Tool-assisted movies

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SGB Castlevania Legends (USA/Europe) in 24:16.4 by Nicholas Hoppe (aka. Sir VG).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 31 MB, length: 28:06)
Download VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2008-02-19)
Read author's comments in submission #1824
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Rating: 5.2 (11 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses death as shortcut
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Action
This Konami-"disowned" Castlevania title follows the earliest Belmont, Sonia, as she attempts to thwart Dracula for the first time. We also meet his son Alucard for the first time. This movie collects the 5 optional Belmont Treasures, which enables a secret ending after the credits with mysterious implications.

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


SGB Kirby's Dream Land 2 (USA) in 48:18.67 by Jakob C. G. (aka. Soulrivers).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 77 MB, length: 53:36)
Download VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2007-07-01)
Read author's comments in submission #1555
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Rating: 5.8 (14 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- All levels&secrets
- Takes damage to save time
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Platform
In Kirby's second Gameboy adventure, he not only takes on the powers of his enemies, but also has the support of his animal friends. Watch as Kirby flies, swims and burns his way to the end.

SGB Pokémon Blue (USA/Europe) in 1:18:58.78 by Mike Tryczak (aka. Primo).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 68 MB, length: 1:20:48)
Download VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2007-08-23)
Read author's comments in submission #1671
Discuss this movie
Obsoletes movie #548 (1:41:58.52)
Rating: 7.2 (23 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Uses death as shortcut
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: RPG
Primorial#soup used CONFUSION. Critical hit! Audience is confused!

Pokémon is a phenomenon that made itself very famous in a short time a few years ago. Pokémon Blue is part of the first generation of the games of that series that were made.

In this movie, Primorial#soup starts, as usual, as a teenager boy in Kanto with a level 5 starter Pokémon, and through vigorously fighting, intermittently doing actions that apparently make no sense (such as bicycling in circles), beats all eight seven gym leaders, earning himself their badges, and the right to challenge the world champion in Pokémon battles ― and he wins, of course ― 23 minutes faster than in the previous movie.

It is recommended to read the author's comments as well as the discussion relating to the movie to fully enjoy it.


SGB Pokémon Green (JPN v1.0) in 04:24.53 by Mike Tryczak (aka. Primo).
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 6 MB, length: 06:10)
Download VBA movie file (.vbm) (date: 2007-08-12)
Read author's comments in submission #1647
Discuss this movie
Rating: 6.2 (24 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Is a demonstration
- Uses warps
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: RPG
This game (along with Pocket Monsters Red) is the Japanese version of the first generation of Pokémon games and is the first ever Pokémon game.

This run abuses a bug that was fixed in later releases of Pocket Monsters (Pokémon) that allows a player to warp freely though the world. Victory is achieved in a matter of minutes with this route. Normally, the game takes well over an hour at the fastest to finish.

To see a more substantial run of Pokémon, watch this movie.

Note: You need VBA version 20 to watch this run.