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![]() | GBA "glitched" Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (USA) in 05:21.58 by Cardboard (?). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 18 MB, length: 07:30) Download VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-08-11) Read author's comments in submission #2040 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #996 (05:21.93) Rating: 6.8 (12 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Is a demonstration - Takes no damage - Abuses programming errors in the game - Manipulates luck - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| 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. | ||
![]() | GBC "glitched" Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (USA v1.0) in 05:40.05 by Stefan Roger (aka. Chef Stef). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 11 MB, length: 10:16) Download VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-08-11) Read author's comments in submission #2031 Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (13 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Uses death as shortcut - Abuses programming errors in the game - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| In this movie, the author utilizes a warping glitch, along with through-the-wall glitches, to send Link directly to the final boss (after stealing powerful weapons from the shop, of course). The game, normally hours long, is beaten in a mere five minutes. There is a movie of this game that does not use the warp glitch. | ||
![]() | GBC Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (USA) in 1:09:49.93 by Stefan Roger (aka. Chef Stef). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 119 MB, length: 1:14:56) Download VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2007-05-19) Read author's comments in submission #1538 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #599 (1:14:25.65) Rating: 7.3 (22 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - No death - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Abuses programming errors in the game - Manipulates luck - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| After becoming the Hero of Hyrule, Link is sent off by Zelda to study to be a proper Elf. On the way, he gets shipwrecked on a mysterious island taken over by evil, which he then tries to free to make his way back home. In this movie Chef Stef takes a unique route through the game exploiting many glitches to completely skip parts of the game that you are normally required to play. If you like Zelda, and you like glitches, this is the movie to watch. This is movie is nearly 5 minutes faster that the author's previous movie. There were many improvements. We recommend reading the author's comments. We also have a movie of the Game Boy version (no DX), which skips a lot more of the game. | ||
![]() | GB Gargoyle's Quest (USA/Europe) in 24:56.6 by Matthias David (aka. MattyXB). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 35 MB, length: 28:51) Download VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2006-02-19) Read author's comments in submission #888 Discuss this movie Rating: 5.6 (17 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Takes damage to save time - Abuses programming errors in the game - Manipulates luck - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| This game is part of the Ghost n' Goblins series. In this installment you play as Firebrand, a hero for the bad guys. Although the game looks straightforward, it requires a lot of precision and a bit of luck manipulation to play it this well. This game is one of the first to have an overhead map and combine RPG-like elements with platform levels. | ||
![]() | GB Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (USA v1.0) in 03:49.28 by D. Dunbar (aka. Swordless Link). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 9 MB, length: 08:16) Download VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-06-11) Watch online (uk.youtube.com) Download from mirror site (www.archive.org) Read author's comments in submission #1980 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #822 (04:00.5) Rating: 7.1 (16 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Abuses programming errors in the game - Manipulates luck - No predefined saves - Genre: Action - 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. Swordless Link (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). The author improved the run by 11.22 seconds, which was mostly achieved by using a new route. If you liked this, be sure to also check out the Game Boy Color version (DX), which completes all the dungeons. | ||
![]() | N64 Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (USA) in 2:14:03.08 by I. Masterson (aka. Mukki). | |
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| Download Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2007-09-23) Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 403 MB, length: 2:23:13) Watch online (video.google.com) Watch online (www.youtube.com) Read author's comments in submission #1695 Discuss this movie Rating: 7.9 (39 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Uses death as shortcut - Takes damage to save time - Abuses programming errors in the game - Manipulates luck - No predefined saves - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| In the direct sequel to 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). According to the author, this TAS of the game is a result of 10 months hard work and many years of research into this game. The game is completed in three cycles: after each cycle, the time is reset to three days before a catastrophe that Link is trying to avert. NOTE: There are some graphical problems in this movie. In particular, a cutscene at 18:20 appears completely white although it should just be dreamshaded. It is a problem with the video plugin used to render this movie. | ||
![]() | N64 Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (USA v1.0) in 2:33:24.72 by J. Harden (aka. GuanoBowl). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 434 MB, length: 2:40:58) Download Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2006-08-08) Watch online (www.youtube.com) Read author's comments in submission #1140 Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (75 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Uses death as shortcut - Takes damage to save time - Abuses programming errors in the game - No predefined saves - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| In the revolutionary 3D debut for the Legend of Zelda series, Link must travel around the colourful land of Hyrule and awaken six Sages in order to save it from the evil Ganondorf. This movie uses a variety of sequence breaks and shortcuts to complete the game using a minimal number of inventory and quest items. Even the most experienced OoT players are sure to find surprise in what is skippable in this game. Also, JXQ has provided some interesting commentary on the movie. It might make the movie more entertaining. NOTE: There is a short delay in the game every time the pause menu is entered. The delay is a known bug in the emulation and can't be avoided. | ||
![]() | NES A Boy and His Blob (USA) in 01:57.95 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 3 MB, length: 03:20) Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-06-04) Read author's comments in submission #1561 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #851 (02:09.03) Rating: 6.3 (36 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Abuses programming errors in the game - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia (1989) is a popular, whimsical game in which a shapeshifting blob (named Blobert) from the planet Blobolonia teams up with an Earth boy to overcome obstacles on both planets and to defeat Blobolonia's evil emperor. This movie is ~11 seconds faster than the previous version by the same author, due to better control of the boy's acceleration. | ||
![]() | NES Atlantis No Nazo (JPN) in 02:40.4 by Nick Vatcher (aka. Vatchern). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 6 MB, length: 04:01) Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-01-26) Download from mirror site (www.archive.org) Read author's comments in submission #933 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #410 (02:40.5) Rating: 6.0 (30 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Uses warps - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Atlantis no Nazo is a game where an explorer is trying to save his friend and must find his way through a maze of rooms. In this case, levels. This is an improvement of only 6 frames (0.1 seconds) over the previous version by the same author. It's an optimized version of the fast walkthrough of the game originally devised by Morimoto. | ||
![]() | NES Battle of Olympus (USA) in 10:40.78 by Mário de Almeida Azevedo Junior (aka. FODA). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 19 MB, length: 12:52) Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-09-02) Read author's comments in submission #1175 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #292 (19:51.85) Rating: 7.2 (30 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Uses death as shortcut - Takes damage to save time - Abuses programming errors in the game - Manipulates luck - Uses no passwords - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
The Battle of Olympus (オリュンポスの戦い) is set in ancient Greece.
A mortal man named Orpheus receives help from the gods and nymphs in
his quest to save his lover Helene from Hades. People often compare
this game with Zelda 2 because of its similar gameplay.
This movie is 9:11 faster than Arc's version, mostly
because of the utilization of a gameplay-altering glitch: pressing
Left+Right simultaneously in order to make Orpheus move with almost
unlimited velocity growth. The trick is documented at Battle of Olympus Tricks.
The route used in this movie is decided by a few things the hero (Orpheus) must do:
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![]() | NES Blaster Master (USA) in 33:17.52 by Rich Golden (aka. Namflow). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 84 MB, length: 35:12) Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-06-27) Download from mirror site (www.archive.org) Read author's comments in submission #724 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #145 (34:10.52) Rating: 7.0 (34 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Uses death as shortcut - Takes damage to save time - Abuses programming errors in the game - Manipulates luck - Genre: Adventure | |
| 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. This game is considered to be very difficult to beat. | ||
![]() | NES Deadly Towers (USA) in 15:20.27 by Luke Gustafson (aka. Superninja). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 29 MB, length: 19:13) Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-03-17) Download from mirror site (www.archive.org) Read author's comments in submission #979 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #117 (18:45.7) Rating: 5.4 (21 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Uses death as shortcut - Genre: Adventure | |
| 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. | ||
![]() | NES Dragon Warrior (USA PRG1) in 18:10.47 by Jean-François Lapointe (aka. Acmlm). | |
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| Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-02-08) Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 23 MB, length: 20:25) Read author's comments in submission #967 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #440 (18:43.0) Rating: 6.9 (30 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Uses death as shortcut - Takes damage to save time - Manipulates luck - No predefined saves - Uses no passwords - Genre: Adventure - Genre: RPG | |
This is the fifth published movie of Dragon Warrior, a seemingly complex, but ultimately, fairly simple NES RPG. The character completes his quest at Level 7. There are several things about this movie that might seem odd if one is not aware of them beforehand:
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![]() | NES Eggerland (FDS) in 36:16.05 by Ryan Ferneau (aka. Bag of Magic Food). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 90 MB, length: 42:22) Download Famtasia movie (.fmv) (date: 2004-10-09) Read author's comments in submission #352 Discuss this movie Rating: 5.4 (16 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Uses death as shortcut - Uses warps - Abuses programming errors in the game - No predefined saves - Uses no passwords - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Eggerland is a predecessor of the NES Adventures of Lolo games, and in certain ways,
it has much more features than Adventures of Lolo 1. The author has explained the
game (and the movie) very well, so we recommend reading his comments. This movie abuses a couple of the game bugs in a surprising way. Note that this is a Famicom Disk System game. Read What is FDS for more information. | ||
![]() | NES Faxanadu (USA) in 23:23.68 by Thomas Seufert (aka. Lord Tom). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 38 MB, length: 24:12) Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-03-11) Read author's comments in submission #1877 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #269 (31:00.75) Rating: 6.6 (15 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Uses death as shortcut - Takes damage to save time - Abuses programming errors in the game - Manipulates luck - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| In comparison to the usual run-through platform games, this is one of the games that requires more planning to play efficiently. The game features an inventory and equipment and a spells system, all of which were rare to see in NES games when this game came out. This is the 3rd published version of the TAS, now over seven minutes faster than the previous version. The author has written comments describing all the planning and tricks that went into this movie. | ||
![]() | NES Gauntlet (USA) in 12:24.65 by Mário de Almeida Azevedo Junior (aka. FODA). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 21 MB, length: 14:04) Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-08-14) Watch online (video.google.com) Read author's comments in submission #771 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #371 (13:09.0) Rating: 6.5 (27 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Takes damage to save time - Abuses programming errors in the game - Plays at hardest level - Genre: Adventure | |
| Gauntlet is a Dungeons & Dragons simulator of sorts. You choose a class of Warrior, Valkyrie, Wizard or Elf to navigate the Gauntlet, collect treasure, slay wicked monsters, and save your beloved peasant hometown. Walkthroughs for this game estimate a completion time of several hours when playing normally. Here, we see the game completed in only 12 minutes! Usually clues have to be collected to discover the password to the last dungeon, but this is selected at the game's beginning, so the clues are unnecessary in a TAS. There is also some collision detection abuse and lots of luck manipulation. This updated version takes a better path, manipulates fights more, and abuses luck to get the password with shortest input time. There is a huge amount of secrets and hidden paths to take in this game. The author recommends the FAQ by melvinwang on GameFAQs, and would like to thank fuwafuwa and TurboC for their help with this video. | ||
![]() | NES Jaws (USA) in 03:36.48 by Andrés Delikat (aka. adelikat). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 7 MB, length: 05:10) Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-01-16) Read author's comments in submission #1413 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #274 (04:19.07) Rating: 5.2 (23 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Manipulates luck - Genre: Adventure | |
| Anyone up for some fishing? In this TAS of Jaws, the attack level is upgraded to 3, which is the minimum required to kill Jaws in a single encounter. 30,000 points are needed to get the mini-sub which has double attack power. Because of this, a regular encounter is substituted for a Jaws encounter, so that Jaws can be hit for more points. This movie is a 42.6 sec improvement over the previous one. | ||
![]() | NES Kid Icarus (USA/Europe) in 22:42.23 by Olli Uuskoski (aka. Kyrsimys). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 45 MB, length: 24:36) Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-06-26) Read author's comments in submission #1562 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #523 (23:55.68) Rating: 6.9 (19 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Takes damage to save time - Abuses programming errors in the game - Uses no passwords - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Here's an improvement to the run of this famous game. A total of 1:14 was saved -- the same amount the previous version saved over its predecessor. Most of the improvement comes from a trick that allows Pit to shoot arrows very rapidly and thus defeat bosses a lot faster. | ||
![]() | NES Legacy of the Wizard (USA) in 13:44.23 by Thomas Seufert (aka. Lord Tom). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 28 MB, length: 17:40) Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-09-30) Read author's comments in submission #1680 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #884 (17:21.83) Rating: 7.5 (16 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Takes damage to save time - Abuses programming errors in the game - Manipulates luck - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Legacy of the Wizard (1987), released in Japan as "ドラゴンスレイヤーIV Dragon Slayer IV: Drasle Family", is actually a part of Dragon Slayer series. This is a nonlinear platforming adventure game, in which you gain control over one member of the Drasle family to explore the vast dungeon filled with mind bending puzzles and obscure secrets. The goal of the game is to retrieve a powerful sword named Dragon Slayer, protected by four magical crowns, to kill an evil dragon trapped in the nearby labyrinth. Each member of the family has different abilities, and the portion of the labyrinth only he/she can go into to retrieve one of the crowns. However, this prerequisite was circumvented by the clever use of certain new glitches. According to the author, this movie employs a completely different route, better luck manipulation and some new tricks that result in a 3:38 faster movie than the previous version. Moral of this movie: Beware of short fat men, for they're surprisingly quick. | ||
![]() | NES "2nd quest" Legend of Zelda (USA,PRG0) in 29:15.9 by Richard U (aka. Sleepz). | |
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| Download Famtasia movie (.fmv) (date: 2004-05-14) Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 78 MB, length: 30:43) Download from mirror site (www.archive.org) Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (28 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Manipulates luck - Second quest - Uses a level password - Genre: Adventure - Genre: RPG | |
| The second quest of Zelda is what you get by having completed the game once. It is more difficult than the first quest. In his movie, Sleepz enters ZELDA as the player's name to start the 2nd quest without having to complete the game first. | ||
![]() | NES Legend of Zelda (USA PRG0) in 24:04.05 by Phil Côté (aka. Phil) & Lennart W. (aka. Baxter). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 45 MB, length: 25:51) Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-05-22) Read author's comments in submission #1575 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #191 (25:28.6) Rating: 8.2 (42 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Abuses programming errors in the game - Manipulates luck - No predefined saves - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| 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 Legend of Zelda TAS at this site (not counting the second quest movie), and is ~85 seconds faster than the previous movie, due to a completely new route, better strategies and luck manipulation, glitches and some new techniques according to the authors. It took about 1½. years to complete. | ||
![]() | NES Little Nemo - The Dream Master (USA) in 23:39.2 by Olli Uuskoski (aka. Kyrsimys). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 35 MB, length: 28:18) Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-11-21) Read author's comments in submission #1750 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #867 (24:31.47) Rating: 6.0 (14 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Little Nemo done more optimized than before, with about 52 seconds saved. All levels excluding level 6 have been improved. Other improvements include new shortcuts in 8-2 and 8-3 as well as a better final boss battle. | ||
![]() | NES Maniac Mansion (USA) in 06:29.77 by Jeff C (aka. Arc). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 6 MB, length: 08:30) Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-02-18) Watch online (www.youtube.com) Read author's comments in submission #1838 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #444 (07:15.78) Rating: 5.6 (15 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Abuses programming errors in the game - Genre: Adventure | |
| Maniac Mansion (1990) is a unique game that has weird humor and crazy music. It features cutscenes, multiple ways to win, useless items (like Chuck the Plant), and microwavable hamsters. In the storyline, Dave and two of his friends infiltrate the Edison family's mansion in order to rescue Dave's girlfriend. In order to save her, the teens must get access to the inner lab, deal with Purple Tentacle, shut down the ZOM-B-MATIC, and defeat the evil Meteor. This movie—Arc's eighth TAS of Maniac Mansion—is about 46 seconds faster than the previous attempt. The author's comments for the submission help to explain the multitude of tricks and glitches used. | ||
![]() | NES "1-item" Metroid (USA) in 11:51.08 by AP (aka. Zoizite). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 76 MB, length: 14:13) Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2004-11-14) Read author's comments in submission #420 Discuss this movie Rating: 7.2 (25 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Abuses programming errors in the game - Manipulates luck - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Metroid completed using just 1 item: the morphing ball. Uses a password to get the suitless Samus for fun (no side-effects). Uses a game restart sequence (up+a on second controller) to save time in backtracking. | ||
![]() | NES "no minibosses" Metroid (USA) in 11:45.42 by Jeff C (aka. Arc). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 40 MB, length: 14:06) Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-01-02) Download from mirror site (www.archive.org) Read author's comments in submission #490 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #125 (13:31.1) Rating: 7.0 (27 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Abuses programming errors in the game - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
From the author's comments:
This movie attempts to complete Metroid as fast as possible without fighting either one of the minibosses. I use the door glitch twice and Up+A once. I collect the Maru Mari, 30 Missiles, and Ice Beam (no Bombs.)The older playthrough by the same author doesn't completely avoid the minibosses. | ||
![]() | NES "100%" Metroid (USA) in 41:43.33 by AP (aka. Zoizite). | |
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| Download Famtasia movie (.fmv) (date: 2004-09-28) Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 122 MB, length: 44:06) Download from mirror site (www.supermetroid.co.uk) Read author's comments in submission #340 Discuss this movie Rating: 6.8 (22 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Items: 100% - Takes damage to save time - Does not use a restart sequence - Abuses programming errors in the game - Manipulates luck - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
This is a full completion of Metroid, meaning that all items (100%) were collected. Unlike all the other Metroid movies on this site, this movie does NOT use the Up+A restart sequence.
Selected comments from author:I used an original route, that saved quite a bit of time compared to the usual route. I found a nice shortcut in Norfair that saved 2 to 3 minutes. Ridley and Kraid battles are extremely short. I abused a few glitches: the door trick, morph jumping, bomb boost jumping. I also use morph jumping to pass through blocks a few times, which I had never seen or heard of before. I took hits whenever avoiding them was impossible or whenever it would slow me down more than a few frames. I also used them to my advantage in certain situations. I manipulated monster item drops quite a lot to get missiles. I used a password to get suitless Samus. The password does nothing else. | ||
![]() | NES Monster in My Pocket (USA) in 14:14.97 by 陈卓 (aka. x2poet) & 修煜坤 (aka. dragonxyk). | |
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| Download MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 24 MB, length: 15:47) Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-09-14) Read author's comments in submission #2066 Discuss this movie Rating: 5.1 (8 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Two players - Takes damage to save time - Abuses programming errors in the game - Manipulates luck - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| This game follows the adventures of miniature Dracula and Frankenst… rather, "Vampire" and "The Monster" as they dodge giant golf balls, fight miniature Godzillas and ultimately do battle with a massive head on an equally large television screen. The authors frequently make use of two players simultaneously to both fight enemies quicker and also provide choreographed dancing. This also allows for more damage- and death-abuse to be used to save time. | ||
![]() | NES Nightshade (USA) in 08:27.67 by Alex Bevilacqua (aka. Maximus). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 13 MB, length: 09:45) Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-12-18) Read author's comments in submission #1165 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #509 (08:53.12) Rating: 5.5 (13 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Fighting | |
| Welcome to Metro City, the intro of this game promptly starts with the murder of Metro City's hero Vortex. The need has arose for a new hero; Nightshade - a guy in a trench coat! In this game, guide Nightshade through Metro City to build popularity, fight rats, gentleman, and female ninjas, and most importantly museum statues. This run by Maximus speeds through the game as fast as Nightshade is able to, ignoring lesser goals such as the museum items, saving a kitty, or checking out the women's dressing room. It is 25 seconds faster than the previous version by the same author. Unfortunately the only escape from a deathtrap seen in this run is the deathtrap Nightshade finds himself in at the beginning; however one of the highlights of this game which can also be enjoyed in this run is the hilarious dialog, such as being threatened by the legalization of wooden nickels. | ||
![]() | NES "warpless" Rygar (Europe) in 15:43.32 by Thomas Seufert (aka. Lord Tom). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 42 MB, length: 17:33) Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-05-18) Read author's comments in submission #1957 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #317 (20:26.7) Rating: 7.8 (13 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Uses death as shortcut - Takes damage to save time - Abuses programming errors in the game - Manipulates luck - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| This movie is different from the other Rygar movie in that it plays all levels and doesn't use any glitch to warp from a boss battle to another. Aside from that limitation, this movie makes full use of all the bugs and glitches in the game which can be used to speed up the run. If you are wondering what really is going on in this movie, see the Rygar Tricks page for some info about the tricks used. This is a 4 minutes and 43.38 seconds improvement to the previous movie. | ||
![]() | NES Shadowgate (USA) in 08:56.2 by Johan Södling (aka. Randil). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 8 MB, length: 09:33) Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-08-10) Read author's comments in submission #2021 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #932 (09:03.9) Rating: 6.1 (11 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Manipulates luck - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Storybook | |
| Shadowgate is a storybook game in which you wake up in front of a big castle and must make your way through it solving a variety of puzzles. This run is 462 frames (7.7 seconds) faster than the previous run of the game. The improvements come mostly from using the spell Illumina on the first visit to the Gargoyle-room, as well as throwing the key1 in the lake. | ||
![]() | NES Solstice (USA) in 05:41.85 by Johan Södling (aka. Randil). | |
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| Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-06-26) Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 11 MB, length: 09:49) Read author's comments in submission #1607 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #581 (05:50.58) Rating: 6.6 (16 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Puzzle | |
| The Solstice TAS has had more revisions than most movies on this site. This time, the run is almost nine seconds faster than the preceding version. A new route and a new trick are involved; more details can be found in author's comments.
Bisqwit: Note: This movie was initially published with wrong AVI file! The AVI showed the author's previous attempt, which was not intended to be published -- the replaced AVI is now five seconds faster! | ||
![]() | NES StarTropics (USA) in 1:01:32.37 by Mikael Johansson (aka. Aglar). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 95 MB, length: 1:04:40) Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-12-23) Read author's comments in submission #1807 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #424 (1:05:43.3) Rating: 5.2 (12 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Takes damage to save time - Abuses programming errors in the game - Manipulates luck - Genre: Adventure | |
| This is a long RPG-like adventure game with lots of witty dialog and the hero equipped with a yoyo. This is a ~4 minute improvement to the previous movie by Sami O.. A major part of this shortening comes from a glitch that skips the last chapter of the game, ignoring certain plot details. If you want to see the actual ending, watch the previous movie. | ||
![]() | NES StarTropics 2 - Zoda's Revenge (USA) in 1:01:00.9 by Sami Outinen. | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 129 MB, length: 1:03:34) Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-11-05) Download from mirror site (www.archive.org) Read author's comments in submission #856 Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (16 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure | |
| Mike's adventures take him through time as he attempts to find Tetris pieces and fight off dragons, evil mummies, and aliens cosplaying as Dracula. | ||
![]() | NES "reuse levels" Wizards & Warriors (USA) in 09:35.42 by Cardboard (?). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 23 MB, length: 10:51) Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-09-10) Read author's comments in submission #1683 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #166 (10:53.07) Rating: 6.7 (17 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Abuses programming errors in the game - Manipulates luck - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| This is an improved version ― 76 seconds faster than the previous movie.
In this game you're an armor-clad knight with a big sword.
You collect gems to bribe a red knight, kill evil beasts
and rescue several "distressed damsels".
This movie takes advantage of a glitch that allows to re-enter
the first map and substitute the last few levels with the first
levels. There is also a
movie that does not use this trick.
It's slightly longer.
Ps: Do you want to see more adventures of the iron-clad hero of this game, Kuros? Read the Knights of the Old Coding online comic. It's hilarious. | ||
![]() | NES Youkai Douchuuki (JPN) in 13:11.35 by Johan Södling (aka. Randil). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 25 MB, length: 15:58) Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-06-20) Read author's comments in submission #1590 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #7 (14:31.1) Rating: 5.7 (14 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Takes damage to save time - Manipulates luck - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Literally translated, the name of this game means "demon travel journal".
It tells a story about a boy, Tarosuke, who seeks to meet Buddha, who will decide about Tarosuke's next life. In order to meet Buddha, Tarosuke has to do lots of good deeds which earn him "piousness". Because there is a lot of interesting dialog in this movie, but all in Japanese, the provided AVI is made to contain English subtitles for all in-game dialog text, as well as some explanations. It should help understanding the game events as well as enjoying its weird sense of fun. This movie is ~80 seconds faster than the previous movie by Morimoto, which was the oldest non-obsoleted movie on this site at the time, being almost 4 years old. | ||
![]() | Genesis Earnest Evans (USA) in 08:55.98 by Geoff Moldenhauer (aka. Ouzo). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 35 MB, length: 11:36) Download Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2006-12-13) Read author's comments in submission #814 Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (20 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Earnest Evans is an Indiana Jones-esque treasure hunter who has to go through various levels and settings and battle hordes of monsters and bosses. | ||
![]() | Genesis Flashback (USA) in 23:54.57 by Stephen Kalb (aka. nifboy). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 56 MB, length: 31:04) Download Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2004-10-22) Read author's comments in submission #371 Discuss this movie Rating: 5.6 (23 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Abuses programming errors in the game - Plays at hardest level - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Flashback is the sci-fi version of Prince of Persia. There is a lot of jumping, rolling and climbing to move around the levels. This movie uses a lot of bugs to get ahead faster. The most prominent one is probably walking through walls, which renders keys obsolete. Also, if you finish a level without having some important item, the game assumes you have it anyway. We recommend the author's comments of this run. | ||
![]() | Genesis Immortal, The (USA/Europe) in 10:32.92 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 18 MB, length: 12:01) Download Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2008-04-03) Read author's comments in submission #1873 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #593 (12:04.4) Rating: 5.2 (9 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Uses death as shortcut - Takes damage to save time - Abuses programming errors in the game - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| The Immortal is a dungon 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 make this movie 1,5 minutes faster than its predecessor movie. | ||
![]() | Genesis Wonderboy in Monster World (USA/Europe) in 42:10.45 by Jaakko Järviniemi (aka. Aqfaq). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 99 MB, length: 45:41) Download Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2006-07-31) Read author's comments in submission #1041 Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (18 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Takes damage to save time - Manipulates luck - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| This movie is about Wonderboy fighting against (or running past) a horde of cute monsters. The Oasis Boots that are normally required to cross the desert were not used in this movie, because it was slightly faster to go without them. In Japan the game is known as Monsterworld 3. | ||
![]() | SMS King's Quest: Quest for the Crown (USA) in 02:58.87 by W.R. (aka. BZero). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 3 MB, length: 03:30) Download Dega movie file (.mmv) (date: 2008-08-14) Read author's comments in submission #2038 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1138 (03:56.7) Rating: 5.5 (10.5 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Abuses programming errors in the game - Genre: Adventure | |
| King's Quest is a popular adventure franchise for the PC by Sierra that focuses on exploration and puzzle solving. This movie features one of the few console ports of any Sierra adventure game. Notably, it features improved graphics and sound as compared to the original, which is usually not the case for these ports. Usually this game would take many hours of wandering, collecting objects and solving problems. The author however is able to focus on key events and manages to beat the game in less time than Super Mario Bros... This new movie is about a full minute faster due to newly found exploits. If you enjoy this movie, you may want to take a look at this rejected movie of King's Quest V for the NES by the same author. It is unfortunately much longer and has poor graphics compared to the original, but is impressive nonetheless for people who have played it before. | ||
![]() | SNES Donkey Kong Country 3 (USA) in 49:18.98 by Sami Outinen. | |
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| Download snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2006-01-10) Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 212 MB, length: 1:01:59) Download from mirror site (www.archive.org) Read author's comments in submission #936 Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (36 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Manipulates luck - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| It's a TAS of the most beautiful Donkey Kong Country game on SNES. This run uses warp barrels. Because this game deserves a good quality video, the AVI was recently replaced with a higher quality one. The download counter (was 616) was reset in the process. | ||
![]() | SNES Goof Troop (USA) in 16:36.57 by Johan Södling (aka. Randil) & Nick Mong (aka. mmbossman). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 52 MB, length: 22:02) Download snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-01-09) Read author's comments in submission #1812 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #152 (20:29.08) Rating: 7.6 (25 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - One player controls two characters - Takes no damage - Manipulates luck - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Goof Troop (1993) is a cheerful puzzle game based on Disney show of the same name. The gameplay is somewhat similar to NES Legend of Zelda with its maze-like map filled with one-screen rooms, except this time the emphasis on puzzles is stronger, and you can play in co-op. In this movie the authors control two characters (Goofy and Max) simultaneously. This allows for a good deal of team work as one character can go get an item while the other heads for the exit. When there is no multi-tasking to do, the authors do a good job performing antics with one or both of the characters. This is a nearly 4 minute improvement over Frenom's previous movie. Improvements come from new tricks, better teamwork, luck manipulation and optimized movements. | ||
![]() | SNES Lagoon (USA) in 1:08:32.68 by Michael Reilly (aka. OmnipotentEntity). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 130 MB, length: 1:10:25) Download snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2005-01-25) Download from mirror site (www.archive.org) Read author's comments in submission #508 Discuss this movie Rating: 4.2 (16 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Takes damage to save time - Abuses programming errors in the game - No predefined saves - Genre: Adventure - Genre: RPG | |
| Lagoon is a low-tempo adventure game much like Zelda. It is up to Nasir, Hero of Light, to save Lakeland from Zerah. Zerah is attempting to release the Evil Sprit and pollute all the water. This game is difficult due to the length of Nasir's sword. We recommend reading the author's comments. | ||
![]() | SNES Lufia II (USA) in 3:03:12.78 by S. Jacobs (aka. Gunty). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 424 MB, length: 3:09:34) Download snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2007-02-07) Read author's comments in submission #1438 Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (18 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Abuses programming errors in the game - Manipulates luck - Genre: Adventure - Genre: RPG | |
| Lufia 2 is an adventure RPG prequel to Lufia 1. In this installment, Maxim and his cohorts set out to take down the evil Sinistrals. The game sports a large amount of puzzles, yet a shockingly low amount of battles. Using RNG manipulation, this movie illustrates how to avoid many unimportant skirmishes so as to cut down on wasted time. This manipulation is also used to get more favorable item drops throughout the whole run. Note that the (U) version of this ROM contains some graphical glitches. You can read more about these in the submission text. | ||
![]() | SNES Prince of Persia 2 (USA) in 11:00.42 by JSP (aka. Nitsuja). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 22 MB, length: 13:54) Download snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2005-05-07) Download from mirror site (ia311204.us.archive.org) Read author's comments in submission #569 Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (22 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Uses death as shortcut - Takes damage to save time - Abuses programming errors in the game - Genre: Adventure | |
Selected comments from the author:Prince of Persia 2 is one of the most challenging games ever made. Maybe this is because of the terribly imprecise control, the nonsensical puzzles, and the character's amazing inability to survive falling any distance. There are no pits with spikes this time around, apparently there were enough complaints about the ones in the original Prince of Persia, but unfortunately, non-spiky pits are just as deadly as spiky ones, and the new traps are far more sinister. | ||
![]() | SNES Zelda: A Link to the Past (USA) in 1:20:16.13 by Darren Smith (aka. flagitious). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 241 MB, length: 1:28:14) Download snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2005-04-24) Download from mirror site (www.archive.org) Watch online (video.google.com) Watch online (www.youtube.com) Read author's comments in submission #639 Discuss this movie Rating: 7.7 (44 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Abuses programming errors in the game - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| Full completion of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Both this run and the short version use a wobbling trick in order to make Link walk a bit faster. The execution of this maneuver requires the usage of a controller that allows the player to press Up+Down simultaneously (such as, in this case, a modified Snes9x's controller). The traveling-through-walls trick that is seen in the short version is not used. | ||
![]() | SNES "glitched" Zelda: A Link to the Past (USA) in 03:44.95 by Robin Reigstad (aka. Deign). | |
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| Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 30 MB, length: 11:37) Download snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-06-17) Read author's comments in submission #1963 Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #869 (03:45.35) Rating: 6.7 (17 votes) | - Aims for fastest time - Uses warps - Abuses programming errors in the game - No predefined saves - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| SNES Zelda completed in a very quick manner by traveling in an alternate dimension through the walls. The basis of the trick is to enter a corridor or staircase by holding left+up+right at the bottom of the stairs. Note that you need the patched version of Snes9x to play the movie file. Now 24 frames faster than the preceding version. | ||
[963] N64 Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (USA)
by Mukki in 2:14:03.08 (2007-09-23)