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Tool-assisted movies

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Total movies: 17


Arcade Bionic Commando (USA) in 05:48.1 by Mukki.
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Submission #2822 — Author's comments
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Rating: 6.1 (15 votes)
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- 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.
Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2011-02-27)
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Submission #3013 — Author's comments
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Rating: 6.9 (12 votes)
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- 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.
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)
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Submission #3421 — Author's comments
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Obsoletes movie #853 (08:23.13)
Rating: 6.3 (7 votes)
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- 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. 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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Submission #2266 — Author's comments
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Rating: 7.0 (23 votes)
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- 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.
Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2011-03-16)
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Submission #3034 — Author's comments
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Rating: 6.5 (13 votes)
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- 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.
Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2011-03-23)
MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 68.31 MB, length: 16:08)
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Submission #3040 — Author's comments
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Rating: 8.3 (18.5 votes)
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- 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.
Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2011-06-09)
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Submission #3168 — Author's comments
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Rating: 8.3 (13 votes)
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- 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.
Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2011-08-25)
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Submission #3257 — Author's comments
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Obsoletes movie #1841 (18:04.78)
Rating: 8.5 (11 votes)
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- 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.
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)
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Submission #3375 — Author's comments
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Obsoletes movie #1909 (17:56.53)
Rating: 8.6 (6 votes)
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- 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.
Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2011-05-18)
MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 87.43 MB, length: 23:24)
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Submission #3125 — Author's comments
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Obsoletes movie #1385 (18:48.4)
Rating: 8.6 (16.5 votes)
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- 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.
Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2010-12-29)
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Submission #2943 — Author's comments
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Rating: 6.4 (14 votes)
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- 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.
Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2011-03-13)
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Submission #3037 — Author's comments
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Rating: 6.3 (10 votes)
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- 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 Zero 2 (JPN) in 03:19.0 by error1.
Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2009-06-15)
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Submission #2263 — Author's comments
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Rating: 7.4 (21.5 votes)
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- Demonstration
- 2 Players
- Genre: Fighting
Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha is a rebalanced version of Street Fighter Zero 2 (known as Street Fighter Alpha 2 outside of Japan).

Despite the game's nonsensical name, error1 creates an entertaining run of Dramatic Battle mode, controlling both players against the cpu and using them to pummel his opponents with style. He uses the combination of Dhalsim and Rose to create entertaining combos.


Arcade Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (World) in 12:14.85 by DarkKobold.
Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2010-08-14)
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Submission #2795 — Author's comments
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Rating: 7.3 (20.5 votes)
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- 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 Simpsons (World) in 13:37.73 by adelikat & DarkKobold.
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Submission #2821 — Author's comments
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Rating: 7.6 (24 votes)
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- Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
- 4 Players
- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Fighting
Award - Arcade TAS of 2010
¡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.
Final Burn Alpha movie file (.fbm) (date: 2011-04-05)
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Submission #3059 — Author's comments
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Rating: 7.0 (9 votes)
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- 2 Players
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses hardest difficulty
- Genre: Fighting
Top Hunter stars the galaxy's best bounty hunters, Samus Aran Boba Fett Spike Spiegel Roddy and Cathy, as they take down the Space Pirates Rebel Alliance Red Dragon Galactic Pirates.

This game features an initial choice of four levels, with the added quirk that the level layouts will depend on previous stage choices, and some boss machines that would make Dr Wily envious.


Arcade X-Men vs. Street Fighter (Europe) in 11:38.38 by SDR.
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Submission #2291 — Author's comments
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Rating: 7.0 (14.5 votes)
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- Playaround
- 2 Players
- Uses hardest difficulty
- Genre: Fighting
SDR appears to have MPD while abusing computer opponents - and himself - in this playaround.
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Added [1957] Arcade Ghosts 'n Goblins (World) by FerretWarlord in 06:27.17 (2012-01-25)
- obsoletes [853] NES Ghosts 'n Goblins (USA) by Arc in 08:23.13 (2007-05-13)
- - obsoletes [692] NES Ghosts 'n Goblins (USA) by GuanoBowl in 17:21.75 (2006-10-04)
- - - obsoletes [224] NES Ghosts 'n Goblins (USA) by Arc in 08:42.57 (2004-10-29)
- - - - obsoletes [2] NES Ghosts 'n Goblins (USA) by Arc in 08:53.33 (2004-05-06)
- - - - - obsoletes [601] NES Ghosts 'n Goblins (USA) by Arc in 09:06.75 (2004-04-18)
- - - - - - obsoletes [602] NES Ghosts 'n Goblins (USA) by Arc in 09:37.6 (2004-03-03)
- - - - - - - obsoletes [603] NES Ghosts 'n Goblins (USA) by Arc in 10:10.35 (2004-01-19)
- - - - - - - - obsoletes [604] NES Ghosts 'n Goblins (USA) by Arc in 10:12.65 (2004-01-18)
- - - - - - - - - obsoletes [605] NES Ghosts 'n Goblins (USA) by Arc in 11:15.55 (2004-01-17)
- - - - - - - - - - obsoletes [606] NES Ghosts 'n Goblins (USA) by Arc in 13:14.35 (2004-01-15)
- - - - - - - - - - - obsoletes [607] NES Ghosts 'n Goblins (JPN) "playaround" by Morimoto in 12:16.75 (2003-04-28)
Added [1931] Arcade Metal Slug 5 (World) by x2poet in 17:37.27 (2011-12-12)
- obsoletes [1909] Arcade Metal Slug 5 (World) by x2poet in 17:56.53 (2011-10-31)
Added [1867] Arcade Metal Slug 4 (World) by x2poet in 17:11.97 (2011-08-25)
- obsoletes [1841] Arcade Metal Slug 4 (World) by x2poet in 18:04.78 (2011-07-15)
Added [1819] Arcade Metal Slug 3 (World) by x2poet in 27:09.55 (2011-06-09)
Added [1807] Arcade Metal Slug X (World) by x2poet in 18:32.2 (2011-05-18)
- obsoletes [1385] Arcade Metal Slug X (World) by AngerFist in 18:48.4 (2009-11-07)
Added [1773] Arcade Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy (World) by x2poet in 12:49.1 (2011-04-05)
Added [1767] Arcade Metal Slug (World) by x2poet in 12:10.23 (2011-03-23)
Added [1763] Arcade Mercs (World) by DarkKobold in 10:23.03 (2011-03-16)
Added [1758] Arcade Spinmaster (World) by x2poet in 13:19.07 (2011-03-13)
Added [1745] Arcade Ganryu (USA) by x2poet in 07:50.2 (2011-02-27)
Added [1709] Arcade Moonwalker, Michael Jackson's (bootleg) by DarkKobold in 11:49.83 (2010-12-29)
Added [1618] Arcade Bionic Commando (USA) by Mukki in 05:48.1 (2010-09-12)
Added ☆[1613] Arcade The Simpsons (World) by adelikat & DarkKobold in 13:37.73 (2010-09-01)
Added [1600] Arcade Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (World) by DarkKobold in 12:14.85 (2010-08-14)
Added [1342] Arcade X-Men vs. Street Fighter (Europe) by SDR in 11:38.38 (2009-08-14)
Added [1300] Arcade Street Fighter Zero 2 (JPN) by error1 in 03:19.0 (2009-06-15)
Added ☽[1298] Arcade Ghouls 'n Ghosts (any) by 韩晖 (aka. 西坡 (xipo)) in 13:18.18 (2009-06-14)


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