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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 (15 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 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 (24 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! | ||
![]() | 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: Too few votes (2) to display 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 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 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 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 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: 7.2 (15 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Pokémon Ruby, along with Pokémon Sapphire and Emerald, is part of the third-generation Pokémon games, 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 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. | ||
![]() | 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: 5.6 (35 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Pokémon Gold, and its sister, Pokémon Silver, are of the next generation of Pokémon, after Pokémon Red and Blue. Among noticeable differences is that the game is now colourful, and that there are over 250 Pokémon instead of around 150. 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 earlier generation 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 it. This movie requires VBA1.7.2 v17. See the submission text for details. | ||
![]() | 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: 7.2 (3.5 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. | ||
![]() | 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 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 (31 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. | ||
![]() | 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. | ||
![]() | 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 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 (20.5 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 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 (27 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 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: 8.3 (76 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 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 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 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 (35.5 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 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 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. | ||
![]() | 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 was 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/glitches. | ||
![]() | 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 Gunstar Heroes (USA) in 35:28.92 by arkiandruski. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-08-18) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 218.41 MB, length: 39:00) 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: 7.9 (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 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 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 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 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 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 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 18:42.37 by FuzZerd, Sonikkustar, Upthorn & Aglar. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2011-04-15) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 103.45 MB, length: 22:41) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3101 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #600 (19:55.43) Rating: 8.9 (23 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 | |
| Super fast bouncing around. Completed without collecting any emeralds, with Sonic and Tails (both controlled by the player). This long-awaited improvement to nitsuja's famous run saves 1:13.06 in real-time and 4418 in-game frames by general optimisation and several long-known additional glitches. | ||
![]() | 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 (uk.youtube.com) Watch on (www.viddler.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 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 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 (1) 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. | ||
![]() | 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 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: 8.3 (8.5 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) "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: 7.5 (15.5 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 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 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. | ||
![]() | 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 (21.5 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 (14 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. | ||
![]() | 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: 6.2 (7 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: 5.3 (8 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 Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (USA v1.0) "102%" in 1:22:17.17 by Dooty, NxCy & Comicalflop. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-10-03) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 616.96 MB, length: 1:24:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2853 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1264 (1:23:10.88) Rating: 8.8 (16 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. The main improvement in this movie comes from using Hard Mode. That means there are no DK Barrels lying around the stages. Also, whenever you start a level or sucessfully complete a bonus, you'll have both Kongs, which allows for more places to sacrifice a Kong and save time. By playing in this mode, 53.71 seconds were saved compared to its predecessor. Note: this run was made using the input of the old movie from Comicalflop and NxCy, and improvements were spliced in by Dooty. For more primate action, we recommend watching the any% movie. | ||
![]() | 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 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 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 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 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 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 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: Too few votes (2) to display 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 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: 31.59 MB, length: 15:11) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 28.56 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 (15 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 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 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: 5.6 (17.5 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 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 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 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. | ||
[1948] Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog (any,r1)
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[1945] SNES Super Mario World (USA) "glitched"
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[1944] SNES Super Mario World (USA)
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[1912] SNES Super Mario World (USA)
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[1415] SNES Super Mario World (USA)
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[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)
[1898] SNES Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (USA v1.0)
by Carl Sagan in 1:33:40.18 (2011-10-13)
[1840] SGB Pokémon: Blue Version (USA/Europe) "Gotta Catch 'Em All!"
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[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)
[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)
[428] SGB Pokémon: Blue Version (USA/Europe)
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[1697] SNES Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (USA) "105%"
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[1656] Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles (any)
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[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)
[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)
[1613] Arcade The Simpsons (World)
by adelikat & DarkKobold in 13:37.73 (2010-09-01)
[1313] Saturn Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (JPN)
by arukAdo in 06:51.22 (2009-06-25)
[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)
[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)
[564] GBC Pokémon: Gold Version (USA/Europe)
by FractalFusion in 2:54:27.15 (2006-07-17)