Tool-assisted movies (9)

This Super Metroid movie by Cpadolf aims for in-game time, making use of the fact that the in-game timer is stopped during certain events. It's 25 seconds slower than Hero of the day's Super Metroid any% TAS in real time, but completes the game in 24 minutes and 4 seconds by its timer.

Here we have Super Metroid completed in only 23 minutes and 45 seconds by its internal timer, with 22% items collected.

This is Cpadolf's second attempt at this run category, saving 19.37 seconds over the previous one thanks to improved ammo/energy management and better optimization all around.

Note: This movie aims for in-game time, making use of the fact that the internal timer is stopped during certain events. However, some insignificant sacrifices, such as not using the murder beam, were made in order to keep high entertainment level throughout.

If you prefer watching a realtime-oriented movie of Super Metroid any%, check the 38:41 version by Taco & Kriole.

As you might know, Konami realised they went a little overboard with the difficulty of the arcade version of Gradius III, so the SNES port got noticeably easier (and laggier). However, it still remains one of the hardest and most unforgiving shoot 'em ups released in its era.

This is Cpadolf's take at the shmupping carnage, resulting in a significant improvement in both speed and style over the previous movie by Krocketneo. In total, 2 minutes 53 seconds are saved thanks to lag reduction and faster boss fights. The author also kills a greater percentage of enemies (still not fully 100%, though — read the comments for more details).

The game is completed in Arcade mode (still a far cry from the actual arcade game), which is accessed by tapping A on the main menu screen. It is strongly recommended to read the congratulatory text appearing after the end credits. ;)

The Lost Levels is the remake of the game released in Japan as Super Mario Bros 2; it is an exercise in Fake Difficulty, containing very difficult jumps, many enemies, problematic terrain, poisonous mushrooms, and, at worst, Koopa jumps over walls or across pits. Most of it is senseless rehashing of elements in places where they don't belong (like amateur hacks). It's so difficult to beat that Nintendo of America released a wholly different game given a Mario theme as Super Mario Bros 2.

Of all the games in Super Mario All-Stars, it's the only one in the set that saves your progress at individual levels rather than the start of worlds. It's that bad.

This movie, about 7 seconds faster than the previous, plays all levels, including the secret world 9, and extremely difficult A through D worlds.

Super Metroid has always been a game filled with obscure tricks and glitches, but, as with other games at this site, it has also become broken wide open thanks to a joint effort of Cpadolf and hero of the day, as well as Kejardon — the glitch master of Super Metroid who made the key trick of this movie possible.

With the use of X-Ray Scope to get out of the rooms' bounds, some non-trivial physics abuse, and esoteric RAM data manipulation via dying in a certain room, the amount of tasks Samus usually has to do on Zebes has been cut to almost nothing. No boss is ever fought in this TAS, and even Mother Brain is skipped completely. The in-game completion time is 00:12.

Because the movie results in an item completion of 6%, it obsoletes the previous low% TAS by Terimakasih which collected a total of 14 items. If you want to see an up-to-date 14% movie completed without using the out-of-bounds glitch, see this movie by Saturn. It completes the game in 42 minutes and 37 seconds (00:27 by the in-game timer).

In accordance with standard procedure, Samus discarded all of the items she collected on previous adventures before embarking on this one.

This run aims for 100% item collection in the fastest time, and it does so 2 minutes and 34 seconds faster than the previous movie by JXQ, thanks to various new tricks, route changes, and general optimization. The in-game completion time is 36 minutes and 3 seconds.

Super Metroid has a wide variety of time-saving glitches to exploit, many of which are explained on the Super Metroid Tricks page. Be sure to check it, as well as the author's comments, for more information on the improvements.

If you prefer to watch the fastest completion without getting all the items, check out Super Metroid in 38:41 by Taco & Kriole.

Bubsy is on a hunt to get back his yarn, which the Woolies stole.

Bubsy can run very fast, but unfortunately he almost never gets a chance to, because there are obstacles everywhere. Unlike most bobcats, Bubsy can die by touching anything remotely dangerous, like eggs or water. Also unlike regular bobcats, he can glide through the air, has a t-shirt with an exclamation mark, and a smile you'll just be dying to wipe off his face.

This is a 75 second improvement over acmlm's movie.

Here we have another game completely demolished by abuse of game breaking glitches.

The author initiates a glitch involving the character dying and gaining a 1-up during the fadeout to a Game Over screen. This allows him to skip many levels and complete the game in just 3 and half minutes!

For fast completion that does not use this glitch there is the 2-player version.

This is an improvement of almost 9 seconds over the previous run.

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.