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NES "Grant path" Castlevania 3 – Dracula's Curse (JPN) in 28:57.55 by M.S.M. (aka. Samhain-Grim, aka. VANDAL).
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Obsoletes movie #714 (30:56.7)
Rating: 7.6 (20 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Plays using a suboptimal character
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Uses no passwords
- Genre: Platform
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (originally known as 悪魔城伝説 or Akumajō Densetsu, meaning "Legend of the Demon Castle") is the story of Trevor Belmont's battle against Dracula from the times before Simon's battle in Castlevania. In this complex and difficult game, there are three playable allies whom Trevor can recruit: Alucard (Dracula's son), Grant DaNasty (a pirate captain), and Sypha Belnades (a mystic warlord).

This game has a technically high-quality soundtrack because it uses a VRC6 sound chip that works in the Japanese Famicom but not in the NES. Thus, the movie was made with the Japanese version of the game instead of the USA version.

This movie takes the path that recruits Grant. It is about two minutes faster than the previous version. There is also a Sypha path movie and an Alucard path movie.


NES "Sypha path" Castlevania 3 – Dracula's Curse (JPN) in 27:50.57 by M.S.M. (aka. Samhain-Grim, aka. VANDAL).
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Obsoletes movie #58 (28:32.15)
Rating: 7.0 (18 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Plays using a suboptimal character
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Uses no passwords
- Genre: Platform
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (originally known as 悪魔城伝説 or Akumajō Densetsu, meaning "Legend of the Demon Castle") is the story of Trevor Belmont's battle against Dracula from the times before Simon's battle in Castlevania. In this complex and difficult game, there are three playable allies whom Trevor can recruit: Alucard (Dracula's son), Grant DaNasty (a pirate captain), and Sypha Belnades (a mystic warlord).

This game has a technically high-quality soundtrack because it uses a VRC6 sound chip that works in the Japanese Famicom but not in the NES. Thus, the movie was made with the Japanese version of the game instead of the USA version.

This movie takes the path that recruits Sypha. There's also a Grant path movie and an Alucard path movie.


NES "princess only" Super Mario Bros 2 (USA) in 08:29.57 by Andrés Delikat (aka. adelikat).
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Obsoletes movie #960 (08:43.23)
Rating: 6.9 (21 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Plays using a suboptimal character
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses warps
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Platform
This is an improvement of 820 frames (13.66 seconds) over laughing_gas's princess-only run of Super Mario Bros. 2 (aka. Super Mario USA).

The concept for this run originated long ago because Princess was the only character not used in the normal run aiming for fastest overall time. Since then, improvements have removed Mario from that run as well.


NES "Luigi Version" Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) in 08:16.42 by Phil Côté.
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Obsoletes movie #1027 (08:17.83)
Rating: 7.9 (16 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Plays using a suboptimal character
- Uses warps
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Platform
This is a TAS of the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2, a.k.a. 'The Lost Levels', using a suboptimal punk called 'Luigi'. He jumps higher than Mario, but acts slower in many ways. However, the movie is in no way worse than the Mario version - some new creative solutions have been found.

This is an 85 frame improvement over the previous movie by Deign.


SNES "small only" Super Mario World (USA) in 1:19:55.65 by Greg Barnes (aka. thegreginator) & Greg Anderson (aka. skamastaG).
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Rating: 8.6 (42 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Plays using a suboptimal character
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Platform
Mario's doctor heard about the "Magic Mushrooms" which make Mario grow to twice his normal size and let him break bricks. Fearing for Mario's health, he orders Mario to avoid those nasty powerups.

This run aims to complete as many exits as possible without collecting a powerup or visiting any Switch Palaces. Unable to fly, Mario is forced to confront most obstacles and overcome them in unique ways. Riding Yoshi is also banned.

86 out of the total 96 exits are completed.

Added [1115] SNES Super Mario World (USA) by Mister in 10:26.65 (2008-05-24)
- obsoletes [719] SNES Super Mario World (USA) by Fabian & JXQ in 10:28.7 (2006-11-23)
- - obsoletes [536] SNES Super Mario World (USA) by JXQ in 10:31.95 (2006-05-06)
- - - obsoletes [351] SNES Super Mario World (USA) by flagitious&VIPer7 in 10:35.98 (2005-05-28)
- - - - obsoletes [144] SNES Super Mario World (USA) by A.Neuhaus in 10:50.97 (2004-07-26)
- - - - - obsoletes [119] SNES Super Mario World (USA) by Volkov in 10:52.42 (2004-07-14)
- - - - - - obsoletes [106] SNES Super Mario World (USA) by Bladegash in 11:05.7 (2004-06-20)
Added [1042] NES "Luigi Version" Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by Phil in 08:16.42 (2008-01-17)
- obsoletes [1027] NES "Luigi version" Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by Deign in 08:17.83 (2007-12-17)
- - obsoletes [831] NES "Luigi version" Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by Phil in 08:20.98 (2007-04-11)
- - - obsoletes [270] NES "Luigi version" Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by Phil & Genisto in 08:29.82 (2004-12-25)
Added [1031] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by klmz in 08:09.23 (2007-12-22)
- obsoletes [754] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by Phil & Genisto in 08:12.25 (2006-12-30)
- - obsoletes [346] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by Phil & Genisto in 08:21.37 (2005-05-24)
- - - obsoletes [261] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by Bisqwit in 08:20.57 (2004-12-12)
- - - - obsoletes [256] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by Bisqwit in 08:21.43 (2004-12-09)
- - - - - obsoletes [254] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by Bisqwit in 08:21.79 (2004-12-05)
- - - - - - obsoletes [11] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by Bisqwit in 08:24.37 (2004-06-09)
- - - - - - - obsoletes [683] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by Michael F in 08:25.15 (2004-02-06)
- - - - - - - - obsoletes [682] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by Bisqwit in 08:27.55 (2004-02-05)
- - - - - - - - - obsoletes [684] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by Bisqwit in 08:30.95 (2004-02-01)
Added [1002] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (USA PRG0) by adelikat & Cardboard in 07:52.67 (2007-11-25)
- obsoletes [510] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by DonamerDragon in 07:53.32 (2006-03-23)
- - obsoletes [400] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by Phil in 07:53.63 (2005-08-28)
- - - obsoletes [309] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by Sleepz in 07:54.23 (2005-03-17)
- - - - obsoletes [234] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by Genisto in 08:14.23 (2004-11-09)
- - - - - obsoletes [99] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by Genisto in 08:31.3 (2004-06-25)
- - - - - - obsoletes [637] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by Sleepz in 08:43.45 (2004-03-31)
Added [1001] NES "warpless" Super Mario Bros 2 (USA PRG0) by adelikat & Cardboard in 19:39.93 (2007-11-24)
- obsoletes [494] NES "warpless" Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by DonamerDragon in 20:14.2 (2006-03-04)
- - obsoletes [390] NES "warpless" Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by GuanoBowl in 21:24.85 (2005-08-13)
Added [976] NES "princess only" Super Mario Bros 2 (USA) by adelikat in 08:29.57 (2007-10-06)
- obsoletes [960] NES "princess only" Super Mario Bros 2 (USA PRG0) by laughing_gas in 08:43.23 (2007-09-20)
- - obsoletes [10] NES "princess only" Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by Genisto in 09:07.3 (2004-03-23)
- - - obsoletes [651] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by Bisqwit in 09:18.6 (2004-03-01)
- - - - obsoletes [653] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by Bisqwit in 10:05.6 (2004-02-29)
- - - - - obsoletes [676] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by Bisqwit in 10:12.95 (2004-02-03)
- - - - - - obsoletes [677] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by Bisqwit in 10:48.15 (2004-02-02)
- - - - - - - obsoletes [678] NES Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by Bisqwit in 11:15.75 (2004-01-01)
- - - - - - - - obsoletes [679] NES "Luigi only" Super Mario Bros 2 (USA,PRG0) by Bisqwit in 11:36.25 (2004-01-01)
Added [892] SNES "small only" Super Mario World (USA) by thegreginator & skamastaG in 1:19:55.65 (2007-06-11)
Added [764] NES "Alucard path" Castlevania 3 – Dracula's Curse­ (JPN) by Samhain-Grim in 25:17.73 (2007-01-04)
- obsoletes [57] NES "Alucard path" Castlevania 3 – Dracula's Curse (JPN) by Genisto in 25:56.92 (2004-04-06)
Added [763] NES "Sypha path" Castlevania 3 – Dracula's Curse (JPN) by Samhain-Grim in 27:50.57 (2007-01-04)
- obsoletes [58] NES "Sypha path" Castlevania 3 – Dracula's Curse (JPN) by Phil in 28:32.15 (2004-04-06)
Added [762] NES "Grant path" Castlevania 3 – Dracula's Curse (JPN) by Samhain-Grim in 28:57.55 (2007-01-04)
- obsoletes [714] NES "Grant path" Castlevania 3 – Dracula's Curse (JPN) by Samhain-Grim in 30:56.7 (2006-11-12)
- - obsoletes [580] NES "Grant path" Castlevania 3 – Dracula's Curse (JPN) by Samhain-Grim in 31:25.45 (2006-08-18)
Added ☆[577] SNES "96-exit" Super Mario World (USA) by Fabian in 1:21:29.63 (2006-08-14)
- obsoletes [304] SNES "96-exit" Super Mario World (USA) by VIPer7 in 1:23:38.37 (2005-03-02)