= Special starTotal movies: 29
![]() | Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles in 32:19.38 by JSP (Nitsuja) & JJN (Upthorn) & MJ (marzojr). | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2009-11-26) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 111.43 MB, length: 36:14) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2460 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1112 (33:05.78) Rating: 9.2 (19 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Ludicrous-speed bouncing around. Completed without collecting any emeralds, with both Sonic and Tails controlled by the player.
This run takes everything you know about Sonic and Knuckles and turns it upside-down. It extensively uses the "scroll objects offscreen to pass through them" trick to zip and warp to places that shouldn't be reached, break bosses, and effectively skip entire stages.
It is worth noting that Nitsuja and Upthorn did not directly participate in the creation of this movie; instead, marzojr incorporated newly discovered tricks in several stages and spliced them in for a total improvement of 46 seconds.
The publisher wishes to note that any attempts to upload the official encode to Dailymotion has resulted in failure, we suggest you watch the YouTube video instead. An unofficial Dailymotion upload using a different but publish worthy encode can be found here instead. We apologize for any inconvenience. | ||
![]() | NES Mega Man 2 (JPN) in 23:54.75 by Timo Taipaleenmäki (Shinryuu), pirohiko & FinalFighter. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-08-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 35.99 MB, length: 27:32) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (dic.nicovideo.jp) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2377 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1242 (24:33.5) Rating: 9.1 (33 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - 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 about 37 seconds over the authors' previous effort; nearly 30 seconds of which come from a complete overhaul (and mutilation) of the Wood Man stage. See Rockman Tricks and the submission message for in-depth explanation and answers to various questions regarding this movie. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Mario World (USA) in 10:22.17 by ISM and Y. T. (Mister). | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-12-17) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 32.85 MB, length: 15:46) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2494 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1115 (10:26.65) Rating: 9.0 (31 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Super Mario World is a game which needs no introduction. This movie beats the previous SMW movie by an incredible four and a half seconds. Much of the improvement is due to abuse of a new glitch; the balance is caused by better lag management. See also: SMW 100% completion (96 exits) in 1:21:30 by Fabian | ||
![]() | N64 Super Mario 64 (USA) "0 stars" in 05:28.97 by Conor S. (SilentSlayers) & Johannes L.. | |
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| Mupen64 movie (.m64) (date: 2008-10-11) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 32.20 MB, length: 10:44) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2102 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1176 (05:33.85) Rating: 8.9 (110.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| At first there were 70 stars because Bowser demanded it. Then there were 16 stars because MIPS the rabbit demanded it. Then there was 1 star because Bowser's Sub demanded it. Now there are none because the viewers are impatient and demanded the game be quicker. As with many other runs on this site, the goal of pure speed has resulted in the complete breaking of the game. Very little of the game's normal play remains. If you'd like to see more of what Super Mario 64 offers, see the 120 star run. This movie is approximately a 5 second improvement to the previous movie due to a series of improvements discovered by the authors, detailed in the submission message. Alternatively, you can view a more optimised version of the previous type of any% TAS, the 16-stars run, here, played by Swordless Link. The run is 41 seconds faster than the last published 16-star movie. | ||
![]() | NES Super Mario Bros 3 (JPN/USA PRG0) in 10:26.42 by Thomas Seufert (Lord Tom) & Mitjitsu. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-05-11) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 23.40 MB, length: 12:15) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2245 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1053 (10:29.05) Rating: 8.8 (33 votes) View Publication | - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Ever since Morimoto published his legendary movie in mid-2003, the players at TASVideos have repeatedly made it faster and faster! This 96 frame improvement over the previous movie features a completely new route through Bowser's Palace, even more off-screen auto-scroller action and other technical improvements detailed in the authors' comments. Finally, Lord Tom and Mitjitsu are proud to announce that the new run once again acquires 99+ lives magnificently. | ||
![]() | GBA Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow (USA) "100% souls" in 28:01.58 by Kristian Olenfalk (Kriole). | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2009-12-27) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 102.23 MB, length: 30:10) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2509 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.8 (25.5 votes) View Publication | - 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 enemies in Aria of Sorrow, especially during a speedrun, knows the frustration it incurs after a hundredth failed attempt to get the required drop. Even TASers who were trying their hand at this category since 2006 had to put their progress on hiatus due to the amount of luck manipulation going on in nearly every room. But all that only made the awaited result sweeter, as this first complete all-souls TAS beats the game on Hard mode in less than half an hour without even using glitch warps. 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 TAS by klmz. Note: while the movie doesn't use the glitch warps (neither by death nor by getting out-of-bounds using transform souls), it does use the normal warp rooms present in the castle. Starting from reset was necessary to take advantage of using Hard mode; it is normally not allowed — refer to the rules to see our reasons. | ||
![]() | GBC Legend of Zelda - Link's Awakening DX (USA v1.0) in 1:00:02.68 by D. Dunbar (Swordless Link). | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2010-02-15) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 81.97 MB, length: 1:05:34) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (home.earthlink.net) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2565 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #863 (1:09:49.93) Rating: 8.8 (16 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| 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. The video file was replaced shortly after publication due to an oversight on the encoder's part. Please redownload the file if it has a file size greater than 100MB. | ||
![]() | SNES Legend of Zelda - A Link to the Past (USA) in 1:16:11.05 by Tomas Abrahamsson (Tompa). | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-04-06) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 164.14 MB, length: 1:24:02) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Submission #2204 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #325 (1:20:16.13) Rating: 8.8 (57.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - 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. This run features an improvement of a little over 4 minutes. | ||
![]() | SNES Super Metroid (JPN/USA) "any%" in 38:41.52 by Taco & Kristian Olenfalk (Kriole). | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-10-25) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 77.73 MB, length: 42:54) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2429 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1073 (39:32.8) Obsoletes movie #1075 (41:02.4) Rating: 8.8 (27.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Although newcomers to TASVideos's player list, Taco and Kriole are both experienced TASers in regards to Super Metroid, this time having teamed up in a mission to perfect one of the most contested games in the site's history. Using a new route and taking advantage of several techniques, never demonstrated before in other Super Metroid runs outside of waiting areas, they made short work of Mother Brain and her space pirates. The in-game completion time is 23 minutes 29 seconds, and 18% of the items have been collected. Thus, both the realtime and the in-game any% movies were obsoleted. Note: The actual rerecord count in this run is unknown. Please read the authors' submission notes and the discussion thread for more information. | ||
![]() | SNES Donkey Kong Country 2 (USA) "102%" in 1:23:10.88 by NxCy & Joshua Nyer (Comicalflop). | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-03-15) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 310.22 MB, length: 1:24:47) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2188 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #705 (1:28:24.03) Rating: 8.8 (44.5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - 100% completion - Best ending - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Donkey Kong's been kidnapped and old Cranky Kong insists that Diddy collect a bunch of coins that say "DK" on them. These goals are sufficiently compatible that Diddy and Dixie decide to get a little bit sidetracked on their rescue plan. This run abuses a lot of bugs with regard to motion and collision detection. Read the authors' submission to learn more. This run improves the previous one by more than 5 minutes thanks to new tricks, new glitches, and greater precision. | ||
![]() | GBA Metroid Zero Mission (USA) "100%" in 1:01:08.0 by Filip Roskvist (Cpadolf). | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2009-11-06) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 128.75 MB, length: 1:05:23) Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2436 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #981 (1:01:43.7) Rating: 8.6 (16.5 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| 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 2142 frames, or just under 36 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. | ||
![]() | NES Gimmick! (JPN) in 05:11.49 by Mikael Johansson (aka. Aglar) & Satoru Suzuki (aka. Hotarubi). | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-06-10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 10.06 MB, length: 06:08) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (home.earthlink.net) Submission #2699 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1284 (06:08.73) Rating: 8.5 (24 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Gimmick! (1992) is another gem from Sunsoft, the company that brought you Ufouria and Journey to Silius. It was only released in Japan and Scandinavian countries, but eventually achieved somewhat of a cult status thanks to its refined gameplay, as well as exceptional music and graphic design. The plot follows a green toy on a quest to rescue a little girl from the clutch of other toys who were rightfully upset at her forsaking them in favor of our protagonist. What these other toys can't do, however, is conjure stars to use them both as projectiles and very effective transportation devices! This joint venture between Aglar and Hotarubi improves the previous movie by nearly a whole minute thanks to a lot of new and better used tricks and shortcuts. This movie doesn't collect the special items required to access the 7th level, and thus gets a bad ending. But we have the best-ending run just for your viewing pleasure as well! | ||
![]() | NES Excitebike (JPN/USA) in 05:29.44 by Thomas Seufert (Lord Tom). | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-08-31) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 7.04 MB, length: 05:46) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Submission #2383 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1070 (05:31.37) Rating: 8.5 (25 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Racing | |
This movie plays Excitebike really, really fast with an improvement of over a second compared to the previous movie by JXQ.
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![]() | GBA Sonic Advance 2 (USA) in 18:44.97 by JSP (Nitsuja). | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2006-01-30) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 62.08 MB, length: 21:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #947 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.5 (59 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Disappointed with slow paced movies that may be good but just move too slowly? Look no further, nitsuja in this extremely high-speed run demonstrates how to break the sound barrier and why Sonic is the fastest character in the video game universe. The average character movement speed in this movie is probably the highest of all the movies on this site. This movie doesn't collect any of the Chaos Emeralds, but does demonstrate almost every single move that Sonic is capable of in this game. | ||
![]() | DS Brain Age (USA) in 04:08.1 by 元 (Ryuto). | |
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| DeSmuME movie file (.dsm) (date: 2010-07-09) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 5.32 MB, length: 04:34) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Submission #2735 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.3 (26.5 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Brain Age is a puzzle game designed on the premise of exercising your brain. In this run, for example, the idea is to solve a series of simple mathematical puzzles. And yet, the answers given... are not exactly what you'd expect. | ||
![]() | NES Castlevania (USA PRG1) in 11:20.5 by Phil. Côté & Joshua Horst (Morrison). | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-06-26) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 29.47 MB, length: 12:45) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1609 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #694 (11:34.12) Rating: 8.3 (34 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| The original Castlevania is set in the year 1691. Simon Belmont must fight his way through the castle and destroy Count Dracula. This TAS is about 13.6 seconds faster than the previous version by the coauthor of this movie, Morrison. In this joint effort by Phil and Morrison, thorough optimizations are carried out at all levels of magnitude in order to get the maximum completion speed as well as lots of score points in the process. | ||
![]() | SNES Sparkster (USA) in 18:16.48 by Filip Roskvist (Cpadolf). | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2008-12-03) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 79.21 MB, length: 21:28) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2147 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #315 (19:36.22) Rating: 8.3 (28.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Another movie that's so fast you can hardly see what's going on. The main character can use his rocket dash to inflict a lot of damage on his opponents as well as bounce off walls and ceilings. Cpadolf's movie is an incredible improvement to Nitsuja's movie, which was itself 5 minute improvement to previously published version. Cutting off 80 seconds from that TAS was certainly no easy task. Like the previous movie, this is played at the hardest difficulty, crazy hard. | ||
![]() | GBA Ninja Five-0 (USA) in 16:35.62 by Cardboard. | |
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| VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2009-02-10) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 37.73 MB, length: 19:30) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2172 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #415 (18:06.9) Rating: 8.3 (28 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| 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. | ||
![]() | NES Gradius in 10:52.35 by adelikat. | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-11-02) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 26.70 MB, length: 11:39) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1324 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #19 (14:12.0) Rating: 8.2 (64 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Uses death to save time - Uses warps - Genre: Shooter | |
| In this run, adelikat picks up maximum speed upgrades and has fun with perfect reflexes, much like the previous movie. That is certainly something nice to do, because the game scrolls automatically and the player cannot affect the speed. However, the point of this movie is not just to beat this game as fast as possible, but rather to do all kind of unpredictable and awe-inspiring things rarely seen in any TAS — without losing time. See for yourself. This is probably one of the best illustrations on how to create art out of a simplistic and otherwise uninteresting game to watch. What is also different about this movie is an extra warp which significantly shortens the game, and the use of a new tool (input macro) as described in the submission text. Bots were occasionally used to generate pseudorandom input while still avoiding death. | ||
![]() | SNES International Super Star Soccer Deluxe (USA) in 15:24.38 by Marcos Vinicius Alves Oliveira (Marcokarty). | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2010-01-05) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 38.46 MB, length: 15:29) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2531 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.2 (34.5 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - 2 Players - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Sport | |
| When watching sports, you're usually prepared for the unexpected. But what happens when it verges into the outright impossible? In this superplay, watch in awe as a team is forced to score on its own goal ("OH NO! OWN GOAL!?"), the scoreboard mysteriously records extra goals that were never scored (and even rolls backwards at one point), and the very laws of physics themselves seem to get completely broken. | ||
![]() | SNES Rockman & Forte (JPN) "100 CDs" in 42:19.82 by J. Shen (parrot14green). | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2007-12-30) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 95.87 MB, length: 44:11) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (video.google.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1804 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #575 (48:26.92) Rating: 8.0 (36 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Rockman & Forte (ロックマン&フォルテ), known as Megaman & Bass in the western world, used to be the last game chronologically released for the original Rockman/Megaman series, until Rockman & Forte Mirai kara no Chōsensha (ロックマン&フォルテ 未来からの挑戦者) was released on the WonderSwan handheld system. This time around, Wily has his own creation turned against him, allowing you to play as Megaman or a bad guy! This run uses only Rockman, however, and collects all 100 CDs, which is not intended to be possible using only one character. Then again, many things happen that were not intended to be possible. There is also another run by FractalFusion, which uses Forte and does not collect all the CDs. | ||
![]() | SNES Biker Mice From Mars (USA) in 05:12.62 by Lennart W. (Baxter). | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2007-02-24) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 20.98 MB, length: 07:18) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1445 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.0 (43 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - 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. | ||
![]() | NES Arkanoid (USA) in 12:26.8 by Lennart W. (Baxter). | |
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-09-20) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 18.91 MB, length: 13:16) Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (video.google.com) Submission #1693 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #66 (16:30.47) Rating: 7.9 (37 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Forgoes warps - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Arkanoid (1987) strongly resembles the arcade game Breakout (1976). In Arkanoid, the paddle is actually a spaceship, and the bricks are space walls. The goal of the game is to break through the space walls and defeat the villainous Doh in order to escape from the space labyrinth. This incredible TAS of Arkanoid, made by Baxter, inspires awe in a manner comparable to the Gradius movie. No ball is ever lost, even though three balls are juggled in every level where possible. | ||
![]() | SNES Chrono Trigger (USA) "glitched any%" in 21:23.98 by Y.M. (inichi). | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-05-10) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 61.99 MB, length: 25:30) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2240 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #450 (4:21:11.83) Rating: 7.8 (31 votes) View Publication | - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Corrupts save data - Genre: RPG ![]() ![]() ![]() | |
While Chrono Trigger (1995) usually takes days to complete, inichi decided he'd rather not have to sit through all the unnecessary stuff, like long cutscenes, unskippable boss fights and key plot events, so he did it in 21 minutes instead. "Big deal!", you might say — until you realize he didn't use NewGame+. Pick your jaw up off the floor!
As Bisqwit puts it: Who needs strategy when you can just blast yourself through the wafers of the universe?Reading the author's comments is a requirement if you want so much as a clue to what's going on. | ||
![]() | Genesis Gunstar Heroes (USA) in 35:28.92 by Andrew Araki (arkiandruski). | |
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| Gens movie file (.gmv) (date: 2007-08-18) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 218.41 MB, length: 39:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1645 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #133 (32:59.0) Rating: 7.8 (31 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - 2 Players - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Gunstar Heroes (1993) is widely considered to be one of the best action games on the Sega Genesis, but, ironically, was commercially unsuccessful due to poor promotion. It features a variety of melee attacks, as well as 4 basic weapons which can be combined in pairs (making a total of 14 combinations) — all densely packed in a swift and explosion-heavy gameplay spanning over seven uniquely designed stages. The author takes special care to showcase all the moves the game is capable of, using every possible attack and having lots of fun playing around in autoscrolling sections. This movie is 3 minutes longer than the previous one due to playing on hardest difficulty and using both Gunstars at the same time. See the author's comments for more details. The AVI for this movie is also slightly larger than usual — this is due to an amount of colors and on-screen motion even the best codecs have problems coping with. | ||
![]() | PSX Castlevania - Symphony Of The Night (USA) in 19:01.63 by GAD (arukAdo), Rodrigo F (pirate_sephiroth). | |
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| PCSX movie file (.pxm) (date: 2009-10-16) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 83.34 MB, length: 27:26) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2398 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1246 (20:18.63) Rating: 7.7 (18 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure ![]() | |
| 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. Arukado uses major route changes to improve the old movie by 1 minute and 18 seconds. 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. | ||
![]() | SNES Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (USA) in 16:46.58 by DavidPaz (SDR). | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2009-08-08) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 50.71 MB, length: 20:29) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.viddler.com) Submission #2308 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.7 (19.5 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Fighting | |
| Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 is one of the most diverse games of the series in terms of characters and play modes. The author takes advantage of this and the shape-shifting character Shang Tsung to give us an exceptional playaround movie. Bugs, easter eggs and impossible combos are shown off at a breathtaking pace. The movie features a mix of 1 and 2 player play for added variety. | ||
![]() | NES Bionic Commando (USA) in 13:45.26 by Phil Côté. | |
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-11-21) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 31.48 MB, length: 16:30) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2458 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #852 (13:58.98) Rating: 7.7 (16 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Bionic Commando is a platform game with a hero who can't jump, but can quickly latch onto objects with his bionic arm. The TAS looks very impressive with its inhumanly fast grappling and swinging. This is Phil's first contribution to Bionic Commando, which is an improvement of >12 seconds over the previous run, in which he proves he is indeed a cat burglar. For more swinging goodness, also check out Bionic Commando for the Game Boy. | ||
![]() | SNES Mega Man X & X2 (USA v1.1) in 41:41.43 by Sean P. (DeHackEd). | |
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| snes9x movie file (.smv) (date: 2005-07-16) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 175.29 MB, length: 48:05) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (video.google.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #750 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.5 (68.5 votes) View Publication | - 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! | ||
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[1558] NES Super Mario Bros 3 (USA PRG0) "warpless"
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[1543] NES Gimmick! (JPN)
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[1462] GBC Legend of Zelda - Link's Awakening DX (USA v1.0)
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[1415] SNES Super Mario World (USA)
by ISM & Mister in 10:22.17 (2009-12-16)
[1400] Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles (any)
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[1396] NES Bionic Commando (USA)
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[1380] GBA Metroid Zero Mission (USA) "100%"
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[1368] SNES Super Metroid (JPN/USA) "any%"
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[1363] PSX Castlevania - Symphony Of The Night (USA)
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[1348] NES Excitebike (JPN/USA)
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[1346] NES Mega Man 2 (JPN)
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[1333] SNES Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (USA)
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[1286] NES Super Mario Bros 3 (JPN/USA PRG0)
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[1264] SNES Donkey Kong Country 2 (USA) "102%"
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[1257] GBA Ninja Five-0 (USA)
by Cardboard in 16:35.62 (2009-02-09)
[1232] SNES Sparkster (USA)
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[1197] N64 Super Mario 64 (USA) "0 stars"
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[1036] SNES Rockman & Forte (JPN) "100 CDs"
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[945] Genesis Gunstar Heroes (USA)
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[901] NES Castlevania (USA PRG1)
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[802] SNES Biker Mice From Mars (USA)
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[711] NES Gradius (any)
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[577] SNES Super Mario World (USA) "96-exit"
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[468] GBA Sonic Advance 2 (USA)
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[380] SNES Mega Man X & X2 (USA v1.1)
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