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Total movies: 17


[Tier: Moons]DOS Epic Pinball (shareware v2.1) "Super Android" in 05:07.53 by dwangoAC.
JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2010-10-05)
MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 26.01 MB, length: 07:42)
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Submission #2830 — Author's comments
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Rating: 6.0 (13.5 votes)
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- 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.


[Tier: Stars]GBA Sonic Advance 2 (USA) in 18:01.78 by Mukki.
VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2012-01-28)
MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 101.40 MB, length: 21:10)
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Submission #3426 — Author's comments
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Rating: 9.0 (13.5 votes)
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- 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
Award - GBA TAS of 2012
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.


[Tier: Moons]GB Super Mario Land (any v1.0) in 12:08.75 by MUGG.
VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2012-08-19)
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Submission #3674 — Author's comments
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Rating: 8.2 (8.5 votes)
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- Aims for maximum score
- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Platform
Aside from Tetris, Super Mario Land is probably the most well-known cartridge for the original Game Boy. 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 publication improves on the previous one by 4.33 seconds from a new trick that allows Mario to warp around the screen on auto-scrolling levels as well as a new strategy used to end the mandatory bonus game after each world quicker.

If you enjoyed this movie, be sure to see hard mode.


[Tier: Moons]Genesis Olympic Gold - Barcelona '92 (USA) in 10:32.23 by Toothache.
Gens movie (.gmv) (date: 2013-01-01)
MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 22.24 MB, length: 11:43)
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Submission #2612 — Author's comments
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Rating: 4.8 (4 votes)
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- Aims for maximum score
- Heavy luck manipulation
- Uses hardest difficulty
- Genre: Sport
The official game of the Games of the XXV Olympiad, held in Barcelona in 1992. It features seven different events: 100M Sprint, Hammer Throw, Archery, 110M Hurdles, Pole Vault, Springboard Diving and 200M Freestyle Swimming.

In this playaround, the author, Toothache, achieves the best score or time possible in each event.


[Tier: Moons]N64 Tetrisphere (USA) in 07:00.0 by Acmlm.
Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2006-04-29)
MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 34.02 MB, length: 07:09)
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Submission #1065 — Author's comments
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Rating: 6.8 (77.5 votes)
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- 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. :)


[Tier: Moons]N64 Wetrix (USA) in 00:49.72 by Deign.
Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2007-06-08)
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Submission #1569 — Author's comments
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Rating: 6.7 (49.5 votes)
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- 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. There are huge bonus multipliers which stack together to produce the massive score.


[Tier: Vault]NES Crash N' The Boys Street Challenge (USA) in 11:30.55 by GuanoBowl.
FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2012-12-06)
MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 15.81 MB, length: 19:53)
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Submission #747 — Author's comments
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Rating: 5.4 (5.5 votes)
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- Aims for maximum score
- Maximum kills
- Best ending
- Genre: Fighting
- Genre: Sport
Crash 'n the Boys: Street Challenge is part of the Kunio-kun series. Kunio is the protagonist of the series and the guardian of Nekketsu High School. His name has been localized a variety of ways: "Crash" Cooney in this game, Mr. K in Renegade, Sam in Super Dodge Ball, and Alex in River City Ransom. In this game, representatives of the high schools compete in 5 no-holds-barred events.

In this run, GuanoBowl ends all the races early by knocking his opponent out. Rockets are purchased to make the hammer throw go farther and gum is used to help him hold his breath underwater. This run gets the extended ending for winning as Crash's school.


[Tier: Moons]NES Dr. Mario (JPN/USA) in 01:12.83 by CtrlAltDestroy.
FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-05-21)
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Submission #2250 — Author's comments
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Rating: 7.3 (39.5 votes)
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- 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.


[Tier: Vault]NES Gumshoe (USA) in 14:43.98 by Highness.
FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-12-06)
MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 18.36 MB, length: 15:27)
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Submission #2065 — Author's comments
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Rating: 5.0 (3.5 votes)
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- Aims for maximum score
- Maximum kills
- Genre: Shooter
Gumshoe is a game developed by Yoshio Sakamoto of Nintendo (known for his work on the Metroid games). Using the NES Zapper accessory, shoot the enemies and obstacles in the hero's path or shoot the hero himself to make him jump over them on his way to save his daughter from the Mafia.

Since the game is an autoscroller, highness aims for maximum kills and score instead of time.


[Tier: Moons][Console-verified]NES Tetris (USA) "fastest 999999" in 03:11.78 by Acmlm.
FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-08-09)
MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 4.38 MB, length: 03:31)
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Submission #2786 — Author's comments
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Rating: 8.3 (37.5 votes)
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- 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


[Tier: Moons]NES Track & Field (USA) in 12:55.43 by Phil.
FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-09-30)
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Submission #1716 — Author's comments
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Obsoletes movie #36 (08:56.48)
Rating: 6.4 (33 votes)
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- Aims for maximum score
- Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
- 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.

[Tier: Vault]PSX Bishi Bashi Special (JPN) "Time Trial & Maximum Score" in 05:13.5 by Spikestuff.
PSXjin movie (.pjm) (date: 2013-05-18)
MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 18.20 MB, length: 06:47)
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Submission #3966 — Author's comments
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Rating: 6.9 (5 votes)
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- Aims for maximum score
- Uses hardest difficulty
- Genre: Puzzle
Bishi Bashi Special is a game that's similar to Salary Man Champ, being a Japan-only collection of mini-games with a variety of rules.

This game has two modes, the main mode and Time Trial mode. Time Trial mode features the car level from the main mode as well as a lot of original levels where a button must be pushed over and over as fast as the player can, aptly nicknamed "button mashers".

Spikestuff runs through Time Trial mode, aiming to get the highest score in each minigame with in-game time as a secondary goal. For more details, see the author's comments.


[Tier: Moons]PSX Bishi Bashi Special (JPN) "Maximum Score" in 33:53.43 by Spikestuff.
PSXjin movie (.pjm) (date: 2013-02-09)
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Submission #3781 — Author's comments
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Rating: 6.1 (7 votes)
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- Aims for maximum score
- Uses hardest difficulty
- Genre: Puzzle
Bishi Bashi Special is a collection of 46 mini-games with a variety of rules.

Here Spikestuff is playing through them quickly while picking up the maximum score of 10 for each. Getting the high score sometimes has odd conditions, like the elephant race where finishing 7-2 is needed for the 10.

For a TAS of a related game, see the Salary Man Champ publication.


[Tier: Moons]SNES Star Fox (USA) in 19:47.37 by YtterbiJum.
snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2007-03-05)
MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 62.19 MB, length: 25:45)
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Submission #1447 — Author's comments
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Rating: 7.0 (34 votes)
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- 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.


[Tier: Moons]SNES Super Putty (USA) "all stages" in 16:53.17 by Dooty.
snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2012-10-07)
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Submission #3708 — Author's comments
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Rating: 5.5 (6 votes)
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- Aims for maximum score
- Uses death to save time
- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Platform
Putty Moon, the place where all the putties live, has been taken over by an evil wizard named Dazzledaze. Putty has been banished from the moon to the planet below. To return to Putty Moon and defeat the evil wizard, Putty enlists the help of some robots ("bots") to build a skyscraper that will reach up to Putty Moon.

Dooty goes through all the stages in order to get high scores.


[Tier: Moons]SNES Tetris Attack (USA) "fast 99999" in 01:15.38 by zvsp.
snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2011-09-07)
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Submission #3276 — Author's comments
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Rating: 7.5 (12.5 votes)
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- 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.


[Tier: Moons]SNES Tetris Attack (JPN) in 00:39.2 by zvsp.
snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2011-10-17)
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Submission #3330 — Author's comments
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Rating: 7.4 (11.5 votes)
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- 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.

Please read the welcome page if you haven't already done so. It explains the rules and methods that apply to all of these movies, particularly the use of savestates and frame advance. Also refer to our Glossary to understand terms we use, such as TAS or other unfamiliar terms.

Added [Tier: Vault]PSX Bishi Bashi Special (JPN) "Time Trial & Maximum Score" by Spikestuff in 05:13.5 (2013-05-18)
Added [Tier: Moons]PSX Bishi Bashi Special (JPN) "Maximum Score" by Spikestuff in 33:53.43 (2013-02-09)
Added [Tier: Moons]Genesis Olympic Gold - Barcelona '92 (USA) by Toothache in 10:32.23 (2013-01-01)
Added [Tier: Vault]NES Crash N' The Boys Street Challenge (USA) by GuanoBowl in 11:30.55 (2012-12-06)
Added [Tier: Vault]NES Gumshoe (USA) by Highness in 14:43.98 (2012-12-06)
Added [Tier: Moons]SNES Super Putty (USA) "all stages" by Dooty in 16:53.17 (2012-10-07)
Added [Tier: Moons]GB Super Mario Land (any v1.0) by MUGG in 12:08.75 (2012-08-19)
- obsoletes [Tier: Moons]GB Super Mario Land (any v1.1) by MUGG in 12:13.08 (2010-08-23)
- - obsoletes [Tier: Moons]GB Super Mario Land (any v1.1) by MUGG in 12:13.15 (2010-04-09)
- - - obsoletes [Tier: Moons]GB Super Mario Land (USA v1.1) by xenos in 12:13.68 (2009-08-05)
- - - - obsoletes [Tier: Moons]GB Super Mario Land (USA/Europe v1.1) by TheAxeMan in 12:14.92 (2005-05-03)
Added [Tier: Stars]GBA Sonic Advance 2 (USA) by Mukki in 18:01.78 (2012-01-28)
- obsoletes [Tier: Stars]GBA Sonic Advance 2 (USA) by nitsuja in 18:44.97 (2006-01-30)
Added [Tier: Moons]SNES Tetris Attack (JPN) by zvsp in 00:39.2 (2011-10-17)
- obsoletes [Tier: Moons]SNES Tetris Attack (JPN) by zvsp in 00:40.52 (2011-09-21)
- - obsoletes [Tier: Moons]SNES Tetris Attack (JPN) by Baxter in 00:48.7 (2007-08-07)
Added [Tier: Moons]SNES Tetris Attack (USA) "fast 99999" by zvsp in 01:15.38 (2011-09-07)
- obsoletes [Tier: Moons]SNES Tetris Attack (USA) "fast 99999" by zvsp in 01:23.27 (2007-10-01)
- - obsoletes [Tier: Moons]SNES Tetris Attack (USA) by Acmlm in 01:31.28 (2005-11-27)
- - - obsoletes [Tier: Moons]SNES Tetris Attack (Europe) by Daniayaw in 02:22.82 (2005-10-22)
- - - - obsoletes [Tier: Moons]SNES Tetris Attack (Europe) by Lezard in 03:22.48 (2004-09-01)
Added [Tier: Moons]DOS Epic Pinball (shareware v2.1) "Super Android" by dwangoAC in 05:07.53 (2010-10-05)
Added [Tier: Stars]GB Super Mario Land (any v1.1) "hard mode" by MUGG in 12:14.77 (2010-08-22)
Added [Tier: Moons][Console-verified]NES Tetris (USA) "fastest 999999" by Acmlm in 03:11.78 (2010-08-09)
- obsoletes [Tier: Moons][Console-verified]NES Tetris (USA) "fastest 999999" by Baxter in 03:29.67 (2007-07-23)
- - obsoletes [Tier: Moons][Console-verified]NES Tetris (USA) by Acmlm in 03:41.9 (2005-08-28)
- - - obsoletes [Tier: Moons][Console-verified]NES Tetris (USA) by Nico Cannino in 03:56.42 (2005-07-31)
- - - - obsoletes [Tier: Moons][Console-verified]NES Tetris (USA) by Acmlm in 04:06.07 (2004-11-19)
Added [Tier: Stars][Console-verified]NES Tetris (USA) "playaround" by Baxter in 02:17.36 (2010-04-09)
Added [Tier: Moons]NES Dr. Mario (JPN/USA) by CtrlAltDestroy in 01:12.83 (2009-05-21)
Added [Tier: Moons]NES Track & Field (USA) by Phil in 12:55.43 (2007-09-30)
- obsoletes [Tier: Vault]NES Track & Field (USA) by Arc in 08:28.05 (2004-04-29)
- obsoletes [Tier: Moons]NES Track & Field (Europe) by Phil in 09:05.4 (2004-04-29)
- obsoletes [Tier: Vault]NES Track & Field (USA) by Phil in 08:56.48 (2004-04-29)
- - obsoletes [Tier: Moons]NES Track & Field (USA) by Arc in 08:48.55 (2004-03-14)
Added [Tier: Moons][Console-verified]NES Tetris (USA) "Mode B" by Baxter in 00:38.85 (2007-07-23)
- obsoletes [Tier: Vault][Console-verified]NES Tetris (USA) "Mode B" by Chef Stef in 00:50.53 (2007-07-19)
Added [Tier: Moons]N64 Wetrix (USA) by Deign in 00:49.72 (2007-06-08)
Added [Tier: Moons]SNES Star Fox (USA) by YtterbiJum in 19:47.37 (2007-03-05)
Added [Tier: Moons]N64 Tetrisphere (USA) by Acmlm in 07:00.0 (2006-04-29)

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