= Notable publication
= Console-verifiedTotal movies: 22
![]() | NES A Nightmare On Elm Street (USA) in 14:32.88 by Randil. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-01-26) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 27.63 MB, length: 15:07) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1398 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #248 (16:31.93) Rating: 5.9 (21.5 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Everyone knows Freddy Krueger, who turns the peaceful dreams of people living on Elm Street into lethal nightmares. In this game, the teenager(s) must stay awake and combat Freddy's various forms while collecting his scattered bones so that they can be incinerated. This movie is 1:59 faster than the previous version by Ziplock. | ||
![]() | NES Battletoads (USA) "1p warpless" in 24:20.12 by Phil & Genisto. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-04-14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 77.24 MB, length: 25:29) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #604 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #284 (26:31.67) Rating: 6.8 (30.5 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Uses death to save time - Forgoes warps - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform | |
| This is a 1-player warpless TAS on this hard game. As usual, the author shows off many bugs in this fighting/autoscrolling hybrid. This movie requires FCEU 0.98.12. | ||
![]() | NES Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (USA) in 09:54.37 by Aglar. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-06-06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 14.24 MB, length: 10:47) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.flurret.net Mirror www.radiokj.com Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3166 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #473 (09:57.17) Rating: 7.1 (8.5 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Chip 'n Dale - Rescue Rangers is based on the animated TV series. In this ridiculously easy and straightforward game, the Rangers look for their neighbor's kitty and end up fighting against their old nemesis, Fat Cat. Aglar improved Genisto's movie by 1.81 seconds, by using different routes and by improving the zip method. You can check out the author's comments to learn more about the improvements. | ||
![]() | NES Contra (JPN) "pacifist" in 09:29.08 by Soig & zyr2288. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-11-27) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 16.11 MB, length: 12:22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 15.36 MB, length: 12:22) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3372 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1883 (09:35.93) Rating: 7.3 (7 votes) View Publication | - Pacifist version - One player in a multiplayer game - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Contra completed fast, with an additional goal: do not kill enemies directly unless absolutely necessary to complete the game.
The hero shows the ultimate display of pacifism by sacrificing his own life in order to not destroy the Level 5 tanks.
This movie improves upon the previous movie by 6.85 seconds.
Note: This game was released under different names, such as 魂斗羅 (kontora) in Japan, and Probotector in Europe. GryZor is also used in Europe on some other systems. In addition to the standard downloadable encode, there is a second experimental downloadable encode produced in 10-bit YUV444 h.264. You will need a very recent codec / media player (such as LAV Filters, recent builds of FFDShow-tryouts, or mplayer2) to be able to play this experimental encode back. | ||
![]() | NES Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones (USA) in 10:10.23 by 韩晖 (aka. 西坡 (xipo)). | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-08-09) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 13.91 MB, length: 11:48) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2026 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #882 (10:38.82) Rating: 6.7 (22 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform | |
| In this movie, the author speeds through the game, beating up all the bad guys quickly and efficiently, making full use of each character — and killing them off when they are no longer useful. The characters' special abilities are abused to provide some unorthodox shortcuts. This is the author's 3rd version and is an improvement of about 28 seconds over his previous movie. | ||
![]() | NES Jackal (JPN/USA) in 07:25.98 by klmz. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-08-10) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 14.07 MB, length: 09:04) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2000 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #967 (07:36.9) Rating: 6.3 (19.5 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Forgoes time-saving death - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Shooter | |
| Unfortunately, Red from the last year's carnage got into an accident involving a badly thrown grenade and a few land mines, so Green takes it on all by himself in this new episode of Jackal. Not having to deal with the larger amount of two-player mayhem also means the game goes faster, which is a win for everybody. (Except that Red guy.) Coupled with better playing, this constitutes the 9 second improvement over the previous movie by xipo. | ||
![]() | NES Marble Madness (USA) in 02:43.01 by Aglar. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-01-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 5.86 MB, length: 03:14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 5.53 MB, length: 03:14) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2986 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #913 (02:48.4) Rating: 7.7 (21 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Genre: Platform - Genre: Racing | |
| Marble Madness is an isometric game similar in its style to Snake Rattle 'n Roll. The objective in these two games is quite different, though. In this game, the player must roll a marble from one point to another. This is, of course, not as easy as it sounds, and certainly not as easy as it looks in this movie. Aglar improved adelikat and Deign's movie by 5.10 seconds. A second encode is available using a camera hack to focus on the marble, which subtly alters the gameplay. Also, you can see this movie played back on an actual NES! | ||
![]() | NES New Ghostbusters II (Europe) in 17:45.59 by Zus. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2008-11-27) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 32.21 MB, length: 20:16) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2122 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (20.5 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Genre: Action | |
| The New Ghostbusters II is a much different game than the USA edition, even though they are based on the same movie. The European version, shown here, takes a Blaster Master-esque approach to the gameplay with a top-down view. Zus has spent a lot of his time making sure enemies are in highly ideal places, which in turn means that a lot of re-records were spent comparing and working out the best possible route. As a result, Zus saved over 11 seconds from his previous version. | ||
![]() | NES Shadow of the Ninja (JPN) in 09:48.32 by klmz. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-08-20) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 21.81 MB, length: 12:36) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1653 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #856 (09:22.13) Rating: 6.7 (21 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| In the year 2029, evil Emperor Garuda somehow establishes a dictatorial government in the United States. After many lives are lost, two ninjas attempt to overthrow him. Shadow of the Ninja is one of the rare games in which constantly jumping and slashing is faster than regular running. The author makes sure to use this move extensively both to travel and to deal damage to enemies, and so it may seem that the ninja has a severe case of ADHD. This game was released in Europe as Blue Shadow and in Japan as Kage. Note: the previous movie was erroneously played on the European PAL version in NTSC mode, making the game run too fast. Its actual completion time was 11:15, making this movie one minute and 26 seconds faster. | ||
![]() | NES Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game (USA) in 27:03.42 by Baxter. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-08-06) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 46.29 MB, length: 29:57) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1129 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #104 (31:08.5) Rating: 7.1 (32 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Genre: Fighting | |
| TMNT2 is a classic beat-em-up game with 4 classic main characters: Raphael, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Donatello. The latter is the only turtle used in this movie. This movie is Baxter's new and improved version, which is an astounding 4 minutes faster than his previous version. Donatello has learned the secret ninja art of teleportation and... no, actually, a glitch that enables the player to move around extremely fast is used to hit all the enemies as soon as they come on screen. But most of the improvement comes from outstanding luck manipulation. | ||
![]() | Genesis Contra: Hard Corps (JPN) "secret ending" in 04:57.28 by adelikat. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-04-14) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 25.80 MB, length: 07:28) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1914 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #906 (04:59.47) Rating: 7.1 (28 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Contra: Hard Corps (1994) was the first game in the series to be exclusively released on a non-Nintendo console. The game took a lot of elements from previous installments and spiced them up with even more dynamic combat, different playable characters, nonlinear plot and about twice the amount of boss fights. In this movie the author takes the secret "fifth ending", thereby skipping most of the game. If you want to see runs which play more of the game, then you should see this run (with the quickest "normal" ending) or this run (with the "best" ending). The Japanese version was chosen because, for some reason, it gives the players a health bar, allowing them to take some damage without dying. This is a 2.19 second improvement over the previous movie. | ||
![]() | Genesis Contra: Hard Corps (JPN) in 14:07.52 by Soig. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2011-02-07) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 95.39 MB, length: 17:04) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2987 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1098 (14:11.9) Rating: 7.4 (9 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Contra: Hard Corps is the only game of the Contra series released on the Genesis / Mega Drive console. In this game, you get to choose between four characters, each with different abilities and weapons. This game has four completely different final stages, each with a different ending, depending on the choices you make earlier. This run takes the quickest path leading to one of these final stages. There are also runs which get the best ending or the secret ending. The Japanese version was chosen because, for some reason, it gives the players a health bar, allowing them to take some damage without dying. Fang is used due to a glitch that allows him to deliver fully charged D weapon shots, without taking time to charge it. Soig's movie beats adelikat's movie by 4.38 seconds, due to general improvements. To learn more about these improvements, you can read the author's comments. | ||
![]() | Genesis Contra: Hard Corps (JPN) "best ending" in 17:36.97 by Soig. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2011-03-11) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 98.15 MB, length: 20:32) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3028 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (10 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - One player in a multiplayer game - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Contra: Hard Corps is the only game of the Contra series released on the Genesis / Mega Drive console. In this game, you get to choose between four characters, each with different abilities and weapons. The Japanese version was chosen because, for some reason, it gives the players a health bar, allowing them to take some damage without dying. You can also get several different endings, based on which choices you make at several points. In this movie, the author takes the "best ending", which is the only ending that rewards the player with a "GOOD JOB!" screen at the end. There is also a run which obtains a worse ending but still shows off a number of the game's stages. There is also a run which gets the secret ending. | ||
![]() | Genesis Golden Axe (JPN/USA,r1) in 07:01.95 by Mukki. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-03-21) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 23.78 MB, length: 14:55) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2604 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #543 (07:08.38) Rating: 8.2 (19 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Fighting | |
| A classic hack'n'slash arcade type game, which sports ridable creatures and magic. The author abuses the simplistic AI to make enemies commit suicide by jumping off cliffs. This movie is about 7 seconds faster than the previous version. | ||
![]() | Genesis Marble Madness (USA) in 02:39.45 by SprintGod. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-08-11) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 4.90 MB, length: 02:46) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1658 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #693 (02:49.43) Rating: 7.5 (27.5 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Uses death to save time - Genre: Racing | |
| The Genesis remake of Marble Madness is not directly comparable to the original. In addition to having much worse audio quality, the rules on where (and what) the marble can go (and do) are relaxed, allowing for many shortcuts not possible on the NES. This improvement by SprintGod is 10 seconds faster than adelikat's previous version. | ||
![]() | Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles "newgame+" in 31:16.15 by marzojr. | |||||||||
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2010-09-11) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 257.20 MB, length: 35:30) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 2.38 GB, length: 35:30) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2802 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.7 (16 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - One player in a multiplayer game - Uses death to save time - Second quest/Post game-completion - Starts from a saved state or SRAM - Genre: Platform | |||||||||
| Sonic's gone to plaid in the latest TAS by marzojr. It starts from a savestate to take advantage of Hyper Sonic from the beginning of the game. (For more details, see the note below and the run's comments.)
WARNING: The awesomeness of Hyper Sonic may damage your eyes or trigger seizures in susceptible people.
Note: This movie begins from a save state from the end of regular mode in order to access Hyper Sonic from the beginning of the game. There is no other way to access it outside of a hack. We normally do not accept movies which begin from a save state. To download a savestate for this movie, use this link for Gens version 11a or this link for Gens version 11b. Note: There are multiple encodes for the run, as described by this table:
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![]() | Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (USA) "Competition" in 02:01.05 by nitsuja & mmarks. | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2011-01-02) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 14.62 MB, length: 02:42) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2953 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (16.5 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - One player in a multiplayer game - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| This movie showcases the competition mode of Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Here, nitsuja and mmarks aim to complete each level in the fastest time possible. This run is also the fastest anyone has completed each level in Time Attack. | ||
![]() | SNES Contra 3: The Alien Wars (USA) "glitched" in 03:20.38 by Cpadolf. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-06-14) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 13.47 MB, length: 03:39) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2273 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1217 (03:23.27) Rating: 7.4 (21 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Uses death to save time - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| One of the best (and best known) shooters of the 16-bit era, Contra 3 forgoes any semblence of plot devices in favor of good old fashioned shooting and platforming with some tough as nails bosses, especially in this, the hardest mode. Apparently not happy with an already amazing movie, Cpadolf felt the need to go on yet another black op, optimizing his distortions of space and time on the way to a 173 frame improvement. This movie uses a 'warping' glitch to complete the game. There is also the 2-player version which does not. | ||
![]() | SNES Contra 3: The Alien Wars (USA) "pacifist" in 14:25.25 by Ash_Williams. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2006-12-19) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 47.50 MB, length: 17:46) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1095 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (30 votes) View Publication | - Pacifist version - One player in a multiplayer game - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Due to budget cutbacks, the guy who destroys the world bare-chested has been ordered to conserve his ammo. This run completes Contra 3 without shooting anything that isn't mandatory for winning the game. This includes enemies' projectiles. | ||
![]() | SNES Final Fight 3 (USA) in 17:05.82 by Sotel6. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2011-11-05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 36.30 MB, length: 19:28) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3334 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #704 (18:18.63) Rating: 7.0 (5 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Uses warps - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Fighting | |
| The Skull Cross Gang is wreaking havoc in Metro City, and it's up to Guy to restore order. This is an improvement of 1:12.82 over the previous TAS by Diman, largely due to better use of combos and manipulation of enemies. Just like the previous run, Sotel6 uses sledgehammers to kill enemies, bringing new meaning to the phrase "tool-assisted speedrun". (Groan.) | ||
![]() | SNES Kaizou Choujin Shubibinman Zero (JPN) in 12:48.17 by TheRandomPie_IV. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-04-05) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 48.77 MB, length: 14:54) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1889 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #904 (13:12.22) Rating: 6.6 (17 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| This is a game based on the completely "unique" concept of an evil boss trying to take over/destroy/do whatever with the world, and despite the Earth being filled with about 7 billion occupants, you are the only one who can stop it. At first glance it may seem odd that, although the game is two player, only one player is used, and that's Player 2. Player 2 was chosen because her aerial attack gives an enormous speed boost. It is also one of the few attacks in video games that operates on frame precision, so smashing out a 30Hz rapid-fire on the controller will lay the beatdown pretty quickly. That, combined with the fact that half the enemies in this game are of the standard "walk around and shoot" variety, allow the heroine to zip through the game with total reckless abandon. Few games allow a TASer to do that, so this is a rare opportunity indeed. The game is eerily similar to Mega Man 7 and Mega Man X. It even has pick-throwing miners. This is a 24 second improvement over the previous movie by the use of some new tricks. These are explained in the author's comments. Important: This movie requires Snes9x 1.43 v15.3 or earlier. It desyncs on later versions. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Gussun Oyoyo (JPN) in 07:26.33 by Ryuto. | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-12-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 22.49 MB, length: 10:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2466 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.6 (10 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Genre: Platform - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Super Gussun Oyoyo is a puzzle game best described as a mixture of Lemmings and Tetris. Two treasure hunters named Gussun and Oyoyo are exploring a dungeon when an earthquake occurs, causing the dungeon to begin sinking. The player controls blocks akin to Tetris pieces, leading Gussun to the dungeon exit before it submerges completely. This run starts from stage 21, the latest possible stage that the game allows one to start on. Publisher's note: There is a glitch in the sound between stage 30 and 32 inclusive which is a result of the run itself, and not of the encoding. | ||
[97] Genesis Contra: Hard Corps (unknown)
by Gigafrost in 15:50.7 (2004-06-10)
[1656] Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles (any)
by nitsuja & Upthorn & marzojr in 29:51.2 (2010-10-23)
[1595] Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles (any)
by nitsuja & Upthorn & marzojr in 32:05.52 (2010-08-07)
[1400] Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles (any)
by nitsuja & Upthorn & marzojr in 32:19.38 (2009-11-26)
[1112] Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles (any)
by nitsuja & Upthorn in 33:05.78 (2008-05-19)
[826] Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles (any)
by nitsuja in 34:22.02 (2007-04-08)
[712] Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles (any)
by nitsuja in 35:19.62 (2006-11-03)
[156] Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles (any)
by SprintGod in 49:31.67 (2004-08-09)
[1493] Genesis Golden Axe (JPN/USA,r1)
by Mukki in 07:01.95 (2010-03-21)
[543] Genesis Golden Axe (JPN/USA r1)
by trazz in 07:08.38 (2006-06-03)
[28] NES Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (USA)
by Sleepz in 10:56.95 (2004-03-11)
[98] SNES Contra 3: The Alien Wars (USA)
by Phil & Genisto in 13:39.83 (2004-06-02)