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NES Air 2 (Japan/USA) in 08:03.37 by Clayton Perdue (aka. mushroom).
AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 11.60 MB, length: 08:21)
FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-02-19)
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Rating: 5.9 (33.5 votes)
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- Demonstration
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: Puzzle
This hack of Super Mario Bros. is the sequel to Air, created by the same author, U1. The vast majority of this hack is exactly the same as its predecessor, but with two major changes: all invisible coin blocks are marked and infinite jumps are no more, which results in a few changes in level design accommodated to it.

Air 2 is a trial-and-error platform puzzle game. Savestates are practically required to beat the game. Abuse of Super Mario Bros. glitches is required by design.

This run does not aim for fastest completion.


NES Extra Mario Bros (JPN/USA) in 19:24.68 by Lee (aka. HappyLee).
MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 31.31 MB, length: 20:08)
FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2009-08-09)
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Rating: 7.3 (18 votes)
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- Genre: Platform
Extra Mario Bros is a hack of the original Super Mario Bros. It is noteworthy for being a complete "Metroidvania" game built around the original SMB engine, with very few changes to the engine itself. The five areas in the game are all interconnected (via pipes, naturally), and permanent upgrades have been added to make a more Metroid-ish feel. (Did I mention the music from Super Metroid? Because there's music from Super Metroid.)

However, despite his newfound ability to return to levels he's visited before and acquire upgrades that don't go away when he dies, Mario still cannot move to the left.

This movie collects all of the keys and fights the true final boss, but only collects two of the upgrades.


NES Legend of Zelda: Outlands (USA PRG0) in 18:54.9 by Lennart W. (aka. Baxter).
FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2009-07-04)
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Rating: 7.1 (13 votes)
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- Takes damage to save time
- Uses a game restart sequence
- Heavy glitch abuse
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Adventure
In this 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 Legend of Zelda, we have that too, as well as a movie of the second quest.

NES Mario Adventure (USA PRG0) in 49:42.39 by A. Pritchard (aka. andymac).
MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 69.78 MB, length: 52:06)
FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-03-09)
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Rating: 6.9 (7 votes)
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- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Platform
Mario Adventure is a hack of Super Mario Bros 3. These are the most noteworthy characteristics of it.

  • Mario can keep a power-up in reserve, similar to how Super Mario World works except the change is immediately effective.
  • There is a new power-up, Magic Mario, which can stomp on more enemies than otherwise possible, shoots extremely powerful projectiles, and can take a few hits before losing the power-up.
  • There are 7 worlds which Mario can visit in any order. Each world has a key hidden somewhere within it.
  • After finding all 7 keys and beating the 7 worlds, Mario can access the 8th world to win the game.
  • Almost all levels end with a Boom-Boom battle.
  • Mario Adventure includes its own custom palette for graphics rendering.

The author improves on the previous run by an impressive 6 minutes.


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NES Mega Man 3, 4, 5 & 6 (USA) in 39:06.92 by Lennart W. (aka. Baxter) & Yashar Nasirian (aka. AngerFist).
AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 187.62 MB, length: 43:32)
FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-05-23)
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Submission #1566 — Author's comments
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Rating: 6.3 (53 votes)
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- Demonstration
- Multiple games in one movie
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Award - Most innovative TAS of 2007
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 other 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 the movie in which two games are played simultaneously with one controller.


NES Zanac (USA) in 03:26.22 by adelikat.
AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 9.67 MB, length: 05:08)
FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-12-15)
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Rating: 6.0 (24 votes)
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- Uses death to save time
- Uses warps
- Uses a game restart sequence
- Single level
- Uses a level password
- Genre: Shooter
Zanac is one of those space shooter games in which you are trying to save the earth.

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

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


Genesis Knuckles in Sonic the Hedgehog (Revision 01) in 14:44.95 by JXQ (?).
AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 52.55 MB, length: 17:18)
Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-02-15)
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Rating: 8.0 (30 votes)
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- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Platform
This is a hacked version of Sonic the Hedgehog. The title character is replaced by his rival, Knuckles. The levels remain unchanged.

There is more than just an appearance change to this game. Knuckles' abilities remain intact. If you haven't seen Sonic the Hedgehog completed before, you may wish to do so before seeing what a character with a spindash and gliding can accomplish.

There is also a run for a Tails hack of Sonic the Hedgehog, done by marzojr. It replaces Knuckles with Tails and gliding with flying.


Genesis Tails in Sonic The Hedgehog (USA) in 14:29.3 by Marzo Junior (aka. marzojr).
MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 59.07 MB, length: 17:03)
Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2009-07-03)
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Rating: 8.1 (40 votes)
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- Heavy glitch abuse
- Genre: Platform
This is a hacked version of Sonic the Hedgehog. The title character is replaced by his sidekick, Miles "Tails" Prower. The levels remain unchanged.

There is more than just an appearance change to this game. Tails' abilities remain intact. If you haven't seen Sonic the Hedgehog completed before, you may wish to do so before seeing what a character with flight and a spindash can accomplish.

There is also a run for a Knuckles hack of Sonic the Hedgehog, done by JXQ. It replaces Tails with Knuckles and flying with climbing and gliding.


SNES Chrono Trigger (JPN) "newgame+" in 06:42.77 by Y.M. (aka. inichi).
snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-10-22)
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Rating: 8.1 (59.5 votes)
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- Demonstration
- Heavy glitch abuse
- Corrupts save data
- Starts from a saved state or SRAM
- Genre: RPG
Chrono Trigger is a long RPG that typically takes hours to days to complete. We already have one tool-assisted speedrun of this game.

However, this game also has a NewGame+ mode, where all the equipment and characters' stats are preserved from the previous completions, and player is allowed to fight the last boss, Lavos, almost immediately since the beginning. This movie happens to start from a save file with optimized equipment and character stats, created specifically for NewGame+. (We do not generally accept movies starting from predefined saves. Read the rules to see our reasons.)

This new version of a NewGame+ TAS by inichi is 2 minutes and 24 seconds faster than his previous attempt due to the discovery of a certain data-manipulating glitch that allows dealing maximum amount of damage every critical hit. It is only possible to do on the Japanese version of the game, which is the reason for a version change. See the author's comments for a detailed explanation.

The killing blow is delivered in just under five minutes of gameplay, but additional time has to be spent to go through the Dream Team scene in order to make the game actually end.


SNES F-Zero (USA v1.0) "first track" in 02:22.03 by W.S. (aka. Saturn).
AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 13.60 MB, length: 02:36)
snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2006-03-31)
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Rating: 5.1 (33 votes)
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- Single level
- Genre: Racing
The first of the series. F-Zero is a racing game of the future, with machines that reach more than 470 km/h top-speed.

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

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

☆SNES Mega Man X & X2 (USA v1.1) in 41:41.43 by Sean P. (aka. DeHackEd).
AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 175.29 MB, length: 48:05)
snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2005-07-16)
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Rating: 7.6 (64.5 votes)
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- Demonstration
- Multiple games in one movie
- Genre: Platform
One person's silly idea is another person's inspiration.

This movie is essentially constructed by taking one controller and wiring it into two SNES emulators at once. The same input is used to play both games to completion. In other words, the player plays two games simultaneously with one controller.

Note: There is a visual anomaly during the battle with Serges in X 2. This is an emulator bug relating to the Cx4 chip used in the Mega Man X 2 cartridge.

If you like this movie, be sure to check out the movie that even beats four games with one controller!


SNES Star Fox 2 (JPN) in 22:08.42 by Sam Bateman (aka. YtterbiJum).
snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-12-24)
AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 70.32 MB, length: 25:57)
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Rating: 8.0 (28.5 votes)
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- Genre: Action
- Genre: Shooter
Star Fox 2 is an unreleased SNES sequel to the original Star Fox, although the game was completed leaving one to wonder why it was never released.

YtterbiJum chooses to complete the run with Miyu, his decision based on her superior ship speed and shortest charge shot time.


SNES Super Demo World (any v1.1) in 19:07.55 by Greg Anderson, Fabian, P LaRoe (aka. skamastaG, Fabian, jimsfriend, JXQ).
snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2007-10-21)
AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 59.98 MB, length: 24:24)
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Rating: 8.6 (35 votes)
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- Heavy glitch abuse
- Genre: Platform
This hack of Super Mario World contains a Star World which contains themed levels that connect to various locations on the map. Like the original Super Mario World, these levels can be used as a makeshift warp zone. This movie demonstrates this path - navigating the Star World to charge straight to Bowser, leaving much of the game untouched.

This movie is a whopping 24 second improvement to the previous movie. Full list of changes can be read in the authors' comments.

The homepage for Super Demo World, including the patch to be used on a Super Mario World ROM, and the program used to make the hack, is available online.


SNES Super Demo World - TLC (USA v1.1) "120-exit" in 2:08:01.68 by Stefan Roger (aka. Chef Stef).
AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 333.88 MB, length: 2:13:19)
snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-06-25)
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- Takes damage to save time
- Heavy glitch abuse
- Genre: Platform
This movie utilizes all of the tricks found in the SuperMarioWorldTricks section in addition to new recently discovered tricks to beat the previous movie by 48.6 seconds. See the author's comments for more details.

Arguably one of the most well known and well developed SNES hacks in existence, Super Demo World puts Mario into a new realm that spans well beyond his original adventure.

Features of Super Demo World include:

  • Ability to store more unconventional items in the reserve box, such as a koopa, springboard, message box, or vine
  • 120 exits in total, including two secret worlds
  • Creative and challenging level design, with some puzzle elements thrown in
  • "New" graphics (mostly backgrounds taken from other games, such as Donkey Kong Country 3 and Mega Man X)

The homepage for Super Demo World, including the patch to be used on a Super Mario World ROM, and the program used to make the hack, is available online.


SNES Top Gear (USA) "one track" in 03:51.17 by Phil Côté.
snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2004-07-06)
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- Demonstration
- Single level
- Uses hardest difficulty
- 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.

Please read the welcome page if you haven't already done so. It explains the rules and methods that apply to all of these movies, particularly the use of savestates and frame advance. Also refer to our Glossary to understand terms we use, such as TAS or other unfamiliar terms.

Added [1484] NES Mario Adventure (USA PRG0) by andymac in 49:42.39 (2010-03-09)
- obsoletes [457] NES Mario Adventure (USA PRG1) by Kyrsimys in 56:00.65 (2006-01-18)
Added [1336] NES Extra Mario Bros (JPN/USA) by HappyLee in 19:24.68 (2009-08-09)
Added [1319] NES Legend of Zelda: Outlands (USA PRG0) by Baxter in 18:54.9 (2009-07-04)
Added [1318] Genesis Tails in Sonic The Hedgehog (USA) by marzojr in 14:29.3 (2009-07-03)
Added ☆[1285] SNES Chrono Trigger (USA) "glitched any%" by inichi in 21:23.98 (2009-05-10)
- obsoletes [450] SNES Chrono Trigger (USA) by hero of the day in 4:21:11.83 (2005-12-28)
Added [1236] SNES Star Fox 2 (JPN) by YtterbiJum in 22:08.42 (2008-12-24)
Added [1208] SNES Chrono Trigger (JPN) "newgame+" by inichi in 06:42.77 (2008-10-22)
- obsoletes [943] SNES Chrono Trigger (USA) "newgame+" by inichi in 09:07.12 (2007-08-17)
- - obsoletes [840] SNES Chrono Trigger (USA) "newgame+" by Saturn in 09:29.83 (2007-04-23)
- - - obsoletes [837] SNES Chrono Trigger (USA) "newgame+" by Saturn in 09:34.82 (2007-04-19)
- - - - obsoletes [526] SNES Chrono Trigger (USA) "newgame+" by Saturn in 09:57.27 (2006-04-16)
Added ☆[1135] SNES Super Demo World - TLC (USA v1.1) "120-exit" by Chef Stef in 2:08:01.68 (2008-06-25)
- obsoletes [858] SNES Super Demo World - TLC (any v1.1) "120-exit" by jimsfriend in 2:08:50.32 (2007-05-15)
- - obsoletes [435] SNES Super Demo World - TLC (v1.1) "120-exit" by Fabian & JXQ in 2:13:17.9 (2005-11-13)
Added [1063] NES Air 2 (Japan/USA) by mushroom in 08:03.37 (2008-02-19)
- obsoletes [434] NES Air (Japan/USA) by Genisto in 09:12.42 (2005-11-12)
Added [982] SNES Super Demo World (any v1.1) by skamastaG, Fabian, jimsfriend, JXQ in 19:07.55 (2007-10-21)
- obsoletes [786] SNES Super Demo World - TLC (v1.1) by Mrz in 19:31.42 (2007-02-04)
- - obsoletes [474] SNES Super Demo World - TLC (v1.1) by JXQ in 19:33.18 (2006-02-14)
- - - obsoletes [407] SNES Super Demo World - TLC (v1.1) by JXQ in 19:38.48 (2005-09-05)
Added [871] NES Mega Man 3, 4, 5 & 6 (USA) by Baxter & AngerFist in 39:06.92 (2007-05-23)
Added [796] Genesis Knuckles in Sonic the Hedgehog (Revision 01) by JXQ in 14:44.95 (2007-02-15)
Added [734] NES Zanac (USA) by adelikat in 03:26.22 (2006-12-15)
- obsoletes [505] NES Zanac (USA) by adelikat in 03:49.88 (2006-03-18)
- - obsoletes [272] NES Zanac (USA) by adelikat in 37:54.2 (2004-12-27)
Added [516] SNES F-Zero (USA v1.0) "first track" by Saturn in 02:22.03 (2006-03-31)
Added ☆[380] SNES Mega Man X & X2 (USA v1.1) by DeHackEd in 41:41.43 (2005-07-16)
Added [113] SNES Top Gear (USA) "one track" by Phil in 03:51.17 (2004-07-06)


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