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Total movies: 356


[Tier: Moons]32X Spider-Man: Web of Fire in 06:45.48 by Aqfaq & mmbossman.
Gens movie (.gmv) (date: 2011-07-06)
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Rating: 6.6 (11.5 votes)
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- Takes damage to save time
- Uses hardest difficulty
- Genre: Action
Spider-Man: Web of Fire, one of the last games to be released on the ill-fated 32X, follows our friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man's battle with the evil forces of Neo-Nazi organization H.Y.D.R.A.

This is an improvement of 24.58 seconds over the previous run due primarily to a new glitch allowing Spidey to pass through walls. It is worth noting that mmbossman did not directly participate in the creation of this run.


[Tier: Moons]A2600 H.E.R.O. (unknown) in 09:55.78 by FractalFusion.
Bizhawk movie (.bkm) (date: 2013-03-22)
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
H.E.R.O. is a rare fast-paced platformer for the Atari 2600. You control a man with a gyropack who must traverse caves, avoid dangerous enemies, and use a few sticks of dynamite to blast open paths in order to rescue trapped miners.

The author, FractalFusion, chooses the first play mode to start from Level 1 and play through all 20 levels once.


[Tier: Moons]A2600 River Raid (USA) "Fastest 100,000" in 08:10.65 by Lord Tom.
Bizhawk movie (.bkm) (date: 2013-02-24)
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Rating: 5.7 (5.5 votes)
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- Genre: Action
River Raid is an early vertical shooter where you fly a plane down a river and fire missiles to blow up helicopters, jets, ships and bridges.

In this movie, Lord Tom aims to get 100,000 points as fast as possible.


[Tier: Vault]A2600 Spider-Man (USA) in 00:19.64 by Mothrayas.
Bizhawk movie (.bkm) (date: 2012-12-31)
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Rating: 4.3 (8.5 votes)
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- Single level
- Genre: Action
Spider-Man was the first game to feature the famous hero and also the first Marvel Comics-based video game. Here, Spider-Man must use his web shooters to scale a building and defuse bombs set atop it by the Green Goblin.

After a nasty frame war, this run ended up as the fastest one through this short game.


[Tier: Vault]A2600 Superman (unknown) in 00:11.42 by jlun2.
Bizhawk movie (.bkm) (date: 2012-12-21)
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Rating: 2.6 (10 votes)
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- Heavy glitch abuse
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Adventure
From Wikipedia:

The player(s) takes control of the DC Comics character Superman, who must repair the bridge destroyed by Lex Luthor, capture Luthor and his criminal underlings, enter a phonebooth to turn back into Clark Kent, then return to the Daily Planet in the shortest amount of time. To slow Superman's progress, Kryptonite has been released by Luthor. If hit by Kryptonite, Superman loses his abilities to capture criminals and fly. To regain them, he must find and kiss Lois Lane.

However, jlun2 uses a pause demo glitch to warp to the end. That is all.


[Tier: Vault]Arcade Bay Route in 10:31.72 by nitrogenesis.
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Rating: 4.9 (5 votes)
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- 2 Players
- Forgoes time-saving damage
- Uses hardest difficulty
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Bay Route is a sidescrolling run 'n' gun game that is very similar to Contra. It was developed by Sega and Sunsoft and released to arcades in 1989. You control a commando named Tom as he runs across enemy territory to find and rescue some hostages.

The author, NitroGenesis, controls Tom as well as a second soldier to tear through more enemies in less time on his way to rescue the hostages.


[Tier: Moons]Arcade Castle of Dragon (USA) in 02:35.85 by nitrogenesis.
Final Burn Alpha movie (.fbm) (date: 2012-08-21)
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Rating: 6.5 (11.5 votes)
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- One player in a multiplayer game
- Forgoes time-saving death
- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Action
Castle of Dragon, known as Dragon Unit (ドラゴンユニット) in Japan, is an obscure arcade game about a castle with a dragon in it. Perhaps it's not the most original sounding game; but it does have nudity, gratuitous violence, and Engrish to make up for it. The action is very fast paced, and with the help of TAS skills, the dragon master is dispatched quicker than a hard boiled egg.

We also have a movie of the NES version.


[Tier: Moons]Arcade Ganryu (USA) in 07:50.2 by x2poet.
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Rating: 6.8 (15 votes)
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- 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.

[Tier: Moons]Arcade Ghosts 'n Goblins in 06:27.17 by FerretWarlord.
Final Burn Alpha movie (.fbm) (date: 2012-01-25)
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Rating: 7.5 (10.5 votes)
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- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Ghosts 'n Goblins (1986) (known in Japanese as魔界村 makaimura, "Demon World Village") begins with a normal scene: a half-naked knight is on a date in a graveyard with a princess. Suddenly, a demon appears and abducts the princess! The knight quickly suits up and makes rapid progres (sic) through the demon world in an attempt to rescue his royal girlfriend.

This run of the original arcade game completes the first cycle 1:55.96 faster than the previous run of the NES port, but the game engines are so different that a comparison between the two times doesn't make any sense. Reaching the end credits requires a second run-through of the game which would be identical to the first run-through; this is omitted in this run.


[Tier: Moons]Arcade Ghouls 'n Ghosts in 13:18.18 by 韩晖 (aka. 西坡 (xipo)).
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Rating: 7.1 (26 votes)
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- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Ghouls 'n Ghosts is the sequel to the brutally hard Ghosts 'n Goblins, and is brutally hard in its own right. This run is of the original coin-op version, which is most similar to the Genesis one. One of the major differences is less armor from chests.

Creative use of damage and picture perfect boss fights combine with some glitchy looking jumps as xipo takes on Lucifer's many demons. The game is completed twice (which is necessary to get the ending) and along the way we are treated to some fabulous Engrish and more information than necessary about the damsel in distress.


[Tier: Moons]Arcade Metal Slug 4 (World) in 17:11.97 by x2poet.
Final Burn Alpha movie (.fbm) (date: 2011-08-25)
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Rating: 8.4 (14 votes)
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- 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.


[Tier: Vault]Arcade Spinmaster in 13:19.07 by x2poet.
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Submission #3037 — Author's comments
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Rating: 5.9 (10 votes)
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- 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.


[Tier: Moons]Arcade Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (World) in 12:14.85 by DarkKobold.
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Submission #2795 — Author's comments
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Rating: 7.4 (22 votes)
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- 4 Players
- Forgoes time-saving death
- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an arcade game based on the TMNT cartoon released in December of 1987. Konami released this mega-hit in 1989, as one of the first arcade games to offer 4-player beat-'em-up action.

In this run, DarkKobold uses all 4 ninja turtles to freak the foot soldiers, mangle the mousers, total the Technodrome, and kick Krang and The Shredder back to Dimension-X in a little over 12 minutes.


[Tier: Moons]DOS Alien Carnage (1.2) in 20:31.67 by Ilari.
JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2011-07-22)
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Rating: 6.4 (8 votes)
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- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Formerly known as Halloween Harry (also the name of the protagonist), Alien Carnage (1993) follows our hero as he single-handedly fights off an invasion of aliens intent on zombifying the populace while rescuing a large number of hostages they have taken. It is fast-paced at the general expense of control quality.

This run plays through all four "missions" (episodes) back-to-back, as playing through the first three missions is required to unlock the fourth mission.


[Tier: Vault]DOS Avoid the Noid (EGA) in 03:33.52 by turska & Ilari.
JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2012-11-02)
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Rating: 5.8 (13.5 votes)
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- 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.


[Tier: Moons][Notable improvement]DOS Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine (v1.4) "glitched" in 02:02.46 by turska.
JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2012-03-03)
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Rating: 7.6 (9.5 votes)
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- 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).


[Tier: Moons]DOS Duke Nukem (v2.0) "Episode 1" in 07:08.14 by Foone.
JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2010-06-11)
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Rating: 6.5 (18 votes)
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Long before Duke Nukem ever starred in a 3D game, he was the hero in two platform games. This is the first game in which he starred, battling Dr Proton to save the Earth from his evil Techbot army.

This run plays the first (shareware) episode of the game.


[Tier: Moons]DOS Epic Pinball (shareware v2.1) "Super Android" in 05:07.53 by dwangoAC.
JPC-RR movie (.jrsr) (date: 2010-10-05)
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Rating: 6.0 (13.5 votes)
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- Aims for maximum score
- Genre: Action
This table from Epic Pinball was widely distributed as shareware in the mid 1990s. The stated objective is to "[b]ring the android to life!"

The author of this run does just that, maxing out all of the game counters and achieving a very impressive final score.


[Tier: Vault]DOS Mega Man (unknown) in 02:23.55 by DarkKobold.
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Rating: 5.0 (5 votes)
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- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
A DOS Mega Man game, written by Hi-Tech Expressions. It is infamous for its mediocre quality.

This game runs too fast on anything more modern than low-end 386 or so. As such, the encode is technically correct. There is an encode on Youtube that slows it down to 30fps.


[Tier: Moons]DOS The Amazing Spider-Man (unknown) "glitched" in 00:18.62 by nitrogenesis.
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Rating: 6.2 (24.5 votes)
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- Heavy glitch abuse
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
In this DOS game, watch as Spider-Man lives up to the adjective in the title as he glitches his way to the final screen of the run and completes the game in record time.

[Tier: Moons][Notable improvement]DS Castlevania - Dawn of Sorrow (USA) in 03:50.05 by mtbRc.
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Rating: 7.6 (6 votes)
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- Uses warps
- Uses a game restart sequence
- Heavy glitch abuse
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: RPG
Dawn of Sorrow (2005), the first installment of Castlevania on Nintendo DS, is a direct sequel to GBA hit Aria of Sorrow. Everyone is trying to kill our hero Soma Cruz, since in the previous game he absorbed all of Dracula's attributes. You can always trust weird cults to try and bring about the end of the world by unleashing this power.

The game is so fully broken at this point though, that there really is no plot in this run. Or final boss. Or much of anything at all. Using improved versions of the glitches used in its predecessor, this movie completes the game in half the time. More details about the glitches can be found in the author's comments.


[Tier: Moons]DS Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (USA) "All souls" in 35:08.59 by Kriole.
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Rating: 9.1 (13 votes)
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: RPG
Award - Lucky TAS of 2012
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.


[Tier: Moons]DS Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (USA) "Julius Mode" in 19:20.63 by Cpadolf.
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Rating: 8.2 (7.5 votes)
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- Second quest/Post game-completion
- Starts from a saved state or SRAM
- 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.

Like its predecessor, after finishing the game, you can choose to ignore pretty-boy Soma Cruz and instead play as Julius Belmont. Unfortunately, it seems that Julius's skills have waned a bit since his last appearance. Yoko Belnades and Alucard easily pick up the slack, though.


[Tier: Moons]DS Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (USA) "Albus Mode" in 18:03.21 by mtbRc.
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Rating: 7.9 (8 votes)
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: RPG
"YOU CAN'T HIT ME!"

Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia, the third game in the series for the DS, takes a different direction from its direct predecessors in that it is more of a stage-based game, similar to the earliest entries in the series, rather than the "Metroidvania"-style first established by Symphony of the Night.

This run plays as Albus, only available as a character after the player has cleared the game as Shanoa. As such, this run starts from SRAM; the movie generating it, a test-run of the game as Shanoa by gocha, is available here.


[Tier: Moons]DS Castlevania: Portrait Of Ruin (USA) "Richter Mode" in 17:26.43 by mtbRc.
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Rating: 9.2 (4 votes)
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- Second quest/Post game-completion
- Starts from a saved state or SRAM
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: RPG
Like many Castlevania games, Portrait of Ruin has extra alternate play modes available after completing the primary quest. In this case, you get to play as Richter Belmont and Maria Renard, using a dual character system very similar to the main quest.

Richter and Maria blaze a path of destruction through the castle, pacifying foes with a combination of crosses, doves and other wonderful things. Complex multiple-character motion is used to move as quickly as possible; see the author's comments for an in depth explanation.


[Tier: Moons][Notable improvement]DS Castlevania: Portrait Of Ruin (USA) in 04:18.65 by mtbRc.
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Rating: 8.4 (9 votes)
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- Takes damage to save time
- Uses warps
- Uses a game restart sequence
- Heavy glitch abuse
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: RPG
The second Castlevania title released on Nintendo DS after Dawn of Sorrow, this game is a direct sequel to BloodLines on Sega Genesis. Dracula rises from the dead yet again (cue groan), and it's up to Jonathan Morris, helped out by Charlotte Aulin, a powerful mage student, to defeat him.

This run is an improvement of 8.84 seconds over the previous run by the same author and uses many of the same glitches. A slightly different route selection sends Dracula back to his coffin even faster.


[Tier: Moons]DS Castlevania: Portrait Of Ruin (USA) "all bosses" in 25:19.52 by mtbRc.
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- Takes damage to save time
- Uses warps
- Uses a game restart sequence
- Heavy glitch abuse
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: RPG
The second Castlevania title released on Nintendo DS after Dawn of Sorrow, this game is a direct sequel to Bloodlines on Sega Genesis. Dracula rises from the dead yet again (cue groan), and it's up to Jonathan Morris, helped out by Charlotte Aulin, a powerful mage student, to defeat him.

Beating Dracula into a pile of dust in under five minutes wasn't enough for our heroes, so this time they wreck his entire castle and surrounding areas before killing him. Every boss is slain, so you get to see more of that fast "showtime" action. Significant glitching is used; read the author's comments for more information.


[Tier: Moons]DS Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (USA) in 03:42.93 by jlun2.
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- Corrupts save data
- Genre: Action
The only war going around here is breaking at least 23 traffic laws and shooting goons with what ought to be a Gatling gun.

The author completes the game in record time, using a glitch that corrupts the save game data to unlock the mission Salt in the Wound, the only one required to unlock the credits.

This run beats the previous version by 4.9 seconds.


[Tier: Moons]DS Mega Man ZX (USA) in 1:09:14.29 by Mothrayas & Rolanmen1.
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Mega Man ZX is the first Mega Man platformer on the DS. It is also the first Mega Man game to have the choice of a male or female protagonist (the latter is used in this run). Unlike previous Mega Man series, this series features a new system where the protagonist is actually a humanoid who changes forms using different biometals (collected mostly from bosses).

[Tier: Moons]DS Mega Man ZX Advent (JPN) "100%" in 1:33:22.76 by hellagels & red-crowned-crane.
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- Uses death to save time
- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Action
- 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.

In this run, hellagels and red-crowned-crane collect all secret disks, life ups, BM upgrades and sub tanks, achieving a 100% completion rate.


[Tier: Moons]DS Metal Slug 7 (USA) "Marco" in 23:10.7 by mtvf1.
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- Uses hardest difficulty
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Shooter
The classic Metal Slug series comes to DS with Metal Slug 7. Although there is only one player this time, this version is notable for allowing the player to keep two weapons and switch freely between them.

The author, mtvf1, completes this game without deaths in a mere 23 minutes and 11 seconds, using Marco.

There is also a version that uses Eri and Tarma. Deaths and continues are used in that version, which is also the only way to switch characters in this game.

You may also check out other Metal Slug runs such as Metal Slug, Metal Slug X, Metal Slug 3, Metal Slug 4 and Metal Slug Advance.


[Tier: Vault]DS Metal Slug 7 (USA) in 21:27.77 by mtvf1.
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Shooter
The classic Metal Slug series comes to DS with Metal Slug 7. Although there is only one player this time, this version is notable for allowing the player to keep two weapons and switch freely between them.

This run uses death to switch between Eri and Tarma, and to obtain more grenades. You may also wish to see the run using "Marco" with no deaths.

Also check out other Metal Slug runs such as Metal Slug, Metal Slug X, Metal Slug 3, Metal Slug 4 and Metal Slug Advance.


[Tier: Vault]DS Resident Evil: Deadly Silence (USA) in 28:44.68 by Fladdermus.
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- Genre: Action
Resident Evil: Deadly Silence is a Nintendo DS enhanced port of the original PlayStation survival horror game. The S.T.A.R.S. Bravo team has gone missing and it's up to the S.T.A.R.S. Alpha team to investigate their disappearance.

In this run, Fladdermus takes control of Alpha team's Jill Valentine and proceeds to tear apart Classic Mode in under half an hour. For more information, see his comments.


[Tier: Moons][Has commentary]GBA Alien Hominid (Europe) in 15:12.85 by FatRatKnight.
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Shooter
Alien Hominid is a 2D side-scrolling shooter with heavy references to the Metal Slug series of games - from the hand-drawn graphics, huge explosions, right down to the ability to eviscerate FBI Agents when you get up close to them. The graphics are by featured artist Dan Paladin. Your goal, is quite simply, to get to the end of the stage, and die as little as possible. Which is made difficult due to the fact that any bullet is an instant kill.

You control some sort of yellow alien with a gun. For whatever reason, he also has very Earth-like grenades with Earth-like explosions. He collides with some sort of satellite around Earth and crash-lands right in front of the FBI, who then runs off with his spacecraft and somehow forgets that bright yellow alien thing in clear sight. If you're looking for story, this isn't the game, as it just gives an excuse why you're doing these things.

This TAS improves the one provided by the winner team at Dream Team Contest 3 by 41.03 seconds.


This movie has a lua script that contains the Author's chatty commentary, and the encode of it can be seen on YouTube here.

[Tier: Moons]GBA Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (USA) "Julius version" in 04:35.52 by mtbRc.
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- Second quest/Post game-completion
- Starts from a saved state or SRAM
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: RPG
Those who greatly dislike that Aria of Sorrow's main character isn't related to the Belmont clan whatsoever can safely relax, because the powerhouse known as Julius Belmont enters the stage in the relatively short run of this Castlevania installment.

Julius is only available to those who have completed the main quest, but unlike Soma Cruz, Belmont can't go through walls or use other fancy tricks like that. Being very upset about it, he hops around the castle madly, producing almost inhuman sounds with every jump.

This is an improvement of 3.38 seconds over the previous publication, primarily due to new strategies in the Headhunter fight.


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[Tier: Stars][Recommended for newcomers]GBA Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (USA) "all souls" in 24:56.1 by Kriole.
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- 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.


[Tier: Moons]GBA Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (USA) "warpless" in 20:58.62 by Kriole.
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- Forgoes time-saving damage
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: RPG
In this run of the third Game Boy Advance entry of the Castlevania series, the author neither uses major warp glitches nor collects 100% of the souls, but still manages to beat the game in just over 20 minutes - almost 7 minutes faster than the previous run.

[Tier: Moons]GBA Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (USA) "warp glitch" in 06:14.48 by klmz.
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- 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.


[Tier: Moons]GBA Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (USA) "glitched" in 05:21.58 by Cardboard.
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- Heavy glitch abuse
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: RPG
When played normally, Castlevania: Circle of the Moon is a rather long game, in which exploration, leveling up, and killing bosses in order to gain access to different items or portions of the castle is necessary. However, a bit of luck manipulation and a series of glitches involving DSS cards throw all these aspects of gameplay out of the window, allowing the player to warp directly to Dracula and kill him humiliatingly in just over 5 minutes.

This movie is a 21 frame improvement over the previous movie by the same author due to some small optimizations.


[Tier: Moons]GBA Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (USA) in 21:40.22 by Cardboard.
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- 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.


[Tier: Moons][Notable improvement]GBA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) in 07:50.1 by gstick.
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- Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
- Uses warps
- Uses a game restart sequence
- Heavy glitch abuse
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: RPG
The main quest completion time has been shortened to nearly one fourth of what it initially was, thanks to the discovery of a glitch that allows Juste to sink into walls.

This is a 3:25.15 minute improvement over klmz's movie. Like in the previous movies, the author picked up an item to display those cool CRITICAL's for entertainment, at the cost of some time.

However, if you still think there is not enough zipping through walls, be sure to watch the second quest completed in less than half a minute!


[Tier: Moons]GBA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) "Maxim in bounds" in 12:45.68 by Comicalflop & zggzdydp.
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- Forgoes warps
- Second quest/Post game-completion
- Starts from a saved state or SRAM
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: RPG
Castlevania, again, only this time played with Maxim and without glitching through walls and completing the game intended, unlike the glitch-warped run. What constitutes as intended in this run is debatable, since Maxim zooms through the castle faster than Sonic on espresso, and sends shurikens ripping through bosses before they realize they can attack you.
Note: This movie starts where the main quest movie left off. We do not usually accept movies beginning from a save. Please read our rules to see our reasons.

[Tier: Moons]GBA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) "all furniture, best ending" in 20:49.86 by sksk1990.
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- Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
- Best ending
- Uses warps
- Uses a game restart sequence
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
In Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance, the Belmont clan must again rise to the challenge: Dracula's castle is in disarray and is in serious need of an interior decorator! In this movie, Juste Belmont zips through walls, under floors, and over zombies with the very important task of rearranging furniture. (He also defeats Dracula and rescues his best friends along the way, but that's not very important.)

This movie is a 4:13.81 improvement over its predecessor, with route changes and more efficient kills speeding it up.


[Tier: Moons]GBA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) "Maxim Version" in 00:22.73 by Yuzuhara_3.
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- Uses warps
- Heavy glitch abuse
- Second quest/Post game-completion
- Starts from a saved state or SRAM
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: RPG
This is a really, really fast TAS through Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance played with Maxim, who is only available after the game is beaten once. Most of the game is glitched through by being stuck in different walls, so it's hard to explain what happened in this run; see it for yourself.

This is a 1 frame improvement over the previous run by gstick.

If you like this run but have a craving for more Maxim action, be sure to check out the Maxim warpless run.


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[Tier: Vault]GBA Jurassic Park 3: Island Attack (USA) in 27:59.24 by Chamale.
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Of all the games based on the movie Jurassic Park III, this one follows the plot most closely. Paleontologist Alan Grant has crash-landed on Isla Sorna and must now travel across eight levels full of dinosaurs to reach the rescue boat on the other side. Along the way, he can pick up items like the flare gun to blast his way through the dinosaurs in his path as well as some tough boss dinosaurs.

[Tier: Vault]GBA Lode Runner (JPN) in 16:53.6 by klmz.
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- Genre: Puzzle
Lode Runner is a long-running series of action/puzzle games where the objective is to collect all of the gold in a level while avoiding enemies. This iteration of the series for the GBA was released only in Japan.

This run completes Small World, the initially available set of levels; this is the only set of levels accessible without SRAM.


[Tier: Moons]GBA Mario Pinball Land (JPN) in 08:01.7 by cetaka.
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Super Mario Ball (スーパーマリオボール), also known as Mario Pinball Land in the US, is an adventure quest combined with pinball type game similar to Pinball Quest.

In the game you need to flip Mario like a pinball to obtain stars, keys, defeat enemies, and advance levels.

Of course the author completes these objectives with speed and precision and often while juggling multiple balls.

This run improves upon the previous movie by 2710 frames (45.17 seconds).


[Tier: Moons]GBA Mega Man Battle Network (USA) in 55:40.65 by Bag of Magic Food.
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- 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.


[Tier: Vault]GBA Mega Man Battle Network 2 (USA) in 1:38:35.28 by mtvf1.
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- 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.


[Tier: Moons]GBA Mega Man Zero (USA) "All Stages" in 34:09.83 by Rolanmen1.
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- Forgoes warps
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
After a long hibernation meant to purge his body of the Wily Virus, Zero is awakened to save Ciel and the resistance. Zero decides to help, but what he really wants is to have some slashing fun.

Unlike the other run of this game, this run doesn't use mission skips, which means that the author had to beat every mission as fast as possible.

This improves the previous movie by 1.91.


[Tier: Moons]GBA Mega Man Zero (USA) in 16:52.42 by computerbird & hellagels.
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This is the first Mega Man Zero game in the series for the Game Boy Advance. Unlike most other Mega Man games, Zero really is not in the mood for fighting all the bad guys, and decides to call it quits in the first few missions so that he can skip ahead to the last stages.

This run beats the previous run by 4.56 seconds due to a new trick called the "spike jump" which allows Zero to climb on the spikes without taking damage.

If you liked this movie, be sure to check out the all stages run.


[Tier: Moons]GBA Mega Man Zero 2 (JPN) in 50:54.88 by computerbird.
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Zero is back in his second personal adventure, facing his greatest challenge yet.

This time, the Japanese version is used instead for a glitch only available on that ROM.

This run beats the previous run by 8 minutes and 23 seconds.

Sonikkustar has done some live commentary on Ustream as well.


[Tier: Moons]GBA Mega Man Zero 3 (USA) in 56:44.55 by hellagels.
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The third game in the Megaman Zero subseries takes place two months after its predecessor.

It features mostly the same gameplay as its predecessors, but with a different Cyber Elf system and customizable armor. Also new are the Secret Disks, which can be analyzed for information about the series, enemies, items, and the characters.

This run is 1:16.43 faster than the previous version.


[Tier: Moons]GBA Mega Man Zero 3 (USA) "100%" in 1:03:53.15 by Rolanmen1.
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The third game in the Megaman Zero subseries takes place two months after its predecessor.

It features mostly the same game play as its predecessors, but with a different Cyber Elf system and customizable armor. Also new are the Secret Disks, which can be analyzed for information about the series, enemies, items, and the characters.

Unlike the other run, this run aims to collect all disks, all sub-tanks, and all Ex-Skills. It also gets a special rank when the final stage ends (Disk Capturer) and unlocks Ultimate Mode afterward.


[Tier: Moons]GBA Mega Man Zero 4 (USA) in 37:07.48 by klmz.
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Zero has a new body which he does all the same old stuff with. Once again, it's on the Game Boy Advance. As with the other games in the series, there is a delay with every hit of the Z-Saber, so many enemies are killed in other ways. (In particular, in this game, Zero can pick up guns from some enemies and use them for added variety.)

This run is almost 4 minutes and 20 seconds faster than the previous movie, in spite of having over 30 seconds more text due to game version differences. A large part of this improvement is due to new combos. Also, the invulnerability times of midbosses are abused even further with midair wobbling of the Z-Saber or the Z-Knuckles. For more details, see the run's comments.


[Tier: Moons]GBA Metroid: Zero Mission (USA) in 32:33.43 by Dragonfangs.
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Metroid: Zero Mission is a retelling of the original Metroid's story with a couple of new plot twists and updated gameplay.

This movie improves on the previous attempt by the same author by 12 in-game seconds and 34 seconds of real time. It was achieved by using a different route (killing Ridley before Kraid), allowing more efficient time saving tricks and skipping an elevator cutscene.

The in-game clear time is 0:21:27. The item collection rate is 21%.


[Tier: Stars]GBA Metroid: Zero Mission (USA) "100%" in 1:01:08.0 by Cpadolf.
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Samus's first adventure is retold in Metroid: Zero Mission with extra storyline, extra items and on a system with a better graphics processor. This run completes the game with 100% item collection. At least as far as the end-of-game display is concerned.

This is an improvement of 35.70 seconds, over Dragonfangs's previous movie. The improvements come mainly from greater optimization in movement and better ammo management. Unlike the previous author, Cpadolf aimed for lowest real time, finishing the game in 42:07 on the in-game timer.


[Tier: Moons]GBA Metroid Fusion (USA) "100%" in 1:35:19.3 by BioSpark.
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- 100% completion
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- Genre: Adventure
- Genre: Platform
After a major surgery, Samus's Power Suit has been reduced in appearance. To compensate, she decides to arm herself to the teeth with 250 missiles and more power bombs than she really needs. It's her favorite thing to do when sequence breaking isn't as feasible.

BioSpark collects all 100 capacity increasing items for Samus's health, missiles and power bombs. The abilities recovered from the Core-X are not part of this number.

Like in previous Metroid Fusion TASes, lowest in-game time is top priority, sacrificing some minor tricks that save real-time but would have made in-game time slightly higher. In-game completion time is 55:28, 48 in-game seconds faster than the previous run. The real-time improvement is 30.23 seconds. It appears smaller due to 1 in-game second actually being 1.06 real-time seconds in this game.


If you are interested, an alternate encode is available, that eliminates all of the door screen transitions and conversations, cutting viewing time quite a bit.

[Tier: Moons]GBA Metroid Fusion (USA) "0%" in 1:13:26.73 by Dragonfangs.
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Rather than being able to explore the world freely and sequence break to her heart's content, Samus is at the mercy of a computer's will. As a result this game is very linear with virtually no chance to collect items out of order.

The in-game completion time is 0:40 and no unnecessary items are collected (0%).


[Tier: Stars]GBA Ninja Five-O (USA) in 16:35.62 by Cardboard.
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Ninja Five-O features a ninja cop battling evil ninja masters and terrorists.

Joe Osugi, bizarre 'anti-terrorist ninja', is called in to assist the local police, who seem to be completely useless in rescuing some hostages.

The game is basically a series of rooms connected together. Your job is to rescue the hostages and then escape the stage through the red door. You have in your arsenal a three-level shuriken, a sword, and a grappling hook similar to the one from Bionic Commando. Joe also has two special abilities: to make himself invincible and to attack all enemies on screen.

This new version by Cardboard is 1 minutes and 31 seconds faster than the previous one by Nitsuja, containing even more ropeswinging acrobatics and ninja madness.


[Tier: Moons]GBA Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (USA) in 36:17.73 by theenglishman.
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Everyone’s favourite gymnastics winner is back in this remake of the classic console game. This time the Prince of Persia accidentally unleashes the Sands of Time, turning everyone except him, an evil Vizier and a mysterious girl named Farah into zombies. The Sands also gave the Prince a few new unexpected powers, like the ability to walk through walls and repeatedly jump underneath platforms.

This run features an impressive improvement of 6 minutes over the preceding movie.


[Tier: Moons]GBA Rayman Advance (USA) in 1:21:33.31 by got4n.
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When a villain known only as Mr. Dark appears, trouble brews in Rayman's world. Mr. Dark captures the Toons - the source of light - and Rayman's friends. Without the light, evil creatures begin to roam, making the world unsafe for everyone. It's up to you, as Rayman, to free your friends and put an end to Mr. Dark's dastardly schemes!

Rayman is a side-scrolling platformer starring the titular Rayman, a big-nosed chap with no arms or legs. Rayman can jump and use his hair to hover for a short period of time. He can also attack by throwing his fists, or winding up his fists for a more powerful punch. He can occasionally find special powerups that grant him unlimited flying power, giving him the ability to navigate through tricky mazes.

Aside from the platforming action, the other notable feature of Rayman is its large, detailed and vibrant graphics, which have helped it to stand out from most other similar games in the genre.


[Tier: Moons]GBA Shining Soul (USA) in 49:46.88 by DarkKobold.
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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.


[Tier: Vault]GBA Sonic Pinball Party (USA) in 22:42.59 by Cooljay.
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In Sonic Pinball Party, developed by Sonic Team, Dr. Eggman has turned all the gamblers in Casinopolis into robots and also brainwashed Tails and Amy. Sonic must rescue the gamblers and his friends by winning the Egg Cup pinball tournament.

This game features pinball boards based off the Sega games Sonic Advance, Nights into Dreams, and Samba de Amigo.


[Tier: Moons]GBA The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (USA) "Palace of Four Swords" in 05:16.73 by Tompa & Yuzuhara_3.
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It would be pointless to describe The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past here, because this run has little to do with the game itself. Using glitches exclusive to the GBA version, Link rips a hole in the space-time-continuum, enters the Palace of the Four Swords, and finishes the game in just over 5 minutes.

This run improves the previous publication by 21.16 seconds, primarily through a new trick that ends input early, using buggy boomerangs to finish off the Dark Links.


[Tier: Moons]GBA The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (USA) in 1:48:09.75 by Tompa.
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The Minish Cap is an addition to The Legend of Zelda series, that sees our hero fight Ganondorf Vaati, retrieve and power up the Master Sword Picori Sword, to once again save the land of Hyrule and rescue the Princess Zelda.

Following the constant advice of a talking hat, and utilising unique items, as well as getting more use out of an ocarina than simply getting around, Tompa completes this task in record time, putting Vaati back in his place in a mere 108 minutes!


[Tier: Vault]GBA Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (USA) in 05:05.2 by Noodlez.
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The Tony Hawk skateboarding series makes its debut on the Game Boy Advance with this adaptation of the second Pro Skater game.

Gameplay is similar to the original console game. The levels have been adapted from the console version for the two dimensional isometric perspective; one is even taken from the original Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.


[Tier: Moons]GBA Turbo Turtle Adventure (USA) in 18:36.07 by cetaka.
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Turbo Turtle Adventure is a game like Super Monkey Ball and Marble Madness where you make a turtle roll accross various stages.

The player rolled all the way through as fast as possible, using various techniques and some glitches. You can read the author's comments to learn more about those tricks.


[Tier: Stars][Notable improvement]GBA Wario Land 4 (USA/Europe) in 40:04.88 by andymac.
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Arguably better known these days for the WarioWare series, our anti-hero Wario started off as the villain in Super Mario Land 2 before starring in his own series of platformers of which this is the fifth (everyone forgets Virtual Boy Wario Land).

Through strategic use of save-and-restore and a glitch allowing rapid diagonal movement and zipping, Wario gets away with all the loot in this Hard mode run (the hardest difficulty available from the outset) 22:30.68 faster than before.


[Tier: Moons]GBA X2: Wolverine's Revenge (USA) in 13:57.28 by nitsuja.
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A fast-paced platformer game.

We apologize for the less-than-average video quality in this AVI, but this game is really unfriendly to MPEG4 compression utilized by codecs such as XviD and H.264.


[Tier: Vault]GBC Daikatana, John Romero's (Europe) in 36:30.6 by FerretWarlord.
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John Romero's Daikatana is set in 2455 AD, in a dystopian future brought on by the actions of a man named Kage Mishima, who now rules the earth. However, this future is actually an alternate timeline created by the mystical Daikatana sword, which allows the one who wields it to travel through time. A martial arts teacher, Hiro Miyamoto (no relation to Shigeru), journeys to recover the Daikatana and return the universe to its natural timeline.

[Tier: Vault]GBC Frogger 2 (USA) in 09:56.69 by CoolKirby.
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Frogger 2 is a portable extension of the original Frogger. The story is the same: five frogs have wandered across the pond, and Frogger has to rescue them. But this time around, our green hero has a lot more distance to cover. There are five large themed worlds he must hop through with dangerous new enemies like bees, rolling boulders, and lava cauldrons.

The author, CoolKirby, races Frogger madly through the levels and rescues all of the babies in just under 10 minutes.


[Tier: Vault]GBC Konami GB Collection Vol. 1: The Castlevania Adventure (Europe) in 14:58.7 by arukAdo.
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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.


[Tier: Vault]GBC Lucky Luke (USA) "100%" in 31:07.97 by TheKDX7.
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Lucky Luke is based on a comic series created by Belgian cartoonist Maurice De Bevere. The series was very popular in Europe, so it's not surprising that it was adapted into a game.

TheKDX7, author of the other Lucky Luke run, collects all 60 stars throughout all 12 levels (including 5 hidden ones) and the 2 big hearts in the Saloon and Cheyenne Mountains levels in order to achieve 100% completion.


[Tier: Vault]GBC Lucky Luke (USA) in 24:19.08 by TheKDX7.
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Lucky Luke is a game based on a famous comic series created by Belgian cartoonist Maurice De Bevere. The gun-slinging Dalton brothers have escaped from jail again and are up to no good, and it's up to the titular cowboy to catch the criminals and lock them back up.

While the author, TheKDX7, finishes the platforming stages as fast as possible, he also adds in some entertainment to the long autoscrollers to make them more interesting.

This is an improvement of 480 frames over the first Lucky Luke TAS.


[Tier: Moons]GBC Mega Man Xtreme 2 (USA) "Xtreme Mode" in 27:06.62 by Mothrayas.
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- 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.


[Tier: Vault]GBC Mission: Impossible (Europe) in 10:34.62 by Randil.
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This GBC game is based off the popular television series Mission: Impossible.

Following the spirit of that series, this is a stealth-based game. Supposedly tricky tasks are to be performed covertly. But in this movie, stealth is clearly not one of the author's highest priorities. It's all running through guards, as if they weren't there. Yet the player does not die.

This movie is 16.43 seconds faster than the predecessor movie.


[Tier: Vault]GBC Pocket Bomberman (USA) "Jump Game" in 01:51.69 by Robert_Ordis.
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- Genre: Puzzle
Pocket Bomberman is unlike the previous Bomberman games in that it's a sidescrolling platformer instead of a grid-like puzzle game. It's also one of the few games that allows Bomberman to jump.

"Jump Game" is the second of the game's two modes. The object of this minigame is to get to the goal at the top of each of the long vertical levels, defeating a boss several times in order to progress.

However, in this run, Robert_Ordis uses a glitch allowing him to clip through walls to skip several boss fights and finish all three stages in less than 2 minutes.


The Nicovideo stream features a cool heads-up display, including RAM information, input view, and even a level map.

[Tier: Moons]GBC Pocket Bomberman (USA) in 06:33.22 by Robert_Ordis.
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Pocket Bomberman is a game that fuses platforming with Bomberman.

In this run, Robert_Ordis improves upon his previous movie by 19.64 seconds by optimizing each route and utilizing some new tricks.


[Tier: Moons]GBC Super Mario Bros. Deluxe (USA v1.1) "You vs. Boo" in 04:53.33 by TheKDX7.
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Super Mario Bros. Deluxe is the Game Boy Color version of the original Super Mario Bros. It was released in 1999. In addition to the standard game, it features a challenge mode which is available after beating the game.

In this movie, gameplay starts after having beaten the game and having collected 100,000 points to unlock the "You vs. Boo" mode. Mario must race Boo through several worlds which have been modified to make them more interesting in a race.

This movie improves on the previous one by 0.65 seconds due to better menu manipulation and routes.


[Tier: Moons]GBC The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (USA v1.0) "glitched" in 05:37.87 by bobmario511.
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Adventure
Proving yet again the lengths a TAS can go in destroying a game, this run features a warping glitch that allows for severe sequence breaking. The final boss is reached within a handful of minutes and defeated with minimal weaponry.

bobmario511 surpasses the previous run by 0.93 seconds.

There is a movie of this game that does not use the warp glitch.


[Tier: Stars]GBC The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (USA v1.0) in 1:00:02.68 by Swordless Link.
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The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX is an updated version of an older GB game to add colour graphics, an additional dungeon, various other minor features, and a lot of bug fixes. Link, after rescuing Hyrule (again?), sets off on a journey and subsequently shipwrecks on the mysterious Koholint Island, which has been overtaken by evil monsters which he must defeat in order to find a way back home.

Through a wide variety of glitches and general optimisations, this is now almost ten minutes faster than the previous full run of this game.

This run does not make use of a form of warp glitching, but still demonstrates that they obviously didn't fix as many bugs as they thought.


[Tier: Moons]GBC The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (USA) in 1:25:57.22 by Swordless Link & Tompa.
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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.


[Tier: Moons]GB Batman: Return of the Joker (USA) in 03:41.13 by adelikat.
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Batman returns to stop the Joker's latest insane criminal plot once again, 20 seconds faster than the last time!

This game is one of those grappling hook games, with which Batman can just swing through areas quickly. Much of the improvement comes from bunnybathopping Batman's way through levels and somewhat improved boss fights.


[Tier: Vault]GB Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon R (JPN) in 06:19.02 by jlun2.
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Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon R is a sidescrolling action game centered around the second story arc of the Sailor Moon anime and manga. You have your choice of character between Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Venus and Chibiusa to battle against the Black Moon Clan. The game has two modes, one containing the full story and the other focusing only on the platforming sections.

In this run, jlun2 chooses the platforming mode and jumps across the Sailor Moon world, finishing this relatively obscure game in a little over 6 minutes.


[Tier: Vault]GB Bubble Ghost (USA) in 04:41.07 by MUGG.
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Bubble Ghost, a game ported to a great many platforms, has the player, as a ghost, guide a bubble through a house by blowing at it; if the bubble hits anything at all it pops and the player loses a life. If that sounds difficult, well, it is - but that doesn't stop this run from making it look easy.

[Tier: Vault]GB Cosmo Tank (USA) in 24:29.31 by Tool23.
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Cosmo Tank is a space tank battle game. You're the commander of the tank 'Tiger a-1' and your mission is to fight on land and in space against the Master Insect and his minions. The game features both top-down levels and first person levels in which you can freely move around in all directions. Settings feature both open outdoor environments, caves and space. Slowly upgrade your cannon and armor as you progress for more firepower and the ability to sustain more hits.

[Tier: Moons][Notable improvement]GB Final Fantasy Adventure (USA) "warp glitch" in 17:41.33 by Touch-me.
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Final Fantasy Adventure is the first game of the Seiken Densetsu (聖剣伝説) series but it does contains some classic Final Fantasy elements. The series is probably best known for the SNES game Secret of Mana. This game was later remade on the Game Boy Advance as Sword of Mana. Its gameplay is quite similar to that of a The Legend of Zelda game, but with is level building.

In this run, Touch-me demonstrates how to flawlessly beat the game. What's unusual is that he also uses some glitches to completely skip parts in the game.

This run is 51 minutes and 22 seconds faster than the previous run.


[Tier: Moons]GB Final Fantasy Adventure (USA) "Warpless" in 1:32:55.97 by Atomnium.
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Final Fantasy Adventure is the first game in the Seiken Densetsu (聖剣伝説) series, a series best known for the Super Nintendo game Secret of Mana. It plays similarly to The Legend of Zelda, with some Final Fantasy elements added.

This run is a refinement of the previous warpless run, so you get to see quite a bit of the game. Time is saved over the previous run with improved manipulation and strategies.


[Tier: Moons]GB Fortified Zone (USA) in 09:38.57 by TASeditor.
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Fortified Zone follows heroes Masato Kanzaki and Mizuki Makimura as they infiltrate a... fortified zone.

The gameplay is much more interesting though. The author fully utilizes the ability to switch between the two characters on the fly. Weapons are fired very precisely, and some interesting glitching is used to skip parts of the first two levels.


[Tier: Vault]GB Gargoyle's Quest: Ghosts'n Goblins (USA/Europe) in 22:38.72 by Jigwally.
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- Genre: Adventure
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Gargoyle's Quest is another platform game made by Capcom, where you play as Firebrand, a gargoyle predestined to become the Red Blaze and take down King Breager.

This run is an improvement of 2:17.88 minutes over the previous movie. The improvement comes from more optimization, different routes, and better lag management.

Reading the author's comments is highly recommended.


[Tier: Moons]GB Kirby's Pinball Land (USA) in 01:55.98 by pirohiko.
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Kirby is a little round thing, and like Sonic, makes for an excellent pinball. Kirby must navigate through three boards to defeat his usual foes by knocking into them repeatedly, with the help of traditional pinball flippers.

This movie skips most of the normal pinball aspects of the game and goes right to the bosses. Clever luck manipulation is used to position them perfectly for optimal damage from Kirby.


[Tier: Moons]GB Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge (JPN) in 17:11.3 by Bag of Magic Food.
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This game, also known as Rockman World (ロックマンワールド), is the first of a GB series of Mega Man games.

The Game Boy series is a little different from the NES series in that there are only four Robot Masters to fight at the start. Those four are borrowed from the NES game of the same number, while four more Robot Masters from the next NES game guard Dr. Wily’s fortress. Game Boy Wily also likes to have a backup fortress in space after his first one is beaten. Another recurring concept in the Game Boy games is a ninth robot boss unique to the game who gives you a new weapon that is usually the only weapon effective against the final boss.

We recommend reading the author’s comments of this movie ― there is a lot of it.


[Tier: Vault]GB Mega Man II (USA) in 17:41.28 by dezbeast.
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This time Wily is back, or actually forwards – in time that is; where he plans to destroy the future and bring back technology to destroy the past. Join Mega Man as he too travels to the future to prevent Wily and face his greatest enemy yet.

This run doesn't really perform any mind boggling glitches like some other Mega Man runs on this site, but it still has the same classic action, and pulls off some very unlikely maneuvers that are enjoyable to watch.

This is an 8 second improvement over the author's previous movie.


[Tier: Moons]GB Mega Man III (JPN) in 23:02.1 by Bag of Magic Food.
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Another installment of the Mega Man series. Unlike some of the other games in the Mega Man series, this one is quite solid and has no noteworthy glitches in it. Despite that though, many creative techniques were employed by Bag of Magic Food to beat each level as fast as possible. There is also many near misses of enemy fire in this game, making it very enjoyable to watch.

For those of you who enjoy listening to the music, the background music in this one is quite good, and the sound quality is much better than previous Mega Man games for the system.

This run was done on the Japanese version, Rockman World 3 (ロックマンワールド3).


[Tier: Vault]GB Metroid II: Return of Samus (USA) "100%" in 49:22.82 by Cardboard.
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This is Metroid II: Return of Samus completed with all the items collected. Being truthful to the original Metroid values, the game holds many items cleverly hidden, so finding all of them is not an easy task.

That being said, Metroid II doesn't keep track of the collected items' percentage. Moreover, the game has two excessive Energy tanks and an additional copy of each beam. It's been agreed that the author should take all the E-tanks, and at least one copy of each beam. However, due to the apparent linearity of this game, collecting so many additional items doesn't make the movie dramatically slower.

This movie is nearly 6 minutes faster than Alter's previous movie due to better precision, faster Metroid fights, and missile planning.

Note: This movie does not use secret worlds, also known as "select glitch".


[Tier: Vault]GB Metroid II: Return of Samus (USA) in 45:08.42 by Cardboard.
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Metroid II: Return of Samus is the second game in the Metroid series, taking place immediately after the events of the NES Metroid. Samus arrives at the planet SR388 to exterminate all metroids and eventually succeeds.

This movie by Cardboard puts the Spring Ball and Spider Ball to great use to compensate for the lack of items, and achieves victory in the shortest time possible.

This is a 69 second improvement over the author's previous movie. The in-game time is 43 minutes.

Note: This movie does not use secret worlds, also known as "the select glitch".


[Tier: Moons]GB Metroid II: Return of Samus (USA) "glitched" in 23:40.92 by FerretWarlord.
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Selected words from the author:
"After parsing through the user's manual for her Power Suit, Samus discovered that the Chozo have endowed it with the power to interact with the fabric of reality immediately surrounding the planet SR-388 by simply switching between her beam and her missiles. What luck that she should receive an assignment to go to that planet!"

This run extensively glitches the game to the point where Samus moves to rooms that are glitched and/or weren't there before. Viewers are advised that this run may induce feelings of confusion and disorientation.


[Tier: Moons]GB Ninja Gaiden Shadow (USA) in 11:28.97 by klmz.
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Ninja Gaiden Shadow (aka. Shadow Warriors) is actually a licensed GB port of Shadow of the Ninja on the NES console. Because of this, it is fairly faithful to the original despite starring Ryu Hayabusa, the main character of the Ninja Gaiden series.

In this Gaiden of a gaiden, Ryu Hayabusa manages to defeat Emperor Garuda and save mankind in under 12 minutes, notwithstanding running slower than in other Ninja Gaiden games.


[Tier: Vault]GB Ninja Spirit (JPN) in 05:40.42 by Primorial#soup.
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This game is one of many ports of an arcade game (there is also a movie of a different version of the game here). In it, an evil force has corrupted all ninjas except for you, and you must defeat the evil force. You have four different weapons, and you can also obtain shadow clones which work similarly to the options from Gradius or the clones from Ninja Gaiden 2.

Sit back and enjoy the fast-paced ninja action and the weapon variety.


[Tier: Vault]GB Rolan's Curse (USA) in 04:20.58 by mmbossman.
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- 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.


[Tier: Stars]GB Super Mario Land (any v1.1) "hard mode" in 12:14.77 by MUGG.
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Tatanga is back after being beaten in the regular-mode run of this game, and he kidnapped Princess Daisy again. Daisy is not a pilot, so she is unable to escape from her prison in the sky, despite there being a freely accessible aircraft in the vicinity.

Mario must travel through the four Kingdoms of Birabuto, Muda, Easton, and Chai once again to rescue Daisy. Although this time around, they're packed with much more enemies than before.

This run has much more action than the regular mode of Super Mario Land, due to the increased amount of enemies, yet it is only slightly slower. If you liked TASs of Super Mario Land before now, wait until you see this.


Note: This movie begins from a save state from the end of regular mode in order to access hard mode. There is no other way to access it outside of a hack. We normally do not accept movies which begin from a save state.

Note: This movie requires conversion in order to be played in sync on VBA rerecording v23.


[Tier: Stars]GB The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (USA v1.0) "Playaround" in 40:22.78 by bobmario511.
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- Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Adventure
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The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is a classic Game Boy Zelda adventure. Link must travel across the dream world of Koholint Island, collecting the 8 Instruments to wake the Wind Fish and go home after a terrible shipwreck.

bobmario511 (the author), however, realized that "Hey, I'm in a dream. That means I can do anything I want!" With that in mind, he embarks on a journey as the legendary hero THIEF to live out his wildest fantasies. Unfortunately, he would soon find out that this dream would end up being the worst nightmare of his life, traveling through a chaotic world devoid of any logic, meaning, or consistent appearance. Summoning the power of all of the allies he can get, our hero, BowWow, Marin, a ghost, and a flying rooster travel together to make sense of the nonsensical hell of Link's own imagination, collecting what he believes to be the 8 Instruments and Secret Seashells on their way.

To see a run of the "normal" completion of this game, see this movie by the same author.


[Tier: Moons]GB The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (USA v1.0) in 03:48.55 by bobmario511.
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- Genre: Adventure
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is a classic Game Boy Zelda adventure. Link must travel across the dream world of Koholint Island, collecting the 8 Instruments to wake the Wind Fish and go home after a terrible shipwreck.

bobmario511 (the author), however, decided collecting instruments for a one-man band was a waste of time, so he skipped all of that and went straight to the Wind Fish (with a pesky boss battle in the middle).

This is a 0.56 second improvement over the previous run. See the author's notes for more details.

If you liked this, be sure to also check out the Game Boy Color version (DX), which completes all the dungeons.


[Tier: Moons]GB Yuu Yuu Hakusho: Makai no Tobira (JPN) in 16:53.05 by jlun2.
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Yuu Yuu Hakusho: Makai no Tobira is the third installment of the Yuu Yuu Hakusho series for the Game Boy. This game is unique because, unlike the other games, this isn't a fighter. This is a side-scrolling action RPG.

jlun2, with some tricks explained in his submission text, beats the game in less than 17 minutes.


[Tier: Moons]Genesis Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle (USA) in 05:27.8 by Aqfaq.
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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.


[Tier: Moons]Genesis Altered Beast (JPN/USA,r2) in 05:53.3 by foda.
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Altered Beast is originally an arcade game. In each level, the player must collect 3 powerups in order to transform into a powerful beast and fight the boss of that level. This game was one of the first games of the Sega Genesis system, and was first bundled with it.

This might look like it's an auto-scrolling game, but in fact the scroll speed depends on the number of enemies on screen. The player tries to kill all enemies as soon as possible to increase the scroll speed, using 2 characters to maximize this process. Almost 30 seconds were saved compared to the previous version.


[Tier: Moons]Genesis Batman (USA/Europe) in 11:06.2 by arkiandruski.
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- 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.


[Tier: Vault]Genesis Beavis and Butt-Head (USA) in 09:27.03 by adelikat.
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A game where you must assemble your shredded-up ticket to go to a heavy metal concert.

This movie is a 47.4 second improvements over the previous movie. Much of the improvements are a result of using the 2-player option where the player can control both characters simultaneously rather than one at a time.


[Tier: Vault]Genesis Bonanza Bros. (any,r1) in 09:03.02 by SprintGod.
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A technically unusually simple game for the Genesis completed as fast as possible with two characters played by one player.

[Tier: Moons]Genesis Castlevania: Bloodlines (USA) "John Morris version" in 27:36.17 by Samhain-Grim & Truncated.
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Castlevania's foray onto the Genesis sees two protagonists duke it out with Dracula and his minions: John Morris and Eric Lecarde. John Morris carries the famed whip, and Eric Lecarde wields a spear.

This run sees John Morris take on the hordes of minions. While Morris is essentially slower in movement, he is still the faster of the two due to his ability to destroy the bosses quicker than Lecarde. For more precise details, see the authors' detailed submission text.


[Tier: Moons]Genesis Castlevania: Bloodlines (USA) "Eric Lecarde version" in 27:41.93 by Samhain-Grim & Truncated.
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Castlevania's foray onto the Genesis sees two protagonists duke it out with Dracula and his minions: John Morris and Eric Lecarde. John Morris carries the famed whip, and Eric Lecarde wields a spear.

This run sees Eric Lecarde take his turn against the vast minions of Dracula. While Lecarde moves slightly faster than Morris, lag from his magic spear had to be taken into account more often, and he is weaker against bosses. For more precise details, see the authors' detailed submission text for Morris.


[Tier: Vault]Genesis Chakan (USA) in 12:08.52 by Sonikkustar.
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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.

This improves the previous run of the game by 5 minutes & 30 seconds through several optimizations as well as a new glitch which creates massive shortcuts.

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.


[Tier: Vault]Genesis Chuck Rock (USA) in 08:51.43 by adelikat.
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Ophelia Rock has been kidnapped by local bully Gary Gritter and taken to his hangout in the creepy dinosaur graveyard. It's up to Chuck the caveman to come to her rescue in this comical platformer.

This is a 9.83 second improvement over the previous movie, much of the improvement comes from new shortcuts and tricks.


[Tier: Moons]Genesis Crusader of Centy (USA) in 43:40.17 by Eratyx.
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Crusader of Centy (1994), also known as Soleil, tells the story of a teenage boy saving humanity from monsters that might or might not actually be evil. To his aid he has up to two pets at a time granting him some special ability.

The movie takes advantage of the way the game calculates movement speed to make some seemingly impossible long jumps and skip large parts of some rooms.


[Tier: Moons]Genesis Dynamite Headdy (USA) in 33:22.82 by emu.
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Dynamite Headdy (1994) is an often-overlooked action/platformer gem whose main hero, a star puppet named Headdy, can attack his enemies by shooting his detachable head at them.

During the span of the game, Headdy must defeat the evil puppet king Dark Demon who captured his friends' home town, the Keymasters that guard the path to the villain, and Headdy's lifelong rival Trouble Bruin, who is eager to take his place in the production.

To prevent all those bad things from happening, Headdy has a nice arsenal of interchangeable heads that are used both to attack enemies and to aid traveling, which brings enough variety to entertain the viewer throughout the movie.


[Tier: Moons]Genesis Ecco: The Tides of Time (USA) in 47:38.72 by Upthorn.
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Ecco: The Tides of Time (1994) is the sequel to Ecco the Dolphin. It is harder than the original, and continues its 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.

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[Tier: Moons]Genesis Ecco the Dolphin (USA) in 24:14.13 by nitsuja.
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Ecco is a very original and hellishly hard game. You control Ecco the dolphin, navigating the waters, saving other trapped dolphins (which of course were left on their own here), finding key diamonds, 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 takes no damage, despite the fact that this was not intended to be possible.


[Tier: Moons]Genesis ESWAT: City Under Siege (USA) in 13:22.68 by Dammit.
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E-SWAT: City Under Siege is a story about a cop who dreams of wearing a cybernetic jetpack suit and becoming a killing machine. His dream comes true.

More seriously, this game stars the police officer Duke Oda trying to clean up the crime in the city of Liberty and fight the crime organization E.V.E. Some more details about the game can be found here. The variety of available weapons, and the use of a jetpack (denoted Burner), make this an entertaining action-packed movie.

This run features a 9-second improvement over the preceding version.


[Tier: Vault]Genesis Ex-Mutants (USA) in 10:11.23 by maTO.
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In this game, the Earth has been nearly destroyed by the genetic and biological weapons unleashed during World War 3. Radiation and strange viruses have combined to physically transform the human population into vile, disgusting mutants. However, a scientist named Dr. Kildare, who aims to reclaim mankind's lost genetic heritage, returns six people to normal to fight for humanity as the Ex-Mutants. Your job, as one of the Ex-Mutants, is to rescue the other Ex-Mutants and find power cells for Dr. Kildare.

maTO completes this game in a little over 10 minutes by accurate playing and good health management.


[Tier: Vault]Genesis Flicky in 15:13.25 by ptorflaxendrosis.
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Flicky is an arcade styled Genesis game in which a small blue bird (Flicky) tries to rescue some other bird's children. In doing so, he must travel through a series of houses, some being in Egypt, others in space. He must avoid the tigers and chameleons who just happen to be in the houses too, and occasionally he takes a break to look through the windows and see an undressed lady posing.

[Tier: Moons]Genesis Gain Ground in 11:40.57 by oneeighthundred.
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Gain Ground is a game about robots killing cavemen and cavemen killing robots; or at least that's what it looks like. Don't worry too much about the plot. It's a fast paced overhead run-and-gun with characters and enemies from 5 different time periods. Originally an arcade game, this Genesis port has 10 extra levels in it.

In this TAS, both player characters are controlled and shots are precisely placed to defeat every enemy in every level at blinding speed. Many precise tricks are used; details and stage-by-stage rundowns are available in the author's comments.


[Tier: Vault]Genesis Golden Axe III (JPN) in 15:56.28 by wwmarx.
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Buff guy and Kitty guy run around and kill things. Kitty guy swings on Buff guy's sword. Things die.

More seriously, Golden Axe III is one of the sequels to the original Golden Axe. One notable change is that players can now pick several different routes through the game by making choices at certain intersections. Also, the two players can use a "team-up" attack for high damage, which is used very frequently in this movie.


[Tier: Moons]Genesis High Seas Havoc (USA) in 19:52.22 by philipptr.
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High Seas Havoc is essentially a Sonic game without the spin dash, wallzipping or any hedgehogs. Seals really are not as fast on land. But this one knows what he wants, for he is a pirate: Treasure!

In this movie, philipptr runs against all the hardships, enemies heads and bosses lives, all to get the treasure map and his beloved Bridget back.


[Tier: Vault]Genesis Ka-Ge-Ki - Fists of Steel (USA) in 15:37.14 by Aqfaq.
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"Hey, let's fight!"

Ka-Ge-Ki is a game, where you play a fighter out to get revenge on the Kageki gang for murdering his brother.

"Is that all?"

Well, you have the ability to throw two different types of punch and to jump. Only the big punch is used. The gang is very polite and allows you to beat them up one at a time.

"Oooh, he not bad."

What's a referee doing in a gang anyway?


[Tier: Moons]Genesis Robocop vs. the Terminator (USA) in 14:06.92 by Cardboard.
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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, 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 silly gameplay. This includes seemingly inescapable bullet sprays, leotard-clad baddies, exploding heads, hidden 1-ups conveniently placed in molten 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 any of this was a joke, but it's actually all there.)

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


[Tier: Vault]Genesis Shadow Dancer in 12:52.82 by trazz.
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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.


[Tier: Vault]Genesis Shadow of the Beast (USA) in 11:56.9 by maTO.
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Shadow of the Beast is a somewhat inferior port of the Amiga hit released in 1989. The North American release was additionally criticized for sloppy conversion that made the game run 16.7% faster than intended and, as a result, sharply increased its difficulty.

Obviously it was no problem for maTO, who plunged through the game with impressive health management in just under 12 minutes.


[Tier: Moons]Genesis Sonic Spinball (USA) "100%" in 13:03.45 by Flip.
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The evil doctor Robotnik has a new plan to take over the world. He has built a new weapon, the Veg-O-Fortress on Mount Mobius and with it, he is transforming all creatures into robots. Sonic sneaks into the fortress and tries to stop Robotnik.

This run aims to complete all levels in the game, which includes the optional intermediate levels, and the now featured Multiball levels. These only appear after collecting all rings on the map, thus those need to be gotten too.


[Tier: Moons]Genesis Sonic Spinball (USA) in 07:16.8 by Flip.
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Dr. Robotnik is at it again, and this time he's set up a Pinball Defense System inside a volcano. Fortunately, Sonic makes a good pinball and he easily infiltrates the system, recovering most of the chaos emeralds hidden within and making short work of the bosses.

This run is an improvement of 41.70 seconds over the previous movie. The improvements come from better optimization and some new time-saving maneuvers. Reading the author's comments is highly recommended.


[Tier: Moons]Genesis Splatterhouse 2 (USA) in 14:15.5 by Aqfaq.
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- Uses hardest difficulty
- 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. It is also the sequel to this game.

Watch as Aqfaq takes a leisurely walk by hordes of zombies and other monsters, abusing some sliding tricks to maintain fast speed and defeat bosses quickly. In waiting periods, Aqfaq also shows some stunts, such as having monsters fall on his foot, delivering some wicked suckerpunches, or toying with the damsel in distress.

NOTE: The game is unofficially rated "PG-13" for violence and gruesome images.


[Tier: Vault]Genesis Strider (USA/Europe) in 07:24.53 by Neofix.
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- Takes damage to save time
- Uses hardest difficulty
- 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.


[Tier: Vault]Genesis Superman (USA) in 15:38.27 by Highness.
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Superman is a game about a man of steel, in tights and underpants on the outside. Invulnerability, moving cars and planets, super-speed, superhuman intelligence - all of those would not be seen in this movie. It was probably made in the beginning of his career. Instead you can enjoy groovy music Sunsoft composers of those times were known for.

[Tier: Vault]Genesis The Immortal (USA/Europe) in 10:32.92 by Aqfaq.
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- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Adventure
The Immortal is a dungeon game with spells, goblins, and of course, countless traps of instant death. The story is quite humorous at times.

In this movie, the protagonist wizard uses various unorthodox methods for completing the game as fast as possible. He dies four times in the process, but that does not slow him down at all. In fact, dying is one of the tricks that makes this movie 1.5 minutes faster than its predecessor.


[Tier: Vault]Genesis The Revenge of Shinobi (JPN/USA v1.0) in 12:48.35 by Dammit.
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- Genre: Action
In Revenge of Shinobi, the prequel to Shinobi III, you play as a ninja (what else?) who is capable of destroying an entire army of other ninjas, soldiers, and Hollywood characters. The fast attack animation of the ninja (one of which throws fireballs everywhere) makes up for his lack of speed.

This is the author's first submission for this game, beating out two others who also had submissions.


[Tier: Moons]Genesis Tinhead (USA) in 18:33.53 by Exxonym.
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- Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Tinhead is a robot trying to save the universe from the evil Grim Squidge. Using various transformations and bouncing metal balls, Tinhead does this in record time. This game looks and feels a lot like a Sonic game minus the super speed.

[Tier: Vault]Genesis Todd's Adventures in Slime World (USA) in 02:15.76 by Aqfaq.
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Todd's Adventures in Slime World is a platform game developed by Epyx and published by Atari. You play as Todd, a boy exploring an alien planet that is made entirely of slime. After finding out that Slime World is melting, he rushes to find his way back through the mazelike corridors to the safety of his ship.

In this run, the jet pack is found and collected right away to help Todd escape the planet with plenty of time to spare.


[Tier: Vault]Genesis Vapor Trail - Hyper Offence Formation (USA) in 20:11.18 by Soig.
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Shooter
Vapor Trail: Hyper Offence Formation is an arcade shmup later ported to the Sega Genesis. Although the game is an auto-scroller, there are a decent number of opportunities to show off. The author's comments contain more information about individual stages.

[Tier: Moons]Genesis Wolverine: Adamantium Rage (USA) in 10:47.68 by mmbossman.
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Wolverine Adamantium Rage is an atypical Genesis platformer with some fast paced action.

In this run mmbossman entertains you with Wolverine's vast repertoire, breaking many laws of physics as he moves through the stages and stabs anything that happens to get too close. A large variety of tricks are used.

He also takes rockets to the face while fighting a helicopter just to squeeze in faster time, showing you just what extremes he will go to entertain you. There is also a wonky palette error glitch in one particular stage.


[Tier: Stars][Notable improvement]Genesis X-Men 2: Clone Wars in 18:46.97 by Truncated & Sonikkustar.
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
In X-Men 2: Clone Wars, the alien race Phalanx invades the earth and the X-Men and some X-Women try to stop them.

You get to choose which X-Man to play every stage as. Most of the time Nightcrawler is used because he has the highest movement speed. Second in command is Wolverine because he has the second highest speed and also deals a ton of damage.

The game is unique in the regard that it starts as soon as you power on your console. No SEGA logo, no title screen, no character select. Normally the game pseudorandomly gives you Beast, but changing the types of controllers (3- or 6-button) throws off the start-up timing enough that a faster character can be gotten.

This movie is 5:05.28 minutes shorter than the previous publication thanks to a variety of new tricks explained in the authors' comments.


[Tier: Vault]Genesis Zero Wing (Europe) in 40:05.72 by DDRKhat.
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Zero Wing is an horizontal shooter game where the player is in control of a ZIG, an escape pod released after its main ship was attacked and destroyed by the evil cyborg CATS, bent on taking over the world.

[Tier: Moons]GG Ninja Gaiden (USA) in 07:33.02 by adelikat.
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Ninja Gaiden for Game Gear is quite unlike that of the NES version or even its cousin on the Master System. It has a similar (but simpler) feel as the Master System version, but has the wall climbing element of the NES game. But like the others, it has ninjas. And ninjas are cool.


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[Tier: Moons]GG Sonic the Hedgehog - Triple Trouble (USA/Europe) in 19:19.98 by Grincevent & Cooljay.
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Sonic Triple Trouble is the sequel to Sonic Chaos, they are also known in Japan as Sonic & Tails 1 and 2. Long story short, Dr. Robotnik is after the chaos emeralds again and convinced Knuckles that Sonic and Tails want to steal them, again... But here comes a new challenger! Nack the weasel is here and wants to, guess what, steal the chaos emeralds too! (but just because they are shiny and might sell well on eBay)

[Tier: Vault]Lynx Gordo 106 - The Mutated Lab Monkey (unknown) in 08:37.54 by adelikat.
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Gordo 106: The Mutated Lab Monkey is Atari Lynx game featuring a mutated monkey on quest to rescue trapped animals from evil N. Human.

This game is of absolute evil difficulty: Enemies with huge hitboxes that do and take huge amounts of damage combined with the small screen of the system.

In this run, adelikat navigates through the game, taking loads of damage, because killing enemies would take way too much time.

This is the first published run for Atari Lynx.


[Tier: Vault]MSX Invasion of the Zombie Monsters in 04:15.31 by scrimpeh.
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- 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.


[Tier: Vault]MSX Penguin Adventure (JPN) "bad ending" in 15:29.51 by Vampier.
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Adventure
Penguin Adventure is a game about a penguin going on a journey to retrieve a special fruit to save the penguin princess.

Unfortunately, saving the princess takes more than just successful recovery of the fruit and raw speed, so this run gets the bad ending.


[Tier: Vault]MSX Scion (JPN) in 01:09.67 by Quibus.
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Scion was an arcade game that was ported to the MSX by Sony in 1985. It features gameplay unusual for a shooter. You don't even need to gun down the enemy ships. Instead, you stay on one screen that loops continuously until all ground targets have been destroyed. Three screens of that and it's on to the next stage.

However, since every stage is identical, Quibus just plays through stage 1 as fast as possible.


[Tier: Stars]N64 Bomberman 64 (JPN) "100%" in 1:01:36.02 by zvsp.
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- 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 (on the Japanese version) 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 in in-game time in hard mode. Some cards require killing a certain minimum number of enemies, so you'll also get to see Bomberman blow up lots of enemies.

Watch zvsp blast through the stages and collect the cards very quickly. Many bomb-stacking glitches are used to skip areas. 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.


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[Tier: Moons]N64 Chameleon Twist 2 (USA) in 21:57.27 by Nahoc.
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- Genre: Action
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Chameleon Twist 2 (カメレオンツイスト2) takes place after the events in Chameleon Twist. Davy and his friends (Jack, Fred and Linda) are playing in the forest, still carrying the backpack from his last adventure, when suddenly the rabbit from before falls down and knocks one of the chameleons into the sky.

Contrary to the Chameleon Twist run, all 6 levels need to be played through in order to reach the end; Sky Land, Carnival Land, Ice Land, Great Edo Land, Toy Land and Pyramid Land.


[Tier: Moons]N64 Glover (USA) in 14:16.8 by Nahoc.
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
A wizard is mixing a batch of magic potions when an explosion sends the gloves on his hands flying into the air. One lands safely outside the castle, but the other lands in an evil potion mixture. It's this evil glove who decides to take over the castle. Meanwhile, seven crystals, which used to sit on top of the castle and give the surrounding lands their life force, also fly off in all directions. Thankfully though, the good glove, Glover, changes the crystals into rubber balls so that they land safely.

Now Glover must find the crystals and put them back into the castle to restore life to the land, avoiding the bad glove who is out to stop him and take over the kingdom and the wizard's power.

Nahoc hops, bounces, and dribbles his way through this game, taking advantage of a conveniently-placed crystal to skip right to the boss room in every stage.

If you want to see more of Glover, we also have an all-stages run.


[Tier: Moons]N64 Goemon's Great Adventure (JPN) in 1:15:41.28 by MATCH6974.
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Goemon and his friends return in this side-scrolling sequel to Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon. Bismaru, who looks like Goemon's friend Ebisumaru dressed up as a nun, has swiped a freshly-invented Ghost Returning Machine! With it, he's using planning nothing less than world domination. All Ebisumaru wanted to do with it was meet his ancestor, James Dean! Help Goemon and his friends retrieve the Machine, and bust some ghosts on the way.

Mystical Ninja 2 reverts back to the traditional side-scrolling 2D platforming style of the SNES games. However, due to to the Nintendo 64's 3D capabilities, you'll encounter massive bosses and detailed worlds as you make your way through Japan. To attack, you can either hurl coins, or use each character's specific weapon, such as Goemon's trademark pipe. Two players can also play simultaneously and work together to beat foes, and you can even ride piggy-back onto your friend.

There are also towns to explore, where you chat with villagers and explore various shops and houses for information and clues. Goemon Impact, the giant singing robot wearing rollerskates, also makes a return as you battle enemy mechs from inside its cockpit in a first-person view.


[Tier: Moons]N64 Mischief Makers (USA) in 55:04.28 by Comicalflop.
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Mischief Makers (1997) is one of the rare 2D sidescrollers released for Nintendo 64. The player controls Marina, the robotic maid of a lecherous and absent-minded professor Theo, who has a habit of being kidnapped constantly. The ones who abduct him every now and then are Clancers from the evil Empire. (And make sure to watch out for the plot twist at the end!)

Marina is quite a versatile cyborg. She can boost continuously in the air, ride vehicles, slide and jump like a maniac, and most importantly, shake. Make no mistake, you'll be seeing Comicalflop shake this thing, and even that thing quite a lot in this fast-paced run.

The game is broken down into 52 short areas, each of them having a separate timer. Because of this, the author aims to optimize the movie for shortest in-game time. Each stage is given a rank based on how fast the stage was completed; this run gets all S Ranks.

The game has some emulation errors, such as unnatural amounts of lag in some stages, and graphical glitches. See the author's comments for more details.


[Tier: Stars][Recommended for newcomers]N64 The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (USA) in 1:29:32.02 by MrGrunz.
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- Takes damage to save time
- Heavy glitch abuse
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Adventure
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In the direct sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Link is back to being a lone boy without a fairy. One day, he is attacked by Skull Kid and his two fairies, Tatl and Tael, and they steal his ocarina. After pursuing Skull Kid, he is transformed into a Deku Scrub. Link continues pursuing Skull Kid all the way to the Clock Town (now with the help of Tatl the fairy, a more 'in yo face' version of Navi).

This TAS of the game is the result of three years of hard work and many restarts due to new discoveries. It features many never-before-seen tricks and glitches, and completes every dungeon without getting a single boss key. Everything is done out of order, in ways that will amaze the viewer and keep them on the edge of their seat the entire way through, including a whole new way of warping between the areas in the game's over-world, and a new method of traveling that makes even the longest stretches in the game seem tiny.

The author beats the game in two 3-day cycles (the previous route used three), and does so in a way that puts every past attempt at a 6-day challenge to shame.

Note: There are encodes of higher resolutions in the discussion thread. Also, if you know the cutscenes of this game by memory at this point and would rather watch an encode without them, it's your lucky day.


[Tier: Moons][Notable improvement]N64 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (JPN v1.0) in 21:50.6 by MrGrunz.
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- Uses death to save time
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses a game restart sequence
- Heavy glitch abuse
- Corrupts memory
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Adventure
Although the length of this movie is 21:50.6 when timed with our standard method, applying the timing method used by most Zelda speedrunners (until last hit on Ganon) would result in a final time of 18:46.85. It's important to note this so that there's no confusion about which runs are faster than the others.

In this TAS of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the author aims to beat the game as quickly as possible. He achieves this by exploiting a large sequence break which involves "tricking" the game into warping Link directly from the Deku Tree (the first dungeon) to Ganon's Castle. Child Link then goes on conquering the whole Castle without a single thought about becoming an Adult beforehand.

Despite how quickly this game can be beaten these days, this run is almost one minute faster than its predecessor thanks to a new trick at the Tower Collapse Sequence and many small improvements throughout the run.

This TAS was done using 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 is spent waiting for text boxes and cut scenes to end before getting back to the action.

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.

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[Tier: Moons]N64 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (JPN v1.0) "All Dungeons, Temples, & Ganon Trials" in 2:04:45.22 by Swordless Link.
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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.

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[Tier: Moons][Has commentary]N64 Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion (USA) in 41:45.55 by nfq.
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It's Turok 3! Not very many dinosaurs in this game though, mostly just weird mutants and monsters. nfq blows through the game with multiple sequence breaks and kills several bosses very swiftly.
The author has made a series of youtube encodes with annotated commentary available in the submission comments.

[Tier: Vault]NES Arkanoid (USA) "Warped" in 04:26.72 by Baxter.
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- 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.


[Tier: Moons]NES Bad Dudes (USA) in 13:25.36 by Kirkq.
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"The President has been kidnapped by ninjas! Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the President?"

The answer is a resounding "yes", though we're not sure if Karnov counts as a ninja or not.

In this run, Kirkq utilizes obscure and unusual jump patterns to move quickly. During the game's lengthy scrolling sections, optimization shifts more toward entertainment.


[Tier: Moons]NES Batman (USA) in 09:21.93 by Aglar.
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The hero of Gotham City goes against the villain of Gotham City. His fists are more powerful than any weapon in the world, but he rarely kills anyone. It's not like his enemies can hurt him anyway. After all, he's the hero, and heroes are supposed to be invincible.

Here Aglar has managed to improved the previous movie by 2.5 seconds.

Enjoy the movie, and the excellent soundtrack and the graphics of this game.


[Tier: Moons]NES Batman: Return of the Joker (USA) in 11:21.57 by Aglar.
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Batman: Return of the Joker (1991) is the sequel to the first Batman game for the NES. Being one of the later NES titles, it shows surprisingly good and fluid visuals, fullsize art, and decent sound — all without slowdown issues!

The gameplay has undergone some changes compared to its predecessor. A welcome addition to it is a slide movement, similar to the one in the Mega Man series. A not-so-welcome addition is that half the stages are autoscrolling, and there are no close combat weapons now.


[Tier: Stars]NES Battletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team (USA) in 17:41.14 by feos.
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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.


[Tier: Moons]NES Bio Force Ape (unknown) in 04:30.02 by RT-55J.
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- Genre: Action
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Bio Force Ape was a game developed by SETA set to be released in 1991 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. After SETA folded, a prototype cart was picked up by Lost Levels, who then released it to the public. In this prototype, you take control of a genetically altered super chimpanzee with pro wrestling-style moves and guide him through a hi-tech maze to rescue his adopted family. Why wasn't this released again?

In this run, the author, RT-55J, tries to complete the game in the fastest in-game time. To do this, he uses many exploits that might have been removed if this game was actually released. For more details, as always, please see the author's notes.


[Tier: Stars]NES Bionic Commando (USA) in 13:27.95 by Aglar.
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Bionic Commando (1988) is a platform game with a hero who can't jump, but he can quickly latch onto objects with his bionic arm. The original (Japanese) version of the game literally translates as The Resurrection of Hitler: Top Secret. Nintendo censored the Nazi references for the North American version.

Aglar's first contribution to Bionic Commando features inhumanly fast grappling and swinging. The run is an improvement of 17.33 seconds over the previous run due to a new trick.

For more swinging goodness, check out Bionic Commando for the Game Boy.


[Tier: Moons]NES Blaster Master (USA) "All Bosses" in 30:30.37 by BrotherMojo.
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Jason's pet frog escaped and got into some radioactive material underground. Naturally, there's a tank handy and Jason's first reaction is to go after his frog.

BrotherMojo improves the previous movie by 2:43.86 using better routes and more glitches. More information in Submission notes


[Tier: Vault]NES BreakThru (USA) in 06:37.13 by dave_dfwm.
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BreakThru is a short, fast-paced game developed by Data East. It was released to arcades in 1986 and later ported to a few home consoles. You are the driver of a blue dune buggy, and your mission is to recover a stolen fighter plane, which lies behind 5 enemy lines that you must "break thru".

Dave_dfwm strikes fear into the hearts of his enemies by tearing across the landscape and shooting everything in his path.


[Tier: Moons]NES Captain America and the Avengers (USA) in 14:27.72 by 韩晖 (aka. 西坡 (xipo)).
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Captain America and the Avengers is a game developed and released by Data East in 1991. It features the Marvel Comics characters The Avengers in a side-scrolling action platform to defeat the evil Red Skull.

In this run, Xipo takes a full advantage of a forward slide and all types of Captain's shield attacks, he even swims on the acid in it! Though he ignores the power-up system, because collecting the poles he would lose more time than could be gained by more powerful attacks.


[Tier: Moons]NES Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (JPN) "Sypha path" in 27:50.57 by Samhain-Grim.
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Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (originally known as 悪魔城伝説 or Akumajō Densetsu, meaning "Legend of the Demon Castle") is the story of Trevor Belmont's battle against Dracula from the times before Simon's battle in Castlevania. In this complex and difficult game, there are three playable allies whom Trevor can recruit: Alucard (Dracula's son), Grant DaNasty (a pirate captain), and Sypha Belnades (a mystic warlord).

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

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


[Tier: Moons]NES Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (JPN) "Grant path" in 28:35.19 by scrimpeh.
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Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (originally known as 悪魔城伝説 or Akumajō Densetsu, meaning "Legend of the Demon Castle") is the story of Trevor Belmont's battle against Dracula from the times before Simon's battle in Castlevania. In this complex and difficult game, there are three playable allies whom Trevor can recruit: Alucard (Dracula's son), Grant DaNasty (a pirate captain), and Sypha Belnades (a mystic warlord).

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

This movie takes the path that recruits Grant. It is about 22 seconds faster than the previous version. Improvements come from more optimization, better heart management, and new tricks like manipulating moving platforms and entering walls. There is also a Sypha path movie and an Alucard path movie.


[Tier: Moons]NES Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (JPN) "Alucard path" in 25:17.73 by Samhain-Grim.
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Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (originally known as 悪魔城伝説 or Akumajō Densetsu, meaning "Legend of the Demon Castle") is the story of Trevor Belmont's battle against Dracula from the times before Simon's battle in Castlevania. In this complex and difficult game, there are three playable allies whom Trevor can recruit: Alucard (Dracula's son), Grant DaNasty (a pirate captain), and Sypha Belnades (a mystic warlord).

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

This movie takes the path that recruits Alucard. It is about 39 seconds faster than the previous movie, played by Genisto. There's also a Grant path movie and a Sypha path movie.


[Tier: Moons][Notable improvement][Has commentary]NES Crystalis (USA) in 40:40.43 by TheAxeMan.
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Crystalis is an awesome action rpg by SNK. What little plot there is involves the world ending on October 1, 1997. Naturally, after that the world became full of mutants and monsters. Technology regresses and people can use magic. There is an evil empire trying to revive the ancient technology, specifically the obligatory tower floating in the sky. The hero pops out of some sort of stasis chamber and proceeds to topple the empire and take down the tower with the help of some wise men and a friendly dolphin. There's a heroine named Mesia, but she only shows up a few times, most of which are skipped in this run.

This beats the previous run by almost 12 minutes. As with that run, the second-controller cheats are off-limits (the fm2 only has data for controller 1). Other than that, no holds are barred. Many new glitches are used. For a complete list, see the game resources page. Movement is faster by abusing the no-subpixel engine. Much effort went into lag reduction, especially in certain areas. However, the vast majority of the time savings is due to better experience management.


We recommend watching the movie on an emulator and using the author's LUA script. There's quite a bit of useful information.

[Tier: Vault]NES Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine (USA) in 04:46.47 by Randil.
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Cybernoid is considered extremely difficult to beat. You can only take one hit before you die, and you have only nine lives.

In this run, Randil makes use of all given weapons to save time. The run has no music, because sound effects were chosen by default instead.


[Tier: Vault]NES Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum (USA) in 06:37.33 by CtrlAltDestroy.
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Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum was a game developed by Beam Software and published by Data East in 1990. Your objective is to guide the spaceman Dash Galaxy to the top of the alien rocket he has been imprisoned in, where an escape pod leads to his freedom.

The author, CtrlAltDestroy, skips most of the puzzle rooms and gathers only the required items from the platforming stages in order to complete the game as fast as possible.


[Tier: Vault]NES Deadly Towers (USA) in 15:20.27 by Luke.
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Deadly Towers is an annoying enough game to play, let alone make a TAS of, but the author manages a final time almost 3.5 minutes faster than the previous version. This improvement is mainly from buying orange scrolls, which are used to teleport from the top of each tower back down to the Holy Flame. Check the author's comments for more detailed information.

This game suffers from sprite overload very frequently.


[Tier: Vault]NES Donkey Kong 3 in 00:56.54 by MESHUGGAH.
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In the third installment in the Donkey Kong series, Stanley the bugman discovers Donkey Kong in his greenhouse, releasing insects that are attacking his precious flowers. To save his flowers, Stanley aims to stop the ape by blasting him away with a bug spray can.

In this movie, MESHUGGAH saves time by dying on a very specific frame to skip the score countdown on the first level.


[Tier: Vault]NES Double Dare (USA) in 06:26.48 by goofydylan8.
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Double Dare is closely based on an old Nickelodeon children's game show. To win, each team must answer a few of the trivia questions before time runs out. If the team answering thinks the other team might not know the answer, they can "dare" the other team to answer the question for double the points. However, the other team has the option to "double dare" them right back for a chance to win quadruple the points. The winning team gets to race through the Double Dare obstacle course, which features obstacles like the 1-Ton Human Hamster Wheel and a tank of Nickelodeon's iconic green slime.

Thanks to tools and the low difficulty of the questions, the author, goofydylan8, doesn't have to dare the other team even once to win.


[Tier: Vault]NES Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (USA) in 18:04.85 by Warp.
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Based loosely on the novel with a similar name, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is about a guy with two forms, one with a guy being attacked by everything just for walking to his wedding, and one with a guy in a mirror world killing demons. Switching between worlds is a matter of taking too many hits (to go to the demon world), or killing demons (to go back to the normal world). The guy in the normal world must advance further than his doppelgänger in order to survive.

By taking almost no damage in this run, the demon world is never seen. This is practically impossible to do outside of a TAS. By doing so, the game even exhibits glitches that speed up the game.


[Tier: Vault]NES Dragon's Lair (JPN) in 03:52.55 by MESHUGGAH.
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Dragon's Lair is much better known in its incarnations for other platforms as an FMV game with only slight amounts of control over the player's action. The NES version is more of a traditional platformer, but very smooth animation for the era and funny-looking characters inspired by the cartoon graphics of the other versions - this includes the final boss, who isn't seen very much in this run thanks to abuse of the game mechanics.

This is an improvement of around a second to the previous run.


[Tier: Vault]NES Elevator Action (USA) in 06:57.46 by Brushy.
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A rather simple, unique classic game.

The hero of this game is a spy/agent who raids buildings infested with men in black. He collects important documents from various apartments/closets (which, for the sake of simplicity, are colored indicatively), and then leaves by his car to the next raid.

After raiding the last building, he goes to raid the same buildings once again, ad infinitum.

Even a small game like this isn't free of bugs. The unsafe elevators of this game offer a few maneuvers that should not be attempted in real life.

Four levels were played.

This is an improvement of just over a minute over the previously published run.


[Tier: Moons]NES Friday the 13th (USA) in 03:00.69 by jlun2.
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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.

[Tier: Vault]NES Front Line (JPN) in 02:38.97 by was0x.
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Front Line is a military combat-themed game ported from the arcade. The objective is to fight off infantry units and tanks until you reach the enemies compound. was0x completes the first iteration of this game in 2:39.23, though the game repeats this stage forever upon completion.

[Tier: Vault]NES G.I. Joe: The Atlantis Factor (USA) in 07:40.36 by C0DE RED.
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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.


[Tier: Vault]NES Gauntlet (USA) in 12:24.65 by foda.
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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.


[Tier: Vault]NES Ghosts 'n Goblins (USA) in 08:23.13 by Arc.
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Ghosts 'n Goblins (1986) begins with a normal scene: a half-naked knight is on a date in a graveyard with a princess. Suddenly, a demon appears and abducts the princess! The knight quickly suits up and makes rapid progres (sic) through the demon world in an attempt to rescue his royal girlfriend.

Arc is a veteran when it comes to making TASes of Ghosts 'n Goblins. This TAS is his ninth version, and it is 15.083 seconds faster than the previous version by Guanobowl. There is a vast amount of luck manipulation throughout the game, and there are multiple instances of the rare 'boost from enemy damage' trick.

Note: The previous movie ran through the game twice (after the first completion, the game does not show the real ending). This movie only runs through once, hence the much shorter overall time. The actual first-quest time difference is 15.083 seconds.

In Japanese, this game is known as 魔界村 (Makaimura or "Demon World Village").


[Tier: Vault]NES Ghoul School (USA) in 04:02.73 by Andrewg.
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Ghoul School is a game where a multi-talented teen named Spike O'Hara fights through a horde of various ghouls with the talent of MacGuyver, needing only a towel, shoes, springs, and embalming fluid.

Normally, this game would require getting many more items, but due to heavy glitching, most of the items are skipped and the game is completed in a mere four minutes. This is an improvement over the previous run by 7 seconds.


[Tier: Vault]NES Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode (USA) in 44:40.04 by dave_dfwm.
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Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode is a game based on a popular Japanese manga. You control Golgo 13, an assassin who is ordered to take out the leader of the DREK Empire. The game features four different gameplay modes: action, flying, 360 degree shooting and 3D maze.

The author, dave_dfwm, speeds through this little-known game in less than 45 minutes.


[Tier: Moons]NES Hi no Tori: Gaou no Bouken (JPN) in 14:16.73 by AnS.
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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.


[Tier: Vault]NES Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (USA) in 07:07.16 by jlun2.
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A weird game, very loosely based on the second movie of the Home Alone movie series. Features, among other things, Kevin McCallister dodging brooms and suitcases, obtaining the Screw Attack from Metroid, and, of course, fending off those two crooks that are going after him.

[Tier: Vault]NES Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (USA) in 02:57.56 by MESHUGGAH & Randil.
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade lent itself to two well-known video game adaptations - an adventure game and a straight-up action game. This game, made by Taito, is neither of those two; it is comprised of several short smaller games with varying genres.

[Tier: Vault]NES Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu (USA) in 16:36.17 by Baxter.
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Jackie Chan is not a particularly impressive game, except for its music, which is relaxing to listen to.

Jackie Chan has been played a few times on this site. Three times by Arc, once by Dan and now once by Baxter. Every submission was faster than the preceding one, and this movie is not an exception.

This movie is 27.5 seconds faster than the previous version by Dan, and also takes 100% less hits than the previous version. In other words, no damage was taken.

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


[Tier: Moons][Has commentary]NES James Bond Jr. (USA) in 18:29.84 by feos.
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James Bond Jr. is a 1991 video game developed by Eurocom for NES. The world’s greatest scientists have disappeared and now it’s up to James Bond Jr. to rescue them! Intelligence reports indicates that your old enemy SCUM Lord has imprisoned them on his island fortress in the Caribbean. You head out on four dangerous missions to save the scientists and thwart SCUM Lord’s plans!

In this game version, feos uses all available items to speed up, managing their amounts very precisely, takes damage boosts to cross gaps and reach tops, ignoring normal elevators, and abuses the hell out of his lifebar. James Jr. is a brave Bond!


This movie also features the new .FM3 format, that is supposed to be watched in TASEditor, because it contains detailed comments on every tiny run trait. You can play around with branches included in the movie as well. See the submission explanation on how to handle all that.

[Tier: Moons]NES Journey to Silius (USA) in 09:29.71 by jlun2 & klmz.
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A fast-paced action platformer from Sunsoft with similarities to both Megaman and Blaster Master. What could go wrong with a mix like that!

This submission shaves a cool 1.38 seconds of input time over the previously published run. (The actual time improvement is slightly greater because this movie plays at a slightly higher framerate than the published movie does; this difference does not cause any changes in gameplay, though.)


[Tier: Vault]NES Jurassic Park - The Lost World (unknown) in 00:50.85 by MESHUGGAH.
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One more proof unlicensed games (pirate ports?) can be not just originally broken, but become even more so after being TASed. And one more scalp in MESHUGGAH's vault.

[Tier: Moons]NES Kid Dracula (JPN) in 19:49.12 by adelikat, Randil, arukAdo, DarkKobold.
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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.


[Tier: Moons]NES Kid Icarus (USA/Europe) in 22:17.38 by Randil.
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Here's an improvement to the run of this famous game. A total of 24.85 seconds was saved.

The improvement comes from a pause trick to manipulate the speed of platforms, buying a health drink in level 2-4, additional damage boosting, and more.

See the author's comments for details.

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[Tier: Moons]NES King Kong 2: Ikari no Megaton Punch (JPN) in 03:04.13 by Hisatoki.
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King Kong is out to rescue his girl from a fortress that is impenetrable without eight keys from other fortresses. Luckily, that turned out to be false once tools were added to the mix.

Although this is the first King Kong 2 TAS movie on this site, the hero of this game was already featured once, in a Wai Wai World TAS.


[Tier: Vault]NES Little Mermaid (USA) in 06:48.4 by AnS.
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The Little Mermaid is a simple game based on the movie of the same name. You control the mermaid Ariel as she swims through several stages and beats up bosses by tossing fish encapsulated in bubbles.

Normally, shooting bubbles stops Ariel, so a speedrun would try to avoid all the enemies. However, the author manages to fire shots with little movement delay thanks to a glitch involving turning around. Luck manipulation is also used to beat the bosses quite quickly. For more details, see the submission comments.

This run, AnS's first published movie here, improves the previous version by 51 seconds.


[Tier: Moons]NES Low G Man (USA) in 10:30.93 by goofydylan8.
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Low G Man is a futuristic action video game developed by KID for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

The game is really difficult to run: the controls are at times clunky, the screen refresh is frustrating and finally the last boss is an example of a difficulty spike as it suddenly becomes much harder than the rest of the game.

The author manages to complete the game in just 10 minutes, beating the real-time speedrun by 5 minutes. Read the author's comments for more information.


[Tier: Vault]NES Mad Max (USA) in 13:08.53 by Twisted Eye.
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Mad Max is based on the 1981 Australian film Mad Max 2. The object of the game is to survive life after the end of the world by battling survivalists and collecting valuable food, water, gasoline, and money. There are three nonlinear stages, referred to as Road Wars, and each one ends in an Arena where the goal is to demolish every car and be the last one standing.

Twisted Eye blazes through this game, utilizing precision and a few glitches to get to the end in a little more than 13 minutes.


[Tier: Stars][Notable improvement]NES Mega Man (JPN) in 12:23.34 by Shinryuu & FinalFighter.
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- Corrupts memory
- Heavy luck manipulation
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
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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?


[Tier: Stars][Recommended for newcomers]NES Mega Man 2 (JPN) in 23:48.51 by aglasscage, FinalFighter, pirohiko, & Shinryuu.
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- Uses hardest difficulty
- Genre: Action
- 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 is an improvement of 6.24 seconds over the previous run through a variety of small tweaks.

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


[Tier: Moons]NES Mega Man 3, 4, 5 & 6 (USA) in 39:06.92 by Baxter & AngerFist.
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
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The games Mega Man 3, 4, 5 and 6 are all the same. Eight robot masters are defeated and Mega Man steals their weapons. After some kind of distraction, Mega Man attacks Wily's fortress and it typically gets blown up. If you don't believe that's true, we offer this movie.

While driving home the point in honour of our first multi-game movie, Baxter and AngerFist prove that Capcom really has been making the same game over and over again by playing Mega Man 3, 4, 5 and 6 using the same input.

No attempt is made to synchronize the endings of these games. Mega Man 6 finishes first and Mega Man 4 finishes last.

The CPU demands for playback of this movie are unusually high. Systems under 1.2 GHz may struggle to play this video. The audio has been processed by adelikat for virtual surround sound.

We recommend sitting back as far as possible and looking (staring?) at the center of the screen when watching the AVI.

If you like this movie, you may like to check out other movies in which multiple games are played simultaneously with one controller.


[Tier: Moons]NES Mega Man 4 (USA) in 34:00.02 by GlitchMan.
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This is the sixth published movie of Mega Man 4 (USAのロックマン4), played for the first time by GlitchMan.

There are improvements in all of the stages, some more visible than others. The total amount of time saved is 34.36 seconds, achieved by being more accurate and using some cool glitches.


[Tier: Stars][Notable improvement]NES Mega Man 5 (USA) in 31:41.68 by GlitchMan.
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This is Mega Man 5 (USAのロックマン5) played by GlitchMan, in an improvement of 1 minute and 22 seconds over the previous run. Improvements include several new glitches involving the Super Arrow and new strategies for two of the boss fights.

Reading the submission text is recommended for details on the glitches.


[Tier: Moons]NES Mega Man 6 (USA) in 30:46.78 by Shinryuu.
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Mega Man 6 (USAのロックマン6) sees everyone's favorite blue robot ruin Dr. Wily's plot for world domination for the sixth time.

In this improvement, Shinryuu manages to save 7.55 seconds compared to his previous version by doing a complete run overhaul, utilizing the discovery of new glitches to hasten Mega Man's movement and firing capabilities, a route change, and heavy subpixel optimization.


[Tier: Vault]NES Mendel Palace (USA) in 19:02.97 by DarkKobold.
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Mendel Palace is an action-puzzle game. When playing in real-time, it becomes more action than puzzle, and when TASing, it becomes more puzzle than action. The idea is to shove your opponents into the walls of the arena by flipping over ground tiles. This is harder than it looks, since the enemies often approach in swarms and can kill you with one touch.

Flipping can also reveal some other tile types. For instance, the sun tile flips over everything else, which often cleans up the arena in a hurry. However, there are also extra enemy spawn areas that can be uncovered, especially in the last levels. For more details, see the run's submission comments.

DarkKobold beats the game in just over 19 minutes by using 2 players at the same time.


[Tier: Moons]NES Metal Gear (USA) in 22:27.58 by dunnius.
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Metal Gear!? It can't be!

This is the NES port of the first entry in the ever-popular Metal Gear series of stealth video games created by Hideo Kojima and developed and published by Konami; there are significant differences between it and the original MSX version. It is infamous for its engrish, containing such ever-popular phrases as "I FEEL ASLEEP!" and "UH - OH! THE TRUCK HAVE STARTED TO MOVE!".

This movie utilizes quite a wide variety of game glitches and collects the minimal set of items needed to complete the game.

This movie is a 8.35 second improvement, due primarily to a route change in the beginning and from lag reduction.


[Tier: Moons]NES Metroid (USA PRG0) "low%" in 11:08.78 by Lord Tom.
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- Genre: Adventure
- Genre: Platform
Metroid completed using just one item: the morphing ball.

Uses a game restart sequence (Up+A on second controller) to save time in backtracking.

This is an improvement of 36.7 seconds over the previously published run, thanks to a new route and general optimisation.

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.


[Tier: Moons]NES New Ghostbusters II (Europe) in 17:45.59 by Zus.
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The New Ghostbusters II is a much different game than the USA edition, even though they are based on the same movie. The European version, shown here, takes a Blaster Master-esque approach to the gameplay with a top-down view.

Zus has spent a lot of his time making sure enemies are in highly ideal places, which in turn means that a lot of re-records were spent comparing and working out the best possible route. As a result, Zus saved over 11 seconds from his previous version.


[Tier: Moons]NES Ninja Gaiden (USA) in 10:52.68 by Scumtron.
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Ninja Gaiden involves an ultra superior ninja, capable of defying the laws of physics by climbing through walls, making dogs explode with his sword, and all while beating bad guys in record time.

This run is about 10 seconds faster than the prior submission due to the ninja thinking more like a ninja.


[Tier: Stars]NES Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos (USA) in 09:14.32 by Scumtron.
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NINJA外伝2 — The Dark Sword of Chaos, now completed about 4 seconds faster than the previous version by the same author, due to lots of small optimizations throughout every level.

The shadow clones are a unique gameplay element not seen elsewhere in the series, but in this movie they are used mainly to make extremely short work of bosses and entertain the viewer immediately afterwards.

The game has a rich plot with lots of cutscenes. Because of this, the author has also supplied the "story" version of the movie, which exhibits the same gameplay but includes all the cutscenes skipped by pressing start (which sum up to about 3/4 of the entire movie). It can be obtained here.
A good sense of humor is strongly advised to note the irony present in some of the later dialogues between characters.


[Tier: Moons]NES Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom (USA) in 11:11.93 by Scumtron.
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The least-subtle ninja in history is back for a third entry in one of the hardest video game series ever.

Scumtron improves upon TheAxeMan's previous movie by over 18 seconds by using Up+A to cancel attack animations, subpixel optimization and faster wall climbing, among other small optimizations.


[Tier: Vault][Notable improvement]NES North & South (USA) in 01:10.93 by MESHUGGAH.
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- Genre: Strategy
North & South is a humorous, cartoony kind of game about an incredibly bloody war. In it, you move army units around on a board until you approach your opponent, at which point a battle occurs.

MESHUGGAH improves the previous run by 9.09 seconds at a higher difficulty level by choosing south and manipulating luck better.


[Tier: Vault]NES Pinball Quest (USA) in 03:39.52 by Aqfaq.
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This game features a classic save-the-princess plot... in the form of a pinball game.

This run saves 29.36 seconds over its predecessor (accounting for a frame rate difference) due to improved strategies and increased precision.

If you like pinball games featuring characters as the ball, also check out Sonic Spinball or Mario Pinball Land.


[Tier: Vault]NES Platoon (USA PRG1) in 08:26.28 by chupapi.
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A game based on movie of the same name.

Some of the maps are mazes, which can be cleared fairly fast if one knows where one is going.


[Tier: Vault]NES Popeye (USA) in 03:30.9 by MESHUGGAH.
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Popeye is an arcade video game developed by Nintendo, designed by Shigeru Miyamoto. In it, Popeye must dodge Bluto and his infinite stack of beer bottles, and other threats that come in his way such as skulls and vultures - while collecting a number of hearts, music notes or letters spelling "HELP" from Olive Oyl.

In this tool-assisted speedrun, MESHUGGAH plays through one loop (three stages), while aiming to get as high a score as possible.


[Tier: Moons]NES Power Blade (USA) in 16:25.63 by Aglar.
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Power Blade is an underdog title by the folks at Taito, highly reminiscent of the Megaman series. It also features a hero who looks a lot like Arnold Schwarzenegger. This is one of those obscure games that you may wish you had played as a kid.

In this updated run Aglar decimates the previous version by 45 seconds thanks to improved frame precision in what was once a highly contested game, now revived.


[Tier: Vault]NES Rambo (USA) in 18:38.59 by dave_dfwm.
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- Forgoes time-saving damage
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Rambo is a game exactly based on the film Rambo: First Blood Part II, in which you kill wasps and snakes and then robots that shoot fireballs. Mostly using a knife, the author, dave_dfwm, completes the game in 18:40.43.

[Tier: Vault]NES RoboCop 3 (USA) in 05:09.82 by dragonxyk.
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Based off the movie of the same name, Robocop 3 is a game where you play as a cyborg while killing thugs. In this run, Robocop walks slowly, but has insane shooting skills.

[Tier: Moons]NES Rockman 4 Minus Infinity (v0.01) in 38:52.78 by tianwodeai.
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Rockman 4 Minus Infinity is probably the most extensive Mega Man 4 hack in existence, and probably one of the most extensive hacks of any game in existence.

The hack features heavily reworked weapons, brand new weapons, new items, all-new boss patterns, and brand new stages with new music and entirely new gimmicks. All kinds of obstacles, enemies, bosses and minibosses have been taken from other games from the series, including the Game Boy series and even the SNES and PSX games in the series. It must all be seen to be believed.

In this run, tianwodeai blasts through this game, utilizing the new tools to blaze through the stages and obliterate the many bosses as quickly as possible.


[Tier: Moons]NES Rockman no Constancy (JPN) "hard" in 28:59.07 by woabclf.
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This popular hack for Rockman 2 contains a wide variety of new bosses, weapons, levels, graphics, and music, going far beyond the capabilities of the original game.

Two versions of this hack exist - "normal" mode and "hard" mode, with the primary difference being no mercy invincibility on hard mode.

This run uses hard mode. The normal run is obsoleted despite being around 2 minutes faster due to playing on hard.


[Tier: Vault]NES Rocman X (Thunder Blaster Man) (unknown) in 13:22.48 by FractalFusion.
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Rocman X is an original game created by the Taiwanese company Sachen, the most profilic unlicensed developer for the NES/Famicom. Despite the name and pirated title screen, this game has almost nothing to do with Mega Man.

The game takes place in Thunder Blaster Man's home of Gadem City. The mayor is in the middle of throwing a big party for the city's centennial when a mysterious figure crashes the party and kidnaps the mayor's daughter, Miss Lucy. The kidnapper turns out to be the leader of an evil crime syndicate who demands a large ransom for her safe return. Now it's up to the eponymous hero to save Miss Lucy and bring the syndicate to justice!

In this run, FractalFusion jumps and flies through all four levels of this odd platformer and saves Miss Lucy in just under thirteen and a half minutes.


[Tier: Moons]NES Rod Land (Europe) in 07:49.39 by MESHUGGAH.
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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...

[Tier: Vault]NES Rush'n Attack (USA) in 09:35.9 by Randil.
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In this game, two jovial brightly-colored soliders infiltrate enemy forces. Everyone here runs around menacingly, and bullets are a bit slower than a housecat.

This movie is about a 2 second improvement to the previous version.

Note: The name of this game is Rush’n Attack. The 'n does not stand alone as a contraction of and, unlike Ghosts ’n Goblins. Given the theme of the game, the pun on “Russian Attack” is quite obvious.


[Tier: Moons]NES Shadow of the Ninja (JPN) in 09:48.32 by klmz.
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In the year 2029, evil Emperor Garuda somehow establishes a dictatorial government in the United States. After many lives are lost, two ninjas attempt to overthrow him.

Shadow of the Ninja is one of the rare games in which constantly jumping and slashing is faster than regular running. The author makes sure to use this move extensively both to travel and to deal damage to enemies, and so it may seem that the ninja has a severe case of ADHD.

This game was released in Europe as Blue Shadow and in Japan as Kage.

Note: the previous movie was erroneously played on the European PAL version in NTSC mode, making the game run too fast. Its actual completion time was 11:15, making this movie 1 minute and 26 seconds faster.


[Tier: Moons]NES Shatterhand (USA) in 17:43.23 by Cardboard.
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Shatterhand is a bit like Batman. However, Shatterhand is longer, has no walljumps, and is a lot laggier. On the other hand, in this game, the main character can buy a powerup to give him a cool brown vest, doubling his punching power, and this vest lasts until the player takes damage three times (it even lasts between stages).

This movie by Cardboard is about 24 seconds faster than the previous version by JXQ, largely due to decreased lag.


[Tier: Vault]NES Silver Surfer (USA) "Pacifist" in 29:45.41 by Skaad & HardCoreMangeur.
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- Pacifist version
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Shooter
Silver Surfer is a shoot 'em up released in 1990. In this game, you control the Silver Surfer through various levels that alternate between a side-scrolling and an overhead perspective.

This game is famous for its legendary difficulty, due to the fact that the Silver Surfer has an enormous hitbox and can only take one hit, and there are many enemies cluttering each of the levels. The two authors make it through killing the least amount of enemies possible, however. Also listen for the nice music by Follin brothers!


[Tier: Vault]NES Snake's Revenge (USA) in 31:39.92 by Dammit.
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In a not-so-canonical sequel to Metal Gear, Solid Snake returns with a newfound ability to stop his own bullets, take minor damage to avoid major damage and an interesting ability to use cans of tuna to replenish his breath while underwater.

For those interested, the author provides a lua script that allows you to view the HP of enemies, bomb timers and hostages rescued when using FCEUX.


[Tier: Vault]NES Snow Bros. (USA) "1 player" in 13:12.61 by asdfgary.
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This game is a little similar to Bubble Bobble. Players defeat hordes of enemies in fifty stages, only progressing when all enemies are gone. Enemies can either be turned into snowballs or can be killed by rolling a snowball on them. Unlike Bubble Bobble, though, there are boss fights every ten stages.

This is a one-player run through the game. TASVideos also has a two-player run through the game.


[Tier: Vault]NES Splatter House: Wanpaku Graffiti (JPN) in 16:56.97 by Diman.
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"Splatter House: Wanpaku Graffiti" looks like a parody of the other more serious Splatter House games. Armed with a big meat cleaver, you fight various bizarre creatures such as a purple woman's severed head, spiders bursting out of a woman's gut, and Synchronized Dancing Dracula and Zombies (tm).

This movie by Diman tries to do something interesting during the waiting times.


[Tier: Vault]NES Spy Vs Spy (USA) in 08:47.38 by Sir VG.
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Spy vs. Spy is a game based on the famous MAD cartoon of the same name. In it, the two spies each try to collect items and then leave the embassy by plane. This gives for some interesting route planning, and at one point the author even lets his spy die so as to get the quickest time possible.

[Tier: Moons]NES Star Wars (USA) in 07:53.35 by Aglar.
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This Star Wars game here is quite versatile. It features a sort of an overworld, optional items and quests, a lot of ordinary platformer action, some 1st person spaceship shooting and you even get to blow up the Death Star, yay! You can't see all of these in this movie, but it's very entertaining nevertheless. The game's plot is based on the first Star Wars movie (Episode 4), and some of the movie's awesome music can be heard in this game.

This over nearly two minutes of improvement over the previous movie thanks to optimized movement and a new shortcut.


[Tier: Moons]NES Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight (USA) in 17:39.98 by foda.
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Street Fighter 2010, completely unrelated to the fighting game series, is a unique game to say the least. The player must go through a series of levels, collecting enough powerups to warp from one to the next.

To progress as quickly as possible, proper planning of which enemies to target and what order to target them in is imperative. As this planning is evident here, this run by foda is all the more impressive. Even one who is not familiar with the game should find this run very beautiful and a lot of fun to watch.


[Tier: Moons]NES Super C (USA) "1P Pacifist" in 13:21.4 by Heidman.
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Super C completed as fast as possible, with an additional goal: do not kill enemies directly unless absolutely necessary to complete the game. Our bare-chested hero shows the ultimate display of pacifism by sacrificing his own life multiple times near the end against stationary enemies.

This awe inspiring TAS by Heidman has the hero dancing through densely packed screens of enemies and weapon fire, narrowly avoiding certain death again and again. Watch riveted in your seat, as you wonder how will he escape each new situation he gets into.


[Tier: Moons]NES Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (USA) in 16:26.89 by adelikat.
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- Genre: Platform
In this game you get to control all four turtles and draw use of their different abilities ― or, at least that was the intent, but Donatello has both better reach and damage than the others, so he is used more or less constantly. The game features a well-written in-game dialogue, such as “Here.” and “Oh!”

This is the fourth movie by adelikat which improves on the previous versions. Much improvement comes from better lag reduction and discovery of a new trick involving conveyor belts.


[Tier: Vault]NES Terminator 2: Judgment Day (USA) in 11:52.56 by goofydylan8.
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- 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.

[Tier: Vault]NES The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (USA) in 10:09.0 by Dan.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a platform game very loosely based on the classic American novel. Tom has fallen asleep in class and you must help him navigate through his dream and defeat dangerous monsters on his way to save Becky from Injun Joe.

The author, Dan_, beats this odd game in just over ten minutes.


[Tier: Vault][Has commentary]NES The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle (USA) in 40:50.61 by Brandon Evans.
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- 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.


[Tier: Vault][Has commentary]NES The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle (USA) "Special Levels" in 04:15.38 by Brandon Evans.
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- 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.


[Tier: Vault]NES The Legend of Kage (JPN) in 05:36.97 by Bisqwit.
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- Genre: Platform
Kage no Densetsu (影の伝説) is a story based in old Japan. The beautiful princess Kiri has been kidnapped by evil ninjas. Many samurai warriors were sent to rescue her. None ever returned. The player is Kage, a young ninja who goes to rescue the princess Kiri.

Speedrunwise, this game is all about luck manipulation. Like any good ninja game, it hides many secrets inside, and the player (Bisqwit) set out to discover every one of them that is important in making a TAS. A detailed story of those secrets can be found in the submission message, but in conclusion it lead into this 28-second speedup compared to the previous movie by Walker Boh.

The theme music of this game sounds a lot better if you imagine it being played on a Japanese koto, like this: http://bisqwit.iki.fi/music/misc/kage.mid


[Tier: Stars]NES The Legend of Zelda (USA PRG0) in 22:38.13 by Baxter & jprofit22.
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- Uses a game restart sequence
- Heavy glitch abuse
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Adventure
The Legend of Zelda (ゼルダの伝説) is an adventure game that needs no introduction to most NES players.

It is a large game that normally takes days to beat, but at TASVideos, we often reduce games to the minimum necessary in order to complete them.

This is the fifth The Legend of Zelda TAS at this site (not counting the alternate movies), and is ~85 seconds faster than the previous movie, largely due to better optimization and manipulation of item drops.


[Tier: Moons]NES The Legend of Zelda: Outlands (USA PRG0) in 18:54.9 by Baxter.
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- Uses a game restart sequence
- Heavy glitch abuse
- Unofficial game
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Adventure
In this The Legend of Zelda hack, Link must save Hyrule (again), reclaiming the Triforce of Power from Thunderbird. Baxter does it masterfully, exploiting glitches from the original game to get the job done quickly. This movie completes both quests.


If you'd like to see a movie of the original unhacked The Legend of Zelda, we have that too, as well as a movie of the second quest and swordless challenge.

[Tier: Moons]NES The Rocketeer (USA) in 13:55.66 by TheHepper.
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
The Rocketeer, based on a 1991 movie (itself based on a 1982 comic book series), tells the story of Cliff Secord, who dons a prototype jetpack to fight back against Nazi spies bent on stealing it.

There's surprisingly little jetpack use about present in this run, but there might as well be for the speed at which it rockets through the game.


[Tier: Moons]NES The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (USA) in 11:12.16 by goofydylan8.
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles is an action platformer named after the television show of the same name. In it, you will embark on an adventure across the globe showing the young life of the famous movie character. Along the way, you will fight some baddies and collect some treasure using motorcycles, aeroplanes, and of course, his iconic whip!

In this run, the author, goofydylan8, improves upon XTREMAL93's cancelled run by 34.88 seconds. This also improves XTREMAL93's improvement, which was worked on independently and submitted on the same day, by 15.68 seconds. See the author's notes for more details.


[Tier: Vault]NES Top Gun (USA) in 26:33.46 by TrenchAce.
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Top Gun is a game based on the movie of the same name. The NES version was developed by Konami in 1987, and they decided to make it a flight simulator from the view of the main character Maverick's airplane cockpit. There are four missions, and each has two parts: a flying mission where enemy planes, an enemy base, and finally a space shuttle must be shot down and a landing mission where the plane must be precisely landed on an aircraft carrier.

While it is very difficult in real-time play to land the plane successfully because of the precise speed and angle necessary, TrenchAce makes it look easy in this run. Have a watch if you've never made it to Level 2.


[Tier: Vault]NES Totally Rad (USA) in 12:07.57 by Bag of Magic Food.
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Totally Rad, also known as Magic John in Japan, regales the odd story of a boy who learns to use magic from a magician. Shady storyline aside, this movie displays many speedy techniques using the protagonist's magical transformations.

For a much more detailed and whimsical description of all that happens in this publication, Bag of Magic Food's submission text is not one to be missed.


[Tier: Moons]NES Total Recall (USA) in 05:02.0 by TwistedEye.
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- Genre: Action
This game is based on the movie of the same name, although some liberties are taken to give Arnold a chance to punch some hobos with boomerang tophats and go on an even more extended car chase than in the actual movie. There is also some terrible yet strangely hypnotic music. Although normally lag should be avoided as it can slow completion time down, in this case it was often abused to prevent enemies from spawning that could be troublesome.

[Tier: Vault]NES Trojan (USA) in 06:16.73 by adelikat.
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Of course, Nintendo games are generally hard games to play. That doesn't mean that they are hard games to play around with. In fact, this TAS makes it look easy, with the player character destroying an entire army with a single sword. Then again, aren't main characters usually intended to be all-powerful?

This is a 262 frame improvement over its predecessor.

Note: This movie was created using FCEUX 2.0.0, and desyncs at the second-last boss on any other FCEUX version. You can find FCEUX 2.0.0 here.


[Tier: Vault]NES Uncanny X-Men (USA) in 05:05.81 by goofydylan8.
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- Uses death to save time
- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Action
Another game based on X-Men comics.

In this movie, Nightcrawler walks through walls and mostly ignores bosses. The second player immediately suicides.


[Tier: Moons][Console-verified]NES Wizards & Warriors II: Ironsword (USA) in 08:28.73 by Scubed.
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The valiant knight Kuros, who has now grown eyeballs on the outside of his helmet, must again fight off the evil wizard Malkil. This task is accomplished mainly by finding an artifact in every level, giving it to a corresponding oversized animal to get into the level boss' lair, and promptly beating him up.

This run played on a real NES


[Tier: Moons]NES Wolverine (USA) in 08:10.94 by goofydylan8.
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Wolverine is an action-platformer starring the hero of the same name from the X-Men. In it, Wolverine finds himself stranded on an island full of obstacles, enemies, and hamburger power-ups. He must navigate through it all with his iconic claws to defeat his evil adversaries Magneto and, finally, Sabretooth.

In this run, the author, goofydylan8, goes "berzerk" through the game using careful health management, movement, and attacking. Please see the author's notes for more details.

Please also check out the run for Spider-Man/X-Men: Arcade's Revenge, which is a SNES game, also made by LJN, where Wolverine's gameplay was ported to the applicable levels.


[Tier: Vault]NES Wrath of the Black Manta (USA) in 10:17.22 by adelikat.
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- Genre: Platform
In this game you are supposed to hunt down an evil crime syndicate (so what else is new?) by freeing kids from blocks of ice, and capturing the red guys to get clues. Unfortunately the ninja didn't have time for that, he just walks past all baddies and kills the bosses.

The syndicate turns out to be selling drugs, but the Black Manta sets them straight: Drugs kill you think you're cool but you're not. Yeah!

This version is 20 seconds faster than the previous version by Walker Boh. We recommend reading the author's comments for this movie.

This game has a crazy main music theme.


[Tier: Moons]NES Zen: Intergalactic Ninja (USA) in 11:34.21 by feos.
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The Earth is endangered by global pollution! Zen, the environmentalist ninja of ECO-POWER, must save the Earth from the big defiler, Lord Contaminous. This game was one of the latest NES games from Konami and provides superior graphics and music, pushing the 8-bit console limitations.

This movie improves the previous run by 11.28 seconds.


[Tier: Moons]PCECD Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (JPN) "Maria version" in 24:21.75 by adelikat & arukAdo.
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
After having been resurrected by dark priest Shaft, Dracula set out to destroy Richter Belmont's home village and kidnap some of the important characters for him to rescue. One of them is Maria Renard, a 12-year-old vampire huntress who is used as the player character in the second half of the movie after getting freed by Richter.

Despite her prepubescent age, Maria is faster and stronger than Richter, and one can only guess how she managed to fall a victim to kidnappers in the first place. Unfortunately, all of her speed advantages become nullified by a lengthy cutscene following her release, making this TAS slightly longer than the Richter version.

This is a 2.5 second improvement to the previous movie.


[Tier: Moons]PCECD Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (JPN) in 23:17.78 by arukAdo.
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- Genre: Platform
Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (1993) is an important milestone in Castlevania series and a predecessor to the even more successful Symphony of the Night. This game was ported two years later to the SNES as Dracula X.

In this installment of a popular TV show, a miserable little pile of secrets known as Richter Belmont is once again called to have it at a savior mankind needs so ill. Armed with his trusty key and a question mark nicknamed 'Vampire Killer', he makes sure no candleholder remains standing in Dracula's castle. Eager to just get it over with, he plows through without as much as a slightest regard to his purple-haired girlfriend and some other people still imprisoned there. It seems what little time one has to spare in a TAS is best spent moonwalking and yelling at the screen, anyway.

A slower version of this run taking only the regular stages is available. Due to this movie being faster, that submission was cancelled, yet there are arguably more entertaining moments in the cancelled submission (the author recommends stage 4 in particular).


[Tier: Moons]PCECD Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (JPN) "100%" in 38:26.12 by adelikat & arukAdo.
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- 100% completion
- Best ending
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses a game restart sequence
- Uses a level password
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Contrary to the other Rondo of Blood TASes on the site, this one not only goes through the hurdles of saving three useless villagers from their prisons (with some of said prisons even resembling their regular habitats), but also plays through all the picturesque levels just to prove that Maria isn't really a suboptimal character. No videogame character fighting dark priests by stoning them to death with small white birds should ever be called suboptimal.

If you want to see a shorter run through the game, we suggest watching these: Richter any% in 23:18, Maria any% in 24:22.


[Tier: Vault]PCECD Kaze Kiri: Ninja Action (JPN) in 15:31.62 by arukAdo.
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- Uses easiest difficulty
- Genre: Action
In this obscure title for an obscure platform, our ninja hero must fight his way through a horde of enemy ninja who attack from every angle in order to rescue the girl.

Join arukAdo in this exciting adventure as he slices through his enemies and their defenses like a hot chainsaw through fresh butter (and beats up the girl too).

We also have an alternate version of this run which plays on hard difficulty. The only difference between difficulty levels is enemy hit points, which is normally grounds for playing on the easiest possible difficulty (to improve speed and entertainment).


[Tier: Moons]PCE Bonk's Revenge (USA) in 18:29.47 by FuzZerd.
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Bonk's Revenge is the second game in a popular PCE/Turbographx 16 platforming series. Thankfully despite the console's unpopularity some of the games in the series were ported elsewhere. Bonk is a caveman with a giant noggin he willingly uses as a weapon against his enemies. He can also break the laws of physics by using his enormous head as leverage to glide in midair.

This run by FuzZerd features all the trappings of a prehistoric blockbuster adventure, including fire breathing, jungle platforming, raging on huge dinosaurs before they know what hit them, and raw meat.


[Tier: Vault][Has commentary]PCE Dungeon Explorer (USA) "5 player" in 20:19.3 by DarkKobold.
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- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Action
- Genre: RPG
Dungeon Explorer is based off of Gauntlet, but adds a plot, bosses, magic spells and RPG elements. Notably, it also one-ups Gauntlet by allowing for five players.

The author races through the dungeons with all five players, making short work of bosses. The five characters were selected for their high starting agility, and include a fighter (blue), a warlock (purple), an elf (green), a bard (orange), and a thief (red).

Also, the only exit that matters is the last one used by a player, and the author uses this extensively to use the fastest character, the thief, to run when an earlier exit is available for the other characters to use.


A technical commentary with extra features by the author is available here.

[Tier: Vault]PCE Shockman (USA) in 21:50.11 by DarkKobold.
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- Genre: Platform
Doc, the creator of the two cyborgs Arnold and Sonya, has been kidnapped as a prelude to an alien invasion. It's up to the two of them to stop the invasion and rescue their creator.

The author uses an unconventional mode of transport in this run. A dual-player charge shot that is done incorrectly causes the players to be ricocheted around the screen. This provides a faster form of movement than walking, when aimed correctly!


[Tier: Vault]PCE The Legendary Axe (USA) in 13:49.72 by FuzZerd.
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- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Action
The Legendary Axe is about a man, his axe, an evil cult leader, and its human sacrifice. your goal in this game is to rescue your childhood friend Flare from the evil Jagu.

[Tier: Moons]PSX Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (USA) "Richter version" in 05:41.73 by pirate_sephiroth.
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- Second quest/Post game-completion
- Starts from a saved state or SRAM
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: RPG
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is the first installment of the Castlevania series on PSX, and was the very first PSX TAS to be published.

Follow the quest of Richter (playable after you beat the game once) and see how he glitches and speeds through the castle. If you like fast sliding, dashing, uppercutting, and using precipitation to defeat bosses, you'll love this run.

In order to see a "full" run of the game, see the Alucard version.


[Tier: Stars]PSX Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (USA) "newgame+" in 13:58.27 by arukAdo.
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- 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
Award - PSX TAS of 2011
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.


[Tier: Vault]PSX Disney's Hercules (USA) in 33:46.55 by Hoandjzj.
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- Uses hardest difficulty
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
The game is based on Disney's animated cartoon movie. You take control of Hercules, son of the god Zeus and a mortal woman, the strongest man in the world and the legendary hero in the Greek mythology. Your goal is to prove yourself worthy of being admitted to Mount Olympus, the residence of gods, and to become a god yourself. You must commit heroic deeds and overcome various obstacles to show your strength and courage. Hades, the overlord of the dead, is making it even more difficult for you by sending fearsome Titans to stop you.

[Tier: Vault]PSX Ehrgeiz - God Bless the Ring (USA) "Quest Mode, Hard" in 03:51.77 by sparky.
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: RPG
Ehrgeiz - God Bless the Ring is a game with two main modes. The first mode is a 3D fighting game, which is primarily known for including characters from Final Fantasy 7. The PlayStation-exclusive second mode, Quest Mode, is a dungeon-crawling RPG, where randomly generated floor layouts and dropped item probabilities make the game different every time you play.

This run plays through Quest Mode, using lots of luck manipulation to get very short floor layouts. (As a commenter noted in the discussion thread, the game may be more aptly called "God Bless the RNG".)


[Tier: Moons]PSX MediEvil (USA) in 43:32.35 by Torn338.
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- Takes damage to save time
- Heavy glitch abuse
- Heavy luck manipulation
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Puzzle
MediEvil tells the tale of one very deceased knight's quest to rid the land of undead legions and the wicked magician that created them. The gameplay is very reminiscent of the action-platformers of old, consisting largely of running around each stage whilst hacking up baddies. But there is also a good share of puzzles to be solved. The tale, speaking of, is of Sir Daniel Fortesque (the knight) and his battle against evil forces, and the magician who started it all, Zarok.

Sir Fortesque pulls out his own brand of trickery in order to plow through this game, warping around levels and outwitting fiendish puzzles in order to stop Zarok and his forces.


[Tier: Stars]PSX Mega Man 8 (USA) in 47:06.23 by FractalFusion.
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
The eighth entry in the Mega Man series is very similar to the preceding games, especially its direct predecessor (in light of being the second entry in the franchise released for the PSX, the first being a port of X3). Once again, Mega Man takes on eight Robot Masters and goes on to raid Wily's fortress as usual.

If you're here for the plot, though, you're missing the point - instead enjoy the impossibly fast action and nifty glitch abuse in this run of the longest presently-TASable game in the main series to date.

Note: The credits are missing due to an emulator glitch. For those who are interested in seeing the credits, check this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u0vav89bQ4 .


[Tier: Moons]PSX Mega Man X4 (USA) "X, 100%" in 39:45.0 by sparky.
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- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
X decided he's fed up of sitting in the shadow of Zero and shows him how it is done, collecting all items in the process.

X is so excited to be the star for once that he can't stop jumping for joy at the prospect. However, if you still want to get your Zero fix, you can check out the run which doesn't collect all items.


[Tier: Stars]PSX Mega Man X4 (USA) "Zero" in 36:30.1 by Bernka.
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- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
In the past in Mega Man X games, X used to do all the real fighting, while Zero said he was off to destroy power sources, and other such unverifiable tasks. Zero even had the audacity to tell X that one day he'll be as strong as Zero.

This time X lays back and relaxes while letting Zero go put his moneylightsaber where his mouth is. This leaves Zero to fight off an entire army, as well as Sigma. Zero does such a good job showing how incompetent X is, the series has been transformed for TASVideos to be a Zero series from here on out.

This submission saves 12.53 seconds over the previous publication primarily through precise optimization of boss battles.


[Tier: Moons]PSX Mega Man X5 (USA) "100%" in 54:33.68 by Bernka.
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- 100% completion
- Uses death to save time
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses hardest difficulty
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Unlike the other categories of this game, this run uses both X and Zero to collect as many items as possible. The change of characters and armors used make for an interesting run different than the other categories.

[Tier: Moons]PSX Mega Man X5 (USA) "X only" in 19:43.8 by Mothrayas.
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- Uses a suboptimal character
- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Sigma returns again and Earth is in great danger. Zero is off having a party all night, so Mega Man X steps in to do the job. Even if not as awesome as Zero, he still manages to do the job in less than 20 minutes while also getting the Ultimate Armor.

[Tier: Moons]PSX Mega Man X5 (USA) "All Stages" in 44:04.43 by Angerfist & Atma.
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
This is a TAS of Megaman X Zero 5 on XTREME difficulty, that completes all stages.

Watch it to learn on how to ignore backseat drivers, or find out why swords are superior to guns.

We also have a run which doesn't complete unnecessary stages.

12-20-09: The torrent was replaced with a newer version which fixes some sound issues in the previous encode.


[Tier: Moons][Notable improvement]PSX Mega Man X6 (USA) "All Stages" in 39:31.35 by Rolanmen1.
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- Takes damage to save time
- Uses hardest difficulty
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
X seeks to find the lost Maverick Hunter Zero, who has gone missing since X5. Of course, once found, Zero does most the dirty work, while X is practically nowhere to be found.

This run completes all stages, as opposed to the any% level run. You can see how nasty every level is on Xtreme difficulty. As always, Zero is much better suited to killing bosses than X. Zero also uses powerups which he wouldn't be able to use in an any% run.

Improvements from the previous movie comes from a new trick with X to skip totem poles in Ground Scaravich stage and a route change.

Note: There are encodes of higher resolution in the discussion thread.


[Tier: Moons][Notable improvement]PSX Metal Gear Solid (v1.0) "Big Boss" in 1:05:21.05 by theenglishman.
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- 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.


[Tier: Moons]PSX Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero (USA) in 28:50.6 by Thevlackdemonn2294.
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- 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 casts you in the shoes of Sub-Zero, and chronicles a series of events that occurred prior to Mortal Kombat 1.

In a storyline that is reminiscent of Looking Glass's Thief, the Lin Kuei assassin/thief is sent to steal an important document; this mission proves to be a test from a mysterious character (which turns out to be MK4's Quan Chi) and who charges you upon retrieval of this object to recover an ancient medallion of untold power. However once you retrieve the medallion, Quan Chi reveals that he actually tricked you, and the medallion is the key to awakening the demonic Shinnok (yup, the same baddie from MK4). You must now become a reluctant hero, as you pursue Quan Chi trough hell itself hoping you get to Shinnok before him.

Gameplay wise the game takes the Mortal Kombat familiar 2D fighting environment and turns it into a hybrid fighter/platformer game, where you must travel trough hazardous levels running and jumping around as well as fighting your way against both digitized and polygonal enemies. Sub-Zero's interface is the same as in every MK game, with the addition of a "use" and "turn around" buttons and additions such as an inventory, and a slight RPG twist in which you get exp. for defeating opponents, which translates into new techniques and moves to execute in the game.

Technically speaking this game represents the final evolutionary step in the MK's series 2D engines. New features include zooming, 3D lighting as well as 3D backgrounds and characters, etc.


[Tier: Moons]PSX Oddworld - Abe's Oddysee (USA v1.0) "maximum casualties" in 40:00.53 by Dooty.
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- Heavy glitch abuse
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Once a proud, spiritual people, Mudokons, have largely been reduced to slavery. Now, they are the disposable, abuseable workforce of the Glukkons.

This movie is just as odd as the world it features. Abe for no reason decides to play a baseness upon Glukkons and destroy all the labor force they have industriously collected. No matter it is his own mates who die. No concern he will be milled at the end as well. The only thing he has to say about it is "Oops". "Twisted creep".


[Tier: Moons][Notable improvement]PSX Oddworld - Abe's Oddysee (USA v1.0) in 27:01.62 by Dooty.
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- Heavy glitch abuse
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee details the adventures of Abe, a Mudokon, attempting to save his race from slavery and other horrible fates at the hands of the evil Glukkons.

This is the condensed version of a 100% run, in which only one (required) Mudokon is saved. This movie should be perfect for those who don't care about the well-being of the Mudokon race and just want to see some Oddworld parkour. Naturally, this run gets the bad ending.

This run is an improvement of 15:54.23 minutes over Dooty's previous Any% run! The improvement comes from new tricks, different strategies, fewer mistakes and the skipping of some stages.

The movie is slightly shorter than it should be due to emulation-related speedups during screen transitions. The gameplay itself is at mostly the correct speed.


[Tier: Vault][Has commentary]PSX Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (USA) in 1:07:25.52 by arukAdo.
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- Takes damage to save time
- Uses hardest difficulty
- Genre: Action
September 28th, daylight. The monsters have taken over the city. Somehow, you're still alive.

See Jill Valentine escape Raccoon City while hordes of zombie are out to get her.


[Tier: Moons]PSX Resident Evil: Director's Cut (USA) in 57:42.62 by arukAdo & Uroboros.
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- 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, since the cutscenes are not skippable. However, the gameplay part is done faster.


[Tier: Moons]PSX Salary Man Champ: Tatakau Salary Man (JPN) in 16:52.47 by Spikestuff.
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- Genre: Action
This obscure Japan-only Success title is a collection of button-mashing minigames parodying the life of a Japanese salary man (your average white-collar wage worker). If you're looking for weird Japanese humor, look no further than this run.

This is an improvement over the last run, using two players instead of one.

For a TAS of a related game, see the Bishi Bashi Special publication.


[Tier: Vault]PSX Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles (USA) in 46:31.18 by DarkKobold.
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- Uses death to save time
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses warps
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Jedi Power Battles is Star-Wars-meets-Double-Dragon with a ton of crazy platforming. The author uses Obi-wan to run through all of Star Wars Episode I, ignoring tons of battle droids and droidekas to get to the final confrontation with Darth Maul. Look for a tribute to SW:EP1 in the final battle!

Also, the author takes an intentional death to make Jar Jar Binks disappear at one point in the run. I'm sure everyone has wished they could die and make Jar Jar disappear, at least once.


[Tier: Vault]SegaCD Heart of the Alien (USA) in 05:19.03 by Aqfaq.
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This is a Sega CD sequel to Out of This World starring Buddy, an alien. The game takes place immediately after the original. Some scenes have graphic violence, so the TAS is not suitable for everyone.

[Tier: Moons]SegaCD Sonic CD (JPN/USA) in 17:27.65 by nitsuja.
Gens movie (.gmv) (date: 2008-08-30)
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- Heavy glitch abuse
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Sonic the Hedgehog CD was developed to showcase a new Genesis/Mega Drive peripheral, the Sega CD. Likewise, this movie is the first of its kind on TASVideos and showcases the newly updated Gens emulator that allows for making stable movies of Sega CD games.

The game is markedly different than other Sonic games; aside from "improved" graphics and sounds, each level has 2 to 4 alternate versions that correspond to different time periods. Sonic can move between them to affect the gameplay and ending.

This run is approximately 37 seconds faster than upthorn and nitsuja's previous run thanks to various optimization and minor route changes. For more information on the improvements, the BIOS files used and a run for the Japanese version of the game, please read the author's submission notes.

There are two video encode files, the first recorded with the Japanese region music and the second with the American region music.


[Tier: Moons]SegaCD The Terminator (USA) in 13:20.67 by adelikat & Cardboard.
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- Uses hardest difficulty
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Kyle Reese clearly had a difficult time trying to save Sarah Connor in the hit movie The Terminator. But when the Sega CD based tie-in's difficulty is set to Super!, you wonder just how the hell Kyle made it two steps before dying. It really makes you feel like Kyle must have felt in a hopeless future where everything can kill within a few seconds a few frames. You know that a game is too hard when even the TAS looks like it is struggling just to keep the character alive.

[Tier: Vault]SGB Castlevania Legends (USA/Europe) in 24:16.4 by Sir VG.
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- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Action
This Konami-"disowned" Castlevania title follows the earliest Belmont, Sonia, as she attempts to thwart Dracula for the first time. We also meet his son Alucard for the first time. This movie collects the 5 optional Belmont Treasures, which enables a secret ending after the credits with mysterious implications.

The author whips through the game, especially the bosses, taking advantage of an outrageous glitch that entirely skips the end of a level, plus the special "burning mode" (ok... blinking mode) that allows for faster movement and harder whip action.


Note: This movie requires either VBA rerecording v20 or v24.

[Tier: Moons]SGB Daffy Duck: The Marvin Missions (USA/Europe) in 01:58.07 by MUGG.
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- Takes damage to save time
- Uses warps
- Heavy glitch abuse
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
This game is about two bumbling idiots fighting over the fate of the earth. Daffy Duck, savior of mankind, and Marvin the Martian, hero of Mars. In this TAS, mugg assists Daffy Duck fight Marvin by traveling through the parrallel galaxy of glitch-on, cutting Marvin off before he can reach earth in only 1:58.06 minutes! If you want to see a glitch festival, this is the movie you're looking for!

If you're looking for more Duck Dodgers action, see our SNES run.


Mister Epic: Changed mirror + torrent file to replace the current encode for a fully compatible one.

[Tier: Vault]SMS Asterix (USA/Europe) in 26:20.57 by Johnnypoiro.
Bizhawk movie (.bkm) (date: 2013-01-17)
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Asterix on Master System is a platform game released in 1991 by Sega. To reach the end of a level, the player must first find the key to open the exit door. Sometimes, he will have to use some objects, mostly potions, to reach some places.

[Tier: Vault]SMS Kung Fu Kid (USA/Europe) in 07:59.55 by AngerFist.
Dega movie (.mmv) (date: 2012-11-19)
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Kung-Fu kid is another sidescrolling beat-em-up game, with story of a man going after a great evil that has awakened and is now terrorizing the land...

High jumps are the fastest method of motion, so prepare to see loads of those in this run.


[Tier: Moons]SMS Ninja Gaiden (USA/Europe) in 15:04.25 by adelikat.
Dega movie (.mmv) (date: 2008-02-18)
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
In this gaiden of a gaiden, Ryu Hayabusa saves the world from ultimate powers being unleashed. Doing so involves slow battles with sumo wrestlers and members of the Yakuza.

[Tier: Vault]SMS Rygar (JPN) in 13:01.13 by AngerFist.
Dega movie (.mmv) (date: 2012-11-19)
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- Genre: Action
Rygar is a side-scrolling game involving a hero with a shield as a weapon.

Unlike the NES version, this game is much more linear.

In this run, AngerFist dodges, bounces on or kills everything standing on his way.


[Tier: Vault]SMS Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap (USA/Europe) in 31:08.37 by AngerFist & OgreSlayeR.
Dega movie (.mmv) (date: 2008-02-18)
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