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Tool-assisted movies

Total movies: 4


NES Dr. Mario (JPN/USA) in 01:12.83 by CtrlAltDestroy.
FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-05-21)
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Submission #2250 — Author's comments
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Rating: 7.3 (33 votes)
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- 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.


NES Quarth (JPN) in 01:01.45 by Acmlm.
FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-06-15)
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Submission #1001 — Author's comments
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Rating: 5.4 (31.5 votes)
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- 2 Players
- Single level
- Uses hardest difficulty
- Genre: Puzzle
- Genre: Shooter
Quarth might be best described as a mix of a shooter and Tetris. You control a ship that moves horizontally at the bottom, and shoot incoming blocks or groups of blocks (adding tiles to them) to give them a rectangular shape and make them disappear. Each level scrolls at an increasing speed until you reach the end, and you lose if a block reaches the line floating above the ship.

NES Zanac (USA) in 03:26.22 by adelikat.
FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-12-15)
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Submission #1344 — Author's comments
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Obsoletes movie #505 (03:49.88)
Rating: 6.1 (29 votes)
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- Uses death to save time
- Uses warps
- Uses a game restart sequence
- Single level
- Uses a level password
- Genre: Shooter
Zanac is one of those space shooter games in which you are trying to save the earth.

Due to the highly repetitive nature of this game, the hidden 9th input button (the console's Reset button) is used to enable stage select to warp to the final (12th) level. This results in an unusually long gray screen at the start of the movie. Starting on the final level with 3 lives and only the initial pea-shooter for a weapon normally makes the game near impossible to win.

The author takes advantage of frame perfect timing to upgrade rapid fire to the maximum in a single level; this allows for an improvement of 3 seconds during the boss fight.


SNES F-Zero (USA v1.0) "first track" in 02:22.03 by Saturn.
snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2006-03-31)
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Rating: 5.0 (40 votes)
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- Single level
- Genre: Racing
The first of the series. F-Zero is a racing game of the future, with machines that reach more than 470 km/h top-speed.

This movie uses the Fire Stingray to surpass the world record time and best lap time on Mute City 1, the first stage.

  • Best Lap: 23"17
  • Total: 1'58"17
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