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N64 Diddy Kong Racing (USA v1.0) in 2:03:02.08 by Peter T. (aka. xenos).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 360 MB, length: 2:09:53)
Download Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2007-08-19)
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Read author's comments in submission #1617
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Rating: 5.9 (29 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Racing
Annoyed with the success of the Mario Kart series, a bunch of Rare characters got together and held a racing competition of their own. Along with the availability of several types of vehicles, this game has something of a storyline to it and full completion requires reloading a saved game after the credits run for the first time. More races occur after the initial credit roll, so don't stop watching once the ending plays.

NES Adventures of Bayou Billy (USA) in 17:14.1 by 韩晖 (aka. 西坡 (xipo)).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 25 MB, length: 21:06)
Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-11-06)
Read author's comments in submission #1712
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Obsoletes movie #236 (18:10.22)
Rating: 5.5 (15 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Fighting
- Genre: Racing
- Genre: Shooter
The Adventures of Bayou Billy (1989) contains a trinity of genres: beat 'em up (like Streets of Rage), sniping (like part of Golgo 13), and car racing (like Rad Racer). In the game, 'Bayou' Billy West fights his way through Louisiana en route to New Orleans in order to save his kidnapped girlfriend, the luscious Annabelle Lane.

The American version of this game is a lot more difficult than the Japanese one (Mad City), although this video makes it seem easy.

This is a 56 second improvement over the previous movie by Phil.


NES Excitebike (Japan/USA) in 05:31.37 by JXQ (?).
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Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-02-25)
Read author's comments in submission #1869
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Obsoletes movie #517 (05:35.38)
Rating: 8.5 (27 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Racing
This movie plays Excitebike really, really fast — now almost 4 seconds faster than the previous movie by Luke Gustafson.

Times for each track are:

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

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


NES Marble Madness (USA) in 02:48.4 by Andrés Delikat (aka. adelikat) & Robin Reigstad (aka. Deign).
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Read author's comments in submission #1615
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Obsoletes movie #819 (02:49.48)
Rating: 7.5 (23 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Racing
Marble Madness is a 3D'ish game similar in its style to Snake Rattle 'n Roll. The objective in these two games is quite different, though. In this game, the player must roll a marble from point A to point B. This is of course not as easy as it sounds. And certainly not as easy as it looks in this movie.

This is a 65 frame improvement over the previous movie by adelikat.


NES Rad Racer (USA) in 21:55.98 by W.S. (aka. Saturn).
Download OGM file via BitTorrent (size: 51 MB, length: 22:58)
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Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-06-22)
Read author's comments in submission #713
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Rating: 4.0 (18 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Aims for maximum score
- Genre: Racing
Rad is a slang term, short for radical. This movie shows what radical sports is when applied to car driving on NES.

Curiously, the game Rad Racer was made by Square, which is probably best known for its Final Fantasy game series. Quite a different game, this here...

Note: Instead of AVI, this publication comes in OGM and MKV formats.
We experimented with the Vorbis audio codec, and there is no reliable solution to embed Vorbis sound into an AVI.

Please read the Codec Problems page if you have problems using an OGM or MKV file.


SNES Biker Mice From Mars (USA) in 05:12.62 by Lennart W. (aka. Baxter).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 22 MB, length: 07:18)
Download snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2007-02-25)
Read author's comments in submission #1445
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Rating: 7.9 (33 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Uses a level password
- Genre: Racing
A high speed racing game featuring rodents from another (nearby) planet. Although the author doesn't classify the velocity potential of the motorcycle as a programming error in the game, the speed at which he rips through the courses may make you wonder.

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


SNES "first track" F-Zero (USA v1.0) in 02:22.03 by W.S. (aka. Saturn).
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Download snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2006-03-31)
Read author's comments in submission #650
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Rating: 5.2 (28 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Single level only
- Genre: Racing
The first of the series. F-Zero is a racing game of the future, with machines that reach more than 470 km/h top-speed.

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

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

SNES Super Mario Kart (USA) in 21:27.02 by cstrakm (?).
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Download snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-06-17)
Read author's comments in submission #1954
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Obsoletes movie #848 (23:10.88)
Rating: 8.1 (16 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses a game restart sequence
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Starts from a predefined save
- Genre: Racing
Super Mario Kart is the first in a popular series of games starring the Mario cast racing go-karts. This run aims to get record times in all tracks at 150cc difficulty. This is achieved mostly by jumping straight into walls, bottomless pits, and lava, among many other things. Mushrooms are also used frequently due to their mysteriously friction-free propulsion powers. A high amount of wall-bouncing is required.

This run is over a minute and a half faster than the previous published run, due to new exploits of the definition of a lap.

A version of Snes9x that supports reset is required to play the SMV movie.


SNES "one track" Top Gear (USA) in 03:51.17 by Phil Côté.
Download snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2004-07-07)
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Read author's comments in submission #74
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Rating: 3.6 (23 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Single level only
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Racing
This track is known to be hard.

Selected notes from the author:
It is not a complete [walkthrough] but single track only. It is for competition purpose. The track is: Bordeaux/France as fast as possible and the total timeunits is 3'24"76.

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Added [1126] SNES Super Mario Kart (USA) by cstrakm in 21:27.02 (2008-06-17)
- obsoletes [848] SNES Super Mario Kart (USA) by Huffers in 23:10.88 (2007-05-09)
Added [1070] NES Excitebike (Japan/USA) by JXQ in 05:31.37 (2008-02-25)
- obsoletes [517] NES Excitebike (JPN/USA) by Luke in 05:35.38 (2006-03-31)
- - obsoletes [297] NES Excitebike (JPN/USA) by foda in 05:57.93 (2005-02-13)
- - - obsoletes [289] NES "first track" Excitebike (JPN/USA) by foda in 00:53.97 (2005-02-01)
- - - - obsoletes [206] NES "first track" Excitebike (JPN/USA/PC10) by Luke in 00:56.2 (2004-10-09)
- - - - - obsoletes [72] NES "first track" Excitebike (JPN/USA) by Player1 in 00:56.7 (2004-05-02)
Added [988] NES Adventures of Bayou Billy (USA) by 韩晖 (aka. 西坡 (xipo)) in 17:14.1 (2007-11-06)
- obsoletes [236] NES Adventures of Bayou Billy (USA) by Phil in 18:10.22 (2004-11-14)
Added [946] N64 Diddy Kong Racing (USA v1.0) by xenos in 2:03:02.08 (2007-08-18)
Added [913] NES Marble Madness (USA) by adelikat & Deign in 02:48.4 (2007-07-05)
- obsoletes [819] NES Marble Madness (USA) by adelikat in 02:49.48 (2007-03-22)
- - obsoletes [413] NES Marble Madness (USA) by adelikat in 02:50.55 (2005-10-01)
- - - obsoletes [218] NES Marble Madness (USA) by Inzult in 03:00.6 (2004-10-21)
Added [802] SNES Biker Mice From Mars (USA) by Baxter in 05:12.62 (2007-02-24)
Added [516] SNES "first track" F-Zero (USA v1.0) by Saturn in 02:22.03 (2006-03-31)
Added [363] NES Rad Racer (USA) by Saturn in 21:55.98 (2005-06-22)
Added [113] SNES "one track" Top Gear (USA) by Phil in 03:51.17 (2004-07-06)
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