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Overview

• Aims to fulfill the site's goal of being a Tool-Assisted Speedrun records site, as well as be an information based central repository for the body of TAS literature.
• Applicable Movie Rules.

Technical requirements

• Must beat all known records, including other TASes.
• Must show a proficient understanding of TAS techniques and be perceived as well optimized: It should not have obvious pauses, mistakes, or sloppy play.
• If starting from a premade save file, a verification movie producing that save file is required.

Acceptable goals

• Completion Percentage goals:
  • Fastest Completion (often called "any%") - Fastest completion of a game using all available options, including major skip glitches (save/memory corruption, arbitrary code execution, etc).
  • Full Completion - Fastest completion of all content in the game without glitching the completion statistics.
  • Lowest Completion - Fastest completion of the least content in the game without glitching the completion statistics.
• Forgoes Major Skip Glitch - Avoids major skips or the glitches that lead to them but otherwise aims for fastest completion.
• Multiplayer goals - For games where you can control several character at once, up to 3 branches are allowed:
  • Minimum players (usually 1)
  • Maximum players (usually 2)
  • Some other player count if it's faster than both of the above
• Difficulty goals - For games with several difficulty settings, we allow up to 3 branches to co-exist:
  • Easiest difficulty
  • Hardest difficulty
  • Any other setting if it's faster than both of the above
• Score Attack - Highest attainable score in-game, barring infinite scoring loops.
• In-Game Codes - Same as "Fastest Completion", but also allows in-game codes that add gameplay or in-game mechanics.
• Savegame - Game modes that are locked behind game completion, or categories that benefit from New Game+ carryover.
  • SaveRAM runs are branched separately from any Power-On counterparts.
• Glitchless - Completing the game as fast as possible while avoiding all known glitches (defined per game in accordance with the community).
• Additional goals are under consideration and will be implemented incrementally.

Goals currently under consideration

• Warps - Fastest completion using intended warps or shortcuts. If major skip glitches are available in the game, avoiding them is allowed for this category.
• Warpless - Fastest completion without using intended shortcuts.
  • This includes branches such as "all levels".
• More standard goals will be added in the future based on community feedback.

Entertainment

• Entertainment is always encouraged, though unnecessary, and will not affect the judgement of a run that otherwise qualifies.
• Speed/entertainment tradeoffs are allowed.

Random Standard Movie

Featured

NES Monster in My Pocket "2 players" by DreamYao in 13:39.55

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Monster in My Pocket is a licensed beat 'em up by Konami that's part of the multimedia franchise of the same name. This game follows Vampire and Monster, the franchise's versions of Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster, as they stop the villainous Warlock from taking over the world. As all the characters are pocket-sized, you get to play in various levels such as a home kitchen, a garden, house hallways, and eventually a construction site.

DreamYao for this run saves about 35 seconds over the previous two player run thanks to rigorous lag management and optimization. A lot of this is done by letting one player die or be offscreen to reduce lag.