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| Gens movie (.gmv) (date: 2006-06-02) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 130.74 MB, length: 38:19) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1057 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.2 (26 votes) View Publication | - Forgoes warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Knuckles' Chaotix is a Sonic game that doesn't feature Sonic. The player is tied to a partner with an elastic band of ‘ring energy’. There are five selectable player characters, and seven partners. This run uses Knuckles as the primary character. Using a number of glitches (of which the most prominent is zipping through walls), most of the levels are completed tens of seconds faster than intended. After each stage, the next level is selected via roulette. The cut-scenes and level select sequences are quite long, comprising about 66% of the total movie length. We recommend fast-forwarding these sequences of the movie. This is our first ever published 32X game. | ||
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| Final Burn Alpha movie (.fbm) (date: 2011-02-27) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 28.09 MB, length: 08:49) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3013 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.8 (15 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Musashi Ganryuki, known outside of Japan as Ganryu is a simple platform Hack and Slash game on the Neo Geo. In this game, you play the warrior Musashi on a quest to fight your old enemy Kojiro who has risen from the dead. Watch as Musashi slides past most dangers and chops up bosses in record time. | ||
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| Final Burn Alpha movie (.fbm) (date: 2011-06-09) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 113.43 MB, length: 31:04) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3168 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.2 (14.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Shooter | |
| In this entry of the popular Metal Slug series, the evil would-be dictator General Morden launches another attempt to take over the world - or so it seems on the surface; this game proves that Morden is no Dr Wily by having the true villains turn out to be something else entirely. Several of this game's stages branch; this run takes the shortest possible route through the game. You can also see more of x2poet's Metal Slug work by looking at his runs from Metal Slug, Metal Slug X, Metal Slug 4 and Metal Slug Advance. | ||
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| Final Burn Alpha movie (.fbm) (date: 2011-08-25) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 84.89 MB, length: 20:56) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3257 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1841 (18:04.78) Rating: 8.4 (14 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - 2 Players - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Shooter | |
| This is a run of the fourth game in SNK's big franchise, Metal Slug. x2poet dual-wields Trevor Spacey and Nadia Cassel and conquers General Morden's army like an army of two controlled by a single person! This run has a much more entertaining final battle than the previous, as well as beats it by 52.81 seconds. You can also see more of x2poet's Metal Slug work by looking at his runs of Metal Slug, Metal Slug X, Metal Slug 3 and Metal Slug Advance. | ||
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| Final Burn Alpha movie (.fbm) (date: 2011-12-12) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 87.60 MB, length: 20:59) MP4 file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 92.22 MB, length: 20:59) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3375 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1909 (17:56.53) Rating: 8.0 (9 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Shooter | |
| This entry in the Metal Slug series features the theft of information on the next generation of Metal Slug by the "Ptolemaic Army", wherein our heroes are tasked with recovering that data and putting an end to the evil group. The author improves his previous version by using a new strategy on the last boss. You can find out the details in the submission text. You can also see more of x2poet's Metal Slug work by looking at his runs from Metal Slug, Metal Slug X, Metal Slug 3, Metal Slug 4, and Metal Slug Advance. | ||
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| Final Burn Alpha movie (.fbm) (date: 2011-05-18) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 87.43 MB, length: 23:24) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Submission #3125 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1385 (18:48.4) Rating: 8.5 (17.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Forgoes time-saving death - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Shooter ![]() | |
| Metal Slug X (2001) is a remixed version of Metal Slug 2, the second installment of an immensely popular run'n'gun series released on the Neo Geo MVS. The games are notable for incredibly detailed pixel graphics, fluid animation, and good humor; but the real key to their longevity is, of course, their high difficulty as far as survival goes.
This is x2poet's 16.42 seconds improvement over the previous movie, despite now using the hardest difficulty setting. One notable improvement is the use of both players, compared to one in the obsoleted run.
You can also see more of x2poet's Metal Slug work by looking at his runs from Metal Slug, Metal Slug 3, Metal Slug 4 and Metal Slug Advance.
You may experience desync issues if you try to play the FBM file. You can download a set of save states, from the author, to watch it from the beginning to the end. For more information about this, you can read the author's comments. | ||
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| Final Burn Alpha movie (.fbm) (date: 2011-03-13) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 103.34 MB, length: 15:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3037 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.9 (10 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Yippie-ki-yay! In Spinmaster, known in Japan as Miracle Adventure (ミラクルアドベンチャー), you play as Johnny and Tom, two treasure seekers. They have to save Johnny's girlfriend and gather map pieces in order to find the biggest treasure in the world! Along the way, they must fight past lots of quirky henchmen, large bosses, and more, all accompanied by cartoony graphics and stereotypical cowboy voice clips. In this game, Johnny and Tom can use several different types of weapons, such as the elements of ice, fire, and thunder. They can collect a limited number of super attacks, denoted by the letter "B" under their health bars, to hurt everything on the screen and damage bosses heavily. Also, health does not refill between levels. If you want to see another Arcade game involving two treasure hunters fighting lots of enemies, be sure to check out x2poet's run of Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy. | ||
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| Final Burn Alpha movie (.fbm) (date: 2013-02-25) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 169.38 MB, length: 21:27) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 181.52 MB, length: 21:27) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3856 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.3 (7 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - 2 Players - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Fighting | |
| Street Fighter Zero 3 (ストリートファイターZERO3), more known like Alpha 3, was released in 1998. SFZ/A3 is an evolution of the previous Zero series, and there was a huge improvement in the fight style, combos, animations/mode and with addition of fighters that were missing in Street Fighter Alpha or Zero. | ||
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| Final Burn Alpha movie (.fbm) (date: 2012-02-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 33.90 MB, length: 10:26) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 37.11 MB, length: 10:26) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3418 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.6 (12.5 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Fighting | |
| In this first publication from the King of Fighters series, x2poet uses the game's female characters to swiftly humiliate their opponents, showing off multiple combos and AI manipulation along the way. | ||
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| JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2012-11-02) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 6.92 MB, length: 04:02) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 7.29 MB, length: 04:02) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3553 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (13.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Avoid the Noid is a platform computer game for the Commodore 64 and MS-DOS, written in 1989 to promote Domino's Pizza. It was modeled after the company's ad campaign during the late 1980s. The ads featured a "noid" that destroyed pizzas and must be avoided. The protagonist must traverse a 30-story building and deliver the pizza within 30 minutes. Colorful rabbits armed with booby traps, phone bombs, rocket launchers and bomber planes that drop water balloons seek to prevent the delivery. Partners in crime turska & Ilari deliver the pizza in a record-breaking 03:33.52, or 7:42.00 according to the ingame clock. For details on how they did it, read the authors' commentary. | ||
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| JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2012-05-03) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 7.27 MB, length: 06:35) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 7.30 MB, length: 06:35) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3585 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.4 (7 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Commander Keen 2: The Earth Explodes (1990) is the second game in the Commander Keen saga. In it, the Vorticon mothership intends to destroy Earth, and only eight-year old Billy Blaze, as Commander Keen, can save us. Here the author beats back the Vorticon invasion in slightly under 5 minutes, leaving one to wonder why we here on Earth bother with military defense at all. It's not quite that easy though; reading the author's comments is recommended to understand the planning and manipulation required for Keen to waltz by Vorticon after Vorticon. If you enjoy this movie, check out these other Commander Keen TASes, all by the same author. | ||
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| JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2012-03-03) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 5.36 MB, length: 02:12) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 5.82 MB, length: 02:12) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3478 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1508 (02:42.43) Rating: 7.6 (9.5 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine (1991) is a part of the popular Commander Keen saga, developed by id Software. It is a direct continuation of the previous episode of Goodbye Galaxy, in which Commander Keen (Billy Blaze) has learned from the Oracle of Gnosticus IV that the evil Shikadi plan to blow up the galaxy with their doomsday device, the Omegamatic (It slices! It dices! It causes a 100,000 light year-diameter quantum explosion!). Naturally, he sets out to sabotage the machine and stop the Shikadi. Using a series of glitches, Keen completes only four stages to get to the end game, only one of which takes any significant length of time, and destroys the Quantum Explosion Dynamo, the core of the Omegamatic in the impossibly short time of 2:02. In the process, he manages to inadvertently prevent the Shikadi from accomplishing their escape (though you have to watch the ending very closely to figure out that this has happened here). | ||
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| JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2012-04-03) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 8.88 MB, length: 03:27) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 9.46 MB, length: 03:27) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3514 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.6 (10.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Commander Keen 6: Aliens Ate My Baby Sitter is the final chapter in the Commander Keen saga. Eight-year old Billy Blaze, as Commander Keen, must save his babysitter from being eaten by Bloogs. Commander Keen 6 is also the third Keen game to get absolutely destroyed at TASVideos. Watch as Keen goes over, around, or through everything in his way to beat the entire game in a bit over three minutes. Reading the author's comments is recommended, and probably mandatory if you want to know what happened. | ||
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| JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2010-11-24) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 32.18 MB, length: 15:12) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2915 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (8.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Hocus Pocus, published by Apogee Software (developed by Moonlight Software) in 1994 sees a "puny" dropout wizard setting on a quest to collect crystals which will make him powerful. On his way, Hocus is ignoring important information given to him by Terexin while defeating enemies and bosses so that Land of Lattice will become more safe to travel. By completing four tests, he will also be accepted into the Council of Wizards and marry Popopa, daughter of Terexin who leads the Council. IsraeliRD completes the first of these tests in 15:09.62 minutes, while the player doesn't care about the enemies and get through a horde of them without taking a lot of damage. You can check the author's comments to learn more about his techniques. The same player did a run for the next episode as well. | ||
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| JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2011-01-26) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 30.05 MB, length: 13:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (youtube.com) Submission #2983 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (7.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Hocus Pocus, published by Apogee Software (developed by Moonlight Software) in 1994 sees a "puny" dropout wizard setting on a quest to collect crystals which will make him powerful. On his way, Hocus is ignoring important information given to him by Terexin while defeating enemies and bosses so that Land of Lattice will become more safe to travel. By completing four tests, he will also be accepted into the Council of Wizards and marry Popopa, daughter of Terexin who leads the Council. IsraeliRD completes the second of these tests in 13:48.61 minutes, while the player doesn't care about the enemies and get through a horde of them without taking a lot of damage. You can check the author's comments to learn more about his techniques. The same player did a run for the first episode as well. | ||
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| DeSmuME movie (.dsm) (date: 2012-12-12) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 183.35 MB, length: 37:22) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 190.93 MB, length: 37:22) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3780 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 9.2 (15 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG ![]() | |
| Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (2005), the first installment of Castlevania on Nintendo DS, is a direct sequel to GBA hit Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow. In it Soma Cruz continues to cultivate his unhealthy obsession with collecting souls. Using the powers that only tool assistance can give, every single possible soul is collected in a bit over a half hour. If you've ever played the game, you know what a pain those souls can be. Very detailed information on the run is available in the author's comments. | ||
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| DeSmuME movie (.dsm) (date: 2010-12-05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 311.67 MB, length: 1:22:55) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2922 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (8.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Mega Man ZX Advent is the second game in the Mega Man ZX series. What's so different between the classic series and ZX Advent? First, you get to choose between a male (Grey) and a female (Ashe) character. Then, instead of stealing weapons from the bosses, the player steals the boss itself! Instead of switching between weapons, the player switches between forms using the Biometal Model A. Finally, the player has less freedom to pick the stages of his choice.
Mothrayas picks Ashe, the female character, to minimize the cutscenes and to save time.
To play the DSM file, make sure that "Enable Advanced Bus-Level Timing" is unchecked in the "Emulation settings". | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2009-12-23) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 148.12 MB, length: 1:15:41) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2497 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (16 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Strategy | |
| In the second game of this popular series, the four warring countries from the original game find themselves uniting against a common foe who, at the game's opening, has almost completely overrun the planet. With the help of carefully devised strategies, a little bit of luck manipulation, and moving the cursor at inhuman speed, the author repels this planetary invasion over the course of slightly more than an hour. Reading the author's comments is strongly recommended to help keep track of what's going on. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2010-11-25) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 22.43 MB, length: 08:06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 19.44 MB, length: 08:16) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2914 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1129 (06:46.2) Rating: 8.1 (18 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| The glitched Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow main quest TAS has become even more glitched. Using an obscure out-of-room travel technique involving in-game saving and subsequent dying, klmz ploughs through the game with confident pace of a cold-blooded killing machine in a little under seven minutes — a whole 31.72 seconds faster than the previous movie by the same author! We recommend reading the author's comments for more information on the death warp glitch and other time-saving techniques used to make this improvement happen. If you would like to see more of the game, we also have a "100% souls" Aria of Sorrow movie by Kriole here. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2011-03-13) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 98.52 MB, length: 26:55) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 97.59 MB, length: 26:59) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3039 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1628 (25:47.05) Rating: 9.1 (28.5 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Starts from a saved state or SRAM - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| Everyone who has at least once attempted to gather a soul from each of the 120 different enemies in Aria of Sorrow, especially during a speedrun, knows the frustration it incurs after a hundredth failed attempt to get the required drop. That just makes this all-souls TAS, in which the player beats the game on hard mode and without using glitch warps in a little less than 25 minutes, even more impressive.
Upon completing his warpless run, Kriole decided to take another jab at this category, improving upon his earlier effort by 51 seconds.
However, if you would like to see the game beaten to a pulp in a mere quarter of this time, don't miss the glitched run by klmz.
Note: While the player doesn't use glitch warps (neither by death nor by getting out-of-bounds using transform souls), he uses the normal warp rooms present in the castle. Note: Starting from reset was necessary to use hard mode. However, doing so is normally not allowed — refer to the rules to see the reasons. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2008-04-07) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 67.67 MB, length: 23:55) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1900 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #821 (21:51.08) Rating: 8.0 (29.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| Nathan Graves is a vampire hunter trying to save his master, Morris, from the clutches of Dracula. Normally this would require collecting lots of different items as well as hours of leveling, but Cardboard proves collectible cards passé by gathering almost none of the cards required for spells and blazing through the game at warp speed without regard to levels or his own safety. This movie is a 10.5 second improvement over the author's previous movie through various small & thorough optimizations. For those interested in the areas of the game which this run skips, make sure to check out zggzdydp's run which achieves 100% map completion. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2013-01-03) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 33.57 MB, length: 25:26) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 33.62 MB, length: 25:26) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1400 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: Too few votes (1) to display View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Dokapon Monster Hunter is a RPG with a combat system based on Rock Paper Scissors. This leads to massive luck abuse in a Tool Assisted run. The hero never takes any damage while eliminating every boss in a single round. More detailed notes are available in the author's comments. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2011-09-12) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 151.39 MB, length: 1:41:49) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3266 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.3 (9 votes) View Publication | - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG - Genre: Strategy | |
| Fire Emblem is the seventh game in the series of strategy RPGs, and the first to be given a release outside Japan. When Eliwood discovers his father is missing, he sets out to find him, but what he discovers is far more amazing and terrifying than he ever imagined. With carefully planned strategy, the runners complete this game in a timely manner, knocking off the entirety of the first modes available in a mere 140 turns. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2013-01-28) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 151.22 MB, length: 1:05:54) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 161.19 MB, length: 1:05:54) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3814 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG - Genre: Strategy | |
| Fire Emblem: Fūin no Tsurugi (ファイアーエムブレム封印の剣) is the 6th game in the Fire Emblem tactical series and the first on the Game Boy Advance console. Like other games in the series, it features a tactical combat system which can be heavily manipulated by a tool-assisted run. A huge amount of route planning was required to ensure that this run is as fast as possible; detailed analyses of each chapter can be found in the authors' comments. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2011-07-17) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 121.85 MB, length: 1:19:28) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 136.38 MB, length: 1:21:26) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.nicovideo.jp) Submission #3214 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1170 (1:06:48.93) Rating: 7.5 (6 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: RPG - Genre: Strategy | |
| The Fire Emblem series is popular for its tactical-role-playing element. This is the eighth installment of the series, usually taking many hours to finish and hundreds of turns. In this playthrough, Vykan12 takes the game one step further, playing on the hardest setting - this takes a couple of minutes longer than the previous version, but reduces the turn count to a mere 93 turns. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2013-01-27) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 15.63 MB, length: 14:07) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 15.37 MB, length: 14:07) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3006 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Strategy | |
| Hikaru no Go was published serially in "Weekly Shonen Jump" for "NARUTO" and the same period. And the animated cartoon was produced as well as "NARUTO" by "Studio Pierrot". When the comic was serialized, "the game of Go" became a boom among children in Japan. This movie is highly recommended for those who know the Go game, because it does play around with AI, making it do the most absurd moves possible, which still serves the main goal - speed. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2010-07-05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 155.34 MB, length: 58:17) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2727 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.4 (10 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: RPG | |
| Imagine Mega Man as an RPG set in an alternate universe where he and his fellow robots aren't robots but computer programs, and you end up with this series - but even this unique take on the premise is no barrier to continuing TASVideos' long history of quality Mega Man runs. If you care to know more about the run, be sure to read the extremely long set of author's comments (which comprise, in fact, the longest such set of comments on the site - you have been warned). We also have a run for the second game in the series. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2013-02-18) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 273.37 MB, length: 1:39:08) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 266.52 MB, length: 1:39:08) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3837 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1967 (1:40:14.35) Rating: 7.2 (3 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: RPG | |
| The Mega Man Battle Network series envisions Mega Man and his friends and enemies as computer programs rather than robots. It also changes gameplay from platformer to RPG, with battle mechanics similar to collectible card games. In the second game, Lan and Mega Man are fighting a terrorist organization called Gospel, but this TAS divulges little of the plot. The author, mtvf1, races through the game, avoiding unnecessary random battles and precisely manipulating battle chip winnings and order to quickly overcome all foes. He also improves his previous movie by 2:05.93 minutes. We also have a run for the first game in the series. | ||
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| VBA movie (.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: 7.4 (17 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Pokémon: Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald form the third generation of Pokémon, 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 Pokémon 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. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2010-06-01) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 106.91 MB, length: 54:33) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 112.72 MB, length: 54:33) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2683 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (8 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: RPG | |
| Shining Soul is an Action RPG by Atlus. It is the first 'Shining' game to not be produced by Camelot Software Planning, and thus is not considered canon in the 'Shining' universe. However, the game serves as an internal homage to much of the 'Shining' series. All of the bosses are major villains from a previous 'Shining' game. The author manipulates randomly-placed monuments to appear, increasing attack power as much as eight-fold during the run. Additionally, hundreds of critical attacks had to be painstakingly manipulated to allow for enemies to die in a single hit. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2010-09-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 129.57 MB, length: 1:19:11) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2833 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1557 (1:30:01.18) Rating: 6.3 (7 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Shining Soul II is the last 'Shining' title to reach American shores, and the author's 5th 'Shining' TAS on the site. Unlike some previous games in the series, this game and its prequel play more like traditional Action-RPGs. This game, like its prequel, allows the player to pick a character type. In this run, the character chosen was a ninja, for his ability to use speed magic.
The author uses a glitch to dupe power wines and bombs, the former massively increasing his attack strength, and the latter making the run look more like Bomberman than a 'Shining' game!
This run is 17:58.75 faster than his previous Shining Soul II publication due to some very impressive manipulation to slaughter bosses in mere seconds. It is recommended that you read the authors comments for more information about the run and the game.
There is also a humorous commentary by the author and a couple of guests. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2012-07-14) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 49.43 MB, length: 09:27) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 50.62 MB, length: 09:27) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3653 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.6 (6 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Fighting | |
| Tekken Advance appears to be a good handheld port of the original arcade and PSX series, keeping the Tekken spirit and physics, even though some moves and characters are omitted. AKheon plays around with another fighting game and, as always, succeeds to bring something impressive. Especially with this game's unique Tag Battle mode, allowing the player to use 3 characters for each fight, switching between them at any time. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2012-05-08) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 30.07 MB, length: 33:46) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 32.33 MB, length: 33:46) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3570 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #993 (38:23.2) Rating: 7.1 (4 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Enix decided to hop on the monster collection/battling bandwagon with Dragon Warrior Monsters, in which the main character, Terry, makes friends with various monsters from previous Dragon Warrior games so he can win the Starry Night Tournament and rescue his sister. This movie is 7:46.48 faster than the previous version. Some time is saved by using the (JPN) version over the (USA) version, but much more time is gained through heavy bot-assisted luck manipulation. Reading the author's comments is recommended. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2012-12-20) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 8.05 MB, length: 08:58) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 8.41 MB, length: 08:58) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3770 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #2026 (07:44.0) Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Keitai Denjū Telefang (携帯電獣テレファング) is a series of video games produced by Smilesoft and published by Natsume. The games are monster-battling games, where the player contacts various creatures using a cell phone-like device called a D-Shot in order to get them to battle the foes he or she will encounter. The name of the series derives from Keitai, which is Japanese for "cell phone," since phoning creatures is an integral part of the game, and "fang," to symbolize the various beasts involved. This movie improves its predecessor by more than a half of a minute. Significant glitching is used; you will likely have to read the authors' comments to understand what's going on. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2010-08-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 19.55 MB, length: 17:22) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 17.57 MB, length: 17:35) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2817 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.6 (17 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| Set before the events of the first two NES games, the player gets to play as Christopher Belmont, one of Simon's ancestors. Unlike most Castlevania games, there are no sub-weapons, and the player loses whip upgrades upon damage. Additionally, the Castlevania Game Boy games, unlike their NES counterparts, have ropes and moving spike walls instead of stairs. This game, being one of the first to come out for the Game Boy, was programmed poorly, exhibiting lots of lag, and also suffers from poor jump controls. Seizing upon that, the level designers took it upon themselves to create fake difficulty by requiring pixel perfect jumps throughout. In this movie, arukAdo eliminates lag by killing enemies as they appear on screen, destroying candles, collecting coins, and ducking when possible. In addition to that, luck is manipulated via pausing to prevent certain enemies from appearing or to force bosses to enter attack range sooner. Note: The Konami Collection version was used instead of the original, as it lags a bit less, and is also fully colored. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2013-01-07) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 32.35 MB, length: 27:19) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 33.80 MB, length: 27:19) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3812 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Starts from a saved state or SRAM - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Mega Man Xtreme 2, like its predecessor game Mega Man Xtreme, pretty much copies content and bosses from the main line of Mega Man X games. While the first Xtreme title took its stage designs and bosses from just Mega Man X and Mega Man X2, Mega Man Xtreme 2 takes its stage designs and bosses from Mega Man X, Mega Man X2 as well as Mega Man X3, and also takes other elements from later Mega Man X titles including Mega Man X4 and Mega Man X5, such as a Parts shop, and the presence of Iris from Mega Man X4 (working as a navigator in this game). Compared to the first Xtreme game, Mega Man Xtreme 2 does have more original content, though. It has an improved story (although it's still rather shallow) and unique fortress bosses (with the exception of Velguarder, Sigma's dog, who was taken from Mega Man X for the first fortress stage, and Sigma's first form which is taken from Mega Man X2) and it has mostly new stage designs that are not so much ripped straight from the SNES games. In fact, Neon Tiger and Blast Hornet's stages have more in common with Sting Chameleon and Storm Eagle's stages, respectively. The most significant addition compared to either the SNES games or the first Xtreme game is that Zero is a fully playable character here for all our slashing needs. He plays a bit like Zero out of Mega Man Zero, but has animations like those from X4/X5 and X6. Zero can gain weapons from bosses like X can, including an obligatory uppercut slash and drill stab, but also other, more different moves such as a variant of Mega Man X's charged Fire Wave and boss moves like Wire Sponge's Lightning attack and Launch Octopus' homing fish attack. Just plain old slashing with the Z-Saber typically remains the most efficient tool, though. The game has a Parts system like in Mega Man X5 and Mega Man X6, although it doesn't really have a lot of upgrades, much less useful ones. The only really useful ones, that are used in this speedrun, are the Buster +1 and +2 parts for X and Saber +1 and +2 for Zero. Stacking both upgrades for each character causes a significant damage boost for both characters, which saves a lot of time on boss fights. Other than that, the gameplay of Mega Man Xtreme 2 is very similar to the first Xtreme game. It has similar pacing and glitching. In this run, both X and Zero are used. Zero turns out superior early on, while X is faster in the middle part. The action then returns to Zero for the final couple of stages. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2006-07-17) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 96.80 MB, length: 2:58:42) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 107.43 MB, length: 2:58:42) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1123 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (37 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Pokémon Gold and Silver form the second generation of Pokémon, after Pokémon Red and Blue. The main differences between the generations is that the game is now in full color, and that there are 250 Pokémon instead of 151.
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 previous generation of 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 these comments.
This movie requires VBA1.7.2 v17 to synchronize. See the submission text for details. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2011-08-15) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 1.11 MB, length: 03:11) MP4 file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 1.25 MB, length: 03:17) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3256 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1702 (01:27.23) Rating: 8.2 (24.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses warps - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Corrupts save data - Corrupts memory - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Ash reveals his dark side, using save corruption and direct memory manipulation to catch 152 Pokémon in the blink of an eye. Then he beats the game in less than a minute (in-game time) - without ever leaving his own room, bypassing Professor Oak's speech by walking through a television, bumping into a wall, and having the game inform him about 1 error.
This run is so glitchy that it's near impossible to follow what's going on without help; reading the author's notes is highly recommended.
To see a run of the first generation of Pokémon that doesn't take advantage of save data corruption, watch the movie of the Red Version by the same author.
Note: This movie requires VBA rerecording v19, v21 or v22. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2010-10-08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 25.76 MB, length: 26:45) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2824 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (13 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Pokémon Trading Card Game is the video game incarnation of the popular Pokémon Trading Card Game (Pokémon TCG). Rather than spending countless hours collecting cards to fight the various Masters in this game, FractalFusion and p4wn3r take one of the basic decks, and with a whole lot of luck manipulation, deal out a series of crushing victories in rapid succession in order to become the Pokémon TCG Champion. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2011-09-06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 11.46 MB, length: 07:57) MP4 file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 10.98 MB, length: 07:58) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3269 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1801 (07:21.77) Rating: 6.0 (8 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| In this game featuring the famous SpongeBob SquarePants, SpongeBob stumbles upon a legendary statue that opens the way to the Dutchman’s Underworld. SpongeBob must unlock the statue and defeat the Flying Dutchman to get the Golden Spatula and become the Master Fry Cook.
The authors improved the previous movie by 1:19.40, because of a new route and the fact that SpongeBob has | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2012-02-01) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 126.55 MB, length: 1:32:17) MP4 file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 126.58 MB, length: 1:32:17) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3442 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.9 (11 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons is a Game Boy Color game that carries over much of the graphics from Link's Awakening. Surprisingly, much of the game engine is completely different and developed by Capcom. In it, the Oracle of Seasons, Din, is kidnapped by Onox, General of Darkness. Link must travel throughout both Holdrum and Subrosia to collect the 8 Essences of Nature, power up the Rod of Seasons, and defeat Onox. This game has been attempted by various authors over the past 5 years. Finally, SwordlessLink, along with Tompa, who joined the project after dungeon 4, beat this legendary game in 1:25:57.21 primarily through the use of pitwalking, Pegasus Seeds, and enemy manipulation. Please see the authors' notes for more details. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2009-10-23) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 55.58 MB, length: 1:28:28) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2306 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.9 (10 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Kaeru no tame ni kane wa naru (カエルの為に鐘は鳴る) is an adventure game, but it looks like a mixture of adventure, action, and RPG. It is a funny, cool, and unique game. The title of the game means "For the Frog the Bell Tolls". It was released only in Japan. The major characters are a pair of princes called Sabure and Richard. You will play with the prince Sabure in his quest to save the Mille-Feuille Kingdom from Delaling. Prince Richard is known as one of the characters who make an appearance in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2011-10-02) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 20.74 MB, length: 24:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3297 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.3 (4 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Knight Quest is a rare RPG for the Game Boy. In it, you take control of a 14-year-old boy named Will who sets out to defeat baddies and save a princess. Nothing groundbreaking to see here, move along... This run was created by DarkKobold while he was testing the game out as a potential candidate for Dream Team Contest 4. For more details, please see the author's notes. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2010-02-14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 3.52 MB, length: 05:35) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2562 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1233 (04:20.83) Rating: 6.5 (17 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| Rolan's Curse is like a simplified version of the NES Legend of Zelda with slower gameplay and more restricted game world, resulting in a primitive hack-and-slash experience. Nevertheless, there exists an interesting storyline: The kingdom of Rolan has been invaded by the forces of some evil being called Barius. However, in this movie the final boss is never actually seen. Instead of meeting Barius face to face, the hero dies while defeating the first level boss. The game then decides to freak out and end right there, declaring the rest of the story unnecessary. This is 0.25 seconds faster than the previous movie, arising from a substantial amount of testing and optimisation. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2011-05-11) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 13.43 MB, length: 19:45) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.radiokj.com Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3148 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (7 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Tiny Toon Adventures: Babs' Big Break was the first Tiny Toon Adventures-related game released on the Nintendo Game Boy. In this game, the player takes control of the main Tiny Toons as they attempt to stop Montana Max from breaking Babs Bunny's dreams of becoming a big star. To learn more about the glitches x2poet used in his run, you can look at the author's comments. | ||
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| Gens movie (.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 (5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Castle of Illusion is 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 and glitches. | ||
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| Gens movie (.gmv) (date: 2010-08-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 186.84 MB, length: 33:50) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2788 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.1 (9 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| As the goblin army makes their last push into Duke Barrik’s castle, the sky is ripped open and both armies are sucked into the void. Duke Barrik's castle is transported to a valley enclosed with impossibly tall cliffs and a brilliant red sun overhead. The Duke requests that the four player characters explore this strange environment in order to find allies. As though it were a walk in the park (And a few mazes), the game is completed in a fast half hour, thanks to much luck manipulation. The input is continued to the end of the movie to speed up the ending. In fact, the game is practically over when the final scroll is read. | ||
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| Gens movie (.gmv) (date: 2007-12-02) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 17.29 MB, length: 08:35) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1759 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.0 (22.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Fatal Labyrinth is an early Genesis turn-based dungeon crawler. It consists of 30 floors/levels and a final battle. The object of each floor is to reach the stairs that take you up to the next floor. Normally this involves lots of exploring, collecting equipment, and fighting with numerous monsters; but, this being a TAS, you don't see so much of that. | ||
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| Gens movie (.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: 8.1 (23 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. | ||
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| Gens movie (.gmv) (date: 2008-07-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 870.76 KB, length: 01:14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 977.18 KB, length: 01:14) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Mirror www.nicovideo.jp Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2025 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #740 (00:10.17) Rating: 7.4 (48.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG - Genre: Strategy ![]() | |
| At TASVideos, even 10 second long movies are improved, and game characters become so powerful they don't even have to move in order to complete the game. This improvement is a result of the previous movie's author joining forces with the author of a VBA bot used in a glitched-out Pokémon TAS. Together they've managed to shorten the solution by 14 frames with the help of a similarly-designed bot for Gens. Note that, while input length is 10 seconds long, less than 0.3 seconds of it is actual gameplay! | ||
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| Gens movie (.gmv) (date: 2009-07-03) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 45.03 MB, length: 18:42) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1982 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (15 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Adventure - Genre: RPG | |
| Madou Monogatari (魔導物語) is an RPG best described as 'strange'. The game has overly cute design and the battles are probably a little different than you would expect. The story revolves around a girl who is on a quest to pass her final exam in a magic school. A defining moment is one of the cutscenes, where a slime is encountered and suddenly defeated by a strange girl bursting through a brick wall. Then, an equally strange armored knight drops in from the ceiling and the two of them proceed to ignore you and chase each other away. The fast completion time is achieved mostly by using a random-effect spell, which has a small chance of producing a devastating elephant stomp. Naturally, in a TAS, the "small chance" gets a new meaning. | ||
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| Gens movie (.gmv) (date: 2013-01-01) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 22.24 MB, length: 11:43) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 25.17 MB, length: 11:43) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2612 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.8 (4 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - Aims for maximum score - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Sport | |
| The official game of the Games of the XXV Olympiad, held in Barcelona in 1992. It features seven different events: 100M Sprint, Hammer Throw, Archery, 110M Hurdles, Pole Vault, Springboard Diving and 200M Freestyle Swimming. In this playaround, the author, Toothache, achieves the best score or time possible in each event. | ||
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| Gens movie (.gmv) (date: 2006-11-11) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 250.26 MB, length: 1:41:37) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1068 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.9 (21 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Phantasy Star III is often considered to be the black sheep of the series, but is still a unique RPG on its own, featuring 3 generations and multiple paths through the game. However, this run breaks the plot halfway through by glitching past the second generation quickly. Like in other RPG runs, luck has been manipulated for many things. Although random encounters can't be completely avoided, no damage is ever taken except from bosses, and most of the leveling is done in a final rush. Read the author's comments for more details on luck manipulation and the path taken through the game. | ||
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| Gens movie (.gmv) (date: 2013-03-07) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 333.13 MB, length: 2:12:29) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 370.49 MB, length: 2:12:29) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3560 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: Too few votes (1) to display View Publication | - 100% completion - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| In this final installment of the famous Phantasy Star series, the protagonist, while out on a routine assignment, uncovers evidence pointing to a sinister threat to the entire solar system. One thing leads to another and he and the rest of his party eventually find themselves fighting the root of all evil. No reason to rush things though, right? In addition to completing all sidequests, the author also uncovers every single reference to Phantasy Star I and II in the game. An exhaustive list of these is found in the author's comments. | ||
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| Gens movie (.gmv) (date: 2013-02-04) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 316.55 MB, length: 2:08:17) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 354.70 MB, length: 2:08:17) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3834 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: Too few votes (1) to display View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Uses death to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| In this final installment of the famous Phantasy Star series, the protagonist, while out on a routine assignment, uncovers evidence pointing to a sinister threat to the entire solar system. One thing leads to another and he and the rest of his party eventually find themselves fighting the root of all evil. Even if killing the root of all evil would end everyone's problems, the team decides to take a few side jobs. As a result, they become even stronger and do things that would be impossible in a regular speedrun. | ||
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| Gens movie (.gmv) (date: 2012-01-29) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 246.97 MB, length: 1:42:11) MP4 file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 279.74 MB, length: 1:42:11) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3403 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1488 (1:28:43.4) Rating: 7.7 (4.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| In this final installment of the famous Phantasy Star series, the protagonist, while out on a routine assignment, uncovers evidence pointing to a sinister threat to the entire solar system. One thing leads to another and he and the rest of his party eventually find themselves fighting the root of all evil. Such a quest would normally take at least ten hours, but with copious amounts of luck manipulation, it can be reduced to just under an hour and a half. This is a small improvement of around 30 seconds over the previous version by the same author. | ||
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| Gens movie (.gmv) (date: 2011-06-13) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 121.26 MB, length: 22:16) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3163 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Puggsy is the story of an alien who makes a pit stop on a planet creatively called The Planet, only to have his spacecraft stolen by the raccoon natives! In order to get Puggsy's ride back, Sonikkustar abuses the impressive physics engine and the variety of puzzle-solving items dotted around the levels, thrashing the raccoons in record time! | ||
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| Gens movie (.gmv) (date: 2011-05-03) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 49.51 MB, length: 11:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3127 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.1 (12.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Shooter | |
| A late-lifetime release for the Genesis/MegaDrive, Ranger-X features the eponymous character fighting back an invasion of his homeworld with a powered suit, jetpack, and more weaponry than most people could ever use in a lifetime. This run originates from TASVideos' Dream Team Contest 2 back in 2009, and is an improvement of 1:48.68 over the best submission from then. | ||
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| Gens movie (.gmv) (date: 2009-06-23) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 284.86 MB, length: 2:08:11) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2258 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1146 (2:04:26.37) Rating: 7.4 (14 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG - Genre: Strategy ![]() | |
| Shining Force is just under two hours of luck manipulation action. The random number generator is abused to the highest degree. The author used MATLAB, a math scripting language, to optimize the battle speeds. This is a 4 minute 27 second improvement over the previous movie by the same author. | ||
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| Gens movie (.gmv) (date: 2010-05-19) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 408.22 MB, length: 3:15:05) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2667 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1467 (3:26:17.75) Rating: 6.3 (7 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: RPG - Genre: Strategy | |
| In this second game of the series, watch nearly three and a half hours of luck manipulation so intense that it took scripting and bot-work to perform most of it. Most of the bosses in the second half of the run die in one or two rounds. This is an improvement of 15 minutes and 13 seconds over the previous movie, due to a variety of improvements, and in spite of playing on "Super" difficulty, which is functionally the highest difficulty level. If you enjoyed this, be sure to check out the first game in the series as well. | ||
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| Gens movie (.gmv) (date: 2009-08-15) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 95.65 MB, length: 45:49) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2322 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (14 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. | ||
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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 (10bit444) (size: 4.49 MB, length: 06:39) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3379 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1771 (04:53.21) Rating: 6.3 (6.5 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. | ||
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| openMSX replay (.omr) (date: 2011-05-05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 20.72 MB, length: 18:53) WebM file via BitTorrent (size: 23.18 MB, length: 18:53) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3126 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1711 (17:32.07) Rating: 6.7 (9 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| As you can see here, the original Castlevania wasn't only on the NES, but also on the MSX computer. scrimpeh did on the MSX Castlevania what Phil Côté & Morrison did on the NES Castlevania.
This version is different in some important ways. For instance, you must collect a white key in each stage to advance to the next stage. The chain whip is lost after each boss battle. Some subweapons can be bought from sitting bystanders in white or red clothes.
This is an improvement of 29.03 over the original run thanks to a few new time-saving tricks.
Note: To play the OMR file, you'll need to have the Panasonic FS-A1WSX bios installed and openMSX 0.8.1.dev-12131 (or official 0.8.1). In addition to the normal encode, an experimental WebM encode is available for download. Feedback would be appreciated. | ||
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2013-03-28) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 362.83 MB, length: 1:21:07) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 339.73 MB, length: 1:21:07) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.nicovideo.jp) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3879 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 9.2 (9 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| This run of Bomberman 64 achieves 100% status, which means earning 120 gold cards and all custom parts (alternate costumes for multiplayer modes). To acquire the prime "gold parts", players must obtain 120 gold cards within three hours of in-game time on hard mode.
Watch zvsp blast through the stages and collect the cards very quickly. Many bomb-stacking glitches are used to skip areas. Some cards require killing a certain minimum number of enemies, so you'll also get to see Bomberman blow up lots of enemies. Also, the player dies on purpose several times, for deathwarps and as shortcuts for some cards in hazardous conditions.
Also, see the any% run by Nahoc. For more Bomberman goodness, check out more Bomberman Movies.
Here are some 60fps encodes on Nicovideo: part1, part2, part3 | ||
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2007-09-21) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 141.43 MB, length: 50:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1681 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #860 (41:23.88) Rating: 6.2 (35 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Glover is an animated cartoon-like glove (go figure), complete with only 4 digits. With a ball he can transform into several different forms, and he must complete puzzles and navigate dangerous terrain. The author takes many shortcuts, specifically the kind that were not intended to be used. Read the author's submission for more information about the bugs used. This movie is over 4 minutes faster than the author's previous movie. | ||
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2012-04-25) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 499.22 MB, length: 2:12:20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 471.03 MB, length: 2:12:20) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Submission #3474 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1229 (2:51:19.1) Rating: 8.8 (26.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| In this TAS of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the author aims to beat the game as quickly as possible while completing all dungeons, temples, and Ganon Trials. This goal is commonly referred to as "all temples", "all dungeons", or "MST (Medallions/Stones/Trials)". This run has roughly 35 minutes of improvements in gameplay over the previous TAS of its kind. This movie contains several new glitches and sequence breaks which allow for a much faster completion than were possible when the last run was made. Several large glitches in the game are not used in the run, such as those which allow the player to manipulate memory addresses to obtain items without physically picking them up. These are avoided because it would make the completion of any dungeon completely arbitrary; they can be seen in an old any% run. Unlike the previous movie of this category, this TAS is played on the Japanese version of the game. The reason for this is that the text is significantly faster than in the English version, which means that far less time (roughly 12 minutes) is spent waiting for text boxes and cut scenes to end before getting back to the action. English subtitles were added to the encode for people interested in what was said. The author's notes explain in great detail many of the things done in this TAS which may be confusing to those who aren't familiar with Ocarina of Time speedrunning. Reading them is strongly advised. Note: There are encodes of higher resolutions in the discussion thread. | ||
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2007-06-08) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 3.71 MB, length: 01:08) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1569 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (49.5 votes) View Publication | - Aims for maximum score - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Wetrix is a strange, Tetris style game in which you place blocks onto a large playing field and score loads of points by making lakes and surviving (every drop of water that leaks off the field counts against you). This run aims to get the highest score possible in the 1 minute challenge. The final score is 2,613,944 points. There are huge bonus multipliers which stack together to produce the massive score. | ||
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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.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1705 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #765 (04:32.12) Rating: 6.8 (48 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. | ||
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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.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1693 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #66 (16:30.47) Rating: 8.0 (52 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. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-12-23) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 11.25 MB, length: 08:24) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2944 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1693 (06:04.05) Rating: 6.1 (15.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| The story of Asterix takes place in the year 50 BCE. All of Gaul has been occupied by the Romans except for a little village. Asterix and his Gallic companions live in that village, fighting the Romans. In this game, Julius Caesar has snatched Obelix, Asterix's best friend, and is about to feed him to lions! But before anyone can even blink, Asterix comes, kicks Julius' ass, and comes to the rescue of his friend! This game is based on one of the most successful French comic book series of the same name. It has been successful since 1959, with more than 325 million comics sold worldwide. By Toutatis! A bit more than a week after the latest published movie, it already got improved by 21.00 seconds! | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-04-24) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 38.42 MB, length: 39:09) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3115 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.6 (14 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Best ending - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
| Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril may look old, but it's actually released in 2010! It's still possible to buy a new NES cartridge of this game online! Mainly inspired by the PC game I Wanna Be the Guy, this game is classic platforming action, where anything can kill the player in one single hit. While it's not unfair (as opposed to I Wanna Be the Guy), it's still really hard. Aglar collects every item and key before going to the last area, and takes the right path to get to the best ending, all of this on the hardest difficulty possible and without taking any damage! | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-11-20) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 2.39 MB, length: 01:53) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 2.62 MB, length: 01:53) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Mirror www.nicovideo.jp Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3750 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #2100 (01:02.68) Rating: 7.5 (17.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Corrupts memory - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform ![]() | |
| Battletoads (1991) is a futuristic beat 'em up game known for its extreme difficulty spread over 16 difficult levels. The mechanics in the game also change drastically from level to level, making the game one of the hardest and most varied for the NES. In this game, the second most diabolical evil genius in the universe, The Dark Queen, has kidnapped Princess Angelica and Pimple - a battletoad. Rash and Zitz must save them by traveling through the most insane multilevel set of plans ever designed. This includes falling down huge shafts, racing through obstacle courses at breakneck speeds, riding on snakes through a massive maze of spikes, passing through a killer ventilation system, navigating through a missile defense system, climbing a never ending revolving tower, and much much more. Along the way, the Battletoads must also face off against an evil army of robots, genetically engineered rodents, and The Dark Queen herself. In order to make the game a bit easier, its creators embedded some secret warp zones to skip a few early levels in their entirety. But that simply wasn't good enough for MESHUGGAH; he decided to travel directly to level 3, where he invents his own warp and skips right to the grand finale. He took a glitch found in this TAS and exploited it further, to the point where the Game Over screen appears out of nowhere and suddenly The Dark Queen just gives up and returns Angelica and Pimple, going off to hatch an even more evil plan for next time. This run conquers the predecessor movie by 5.74 seconds with precise luck manipulation, subpixel optimization and more successful outcome of memory corruption. This movie also won a nice frame war. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-05-25) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 50.15 MB, length: 18:30) MP4 file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 48.72 MB, length: 18:35) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3154 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.9 (27 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, 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. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-06-26) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 14.99 MB, length: 12:51) MP4 file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 15.74 MB, length: 12:51) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1609 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #694 (11:34.12) Rating: 8.4 (47.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| The original Castlevania is set in the year 1691. Simon Belmont must fight his way through the castle and destroy Count Dracula. This TAS is about 13.6 seconds faster than the previous version by the coauthor of this movie, Morrison. In this joint effort by Phil and Morrison, thorough optimizations are carried out at all levels of magnitude in order to get the maximum completion speed as well as lots of score points in the process. The MSX version has been TASed as well! Click here to watch it. There is also a run of this game which destroys as little as possible. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-06-07) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 66.72 MB, length: 31:29) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1997 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #933 (32:08.22) Rating: 7.0 (32 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| If science fiction is to be believed, the ultimate evolution for biological beings is to discard the physical body and become an entity of pure energy. For video game characters, it seems to be the ability to zip through walls. In this latest TAS by zggzdydp, Simon Belmont joins the league of characters possessing this ability. Castlevania II: Simon's Quest is the story of Simon's horrible weekend without sleep. Two years after defeating Dracula, the hero is physically weakened by Dracula's curse. He must gather Dracula's remains and incinerate them at the ruins of Castlevania in order to end the curse. This movie is 2 minutes and 23 seconds faster than the previous effort by the same author. We recommend to read his comments for explanations on how this improvement was achieved. | ||
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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.radiokj.com Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3166 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #473 (09:57.17) Rating: 7.0 (11 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. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-05-20) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 21.86 MB, length: 19:09) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 24.02 MB, length: 19:09) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3597 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1995 (16:33.2) Rating: 7.2 (9.5 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers 2 is quite an improvement over the original Chip 'n Dale in terms of graphics and a whole lot of other things. Thankfully, the original game's solid controls haven't been changed. The plot of this game is that Fat Cat has stolen the Pharaoh's Urn and wants to use its power (for evil purposes, of course). This run only uses Chip. It's an improvement of 1:19.53 over the previous "1 player" publication, through careful optimization, some new tricks and manipulating the bosses. For a 2-player run of the same game, see [1028] NES Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers 2 (USA) by dragonxyk in 11:04.65. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-08-24) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 24.96 MB, length: 12:21) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1673 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #174 (11:35.15) Rating: 7.9 (46.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Darkwing Duck (1992) is a platformer somewhat similar to Mega Man in gameplay and difficulty. The arrow gun allows the player to climb up walls and use creative shortcuts so that the absolute shortest route can be taken. In case you are wondering why the character keeps on jumping so much, it is because he has to wait a short amount of time before being able to walk. With constant jumping these stops can be avoided. This movie is a joint venture between AnS and Randil to improve the previous run by Walker Boh, resulting in 35.7 seconds saved through means of extensive optimization, luck manipulation and lag removal. We recommend reading the authors' comments for more details. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-05-10) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 134.36 MB, length: 1:23:40) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2656 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #556 (1:46:41.87) Rating: 5.8 (14 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
Destiny of an Emperor was Capcom’s first RPG, released in 1989―90, and is based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The battling style of this game can be described like Final Fantasy meets Pokémon; your team of warriors versus the opposing team of warriors, and any opponents freed from their posts can be later picked up in the wilds and converted to your side!Acmlm bests the previous movie by over 25 minutes by reverse engineering the game and brute forcing luck manipulation. Critical hit, it's super effective. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-05-21) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 3.18 MB, length: 03:02) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2250 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (39.5 votes) View Publication | - Aims for maximum score - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy luck manipulation - Single level - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Tired of being mocked by the viruses, Dr. Mario switched to his "fast-acting" and "extra strength" medication. The viruses never knew what hit them. This video beats Level 20, Speed Hi of Dr. Mario in record time. Don't blink, or you might miss the twist ending. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-03-06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 20.07 MB, length: 20:05) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2590 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #469 (18:10.47) Rating: 7.3 (17 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
This is the sixth published movie of Dragon Warrior, a seemingly complex, but ultimately, fairly simple NES RPG. This is an improvement of 20.96 seconds from the previous run. The character completes his quest at Level 7. There are several things about this movie that might seem odd if one is not aware of them beforehand:
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-04-30) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 65.90 MB, length: 49:24) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1026 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (20 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
Selected comments from the author:The second Dragon Warrior game beaten as fast as possible. Dragon Warrior is an epic RPG series which now spans 8 games across many systems. The second game greatly expands on the first to include a party of three heroes (all descendents of Erdrick and the hero of DW1) and battles that may include many enemies. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-03-06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 70.95 MB, length: 56:48) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2577 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #955 (57:28.27) Rating: 5.2 (11 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Corrupts memory - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Dragon Warrior 3 completed quickly by using a bizarre glitch that allows the author to fill his inventory with useful items, manipulate his stats, and even add places to his return list! This allows most of the game to be skipped. Thanks to this new method of item glitching, this is almost exactly nine minutes faster than the previous version of the run. The author wrote detailed comments explaining this glitch. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-07-31) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 179.41 MB, length: 1:58:26) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1618 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #838 (2:14:07.67) Rating: 5.9 (17 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| This is a non-glitched run of Dragon Warrior 3, now under 2 hours long. This game is known in the TAS world as being a pain to play due to the RNG (random number generator) being much harder to manipulate than most other games. As a result, seemingly random actions throughout the game are actually intentional manipulation of the RNG to ensure favourable outcomes, such as avoiding monsters or good battle outcomes. To give you an idea of how surprising this time is to most players, the previous run is about 24 minutes longer than this one. Even before that, any run that was under 3 hours long was deemed to be very difficult to perform. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-04-03) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 185.98 MB, length: 2:18:48) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1028 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.5 (25 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Dragon Warrior 4 is a very long RPG. During the planning phase, it was expected that this movie would be 5 hours long. Suffice to say the result was a pleasant surprise. The author intentionally kills off his party in order to save some travel time. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2009-06-17) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 72.81 MB, length: 54:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2252 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.9 (16 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Unofficial game - Genre: RPG | |
| EarthBound Zero is the first game in the Mother/EarthBound series. It was localized, but never released in the US. Technically, the game was localized as EarthBound, but the sequel was localized and released as EarthBound, so this game generally goes by the name EarthBound Zero. This movie is done on the U version, which does not have the "bread crumbs" glitch used in our other movie of the game. It does, however, have a run button, which means this movie may seem faster at times, even though it's a lot longer. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-09-19) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 44.32 MB, length: 23:50) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2827 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1303 (25:41.67) Rating: 6.3 (14 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| This is the JPN version of EarthBound Zero (also known as Mother (マザー) ). As the first version of the game, it has a number of useful glitches; this run abuses the way the game handles the "Bread crumbs" item to warp off the edge of reality and casually walk straight into the final boss's lair two and a half minutes faster than the previous run. We also have a more normal run of the localized version, which doesn't include this glitch. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-07-20) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 90.89 MB, length: 1:15:03) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 105.88 MB, length: 1:15:03) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3656 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1714 (1:10:06.81) Rating: 6.8 (3 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Final Fantasy is one of those games which needs no introduction to most gamers. For the rest of you, the game follows four generic heroes who are trying to restore the four orbs which have been contaminated, and ultimately defeat Chaos.
Unfortunately only one of the warriors is actually a hero; the rest are sissies who died early on during the quests. Strange as this may sound, much time is saved by doing so since fewer commands need to be entered every time the player runs from a random encounter.
On TASVideos perfect runs are continually improved, often through very unexpected changes. This run improves the old Final Fantasy TAS by 9.11 seconds by getting lower stats and spending more time at inns and item shops.
For those who think they have a better sense of humor than the author, he has provided python scripts which allow you to recreate the entire run, except with your own choices for character names substituted for his. Available as Windows standalone or source.
The downoadable videos contain soft subtitles with TheAxeMan's notes, as well as YouTube stream. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-04-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 94.31 MB, length: 1:21:46) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 112.67 MB, length: 1:21:46) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3512 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.8 (5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Uses a suboptimal character - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Final Fantasy is a well known RPG about saving the world with the usual assortment of characters. Here, the author defies all common sense and takes a team composed entirely of White Mages, the token "weak healing caster" class. What's worse, three of them meet their untimely demise at the hands of pirates not very far into their journey. Not to worry, because this survivor has a few tricks up her sleeve. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-02-05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 51.26 MB, length: 44:41) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2992 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (13 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Final Fantasy III for NES was released only in Japan.
In this movie, the author | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-06-08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 3.61 MB, length: 03:27) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3165 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #416 (03:03.9) Rating: 6.4 (15.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| In this three second improvement to a five-and-a-half year old movie, Jason is defeated faster than ever thanks to some tricks to force him to appear more often than normal. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-06-21) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 23.00 MB, length: 10:07) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2706 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (14 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| GI Joe: The Atlantis Factor is an NES game released by Capcom USA around 1991. It is known to be a sequel to the original GI Joe NES game released a year before. In this run, the author manipulates luck in order to achieve his goals. Note that he jumps a lot, but that's because jumping makes the character move faster (from left to right and vice-versa) than just walking around. | ||
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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.youtube.com) Submission #2116 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.3 (27 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. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-03-25) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 27.90 MB, length: 16:33) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1482 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #20 (14:32.25) Rating: 7.0 (24 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Despite the fact that this is a Konami game, this game is not well-known in western countries. This game is really quite difficult. 火の鳥 = bird of fire (Japanese name for phoenix). This is a 15.5-second improvement to the previous author's movie, through a route change and extensive luck manipulation. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-01-16) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 6.40 MB, length: 05:10) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1413 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #274 (04:19.07) Rating: 5.5 (32 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Adventure | |
| Anyone up for some fishing? In this TAS of Jaws, the attack level is upgraded to 3, which is the minimum required to kill Jaws in a single encounter. 30,000 points are needed to get the mini-sub which has double attack power. Because of this, a regular encounter is substituted for a Jaws encounter, so that Jaws can be hit for more points. This movie is a 42.6 sec improvement over the previous one. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-01-07) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 2.44 MB, length: 01:00) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 2.82 MB, length: 01:00) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3769 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 3.4 (4 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action | |
| This run further proves that pirate games can be broken not just upon release, but even more so after being TASed. MESHUGGAH speeds through this unlicensed port of the SNES game based on the movie, using optimized movement and a glitch to jump through the egg pen wall to finish in a mere 50.93 seconds. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-08-09) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 29.15 MB, length: 21:54) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2359 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #89 (20:41.57) Rating: 6.8 (17.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| For the fans of the Castlevania series ― here's a TAS of a Castlevania game that is hmm.. much much more aimed toward children than the darker-themed games. The game was only released in Japan.
There is also a Game Boy sequel that is known as Kid Dracula.
This is a 50+ second improvement over the previous movie by Phil and Genisto. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-08-20) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 105.84 MB, length: 1:50:42) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2719 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.7 (10 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| 'Lagrange Point' (ラグランジュポイント), is a very late (as in, released in 1991) Japanese-only RPG produced for the NES. This game is notable because Konami teamed up with readers of Family Computer Magazine (ファミリーコンピュータマガジン) to form a group, called 芸夢工房 (geimukoubou, art dream workshop), in order to make this game. The readers were permitted to design the characters, monsters, events, message-texts, music, the title-screen, and such. With enhanced sound for the NES due to Konami's VRC7 sound generator Integrated Circuit, the game is considered a masterpiece to many Japanese people.
The story is about a pilot, Jin (also known as Gin), who is exploring a biohazard outbreak at a space colony, linked to the disappearance of Dr. Stolte. He arrives, only for the spaceship to be attacked. The effect of the outbreak soon becomes clear.
More information on the game can be found on the Japanese Wikipedia (machine translation).
The MKV has been continued until past 1:50:00 to show a secret message after the end.
This run of a Japanese-only RPG with no fan-translation features commentary in the form of Advanced SubStation Alpha soft subtitles created by FractalFusion and the author, neo_omegon. If you use MPlayer to view the MKV, add the -ass option to the commandline to view the subtitles with their proper layout. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-01-31) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 31.00 MB, length: 37:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3424 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (4 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Legend of the Ghost Lion features a young girl, searching for her parents and the mystery of the White Lion, using the power of dreams to summon allies to fight for her. Maria is seemingly a lucid dreamer, and gains the ability to control her dream and guide it to the truth of this game with the minimum of fuss. Now that's what I call a power nap! | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-02-02) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 23.85 MB, length: 11:50) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2550 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1288 (12:12.18) Rating: 6.2 (15 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Meet Paul -- A guy who starves to death five minutes after a grand meal. He also feels experienced from doing trivial things like entering a store or delivering mail.
While many heroes would depend on hours of fighting for experience, Paul instead gets his experience from those trivial things in order to defeat Abadon in a timely manner. Best ending requires all such trivial tasks done, ensuring you see Paul gaining experience from delivering a letter or talking to a tree.
Along the way, there are vicious enemies who beat up Paul. Being in a hurry, Paul doesn't stop for them, preferring to use the UNKNOWN spell to patch himself up. Normally this has a high chance of killing Paul in some of the most gruesome or comical ways possible, but instead it is manipulated to heal him.
This beats the authors previous run by a little over 38 seconds, primarily due to a new route.
Reading the author's comments is recommended.
This movie features commentary by the author, which has been added to the encode in the form of soft subtitles. If watching embedded stream via Archive.org, you can press the nearly invisible commentary button on the top right corner to see the commentary. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-12-01) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 14.62 MB, length: 14:40) MP4 file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 15.53 MB, length: 14:40) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Submission #2921 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1103 (15:29.27) Rating: 9.4 (58 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Corrupts memory - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform ![]() ![]() ![]() | |
| On this site, we make perfect movies, and then we surpass them. Of course, if we can surpass them, they were not perfect in the first place, but who would have known? When "perfection" is defined as "as fast as possible", it requires some sacrifices. Indeed, this movie sacrifices a lot in the playability of the game. Full of tricks to pass through walls, tricks to avoid mandatory battles, tricks to pass through enemies relatively unharmed, tricks to acquire weapon refills in little time — there is very little in this movie left that resembles normal playing. Even death is used as a viable playing strategy that saves time. All of the tricks are still performed by the means of mere controller input, even though significant portions of the input were calculated by a computer program. This movie is a considerable improvement of 3:04.39 to the previous movie; this is mainly due to a new technique which tricks the game into calling an 'end of level' object. Of course, upon watching this movie, one does have to question something... is it Mega Man saving the world? Or Dr. Wily trying to save it from absolute destruction? | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-07-28) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 71.77 MB, length: 36:37) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2030 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #700 (31:33.02) Rating: 7.9 (33.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Mega Man 3 (USAのロックマン3) is the first game in the Mega Man / Rockman series to introduce sliding (though the ability to charge the Mega Buster would have to wait until game 4). It also introduced Rush the robotic dog, who provides the abilities of Rush Coil, Rush Marine, and Rush Jet. Furthermore, after you beat the 8 robot masters, the game makes you revisit modified versions of four stages to fight the Doc Robots, who imitate the robot masters from Mega Man 2. This set a precedent in the Mega Man series to have additional stages between the main robot masters and Dr. Wily. This run completes the game about 48 seconds faster than the previous movie, thanks to lag reduction, optimization, and some new strategies. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-04-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 31.88 MB, length: 24:45) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 36.02 MB, length: 24:45) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3928 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #2218 (25:07.15) Rating: Too few votes (1) to display View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| In Metal Max, a mysterious war known as "The Havoc" has almost destroyed the human civilization. It's unknown how it broke out, and no one even dares to find out. The few who are left have to struggle to survive. Among them is our young hero, E, who just makes his decision to become a great Hunter. Released by Data East in Japan in 1991, Metal Max was one of the more "creative" console role-playing games due to more freedom in the story. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic future, in which surviving people cluster from villages to ruins, while some Hunters among them fight monsters and outlaws in the "wild". In this run, suwei improves the previous run by 50.66 seconds by using "dud" shells instead of panic shells and buying the teleport item from a different place. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-07-20) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 18.58 MB, length: 10:39) MP4 file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 9.41 MB, length: 10:40) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2032 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #844 (08:52.18) Rating: 8.1 (38.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Metroid completed as fast as possible without holding back, and without concern for the game's sanity. A wealth of new tricks contribute to this 33 second improvement over the previous movie. The run uses a game restart sequence (Up+A on the second controller) to save time in backtracking. See Metroid Tricks for more information about the door glitch as well as other tips and tricks. Andy Dick has made a video which plays this run on top of the game map. This provides a unique perspective on the door warping glitches. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-02-19) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 11.96 MB, length: 11:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1841 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #964 (10:24.47) Rating: 6.1 (21 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Fighting | |
| Mighty Final Fight is modeled after its arcade cousin Final Fight but features more cartoon-like graphics and lacks multiplayer. In this movie, the mayor of Metro City spins, punches and piledrives his way to save his daughter, all without the benefit of a shirt. The author rarely takes damage, with the notable exception of multiple suicides down an elevator shaft. This is nearly a minute and a half improvement over the previous movie. Also, the author made a switch from the JPN version to the USA, which results in a 5 second slower intro screen. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-11-21) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 2.40 MB, length: 03:32) MP4 file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 2.64 MB, length: 03:32) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1199 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.4 (56.5 votes) View Publication | - Demonstration - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Sport | |
| While the CPUs were distracted, FractalFusion changed the dice on them and then left the board for a few minutes. When he came back, all the CPUs were crying. The fraud squad is still investigating. This movie aims to defeat 4 CPU controlled players in as little time as possible. Luck is manipulated for the 1:08 and then the controller is released, allowing the game to take its course. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-04-04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 1.10 MB, length: 01:52) MP4 file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 1.18 MB, length: 01:52) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1011 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #488 (00:33.62) Rating: 6.7 (69 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Sport | |
| This movie aims for the fastest time to get the CPU player bankrupt, and abuses luck to its fullest to make that happen. After a few turns of Monopoly war in the submissions, this version won out. It utilizes the same strategy from the previous one, but several seconds have been shaved by reverse engineering the random number generator and a brute force computer search to achieve the desired randomization with the least possible delay. Details can be found in the submission comments. Under assumption of pure randomness, the odds of reproducing this dice and card sequence on a console is 1 in a few (North American) trillions (22 568 879 259 648, divided by the few slight variations that could work). FractalFusion has produced an alternate superplay of Monopoly that is 3 seconds faster, but controversial. It has been cancelled. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-04-05) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 2.58 MB, length: 03:15) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 3.13 MB, length: 03:15) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3908 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.7 (5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Uses a level password - Unofficial game - Genre: Puzzle | |
| NeSnake 2 is a homebrew game made by MatrixZ in the style of the classic game Snake. This run by MESHUGGAH showcases the only way a Snake game can be TASed for the fastest time. Guess what happens! | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-01-15) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 13.11 MB, length: 08:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3420 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.6 (5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Rod Land is a game with as many incarnations, as differences between them. In their NES outing, Tam and Rit overcome a rare video game impediment - the inability to jump - as they go around stages, trapping enemies with their magic rods and smashing them to make power ups. Hm, I wonder where I've seen that before... | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-12-23) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 90.31 MB, length: 1:04:40) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1807 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #424 (1:05:43.3) Rating: 5.2 (19 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Adventure | |
| This is a long RPG-like adventure game with lots of witty dialog and the hero equipped with a yoyo. This is a ~4 minute improvement to the previous movie by Sami O.. A major part of this shortening comes from a glitch that skips the last chapter of the game, ignoring certain plot details. If you want to see the actual ending, watch the previous movie. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-11-08) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 17.59 MB, length: 13:11) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 18.11 MB, length: 13:11) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3441 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (5.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform | |
| Terminator 2: Judgment Day for the NES, released in 1991, is one of the better LJN games. In this game there are 4 platformer levels and one where Terminator rides a motorcycle. The game generally follows the plot of the movie, so for a more detailed synopsis go enjoy the film. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-04-09) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 1.21 MB, length: 02:22) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2620 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.6 (34.5 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - Demonstration - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Puzzle | |
| To the average player, Tetris is a fast-paced action/puzzle blend where reflexes become a huge factor as pieces pile up and speed increases dramatically. For one with perfect reflexes, however, it's no longer a challenge of 'where does the next piece go to make lines / avoid piling up?' so much as 'where can I put the next piece to make things look the most interesting?'. This run exemplifies that philosophy, exploiting the ability to manipulate the next piece that appears to the fullest in the service of creating a pattern which would be nigh impossible to duplicate in real world conditions. If you thought that TASing was only about speed, look no further than this example to prove otherwise. This run played on a real NES | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-07-21) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 5.55 MB, length: 04:27) MP4 file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 5.53 MB, length: 04:27) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3226 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.1 (11.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses a level password - Genre: Action - Genre: Puzzle | |
| The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle is a frustrating action puzzler. In it, you take control of Bugs as he collects carrots while avoiding enemies such as Sylvester the Cat, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, and Wile E. Coyote.
This game features 4 "Special Levels" which can be accessed either by the "No Carrot Signs" found in several levels or by a password. In this run, the author, Brandon, completes these difficult levels with absolutely no help from the boxing gloves and potions featured in the main game. All he has to work with is precise movement and luck manipulation, and although this, coupled with the numerous enemies, make these levels far less trivial than the main ones, the completion time is still relatively small. Much of the length of this movie is a result of the unavoidable and abnormally long tube scenes in S4 and S1. For more details, as always, please see the author's notes, and also make sure to watch the captions provided in the encodes.
This author has also created a run of the main game.
This run has two YouTube steams. The first contains no input display while the second one does. This was included as the luck manipulation is heavily based on input, and it's hard to follow the run otherwise. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-05-31) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 46.85 MB, length: 43:00) MP4 file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 49.36 MB, length: 43:00) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3155 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.7 (16 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Puzzle | |
| The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle is a frustrating action puzzler. In it, you take control of Bugs as he collects carrots while avoiding enemies such as Sylvester the Cat, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, and Wile E. Coyote. Equipped with nothing but an occasional boxing glove which he can throw and some invincibility potions, Bugs must eat his way through 60 levels without getting trapped by a mob of Looney Tunes.
In this run, the author, Brandon, exploits the game's AI, which is everything but intelligent. Only one of these enemies follow actual movement, while the others will track your input, even if the input changes nothing. As such, the author is able to often render the enemies useless, allowing him to take the most optimal path. When he can't do this, he tries to find the best possible workaround, often pausing for the exact right amount of time to make it past a baddie. As a secondary goal, the author also attempts to maximize the score without losing time. For more details, as always, please see the author's notes, and also make sure to watch the captions provided in the encodes.
This author has also created a run of this game's "Special Levels".
This run has two YouTube steams. The first contains no input display while the second one does. This was included as the luck manipulation is heavily based on input, and it's hard to follow the run otherwise. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-08-23) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 21.32 MB, length: 16:05) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 22.16 MB, length: 16:05) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3677 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #411 (16:45.85) Rating: 5.7 (8.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Mikey's friends, the Goonies, have been kidnapped by the Fratellis, an Italian family of small-time crooks and counterfeiters. Mikey must rescue all six of his friends and free a captured mermaid named Annie. This movie improves the previous one by 1:36.50 minute, thanks to the route change, some new tricks and the game version switch. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2008-10-16) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 41.05 MB, length: 26:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2091 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #8 (29:15.9) Rating: 8.3 (30.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Second quest/Post game-completion - Uses a level password - Genre: Adventure - Genre: RPG | |
| The second quest of The Legend of Zelda is what you get by having completed the game once. It is more difficult than the first quest. In this movie, the authors enter ZELDA as the player's name to start the 2nd quest without having to complete the game first. This movie is 4 minutes and 13.6 seconds faster than the previous movie by Sleepz. The authors provide detailed explanations of the time savings in their submission text. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-08-15) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 442.73 KB, length: 00:42) MP4 file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 591.95 KB, length: 00:42) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3253 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1706 (00:27.82) Rating: 5.4 (17.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Fighting | |
| Urban Champion is one of the most memorable games for the Nintendo Entertainment System, where two normal-looking guys trade blows in front of your favorite neighborhood drugstore, in broad daylight, pausing to look nonchalant and whistle in innocence when a police cruiser passes by. Alternating between high and low punches, and fast or slow jabbing speeds, you seek to outwit your urban adversary and knock him backwards, a screen at a time, until finally he falls to his death by plummeting, helpless, headlong into the darkness of an open sewer-access manhole. By finding a new glitch, using a different fighting technique, and further polishing the run, the author, t3h Icy, beats his obsoleted movie by 0.84 seconds. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-11-27) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 1.14 MB, length: 03:21) MP4 file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 1.19 MB, length: 03:21) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2128 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (35 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| One of a few dungeon crawlers on this site. The player's team of a couple characters travels through a dungeon at breakneck speed, obtaining the minimum necessary to destroy the evil wizard, then leaving. A great amount of luck-manipulation was required; so much that TaoTao used a bot to do parts of this run. That's why the rerecord count says 200000. The number of manual rerecords is around 1000. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-12-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 2.13 MB, length: 03:43) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2499 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1338 (01:12.81) Rating: 6.4 (14 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| This game, the second in the series, is the direct sequel to Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. Here, the heroes | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-07-04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 1.29 MB, length: 01:28) MP4 file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 857.17 KB, length: 01:24) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3195 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (17 votes) View Publication | - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Although Legacy of Llylgamyn is the third game in the Wizardry series, it was released second for the NES because Knight of Diamonds, the actual second game, was deemed to be too difficult for beginners (though it was, eventually, released for the NES as well). Here, the object of the quest, the Orb of Earithin, mysteriously appears in a shop by way of a lost battle and a glitch involving the occasional result thereof of causing a character to be lost in the dungeon, bringing the quest to a close impossibly quickly. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-05-19) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 98.21 MB, length: 50:22) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1940 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #781 (48:14.98) Rating: 8.0 (22 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| A non-glitched run of the black sheep in the Zelda series, shortened by about 18 seconds. The major change in this submission is the leveling of magic over attack in the first part of the game. Other time saved was due to various scattered improvements. This movie avoids pressing Left and Right at the same time which causes an acceleration bug that can massively glitch the game. | ||
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| Mednafen/PCEjin movie (.mc2) (date: 2010-11-20) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 26.16 MB, length: 06:45) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2912 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (12 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform | |
| In Vigilante, you are a tough lone hero fighting to save his girlfriend, Madonna, from a dangerous gang called the Skinheads. The unnamed hero can use his fists and feet to beat up his foes, as well as bullet-breaking nunchucks he can pick up along the way. The author, Sonikkustar, lets nothing stop him as he tears through every Skinhead and rescues Madonna in record time. | ||
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| PCSX movie (.pxm) (date: 2010-03-10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 43.75 MB, length: 14:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2256 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.9 (14 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Azure Dreams is an RPG random dungeon crawler where the main character, Koh, can recruit familiars and level them up in the 40-floor Monster Tower, while gaining items and riches. He can also help the local town and romance some girls. As can be seen from the movie time, none of this occurs in this TAS. It's just one naked dash to the top and a whole bunch of fortuitous circumstances. Luck manipulation was used on almost every floor to ensure that elevators and helpful traps are strategically located. Should you decide to play Azure Dreams, this is definitely the wrong way to play the game. | ||
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| PCSX movie (.pxm) (date: 2011-05-15) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 810.45 MB, length: 7:51:48) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3117 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (9 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| The Brood, an ancient race of dragons, is all but extinct. Their power was so strong that they had to be killed. A (as Ryu is named in this run), the last one of the Brood, is awakened after 400 years and decides he wants to know more about his people. Well aware of his fearful power, A uses it until he becomes strong enough to rely on his physical power, after which he manipulates luck to an indecent extent, using frame-by-frame advancing to pulverize his foes and even the final boss. It may be a little anti-climactic, but it's much quicker this way. This is currently the second longest published movie (only Final Fantasy VIII is longer). You might want to take your morning and your afternoon to watch this. | ||
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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 (10bit444) (size: 114.94 MB, length: 22:05) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.radiokj.com Mirror www.archive.org (10bit444) 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 (14.5 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. | ||
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| PCSX movie (.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 (19 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. | ||
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| PSXjin movie (.pjm) (date: 2011-04-04) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 109.21 MB, length: 30:33) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 121.31 MB, length: 30:33) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3047 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.1 (5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Chocobo no Fushigi na Dungeon (チョコボの不思議なダンジョン) is a dungeon crawler staring everyone's favorite Final Fantasy transportation. It was only released in Japan, although a sequel, Chocobo's Dungeon 2, was released in the USA too. The author uses luck manipulation to get favorable floor layouts, descending rapidly through the dungeons while still collecting items needed to kill bosses. | ||
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| PSXjin movie (.pjm) (date: 2012-05-01) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 1.46 GB, length: 8:04:25) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 1.44 GB, length: 8:04:25) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3489 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (3.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| This is the much-anticipated tool-assisted speedrun of the ninth installment in the Final Fantasy series (and the last to be made for the PSX). With its many references to the older games, it's a trip down memory lane for those familiar with the series.
This run completes the famous Excalibur II quest, which requires the player to get to the end of the game in under 12 hours, with over 4 hours and 40 minutes to spare. For more details on the low completion time and the extensive route planning put into this run, we recommend reading the author's comments.
Both the MKVs and YouTube encodes have explanatory subtitles to read while watching.
Note: Due to an emulation error, some areas have rather loud background sound effects (like Alexandria during Vivi's first appearance).
There are two YouTube streams available for this movie. The first is a four-part playlist offering HD video, and the second is all in one stream in 480p. | ||
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| PSXjin movie (.pjm) (date: 2011-07-04) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 1.37 GB, length: 8:33:26) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 1.50 GB, length: 8:33:26) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3160 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.5 (14.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Final Fantasy VIII (1999) marked a significant departure from earlier Squaresoft titles — it was their first game to have realistically proportioned characters and did away with much of the traditional gameplay systems used by earlier titles. Additionally, it is the first Final Fantasy to focus on a love story.
This is the first multi-disc publication on the site, and currently is also the longest published run.
There are two YouTube streams available for this movie. The first is a four-part playlist offering HD video, and the second is contained all in one stream in 480p. | ||
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| PSXjin movie (.pjm) (date: 2011-07-02) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 522.72 MB, length: 48:22) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 511.56 MB, length: 48:22) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3184 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (4.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Puzzle | |
| MediEvil tells the tale of Sir Daniel Fortesque, one very deceased knight, and his quest to rid the land of undead legions and Zarok, the wicked magician who created them. The gameplay is very reminiscent of the action-platformers of old, consisting largely of running around each stage whilst hacking up baddies, though there is also a good share of puzzles to be solved. Here, Sir Fortesque pulls out his own brand of trickery, warping around levels and outwitting the fiendish puzzles in order to stop Zarok and his forces as quickly as possible. | ||
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| PSXjin movie (.pjm) (date: 2013-04-19) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 283.97 MB, length: 1:06:27) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 276.77 MB, length: 1:06:27) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3917 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #2003 (1:31:49.0) Rating: 8.3 (5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Starts from a saved state or SRAM - Genre: Action | |
| Metal Gear Solid was one of the original breakthrough titles in the stealth gaming genre. It follows Solid Snake, a soldier who is infiltrating a nuclear weapons facility on a remote Alaskan island codenamed Shadow Moses Island. Snake must rescue two hostages from the terrorist organization FOXHOUND and stop them from launching a nuclear strike on the United States. In this run, theenglishman abuses walk-through-walls and weapon glitches to save over 26 minutes from his previous run. Reading the submission comments is recommended. | ||
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| PSXjin movie (.pjm) (date: 2013-04-14) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 130.55 MB, length: 33:20) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 129.53 MB, length: 33:20) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3869 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.0 (5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero is a story-driven fighting game that puts you in the shoes of Sub-Zero and chronicles a series of events that occurred prior to the first Mortal Kombat. You, the Lin Kuei's most cunning assassin, are sent to steal an important document. However, this mission proves to be a test from a mysterious character (who turns out to be MK4's Quan Chi) who charges you upon retrieval of the document to recover an ancient medallion of untold power. Upon your return, Quan Chi reveals that he actually tricked you, and the medallion is the key to awakening the demon Shinnok (yup, the same baddie from MK4). Now a reluctant hero, you must pursue Quan Chi through hell itself hoping you get to Shinnok before him. Technically speaking, this game represents the final evolutionary step in the MK series' 2D engine. The game takes the familiar 2D Mortal Kombat fighting environment and turns it into a hybrid fighting/platform game, where you must run and jump through hazardous levels as well as fight your way through both digitized and polygonal enemies. Sub-Zero's interface is the same as in every MK game, with the addition of the "use" and "turn around" buttons, an inventory, and a slight RPG twist that gives you EXP for defeating opponents which becomes new techniques and moves to execute in the game. The author, Thevlackdemonn2294, uses precise movement as well as tricks and glitches to beat the game in under half an hour. | ||
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| PCSX movie (.pxm) (date: 2009-12-21) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 52.27 MB, length: 20:15) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2483 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (15.5 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - Maximum kills - Best ending - Heavy luck manipulation - Starts from a saved state or SRAM - Genre: Shooter | |
| Join Carlos in a race to clean up the streets of Raccoon City and enjoy the architecture and the new wall colors in a quick run of this well-known minigame from Resident Evil 3. The objective of the minigame is to reach a specified point in a set time limit which can be extended by defeating enemies. Needless to say, the timer never even comes close to running out here. This run begins from a save state which has the minigame unlocked, which can be generated by replaying the author's run of the full game. This is not normally allowed by the site, though an exception can be made if prior approval is granted. | ||
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| PSXjin movie (.pjm) (date: 2011-09-08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 101.86 MB, length: 1:00:49) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.radiokj.com Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3271 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.2 (8 votes) View Publication | - Uses a suboptimal character - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| Resident Evil is the original survival horror game by Capcom, and the beginning of a big franchise. The Raccoon Police Department's Special Tactics And Rescue Service (S.T.A.R.S.) are assigned to investigate a series of bizarre murders in Raccoon City. Watch the Alpha team's Jill Valentine as she blazes through a series of zombies while killing only one of them! While it obsoletes the run of the DS remake, this movie is longer because the cutscenes are not skippable in the original version of the game, even though the gameplay is done faster. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2011-05-04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 9.50 MB, length: 10:50) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.radiokj.com Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3141 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1766 (10:54.93) Rating: 6.8 (6.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Mole Mania, known as Moguranya (モグラ~ニャ) in Japan, is an action puzzle game. The main character is a mole named Muddy Mole, whose wife and children have been kidnapped by the farmer, Jinbe. Muddy has to go to Jinbe Land and save his family. In the game, the player will solve puzzles by moving a black ball to a gate. However, there are many obstacles and enemies in the way. Therefore the player will dig into ground to find ways around them. The player skips 6 levels out of 8 using a glitch, causing the time records to be nullified from the second stage to the seventh stage. The previous run used a reset glitch to perform this skip. This time, a different warp glitch was used, which is where most of the 2:45.93 improvement comes from. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2011-04-17) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 83.46 MB, length: 1:12:09) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3057 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.9 (5 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Mole Mania, known as Moguranya (モグラ~ニャ) in Japan, is an action puzzle game. The main character is a mole named Muddy Mole, whose wife and children have been kidnapped by the farmer, Jinbe. Muddy has to go to Jinbe Land and save his family. In the game, the player will solve puzzles by moving a black ball to a gate. However, there are many obstacles and enemies in the way. Therefore the player will dig into ground to find ways around them. This run aims to beat all levels as fast as possible without using surrender. To accomplish this, the author, Ryuto, uses a warp glitch to skip many rooms. As always, please see the author's notes for more details. There is also a run by the same author that skips several levels. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2010-10-10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 6.10 MB, length: 06:10) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2860 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #941 (04:24.53) Rating: 6.6 (17 votes) View Publication | - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Corrupts memory - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| This game (along with Pocket Monsters: Red) is the Japanese version of the first generation of Pokémon games and the first ever Pokémon game.
This run, a ten frame improvement over the previous version, abuses a glitch that was fixed in later releases of Pocket Monsters (Pokémon) that allows a player to warp freely through the world. Victory is achieved in a matter of minutes with this route. Normally, the game takes well over an hour at the fastest to finish.
To see a more substantial run of the first generation of Pokémon, watch this movie. For a less substantial run (which also demonstrates that they didn't fix all the glitches in later versions), watch this one.
Note: This movie requires VBA rerecording v20, as it does not sync on any other version. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2011-07-14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 110.75 MB, length: 3:23:53) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 125.20 MB, length: 3:23:57) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3203 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.5 (23.5 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. | ||
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| VBA movie (.vbm) (date: 2010-12-23) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 25.51 MB, length: 43:00) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 27.61 MB, length: 43:01) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (10bit444) 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: 7.0 (17 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. | ||
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| Dega movie (.mmv) (date: 2011-02-16) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 4.39 MB, length: 02:55) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3003 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.3 (19.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Dragon Crystal is an early Roguelike RPG in the vein of Fatal Labyrinth or Azure Dreams - thus, naturally, it's vulnerable to the same type of luck manipulation in its random level generation to allow the protagonist to miraculously find stairs up in the opening area of each floor and complete the game in record time. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2011-03-01) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 181.75 MB, length: 1:05:32) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3019 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #204 (1:08:07.05) Rating: 7.3 (13.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform - Genre: Strategy | |
| ActRaiser (1990) is a critically acclaimed SNES game which combines two major gameplay phases: a god simulator and an action platformer. You play the role of Commentary from the authors is available: subtitles in.mkv amd YouTube video, or use this script to watch in an emulator. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2009-06-23) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 76.78 MB, length: 25:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2270 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.9 (16 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| The Animaniacs are a cartoon comedy trio, known for old school Warner Brothers style comedy mixed with some scathing political commentary. This platformer of their namesake captures their personality well, with some comical and colorful animations. The author adds in his own techniques of walking on air and creating small scenes within the game while playing, especially during boss fights. This game has a built in roulette, which is manipulated to always give the best result, especially invincibility when needed for tougher bosses. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.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: 6.5 (9 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 was Capcom's first traditional RPG. It follows a boy named Ryu, one of the last surviving members of an ancient race with the ability to transform into mighty dragons, as he searches the world for his sister. Along the way, Ryu meets other warriors who share his quest and comes into conflict with the Dark Dragon Clan, a militaristic empire who seeks to take over the world by reviving a mad goddess. Using a whole lot of planning and luck manipulation, janus completes this long game in just under four and a quarter hours. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.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: 5.8 (10 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 fourth longest published movie to date (here are the third longest, the second longest and longest), clocking in a little under 5 hours. Set aside an afternoon. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2013-03-16) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 1.05 GB, length: 5:50:34) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 1.16 GB, length: 5:50:34) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3813 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.3 (3 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
From the opposite side of the usual formula of breaking a game to reach the credits as fast as possible, Saturn finishes Chrono Trigger in a single pass while trying to get as much done as possible without glitching the game out. Consequently this video actually looks like an otherwise normal playthrough by an extremely skilled player.
This run aims for maximal completion within reasonable constraints. This includes:
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2010-06-11) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 4.48 MB, length: 05:37) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2695 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.6 (22.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Strategy | |
| In this port of the famous strategy game to the SNES, watch as the AI opponents all miraculously begin close to the player, an army is pulled effectively out of thin air, and settlers prove their worth as vicious assailants. The game ends in an astonishingly short time of fourteen turns. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2012-04-06) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 629.74 KB, length: 00:35) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 596.55 KB, length: 00:35) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3552 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.8 (14.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Strategy | |
| The game of Clue has been attempted many times here at TASVideos. After years of research and planning, it's finally been honed down to a tidy 26.50 seconds. Whodunit? You'll have to watch to find out. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2008-08-11) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 118.37 MB, length: 44:35) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2017 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.5 (22 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Demon's Crest is the third installment of the Gargoyle's Quest series. The player controls Firebrand, who is scouring the Demon Realm for elemental Crests, which preside over different elements (Fire, Earth, Air, Water, Time, and Heaven). When collected, these crests allow Firebrand to transform his shape at will and gain powerful new abilities and defenses. Demon's Crest is notorious for some very difficult bosses. In this run, the author abuses boss weaknesses to the extreme by carefully switching Gargoyle forms as necessary. In addition, heavy luck manipulation was used during several encounters to make the otherwise troublesome boss fights look easier than a play through of Barney's Hide and Seek. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2012-05-05) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 449.77 MB, length: 1:31:31) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 409.27 MB, length: 1:31:31) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3578 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1629 (1:22:17.17) Rating: 9.3 (10.5 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 - 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. This movie improves on its predecessor by 45.28 seconds, primarily by using a debug code to get 75 Kremkoins early, allowing for a faster route through the game. Reading the authors' comments is recommended. For more primate action, try the any% run. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2012-02-04) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 87.81 MB, length: 59:41) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 90.86 MB, length: 59:41) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3431 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.8 (5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| This is the fifth game of the series originally known as Dragon Warrior in the US; it remained untranslated until a port to the DS was released in 2008, where it received the name Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride. It tracks the life of our hero, the son of Papas, over a large span of time from his adventurous childhood through tragic adolescence and a joyful marriage as he and his family fight to defeat evil.
You may be interested in watching earlier games in the series.
As the game text is in Japanese, the encodes feature translation in the form of subtitles courtesy of the author. There is also a second YouTube stream featuring more detailed information and commentary, also by the author. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.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 (19 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!
We recommend reading the authors notes. They are rather voluminous and contain a great deal of good information. There are also Lua subtitles in the .smv.
A Lua subtitle script is available in the forums thread for those who are unfamiliar with the game. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2009-06-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 160.49 MB, length: 1:10:44) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2200 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #567 (3:26:09.18) Rating: 8.7 (65.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - 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. Our description for the previous movie stated, "Although this being a speedrun (tool-assisted at that), most of the plot of the game is intact...". This time around, not so much. Thanks to some collision detection bugs, including one that shows that the Skip Sandwich is a fitting name for the item in ways the developers never intended, the author is able to move around the game's areas freely, completing the bare minimum number of tasks needed to keep the final battle from locking up. Also unlike the previous movie, this one does use a death as a shortcut. However, the teddy bear survives this time around. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2008-07-26) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 403.75 MB, length: 3:11:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2033 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (25 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Final Fantasy IV (renamed to Final Fantasy II in North-American publication) was a revolution to the RPG genre. It was the first to introduce the active battle system, among many other redeeming qualities. This movie plays through the game in a mere 2 hours, 53 minutes and 14 seconds. It aims for real time, but has a secondary goal of lowest in-game time when that does not incur an expense in real time. The in-game completion time is 1:59:28. The author also included many easter eggs, or surprise occurrences, throughout the movie. These have been detailed in the author's comments. We recommend reading the comments regarding this movie. Note: This movie resets the game console a few times, first saving the game and then loading it, so to watch it on an emulator, you will need an emulator that supports recording the console resets. This movie was made with the original English-language version. The downloadable encode and this YouTube stream were encoded with the Action Replay code 0495DCFF, which keeps the music volume from decreasing while the game is paused. This greatly reduces the annoyance factor of constant pausing during battles, which is done to save time. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2006-11-01) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 200.49 MB, length: 1:52:06) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1326 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #465 (1:57:36.07) Rating: 6.5 (29.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Final Fantasy Mystic Quest is a short RPG game that is very different from the Final Fantasy games that came before and after it. This is the third TAS movie of this game, now 8 minutes faster than the previous run by the same author. We recommend reading the author's comments for information about this run. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2007-08-14) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 523.85 MB, length: 4:03:00) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 564.91 MB, length: 4:03:00) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1649 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.5 (24 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Final Fantasy V is probably the least known of the Final Fantasy series on the SNES, because it was never published in the USA. This movie plays through the game in three and a half hours. We recommend reading the author’s comments regarding this movie to understand the manipulation used. The boss battles, including the last boss, might be somewhat anticlimactic in this movie due to the use of a one-hit-kill spell (L5 Doom) which was made to work by varying means in each battle. Note: Because this game was never released in the USA and our rules regarding fan translations are a bit strict, all text in this movie is in Japanese. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2006-06-11) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 601.66 MB, length: 4:31:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1097 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.5 (39 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Final Fantasy VI (renamed to Final Fantasy III in North-American publication) is arguably the most famous RPG on the SNES console. It is very much different from Mystic Quest, in more aspects than should be counted here. This movie plays through the game in little over 4 hours by the means of advanced analysis of the game engine, and the abuse of certain game errors/features that give the ability to one-hit-knock-out even the strongest enemies ― most prominently (but not only) the Joker Doom lore from Setzer’s slot machine. A glitch involving Relm’s sketch ability was not used in this run. It is highly questionable whether or not this glitch can actually be used to save time. Also the glitch cannot be performed on this version of the ROM. The boss battles, including the last boss, might be somewhat anticlimactic in this movie due to the unusual attack technique, but besides being a very nice timeattack/TAS record, the movie is a nice trip down the memory lane for those who have played this game, and a graphically and especially musically pleasing experience for even those who haven't. This movie was made with the English-language version. We recommend reading the author’s comments regarding this movie. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2008-01-09) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 49.87 MB, length: 22:02) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1812 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #152 (20:29.08) Rating: 7.6 (37 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Goof Troop (1993) is a cheerful puzzle game based on Disney show of the same name. The gameplay is somewhat similar to NES Legend of Zelda with its maze-like map filled with one-screen rooms, except this time the emphasis on puzzles is stronger, and you can play in co-op. In this movie the authors control two characters (Goofy and Max) simultaneously. This allows for a good deal of team work as one character can go get an item while the other heads for the exit. When there is no multi-tasking to do, the authors do a good job performing antics with one or both of the characters. This is a nearly 4 minute improvement over Frenom's previous movie. Improvements come from new tricks, better teamwork, luck manipulation and optimized movements. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2011-01-20) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 56.06 MB, length: 15:58) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2978 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (7 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| This game is about two characters, Chiaki and her reluctant demon servant Zenki. They have saved the world from the forces of darkness before, but apparently once is never enough. Chiaki has a vision of five cloaked figures and knows that only she and Zenki can stop them. They set off at once to track down the demon leaders. Watch as Dooty rushes through this game in just over 13 minutes using many of Zenki's flashy attacks. Along the way, some stone monuments need to be destroyed in order to proceed. For more details, see the author's comments. Note: The author plays in Normal mode since Hard mode is not available until you've already beaten the game once. Also, Normal mode reduces the amount of enemies on screen, so it has less lag than Hard mode. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2007-02-07) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 404.18 MB, length: 3:09:34) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1438 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.5 (23 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Lufia 2 is an adventure RPG prequel to Lufia 1. In this installment, Maxim and his cohorts set out to take down the evil Sinistrals. The game sports a large amount of puzzles, yet a shockingly low amount of battles. Using RNG manipulation, this movie illustrates how to avoid many unimportant skirmishes so as to cut down on wasted time. This manipulation is also used to get more favorable item drops throughout the whole run. Note that the (U) version of this ROM contains some graphical glitches. You can read more about these in the submission text. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2011-02-19) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 75.29 MB, length: 29:06) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2994 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1691 (28:03.12) Rating: 9.0 (19 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Rockman & Forte (ロックマン&フォルテ), known as Mega Man & Bass in the western world, used to be the last game chronologically released for the original Rockman/Megaman series, until Rockman & Forte Mirai kara no Chōsensha (ロックマン&フォルテ 未来からの挑戦者) was released on the WonderSwan handheld system. This game bears a striking resemblance to Mega Man 8, not only in style, but in excessive graphic detail. Similarly to Mega Man X4, the player has the option to choose one of two characters to play through. In this run, Rockman is choosen. This run is 41.64 seconds faster than the previous run, demonstrating that this game is even glitchier than it originally appeared. There are two more Rockman & Forte runs to watch on this site; featuring completion of the game with Forte as fast as possible and collection of all CDs with Rockman. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2011-11-23) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 104.53 MB, length: 40:19) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3354 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1726 (39:48.65) Rating: 9.1 (21 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform ![]() | |
| Rockman & Forte (ロックマン&フォルテ), known as Mega Man & Bass in the western world, used to be the last game in the original Rockman/Mega Man series, until Rockman & Forte Mirai kara no Chōsensha (ロックマン&フォルテ 未来からの挑戦者) was released for the WonderSwan. This time around, Dr. Wily has his own creation turned against him, allowing the player to use Mega Man or a bad guy! However, in this run, the players only use Mega Man and collect each and every CD in the game, which shouldn't be possible using only one character. Then again, many things happen in this movie that weren't intended to be possible. This run is a collaboration between sparky, the current author of the other branches for this game, parrot14green, the author of the previous "100 CDs" run, and woabcfl, the author of the Rockman no Constancy runs. It improves the previous movie by 1:40.96. You can read the authors' comments for more details. There are two more Rockman & Forte runs to watch on this site; featuring completion of the game with Rockman and Forte as fast as possible, without worrying about CD collection. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2011-02-23) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 77.38 MB, length: 31:16) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3010 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1132 (29:08.07) Rating: 8.7 (14 votes) View Publication | - Uses a suboptimal character - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Rockman & Forte (ロックマン&フォルテ), known as Mega Man & Bass in the western world, used to be the last game chronologically released for the original Rockman/Megaman series, until Rockman & Forte Mirai kara no Chōsensha (ロックマン&フォルテ 未来からの挑戦者) was released on the WonderSwan handheld system. This game bears a striking resemblance to Mega Man 8, not only in style, but in excessive graphic detail. Similarly to Mega Man X4, the player has the option to choose one of two characters to play through. In this run, Forte is chosen. sparky takes the game apart with some glitches that allow Forte to zip around in walls. This run is 59.83 seconds faster than the previous run, mostly due to new glitches. Read the author's comments for more details. There are two more Rockman & Forte runs to watch on this site; featuring completion of the game with Rockman as fast as possible and collection of all CDs with him. | ||
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| Bizhawk movie (.bkm) (date: 2013-01-19) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 40.72 MB, length: 31:16) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 41.61 MB, length: 31:16) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3791 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Metal Max Returns is the remake of the NES game Metal Max. It features better graphics and sound, revised areas, references to Metal Max 2, and slightly decreased difficulty.
Because of the requirements for completion in this game, this movie is quite different from the original Metal Max (which was TASed by the same author, suwei). For a list of the differences and more information, see the author's notes.
The YouTube encode contains commentary from the author in the form of captions. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2013-04-30) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 204.47 MB, length: 1:23:39) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 210.01 MB, length: 1:23:39) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3954 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1854 (1:27:18.9) Rating: 8.9 (5 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - 100% completion - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
| Metroid Super ZeroMission is a Super Metroid hack that is heavily based on the GBA game Metroid: Zero Mission, inspiring modifications of the game engine, graphics, and maps. In this run, the author, Hoandjzj, clears everything in the game. If you're looking for a run that simply aims for the end, watch this run. This movie is 7:40.39 minutes faster than its predecessor due to a version change and better strategies. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2011-08-05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 60.84 MB, length: 25:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3228 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1651 (31:00.42) Rating: 8.2 (15.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Unofficial game | |
| Metroid Super ZeroMission is a Super Metroid hack that is heavily based on the GBA game Metroid: Zero Mission, inspiring modifications of the game engine, graphics, and maps.
In this run, the author, cpadolf, improves on Hoandjzj's canceled run by over 4 minutes by using a new route and many new tricks and glitches. For more details, as always, please read the author's notes.
This run aims to reach the ending as fast as possible and so skips most of the items. If you're looking to watch a run that clears everything in the game, watch this run. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2008-09-07) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 82.45 MB, length: 38:05) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2070 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.0 (19 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Fighting | |
| "The Ninja Warriors Again" (1994) is the sequel to the popular beat-em-up arcade game "The Ninja Warriors" (1988). It allows the player to choose one of three robotic ninjas. This action packed TAS features the female ninja, Kunoichi, on a mission to leave no crotch unpunched. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2010-07-06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 318.44 MB, length: 2:34:08) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2703 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.1 (7 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Our young hero Chezni, on a bet, enters and explores a forbidden tower and manages to activate an ancient machine deactivated 10,000 years ago. Naturally, he spends the next two and a half hours trying to figure out how to turn it off again. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2009-11-23) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 9.62 MB, length: 07:06) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2453 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.5 (17.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Romancing SaGa is proof that if you want to get around, use a map. This run abuses severe luck manipulation to force the ending to happen through timing sensitive input. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2010-10-31) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 81.50 MB, length: 34:03) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2839 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.0 (6 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Every 300 years, the Star of Death blocks the sun and all newborn lives die. No living thing could escape this fate. But one day, a baby survived, grew up, became the Devil King, and took over the world. He even opened the Abyss Gate and released the devil lords within before suddenly vanishing, leaving the world under the control of the four devil lords. 300 years later, the Death Eclipse hit the world again, and one baby survived again. This child grew up and became the Holy King, and with the support of many friends, drove the four demon lords back to the Abyss and resealed the Abyss Gate. It is now 10 years after the next Death Eclipse, and the whole world is eagerly watching for the new child of destiny. Will it be a Devil King or a Holy King? You can play through the story controlling any one of the eight main characters - Julian, Monica, Mikhael, Harid, Katarina, Thomas, Elena, or Sarah. The story is common for all eight characters, and they often join together and share the same piece of the story. The author, knbnitkr, completes the game in only 21:59.65 minutes by using a materialization bug to glitch out the game and skip right to the last dungeon. For more information about this bug, see the author's comments. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2011-11-13) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 343.41 MB, length: 1:57:47) MP4 file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 383.20 MB, length: 1:57:47) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3311 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.4 (9 votes) View Publication | - 3 Players - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: RPG | |
| A Secret of Mana TAS has finally come to TASVideos!
Secret of Mana is a widely popular action RPG published by Square. It is internationally regarded as the first game of the Mana series, though the Japanese title is Seiken Densetsu 2, so it is the sequel of Final Fantasy Adventure. It utilizes real-time battles like many other action RPGs while including some unique features such as the Ring Command and multiplayer action.
Touch-me beats the game very quickly, using three players simultaneously and a whole host of glitches. For instance, many bosses can be hit for 999 instant damage using a charge counter glitch, and certain plot points are skipped. See the submission comments for more details.
The YouTube encode contains commentary from the author in the form of hard subtitles. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2011-12-22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 599.13 MB, length: 3:44:46) MP4 file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 609.79 MB, length: 3:44:46) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3255 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.1 (5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - 2 Players - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - 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...
We recommend reading the author's notes; they contain a lot of very good information.
The provided MP4s and YouTube stream feature subtitles, allowing those of us who don't speak Japanese to figure out what's going on. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2006-05-03) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 251.18 MB, length: 1:48:38) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1005 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (23 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Soul Blazer is an RPG made by Enix considered to be somewhat related to its predecessor: ActRaiser. The main character is an angel sent to destroy invading monsters and release the captured souls of innocent people. In this series, every action in monster lairs directly affects non-combat areas, and vice versa. That being said, much planning was needed for this run. The ending is very long and requires user input, so the movie's length is about 13 minutes longer than what might be considered beating the game. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2011-03-13) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 31.33 MB, length: 15:12) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3038 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #404 (13:37.32) Rating: 7.6 (14 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action | |
| A run of the first Super Bomberman game. The player controls two characters alone and manages to complete the game very quickly due to exploiting the very long invulnerability periods at the beginning of every stage. Actually, the only places where you can see the characters becoming vulnerable are the boss battles! This is a 1-minute improvement over the previous run. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2011-04-13) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 27.30 MB, length: 12:01) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3103 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.2 (12 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - 2 Players - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action | |
| A run of the fifth Super Bomberman game. The player controls two characters alone and manages to complete the game very quickly due to exploiting the very long invulnerability periods at the beginning of every stage. In this game, you can choose a route after beating a stage. The game was only released in Japan. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2008-06-17) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 98.78 MB, length: 23:10) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1954 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #848 (23:10.88) Rating: 8.4 (41 votes) View Publication | - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Starts from a saved state or SRAM - Genre: Racing | |
| Super Mario Kart is the first in a popular series of games starring the Mario cast racing go-karts. This run aims to get record times in all tracks at 150cc difficulty. This is achieved mostly by jumping straight into walls, bottomless pits, and lava, among many other things. Mushrooms are also used frequently due to their mysteriously friction-free propulsion powers. A high amount of wall-bouncing is required. This run is over a minute and a half faster than the previous published run, due to new exploits of the definition of a lap. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2011-10-14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 260.09 MB, length: 2:39:18) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3307 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1389 (2:31:09.7) Rating: 8.0 (8.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| Take Square's RPG history & Nintendo's Super Mario series and mix them in a bowl. Add a pinch of comedy and a quart of luck manipulation. Stir thoroughly. This run improves the previous version by about 2 minutes and 44 seconds through the use of item optimizations. | ||
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| lsnes movie (.lsmv) (date: 2013-04-30) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 10.47 MB, length: 05:54) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 10.46 MB, length: 05:54) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3957 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1945 (02:36.4) Rating: 8.9 (14 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Corrupts memory - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Perfection is good. You're not satisfied with beating the game in real time, so you invent software tools to play it frame by frame. You optimize your run to death over several years, finding glitches that let you skip right to the end, but it's not enough. You make an emulator that's so precise its runs sync on the console. You make a hardware tool to feed them to an actual SNES and use it to play your movie back on one. Now we expect a public presentation of the SNESBot at an event like AwesomeGamesDoneQuick someday. Because what else can follow on this level of perfection? This glitched run is 56.50 seconds faster than Masterjun's previous movie. For those who love to read the technical specifics of such runs, there are detailed author's comments about the new method used here. Suffice to say that 8 controllers are required to get this to work. If you want to see more movies like this, let this post be your guide. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2012-12-18) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 138.52 MB, length: 48:22) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 143.52 MB, length: 48:22) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Submission #2449 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.9 (5 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Low% completion - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Super Metroid is a game that requires very little introduction. Samus Aran, a bounty hunter, returns to the planet of Zebes, in order to explore its depths, and defeat Mother Brain and the Space Pirates. Watch as Samus smoothly glides through the game, cheating death by hitting 30 energy at multiple areas, collecting refills at every turn with minimal to none delays, defeating everything with the omega, the unstoppable, the almighty POS Power Beam, and taking on the Metroids with, not the Ice Beam, but Power Bombs! | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2009-10-25) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 77.73 MB, length: 42:54) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2429 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1073 (39:32.8) Rating: 8.9 (38 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Although newcomers to TASVideos's player list, Taco and Kriole are both experienced TASers in regards to Super Metroid, this time having teamed up in a mission to perfect one of the most contested games in the site's history. Using a new route and taking advantage of several techniques, never demonstrated before in other Super Metroid runs outside of waiting areas, they made short work of Mother Brain and her space pirates. The in-game completion time is 23 minutes 29 seconds, and 18% of the items have been collected. Thus, both the realtime and the in-game any% movies were obsoleted. (The in-game time category has since been improved to beat this run in in-game time, although not real time.) Note: The actual rerecord count in this run is unknown. Please read the authors' submission notes and the discussion thread for more information. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2012-12-10) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 135.98 MB, length: 46:41) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 140.29 MB, length: 46:41) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2136 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #260 (51:05.75) Rating: 7.1 (38 votes) View Publication | - Low% completion - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Super Metroid is a game that requires very little introduction. Samus Aran, a bounty hunter, returns to the planet of Zebes, in order to explore its depths, and defeat Mother Brain and the Space Pirates. In this run, Saturn completes the game with the minimal amount of items, without skipping bosses or major glitches, which was considered "legit conditions" by the community. This movie had a notable flame war about its acceptability, see the discussion thread. Its submission also was revived and rerejected several times in a row. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2011-10-30) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 128.76 MB, length: 43:18) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3316 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1075 (41:02.4) Rating: 8.8 (13.5 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Super Metroid is a game that requires very little introduction. Samus Aran, a bounty hunter, returns to the planet of Zebes, in order to explore its depths, and defeat Mother Brain and the Space Pirates. This movie sees the reinstatement of the in-game category, which was previously merged with the realtime run. Despite being slightly slower in terms of real time, this speedrun is both extremely optimised and breaks previous records once thought to be the limit of the game. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2008-09-26) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 158.23 MB, length: 1:12:25) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2079 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #817 (1:10:45.02) Rating: 9.1 (39.5 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| In accordance with standard procedure, Samus discarded all of the items she collected on previous adventures before embarking on this one. This run aims for 100% item collection in the fastest time, and it does so 2 minutes and 34 seconds faster than the previous movie by JXQ, thanks to various new tricks, route changes, and general optimization. The in-game completion time is 36 minutes and 3 seconds. Super Metroid has a wide variety of time-saving glitches to exploit, many of which are explained on the Super Metroid Tricks page. Be sure to check it, as well as the author's comments, for more information on the improvements. If you prefer to watch the fastest completion without getting all the items, check out Super Metroid in 38:41 by Taco & Kriole. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2012-03-04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 50.79 MB, length: 25:45) MP4 file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 53.04 MB, length: 25:45) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3465 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1270 (21:35.57) Rating: 8.4 (13.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| This movie features a perfect example of what can occur when TASers will go to any extreme to sequence break a long game. Very little that is recognizable remains. Cpadolf forgoes key items, yet bothers to collect the X-Ray scope, an item normally useless to an experienced Super Metroid player.
With the use of X-Ray Scope to get out of the rooms' bounds, some non-trivial physics abuse, and esoteric RAM data manipulation via dying in a certain room, the amount of tasks Samus usually has to do on Zebes has been cut to almost nothing. No boss is ever fought in this TAS, and even Mother Brain is skipped completely. The in-game completion time is 00:12. Only 6% of the items are collected.
This is an improvement of 10.44 seconds real-time, or 2.38 seconds in-game, over the previous glitched any% run.
The peculiar effects of the Space/Time Beam, if properly utilized, can cut this run's time further in half. The movie will have to begin from a savestate, but Samus will start the game fully powered-up, so item collection and all detours associated with it are no longer required. Such a movie, also made by Cpadolf, can be found here; its completion time is 12:46 (00:06 by the in-game timer). | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2012-12-31) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 12.27 MB, length: 11:45) MKV file via BitTorrent (10bit444) (size: 12.23 MB, length: 11:45) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (10bit444) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2474 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.1 (3 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Puzzle | |
| This game is a remake of Super Tetris 2 + Bombliss for the Famicom. It contains two games, an enhanced remake of Tetris and a new puzzle game called Bombliss. Bombliss is a variant of Tetris that features a new type of block, bomb blocks, which destroy surrounding blocks when a line is completed. It is also known as Tetris Blast outside of Japan. The author, Ryuto, plays through Bombliss, building big bombs to clear the whole screen at once, sometimes in chain reactions. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2010-09-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 244.00 MB, length: 1:54:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2811 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.9 (7 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| In this unforgiving RPG that is The 7th Saga, the player picks a character and goes on an epic quest to find the seven magical runes, since each of these runes contains a great power for the one who wields it. Kirkq and Nitrodon, the players who made this tool-assisted speedrun, chose Lux the Tetujin to complete this quest as fast as possible, forgoing a stat boosting glitch, and performing luck manipulation to defeat bosses at an impossibly low level! | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2010-07-16) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 53.58 MB, length: 14:08) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2729 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #113 (03:51.17) Rating: 5.2 (14.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Uses a level password - Genre: Racing | |
| Normally, Top Gear 2 involves racing through many gruelling tracks across sixteen countries, gradually upgrading one's vehicle until it can become competitive in the top tiers. Here a password is used to skip directly to the final country with a stock vehicle substantially slower than the competition it faces - conditions in which any human player would find it impossible to win. Yet this is no obstacle for perfect reflexes and a great deal of luck. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2007-04-14) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 11.64 MB, length: 05:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1511 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #199 (04:24.77) Rating: 5.8 (33.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Sport | |
| If real life had savestates, you could be a millionaire. With handy luck-manipulation, the author multiplies starting player money ($1000) by a hundred in a mere two betting rounds of craps in the limit casino. Then he hits the no limit casino; mutiplying by a hundred again with two betting rounds of craps. The player ends the game with 10 million dollars. Most of the scenes in this game do not relate to gameplay in any way. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2009-06-07) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 38.09 MB, length: 16:58) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2246 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (13 votes) View Publication | - Demonstration - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Wario has taken over the forest and it is up to Toad to defeat all of his monsters in huge tree trunks, caves and castles to save the day! It's like Yoshi's Cookie and Tetris Attack all in one game. | ||
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| snes9x movie (.smv) (date: 2008-01-23) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 52.03 MB, length: 21:43) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1821 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #188 (25:05.18) Rating: 6.7 (28 votes) View Publication | - Maximum kills - 2 Players - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Shooter | |
| A science-fiction/western game. One peculiar feature is that the character's movement and aim are controlled simultaneously. This is nearly a 6 minute improvement over the previous movie due to the use of 2 players, more accuracy, and some nice tricks. The author has also embedded a few subliminal message throughout the movie. Details can be found in the author's comments. | ||
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| Dolphin movie (.dtm) (date: 2011-05-28) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 142.64 MB, length: 39:24) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3157 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.6 (40 votes) View Publication | - Uses a suboptimal character - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Watch as Mega Man takes on the latest set of Robot Masters and everyone's favourite mad roboticist for the tenth time in the classic series. This run is played on normal difficulty (the highest available with no prior save data) and, amongst other feats, takes no damage at all (Mr. Perfect achievement), kills one of every enemy (World Warrior achievement), and manipulates more extra lives and large power-ups than you've probably ever seen before in a single playthrough. The final in-game time is 20:04. In a fit of cosmic irony, this publication, which is the first for a current set-top console, is of a game deliberately designed to be a throwback to the NES days. | ||