 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.5 (19 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Genre: Platform | |
| Digger T. Rock is searching for the Lost City and must dig through eight caverns to find it. On the way he must battle... dinosaurs! This run underwent several revisions before reaching the form you now see before you. | ||
![]() | NES Dizzy the Adventurer (USA) in 07:49.67 by alden. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-06-30) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 13.30 MB, length: 08:55) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1530 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (27.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| The Dizzy series of computer games was one of the most successful computer game brands of the late eighties. They were all based around a central figure, an intelligent egg-like creature called Dizzy. This is the NES version of the series completed fast by the use of creative routes and of course maximum speed. | ||
![]() | NES Donkey Kong (JPN/USA) in 01:08.67 by Phil. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-09-18) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 899.88 KB, length: 01:22) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2397 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1316 (01:08.97) Rating: 8.1 (37.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Donkey Kong is a classic game that has been challenged plenty of times at this site, by many players. This competitive spirit has made for some 'perfect' runs. Yet each time someone manages to squeeze just a bit more out of it. This latest completion by Phil beats the previous movie by 11 frames. | ||
![]() | NES Donkey Kong Jr. (JPN/USA) in 01:12.81 by Aglar, Aqfaq, Ferret Warlord. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-11-14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 1.84 MB, length: 01:25) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2444 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1078 (01:12.95) Rating: 7.4 (28.5 votes) View Publication | - 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 1 frame optimization of level 4 compared to the previous movie. | ||
![]() | NES Double Dragon (USA) in 08:57.47 by Phil. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-02-25) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 8.85 MB, length: 09:24) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #985 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #52 (09:35.15) Rating: 6.8 (37 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - 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 Double Dragon II: The Revenge (USA) in 08:40.13 by adelikat. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-04-19) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 18.06 MB, length: 10:33) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 18.15 MB, length: 10:33) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2228 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1179 (08:54.05) Rating: 8.3 (35 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform | |
| Double Dragon 2 (1989) is a beat'em-up game that 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.
This new version by adelikat is 14 seconds faster than his previous effort. Most of the improvement came from a new shortcut in level 6.
The author has used a built in subtitle feature of FCEUX to include some commentary on the movie. An AVI that includes these subtitles has been added.
The first Archive.org link leads to a movie without commentary subtitles. The second Archive.org link has the commentary subtitles. The first YouTube link is in the original resolution with commentary subtitles. The second YouTube link is in HD resolution without commentary subtitles. | ||
![]() | NES Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones (USA) in 10:10.23 by 韩晖 (aka. 西坡 (xipo)). | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-08-09) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 13.91 MB, length: 11:48) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2026 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #882 (10:38.82) Rating: 6.7 (23 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform | |
| In this movie, the author speeds through the game, beating up all the bad guys quickly and efficiently, making full use of each character — and killing them off when they are no longer useful. The characters' special abilities are abused to provide some unorthodox shortcuts. This is the author's 3rd version and is an improvement of about 28 seconds over his previous movie. | ||
![]() | NES Double Moon Densetsu (JPN) in 19:50.34 by TaoTao. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-03-22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 23.82 MB, length: 26:30) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 27.28 MB, length: 26:30) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3477 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - Uses a game restart sequence - Corrupts memory - Genre: RPG | |
| Double Moon Densetsu (ダブルムーン伝説 Legend of the Double Moon) is a 1992 turn-based NES RPG. The author uses a complex memory corruption glitch to skip many events, slimming this normally long RPG down to under 20 minutes. Technical details about the glitches used are in the author's comments. | ||
![]() | NES Dr. Mario (JPN/USA) in 01:12.83 by CtrlAltDestroy. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-05-21) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 3.18 MB, length: 03:02) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2250 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (33 votes) View Publication | - Aims for maximum score - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy luck manipulation - Single level - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Tired of being mocked by the viruses, Dr. Mario switched to his "fast-acting" and "extra strength" medication. The viruses never knew what hit them. This video beats Level 20, Speed Hi of Dr. Mario in record time. Don't blink, or you might miss the twist ending. | ||
![]() | NES Dragon's Lair (JPN) in 03:53.6 by Kirkq. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-12-23) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 11.49 MB, length: 04:44) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2502 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #192 (03:58.68) Rating: 6.0 (17.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Dragon's Lair is much better known in its incarnations for other platforms as an FMV game with only slight amounts of control over the player's action. The NES version is more of a traditional platformer, but very smooth animation for the era and funny-looking characters inspired by the cartoon graphics of the other versions - this includes the final boss, who isn't seen very much in this run thanks to abuse of the game mechanics. The Japanese version is used because the US version has considerably slower gameplay (almost twice as slow). This is an improvement of around five seconds to the previous run from 2004 (making the old run one of the oldest on the site). Reading the author's comments is encouraged. | ||
![]() | NES Dragon Fighter (USA) in 12:15.28 by nitsuja. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-08-06) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 24.89 MB, length: 14:30) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1107 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (21.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Dragon Fighter is a cross-over between a platformer and a shooter. It starts out in platform mode, where you can collect dragon points. When you have enough, you can transform into a powerful dragon, turning the game into a autoscrolling shooter. The game scrolls slowly in this mode, but the dragon moves fast. By continuously switching between the two modes, it allows the player to go as fast as possible, which makes an otherwise boring game interesting. | ||
![]() | NES Dragon Warrior (USA PRG0) in 17:47.74 by Acmlm. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-03-06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 20.07 MB, length: 20:05) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2590 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #469 (18:10.47) Rating: 7.1 (16.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
This is the sixth published movie of Dragon Warrior, a seemingly complex, but ultimately, fairly simple NES RPG. This is an improvement of 20.96 seconds from the previous run. The character completes his quest at Level 7. There are several things about this movie that might seem odd if one is not aware of them beforehand:
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![]() | NES Dragon Warrior 2 (USA) in 46:25.0 by TheAxeMan. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-04-30) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 65.90 MB, length: 49:24) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1026 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (19.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
Selected comments from the author:The second Dragon Warrior game beaten as fast as possible. Dragon Warrior is an epic RPG series which now spans 8 games across many systems. The second game greatly expands on the first to include a party of three heroes (all descendents of Erdrick and the hero of DW1) and battles that may include many enemies. | ||
![]() | NES Dragon Warrior 3 (USA) "item glitch" in 48:28.08 by dave_dfwm. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-03-06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 70.95 MB, length: 56:48) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2577 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #955 (57:28.27) Rating: 5.0 (10.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Corrupts memory - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Dragon Warrior 3 completed quickly by using a bizarre glitch that allows the author to fill his inventory with useful items, manipulate his stats, and even add places to his return list! This allows most of the game to be skipped. Thanks to this new method of item glitching, this is almost exactly nine minutes faster than the previous version of the run. The author wrote detailed comments explaining this glitch. | ||
![]() | NES Dragon Warrior 3 (USA) in 1:50:36.18 by dave_dfwm. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-07-31) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 179.41 MB, length: 1:58:26) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1618 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #838 (2:14:07.67) Rating: 5.7 (16.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| This is a non-glitched run of Dragon Warrior 3, now under 2 hours long. This game is known in the TAS world as being a pain to play due to the RNG (random number generator) being much harder to manipulate than most other games. As a result, seemingly random actions throughout the game are actually intentional manipulation of the RNG to ensure favourable outcomes, such as avoiding monsters or good battle outcomes. To give you an idea of how surprising this time is to most players, the previous run is about 24 minutes longer than this one. Even before that, any run that was under 3 hours long was deemed to be very difficult to perform. | ||
![]() | NES Dragon Warrior 4 (USA) in 2:09:06.58 by adelikat. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-04-03) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 185.98 MB, length: 2:18:48) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1028 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (24.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Dragon Warrior 4 is a very long RPG. During the planning phase, it was expected that this movie would be 5 hours long. Suffice to say the result was a pleasant surprise. The author intentionally kills off his party in order to save some travel time. | ||
![]() | NES Duck Tales (USA) in 07:06.02 by Aglar. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2009-03-26) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 10.99 MB, length: 08:58) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2199 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1223 (07:14.48) Rating: 7.8 (35.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Duck Tales is a classic game in which Scrooge has to collect treasures from all over the world. Some of the levels are not completely straightforward, and collecting items is sometimes necessary before proceeding. His cane also doubles as an almighty pogo stick that can be used in various ways, which makes jumping a lot more fun. This is the fifth TAS of Duck Tales. Minor improvements and refined strategies here and there contributed an additional few seconds of improvement. This is a 8½ second improvement over the previous movie due to a new glitch being abused. | ||
![]() | NES Duck Tales 2 (USA) in 08:45.82 by adelikat. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-05-05) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 19.75 MB, length: 10:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1941 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #582 (08:51.03) Rating: 6.9 (25.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| In Duck Tales 2, you control a duck who can use his cane as a pogo stick. He and his family (the NPCs that this run does not talk to except once where forced) search for hidden treasures around the world. adelikat completes this new version of Duck Tales 2 in a little more than 5 seconds faster than the previous movie by himself and Brushy. The biggest time-saver occurred by skipping a cutscene in level 1. Expect a lot of jumping from ropes and hooks, jumping across spikes unharmed, pogo action, and a quick beatdown of bosses. This movie has a suboptimal (non-100%) ending, but not the worst one (no money). | ||
![]() | NES Dungeon Magic: Sword of the Elements (USA) in 01:02.83 by FatRatKnight. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2008-10-13) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 1.29 MB, length: 02:03) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2112 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.8 (34.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: RPG | |
| After hearing about how the dark overlord Darces has returned, our hero goes on a quest to unite | ||
![]() | NES Déjà Vu (USA) in 09:41.59 by Randil. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-01-19) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 7.64 MB, length: 10:16) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3419 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1260 (10:16.98) Not rated View Publication | - Genre: Storybook | |
| A storybook game like Shadowgate and Uninvited. In this one you star as Ace Harding, a detective who wakes up having no idea who or where he is. As the game progresses you discover that you have been framed for a crime you didn't commit, and must find a way to clear your name. This, the fifth submission of this game by the same author, is a 35.45 seconds improvement over the author's previous attempt. Most of the improvement comes from using a "leave bullet" bug, detailed in the submission text. Further reading: We recommend Mr. Kelly R. Flewin's Déjà Vu Speed Guide. | ||
![]() | NES EarthBound Zero (JPN) "glitched" in 23:09.56 by pirohiko. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-09-19) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 44.32 MB, length: 23:50) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2827 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1303 (25:41.67) Rating: 6.3 (11 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| This is the JPN version of EarthBound Zero (also known as Mother (マザー) ). As the first version of the game, it has a number of useful glitches; this run abuses the way the game handles the "Bread crumbs" item to warp off the edge of reality and casually walk straight into the final boss's lair two and a half minutes faster than the previous run. We also have a more normal run of the localized version, which doesn't include this glitch. | ||
![]() | NES EarthBound Zero (USA) in 47:56.08 by Nitrodon. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2009-06-17) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 72.81 MB, length: 54:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2252 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (14.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| EarthBound Zero is the first game in the Mother/EarthBound series. It was localized, but never released in the US. Technically, the game was localized as EarthBound, but the sequel was localized and released as EarthBound, so this game generally goes by the name EarthBound Zero. This movie is done on the U version, which does not have the "bread crumbs" glitch used in our other movie of the game. It does, however, have a run button, which means this movie may seem faster at times, even though it's a lot longer. | ||
![]() | NES Elevator Action (USA) in 06:57.46 by Brushy. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-11-30) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 7.27 MB, length: 07:18) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2475 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #471 (07:59.37) Rating: 5.4 (19.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| A rather simple, unique classic game. The hero of this game is a spy/agent who raids buildings infested with men in black. He collects important documents from various apartments/closets (which, for the sake of simplicity, are colored indicatively), and then leaves by his car to the next raid. After raiding the last building, he goes to raid the same buildings once again, ad infinitum. Even a small game like this isn't free of bugs. The unsafe elevators of this game offer a few maneuvers that should not be attempted in real life. Four levels were played. This is an improvement of just over a minute over the previously published run. | ||
![]() | NES Excitebike (JPN/USA) in 05:29.44 by Lord Tom. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-08-31) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 7.04 MB, length: 05:46) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2383 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1070 (05:31.37) Rating: 8.3 (39 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Racing | |
This movie plays Excitebike really fast with an improvement of over a second compared to the previous movie by JXQ.
Times for each track are:
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![]() | NES Extra Mario Bros. (JPN/USA) in 19:24.68 by HappyLee. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2009-08-09) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 31.31 MB, length: 20:08) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2317 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.5 (25 votes) View Publication | - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
| Extra Mario Bros is a hack of the original Super Mario Bros. It is noteworthy for being a complete "Metroidvania" game built around the original SMB engine, with very few changes to the engine itself. The five areas in the game are all interconnected (via pipes, naturally), and permanent upgrades have been added to make a more Metroid-ish feel. (Did I mention the music from Super Metroid? Because there's music from Super Metroid.)
However, despite his newfound ability to return to levels he's visited before and acquire upgrades that don't go away when he dies, Mario still cannot scroll to the left.
This movie collects all of the keys and fights the true final boss but only collects two of the upgrades.
Note: An IPS patch for the hack can be downloaded from http://tasvideos-moviefiles.googlecode.com/files/ips%2Bpatcher.zip . | ||
![]() | NES Fantasy Zone (JPN) in 04:07.07 by Hisatoki. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-12-18) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 5.61 MB, length: 04:07) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1364 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.2 (23.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Shooter | |
| Fantasy Zone is a short, colorful shooter which has the somewhat unique feature that it does not autoscroll! Since there are no levels to scroll through, the boss battles start when 8 of the enemy bases have been destroyed. Fantasy Zone is originally an arcade game, and this movie uses the Japanese (Sunsoft) version because it is closer the arcade version than the USA (Tengen) version. | ||
![]() | NES Faxanadu (USA) in 23:23.68 by Lord Tom. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-03-11) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 36.44 MB, length: 24:12) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1877 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #269 (31:00.75) Rating: 6.3 (21.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| In comparison to the usual run-through platform games, this is one of the games that requires more planning to play efficiently. The game features an inventory and equipment and a spells system, all of which were rare to see in NES games when this game came out. This is the 3rd published version of the TAS, now over seven minutes faster than the previous version. The author has written comments describing all the planning and tricks that went into this movie. | ||
![]() | NES Felix the Cat (USA) in 22:29.01 by Randil. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-09-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 41.00 MB, length: 24:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2831 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #738 (22:53.27) Rating: 6.2 (8.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| This game is about a classic cartoon character, Felix the Cat, who goes in an adventure to save his girlfriend, Kitty, from a mad professor. This is a simple platformer like any Mario game. This is a 24.26 sec improvement over Randil's previous run. This is due to several strategy changes, such as using the airplane more often in flying levels and using a different power to fight the final boss. For more details, see the author's comments. | ||
![]() | NES Final Fantasy (USA) "White Mage" in 1:16:37.56 by TheAxeMan. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-04-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 94.31 MB, length: 1:21:46) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 112.67 MB, length: 1:21:46) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3512 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Uses a suboptimal character - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Final Fantasy is a well known RPG about saving the world with the usual assortment of characters. Here, the author defies all common sense and takes a team composed entirely of White Mages, the token "weak healing caster" class. What's worse, three of them meet their untimely demise at the hands of pirates not very far into their journey. Not to worry, because this survivor has a few tricks up her sleeve. | ||
![]() | NES Final Fantasy (USA) in 1:10:06.81 by TheAxeMan. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-01-04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 84.61 MB, length: 1:15:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2960 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1187 (1:10:16.18) Rating: 7.1 (12.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Final Fantasy is one of those games which needs no introduction to most gamers. For the rest of you, the game follows four generic heroes who are trying to restore the four orbs which have been contaminated, and ultimately defeat Chaos. Unfortunately only one of the warriors is actually a hero; the rest are sissies who died early on during the quests. Strange as this may sound, much time is saved by doing so since fewer commands need to be entered every time the player runs from a random encounter. Even if you see a 10 seconds difference between this and the previous movie, don't get fooled! This version is actually 2.44 seconds faster! This mistake is due to the movie file format change (FCM to FM2). This improvement is done by fighting the boss Garland faster than before, and by using some tweaks you can see in the author's comments. | ||
![]() | NES Final Fantasy III (JPN) "Glitched" in 39:37.27 by pirohiko. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-02-05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 51.26 MB, length: 44:41) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2992 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.4 (10.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Final Fantasy III for NES was released only in Japan.
In this movie, the author | ||
![]() | NES Fist Of The North Star (USA) in 07:47.22 by ziplock. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-02-25) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 11.17 MB, length: 08:06) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #547 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (27 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Fighting | |
| Fist of the North Star is the American version of the NES's Hokuto no Ken 2, a game which is inspired by a popular Japanese manga Hokuto no Ken. In this funny video, we can see enemies that move faster than thrown knives and arrows. | ||
![]() | NES Friday the 13th (USA) in 03:00.69 by jlun2. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-06-08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 3.61 MB, length: 03:27) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3165 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #416 (03:03.9) Rating: 6.2 (15 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| In this three second improvement to a five-and-a-half year old movie, Jason is defeated faster than ever thanks to some tricks to force him to appear more often than normal. | ||
![]() | NES G.I. Joe (USA) in 16:49.6 by 韩晖 (aka. 西坡 (xipo)). | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-11-21) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 36.89 MB, length: 20:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1758 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #558 (18:36.43) Rating: 6.0 (22.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| The Cobra Command threatens the world and the G.I. Joe team is needed to stop it! G.I. Joe (1991) is a platformer difficult because of its intricate routes and bosses, but the author makes short work of both. In particular, this movie sports some of the shortest boss fights of any game. It also provides entertainment through varied character and vehicle use (thankfully, the game still manages not to lag immensely even with all the action thrown in). This is an improvement of 107 seconds to the previous movie by Ferret Warlord. | ||
![]() | NES G.I. Joe: The Atlantis Factor (USA) in 07:40.36 by C0DE RED. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-06-21) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 23.00 MB, length: 10:07) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2706 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (12.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| GI Joe: The Atlantis Factor is an NES game released by Capcom USA around 1991. It is known to be a sequel to the original GI Joe NES game released a year before. In this run, the author manipulates luck in order to achieve his goals. Note that he jumps a lot, but that's because jumping makes the character move faster (from left to right and vice-versa) than just walking around. | ||
![]() | NES Gargoyle's Quest II (USA) in 27:43.08 by goofydylan8. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-03-23) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 36.34 MB, length: 29:44) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 38.22 MB, length: 29:44) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3498 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.9 (3 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure | |
| A long time ago, before human being appeared, there lived a monster named Firebrand. In this game, Firebrand (the red gargoyle) fights against the evil that has invaded his homeland. Along the way, he becomes more powerful and becomes able to fly longer, jump higher, and shoot more weapons. goofydylan8 conquers this game in a little under 28 minutes with careful lag management, damage-boosting, and aggressive boss fights. TASVideos also has movies of this game's prequel for the Game Boy and sequel for the Super NES. | ||
![]() | NES Gauntlet (USA) in 12:24.65 by foda. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-08-14) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 19.66 MB, length: 14:04) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #771 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #371 (13:09.0) Rating: 6.3 (35.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| Gauntlet is a Dungeons & Dragons simulator of sorts. You choose a class of Warrior, Valkyrie, Wizard or Elf to navigate the Gauntlet, collect treasure, slay wicked monsters, and save your beloved peasant hometown. Walkthroughs for this game estimate a completion time of several hours when playing normally. Here, we see the game completed in only 12 minutes! Usually clues have to be collected to discover the password to the last dungeon, but this is selected at the game's beginning, so the clues are unnecessary in a TAS. There is also some collision detection abuse and lots of luck manipulation. This updated version takes a better path, manipulates fights more, and abuses luck to get the password with shortest input time. There is a huge amount of secrets and hidden paths to take in this game. The author recommends the FAQ by melvinwang on GameFAQs, and would like to thank fuwafuwa and TurboC for their help with this video. | ||
![]() | NES Ghostbusters (JPN) in 01:34.34 by MESHUGGAH. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-01-25) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 3.14 MB, length: 02:50) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 3.26 MB, length: 02:50) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3427 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1381 (01:34.98) Rating: 5.3 (4 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse | |
| Ghostbusters is a hastily produced game based on the movie of the same name. The NES version is a notoriously bad port, and the Japanese version contains a glitch that allows an item to be sold for more than it costs. If what was done in this movie was possible in real life, economies worldwide would crash. Thank goodness that would never happen...
In this movie, the author, MESHUGGAH, improves the first run of this game by GlitchMan. See the author's notes for more details.
Note: The ending in the Japanese version is messed up and just shows "りり". This movie will also sync while the PAXKKLAA Game Genie code is used, which shows the corrected text: Conglaturation !!! You have completed a grate game. And prooved the justice of our culture. Now go and rest our heroes ! | ||
![]() | NES Ghoul School (USA) in 04:02.73 by Andrewg. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-08-03) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 19.52 MB, length: 05:08) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2748 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1266 (04:09.53) Rating: 6.4 (15 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action | |
| Ghoul School is a game where a multi-talented teen named Spike O'Hara fights through a horde of various ghouls with the talent of MacGuyver, needing only a towel, shoes, springs, and embalming fluid. Normally, this game would require getting many more items, but due to heavy glitching, most of the items are skipped and the game is completed in a mere four minutes. This is an improvement over the previous run by 7 seconds. | ||
![]() | NES Gimmick! (JPN) "Best Ending" in 07:44.45 by Aglar & Hotarubi. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-06-12) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 14.53 MB, length: 09:45) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2700 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #579 (09:59.63) Rating: 8.7 (25 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Best ending - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| A short Japanese game about a small green creature who can summon stars to help him defeat monsters and to use them as platforms to reach high places and travel fast. In this movie, the authors aim to collect all the items to enter the secret 7th level after the boss at the end of the 6th level. They improve the previous movie by 2 minutes and 15 seconds. The game cartridge of Gimmick! contains a special microchip, FME7, which extends the number of sound channels in the game from 5 to 8, creating a more melodic soundtrack than in most other NES games. If you like this, be sure to check the other Gimmick! run, in which the player skips the secret items. | ||
![]() | NES Gimmick! (JPN) in 05:11.49 by Aglar & Hotarubi. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-06-10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 10.06 MB, length: 06:08) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2699 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1284 (06:08.73) Rating: 8.6 (32.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Gimmick! (1992) is another gem from Sunsoft, the company that brought us Ufouria and Journey to Silius. It was only released in Japan and Scandinavian countries, but eventually achieved somewhat of a cult status thanks to its refined gameplay, as well as exceptional music and graphic design. The plot follows a green toy on a quest to rescue a little girl from the clutch of other toys, who were rightfully upset at her forsaking them in favor of our protagonist. What these other toys can't do, however, is conjure stars to use them both as projectiles and very effective transportation devices! This joint venture between Aglar and Hotarubi improves the previous movie by nearly a whole minute thanks to a lot of new and refined tricks and shortcuts. They don't collect the special items required to access the 7th level, and thus get a bad ending. However, we have a "best ending" run as well just for your viewing pleasure! | ||
![]() | ![]() NES Gradius in 10:52.35 by adelikat. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-11-02) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 26.70 MB, length: 11:39) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1324 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #19 (14:12.0) Rating: 8.2 (77 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Uses death to save time - Uses warps - Genre: Shooter | |
| In this run, adelikat picks up maximum speed upgrades and has fun with perfect reflexes, much like the previous movie. That is certainly something nice to do, because the game scrolls automatically and the player cannot affect the speed. However, the point of this movie is not just to beat this game as fast as possible, but rather to do all kinds of unpredictable and awe-inspiring things rarely seen in any TAS — without losing time. See for yourself. 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 are occasionally used to generate pseudorandom input while still avoiding death. Also be sure to check out this movie being played back on an actual NES. | ||
![]() | NES Gremlins 2: The New Batch (USA) in 07:00.07 by Randil. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-07-25) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 17.42 MB, length: 08:40) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2333 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #232 (07:04.82) Rating: 7.1 (20.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Gremlins 2 done quick — the | ||
![]() | NES Guerrilla War (USA) in 13:02.35 by x2poet. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-02-21) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 32.00 MB, length: 15:10) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1836 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #771 (13:33.13) Rating: 6.5 (21.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Shooter | |
| x2poet seeks to quell the revolution in record time! This movie not only plays on the hardest setting, but it manages to do so almost 30 seconds faster than the previous movie. This is accomplished by controlling two players at once which finished boss battles quicker. | ||
![]() | NES Hammerin' Harry (JPN) in 07:11.39 by nitrogenesis. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-06-27) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 14.89 MB, length: 08:43) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3189 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #902 (07:17.83) Rating: 6.6 (9 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Takes damage to save time | |
| Hammerin' Harry is a pretty simple platformer. Armed with a big hammer, you make your way through 5 levels, and the first 3 levels have bonus levels as well. At the end of each level there is a boss, and in some levels, there are also mini-bosses. In short, this game is a "normal" platformer, you won't have a hard time figuring out what's going on. NitroGenesis improves on the previous movie by 5.72 seconds thanks to more optimized jumps and faster bossfights. For more info, we recommend reading the submission text. | ||
![]() | NES High Speed (USA) in 20:05.57 by dwangoAC. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2008-11-29) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 44.80 MB, length: 20:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2116 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.3 (26.5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Heavy luck manipulation | |
| Selected comments from the author: High Speed was released on the NES by Rare Inc. in 1991 and is based on a real pinball machine released by Williams pinball in 1985. The core rules of High Speed were ported over fairly faithfully from the original pinball machine although Rare added in two different minigames and a "wizard mode" goal which is reached by completing a total of 8 cannon minigames and 6 race minigames. Completing all three races and all four cannon minigames causes a spaceship to appear which displays a message that states "you have beaten the system... for now”; beating another round of three races and four cannon minigames causes a rocket to appear which states “you have beaten the system this time.” and marks the end of the game. Reaching this final “you beat the system” bonus is the goal of this speedrun. | ||
![]() | NES Hi no Tori: Gaou no Bouken (JPN) in 14:16.73 by AnS. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-03-25) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 27.90 MB, length: 16:33) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1482 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #20 (14:32.25) Rating: 7.0 (23.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Despite the fact that this is a Konami game, this game is not well-known in western countries. This game is really quite difficult. 火の鳥 = bird of fire (Japanese name for phoenix). This is a 15.5-second improvement to the previous author's movie, through a route change and extensive luck manipulation. | ||
![]() | NES Holy Diver (JPN) in 14:52.57 by Vatchern & Adelikat. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-06-11) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 41.72 MB, length: 18:27) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1586 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #513 (16:28.9) Rating: 5.9 (22.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Here is a game that was made as a tribute to Ronnie James Dio and features him as the main character. Also, the name of the game is taken from Dio's band's Holy Diver album. Beside that, the ending contains additional references to other famous rock/metal figures. Gameplay of this game is very similiar to Castlevania and some textures and the last boss are similar to Contra's. This game is also known to be nearly impossible to complete on a real console. This is a 1 minute 36 second improvement over the previous movie due to the use of new tricks, weapon selection, and some new shortcuts. | ||
![]() | NES Hook (USA) in 23:19.64 by GlitchMan. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-07-22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 44.61 MB, length: 23:34) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2738 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.7 (12.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Hook is an NES game based on the movie of the same name. Unlike the SNES game based on the same movie, this game is less linear, though there are still a limited number of effective routes on the map screen. Also, four items need to be collected to beat the game. GlitchMan plays through this game quickly, using some collision glitches which allow him to do things like fall through floors (as the screenshot for this movie shows). For more details, see the author's comments. | ||
![]() | NES Hydlide (USA) in 09:07.32 by Inzult. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-01-04) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 10.54 MB, length: 09:53) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1304 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.9 (25.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: RPG | |
| Hydlide is an old and somewhat notorious game, mostly because it has very strange gameplay mechanics. For the first part of the game, walking consumes health, and the character must stop every now and then to regain it. This one of the few games (the only one?) where the level grinding sequences are actually entertaining, while the boss fights aren't. Hitting a boss decreases your own health as well as the boss's, after which there is much waiting for more health until you can hit him again. It was suggested that this movie be published with a "Music from Hell" warning label. | ||
![]() | NES Ice Climber (USA) in 19:12.6 by Walker Boh. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-01-03) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 41.09 MB, length: 19:33) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #927 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #169 (21:51.5) Rating: 4.9 (40.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| This movie completes the 32 mountains of Ice Climber as fast as the author could do. It catches the bird in every bonus stage, which almost doubles the movie length. It's not a very exciting movie as whole, but due to how hard the character is control, the game is difficult to beat by normal playing. This fact might make the movie a bit more interesting. This movie is 2.5 minutes faster than the previous version by the same author. | ||
![]() | NES Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (USA) in 02:57.56 by MESHUGGAH & Randil. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-11-10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 3.27 MB, length: 03:31) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 3.01 MB, length: 03:31) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3352 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (8 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade lent itself to two well-known video game adaptations - an adventure game and a straight-up action game. This game, made by Taito, is neither of those two; it is comprised of several short smaller games with varying genres. | ||
![]() | NES Jackal (JPN/USA) in 07:25.98 by klmz. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-08-10) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 14.07 MB, length: 09:04) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2000 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #967 (07:36.9) Rating: 6.3 (19.5 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Forgoes time-saving death - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Shooter | |
| Unfortunately, Red from the last year's carnage got into an accident involving a badly thrown grenade and a few land mines, so Green takes it on all by himself in this new episode of Jackal. Not having to deal with the larger amount of two-player mayhem also means the game goes faster, which is a win for everybody. (Except that Red guy.) Coupled with better playing, this constitutes the 9 second improvement over the previous movie by xipo. | ||
![]() | NES Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu (USA) in 16:36.17 by Baxter. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-09-04) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 30.61 MB, length: 19:27) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #791 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #216 (17:03.6) Rating: 6.1 (19.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Jackie Chan is not a particularly impressive game, except for its music, which is relaxing to listen to. Jackie Chan has been played a few times on this site. Three times by Arc, once by Dan and now once by Baxter. Every submission was faster than the preceding one, and this movie is not an exception. This movie is 27.5 seconds faster than the previous version by Dan, and also takes 100% less hits than the previous version. In other words, no damage was taken. We recommend reading the author's notes of this movie. | ||
![]() | NES Jaws (USA) in 03:36.48 by adelikat. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-01-16) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 6.40 MB, length: 05:10) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1413 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #274 (04:19.07) Rating: 5.4 (31.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Adventure | |
| Anyone up for some fishing? 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. | ||
![]() | NES Journey to Silius (USA) in 09:29.71 by jlun2 & klmz. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-03-24) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 14.64 MB, length: 11:08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 15.49 MB, length: 11:08) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3495 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1014 (09:32.03) Rating: 8.2 (5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| A fast-paced action platformer from Sunsoft with similarities to both Megaman and Blaster Master. What could go wrong with a mix like that! This submission shaves a cool 1.38 seconds of input time over the previously published run. (The actual time improvement is slightly greater because this movie plays at a slightly higher framerate than the published movie does; this difference does not cause any changes in gameplay, though.) | ||
![]() | NES Kabuki Quantum Fighter (USA) in 09:20.83 by nitsuja. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-01-29) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 18.91 MB, length: 11:56) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #963 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #327 (10:23.67) Rating: 7.1 (30.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Kabuki is a well-made platformer with a lot of climbing and jumping acrobatics as well as straightforward action. And a main character that isn't afraid to use his hair as a weapon. Nitsuja's new version here is just over 1 minute faster than the last version due to playing extremely aggressively and taking as much damage as possible. Check the author's comments at the submission page for more information. | ||
![]() | NES Kanshaku tamanage Kantarō no Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi (JPN) in 08:31.18 by goofydylan8. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-05-23) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 9.20 MB, length: 08:47) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 10.36 MB, length: 08:47) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3608 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - Uses warps - Genre: Platform | |
| In Kanshaku tamanage Kantarō no Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi (かんしゃく玉投げカン太郎の東海道五十三次), you play a fireworks-maker traveling the Tōkaidō road. The game actually bears quite a resemblance to the actual geography of the Tōkaidō road; famous landmarks, rivers, and flora types are reproduced as well as they can be given the limitations of the Famicom. The game is quite difficult -- the hero is slow moving and hard to control, and your only weapon is an endless supply of fireworks. The author's comments detail the methods used as well as explaining all of the various baddies encountered during this quest. | ||
![]() | NES Karnov (USA) in 08:58.5 by adelikat. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2008-11-27) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 19.48 MB, length: 09:33) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2130 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #349 (09:04.25) Rating: 6.4 (20.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
Karnov is one of those games whose fame defies my logic― Bisqwit. The game retells the legend of a muscular fire-spitting man called Karnov, employed by Scottish villagers to eat gypsies' babies and pillage their settlements. Except in this particular case, Karnov's full name is Jinborov Karnovski, he looks like an old-school Ukrainian, turns blue when hit, and his goal here is to take some kind of treasures from feeble, unsuspecting enemies. Later in the game he also grows a pair of wings and flies. In doing so, he strongly defies laws of physics, common sense, and notions of subtle Kid Icarus mockery. The developers of this game, Data East, probably decided it would be a good idea to only let the screen scroll in one direction at once, and pretty slowly at that. It's not particularly surprising, though, considering the previous paragraph. This new version of Karnov TAS by adelikat is a ~5 second improvement over the previous movie by Arc. The time was saved thanks to taking damage in a different part of the run, as well as various small optimizations scattered around. | ||
![]() | NES Kickle Cubicle (USA) in 59:48.31 by goofydylan8 & Blublu. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-12-31) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 101.84 MB, length: 1:00:50) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 117.77 MB, length: 1:00:50) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3398 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Kickle Cubicle is a game where the title character kicks ice cubes to solve puzzles. Unlike most other NES puzzle games, it has a plot and even boss fights. Every story mode and bonus level (101 total) is completed in this hour long movie. | ||
![]() | NES Kick Master (USA) in 08:32.38 by dragonxyk. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-08-13) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 20.68 MB, length: 10:13) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2050 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #431 (08:58.48) Rating: 6.4 (21.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| In Kick Master (1991), there's a hero called Thonolan, who really likes kicking things. Obviously, the first thing you'll see him doing is kicking some odd-looking trinkets out of the enemies. By doing so repeatedly and collecting the trinkets like a true hero, he levels up and gains new abilities, allowing him to kick various forms of ass stronger and faster than before. You will marvel at the laws of physics being stomped by Thonolan feet. This game loops, and has to be completed once in order to unlocker a higher difficulty mode, but since all it does is doubling the enemies' HP, it has been considered unnecessary. Dragonxyk's take on this game is 26 seconds faster than the previous movie by foda. | ||
![]() | NES Kid Dracula (JPN) in 19:49.12 by adelikat, Randil, arukAdo, DarkKobold. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-08-09) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 29.15 MB, length: 21:54) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2359 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #89 (20:41.57) Rating: 6.7 (16.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - 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.
This is a 50+ second improvement over the previous movie by Phil and Genisto. | ||
![]() | NES Kid Icarus (USA/Europe) in 22:17.38 by Randil. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-11-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 39.13 MB, length: 24:13) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2469 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #899 (22:42.23) Rating: 7.7 (15.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Here's an improvement to the run of this famous game. A total of 24.85 seconds was saved. The improvement comes from a pause trick to manipulate the speed of platforms, buying a health drink in level 2-4, additional damage boosting, and more. See the author's comments for details. Note: The movie's torrent and Archive.org download have been replaced due to a desynchronization that has occurred. Please redownload the movie file. We apologize for any inconvenience. | ||
![]() | NES Kid Kool and the Quest for the Seven Wonder Herbs (USA) in 13:26.37 by Randil. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-06-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 14.71 MB, length: 16:43) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2691 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (11.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Kid Kool, a game created by Vic Tokai, stars "Kool" as he gains 7 magical herbs to cure the king of a dreaded illness. He does this along with his helpful red partner "Wicky" who can kill enemies and help defeat bosses. If the player fails to complete the game in under three hours (in-game), then the king dies. So this is a frantic game where speed is key. In this run, Randil uses zipping glitches (aided by MATLAB) and expert playing to finish with an in-game time of under ten minutes, leaving the enemies in the dust and saving the king with much time to spare. | ||
![]() | NES Kid Niki 2 (JPN) in 09:06.88 by Randil. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-09-02) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 20.25 MB, length: 10:01) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1669 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #483 (09:21.88) Rating: 5.7 (18.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| This is the fourth TAS movie of 快傑ヤンチャ丸 2 - からくりランド (Kaiketsu Yanchamaru 2 - Karakuriland). This is a pretty straightforward and simple game, but the author was still able to improve the old movie by 15 seconds primarily by getting more speed shoes. | ||
![]() | NES Kid Niki 3 (JPN) in 08:17.62 by TaoTao. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-10-15) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 14.39 MB, length: 09:14) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2096 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.9 (25 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Kid Niki 3 (aka. Kaiketsu Yanchamaru 3 - Taiketsu! Zouringen) is the sequel to Kid Niki and Kid Niki 2. However, it looks quite different from the previous games. In this game, you are a ninja who is a master of bo-jutsu (stick art), and you defeat enemies and get over obstacles with your staff. This game also has many locked doors which can be opened with keys found in the levels. TaoTao breezes through this game, in part due to a glitch which allows repeated backflips up walls. For more details, see the submission comments. | ||
![]() | NES King Kong 2: Ikari no Megaton Punch (JPN) in 03:04.13 by Hisatoki. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-11-23) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 7.53 MB, length: 04:22) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1200 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (31.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action | |
| King Kong is out to rescue his girl from a fortress that is impenetrable without eight keys from other fortresses. Luckily, that turned out to be false once tools were added to the mix. Although this is the first King Kong 2 TAS movie on this site, the hero of this game was already featured once, in a Wai Wai World TAS. | ||
![]() | NES Kirby's Adventure (USA PRG0) "glitched" in 05:44.57 by MUGG. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-01-10) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 15.03 MB, length: 08:27) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3411 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.6 (8.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Kirby's Adventure is a colorful game that's very long for a NES title. Normal gameplay forbids taking the UFO from level to level, but exploiting a bug discovered by kirbymuncher enables mugg to keep the UFO, allowing him to blaze through much of the TAS using it. This movie is 30 minutes and 57 seconds faster than the other Kirby run from JXQ by using a new glitch. Read the author's notes for more details. | ||
![]() | NES Kirby's Adventure (USA PRG0) in 36:45.5 by JXQ. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-10-18) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 70.18 MB, length: 41:58) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1314 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #42 (53:17.0) Rating: 7.2 (39 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Kirby is a colorful game that's very long for a NES game. Normal gameplay forbids the UFO from being taken from level to level, but using a bug discovered by kirbymuncher, JXQ manages to keep the UFO, and blazes through much of the game using it. The speed with which he defeats midbosses and bosses is often very surprising. This movie is several minutes faster than the previous unpublished movie by kirbymuncher, and is well over ten minutes faster than the original by Bisqwit. | ||
![]() | NES Kiwi Kraze (USA) in 02:24.28 by Max12187566 & J.Y. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2009-08-14) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 8.04 MB, length: 03:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2360 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #587 (03:58.45) Rating: 7.0 (20 votes) View Publication | - Uses warps - Genre: Platform | |
| In this game, you control a kiwi bird and rescue other kiwi birds trapped within the level. There are numerous warps, used to cut this game many minutes short of its expected completion time. The ceiling and wall physics are very similar to Bubble Bobble, which means some of them can be passed through when you wouldn't expect it. In addition to this there is a glitch that sends you through the floor, saving a lot of time in the final stages. The first submission was almost 14 minutes long and thought to be optimal, and now we are below 3 minutes. | ||
![]() | NES Kung Fu (USA) in 03:41.14 by Phil. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-10-03) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 3.20 MB, length: 04:12) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2401 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #340 (03:42.55) Rating: 7.0 (20.5 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Fighting | |
| Kung Fu (1985) is a simple beat-'em-up game in which the protagonist known as Thomas has 5 floors of bad guys and bosses to fight through in order to save Sylvia, his girlfriend. Unfortunately, as the final screen tells us, their happiness "does not continue long" — a common arcade trope to make the player beat the game in a second loop.
Phil bested the predecessor movie by over a second thanks to better luck manipulation and decreasing the amount of jumps.
This movie aims for lowest in-game time. The completion times for each floor are: 1552, 1558, 1552, 1545, 1550.
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![]() | NES Lagrange Point (JPN) in 1:03:25.1 by neo_omegon. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-08-20) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 105.84 MB, length: 1:50:42) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2719 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.5 (8.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| 'Lagrange Point' (ラグランジュポイント), is a very late (as in, released in 1991) Japanese-only RPG produced for the NES. This game is notable because Konami teamed up with readers of Family Computer Magazine (ファミリーコンピュータマガジン) to form a group, called 芸夢工房 (geimukoubou, art dream workshop), in order to make this game. The readers were permitted to design the characters, monsters, events, message-texts, music, the title-screen, and such. With enhanced sound for the NES due to Konami's VRC7 sound generator Integrated Circuit, the game is considered a masterpiece to many Japanese people. The story is about a pilot, Jin (also known as Gin), who is exploring a biohazard outbreak at a space colony, linked to the disappearance of Dr. Stolte. He arrives, only for the spaceship to be attacked. The effect of the outbreak soon becomes clear. More information on the game can be found on the Japanese Wikipedia (machine translation). This run features commentary in the form of Advanced SubStation Alpha soft subtitles created by FractalFusion and the author, neo_omegon. If you use MPlayer to view the MKV, add the -ass option to the commandline to view the subtitles with their proper layout. The MKV has been continued until past 1:50:00 to show a secret message after the end. | ||
![]() | NES Legacy of the Wizard (USA) in 13:44.23 by Lord Tom. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-09-30) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 26.89 MB, length: 17:40) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1680 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #884 (17:21.83) Rating: 7.5 (24 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Legacy of the Wizard (1987), released in Japan as "ドラゴンスレイヤーIV Dragon Slayer IV: Drasle Family", is actually a part of Dragon Slayer series. This is a nonlinear platforming adventure game, in which you gain control over one member of the Drasle family to explore the vast dungeon filled with mind bending puzzles and obscure secrets. The goal of the game is to retrieve a powerful sword named Dragon Slayer, protected by four magical crowns, to kill an evil dragon trapped in the nearby labyrinth. Each member of the family has different abilities, and the portion of the labyrinth only he/she can go into to retrieve one of the crowns. However, this prerequisite was circumvented by the clever use of certain new glitches. According to the author, this movie employs a completely different route, better luck manipulation and some new tricks that result in a 3:38 faster movie than the previous version. Moral of this movie: Beware of short fat men, for they're surprisingly quick. | ||
![]() | NES Legend of the Ghost Lion (USA) in 36:53.79 by link_7777. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-01-31) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 31.00 MB, length: 37:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3424 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Legend of the Ghost Lion features a young girl, searching for her parents and the mystery of the White Lion, using the power of dreams to summon allies to fight for her. Maria is seemingly a lucid dreamer, and gains the ability to control her dream and guide it to the truth of this game with the minimum of fuss. Now that's what I call a power nap! | ||
![]() | NES Linus Spacehead's Cosmic Crusade (USA) in 28:43.6 by Bag of Magic Food. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-01-11) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 36.80 MB, length: 30:29) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2965 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (7 votes) View Publication | - Unofficial game - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
Linus Spacehead's Cosmic Crusade is an unlicensed Nintendo game by Codemasters, which is also available licensed on the Genesis as Cosmic Spacehead. The game features a mix of adventure and side-scrolling action.
Here is the plot, according to Wikipedia:
Linus is an alien from the planet Linoleum who crashed into the legendary planet Earth. After returning home and expecting a hero's welcome, Linus soon found his fellow Linomen were skeptical of the existence of the so-called "planet Earth" and decides to return to it, this time with a camera. However, he is flat on the planets' currency, Linobucks, and must deal across the planet to get a new cosmic car and a camera. In his adventures, Linus deals himself out of Linoleum, quashes a robot revolution in Detroitica and gets gas from an abandoned space station.In this run, watch Bag of Magic Food breeze through this game in just under half an hour with precise playing and some glitches. For plenty of details, including transcriptions of the amusing pieces of dialogue in this game, read the author's lengthy comments. | ||
![]() | NES Little Mermaid (USA) in 06:48.4 by AnS. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-04-26) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 9.15 MB, length: 07:29) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1062 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #180 (07:38.65) Rating: 5.5 (28.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action | |
| "The Little Mermaid" is a simple game based on the movie of the same name. You control the mermaid Ariel as she swims through several stages and beats up bosses by tossing fish encapsulated in bubbles. Normally, shooting bubbles stops Ariel, so that a speedrun tries to avoid all the enemies. However, the author manages to fire shots with little movement delay, thanks to a glitch involving turning around. There is also luck manipulation to beat the bosses quite quickly. For more details, see the submission comments. This is AnS's first published movie here, improving the previous version by 51 seconds. | ||
![]() | NES Little Nemo: The Dream Master (USA) in 22:06.95 by Randil. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-10-27) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 33.20 MB, length: 27:12) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2408 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1000 (23:39.2) Rating: 7.2 (15 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Little Nemo done more optimized than before, with about 90 seconds saved. All levels have been improved. The improved time comes from new routes, getting killed to save time, subpixel optimization, lag reduction, faster boss fights and better damage boosting. | ||
![]() | NES Little Samson (USA) in 10:13.27 by klmz. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-04-05) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 22.68 MB, length: 14:42) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1913 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #584 (14:13.08) Rating: 7.7 (22 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Little Samson and his team are out to deliver tool-assisted fun! This game consists of four heroes with very different strengths and weaknesses. The object (and fun) of the game is to use these traits to your advantage depending on the situation. This movie improves the previously published movie by JXQ by almost 4 minutes, due to new glitches, better strategies and better precision. | ||
![]() | NES Low G Man (USA) in 10:30.93 by goofydylan8. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-05-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 16.31 MB, length: 14:20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 17.60 MB, length: 14:20) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3596 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.2 (3 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Low G Man is a futuristic action video game developed by KID for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The game is really difficult to run: the controls are at times clunky, the screen refresh is frustrating and finally the last boss is an example of a difficulty spike as it suddenly becomes much harder than the rest of the game. The author manages to complete the game in just 10 minutes, beating the real-time speedrun by 5 minutes. Read the author's comments for more information. | ||
![]() | NES Lunar Pool (JPN) in 23:49.87 by Bisqwit. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2010-07-08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 18.88 MB, length: 24:55) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2676 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (17.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Sport | |
| Lunar Ball, known as Lunar Pool in the US, is, as the name suggests, a pool game for the NES, comprising 60 stages of oddly-shaped tables. With some heavy support from a bot and the help of an unusual glitch on two tables, the game is completed in record time. The friction of the pool table can be adjusted; in this run it is left alone. See also the frictionless run. Reading the submission text is recommended. The emulator movie requires FCEU 0.98.15 or an earlier version of FCEU. On later versions of FCEU, the last table desyncs. | ||
![]() | NES Lunar Pool (JPN) "no friction" in 36:52.0 by Bisqwit. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2010-04-08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 50.27 MB, length: 38:27) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2609 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (23 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Genre: Sport | |
| Lunar Ball, known as Lunar Pool in the US, is, as the name suggests, a pool game for the NES with the curious ability to adjust the friction of the surface of the pool table. Indeed, it is quite possible to play with no friction, and while this may sound easy, it actually proves to be impossibly difficult due to removing the major obstacle from the balls just continuing to roll forever, causing the game to never end. With some heavy support from a bot (and massive loss of sanity), the author manages the nigh-impossible feat of making it all the way to the end of all 60 tables even in the face of this overwhelming opposition. Reading the submission notes is highly advisable to explain some of the oddities such as the occasional pocketing of the cue ball. (In short: The cue ball is deliberately pocketed in order to avoid getting a perfect score on every level because the point counter would take unbearably long to tick all the points, up to a half minute per level.) For more heavy optimization of pool tables, see also the run of this game with the default friction level. | ||
![]() | NES M.C. Kids (USA) in 18:15.97 by Aglar. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2009-02-03) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 42.09 MB, length: 19:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2167 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #697 (19:14.0) Rating: 7.4 (18 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Once you get past McDonald's blatant advertising and the fact that this game is about Ronald the clown, this game is actually quite good. The controls are a bit slippery but the level design more than makes up for it. In this particular movie the author collects only the cards that are necessary to complete the game. If you want to see all the cards collected and the secret levels played, check the other movie of this game. An improvement of 58 seconds arises from better acceleration techniques and strategic differences. | ||
![]() | NES M.C. Kids (USA) "all levels" in 26:25.12 by Brushy. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-07-09) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 48.88 MB, length: 27:56) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #981 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #438 (27:21.43) Rating: 6.4 (23 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes warps - Genre: Platform | |
| This M.C. Kids movie is different from the other one in that it completes all the levels in the game, not just the required ones. This run is 56 seconds faster than the previous version by a different author. | ||
![]() | NES Magician (USA) in 11:33.84 by FatRatKnight. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-02-02) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 23.85 MB, length: 11:50) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2550 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1288 (12:12.18) Rating: 6.2 (13 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Meet Paul -- A guy who starves to death five minutes after a grand meal. He also feels experienced from doing trivial things like entering a store or delivering mail. While many heroes would depend on hours of fighting for experience, Paul instead gets his experience from those trivial things in order to defeat Abadon in a timely manner. Best ending requires all such trivial tasks done, ensuring you see Paul gaining experience from delivering a letter or talking to a tree. Along the way, there are vicious enemies who beat up Paul. Being in a hurry, Paul doesn't stop for them, preferring to use the UNKNOWN spell to patch himself up. Normally this has a high chance of killing Paul in some of the most gruesome or comical ways possible, but instead it is manipulated to heal him. This beats the authors previous run by a little over 38 seconds, primarily due to a new route. Reading the author's comments is recommended. This movie features commentary by the author, which has been added to the encode in the form of soft subtitles. If watching embedded stream via Archive.org, you can press the nearly invisible commentary button on the top right corner to see the commentary. | ||
![]() | NES Maniac Mansion (USA) in 06:29.77 by Arc. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-02-18) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 5.96 MB, length: 08:30) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1838 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #444 (07:15.78) Rating: 6.0 (25 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Adventure | |
| Maniac Mansion (1990) is a unique game that has weird humor and crazy music. It features cutscenes, multiple ways to win, useless items (like Chuck the Plant), and microwavable hamsters. In the storyline, Dave and two of his friends infiltrate the Edison family's mansion in order to rescue Dave's girlfriend. In order to save her, the teens must get access to the inner lab, deal with Purple Tentacle, shut down the ZOM-B-MATIC, and defeat the evil Meteor. This movie—Arc's eighth TAS of Maniac Mansion—is about 46 seconds faster than the previous attempt. The author's comments for the submission help to explain the multitude of tricks and glitches used. | ||
![]() | NES Marble Madness (USA) in 02:43.01 by Aglar. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-01-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 5.86 MB, length: 03:14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 5.53 MB, length: 03:14) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2986 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #913 (02:48.4) Rating: 7.7 (22 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Genre: Platform - Genre: Racing | |
| Marble Madness is an isometric game similar in its style to Snake Rattle 'n Roll. The objective in these two games is quite different, though. In this game, the player must roll a marble from one point to another. This is, of course, not as easy as it sounds, and certainly not as easy as it looks in this movie. Aglar improved adelikat and Deign's movie by 5.10 seconds. A second encode is available using a camera hack to focus on the marble, which subtly alters the gameplay. Also, you can see this movie played back on an actual NES! | ||
![]() | NES Mario Adventure (USA PRG0) in 49:42.39 by andymac. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-03-09) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 69.78 MB, length: 52:06) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2595 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #457 (56:00.65) Rating: 7.4 (17.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
Mario Adventure is a hack of Super Mario Bros 3. These are the most noteworthy characteristics of it.
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![]() | NES Mega Man (JPN) in 12:23.34 by Shinryuu & FinalFighter. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-12-01) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 14.62 MB, length: 14:40) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Submission #2921 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1103 (15:29.27) Rating: 9.4 (55.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform ![]() ![]() ![]() | |
| On this site, we make perfect movies, and then we surpass them. Of course, if we can surpass them, they were not perfect in the first place, but who would have known? When "perfection" is defined as "as fast as possible", it requires some sacrifices. Indeed, this movie sacrifices a lot in the playability of the game. Full of tricks to pass through walls, tricks to avoid mandatory battles, tricks to pass through enemies relatively unharmed, tricks to acquire weapon refills in little time — there is very little in this movie left that resembles normal playing. Even death is used as a viable playing strategy that saves time. All of the tricks are still performed by the means of mere controller input, even though significant portions of the input were calculated by a computer program. This movie is a considerable improvement of 3:04.39 to the previous movie; this is mainly due to a new technique which tricks the game into calling an 'end of level' object. Of course, upon watching this movie, one does have to question something... is it Mega Man saving the world? Or Dr. Wily trying to save it from absolute destruction? | ||
![]() | NES Mega Man 2 (JPN) in 23:48.51 by aglasscage, FinalFighter, pirohiko, & Shinryuu. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-10-18) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 30.56 MB, length: 27:34) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2881 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1346 (23:54.75) Rating: 9.4 (33 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Mega Man 2 is a game that hardly needs any introduction. This movie plays Rockman 2, the Japanese version, which is essentially Mega Man 2 in difficult mode. This is an improvement of 6.24 seconds over the previous run through a variety of small tweaks. See Rockman Tricks and the submission message for in-depth explanation and answers to various questions regarding this movie. | ||
![]() | NES Mega Man 3 (JPN) in 30:44.73 by Aglar. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-07-28) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 71.77 MB, length: 36:37) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2030 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #700 (31:33.02) Rating: 7.9 (31.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Mega Man 3 (USAのロックマン3) is the first game in the Mega Man / Rockman series to introduce sliding (though the ability to charge the Mega Buster would have to wait until game 4). It also introduced Rush the robotic dog, who provides the abilities of Rush Coil, Rush Marine, and Rush Jet. Furthermore, after you beat the 8 robot masters, the game makes you revisit modified versions of four stages to fight the Doc Robots, who imitate the robot masters from Mega Man 2. This set a precedent in the Mega Man series to have additional stages between the main robot masters and Dr. Wily. This run completes the game about 48 seconds faster than the previous movie, thanks to lag reduction, optimization, and some new strategies. | ||
![]() | NES Mega Man 3, 4, 5 & 6 (USA) in 39:06.92 by Baxter & AngerFist. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-05-23) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 187.62 MB, length: 43:32) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1566 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.6 (65.5 votes) View Publication | - Demonstration - Multiple games in one movie - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform ![]() | |
| The games Mega Man 3, 4, 5 and 6 are all the same. Eight robot masters are defeated and Mega Man steals their weapons. After some kind of distraction, Mega Man attacks Wily's fortress and it typically gets blown up. If you don't believe that's true, we offer this movie. While driving home the point in honour of our first multi-game movie, Baxter and AngerFist prove that Capcom really has been making the same game over and over again by playing Mega Man 3, 4, 5 and 6 using the same input. No attempt is made to synchronize the endings of these games. Mega Man 6 finishes first and Mega Man 4 finishes last. The CPU demands for playback of this movie are unusually high. Systems under 1.2 GHz may struggle to play this video. The audio has been processed by adelikat for virtual surround sound. We recommend sitting back as far as possible and looking (staring?) at the center of the screen when watching the AVI. If you like this movie, you may like to check out other movies in which multiple games are played simultaneously with one controller. | ||
![]() | NES Mega Man 4 (USA) in 34:00.02 by GlitchMan. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-01-19) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 76.25 MB, length: 38:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2521 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #545 (34:34.38) Rating: 7.8 (19.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| This is the sixth published movie of Mega Man 4 (USAのロックマン4), played for the first time by GlitchMan. There are improvements in all of the stages, some more visible than others. The total amount of time saved is 34.36 seconds, achieved by being more accurate and using some cool glitches. | ||
![]() | NES Mega Man 5 (USA) in 31:41.68 by GlitchMan. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-06-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 51.75 MB, length: 35:24) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2707 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #476 (33:04.05) Rating: 8.4 (21.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| This is Mega Man 5 (USAのロックマン5) played by GlitchMan, in an improvement of 1 minute and 22 seconds over the previous run. Improvements include several new glitches involving the Super Arrow and new strategies for two of the boss fights. Reading the submission text is recommended for details on the glitches. | ||
![]() | NES Mega Man 6 (USA) in 30:46.78 by Shinryuu. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2009-01-11) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 75.69 MB, length: 35:44) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2156 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1083 (30:54.55) Rating: 8.5 (45 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Mega Man 6 (USAのロックマン6) sees everyone's favorite blue robot ruin Dr. Wily's plot for world domination for the sixth time. In this improvement, Shinryuu manages to save 7.55 seconds compared to his previous version by doing a complete run overhaul, utilizing the discovery of new glitches to hasten Mega Man's movement and firing capabilities, a route change, and heavy subpixel optimization. | ||
![]() | NES Mendel Palace (USA) in 19:02.97 by DarkKobold. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-11-11) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 50.38 MB, length: 21:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2904 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.3 (8.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Genre: Action - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Mendel Palace is an action-puzzle game. When playing in real-time, it becomes more action than puzzle, and when TASing, it becomes more puzzle than action. The idea is to shove your opponents into the walls of the arena by flipping over ground tiles. This is harder than it looks, since the enemies often approach in swarms and can kill you with one touch. Flipping can also reveal some other tile types. For instance, the sun tile flips over everything else, which often cleans up the arena in a hurry. However, there are also extra enemy spawn areas that can be uncovered, especially in the last levels. For more details, see the run's submission comments. DarkKobold beats the game in just over 19 minutes by using 2 players at the same time. | ||
![]() | NES Metal Gear (USA) in 22:35.93 by dunnius. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-03-18) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 19.60 MB, length: 24:04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 18.84 MB, length: 24:04) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3435 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1933 (22:55.17) Rating: Too few votes (1) to display View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action | |
| Metal Gear!? It can't be! This is the NES port of the first entry in the ever-popular Metal Gear series of stealth video games created by Hideo Kojima and developed and published by Konami; there are significant differences between it and the original MSX version. It is infamous for its engrish, containing such ever-popular phrases as "I FEEL ASLEEP!" and "UH - OH! THE TRUCK HAVE STARTED TO MOVE!". This movie utilizes quite a wide variety of game glitches and collects the minimal set of items needed to complete the game. This movie is a 19.23 second improvement, due primarily to an extra death warp; it also contains several smaller improvements. | ||
![]() | NES Metal Max (JPN) in 26:09.55 by ECCO. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2009-04-16) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 52.92 MB, length: 26:40) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2193 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (15 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| A mysterious war, known as "The Havoc", has almost destroyed the human civilization. How it broke out is unknown, and no one even dare to study about it. The few survivers have to struggle for life, among whom our young hero, E, just makes his decision, to become a great Hunter. Released by DATA EAST in Japan in 1991, Metal Max was one of the more "creative" role-playing games amongst Console RPGs, due to more freedom on the story. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic future, in which surviving people cluster from villages to ruins, while some Hunters from them fight monsters and outlaws in the "wild". The author abused glitches in the game to complete it achieving the "good ending" in less than half an hour, while normally it is supposed to take more than 10 hours. We recommend reading the author's comments for more details. | ||
![]() | NES Metal Storm (USA) in 12:54.23 by TheAxeMan. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-02-27) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 68.94 MB, length: 14:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #545 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.9 (22 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Second quest/Post game-completion - Uses a level password - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| An ultra-powerful gigantic mechadroid that can take one hit before exploding into confetti. Pah. This video uses a password to go directly to the second, harder version of the game. Note that the password shown on screen is not the one actually accepted by the game - the password is entered so fast the graphic function glitches. Another (more useful) glitch is that you can stand on spikes and other sorts of materials which ultra-powerful gigantic mechadroids have a natural weakness against if you jump all the time. The fireball form used for the first few levels more or less grants invulnerability when used constantly, as well as being a strong offensive weapon. It is not very effective against the sixth boss, so the author switches to a better projectile weapon before that. This switch entails that the rematches against the earlier bosses are slower, but the improvement on the sixth boss makes up for it. Please note that the AVI has been replaced with an updated MP4, this file provides both size and quality benefits over the former one. | ||
![]() | NES Metroid (USA PRG0) "low%" in 11:08.78 by Lord Tom. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-01-19) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 22.35 MB, length: 13:38) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 13.33 MB, length: 13:31) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2547 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1413 (11:45.46) Rating: 8.2 (21.5 votes) View Publication | - Low% completion - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Metroid completed using just one item: the morphing ball. Uses a game restart sequence (Up+A on second controller) to save time in backtracking. This is an improvement of 36.7 seconds over the previously published run, thanks to a new route and general optimisation. This movie features commentary by the author, which has been added to the encode in the form of soft subtitles. If watching embedded stream via Archive.org, you can press the nearly invisible commentary button on the top right corner to see the commentary. | ||
![]() | NES Metroid (USA PRG0) in 08:19.32 by Lord Tom. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-07-20) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 18.58 MB, length: 10:39) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 9.41 MB, length: 10:40) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2032 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #844 (08:52.18) Rating: 8.1 (36.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Metroid completed as fast as possible without holding back, and without concern for the game's sanity. A wealth of new tricks contribute to this 33 second improvement over the previous movie. The run uses a game restart sequence (Up+A on the second controller) to save time in backtracking. See Metroid Tricks for more information about the door glitch as well as other tips and tricks. Andy Dick has made a video which plays this run on top of the game map. This provides a unique perspective on the door warping glitches. | ||
![]() | NES Metroid (USA PRG0) "100%" in 33:25.7 by Lord Tom. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-07-05) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 56.28 MB, length: 35:47) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 39.80 MB, length: 35:46) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2305 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #202 (41:43.33) Rating: 7.5 (20 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| This is a full completion of Metroid, meaning that all items (100%) were collected. This is a 8 minute 16 second improvement over the previous movie by Zoizite. Much of the improvement comes from using the Up+A restart sequence, though many new shortcuts and optimizations also save time. | ||
![]() | NES Mickey Mouse 3: Yume Fuusen (JPN) in 13:09.92 by mz. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-04-03) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 26.34 MB, length: 18:29) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1854 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (19.5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Released as part of the mostly Game Boy Mickey Mouse series, Mickey Mouse III: Dream Balloon was released in September 1992 by Kemco in Japan for the Famicom. Due to copyright issues it was changed into Kid Klown in Night Mayor World for its US NES 1993 release. In this run, Mickey uses balloons as weapons, as platforms, and as floatation devices to make quick work of the stages. | ||
![]() | NES Mickey Mousecapade (USA) in 07:23.68 by Randil & CtrlAltDestroy. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-05-02) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 13.79 MB, length: 07:23) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1519 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #55 (07:31.7) Rating: 6.5 (25 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Even though at first sight this might seem like a kiddie game, when you start playing it you'll see that it's no cakewalk, and is actually very challenging. There's a lot of fighting in this game, so this movie is nonstop action, and it has very accurate shooting. This movie is a 35.5 second improvement over the previously published movie. | ||
![]() | NES Might and Magic (USA) in 08:07.72 by Dammit. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-05-13) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 13.30 MB, length: 10:24) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1418 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.5 (21 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: RPG | |
| Might and Magic, released in 1986, was the first installment in the series that would later evolve into a whole fictional universe, encompassing both the actual M&M games and a multitude of subseries and spin-offs made in their own genres, including King's Bounty, Heroes of Might & Magic, and others. Normally, this game is rather long. This movie by Dammit skips most of it by using a glitch that allows the player to get all the important items in a matter of a few minutes. We strongly recommend reading the author's comments for further details and explanations. For viewers' convenience, we included some of them in the AVI as subtitles. | ||
![]() | NES Mighty Bomb Jack (JPN) in 10:15.62 by Hisatoki. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-07-23) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 15.50 MB, length: 11:16) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1571 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.0 (18.5 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Uses death to save time - Uses warps | |
| Mighty Bomb Jack is a game where Jack goes to rescue his family from a pyramid. Along the way, he meets many enemies who start as mummies and change forms when they hit the ground. He also finds bomb-filled rooms at the end of each round, which work like warp rooms with a twist: you can warp ahead to the bomb room of the next round if the first lit bomb is the last bomb collected. Using this, the author warps past many rounds. However, this movie aims for the best ending, which is obtained by freeing all the family members in Round 12. This means that the author avoids warping past some rounds in order to collect items. For more details, read the submission comments. | ||
![]() | NES Mighty Final Fight (USA) in 09:06.62 by 韩晖 (aka. 西坡 (xipo)). | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-02-19) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 11.96 MB, length: 11:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1841 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #964 (10:24.47) Rating: 6.0 (19 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Fighting | |
| Mighty Final Fight is modeled after its arcade cousin Final Fight but features more cartoon-like graphics and lacks multiplayer. In this movie, the mayor of Metro City spins, punches and piledrives his way to save his daughter, all without the benefit of a shirt. The author rarely takes damage, with the notable exception of multiple suicides down an elevator shaft. This is nearly a minute and a half improvement over the previous movie. Also, the author made a switch from the JPN version to the USA, which results in a 5 second slower intro screen. | ||
![]() | NES Milon's Secret Castle (JPN) in 05:28.43 by Hisatoki. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-07-06) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 12.74 MB, length: 06:10) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1103 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #285 (07:20.72) Rating: 5.8 (27 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Puzzle | |
| The title of this game is very appropriate, as wherever you look there are walls you can break through, or invisible blocks you can make appear. In order to complete this game as fast as possible, every little secret must be known ahead of time, and the author clearly exhibits such knowledge. This movie was made with the Japanese version, 迷宮組曲 (Meikyuu Kumikyoku, meaning labyrinth composition), but it is essentially identical to the English version, except for the shop/intro text language. It is about two minutes faster than the previous version, mostly due to much faster boss fights and more precise maneuvers. | ||
![]() | NES Mitsume ga Tooru (JPN) in 16:11.17 by 韩晖 (aka. 西坡 (xipo)). | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-11-03) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 26.98 MB, length: 19:59) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1702 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (18 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| In this Japan only game, our psychic hero with a magical trident must defeat a variety of enemies, including possibly trolls. The kind with big pink fluffy hair. This run features no death and very accurate use of weapons. The trident in particular is very similar to Mega Man V. | ||
![]() | NES Moai Kun (JPN) in 15:00.02 by Randil. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-05-17) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 24.72 MB, length: 16:35) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1943 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #909 (21:29.57) Rating: 6.7 (19 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Moai Kun is a fun, fast-paced puzzle-platformer where the goal is to rescue all your pink friends and then reach the door - to continue to the next stage. It has a surprising amount of action for a puzzle game. In this run, all 56 levels are well-solved and well-played. There are some unexpected twists, such as going through walls, that allows levels to be beaten much faster than normal. This game is yet another example of Konami's fascination with moai (Easter Island statues). | ||
![]() | NES Monopoly (USA) in 00:30.03 by Acmlm. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-04-04) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 1.68 MB, length: 01:27) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1011 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #488 (00:33.62) Rating: 6.7 (67.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Sport | |
| This movie aims for the fastest time to get the CPU player bankrupt, and abuses luck to its fullest to make that happen. After a few turns of Monopoly war in the submissions, this version won out. It utilizes the same strategy from the previous one, but several seconds have been shaved by reverse engineering the random number generator and a brute force computer search to achieve the desired randomization with the least possible delay. Details can be found in the submission comments. Under assumption of pure randomness, the odds of reproducing this dice and card sequence on a console is 1 in a few (North American) trillions (22 568 879 259 648, divided by the few slight variations that could work). FractalFusion has produced an alternate superplay of Monopoly that is 3 seconds faster, but controversial. It has been cancelled. | ||
![]() | NES Monopoly (USA) "4 cpus" in 01:07.67 by FractalFusion. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-11-21) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 3.57 MB, length: 03:05) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1199 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (54 votes) View Publication | - Demonstration - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Sport | |
| While the CPUs were distracted, FractalFusion changed the dice on them and then left the board for a few minutes. When he came back, all the CPUs were crying. The fraud squad is still investigating. This movie aims to defeat 4 CPU controlled players in as little time as possible. Luck is manipulated for the 1:08 and then the controller is released, allowing the game to take its course. | ||
![]() | NES Monster in My Pocket (USA) in 14:14.97 by x2poet & dragonxyk. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-09-14) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 22.47 MB, length: 15:47) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2066 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.3 (18.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| This game follows the adventures of miniature Dracula and Frankenst… rather, "Vampire" and "The Monster" as they dodge giant golf balls, fight miniature Godzillas and ultimately do battle with a massive head on an equally large television screen. The authors frequently make use of two players simultaneously to both fight enemies quicker and also provide choreographed dancing. This also allows for more damage- and death-abuse to be used to save time. | ||
![]() | NES Monster Party (USA) in 14:58.07 by Tanooki Teabag. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-03-10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 21.88 MB, length: 16:14) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3027 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (10 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Genre: Platform | |
| Mark is on his way back home from a baseball game when an alien gargoyle called Bert summons him to save his home planet from evil monsters using his almighty baseball bat. In this very strange game, you must defeat bosses in each stage before obtaining a key to the next stage. The player normally controls Mark, but by picking up a pill from monsters, Bert can be used. Bert can fly and shoot powerful shots, but he only lasts a short while unless another pill is obtained. This is the fifth effort to tackle this game and the first to be published. | ||
![]() | NES Moon Crystal (JPN) in 08:39.82 by JXQ. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-11-10) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 22.52 MB, length: 11:25) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1744 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #583 (08:43.62) Rating: 6.5 (21.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Moon Crystal (ムーンクリスタル), a platformer only released in Japan, follows a boy through his quest to save his family. The mechanics of the game are slightly reminiscent of Ninja Gaiden and Prince of Persia, with rather detailed animation. Items that can be obtained include boots which allow a double-jump maneuver, and a sword, which causes multiple hits when the character's energy is low. Bosses are defeated quickly by using this sword power-up, after taking enough damage to activate its extra power. | ||
![]() | NES New Ghostbusters II (Europe) in 17:45.59 by Zus. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2008-11-27) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 32.21 MB, length: 20:16) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2122 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (20.5 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Genre: Action | |
| The New Ghostbusters II is a much different game than the USA edition, even though they are based on the same movie. The European version, shown here, takes a Blaster Master-esque approach to the gameplay with a top-down view. Zus has spent a lot of his time making sure enemies are in highly ideal places, which in turn means that a lot of re-records were spent comparing and working out the best possible route. As a result, Zus saved over 11 seconds from his previous version. | ||
![]() | NES Nightshade (USA) in 08:27.67 by Maximus. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-12-18) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 12.28 MB, length: 09:45) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1165 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #509 (08:53.12) Rating: 5.5 (18 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Fighting | |
| Welcome to Metro City, the intro of this game promptly starts with the murder of Metro City's hero Vortex. The need has arose for a new hero; Nightshade - a guy in a trench coat! In this game, guide Nightshade through Metro City to build popularity, fight rats, gentleman, and female ninjas, and most importantly museum statues. This run by Maximus speeds through the game as fast as Nightshade is able to, ignoring lesser goals such as the museum items, saving a kitty, or checking out the women's dressing room. It is 25 seconds faster than the previous version by the same author. Unfortunately the only escape from a deathtrap seen in this run is the deathtrap Nightshade finds himself in at the beginning; however one of the highlights of this game which can also be enjoyed in this run is the hilarious dialog, such as being threatened by the legalization of wooden nickels. | ||
![]() | NES Ninja Crusaders (USA) in 04:08.45 by AnS & Randil. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-02-28) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 8.59 MB, length: 04:49) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1868 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1006 (04:10.38) Rating: 7.4 (23.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Genre: Platform | |
| The story is about a mysterious robotic force which attacked the world and drove the ninjas out of Japan. Two of the ninjas set out to reclaim the land, but not only did they abuse the powers given by the ninja-obsessed video game industry, they did it in style. The teamwork of the two ninjas is remarkable. One of the ninjas often transforms into a tiger on which the other ninja can ride. | ||
![]() | NES Ninja Gaiden (USA) in 10:52.68 by Scumtron. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-07-10) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 26.57 MB, length: 16:26) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1119 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #539 (11:02.47) Rating: 8.4 (38.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Ninja Gaiden involves an ultra superior ninja, capable of defying the laws of physics by climbing through walls, making dogs explode with his sword, and all while beating bad guys in record time. This run is about 10 seconds faster than the prior submission due to the ninja thinking more like a ninja. | ||
![]() | NES Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos (USA) in 09:14.32 by Scumtron. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-04-09) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 28.11 MB, length: 17:24) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1497 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #569 (09:18.27) Rating: 8.2 (26.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| NINJA外伝2 — The Dark Sword of Chaos, now completed about 4 seconds faster than the previous version by the same author, due to lots of small optimizations throughout every level.
The shadow clones are a unique gameplay element not seen elsewhere in the series, but in this movie they are used mainly to make extremely short work of bosses and entertain the viewer immediately afterwards.
The game has a rich plot with lots of cutscenes. Because of this, the author has also supplied the "story" version of the movie, which exhibits the same gameplay but includes all the cutscenes skipped by pressing start (which sum up to about 3/4 of the entire movie). It can be obtained here.
A good sense of humor is strongly advised to note the irony present in some of the later dialogues between characters. | ||
![]() | NES Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom (USA) in 11:11.93 by Scumtron. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-11-20) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 26.19 MB, length: 15:50) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1749 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #246 (11:30.25) Rating: 7.7 (22 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| The least-subtle ninja in history is back for a third entry in one of the hardest video game series ever. Scumtron improves upon TheAxeMan's previous movie by over 18 seconds by using Up+A to cancel attack animations, subpixel optimization and faster wall climbing, among other small optimizations. | ||
![]() | NES Nuts & Milk (JPN) "100%" in 14:06.07 by klmz. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-06-10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 6.61 MB, length: 14:25) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3164 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1361 (14:21.3) Rating: 5.7 (10 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Forgoes warps - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Nuts & Milk is a platform game deriving influences from a number of famous Nintendo games, including Kirby (puffy pink blob as a protagonist), Mario Bros. (green and red fireballs), Donkey Kong Jr. (spring platforms, jumping from ladder to ladder and fruits) and Wrecking Crew (barrels). This improvement of 15.22 seconds over the previous published movie collects all the fruit in all stages, including the bonus round (the latter of which triggers the 'PERFECT' ending). | ||
![]() | NES Panic Restaurant (USA) in 13:29.17 by Aglar. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-01-11) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 22.76 MB, length: 14:46) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1760 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (20 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Chef Cookie must navigate through his cursed restaurant to foil the wicked Ohdove (which is like saying "Hors D'Oeuvre" with a cold). On his way he dispatches anthropomorphic food items with deadly kitchen utensils. The author does this with maximum speed, utilizing damage boosts, managing lag and swiftly defeating bosses. A must see for fans of the absurd. | ||
![]() | NES Paperboy (USA) in 11:30.78 by Randil. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-12-25) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 22.14 MB, length: 12:07) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1380 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (36.5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Demonstration - Uses death to save time | |
This run of Paperboy performs a perfect delivery every day. The author crashes his bike Monday - Saturday to avoid the obstacle course but then plays and finishes it flawlessly on Sunday. It does this as fast as possible, but does
not go for score. Instead, it has different subgoals set up every day:
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![]() | NES Pinball Quest (USA) in 03:39.52 by Aqfaq. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-06-17) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 9.34 MB, length: 05:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3175 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #746 (04:09.3) Rating: 6.3 (12.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action | |
| This game features a classic save-the-princess plot... in the form of a pinball game. This run saves 29.36 seconds over its predecessor (accounting for a frame rate difference) due to improved strategies and increased precision. If you like pinball games featuring characters as the ball, also check out Sonic Spinball or Mario Pinball Land. | ||
![]() | NES Pipe Dream (USA) in 03:57.53 by Explosion Pills. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-06-26) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 3.67 MB, length: 03:59) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1996 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.9 (30.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Pipe Dream is a game about keeping unsolidified jello in tubes long enough for it to solidify. More or less. In this movie, Explosion Pills places pipes faster than a plumber on fifteen cups of coffee and only goes as far as absolutely required to contain the goo. Unfortunately, the annoying music played though most of the game is the "turbo mode" music, and since turbo mode makes the goo flow faster, it can't be ignored in a run that aims for fastest time. It's a good idea to just turn off sound while watching this movie. This movie stops after playing though all stages once. After that, they repeat endlessly, not unlike Elevator Action and Circus Charlie, among others. On June 28, 2008, the AVI was replaced with one that did not have a video/audio desync. | ||
![]() | NES Pizza Pop! (JPN) in 09:34.29 by Randil. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-12-26) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 11.91 MB, length: 12:17) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2484 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.6 (8 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Delivering pizza is not normally a job one would consider dangerous. This is not always the case, as this game proves; here our protagonist is called upon to deliver pizza to such odd locations as a construction site and a haunted house, all the while dodging enemies apparently intent on claiming the pizza for themselves. If you were hoping for free pizza from slow delivery, look somewhere else; the author succeeds in deliveries so quickly you'll think the guy was there before people even placed their order. | ||
![]() | NES Power Blade (USA) in 16:25.63 by Aglar. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2009-03-19) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 30.25 MB, length: 17:26) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2198 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #193 (17:10.7) Rating: 7.3 (18 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Power Blade is an underdog title by the folks at Taito, highly reminiscent of the Megaman series. It also features a hero who looks a lot like Arnold Schwarzenegger. This is one of those obscure games that you may wish you had played as a kid. In this updated run Aglar decimates the previous version by 45 seconds thanks to improved frame precision in what was once a highly contested game, now revived. | ||
![]() | NES Prince of Persia (USA) in 16:27.82 by SprintGod. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-03-16) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 18.10 MB, length: 17:08) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1002 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #178 (16:39.05) Rating: 5.9 (29.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Tackling the crazy architecture of ancient Persia in record time, Gavin Ward improves his previous movie by just a few seconds. This movie makes the "Prince of Persia" look like a gymnastic winner. | ||
![]() | NES Punch-Out!!, Mike Tyson's (USA PRG1) in 17:47.71 by adelikat. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-12-17) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 38.86 MB, length: 19:10) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2936 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #766 (17:50.0) Rating: 7.6 (11.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Sport | |
The objective is not to beat your opponent... but to humiliate him by winning as fast as possible.
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 0:58.00 Mr. Sandman 2:18.00 Super Macho Man 0:45.25 Mike Tyson 1:58.XXNo clock stop glitch in this run, we have a submission that does exploit this glitch. This is the 5th published version of this game. This run manages to improve four fights, totaling to a 0.97 second clock time improvement, and 32 frames of real time improvement. | ||
![]() | NES Puzznic (USA) in 29:02.75 by rchokler. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-12-22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 15.02 MB, length: 29:14) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3364 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.3 (3 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Puzznic is one of the lesser known puzzle block games on the NES. Normally, each level takes a minute or so to complete. In this movie, each one is completed in just a few seconds. The author even manages to overflow the score display before completing the game. Read the author's comments for more details on the "block-juggling" and other glitches used in this movie. | ||
![]() | NES Quarth (JPN) in 01:01.45 by Acmlm. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-06-15) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 3.53 MB, length: 02:32) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1001 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.4 (31.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Single level - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Puzzle - Genre: Shooter | |
| Quarth might be best described as a mix of a shooter and Tetris. You control a ship that moves horizontally at the bottom, and shoot incoming blocks or groups of blocks (adding tiles to them) to give them a rectangular shape and make them disappear. Each level scrolls at an increasing speed until you reach the end, and you lose if a block reaches the line floating above the ship. | ||
![]() | NES Quattro Adventure: Treasure Island Dizzy (USA) "100%" in 13:40.03 by goofydylan8. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-03-16) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 11.93 MB, length: 15:02) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 13.77 MB, length: 15:02) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3459 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (3 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Dizzy, the intelligent egg-like creature, is back in this second game of the famous series from the 1980s. He needs to gather items that he can trade for boat parts to escape from some islands. For the best ending, he also needs to find 30 coins, some of which are hidden. This game has a reputation of high difficulty because of its physics and control scheme, but goofydylan8 makes it look like a relaxing platformer through masterful route planning and item management. | ||
![]() | NES R.B.I. Baseball (USA) in 04:29.23 by adelikat. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-05-31) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 7.08 MB, length: 04:48) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1976 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (30 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Sport ![]() | |
| A typical Sunday afternoon game of baseball...if those games include ridiculous plays, bizarre glitches, and other wild antics. | ||
![]() | NES Rad Racer (USA) in 21:55.98 by Saturn. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-06-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 48.84 MB, length: 22:58) OGM file via BitTorrent (size: 48.37 MB, length: 22:58) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #713 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 3.5 (27 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Racing | |
| Rad is a slang term, short for radical. This movie shows what radical sports is when applied to car driving on NES. Curiously, the game Rad Racer was made by Square, which is probably best known for its Final Fantasy game series. Quite a different game, this here... If you decide to play this game, we recommend the Power Glove. It's so bad. | ||
![]() | NES River City Ransom (USA) in 06:53.42 by Chamale. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-08-18) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 10.81 MB, length: 09:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1663 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #37 (08:59.95) Rating: 6.2 (35 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Takes damage to save time - Uses easiest difficulty - Genre: Fighting | |
| In River City Ransom, Alex and Ryan face off against gangs of students and evil bosses to win their town back and rescue their girlfriends. A glitch is used often in this run when left and right are pressed at the same time, which causes the player to do all sorts of crazy things, and usually lose all of his power. This is done to reduce lag during running segments. The boss battles are fought with style in mind, using a variety of attack methods throughout. For a River City Ransom movie which, instead of aiming purely for speed, concentrates more on goofing around, click here. | ||
![]() | NES River City Ransom (USA) "Playaround" in 12:55.38 by adelikat & JXQ. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-12-04) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 19.66 MB, length: 16:13) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1740 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.9 (44 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - 2 Players - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses easiest difficulty - Genre: Fighting ![]() | |
River City Ransom is a goofy game that deserves a goofy TAS. This movie showcases cool tricks and some glitches that don't necessarily result in the fastest completion. We also have a movie which aims for speed.
Selected Quote from the authors:
We looked at previous submissions and demonstrations of this game and tried to include the most entertaining parts of what was available, and add in a few ideas of our own along the way. Hopefully you'll get a kick out of it. | ||
![]() | NES RoboCop 3 (USA) in 05:09.82 by dragonxyk. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-08-15) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 11.12 MB, length: 05:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2051 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (22.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action | |
| Based off the movie of the same name, Robocop 3 is a game where you play as a cyborg while killing thugs. In this run, Robocop walks slowly, but has insane shooting skills. | ||
![]() | NES Rockin' Kats (USA) in 16:33.71 by FatRatKnight, Tompa, pirate_sephiroth & MESHUGGAH. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-10-15) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 19.74 MB, length: 20:11) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3329 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #432 (21:43.47) Rating: 7.4 (9 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| In Rockin' Kats, Willy the Kat's girl Jill is kidnapped no less than five times by the local crime boss, and, armed with little more than a 'punch-gun', he sets out to rescue her. This run was the winning submission to TASVideos' Dream Team Contest 4, and improves the old run by just over five minutes. There is also a run of this game that completes the hidden Channel X. | ||
![]() | NES Rockin' Kats (USA) "Channel X" in 01:03.43 by AnS. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-09-09) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 4.73 MB, length: 02:55) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1120 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (29 votes) View Publication | - Uses hardest difficulty - Uses a level password - Genre: Platform | |
| Whoever said cats can't fly needs to watch this movie.
Rockin' Kats is a nice platformer with tricky gameplay similar to
Bionic Commando and Ninja Five-O. This little movie represents the hardest part of the game - Channel X, which normally appears as a secret bonus stage after the normal ending. This TAS however does not play through the entire game, but inputs a password in the beginning to access Channel X right away. This 1-minute movie has all the ingredients needed for a good TAS: high-speed acrobatics involving a punchgun and unmotivated violence towards various types of canine. If you liked this movie, be sure to also check out the movie that beats the actual game. | ||
![]() | NES Rockman no Constancy (JPN) "hard" in 28:59.07 by woabclf. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-05-24) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 41.04 MB, length: 33:01) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2675 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1526 (27:27.7) Rating: 7.0 (15 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Unofficial game - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| This popular hack for Rockman 2 contains a wide variety of new bosses, weapons, levels, graphics, and music, going far beyond the capabilities of the original game. Two versions of this hack exist - "normal" mode and "hard" mode, with the primary difference being no mercy invincibility on hard mode. This run uses hard mode. The normal run is obsoleted despite being around 2 minutes faster due to playing on hard. | ||
![]() | NES Rod Land (Europe) in 07:49.39 by MESHUGGAH. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-01-15) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 13.11 MB, length: 08:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3420 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.9 (3 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Rod Land is a game with as many incarnations, as differences between them. In their NES outing, Tam and Rit overcome a rare video game impediment - the inability to jump - as they go around stages, trapping enemies with their magic rods and smashing them to make power ups. Hm, I wonder where I've seen that before... | ||
![]() | NES Rolling Thunder (USA) in 10:59.55 by Randil. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-03-30) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 32.74 MB, length: 11:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2608 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #373 (11:50.58) Rating: 5.8 (9 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Second quest/Post game-completion - Genre: Platform | |
| Some longlegged dude has had his future wife kidnapped by Ku Klux Klan wannabe space aliens. Between the levels they taunt him by showing pictures of her in risqué positions on wide-screen TV, while dancing in front of it (We wish we were making this up, but NES games can be pretty weird sometimes). The author uses a password to get the hardest difficulty, thus not having to finish the game twice. The author also improves on the previous run by about 51 seconds. | ||
![]() | NES Rush'n Attack (USA) in 09:35.9 by Randil. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-06-25) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 17.66 MB, length: 11:41) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2712 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #499 (09:37.27) Rating: 6.3 (9.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| In this game, two jovial brightly-colored soliders infiltrate enemy forces. Everyone here runs around menacingly, and bullets are a bit slower than a housecat. This movie is about a 2 second improvement to the previous version. Note: The name of this game is Rush’n Attack. The 'n does not stand alone as a contraction of and, unlike Ghosts ’n Goblins. Given the theme of the game, the pun on “Russian Attack” is quite obvious. | ||
![]() | NES Rygar (USA PRG1) "0%" in 06:08.74 by Cardboard. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-07-28) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 13.15 MB, length: 09:19) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2743 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.2 (16 votes) View Publication | - Low% completion - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| Rygar is an action game involving a hero with a shield as a weapon. Normally, the hero must obtain items, such as a grappling hook, to be able to explore the world of Garloz, and he must also defeat five bosses to gain access to the final area. However, these requirements can be circumvented with glitches. Indeed, this run kills no bosses except the final boss and does very little leveling. In contrast to the any% run and the warpless run, which use the European version of Rygar, this movie uses the American version. The two ROM versions have some different glitches. For more details about the ROM choice, as well as some background explaining what in the world is going on here, see the movie comments as well as our Rygar tricks page. | ||
![]() | NES Rygar (Europe) "warp glitch" in 05:23.14 by Lord Tom. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-04-05) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 14.91 MB, length: 07:14) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1916 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #391 (06:28.72) Rating: 7.4 (28 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| This movie completes the PAL Rygar with only one item, the grappling hook. It is a 65.58 seconds improvement to the previous movie by Walker Boh -- this time played by Lord Tom. Although the route in this movie is almost exactly the same, time was saved mostly by accumulating the tone points (for Rygar's strength) a lot faster. There were other improvements as well. We recommend reading the author's comments for more details. Note: If you are watching the FCM, don't forget to enable PAL emulation in FCEU! It's under the Config menu. | ||
![]() | NES Rygar (Europe) "warpless" in 15:43.32 by Lord Tom. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-05-17) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 40.19 MB, length: 17:33) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1957 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #317 (20:26.7) Rating: 7.5 (21 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| This movie is different from the other Rygar movie in that it plays all levels and doesn't use any glitch to warp from a boss battle to another. Aside from that limitation, this movie makes full use of all the bugs and glitches in the game which can be used to speed up the run. If you are wondering what really is going on in this movie, see the Rygar Tricks page for some info about the tricks used. This is a 4 minutes and 43.38 seconds improvement to the previous movie. Note: If you are watching the FCM, don't forget to enable PAL emulation in FCEU! It's under the Config menu. | ||
![]() | NES Shadowgate (USA) in 07:41.99 by Randil. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-08-14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 4.50 MB, length: 08:30) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.radiokj.com Mirror www.flurret.net Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3248 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1827 (08:23.84) Rating: 6.8 (11.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Storybook | |
| Shadowgate is a storybook game in which you wake up in front of a big castle and must make your way through it solving a variety of puzzles. This run created by Randil is 41.84 seconds faster than the previous run of the game. For more details about the improvements done in this run, you can read the author's comments. Author commentaries are available through the run in the form of subtitles. They can be enabled or disabled in the YouTube stream. | ||
![]() | NES Shadow of the Ninja (JPN) in 09:48.32 by klmz. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-08-20) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 21.81 MB, length: 12:36) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1653 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #856 (09:22.13) Rating: 6.7 (21 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| In the year 2029, evil Emperor Garuda somehow establishes a dictatorial government in the United States. After many lives are lost, two ninjas attempt to overthrow him. Shadow of the Ninja is one of the rare games in which constantly jumping and slashing is faster than regular running. The author makes sure to use this move extensively both to travel and to deal damage to enemies, and so it may seem that the ninja has a severe case of ADHD. This game was released in Europe as Blue Shadow and in Japan as Kage. Note: the previous movie was erroneously played on the European PAL version in NTSC mode, making the game run too fast. Its actual completion time was 11:15, making this movie one minute and 26 seconds faster. | ||
![]() | NES Shatterhand (USA) in 17:43.23 by Cardboard. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-06-24) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 34.74 MB, length: 21:04) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2711 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #585 (18:07.58) Rating: 6.6 (12 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Shatterhand is a bit like Batman. However, Shatterhand is longer, has no walljumps, and is a lot laggier. On the other hand, in this game, the main character can buy a powerup to give him a cool brown vest, doubling his punching power, and this vest lasts until the player takes damage three times (it even lasts between stages). This movie by Cardboard is about 24 seconds faster than the previous version by JXQ, largely due to decreased lag. | ||
![]() | NES Skate Or Die 2 (USA) in 10:28.37 by JXQ. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-11-02) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 20.51 MB, length: 12:36) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #756 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.3 (18 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Yo dude! Skate Or Die 2 is quite an unpopular NES game, mostly due to the game sucking and the controls being unresponsive. Luckily, bad programming can work to one's advantage in a project like this. Luck manipulation is also a big part of getting through this game quickly. Skate straight! | ||
![]() | NES Snake's Revenge (USA) in 31:39.92 by Dammit. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-08-12) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 30.61 MB, length: 33:27) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 38.62 MB, length: 33:27) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2045 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.2 (18 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action | |
| In a not-so-canonical sequel to Metal Gear, Solid Snake returns with a newfound ability to stop his own bullets, take minor damage to avoid major damage and an interesting ability to use cans of tuna to replenish his breath while underwater. For those interested, the author provides a lua script that allows you to view the HP of enemies, bomb timers and hostages rescued when using FCEUX. | ||
![]() | NES Snake Rattle n Roll (USA) "1-player" in 07:07.21 by Aglar. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-12-15) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 25.52 MB, length: 08:26) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2934 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.5 (10 votes) View Publication | - Forgoes warps - Genre: Platform | |
| Snake Rattle 'n Roll is a 3D game mostly about collecting objects along the line of "nibble bibbles". The biggest part of the game is the tricky maneuvers required to complete the big mountain levels that are difficult to perform in real time. This is a single player speedrun of this game, the two-player speedrun can be viewed here. | ||
![]() | NES Snake Rattle n Roll (USA) in 07:27.87 by nitsuja. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-01-26) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 17.40 MB, length: 08:55) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #959 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #445 (08:56.98) Rating: 7.7 (29 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Forgoes warps - Genre: Platform | |
| Snake Rattle 'n Roll is a 3D game mostly about collecting the "nibble bibbles" or something like that. The biggest part of the game is the tricky maneuvers required to complete the big mountain levels. This movie is a 1.5 minute improvement to the previous author's movie, due to better maneuvers, luck manipulation and other tricks such as controlling two snakes at the same time. No warps are used. There is also a more recent one-player run available. | ||
![]() | NES Snow Bros. (USA) in 13:56.85 by Randil. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-10-08) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 25.09 MB, length: 17:36) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1718 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #45 (16:45.05) Rating: 5.0 (21 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Forgoes warps - Genre: Platform | |
| This game is a little similar to Bubble Bobble. This is a 2 minute 48 second improvement over the previous movie. Like the previous movie it uses 2 players and does not take warps. | ||
![]() | NES Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warpship (USA) in 23:04.42 by Blublu. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-03-08) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 35.34 MB, length: 24:45) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #998 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #388 (24:09.23) Rating: 5.4 (20.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Genre: Shooter | |
| Solar Jetman is a space adventure game where the main excitement comes from the physics of the game. In the game, you explore planets with a small module you fly around, towing fuel tanks and other artifacts back to the mother ship, often from planets with a ridiculous level of gravity and narrow hazardous caverns. Anyone who has played this game surely knows how difficult it can be, while being entertaining for hours after hours. There are a few different modules to fly, and even a password option, but none of these were used in this movie. This movie completes the game through a few secret warps, extensive usage of the afterburner, many reckless maneuvers and a few timebombs, now about 1 minute faster than the previous author's movie. | ||
![]() | NES Solitaire in 00:42.8 by FractalFusion. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-10-01) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 1.06 MB, length: 01:05) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.nicovideo.jp) Submission #3303 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1096 (00:47.27) Rating: 5.7 (11.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Strategy | |
| Solitaire is a family of single-player card games. The particular form featured on the NES is called Klondike, and you can find it distributed with many desktop operating systems, such as Windows. This run improves the previous one by ~4.5 seconds, which was done on the same layout, thanks to movement optimisation. Please read the submission comments for more details. | ||
![]() | NES Solomon's Key (USA) "best ending" in 25:09.58 by agwawaf. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-05-04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 31.79 MB, length: 26:47) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3145 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #498 (26:35.83) Rating: 5.3 (7 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Forgoes time-saving death - Forgoes warps - Genre: Platform - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Solomon’s Key is a puzzle platform game with an old clumsy magician who has the power of creating and destroying platforms. And through that power, he saves the world. This movie plays all the rooms of the game, including the hidden rooms with Page of Time, Page of Space, and even a princess of some kind. (Fairy collection rooms were not included.) No warps were used. Due to those secrets, it accomplishes the best ending of the game. This movie is almost a minute and a half faster than the predecessor movie. In addition, it marks the obsoletion of the last Famtasia movie. | ||
![]() | NES Solstice: The Quest for the Staff of Demnos (USA) "100%" in 12:15.09 by Randil. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-08-20) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 21.81 MB, length: 13:37) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2798 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (6 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Solstice: The Quest for the Staff of Demnos (1990) follows a wizard called Shadax on his quest to retrieve the eponymous staff in order to save a princess from being unjustly incarcerated. The game is essentially a huge isometric labyrinth filled with devious traps and oddball creatures to ensure especially frustrating peril in the absence of any kind of map to help the player. (Well, at least it was like that before the Internet era, but make no mistake: the game isn't by any means easy nowadays, either.) One of the most memorable aspects of the game is its jazzy musical theme filled with deep bass notes uncommon for the NES. This is a 100% completion run of Solstice. Getting 100% means visiting every room and picking up all items. We have an any% published Solstice run that can be seen here. | ||
![]() | NES Solstice: The Quest for the Staff of Demnos (USA) in 05:40.04 by Randil. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2008-11-05) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 8.02 MB, length: 07:03) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2129 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #900 (05:41.85) Rating: 7.2 (22 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Solstice: The Quest for the Staff of Demnos (1990) follows a wizard called Shadax on his quest to retrieve the eponymous staff in order to save a princess from being unjustly incarcerated. The game is essentially a huge isometric labyrinth filled with devious traps and oddball creatures to ensure especially frustrating peril in the absence of any kind of map to help the player. (Well, at least it was like that before the Internet era, but make no mistake: the game isn't by any means easy nowadays, either.) One of the most memorable aspects of the game is its jazzy musical theme filled with deep bass notes uncommon for the NES. The Solstice any% has had more revisions than most movies on this site. This one improves the preceding version by 1.25 seconds thanks to a new trick and even better optimization. More details can be found in the author's comments. | ||
![]() | NES Spelunker (JPN) in 04:46.66 by yuigenron. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-05-05) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 6.99 MB, length: 05:21) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3140 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #563 (05:03.1) Rating: 6.8 (10 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Spelunker is a simple adventure game, but a difficult one. The player character dies very easily, and the creator of this TAS utilizes that death many times to save time. This movie is a 16-second improvement to the previous author's movie due to speed upgrades and lag reduction in level 4. We recommend watching the previous author's movie first to clearly appreciate the difference between the two movies. | ||
![]() | NES Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six (USA) in 05:27.41 by mmbossman. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2008-08-24) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 10.80 MB, length: 05:47) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2063 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #691 (06:02.6) Rating: 6.6 (18.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| The sinister six have rejoined in hopes of ruling the world (as usual), but Spider-man has a lot of errands to do, and decides to beat all of them in record time. The mechanics of this game make it difficult to make a fast TAS. If Spider-man stays in the air too long after a jump, he'll drop straight down (physics be damned!), and his web-slinging is easily stopped by enemy projectiles. Despite these obstacles, mmbossman manages to improve the previous movie by over 35 seconds, due to improved speed management and more efficient boss fights. | ||
![]() | NES Splatter House: Wanpaku Graffiti (JPN) in 16:56.97 by Diman. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-12-15) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 35.60 MB, length: 20:10) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1115 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.9 (19 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| "Splatter House: Wanpaku Graffiti" looks like a parody of the other more serious Splatter House games. Armed with a big meat cleaver, you fight various bizarre creatures such as a purple woman's severed head, spiders bursting out of a woman's gut, and Synchronized Dancing Dracula and Zombies (tm). This movie by Diman tries to do something interesting during the waiting times. | ||
![]() | NES StarTropics (USA) in 1:01:32.37 by Aglar. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-12-23) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 90.31 MB, length: 1:04:40) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1807 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #424 (1:05:43.3) Rating: 5.2 (18 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Adventure | |
| This is a long RPG-like adventure game with lots of witty dialog and the hero equipped with a yoyo. This is a ~4 minute improvement to the previous movie by Sami O.. A major part of this shortening comes from a glitch that skips the last chapter of the game, ignoring certain plot details. If you want to see the actual ending, watch the previous movie. | ||
![]() | NES StarTropics II: Zoda's Revenge (USA) in 1:01:00.9 by Sami O.. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-11-05) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 123.24 MB, length: 1:03:34) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #856 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.6 (19 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure | |
| Mike's adventures take him through time as he attempts to find Tetris pieces and fight off dragons, evil mummies, and aliens cosplaying as Dracula. | ||
![]() | NES Star Wars (USA) in 07:53.35 by Aglar. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-10-21) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 23.18 MB, length: 10:03) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2880 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #877 (09:45.68) Rating: 7.2 (11.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| This Star Wars game here is quite versatile. It features a sort of an overworld, optional items and quests, a lot of ordinary platformer action, some 1st person spaceship shooting and you even get to blow up the Death Star, yay! You can't see all of these in this movie, but it's very entertaining nevertheless. The game's plot is based on the first Star Wars movie (Episode 4), and some of the movie's awesome music can be heard in this game. This over nearly two minutes of improvement over the previous movie thanks to optimized movement and a new shortcut. | ||
![]() | NES Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (USA) in 12:14.22 by link_7777. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-10-02) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 22.96 MB, length: 14:33) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3290 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.9 (4 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| The Galactic Empire, under the leadership of the villainous Darth Vader, is in pursuit of Luke Skywalker and the rest of the Rebel Alliance. While Vader chases a small band of Luke's friends across the galaxy, Luke studies the Force under Jedi Master Yoda. But when Vader captures Luke's friends, Luke must decide whether to complete his training and become a full Jedi Knight or to confront Vader and save his comrades. While Luke only learns a few force powers in this speedrun, he still is able to take on Darth Vader and the forces of the Empire with no problems. Clearly, the Force is strong with this one. | ||
![]() | NES Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight (USA) in 17:39.98 by foda. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-07-04) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 37.77 MB, length: 19:06) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #680 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #107 (18:55.27) Rating: 5.9 (22 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| A unique game to say the least, in Street Fighter 2010(completely unrelated to the fighting game series) the player must go through a series of levels, collecting enough powerups to warp from one to the next. In doing a tool-assisted run of the game, the author must properly plan what enemies to target and what order to target them in in order to progress as quickly as possible. FODA's movie here is very beautiful and a lot of fun to watch even if one is not familiar with the game. | ||
![]() | NES Strider (USA) in 03:42.18 by Kyman. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-05-12) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 5.53 MB, length: 06:43) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 5.99 MB, length: 06:43) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3594 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #803 (05:29.63) Rating: 7.8 (4.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Strider is a side-scrolling action adventure game released by Capcom for the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America in 1989. This game normally takes around half an hour to complete, but the author manages to finish it in less than 4 minutes! This is an improvement of 1:47.08 over the previous run. You can read the author's comments for more information. Note: While the movie saves over 1.5 minutes from the previous, it still contains a number of vividly flashing scenes, so don't stare at it too closely. | ||
![]() | NES Super C (USA) in 12:20.02 by Baxter & adelikat. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-04-11) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 24.70 MB, length: 13:22) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1490 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #105 (12:39.42) Rating: 8.1 (28 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| This game, aka. Probotector II Return of the Evil Forces, is, implicitly, Contra 2. The guy who has an infinite supply of ammo and who destroys worlds bare-chested is back! This movie is a 19-second improvement over the previous version by Genisto. | ||
![]() | NES Super Contra 7 () in 04:39.87 by Marx. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-05-24) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 7.70 MB, length: 05:00) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 8.81 MB, length: 05:00) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3602 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.6 (4 votes) View Publication | - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Super Contra 7 is a pirate based off the Contra series, developed by E.S.C. Co (alias of Waixing) in 1996 for the Famicom. It is likely a hack of either Contra or Super C, given that the engine appears to be a modified version of the Contra engine. | ||
![]() | NES Super Dodge Ball (USA) in 05:47.73 by Dasrik. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-12-18) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 5.58 MB, length: 05:48) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1302 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (25 votes) View Publication | - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Sport | |
| This game takes dodge ball to the extreme! In this movie the author constantly tortures helpless CPU players with "power shots", sending them to fly around the world (actually, just the screen) and letting them just barely get back on their feet. Note: The flickering in this movie can't be helped, as it is an emulation problem. | ||
![]() | NES Super Mario Bros. (World) "Warpless Walkathon" in 25:30.05 by Mars608. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-10-09) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 25.28 MB, length: 26:10) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.radiokj.com Mirror www.flurret.net Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3315 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1332 (06:47.2) Rating: 8.2 (16 votes) View Publication | - Demonstration - Forgoes warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Bowser has kidnapped the princess (again) and Mario must save the day. But this time through, he takes a stroll. Nothing bothers Mario as he walks through all the stages, sometimes backwards, on his way to save the princess. This movie obsoletes HappyLee's walkathon, since it completes all of this game's stages without using any warps. This movie demonstrates the possibility to complete every single stage without pressing the B button. Having been bothered by the lack of running and shooting in this game, the ending outright asks the player to press B. | ||
![]() | NES Super Mario Bros. (JPN/USA) "warpless" in 18:38.22 by HappyLee. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-02-01) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 21.35 MB, length: 19:01) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 22.85 MB, length: 19:01) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3434 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1349 (18:41.7) Rating: 8.6 (8.5 votes) View Publication | - Forgoes warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| This movie is a full warpless run-through. It is a 3.48 second improvement over the previous movie by the same author, HappyLee. Most of the improvement comes from new instances of glitches that make Mario decide to ignore the castle and instead rub sensually against the flag pole's support. For more information, it is encouraged that you read the author's comments. | ||
![]() | ![]() NES Super Mario Bros. (JPN/USA PRG0) in 04:57.31 by HappyLee. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-01-06) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 6.23 MB, length: 05:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2964 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1330 (04:57.33) Rating: 8.9 (33.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Here at TASVideos we make perfect movies... and then we beat them again — this time by 1 frame, which, considering the fiercely competitive history of this run, is actually significant. And if watching this TAS on an emulator isn't satisfying enough, why not see it done on a real console! | ||
![]() | NES Super Mario Bros., 2, The Lost Levels & 3 (USA) in 10:39.75 by agwawaf. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-04-13) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 42.87 MB, length: 13:35) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3104 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.3 (28 votes) View Publication | - Demonstration - Multiple games in one movie - Uses warps - Genre: Platform | |
| The games Super Mario Bros. 1, 2j, 2, and 3 are the same. Mario just moves right all the time while taking some warps along the way. If you don't believe that's true, we offer this movie. The author here proves that Nintendo has been making the same game over and over again by playing all four Super Mario Bros. games with the same input. While the main focus is to complete Super Mario Bros. 3 as fast as possible, Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels and Super Mario Bros. 2 were completed around the same time as Super Mario Bros. 3. Super Mario Bros. 1 finished quite a bit earlier, on the other hand. If you like this movie, you may like to check out other movies in which multiple games are played simultaneously with one controller. | ||
![]() | ![]() NES Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA PRG0) "warpless" in 18:29.26 by Aglar & Andrewg. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-03-01) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 20.91 MB, length: 21:26) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3015 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1001 (19:39.93) Rating: 9.1 (25.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform ![]() | |
| Warpless Super Mario Bros. 2 has been improved by 1:08.73 over the previous submission thanks to some astonishing new glitches. For more information about some of the tricks used in this movie, check the Super Mario Bros. 2 tricks page. You can also watch this movie played on an actual NES. | ||
![]() | ![]() NES Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA PRG0) in 07:41.16 by Aglar & Andrewg. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-01-21) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 10.16 MB, length: 10:32) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Submission #2981 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1002 (07:52.67) Rating: 8.7 (34 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Super Mario Bros 2 is one of our most competed games. This movie is Aglar and Andrewg's improvement of 10.73 seconds over adelikat and Cardboard's attempt to perfect this route. This time, the authors found new glitches to get to the end faster. If you are wondering how some of the tricks in this video work, see the Super Mario Bros. 2 tricks page. If you want to see the differences between this run and the obsoleted one, you can download a comparison video. You can also see this movie played back on an actual NES. | ||
![]() | NES Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA) "princess only" in 08:29.57 by adelikat. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-10-06) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 14.71 MB, length: 11:28) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1720 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #960 (08:43.23) Rating: 7.2 (33 votes) View Publication | - Uses a suboptimal character - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| This is an improvement of 13.66 seconds over laughing_gas's princess-only run of Super Mario Bros. 2 (aka. Super Mario USA). 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 fact, Princess is the only character not used in the fastest warpless run either.) This run played on a real NES | ||
![]() | NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA PRG0) in 10:25.6 by Lord Tom, Mitjitsu, Tompa. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-08-04) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 30.50 MB, length: 12:22) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2765 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1286 (10:26.42) Rating: 9.1 (37.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Ever since Morimoto published his legendary movie in mid-2003, the players at TASVideos have repeatedly made it faster and faster! Of course, there doesn't ever seem to be a stop for when it is fastest. This movie is 0.82 seconds faster than the previous movie. Most of the improvement comes from a trick that makes Bowser bounce much lower when defeated. For more details, see the run's comments. Check out the video of this being played on an actual console. | ||
![]() | NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA PRG0) "warpless" in 47:04.7 by adelikat, andymac, Lord Tom, Tompa. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-06-27) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 71.33 MB, length: 49:26) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2714 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1059 (47:33.52) Rating: 8.6 (28 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Super Mario Bros 3 completed fast ― without using the magic whistles. Although this movie doesn't use the magic whistles, it does skip stages, and actually skips them quite a lot, with the aid of various items such as the hammers. This is an improvement of about 24.2 seconds over the previous movie. | ||
![]() | NES Super Pitfall (USA) in 06:20.22 by Arc. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-05-08) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 17.16 MB, length: 06:48) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Submission #667 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #81 (11:52.22) Rating: 5.9 (26 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Genre: Platform | |
The movie is an amazing 5:32 improvement to the previous Super Pitfall movie. The author doesn't want to spoil what makes this version so much faster than the last one. You'll have to watch it in order to find out. Hopefully you've already seen
the 11:52 version so that you can understand this movie better.
In order to beat the game (the first quest, at least), Pitfall Harry must accomplish 6 tasks:
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![]() | NES Super Turrican (Europe) in 08:38.7 by Luke. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-07-04) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 20.56 MB, length: 10:29) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1087 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #277 (10:21.82) Rating: 7.0 (18 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes warps - Genre: Platform | |
A fast completion on Super Turrican ― a game that is said to be extremely difficult, and entirely produced by one man.
This movie improves the previous author's movie by 103 seconds ― a huge difference in this kind of fast-paced game. The boss fights especially were improved.
Note that this movie was played on the European version of the game, but it used NTSC timings. You may need to disable the PAL mode in the emulator manually if you watch the FCM.Contrary to most games, this game recognizes whether it is run on a PAL or NTSC console, and runs at the same speed on both systems. Therefore, the length of this movie is proper regardless of the NTSC/PAL mixup that the author didn't bother to fix. | ||
![]() | NES Sword Master (USA) in 05:26.88 by ventuz. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-03-22) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 12.17 MB, length: 07:04) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1465 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #257 (05:54.6) Rating: 5.8 (18 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Even though the gameplay of this game doesn't look very interesting, the creators have been playful with the graphics of the game. It almost looks like NES supports layers, which it doesn't. Ventuz - the author - improves the previous movie by 28 seconds. | ||
![]() | NES Takeshi no Chousenjou (JPN) in 03:53.58 by FractalFusion. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2009-07-21) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 6.52 MB, length: 04:24) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2295 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (25 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Created by a Japanese comedian who hated video games, this game was meant to be near impossible to complete. Rumor has it that at one point the player must leave the controller untouched for 1 hour, and fight a "final boss" with over 1 million hit-points. Although none of it is true, the game makes no sense, which is why it is so hard to beat. The author instead completes the game in a mere 4 minutes by simply walking off the edge of existence, and magically ending at the final treasure room. | ||
![]() | NES Tecmo Super Bowl (USA) in 11:05.02 by adelikat. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-01-11) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 25.89 MB, length: 11:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1795 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #250 (13:46.8) Rating: 5.0 (27 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Sport | |
| This movie doesn't aim to run up the score. Instead, it plays an entertaining game of American football by keeping the score close for drama and by utilizing a variety of wild plays with interceptions, fumbles, impossibly long passes, etc. Thus, the movie manipulates luck often. 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. | ||
![]() | NES Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (USA) in 16:26.89 by adelikat. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-08-07) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 23.83 MB, length: 17:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2785 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #917 (16:33.5) Rating: 7.4 (10.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| In this game you get to control all four turtles and draw use of their different abilities ― or, at least that was the intent, but Donatello has both better reach and damage than the others, so he is used more or less constantly. The game features a well-written in-game dialogue, such as “Here.” and “Oh!” This is the fourth movie by adelikat which improves on the previous versions. Much improvement comes from better lag reduction and discovery of a new trick involving conveyor belts. | ||
![]() | NES Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game (USA) "2 players" in 30:20.92 by x2poet. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2011-01-06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 70.95 MB, length: 33:17) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2959 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.6 (11 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Genre: Fighting | |
| TMNT2 is a classic beat-em-up game with 4 classic main characters: Raphael, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Donatello. Leonardo and Michelangelo are the two turtles used in this movie. With two players, the game spawns around 8/5 more enemies than with one player. Also the boss HP has been increased. While this run is slower than the one player run, the author makes up for it in entertainment with one turtle fooling around while the other turtle is attacking. Note: This movie must be played with FCEU 0.98.26, or else it will desync on the first stage. | ||
![]() | NES Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game (USA) in 27:03.42 by Baxter. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-08-06) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 46.29 MB, length: 29:57) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1129 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #104 (31:08.5) Rating: 7.1 (33 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Genre: Fighting | |
| TMNT2 is a classic beat-em-up game with 4 classic main characters: Raphael, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Donatello. The latter is the only turtle used in this movie. This movie is Baxter's new and improved version, which is an astounding 4 minutes faster than his previous version. Donatello has learned the secret ninja art of teleportation and... no, actually, a glitch that enables the player to move around extremely fast is used to hit all the enemies as soon as they come on screen. But most of the improvement comes from outstanding luck manipulation. | ||
![]() | NES Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project (USA) in 30:30.87 by 韩晖 (aka. 西坡 (xipo)). | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-10-26) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 69.97 MB, length: 33:29) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1688 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #720 (33:46.0) Rating: 6.3 (25 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Fighting | |
| TMNT3 is the last installment of the TMNT series on the NES. Unlike in the second game, the turtles have different special attacks with different power and speed. The special attack also consumes one life point, unless there is only one life point remaining. Raphael is by far the fastest turtle, but he also has the weakest special attack. Michaelangelo has the strongest special attack, though he is slow. Leonardo is also used occasionally in this run, since his special attack can hit some bosses twice. Unfortunately for Donatello fans, Don is not used in the run. This movie improves the previous one by over 3 minutes, due to the use of two turtles and careful management of score and health. | ||
![]() | ![]() NES Tetris (USA) "fastest 999999" in 03:11.78 by Acmlm. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-08-09) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 4.38 MB, length: 03:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2786 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #924 (03:29.67) Rating: 8.3 (34 votes) View Publication | - Aims for maximum score - Best ending - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Puzzle | |
| This movie aims for the fastest possible time to get a score of 999999 in this game. A surprising 17.53 seconds have been shaved off the previous movie through the discovery of a new glitch.
It warps directly to the 18th level and fills half of the field quickly to be able to operate short distances in the top part of the field. From there on, it only gets tetrises (4-line clearings) until the score is maxed out.
A glitch involving pressing several directional buttons at once is used to manipulate luck for the next pieces. Flickering of the next piece block and piece in play results. Of course, the fun doesn't stop there, the L blocks also have their say in getting tetrises.
For the record, this is the fastest speed the NES game is capable of. For more extreme Tetris fun, please see movies
from Arika Online. There's some really awesome stuff there. (Click to download - 14 MB) This run played on a real NES | ||
![]() | NES Tetris (USA) "Mode B" in 00:38.85 by Baxter. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-07-23) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 656.64 KB, length: 01:22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 673.57 KB, length: 01:22) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1633 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #920 (00:50.53) Rating: 7.3 (40 votes) View Publication | - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Puzzle | |
| This movie completes the B-mode of Tetris at level 19-5. Its goal is to clear all blocks from the screen upon the final line cleared (known as a "Bravo" in some games). And of course it aims to do this as fast as possible. Note: The author manipulates luck by pressing up+left+right to slow down the block's falling speed. This run played on a real NES | ||
![]() | NES Tetris (USA) "playaround" in 02:17.36 by Baxter. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-04-09) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 1.21 MB, length: 02:22) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2620 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.7 (33 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - Demonstration - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Puzzle | |
| To the average player, Tetris is a fast-paced action/puzzle blend where reflexes become a huge factor as pieces pile up and speed increases dramatically. For one with perfect reflexes, however, it's no longer a challenge of 'where does the next piece go to make lines / avoid piling up?' so much as 'where can I put the next piece to make things look the most interesting?'. This run exemplifies that philosophy, exploiting the ability to manipulate the next piece that appears to the fullest in the service of creating a pattern which would be nigh impossible to duplicate in real world conditions. If you thought that TASing was only about speed, look no further than this example to prove otherwise. This run played on a real NES | ||
![]() | NES The Addams Family (USA) in 13:00.0 by ventuz. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-12-13) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 29.55 MB, length: 13:45) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1788 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #294 (13:43.32) Rating: 5.2 (25 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| The Addams Family (1991) is an extremely difficult game in which Gomez Addams must find his missing family members and recover the family's home from their greedy lawyer, Tully Alford. Gomez must collect US$1,000,000 in order to get through the security door in the basement. The game is very badly programmed; Gomez must avoid objects by a significant distance in order to avoid taking damage. This version is a 43-second improvement over the previous movie. | ||
![]() | NES The Adventures of Bayou Billy (USA) in 17:14.1 by 韩晖 (aka. 西坡 (xipo)). | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-11-06) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 23.85 MB, length: 21:06) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1712 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #236 (18:10.22) Rating: 5.6 (24.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Racing - Genre: Shooter | |
| The Adventures of Bayou Billy (1989) contains a trinity of genres: beat 'em up (like Streets of Rage), sniping (like part of Golgo 13), and car racing (like Rad Racer). In the game, 'Bayou' Billy West fights his way through Louisiana en route to New Orleans in order to save his kidnapped girlfriend, the luscious Annabelle Lane. The American version of this game is a lot more difficult than the Japanese one (Mad City), although this video makes it seem easy. This is a 56 second improvement over the previous movie by Phil. | ||
![]() | NES The Adventures of Rad Gravity (USA) in 16:47.68 by Blublu. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-02-05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 24.48 MB, length: 20:07) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #511 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #281 (17:50.75) Rating: 5.5 (18 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| A space-based platform game with plenty of exploitable bugs, including collision detection and skipping past portions of some levels. For a full explanation of this run, see the author's submission. The music in this game is very strange. | ||
![]() | NES The Battle of Olympus (USA) in 10:40.78 by foda. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-09-02) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 17.68 MB, length: 12:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1175 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #292 (19:51.85) Rating: 7.3 (38 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
The Battle of Olympus (オリュンポスの戦い) is set in ancient Greece.
A mortal man named Orpheus receives help from the gods and nymphs in
his quest to save his lover Helene from Hades. People often compare
this game with Zelda 2 because of its similar gameplay.
This movie is 9:11 faster than Arc's version, mostly
because of the utilization of a gameplay-altering glitch: pressing
Left+Right simultaneously in order to make Orpheus move with almost
unlimited velocity growth. The trick is documented at GameResources/NES/BattleOfOlympus.
The route used in this movie is decided by a few things the hero (Orpheus) must do:
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![]() | NES The Blues Brothers (USA) in 03:39.77 by J.Y. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-11-16) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 6.81 MB, length: 04:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2454 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1172 (04:27.95) Rating: 8.0 (25 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| The story of The Blues Brothers is that the Blues Brothers have to take unorthodox routes in order to sneak their way into a gig. This game is really fast-paced. Do a TAS of it, and… see for yourself. :) This new version is 47.82 seconds faster than the previous movie by the same author. | ||
![]() | NES The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout (USA) in 26:18.5 by Bhezt Rhy. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-04-01) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 28.70 MB, length: 26:56) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3051 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.9 (9.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout, known in Japan as Happy Birthday Bugs (ハッピーバースディ・バックス?) and in Europe as The Bugs Bunny Blowout, is the title of a Kemco video game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The game is a sequel to the game titled The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle released in the previous year. As the beginning of the game tells you, Bugs Bunny is trying to reach his 50th birthday party, and he needs to get past the numerous obstacles and enemies in the way. Several factors make this game quite difficult. For instance, after taking damage, Bugs cannot swing his hammer until the damage blinking stops. When an enemy is hit with the hammer but doesn't die, he is pushed back a little. These factors make it tricky to coordinate multiple hits on a boss in a row. Some of the later stages are quite maze-like with their network of warp entrances (similar to pipes in Super Mario Bros). In addition, a TASer needs to manage heavy lag and avoid collecting too many bonus carrots (so that fewer time-wasting bonus games are played after the stages). Despite all this, Bhezt Rhy moves through the game speedily, taking more damage than Rambo and finishing in a little over 26 minutes. | ||
![]() | NES The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle (USA) in 40:50.61 by Brandon Evans. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-05-31) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 46.85 MB, length: 43:00) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 49.36 MB, length: 43:00) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3155 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.7 (16.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Puzzle | |
| The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle is a frustrating action puzzler. In it, you take control of Bugs as he collects carrots while avoiding enemies such as Sylvester the Cat, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, and Wile E. Coyote. Equipped with nothing but an occasional boxing glove which he can throw and some invincibility potions, Bugs must eat his way through 60 levels without getting trapped by a mob of Looney Tunes.
In this run, the author, Brandon, exploits the game's AI, which is everything but intelligent. Only one of these enemies follow actual movement, while the others will track your input, even if the input changes nothing. As such, the author is able to often render the enemies useless, allowing him to take the most optimal path. When he can't do this, he tries to find the best possible workaround, often pausing for the exact right amount of time to make it past a baddie. As a secondary goal, the author also attempts to maximize the score without losing time. For more details, as always, please see the author's notes, and also make sure to watch the captions provided in the encodes.
This author has also created a run of this game's "Special Levels".
This run has two YouTube steams. The first contains no input display while the second one does. This was included as the luck manipulation is heavily based on input, and it's hard to follow the run otherwise. | ||
![]() | NES The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle (USA) "Special Levels" in 04:15.38 by Brandon Evans. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-07-21) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 5.55 MB, length: 04:27) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 5.53 MB, length: 04:27) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3226 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.1 (12 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses a level password - Genre: Action - Genre: Puzzle | |
| The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle is a frustrating action puzzler. In it, you take control of Bugs as he collects carrots while avoiding enemies such as Sylvester the Cat, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, and Wile E. Coyote.
This game features 4 "Special Levels" which can be accessed either by the "No Carrot Signs" found in several levels or by a password. In this run, the author, Brandon, completes these difficult levels with absolutely no help from the boxing gloves and potions featured in the main game. All he has to work with is precise movement and luck manipulation, and although this, coupled with the numerous enemies, make these levels far less trivial than the main ones, the completion time is still relatively small. Much of the length of this movie is a result of the unavoidable and abnormally long tube scenes in S4 and S1. For more details, as always, please see the author's notes, and also make sure to watch the captions provided in the encodes.
This author has also created a run of the main game.
This run has two YouTube steams. The first contains no input display while the second one does. This was included as the luck manipulation is heavily based on input, and it's hard to follow the run otherwise. | ||
![]() | NES The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy (USA) in 14:30.47 by adelikat & Brushy. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-04-30) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 30.10 MB, length: 16:30) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1055 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #302 (14:44.32) Rating: 6.1 (29 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| This is the fourth movie of the first Flintstones game released on the NES, with an improvement of 13.9 seconds. Most of the improvement comes from better boss fights. | ||
![]() | NES The Goonies (JPN) in 02:31.38 by Phil. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-10-27) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 2.84 MB, length: 03:10) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2407 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1051 (02:33.63) Rating: 6.9 (17.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - 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 Phil's previous movie by 120 frames. | ||
![]() | NES The Goonies II (USA) in 16:45.85 by Randil. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-09-30) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 28.18 MB, length: 17:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #826 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #82 (17:21.02) Rating: 6.0 (22 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| The previous Goonies 2 movie was faster than its predecessor because of careful menu control. This movie is faster than its predecessor due to careful control over everything else. The route hasn't changed from the previous movie, but all movements are much more precise. The author has been able to manipulate luck favorably in almost every room by waiting or jumping differently. This movie improves the previous attempt by over 30 seconds, which goes to show that polishing older movies can really pay off! ;) | ||
![]() | NES The Karate Kid (USA) in 03:09.12 by nitsuja. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-06-11) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 5.03 MB, length: 03:39) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1595 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #888 (03:18.78) Rating: 6.8 (26 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform | |
| An extremely short game based on the Karate Kid movie. Had the kid been this strong in the movie, it would certainly have been… interesting. This movie is about 10 seconds faster than the previous publication due to some suprising fighting strategies. | ||
![]() | NES The Krion Conquest (USA) in 13:21.12 by Shinryuu. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-09-10) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 24.66 MB, length: 14:47) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1178 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #337 (16:30.73) Rating: 6.9 (21.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| The Krion Conquest is a platform game remarkably similar to the early Mega Man games - so similar that it's pretty easy to consider it a rip-off. This movie by Shinryuu is 3:10 faster than the previous TAS by Acmlm. Much of this improvement is gained by utilizing the various glitches in the game, which are also similar to the Mega Man series - using items to get into walls and move through them at fast speeds. | ||
![]() | NES The Legend of Kage (JPN) in 05:36.97 by Bisqwit. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-09-10) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 10.72 MB, length: 06:12) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1189 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #87 (06:04.98) Rating: 5.9 (26 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Kage no Densetsu (影の伝説) is a story based in old Japan. The beautiful princess Kiri has been kidnapped by evil ninjas. Many samurai warriors were sent to rescue her. None ever returned. The player is Kage, a young ninja who goes to rescue the princess Kiri. Speedrunwise, this game is all about luck manipulation. Like any good ninja game, it hides many secrets inside, and the player (Bisqwit) set out to discover every one of them that is important in making a TAS. A detailed story of those secrets can be found in the submission message, but in conclusion it lead into this 28-second speedup compared to the previous movie by Walker Boh. The theme music of this game sounds a lot better if you imagine it being played on a Japanese koto, like this: http://bisqwit.iki.fi/music/misc/kage.mid | ||
![]() | NES The Legend of Zelda (USA PRG0) "Swordless Challenge" in 25:13.92 by Baxter. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-08-23) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 51.60 MB, length: 26:13) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2804 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1577 (26:40.33) Rating: 7.6 (13 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Adventure | |
| Of all the challenging ways to play Legend of Zelda that people have attempted on a NES console, one of the most famous is the "swordless" challenge. In this challenge, the player must beat all of the game, up until the final boss Ganon, without using a sword. It is not possible to damage Ganon without a sword however, so many swordless runs reach Ganon's room to die there. In order to actually complete the game, Baxter does pick up a sword and kills Ganon. However, the sword is only obtained shortly before attempting the final level, and even then, the sword is not used until absolutely necessary. In the meantime, sit back and watch a run which relies heavily on luck manipulation and effective bomb usage to beat the game very quickly. For more details, see the author's comments. This is a 86-second improvement over the previous movie by jprofit22. | ||
![]() | NES The Legend of Zelda (USA PRG0) "2nd quest" in 24:59.83 by Baxter & Morrison. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2008-10-16) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 41.05 MB, length: 26:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2091 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #8 (29:15.9) Rating: 8.4 (28.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Second quest/Post game-completion - Uses a level password - Genre: Adventure - Genre: RPG | |
| The second quest of Zelda is what you get by having completed the game once. It is more difficult than the first quest. In his movie, The authors enter ZELDA as the player's name to start the 2nd quest without having to complete the game first. This movie is 4 minutes 13.6 seconds faster than the previous movie by Sleepz. The authors left detailed explanations of the time savings in their submission text. | ||
![]() | NES The Legend of Zelda (USA PRG0) in 22:38.13 by Baxter & jprofit22. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-11-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 42.39 MB, length: 23:37) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2916 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #868 (24:04.05) Rating: 8.3 (16.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - 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 alternate movies), and is ~85 seconds faster than the previous movie, largely due to better optimization and manipulation of item drops. | ||
![]() | NES The Legend of Zelda: Outlands (USA PRG0) in 18:54.9 by Baxter. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2009-07-04) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 29.39 MB, length: 19:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1598 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (17 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Unofficial game - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| In this Legend of Zelda hack, Link must save Hyrule (again), reclaiming the Triforce of Power from Thunderbird. Baxter does it masterfully, exploiting glitches from the original game to get the job done quickly.
This movie completes both quests.
If you'd like to see a movie of the original unhacked Legend of Zelda, we have that too, as well as a movie of the second quest and swordless challenge. | ||
![]() | NES The Rocketeer (USA) in 13:55.66 by TheHepper. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-01-04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 22.89 MB, length: 15:21) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 23.28 MB, length: 15:21) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3400 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.2 (3 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| The Rocketeer, based on a 1991 movie (itself based on a 1982 comic book series), tells the story of Cliff Secord, who dons a prototype jetpack to fight back against Nazi spies bent on stealing it. There's surprisingly little jetpack use about present in this run, but there might as well be for the speed at which it rockets through the game. | ||
![]() | NES The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants (USA) in 12:58.9 by Deign. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-06-17) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 21.65 MB, length: 14:11) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2702 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #761 (15:19.8) Rating: 6.6 (12 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Bart Simpson has discovered that mutants have a machine to enter ingredients which will allow them to conquer the Earth. Bart goes in search of these ingredients to hide them or to take them, avoiding disaster. His adventure will take him across an amusement park, the shopping mall, and the museum, to name a few. This is a very hard game. Its controls are very poor, and the collision detection is very glitchy, making you fall through platforms to your death. This movie beats the previous movie by 2 minutes and 20.9 seconds. Much of it comes from using a "bunny hop" trick. | ||
![]() | NES The Terminator (USA) in 06:18.39 by AKheon. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-01-22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 26.29 MB, length: 06:35) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2982 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.2 (10 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Before The Terminator came to the Genesis and Sega CD in various forms, it arrived on the NES... if the end result can even be called a game. Much running around ensues in a plot narrowly resembling the movie and glitches abound to no end. Fortunately, most of the atrocities are crushed by completing the game too quickly for them to really sink in. | ||
![]() | NES The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (USA) in 11:12.16 by goofydylan8. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-02-14) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 18.23 MB, length: 13:26) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 22.32 MB, length: 13:26) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3450 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.2 (3 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles is an action platformer named after the television show of the same name. In it, you will embark on an adventure across the globe showing the young life of the famous movie character. Along the way, you will fight some baddies and collect some treasure using motorcycles, aeroplanes, and of course, his iconic whip! In this run, the author, goofydylan8, improves upon XTREMAL93's cancelled run by 34.88 seconds. This also improves XTREMAL93's improvement, which was worked on independently and submitted on the same day, by 15.68 seconds. See the author's notes for more details. | ||
![]() | NES Time Lord (USA) in 10:24.25 by link_7777. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-11-03) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 14.94 MB, length: 10:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3339 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (4 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| TODO: describe this movie here | ||
![]() | NES Tiny Toon Adventures (USA) in 11:01.88 by Kyman. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-07-24) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 12.94 MB, length: 13:16) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2747 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #990 (11:18.25) Rating: 7.3 (13 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Tiny Toon Adventures (1993), based on a cartoon show of the same name, is a fairly easy game to play. However, it has a nasty bug lurking within it: if you press left and right simultaneously (you can do it if you break your controller's directional pivot), you can get some impressive momentum. This is an improvement of 17 seconds over the previously published run. | ||
![]() | NES Toki (USA) in 10:31.53 by XTREMAL93. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-03-19) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 17.75 MB, length: 11:49) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 20.32 MB, length: 11:49) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3480 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.9 (4 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| An evil wizard has changed you into an ape and stolen your girlfriend! Can you get her back? Toki was originally an arcade game and was popular enough that it was ported to many systems, including the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Genesis. Here XTREMAL93 uses tool-assisted precision to soundly defeat the witch doctor and encounters many strange looking minions along the way. | ||
![]() | NES Tom & Jerry (USA) in 08:37.22 by HHS. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-01-19) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 14.57 MB, length: 09:43) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1829 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #785 (09:41.28) Rating: 6.3 (21 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| A seemingly cute game based on the cartoon series of the same name. Of course the author abuses the game with tool-assisted glitches and shortcuts. This is a 64 second improvement over the previous movie. | ||
![]() | NES Totally Rad (USA) in 12:07.57 by Bag of Magic Food. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-09-18) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 30.18 MB, length: 16:39) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1191 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (24 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Totally Rad, also known as Magic John in Japan, regales the odd story of a boy who learns to use magic from a magician. Shady storyline aside, this movie displays many speedy techniques using the protagonist's magical transformations. For a much more detailed and whimsical description of all that happens in this publication, Bag of Magic Food's submission text is not one to be missed. | ||
![]() | NES Total Recall (USA) in 05:02.0 by TwistedEye. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-12-23) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 15.65 MB, length: 06:13) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2149 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (28.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action | |
| This game is based on the movie of the same name, although some liberties are taken to give Arnold a chance to punch some hobos with boomerang tophats and go on an even more extended car chase than in the actual movie. There is also some terrible yet strangely hypnotic music. Although normally lag should be avoided as it can slow completion time down, in this case it was often abused to prevent enemies from spawning that could be troublesome. | ||
![]() | NES Track & Field (USA) in 12:55.43 by Phil. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-09-30) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 13.11 MB, length: 13:24) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1716 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #34 (08:28.05) Obsoletes movie #35 (09:05.4) Obsoletes movie #36 (08:56.48) Rating: 6.4 (31 votes) View Publication | - Aims for maximum score - 2 Players - 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 Transformers: Convoy no Nazo (JPN) in 04:20.39 by adelikat. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-07-18) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 7.21 MB, length: 05:03) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2301 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (20 votes) View Publication | - Uses warps - Genre: Platform | |
| Autobots, transform and roll out! Transformers - Convoy no Nazo (トランスフォーマー コンボイの謎) is about the Autobot Ultra Magnus cruising a very frustrating and difficult journey to discover who killed Optimus Prime. No, I'm serious. Angry Video Game Nerd covered this game recently. Quoting adelikat: "As he describes in the video, this game notoriously difficult to play. Poor hit detection, 1 hit and you are dead, awkward controls, and very little in the way of power-ups make this game frustrating for the average player." | ||
![]() | NES Trojan (USA) in 06:16.73 by adelikat. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2008-08-24) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 10.56 MB, length: 07:41) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 10.88 MB, length: 07:41) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2060 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #307 (06:21.72) Rating: 6.2 (20.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Of course, Nintendo games are generally hard games to play. That doesn't mean that they are hard games to play around with. In fact, this TAS makes it look easy, with the player character destroying an entire army with a single sword. Then again, aren't main characters usually intended to be all-powerful? This is a 262 frame improvement over its predecessor. Note: This movie was created using FCEUX 2.0.0, and desyncs at the second-last boss on any other FCEUX version. You can find FCEUX 2.0.0 here. | ||
![]() | NES Ufouria (Europe) in 25:32.43 by Adebis. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2008-11-04) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 57.69 MB, length: 29:16) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2104 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.6 (30.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Ufouria is a game that was strangely never released in the United States, even though it was released in Europe in addition to Japan (where it's known as Hebereke). The game itself is a Metroid-style adventure: it takes place in a world that can be freely explored and several items need to be found and bosses defeated in order to gain access to some areas that initially seem inaccessible. There are four different characters in the game each with their own special abilities, although in this movie you will only see three characters ever used, as adebis has managed to completely avoid having to acquire Shades the ghost. | ||
![]() | NES Uninvited (USA) in 08:09.78 by Randil. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-08-05) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 6.67 MB, length: 08:35) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2008 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #930 (08:13.9) Rating: 5.4 (14.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Storybook | |
| This is a game similar to Shadowgate and Deja Vu. In it, you wake up in a crashed car just outside a strange mansion, desperate to explore the ghost-ridden building to find and rescue your missing sister. The speed at which the author manipulates the menus is impressive. This is an 4.12 second improvement over the author's previous movie. | ||
![]() | NES Urban Champion (JPN/USA) in 00:26.97 by t3h Icy. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-08-15) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 442.73 KB, length: 00:42) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3253 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1706 (00:27.82) Rating: 5.5 (13.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Fighting | |
| Urban Champion is one of the most memorable games for the Nintendo Entertainment System, where two normal-looking guys trade blows in front of your favorite neighborhood drugstore, in broad daylight, pausing to look nonchalant and whistle in innocence when a police cruiser passes by. Alternating between high and low punches, and fast or slow jabbing speeds, you seek to outwit your urban adversary and knock him backwards, a screen at a time, until finally he falls to his death by plummeting, helpless, headlong into the darkness of an open sewer-access manhole. By finding a new glitch, using a different fighting technique, and further polishing the run, the author, t3h Icy, beats his obsoleted movie 0.84 seconds faster. | ||
![]() | NES Vice: Project Doom (USA) in 12:35.61 by Sonikkustar. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-02-22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 33.58 MB, length: 13:57) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2573 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #222 (13:02.87) Rating: 7.5 (12.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Vice: Project Doom stars Detective Quinn Hart of the VICE squad as he attempts to track down his missing partner and leads on a new type of drug. It is a fast-paced game that blends standard platforming with racing sequences and some rail shooter scenes. This run is 26 seconds faster than the previous run from 2004, and features commentary from the author in the form of soft subtitles. | ||
![]() | NES Wacky Races (JPN) in 18:49.85 by x2poet. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-07-19) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 37.95 MB, length: 20:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1960 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.3 (19 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| This game is an adaptation of the cartoon Wacky Races. Instead of playing as the hero, the main character is the dog sidekick of the villain Dick Dastardly. The author deftly controls Muttley the dog as he runs, jumps and glides his way to boss fights with various other racers in their sometimes quirky cars. | ||
![]() | NES Wai Wai World (JPN) in 30:58.67 by fuzi2. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-12-05) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 54.24 MB, length: 32:30) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #893 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #200 (34:24.33) Rating: 6.4 (21.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Wai Wai World is a strange game created by Konami. The game mixes together components from many of Konami's previous games, such as Castlevania, Goonies and Twin Bees - components such as characters, enemies, levels and theme songs. Wai wai is Japanese and means "ruckus". This movie by Fuzi2 is a couple of minutes faster than the previous author's movie, due to some new tricks involving the usage of two characters simultaneously. PS: The vertically scrolling level has some anomaly in scrolling if watched with old versions of FCEU. Versions of FCEU from 0.98.13 onward should display this stage correctly. | ||
![]() | NES Werewolf: The Last Warrior (USA) in 08:59.58 by andrewg & AnS. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-03-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 17.00 MB, length: 11:23) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2197 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #361 (11:24.75) Rating: 7.9 (40.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| This game is evil. It gives you power-downs constantly of which you're bound to pick one up sooner or later. The traps and hazards in this game usually go off when they are in the middle of the screen. Because Werewolf has discovered how to walk backwards and not scroll the screen, it means that he doesn't have to deal with most of them. Also if he manages to somehow get stuck inside a wall and jumps, he will fall through it. The game features a lot of lycanthropian acrobatics and good visuals for its time. This is a joint collaboration between AndrewG and AnS, saving 2 minutes 25 seconds compared to the previous version. Together they quicken the boss fights, glitch up the game even more, do a little dance, and howl at the moon. | ||
![]() | NES Whomp ‛Em (USA) in 11:39.45 by adelikat. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-09-24) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 21.80 MB, length: 13:39) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1147 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #189 (12:15.67) Rating: 7.3 (22 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Whomp ‛Em is a somewhat lesser known action-packed platforming game. 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 Mega Man games, the new abilities include platform generating items which the author uses to create many shortcuts. | ||
![]() | NES Widget (USA) in 05:35.62 by CtrlAltDestroy. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-08-27) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 8.73 MB, length: 07:54) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2068 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #813 (05:48.83) Rating: 6.9 (25 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| This game is a platformer about a purple alien shape-shifter named Widget. Along with being able to turn into a few different animals to run faster or get through small passageways, he has the power to zip through walls, shoot at ridiculous rates, and find doors where there were no doors before! ..all the while, keeping that creepy, stupid grin on his face. This is an improvement of 13.21 seconds over the author's previous run. An in-depth explanation of the routes and glitches used in this movie can be found in the submission text. | ||
![]() | NES Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (USA) in 00:45.82 by TaoTao. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-11-27) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 1.14 MB, length: 03:21) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 1.19 MB, length: 03:21) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2128 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (34 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| One of a few dungeon crawlers on this site. The player's team of a couple characters travels through a dungeon at breakneck speed, obtaining the minimum necessary to destroy the evil wizard, then leaving. A great amount of luck-manipulation was required; so much that TaoTao used a bot to do parts of this run. That's why the rerecord count says 200000. The number of manual rerecords is around 1000. | ||
![]() | NES Wizardry: The Knight of Diamonds (USA) in 01:11.32 by MiezaruMono. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-12-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 2.13 MB, length: 03:43) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2499 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1338 (01:12.81) Rating: 6.4 (13 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| This game, the second in the series, is the direct sequel to Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. Here, the heroes | ||
![]() | NES Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn (JPN) "Glitched" in 00:12.86 by MiezaruMono. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-07-04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 1.29 MB, length: 01:28) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3195 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.2 (12 votes) View Publication | - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Although Legacy of Llylgamyn is the third game in the Wizardry series, it was released second for the NES because Knight of Diamonds, the actual second game, was deemed to be too difficult for beginners (though it was, eventually, released for the NES as well). Here, the object of the quest, the Orb of Earithin, mysteriously appears in a shop by way of a lost battle and a glitch involving the occasional result thereof of causing a character to be lost in the dungeon, bringing the quest to a close impossibly quickly. | ||
![]() | NES Wizards & Warriors (USA) "reuse levels" in 09:35.42 by Cardboard. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-09-10) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 22.21 MB, length: 10:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1683 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #166 (10:53.07) Rating: 6.5 (22.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| This is an improved version ― 76 seconds faster than the previous movie.
In this game you're an armor-clad knight with a big sword.
You collect gems to bribe a red knight, kill evil beasts
and rescue several "distressed damsels".
This movie takes advantage of a glitch that allows to re-enter
the first map and substitute the last few levels with the first
levels. There is also a
movie that does not use this trick.
It's slightly longer.
Ps: Do you want to see more adventures of the iron-clad hero of this game, Kuros? Read the Knights of the Old Coding online comic. It's hilarious. | ||
![]() | NES Wizards & Warriors (USA) in 12:14.93 by Cardboard. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-07-29) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 20.96 MB, length: 13:26) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1636 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #171 (13:47.02) Rating: 7.0 (21 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes warps - Genre: Platform | |
| This is a full completion of Wizards & Warriors. Wizards & Warriors is a famous platform game with quirky physics where a mere bird can make a heavy iron-clad knight bounce meters up. This TAS is around 92 seconds faster than the previous version by Walker Boh, due to better luck manipulation and new minor glitches. | ||
![]() | NES Wizards & Warriors II: Ironsword (USA) in 08:28.73 by Scubed. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-01-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 21.75 MB, length: 09:32) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #495 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (25.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| The valiant knight Kuros, who has now grown eyeballs on the outside of his helmet, must again fight off the evil wizard Malkil. This task is accomplished mainly by finding an artifact in every level, giving it to a corresponding oversized animal to get into the level boss' lair, and promptly beating him up. This run played on a real NES | ||
![]() | NES Wizards & Warriors III: Kuros ... Visions of Power (USA) in 17:27.95 by Ferret Warlord & Dacicus. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-08-28) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 36.17 MB, length: 19:53) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #781 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #316 (17:53.23) Rating: 6.7 (24 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - 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. You can also see this run played on a real NES here. | ||
![]() | NES Wolverine (USA) in 08:10.94 by goofydylan8. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-01-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 14.60 MB, length: 10:10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 13.12 MB, length: 10:10) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3423 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (7.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Wolverine is an action-platformer starring the hero of the same name from the X-Men. In it, Wolverine finds himself stranded on an island full of obstacles, enemies, and hamburger power-ups. He must navigate through it all with his iconic claws to defeat his evil adversaries Magneto and, finally, Sabretooth. In this run, the author, goofydylan8, goes "berzerk" through the game using careful health management, movement, and attacking. Please see the author's notes for more details. Please also check out the run for Spider-Man/X-Men: Arcade's Revenge, which is a SNES game, also made by LJN, where Wolverine's gameplay was ported to the applicable levels. | ||
![]() | NES Wrath of the Black Manta (USA) in 10:17.22 by adelikat. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-04-30) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 22.74 MB, length: 11:04) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1061 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #182 (10:36.6) Rating: 5.9 (16 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
In this game you are supposed to hunt down an evil crime syndicate (so what else is new?) by freeing kids from blocks of ice, and capturing the red guys to get clues. Unfortunately the ninja didn't have time for that, he just walks past all baddies and kills the bosses.
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. | ||
![]() | NES Yo! Noid (USA) in 19:29.27 by foda. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2009-07-05) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 34.41 MB, length: 20:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1409 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (18 votes) View Publication | - Pacifist version - Uses warps - Genre: Platform | |
| Yo! Noid is a game centered around a short man in a rabbit suit making his way through New York City to defeat an identical man in a different color rabbit suit for a pizza reward. The game was conceived as part of a 1980s advertising campaign for Domino's Pizza. As anyone who has played the game knows, the game is quite difficult, since the controls are sluggish, one hit kills you, and the pizza bonus games at the end can be difficult to win if you don't pick up enough useful powerups. With some movement glitches, warps, and luck manipulation, FODA beats this game very quickly. Not only that, to make the run even harder and more impressive, he doesn't kill any enemies. | ||
![]() | NES Youkai Douchuuki (JPN) in 13:11.35 by Randil. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-06-19) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 23.83 MB, length: 15:58) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1590 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #7 (14:31.1) Rating: 5.7 (19 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Literally translated, the name of this game means "demon travel journal".
It tells a story about a boy, Tarosuke, who seeks to meet Buddha, who will decide about Tarosuke's next life. In order to meet Buddha, Tarosuke has to do lots of good deeds which earn him "piousness". Because there is a lot of interesting dialog in this movie, but all in Japanese, the provided AVI is made to contain English subtitles for all in-game dialog text, as well as some explanations. It should help understanding the game events as well as enjoying its weird sense of fun. This movie is ~80 seconds faster than the previous movie by Morimoto, which was the oldest non-obsoleted movie on this site at the time, being almost 4 years old. | ||
![]() | NES Yume Penguin Monogatari (JPN) in 09:49.0 by Yunshui & x2poet. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-04-26) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 13.66 MB, length: 11:39) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3114 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (9 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Yume Penguin Monogatari (夢ペンギン物語) is a hybrid platform/shooter video game developed by Konami in 1991. The player takes the role of a penguin named Penta, who is getting dumped by his girlfriend Penko, because he has become far too obese for her liking. The game follows Penta's quest to win back his ex-girlfriend by losing weight via collecting diet drinks and avoiding enemies. This game was only released in Japan. | ||
![]() | NES Zanac (USA) in 03:16.11 by adelikat. | |
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| BizHawk movie file (.tas) (date: 2012-03-18) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 13.30 MB, length: 05:01) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 16.79 MB, length: 05:01) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3484 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #734 (03:26.22) Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Uses warps - Uses a game restart sequence - Single level - Uses a level password - Genre: Shooter | |
| Zanac is one of those space shooter games in which you are trying to save the earth. Due to the highly repetitive nature of this game, the hidden 9th input button (the console's Reset button) is used to enable stage select to warp to the final (12th) level. This results in an unusually long gray 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. This is the author's 4th iteration of this movie. It improves on the previous publication by almost 10 seconds by utilizing a hidden fairy and by better boss optimization. | ||
![]() | NES Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (USA) in 47:57.05 by Rising Tempest & Inzult. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-05-19) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 98.21 MB, length: 50:22) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1940 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #781 (48:14.98) Rating: 7.9 (21 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| A non-glitched run of the black sheep in the Zelda series, shortened by about 18 seconds. The major change in this submission is the leveling of magic over attack in the first part of the game. Other time saved was due to various scattered improvements. This movie avoids pressing Left and Right at the same time which causes an acceleration bug that can massively glitch the game. | ||
![]() | NES Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (USA) "glitched" in 05:43.47 by Inzult. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-03-24) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 11.66 MB, length: 08:15) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1893 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #824 (06:13.08) Rating: 7.7 (41.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| Legend of Zelda II glitched heavily. Most of this run features Link racing across Hyrule so fast that the screen can't keep up, inexplicably warping between places that shouldn't be connected, and collecting just three items, one spell, and one sword technique needed to beat the final palace. Dark Link, the final boss, takes the same amount of damage no matter what level attack you have. This is especially convenient for the author because he reaches Dark Link without ever leveling, or, indeed, even killing another monster. This is a 29-second improvement to the author's previous movie due to a different route choice and better manipulation optimization. See the author's comments for details. | ||
![]() | NES Zen: Intergalactic Ninja (USA) in 11:34.21 by feos. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-12-09) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 24.33 MB, length: 13:38) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 22.77 MB, length: 13:38) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3386 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1282 (11:46.65) Rating: 7.5 (7.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action | |
| The Earth is endangered by global pollution! Zen, the environmentalist ninja of ECO-POWER, must save the Earth from the big defiler, Lord Contaminous. This game was one of the latest NES games from Konami and provides superior graphics and music, pushing the 8-bit console limitations. This movie improves the previous run by 11.28 seconds. | ||
![]() | 32X Knuckles' Chaotix (JPN/USA) in 35:07.7 by Upthorn. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2006-06-02) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 130.74 MB, length: 38:19) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1057 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.2 (24.5 votes) View Publication | - Forgoes warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Knuckles' Chaotix is a Sonic game that doesn't feature Sonic. The player is tied to a partner with an elastic band of ‘ring energy’. There are five selectable player characters, and seven partners. This run uses Knuckles as the primary character. Using a number of glitches (of which the most prominent is zipping through walls), most of the levels are completed tens of seconds faster than intended. After each stage, the next level is selected via roulette. The cut-scenes and level select sequences are quite long, comprising about 66% of the total movie length. We recommend fast-forwarding these sequences of the movie. This is our first ever published 32X game. | ||
![]() | 32X Spider-Man: Web of Fire in 06:45.48 by Aqfaq & mmbossman. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2011-07-06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 51.22 MB, length: 08:24) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3205 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1183 (07:10.07) Rating: 6.7 (8 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action | |
| Spider-Man: Web of Fire, one of the last games to be released on the ill-fated 32X, follows our friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man's battle with the evil forces of Neo-Nazi organization H.Y.D.R.A. This is an improvement of 24.58 seconds over the previous run due primarily to a new glitch allowing Spidey to pass through walls. It is worth noting that mmbossman did not directly participate in the creation of this run. | ||
![]() | 32X Tempo (JPN/USA) in 14:52.62 by adelikat. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-03-14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 74.44 MB, length: 19:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2596 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1463 (14:56.07) Rating: 6.2 (12 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| In this odd but colorful game for the 32X, our hero Tempo, armed with killer dance moves and a limited ability to fly, must defend the Planet Rhythmia from the evil King Dirge who is trying to sap the planet of its rhythm. This movie is a 3 second improvement in the "pool" room of the last level. The first 14 minutes of the movie are identical. | ||
![]() | SegaCD Earthworm Jim: Special Edition (USA) in 28:47.4 by ElectroSpecter. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-11-26) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 219.46 MB, length: 32:35) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2917 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #397 (29:04.35) Rating: 7.2 (13.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Earthworm Jim is the unlikely story of an earthworm who finds a suit with super powers and goes on a rampage to protect Earth and his puppy Peter(?). The game follows the absurd spirit of the story: for example, the suit can use Jim for a whip, there is a boss who attacks by vomiting fish, you fight lawyers in hell, and in one level, you swing on bungee cords made out of snot. This movie improves the first run of this game, which was done on the Genesis version, by 16.94 seconds. However, the actual improvement is much larger since the Special Edition contains additional levels that are also played through in this TAS. | ||
![]() | SegaCD Heart of the Alien (USA) in 05:19.03 by Aqfaq. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2009-06-19) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 12.46 MB, length: 09:17) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2224 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.9 (16.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action | |
| This is a Sega CD sequel to Out of This World starring Buddy, an alien. The game takes place immediately after the original. Some scenes have graphic violence, so the TAS is not suitable for everyone. | ||
![]() | SegaCD Sonic CD (JPN/USA) in 17:27.65 by nitsuja. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-08-30) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 152.15 MB, length: 22:00) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 152.88 MB, length: 22:00) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.flurret.net Mirror www.flurret.net Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2067 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1148 (18:04.75) Rating: 7.8 (23 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Sonic the Hedgehog CD was developed to showcase a new Genesis/Mega Drive peripheral, the Sega CD. Likewise, this movie is the first of its kind on TASVideos and showcases the newly updated Gens emulator that allows for making stable movies of Sega CD games. The game is markedly different than other Sonic games; aside from "improved" graphics and sounds, each level has 2 to 4 alternate versions that correspond to different time periods. Sonic can move between them to affect the gameplay and ending. This run is approximately 37 seconds faster than upthorn and nitsuja's previous run thanks to various optimization and minor route changes. For more information on the improvements, the BIOS files used and a run for the Japanese version of the game, please read the author's submission notes. There are two video encode files, the first recorded with the Japanese region music and the second with the American region music. | ||
![]() | SegaCD The Terminator (USA) in 13:20.67 by adelikat & Cardboard. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-09-03) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 79.19 MB, length: 15:32) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2820 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.9 (12 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Kyle Reese clearly had a difficult time trying to save Sarah Connor in the hit movie The Terminator. But when the Sega CD based tie-in's difficulty is set to Super!, you wonder just how the hell Kyle made it two steps before dying. It really makes you feel like Kyle must have felt in a hopeless future where everything can kill within | ||
![]() | Genesis Aero the Acro-Bat (USA) in 29:39.23 by Exxonym. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2011-10-05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 137.77 MB, length: 32:25) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3305 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1850 (30:50.2) Rating: 7.2 (6 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Aero the Acrobat is the tale of a bat who has to defend his circus from an angry clown and his horde of minions. Watch as Aero bounces, glides and soars through this game with even greater ease than before, to the tune of a 1:10.96 faster run due to a variety of small improvements. This game also features the first appearance of another Sunsoft character, Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel. | ||
![]() | Genesis Aladdin, Disney's (USA) in 11:05.4 by ElectroSpecter. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-11-20) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 41.49 MB, length: 14:13) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1734 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #341 (14:19.73) Rating: 7.0 (31 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| A typical Disney game featuring all the characters from the movie. This is an improvement of 3 minutes and 14 seconds over the previous movie. More detailed comments about the run can be found in author's comments. | ||
![]() | Genesis Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle (USA) in 05:27.8 by Aqfaq. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-02-28) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 11.68 MB, length: 07:40) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 12.47 MB, length: 07:40) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1865 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #788 (06:46.77) Rating: 6.6 (22.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Before Sonic the Hedgehog, there was Alex Kidd. This movie improves on the previous movie by a whopping 79 seconds thanks to a new trick allowing Alex to ascend through walls Rockman style. | ||
![]() | Genesis Alien Soldier (JPN) in 18:32.27 by Dammit & Truncated. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2009-09-02) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 143.23 MB, length: 25:04) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2386 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.1 (22 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| VISUALSHOCK! SPEEDSHOCK! SOUNDSHOCK! NOW IS TIME TO THE 68000 HEART ON FIRE! Alien Soldier, released in 1995, is a spiritual successor to Gunstar Heroes (you can tell by the cameo appearances of certain bosses), and a real treat in terms of production values as described in the tagline quoted above. The game's rather nonsensical plot boils down to the protagonist, Epsilon-Eagle, having to fight his former terrorist comrades (as well as everything on his path). Thankfully, speedrunners don't care about plots either way. What is more important is that Alien Soldier epitomizes Treasure's concept of an action game: a fast-paced, flashy, relentless boss rush. As such, it has 33 grotesque bosses, each of them promising a guaranteed game over for inexperienced players. However, using Epsilon-Eagle's vast arsenal of weapons and dodging abilities, the authors plow through the game's "SUPERHARD" difficulty without any regard to its name in this long-awaited movie, achieving a total in-game time of 8 minutes 13 seconds. | ||
![]() | Genesis Alisia Dragoon (JPN/USA) in 13:33.72 by Toothache. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-01-17) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 74.87 MB, length: 17:23) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2537 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.5 (13 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| When Alisia Dragoon was just a little girl, she watched her father being tortured and killed in front of her. For some reason, she was allowed to leave, grow up and somehow swallow a Tesla coil in order to seek her revenge through electrical zappy death. Or at least that's the amount of plot that is needed to understand this game. This run zaps through the game, quickly frying everything in Alisia's path to nothingness. | ||
![]() | Genesis Altered Beast (JPN/USA,r2) in 05:53.3 by foda. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-06-25) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 18.74 MB, length: 08:26) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 20.57 MB, length: 08:26) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1599 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #96 (06:21.57) Rating: 6.2 (36 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Altered Beast is originally an arcade game. In each level, the player must collect 3 powerups in order to transform into a powerful beast and fight the boss of that level. This game was one of the first games of the Sega Genesis system, and was first bundled with it. This might look like it's an auto-scrolling game, but in fact the scroll speed depends on the number of enemies on screen. The player tries to kill all enemies as soon as possible to increase the scroll speed, using 2 characters to maximize this process. Almost 30 seconds were saved compared to the previous version. | ||
![]() | Genesis B.O.B. in 52:57.85 by Toothache. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-10-03) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 226.87 MB, length: 54:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2852 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #420 (1:14:11.5) Rating: 5.7 (11 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| On his way for a date with a bodacious babe, B.O.B. manages to total his parent's car and finds himself crashlanding on a heinous planet full of gnarly robots bogus aliens. B.O.B. must fight, spring, and fly his way to his dream girl! | ||
![]() | Genesis Batman (USA/Europe) in 11:06.2 by arkiandruski. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-03-21) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 32.22 MB, length: 13:39) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1458 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (22 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Batman is a game that closely follows the plot of the Tim Burton movie of the same name. In it, you follow Batman from the beginning of the movie through the birth and the death of the Joker. Of course the movie doesn't involve Batman going through walls or dying to achieve his objective quicker. | ||
![]() | Genesis Beavis and Butt-Head (USA) in 09:27.03 by adelikat. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-12-17) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 37.49 MB, length: 10:15) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1774 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #226 (10:14.42) Rating: 5.5 (22 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| A game where you must assemble your shredded-up ticket to go to a heavy metal concert. 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. | ||
![]() | Genesis Bible Adventures () "Baby Moses" in 02:00.37 by Aglar. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2011-06-24) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 3.08 MB, length: 02:14) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3181 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.0 (19.5 votes) View Publication | - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
| Bible Adventures is one of many unlicensed games produced by Wisdom Tree. This particular game offers three modes of play. This run plays through the "Baby Moses" mode, of how his mother "got a papyrus basket for him ... and placed the child in it and put it ... along the bank of the Nile". This apparently entails avoiding a horde of enemies in the process. Thus, before Moses can let his people go, Aglar goes as fast as possible by taking a page from the wrong story and walking on water (wouldn't that have made crossing the Red Sea just a little bit easier?) as well as directly through many of the enemies and obstacles preventing one from reaching the right edge of the level. | ||
![]() | Genesis Blaster Master 2 (USA) in 25:29.22 by JXQ. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-11-26) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 62.62 MB, length: 26:53) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1751 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (23 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Jason and his magical jumping tank, "S.O.P.H.I.A.", are back, this time in glorious 16-bit graphics (and not so glorious sound). Much like its predecessor, the player must alternate between sidescrolling and overhead views to collect parts for the tank and vanquish evil. This movie abuses death to a large degree to obliterate the game in record time. | ||
![]() | Genesis Bonanza Bros. (any,r1) in 09:03.02 by SprintGod. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2004-09-19) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 30.57 MB, length: 10:41) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #315 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.0 (22 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Genre: Action | |
| A technically unusually simple game for the Genesis completed as fast as possible with two characters played by one player. | ||
![]() | Genesis Bubba 'n' Stix in 13:49.98 by maTO. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-02-10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 52.24 MB, length: 17:03) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2553 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (7 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Here's another run-of-the-mill platformer, released concurrently for the Amiga and Genesis/Mega Drive. Bubba, a delivery man for the local zoo, is abducted one day by aliens; accompanied by the appropriately-named sentient stick Stix they must try to find a way back home. As this run demonstrates, this takes a lot less time than you might expect. | ||
![]() | Genesis Cadash (USA) in 21:55.23 by nifboy. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2006-02-21) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 59.79 MB, length: 23:57) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #743 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.6 (21 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Cadash isn't the most straightforward of platformers, seeing how you can actually gain levels and buy items in this one. There are also mandatory items to fetch and quests to complete in order to advance. This is actually nifboy's third movie of Cadash, and the first one considered worth publishing. This means that the author hasn't just thrown something together, but rather planned and optimized everything carefully. Note that the author dies twice in the movie. Both deaths were of course intentional and saved time. For details about these deaths as well as things that were skipped, see the submission text. | ||
![]() | Genesis Castle of Illusion: Starring Mickey Mouse (USA) in 17:33.03 by Aglar. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2011-10-15) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 90.49 MB, length: 21:26) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3320 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #811 (18:23.45) Rating: 7.9 (4 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Castle of Illusion is one of the earlier games for the Genesis. Mickey must collect seven jewels to reach the final boss and save Minnie. He attacks enemies either by flinging apples at them, or by smothering them with his cast-iron buttocks. This run is around 50 seconds faster than the previous run, thanks to new tricks/glitches and better optimisation. Please read the author's comments for more information on the new tricks and glitches. | ||
![]() | Genesis Castlevania: Bloodlines (USA) "John Morris version" in 27:36.17 by Samhain-Grim & Truncated. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-11-08) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 92.35 MB, length: 31:12) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2114 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.5 (44 votes) View Publication | - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Castlevania's foray onto the Genesis sees two protagonists duke it out with Dracula and his minions: John Morris and Eric Lecarde. John Morris carries the famed whip, and Eric Lecarde wields a spear. This run sees John Morris take on the hordes of minions. While Morris is essentially slower in movement, he is still the faster of the two due to his ability to destroy the bosses quicker than Lecarde. For more precise details, see the authors' detailed submission text. | ||
![]() | Genesis Castlevania: Bloodlines (USA) "Eric Lecarde version" in 27:41.93 by Samhain-Grim & Truncated. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-11-08) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 92.43 MB, length: 31:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2115 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.4 (42.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses a suboptimal character - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Castlevania's foray onto the Genesis sees two protagonists duke it out with Dracula and his minions: John Morris and Eric Lecarde. John Morris carries the famed whip, and Eric Lecarde wields a spear. This run sees Eric Lecarde take his turn against the vast minions of Dracula. While Lecarde moves slightly faster than Morris, lag from his magic spear had to be taken into account more often, and he is weaker against bosses. For more precise details, see the authors' detailed submission text for Morris. | ||
![]() | Genesis Chakan (USA) in 12:08.52 by Sonikkustar. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2011-03-31) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 34.08 MB, length: 12:35) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3053 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #489 (17:39.38) Rating: 6.6 (8 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| This movie here is one that makes little to no sense to someone who isn't familiar with the game. The main character can move very fast and the dark graphics don't help in figuring out what's going on. There is a lot more going on in this movie than meets the eye. For example, the player uses a secret warp involving combining the alchemy potions that are scattered throughout the levels. This improves the previous run of the game by 5 minutes & 30 seconds through several optimizations as well as a new glitch which creates massive shortcuts. For more information about what's going on in this game, we recommend reading the author's comments at the submission page. NOTE: Don't be fooled by the fake credits after the final level. The game is not quite over yet. | ||
![]() | Genesis Chuck Rock (USA) in 08:51.43 by adelikat. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-10-30) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 93.66 MB, length: 10:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2892 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #827 (09:01.27) Rating: 6.5 (10 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Ophelia Rock has been kidnapped by local bully Gary Gritter and taken to his hangout in the creepy dinosaur graveyard. It's up to Chuck the caveman to come to her rescue in this comical platformer. This is a 9.83 second improvement over the previous movie, much of the improvement comes from new shortcuts and tricks. | ||
![]() | Genesis Chuck Rock II: Son of Chuck (USA) in 18:30.63 by maTO. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-05-17) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 117.41 MB, length: 22:44) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2668 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.6 (6 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Long after Chuck Rock rescues his significant other, they are married and have a son. In this game, Chuck is kidnapped, and it's up to his son to rescue him! | ||
![]() | Genesis Comix Zone (USA) in 09:34.88 by xoinx & XYZ. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-09-07) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 28.41 MB, length: 12:15) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1685 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #846 (10:19.3) Rating: 7.3 (26.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Fighting | |
| Comix Zone (1995) is a game with an interesting setting: player takes a role of Sketch Turner, the cartoonist whose comic book turned against him, with its main villain coming to the physical world and throwing Sketch inside his own book. There are two different endings to this game — this movie shows the "good" one. This is an improvement of 44.4 seconds to the previous movie by xoinx, coming from route changes, more strategic use of Power Fist, and other changes (read authors' comments for more details). | ||
![]() | Genesis Contra: Hard Corps (JPN) "secret ending" in 04:57.28 by adelikat. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-04-14) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 25.80 MB, length: 07:28) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1914 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #906 (04:59.47) Rating: 7.1 (28 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Contra: Hard Corps (1994) was the first game in the series to be exclusively released on a non-Nintendo console. The game took a lot of elements from previous installments and spiced them up with even more dynamic combat, different playable characters, nonlinear plot and about twice the amount of boss fights. In this movie the author takes the secret "fifth ending", thereby skipping most of the game. If you want to see runs which play more of the game, then you should see this run (with the quickest "normal" ending) or this run (with the "best" ending). 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. | ||
![]() | Genesis Contra: Hard Corps (JPN) "best ending" in 17:36.97 by Soig. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2011-03-11) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 98.15 MB, length: 20:32) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3028 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (10 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - One player in a multiplayer game - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Contra: Hard Corps is the only game of the Contra series released on the Genesis / Mega Drive console. In this game, you get to choose between four characters, each with different abilities and weapons. The Japanese version was chosen because, for some reason, it gives the players a health bar, allowing them to take some damage without dying. You can also get several different endings, based on which choices you make at several points. In this movie, the author takes the "best ending", which is the only ending that rewards the player with a "GOOD JOB!" screen at the end. There is also a run which obtains a worse ending but still shows off a number of the game's stages. There is also a run which gets the secret ending. | ||
![]() | Genesis Contra: Hard Corps (JPN) in 14:07.52 by Soig. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2011-02-07) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 95.39 MB, length: 17:04) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2987 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1098 (14:11.9) Rating: 7.4 (9 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Contra: Hard Corps is the only game of the Contra series released on the Genesis / Mega Drive console. In this game, you get to choose between four characters, each with different abilities and weapons. This game has four completely different final stages, each with a different ending, depending on the choices you make earlier. This run takes the quickest path leading to one of these final stages. There are also runs which get the best ending or the secret ending. 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. Soig's movie beats adelikat's movie by 4.38 seconds, due to general improvements. To learn more about these improvements, you can read the author's comments. | ||
![]() | Genesis Crusader of Centy (USA) in 43:40.17 by Eratyx. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2009-11-05) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 105.23 MB, length: 45:56) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Submission #2434 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (10 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure ![]() | |
| Crusader of Centy (1994), also known as Soleil, tells the story of a teenage boy saving humanity from monsters that might or might not actually be evil. To his aid he has up to two pets at a time granting him some special ability. The movie takes advantage of the way the game calculates movement speed to make some seemingly impossible long jumps and skip large parts of some rooms. | ||
![]() | Genesis Dark Castle (USA) in 00:56.37 by Aqfaq & Stanski. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2009-02-08) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 2.24 MB, length: 01:56) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2170 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #790 (00:56.55) Rating: 6.6 (22.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Dark Castle looks like a Genesis version of Donkey Kong. This new movie is eleven frames faster than the previous version by Aqfaq and Stanski.
Selected statement by Aqfaq: I managed to skip most of the game, which is good because Dark Castle sucks. | ||
![]() | Genesis Decap Attack (USA/Europe) in 19:35.88 by Sonikkustar. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2009-12-27) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 58.96 MB, length: 22:53) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2508 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1295 (20:04.9) Rating: 6.5 (12 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Decap Attack is a Genesis exclusive game starring the mummy Chuck D. Head who's on a quest to stop an underworld army. To do so, Chuck must overcome several dangers, such as clever fishes, seals with sunglasses, and maniac bulldozers. At his disposal, Chuck has several ability-enhancing potions, as well as a spare skull to chuck at his enemies. This is a 29 second improvement over the previous run of this game. | ||
![]() | Genesis Desert Demolition "Road Runner version" in 04:18.42 by FerretWarlord. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-11-29) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 14.93 MB, length: 05:41) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2132 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.9 (23 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Desert Demolition captures the theme and style of the popular Warner Brothers Road Runner shorts to create an entertaining game where the stage hazards and layouts change based on your character choice. This run features Road Runner, who uses his insane speed to avoid or even plow through Wile E. Coyote's many traps. For a Wile E. Coyote version of the game by the same author, click here | ||
![]() | Genesis Desert Demolition "Wile E. Coyote version" in 05:01.02 by FerretWarlord. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-11-29) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 17.48 MB, length: 06:25) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2135 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.6 (25 votes) View Publication | - Uses a suboptimal character - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Desert Demolition captures the theme and style of the popular Warner Brothers Road Runner shorts to create an entertaining game where the stage hazards and layouts change based on your character choice. This run features Wile E. Coyote, who uses his guile and Acme traps to surprise and attempt to catch Road Runner. It also has a (not so) surprise ending. For a Road Runner version of the game by the same author, click here | ||
![]() | Genesis Dungeons & Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun (USA) in 29:33.42 by A Jesus Fan. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-08-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 186.84 MB, length: 33:50) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2788 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.0 (8 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| As the goblin army makes their last push into Duke Barrik’s castle, the sky is ripped open and both armies are sucked into the void. Duke Barrik's castle is transported to a valley enclosed with impossibly tall cliffs and a brilliant red sun overhead. The Duke requests that the four player characters explore this strange environment in order to find allies. As though it were a walk in the park (And a few mazes), the game is completed in a fast half hour, thanks to much luck manipulation. The input is continued to the end of the movie to speed up the ending. In fact, the game is practically over when the final scroll is read. | ||
![]() | Genesis Dynamite Headdy (USA) in 33:22.82 by emu. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-06-01) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 149.43 MB, length: 50:40) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1553 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (24 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Dynamite Headdy (1994) is an often-overlooked action/platformer gem whose main hero, a star puppet named Headdy, can attack his enemies by shooting his detachable head at them. During the span of the game, Headdy must defeat the evil puppet king Dark Demon who captured his friends' home town, the Keymasters that guard the path to the villain, and Headdy's lifelong rival Trouble Bruin, who is eager to take his place in the production. To prevent all those bad things from happening, Headdy has a nice arsenal of interchangeable heads that are used both to attack enemies and to aid traveling, which brings enough variety to entertain the viewer throughout the movie. | ||
![]() | Genesis Earnest Evans (USA) in 07:51.48 by adelikat. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-12-26) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 30.47 MB, length: 10:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2151 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #733 (08:55.98) Rating: 7.3 (19 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Earnest Evans is an Indiana Jones-esque treasure hunter who has to go through various levels and settings and battle hordes of monsters and bosses. This time around, adelikat utilizes damage boosting and a few other movement-based tricks to save over a full minute compared to the previous run. | ||
![]() | Genesis Ecco: The Tides of Time (USA) in 47:38.72 by Upthorn. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-08-18) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 181.52 MB, length: 49:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2054 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (23 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Ecco: The Tides of Time (1994) is the sequel to Ecco the Dolphin. It is harder than the original, and continues its bizarre science fiction plotline. You control Ecco the dolphin, navigating the waters, circumnavigating the time-stream, saving lost DNA nucleotide pairs, and finding key crystals, schools of fish and pockets of air deep down in submarine caves. Ecco is capable of moving at very high speed but has little in the way of brakes. Turning corners without smashing into walls is tricky to say the least. This run plays on the hardest difficulty mode. Note: The multimedia file for this run is an MKV with chapters. This can be played in most media players, but if problems are encountered then please see the Downloads page. | ||
![]() | Genesis Ecco the Dolphin (USA) in 24:14.13 by nitsuja. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2006-01-09) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 61.71 MB, length: 24:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #917 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #389 (27:35.72) Rating: 7.1 (35 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Ecco is a very original and hellishly hard game. You control Ecco the dolphin, navigating the waters, saving other trapped dolphins (which of course were left on their own here), finding key diamonds, schools of fish and pockets of air deep down in submarine caves. Ecco is capable of moving at very high speed but has little in the way of brakes. Turning corners without smashing into walls is tricky to say the least. This run takes no damage, despite the fact that this was not intended to be possible. | ||
![]() | Genesis El Viento (JPN/USA) in 09:40.6 by SuperHappy. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-10-06) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 27.46 MB, length: 12:12) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1694 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #512 (10:19.85) Rating: 6.3 (24.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| El Viento done 39.15 seconds faster than the previous run by the same author. The improvements come mainly from using frame advance. Note: The movie file works also with El Viento (U) [!].gen rom. | ||
![]() | Genesis ESWAT: City Under Siege (USA) in 13:22.68 by Dammit. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-10-26) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 55.61 MB, length: 16:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2106 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1113 (13:31.88) Rating: 7.1 (18 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action | |
| E-SWAT: City Under Siege is a story about a cop who dreams of wearing a cybernetic jetpack suit and becoming a killing machine. His dream comes true. More seriously, this game stars the police officer Duke Oda trying to clean up the crime in the city of Liberty and fight the crime organization E.V.E. Some more details about the game can be found here. The variety of available weapons, and the use of a jetpack (denoted Burner), make this an entertaining action-packed movie. This run features a 9-second improvement over the preceding version. | ||
![]() | Genesis Ex-Mutants (USA) in 10:11.23 by maTO. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-05-07) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 102.07 MB, length: 13:11) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2636 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.4 (6 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| In this game, the Earth has been nearly destroyed by the genetic and biological weapons unleashed during World War 3. Radiation and strange viruses have combined to physically transform the human population into vile, disgusting mutants. However, a scientist named Dr. Kildare, who aims to reclaim mankind's lost genetic heritage, returns six people to normal to fight for humanity as the Ex-Mutants. Your job, as one of the Ex-Mutants, is to rescue the other Ex-Mutants and find power cells for Dr. Kildare. maTO completes this game in a little over 10 minutes by accurate playing and good health management. | ||
![]() | Genesis Fatal Labyrinth (JPN/USA) in 06:46.25 by plusminus. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-12-02) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 17.29 MB, length: 08:35) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1759 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.0 (21 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Fatal Labyrinth is an early Genesis turn-based dungeon crawler. It consists of 30 floors/levels and a final battle. The object of each floor is to reach the stairs that take you up to the next floor. Normally this involves lots of exploring, collecting equipment, and fighting with numerous monsters; but, this being a TAS, you don't see so much of that. | ||
![]() | Genesis Flashback (USA) in 23:54.57 by nifboy. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2004-10-22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 24.48 MB, length: 30:38) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 24.11 MB, length: 30:34) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #371 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.5 (28 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Flashback is the sci-fi version of Prince of Persia. There is a lot of jumping, rolling and climbing to move around the levels. This movie uses a lot of bugs to get ahead faster. The most prominent one is probably walking through walls, which renders keys obsolete. Also, if you finish a level without having some important item, the game assumes you have it anyway. We recommend the author's comments of this run. | ||
![]() | Genesis Garfield: Caught in the Act (USA/Europe) in 18:31.68 by emu. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-03-17) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 77.16 MB, length: 21:22) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1870 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.3 (21 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes warps - Uses hardest difficulty | |
| Garfield and Odie broke the TV. After they "fix" it, the "spare parts" from the TV turn into a monster and suck Garfield and Odie into the TV! With cat-like reflexes, Garfield defeats the monster (known as Glitch) in short order by, among other things, manipulating luck and taking damage to save time! | ||
![]() | Genesis Ghouls 'n Ghosts (USA/Europe r1) in 07:44.22 by FerretWarlord. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2009-04-10) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 32.85 MB, length: 11:57) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2194 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.6 (31 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Uses a level password - Genre: Platform | |
| Ghouls 'n Ghosts is a sequel to Ghosts 'n Goblins on the NES. On a quest to recapture stolen souls from Lucifer (Loki in this game), the player advances through a series of levels filled with demonic and undead creatures. Usually, one would have to finish the game twice in order for it to end properly. Instead of doing so, the author of this movie uses a password to start off on the 2nd playthrough. Despite the game displaying "Practice" on the screen, this movie is indeed played on hardest difficulty. See the author's comments for a more thorough explanation. | ||
![]() | Genesis Gods (USA) in 07:29.73 by Aqfaq. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2011-07-09) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 28.65 MB, length: 10:14) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3209 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #812 (07:31.93) Rating: 7.1 (12 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Gods is a game about someone who wants to become a god and gain immortality. This is a delicate and paradoxical issue, because temporal immortality can be bought at just about every shop in this game, but the hero still dies numerous times. Another fun aspect is bomb-jumping, which allows both higher jumps and traveling vertically through walls. Almost the whole 2nd half of the game is skipped with this trick! This is the author's latest version, improved by another 132 frames. | ||
![]() | Genesis Golden Axe (JPN/USA,r1) in 07:01.95 by Mukki. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-03-21) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 23.78 MB, length: 14:55) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2604 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #543 (07:08.38) Rating: 8.2 (20 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Fighting | |
| A classic hack'n'slash arcade type game, which sports ridable creatures and magic. The author abuses the simplistic AI to make enemies commit suicide by jumping off cliffs. This movie is about 7 seconds faster than the previous version. | ||
![]() | Genesis Gunstar Heroes (USA) in 35:28.92 by arkiandruski. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-08-18) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 284.24 MB, length: 39:15) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 316.07 MB, length: 39:15) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1645 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #133 (32:59.0) Rating: 8.0 (35 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - 2 Players - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Gunstar Heroes (1993) is widely considered to be one of the best action games on the Sega Genesis, but, ironically, was commercially unsuccessful due to poor promotion. It features a variety of melee attacks, as well as 4 basic weapons which can be combined in pairs (making a total of 14 combinations) — all densely packed in a swift and explosion-heavy gameplay spanning over seven uniquely designed stages. The author takes special care to showcase all the moves the game is capable of, using every possible attack and having lots of fun playing around in autoscrolling sections. This movie is 3 minutes longer than the previous one due to playing on hardest difficulty and using both Gunstars at the same time. See the author's comments for more details. The AVI for this movie is also slightly larger than usual — this is due to an amount of colors and on-screen motion even the best codecs have problems coping with. | ||
![]() | Genesis Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (USA) in 06:43.12 by maTO. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2009-11-26) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 25.37 MB, length: 08:01) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Submission #2451 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.2 (9 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| In this action platformer loosely based on the famous film (and not to be confused with an adventure game of the same name), Indiana Jones travels the world to find the Holy Grail, having his trusty whip with him the whole time. This time around, he grabs the Grail so fast you don't even see it coming - in fact the sequence in which the grail is chosen goes by before the screen finishes being drawn, so you don't even get to see that. Due to an error in encoding, the torrent has been replaced, the Dailymotion and Archive.org link have also been replaced. | ||
![]() | Genesis Instruments of Chaos starring Young Indiana Jones in 09:04.58 by maTO. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2009-12-25) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 26.60 MB, length: 10:10) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2495 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (10 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Enemy spies have been sent to buy military weapon technologies from scientists all around the world. Young Indiana Jones has been recruited to infiltrate the meeting locations and prevent the spies from leaving alive. But Indy doesn't care about the deals and forgets to kill the spies other than the one in England, perhaps thinking, "What the heck, I climbed all the way up to the top of Big Ben; may as well actually defeat the spy this time." Watch Young Indy blaze through this otherwise uninspiring game with unconventional techniques such as using gear wheels to suddenly appear on another floor and suiciding to avoid fighting bosses. | ||
![]() | Genesis James Pond 3: Operation Starfish (USA) in 33:50.62 by Flip. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-12-08) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 115.59 MB, length: 43:07) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1709 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (18.5 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| James Pond 3: Operation Starfish (1993) is a platform game starring a super agile fish named James Pond, which has been Amiga's somewhat preemptive answer to Sonic the Hedgehog and Super Mario World games. The physics of this game allow for many interesting acrobatics, like running up the walls and ceilings at breakneck speed. As such, these abilities are abused to the point where, in some parts, Pond bounces around as fast as Sonic does. Following the game's plot, the evil Dr. Maybe attempts to take over the dairy industry, for which he constructs a giant stronghold on the Moon. Because, as you probably know, its surface is made of cheese. The overworld map spans over 100 levels, but most of them are optional. This run is the author's second submission for this game. The Cheese Mines and Stiltonium Machines were destroyed in order to reach the good ending. According to the author, the bad ending is about as bad as losing the game. | ||
![]() | Genesis Jewel Master in 09:40.28 by arkiandruski. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2009-08-09) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 32.99 MB, length: 11:57) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1655 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (12 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Jewel Master chronicles the untold story of, well, the Jewel Master and his battle against evil. He has at his disposal magical rings that can be worn in different combinations and grant him extra powers. Obviously, in this movie the author opts to use mostly the speed ring... | ||
![]() | Genesis Jurassic Park (USA) in 02:31.03 by Cpadolf. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-03-06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 19.24 MB, length: 04:45) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2592 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #480 (02:43.37) Rating: 6.5 (12 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| This is a raptor movie of the Genesis version of Jurassic Park, which is completely different from the SNES version. In this game, you can choose between Grant and the raptor, each with his own set of levels. Grant's levels are like Prince of Persia except with dinosaurs and better weapons. The raptor's levels go by much faster. The collision detection is quite buggy, and the author takes advantage of this. This is a 12.34 second improvement on the previous movie, almost all of the improvement coming from better optimization. | ||
![]() | Genesis Kid Chameleon (USA/Europe) "Maximum Levels" in 29:57.7 by TheRandomPie_IV. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2009-08-08) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 89.39 MB, length: 31:39) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2321 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (12 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes warps - Genre: Platform | |
| Kid Chameleon is the story of a kid trapped in an arcade machine, where he has to traverse many different kinds of levels from different "games" and can transform into many types of characters. It is rather convoluted, with the ability to take many paths to the last level. Instead of taking the fastest path, this movie takes the longest path possible without backtracking, but does so as quickly as possible. Several new tricks originated in this run that only recently found their way into the any%. | ||
![]() | Genesis Kid Chameleon (USA/Europe) in 12:47.52 by TheRandomPie_IV. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-03-07) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 36.30 MB, length: 14:33) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2594 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #273 (14:17.63) Rating: 7.7 (8.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Genre: Platform | |
| In this fast-paced platformer, our hero, Casey, is faced with a virtual reality game which seems to make its participants disappear; he must make use of the ability to change into a variety of different forms with diverse abilities to get to the bottom of the mystery. This run aims for the fastest possible path through the game in real time, and so manipulates the score counter in a few instances. This is an improvement of a minute and a half to the previously published (five year old) run in this category. | ||
![]() | Genesis King's Bounty (USA/Europe) in 00:09.93 by gia & Aqfaq. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-07-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 870.76 KB, length: 01:14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 977.18 KB, length: 01:14) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2025 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #740 (00:10.17) Rating: 7.4 (45 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG - Genre: Strategy ![]() | |
| At TASVideos.org, even 10 second long movies are improved, and game characters become so powerful they don't even have to move in order to complete the game. This improvement is a result of the previous movie's author joining forces with the author of a VBA bot used in a glitched-out Pokémon TAS. Together they've managed to shorten the solution by 14 frames with the help of a similarly-designed bot for Gens. Note that, while input length is 10 seconds long, less than 0.3 seconds of it is actual gameplay! | ||
![]() | Genesis Knuckles in Sonic the Hedgehog (Revision 01) in 14:44.95 by JXQ. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-02-15) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 52.55 MB, length: 17:18) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1384 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.1 (35.5 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Takes damage to save time - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
| This is a hacked version of Sonic the Hedgehog. The title character is replaced by his rival, Knuckles. The levels remain unchanged.
There is more than just an appearance change to this game. Knuckles' abilities remain intact. If you haven't seen Sonic the Hedgehog completed before, you may wish to do so before seeing what a character with a spindash and gliding can accomplish.
There is also a run for a Tails hack of Sonic the Hedgehog, done by marzojr. It replaces Knuckles with Tails and gliding with flying.
Note: An IPS patch for the hack can be downloaded here: http://tasvideos-moviefiles.googlecode.com/files/ips%2Bpatcher.zip . It must be patched to REV 00. | ||
![]() | Genesis Madou Monogatari I (JPN) in 15:29.05 by Aqfaq. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2009-07-03) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 45.03 MB, length: 18:42) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1982 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.9 (14.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Adventure - Genre: RPG | |
| Madou Monogatari (魔導物語) is an RPG best described as 'strange'. The game has overly cute design and the battles are probably a little different than you would expect. The story revolves around a girl who is on a quest to pass her final exam in a magic school. A defining moment is one of the cutscenes, where a slime is encountered and suddenly defeated by a strange girl bursting through a brick wall. Then, an equally strange armored knight drops in from the ceiling and the two of them proceed to ignore you and chase each other away. The fast completion time is achieved mostly by using a random-effect spell, which has a small chance of producing a devastating elephant stomp. Naturally, in a TAS, the "small chance" gets a new meaning. | ||
![]() | Genesis Magical Taruruuto-Kun (JPN) in 15:12.22 by Aqfaq. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-04-29) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 53.58 MB, length: 16:19) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1852 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.5 (14 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| This colorful game is based on the manga of the same name and features what appears to be a magical baby navigating through some unusual and fairly friendly looking enemies. Everything, particularly inanimate objects, has a face. The levels vary from suburbia to castles to clouds, and end with particularly unique bosses. The main character's ability to glide sets this apart from many other platformers. The author uses this power frequently to both gain speed and to simply hover above helpless enemies. | ||
![]() | Genesis Marble Madness (USA) in 02:39.45 by SprintGod. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-08-11) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 4.90 MB, length: 02:46) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1658 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #693 (02:49.43) Rating: 7.5 (28.5 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Uses death to save time - Genre: Racing | |
| The Genesis remake of Marble Madness is not directly comparable to the original. In addition to having much worse audio quality, the rules on where (and what) the marble can go (and do) are relaxed, allowing for many shortcuts not possible on the NES. This improvement by SprintGod is 10 seconds faster than adelikat's previous version. | ||
![]() | Genesis Marko's Magic Football in 10:50.4 by maTO. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-03-10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 52.02 MB, length: 13:13) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2567 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| A mad scientist employed by the sinister Col. Brown has created sludge to turn people into sludge monsters! It has also imbued the football belonging to our hero, Marko, with magical powers, with which he hopes to stop the evil plot of the day. Sadly, here he doesn't seem to care about the football very much, instead preferring to sprint on his own power to the end of the various levels. | ||
![]() | Genesis McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure (USA) in 24:33.63 by Sonikkustar. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2009-04-17) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 92.16 MB, length: 30:44) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2207 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (25.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Although one could certainly crack a joke about the idea of a platformer based on McDonald's characters, the joke is quickly stifled by the fact that this game is made by Treasure, known for their entertaining platformers and shooters. A nonsensical plot involving a treasure map and aliens on the moon is quickly discarded in favor of entertaining and hilarious platform antics. | ||
![]() | Genesis Mega Turrican (USA) in 12:51.95 by maTO. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-04-02) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 144.15 MB, length: 16:56) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2606 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.8 (8 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| In this installment of the Turrican series, the evil force known as "The Machine" has once again come to bring destruction in order to take over the galaxy. Once again, Bren McGuire is the only one who can save the galaxy from evil! This game was released as Turrican III for the Amiga before Factor 5 got Data East to port it to the Genesis/Mega Drive. Like most of the previous games in this series, the protagonist has limited rolling power and limited use of super bombs. This forces the author to use some strategic choices to conquer these stages quickly, including occasionally dying to replenish bombs. | ||
![]() | Genesis Mercs in 09:52.9 by adelikat. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-06-02) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 50.19 MB, length: 13:26) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1581 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #395 (10:19.43) Rating: 6.4 (18 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Shooter | |
| An overhead shooter with a one man versus an army theme. A lot of time was put into optimizing walking paths, vehicle use and M-bomb use. 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. | ||
![]() | Genesis Mickey Mania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse (USA) in 20:42.37 by emu. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-08-30) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 88.08 MB, length: 22:48) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1666 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #208 (19:25.08) Rating: 6.7 (24 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Mickey's out to visit all of his past blockbuster cartoons as far back as 1930 and rescue his friends from the corresponding antagonists. This game has very colorful and detailed visuals, especially for a Genesis game. | ||
![]() | Genesis Midnight Resistance (USA) in 10:48.4 by adelikat. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-07-07) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 19.91 MB, length: 13:15) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1596 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.2 (20.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses easiest difficulty - Genre: Shooter | |
Midnight Resistance (1990) was a rather lackluster attempt at making a Contra-esque game, ported later to Sega Genesis. Still, it manages to preserve some of the genre's core values, and therefore is well suited for a TAS.
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 sleeveless shirt and blow up stuff with big guns. | ||
![]() | Genesis Moonwalker, Michael Jackson's (any,r0) in 22:42.6 by Frenom. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2005-06-08) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 58.43 MB, length: 23:46) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #709 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #135 (26:29.75) Rating: 6.7 (39 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| This is a strange platformer where the main character, Michael Jackson, has some obsession in doing weird movements and he dances occasionally together with the enemies before he beats them to oblivion. This is an 3:47 improvement to the previous version. If you were looking for a run from the arcade version of this game, click here. | ||
![]() | Genesis Mystic Defender (USA) in 05:38.32 by Aqfaq. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-02-21) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 28.78 MB, length: 07:34) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1862 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #370 (06:13.45) Rating: 6.5 (19.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Mystic Defender is the USA version of the Japanese game "孔雀王2" (Kujaku-Oh Ni, which means "The Peacock King 2"). Except for changing the clothing of the hero and deleting the intro and the names of the stages, everything seems to be the same. Because Peacock the hero is not a very smart hero, he cannot walk and use his arms at the same time (a common video game character disability). Thus he must jump to be able to use his arms. If he is charging a bigger shot when he lands, he forgets to walk for a few frames, so you cannot charge up a shot too early. It's all very delicate. This is a 35 second improvement over the previous movie by highness. Much of the improvement comes from an interesting glitch in the last level. Warning: This movie has been rated PG-13 by the TVRA for Tool-Assisted Violence, Brief Nudity, and Inappropriate Glitch Abuse. Viewer discretion advised. | ||
![]() | Genesis Normy's Beach Babe-o-Rama (USA/Europe) in 12:04.42 by nitrogenesis. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2011-08-12) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 67.59 MB, length: 12:43) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3239 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (8 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Based on the comic strip Making It, Normy's Beach Babe-o-Rama was released in 1994 by Electronic Arts. The plot is that Normy's hanging out with some beach babes when suddenly an evil alien ship beams them aboard! Normy recieves a note that he's the only one that can save them and so he uses some magic suntan lotion to travel through time to rescue them. NitroGenesis abuses Normy's dash to make quick work of the game's six levels, with the occasional glitch thrown in for good measure. | ||
![]() | Genesis Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom (USA) in 1:37:55.98 by Acmlm. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2006-11-11) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 250.26 MB, length: 1:41:37) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1068 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.7 (20.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Phantasy Star III is often considered to be the black sheep of the series, but is still a unique RPG on its own, featuring 3 generations and multiple paths through the game. However, this run breaks the plot halfway through by glitching past the second generation quickly. Like in other RPG runs, luck has been manipulated for many things. Although random encounters can't be completely avoided, no damage is ever taken except from bosses, and most of the leveling is done in a final rush. Read the author's comments for more details on luck manipulation and the path taken through the game. | ||
![]() | Genesis Phantasy Star IV (USA) in 1:28:15.97 by janus. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2012-01-29) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 246.97 MB, length: 1:42:11) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 279.74 MB, length: 1:42:11) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3403 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1488 (1:28:43.4) Rating: Too few votes (1) to display View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| In this final installment of the famous Phantasy Star series, the protagonist, while out on a routine assignment, uncovers evidence pointing to a sinister threat to the entire solar system. One thing leads to another and he and the rest of his party eventually find themselves fighting the root of all evil. Such a quest would normally take at least ten hours, but with copious amounts of luck manipulation, it can be reduced to just under an hour and a half. This is a small improvement of around 30 seconds over the previous version by the same author. | ||
![]() | Genesis Pit-Fighter ((Oct 1991)) in 04:48.22 by adelikat. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-11-05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 13.60 MB, length: 06:14) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2900 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #240 (06:30.53) Rating: 6.1 (9.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Fighting | |
| As an astounding 1 minute 42 second improvement over the previous TAS, this movie pretty much chucks out everything done by the previous movie and proves that, in the end, the elbow is the deadliest weapon known to man.
Note that this TAS uses the Oct 1991 version of the game. It will not sync on the July 1991 version. | ||
![]() | Genesis Prince of Persia (USA) in 19:03.48 by Aqfaq. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-09-18) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 27.39 MB, length: 20:10) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2084 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #173 (19:45.35) Rating: 5.6 (19 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Puzzle | |
| This game, a version of the classic PC game, is a puzzle/platform game done as fast as possible, with some quick fighting thrown in. This version improves the previous Prince of Persia run by 42 seconds. During the run, the author manages to pull off daring leaps of faith, enemy dodging and even manages to pass through a solid metal gate. | ||
![]() | Genesis Puggsy (USA) in 18:00.73 by Sonikkustar. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2011-06-13) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 121.26 MB, length: 22:16) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3163 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (4 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Puggsy is the story of an alien who makes a pit stop on a planet called creatively The Planet, only to have his space craft stolen by the natives! In order to get his ride back Sonikkustar uses the impressive physics engine and the variety of puzzle-solving items dotted around the levels, thrashing the raccoons in record time! | ||
![]() | Genesis Pulseman (JPN) "low glitch" in 33:57.15 by ideamagnate. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-05-18) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 94.88 MB, length: 37:13) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1496 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (20.5 votes) View Publication | - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Genre: Platform | |
| This is a "low-glitch" run of Pulseman for the Genesis. The motion bug is not used in this movie, which adds many minutes to the run but makes it easier to follow and allows the author to show off the rich variety of levels and optimization strategies. Aside from not using the bug, this movie aims to beat the game as fast as possible. | ||
![]() | Genesis Pulseman (JPN) in 25:16.02 by TwistedEye. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2006-10-09) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 74.14 MB, length: 29:05) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1067 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (25 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| From the author: The graphics, music, sounds, controls are all absolutely phenomenal with interesting characters, gorgeous trippy backgrounds, and tough-but-not-too-tough bosses and puzzles. I'm very confident in saying that it's one of the best games you've probably never heard of. This run uses glitches that allow moving screenfulls at a time through obstacles and walls. | ||
![]() | Genesis Putter Golf (JPN) in 03:02.87 by Aqfaq. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-05-13) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 12.80 MB, length: 04:29) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2654 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (12 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Sport | |
| Tool-assisted runs are more than just running to the end of a game as quickly as possible; precision also plays a huge factor. As proof, look no further than... mini-golf? While the segments of input are very short, a great deal of work is needed to figure out exactly what the best shots are in order to complete the holes in the fastest possible time. If you enjoyed watching this, also check out another mini-golf run with even zanier courses. | ||
![]() | Genesis Quackshot in 22:23.07 by AKA. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-12-01) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 67.99 MB, length: 24:33) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1742 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #150 (23:23.52) Rating: 6.7 (22 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Quackshot is an Indiana-Jones-inspired game that finds Donald Duck liberally belly-sliding and plunger-shooting his way to an ancient treasure. It is one of the few non-Capcom Disney games. This video is a minute improvement that abuses known glitches more and shows some new ones as well. | ||
![]() | Genesis Ranger X (USA) in 09:32.5 by Truncated & TheRandomPie_IV. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2011-05-03) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 49.51 MB, length: 11:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3127 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.2 (12 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Shooter | |
| A late-lifetime release for the Genesis/MegaDrive, Ranger-X features the eponymous character fighting back an invasion of his homeworld with a powered suit, jetpack, and more weaponry than most people could ever use in a lifetime. This run originates from TASVideos' Dream Team Contest 2 back in 2009, and is an improvement of 1:48.68 over the best submission from then. | ||
![]() | Genesis Ristar (USA/Europe) "Bonus Stages" in 04:27.38 by mmarks. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-11-02) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 26.16 MB, length: 04:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2893 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1620 (04:27.77) Rating: 6.7 (11.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses hardest difficulty - Uses a level password - Genre: Platform | |
| Ristar is a colorful platformer with good music. In this TAS, the author uses a password to play only the bonus levels. This, among a long line of TASes, improves the previous movie by 23 frames. | ||
![]() | Genesis Ristar (JPN) in 26:44.15 by Upthorn. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-05-17) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 93.65 MB, length: 31:09) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1506 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #547 (28:17.37) Rating: 6.7 (24 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Ristar is a large, colorful game with good music. It also has water-themed levels that aren't slow and boring, which is a true rarity. The author of this TAS chose to get maximum height bonuses instead of using the end pole for a small, boring speed boost. As Bag of Magic Food so excellently put it, "Starface has stretchy arms and wastes time spinning on poles." This is a 1 minute 33 second improvement over the author's previous movie. Details about the improvements can be found in the authors comments. | ||
![]() | Genesis Robocop vs. the Terminator (USA) in 14:06.92 by Cardboard. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-01-14) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 52.19 MB, length: 17:08) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1818 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.9 (23.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action | |
| RoboCop versus The Terminator (1993) is based on a comic book that is a typical example of two popular but completely unrelated fiction universes merged into one. Such a process usually results in ruined timeline coherence for either, and this game is no exception.
As a result, we get a pretty wild mishmash of RoboCop's and Terminator's backstories in a silly plot accompanied by equally silly gameplay. This includes seemingly inescapable bullet sprays, leotard-clad baddies, exploding heads, hidden 1-ups conveniently placed in molten lava, and so on. The sheer frustration RoboCop experiences from all this madness can only be vented by banging his head on a rock! (You wish any of this was a joke, but it's actually all there.) The Genesis version of this game is notable for the amount of gore and other PG-13 goodies, as well as for the ability to abuse death and other things that make it most suitable for a TAS. | ||
![]() | Genesis Rocket Knight Adventures (USA) in 27:18.13 by Upthorn. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-09-15) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 98.18 MB, length: 31:14) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1670 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #134 (34:20.1) Rating: 7.5 (25 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| This game has a lot of bosses, to say the least. Because the author speeds through levels so quickly, the amount of time spent fighting bosses is actually greater than the amount of time completing the level in order to reach them. This is a 7 minute 38 second improvement over the previous movie. Much of this improvement is simply due to defeating bosses more quickly. The author has left detailed comments about these improvements. | ||
![]() | Genesis Shadow Dancer (World C) in 12:52.82 by trazz. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2006-11-02) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 34.90 MB, length: 15:30) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1015 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (19 votes) View Publication | - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Ninjas, ninjas, everywhere! A lesser-known entry in the Shinobi series, the game still holds its own. As always, ninjas rescue their hostages with style, and celebrate victories against bosses with a suicidal plunge off the nearest skyscraper. | ||
![]() | Genesis Shadow of the Beast (USA) in 11:56.9 by maTO. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2009-11-05) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 47.68 MB, length: 12:27) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2425 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (13 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Shadow of the Beast is a somewhat inferior port of the Amiga hit released in 1989. The North American release was additionally criticized for sloppy conversion that made the game run 16.7% faster than intended and, as a result, sharply increased its difficulty. Obviously it was no problem for maTO, who plunged through the game with impressive health management in just under 12 minutes. | ||
![]() | Genesis Shadow of the Beast II (USA) in 06:33.33 by maTO. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2009-11-07) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 19.81 MB, length: 07:25) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2428 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.1 (12 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| In this direct sequel to the original (once again ported from the Amiga, in a much better fashion but with distorted sound), the hero's sister is kidnapped and he must pursue the same villain as the original to rescue her and settle the score. With some glitch abuse, a helping of taking damage, and very little difficulty, the author of this run accomplishes this in less than seven minutes (just over half the time of the original game). | ||
![]() | Genesis Shining Force (USA) in 1:59:59.05 by DarkKobold. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2009-06-23) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 284.86 MB, length: 2:08:11) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.flurret.net Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2258 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1146 (2:04:26.37) Rating: 7.4 (13 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG - Genre: Strategy ![]() | |
| Shining Force is just under two hours of luck manipulation action. The random number generator is abused to the highest degree. The author used MATLAB, a math scripting language, to optimize the battle speeds. This is a 4 minute 27 second improvement over the previous movie by the same author. | ||
![]() | Genesis Shining Force II (USA) in 3:11:04.65 by DarkKobold. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-05-19) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 408.22 MB, length: 3:15:05) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2667 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1467 (3:26:17.75) Rating: 6.2 (6 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: RPG - Genre: Strategy | |
| In this second game of the series, watch nearly three and a half hours of luck manipulation so intense that it took scripting and bot-work to perform most of it. Most of the bosses in the second half of the run die in one or two rounds. This is an improvement of 15 minutes and 13 seconds over the previous movie, due to a variety of improvements, and in spite of playing on "Super" difficulty, which is functionally the highest difficulty level. If you enjoyed this, be sure to check out the first game in the series as well. | ||
![]() | Genesis Shining in the Darkness (USA) in 43:27.2 by DarkKobold. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2009-08-15) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 95.65 MB, length: 45:49) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2322 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (13 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Uses death to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Shining in the Darkness is the first in the Shining series, which includes Shining Force. Unlike the later games, it is a first person dungeon crawler. The author dissected the game with the help of Lua scripts to find optimal battles and avoid random encounters. | ||
![]() | Genesis Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master (USA) in 22:18.42 by Dammit. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2009-06-21) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 103.48 MB, length: 27:37) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2238 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #591 (25:03.77) Rating: 7.7 (13 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Shinobi 3 is a high class platformer with amazing graphics and sound. You control the ninja Musashi, who in this update has many new moves and abilities. He begins the game armed with 0 shurikens, but apparently someone felt the need to leave some conveniently in his way to use. The author shows an extremely entertaining route featuring abuse of the Jump kick move, using wallkicks to fly up sheer cliffs, and even sacrificing lives to smash bosses. During autoscroll sections Dammit is sure to entertain you by insulting the inept hordes of enemies, insulting the Genesis hardware itself in one special palette error case, and pulling some disappearing acts crazy enough to be worthy of a Ninja. He also made 2 minutes and 45 seconds of the previous run disappear in a cloud of smoke. | ||
![]() | Genesis Skitchin' (unknown) in 16:18.65 by Bobo the King. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-06-25) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 73.69 MB, length: 17:42) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2693 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.2 (8 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Genre: Racing | |
| Skitchin' is a racing game released in 1994 by EA. It is the spiritual successor to the Road Rash series. The goal of the game is to rollerblade to the finish line, grabbing cars to boost your speed (the titular "skitching"), performing tricks, and knocking over other racers with various weapons. In this tool-assisted speedrun, very few cars are skitched and the other racers are ignored. | ||
![]() | Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles (World) "Knuckles 100%" in 45:28.6 by Upthorn. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-01-26) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 170.38 MB, length: 49:55) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1378 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.9 (42.5 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - 100% completion - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| A Sonic video without Sonic! Instead, Knuckles takes the spotlight and collects all the Chaos (and Super) Emeralds. Though, since the latter set of Emeralds isn't used for anything meaningful at all, the author has also provided a version that skips all the Super Emeralds and their respective bonus stages, which is about 9 minutes shorter. The movie files for this and other bonuses can be obtained from the author's comments. | ||
![]() | Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles "newgame+" in 31:16.15 by marzojr. | |||||||||
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-09-11) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 257.20 MB, length: 35:30) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 2.38 GB, length: 35:30) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2802 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.7 (16 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - One player in a multiplayer game - Uses death to save time - Second quest/Post game-completion - Starts from a saved state or SRAM - Genre: Platform | |||||||||
| Sonic's gone to plaid in the latest TAS by marzojr. It starts from a savestate to take advantage of Hyper Sonic from the beginning of the game. (For more details, see the note below and the run's comments.)
WARNING: The awesomeness of Hyper Sonic may damage your eyes or trigger seizures in susceptible people.
Note: This movie begins from a save state from the end of regular mode in order to access Hyper Sonic from the beginning of the game. There is no other way to access it outside of a hack. We normally do not accept movies which begin from a save state. To download a savestate for this movie, use this link for Gens version 11a or this link for Gens version 11b. Note: There are multiple encodes for the run, as described by this table:
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![]() | Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles "Sonic 100%" in 55:48.8 by marzojr. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2009-11-09) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 209.14 MB, length: 59:58) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 122.71 MB, length: 39:43) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2416 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.8 (20 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - 100% completion - Uses a suboptimal character - Forgoes time-saving death - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| In this run of Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Sonic has decided that getting all the emeralds is the only way to go and as such powers his way through the special stages to achieve this (and a perfect ending). This run also avoids using a glitch called horizontal underflow, which is explained in the author's comments. For those that have seen the Knuckles 100% run (or just don't like waiting around), there is a second, smaller mkv that omits the emerald collection, loading/end of stage screens and removes the Hyper Sonic flash/music. | ||
![]() | Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles in 29:51.2 by nitsuja & Upthorn & marzojr. | |||||||||
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-10-23) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 252.29 MB, length: 33:59) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 2.28 GB, length: 33:59) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2877 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1595 (32:05.52) Rating: 9.0 (26 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform ![]() | |||||||||
Ludicrous-speed bouncing around. Completed without collecting any emeralds, with both Sonic and Tails controlled by the player.
This run takes everything you know about Sonic 3 & Knuckles and turns it upside-down. It extensively uses the "scroll objects offscreen to pass through them" trick to zip and warp to places that shouldn't be reached, break bosses, and effectively skip entire stages.
It is worth noting that nitsuja and Upthorn did not directly participate in the creation of this movie; instead, marzojr incorporated several additional tricks in several stages and spliced them in for a total improvement of 2:14.31 seconds over his last effort at doing the same.
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![]() | Genesis Sonic Spinball (USA) in 07:16.8 by Flip. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2012-05-08) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 25.31 MB, length: 09:50) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 26.20 MB, length: 09:50) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3575 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1044 (07:58.5) Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action | |
| Dr. Robotnik is at it again, and this time he's set up a Pinball Defense System inside a volcano. Fortunately, Sonic makes a good pinball and he easily infiltrates the system, recovering most of the chaos emeralds hidden within and making short work of the bosses. This run is an improvement of 41.70 seconds over the previous movie. The improvements come from better optimization and some new time-saving maneuvers. Reading the author's comments is highly recommended. | ||
![]() | Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog (any,r1) in 15:04.43 by Aglar & marzojr. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2012-01-14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 79.49 MB, length: 18:02) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 83.97 MB, length: 18:02) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3402 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1401 (15:51.73) Rating: 8.8 (9 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Sonic bounces around surprisingly fast. The lack of spin-dash makes the strategy a bit different than the other Sonic runs, since preserving your momentum becomes a lot more important. However, this doesn't prevent the authors from achieving crazy velocities even with such a significant limitation. In this run, the game is completed without collecting any emeralds. This is the sixth run of this game, improving on the previous effort by 47.29 seconds with the use of new zips and improved precision. To see a movie of this game that doesn't take advantage of zips, watch the "no zips" run by Aglar. | ||
![]() | Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog (any,r1) "no zips" in 17:36.58 by Aglar. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2011-12-19) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 111.26 MB, length: 20:22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 116.69 MB, length: 20:22) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3378 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.1 (9 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Genre: Platform | |
| Fast bouncing around. This is a run of Sonic the Hedgehog which avoids zipping (gaining a large speed boost from being inside terrain), unlike the other run of the game. Therefore, most levels cannot be skipped, and instead have to be traversed using a more normal route, although the author still finds a couple of alternative methods to take shortcuts (it is hard to define hard rules to ban all glitches). In this run, the game is completed without collecting the Chaos Emeralds. | ||
![]() | Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (any v1.1) in 17:51.6 by Aglar. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2012-05-13) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 94.85 MB, length: 22:00) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 106.80 MB, length: 22:00) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3557 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1779 (18:42.37) Rating: 9.6 (5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - 2 Players - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| In this exhilarating movie of Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Aglar speeds his way through the classic's varied levels making good use of Sonic's new ability to perform Super Dash Attacks (referred to as "Spin Dashes" in later games). However, the Blue Blur isn't alone this time around; the author also controls "Tails" (Sonic's two-tailed foxy buddy) to allow for faster routes and make short work of bosses. This is an improvement of 50.76 seconds over the previous movie, thanks to new routes and better optimization as explained in the author's comments. | ||
![]() | Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (USA) "Competition" in 02:01.05 by nitsuja & mmarks. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2011-01-02) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 14.62 MB, length: 02:42) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2953 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (16.5 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - One player in a multiplayer game - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| This movie showcases the competition mode of Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Here, nitsuja and mmarks aim to complete each level in the fastest time possible. This run is also the fastest anyone has completed each level in Time Attack. | ||
![]() | Genesis Sparkster (JPN/USA) in 27:09.55 by Sonikkustar. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-08-15) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 131.03 MB, length: 31:38) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2794 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1215 (27:51.32) Rating: 7.6 (12.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - 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. This is a 42 second improvement to the previous movie by Ferret Warlord. | ||
![]() | Genesis Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin (USA) in 06:04.77 by mmbossman. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-10-14) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 12.82 MB, length: 07:07) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2100 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #832 (05:47.08) Rating: 7.0 (18.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Unlike in the comic books, here Spiderman talks less and smashes his enemies more - with boosted (tool-assisted) efficiency. The run also features some speedy movement via web-slinging. This is about a 11 second improvement over the previous movie by Neofix and mmbossman. Note: The movie length is longer than the previous movie because the author kept the movie recording long enough to initiate the final credits (unlike previous movies). | ||
![]() | Genesis Splatterhouse 2 (USA) in 14:15.5 by Aqfaq. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-05-28) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 43.63 MB, length: 17:17) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1534 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.9 (18.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action | |
| Splatterhouse 2 is a splatter-themed beat 'em up/action game featuring a skull-masked guy fighting against undead creatures to save a girl. It is also the sequel to this game. Watch as Aqfaq takes a leisurely walk by hordes of zombies and other monsters, abusing some sliding tricks to maintain fast speed and defeat bosses quickly. In waiting periods, Aqfaq also shows some stunts, such as having monsters fall on his foot, delivering some wicked suckerpunches, or toying with the damsel in distress. NOTE: The game is unofficially rated "PG-13" for violence and gruesome images. | ||
![]() | Genesis Squirrel King (unknown) in 17:18.62 by x2poet. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2011-02-22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 81.05 MB, length: 19:55) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Submission #3004 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.6 (12.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Squirrel King is a platform video game produced, without license from Sega, by the Taiwanese developer Gamtec for the Mega Drive. Gamtec is also responsible for the development of a number of other games, including many for the Gamate handheld system. It appears to be loosely based upon Capcom's Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers video games for the Nintendo Entertainment System, sharing its gameplay mechanics, although it is not licensed by Disney. As in the aforementioned game, the main character must throw crates at the enemies in order to defeat them. This game was eventually used as the basis for the unofficial Mega Drive Super Mario World game. Some of the levels in this game have their background music based on that of the Super NES video game Donkey Kong Country. | ||
![]() | Genesis Streets of Rage in 19:45.45 by AKA & Mukki. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-02-19) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 44.36 MB, length: 22:07) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1845 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #130 (29:55.07) Rating: 6.5 (25 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Fighting | |
| A typical streetfighting game which spawned the popular Streets of Rage trilogy. This game is rumored to have used the same engine as Golden Axe, which is why the A button summons magic (sort of) to damage all enemies on screen, instead of doing some sort of roundhouse, like almost all other beat'em ups. Completed on the hardest difficulty. Compared to the previous movie, this is over 10 minutes faster. Primarily due to the use of 2-players and a glitch that skips most of the last level. Details can be found in the authors' comments. | ||
![]() | Genesis Streets of Rage 2 (USA) in 27:55.53 by Bestiajerules. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2009-11-26) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 92.42 MB, length: 30:17) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2463 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #155 (30:42.82) Rating: 7.5 (16 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Fighting | |
| An excellent Beat-'Em-Up game with an extraordinary soundtrack composed by Yuzo Koshiro. Played with Max on Mania difficulty. This is a three minute improvement over the previous run. We recommend reading the author's comments of this movie. | ||
![]() | Genesis Strider (USA/Europe) in 07:24.53 by Neofix. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2006-01-26) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 25.53 MB, length: 11:09) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 26.39 MB, length: 11:09) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #885 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #353 (07:57.3) Rating: 6.1 (25 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Here we have over 30 seconds of improvement over the previous TAS to the Genesis version of Strider. This game is supposedly about an alien taking control over earth, but since the first level says "Казахская ССР", there are small red stars everywhere, and one of the bosses holds a hammer and sickle... well, we all know what this game is really about. | ||
![]() | Genesis Sub Terrania (USA) in 06:40.62 by JXQ. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-12-18) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 37.80 MB, length: 12:18) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1798 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.2 (26.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Shooter | |
| Sub-Terrania is a very different game with a fresh (unforgiving) physics engine. As the pilot of a small ship, you explore areas to collect items and rescue miners, fighting against momentum and gravity. | ||
![]() | Genesis Sunset Riders (USA) in 10:00.47 by zggzdydp. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-07-06) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 39.89 MB, length: 11:55) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2018 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #511 (10:27.15) Rating: 6.3 (20 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| An action-packed wild-west shooting game converted from the arcades. It doesn't have all the levels and characters of the original, but makes for an interesting movie nonetheless. In this run enemies blindly spray bullets at the main characters, naturally missing every shot as bad guys generally do. (Heroes, no matter where or when, can be assumed to have plasma shields.) This version by zggzdydp is about 27 seconds faster than the previous movie due to various scattered improvements, most notably the 3-2 boss fight. | ||
![]() | Genesis Super Fantasy Zone (JPN) in 05:45.05 by Sonikkustar. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2011-12-19) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 33.69 MB, length: 09:15) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3395 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1448 (05:57.93) Rating: 7.5 (5.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Shooter | |
| Some people have interesting fantasies, but Super Fantasy Zone isn't one of them. Here you get to see a flying egg with legs demolish some weird looking bosses in a matter of seconds. Enjoy this short, fun looking run! This improves the previous publication by 12.88 seconds due to better optimization. | ||
![]() | Genesis Tails in Sonic The Hedgehog (USA) in 14:13.7 by marzojr. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-09-19) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 84.66 MB, length: 17:09) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2819 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1591 (14:16.43) Rating: 8.2 (7.5 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Heavy glitch abuse - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
| This is a hacked version of Sonic the Hedgehog. The title character is replaced by his sidekick, Miles "Tails" Prower. The levels remain unchanged.
There is more than just an appearance change to this game. Tails' abilities remain intact. If you haven't seen Sonic the Hedgehog completed before, you may wish to do so before seeing what a character with flight and a spindash can accomplish.
There is also a run for a Knuckles hack of Sonic the Hedgehog, done by JXQ. It replaces Tails with Knuckles and flying with climbing and gliding.
This run is 2.73 seconds faster than the previous version. The improvements are mostly done in the Green Hill Zone, but also in the Spring Yard Zone.
Note: An IPS patch for the hack can be downloaded here: http://tasvideos-moviefiles.googlecode.com/files/ips%2Bpatcher.zip . It must be patched to REV 00. | ||
![]() | Genesis Taz in Escape From Mars (USA) in 16:17.27 by emu. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-07-20) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 35.39 MB, length: 18:49) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1614 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (22 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes warps - Genre: Platform | |
| Taz, that crazy tasmanian devil, has been imprisoned on Mars and needs to spin his way to freedom. Taz's main form of movement is his signature tornado, which is quite fast (and easily abused in a TAS for extra speed). If you like the other Taz run for Genesis, you'll probably enjoy this one too. | ||
![]() | Genesis Taz Mania in 06:36.37 by Aqfaq, Sonikkustar & Truncated. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2011-08-27) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 19.57 MB, length: 07:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3267 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #537 (08:52.53) Rating: 6.6 (12 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| A short TAS featuring an absurdly fast character with bad sound effects in a broken game. This version is over 2 minutes faster than the previous version due to a warp glitch. This glitch allows the player to start a level at the same X and Y coordinates as the player had when the previous level ended. | ||
![]() | Genesis The Humans (USA) in 43:19.22 by Aqfaq. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-05-31) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 102.78 MB, length: 46:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1520 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.4 (22 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Humans (1992) is a kind of a crossbreed between Lemmings and Lost Vikings. Its gameplay contains both puzzle solving and action sequences. This movie by Aqfaq features all 80 levels solved in fast and unexpected ways. The strategies used to attain this result rely on several interesting tricks and glitches described in the submission comments. | ||
![]() | Genesis The Immortal (USA/Europe) in 10:32.92 by Aqfaq. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-04-03) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 17.04 MB, length: 12:01) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1873 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #593 (12:04.4) Rating: 5.1 (13.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| The Immortal is a dungon game with spells, goblins, and of course countless traps of instant death. The story is quite humorous at times. In this movie, the protagonist wizard uses various unorthodox methods for completing the game as fast as possible. He dies four times in the process, but that does not slow him down at all. In fact, dying is one of the tricks that make this movie 1.5 minutes faster than its predecessor movie. | ||
![]() | Genesis The Jungle Book, Disney's (USA) in 08:17.17 by maTO. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2009-12-06) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 34.98 MB, length: 11:46) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2461 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (10 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Based on the famous animated movie, Walt Disney's The Jungle Book is a platform game where you control Mowgli, the boy who was raised by wild animals deep in the jungles. In each stage, Mowgli must obtain twelve of the red jewels before getting to the end, where he either wakes up his sleeping panther friend Bagheera or fights a boss. | ||
![]() | Genesis The Lion King in 14:02.73 by Mukki. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-04-25) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 42.70 MB, length: 17:32) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1927 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #354 (14:40.97) Rating: 6.9 (24 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| The Lion King is about a lion who becomes king. It takes about 17 minutes and is mostly paperwork, but it does involve some prancing around the Pride Lands. Mukki manages to complete the game (and, subsequently, expedite the process of becoming king) over 30 seconds faster than the previous movie. The author does this using tricks such as catching ledges and glitching past leopards. | ||
![]() | Genesis The Lost Vikings (USA) in 35:44.6 by Ouzo. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2006-10-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 132.10 MB, length: 41:59) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 125.16 MB, length: 41:59) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1298 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #321 (40:38.07) Rating: 7.8 (41 votes) View Publication | - 3 Players - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Puzzle | |
| In this action/puzzle game you control three Vikings lost in time and space, each with their own special abilities needed to solve the levels. This movie controls three characters simultaneously, and is the first movie to do so in TASVideos history. This, together with some other new tricks, is what lead to the massive (almost 5 minutes) cutdown in time. Keep in mind that only Vikings that are on screen can be controlled. | ||
![]() | Genesis The Ren & Stimpy Show Presents: Stimpy's Invention (USA) in 07:18.13 by maTO. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-02-07) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 36.95 MB, length: 08:32) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2552 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.5 (9 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Based on the famous TV Series, the author uses both Ren & Stimpy's unique abilities to the fullest. The author breezes through the levels so fast that even Powdered Toast Man can't keep up! | ||
![]() | Genesis The Revenge of Shinobi (JPN/USA v1.0) in 12:48.35 by Dammit. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-04-03) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 49.00 MB, length: 14:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1885 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (22 votes) View Publication | - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action | |
| In Revenge of Shinobi, the prequel to Shinobi III, you play as a ninja (what else?) who is capable of destroying an entire army of other ninjas, soldiers, and Hollywood characters. The fast attack animation of the ninja (one of which throws fireballs everywhere) makes up for his lack of speed. This is the author's first submission for this game, beating out two others who also had submissions. | ||
![]() | Genesis The Terminator (USA) in 05:20.88 by Nisto. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-03-19) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 20.66 MB, length: 06:47) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2599 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.9 (12.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| In this game which closely follows the plot of the movie of the same name, the player takes the role of Kyle Reese sent back to save Sarah Connor from being terminated. Here he runs through the game like a marathon in the author's hands thanks to a glitch which causes many enemies to not appear. | ||
![]() | Genesis Tinhead (USA) in 18:33.53 by Exxonym. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2011-12-15) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 112.50 MB, length: 20:36) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 98.10 MB, length: 20:36) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3380 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Tinhead is a robot trying to save the universe from the evil Grim Squidge. Using various transformations and bouncing metal balls, Tinhead does this in record time. This game looks and feels a lot like a Sonic game minus the super speed. | ||
![]() | Genesis Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Hidden Treasure (USA) in 19:22.68 by GManiac. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-04-07) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 57.38 MB, length: 21:41) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1895 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #758 (19:40.85) Rating: 7.3 (21 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Once again Babs Bunny has been kidnapped by Montana Max and it's time for Buster Bunny to save the day. This time it's in the very fast paced Genesis version, Buster's Hidden Treasure. The game's physics and level design seem to borrow from Sonic the Hedgehog, which for a TAS is a very good thing. The author rushes through stages very quickly and with very accurate jumping, saving more than 18 seconds over the predecessor movie. | ||
![]() | Genesis Toki: Going Ape Spit in 28:25.37 by Highness. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2006-06-04) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 81.59 MB, length: 28:57) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #780 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.3 (31 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
This game is considered to be extremely hard, especially for a speedrun. One hit equals death, and your character moves very slowly. Some quotes about this game:
<Spacecow> Knowing how easy it is to die in this game, you certainly do cheat death an awful lot.The only things keeping Toki alive during this movie are the buggy hit detection and about two metric tonnes of luck. | ||
![]() | Genesis Toy Story, Disney's (USA) in 21:11.93 by Mukki. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2009-01-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 84.38 MB, length: 25:41) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2157 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (31 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Based on the 1995 Disney Pixar movie of the same name, this game tells the story of a toy cowboy named 'Woody' and his jealousy over his owner's new toy, a 'Buzz Lightyear' figurine. Like its movie counterpart, this game features revolutionary graphics for its era and (for the most part) a unique musical score. The game also has a few different modes of play: most stages work like standard platformers, though there are racing stages and even a maze-exploration stage. In this run, Mukki blazes through the game with impressive health management, occasionally dying to get more hit points when it saves time. | ||
![]() | Genesis Twinkle Tale (JPN) in 17:33.58 by AKA. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-08-11) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 50.30 MB, length: 19:58) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2020 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (19 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time | |
| Twinkle Tale was released exclusively in Japan by an obscure publisher. The author describes it as "what you get when you combine top down Contra stages with Kingdom Hearts." It tells the tale of Saria the magician who must stop the Demon King with what sometimes appear to be weapons from Gradius. This movie carefully exploits the game's mechanics to breeze through the levels and boss fights. You can read a full translation and get other information at its submission discussion | ||
![]() | Genesis Universal Soldier (USA) in 10:38.7 by maTO. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-03-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 41.67 MB, length: 12:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2593 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (6.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| This game is really Turrican II, with the application of a film licence that was picked up late in the development of the port. Think of the gameplay as kind of like Contra with the morph ball ability from the Metroid series and you have an idea of what you'll see here. | ||
![]() | Genesis Vectorman (USA/Europe) in 11:06.6 by Cpadolf. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-05-13) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 77.07 MB, length: 15:47) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2663 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #845 (11:41.75) Rating: 7.4 (9 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Vectorman (1995) is one of the later games for Genesis; it sports multiple gameplay modes, pre-rendered 3D models and some very nice visual effects. According to its plot, the Earth's population decided they have polluted it enough, and migrated elsewhere, leaving robots made of orbs ("orbots") behind to clean up the mess. One of the higher level orbots gets his head accidentally attached to a nuclear warhead, goes insane and usurps total control over all mechanical beings left on the planet. This is the state the main hero, orbot Vectorman, finds it in after returning from one of his garbage discharging missions. This is an improvement of 36 seconds over the previous movie. | ||
![]() | Genesis Vectorman 2 (USA) in 08:35.58 by Cpadolf. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2012-03-31) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 56.12 MB, length: 10:52) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 61.76 MB, length: 10:52) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3483 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #978 (09:01.57) Rating: 8.1 (3 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Vectorman 2 is a somewhat darker sequel to the original game involving Vectorman, an "orbot" (robot made of orbs). In this game, Vectorman's sludge barge suddenly gets blasted by a missile. He escapes and ends up in a place infested by mutant insects led by the horrendous Black Widow Queen, whose plan is to take over the Earth and kill all humans, as expected. This is an improvement of nearly 26 seconds over mmbossman's previous movie. Time savings come from better optimization, lag reduction, and a new trick that effectively allows triple jumping. The author's comments explain the improvements in greater detail. | ||
![]() | Genesis Wolverine: Adamantium Rage (USA) in 10:47.68 by mmbossman. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2009-06-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 31.42 MB, length: 11:04) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2277 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.2 (15.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Wolverine Adamantium Rage is an atypical Genesis platformer with some fast paced action. In this run mmbossman entertains you with Wolverine's vast repertoire, breaking many laws of physics as he moves through the stages and stabs anything that happens to get too close. A large variety of tricks are used. He also takes rockets to the face while fighting a helicopter just to squeeze in faster time, showing you just what extremes he will go to entertain you. There is also a wonky palette error glitch in one particular stage. | ||
![]() | Genesis Wonder Boy in Monster World (USA/Europe) in 42:10.45 by Aqfaq. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2006-07-31) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 94.44 MB, length: 45:41) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1041 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (23.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| This movie is about Wonderboy fighting against (or running past) a horde of cute monsters. The Oasis Boots that are normally required to cross the desert were not used in this movie, because it was slightly faster to go without them. In Japan the game is known as Monsterworld 3. | ||
![]() | Genesis X-Men 2: Clone Wars in 18:46.97 by Truncated & Sonikkustar. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2012-03-27) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 98.66 MB, length: 30:00) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 100.13 MB, length: 30:00) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3503 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #521 (23:52.28) Rating: 8.5 (4 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| In X-men 2: Clone Wars, the alien race Phalanx invades the earth and the X-men and some X-women try to stop them. You get to choose which X-man to play every stage as. Most of the time Nightcrawler is used because he has the highest movement speed. Second in command is Wolverine because he has the second highest speed and also deals a ton of damage. The game is unique in the regard that it starts as soon as you power on your console. No SEGA logo, no title screen, you don't get to choose a character. Normally the game pseudorandomly gives you Beast, but changing the types of controllers (3- or 6-button) throws off the start-up timing enough that a faster character can be gotten. This movie is 5:05.28 minutes shorter than the previous publication thanks to a variety of new tricks explained in the authors' comments. | ||
![]() | Genesis Zany Golf (USA/Europe,r1) in 02:55.15 by Mukki. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-04-17) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 6.03 MB, length: 03:33) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2639 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (13 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Sport | |
| You would expect a game of mini-golf to not be particularly interesting to watch, much less a TAS thereof. To put it mildly, zany describes both the TAS and the game perfectly - for mini-golf, at least. Watch as courses covering everything from the classic windmill to a pinball table to a pastiche of Breakout are made to look absolutely trivial by masterful precision in hitting the ball. This game is similar to Marble Madness, except that instead of controlling the ball directly, various aspects of the course are controlled instead. | ||
![]() | SMS Alex Kidd in Miracle World (USA/Europe) in 12:31.8 by Keirden. | |
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| Dega movie file (.mmv) (date: 2010-08-02) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 28.25 MB, length: 13:28) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2766 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1452 (13:21.02) Rating: 6.3 (10 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| This is the most famous game in the Alex Kidd series, due in no small part to frequently being bundled with the Master System (and being built in to some versions of the console). In this game, Alex Kidd discovers he is the prince of Radaxian, and his father, the king, has been kidnapped, allowing the tyrant Janken to claim power. The game details Alex's efforts to dethrone Janken (surprisingly, his father is not tracked down until a later game in the series). Few other games allow mini-bosses to be defeated by playing rock-paper-scissors. In fact, the name "Janken" is a reference to rock-paper-scissors. This is an improvement of 49.22 seconds over the previous run due to use of new routes, glitches, and other optimizations. | ||
![]() | SMS Alex Kidd in Shinobi World (USA/Europe) in 06:21.08 by AngerFist. | |
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| Dega movie file (.mmv) (date: 2010-01-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 9.26 MB, length: 07:37) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2523 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1011 (06:33.67) Rating: 6.9 (14 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| This is the final game of the Alex Kidd series, once Sega's flagship series. As the title suggests, this is a bit of a departure from the other games in the series and borrows concepts heavily from the Shinobi games. Here Alex Kidd's girlfriend has been kidnapped and he needs to go rescue her. In addition to his bizarre ability to use poles and ropes to turn into a fireball, he also apparently has the ability to use ladders to warp through solid walls. This is an improvement of 12.6 seconds over the previously published run. | ||
![]() | SMS Castle of Illusion: Starring Mickey Mouse (USA) in 13:40.35 by AngerFist & wwmarx. | |
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| Dega movie file (.mmv) (date: 2009-08-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 18.63 MB, length: 15:47) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2369 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (13 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| In this run of the SMS version of a game concurrently released for the Genesis/Mega Drive (and part of a much larger series of games), Mickey must collect seven jewels to reach the final boss and save Minnie. Selected comment from the author: I think you will share my views that the theme of this game clearly is about chocolate, cake, pencil, A B C letters and stuff like that :) | ||
![]() | SMS Cyborg Hunter (USA/Europe) in 10:02.33 by Frenom. | |
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| Dega movie file (.mmv) (date: 2008-08-09) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 19.57 MB, length: 12:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1993 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.3 (21 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Cyborg Hunter. A Paladin, bounty hunter who is part man, part machine. The task at hand is to punch and kill cyborgs. Running around within' the halls of the enemy base, which is a maze of connected sectors and floors linked by elevators. The screen is divided into three sections: map, close-up first-person view, and side-view, where the action takes place. | ||
![]() | SMS Dragon Crystal (USA/Europe) in 01:18.2 by Rayas. | |
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| Dega movie file (.mmv) (date: 2011-02-16) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 4.39 MB, length: 02:55) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3003 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.1 (20 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Dragon Crystal is an early Roguelike RPG in the vein of Fatal Labyrinth or Azure Dreams - thus, naturally, it's vulnerable to the same type of luck manipulation in its random level generation to allow the protagonist to miraculously find stairs up in the opening area of each floor and complete the game in record time. | ||
![]() | SMS Hokuto no Ken (JPN) in 05:12.87 by arukAdo. | |
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| Dega movie file (.mmv) (date: 2010-08-14) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 17.18 MB, length: 06:57) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2781 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.2 (17 votes) View Publication | - Uses warps - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform | |
| Based on the manga Fist of the North Star (北斗の拳, hokuto no ken), this game basically has an angry guy trying to find his girl. Since he is so awesome, he makes people explode just by touching them. Though, he also thinks it's faster to simply do a flying kick over entire levels. TODO: Put a Chuck Norris reference in somewhere, and get an editor to write a description that's actually good. | ||
![]() | SMS Kenseiden (USA/Europe) in 05:16.32 by Jungon. | |
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| Dega movie file (.mmv) (date: 2011-10-11) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 9.99 MB, length: 06:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3319 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1567 (06:51.78) Rating: 5.8 (6 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Kenseiden follows the story of Hayato, a samurai looking to retrieve five ability-granting scrolls and kill some evil warlocks. Normally this involves battling through sixteen levels, the last several of which are very difficult without the abilities gained from the scrolls. This run foregoes all but two of the scrolls and heads directly for the final round, as opposed to the 100% run which finishes all the stages and collects all the scrolls. This is an improvement of 1:35.46 over the previous any% due to route changes and the use of some new glitches. | ||
![]() | SMS Kenseiden (USA/Europe) "100%" in 13:02.55 by Jungon. | |
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| Dega movie file (.mmv) (date: 2011-09-24) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 23.49 MB, length: 14:24) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3289 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1451 (13:17.02) Rating: 5.9 (7.5 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Kenseiden follows the story of Hayato, a samurai looking to retrieve five ability-granting scrolls and kill some evil warlocks. This involves battling through sixteen levels, including four rounds of impossibly difficult "training". It's a prime infuriating example of fake difficulty, as Hayato moves incredibly slowly and there are generally an impossibly large number of enemies on the screen at any given time (especially bad in the training stages, where one hit sends you back to the beginning). This version of the run collects all the scrolls and bonus upgrades (as opposed to the any%), and does so 14.46 seconds faster than previously due to some new tricks and route changes. It also visits one extra stage than in the previous run, so as to visit all of the game's stages (even if this extra stage has no bonuses or scrolls). | ||
![]() | SMS King's Quest: Quest for the Crown (USA) in 02:58.87 by BZero. | |
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| Dega movie file (.mmv) (date: 2008-08-13) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 2.90 MB, length: 03:30) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2038 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1138 (03:56.7) Rating: 5.4 (23.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Adventure | |
| King's Quest is a popular adventure franchise for the PC by Sierra that focuses on exploration and puzzle solving. This movie features one of the few console ports of any Sierra adventure game. Notably, it features improved graphics and sound as compared to the original, which is usually not the case for these ports. Usually this game would take many hours of wandering, collecting objects and solving problems. The author however is able to focus on key events and manages to beat the game in less time than Super Mario Bros... This new movie is about a full minute faster due to newly found exploits. If you enjoy this movie, you may want to take a look at this rejected movie of King's Quest V for the NES by the same author. It is unfortunately much longer and has poor graphics compared to the original, but is impressive nonetheless for people who have played it before. | ||
![]() | SMS Ninja Gaiden (USA/Europe) in 15:04.25 by adelikat. | |
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| Dega movie file (.mmv) (date: 2008-02-18) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 40.32 MB, length: 17:01) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1830 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.5 (24 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| In this gaiden of a gaiden, Ryu Hayabusa saves the world from ultimate powers being unleashed. Doing so involves slow battles with sumo wrestlers and members of the Yakuza. | ||
![]() | SMS Phantasy Star (USA/Europe) in 2:17:37.97 by nfq. | |
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| Dega movie file (.mmv) (date: 2010-04-09) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 196.43 MB, length: 2:20:35) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2560 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.5 (12 votes) View Publication | - Genre: RPG | |
| Like [1317] Genesis Madou Monogatari I (JPN) by Aqfaq in 15:29.05 and [1343] Genesis Shining in the Darkness (USA) by DarkKobold in 43:27.2, this is a dungeon crawler. Of course, it's better described as a dungeon runner. This movie contains long leveling-up sequences from 47:26-1:09:40 and 1:16:56-1:40:45. TODO: describe this movie properly here | ||
![]() | SMS Psychic World (USA/Europe) in 13:03.32 by Dammit. | |
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| Dega movie file (.mmv) (date: 2008-02-18) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 28.45 MB, length: 16:25) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1837 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.2 (22 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Monsters have blown up and escaped from a top secret Psychic Research facility and stolen one of the lovely lab assistants as well. Dr. Knavik gives Lucia his precious ESP Booster to save her twin sister Cecile. By collecting various items on her travels, the ESP Booster grants Lucia various powers (kind of like Mega Man...) to destroy her enemies and also navigate quickly through levels. This is exacerbated for the author by poor hit detection and finicky input control. Input is only allowed one time every four frames. Nevertheless the end result is a fast paced and varied movie. | ||
![]() | SMS Psycho Fox (USA/Europe) in 02:10.27 by Sonikkustar. | |
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| BizHawk movie file (.tas) (date: 2012-03-20) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 3.11 MB, length: 04:26) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 3.37 MB, length: 04:26) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3487 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1450 (02:11.07) Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - Uses warps - Genre: Platform | |
| Psycho Fox is about furry animals out to stop the evil Madfox Daimyojin, using their trusty bird friend as a baseball to knock out enemies. This all happens in a blink of an eye, so watch closely! Again, Tiger is the fastest one and is used ASAP. This run beats the previous run by 0.8 seconds. | ||
![]() | SMS Quartet (USA/Europe) in 04:18.45 by Sonikkustar. | |
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| BizHawk movie file (.tas) (date: 2012-03-18) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 6.71 MB, length: 05:32) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 8.89 MB, length: 05:32) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3486 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1585 (04:49.58) Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Quartet is a fairly basic run-and-gun platformer, with little in the way of objectives besides "kill the bosses" and "find the exit". Here, the author saves 30 seconds over the previous publication with more precise control and planning, which allows for very aggressive boss fights. | ||
![]() | SMS Sonic Chaos in 14:28.55 by mike89. | |
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| Dega movie file (.mmv) (date: 2010-04-10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 24.53 MB, length: 18:40) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2605 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (11.5 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Best ending - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Robotnik is trying to take over South Island once again. Our blue little hero decides to stop him, while also collecting all the chaos emeralds in his free time. A glitch which allows Sonic to skip the cutscene after most bosses helps him to proceed even faster to the following zone. | ||
![]() | SMS Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (USA/Europe v1.0) in 18:44.28 by Mike McKenzie. | |
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| Dega movie file (.mmv) (date: 2007-12-08) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 40.90 MB, length: 22:25) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1789 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (36 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - 100% completion - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Sonic 2 for Sega Master System in 18:44.28 with all emeralds. Unlike many Sonic games, acquiring emeralds is done within normal rather than bonus levels, and getting all of them allows you to play the true final level. Trivia: this game slightly predates the MegaDrive/Genesis version, so features the official first appearance of Sonic's flying mutant fox friend, Tails. | ||
![]() | SMS The Lucky Dime Caper: Starring Donald Duck (Europe) in 20:09.88 by ShinyDoofy. | |
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| Dega movie file (.mmv) (date: 2009-01-26) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 43.96 MB, length: 21:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2150 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.5 (22 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Donald Duck is on a mission around the world to rescue his kidnapped nephews and return Scrooge's stolen lucky dimes. | ||
![]() | SMS Wonder Boy (USA/Europe) in 43:05.02 by AngerFist. | |
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| Dega movie file (.mmv) (date: 2008-02-18) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 96.74 MB, length: 43:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1777 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #560 (37:01.37) Rating: 4.3 (22.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| The Wonderboy series games were Sega Master Systems most popular and best selling games. In this one, the nearly naked main character, Tom-Tom, must rescue his beloved girlfriend (we will call her bikini-Sue) from the wicked monster (it probably doesn't have a name). Wonderboy is the original version of the NES Hudson's Adventure Island. | ||
![]() | SMS Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap (USA/Europe) in 31:08.37 by AngerFist & OgreSlayeR. | |
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| Dega movie file (.mmv) (date: 2008-02-18) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 45.50 MB, length: 35:11) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1809 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (20 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action | |
| Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap (AKA Dragon's Curse and Monster World II Dragon No Wana in Japan) is a 1989 platform game by Sega and Westone. This game is a direct sequel to Wonder Boy in Monster Land and starts in the final lair of the previous game. According to Wikipedia, it is widely considered to be one of the best games produced for the Sega Master System. AngerFist and OgreSlayeR rush through this game in a little over half an hour. Expect to see some speedy boomerang usage, manipulated boss fights, and a couple glitchy sequence breaks. Note: This run does not collect the Tasmanian Sword (which allows the player to change his form at will). A run collecting the Tasmanian Sword would probably be considered in a separate category from this run. | ||
![]() | Saturn Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (JPN) in 06:51.22 by arukAdo. | |
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| Yabause movie file (.ymv) (date: 2009-06-25) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 38.54 MB, length: 12:47) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2278 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.9 (26.5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse | |
| This is our first Sega Saturn published movie, and yet again Symphony of the Night has the honor to open another game section. arukAdo uses Maria, a Sega Saturn exclusive playable character, to blaze through the castle, proving that she's just not another damsel in distress. The author uses a combination of magic powers, kicks, glitches and luck manipulation to free the world, yet again, from Dracula's minions. Castlevania - Nocturne In The Moonlight is the Japanese name for Symphony of the Night. The Sega Saturn version was released only in Japan. For more glitching and monster killing, watch Alucard and Richter's movies, both done on the PS1 version. | ||
![]() | PSX Azure Dreams (USA) in 10:31.73 by FractalFusion. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2010-03-10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 43.75 MB, length: 14:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2256 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.6 (12 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Azure Dreams is an RPG random dungeon crawler where the main character, Koh, can recruit familiars and level them up in the 40-floor Monster Tower, while gaining items and riches. He can also help the local town and romance some girls. As can be seen from the movie time, none of this occurs in this TAS. It's just one naked dash to the top and a whole bunch of fortuitous circumstances. Luck manipulation was used on almost every floor to ensure that elevators and helpful traps are strategically located. Should you decide to play Azure Dreams, this is definitely the wrong way to play the game. | ||
![]() | PSX Breath of Fire III (USA) in 7:45:01.17 by janus. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2011-05-15) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 810.45 MB, length: 7:51:48) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3117 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (9 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| The Brood, an ancient race of dragons, is all but extinct. Their power was so strong that they had to be killed. A (that's how Ryu is called in this run), the last one of the Brood, is awaken after 400 years and he wants to know more about his people. Well aware of his fearful power, A uses it until he becomes strong enough to rely on his physical power. After which he manipulates luck to an indecent extent, using frame-by-frame advancing to pulverize his foes, and even the final boss. It may be a little anti-climactic, but it's much quicker this way. This is currently the second longest published movie, second only to Final Fantasy VIII. You might want to take your morning and your afternoon to watch this. | ||
![]() | PSX Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (USA) "newgame+" in 13:58.27 by arukAdo. | |
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| PSXjin movie (.pjm) (date: 2011-05-04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 123.50 MB, length: 22:12) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 114.94 MB, length: 22:05) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.radiokj.com Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Submission #3024 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1363 (19:01.63) Rating: 8.2 (11.5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Starts from a saved state or SRAM - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform ![]() | |
| Not only was Castlevania: Symphony of the Night the first installment of the Castlevania series on PSX, but also the very first PSX TAS to be published. Follow Dracula's son Alucard and see how he glitches through the castle on a quest to end his father's life. By using a dirty SRAM and finding other tricks, arukAdo improved the previous movie by a massive 5:03.36. You can read the author's comments to learn more about the other improvements. A 100% run covering the whole castle is also available. If you prefer the main character to have muscular bare arms, and to pray to the rain gods to defeat bosses, you may enjoy the Richter version. | ||
![]() | PSX Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (USA) "Richter version" in 05:41.73 by pirate_sephiroth. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2009-04-16) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 29.63 MB, length: 11:39) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2190 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.8 (34.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Starts from a saved state or SRAM - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is the first installment of the Castlevania series on PSX, and was the very first PSX TAS to be published. Follow the quest of Richter (playable after you beat the game once) and see how he glitches and speeds through the castle. If you like fast sliding, dashing, uppercutting, and using precipitation to defeat bosses, you'll love this run. In order to see a "full" run of the game, see the Alucard version. | ||
![]() | PSX Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (USA) "All Relics & Best Ending" in 57:20.6 by arukAdo. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2010-08-04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 423.66 MB, length: 1:05:25) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2767 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.4 (16.5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - 100% completion - Best ending - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Corrupts save data - Heavy luck manipulation - Starts from a saved state or SRAM - Genre: Platform ![]() | |
| Like most games in Castlevania series, Symphony of the Night has different possible endings. To achieve the best ending, one must explore at least 1847 rooms which is normally a huge time consuming task. While traveling through all those rooms, the author also acquires all of the relics, making this an "all relics and best ending" run. During the exploring, the player can unlock different abilities for Alucard which make him able to reach new areas. Some of these abilities are used to gain a tremendous speed and glitch through routes which players could not have even dreamed in 1997. | ||
![]() | PSX Castlevania Chronicles (USA) in 26:28.38 by zggzdydp. | |
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| PSXjin movie (.pjm) (date: 2011-06-27) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 183.57 MB, length: 29:17) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3161 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (8.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Castlevania Chronicles is a PSX remake of the Japan-only X68000 version of Castlevania, titled simply Akumajō Dracula (悪魔城ドラキュラ), which is a remake of the first Castlevania game. In this game, Simon Belmont is set to defeat the evil count Dracula. In the run, the author uses Arrange Mode, as it's more suitable for taking damage to save time (Simon loses less HP when getting hit in Arrange Mode than in Original Mode). Furthermore, a trick allows him to use a subweapon with less attack animation (jumping and whipping twice before attacking with the subweapon). | ||
![]() | PSX Chocobo no Fushigi na Dungeon (JPN) in 27:34.53 by sparky. | |
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| PSXjin movie (.pjm) (date: 2011-04-04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 91.46 MB, length: 30:34) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3047 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.0 (4 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| This is Chocobo's Roguelike game released by Square in 1997. The standard nomenclature of this game is "チョコボの不思議なダンジョン". This game's sequel "チョコボの不思議なダンジョン2" has (U) version as "Chocobo's Dungeon 2", but in this game, only (J) version has been released. TODO: Expand this description here | ||
![]() | PSX Chocobo Racing (JPN) "Invincible, time attack" in 12:48.63 by sparky. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2010-11-08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 149.14 MB, length: 13:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2885 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (8.5 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Starts from a saved state or SRAM - Genre: Racing | |
| After completing the story mode of Chocobo Racing nine times, one gains access to the secret character "Invincible". This run, starting from a save state generated by this movie, uses this character in time attack mode to put the other characters to shame. This run pauses for a few seconds between tracks to show the final track times. Note that we do not normally accept runs starting from save states. See the Rules for more information. | ||
![]() | PSX Chocobo Racing (JPN) in 27:12.02 by sparky. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2010-10-18) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 274.00 MB, length: 35:37) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2866 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.6 (6 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Racing | |
| Anyone with a passing familiarity with the Final Fantasy series should recognise the fine Chocobo, preferred steed of many alternate universes. It's therefore not surprising that a game starring Chocobos and races would be released. The Japanese version of this game is used due to differences in at least one stage causing the Japanese version to be more difficult. | ||
![]() | PSX Crash Bandicoot (USA) in 45:29.5 by Mukki. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2010-02-10) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 172.24 MB, length: 47:45) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2511 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (12.5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Crash Bandicoot is the first game in a seminal series for the PlayStation. This run has been in the works since TASing for the PlayStation has been possible. Many crashes, desyncs, and restarts later, we finally have a run suitable for public consumption. Note for viewers: In order to be sync-stable, a sound plugin with less than perfect sound quality needed to be used, so do not be alarmed if the sound is not flawless. | ||
![]() | PSX Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back (USA) in 47:37.62 by Mukki. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2010-02-10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 628.24 MB, length: 50:22) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2512 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.6 (12 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| This is the second in a series of seminal platformers for the PlayStation, with very similar gameplay to its predecessor. Note for viewers: In order to be sync-stable, a sound plugin with less than perfect sound quality needed to be used, so do not be alarmed if the sound is not flawless. However, using a different plugin was possible for the introduction and the ending. There is also a slight graphical glitch in level 23 where textures are missing, but this is very minor. | ||
![]() | PSX Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back (USA) "glitched" in 11:34.85 by pirohiko. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2010-04-16) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 118.65 MB, length: 14:19) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2623 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (18.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| If you've seen the full run of this game, you would expect that it would take a rather long time to complete. Instead, here, using a bug that corrupts the memory when jumping on top of an unbreakable box, the author gathers the crystals necessary to advance to the next set of stages unbelievably quickly, leaving only the bosses to make quick work of. | ||
![]() | PSX Croc: Legend of the Gobbos (USA) in 36:21.08 by RingRush. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2011-02-25) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 300.35 MB, length: 38:34) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2991 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (11 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Croc: Legend of the Gobbos chronicles the adventure of a crocodile (creatively named Croc) who runs and jumps through four worlds in order to save his gobbo friends. However, through a glitch in the physics engine, Croc adds another trick to his repertoire: the ability to float. This run makes heavy use of the floating glitch and various other tricks to defeat Baron Dante and save the gobbo king as fast as possible. It does not collect all gobbos or get the 100% ending. | ||
![]() | PSX Einhänder (JPN) in 31:29.93 by sparky. | |
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| PSXjin movie (.pjm) (date: 2011-04-23) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 213.00 MB, length: 38:16) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 217.55 MB, length: 38:17) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3061 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.5 (9 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Shooter | |
| Squaresoft (now known as Square Enix) didn't only make role-playing games! They also made games of different genres. This one is a shoot'em up called Einhänder. This shooting game has something particular compared to its siblings. Not only can the player shoot bullets, but he can also wield a sword and slash through enemies. In fact, the game's title, Einhänder, means "single-handed" in German, referring to the player's sword. In this movie, sparky takes advantage of a glitch to abuse the weapon's attack to cause more damage. This is only possible in the Japanese version. | ||
![]() | PSX Final Fantasy IX (USA) in 7:37:12.28 by Lil_Gecko. | |
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| PSXjin movie (.pjm) (date: 2012-05-01) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 1.46 GB, length: 8:04:25) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 1.44 GB, length: 8:04:25) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3489 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: Too few votes (1) to display View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| This is the much-anticipated tool-assisted speedrun of the ninth installment in the Final Fantasy series (and the last to be made for the PSX). With its many references to the older games, it's a trip down memory lane for those familiar with the series.
A lot of route planning has gone into this run. Reading the author's comments is recommended. The encodes (both the MKV and on Youtube) also have explanatory subtitles to read along with. The famous Excalibur II quest, which requires the player to get to the end of the game in under 12 hours, is soundly beaten with more than 4 hours and 40 minutes of spare time.
Note: due to an emulation error, some areas have rather loud background sound effects (like Alexandria during Vivi's first appearance).
There are two YouTube streams available for this movie. The first is a four-part playlist offering HD video, and the second is contained all in one stream in 480p. | ||
![]() | PSX Final Fantasy VIII (USA) in 8:08:32.98 by DarkKobold. | |
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| PSXjin movie (.pjm) (date: 2011-07-04) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 1.37 GB, length: 8:33:26) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 1.50 GB, length: 8:33:26) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3160 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.6 (13.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Final Fantasy VIII (1999) marked a significant departure from earlier Squaresoft titles — it was their first game to have realistically proportioned characters and did away with much of the traditional gameplay systems used by earlier titles. Additionally, it is the first Final Fantasy to focus on a love story.
This is the first multi-disc publication on the site, and currently is also the longest published run.
There are two YouTube streams available for this movie. The first is a four-part playlist offering HD video, and the second is contained all in one stream in 480p. | ||
![]() | PSX Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge (USA) in 18:49.05 by CoolKirby. | |
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| PSXjin movie (.pjm) (date: 2011-10-04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 153.75 MB, length: 20:01) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3302 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (6 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| In this sequel to the first 3D Frogger game, Swampy the crocodile has had enough of Frogger hopping on him to cross water in previous Frogger games, so he decides to get revenge by kidnapping the baby frogs in Frogger's pond. Frogger and his new partner Lily Frog set out on an adventure to rescue the babies. CoolKirby uses his TAS powers to make Frogger and Lily hyperactive, so they rescue their babies at their fastest. If you're looking for crazy hopping action, look no further! | ||
![]() | PSX MediEvil (USA) in 43:32.35 by Torn338. | |
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| PSXjin movie (.pjm) (date: 2011-07-02) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 414.73 MB, length: 48:23) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3184 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (3.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Puzzle | |
| MediEvil tells the tale of one very deceased knight's quest to rid the land of undead legions and the wicked magician that created them. The gameplay is very reminiscent of the action-platformers of old, consisting largely of running around each stage whilst hacking up baddies. But there is also a good share of puzzles to be solved. The tale, speaking of, is of Sir Daniel Fortesque (the knight) and his battle against evil forces, and the magician who started it all, Zarok. Sir Fortesque pulls out his own brand of trickery in order to plow through this game, warping around levels and outwitting fiendish puzzles in order to stop Zarok and his forces. | ||
![]() | PSX Mega Man 8 (USA) in 47:06.23 by FractalFusion. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2010-04-04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 230.00 MB, length: 51:28) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2626 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.2 (19 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| The eighth entry in the Mega Man series is very similar to the preceding games, especially its direct predecessor (in light of being the second entry in the franchise released for the PSX, the first being a port of X3). Once again, Mega Man takes on eight Robot Masters and goes on to raid Wily's fortress as usual. If you're here for the plot, though, you're missing the point - instead enjoy the impossibly fast action and nifty glitch abuse in this run of the longest presently-TASable game in the main series to date. Note: The credits are missing due to an emulator glitch. For those who are interested in seeing the credits, check this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u0vav89bQ4 . | ||
![]() | PSX Mega Man X4 (USA) "Zero" in 36:30.1 by Bernka. | |
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| PSXjin movie (.pjm) (date: 2012-05-09) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 168.06 MB, length: 40:10) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 162.60 MB, length: 40:10) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3591 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1439 (36:42.63) Rating: 8.4 (3 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| In the past in Mega Man X games, X used to do all the real fighting, while Zero said he was off to destroy power sources, and other such unverifiable tasks. Zero even had the audacity to tell X that one day he'll be as strong as Zero.
This time X lays back and relaxes while letting Zero go put his | ||
![]() | PSX Mega Man X4 (USA) "X, 100%" in 39:45.0 by sparky. | |
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| PSXjin movie (.pjm) (date: 2011-07-14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 200.81 MB, length: 43:27) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3219 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.9 (11 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| X decided he's fed up of sitting in the shadow of Zero and shows him how it is done, collecting all items in the process. X is so excited to be the star for once that he can't stop jumping for joy at the prospect. However, if you still want to get your Zero fix, you can check out the run which doesn't collect all items. | ||
![]() | PSX Mega Man X5 (USA) "X only" in 19:43.8 by Mothrayas. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2011-10-02) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 133.43 MB, length: 24:08) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3283 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.4 (8 votes) View Publication | - Uses a suboptimal character - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Sigma returns again and Earth is in great danger. Zero is off having a party all night, so Mega Man X steps in to do the job. Even if not as awesome as Zero, he still manages to do the job in less than 20 minutes while also getting the Ultimate Armor. | ||
![]() | PSX Mega Man X5 (USA) "All Stages" in 44:04.43 by Angerfist & Atma. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2009-11-21) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 225.42 MB, length: 47:28) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2448 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.2 (14 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| This is a TAS of | ||
![]() | PSX Mega Man X5 (USA) "100%" in 54:33.68 by Bernka. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2012-03-18) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 232.85 MB, length: 58:59) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 249.39 MB, length: 58:59) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3473 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.1 (6 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Unlike the other categories of this game, this run uses both X and Zero to collect as many items as possible. The change of characters and armors used make for an interesting run different than the other categories. | ||
![]() | PSX Mega Man X5 (USA) in 16:38.18 by Bernka. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2012-01-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 107.73 MB, length: 21:03) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 123.88 MB, length: 21:03) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3408 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1547 (16:51.08) Rating: 7.9 (4.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| In an effort to avoid the status quo, Capcom decided to experiment, throwing in a leveling system and story-based launch scenarios. Beyond that, it's really just a Mega Man | ||
![]() | PSX Mega Man X6 (USA) "100%" in 56:47.18 by Rolanmen1. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2011-10-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 290.47 MB, length: 1:01:19) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3304 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.3 (9 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Capcom decided to make some easy money, so they recycled parts of Mega Man X5, threw in overly difficult trial-and-error gameplay, made almost everything an obstacle course, and called it Mega Man X6. Rescuing all Reploids on Xtreme mode is inadvisable for all but the most hardcore. Yet this TAS makes it look easy. Not only that, it collects everything that is to be collected before beating the game. In this run, Rolanmen1 uses additional items and tricks that are not present in the any% or all stages runs, such as X's Blade Armor. Though X still has less screentime than Zero, he is used to his fullest potential in the Gate stages. | ||
![]() | PSX Mega Man X6 (USA) "All Stages" in 41:18.38 by Mothrayas. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2010-05-08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 274.68 MB, length: 44:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2653 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.3 (17 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| X seeks to find | ||
![]() | PSX Mega Man X6 (USA) in 25:34.02 by Rolanmen1 & FractalFusion. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2010-12-11) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 183.13 MB, length: 30:06) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2925 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1274 (25:53.02) Rating: 7.4 (13 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Capcom decided to make some easy money, so they recycled parts of Mega Man X5, threw in overly difficult trial-and-error gameplay, made almost everything an obstacle course, and called it Mega Man X6. This run uses both X and Zero. Zero's sword physics makes it the ideal boss killer but some bosses have unavoidable invincibility periods, which is why X is sometimes used. The run also obtains a weapon. Zero cannot be obtained right away, but must be obtained by beating a certain boss. The run uses the hardest difficulty level, Xtreme, which would be more appropriately called insane. This run is an improvement of 19.00 from the previous movie. For a run that plays through all stages, see [1516] PSX Mega Man X6 (USA) "All Stages" by Mothrayas in 41:18.38. | ||
![]() | PSX Metal Gear Solid (USA v1.0) "Big Boss rank" in 1:31:49.0 by theenglishman. | |
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| PSXjin movie (.pjm) (date: 2012-03-24) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 298.04 MB, length: 1:33:05) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 295.09 MB, length: 1:33:05) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3462 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.1 (4 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Starts from a saved state or SRAM | |
| Metal Gear Solid is one of the original breakthrough titles in the stealth gaming genre. Nobody told the author this however, as he steamrolls through Shadow Moses Island in record time with guns blazing. This run is played on the hardest difficulty and earns the "Big Boss" rank on completion. | ||
![]() | PSX Monkey Magic (USA) in 40:26.37 by Hoandjzj. | |
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| PSXjin movie (.pjm) (date: 2012-05-18) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 226.65 MB, length: 42:05) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 212.98 MB, length: 42:05) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3559 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Monkey Magic is a tie-in game for the PSX based on the anime of the same name. It features a monkey named Kongo, who can move about in the typical platformer manner, as well as cast various magic spells.
The author here uses a variety of tricks to skip parts of the game, and fly over other parts. Monkeys don't have wings, but that doesn't seem to matter here.
Note: PSXjin performs very poorly emulating this game, and significant sound glitches appear throughout. | ||
![]() | PSX Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (USA) in 42:55.85 by Dooty. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2011-09-01) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 118.95 MB, length: 37:53) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3268 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.6 (4 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee details the adventures of Abe, a Mudokon, attempting to save his race from slavery and other horrible fates at the hands of the evil Glukkons. This is the condensed version of Dooty's earlier 100% run, in which only one (required) Mudokon is saved. This movie should be perfect for those who don't care about the well-being of the Mudokon race and just want to see some Oddworld parkour. Naturally, this run gets the bad ending. The movie is slightly shorter than it should be due to emulation-related speedups during screen transitions. The gameplay itself is at mostly the correct speed. | ||
![]() | PSX Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (USA) "100%" in 1:09:23.73 by Dooty. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2011-06-09) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 227.44 MB, length: 1:03:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3128 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.2 (9 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, a game released for several platforms, details the adventures of Abe, a Mudokon, attempting to save his race from slavery and other horrible fates at the hands of the evil Glukkons. This run shows the rescue of all 99 of Abe's fellow Mudokons, earning the good ending and unlocking some bonus features to boot. If you like this movie, be sure to check the other run of this game by Dooty, in which he rushes to the end of the game without caring about Abe's partners. | ||
![]() | PSX Punky Skunk (USA) in 47:33.37 by FerretWarlord. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2009-04-24) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 130.63 MB, length: 50:34) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2181 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (19.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| A Punky Skunk sat on a Hunky Stump. The Punky Skunk thunk the Hunky Stump stunk, but the Hunky Stump thunk the Punky Skunk stunk. Here we get to watch an adorable skunk bounce on his pogo stick to defeat Badler the wolf and his mice henchmen. | ||
![]() | PSX Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (USA) "The Mercenaries" in 18:54.02 by arukAdo. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2009-12-21) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 52.27 MB, length: 20:15) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2483 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (13.5 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - Maximum kills - Best ending - Heavy luck manipulation - Starts from a saved state or SRAM - Genre: Shooter | |
| Join Carlos in a race to clean up the streets of Raccoon City and enjoy the architecture and the new wall colors in a quick run of this well-known minigame from Resident Evil 3. The objective of the minigame is to reach a specified point in a set time limit which can be extended by defeating enemies. Needless to say, the timer never even comes close to running out here. This run begins from a save state which has the minigame unlocked, which can be generated by replaying the author's run of the full game. This is not normally allowed by the site. | ||
![]() | PSX Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (USA) in 1:07:25.52 by arukAdo. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2009-05-19) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 119.68 MB, length: 1:12:26) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2210 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (20 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action | |
| September 28th, daylight. The monsters have taken over the city. Somehow, you're still alive. See Jill Valentine escape Raccoon City while hordes of zombie are out to get her. Comicalflop has once again provided a humorous commentary to entertain the audience while they watch. | ||
![]() | PSX Resident Evil: Director's Cut (USA) in 57:42.62 by arukAdo & Uroboros. | |
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| PSXjin movie (.pjm) (date: 2011-09-08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 101.86 MB, length: 1:00:49) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.radiokj.com Mirror www.flurret.net Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3271 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1427 (28:44.68) Rating: 7.2 (6 votes) View Publication | - Uses a suboptimal character - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| Resident Evil is the original survival horror game by Capcom, and the beginning of a big franchise. The Raccoon Police Department's Special Tactics And Rescue Service (S.T.A.R.S.) are assigned to investigate a series of bizarre murders in Raccoon City. Watch the Alpha team's Jill Valentine, as she blazes through a series of zombies while killing only one of them! While it obsoletes the run of the DS remake, this movie is longer, since the cutscenes are not skippable. However, the gameplay part is done faster. | ||
![]() | PSX SaGa Frontier (USA) "Blue" in 20:16.35 by knbnitkr. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2010-05-03) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 77.49 MB, length: 25:26) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2598 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (8 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Genre: RPG | |
| Blue the magic user has been tasked with the sad task of tracking down and killing his twin brother, Rouge. Along the way he comes to terms with some uncomfortable truths and gains a variety of powerful spells. Eventually he confronts Rouge and ... loses? Thereafter, things get very weird and eventually all is revealed to be... well, vastly complicated. In this run, only the bare essentials are carried out, and many of the required battles are performed in an incredibly short span of time. Also check out the run starring Lute, another main quest in the game. | ||
![]() | PSX SaGa Frontier (USA) "Lute" in 21:08.5 by knbnitkr. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2010-02-06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 65.17 MB, length: 24:23) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2487 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.6 (9 votes) View Publication | - Genre: RPG | |
| What does Lute the bard do when his mother kicks him out? Go on an adventure, of course! In this run, the author travels to various places, collecting items and people, before setting out to avenge his father (that he himself didn't even know about). The author also makes use of big combination attacks that not only deal a lot of damage, but make for a very pretty light show. We also have a run as Blue completing another main quest of the game. | ||
![]() | PSX Salary Man Champ: Tatakau Salary Man (JPN) in 18:09.8 by mz. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2010-05-14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 125.35 MB, length: 19:18) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2618 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.2 (15 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action | |
| This obscure Japan-only Success title is a collection of button-mashing minigames parodying the life of a Japanese salary man (your average white-collar wage worker). If you're looking for weird Japanese humor, look no further than this run. | ||
![]() | PSX Sorcerer's Maze (USA) in 45:02.23 by lapogne36. | |
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| PSXjin movie (.pjm) (date: 2012-05-15) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 127.24 MB, length: 47:31) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 130.24 MB, length: 47:31) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3577 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: Too few votes (1) to display View Publication | - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Sorcerer's Maze is a Breakout clone for the PSX. Produced in Japan but only released outside of Japan, it features more power-ups than you can shake a stick at. Giant lasers, tens of balls (or even hundreds, with a strange power-up), stars falling from the sky, and balls nearly as big as the level. With tool assistance, all of this can be manipulated (to some extent). This run features quite a bit of planning and bonus management, the details of which can be found in the author's comments. | ||
![]() | PSX Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! (USA) in 28:11.7 by lapogne36. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2010-05-16) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 280.22 MB, length: 34:23) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2645 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.2 (14 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| In true platformer-sequel style, Spyro the Dragon's vacation is interrupted by a dinosaur-riding sorceror by the name of Ripto invading the world of Avalar, who naturally needs to be stopped. Since vacation is the paramount concern of Spyro, this is naturally done as quickly as possible without any other concern for the well-being of Avalar.
The author has also done a run for the first game in the series.
Similar to Crash Bandicoot, a sound plugin with less-than-perfect sound reproduction (in particular during cutscenes, including the ending cinematic, which are largely silent) is necessary for the run to sync; do not be alarmed if this occurs in your enjoyment of the movie. | ||
![]() | PSX Spyro The Dragon (USA) in 41:38.3 by lapogne36. | |
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| PSXjin movie (.pjm) (date: 2011-08-17) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 410.53 MB, length: 44:48) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.radiokj.com Mirror www.flurret.net Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3252 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.6 (7.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Gnasty Gnorc is mad at the TV, since a reporter said he's not a threat and ugly. Because of that, he decided to trap all of the dragons in crystals. Only Spyro is spared, and he has to free them all. lapogne36 helps Spyro complete this task as fast as possible by exploiting glitches to boost his speed. You can learn more about this glitch by reading the author's comments. The author has also done a run for the next game in the series. | ||
![]() | PSX Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles (USA) in 46:31.18 by DarkKobold. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2010-10-24) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 657.43 MB, length: 51:40) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2851 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (7 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Jedi Power Battles is Star-Wars-meets-Double-Dragon with a ton of crazy platforming. The author uses Obi-wan to run through all of Star Wars Episode I, ignoring tons of battle droids and droidekas to get to the final confrontation with Darth Maul. Look for a tribute to SW:EP1 in the final battle! Also, the author takes an intentional death to make Jar Jar Binks disappear at one point in the run. I'm sure everyone has wished they could die and make Jar Jar disappear, at least once. | ||
![]() | PSX Strider 2 (USA) in 08:51.1 by error1. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2009-04-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 45.88 MB, length: 12:36) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2171 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.7 (32.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Strider 2 (2000) was released by Capcom as a sequel to the original Strider. The main character's appearance is based on Marvel vs. Capcom. Once more you must kill the Grandmaster Meio armed only with an insanely badass sword and your ninja skills. A very nice demonstration of what happens when a high-reflex game is given tool assistance. Only the necessary levels are completed in order to reach the final boss. Note: There is an emulation bug, which makes the character take damage for no apparent reason. | ||
![]() | PSX Tomba! (USA) in 52:28.47 by Cardboard. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2010-05-04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 480.99 MB, length: 52:40) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2638 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (10 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure | |
| Our eponymous pink-haired protagonist has suffered the loss of his grandfather's bracelet. In order to get it back, he must find and confront | ||
![]() | PSX Tomb Raider Chronicles (USA) in 1:19:35.63 by Wyster. | |
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| PSXjin movie (.pjm) (date: 2011-05-07) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 547.91 MB, length: 1:21:10) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.radiokj.com Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3143 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (5.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Adventure | |
| Tomb Raider Chronicles is the fifth in the franchise for the PlayStation, PC and Dreamcast. The run is done on the PlayStation version. This game actually happens in memories of three of Lara Croft's best friends, since she is presumed dead after the end of the previous game. Wyster made these memories look funny, thanks to the multiple glitches used in this run. We don't think they remember Lara as a teleporting adventurer. | ||
![]() | PSX Umihara Kawase Shun (JPN) in 02:10.23 by Mukki. | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2010-05-12) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 17.29 MB, length: 05:33) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2642 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.8 (13 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Umihara Kawase Shun (1997) is the little known sequel to the little known Umihara Kawase for the SNES. The game adheres to the same exact formula: a little schoolgirl uses her trusty | ||
![]() | SGB Castlevania Legends (USA/Europe) in 24:16.4 by Sir VG. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-02-19) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 29.19 MB, length: 28:06) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1824 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.2 (20.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action | |
| This Konami-"disowned" Castlevania title follows the earliest Belmont, Sonia, as she attempts to thwart Dracula for the first time. We also meet his son Alucard for the first time. This movie collects the 5 optional Belmont Treasures, which enables a secret ending after the credits with mysterious implications.
The author whips through the game, especially the bosses, taking advantage of an outrageous glitch that entirely skips the end of a level, plus the special "burning mode" (ok... blinking mode) that allows for faster movement and harder whip action.
Note: This movie requires either VBA rerecording v20 or v24. | ||
![]() | SGB Daffy Duck: The Marvin Missions (USA/Europe) in 01:58.07 by MUGG. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-09-12) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 9.35 MB, length: 06:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Submission #2825 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.4 (18.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| This game is about two bumbling idiots fighting over the fate of the earth. Daffy Duck, savior of mankind, and Marvin the Martian, hero of Mars. In this TAS, mugg assists Daffy Duck fight Marvin by traveling through the parrallel galaxy of glitch-on, cutting Marvin off before he can reach earth in only 1:58.06 minutes! If you want to see a glitch festival, this is the movie you're looking for!
If you're looking for more Duck Dodgers action, see our SNES run.
Mister Epic: Changed mirror + torrent file to replace the current encode for a fully compatible one. | ||
![]() | SGB Donkey Kong Land 2 "102%" in 57:09.82 by legoking831. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-03-17) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 133.63 MB, length: 1:04:59) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2575 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.5 (7.5 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Takes damage to save time | |
| In what is essentially a port of Donkey Kong Country 2 to the Game Boy, Diddy Kong and his girlfriend must rescue Donkey Kong from Captain K. Rool. Along they way they are distracted by a copious amount of shiny coins and other miscellaneous tasks.
This movie achieves 102% completion, which is the maximum allowable by the game.
Note: mike89 contributed to the final two levels and boss for this run, but since his contribution was so minute he has opted out of being listed as a co-author. | ||
![]() | SGB Kirby's Dream Land 2 (USA) in 48:18.67 by Soulrivers. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2007-07-01) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 73.18 MB, length: 53:36) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1555 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (19 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| In Kirby's second Gameboy adventure, he not only takes on the powers of his enemies, but also has the support of his animal friends. Watch as Kirby flies, swims and burns his way to the end. Along the way, Soulrivers collects a Rainbow Drop in each stage in order to fight the true final boss. In addition, he plays bonus games in the rooms of defeated bosses to obtain 100% completion. | ||
![]() | SGB Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (USA/Europe) in 24:17.32 by GoddessMaria. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2012-02-18) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 38.20 MB, length: 27:09) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3440 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.4 (3 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Fighting | |
| When the Earth is threatened, Zordon summoned teenagers 'with attitude' to become the Power Rangers, defenders of all that is good. In this game, the world is threatened by the forces of evil, which are attacking on multiple fronts, and lead by Ivan Ooze. Each of the Rangers have decided to split up and tackle each of the main bad guys, fighting their way through the enemy hordes and finally returning Ooze to the sludge he belongs in. | ||
![]() | SGB Mole Mania (USA) in 08:09.0 by Ryuto. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-05-04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 9.50 MB, length: 10:50) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.radiokj.com Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3141 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1766 (10:54.93) Rating: 6.9 (5.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Mole Mania, known as Moguranya (モグラ~ニャ) in Japan, is an action puzzle game. The main character is a mole named Muddy Mole, whose wife and children have been kidnapped by the farmer, Jinbe. Muddy has to go to Jinbe Land and save his family. In the game, the player will solve puzzles by moving a black ball to a gate. However, there are many obstacles and enemies in the way. Therefore the player will dig into ground to find ways around them. The player skips 6 levels out of 8 using a glitch, causing the time records to be nullified from the second stage to the seventh stage. The previous run used a reset glitch to perform this skip. This time, a different warp glitch was used, which is where most of the 2:45.93 improvement comes from. | ||
![]() | SGB Mole Mania (USA) "all levels" in 1:09:13.48 by Ryuto. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-04-17) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 83.46 MB, length: 1:12:09) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3057 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.2 (5 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Mole Mania, known as Moguranya (モグラ~ニャ) in Japan, is an action puzzle game. The main character is a mole named Muddy Mole, whose wife and children have been kidnapped by the farmer, Jinbe. Muddy has to go to Jinbe Land and save his family. In the game, the player will solve puzzles by moving a black ball to a gate. However, there are many obstacles and enemies in the way. Therefore the player will dig into ground to find ways around them. This run aims to beat all levels as fast as possible without using surrender. To accomplish this, the author, Ryuto, uses a warp glitch to skip many rooms. As always, please see the author's notes for more details. There is also a run by the same author that skips several levels. | ||
![]() | SGB Pocket Monsters: Green (JPN v1.0) in 04:24.37 by p4wn3r. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-10-10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 6.10 MB, length: 06:10) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2860 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #941 (04:24.53) Rating: 6.5 (16.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Corrupts memory - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| This game (along with Pocket Monsters: Red) is the Japanese version of the first generation of Pokémon games and the first ever Pokémon game.
This run, a ten frame improvement over the previous version, abuses a glitch that was fixed in later releases of Pocket Monsters (Pokémon) that allows a player to warp freely through the world. Victory is achieved in a matter of minutes with this route. Normally, the game takes well over an hour at the fastest to finish.
To see a more substantial run of the first generation of Pokémon, watch this movie. For a less substantial run (which also demonstrates that they didn't fix all the glitches in later versions), watch this one.
Note: This movie requires VBA rerecording v20, as it does not sync on any other version. | ||
![]() | SGB Pokémon: Blue Version (USA/Europe) "Gotta Catch 'Em All!" in 3:20:46.17 by p4wn3r & Mukki. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-07-14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 110.75 MB, length: 3:23:53) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 125.20 MB, length: 3:23:57) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3203 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.5 (22.5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Forgoes save data corruption - Corrupts memory - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG ![]() ![]() | |
| Pokémon: Blue Version is part of the first generation of games within its famous series, known for having a very large number of beneficial glitches. In fact, the game can be completed in less than one minute of in-game time by save data corruption as evidenced in the run of the Yellow Version, and it can be completed in under an hour using a similar, yet more 'conventional' glitch, as shown by the run of the Red Version. These runs break the game, and avoid much of the gameplay intended by the developers. And now, for something completely different. In this run, the authors, p4wn3r and Mukki, catch all 151 Pokémon and complete the game while only using what they call "light glitches", showing off much more of the game than in the other runs while still using many glitches to complete this goal much faster than the programmers could have imagined. For more details about the techniques used in this run, and for their definition of what constitutes a light glitch, as always, please read the authors' notes. | ||
![]() | SGB Pokémon: Red Version (USA/Europe) in 41:02.38 by p4wn3r. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-12-23) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 25.51 MB, length: 43:00) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 27.61 MB, length: 43:01) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Submission #2945 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #950 (1:18:58.78) Rating: 7.1 (15 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Forgoes save data corruption - Corrupts memory - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Pokémon Red is part of the first generation of games within its famous series, known for having a very large number of beneficial glitches. In fact, the game can be completed in less than one minute of in-game time by save data corruption as evidenced in the run of the Yellow Version, but that is not used here in favour of activating a similar glitch through more conventional means - if systematic breaking of the game can be called conventional.
This is an improvement of 37:56.40 over the previous run of Blue in this category. The previous run used entirely different glitches and is worth checking out as well.
It is recommended that you read the author's comments as well as the discussion relating to the movie to fully enjoy it.
Note: This movie requires VBA rerecording 19. The glitches work differently on other versions of VBA. | ||
![]() | SGB Tetris Blast (USA) in 03:57.98 by Ryuto. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2009-11-24) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 3.39 MB, length: 06:06) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2440 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (14 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Who'd have thought playing Tetris could be such a Blast. This is a variant of Tetris that has a new type of block added, bombs. This is the only Tetris Blast game released outside of Japan (Where it is known as Bombliss). | ||
![]() | SGB Ultraman Ball (JPN) in 06:04.45 by TaoTao. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-05-25) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 6.43 MB, length: 07:48) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3144 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (8 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Ultraman Ball is a platform game featuring the famous Japanese television character Ultraman. However, the game has little to nothing do with Ultraman, as oddly enough, his power in this game is to transform into a ball and bounce around a lot. Some say this game is based on the abandoned NES project, Armadillo 2, and in fact the game is very similar to Armadillo. To make it through this strange game, the author of this run, TaoTao, uses several tricks, including ones that optimize movement, like the "Vine boost", and ones that allow him to skip over several sections, such as "Levitation". Please see the author's notes for more details. | ||
![]() | SGB Wario Land II (USA/Europe) in 06:32.68 by mugg & jlun2. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2011-08-30) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 8.88 MB, length: 12:08) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3263 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1675 (08:07.83) Rating: 7.7 (12 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| This movie proves the benefit of sleeping in late. In a departure from most runs, which try to start as soon as possible, the author avoids any input for over two minutes to enable a faster route. This Wario game is a fairly unique platformer, where you not only play as "the bad guy" but normal damage is replaced with various status effects like catching on fire. In addition, the use of these effects is needed to complete the game. This movie beats the previous movie by 1 minute and 35 seconds through the use of glitching out of bounds. | ||
![]() | SGX Madoo Granzort (JPN) in 08:46.08 by arukAdo. | |
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| Mednafen/PCEjin movie (.mc2) (date: 2009-12-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 29.62 MB, length: 12:05) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2503 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (11 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| The title of the series upon which this game is based, and therefore the game itself, has been rendered a variety of different ways in English; this is perhaps indicative of just how bizarre the viewing experience is. Witness magic-wielding mecha float through the air and attack enemies in a variety of ways and polish off this game in just under nine minutes. This game was released for the Supergrafx, a console which is a slight modification of the Turbografx 16/PC Engine with intent of enhancing the graphical capabilities of the console; for the moment (and perhaps permanently) it is being classified as a PCE game. | ||
![]() | SNES ActRaiser (USA) in 53:55.57 by zidanax & dunnius. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-03-01) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 181.75 MB, length: 1:05:32) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3019 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #204 (1:08:07.05) Rating: 7.3 (12.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform - Genre: Strategy | |
| ActRaiser (1990) is a critically acclaimed SNES game which combines two major gameplay phases: a god simulator and an action platformer. You play the role of | ||
![]() | SNES ActRaiser (JPN) "Special Mode" in 21:01.73 by zidanax. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-11-08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 70.26 MB, length: 23:54) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3342 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| ActRaiser (1990) is a critically acclaimed SNES game which combines two major gameplay phases: a god simulator and an action platformer. You play the role of | ||
![]() | SNES Aladdin, Disney's (USA) in 16:13.62 by Jaysmad. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-01-02) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 54.71 MB, length: 23:10) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2141 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1130 (15:28.72) Rating: 7.7 (30 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| The SNES version of Aladdin (1993) follows the plot of this Disney movie much more closely than its Genesis counterpart. Unlike the last version of this movie, Jasmine wasn't happy with just being rescued by Aladdin; she made him spend a little time picking up some jewelry for her on the way. This movie aims to complete the game with all the red gems collected, which results in a slightly higher time than the previous movie, but adds quite a bit to the entertainment value of the run. The core trick of this TAS is to abuse the parachute extensively to move faster than normal walking or jumping. | ||
![]() | SNES Animaniacs (USA) in 22:00.63 by DaTeL237. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-06-23) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 76.78 MB, length: 25:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2270 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.9 (14 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| The Animaniacs are a cartoon comedy trio, known for old school Warner Brothers style comedy mixed with some scathing political commentary. This platformer of their namesake captures their personality well, with some comical and colorful animations. The author adds in his own techniques of walking on air and creating small scenes within the game while playing, especially during boss fights. This game has a built in roulette, which is manipulated to always give the best result, especially invincibility when needed for tougher bosses. | ||
![]() | SNES Ardy Lightfoot (USA) in 19:56.93 by FerretWarlord. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-08-03) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 73.13 MB, length: 27:37) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2290 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.2 (15 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| A small quick-footed anthropomorphic mammal and his best pal race to the right to recover all of the special gems and save the world from a boss with a mysteriously foreign sounding name. Sonic the Hedgehog? No, Ardy Lightfoot. Abusing the game's awkward hit detection and pulling off normally suicidal strategies that require frame perfect precision, the author blitzes through this cinematic and visually appealing game. | ||
![]() | SNES Battletoads in Battlemaniacs (USA) in 19:08.1 by FODA&Vatchern. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2005-05-24) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 79.31 MB, length: 19:46) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #675 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (28 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform | |
| This is that game that looks like a remake of the first Battletoads game. The Toads go after Silas Volkmire and Dark Queen because someone was kidnapped again... Features 2 players and aims for fastest completion time while bashing through the enemies and showing off. | ||
![]() | SNES Biker Mice From Mars (USA) in 05:12.62 by Baxter. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2007-02-24) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 20.98 MB, length: 07:18) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1445 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.0 (52.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Uses a level password - Genre: Racing ![]() | |
| A high speed racing game featuring rodents from another (nearby) planet. Although the author doesn't classify the velocity potential of the motorcycle as a programming error in the game, the speed at which he rips through the courses may make you wonder. A password is used to skip to the final round at Super Hard difficulty with fully upgraded Engine and Shot parts. | ||
![]() | SNES Bobby's World (USA) in 10:12.6 by Kyman. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-05-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 29.30 MB, length: 13:02) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2664 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.4 (9.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
| Bobby's World is a platformer for the SNES inspired by the TV show of the same name. The author exploits a throwing glitch, and manages to complete the game in just over 10 minutes. | ||
![]() | SNES Bonkers (USA) in 14:17.68 by partyboy1a. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-08-05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 32.15 MB, length: 17:02) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3230 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.9 (9 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| A rather decent platformer based off of a rather decent cartoon show from the 90s. Bonkers is a cartoon bobcat on his first case alone, and must retrieve the Toontown treasure of the Sorcerer's Hat (from Fantasia), the Mermaid's Voice (The Little Mermaid), and the Magic Lamp (Aladdin). | ||
![]() | SNES Breath of Fire (USA) in 4:14:52.2 by janus. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-12-23) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 515.94 MB, length: 4:22:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2930 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (8 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Best ending - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Breath of Fire is a long RPG by Capcom. Ryu, a member of the White Dragon clan, is on a mission to stop the Black Dragon clan. He must collect the 8 goddess keys before they do, in order to avoid the end of the world. TODO: Expand the description. | ||
![]() | SNES Breath of Fire II (USA) in 4:48:14.85 by janus. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-08-04) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 590.27 MB, length: 5:01:32) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2762 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1418 (4:53:48.98) Rating: 5.7 (9 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Best ending - Uses death to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| In this epic RPG, you have to fight an evil religion that tries to take over the world. While this revision is five and a half minutes shorter than the author's previous effort, this TAS is the third longest published movie to date (here are the second longest and longest), clocking in a little under 5 hours. Set aside an afternoon. | ||
![]() | SNES Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind (USA) in 13:47.57 by Acmlm. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-07-23) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 61.68 MB, length: 14:43) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2751 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1204 (15:16.9) Rating: 7.1 (15.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Bubsy is on a hunt to get back his yarn, which the Woolies stole. Bubsy can run very fast, but unfortunately he almost never gets a chance to, because there are obstacles everywhere. Unlike most bobcats, Bubsy can die by touching anything remotely dangerous, like eggs or water. Also unlike regular bobcats, he can glide through the air, has a t-shirt with an exclamation mark, and a smile you'll just be dying to wipe off his face. This new movie by Acmlm is almost a minute and a half faster than the previous movie | ||
![]() | SNES Castlevania: Dracula X (USA) in 13:56.12 by Dooty. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-12-12) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 45.03 MB, length: 16:28) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3389 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1037 (14:07.6) Rating: 8.0 (7.5 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Castlevania: Dracula X (1995), released in Japan as Akumajō Dracula XX, is actually a toned-down remake of a PC Engine title known as Rondo of Blood (1993). It stars Richter Belmont, supposedly a son of Juste Belmont from Harmony of Dissonance, on a mission to save Annette (said to be his girlfriend) and Maria Renard (a young vampire huntress said to be his girlfriend's sister), along with a number of their fellow villagers, from imprisonment by Dracula (said to be the villain) and his minions. Unfortunately, in this SNES port Richter isn't too much of a fast walker - unlike his father and the later Belmont clan descendants - so his fastest way of moving is constant backflipping (so don't be surprised by the author's choice of traveling method). This movie is a 11.48 second improvement to the previous version by pirate_sephiroth. | ||
![]() | SNES Chrono Trigger (USA) "glitched" in 03:28.06 by turska & inichi. | |
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| lsnes movie (.lsmv) (date: 2012-05-25) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 11.03 MB, length: 06:37) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 10.73 MB, length: 06:37) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3606 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1208 (06:42.77) Obsoletes movie #1285 (21:23.98) Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Corrupts save data - Genre: RPG | |
| While Chrono Trigger (1995) usually takes days to complete, Crono decided he'd rather not have to sit through all the unnecessary stuff, like long cutscenes, unskippable boss fights and key plot events, so he did it in three minutes instead. The 18-minute improvement comes from utilizing mid-frame resets which were recently implemented in lsnes. Reading the authors' comments is a requirement if you want so much as a clue to what's going on. | ||
![]() | SNES Civilization, Sid Meier's (USA) in 05:07.78 by Acmlm. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-06-11) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 4.48 MB, length: 05:37) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2695 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.6 (20.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Strategy | |
| In this port of the famous strategy game to the SNES, watch as the AI opponents all miraculously begin close to the player, an army is pulled effectively out of thin air, and settlers prove their worth as vicious assailants. The game ends in an astonishingly short time of fourteen turns. | ||
![]() | SNES Clue (USA) in 00:26.5 by Deign. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2012-04-06) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 629.74 KB, length: 00:35) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 596.55 KB, length: 00:35) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3552 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.0 (9.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Strategy | |
| The game of Clue has been attempted many times here at TASVideos. After years of research and planning, it's finally been honed down to a tidy 26.50 seconds. Whodunit? You'll have to watch to find out. | ||
![]() | SNES Contra 3: The Alien Wars (USA) "pacifist" in 14:25.25 by Ash_Williams. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2006-12-19) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 47.50 MB, length: 17:46) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1095 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (30 votes) View Publication | - Pacifist version - One player in a multiplayer game - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Due to budget cutbacks, the guy who destroys the world bare-chested has been ordered to conserve his ammo. This run completes Contra 3 without shooting anything that isn't mandatory for winning the game. This includes enemies' projectiles. | ||
![]() | SNES Contra 3: The Alien Wars (USA) "2 players" in 13:03.32 by hero of the day. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2007-02-04) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 44.60 MB, length: 16:24) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1382 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #586 (13:14.7) Rating: 7.9 (28 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| The guy who has infinite supply of ammo and who destroys worlds bare-chested is back again! And this time he has a friend and a shirt with him. A very colourful movie, with the author playing both characters at the same time (which is far from trivial to do). This version improves the previous run by approximately 12 seconds. | ||
![]() | SNES Contra 3: The Alien Wars (USA) "glitched" in 03:20.38 by Cpadolf. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-06-14) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 13.47 MB, length: 03:39) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2273 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1217 (03:23.27) Rating: 7.4 (21.5 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Uses death to save time - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| One of the best (and best known) shooters of the 16-bit era, Contra 3 forgoes any semblence of plot devices in favor of good old fashioned shooting and platforming with some tough as nails bosses, especially in this, the hardest mode. Apparently not happy with an already amazing movie, Cpadolf felt the need to go on yet another black op, optimizing his distortions of space and time on the way to a 173 frame improvement. This movie uses a 'warping' glitch to complete the game. There is also the 2-player version which does not. | ||
![]() | SNES Cyborg 009 (JPN) in 16:06.92 by FractalFusion. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-11-07) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 52.37 MB, length: 17:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2427 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.2 (13 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses easiest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Cyborg 009 is based on the manga and anime of the same name, which began a long time ago. There are eight characters that you can use, but one of them is set and you can only choose two others for each mission. The run uses 008 (Pyunma) and 005 (Geronimo) most of the time. 008 can jump forward quickly and swim in water, while 005 does heavy damage to bosses. Various power-ups are collected to level-up 009 (Joe) due to an event near the end of the game. The run uses the easiest difficulty due to the final boss taking less time to beat. If you play this game, it is recommended to level-up 009 first, and a lot. | ||
![]() | SNES Daffy Duck: The Marvin Missions (USA) in 12:56.5 by Gunty. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2007-02-18) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 35.83 MB, length: 17:03) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1390 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.9 (20 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Daffy Duck is at it again. In this game, Daffy plays Duck Dodgers, and futuristic space "hero" who sets out to stop an invasion force by Marvin the Martian. Using this game's interesting recoil and jet pack physics, Gunty flies through each of the stages at a very fast pace. If you want to see Duck Dodgers defeat Marvin in no time flat see our run of the SGB game. | ||
![]() | SNES Demon's Crest (USA) in 36:14.45 by ElectroSpecter. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-08-11) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 118.37 MB, length: 44:35) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2017 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.5 (19 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Demon's Crest is the third installment of the Gargoyle's Quest series. The player controls Firebrand, who is scouring the Demon Realm for elemental Crests, which preside over different elements (Fire, Earth, Air, Water, Time, and Heaven). When collected, these crests allow Firebrand to transform his shape at will and gain powerful new abilities and defenses. Demon's Crest is notorious for some very difficult bosses. In this run, the author abuses boss weaknesses to the extreme by carefully switching Gargoyle forms as necessary. In addition, heavy luck manipulation was used during several encounters to make the otherwise troublesome boss fights look easier than a play through of Barney's Hide and Seek. | ||
![]() | SNES Do-Re-Mi Fantasy: Milon no Dokidoki Daibouken (JPN) in 1:01:20.5 by Mukki. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-07-01) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 190.19 MB, length: 1:05:32) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2705 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (7 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| DoReMi Fantasy is ostensibly the Japan-only sequel to Milon's Secret Castle, though in practice it turns out to be a very different game, as it just a plain platformer with no big puzzle elements. Milon has set out to travel through seven different worlds to bring music back to the world (courtesy of his home town's forest) and rescue his friend from the clutches of an evil wizard (who, conveniently, is also responsible for causing the music to disappear). | ||
![]() | SNES Donkey Kong Country (USA v1.0) in 08:13.72 by Tompa. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-04-07) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 52.16 MB, length: 14:27) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3075 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1644 (16:22.63) Rating: 8.6 (29.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Genre: Platform | |
| A movie aiming for fastest possible completion of Donkey Kong Country without bothering to enter all the bonus rooms. This run is 8:08.91 faster than the previous submission, mostly due to a new warp glitch that cuts out the earlier stages, and the use of several new tricks and glitches. For more details, we suggest reading the submission details to understand what is going on. If you desire more rolling primates, we recommend watching the 101% completition movie. | ||
![]() | SNES Donkey Kong Country (USA) "101%" in 47:25.3 by Arnethegreat. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2006-04-05) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 155.92 MB, length: 53:42) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1016 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #175 (48:18.95) Rating: 8.0 (51.5 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Uses warps - Genre: Platform | |
| This run of Donkey Kong Country aims for 101% completion. The author of this run discovered several new time-saving techniques. Some of them are small enough to go unnoticed, and others are jawdroppingly huge. The total improvement over the previous run is 54 seconds. The in-game time of this run is about 38 minutes 56 seconds. For a detailed analysis of new techniques as well as comments about individual levels, read the author's comments at the submission page. If you desire more rolling primates, we recommend watching the any% movie. | ||
![]() | SNES Donkey Kong Country 2 - Diddy's Kong Quest (USA v1.0) "102%" in 1:21:31.88 by Dooty, NxCy & Comicalflop. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2012-05-05) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 449.77 MB, length: 1:31:31) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 409.27 MB, length: 1:31:31) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3578 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1629 (1:22:17.17) Rating: 9.4 (6 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - 100% completion - Best ending - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Donkey Kong's been kidnapped and old Cranky Kong insists that Diddy collect a bunch of coins that say "DK" on them. These goals are sufficiently compatible that Diddy and Dixie decide to get a little bit sidetracked on their rescue plan. This movie improves on its predecessor by 45.28 seconds, primarily by using a debug code to get 75 Kremkoins early, allowing for a faster route through the game. Reading the authors' comments is recommended. For more primate action, try the any% run. | ||
![]() | SNES Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (USA v1.1) in 39:06.68 by Comicalflop, Dooty & Umihoshi. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-09-05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 317.40 MB, length: 49:06) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3259 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1525 (40:44.73) Rating: 8.3 (10.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Genre: Platform | |
| This is the any% TAS of Donkey Kong Country 2. The movie aims for overall fastest completion and doesn't give a flying banana about bonus rooms. Warp barrels are used whenever possible, meaning a large part of almost every stage in the first two worlds is skipped. This is an improvement of 1:38.04 over the previous movie due to some new tricks and major warping glitches exclusive to ROM version V1.1 (the previous run uses V1.0). See the submission text for a breakdown of all of the improvements. For more primate action, we recommend watching the 102% completition movie. | ||
![]() | SNES Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (USA) "105%" in 1:41:39.8 by Dooty, ElectroSpecter & Tompa. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-12-21) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 677.35 MB, length: 1:45:34) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2941 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.1 (17.5 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Best ending - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Uses a game restart sequence - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Donkey and Diddy Kong appear to have been kidnapped, now it's up to that daring damsel of adventure, Dixie Kong, to find the missing monkeys. But this is no solo expedition; her cousin, the titanic toddler Kiddy Kong is here to help her kick some Kremlin butts. This is the first entry of the 105% category of this game. By using a password to remove the 'DK' barrels, the game officially enters hard mode, and the maximum percent completion is obtained. For more Kong action, you can also view the pure speedrun that doesn't collect all items. | ||
![]() | SNES Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (USA) in 44:40.63 by Dooty. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-06-12) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 340.05 MB, length: 57:07) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3169 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1206 (45:08.9) Rating: 7.2 (9.5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| It's a TAS of the most beautiful Donkey Kong Country game on SNES. This run uses warp barrels. It improves the previous run by 28.26 seconds by using new tricks, such as delayed jumps and backward flights. It also abuses hitboxes even further. Please read the author's comments for details about the new tricks. For more primate action, we recommend watching the 105% completition movie. | ||
![]() | SNES Dragon's Lair (USA) in 09:17.65 by tall. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-05-21) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 46.93 MB, length: 11:05) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3133 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (10 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| In Dragon's Lair, you take control of Dirk the Daring in his quest to save Princess Daphne from Singe the dragon. After the release of the 1983 arcade game of the same name, which played like an interactive movie, this game was released on many different platforms with radically different game play. To see a run of the NES game of the same name, click here. In this run, the author, tall, awkwardly jumps into action and completes the game in a little more than 9 minutes. He performs many tricks to do this, a notable one being a damage boost which allows him to skip huge sections of levels. For more information, please see the author's notes. | ||
![]() | SNES Dragon Quest V (JPN) in 50:19.53 by Touch-me. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2012-02-04) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 87.81 MB, length: 59:41) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 90.86 MB, length: 59:41) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3431 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (3 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| This is the fifth game of the series originally known as Dragon Warrior in the US; it remained untranslated until a port to the DS was released in 2008, where it received the name Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride. It tracks the life of our hero, the son of Papas, over a large span of time from his adventurous childhood through tragic adolescence and a joyful marriage as he and his family fight to defeat evil. As the game text is in Japanese, the encodes feature translation in the form of subtitles courtesy of the author. There is also a second YouTube stream featuring more detailed information and commentary, also by the author. You may be interested in watching earlier games in the series. | ||
![]() | SNES E.V.O.: Search for Eden (USA) in 40:31.17 by FatRatKnight. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-10-26) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 65.12 MB, length: 44:32) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2419 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.8 (17 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| In E.V.O. you play a creature who evolves by eating his opponents. Just like real life! A Lua subtitle script is available in the forums thread for those who are unfamiliar with the game. We recommend reading the authors notes. They are rather voluminous and contain a great deal of good information. | ||
![]() | SNES EarthBound (USA) "glitched" in 09:01.77 by pirohiko & MUGG. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2012-01-09) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 10.74 MB, length: 09:14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 9.67 MB, length: 09:14) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3406 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1627 (30:42.12) Rating: 7.8 (11.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: RPG | |
| EarthBound, also known as Mother 2, is a great RPG, designed by Shigesato Itoi in 1994-1995. It is best described as "random," but in a good way. The game has a great emphasis on humor; indeed, many things in the game are almost caricatured, from subplots to characters. It also has a versatile soundtrack. MUGG and pirohiko improved their previous TAS by 21:40.34 by finding a faster and more reliable method to access the debug menu and using it to skip most of the game, including the credits. | ||
![]() | SNES EarthBound (USA) in 1:10:00.95 by pirohiko. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-06-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 160.49 MB, length: 1:10:44) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2200 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #567 (3:26:09.18) Rating: 8.7 (63.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| EarthBound is a great RPG, designed by Shigesato Itoi in 1994-1995, and is also known by the name Mother 2. It is best described as "random", in a good way. The game has a great emphasis on a humor, and indeed many things in the game are almost caricatured, from subplots to characters. It also has a versatile soundtrack. Our description for the previous movie stated, "Although this being a speedrun (tool-assisted at that), most of the plot of the game is intact...". This time around, not so much. Thanks to some collision detection bugs, including one that shows that the Skip Sandwich is a fitting name for the item in ways the developers never intended, the author is able to move around the game's areas freely, completing the bare minimum number of tasks needed to keep the final battle from locking up. Also unlike the previous movie, this one does use a death as a shortcut. However, the teddy bear survives this time around. | ||
![]() | SNES F-Zero (USA v1.0) "first track" in 02:22.03 by Saturn. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2006-03-31) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 28.11 MB, length: 02:40) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 29.82 MB, length: 02:40) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #650 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.0 (41 votes) View Publication | - Single level - Genre: Racing | |
The first of the series. F-Zero is a racing game of the
future, with machines that reach more than 470 km/h top-speed.
This movie uses the Fire Stingray to surpass the world record time
and best lap time on Mute City 1, the first stage.
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![]() | SNES Family Feud (USA) in 06:46.28 by Heisanevilgenius. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-01-26) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 11.26 MB, length: 07:56) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2166 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.7 (80 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - Demonstration - Genre: Strategy ![]() ![]() | |
| Family Feud (1993) follows the premise of the American TV show of the same name. Two families are pitted against each other in a contest aimed at guessing the results of a public survey. In the first two rounds, the first family member to press a button and give a concise answer that happens to be on the survey earns points. After that, this family can continue guessing answers on the survey, with control switching to the other family on incorrect guesses. After two rounds, the family with fewer points is disqualified, and the last round allows two members of the remaining family to list several of the existing survey answers in a very short time period. Heisanevilgenius's family, The As, ignores all that and goes with elaborate and utter nonsense instead… only to find the host accepting their answers as correct. The other family, The Halls, doesn't even get the chance to insert a word, proving the racial prejudice of the host. Watch the game and see for yourself. Note: Some answers contain coarse language. | ||
![]() | SNES Final Fantasy IV (USA v1.1) in 2:53:14.37 by Deign. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-07-26) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 403.75 MB, length: 3:11:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2033 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (24 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Final Fantasy IV (renamed to Final Fantasy II in North-American publication) was a revolution to the RPG genre. It was the first to introduce the active battle system, among many other redeeming qualities. This movie plays through the game in a mere 2 hours, 53 minutes and 14 seconds. It aims for real time, but has a secondary goal of lowest in-game time when that does not incur an expense in real time. The in-game completion time is 1:59:28. The author also included many easter eggs, or surprise occurrences, throughout the movie. These have been detailed in the author's comments. We recommend reading the comments regarding this movie. Note: This movie resets the game console a few times, first saving the game and then loading it, so to watch it on an emulator, you will need an emulator that supports recording the console resets. This movie was made with the original English-language version. The downloadable encode and this YouTube stream were encoded with the Action Replay code 0495DCFF, which keeps the music volume from decreasing while the game is paused. This greatly reduces the annoyance factor of constant pausing during battles, which is done to save time. | ||
![]() | SNES Final Fantasy Mystic Quest (USA) in 1:49:20.0 by DonamerDragon. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2006-11-01) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 200.49 MB, length: 1:52:06) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1326 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #465 (1:57:36.07) Rating: 6.5 (28.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Final Fantasy Mystic Quest is a short RPG game that is very different from the Final Fantasy games that came before and after it. This is the third TAS movie of this game, now 8 minutes faster than the previous run by the same author. We recommend reading the author's comments for information about this run. | ||
![]() | SNES Final Fantasy V (JPN) in 3:34:41.07 by samurai goroh. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2007-08-14) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 523.85 MB, length: 4:03:00) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 564.91 MB, length: 4:03:00) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1649 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.5 (23 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Final Fantasy V is probably the least known of the Final Fantasy series on the SNES, because it was never published in the USA. This movie plays through the game in three and a half hours. We recommend reading the author’s comments regarding this movie to understand the manipulation used. The boss battles, including the last boss, might be somewhat anticlimactic in this movie due to the use of a one-hit-kill spell (L5 Doom) which was made to work by varying means in each battle. Note: Because this game was never released in the USA and our rules regarding fan translations are a bit strict, all text in this movie is in Japanese. However, we may release English subtitles for this movie soon. | ||
![]() | SNES Final Fantasy V & VI (JPN) in 3:52:15.97 by neo_omegon. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-06-25) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 1.02 GB, length: 4:16:08) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2692 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (9 votes) View Publication | - Multiple games in one movie - Genre: RPG | |
| Watch as two Final Fantasy games, V and VI (VI is also III in North-American publication), are beaten with one controller's input. Since FFVI takes longer to beat than FFV, the FFV run also beats a few optional bosses which are not fought in the single-game run of FFV. The two games finish at the same time. Since FFV is only available in Japanese, FFVI is also played with the Japanese version. The (J) version of FFVI also has an equipment glitch which is not present in the (U) version. Otherwise, this run of FFVI is quite similar to our single-game FFVI movie. For more details, we suggest you read the submission comments. Note: The MP4 is stacked horizontally, even though the screenshot is stacked vertically. | ||
![]() | SNES Final Fantasy VI (USA v1.1) in 4:05:52.87 by Erokky. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2006-06-11) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 601.66 MB, length: 4:31:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1097 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.5 (38 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Final Fantasy VI (renamed to Final Fantasy III in North-American publication) is arguably the most famous RPG on the SNES console. It is very much different from Mystic Quest, in more aspects than should be counted here. This movie plays through the game in little over 4 hours by the means of advanced analysis of the game engine, and the abuse of certain game errors/features that give the ability to one-hit-knock-out even the strongest enemies ― most prominently (but not only) the Joker Doom lore from Setzer’s slot machine. A glitch involving Relm’s sketch ability was not used in this run. It is highly questionable whether or not this glitch can actually be used to save time. Also the glitch cannot be performed on this version of the ROM. The boss battles, including the last boss, might be somewhat anticlimactic in this movie due to the unusual attack technique, but besides being a very nice timeattack/TAS record, the movie is a nice trip down the memory lane for those who have played this game, and a graphically and especially musically pleasing experience for even those who haven't. This movie was made with the English-language version. We recommend reading the author’s comments regarding this movie. | ||
![]() | SNES Final Fight 3 (USA) in 17:05.82 by Sotel6. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-11-05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 36.30 MB, length: 19:28) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3334 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #704 (18:18.63) Rating: 7.0 (5 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Uses warps - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Fighting | |
| The Skull Cross Gang is wreaking havoc in Metro City, and it's up to Guy to restore order. This is an improvement of 1:12.82 over the previous TAS by Diman, largely due to better use of combos and manipulation of enemies. Just like the previous run, Sotel6 uses sledgehammers to kill enemies, bringing new meaning to the phrase "tool-assisted speedrun". (Groan.) | ||
![]() | SNES Ganbare Goemon 2 (JPN) in 35:32.05 by zggzdydp. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-10-13) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 104.15 MB, length: 44:17) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2082 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (18 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action | |
| This popular Japanese series features a character who fights with a smoking pipe and giant killer robots. For some reason, it's not terribly popular elsewhere. The author thoroughly abuses the 2-player option to glide through the game with ease. This movie contains some of the most accurate robot boxing currently available. | ||
![]() | SNES Gekisou Sentai Car Ranger (JPN) "Good Ending" in 07:43.17 by FractalFusion. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2012-03-27) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 19.67 MB, length: 10:05) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 27.16 MB, length: 10:05) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3494 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1943 (06:56.9) Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - Best ending - Genre: Platform | |
| Gekisou Sentai Car Ranger is a Power Rangers game released only in Japan. It uses the Sufami Turbo loader add-on for the SNES, making it even more obscure. The game itself is rather short for a platformer. Only the yellow and red rangers are used due to their unique character advantages which allow them to complete the game faster than the other rangers. Unlike its predecessor, this run gets good ending by getting the minimum 250 parts necessary to form Racing Fusion RV Robo and defeat a transformed President Gynamo before he blows up the Earth. This results in the movie length being increased by 46.26 seconds. See the author's notes for more details. End | ||
![]() | SNES Goof Troop, Disney's (USA) in 16:36.57 by Randil & mmbossman. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-01-09) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 49.87 MB, length: 22:02) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1812 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #152 (20:29.08) Rating: 7.7 (35.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Goof Troop (1993) is a cheerful puzzle game based on Disney show of the same name. The gameplay is somewhat similar to NES Legend of Zelda with its maze-like map filled with one-screen rooms, except this time the emphasis on puzzles is stronger, and you can play in co-op. In this movie the authors control two characters (Goofy and Max) simultaneously. This allows for a good deal of team work as one character can go get an item while the other heads for the exit. When there is no multi-tasking to do, the authors do a good job performing antics with one or both of the characters. This is a nearly 4 minute improvement over Frenom's previous movie. Improvements come from new tricks, better teamwork, luck manipulation and optimized movements. | ||
![]() | SNES Gradius III (USA) in 25:31.4 by Cpadolf. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-05-26) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 84.58 MB, length: 28:22) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1938 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1081 (28:24.0) Rating: 7.5 (27.5 votes) View Publication | - Maximum kills - Forgoes warps - Uses hardest difficulty - Uses a level password - Genre: Shooter | |
| As you might know, Konami realised they went a little overboard with the difficulty of the arcade version of Gradius III, so the SNES port got noticeably easier (and laggier). However, it still remains one of the hardest and most unforgiving shoot 'em ups released in its era. This is Cpadolf's take at the shmupping carnage, resulting in a significant improvement in both speed and style over the previous movie by Krocketneo. In total, 2 minutes 53 seconds are saved thanks to lag reduction and faster boss fights. The author also kills a greater percentage of enemies (still not fully 100%, though — read the comments for more details). The game is completed in Arcade mode (still a far cry from the actual arcade game), which is accessed by tapping A on the main menu screen. It is strongly recommended to read the congratulatory text appearing after the end credits. ;) | ||
![]() | SNES Hagane (USA) in 14:11.27 by Tiger- & Heisanevilgenius. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-10-02) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 27.02 MB, length: 16:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2391 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (14 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| The flippingest ninja hero ever! He slices, he dices, he minces bosses with his flaming legs! This run by Tiger- and Heisanevilgenius completes Hagane in 14:11.27. It is much shorter than previous submissions of this game because of a new glitch that allows our hero to be forced into the wall while using the grappling hook. | ||
![]() | SNES Hook (USA) in 14:27.98 by zidanax. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2007-05-23) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 44.53 MB, length: 19:10) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1516 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #572 (15:13.42) Rating: 6.1 (19 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Hook, based on a movie of the same name, is a somewhat slow platformer game about small boys in tights killing pirates. Awesome! The movie has just enough action to make it entertaining. Thankfully, there are many parts in the game where the player is forced to fly using fairy dust. The flying breaks up the normal pace of the game nicely. This is a 45 second improvement over the previous movie. The author left detailed comments on the various improvements. | ||
![]() | SNES Illusion of Gaia (USA) in 2:09:19.3 by Halamantariel. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2007-05-17) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 361.45 MB, length: 2:32:04) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1558 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #360 (2:06:52.42) Rating: 6.2 (20.5 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Genre: RPG | |
| A fairly straightforward adventure RPG game played in very fast pace. Lots of events are squeezed into a movie of just 2 hours. Note: This movie is three minutes longer than the previous one, because this plays the secret "Gem Mansion" which the previous version did not. Nevertheless, it is much more optimized than the previous version. | ||
![]() | SNES Inspector Gadget (USA) in 13:43.65 by BioSpark. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-06-05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 45.56 MB, length: 17:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3159 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1189 (14:00.25) Rating: 6.1 (10 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Inspector Gadget is a cartoon series featuring a bumbling cyborg, his clever niece Penny and her super intelligent dog Brain. Despite his many useful abilities like helicoptering and a hand that comes out of his head, the Inspector must constantly rely upon Penny and Brain to defeat his arch-nemesis Dr. Claw week after week. However, in this game he must save Penny from several kidnappings without such aid. In another major departure from the television series, Dr. Claw's face is shown briefly. The author abuses Inpector Gadget's gadgets to do things clearly not intended by the game designers. Whether floating through stages or grappling with his head-hand, large sections are skipped and bosses dispatched expeditiously. This is an improvement of 16.60 seconds over the previous run by the same author due to general optimisation and more effort to reduce lag. | ||
![]() | SNES International Superstar Soccer Deluxe (USA) in 15:24.38 by Marcokarty. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-01-05) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 38.46 MB, length: 15:29) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2531 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.6 (57 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - 2 Players - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Sport ![]() ![]() | |
| When watching sports, you're usually prepared for the unexpected. But what happens when it verges into the outright impossible? In this superplay, watch in awe as a team is forced to score on its own goal ("OH NO! OWN GOAL!?"), the scoreboard mysteriously records extra goals that were never scored (and even rolls backwards at one point), and the very laws of physics themselves seem to get completely broken. | ||
![]() | SNES Kaizou Choujin Shubibinman Zero (JPN) in 12:48.17 by TheRandomPie_IV. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-04-05) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 48.77 MB, length: 14:54) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1889 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #904 (13:12.22) Rating: 6.6 (17 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| This is a game based on the completely "unique" concept of an evil boss trying to take over/destroy/do whatever with the world, and despite the Earth being filled with about 7 billion occupants, you are the only one who can stop it. At first glance it may seem odd that, although the game is two player, only one player is used, and that's Player 2. Player 2 was chosen because her aerial attack gives an enormous speed boost. It is also one of the few attacks in video games that operates on frame precision, so smashing out a 30Hz rapid-fire on the controller will lay the beatdown pretty quickly. That, combined with the fact that half the enemies in this game are of the standard "walk around and shoot" variety, allow the heroine to zip through the game with total reckless abandon. Few games allow a TASer to do that, so this is a rare opportunity indeed. The game is eerily similar to Mega Man 7 and Mega Man X. It even has pick-throwing miners. This is a 24 second improvement over the previous movie by the use of some new tricks. These are explained in the author's comments. Important: This movie requires Snes9x 1.43 v15.3 or earlier. It desyncs on later versions. | ||
![]() | SNES Kendo Rage (USA) in 10:19.8 by FerretWarlord. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2006-07-03) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 32.12 MB, length: 13:19) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #810 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (24 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - 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. | ||
![]() | SNES Killer Instinct (USA v1.0) in 09:59.18 by Dark Fulgore. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2007-01-15) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 29.49 MB, length: 10:56) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1338 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (32.5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Fighting | |
| Killer Instinct is a classic fighting game ported to SNES from an arcade machine. It features an advanced combo system, rich pre-rendered graphics and nicely arranged music. However, the latter two were somewhat toned down in this version compared to the original. In this movie, Spinal takes down his enemies by slicing them up, hitting them with their own abilities, and (gasp!) making them dance to music! | ||
![]() | SNES Kirby's Dream Course (USA) in 1:09:13.63 by snc. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-10-05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 196.42 MB, length: 1:11:30) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2834 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1532 (1:11:05.88) Rating: 7.1 (9.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Genre: Sport | |
| Kirby is a spherical character, so naturally it makes sense that he should be whacked around like a golf ball. A ball that can absorb the powers of enemies and use them to his advantage, of course! This run aims for best score, then fastest time. A lot of hole-in-ones are scored, even at great time expense. Note that there is a second series of courses which are similar to the original set. These are played as well for sport, before attacking the final boss and winning. This run is 1:52.25 minute faster than snc's previous TAS. There's no improvement in the number of hole-in-ones, but his secondary goal is done significantly faster! | ||
![]() | SNES Kirby's Star Stacker (JPN) in 05:06.65 by Ryuto. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-02-17) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 24.33 MB, length: 08:16) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3000 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (14 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Puzzle | |
| This Japan-only remake of Kirby Star Stacker for the Game Boy contains a story mode, which is blazed through here in record time. | ||
![]() | SNES Kirby Super Star (USA) in 41:56.17 by nitsuja. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2005-04-06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 171.54 MB, length: 45:46) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #578 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #198 (51:02.1) Rating: 7.4 (40 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| It's a long (short) movie of this ridiculous game. Enjoy. The author controls both players when applicable rather than letting the CPU operate the helper. For those interested, the obsoleted movie uses only one controller. This accounts for the large time difference between the two movies. | ||
![]() | SNES Kishin Douji Zenki: Batoru Raiden (JPN) in 13:06.45 by Dooty. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-01-20) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 56.06 MB, length: 15:58) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2978 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.2 (6 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| This game is about two characters, Chiaki and her reluctant demon servant Zenki. They have saved the world from the forces of darkness before, but apparently once is never enough. Chiaki has a vision of five cloaked figures and knows that only she and Zenki can stop them. They set off at once to track down the demon leaders. Watch as Dooty rushes through this game in just over 13 minutes, using many of Zenki's flashy attacks. Along the way, some stone monuments need to be destroyed in order to proceed. For more details, see the author's comments. Note: the author plays in Normal mode since Hard mode is not available until you beat the game once already. Also, Normal mode reduces the amount of enemies on screen, so it has less lag than Hard mode. | ||
![]() | SNES Lagoon (USA) in 1:08:32.68 by OmnipotentEntity. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2005-01-25) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 101.70 MB, length: 1:11:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #508 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.2 (20 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: RPG | |
| Lagoon is a low-tempo adventure game much like Zelda. It is up to Nasir, Hero of Light, to save Lakeland from Zerah. Zerah is attempting to release the Evil Sprit and pollute all the water. This game is difficult due to the length of Nasir's sword. We recommend reading the author's comments. | ||
![]() | SNES Lamborghini: American Challenge (USA) in 07:39.32 by laranja. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-03-25) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 28.55 MB, length: 08:33) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3050 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1732 (09:44.73) Rating: 6.2 (13.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Racing | |
| The objective of Lamborghini - American Challenge is to become the champion of illegal street racing. The player speeds through street traffic, while avoiding speed traps, and makes his way across the finish line first. Instead, laranja uses a glitch to gain thousands of dollars by losing a race. Then, he buys the best equipment, enabling him to drive very, very fast. Specifically, he is now able to complete the timed races that are required to beat the game. If you're looking for a racing car that drives 310 mph on icy roads, don't look further. You have it here. In this version, the author makes an improvement of over 2 minutes by skipping more of the 2nd race. | ||
![]() | SNES Lemmings (USA v1.1) in 1:03:04.45 by Lord Tom. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-02-01) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 118.11 MB, length: 1:05:15) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2158 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.7 (52 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Best ending - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Lemmings! This is a SNES translation of the well known and popular game. This TAS, played by Lord Tom, completes the game on the Mayhem difficulty level. We recommend reading the author's level-by-level comments which explain some of the strategies used in the levels. The category "takes damage to save time" was flagged because some of the lemmings were sacrificed for overall best completion time (in some levels, it is even necessary). | ||
![]() | SNES Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals (USA) in 3:03:12.78 by Gunty. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2007-02-07) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 404.18 MB, length: 3:09:34) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1438 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (22 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Lufia 2 is an adventure RPG prequel to Lufia 1. In this installment, Maxim and his cohorts set out to take down the evil Sinistrals. The game sports a large amount of puzzles, yet a shockingly low amount of battles. Using RNG manipulation, this movie illustrates how to avoid many unimportant skirmishes so as to cut down on wasted time. This manipulation is also used to get more favorable item drops throughout the whole run. Note that the (U) version of this ROM contains some graphical glitches. You can read more about these in the submission text. | ||
![]() | SNES Marvel Super Heroes in: War of the Gems (USA) in 18:51.85 by Dooty. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-05-15) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 44.66 MB, length: 21:15) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3136 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.9 (11 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Marvel Super Heroes: War of the Gems is a platform game featuring Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, and Wolverine. In it, you must collect Infinity Gems (Also known as Soul Gems), which possess special powers, before they fall into the wrong hands. Luckily, you can equip the ones you have to help you find the ones you don't. This game should not be confused with an arcade fighting game with a similar name. The player, Dooty, primarily uses Iron Man to boost through the game in less than 19 minutes. He does this with careful planning, clever boss strategies, and a whole lot of gems. Never once in this run does he take damage. For more information, please see the author's notes. | ||
![]() | SNES Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow (USA) in 30:06.12 by funnyhair. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-07-22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 204.14 MB, length: 32:44) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3221 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #959 (31:56.8) Rating: 7.4 (7 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow (1996) was among the later games released on SNES, which had its positive impact on production values. As a result, the game sports remarkable design and animation quality. In addition to that, it stars Donald Duck in the role of Maui Mallard, a detective with an alter ego of a blindfolded ninja called Cold Shadow, on the task of retrieving the lost Shabum Shabum idol on a remote tropical island. And no, the plot doesn't get more sensible from that point on. The author, funnyhair, improves on the previous run by nearly two minutes by optimizing movement and boss fights, among other things. For more details, as always, please see the author's notes. | ||
![]() | SNES Mega Man & Bass (JPN) "100 CDs" in 38:07.68 by sparky, parrot14green, woabclf. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-11-23) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 104.53 MB, length: 40:19) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3354 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1726 (39:48.65) Rating: 9.1 (15 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform ![]() | |
| Rockman & Forte (ロックマン&フォルテ), known as Megaman & Bass in the western world, used to be the last game chronologically released for the original Rockman/Megaman series, until Rockman & Forte Mirai kara no Chōsensha (ロックマン&フォルテ 未来からの挑戦者) was released on the WonderSwan handheld system. This time around, Wily has his own creation turned against him, allowing you to play as Megaman or a bad guy! This run uses only Rockman, however, and collects all 100 CDs, which is not intended to be possible using only one character. Then again, many things happen that were not intended to be possible. This run is a collaboration between sparky, the current author of the other branches for this game, parrot14green, the author of the previous "100 CDs" run, and woabcfl, the author of the Rockman no Constancy runs. It surpasses the previous movie by 1:40.96. Please read the authors' notes for more details. There are two more Rockman & Forte runs to watch on this site; featuring completion of the game with Rockman and Forte as fast as possible, without worrying about CD collection. | ||
![]() | SNES Mega Man & Bass (JPN) "Rockman" in 27:21.47 by sparky. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-02-19) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 75.29 MB, length: 29:06) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2994 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1691 (28:03.12) Rating: 9.0 (17 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Rockman & Forte (ロックマン&フォルテ), known as Mega Man & Bass in the western world, used to be the last game chronologically released for the original Rockman/Megaman series, until Rockman & Forte Mirai kara no Chōsensha (ロックマン&フォルテ 未来からの挑戦者) was released on the WonderSwan handheld system. This game bears a striking resemblance to Mega Man 8, not only in style, but in excessive graphic detail. Similarly to Mega Man X4, the player has the option to choose one of two characters to play through. In this run, Rockman is choosen. This run is 41.64 seconds faster than the previous run, demonstrating that this game is even glitchier than it originally appeared. There are two more Rockman & Forte runs to watch on this site; featuring completion of the game with Forte as fast as possible and collection of all CDs with Rockman. | ||
![]() | SNES Mega Man & Bass (JPN) "Forte" in 28:08.23 by sparky. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-02-23) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 77.38 MB, length: 31:16) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3010 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1132 (29:08.07) Rating: 8.7 (12 votes) View Publication | - Uses a suboptimal character - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Rockman & Forte (ロックマン&フォルテ), known as Mega Man & Bass in the western world, used to be the last game chronologically released for the original Rockman/Megaman series, until Rockman & Forte Mirai kara no Chōsensha (ロックマン&フォルテ 未来からの挑戦者) was released on the WonderSwan handheld system. This game bears a striking resemblance to Mega Man 8, not only in style, but in excessive graphic detail. Similarly to Mega Man X4, the player has the option to choose one of two characters to play through. In this run, Forte is chosen. sparky takes the game apart with some glitches that allow Forte to zip around in walls. This run is 59.83 seconds faster than the previous run, mostly due to new glitches. Read the author's comments for more details. There are two more Rockman & Forte runs to watch on this site; featuring completion of the game with Rockman as fast as possible and collection of all CDs with him. | ||
![]() | SNES Mega Man 7 (JPN) "100%" in 41:44.5 by sparky. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-05-25) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 104.72 MB, length: 48:35) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2671 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (17 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Here we see Mega Man destroy Dr. Wily's army yet again, only this time on the SNES. You would think poor old Wily would learn from his past 6 mistakes, however this isn't so. This version plays on the Japanese version, Rockman 7. This change affects times outside of the player's control, but is still counted towards the movie's length. Unlike our other run for this game, this run collects all of Mega Man's upgrades. Part of this involves running into Protoman in two stages before fighting him for his shield. For more details, see the run's comments. | ||
![]() | SNES Mega Man 7 (USA) in 37:22.25 by sparky. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-06-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 135.91 MB, length: 44:30) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2701 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #776 (37:14.38) Rating: 8.0 (14.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Once again, it's up to Mega Man to destroy Dr. Wily's latest army of Robot Masters, only this time on the SNES. You would think poor old Wily would learn from his past six mistakes, however this isn't so. On the up-side, we get another superb TAS of this famous series. This is an improvement of approximately 30 seconds of in-game time thanks to some new glitches, including using the Rush Coil to wall climb and abusing Noise Crush to instantly kill some bosses. This version plays on the North American version of Mega Man 7 whereas the previous movie plays on the Japanese version. This change affects times outside of the player's control but which still get counted towards the movie's length, making this movie appear longer than the previous movie. | ||
![]() | SNES Mega Man X (USA v1.1) "100%" in 33:58.87 by dezbeast. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-02-27) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 89.92 MB, length: 40:25) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2187 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.5 (49 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Originally thought to be an April Fools joke, it turns out that Capcom really did hide a one-hit-kills weapon in Mega Man X. That platform in Armored Armadillo's stage always did seem a little strange. Unlike the later games, collecting the Hadoken is much more time consuming compared to the ability to obliterate the mandatory Reploid rematches and fortress bosses. Nevertheless this run is still faster than the first any% run ever published. If you want to see more of the blue-clad hero, we recommend watching the any% run. | ||
![]() | SNES Mega Man X (USA V1.1) in 29:57.88 by FractalFusion. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2006-12-02) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 83.24 MB, length: 36:19) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1370 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #300 (30:43.92) Rating: 8.3 (53 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| 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. FractalFusion takes the game apart with a new route, new strategies, nasty bugs and more optimal movements. 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. If you want to see more of the blue-clad hero, we recommend watching the 100% completition run. | ||
![]() | SNES Mega Man X & Mega Man X2 & Mega Man X3 (USA) "300%" in 43:51.02 by agwawaf. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-10-08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 376.25 MB, length: 50:27) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3277 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #380 (41:41.43) Rating: 8.7 (15 votes) View Publication | - Demonstration - 100% completion - Multiple games in one movie - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| In the latest in silly ideas turned into inspirations for our ever-dedicated TASers, this movie takes one controller and wires it into three SNES emulators at once; the same input is used to play 3 games simultaneously with one controller. There are also animations constructed with spare controllers during this movie. This movie beats the first three Mega Man X games with 100% completion each (an improvement on its predecessor, which beat only the first two games and without 100% completion). If you like this movie, there are other movies that beat four games with one controller! Note: There might be 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. Encoder's Note: There are multiple audio tracks included with the encode. Track 1 is the combined audio of all 3 games panned so that the left side is MMX1, center is MMX2, and right is MMX3. Track 2 contains MMX1's audio, track 3 contains MMX2's audio, and track 4 contains MMX3's audio. | ||
![]() | SNES Mega Man X2 (USA) in 31:42.45 by FractalFusion & Graveworm. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2007-03-02) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 90.17 MB, length: 36:41) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1459 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #698 (31:50.58) Rating: 8.3 (36 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Mega Man X2 makes a particularly interesting run as there are many weapons that can be used to increase mobility. These include a grappling hook, a fast mid-air dash and a weapon that can transform enemies into platforms. The authors take special care to ensure that when there is a situation in which a weapon could help them progress quicker, they make use of it. This run improves the previous version by about 23 seconds of game-time. The previous run used the Japanese ROM, and the shorter cutscenes in that version make the improvement less apparent. This movie aims for the fastest time possible. However, because the shōryūken (flame uppercut) used towards the end of the movie saves so much time, and because to get it the authors must first collect 100% of items such as Heart Tanks, Sub Tanks, and Item Capsules, this movie could be seen as a 100% run. Zero Parts are not required for the shōryūken, and thus they are not collected. If you would like to watch this game played collecting Zero's parts, but not collecting any of X's, see this run. The page Mega Man X Tricks explains some of the tricks that can be used in the X series games. | ||
![]() | SNES Mega Man X2 (USA) "Best ending, no upgrades" in 33:51.62 by FractalFusion. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-11-17) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 82.50 MB, length: 38:57) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2452 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.8 (16 votes) View Publication | - Low% completion - Best ending - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Mega Man X2 makes a particularly interesting run as there are many weapons that can be used to increase mobility. Unlike the other movie, in this, FractalFusion does not collect any of X's upgrades, but does rescue Zero. The bosses near the end are no longer defeated in a single hit, showing off more of their AI. Due to the items collected, there is an easter egg at the end. | ||
![]() | SNES Mega Man X3 (USA) "best ending, 100%" in 43:11.75 by agwawaf. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-11-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 99.40 MB, length: 50:01) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3362 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1803 (43:52.33) Rating: 8.9 (4 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Best ending - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Mega Man X3 is the third game in the Mega Man X series, and the last one to be released on the SNES. This is the second "100%" run of this game. agwawaf speeds through the game very rapidly, collecting all heart tanks, subtanks, Ride Armor modules, upgrades and finally the Golden Armor. However, Zero is kept alive and his Z-Saber is not obtained, so the author could get the best ending. The page Mega Man X Tricks explains some of the tricks that are used in this tool-assisted speedrun. See also the any% run of this game by the same author, which doesn't collect the upgrades but does collect the Z-Saber. | ||
![]() | SNES Mega Man X3 (USA) in 38:07.12 by agwawaf. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-11-01) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 81.11 MB, length: 44:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3333 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #452 (38:14.65) Rating: 8.2 (4 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| In Mega Man X3, you will find yourself finally using Zero's coveted sword. The author speeds through the game very rapidly, and uses the sword to beat the 8 bosses very quickly the second time around. This run is 7 seconds faster than the predecessor movie, both by using some new tricks and playing with more precision. The page Mega Man X Tricks explains some of the tricks that can be used in the X series games. | ||
![]() | SNES Metroid Super ZeroMission (v2.00) "100%" in 1:27:18.9 by Hoandjzj. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-08-07) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 165.76 MB, length: 1:39:19) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3232 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.2 (8 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - 100% completion - Takes damage to save time - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
| Metroid Super ZeroMission is a Super Metroid hack that is heavily based on the GBA game Metroid: Zero Mission, inspiring modifications of the game engine, graphics, and maps. This is the run where the author, Hoandjzj, clears everything about the game. If you're looking to watch a run that simply aims for the end, you can watch this run. | ||
![]() | SNES Metroid Super ZeroMission (v2.00) in 20:43.28 by Cpadolf. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-08-05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 60.84 MB, length: 25:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3228 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1651 (31:00.42) Rating: 7.9 (11.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Unofficial game | |
| Metroid Super ZeroMission is a Super Metroid hack that is heavily based on the GBA game Metroid: Zero Mission, inspiring modifications of the game engine, graphics, and maps. In this run, the author, cpadolf, improves on Hoandjzj's canceled run by over 4 minutes by using a new route and many new tricks and glitches. For more details, as always, please read the author's notes. If you're looking to watch a run that clears everything about this game, you can watch this run. | ||
![]() | SNES Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (USA) in 25:47.73 by Randil. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-10-11) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 67.24 MB, length: 29:36) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2862 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.9 (8 votes) View Publication | - Forgoes time-saving damage - Genre: Fighting | |
| Power Rangers, an immensely popular set of TV series from the 90s, naturally spawned a massive number of tie-in products. Given the nature of the show, it should not be surprising that a good number of beat-'em-up games are counted amongst their number. There are a total of five levels and two follow-up robot fights in this game. Here the author chooses to take no damage in an effort to make the run more entertaining (an estimated 5-6 seconds could be saved by taking damage). | ||
![]() | SNES Mortal Kombat II (USA v1.0) in 22:43.68 by Samhain-Grim. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2007-08-03) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 64.46 MB, length: 26:56) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1637 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #789 (17:54.45) Rating: 7.5 (32.5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Demonstration - 2 Players - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Fighting | |
| Like all of the Mortal Kombat games, MKII is about warriors fighting in a tournament for inspecific power and fame. Shang Tsung is chosen for his ability to transform into other characters. This movie aims to demonstrate as many quirks and fatalities of the game as possible. Examples include two Shang Tsungs with a Raiden child, a headless Reptile eating Kitana's head and a bloody clone of Jax. The AI is also humiliated. The author's comments page is a definitely recommended reading for this movie. Note: The movie contains semi-realistic violence to be expected with the Mortal Kombat series. | ||
![]() | SNES Mr. Nutz (USA) in 29:27.27 by DaTeL237. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-04-25) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 85.41 MB, length: 36:43) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1888 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (16 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Mr. Nutz is a happy-go-lucky anthropomorphic red squirrel who saves the world from Mr. Blizzard who, apparently, is trying to turn the world into ice, possibly to combat global warming. DaTel237 skillfully controls Mr. Nutz by making him hop like a jack rabbit on speed, throwing acorns all over the place and avoiding pesky coins whenever possible. A number of tricks and glitches are used, including floor zipping. | ||
![]() | SNES Ninja Warriors (JPN) in 32:21.68 by Sp00ky. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-09-07) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 82.45 MB, length: 38:05) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2070 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.7 (17.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Fighting | |
| "The Ninja Warriors Again" (1994) is the sequel to the popular beat-em-up arcade game "The Ninja Warriors" (1988). It allows the player to choose one of three robotic ninjas. This action packed TAS features the female ninja, Kunoichi, on a mission to leave no crotch unpunched. | ||
![]() | SNES Nosferatu (USA) in 18:05.03 by Dooty. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-10-02) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 37.43 MB, length: 20:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3301 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #895 (22:22.77) Rating: 7.3 (6 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| In this Prince of Persia-style game, our hero Kyle sets out to vanquish the evil Nosferatu and rescue his loved one Erin. This movie is 4:17.73 faster than its predecessor due to the use of a large number of glitches. | ||
![]() | SNES Operation Logic Bomb (USA) in 18:08.13 by Rising Tempest. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-10-11) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 61.97 MB, length: 23:19) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2857 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (6 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Shooter | |
| In this top-down shooter (playing vaguely like a cross between Contra and early Zelda titles), the protagonist is charged with cleansing a research lab of robotic invaders from virtual reality who escaped by means of an unknown accident. There are a large number of flashback cutscenes, only two of which can be skipped. Here the author fires weapons more rapidly than the game allows for under real time conditions to defeat enemies ridiculously quickly. | ||
![]() | SNES Out of this World (USA) in 13:58.85 by nitrogenesis. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-12-18) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 10.92 MB, length: 15:49) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 11.53 MB, length: 15:49) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3388 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #296 (15:25.57) Rating: 7.3 (3.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
Out of this World is a strange and difficult game. It was one of only a few SNES games to use loading screens.
This run obsoletes the previous movie by 5203 frames. We recommend reading the author's comments to understand the glitches being abused.
Quoting bobucles's analysis of the game:Oh, this game is great. I remember that at the beginning, the gun has exactly enough shots to make it past that first door. Shield, big blast, and kill the guards, then the gun runs out. Waste any, and you die. Classic. | ||
![]() | SNES Out to Lunch (USA v1.0) in 15:42.8 by nitsuja. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2005-07-04) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 39.66 MB, length: 17:21) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #516 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.6 (18 votes) View Publication | - Uses warps - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Out to lunch is a very strange game involving a chef trying to catch escaped vegetables and other food. The game is difficult due to strict time limits and a small amount of lives, which makes the run look impressive. Those unfamiliar with the game are advised to read the author's comments at the submission page to help understand the game and enjoy the movie more. | ||
![]() | SNES Paladin's Quest (USA) in 2:29:25.07 by janus. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-07-06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 318.44 MB, length: 2:34:08) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2703 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.0 (6 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Our young hero Chezni, on a bet, enters and explores a forbidden tower and manages to activate an ancient machine deactivated 10,000 years ago. Naturally, he spends the next two and a half hours trying to figure out how to turn it off again. | ||
![]() | SNES Pilotwings (USA) in 20:08.97 by tall. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-03-09) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 112.53 MB, length: 22:10) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3022 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.4 (14 votes) View Publication | - Uses a game restart sequence - Genre: Shooter - Genre: Sport | |
| Pilotwings is a flight simulator game from Nintendo for the SNES. The player earns pilot's licenses through light plane, skydiving, rocketbelt, and hang gliding events.
This run clears all 8 lessons and the 2 helicopter missions without ever piloting the light plane.
TODO: Reencode this movie, since the rerecord count is incorrect. | ||
![]() | SNES Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure (USA) in 11:19.37 by Bablo. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-02-02) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 49.29 MB, length: 17:17) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2146 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (24.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Pitfall - The Mayan Adventure on SNES is a sequel to an old Atari game and shares a concept similar to its predecessor: Get through the jungle alive and fight something in the end. Note: If you try to watch this in an emulator using the .smv file, you'll find that the reported CRC for the movie does not match the CRC for the (U) ROM of the game. You can ignore the CRC mismatch; the movie plays just fine. | ||
![]() | SNES Plok (USA) in 31:15.55 by kooz. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2005-12-18) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 79.71 MB, length: 33:09) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #861 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.6 (27 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Plok! is quite a long and difficult game with lots of variety and color, and the movie is a good way to spend your half hour of free time. Does anyone else think the music in the flea pit starts off a bit Zelda-ish? | ||
![]() | SNES Prince of Persia (JPN) in 34:01.65 by SprintGod. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2005-11-05) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 43.97 MB, length: 40:04) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #817 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (29.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Another version of the Prince of Persia game… It has quite good music. The gymnastic master, the future prince of Persia, defies the odds and beats this game in record time. :) Interestingly, this game only animates at around 12-20 fps (15 fps by average), contrary to most SNES games, which animate at 60 fps. | ||
![]() | SNES Prince of Persia 2 (USA) in 11:00.42 by nitsuja. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2005-05-06) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 20.80 MB, length: 13:54) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #569 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.9 (25.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
Selected comments from the author:Prince of Persia 2 is one of the most challenging games ever made. Maybe this is because of the terribly imprecise control, the nonsensical puzzles, and the character's amazing inability to survive falling any distance. There are no pits with spikes this time around, apparently there were enough complaints about the ones in the original Prince of Persia, but unfortunately, non-spiky pits are just as deadly as spiky ones, and the new traps are far more sinister. | ||
![]() | SNES Road Runner's Death Valley Rally (USA) in 19:59.67 by partyboy1a. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-09-19) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 71.98 MB, length: 23:08) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2814 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (7 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Meep meep! Enjoy watching the Road Runner race through several levels in this not-too-slow-paced yet fairly generic SNES platformer. | ||
![]() | SNES Romancing Sa-Ga 2 (JPN v1.0) in 1:08:30.85 by knbnitkr. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-10-17) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 125.46 MB, length: 1:21:14) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2838 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.4 (8 votes) View Publication | - Genre: RPG | |
| In this installment of the long-running SaGa series you take control of several generations of the Imperial Dynasty in order to defeat 'the Seven'. The author completes this lengthy process in record time by using some nice glitches and good old luck manipulation. | ||
![]() | SNES Romancing Sa-Ga 3 (JPN v1.0) in 21:59.65 by knbnitkr. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-10-31) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 81.50 MB, length: 34:03) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2839 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.5 (6 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| The story, according to this site: Every 300 years, the Star of Death blocks the sun and all newborn lives die. None of the people, animals, plants, or even monsters can escape from this fate. But one day, a baby survived. Escaping death's attraction, this child grew up, became the Devil King, and ruled the world. Also, the Devil King opened the Abyss Gate and released the devil lords within, until one day, he suddenly vanished. After that the world was ruled by the four devil lords. 300 years later, the Death Eclipse hit the world again. One baby survived. This child grew up and became the Holy King. Supported by many friends, he drove back the four demon lords back to the Abyss, and the Abyss Gate was closed. After another 300 years, the Death Eclipse hit the world again around 10 years ago. The whole world is watching closely for the new child of destiny, feeling both eager and uneasy. Will it be a devil king, or a holy king? The player picks one of the 8 characters, who have their own story, until they see there are four Abyss Gates open. And that last baby survivor of the Death Eclipse will have something to do with their story as well. knbnitkr completes the game in only 21:59.65 minutes, by glitching the game a lot, and using the materialization bug. You can read the author's comments to get more information about this bug. TODO: Check the second paragraph closely, to make sure there are no mistake there! | ||
![]() | SNES Romancing SaGa (JPN v1.0) in 02:14.77 by knbnitkr. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-11-23) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 9.62 MB, length: 07:06) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2453 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.6 (17 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Romancing SaGa is proof that if you want to get around, use a map. This run abuses severe luck manipulation to force the ending to happen through timing sensitive input. | ||
![]() | SNES Run Saber (USA) in 13:38.48 by Samsara. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-05-04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 58.06 MB, length: 16:09) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3119 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1141 (14:54.5) Rating: 6.7 (7.5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| This game is practically a mix of Contra and Strider. As always, aliens have taken over Earth, and only genetically enhanced humans can stop them. This movie is 1 minute and 17 seconds faster than the previous movie. | ||
![]() | SNES Secret of Evermore (USA v1.0) "100%" in 2:04:06.12 by Saturn. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2005-08-21) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 360.54 MB, length: 2:26:46) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #783 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (29 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: RPG | |
| Shapeshifting dogs. Evil robots. Alchemy. Cheesy B movie references. These are all par for the course in Secret of Evermore, a very loose "sequel" to Secret of Mana. The story follows a boy that is thrust into a virtual world and finds himself with no immediate means to escape. As the boy travels, the geography changes to reflect certain eras of real-life history, adding a unique aspect to the game. The author has aimed for fastest time with 100% completion. A note about the ending: normally the full ending would take almost 40 minutes to watch, but 29 minutes worth of waiting have been edited out of the AVI. There is no sound during this segment and the image does not change. A message will appear briefly to indicate when this happens. | ||
![]() | SNES Secret of Mana (USA) in 1:46:29.9 by Touch-me. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-11-13) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 343.41 MB, length: 1:57:47) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 383.20 MB, length: 1:57:47) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3311 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.1 (7 votes) View Publication | - 3 Players - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: RPG | |
| A Secret of Mana TAS has finally come to TASVideos! Secret of Mana is a widely popular action RPG published by Square. It is internationally regarded as the first game of the Mana series, but the Japanese title is “Seiken Densetsu 2”, so it is the sequel of “Final Fantasy Adventure”. It utilizes real-time battles like many other action RPGs, but there are many features peculiar to this game, such as the “Ring Command” or multiplayer action. Touch-me beats the game very quickly, using three players simultaneously and a whole host of glitches. For instance, many bosses can be hit for 999 instant damage using a charge counter glitch, and certain plot points are skipped. See the submission comments for more details. | ||
![]() | SNES Seiken Densetsu 3 (JPN) in 3:24:49.0 by praetarius3. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-12-22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 599.13 MB, length: 3:44:46) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 609.79 MB, length: 3:44:46) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3255 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.2 (3 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - 2 Players - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: RPG | |
| Seiken Densetsu 3 is a RPG about your typical ragtag group of young adventurers that totally lack any survival instinct; at least that'd explain why they never bother to get any protective gear. Our three chosen champions of goodness are tasked with rescuing the eight elemental spirits from the clutches of evil and using their power to save the world. Though it turns out that nobody is able to count as we find in fact nine spirits... The provided MP4s feature subtitles, allowing those of us who don't speak Japanese to figure out what's going on. We also recommend reading the author's notes; they contain a lot of very good information. | ||
![]() | SNES Skyblazer (USA) in 24:27.02 by Dooty. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2012-03-10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 96.85 MB, length: 28:58) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 98.60 MB, length: 28:58) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3458 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1255 (24:51.33) Rating: 7.7 (4 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Skyblazer (1994) is a relatively obscure gem of a platformer released for the SNES, featuring quite decent music and visuals among other things.
Following the game's truly original plot, Sky, a cocky young hero, has to free a | ||
![]() | SNES Smart Ball (USA) in 14:27.37 by andymac. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-09-21) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 31.01 MB, length: 17:17) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2320 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #376 (15:55.43) Rating: 7.0 (13 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Smart Ball is a game in which a boy gets turned into a blue blob. On his adventure to get a girl and his body back, he discovers the ability to absorb balls, stretch and compress. In this run, he also discovers the ability to seemingly kill everything he touches and make almost impossible jumps. This movie improves the previous movie by nitsuja by nearly a minute and a half. | ||
![]() | SNES Soul Blazer (USA) in 1:46:55.73 by Kaz. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2006-05-03) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 251.18 MB, length: 1:48:38) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1005 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.9 (22 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Soul Blazer is an RPG made by Enix, and is considered to be somewhat related to its predecessor, ActRaiser. The main character in this game is an angel sent to destroy invading monsters and released the captured souls of innocent people. In this series, every action in the monster lairs directly affects the non-combat areas, and vice-versa. That being said, much planning was needed for this run. The ending is very long and requires user input, so the movie's length is about 13 minutes longer than what might be considered "winning the game." | ||
![]() | SNES Spanky's Quest (USA) in 23:32.78 by FFGamer86. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-05-05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 52.16 MB, length: 25:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3122 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| In Spanky's Quest, you take control of a bubble wielding monkey named Spanky. When you bounce a bubble, it changes colors, and depending on what color it is when it is popped, a certain type of ball comes out, which can be used to attack enemies. Each level is completed when you collect a certain amount of keys and open the door at the end. In this run, the author, FFGamer86, uses a glitch to transport a key from one bubble to another, a trick nearly impossible to execute in real time. To see the other tricks he used, please see the author's notes. | ||
![]() | SNES Sparkster (USA) in 18:01.67 by Dooty. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2012-03-24) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 85.67 MB, length: 21:59) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 90.93 MB, length: 21:59) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3501 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1232 (18:16.48) Rating: 8.7 (5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Another movie that is so fast you can hardly see what is going on. The main character can use his rocket dash to inflict a lot of damage on his opponents as well as bounce off walls and ceilings. Dooty's movie is about 15 seconds faster than Cpadolf's run. Like in the previous movies, the game is played on the hardest difficulty, which is crazy hard. | ||
![]() | SNES Speedy Gonzales: Los Gatos Bandidos (USA) in 23:27.42 by Ilari. | |
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| lsnes movie (.lsmv) (date: 2012-03-23) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 82.32 MB, length: 29:33) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 81.36 MB, length: 29:33) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3500 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: Too few votes (1) to display View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| ¡Ándale! ¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba! A super fast hero and ethnic stereotyping, what more can you ask for in a TAS?
Note, for our 2000th movie, this is our first using the new emulator lsnes. | ||
![]() | SNES Spider-Man/X-Men: Arcade's Revenge (USA) in 23:28.18 by jaysmad & Brandon Evans. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2012-02-11) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 98.21 MB, length: 27:42) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 105.39 MB, length: 27:42) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3448 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.6 (7.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Spider-Man/X-Men: Arcade's Revenge is an action platformer starring the iconic Marvel characters Spider-Man, Wolverine, Cyclops, Storm, and Gambit. After the X-Men get kidnapped by Arcade, Spider-Man must deactivate bombs, infiltrate the abandoned building where they were taken, and confront Arcade. From there, Arcade puts each hero to the test as they navigate through his bizarre "Murderworld" until Spider-Man can finally confront the madman head-on. This infamous game was made by LJN, and although it might be better than many others from that label, it still has serious gameplay flaws that make it frustrating, let alone incredibly difficult. However, it works great for a TAS. Using careful precision and many exploits, the team of jaysmad and Brandon make it through this "Juggernaut" in less than 24 minutes. Please see the authors' notes for a detailed breakdown of the levels, a couple of glitches that were unused in the run, and a video of a camera hack for the Black Queen fight that mostly happened off-screen. Please also check out the run for Wolverine, which is a NES game, also made by LJN, where most of Wolverine's gameplay came from. | ||
![]() | SNES Star Fox (USA) in 19:47.37 by YtterbiJum. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2007-03-05) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 67.99 MB, length: 25:41) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1447 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (33 votes) View Publication | - Aims for maximum score - Maximum kills - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Shooter | |
| One of those hard-to-emulate games because of the hardware assistance provided on the actual cartridge, Star Fox is a well-known 3D shooter. Avoiding obstacles can be tricky on the digital directional pad, so some of the stunts seen are impressive to anyone who knows how hard this game can be. Emulation of this game is not correct. Lag present on the SNES is not represented in this run. Expect the speed to be higher than actually seen on a real console. For this reason, the audio track lags severely behind the rest of the run. As a result, some of the bosses can be defeated before the boss music begins. | ||
![]() | SNES Star Fox 2 (JPN) in 22:08.42 by YtterbiJum. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-12-24) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 70.32 MB, length: 25:57) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2133 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.0 (30.5 votes) View Publication | - Unofficial game - Genre: Shooter | |
| Star Fox 2 is an unreleased SNES sequel to the original Star Fox, although the game was completed leaving one to wonder why it was never released.
YtterbiJum chooses to complete the run with Miyu, his decision based on her superior ship speed and shortest charge shot time.
Note: This run uses a patch that translates and improves the game. As it is a highly extensive modification, it is classified as a hack. See submission for details. | ||
![]() | SNES Star Ocean (JPN) in 1:53:13.43 by fuzi2. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2006-03-03) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 220.46 MB, length: 2:00:06) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #993 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.9 (20 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: RPG | |
| Tri-Ace's Star Ocean 1 is an RPG game similar to Namco's Tales of Phantasia or Square's Final Fantasy VI. Because it was only released in Japan, and the first (almost) complete fan translation of the game was finished only a few years ago, this game isn't well known in western countries. Moreover, it has only been supported by SNES emulators for a short time, due to a graphics compression chip used in the game to fit the huge amount of beautiful graphics into the 6 MB ROM chip. This is a tool-assisted speedrun of the Japanese version (the rules of the TASvideos site forbid the use of fan-translations when making speedruns). We are sorry for the broken speech in the game intro. This is an emulation glitch. (Yes, the game actually includes English dialogue, which coincidentally has an identical twin in Star Trek.) For a guide of the strategy used in this run, please read the author's comments. As usual with RPG runs, we recommend everyone to first play through this game before watching the movie. It will normally take a few days to complete the game once ― a few months to uncover all the features: secret characters and abilities and items. Beware, it's fun, and addictive. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Adventure Island (USA) in 16:44.22 by TASeditor. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-12-01) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 55.76 MB, length: 18:26) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3361 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1814 (16:56.87) Rating: 6.6 (7 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| This entry in the Adventure Island series plays somewhat shorter than some of the other games in the series, but it is no less straightforward. This is an improvement of 759 frames over the previous run of this game. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Bomberman (USA) in 12:36.93 by Ryuto. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-03-13) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 31.33 MB, length: 15:12) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3038 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #404 (13:37.32) Rating: 7.8 (12 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action | |
| A run of the first Super Bomberman game. The player controls two characters alone and manages to complete the game very quickly due to exploiting the very long invulnerability periods at the beginning of every stage. Actually, the only places where you can see the characters becoming vulnerable are the boss battles! This is a 1-minute improvement over the previous run. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Bomberman 2 (USA) in 18:00.23 by Dooty. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-11-14) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 27.16 MB, length: 20:49) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3355 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #276 (20:19.23) Rating: 7.6 (7 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Puzzle | |
| When played at full speed, Super Bomberman 2 is a straightforward action game, but if it's played in slow motion, it becomes an extremely tactical puzzle game. The author of this movie uses several tactics that are difficult to understand if one is watching the movie at full speed. These include setting up chain reactions and clearing up the end of the level before even reaching it. To get a better grasp of the techniques used, read the author's comments. This is an improvement of exactly 2 minutes and 19 seconds over the predecessor movie. Most of the time is saved from lag management, new tricks and better strategy. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Bomberman 4 (JPN) in 18:01.48 by wwmarx. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-02-17) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 38.49 MB, length: 20:19) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2563 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (13.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action | |
| In this Japanese-only installment of the Super Bomberman series, two players are once again used to make very short work of the levels. If you enjoy this run, there are runs of the first two games as well. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Bomberman 5 (JPN) in 08:22.15 by Ryuto. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-04-13) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 27.30 MB, length: 12:01) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3103 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (11 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - 2 Players - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action | |
| A run of the fifth Super Bomberman game. The player controls two characters alone and manages to complete the game very quickly due to exploiting the very long invulnerability periods at the beginning of every stage. In this game, you can choose a route after beating a stage. The game was only released in Japan. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Castlevania IV (JPN) in 29:38.08 by arukAdo, Bablo, Cardboard, and scrimpeh. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-08-09) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 116.10 MB, length: 36:42) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3236 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #126 (31:15.7) Rating: 8.2 (20.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Super Castlevania IV is the first game in the Castlevania series for the SNES. In it, Simon Belmont, equipped with the ability to whip in 8 different directions, sets out to vanquish Dracula yet another time. In this run, the authors, arukAdo, Bablo, Cardboard, and scrimpeh obsolete a seven year old movie by over a minute and a half by a different subweapon choice, new tricks and better optimization. For more details, as always, please see the authors' notes. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Demo World: The Legend Continues (any v1.1) in 18:00.42 by PangaeaPanga. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2012-02-11) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 50.72 MB, length: 23:20) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 54.99 MB, length: 23:20) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3436 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1877 (18:19.45) Rating: 9.0 (5 votes) View Publication | - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
| This hack of Super Mario World contains a Star World which contains themed levels that connect to various locations on the map. Like the original Super Mario World, these levels can be used as a makeshift warp zone. This movie demonstrates this path - navigating the Star World to charge straight to Bowser, leaving much of the game untouched. This movie is 19.03 seconds shorter than the previous movie primarily as a result of the new Pokey Stun Glitch, which almost completely bypasses Desert Star World. See the author's comments for more details. The homepage for Super Demo World, including the patch to be used on a Super Mario World ROM image, and the program used to make the hack, is available online. If you want to see more of this hack, check out the 120-exit run. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Demo World: The Legend Continues (USA v1.1) "120-exit" in 2:08:01.68 by Chef Stef. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-06-25) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 333.88 MB, length: 2:13:19) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2004 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #858 (2:08:50.32) Rating: 8.7 (28.5 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
This movie utilizes all of the tricks found in the Super Mario World tricks
section in addition to new recently discovered tricks to beat the previous movie by 48.6 seconds. See the author's comments for more details.
Arguably one of the most well known and well developed SNES
hacks in existence, Super Demo World puts Mario into a new
realm that spans well beyond his original adventure.
Features of Super Demo World include:
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![]() | SNES Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts (USA) in 17:03.0 by FerretWarlord. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-06-07) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 54.10 MB, length: 26:16) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2209 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.8 (24 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Uses a level password - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Arthur's fiancée is once again kidnapped by demons soon before their marriage. Once more Sir Arthur must brave the forces of the underworld in his skivvies. Watch as Ferret Warlord runs through this infamously hard game in record time! Normally, to fight the final boss of the game, you must play through the game twice. To make the movie less repetitive, Ferret Warlord uses a code to start at the final bosses of the first playthrough. Furthermore, the player must have a special weapon in order to fight the final boss, and this weapon can only be found when the player has fully upgraded armor. Ferret Warlord obtains this weapon at the end of the first autoscrolling level. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Gussun Oyoyo (JPN) in 07:26.33 by Ryuto. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-12-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 22.49 MB, length: 10:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2466 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.6 (10 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Genre: Platform - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Super Gussun Oyoyo is a puzzle game best described as a mixture of Lemmings and Tetris. Two treasure hunters named Gussun and Oyoyo are exploring a dungeon when an earthquake occurs, causing the dungeon to begin sinking. The player controls blocks akin to Tetris pieces, leading Gussun to the dungeon exit before it submerges completely. This run starts from stage 21, the latest possible stage that the game allows one to start on. Publisher's note: There is a glitch in the sound between stage 30 and 32 inclusive which is a result of the run itself, and not of the encoding. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Mario All-Stars - Lost Levels (USA) in 34:42.83 by KFCMARIO. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2012-05-02) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 76.67 MB, length: 36:22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 75.88 MB, length: 36:22) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3572 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1820 (34:45.67) Rating: 8.1 (3.5 votes) View Publication | - Forgoes warps - Genre: Platform | |
| The Lost Levels is a remake of the game released in Japan as Super Mario Bros 2. It introduces a number of new obstacles into the standard Super Mario Bros. formula, including poisonous mushrooms, wind, reverse warp zones, and of course many tricky jumps. It's difficult enough that Nintendo of America decided to completely re-theme a different game and release that as Super Mario Bros. 2 instead; The Lost Levels is the first time the Japanese sequel was released to the rest of the world. This movie saves 2.83 seconds over the previous publication by using a few new tricks. All levels are played, including the secret world 9, and extremely difficult A through D worlds. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Mario All-Stars: Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA) "glitchfest" in 1:06:46.28 by Genisto. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2007-12-25) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 117.34 MB, length: 1:08:45) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1785 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.5 (49.5 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Taking a break from the usual goal of pure speed, Genisto instead decides to break Super Mario Bros 3 from the Super Mario All-Stars pack. This run demonstrates programming errors, abuse of the game engine and commits suicide in ways most people have never even considered. Mario plays through all 8 worlds in a fashion similar to a warpless run. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Mario Kart (USA) in 21:27.02 by cstrakm. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-06-17) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 98.78 MB, length: 23:10) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1954 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #848 (23:10.88) Rating: 8.4 (38 votes) View Publication | - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Starts from a saved state or SRAM - Genre: Racing | |
| Super Mario Kart is the first in a popular series of games starring the Mario cast racing go-karts. This run aims to get record times in all tracks at 150cc difficulty. This is achieved mostly by jumping straight into walls, bottomless pits, and lava, among many other things. Mushrooms are also used frequently due to their mysteriously friction-free propulsion powers. A high amount of wall-bouncing is required. This run is over a minute and a half faster than the previous published run, due to new exploits of the definition of a lap. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (USA) in 2:28:26.17 by was0x. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-10-14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 260.09 MB, length: 2:39:18) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3307 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1389 (2:31:09.7) Rating: 7.9 (6.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| Take Square's RPG history & Nintendo's Super Mario series and mix them in a bowl. Add a pinch of comedy and a quart of luck manipulation. Stir thoroughly. This run improves the previous version by about 2 minutes and 44 seconds through the use of item optimizations. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Mario World (USA) "glitched" in 02:36.4 by Masterjun. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2012-01-08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 6.19 MB, length: 03:34) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 5.99 MB, length: 03:34) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3413 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.1 (22.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Corrupts memory - Genre: Platform | |
| "Thank you for playing Super Mario World! Unfortunately, this trial copy will only let you play for 2.5 minutes." This is a completely new type of Super Mario World TAS. It beats the game by getting the "THE END" screen in the second level (Yoshi's Island 3). This happens because a glitch allowing Yoshi to eat "nothing" enables players to manipulate memory and code into bringing up the final screen of the game. The heated discussion about the categorical separation regarding this movie and the recently published any% TAS invoked the creation of the "Corrupts Memory" category. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Mario World (USA) "small only" in 1:18:23.22 by PangaeaPanga. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-08-25) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 189.16 MB, length: 1:23:45) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3260 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #892 (1:19:55.65) Rating: 8.6 (16.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses a suboptimal character - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Mario's doctor heard about the "Magic Mushrooms" which make Mario grow to twice his normal size and let him break bricks. Fearing for Mario's health, he orders Mario to avoid those nasty powerups. This run aims to complete as many exits as possible without collecting a powerup or visiting any Switch Palaces. Unable to fly, Mario is forced to confront most obstacles and overcome them in unique ways. Riding Yoshi is also banned. 86 out of the total 96 exits are completed. In this run, the author, PangaeaPanga, saves 1:32.43 over the previous movie by using better paths, new tricks, and lag reduction. For a level by level analysis of the improvements, please see the author's notes. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Mario World (USA) in 09:57.82 by bahamete, Kaizoman666, Mister & PangaeaPanga. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2012-01-08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 30.25 MB, length: 15:11) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 32.62 MB, length: 15:11) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3407 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1912 (10:20.6) Rating: 9.3 (19 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Genre: Platform | |
This is the 10th movie publication of Super Mario World. Of its nine previous movies, none had obsoleted its predecessor by more than 15 seconds. This movie sets a new record by beating the previous movie by 22.68 seconds and clocking in under 10 minutes. Ironically, Mario dies in the process.
The authors of this movie have found (more) new glitches to save time. The notable differences in gameplay are:
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![]() | SNES Super Mario World (USA) "96-exit" in 1:21:29.63 by Fabian. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2006-08-14) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 219.48 MB, length: 1:26:50) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1153 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #304 (1:23:38.37) Rating: 9.1 (90.5 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Acknowledged as one of the best Mario games of all time, Super Mario World is a must see for fans of classic games. This run by Fabian completes the game fully (all 96 exits) and makes use of almost every known glitch to make it as fast and exciting as possible. If you like this video, be sure to also see Super Demo World 100% completion (120 exits) in 2:08:02 by Chef Stef. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (USA v1.0) "glitched" in 06:08.02 by NxCy. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-07-02) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 21.41 MB, length: 10:22) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2282 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #994 (06:11.45) Rating: 8.3 (29.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| This is a quick completion of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. The author abuses a glitch that lets him warp to any stage up to 6-8. This is an improvement of 3.41 seconds over the previous movie. Most of the improvement comes from breaking Yoshi's movement speed limit, as well as improved Bowser fights. There is also a run without the warp glitch. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (USA v1.0) in 1:33:40.18 by Carl Sagan. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-10-13) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 400.04 MB, length: 1:37:54) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3312 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #362 (1:38:56.6) Rating: 8.5 (14.5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform ![]() | |
| Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island is a vibrant, colorful and fun game that stars the popular Yoshi. From a technical standpoint, the game is very exceptional on the SNES due to its use of the SuperFX chip. The chip allows for many cool special effects that are otherwise impossible on the SNES. This run is an improvement of over 5 minutes to the previous speedrun of this game. For more details, we recommend reading the author's comments; there's a lot more to this movie than meets the eye, even though the movie is very colourful, action-packed, and full of entertaining tricks and maneuvers. In other words, this game is the very essence we tool-assisted speedrun movie makers enjoy. :) If you want even more Yoshi craziness, be sure to check out the warped completion. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Metroid (JPN/USA) "Reverse Boss Order" in 48:06.65 by Taco, Kriole, Hero of the Day. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2012-01-16) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 156.20 MB, length: 52:11) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 161.33 MB, length: 52:11) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3410 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 9.2 (18 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| This movie takes a different approach to Super Metroid. Rather than simply beating all the bosses as quickly as possible, this run deliberately defeats them in reverse order. This makes life more difficult for Samus since she does not have the protection and mobility granted by her suit upgrades. In some areas her health is constantly being drained, making for some intense drama not seen in any other Super Metroid movie. Due to the circumstances mentioned above, many lesser known tricks and techniques are used in this run, such as charge beam combos and multiple uses of the crystal flash technique. Read about these and other tricks on the Super Metroid game resource page. For a more detailed description of the routes and strategies used in this movie, read the author's comments. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Metroid (JPN/USA) "glitched" in 21:25.12 by Cpadolf. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2012-03-04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 50.79 MB, length: 25:45) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 53.04 MB, length: 25:45) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3465 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1270 (21:35.57) Rating: 8.5 (6 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| This movie features a perfect example of what can occur when TASers will go to any extreme to sequence break a long game. Very little that is recognizable remains. Cpadolf forgoes key items, yet bothers to collect the X-Ray scope, an item normally useless to an experienced Super Metroid player.
With the use of X-Ray Scope to get out of the rooms' bounds, some non-trivial physics abuse, and esoteric RAM data manipulation via dying in a certain room, the amount of tasks Samus usually has to do on Zebes has been cut to almost nothing. No boss is ever fought in this TAS, and even Mother Brain is skipped completely. The in-game completion time is 00:12. Only 6% of the items are collected.
This is an improvement of 10.44 seconds real-time, or 2.38 seconds in-game, over the previous glitched any% run.
The peculiar effects of the Space/Time Beam, if properly utilized, can cut this run's time further in half. The movie will have to begin from a savestate, but Samus will start the game fully powered-up, so item collection and all detours associated with it are no longer required. Such a movie, also made by Cpadolf, can be found here; its completion time is 12:46 (00:06 by the in-game timer). | ||
![]() | SNES Super Metroid (JPN/USA) "any%, ingame" in 39:15.3 by Saturn. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-10-30) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 128.76 MB, length: 43:18) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3316 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1075 (41:02.4) Rating: 8.7 (9.5 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Super Metroid is a game that requires very little introduction. Samus Aran, a bounty hunter, returns to the planet of Zebes, in order to explore its depths, and defeat Mother Brain and the Space Pirates. This movie sees the reinstatement of the in-game category, which was previously merged with the realtime run. Despite being slightly slower in terms of real time, this speedrun is both extremely optimised and breaks previous records once thought to be the limit of the game. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Metroid (JPN/USA) in 38:41.52 by Taco & Kriole. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-10-25) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 77.73 MB, length: 42:54) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2429 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1073 (39:32.8) Rating: 8.8 (35 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Although newcomers to TASVideos's player list, Taco and Kriole are both experienced TASers in regards to Super Metroid, this time having teamed up in a mission to perfect one of the most contested games in the site's history. Using a new route and taking advantage of several techniques, never demonstrated before in other Super Metroid runs outside of waiting areas, they made short work of Mother Brain and her space pirates. The in-game completion time is 23 minutes 29 seconds, and 18% of the items have been collected. Thus, both the realtime and the in-game any% movies were obsoleted. (The in-game time category has since been improved to beat this run in in-game time, although not real time.) Note: The actual rerecord count in this run is unknown. Please read the authors' submission notes and the discussion thread for more information. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Metroid (JPN/USA) "all items" in 1:08:10.87 by Cpadolf. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-09-26) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 158.23 MB, length: 1:12:25) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2079 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #817 (1:10:45.02) Rating: 9.1 (36.5 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| In accordance with standard procedure, Samus discarded all of the items she collected on previous adventures before embarking on this one. This run aims for 100% item collection in the fastest time, and it does so 2 minutes and 34 seconds faster than the previous movie by JXQ, thanks to various new tricks, route changes, and general optimization. The in-game completion time is 36 minutes and 3 seconds. Super Metroid has a wide variety of time-saving glitches to exploit, many of which are explained on the Super Metroid Tricks page. Be sure to check it, as well as the author's comments, for more information on the improvements. If you prefer to watch the fastest completion without getting all the items, check out Super Metroid in 38:41 by Taco & Kriole. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Punch-Out!! (USA) in 15:59.37 by Phil. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-02-20) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 40.13 MB, length: 19:41) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1857 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #878 (15:59.88) Rating: 7.5 (25.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Sport | |
This run improves on the time taken to defeat Bear Hugger.
The record times are:
Gabby Jay 6.26 Bear Hugger 12.92
Piston Hurricane 5.49 Bald Bull 8.24
Bob Charlie 5.50 Dragon Chan 7.30
Masked Muscle 6.33 Mr. Sandman 13.13
Aran Ryan 8.45 Heiki Kagero 10.60
Mad Clown 9.05 Super Macho Man 9.43
Narcis Prince 8.43 Hoy Quarlow 8.35
Rick Bruiser 10.67 Nick Bruiser 7.52
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![]() | SNES Super Puyo Puyo 2 (JPN) in 03:34.72 by pirohiko. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-09-21) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 8.70 MB, length: 07:03) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2307 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1351 (05:44.03) Rating: 7.6 (20.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Puyo Puyo is an extremely popular puzzle game in Japan similar to Tetris in some ways. By making a chain of 4 or more Puyo's, they explode and deliver garbage onto the opponent's screen. This run produces combos strong enough to completely overwhelm the competition every time.
This game style has been released under other names such as Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine and Kirby's Avalanche, but the core gameplay is the same. | ||
![]() | SNES Super R-Type (USA) in 17:29.43 by dave_dfwm. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-08-09) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 73.36 MB, length: 19:23) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1994 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (18.5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Maximum kills - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Shooter | |
| Super R•Type (1991) is the 4th game of the classic R•Type series of arcade shooters, whose distinct gameplay and level design inspired numerous developers to create clones and various look-alikes. However, this particular installment isn't considered canon, and is in fact an SNES-exclusive semi-port of the first two R•Type games combined in one.
In a nutshell, the series' plot is about the evil Bydo empire, which is a highly developed alien lifeform with hivemind mentality (Borg, Zerg, etc.). The player pilots a spacecraft on a mission to destroy it. The craft itself has a force — an indestructible (yet living!) orb pod that can be used for both bullet absorption and offensive action. The core gameplay thus boils down to two things: memorization (all R•Type games are very unforgiving, and require the player to learn the paths thoroughly to succeed) and tactical use of the force orb to protect the ship and do high damage to enemies.
The author of this TAS, however, opted for playing around with enemies and killing most of them with the force orb. Don't try this in realtime. (Really, don't.)
Other than that, the movie uses a password to access the second loop's difficulty level ("PRO") without having to beat the game twice. It still doesn't get the good ending, though. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Smash T.V. (USA) in 28:48.68 by JXQ. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2006-03-14) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 60.90 MB, length: 29:03) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #987 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (35.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Shooter | |
| In the future (and by future, we mean 1999), game shows take on a whole new meaning. Mostly it involves using heavy artillery. This run is played in two-player mode with the author controlling both characters. It aims for showing off and being entertaining while still being reasonably fast. A code is used to access the highest difficulty level. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Street Fighter II (USA v1.0) "Ken version" in 11:32.43 by Saturn. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2005-10-14) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 29.83 MB, length: 13:21) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #572 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (38 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Genre: Fighting | |
| Ken takes the spotlight in a Super Battle. The author executes some impressive and shocking combos. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Street Fighter II (USA v1.0) "Zangief version" in 11:21.47 by Saturn. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2005-10-10) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 26.72 MB, length: 13:36) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #633 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (34 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Genre: Fighting | |
| A quick playthrough with Zangief. This movie focuses more on pulling off crazy combos and showcasing Zangief's big repertoire of throws than beating every opponent as fast as possible, since that would just lead to the same few combos being used over and over. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Turrican (USA) in 11:20.58 by dark_rocco. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2012-03-27) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 104.09 MB, length: 15:53) Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3488 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1980 (11:24.28) Rating: 7.7 (3 votes) View Publication | - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Super Turrican (1993) is the fifth game of the Turrican series, popular in the times of C64 and Amiga. It features Contra-like run'n'gun action crossbred with Metroid-esque exploration-driven level design and character abilities, while also being quite colorful and having remarkable soundtrack.
This is a 3.70 seconds improvement over the previous movie by the same author, achieved mostly through optimized movement and not taking damage to save time.
Despite having the same name as its NES counterpart, it's not the same game. Curiously, while this version was made without Manfred Trenz (the original Turrican series designer/developer), the NES one was produced by him alone. | ||
![]() | SNES Syvalion (JPN) in 07:02.28 by Ryuto. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-03-21) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 47.34 MB, length: 10:45) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3043 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (8 votes) View Publication | - Forgoes time-saving damage - Genre: Shooter | |
| Syvalion is a unique shooter game where you control a metal dragon. It does not autoscroll. The stories, stages and endings are random with each play. Here the author chooses to take no damage in an effort to make the run more entertaining. | ||
![]() | SNES Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time (USA) in 18:55.0 by nitsuja. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2005-10-06) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 54.08 MB, length: 24:30) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #829 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #129 (23:30.32) Rating: 7.1 (35 votes) View Publication | - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Fighting | |
| Here you can see a revision of this game by nitsuja, 4:35 faster the previous run by mazzeneko. The strategy was changed radically, changing from Donatello to Raphael and using the dash moves a lot more. The damage for every move was mapped out carefully by monitoring the internal values of the RAM, to be able to choose the best attack for every situation. Luck was manipulated to make some enemies appear in more convenient positions. | ||
![]() | SNES Tetris Attack (JPN) in 00:39.2 by zvsp. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-10-17) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 7.22 MB, length: 04:56) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3330 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1880 (00:40.52) Rating: 7.5 (8.5 votes) View Publication | - Aims for maximum score - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Puzzle | |
| This movie was played on Japanese version of Tetris Attack called Panel De Pon. In this version, the scoring system works a bit differently, so instead of doing many combos in a chain as the US version movie does, a few very large combos help reaching the goal about 30 seconds faster, achieving it at 0'25 by ingame time. There are no other differences between the two versions. The author, zvsp, made an improvement of 8.18 seconds over Baxter's run in the previous movie. He did this by changing the character selected from Thiana to Elias, combining combos at the same time to yield bigger combos, and performing a mysterious technique that renders the "STOP" sequence useless, allowing him to cut off the movie once the last combo is made. Shortly after the previous movie's publication, the author realized that unlike Baxter, he did not select his character in the optimal way. Correcting this, he saved 1.31 seconds. Nothing else was changed. | ||
![]() | SNES Tetris Attack (USA) "fast 99999" in 01:15.38 by zvsp. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-09-07) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 13.65 MB, length: 05:41) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3276 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #971 (01:23.27) Rating: 7.5 (10.5 votes) View Publication | - Aims for maximum score - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Puzzle | |
| This Tetris Attack movie aims to get the highest score in the shortest amount of time possible. The result is obtained by executing multiple combos simultaneously, building them up to level 13. Combo bonuses are no longer awarded after getting 13 consecutively due to a bug in the game. The level of play is far and above what any human could do in real-time on this game. This is an improvement of 7.88 over the previous movie by the same author, zvsp. He does this primarily by starting each chain with one explosion. That way, he can explode the saved blocks during the chain, which, thanks to a glitch, gets him around 25000 points for every 13x chain. This allows him to beat the game in four chains instead of the previous five. | ||
![]() | SNES The 7th Saga (USA) in 1:50:17.43 by Kirkq & Nitrodon. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-09-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 244.00 MB, length: 1:54:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2811 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.5 (6.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| In this unforgiving RPG that is The 7th Saga, the player picks a character and goes on an epic quest to find the seven magical runes, since each of these runes contains a great power for the one who wields it. Kirkq and Nitrodon, the players who made this tool-assisted speedrun, chose Lux the Tetujin to complete this quest as fast as possible, forgoing a stat boosting glitch, and performing luck manipulation to defeat bosses at an impossibly low level! | ||
![]() | SNES The Addams Family (USA) in 03:06.8 by Kyman & Sonikkustar. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-07-30) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 14.77 MB, length: 05:57) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2758 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1411 (03:19.35) Rating: 7.2 (13 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| In a normal playthrough, this game is quite long. You must save four family members then progress to the final area to complete the game. However, the authors use a glitch to skip directly to the final area, skipping 4/5ths of the game; in addition, several new glitches allow more of the final area to be skipped. This new movie improves upon the previous movie by about 13 seconds. | ||
![]() | SNES The Addams Family: Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt (USA) in 13:11.05 by Cpadolf. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-10-23) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 37.35 MB, length: 16:27) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2395 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #393 (13:58.63) Rating: 7.3 (14 votes) View Publication | - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Pugsley's scavenger hunt is an extremely fast paced game, which makes it difficult. It is made even more difficult by playing on the hardest setting, which gives Pugsley only one single heart, meaning that he dies in one hit. The movie itself looks very impressive and it really gives the impression that the player knows what he is doing. This is an improvement of 47.58 seconds over the previous movie. | ||
![]() | SNES The Amazing Spider-Man: Lethal Foes (JPN) in 09:37.12 by Mukki. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-07-30) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 34.10 MB, length: 14:12) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2755 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.6 (12 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| In this rare yet generic Japanese-only Spider-Man game, Spidey swings speedily through several levels while battling his usual assortment of foes. | ||
![]() | SNES The Combatribes (USA) in 13:08.07 by Phil & Genisto. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2004-11-04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 37.99 MB, length: 18:26) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #402 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 3.1 (27.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses hardest difficulty - 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. | ||
![]() | SNES The Great Circus Mystery Starring Mickey and Minnie (USA) in 19:03.97 by Jaysmad. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2007-05-27) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 56.74 MB, length: 23:21) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1485 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (18 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| The Great Circus Mystery is another side-scrolling Disney platformer involving Mickey & Minnie Mouse. The author controls both characters simultaneously. | ||
![]() | SNES The Incredible Hulk (USA) in 12:18.48 by Dooty. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-07-06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 59.22 MB, length: 14:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2710 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.9 (10 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| The Hulk is a Marvel Superhero. Dr Bruce Banner is the Hulk's secret identity. The Hulk has had numerous comics, several movies, games, and a few TV shows. In this game, the Hulk smashes his way through five levels, fighting against his arch-enemy, The Leader, and his minions. Levels range from city Skyscrapers to an alien spaceship. Using a Hulked-Out pill, Dooty smashes and crashes his way through the levels, making short work of thugs and minibosses. They never saw it coming. | ||
![]() | SNES The Legend of the Mystical Ninja (USA) in 24:52.37 by zggzdydp. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-04-23) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 74.62 MB, length: 27:14) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1886 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #205 (32:11.15) Rating: 7.1 (22 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| The Legend of the Mystical Ninja is the first Super Nintendo game in the Ganbare Goemon series, based on a noble thief in Japanese folklore. This run improves on the previous run using new tricks and glitches such as the scroll abuse glitch, which saves a large amount of time. | ||
![]() | SNES The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (USA) in 1:16:11.05 by Tompa. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-04-06) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 164.14 MB, length: 1:24:02) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 150.81 MB, length: 1:24:06) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2204 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #325 (1:20:16.13) Rating: 8.9 (65.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| Full completion of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Both this run and the short version use a wobbling trick in order to make Link walk a bit faster. The execution of this maneuver requires the usage of a controller that allows the player to press Up+Down simultaneously (such as, in this case, a modified Snes9x's controller). The traveling-through-walls trick that is seen in the short version is not used. This run features an improvement of a little over 4 minutes. | ||
![]() | SNES The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (USA) "glitched" in 03:44.65 by Tompa. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-08-03) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 26.30 MB, length: 11:37) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 22.13 MB, length: 11:40) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2763 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1210 (03:44.67) Rating: 8.1 (21.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| SNES Zelda completed in a very quick manner by traveling in an alternate dimension through the walls. The basis of the trick is to enter a corridor or staircase by holding left+up+right at the bottom of the stairs. This movie is just 1 frame faster than the preceding version. | ||
![]() | SNES The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse (USA) in 15:28.97 by Cardboard & Recca. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-08-10) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 47.33 MB, length: 18:42) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2027 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #911 (15:56.2) Rating: 7.1 (21 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Mickey Mouse is on an adventure to save Pluto with a bunch of suits with various powers. This movie is a 27 second improvement of the previous movie. The constant jumping is necessary to preserve the speed gained from running downhill. Other specifics on the improvement can be found in the submission comments. | ||
![]() | SNES The Mask (USA) in 06:39.8 by Randil. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2007-10-03) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 19.57 MB, length: 08:22) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1690 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #491 (10:09.5) Rating: 7.6 (36 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Based loosely on the plot line of the movie by the same name. This game is about a man named Stanley Ippkiss, who finds a powerful mask known as The Mask. However evil has also become aware of this and kidnaps his girlfriend in order to obtain it. One of the traits The Mask seems to give Stanley is extreme speed, so naturally, aside from a couple boss fights, the game play is extremely fast throughout the movie. This is a 3 minute 30 second improvement over the previous movie by the use of a new shortcut in level 1, improved boss fights, and many other optimizations. The author left detailed comments about them. | ||
![]() | SNES The Simpsons: Bart's Nightmare (USA) in 14:09.3 by Samhain-Grim. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2007-06-15) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 39.50 MB, length: 16:42) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1573 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #772 (15:22.4) Rating: 6.3 (25 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Another game in the Simpsons series. This one takes a bizarre trip through Bart's imagination; fighting amoeba, smashing psychotic appliances, and transforming into Bartzilla. These bizarre situations are handled with tool-assisted precision, and finished 73 seconds faster than the author's previous attempt. | ||
![]() | SNES Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose! (USA) in 20:40.68 by TwistedEye. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2007-01-10) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 52.91 MB, length: 23:49) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1145 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (28 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Yet another colourful Tiny Toon movie. And this time it's on SNES. In this movie Twisted Eye uses a glitch which practically allows him to fly. For more specifics about the glitch and the movie itself, read author's comments. | ||
![]() | SNES Top Gear 2 (USA) in 11:50.62 by Dooty. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-07-16) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 53.58 MB, length: 14:08) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2729 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #113 (03:51.17) Rating: 5.2 (13.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Uses a level password - Genre: Racing | |
| Normally, Top Gear 2 involves racing through many gruelling tracks across sixteen countries, gradually upgrading one's vehicle until it can become competitive in the top tiers. Here a password is used to skip directly to the final country with a stock vehicle substantially slower than the competition it faces - conditions in which any human player would find it impossible to win. Yet this is no obstacle for perfect reflexes and a great deal of luck. | ||
![]() | SNES U.N. Squadron (USA) in 18:33.27 by georgexi. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2007-11-25) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 57.15 MB, length: 24:16) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1736 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (21 votes) View Publication | - Maximum kills - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Shooter | |
| U.N. Squadron (1989) is a nice looking horizontal shoot-em-up loosely based on manga & anime series named Area 88 (which is also the name this game was released with in Japan), about a brave young pilot Shin Kazama and his experiences at a mercenary airforce base. Here you see Shin mercilessly slaughtering everything in his sight, and stuffing the bosses full with the heaviest artillery available — of course, not forgetting the usual suicidal dancing around the bullets in the meantime. Surprisingly, the author started working on this video over 2.5 years before the submission, which makes it one of TASvideos's longest projects to date. | ||
![]() | SNES Ultima: The False Prophet (USA) in 07:56.07 by ketomei. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-09-24) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 11.77 MB, length: 08:43) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2350 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.4 (10.5 votes) View Publication | - Pacifist version - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: RPG | |
| The sixth installment of the Ultima series, the game involes tracking down runes, navigating huge dungeons, combat, locating pirate treasure and a quest to restore peace between humans and gargoyles. However, due to an inventory corruption glitch, the author decides to take the quick route and skip over almost the entire game. See the author's comments for more information. | ||
![]() | SNES Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (USA) "tournament mode" in 03:55.5 by SDR. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-10-21) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 16.01 MB, length: 04:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2878 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.5 (18 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Fighting | |
| Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 has a hidden tournament mode. As per all good Mortal Kombat TAS's, the game is humiliated and turned into a laughing stock. TODO: Describe. | ||
![]() | SNES Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (USA) in 30:28.38 by SDR, TheVLACKDEMONN2294, Dark Noob. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2012-01-24) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 69.61 MB, length: 30:39) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 70.30 MB, length: 30:39) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3409 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1333 (16:46.58) Rating: 9.0 (11.5 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Fighting | |
| Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 is one of the most diverse games of the series in terms of characters and play modes. The authors take advantage of this and deliver an exceptional playaround movie. Bugs, easter eggs and impossible combos are shown off at a breathtaking pace. The movie features a mix of 1 and 2 player play for added variety. This movie is longer than its predecessor by around 14 minutes, showing off more glitches. It also uses a cheat that enables pausing in order to show off even more glitches. | ||
![]() | SNES Umihara Kawase (JPN) "sightseeing" in 13:15.12 by BobWhoops. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2004-08-27) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 56.75 MB, length: 15:34) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #280 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (30 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Genre: Platform - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Umihara Kawase (海腹川背) is about a schoolgirl with a bag of holding and a rubber fishing line setting out to rid the world of giant mutant fish. This video plays the longest path of the game having only two bosses, aka. Bob's path, which you can find at the Field Map page. The Umihara Kawase page has more information about this game. The boss levels are quite long in this movie ― they can't really be sped up, but the author of the movie has done his best to make it worth watching. No frogs were harmed in the making of this movie. | ||
![]() | SNES Umihara Kawase (JPN) in 01:46.42 by flagitious. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2006-10-01) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 10.60 MB, length: 04:01) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1301 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #518 (01:53.23) Rating: 8.0 (45 votes) View Publication | - Uses warps - Genre: Platform - Genre: Puzzle | |
| This little-known Japanese wire-action platformer, with a very well-made rubber wire physics simulating engine, sports a schoolgirl setting out to rid the world of giant mutant fish. The game is very easy to win, but very difficult to play (try it). This video demonstrates one of the fastest paths to the ending, including quite a few almost impossible maneuvers ― whether playing tool-assisted or not. This video is a 7 seconds improvement to the previous version. See the Umihara Kawase page for more information about this game, and the author's comments for more information about this movie. | ||
![]() | SNES Vegas Stakes (USA) in 03:30.93 by hero of the day. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2007-04-14) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 11.64 MB, length: 05:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1511 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #199 (04:24.77) Rating: 5.8 (31 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Sport | |
| If real life had savestates, you could be a millionaire. With handy luck-manipulation, the author multiplies starting player money ($1000) by a hundred in a mere two betting rounds of craps in the limit casino. Then he hits the no limit casino; mutiplying by a hundred again with two betting rounds of craps. The player ends the game with 10 million dollars. Most of the scenes in this game do not relate to gameplay in any way. | ||
![]() | SNES Wario's Woods (USA v1.0) in 16:33.33 by DonamerDragon. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-06-07) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 38.09 MB, length: 16:58) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2246 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (12 votes) View Publication | - Demonstration - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Wario has taken over the forest and it is up to Toad to defeat all of his monsters in huge tree trunks, caves and castles to save the day! It's like Yoshi's Cookie and Tetris Attack all in one game. | ||
![]() | SNES Wild Guns (USA) in 19:07.55 by mmbossman. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-01-23) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 52.03 MB, length: 21:43) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1821 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #188 (25:05.18) Rating: 6.7 (26 votes) View Publication | - Maximum kills - 2 Players - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Shooter | |
| A science-fiction/western game. One peculiar feature is that the character's movement and aim are controlled simultaneously. This is nearly a 6 minute improvement over the previous movie due to the use of 2 players, more accuracy, and some nice tricks. The author has also embedded a few subliminal message throughout the movie. Details can be found in the author's comments. | ||
![]() | SNES X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse (USA) in 14:55.02 by Dooty. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-03-14) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 40.71 MB, length: 18:50) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3036 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #739 (15:44.62) Rating: 6.3 (8 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| It's the X-Men, and they're out to stop Magneto and whoever else is bad. This game stars five of the X-men: Cyclops, Wolverine, Gambit, Beast, and Psylocke. (Professor X is probably coaching them from a safe place, like he always does.) Each member has their own level to complete, but anyone can be chosen to play the remaining levels. The author primarily uses Beast for his power, though Psylocke is chosen in one stage. For more details, see the movie's comments and the discussion forum. This is an improvement of nearly 50 seconds over the last version of this movie by Nibelung. | ||
![]() | SNES Young Merlin (USA) in 40:02.2 by DaTeL237. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-11-03) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 72.68 MB, length: 42:55) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2098 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (25.5 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Best ending - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| When Merlin was a young Sokoban man, he enjoyed life through minecart-surfing, skin-diving and burrow-crawling. Abusing glitchy spells and items, he wandered the world along with a frozen lady who came from the lake, in the Meanwhile, occasionally beating bad things like meanie trees, yestoday's launch and even a crouching dragon. The author collects all heart pieces and other non-respawning items even without actually touching all of them. However, it is pretty sad that the prize T-shirt will never seem to be awarded with, although the "100% heart pieces collected" screen after the credits says so. | ||
![]() | SNES Zero: The Kamikaze Squirrel (USA) in 09:38.85 by Cpadolf. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-02-12) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 27.38 MB, length: 11:55) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2173 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #525 (11:21.55) Rating: 7.5 (21.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| This game has many qualities that make it a good candidate for TASing. These include nice and soft graphics, music that's not painful to listen to and, of course, a very speedy main character. The game is not meant to be quite as straightforward as it would seem by watching this movie, as the author takes many shortcuts that require extremely precise jumping. A downside to this game is that the bosses sometimes have long invulnerability periods, meaning that Zero has to wait a bit in-between hits and cannot spam the bosses with 20 hits per second. This is an improvement of well over one and a half minutes due to better optimizations, new shortcuts and tricks | ||
![]() | SNES Zombies Ate My Neighbors (USA) in 59:14.87 by Walker Boh. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2005-05-11) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 147.54 MB, length: 59:49) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #666 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.4 (27.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Genre: Action | |
| This game involves slaying zombies and rescuing people, displayed from an overhead perspective. It's reminiscent of Fester's Quest but is much more fun. Walker Boh controls both characters simultaneously, making this hard game even harder. Naturally, luck and glitches are abused in this run. We recommend reading the author's comments; he wrote quite a detailed article of this movie. | ||
![]() | PCECD Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (JPN) "Maria version" in 24:21.75 by adelikat & arukAdo. | |
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| Mednafen/PCEjin movie (.mc2) (date: 2009-12-29) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 56.71 MB, length: 29:10) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2506 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1335 (24:23.47) Rating: 7.1 (13 votes) View Publication | - Uses a suboptimal character - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| After having been resurrected by dark priest Shaft, Dracula set out to destroy Richter Belmont's home village and kidnap some of the important characters for him to rescue. One of them is Maria Renard, a 12-year-old vampire huntress who is used as the player character in the second half of the movie after getting freed by Richter. Despite her prepubescent age, Maria is faster and stronger than Richter, and one can only guess how she managed to fall a victim to kidnappers in the first place. Unfortunately, all of her speed advantages become nullified by a lengthy cutscene following her release, making this TAS slightly longer than the Richter version. This is a 2.5 second improvement to the previous movie. | ||
![]() | PCECD Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (JPN) in 23:17.78 by arukAdo. | |
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| Mednafen/PCEjin movie (.mc2) (date: 2009-08-14) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 50.89 MB, length: 27:45) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2326 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (20.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (1993) is an important milestone in Castlevania series and a predecessor to the even more successful Symphony of the Night. This game was ported two years later to the SNES as Dracula X. In this installment of a popular TV show, a miserable little pile of secrets known as Richter Belmont is once again called to have it at a savior mankind needs so ill. Armed with his trusty key and a question mark nicknamed 'Vampire Killer', he makes sure no candleholder remains standing in Dracula's castle. Eager to just get it over with, he plows through without as much as a slightest regard to his purple-haired girlfriend and some other people still imprisoned there. It seems what little time one has to spare in a TAS is best spent moonwalking and yelling at the screen, anyway. A slower version of this run taking only the regular stages is available here. Due to this movie being faster, that submission was cancelled, yet there are arguably more entertaining moments in the cancelled submission (the author recommends stage 4 in particular). | ||
![]() | PCECD Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (JPN) "100%" in 38:26.12 by adelikat & arukAdo. | |
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| Mednafen/PCEjin movie (.mc2) (date: 2009-12-28) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 86.50 MB, length: 43:09) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2504 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (15 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Best ending - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Uses a level password - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Contrary to the other Rondo of Blood TASes on the site, this one not only goes through the hurdles of saving three useless villagers from their prisons (with some of said prisons even resembling their regular habitats), but also plays through all the picturesque levels just to prove that Maria isn't really a suboptimal character. No videogame character fighting dark priests by stoning them to death with small white birds should ever be called suboptimal. If you want to see a shorter run through the game, we suggest watching these: Richter any% in 23:18, Maria any% in 24:22. | ||
![]() | PCECD Double Dragon II: The Revenge (JPN) in 11:57.73 by arukAdo. | |
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| Mednafen/PCEjin movie (.mc2) (date: 2009-12-29) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 35.97 MB, length: 17:09) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2507 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.9 (11 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Fighting | |
| Rather different from both the NES version and arcade versions of this game, this version of Double Dragon 2 features higher resolution graphics much closer to that of the SNES iterations of the series. Notably, many of the glitches present in the NES version are absent here, yielding slower yet arguably no less entertaining gameplay. | ||
![]() | PCECD Kaze Kiri: Ninja Action (JPN) in 15:31.62 by arukAdo. | |
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| Mednafen/PCEjin movie (.mc2) (date: 2010-02-14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 37.08 MB, length: 20:13) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Submission #2556 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.6 (10 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Uses easiest difficulty - Genre: Action | |
| In this obscure title for an obscure platform, our ninja hero must fight his way through a horde of enemy ninja who attack from every angle in order to rescue the girl. Join arukAdo in this exciting adventure as he slices through his enemies and their defenses like a hot chainsaw through fresh butter (and beats up the girl too). An alternate version of this run which plays on hard difficulty can be found here. The only difference between difficulty levels is enemy hit points, which is normally grounds for playing on the easiest possible difficulty (to improve speed and entertainment). | ||
![]() | PCE Bloody Wolf (USA) in 14:19.74 by DarkKobold. | |
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| Mednafen/PCEjin movie (.mc2) (date: 2010-12-23) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 41.17 MB, length: 17:36) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 36.73 MB, length: 17:32) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2938 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.2 (7 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Bloody Wolf is an Arcade port of a Heavy Barrel-esque game. The goal is to rescue the president, and then rescue the man who rescued the president, due to insufficient leg room in the rescue helicopter. In this run, the author bunny hops through the game, throws grenades at everything, and dies for no apparent reason. | ||
![]() | PCE Bonk's Adventure (USA) in 24:03.63 by Jerfo. | |
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| Mednafen/PCEjin movie (.mc2) (date: 2010-10-04) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 62.40 MB, length: 30:08) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2829 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.8 (10.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform ![]() | |
| In Bonk's Adventure, you play as a caveboy on his quest to rescue Princess Za, a small pink and cute little reptile, from the evil King Drool, a huge and ugly tyronnosaurus. Jerfo could complete this quest in only 24:03.61 minutes, by making Bonk fly over most stages while he spins himself in the air, bouncing himself on enemies, after he gets bounced by a flower. Make sure you're ready to hear that spinning sound over and over again! | ||
![]() | PCE Bonk's Revenge (USA) in 18:29.47 by FuzZerd. | |
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| Mednafen movie (.mcm) (date: 2009-06-17) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 45.88 MB, length: 22:19) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2257 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (15 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action | |
| Bonk's Revenge is the second game in a popular PCE/Turbographx 16 platforming series. Thankfully despite the console's unpopularity some of the games in the series were ported elsewhere. Bonk is a caveman with a giant noggin he willingly uses as a weapon against his enemies. He can also break the laws of physics by using his enormous head as leverage to glide in midair. This run by FuzZerd features all the trappings of a prehistoric blockbuster adventure, including fire breathing, jungle platforming, raging on huge dinosaurs before they know what hit them, and raw meat. | ||
![]() | PCE Dragon Egg! (JPN) in 07:11.58 by adelikat. | |
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| BizHawk movie file (.tas) (date: 2012-05-04) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 31.10 MB, length: 11:53) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 30.07 MB, length: 11:53) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3573 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1281 (07:36.27) Rating: 6.6 (3.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| In Dragon Egg, the heroine carries around a portable dragon which, after many power-ups, becomes a lot less portable to the point where the heroine is portable instead. This is the author's second publication of Dragon Egg, this time using the new BizHawk emulator. Most of the 24.61 second improvement comes through a new trick that allows the heroine to simply fly through the auto-scroller level, ignoring the slow paced log. | ||
![]() | PCE Dungeon Explorer (USA) "5 player" in 20:19.3 by DarkKobold. | |
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| Mednafen/PCEjin movie (.mc2) (date: 2010-10-16) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 44.37 MB, length: 37:46) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2867 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (12 votes) View Publication | - 5 Players - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: RPG | |
| Dungeon Explorer is based off of Gauntlet, but adds a plot, bosses, magic spells and RPG elements. Notably, it also one-ups Gauntlet by allowing for five players. The author races through the dungeons with all five players, making short work of bosses. The five characters were selected for their high starting agility, and include a fighter (blue), a warlock (purple), an elf (green), a bard (orange), and a thief (red). Also, the only exit that matters is the last one used by a player, and the author uses this extensively to use the fastest character, the thief, to run when an earlier exit is available for the other characters to use. | ||
![]() | PCE Kato Chan & Ken Chan (JPN) in 07:44.1 by TaoTao. | |
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| Mednafen movie (.mcm) (date: 2009-05-25) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 16.97 MB, length: 14:02) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 17.53 MB, length: 14:02) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2251 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (12 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Genre: Platform | |
| Kato-chan Ken-chan is a gem of a PCE game made by Hudson. Often abbreviated as "Kato-Ken" in Japan, this game is derived from a Japanese TV program, "Kato-chan Ken-chan gokigen TV". The main characters are Cha Kato (Kato-chan) and Ken Shimura (Ken-chan), who are famous Japanese comedians. One particularly distinguishing feature of the game is the ability to attack enemies with farts! In this run, the author uses Ken-chan, though you will also see Kato-chan appear from time to time to be a nuisance to Ken-chan. | ||
![]() | PCE Keith Courage in Alpha Zones (USA) in 16:17.3 by Sp00ky. | |
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| Mednafen movie (.mcm) (date: 2009-06-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 46.19 MB, length: 19:55) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2271 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (13 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure | |
| Keith Courage in Alpha Zones stars a hero who suspiciously looks like Gunstar Red. He is a part of the alliance N.I.C.E. (Nations of International Citizens for Earth), who's current 'mission' is to defeat B.A.D. (Beastly Alien Dudes) and bring peace to the world. This TAS features speedy completion by using the inept enemies as boosts to speed through the underworld levels. Only 2 of the weapon upgrades are ever collected and all of the story is completely skipped. There are also 2 cases of using an instant kill level hazard as a shortcut. This game should probably have a seizure warning of some sort. | ||
![]() | PCE Legend of Hero Tonma (USA) in 05:16.92 by DarkKobold. | |
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| Mednafen/PCEjin movie (.mc2) (date: 2010-11-28) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 15.61 MB, length: 06:10) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2918 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.9 (7.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Legend of Hero Tonma is a simple platforming game where Tommy, the main character, goes on a quest to rescue a princess. The game also has some amusing examples of awkward English in between stages. DarkKobold completes this quest very quickly and without taking any damage. | ||
![]() | PCE Ninja Spirit (USA) in 09:40.9 by arukAdo. | |
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| Mednafen/PCEjin movie (.mc2) (date: 2010-02-02) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 48.12 MB, length: 11:08) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2522 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.5 (10 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Ninja Spirit began life as an arcade game and since then has received many ports, including a Game Boy version and this version. It would be a stock platform game but for the ability to have up to two 'spirits' which behave like the options from Gradius. This run is played on Arcade mode, where the character dies in one hit and bosses are stronger; the other available mode (appropriately titled PCE mode) allows taking more than one hit and is overall easier. People familiar with the game should be able to appreciate the difference, as Arcade mode is extremely challenging. | ||
![]() | PCE Shockman (USA) in 21:50.11 by DarkKobold. | |
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| Mednafen/PCEjin movie (.mc2) (date: 2010-12-08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 65.26 MB, length: 25:58) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2924 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (8 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Doc, the creator of the two cyborgs Arnold and Sonya, has been kidnapped as a prelude to an alien invasion. It's up to the two of them to stop the invasion and rescue their creator. The author uses an unconventional mode of transport in this run. A dual-player charge shot that is done incorrectly causes the players to be ricocheted around the screen. This provides a faster form of movement than walking, when aimed correctly! | ||
![]() | PCE Vigilante (USA) in 05:44.4 by Sonikkustar. | |
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| Mednafen/PCEjin movie (.mc2) (date: 2010-11-20) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 26.16 MB, length: 06:45) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2912 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (11 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform | |
| This game has a badass dude that busts other guys nuts in order to save his girlfriend. Other highlights include nunchucks that can destroy bullets. TODO: Get a description from someone that can actually write one | ||
![]() | VBoy Red Alarm (USA) in 14:07.54 by Ryuto. | |
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| Mednafen/PCEjin movie (.mc2) (date: 2010-06-09) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 99.10 MB, length: 19:38) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2686 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.6 (9 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Shooter | |
| Red Alarm is a shooter which frequently draws comparison to Star Fox, save that it is full 3D (instead of being confined to a single path); in this respect it is perhaps more comparable to the unreleased Star Fox 2. There are six stages, each ending with a boss. The author frequently moves diagonally; this allows for faster motion than simply flying straight forward. | ||
![]() | VBoy Teleroboxer (JPN/USA) in 05:40.42 by Ryuto. | |
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| Mednafen/PCEjin movie (.mc2) (date: 2010-05-13) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 32.32 MB, length: 09:22) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2658 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.3 (14 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Sport | |
| One of the few games for the Virtual Boy which actually offers a first-person perspective, Teleroboxer bears many similarities to the Punch-Out!! games - except it's substantially easier to manipulate. Indeed, it's possible to effectively autofire punches thanks to distinct controls being used for the player's two fists, leading to ridiculously quick defeats. | ||
![]() | VBoy Virtual Boy Wario Land (JPN/USA) "Best Ending" in 21:53.28 by adelikat. | |
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| Mednafen/PCEjin movie (.mc2) (date: 2010-07-08) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 129.97 MB, length: 25:23) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2722 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.8 (8.5 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Best ending - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Virtual Boy Wario Land was a platformer released for the Virtual Boy system in 1995. The main objective of the game is to traverse the 14 levels. Each level has a key you must find in order to open up the next level. There are treasures hidden along the way; this TAS collects them all and therefore achieves the best ending. See also the any% run. | ||
![]() | VBoy Virtual Boy Wario Land (JPN/USA) in 18:39.56 by adelikat. | |
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| Mednafen/PCEjin movie (.mc2) (date: 2010-05-19) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 75.81 MB, length: 21:59) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2662 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1510 (19:19.5) Rating: 7.1 (10.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Virtual Boy Wario Land was a platformer released for the Virtual Boy system in 1995. The main objective of the game is to traverse the 14 levels. Each level has a key you must find in order to open up the next level. There are treasures hidden along the way. This TAS gets no treasures and thus achieves the "bad ending". This is an improvement of 40 seconds to the previous movie due mainly to obtaining a power-up much earlier in the run. See also the 100% run which collects all treasures to get the best ending. | ||
![]() | Wii Mega Man 10 (USA) "Mega Man" in 33:42.37 by diggidoyo. | |
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| Dolphin movie file (.dtm) (date: 2011-05-28) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 142.64 MB, length: 39:24) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3157 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.5 (38 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Watch as Mega Man takes on the latest set of Robot Masters and everyone's favourite mad roboticist for the tenth time in the classic series. This run is played on normal difficulty (the highest available with no prior save data) and, amongst other feats, takes no damage at all (Mr. Perfect achievement), kills one of every enemy (World Warrior achievement), and manipulates more extra lives and large power-ups than you've probably ever seen before in a single playthrough. The final in-game time is 20:04. In a fit of cosmic irony, this publication, which is the first for a current set-top console, is of a game deliberately designed to be a throwback to the NES days. | ||
![]() | Wii Mega Man 10 (USA) "Bass, Hard Mode" in 28:18.25 by diggidoyo. | |
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| Dolphin movie file (.dtm) (date: 2012-03-25) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 44.33 MB, length: 34:09) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 56.14 MB, length: 34:09) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3373 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.5 (8 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Starts from a saved state or SRAM | |
| Not wanting to be outdone by Mega Man, Bass takes a shot at saving the world from Roboenza. Dr. Wily won't know what hit him. This is the site's second published Wii run, and is of the same game as the first. Diggidoyo again shows his expertise at the Mega Man series, this time utilizing Bass's speed and powerful weaponry to finish 5:24.11 faster than Mega Man. The in-game completion time reads 15:16. | ||
![]() | Wii Muramasa: The Demon Blade (USA) "Momohime" in 1:04:59.75 by rog. | |
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| Dolphin movie file (.dtm) (date: 2012-03-28) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 1.12 GB, length: 1:11:56) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 1.79 GB, length: 1:11:56) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3491 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.6 (6 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Forgoes time-saving death - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Starts from a saved state or SRAM - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Muramasa: The Demon Blade is a trip through 16th century Japan with cool music, beautiful visuals and fast paced gameplay. Watch as the author introduces you to Momohime, a young princess possessed by an evil spirit who proves quite adept at cutting everything in her path into tiny bits. This run is played on the hardest difficulty, in which Momohime only has 1 hitpoint; but that doesn't slow her down at all. Note: There are two published encodes. One is 432p, meant to closely mimic the Wii's hardware, and the other is a higher resolution 720p. The 720p encode is 10-bit and may not play back on some older devices. | ||
![]() | Windows Cave Story (JPN 1.0.0.6) "best ending" in 50:10.3 by nitsuja. | |
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| Hourglass movie (.wtf) (date: 2011-11-12) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 216.85 MB, length: 54:38) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 212.62 MB, length: 54:31) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3343 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 9.0 (24 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter ![]() ![]() ![]() | |
| Cave Story (2004) is a famous freeware indie game notable for being made entirely by one person, Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya.
Watch as nitsuja completely destroys this difficult game with amazingly precise movement. This playthrough saves Curly and finishes with the best ending after beating Ballos.
The program used to make this run, Hourglass, was also developed by nitsuja—with the creation of this run in mind. As such, it is our first published run of a Windows game.
This run features commentary by the author in the form of soft subtitles. There is also an experimental 10-bit YUV444 encode available, which requires relatively recent media player software / codecs (try LAVFilters for Windows, or mplayer2). | ||
![]() | Windows MegaMari: Marisa no Yabou (JPN) in 32:49.12 by cstrakm. | |
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| Hourglass movie (.wtf) (date: 2012-05-14) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 196.16 MB, length: 34:24) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 201.00 MB, length: 34:24) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3510 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.8 (5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| MegaMari (MegaMari -魔理沙の野望-) is a very difficult Touhou clone of Mega Man 2. The game features the ability to switch between two characters whose weapons are tracked separately, giving it a surprising level of depth. In this movie, cstrakm braves the bullet hell head-on and lives to tell the tale. Reading the author's comments is highly recommended. | ||
![]() | Windows Nikujin (JPN) in 02:53.72 by BrotherMojo. | |
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| Hourglass movie (.wtf) (date: 2012-05-14) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 8.78 MB, length: 04:58) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 8.52 MB, length: 04:58) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3581 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.4 (6 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Nikujin (にくじん) is a curious platformer by an independent developer known as Ikiki. It's very short, very hard, and everyone is naked. Well, they're still wearing their ninja masks, anyway. The author puts this naked ninja through his paces, beating the entire game in under 3 minutes. Many advanced super-precision techniques are used to control the character effectively; reading the author's comments is recommended. | ||
![]() | Windows Spyman (JPN) in 01:14.36 by nitrogenesis. | |
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| Hourglass movie (.wtf) (date: 2012-05-18) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 2.21 MB, length: 01:27) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 2.22 MB, length: 01:27) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3603 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.2 (3.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Spyman (スパイマン) is a short platform game by independent developer Ikiki. You play as a spy, and infiltrate a facility populated with standard Bad Guys, complete with sunglasses and guns. Despite its short length, there is quite a bit of room for neat tricks and shortcuts, most of which are detailed here. You can also watch a TAS of another game by the same developer, Nikujin. | ||
[2047] SNES Chrono Trigger (USA) "glitched"
by turska & inichi in 03:28.06 (2012-05-25)
[1285] SNES Chrono Trigger (USA) "glitched"
by inichi in 21:23.98 (2009-05-10)
[2037] Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (any v1.1)
by Aglar in 17:51.6 (2012-05-13)
[1779] Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (any v1.1)
by FuzZerd, Sonikkustar, Upthorn & Aglar in 18:42.37 (2011-04-15)
[335] Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (any)
by Quietust in 21:39.53 (2005-05-09)
[2027] SNES Donkey Kong Country 2 - Diddy's Kong Quest (USA v1.0) "102%"
by Dooty, NxCy & Comicalflop in 1:21:31.88 (2012-05-05)
[1629] SNES Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (USA v1.0) "102%"
by Dooty, NxCy & Comicalflop in 1:22:17.17 (2010-10-03)
[1264] SNES Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (USA) "102%"
by NxCy & Comicalflop in 1:23:10.88 (2009-03-15)
[1281] PCE Dragon Egg! (JPN)
by adelikat in 07:36.27 (2009-04-26)
[2016] N64 Super Mario 64 (USA) "0 Stars"
by snark, Kyman, sonicpacker, Mickey/VIS & ToT in 05:02.25 (2012-04-14)
[1893] N64 Super Mario 64 (USA) "0-star"
by Kyman, sonicpacker, Nahoc, Moltov & SilentSlayers in 05:03.8 (2011-10-07)
[1689] N64 Super Mario 64 (USA) "0-star"
by SilentSlayers & sonicpacker & Moltov & Kyman & Mickey/VIS & Johannes in 05:04.57 (2010-12-07)
[1197] N64 Super Mario 64 (USA) "0-star"
by SilentSlayers & Johannes in 05:28.97 (2008-10-11)
[1017] N64 Super Mario 64 (USA) "0-star"
by Swordless Link & AKA in 05:47.37 (2007-12-07)
[938] N64 Super Mario 64 (USA) "1 star"
by Swordless Link & AKA in 06:47.27 (2007-08-10)
[849] N64 Super Mario 64 (USA) "16 stars"
by Swordless Link & AKA in 15:08.0 (2007-05-10)
[794] N64 Super Mario 64 (USA) "16 stars"
by Rikku in 15:24.08 (2007-02-11)
[748] N64 Super Mario 64 (USA) "16 stars"
by Rikku in 15:33.77 (2006-12-24)
[718] N64 Super Mario 64 (USA) "16 stars"
by AKA in 15:40.32 (2006-11-23)
[436] N64 Super Mario 64 (USA) "16 stars"
by spezzafer in 16:26.77 (2005-11-21)
[2004] SNES Sparkster (USA)
by Dooty in 18:01.67 (2012-03-24)
[1232] SNES Sparkster (USA)
by Cpadolf in 18:16.48 (2008-12-03)
[2000] SNES Speedy Gonzales: Los Gatos Bandidos (USA)
by Ilari in 23:27.42 (2012-03-23)
[1977] DOS Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine (v1.4) "glitched"
by turska in 02:02.46 (2012-03-03)
[1508] DOS Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine (v1.4) "glitched"
by sgrunt in 02:42.43 (2010-05-03)
[1976] DS Castlevania: Portrait Of Ruin (USA)
by mtbRc in 04:27.52 (2012-02-29)
[1823] DS Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (USA)
by mtbRc in 04:55.42 (2011-06-13)
[13] NES Super Mario Bros. (PRG0) "warpless"
by Yy in 19:26.6 (2000-06-09)
[1958] GBA Sonic Advance 2 (USA)
by Mukki in 18:01.78 (2012-01-28)
[468] GBA Sonic Advance 2 (USA)
by nitsuja in 18:44.97 (2006-01-30)
[1955] SNES Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (USA)
by SDR, TheVLACKDEMONN2294, Dark Noob in 30:28.38 (2012-01-24)
[1333] SNES Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (USA)
by SDR in 16:46.58 (2009-08-08)
[1948] Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog (any,r1)
by Aglar & marzojr in 15:04.43 (2012-01-14)
[1946] SNES EarthBound (USA) "glitched"
by pirohiko & MUGG in 09:01.77 (2012-01-09)
[1945] SNES Super Mario World (USA) "glitched"
by Masterjun in 02:36.4 (2012-01-08)
[1944] SNES Super Mario World (USA)
by bahamete, Kaizoman666, Mister & PangaeaPanga in 09:57.82 (2012-01-08)
[1912] SNES Super Mario World (USA)
by bahamete, Kaizoman666, PangaeaPanga in 10:20.6 (2011-11-05)
[1415] SNES Super Mario World (USA)
by ISM & Mister in 10:22.17 (2009-12-17)
[1115] SNES Super Mario World (USA)
by Mister in 10:26.65 (2008-05-24)
[719] SNES Super Mario World (USA)
by Fabian & JXQ in 10:28.7 (2006-11-23)
[536] SNES Super Mario World (USA)
by JXQ in 10:31.95 (2006-05-06)
[1940] SNES Seiken Densetsu 3 (JPN)
by praetarius3 in 3:24:49.0 (2011-12-22)
[1925] SNES Mega Man & Bass (JPN) "100 CDs"
by sparky, parrot14green, woabclf in 38:07.68 (2011-11-23)
[1726] SNES Mega Man & Bass (JPN) "100 CDs"
by parrot14green in 39:48.65 (2011-01-23)
[1036] SNES Mega Man & Bass (JPN) "100 CDs"
by parrot14green in 42:19.82 (2007-12-30)
[1803] SNES Mega Man X3 (USA) "best ending, 100%"
by Mothrayas in 43:52.33 (2011-05-08)
[1918] SNES Secret of Mana (USA)
by Touch-me in 1:46:29.9 (2011-11-13)
[1917] Windows Cave Story (JPN 1.0.0.6) "best ending"
by nitsuja in 50:10.3 (2011-11-12)
[1898] SNES Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (USA v1.0)
by Carl Sagan in 1:33:40.18 (2011-10-13)
[1010] SMS Kenseiden (USA/Europe)
by AngerFist in 07:01.0 (2007-12-01)
[1894] SNES Mega Man X & Mega Man X2 & Mega Man X3 (USA) "300%"
by agwawaf in 43:51.02 (2011-10-08)
[380] SNES Mega Man X & X2 (USA v1.1)
by DeHackEd in 41:41.43 (2005-07-16)
[1886] GB Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (USA/Europe v1.0) "glitched"
by andymac & MUGG in 02:08.98 (2011-10-01)
[1721] GB Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (USA/Europe v1.0) "glitched"
by andymac & MUGG in 02:28.08 (2011-01-14)
[684] FDS Super Mario Bros. 2 (JPN)
by Bisqwit in 08:30.95 (2004-02-01)
[1283] DS New Super Mario Bros. (USA)
by adelikat in 26:27.5 (2009-05-02)
[1860] GBC Pokémon: Yellow Version (USA/Europe)
by p4wn3r in 01:09.63 (2011-08-15)
[1702] GBC Pokémon: Yellow Version (USA/Europe)
by p4wn3r in 01:27.23 (2010-12-23)
[1678] GBC Pokémon: Yellow Version (USA)
by p4wn3r in 01:36.95 (2010-11-21)
[1582] GBC Pokémon: Yellow Version (USA)
by p4wn3r in 01:43.27 (2010-08-02)
[1855] SNES Super Castlevania IV (JPN)
by arukAdo, Bablo, Cardboard, and scrimpeh in 29:38.08 (2011-08-09)
[1851] N64 The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (USA)
by MrGrunz in 1:29:32.02 (2011-08-04)
[963] N64 The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (USA)
by Mukki in 2:14:03.08 (2007-09-23)
[1840] SGB Pokémon: Blue Version (USA/Europe) "Gotta Catch 'Em All!"
by p4wn3r & Mukki in 3:20:46.17 (2011-07-14)
[1835] PSX Final Fantasy VIII (USA)
by DarkKobold in 8:08:32.98 (2011-07-04)
[1812] Wii Mega Man 10 (USA) "Mega Man"
by diggidoyo in 33:42.37 (2011-05-28)
[1796] PSX Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (USA) "newgame+"
by arukAdo in 13:58.27 (2011-05-04)
[1363] PSX Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (USA)
by arukAdo & pirate_sephiroth in 19:01.63 (2009-10-16)
[1246] PSX Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (USA)
by zggzdydp in 20:18.63 (2009-01-24)
[1795] NES Solomon's Key (USA) "best ending"
by agwawaf in 25:09.58 (2011-05-04)
[1775] SNES Donkey Kong Country (USA v1.0)
by Tompa in 08:13.72 (2011-04-07)
[1644] SNES Donkey Kong Country (USA v1.0)
by Tompa in 16:22.63 (2010-10-16)
[559] SNES Donkey Kong Country (USA)
by Arnethegreat in 24:23.88 (2006-07-07)
[1759] GBA Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (USA) "all souls"
by Kriole in 24:56.1 (2011-03-13)
[1628] GBA Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (USA) "100% souls"
by Kriole in 25:47.05 (2010-10-01)
[1428] GBA Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (USA) "100% souls"
by Kriole in 28:01.58 (2009-12-27)
[1752] GB Final Fantasy Adventure (USA) "warp glitch"
by Touch-me in 17:41.33 (2011-03-09)
[1750] N64 GoldenEye 007 (USA)
by Wyster & Scaredsim in 30:42.48 (2011-03-08)
[1747] SNES ActRaiser (USA)
by zidanax & dunnius in 53:55.57 (2011-03-01)
[1746] NES Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA PRG0) "warpless"
by Aglar & Andrewg in 18:29.26 (2011-03-01)
[1742] SNES Mega Man & Bass (JPN) "Forte"
by sparky in 28:08.23 (2011-02-23)
[1739] SNES Mega Man & Bass (JPN) "Rockman"
by sparky in 27:21.47 (2011-02-19)
[1691] SNES Mega Man & Bass (JPN) "Rockman"
by sparky in 28:03.12 (2010-12-10)
[1736] GBA Wario Land 4 (USA/Europe)
by andymac in 40:04.88 (2011-02-16)
[1734] DS Brain Age (USA)
by Ryuto in 06:33.66 (2011-02-10)
[1569] DS Brain Age (USA)
by Ryuto in 04:08.1 (2010-07-09)
[97] Genesis Contra: Hard Corps (unknown)
by Gigafrost in 15:50.7 (2004-06-10)
[1724] NES Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA PRG0)
by Aglar & Andrewg in 07:41.16 (2011-01-21)
[510] NES Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA,PRG0)
by DonamerDragon in 07:53.32 (2006-03-23)
[400] NES Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA,PRG0)
by Phil in 07:53.63 (2005-08-28)
[309] NES Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA,PRG0)
by Sleepz in 07:54.23 (2005-03-17)
[234] NES Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA,PRG0)
by Genisto in 08:14.23 (2004-11-09)
[99] NES Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA,PRG0)
by Genisto in 08:31.3 (2004-06-25)
[1715] NES Super Mario Bros. (JPN/USA PRG0)
by HappyLee in 04:57.31 (2011-01-06)
[263] NES Super Mario Bros. (PRG0)
by Pom in 04:59.6 (2004-12-16)
[243] NES Super Mario Bros. (PRG0)
by Phil & Genisto in 04:59.92 (2004-11-26)
[242] NES Super Mario Bros. (PRG0)
by Mana. in 05:01.27 (2004-11-23)
[12] NES Super Mario Bros. (PRG0)
by Michael F in 05:03.73 (2004-04-20)
[428] SGB Pokémon: Blue Version (USA/Europe)
by Tilus in 1:51:06.5 (2005-10-25)
[1697] SNES Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (USA) "105%"
by Dooty, ElectroSpecter & Tompa in 1:41:39.8 (2010-12-21)
[1686] NES Mega Man (JPN)
by Shinryuu & FinalFighter in 12:23.34 (2010-12-01)
[726] NES Mega Man (JPN/USA)
by Bisqwit & Finalfighter in 15:38.07 (2006-12-06)
[715] NES Mega Man (JPN/USA)
by Bisqwit & AngerFist in 15:48.33 (2006-11-12)
[515] NES Mega Man (USA)
by Bisqwit & AngerFist in 16:09.82 (2006-03-29)
[111] NES Mega Man (JPN)
by Bisqwit in 18:21.03 (2004-07-06)
[191] NES The Legend of Zelda (USA,PRG0)
by Phil in 25:28.6 (2004-09-17)
[100] NES The Legend of Zelda (USA,PRG0)
by Sleepz in 26:55.15 (2004-06-25)
[1674] MSX Rambo, Sylvester Stallone in (JPN)
by nitrogenesis in 01:39.64 (2010-11-11)
[1665] GBA Sonic Advance (USA)
by Mukki in 10:46.52 (2010-11-02)
[1656] Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles (any)
by nitsuja & Upthorn & marzojr in 29:51.2 (2010-10-23)
[1595] Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles (any)
by nitsuja & Upthorn & marzojr in 32:05.52 (2010-08-07)
[1400] Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles (any)
by nitsuja & Upthorn & marzojr in 32:19.38 (2009-11-26)
[1112] Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles (any)
by nitsuja & Upthorn in 33:05.78 (2008-05-19)
[826] Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles (any)
by nitsuja in 34:22.02 (2007-04-08)
[712] Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles (any)
by nitsuja in 35:19.62 (2006-11-03)
[156] Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles (any)
by SprintGod in 49:31.67 (2004-08-09)
[1649] NES Mega Man 2 (JPN)
by aglasscage, FinalFighter, pirohiko, & Shinryuu in 23:48.51 (2010-10-18)
[1346] NES Mega Man 2 (JPN)
by Shinryuu, pirohiko & FinalFighter in 23:54.75 (2009-08-22)
[1242] NES Mega Man 2 (JPN)
by Shinryuu, TaoTao, pirohiko, FinalFighter in 24:33.5 (2009-01-13)
[741] NES Mega Man 2 (JPN)
by Shinryuu in 25:01.72 (2006-12-18)
[588] NES Mega Man 2 (JPN)
by Shinryuu & Bisqwit in 25:10.0 (2006-08-30)
[6] NES Mega Man 2 (JPN)
by Morimoto in 28:24.65 (2003-07-08)
[1616] N64 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (USA v1.0)
by Bloobiebla in 56:54.2 (2010-09-07)
[1492] N64 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (JPN v1.1)
by abeshi in 58:25.47 (2010-03-21)
[1613] Arcade The Simpsons (World)
by adelikat & DarkKobold in 13:37.73 (2010-09-01)
[1577] NES The Legend of Zelda (USA) "Swordless Challenge"
by jprofit22 in 26:40.33 (2010-07-27)
[330] GB Super Mario Land (USA/Europe v1.1)
by TheAxeMan in 12:14.92 (2005-05-03)
[1607] GB Super Mario Land (any v1.1) "hard mode"
by MUGG in 12:14.77 (2010-08-22)
[1596] NES Tetris (USA) "fastest 999999"
by Acmlm in 03:11.78 (2010-08-09)
[1286] NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (JPN/USA PRG0)
by Lord Tom & Mitjitsu in 10:26.42 (2009-05-11)
[1053] NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA PRG0)
by adelikat,Deign,Cardboard&JXQ in 10:29.05 (2008-02-17)
[342] NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA PRG1)
by Genisto in 10:34.55 (2005-05-18)
[14] NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (JPN)
by Genisto in 10:53.52 (2004-03-29)
[1558] NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA PRG0) "warpless"
by adelikat, andymac, Lord Tom, Tompa in 47:04.7 (2010-06-27)
[1549] NES Mega Man 5 (USA)
by GlitchMan in 31:41.68 (2010-06-20)
[1546] NES Gimmick! (JPN) "Best Ending"
by Aglar & Hotarubi in 07:44.45 (2010-06-12)
[1284] NES Gimmick! (JPN)
by Aglar in 06:08.73 (2009-05-05)
[1052] NES Gimmick! (JPN)
by Deign in 06:42.07 (2008-02-12)
[1510] VBoy Virtual Boy Wario Land (JPN/USA)
by adelikat in 19:19.5 (2010-05-03)
[1527] Genesis Shining Force II (USA)
by DarkKobold in 3:11:04.65 (2010-05-19)
[1467] Genesis Shining Force II (USA)
by DarkKobold in 3:26:17.75 (2010-02-23)
[1493] Genesis Golden Axe (JPN/USA,r1)
by Mukki in 07:01.95 (2010-03-21)
[543] Genesis Golden Axe (JPN/USA r1)
by trazz in 07:08.38 (2006-06-03)
[1462] GBC The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (USA v1.0)
by Swordless Link in 1:00:02.68 (2010-02-15)
[1438] SNES International Superstar Soccer Deluxe (USA)
by Marcokarty in 15:24.38 (2010-01-05)
[1335] PCECD Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (JPN) "Maria version"
by adelikat, arukAdo, paul_t in 24:23.47 (2009-08-09)
[1396] NES Bionic Commando (USA)
by Phil in 13:45.26 (2009-11-21)
[268] NES Bionic Commando (JPN)
by Genisto in 14:05.53 (2004-12-19)
[31] NES Bionic Commando (JPN)
by Genisto in 14:05.95 (2004-05-29)
[1380] GBA Metroid: Zero Mission (USA) "100%"
by Cpadolf in 1:01:08.0 (2009-11-06)
[981] GBA Metroid: Zero Mission (USA) "100%"
by Dragonfangs in 1:01:43.7 (2007-10-10)
[1368] SNES Super Metroid (JPN/USA)
by Taco & Kriole in 38:41.52 (2009-10-25)
[265] SNES Super Metroid (JPN/USA)
by Terimakasih in 47:07.23 (2004-12-18)
[249] SNES Super Metroid (JPN/USA)
by Terimakasih in 48:09.9 (2004-11-30)
[1348] NES Excitebike (JPN/USA)
by Lord Tom in 05:29.44 (2009-08-31)
[1070] NES Excitebike (Japan/USA)
by JXQ in 05:31.37 (2008-02-25)
[517] NES Excitebike (JPN/USA)
by Luke in 05:35.38 (2006-03-31)
[297] NES Excitebike (JPN/USA)
by foda in 05:57.93 (2005-02-13)
[289] NES Excitebike (JPN/USA) "first track"
by foda in 00:53.97 (2005-02-01)
[206] NES Excitebike (JPN/USA/PC10) "first track"
by Luke in 00:56.2 (2004-10-09)
[1313] Saturn Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (JPN)
by arukAdo in 06:51.22 (2009-06-25)
[1312] Genesis Shining Force (USA)
by DarkKobold in 1:59:59.05 (2009-06-23)
[1298] Arcade Ghouls 'n Ghosts (any)
by 韩晖 (aka. 西坡 (xipo)) in 13:18.18 (2009-06-14)
[1269] SNES The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (USA)
by Tompa in 1:16:11.05 (2009-04-06)
[1257] GBA Ninja Five-O (USA)
by Cardboard in 16:35.62 (2009-02-10)
[817] SNES Super Metroid (JPN/USA) "all items"
by JXQ in 1:10:45.02 (2007-03-19)
[528] SNES Super Metroid (JPN/USA) "all items"
by JXQ in 1:13:10.22 (2006-04-20)
[1148] SegaCD Sonic CD (USA)
by nitsuja & Upthorn in 18:04.75 (2008-07-26)
[844] NES Metroid (USA)
by hero of the day in 08:52.18 (2007-05-02)
[326] NES Metroid (USA)
by Zoizite in 09:26.42 (2005-04-29)
[125] NES Metroid (USA)
by Arc in 13:31.1 (2004-07-16)
[18] NES Metroid (USA)
by Arc in 14:14.4 (2004-06-05)
[1135] SNES Super Demo World: The Legend Continues (USA v1.1) "120-exit"
by Chef Stef in 2:08:01.68 (2008-06-25)
[858] SNES Super Demo World: The Legend Continues (any v1.1) "120-exit"
by jimsfriend in 2:08:50.32 (2007-05-15)
[28] NES Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (USA)
by Sleepz in 10:56.95 (2004-03-11)
[317] NES Rygar (Europe) "warpless"
by Walker Boh in 20:26.7 (2005-04-05)
[319] GBA Metroid: Zero Mission (USA)
by BoltR in 35:56.1 (2005-04-12)
[821] GBA Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (USA)
by Cardboard in 21:51.08 (2007-03-22)
[800] GBA Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (USA)
by Cardboard in 22:01.98 (2007-02-22)
[538] GBA Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (USA)
by OgreSlayeR in 22:44.32 (2006-05-14)
[322] GBA Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (USA)
by OgreSlayeR in 23:43.37 (2005-04-17)
[201] NES Rygar (Europe) "warp glitch"
by Walker Boh in 07:52.2 (2004-09-26)
[196] NES Rygar (Europe) "warp glitch"
by Walker Boh in 08:25.5 (2004-09-23)
[45] NES Snow Bros. (USA)
by JP&JP in 16:45.05 (2004-03-28)
[961] NES Arkanoid (USA)
by Baxter in 12:26.8 (2007-09-20)
[66] NES Arkanoid (USA)
by Genisto in 16:30.47 (2004-04-20)
[945] Genesis Gunstar Heroes (USA)
by arkiandruski in 35:28.92 (2007-08-18)
[37] NES River City Ransom (USA)
by Sleepz in 08:59.95 (2004-03-15)
[901] NES Castlevania (USA PRG1)
by Phil. Côté & Morrison in 11:20.5 (2007-06-26)
[694] NES Castlevania (USA PRG1)
by Morrison in 11:34.12 (2006-10-09)
[524] NES Castlevania (Konami Classic)
by Phil in 11:41.17 (2006-04-11)
[723] N64 Super Mario 64 (USA) "120 stars"
by foda in 1:42:41.33 (2006-11-30)
[160] SNES Mega Man X2 (USA)
by Blechy in 34:16.97 (2004-08-13)
[802] SNES Biker Mice From Mars (USA)
by Baxter in 05:12.62 (2007-02-24)
[98] SNES Contra 3: The Alien Wars (USA)
by Phil & Genisto in 13:39.83 (2004-06-02)
[711] NES Gradius (any)
by adelikat in 10:52.35 (2006-11-02)
[19] NES Gradius (any)
by Morimoto in 14:12.0 (2003-05-06)
[518] SNES Umihara Kawase (JPN)
by flagitious in 01:53.23 (2006-04-02)
[280] SNES Umihara Kawase (JPN)
by Blechy in 01:58.58 (2005-01-08)
[577] SNES Super Mario World (USA) "96-exit"
by Fabian in 1:21:29.63 (2006-08-14)
[304] SNES Super Mario World (USA) "96-exit"
by VIPer7 in 1:23:38.37 (2005-03-02)
[542] 32X Knuckles' Chaotix (JPN/USA)
by Upthorn in 35:07.7 (2006-06-02)