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GBA Sonic Advance 3 (USA) in 35:56.75 by JSP (aka. Nitsuja).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 160 MB, length: 41:21)
Download VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2006-09-10)
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Read author's comments in submission #1192
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Rating: 7.7 (32 votes)
- Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
- No death
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses a game restart sequence
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Action
- 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.


GBA Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (USA) in 36:04.7 by Justin Chan (aka. FractalFusion).
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Download VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2007-08-05)
Read author's comments in submission #1603
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Rating: 5.6 (18 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- No death
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Platform
Splinter Cell is a well known stealth action game where agent Sam Fisher tries to rescue CIA agents from the bad guys.

However, in this run the author doesn't care about stealth at all and runs through the levels as fast as possible.

FractalFusion has also created a TAS for the game's GBA sequel.


GBC Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (USA) in 1:09:49.93 by Stefan Roger (aka. Chef Stef).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 119 MB, length: 1:14:56)
Download VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2007-05-19)
Read author's comments in submission #1538
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Obsoletes movie #599 (1:14:25.65)
Rating: 7.3 (22 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- No death
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses a game restart sequence
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Adventure
After becoming the Hero of Hyrule, Link is sent off by Zelda to study to be a proper Elf. On the way, he gets shipwrecked on a mysterious island taken over by evil, which he then tries to free to make his way back home.

In this movie Chef Stef takes a unique route through the game exploiting many glitches to completely skip parts of the game that you are normally required to play. If you like Zelda, and you like glitches, this is the movie to watch.

This is movie is nearly 5 minutes faster that the author's previous movie. There were many improvements. We recommend reading the author's comments.

We also have a movie of the Game Boy version (no DX), which skips a lot more of the game.


NES Boulder Dash (USA) in 19:42.32 by Chris Strake (aka. CtrlAltDestroy).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 36 MB, length: 21:28)
Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-05-28)
Read author's comments in submission #1069
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Obsoletes movie #343 (20:07.68)
Rating: 6.7 (27 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- No death
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Uses a level password
- Genre: Puzzle
Boulder Dash is a well known action-puzzle game where you must collect a quota of diamonds and reach the exit. This version improves upon the previous one by 25 seconds!

Normally, standing under any falling object or just getting close to an enemy means instant death, but in this movie the player fearlessly dives through heaps of falling objects and walks past enemies without a scratch.

It's quite pleasureable to watch if you have ever sat screaming at this game for getting stuck or killed repeatedly.

This playthrough uses a password to skip to level 19-1, which begins the hardest set of levels. The amoeba levels have long unavoidable waits, it is advised to fast-forward through these.


NES Jackal (JPN/USA) in 07:25.98 by K.H. (aka. klmz).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 15 MB, length: 09:04)
Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-08-10)
Read author's comments in submission #2000
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Obsoletes movie #967 (07:36.9)
Rating: 6.6 (10 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- No death
- Takes no damage
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- 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 "warp glitch" Rygar (Europe) in 05:23.14 by Thomas Seufert (aka. Lord Tom).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 16 MB, length: 07:14)
Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-04-06)
Read author's comments in submission #1916
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Obsoletes movie #391 (06:28.72)
Rating: 7.8 (16 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- No death
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses warps
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: RPG
This movie completes the PAL Rygar with only one item, the grappling hook.

It is a 65.58 seconds improvement to the previous movie by Walker Boh -- this time played by Lord Tom.

Although the route in this movie is almost exactly the same, time was saved mostly by accumulating the tone points (for Rygar's strength) a lot faster. There were other improvements as well. We recommend reading the author's comments for more details.

Note: If you are watching the FCM, don't forget to enable PAL emulation in FCEU! It's under the Config menu.


NES "best ending" Solomon's Key (USA) in 26:35.83 by Joel Yliluoma (aka. Bisqwit).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 50 MB, length: 29:00)
Download Famtasia movie (.fmv) (date: 2006-03-12)
Read author's comments in submission #1008
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Obsoletes movie #1 (22:43.95)
Rating: 6.4 (20 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Best ending
- All levels&secrets
- No death
- Uses no warps
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: Puzzle
Solomon’s Key is a puzzle platform game with an old clumsy magician who has the power of creating and destroying platforms. And through that power, he saves the world.

This movie plays all the rooms of the game, including the hidden rooms with Page of Time, Page of Space, and even a princess of some kind. (Fairy collection rooms were not included.) No warps were used. Due to those secrets, it accomplishes the best ending of the game.

Almost all rooms were improved from the previous movie ― many of them even several seconds faster. The precise times can be found in the submission message.

NOTE: In case you are wondering, the author could have used death as a shortcut in one room like he did in the previous movie, but chose not to.


Genesis Earthworm Jim (USA) in 29:04.35 by M.T. (aka. slash_star_dash).
Download MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 102 MB, length: 30:39)
Download Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2005-08-25)
Read author's comments in submission #624
Discuss this movie
Rating: 5.2 (27 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- No death
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses warps
- Plays at hardest level
Earthworm Jim is the unlikely story of an earthworm who finds a suit with super powers and goes on a rampage to protect earth and his puppy Peter. The game follows the absurd spirit of the story: for example, the suit can use Jim for a whip, there is a boss who attacks by vomiting fish, fighting lawyers in hell, and bungee cords made out of snot.

This is the first submission for this game. You will do yourself a favour if you fast-forward the boring Andy's Asteroids bonus-levels.


SNES "2 players" Contra 3: The Alien Wars () in 13:03.32 by Ryan Foley (aka. hero of the day).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 47 MB, length: 16:24)
Download snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2007-02-04)
Read author's comments in submission #1382
Discuss this movie
Obsoletes movie #586 (13:14.7)
Rating: 7.9 (20 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- No death
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Action
The guy who has infinite supply of ammo and who destroys worlds bare-chested is back again! And this time he has a friend and a shirt with him.

A very colourful movie, with the author playing both characters at the same time (which is far from trivial to do).

This version improves the previous run by approximately 12 seconds.


SNES Earthbound (USA) in 3:26:09.18 by Olivier Bellemare (aka. Halamantariel) & Jason Schoenfelder (aka. Nitrodon).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 476 MB, length: 3:27:00)
Download snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2006-07-23)
Read author's comments in submission #1130
Discuss this movie
Rating: 7.5 (32 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- No death
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: RPG
Earthbound is a great RPG, designed by Shigesato Itoi in 1994-1995, and is also known by the name Mother 2.

It is best described as "random", in a good way. The game has a great emphasis on a humor, and indeed many things in the game are almost caricatured, from subplots to characters. It also has a versatile soundtrack.

Although this being a speedrun (tool-assisted at that), most of the plot of the game is intact, making this movie very entertaining to watch even as a TAS.
Details about each scene and decision in this movie can be read in the authors' comments.

This movie does not use a death as a shortcut. Although that was a conscious decision by the authors, what it actually means was bent to the extreme.

  • The main protagonist, Ness, suffers a mortal blow once. Due to how the game works, he did not die.
  • A teddy bear was disintegrated in a battle. Although a party member, it was an inanimate object, and cannot be counted as "death".
  • Near the end of the movie, a death-like event is part of the game plot.

SNES Tiny Toon Adventures - Buster Busts Loose! (USA) in 20:40.68 by Denny Betterman (aka. Twisted Eye).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 55 MB, length: 23:49)
Download snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2007-01-10)
Read author's comments in submission #1145
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Rating: 6.5 (20 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- No death
- Takes no damage
- Abuses programming errors in the game
Yet another colourful Tiny Toon movie. And this time it's on SNES.

In this movie Twisted Eye uses a glitch which practically allows him to fly. For more specifics about the glitch and the movie itself, read author's comments.

Added [1169] GBC "glitched" Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (USA v1.0) by Chef Stef in 05:40.05 (2008-08-11)
Added [1164] NES Jackal (JPN/USA) by klmz in 07:25.98 (2008-08-10)
- obsoletes [967] NES Jackal (USA) by 韩晖 (aka. 西坡 (xipo)) in 07:36.9 (2007-09-27)
- - obsoletes [213] NES Jackal (USA) by TheAxeMan in 08:24.82 (2004-10-10)
Added [1109] NES "warpless" Rygar (Europe) by Lord Tom in 15:43.32 (2008-05-17)
- obsoletes [317] NES "warpless" Rygar (Europe) by Walker Boh in 20:26.7 (2005-04-05)
- - obsoletes [203] NES "warpless" Rygar (Europe) by Walker Boh in 21:07.04 (2004-09-30)
- - - obsoletes [195] NES "no glitch" Rygar (Europe) by Warp in 24:34.2 (2004-09-19)
- - - - obsoletes [27] NES Rygar (Europe) by Warp in 26:59.7 (2004-04-16)
- - - - - obsoletes [641] NES Rygar (Europe) by Warp in 23:28.6 (2004-03-16)
- - - - - - obsoletes [648] NES Rygar (Europe) by Warp in 26:07.45 (2004-03-12)
Added [1090] NES "warp glitch" Rygar (Europe) by Lord Tom in 05:23.14 (2008-04-05)
- obsoletes [391] NES "warp glitch" Rygar (Europe) by Walker Boh in 06:28.72 (2005-08-14)
- - obsoletes [345] NES "warp glitch" Rygar (Europe) by Walker Boh in 06:45.58 (2005-05-24)
- - - obsoletes [312] NES "warp glitch" Rygar (Europe) by Walker Boh in 07:26.52 (2005-03-29)
- - - - obsoletes [201] NES "warp glitch" Rygar (Europe) by Walker Boh in 07:52.2 (2004-09-26)
- - - - - obsoletes [196] NES "warp glitch" Rygar (Europe) by Walker Boh in 08:25.5 (2004-09-23)
- - - - - - obsoletes [190] NES "warp glitch" Rygar (Europe) by Bisqwit in 09:13.15 (2004-09-14)
Added [1055] SNES "glitched" Contra 3: The Alien Wars (USA) by Dark Cloud in 03:32.13 (2008-02-18)
Added [935] GBA Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (USA) by FractalFusion in 36:04.7 (2007-08-05)
Added [863] GBC Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (USA) by Chef Stef in 1:09:49.93 (2007-05-19)
- obsoletes [599] GBC Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (USA/Europe v1.0) by Chef Stef in 1:14:25.65 (2006-09-13)
Added [787] SNES "2 players" Contra 3: The Alien Wars () by hero of the day in 13:03.32 (2007-02-04)
- obsoletes [586] SNES Contra 3: The Alien Wars (USA) by Ash_Williams in 13:14.7 (2006-08-20)
- - obsoletes [98] SNES Contra 3: The Alien Wars (USA) by Phil & Genisto in 13:39.83 (2004-06-02)
Added [769] SNES Tiny Toon Adventures - Buster Busts Loose! (USA) by TwistedEye in 20:40.68 (2007-01-10)
Added [745] SNES "pacifist" Contra 3: The Alien Wars (USA) by Ash_Williams in 14:25.25 (2006-12-19)
Added [597] GBA Sonic Advance 3 (USA) by Nitsuja in 35:56.75 (2006-09-10)
Added [567] SNES Earthbound (USA) by Halamantariel & Nitrodon in 3:26:09.18 (2006-07-23)
Added [541] NES Boulder Dash (USA) by CtrlAltDestroy in 19:42.32 (2006-05-28)
- obsoletes [343] NES Boulder Dash (USA) by CtrlAltDestroy in 20:07.68 (2005-05-23)
Added [498] NES "best ending" Solomon's Key (USA) by Bisqwit in 26:35.83 (2006-03-12)
- obsoletes [1] NES Solomon's Key (USA) by Bisqwit in 22:43.95 (2004-02-20)
- - obsoletes [669] NES Solomon's Key (USA) by Bisqwit in 23:24.4 (2004-02-15)
- - - obsoletes [670] NES Solomon's Key (USA) by Bisqwit in 19:33.75 (2004-01-02)
Added [397] Genesis Earthworm Jim (USA) by slash_star_dash in 29:04.35 (2005-08-25)