• Current publications
• Obsoleted publications

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.