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GBA Dragon Ball Advance Adventure (JPN) in 44:34.07 by L.V. (aka. AnotherGamer).
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Rating: 7.1 (22 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Aims for maximum score
- Takes no damage
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Fighting
- Genre: Platform
DBAA is mainly a platformer/beat'em-up, with some one-on-one fights with more important characters thrown in.

The author tries to complete the game moderately fast, while showing off different things you can do and getting a high score in progress.

Doesn't get hit, except in 2 VS fights where losing is part of the game plot.

Ending score: 32074970

Note: If playing the AVI file causes problems in your Windows, ensure you are using the newest version of ffdshow, as explained in FAQ.


GBA Sonic Advance 3 (USA) in 35:56.75 by JSP (aka. Nitsuja).
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Rating: 7.6 (31 votes)
- Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
- No death
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses a game restart sequence
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Yet another Sonic run by nitsuja. This time around the game doesn't allow running faster than the camera can follow. However it does allow team play constantly. This run is refreshing compared to other Sonic runs because of how different it is. Yet like the others, it does not collect the Chaos Emeralds.

It is recommended to read the author's novel to see why he chose to do many of the things he did.


GBA Wario Land 4 (USA) in 1:02:35.57 by Josh Lesnick (SuperHappy).
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Rating: 6.7 (22 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: Puzzle
Wario the bad guy from Super Mario Land 2 is back in a game of his own, and this time he's hunting for treasure in a pyramid.

Unlike Wario Land 2 & 3, Wario can be hurt in this game.

Unlike its predecessor, this run is played on hard mode, making it some seconds longer despite more optimized game play.


GB Kirby's Dream Land (USA) in 09:19.0 by JXQ (?).
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Obsoletes movie #426 (09:50.97)
Rating: 6.7 (18 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Platform
A quick run-through of the first Kirby game ever released, which predates Kirby's ability to absorb enemy powers.

This run uses the 'Extra Game' password (up+select+A at title screen), which makes the enemies and bosses much more aggressive and damaging than usual.

This is a 32 second improvement over the previous movie by Spezzafer.


GB Ninja Spirit (JPN) in 05:40.42 by Mike Tryczak (aka. Primo).
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Rating: 6.1 (15 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes no damage
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
In this movie, we watch a Ninja who transcends to outer space and steals the options from Gradius then proceeds to wipe out a bunch of other Ninjas and evil spirits. This movie also contains many Ninjas, need I say more?

GB The Smurfs (Europe v1.0) in 09:02.17 by Henneböhl Christoph (aka. mugg).
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Rating: 5.1 (14 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Platform
A Game Boy sidescroller with much variety to keep one entertained.

The Smurfs was a once popular comic book and TV series that spread across the world in many languages.

Note: The name of the ROM is Smurfs, The (UE) (V1.0) (M4) [!]; that is, it is actually a USA/Europe version. The game name on the title screen is listed in four different languages.


N64 007 ― The World is Not Enough (USA) in 31:29.53 by Henrik Norgren (aka. Wyster).
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Read author's comments in submission #1665
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Rating: 7.0 (25 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
After beating 006 in Goldeneye 007, Bond returns to fight Renard, another evil genius attempting to take over the world in a plot similar to the movie this First-Person Shooter is based on. Armed with various new weapons, Bond skis down the Caucasus Mountains, infiltrates a nuclear bunker, and even makes his way into a sub, all within half an hour.

Various glitches are abused here, particularly some that allow Bond to skip some of his objectives, and even some entire levels. For more information, see the author's comments.


N64 Glover (USA) in 37:15.28 by Andrés Delikat (aka. adelikat).
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Obsoletes movie #860 (41:23.88)
Rating: 6.1 (23 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- 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.


N64 Goldeneye 007 (USA) in 29:58.27 by Jack Wedge (aka. Rising Tempest).
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Read author's comments in submission #1721
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Rating: 7.7 (26 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Shooter
The name's Bond... James Bond...

007 is ready for his incredibly popular first person shooter for the Nintendo 64. Rather than taking the usual stealthy strategy, secret agent 007 treats this first person shooter like any other and runs around shooting things with a complete disregard for human life, including his own.

NOTE: There are many graphical emulation issues with this game. Most notably the sky is not rendered correctly. This makes the last level look extremely strange. In addition, the AVI was encoded with a plugin that does not play all of the music effects for most stages.


N64 Mortal Kombat 4 (USA) in 09:13.72 by Alex R. (aka. Xyphys).
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Rating: 7.5 (38 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes no damage
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Fighting
A Nintendo 64 installment to the Mortal Kombat series. This run aims for a fast and entertaining completion of the Master II destiny match.

Note: This movie is unofficially rated "PG-13" for having lots of blood and gibs. Viewer discretion is advised.


N64 Super Smash Bros. (USA) in 08:19.67 by Leonardo Bechara (aka. Blaze).
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Rating: 5.9 (23 votes)
- Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
- Takes no damage
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Fighting
- Genre: Platform
Super Smash Bros began a series of games that mixes characters from several Nintendo-made games in a unique fighting game. It relies not on wearing down the opponent's "life" but increasing damage until he or she can be literally knocked off the stage. Wildly popular, this game has inspired many lazy days of casual multiplayer gaming but also intense competitive tournaments that happen to this day.

We have seen several submissions for this game here but this is the first one to be published. The author shows off fancy fighting with Yoshi on the hardest difficulty. Rather than the usual goal of speed, this movie aims to be as entertaining as possible in the tradition of all fighting games here.

Another submission by the same author but which is based upon fastest completion time instead, can be watched via emulator movie at its submission page. There are also several other submissions of various quality that can be watched on an emulator.


NES "Pro levels" Adventures of Lolo 2 (USA) in 02:04.72 by Lennart W. (aka. Baxter).
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Read author's comments in submission #879
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Rating: 7.0 (28 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Uses a level password
- Genre: Puzzle
Lolo 2 contains four so called PRO levels that can only be accessed by inputting a level password. This movie plays those four levels quite fast.

This movie is actually a result of competition/co-operation between Baxter, Randil and Hanzou.


NES Boulder Dash (USA) in 19:42.32 by Chris Strake (aka. CtrlAltDestroy).
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Obsoletes movie #343 (20:07.68)
Rating: 6.7 (27 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- No death
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Uses a level password
- Genre: Puzzle
Boulder Dash is a well known action-puzzle game where you must collect a quota of diamonds and reach the exit. This version improves upon the previous one by 25 seconds!

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

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

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


NES Bucky O'Hare (USA) in 22:13.6 by Андрей Стребков (aka. AnS).
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Obsoletes movie #472 (25:02.32)
Rating: 7.6 (18 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
- Uses death as shortcut
- Takes no damage
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: Shooter
A rare instance of a Japanese-made NES game based on a U.S.-originated comic book, Bucky O'Hare (1992) provides a player with a good combination of platforming action similar to Mega Man, an interesting plot, and convincing production values. You can play as one of the five unique characters, which you are able to select freely at any time, after saving them from the clutches of the Toad Empire. Each character has special abilities required to take advantage of in order to pass through the game's numerous variably designed stages, ranging from one-screen puzzle rooms to autoscrolling shmups.

Interesting fact about this game is that Konami used to implement an unconventional way of piracy protection, in this particular case by making each hit or "wrong" collision in the game result in an instant death if you play it illegitimately. Apparently, this was how a large amount of people were used to play it in pre-emulation era, without even realizing Konami's little sabotage.

This movie by AnS is set up in a fashion that imitates this known handicap by playing the game in hard mode (accessing it through a password), where every hit counts as death. Other than that, it also improves the previous movie by 2 minutes 48.7 seconds, using several major glitches and a lot of small tricks explained in great detail in the author's comments.


NES "2-player" Chip 'n Dale - Rescue Rangers (USA) in 09:25.73 by 修昱坤 (aka. dragonxyk).
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Obsoletes movie #1026 (09:29.22)
Rating: 7.2 (14 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Two players
- Uses death as shortcut
- Takes damage to save time
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Platform
TODO: update screenshot & description
Description of the predecessor movie:
Much faster than the single player version, Chip and Dale carry each other, throw each other, abuse balloons and zip as they once again go after Fat Cat.

This nine second improvement came from thorough lag reduction and a new glitch among other things. You can find more information in the author's comments.


NES Choujin Sentai – Jetman (JPN) in 09:23.95 by Андрей Стребков (aka. AnS).
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Obsoletes movie #914 (09:24.87)
Rating: 5.9 (14 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Fighting
- Genre: Platform
Continuing the trend of NES games based on popular Japanese TV shows, Jetman is apparently about multi-colored heroes and robots duking it out. No, it's not Power Rangers.

This movie probably qualifies for "Quickest Giant Robot Fights."


NES Donkey Kong (JPN/USA) in 01:10.08 by Ryan Foley (aka. hero of the day).
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Obsoletes movie #359 (01:17.78)
Rating: 7.5 (39 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Platform
Donkey Kong is a classic game that has been challenged plenty of times at this site, by many players.

The previous movie was considered perfect. But as we demonstrate time and time again, perceived perfection can be trumped by persistence.

The author improved the movie by 8 seconds due to an unexpected glitch in the first level. This also proves that even the most simple games can be broken!


NES Dragon Fighter (USA) in 12:15.28 by JSP (aka. Nitsuja).
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Rating: 6.2 (13 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: Shooter
Dragon Fighter is a cross-over between a platformer and a shooter. It starts out in platform mode, where you can collect dragon points. When you have enough, you can transform into a powerful dragon, turning the game into a autoscrolling shooter. The game scrolls slowly in this mode, but the dragon moves fast.

By continuously switching between the two modes, it allows the player to go as fast as possible, which makes an otherwise boring game interesting.


NES Duck Tales (USA) in 07:18.9 by Andrés Delikat (aka. adelikat).
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Obsoletes movie #394 (08:11.38)
Rating: 7.6 (30 votes)
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Platform
Duck Tales is a classic game in which Scrooge has to collect treasures from all over the world. Some of the levels are not completely straightforward, and collecting items is sometimes necessary before proceeding. His cane also doubles as an almighty pogo stick that can be used in various ways, which makes jumping a lot more fun.

This is the fourth TAS of Duck Tales. This time, due to a bug in the Moon level found by HHS, it is almost a minute shorter! Other minor tricks here and there contributed an additional few seconds of improvement.


NES Excitebike (Japan/USA) in 05:31.37 by JXQ (?).
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Obsoletes movie #517 (05:35.38)
Rating: 8.5 (27 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Racing
This movie plays Excitebike really, really fast — now almost 4 seconds faster than the previous movie by Luke Gustafson.

Times for each track are:

  • 0 = 36.54 (0.96 improved)
  • 1 = 38.24 (0.97 -"-)
  • 2 = 38.86 (1.57 -"-)
  • 3 = 41.98 (0.02 -"-)
  • 4 = 41.02 (0.02 -"-)
  • 5 = 31.74 (0.02 -"-)

Main improvements come from better speed handling and using more ramp boosts. Look for further info in the author's comments.


NES Gauntlet (USA) in 12:24.65 by Mário de Almeida Azevedo Junior (aka. FODA).
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Read author's comments in submission #771
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Obsoletes movie #371 (13:09.0)
Rating: 6.5 (27 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Adventure
Gauntlet is a Dungeons & Dragons simulator of sorts. You choose a class of Warrior, Valkyrie, Wizard or Elf to navigate the Gauntlet, collect treasure, slay wicked monsters, and save your beloved peasant hometown.

Walkthroughs for this game estimate a completion time of several hours when playing normally. Here, we see the game completed in only 12 minutes! Usually clues have to be collected to discover the password to the last dungeon, but this is selected at the game's beginning, so the clues are unnecessary in a TAS. There is also some collision detection abuse and lots of luck manipulation.

This updated version takes a better path, manipulates fights more, and abuses luck to get the password with shortest input time.

There is a huge amount of secrets and hidden paths to take in this game. The author recommends the FAQ by melvinwang on GameFAQs, and would like to thank fuwafuwa and TurboC for their help with this video.


NES Guerrilla War (USA) in 13:02.35 by 陈卓 (aka. x2poet).
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Obsoletes movie #771 (13:33.13)
Rating: 6.6 (11 votes)
- One player controls two characters
- Uses death as shortcut
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Action
x2poet seeks to quell the revolution in record time! This movie not only plays on the hardest setting, but it manages to do so almost 30 seconds faster than the previous movie. This is accomplished by controlling two players at once which finished boss battles quicker.

NES Jackal (JPN/USA) in 07:25.98 by K.H. (aka. klmz).
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Obsoletes movie #967 (07:36.9)
Rating: 6.5 (9 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- No death
- Takes no damage
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Shooter
TODO: new screenshot.

Unfortunately, Red from the last year's carnage got into an accident involving a badly thrown grenade and a few land mines, so Green takes it on all by himself in this new episode of Jackal.

Not having to deal with the larger amount of two-player mayhem also means the game goes faster, which is a win for everybody. (Except that Red guy.) Coupled with better playing, this constitutes the 9 second improvement over the previous movie by xipo.


NES Mega Man 2 (JPN) in 25:01.72 by Timo Taipaleenmäki (aka. Shinryuu).
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Obsoletes movie #588 (25:10.0)
Rating: 8.5 (37 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses death as shortcut
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Uses no passwords
- Genre: Platform
Mega Man 2 is a game that hardly needs any introduction. This movie plays Rockman 2, the Japanese version, which is essentially Mega Man 2 in difficult mode.

This new movie, played by Shinryuu, is about 8 seconds faster than the previous movie by Shinryuu and Bisqwit. The major timesaver in this movie is:

  • a zip+death shortcut in CrashClashman and Woodman stages

Other new tricks were also used.
Most of the techniques in this movie have been architected by Finalfighter and Morimoto.

See Rockman Tricks and the submission message for in-depth explanation and answers to various questions regarding this movie.


NES Mitsume ga Tooru (JPN) in 16:11.17 by 韩晖 (aka. 西坡 (xipo)).
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Rating: 6.1 (13 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Platform
In this Japan only game, our psychic hero with a magical trident must defeat a variety of enemies, including possibly trolls. The kind with big pink fluffy hair.

This run features no death and very accurate use of weapons. The trident in particular is very similar to Mega Man V.


NES Power Blade (USA) in 17:10.7 by Jean-François Durocher (aka. Genisto).
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Obsoletes movie #140 (19:04.8)
Rating: 6.9 (20 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
This is another one of the "umpteenth version" movies.

Cheez and WalkerBoh had a long competition at this game, but then Genisto came and beat them both by improving Walker's previous attempt by 1:54.

We recommend reading the author's comments.

The movie features very precise boomerang handling, a glitch to cut the boss-fights short and other tricks to keep it quick.


NES Quarth (JPN) in 01:01.45 by Jean-François Lapointe (aka. Acmlm).
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Rating: 5.3 (24 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Puzzle
- Genre: Shooter
Selected quotes from the author:
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 "Channel X" Rockin' Kats (USA) in 01:03.43 by Андрей Стребков (aka. AnS).
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Rating: 7.3 (20 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes no damage
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Uses a level password
- Genre: Platform
Whoever said cats can't fly needs to watch this movie. Rockin' Kats is a nice platformer with tricky gameplay similar to Bionic Commando and Ninja Five-O.
This little movie represents the hardest part of the game - Channel X, which normally appears as a secret bonus stage after the normal ending. This TAS however does not play through the entire game, but inputs a password in the beginning to access Channel X right away.

This 1-minute movie has all the ingredients needed for a good TAS: high-speed acrobatics involving a punchgun and unmotivated violence towards various types of canine.

If you liked this movie, be sure to also check out the movie that beats the actual game.


NES Super Dodge Ball (USA) in 05:47.73 by Ricardo Lafaurie Jr. (aka. Dasrik).
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Rating: 6.7 (21 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes no damage
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Sport
This game takes the dodge ball to the extreme!

In this movie the author constantly tortures helpless CPU players with "power shots", sending them to fly around the world (actually, just the screen) and letting them just barely get back on their feet.

Note: The flickering in this movie can't be helped, as it is an emulation problem.


NES "Mode B" Tetris (USA) in 00:38.85 by Lennart W. (aka. Baxter).
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Obsoletes movie #920 (00:50.53)
Rating: 7.3 (21 votes)
- Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Puzzle
This movie completes the B-mode of Tetris at level 19-5. Its goal is to clear all blocks from the screen upon the final line cleared (known as a "Bravo" in some games). And of course it aims to do this as fast as possible.

Note: The author manipulates luck by pressing up+left+right to slow down the block's falling speed.

Note #2: The AVI was replaced due to missing author information.


NES Tetris (USA) in 03:29.67 by Lennart W. (aka. Baxter).
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Obsoletes movie #399 (03:41.9)
Rating: 7.3 (22 votes)
- Aims for maximum score
- Best ending
- Uses warps
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Puzzle
This movie aims for the fastest possible time to get a score of 999999 in the Nintendo Tetris.

It warps directly to the 19th level and fills half of the field quickly to be able to operate short distances in the top part of the field. From there on, it only gets tetrises (4-line clearings) until the score is maxed out.

A glitch involving pressing several directional buttons at once is used to manipulate luck for the next pieces. Flickering of the next piece block and piece in play results.

For the record, this is the fastest speed the NES game is capable of. For more extreme Tetris fun, please see movies from Arika Online.
There's some really awesome stuff there. (Click to download - 14 MB)

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Genesis Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle (USA) in 05:27.8 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq).
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Obsoletes movie #788 (06:46.77)
Rating: 6.7 (14 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Before Sonic the Hedgehog, there was Alex Kidd.

This movie improves on the previous movie by a whopping 79 seconds thanks to a new trick allowing Alex to ascend through walls Rockman style.


Genesis Batman (USA/Europe) in 11:06.2 by Andrew Araki (aka. arkiandruski).
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Rating: 6.6 (17 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses death as shortcut
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Batman is a game that closely follows the plot of the Tim Burton movie of the same name. In it, you follow Batman from the beginning of the movie through the birth and the death of the Joker.

Of course the movie doesn't involve Batman going through walls or dying to achieve his objective quicker.


Genesis Castle of Illusion (USA) in 18:23.45 by Mário de Almeida Azevedo Junior (aka. FODA).
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Obsoletes movie #177 (19:10.8)
Rating: 6.3 (15 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes no damage
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Platform
Castle of Illusion was 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 is about 47 seconds faster than the previous version by the same author.

In addition, the publication was redone, and download statistics were zeroed in the process. The download count was 111 before that.


Genesis Chakan (USA) in 17:39.38 by M.T. (aka. slash_star_dash).
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Rating: 4.7 (17 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses warps
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
This movie here is one that makes little to no sense to someone who isn't familiar with the game. The main character can move very fast and the dark graphics don't help in figuring out what's going on. There is a lot more going on in this movie than meets the eye. For example, the player uses a secret warp involving combining the alchemy potions that are scattered throughout the levels.

For more information about what's going on in this game, we recommend reading the author's comments at the submission page.

NOTE: Don't be fooled by the fake credits after the final level. The game is not quite over yet.


Genesis Dark Castle (USA) in 00:56.55 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq) & Joe Stanski.
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Obsoletes movie #757 (00:59.87)
Rating: 6.5 (19 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Platform
Dark Castle looks like a Genesis version of Donkey Kong. This new movie is three seconds faster than the previous version by Aqfaq.

Selected comments from Aqfaq:
I managed to skip most of the game, which is good because Dark Castle sucks.


Genesis Disney's Aladdin (USA) in 11:05.4 by M Sweeney (aka. ElectroSpecter).
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Obsoletes movie #341 (14:19.73)
Rating: 6.8 (20 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses death as shortcut
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Platform
A typical Disney game featuring all the characters from the movie.

This is an improvement of 3 minutes and 14 seconds over the previous movie.

More detailed comments about the run can be found in author's comments.


Genesis Earthworm Jim (USA) in 29:04.35 by M.T. (aka. slash_star_dash).
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Rating: 5.1 (26 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- No death
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses warps
- Plays at hardest level
Earthworm Jim is the unlikely story of an earthworm who finds a suit with super powers and goes on a rampage to protect earth and his puppy Peter. The game follows the absurd spirit of the story: for example, the suit can use Jim for a whip, there is a boss who attacks by vomiting fish, fighting lawyers in hell, and bungee cords made out of snot.

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


Genesis Ecco: The Tides of Time (USA) in 47:38.72 by Jody Northup (aka. Upthorn).
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Rating: 6.8 (12 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Puzzle
Ecco: The Tides of Time is the sequel to Ecco the Dolphin. It is harder than the original, and continues it's bizarre science fiction plotline. You control Ecco the dolphin, navigating the waters, circumnavigating the time-stream, saving lost DNA nucleotide pairs, and finding key crystals, schools of fish and pockets of air deep down in submarine caves.

Ecco is capable of moving at very high speed but has little in the way of brakes. Turning corners without smashing into walls is tricky to say the least.

This run plays on the hardest difficulty mode.

Note: The multimedia file for this run is an MKV with chapters. This can be played in most media players, but some might have problems. Please see the Codec Problems page if you encounter problems.


Genesis ESWAT Cyber Police (USA) in 13:31.88 by JK (aka. Dammit).
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Rating: 6.2 (11 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Action
ESWAT is a story about a cop who dreams of wearing a cybernetic jetpack suit and becoming a killing machine. His dream comes true.

Genesis Flashback (USA) in 23:54.57 by Stephen Kalb (aka. nifboy).
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Rating: 5.6 (23 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Adventure
- Genre: Platform
Flashback is the sci-fi version of Prince of Persia. There is a lot of jumping, rolling and climbing to move around the levels.

This movie uses a lot of bugs to get ahead faster. The most prominent one is probably walking through walls, which renders keys obsolete. Also, if you finish a level without having some important item, the game assumes you have it anyway.

We recommend the author's comments of this run.


Genesis Garfield - Caught in the Act (USA/Europe) in 18:31.68 by Emanuel F. (aka. emu).
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Rating: 5.1 (13 votes)
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses no warps
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
Garfield and Odie broke the TV. After they "fix" it, the "spare parts" from the TV turn into a monster and suck Garfield and Odie into the TV! With cat-like reflexes, Garfield defeats the monster (known as Glitch) in short order by, among other things, manipulating luck and taking damage to save time!

Genesis Humans (USA) in 43:19.22 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq).
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Rating: 5.2 (14 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses death as shortcut
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Puzzle
Humans (1992) is a kind of a crossbreed between Lemmings and Lost Vikings. Its gameplay contains both puzzle solving and action sequences.

This movie by Aqfaq features all 80 levels solved in fast and unexpected ways. The strategies used to attain this result rely on several interesting tricks and glitches described in the submission comments.


Genesis Jurassic Park (USA) in 02:43.37 by Christoph Otto (aka. ideamagnate).
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Rating: 6.2 (26 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Platform
This is a raptor movie of the Genesis version of Jurassic Park, which is completely different from the SNES version. In this game, you can choose between Grant and the raptor, each with his own set of levels. Grant's levels are like Prince of Persia except with dinosaurs and better weapons. The raptor's levels go by much faster.

The collision detection is quite buggy, and the author takes advantage of this.


Genesis Lion King in 14:02.73 by I. Masterson (aka. Mukki).
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Obsoletes movie #354 (14:40.97)
Rating: 6.8 (15 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Does not abuse programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Platform
The Lion King is about a lion who becomes king. It takes about 17 minutes and is mostly paperwork, but it does involve some prancing around the Pride Lands.

Mukki manages to complete the game (and, subsequenly, expedite the process of becoming king) over 30 seconds faster than the previous movie, proving that Mukki is a better king than Dan. The author does this using tricks such as catching ledges and glitching past leopards.

TODO: Add a screenshot.


Genesis Mercs in 09:52.9 by Andrés Delikat (aka. adelikat).
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Obsoletes movie #395 (10:19.43)
Rating: 6.5 (14 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Shooter
An overhead shooter with a one man versus an army theme. A lot of time was put into optimizing walking paths, vehicle use and M-bomb use.

This is a 26.5 second improvement over the previous movie. Details can be found in the author's comments. A password is used to access the hardest difficulty level.


Genesis Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (any,r0) in 22:42.6 by Magnus Seger (aka. Frenom).
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Obsoletes movie #135 (26:29.75)
Rating: 6.6 (29 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Platform
This is a strange platformer where the main character, Michael Jackson, has some obsession in doing weird movements and he dances occasionally together with the enemies before he beats them to oblivion.

This is an 3:47 improvement to the previous version.


Genesis Mickey Mania (USA) in 20:42.37 by Emanuel F. (aka. emu).
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Obsoletes movie #208 (19:25.08)
Rating: 6.5 (15 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Platform
Mickey's out to visit all of his past blockbuster cartoons as far back as 1930 and rescue his friends from the corresponding antagonists.

This game has very colorful and detailed visuals, especially for a Genesis game.


Genesis Revenge of Shinobi, The (JPN/USA v1.0) in 12:48.35 by JK (aka. Dammit).
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Rating: 6.4 (12 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes no damage
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Action
TODO: better movie description

Revenge of Shinobi is the sequel to the SMS port of Shinobi, the prequel to Shinobi III, and related to Shadow Dancer.


Genesis Robocop Versus The Terminator (USA) in 14:06.92 by Cardboard (?).
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Rating: 6.8 (16 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses death as shortcut
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Action
RoboCop versus The Terminator (1993) is based on a comic book that is a typical example of two popular but completely unrelated fiction universes merged into one. Such a process usually results in ruined timeline coherence for either or both of them, and this game is no exception.

As a result, we get a pretty wild mishmash of RoboCop's and Terminator's backstories in a silly plot, accompanied by equally wild gameplay. This includes seemingly inescapable bullet sprays, leotard-clad baddies, exploding heads, hidden 1-ups conveniently placed in something that looks like lava, and so on. The sheer frustration RoboCop experiences from all this madness can only be vented by banging his head on a rock.
(You wish that any of this was a joke.)

The Genesis version of this game is notable for the amount of gore and other PG-13 goodies, as well as being able to abuse death and other things that make it most suitable for a TAS.


Genesis Rocket Knight Adventures (USA) in 27:18.13 by Jody Northup (aka. Upthorn).
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Obsoletes movie #134 (34:20.1)
Rating: 7.5 (17 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes no damage
- Uses no warps
- Ignores delays caused by bonus effects
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Platform
This game has a lot of bosses, to say the least. Because the author speeds through levels so quickly, the amount of time spent fighting bosses is actually greater than the amount of time completing the level in order to reach them.

This is a 7 minute 38 second improvement over the previous movie. Much of this improvement is simply due to defeating bosses more quickly. The author has left detailed comments about these improvements.


Genesis Shadow Dancer (World C) in 12:52.82 by Clinton L. M. (aka. trazz).
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Rating: 5.9 (14 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
Ninjas, ninjas, everywhere!

A lesser-known entry in the Shinobi series, the game still holds its own. As always, ninjas rescue their hostages with style, and celebrate victories against bosses with a suicidal plunge off the nearest skyscraper.


Genesis Shinobi 3 - Return of the Ninja Master (USA) in 25:03.77 by Daniel Leandro (aka. Neofix).
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Rating: 5.4 (17 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses death as shortcut
- Takes no damage
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Platform
Shinobi 3: Return of the Ninja Master is the last game in the Genesis Shinobi series, going back to the formula found in the first game after a fairly experimental second installation. The ninja, named "Joe" like many other of Japanese ancenstry, has increased his repertoire and can now run, jumpkick, scale walls, and ride horses.

This movie plays the hardest difficulty and starts with zero shurikens (although it picks some up during the run). Uses death as a shortcut is marked because Joe has the ability to sacrifice a life to damage all enemies on the screen.


Genesis Spider-Man: Web of Fire (32X) in 07:10.07 by Nick Mong (aka. mmbossman).
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Rating: 5.1 (5 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Action
Spider-man: Web of Fire is one of the last 32x games ever released. It follows our friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man's battle with the evil forces of Neo-Nazi organization H.Y.D.R.A.

Genesis Spider-Man vs The Kingpin (USA) in 05:47.08 by Nick Mong (aka. mmbossman) & Daniel Moura (aka. Neofix).
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Obsoletes movie #212 (07:21.7)
Rating: 6.8 (16 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Platform
Unlike in the comic books, here Spiderman talks less and smashes his enemies more - with boosted (tool-assisted) efficiency. The run also features some speedy movement via web-slinging.

This is a 1 minute 35 second improvement over the previous movie by Neofix.


Genesis Splatterhouse 2 (USA) in 14:15.5 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq).
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Rating: 6.9 (15 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Action
Splatterhouse 2 is a splatter-themed beat 'em up/action game featuring a skull masked guy fighting against undead creatures to save a girl.

Genesis Streets of Rage in 19:45.45 by AKA & Mukki.
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Obsoletes movie #130 (29:55.07)
Rating: 6.3 (16 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
- One player controls two characters
- Uses death as shortcut
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Fighting
A typical streetfighting game which spawned the popular Streets of Rage trilogy. This game is rumored to have used the same engine as Golden Axe, which is why the A button summons magic (sort of) to damage all enemies on screen, instead of doing some sort of roundhouse, like almost all other beat'em ups.

Completed on the hardest difficulty.

Compared to the previous movie this is over 10 minutes faster. Primarily due to the use of 2-players and a glitch that skips most of the last level.

Details can be found in the authors' comments.


Genesis Streets of Rage 2 (USA) in 30:42.82 by Gavin Ward (aka. SprintGod).
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Rating: 5.6 (22 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Fighting
An excellent Beat-'Em-Up game with an extraordinary soundtrack composed by Yuzo Koshiro.

Played with Max on Mania difficulty.

We recommend reading the author's comments of this movie.


Genesis Strider (USA/Europe) in 07:24.53 by Daniel Leandro (aka. Neofix).
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Rating: 5.9 (19 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses death as shortcut
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Here we have over 30 seconds of improvement over the previous TAS to the Genesis version of Strider.

This game is supposedly about an alien taking control over earth, but since the first level says "Казахская ССР", there are small red stars everywhere, and one of the bosses holds a hammer and sickle... well, we all know what this game is really about.


Genesis TAZ Mania (USA) in 08:52.53 by A. Berglin (aka. Truncated).
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Rating: 6.2 (29 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Platform
This game is a colorful and fast orgy of bad sound effects. Because of the speed and Taz's antics, the author is able to keep the viewer entertained throughout. We recommend reading the author's comments.

Genesis Vectorman (USA) in 11:41.75 by Nick Mong (aka. mmbossman).
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Rating: 6.6 (17 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Platform
Vectorman (1995) is one of the later games for Genesis; it sports multiple gameplay modes, pre-rendered 3D models and some very nice visual effects.

According to its plot, the Earth's population decided they have polluted it enough, and migrated elsewhere, leaving robots made of orbs ("orbots") behind to clean up the mess. One of the higher level orbots gets his head accidentally attached to a nuclear warhead, goes insane and usurps total control over all mechanical beings left on the planet. This is the state the main hero, orbot Vectorman, finds it in after returning from one of his garbage discharging missions.

There have been multiple attempts at TASing this game, yet this is the first one to get published.


SNES Biker Mice From Mars (USA) in 05:12.62 by Lennart W. (aka. Baxter).
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Rating: 7.9 (33 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Uses a level password
- Genre: Racing
A high speed racing game featuring rodents from another (nearby) planet. Although the author doesn't classify the velocity potential of the motorcycle as a programming error in the game, the speed at which he rips through the courses may make you wonder.

A password is used to skip to the final round at Super Hard difficulty with fully upgraded Engine and Shot parts.


SNES Combatribes, The (USA) in 13:08.07 by Phil Côté and Jean-François Durocher (aka. Genisto).
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Rating: 3.5 (21 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Two players
- Takes no damage
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Fighting
Combatribes is a side-scrolling fighter without much side-scrolling, but all the more fighting. Mostly jumping on poor defenseless bad guys and repeatedly polishing the sidewalk with their faces.

SNES "glitched" Contra 3: The Alien Wars (USA) in 03:32.13 by Wellington Barreto (aka. Dark Cloud).
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Rating: 7.2 (16 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses death as shortcut
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Shooter
Here we have another game completely demolished by abuse of game breaking glitches.

The author initiates a glitch involving the character dying and gaining a 1-up during the fadeout to a Game Over screen. This allows him to skip many levels and complete the game in just 3 and half minutes!

For fast completion that does not use this glitch there is the 2-player version.


SNES "2 players" Contra 3: The Alien Wars () in 13:03.32 by Ryan Foley (aka. hero of the day).
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Obsoletes movie #586 (13:14.7)
Rating: 7.8 (19 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- No death
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Action
The guy who has infinite supply of ammo and who destroys worlds bare-chested is back again! And this time he has a friend and a shirt with him.

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

This version improves the previous run by approximately 12 seconds.


SNES Final Fight 3 (USA) in 18:18.63 by Michael Dahn (aka. Diman).
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Rating: 5.8 (21 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes no damage
- Uses warps
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Fighting
The third installment of the Final Fight series has Guy dressing up in a dashing outfit and murdering hundreds of people in less time than it takes to watch the local news. All in the name of vanquishing evil, of course.

Paraphrased from the author's submission:

This run uses tools - Sledgehammers, which I get from the barrels. THAT'S a real tool-assisted run!

(I know it's a bad joke but I couldn't resist it :P)


SNES Gradius 3 (USA) in 25:31.4 by Filip Roskvist (aka. Cpadolf).
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Obsoletes movie #1081 (28:24.0)
Rating: 7.4 (17 votes)