Total movies: 422
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-08-09) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 35.07 MB, length: 19:41) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1985 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (34.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| 8 Eyes (1990) is a Castlevania clone that was made by Thinking Rabbit, the originators of Sokoban. But, unlike Castlevania, this game is set in a post-apocalyptic future in which eight nuclear explosions almost destroyed Earth. The game features two characters—the human Orin and his falcon Cutrus—in either 1- or 2-player mode. Cutrus can attack enemies, hit switches, collect items, and generally do all sorts of useful things. The game allows the player to recover the eight jewels in any order. The player can save time in the boss fights by choosing the optimal sequence. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-12-08) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 41.77 MB, length: 17:23) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 47.09 MB, length: 17:23) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1168 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (7 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Shooter | |
| Abadox is a futuristic sidescrolling shooter developed by Natsume. A gigantic alien organism known as Parasitis has eaten the planet Abadox and everyone on it, including the planet's princess. With time running out, the galactic military sends their best fighter inside the alien to save her before she is digested. In this run, NecroVMX provides plenty of entertainment during the autoscrolling sections while taking out the level-end bosses surprisingly quickly. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-08-02) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 4.53 MB, length: 04:03) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 4.28 MB, length: 04:09) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2754 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.6 (39 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
| Even the worst video games ever made can make for a good TAS.
This movie speedily plays through "The Cheetahmen", game #52 of a compilation of horrid games called Action 52. While the game is pretty horrible in general, it has a rather catchy BGM.
There is also a published run of the unreleased sequel, Cheetahmen II.
Important: The version labeled (Rev A) has to be used in order to get the movie to sync. However, before playing back the movie, make sure that you select "Ooze". | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2012-12-02) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 5.03 MB, length: 07:32) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 5.36 MB, length: 07:32) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #915 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.1 (10.5 votes) View Publication | - Pacifist version - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| Heroes of the Lance is based on the first Dragonlance campaign and novel. The party journeys through the ruined city of Xak Tsaroth, face the ancient dragon Khisanth and retrieve the Disks of Mishakal. The interface is setup as a side scroller and only one member of the party is controlled at once. In the run Randil blitzes through everything, not taking the time to kill or even hit any of the regular enemies. The spell being cast most of the time is Protection From Evil. This creates short term invulnerability and allows for jumping through enemies. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-07-07) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 77.00 MB, length: 37:27) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1047 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.2 (20 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
In the South Pacific, Master Higgins lives peacefully wearing only a grass skirt and a cap. That is, until the Evil Witch Doctor decides to capture Princess Leilani and hold her as his own. Now Higgins must rise to the task of saving her!
Selected quotes from the author:This is a run made from a fan to other fans. It won't be impressive for people who haven't tried playing it seriously. But for people who know the game well, it's quite an amusing watch.The most obvious way to save time in this game is to pick up as little fruit as possible and be close to dying from starvation when the level ends so the score-countdown will take less time. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-08-25) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 49.79 MB, length: 24:15) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3264 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #689 (22:37.23) Rating: 4.9 (12.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses warps - Genre: Platform | |
| The second in a series of Hudson's Adventure Island games. Much like its predecessor, it's extremely straightforward but by no means easy. This run is 12.61 seconds faster than the previous thanks to a new glitch. Watch this movie play back on a real NES. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-04-13) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 35.97 MB, length: 20:28) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1486 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #475 (25:10.38) Rating: 5.3 (23 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Genre: Platform | |
| The Adventure Island game series is known for its extreme straightforwardness. Regardless, the games are pretty fast-paced so if you have some free time on your hands, shut down your brain and watch this carefree TAS. This version is significantly shorter than the previous movie mainly due to the use of warps, but also from better precision and some new tricks. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-06-18) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 32.85 MB, length: 22:35) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 42.80 MB, length: 22:35) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2247 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.5 (17 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| This is the fourth in a series of Hudson's Adventure Island games. It was only released in Japan as Takahashi Meijin no Boukenjima 4. Unlike the first three games in the series, the gameplay behaves more like Metroid, where you explore the world freely, you collect items (and dinosaur helpers) to gain new abilities, and the ending is triggered by defeating all the bosses. Also, there is no timer, and the hero can survive more than one hit, using fruits to replenish his health. In this run, Cardboard beats the game very quickly by using damage boosts to proceed at high speeds. For more details, read the submission comments. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-04-04) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 40.13 MB, length: 23:58) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2202 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1131 (22:37.07) Rating: 5.9 (21 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Adventures of Lolo (1989) was the first game of the Eggerland series that received a Western release. Interestingly, the series was developed by HAL Laboratory, who also created the Kirby series, and Eggerland protagonists Lolo and Lala make cameo appearances in Kirby games as Lololo and Lalala.
The goal of the game is to collect all of the hearts in every stage and then get the ball from the chest to open the door to the next room. Though it may seem simplistic, it remains a truly well-made puzzle. Finding optimal solutions to most of the rooms has proven to be a very nontrivial task, and every once in a while a new improvement is found.
As such, this is Baxter's 10th attempt at this game, this time 10.16 seconds faster than the previous with the help of Zugzwang. Eleven rooms have been improved.
For the weak-spirited who aren't willing to watch the run all over again only for the improved rooms, the authors have inserted an easter egg into the input file! If you run the same .fm2 on the NES game Defenders of the Crown, it will complete it as well in just 3 minutes and 38 seconds. Use the ROM "Defenders of the Crown (U).nes" to watch it. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-11-27) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 3.75 MB, length: 02:23) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 3.91 MB, length: 02:23) Mirror www.archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #879 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.9 (42.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses hardest difficulty - Uses a level password - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Lolo 2 contains four so called PRO levels that can only be accessed by inputting a level password. This movie plays those four levels quite fast. This movie is actually a result of competition/co-operation between Baxter, Randil and Hanzou. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-08-11) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 45.12 MB, length: 24:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1659 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #514 (24:10.65) Rating: 5.9 (27 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Adventures of Lolo 2 is the second game in the popular Lolo-series. This run aims to beat every room as fast as possible, often by strategies the game developers had not intended, including glitch abuse. In addition to Hanzou, strategies were developed by many players, such as Bag of Magic Food, CtrlAltDestroy, Deign, Nitrodon, and Randil. This update beats the previous submission by 39.13 seconds. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-06-09) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 87.29 MB, length: 1:09:17) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1920 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.0 (19.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Puzzle | |
Lolo 3 is the third in the series of Lolo games based on the Eggerland series. From the author's description:
The great devil turned all of the inhabitants of Lala's kingdom to stone. Lolo and Lala go through 100 rooms to defeat him, or something like that. This run is 14 minutes and 50 seconds faster than windeu's rejected submission, and [ 1:49.38 seconds] faster than my test run. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2012-11-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 79.26 MB, length: 42:56) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 81.66 MB, length: 42:56) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1040 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.9 (5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Air Fortress is a combination game: one half side scrolling shooter, and one half platformer. Since the shooter is an auto-scroller, the author elects to kill all enemies and collect all powerups in those stages, which is not that easy. In the platform stages, pure speed is the goal. More details are available in the author's comments. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-11-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 30.09 MB, length: 23:03) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 47.73 MB, length: 23:03) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4475 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.6 (3 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Genre: Platform | |
| Alien 3 on the NES is similar to Probe Software's adaptations of the film on other systems. While using the same overall game concept as the Sega and Commodore versions, the NES title has unique levels. The player controls Ripley through a number of platform levels. She must not only defend herself against hordes of aliens and find the exit, but also save a number of prisoners, all within a tight time limit of only minutes per level. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-03-26) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 7.83 MB, length: 07:34) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 8.90 MB, length: 07:34) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3899 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (8.5 votes) View Publication | - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
| Alter Ego is an NES homebrew port of a ZX Spectrum puzzle game of the same name. You control a character who can switch places with his shadow a limited number of times in each stage. The goal is to collect all the items without touching any enemies. To further complicate matters, the blue-outlined items can only be collected by the shadow, whereas the pink-outlined items can only be collected by the main player. This hardly stops MESHUGGAH, though, who barely avoids death in a number of puzzles and finishes in record time. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-11-22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 26.21 MB, length: 19:22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 29.15 MB, length: 19:22) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3357 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #710 (18:27.6) Rating: 6.5 (7 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Amagon the Marine has crash-landed on a mysterious island in the South Pacific and must get to the rescue boat. In his way lie wild animals, dinosaurs, and aliens, all of which are likely to be endangered or extinct after their encounter with this gun-wielding man who can double his muscle mass to punch them into oblivion. This is an improvement of nearly 26 seconds over the previous run by Tailz due to increased use of the Megagon form, lag reduction, improved boss fights, and a time-saving death in level 5-1. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-11-25) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 19.45 MB, length: 19:26) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 21.57 MB, length: 19:26) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2970 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.4 (8.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Sport | |
| American Gladiators is a game based on the popular TV game show of the same name. Players get to test their speed, skill and strength against a trained team of ten "Gladiators", five male and five female. In this run, X2poet plays through all seven events, using tool-assisted precision and some glitches to finish the game in just under 17 and a half minutes. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-02-03) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 50.04 MB, length: 16:52) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 64.12 MB, length: 16:52) Mirror www.archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1424 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (35 votes) View Publication | - 4 Players - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Everyone knows Freddy Krueger, who turns the peaceful dreams of people living on Elm Street into lethal nightmares. In this run, the author, chupapi, aims for the fastest completion time using 4 characters but treats us to some interesting character movements along the way. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-04-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 30.76 MB, length: 14:03) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 41.10 MB, length: 14:03) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3509 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #780 (14:32.88) Rating: 6.6 (7.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Everyone knows Freddy Krueger, who turns the peaceful dreams of people living on Elm Street into lethal nightmares. In this game, the teenager(s) must stay awake and combat Freddy's various forms while collecting his scattered bones so that they can be incinerated. This movie is 1:05.98 faster than the previous version by Randil. This is accomplished by using 2 players, which allows for faster bone collection without losing time thanks to the excessive lag created by using 4 players (Displayed in the 4 Player run). For more details, please see the author's notes. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-12-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 1.92 MB, length: 02:06) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 2.26 MB, length: 02:06) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3756 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #2124 (01:15.39) Rating: 5.1 (7.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Strategy | |
| Archon: The Light and the Dark is Battle Chess to the extreme. Instead of just capturing the opponent's piece like a wimp, upon confrontation, the two pieces are placed in a "combat arena" in which they must fight to the death. The game is won when either all of the opponent's pieces are defeated or all five Magic Squares are held at once. Like in the previous movie, author MESHUGGAH uses the latter to complete the game, this time 5.39 seconds faster thanks to better luck manipulation and strategy. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-11-02) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 4.42 MB, length: 05:17) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1705 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #765 (04:32.12) Rating: 6.7 (51 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Uses death to save time - Major skip glitch - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action | |
| This run exploits a programming error that allows the author to start playing from level 23. If you notice that there's nothing meaningful going on in the first minute of the movie, this is normal: the actual gameplay takes place only after triggering the "game over" screen. See the author's comments for more information on this glitch. This improves the author's previous movie by about 5 seconds. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-09-20) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 18.91 MB, length: 13:16) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1693 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #66 (16:30.47) Rating: 7.9 (57 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Forgoes major skip glitch - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action | |
| 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. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-06-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 32.32 MB, length: 19:58) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 42.81 MB, length: 19:58) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4339 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Armadillo is a young cowboy from Texas, who is in love with Sheryl, the cutest girl of the state. But an evil organization kidnaps his sweetheart. The matters become even more complicated when the famous Billy The Shell also embarks on a quest to save Sheryl. Will Armadillo be able to rescue the girl and to defeat his enemies? In this game, you move Armadillo around an area map composed of squares. Some of them are empty, while others represent locations. Once you enter a location, you find yourself on a platform level, that often contains several sub-levels. There are sometimes branching ways on the area map, and you are not obliged to access all the locations to clear an area. On the platform levels, Armadillo can either walk and jump in his normal form (dies from single enemy hit), or turn into a ball, which is invulnerable to enemies' attacks, but is hard to control: the ball follows realistic physics, bounces of walls, and takes time to stop rolling. During the game, Armadillo will also be able to find upgrades that will allow him to take an animal's form for a short time. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-12-23) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 11.25 MB, length: 08:24) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2944 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1693 (06:04.05) Rating: 6.1 (15.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| The story of Asterix takes place in the year 50 BCE. All of Gaul has been occupied by the Romans except for a little village. Asterix and his Gallic companions live in that village, fighting the Romans. In this game, Julius Caesar has snatched Obelix, Asterix's best friend, and is about to feed him to lions! But before anyone can even blink, Asterix comes, kicks Julius' ass, and comes to the rescue of his friend! This game is based on one of the most successful French comic book series of the same name. It has been successful since 1959, with more than 325 million comics sold worldwide. By Toutatis! A bit more than a week after the latest published movie, it already got improved by 21 seconds! | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-09-16) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 29.25 MB, length: 19:18) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 32.29 MB, length: 19:18) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3696 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1153 (15:43.25) Rating: 6.6 (10 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Astyanax (1990) is the story of a studly 16-year-old boy named Astyanax who is summoned to the world of Remlia in order to save the enchantress Princess Rosebud from the evil wizard Blackhorn, who wants to rule the world. It is a somewhat clumsy game. For one, Astyanax is twice as big as he appears, and so he is easily hit unless one plays carefully. The controls are also very bad. The sum of these factors is that it's a difficult game to play, but that's part of what makes this movie interesting—especially for those who have played this game. Thanks to effective lag management and using all powers, the author has achieved 32.66 seconds worth of improvement over the previous movie by dragonxyk. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-07-08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 3.37 MB, length: 02:45) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.radiokj.com Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Submission #3211 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1603 (02:23.33) Rating: 6.0 (18.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Uses warps - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Atlantis no Nazo (アトランチスの謎) is a game where an explorer is trying to save his friend and must find his way through a maze of rooms. In this case, levels.
This is an improvement of a couple centiseconds over the previous run, by optimizing the pause trick introduced in the latter.
Author commentaries are available through the run in the form of subtitles. They can be enabled or disabled in the YouTube and Dailymotion streams. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-12-04) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 17.07 MB, length: 07:12) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 20.14 MB, length: 07:12) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4120 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.6 (5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| In this game based on the cartoon of the same name, young Chad Finletter is on a quest to stop the evil Dr. Putrid T. Gangreen from unleashing his Doomsday Tomato on the world. As the rest of the townsfolk are too afraid of the mutant vegetables coming out of the sewers to do anything, Chad is the only one who can save the day. It's a simple platform game where most of the enemies can be defeated by jumping on them. There are also several bosses Chad must face, including the Doomsday Tomato itself. In this run, TASeditor uses optimized movement and a trick to maintain maximum speed to beat this short game in a little over 6 minutes. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-06-29) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 11.69 MB, length: 09:30) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 12.83 MB, length: 09:30) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3638 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.8 (21 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| A Week of Garfield is a 1989 Famicom exclusive based on the comic strip character Garfield. In the game you play through levels which take place on each day of the week on your search to find Odie. This game is surprisingly hard. Playing the game without dying (which results in a game over since you only have one life), let alone not losing any health, is extremely challenging. At times the screen is nearly filled with enemies and requires frame specific movement to avoid taking damage. But don't worry, goofydylan8 manages to make this game look like a piece of cake and beat the console world record by 4 minutes. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-11-25) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 91.52 MB, length: 1:16:06) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 96.20 MB, length: 1:16:06) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2790 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.6 (9 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Back to the Future Part II & III is a side-scrolling platform/puzzle game produced by Beam Software and distributed by LJN, based on the second and third movies of the Back to the Future trilogy. This run by GlitchMan completes this long game in the fastest time possible. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-01-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 23.80 MB, length: 15:49) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 37.32 MB, length: 15:49) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2161 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.8 (33 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Fighting | |
| "The President has been kidnapped by ninjas! Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the President?" The answer is a resounding "yes", though we're not sure if Karnov counts as a ninja or not. In this run, Kirkq utilizes obscure and unusual jump patterns to move quickly. During the game's lengthy scrolling sections, optimization shifts more toward entertainment. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-10-22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 15.78 MB, length: 10:36) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3332 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (9 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Bananan Ouji no Daibouken is a platform game only released in Japan and Germany (where it is known as Banana Prince). One day in the Banana nation, the Banana Prince is conversing with the Dragonmaster when the evil Paprika Dragon flies in and steals the big banana, the symbol of the nation's wealth. While the Dragonmaster is at a loss as to what to do, the Prince decides to bring back the nation's most beloved possession to the people. The author, khv-user, runs, jumps, and climbs his way to the Paprika Dragon and brings back the banana in only nine and a half minutes. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-02-04) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 17.89 MB, length: 11:04) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1839 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #350 (09:24.42) Rating: 7.6 (41.5 votes) View Publication | - Forgoes time-saving damage - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| The hero of Gotham City goes against the villain of Gotham City. His fists are more powerful than any weapon in the world, but he rarely kills anyone. It's not like his enemies can hurt him anyway. After all, he's the hero, and heroes are supposed to be invincible. Here Aglar has managed to improved the previous movie by 2.5 seconds. Enjoy the movie, and the excellent soundtrack and the graphics of this game. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-04-03) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 36.80 MB, length: 13:17) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1898 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.9 (29.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Batman: Return of the Joker (1991) is the sequel to the first Batman game for the NES. Being one of the later NES titles, it shows surprisingly good and fluid visuals, fullsize art, and decent sound — all without slowdown issues! The gameplay has undergone some changes compared to its predecessor. A welcome addition to it is a slide movement, similar to the one in the Mega Man series. A not-so-welcome addition is that half the stages are autoscrolling, and there are no close combat weapons now. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-07-18) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 13.66 MB, length: 13:23) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 16.15 MB, length: 13:23) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4013 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.6 (19 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - 2 Players - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Shooter | |
| In Battle City, your goal is to destroy enemy tanks while trying to keep them away from your base. Each level includes 20 enemies as well as some obstacles, like the weak red bricks, armored silver bricks, water and ice, which you can use to your advantage. The basic tank you start with can also be powered up little by little throughout the game. In this run, N?K rolls through the game speedily while losing a little bit of time to entertain with amusing shooting patterns and making the scenery into recognizable letters and shapes. Spoiler: Hover over the screenshot. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-08-08) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 54.55 MB, length: 25:02) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2014 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #102 (24:52.62) Rating: 5.1 (21 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Shooter | |
| Super Spy Hunter (1992) was originally released in Japan under the name Battle Formula (バトルフォーミュラ). The game has "become" a sequel to Spy Hunter, the arcade classic from 1983, already after its initial release — when the developer purchased the license from Midway. Since the main character drives a wheeled vehicle, this game shows to be the rare kind of a variable scrolling speed shooter, where you can slow the car down if you can't keep up with the action (which obviously never happens in a TAS). The core gameplay holds true to its spiritual predecessor, but this time it's spiced up with stage bosses and various sorts of powerups. This movie is a 1 minute 14 second improvement over the previous one thanks to increased precision, lag reduction, and better boss fighting. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-04-24) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 38.42 MB, length: 39:09) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3115 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (15 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Best ending - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
| Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril may look old, but it's actually released in 2010! It's still possible to buy a new NES cartridge of this game online! Mainly inspired by the PC game I Wanna Be the Guy, this game is classic platforming action, where anything can kill the player in one single hit. While it's not unfair (as opposed to I Wanna Be the Guy), it's still really hard. Aglar collects every item and key before going to the last area, and takes the right path to get to the best ending, all of this on the hardest difficulty possible and without taking any damage! | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-06-07) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 78.22 MB, length: 25:56) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #693 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.8 (50 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes warps - Forgoes major skip glitch - Forgoes final boss skip glitch - Heavy glitch abuse - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Foregoes memory corruption - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform | |
| This run has two players and does not use warps. As always, a bug on level 11 prevents player 2 from moving, so he gets a game over for that level. Player 1 plays level 11 alone and player 2 comes back for level 12. This is a bug in Battletoads itself. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-06-21) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 2.01 MB, length: 01:53) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 2.34 MB, length: 01:53) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3983 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #2157 (00:56.94) Rating: 7.3 (12 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Uses warps - Major skip glitch - Final boss skip glitch - Heavy glitch abuse - Corrupts memory - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform | |
| Battletoads (1991) is a futuristic beat 'em up game known for its extreme difficulty spread over 16 difficult levels. The mechanics in the game also change drastically from level to level, making the game one of the hardest and most varied for the NES. In this game, the second most diabolical evil genius in the universe, The Dark Queen, has kidnapped Princess Angelica and Pimple - a battletoad. Rash and Zitz must save them by traveling through the most insane multilevel set of plans ever designed. This includes falling down huge shafts, racing through obstacle courses at breakneck speeds, riding on snakes through a massive maze of spikes, passing through a killer ventilation system, navigating through a missile defense system, climbing a never ending revolving tower, and much much more. Along the way, the Battletoads must also face off against an evil army of robots, genetically engineered rodents, and The Dark Queen herself. In order to make the game a bit easier, its creators embedded some secret warp zones to skip a few early levels in their entirety. But that simply wasn't good enough for MESHUGGAH; he decided to travel directly to level 3, where he invents his own warp and skips right to the grand finale. He took a glitch found in this TAS and exploited it further, to the point the Dark Queen just gives up and returns Angelica and Pimple, going off to hatch an even more evil plan for next time. The glitch is done by breaking the game execution and sticking it right to the game ending. This run conquers the predecessor movie by 0.18 seconds by exploiting the fact that green toad is processed before the yellow one. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-04-14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 77.24 MB, length: 25:29) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #604 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #284 (26:31.67) Rating: 6.7 (36 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Uses death to save time - Forgoes warps - Forgoes major skip glitch - Forgoes final boss skip glitch - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Foregoes memory corruption - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform | |
| This is a 1-player warpless TAS on this hard game. As usual, the author shows off many bugs in this fighting/autoscrolling hybrid. This movie requires FCEU 0.98.12. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-11-16) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 34.73 MB, length: 12:09) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 33.96 MB, length: 12:09) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3356 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #291 (15:29.03) Obsoletes movie #310 (13:27.98) Rating: 8.7 (25.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Uses warps - Forgoes major skip glitch - Forgoes final boss skip glitch - Heavy glitch abuse - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Foregoes memory corruption - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform ![]() | |
| Battletoads (1991) is a futuristic beat 'em up known for its graphics and extreme difficulty. The story is that the sexy Dark Queen who wants to rule the universe has kidnapped Princess Angelica and a toad named Pimple. Two other toads, Rash and Zitz, attempt to rescue them and defeat the Dark Queen. Maybe you thought Battletoads was a game full of amphibians, but it is actually full of bugs. Those beta testers really should have spent a little more time on this game... In this run, feos and MESHUGGAH beat the previously fastest TAS of this game by 2:22.16, this time using 2 players instead of 1. You will laugh, you will cry, but most of all, you will wonder how in the world they broke this game so much. Do yourself a favor and read the authors' notes. To see the game broken even further with the use of memory corruption, watch this run. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-05-25) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 50.15 MB, length: 18:30) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 48.72 MB, length: 18:35) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3154 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.8 (30 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action | |
| Battletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team is an action packed beat 'em up crossover that features essentially the same physics as Battletoads. Together, these heroes must defeat the Shadow Boss, the Dark Queen, and an assortment of other baddies. Unlike the run of the SNES version, the author, feos, uses both a Toad and a Dragon. In addition, he constantly exploits glitches removed in the SNES version. The result is roughly 18 minutes of ridiculous antics! For more information on the glitches used in this run, please see the author's notes. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-05-06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 10.38 MB, length: 04:56) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 11.14 MB, length: 04:55) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3138 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.2 (20 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Unofficial game - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Bio Force Ape was a game developed by SETA set to be released in 1991 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. After SETA folded, a prototype cart was picked up by Lost Levels, who then released it to the public. In this prototype, you take control of a genetically altered super chimpanzee with pro wrestling-style moves and guide him through a hi-tech maze to rescue his adopted family. Why wasn't this released again? In this run, the author, RT-55J, tries to complete the game in the fastest in-game time. To do this, he uses many exploits that might have been removed if this game was actually released. For more details, as always, please see the author's notes. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-08-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 31.52 MB, length: 22:06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 37.36 MB, length: 22:06) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4391 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - 100% completion - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Bionic Commando (1988) is a platform game with a hero who can't jump, but can quickly latch onto objects with his bionic arm. The name of the original (Japanese) version of the game literally translates to The Resurrection of Hitler: Top Secret. Nintendo censored the Nazi references for the North American version. Unlike our any% run of this game, this run collects every non-respawning object. This includes completing every action stage (but not the neutral zones), obtaining every gun, and exposing the secret enemy truck routes to get the helmet item. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-01-26) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 23.37 MB, length: 16:00) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 27.15 MB, length: 16:00) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4171 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #2503 (13:25.22) Rating: 7.6 (5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Bionic Commando (1988) is a platform game with a hero who can't jump, but can quickly latch onto objects with his bionic arm. The name of the original (Japanese) version of the game literally translates to The Resurrection of Hitler: Top Secret. Nintendo censored the Nazi references for the North American version. Author nEilfox's second contribution to Bionic Commando features inhumanly fast grappling and swinging. This run is an improvement of 3.32 seconds over the previous run due to better optimization and a new trick in area 7. For more swinging goodness, check out these runs of the Game Boy and arcade versions. There is also an "all items" run which completes the optional stages as well. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-01-18) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 67.25 MB, length: 32:30) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 78.34 MB, length: 32:30) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3804 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #365 (33:17.52) Rating: 7.0 (6 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes major skip glitch - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Jason's pet frog escaped and got into some radioactive material underground. Naturally, there's a tank handy and Jason's first reaction is to go after his frog. BrotherMojo improves the previous movie by 2:43.86 using better routes and more glitches. More information in Submission notes | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-12-06) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 5.50 MB, length: 06:22) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2477 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1391 (04:34.24) Rating: 7.3 (23 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Major skip glitch - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Blaster Master is a fairly long game involving a random hero that jumps down a hole after his mutant frog, finds a tank, and proceeds to blow up a few bosses and rescue said frog. It's complicated. In this movie the hero gets bored with the tank early on, skips the bosses and mostly decides to just go straight to the final boss and blow him up. The frog is saved and dissected, and Biology 101 is passed. Hooray! This movie plays on the European version of the game, which includes a few bugs such as stopping movement by pausing and allowing double (and more) jumping. A changed zip mechanism is also in the European version which allows warping through things you really shouldn't be able to warp through. This publication beats the previous movie by 9 seconds. If you would like to see more of the game, we also have a warpless Blaster Master movie here that plays on the US version. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-05-28) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 34.40 MB, length: 21:28) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1069 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #343 (20:07.68) Rating: 6.8 (37 votes) View Publication | - Uses hardest difficulty - Uses a level password - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Boulder Dash is a well known action-puzzle game where you must collect a quota of diamonds and reach the exit. This version improves upon the previous one by 25 seconds! Normally, standing under any falling object or just getting close to an enemy means instant death, but in this movie the player fearlessly dives through heaps of falling objects and walks past enemies without a scratch. It's quite pleasureable to watch if you have ever sat screaming at this game for getting stuck or killed repeatedly. This playthrough uses a password to skip to level 19-1, which begins the hardest set of levels. The amoeba levels have long unavoidable waits, it is advised to fast-forward through these. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-01-18) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 21.14 MB, length: 15:00) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 20.33 MB, length: 15:00) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3396 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (9 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Bram Stoker's Dracula is a platformer based on the famous 1897 book of the same name. Count Dracula has cast his hypnotic spell on the lovely Mina Murray. To save her from eternity as a vampiress, you take control of Jonathan Harker as you ram through hordes of enemies, bombard bosses with stones, and...dance with ghosts? This run by Randil is an improvement of 59 seconds over Shiru's rejected submission by taking more damage and using better strategies for the boss fights. See the author's notes for more details. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2012-12-11) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 16.00 MB, length: 08:10) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 17.85 MB, length: 08:10) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1144 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.1 (4 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action | |
| BreakThru is a short, fast-paced game developed by Data East. It was released to arcades in 1986 and later ported to a few home consoles. You are the driver of a blue dune buggy, and your mission is to recover a stolen fighter plane, which lies behind 5 enemy lines that you must "break thru". Dave_dfwm strikes fear into the hearts of his enemies by tearing across the landscape and shooting everything in his path. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-02-04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 39.44 MB, length: 26:40) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2551 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #64 (27:18.38) Rating: 6.9 (30 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Uses warps - Genre: Platform | |
| In Bubble Bobble, two magical, bubble-blowing dinosaurs (Bub and Bob)
fight through an evil, deep forest in order to rescue their kidnapped
dinosaur friends.
This movie features one... no, wait, six players controlling two characters simultaneously while smashing the previous time by 2 minutes and 41 seconds. However, this publication chooses to use warps.
Authors adelikat, Tompa, and Cardboard recorded some live commentary as well. Bubble Bobble is definitely better with swearing. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-11-12) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 29.68 MB, length: 27:44) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1738 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #472 (25:02.32) Rating: 7.5 (31.5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Uses death to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| A rare instance of a Japanese-made NES game based on a U.S.-originated comic book, Bucky O'Hare (1992) provides a player with a good combination of platforming action similar to Mega Man, an interesting plot, and convincing production values. You can play as one of the five unique characters, which you are free to select at any time, after saving them from the clutches of the Toad Empire. Each character has special abilities required to take advantage of in order to pass through the game's numerous variably designed stages, ranging from single-screen puzzle rooms to autoscrolling shoot-'em-ups. Interesting fact about this game is that Konami used to implement unconventional ways of piracy protection, in this particular case by making each hit or an otherwise harmful collision in the game result in an instant death if you play it illegitimately. Apparently, this was how a large amount of people were used to playing it in pre-emulation era, without ever finding out Konami's little sabotage. This movie by AnS is set up in a fashion that imitates this handicap by playing the game in hard mode (accessing it through a password), where every hit results in death. Other than that, it also improves the previous movie by 2 minutes 48.7 seconds, using several major glitches and a lot of small tricks explained in great detail in the author's comments. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-06-23) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 25.60 MB, length: 18:23) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 25.41 MB, length: 18:23) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3633 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #2054 (20:51.24) Rating: 6.4 (7 votes) View Publication | - Forgoes time-saving damage - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
| Created by an Asian pirate developer, Koko Adventure was released in Korea in 1993. The game was planned to be released unlicensed in America as Buzz and Waldog, but was cancelled before it could hit store shelves. The game's pirate origins are obviously visible - many of the graphics are ripped from popular games like Super Mario Bros. and Sonic the Hedgehog, and the sound effects are borrowed from Tiny Toon Adventures. This is the author's second submission of this game, and improves on the previous one by skipping intermission screens faster. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-12-05) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 15.52 MB, length: 09:15) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 17.89 MB, length: 09:15) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1020 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 3.4 (5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Sport | |
| California Games is an NES port of the popular 80's Arcade game. This game contains six Californian sports to partake in: Half Pipe, Foot Bag (Hacky Sack), Surfing, Skating, BMX and Disc Throw. In this run, Luke demonstrates superhuman play in each of the sports. For more information, see the author's comments. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-11-17) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 22.38 MB, length: 16:26) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 24.23 MB, length: 16:26) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3743 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (7.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Captain America and the Avengers is a game developed and released by Data East in 1991. It features the Marvel Comics characters The Avengers in a side-scrolling action platform to defeat the evil Red Skull. In this run, Xipo takes a full advantage of a forward slide and all types of Captain's shield attacks, he even swims on the acid in it! Though he ignores the power-up system, because collecting the poles he would lose more time than could be gained by more powerful attacks. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-12-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 22.67 MB, length: 08:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2940 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #244 (06:59.7) Rating: 6.0 (18.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| In this game, the hero—Duke Geraden—travels to Darklarza Castle in order to rescue Princess Amoreena from the Dragon Master. Castle of Dragon has all the elements of a bad game: it's clumsy, it looks and sounds horrible, and it has been made almost impossible to beat by implementing a lot of random factors into it. This run improves the previous movie by over 30 seconds. We also have a movie of the arcade version. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-06-26) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 14.99 MB, length: 12:51) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 15.74 MB, length: 12:51) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) 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: 8.4 (48.5 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. The MSX version has been TASed as well! There is also a run of this game which destroys as little as possible. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-09-20) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 19.39 MB, length: 14:20) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 20.17 MB, length: 14:20) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3702 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.5 (18.5 votes) View Publication | - Pacifist version - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Simon is taking another shot at this castle, but feeling horrible for the destruction he caused last time, he is now trying to respect Dracula's property and leave the place untouched (even if his intention is to kill the count). As a minimalist variation of a pacifist goal, this movie does not contain any destruction in the levels: candles and walls are left intact, items stay untouched, and no enemy is harmed — with the exception of the bosses, who are killed mercilessly with the help of the "critical hit" glitch. With Simon sneaking by most enemies with no subweapons and only his leather whip, this ends up being quite a stealthy run. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-06-07) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 56.51 MB, length: 31:29) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 90.16 MB, length: 31:29) Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1997 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #933 (32:08.22) Rating: 7.0 (32 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| If science fiction is to be believed, the ultimate evolution for biological beings is to discard the physical body and become an entity of pure energy. For video game characters, it seems to be the ability to zip through walls. In this latest TAS by zggzdydp, Simon Belmont joins the league of characters possessing this ability. Castlevania II: Simon's Quest is the story of Simon's horrible weekend without sleep. Two years after defeating Dracula, the hero is physically weakened by Dracula's curse. He must gather Dracula's remains and incinerate them at the ruins of Castlevania in order to end the curse. This movie is 2 minutes and 23 seconds faster than the previous effort by the same author. We recommend to read his comments for explanations on how this improvement was achieved. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-01-04) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 56.51 MB, length: 31:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1406 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #58 (28:32.15) Rating: 7.0 (28 votes) View Publication | - Uses a suboptimal character - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (originally known as 悪魔城伝説 or Akumajō Densetsu, meaning "Legend of the Demon Castle") is the story of Trevor Belmont's battle against Dracula from the times before Simon's battle in Castlevania. In this complex and difficult game, there are three playable allies whom Trevor can recruit: Alucard (Dracula's son), Grant DaNasty (a pirate captain), and Sypha Belnades (a mystic warlord). This game has a technically high-quality soundtrack because it uses a VRC6 sound chip that works in the Japanese Famicom but not in the NES. Thus, the movie was made with the Japanese version of the game instead of the USA version. This movie takes the path that recruits Sypha. There's also a Grant path movie and an Alucard path movie. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-03-04) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 42.67 MB, length: 31:31) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 52.39 MB, length: 31:31) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3475 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #762 (28:57.55) Rating: 6.8 (8.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses a suboptimal character - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (originally known as 悪魔城伝説 or Akumajō Densetsu, meaning "Legend of the Demon Castle") is the story of Trevor Belmont's battle against Dracula from the times before Simon's battle in Castlevania. In this complex and difficult game, there are three playable allies whom Trevor can recruit: Alucard (Dracula's son), Grant DaNasty (a pirate captain), and Sypha Belnades (a mystic warlord). This game has a technically high-quality soundtrack because it uses a VRC6 sound chip that works in the Japanese Famicom but not in the NES. Thus, the movie was made with the Japanese version of the game instead of the USA version. This movie takes the path that recruits Grant. It is about 22 seconds faster than the previous version. Improvements come from more optimization, better heart management, and new tricks like manipulating moving platforms and entering walls. There is also a Sypha path movie and an Alucard path movie. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-01-04) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 49.88 MB, length: 28:17) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1407 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #57 (25:56.92) Rating: 7.4 (28 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (originally known as 悪魔城伝説 or Akumajō Densetsu, meaning "Legend of the Demon Castle") is the story of Trevor Belmont's battle against Dracula from the times before Simon's battle in Castlevania. In this complex and difficult game, there are three playable allies whom Trevor can recruit: Alucard (Dracula's son), Grant DaNasty (a pirate captain), and Sypha Belnades (a mystic warlord). This game has a technically high-quality soundtrack because it uses a VRC6 sound chip that works in the Japanese Famicom but not in the NES. Thus, the movie was made with the Japanese version of the game instead of the USA version. This movie takes the path that recruits Alucard. It is about 39 seconds faster than the previous movie, played by Genisto. There's also a Grant path movie and a Sypha path movie. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-11-09) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 6.07 MB, length: 06:57) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 6.64 MB, length: 06:57) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2043 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.7 (9 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Chack'n Pop is the classic predecessor of the very popular Bubble Bobble series. Originally an arcade game, it features a small yellow creature named Chack'n who can walk on the floor and ceiling, climb steps, and throw hand grenades. Avoiding Monstas, Chack'n must free hearts from their cages using grenades to destroy solid walls and get to the top of the screen. In this run, GeminiSaint completes the first iteration of the arcade loop (9 levels) in 6:56.31. | ||
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| Bizhawk movie (.bkm) (date: 2013-11-26) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 3.09 MB, length: 03:03) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 4.37 MB, length: 03:03) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4093 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.6 (11.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Major skip glitch - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses uninitialized initial state - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
| Cheetahmen II is the unfinished sequel to game #52 of Action 52. The game contains 6 of the 10 levels originally proposed, in which the player takes control of Apollo, Hercules, and Aries, switching off every two levels. This is the first movie to abuse the fact that some games do not initialize their states before reading them, which in this case results in one of the cart registers randomly taking a certain value that can force the game to start from level 5 on power-on. Since the game really behaves like that on the console, it was decided to allow presetting such truly random bits on the emulator side. Read the submission text and its discussion thread for more details. We also have an "all levels" TAS for this game, done on the patched ROM due to a bug in the original game preventing the player from progressing past level 4. | ||
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| Bizhawk movie (.bkm) (date: 2013-08-28) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 4.59 MB, length: 03:35) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 5.99 MB, length: 03:35) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4058 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #2345 (03:31.14) Rating: 5.8 (9.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes major skip glitch - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
| Cheetahmen II is the unfinished sequel to game #52 of Action 52. The game contains 6 of the 10 levels originally proposed, in which the player takes control of Apollo, Hercules, and Aries, switching off every two levels.
This run is done with a patched ROM that allows all 6 levels to be played without invoking rare glitches. Here's the run of the original ROM that uses the mapper register glitch to start from level 5.
The author, andypanther, improves the previous run by 11 frames with some minor strategy changes and lag reduction.
Note: Starting with this publication, the primary downloadable encode for published movies will be in 10bit444 format. To keep compatibility with older systems, 512kb encodes will also be available as a secondary downloadable and a stream. See this page to learn how to set up your media player to play 10bit444 encodes. Old publications are not affected by this change. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-06-17) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 17.11 MB, length: 09:59) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1978 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1026 (09:29.22) Rating: 7.2 (34 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| This run illustrates very well the advantage of using two-player mode. Much faster than the single-player version, Chip and Dale carry each other, throw each other, abuse balloons and zip as they once again go after Fat Cat. The improvement by dragonxyk comes now with Chip and Dale zipping on each other. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-06-06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 14.24 MB, length: 10:47) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.radiokj.com Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3166 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #473 (09:57.17) Rating: 7.0 (11 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Chip 'n Dale - Rescue Rangers is based on the animated TV series. In this ridiculously easy and straightforward game, the Rangers look for their neighbor's kitty and end up fighting against their old nemesis, Fat Cat. Aglar improved Genisto's movie by 1.81 seconds, by using different routes and by improving the zip method. You can check out the author's comments to learn more about the improvements. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-12-17) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 22.37 MB, length: 14:22) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1790 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #918 (11:23.2) Rating: 7.0 (32 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers 2 is quite an improvement over the original Chip 'n Dale in terms of graphics and a whole lot of other things. Thankfully, the original game's solid controls haven't been changed. The plot of this game is that Fat Cat has stolen the Pharaoh's Urn and wants to use its power (for evil purposes, of course). Like the first movie, a two-player run makes for some interesting things, like Chip and Dale carrying each other around, and heavy abuse of death to take advantage of balloons. By killing off one character, he respawns on a floating balloon, thus going ahead of the other character. Unlike the first, however, this run frequently destroys bosses by using one of the characters as a weapon. Only in the Chip 'n Dale series can such apparently irrational action be justified. This movie, the second submission for this game by dragonxyk, is a 18.55-second improvement over the previous movie. See here for a run with just Chip. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-05-20) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 21.86 MB, length: 19:09) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 24.02 MB, length: 19:09) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3597 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1995 (16:33.2) Rating: 7.2 (9.5 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers 2 is quite an improvement over the original Chip 'n Dale in terms of graphics and a whole lot of other things. Thankfully, the original game's solid controls haven't been changed. The plot of this game is that Fat Cat has stolen the Pharaoh's Urn and wants to use its power (for evil purposes, of course). This run only uses Chip. It's an improvement of 1:19.53 over the previous "1 player" publication, through careful optimization, some new tricks and manipulating the bosses. For a 2-player run of the same game, see [1028] NES Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers 2 (USA) "2 players" by dragonxyk in 11:04.65. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-07-21) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 17.80 MB, length: 12:28) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1622 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #914 (09:24.87) Rating: 5.7 (24 votes) View Publication | - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform | |
| Continuing the trend of NES games based on popular Japanese TV shows, Jetman is apparently about multi-colored heroes and robots duking it out. No, it's not Power Rangers. This movie probably qualifies for "Quickest Giant Robot Fights." | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-02-04) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 5.79 MB, length: 03:32) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1834 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #775 (03:24.35) Rating: 5.5 (39.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses easiest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Circus Charlie is a simple game that most people probably know from pirate multigame carts. The first stages are easy for anyone even on real NES, but stage 3 is already quite challenging. This movie plays "1 player game A" (easy). Ironically, this is MORE challenging for tool-assisted gameplay. Stage times: 3410, 3560, 3750, 3890, 4270. Yet another "perfect" movie beaten. This time by 18 frames. The currently fastest "game B" (hard) TAS can be found here. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-07-01) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 27.24 MB, length: 20:54) Mirror archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3631 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #295 (22:16.53) Rating: 7.6 (6 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Clash at Demonhead is a complex game to say the least. There are over 40 levels in the game, and they are all connected to each other. In the network of levels, the player must control Billy "Big Bang" Blitz to find 6 medallions and then rescue the kidnapped professor. This is no simple task. To make things even harder for a (tool-assisted) speedrunner, there are items available that greatly increase the player's speed, but in return cost money. This means that the route and strategy must be carefully planned. This movie certainly does not lack speed or complexity, and is especially entertaining if you have played the game and know how hard it is. In this run, Randil improves the previous movie by over 4 minutes primarily thanks to a new trick that allows you to use the Power Boots for twice as long. As a result, he doesn't need to shop as much, allowing him to forgo the detour to Route 22 in order to exchange his gold for money. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-11-21) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 9.74 MB, length: 11:24) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 11.14 MB, length: 11:24) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1518 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.4 (8 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses a game restart sequence - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Clu Clu Land is an odd Nintendo puzzle game in the same vein as the old PC game Clockwerx. The goal of the game is to uncover patterns of golden ingots buried under the ground by passing over them. You do this by moving your character to the pegs and having her grab onto and spin around them. The author, pdk, controls two players simultaneously for more speed and entertainment. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-12-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 15.11 MB, length: 11:41) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 19.52 MB, length: 11:41) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4134 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.8 (3 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Shooter | |
| Cobra Command is an NES port of an arcade game by Data East. As the pilot of the LX-3 SuperCobra military helicopter, you must fly to six different locations and rescue hostages, blasting away any enemies that stand in your way. Upgrades for your guns, missiles, armor, engines, and rescue equipment can also be acquired by landing in certain areas. In this run, £e Nécroyeur uses many minor movement tricks and precise shooting to complete this game in a little over 10 minutes. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-10-16) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 41.42 MB, length: 18:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #840 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #85 (17:54.82) Rating: 6.2 (32 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Shooter | |
| This unusual boat game includes racing to the finish, preventing swimmers from being abducted, disposing bombs, killing sea monsters and shooting targets. Whereas the previous movie's goals went for both speed and points, this movie's primary goal is speed, and only gets as many points as possible when it doesn't waste time. For example, targets and swimmers are deliberately missed to reduce score-counting at the end of levels. Altogether, this is 54 seconds faster than the previous version. Stray shots are used to manipulate luck. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-05-08) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 24.02 MB, length: 13:08) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1491 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.6 (27 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Conquest of the Crystal Palace is the story of a boy and his dog who overthrow an evil rock (or is it a brain?). | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-11-27) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 22.01 MB, length: 12:23) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 30.44 MB, length: 12:23) Mirror www.archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3372 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1883 (09:35.93) Rating: 7.1 (13 votes) View Publication | - Pacifist version - One player in a multiplayer game - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Contra completed fast, with an additional goal: do not kill enemies directly unless absolutely necessary to complete the game.
The hero shows the ultimate display of pacifism by sacrificing his own life in order to not destroy the Level 5 tanks.
This movie improves upon the previous movie by 6.85 seconds.
Note: This game was released under different names, such as 魂斗羅 (kontora) in Japan, and Probotector in Europe. GryZor is also used in Europe on some other systems. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2011-04-19) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 17.97 MB, length: 10:57) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3108 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #797 (08:57.98) Rating: 8.2 (28 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Contra is a classic action game. Equipped with heavy artillery, you must save the world by defeating the organization Red Falcon. To do this, you must make it past over 10 areas full of flying bullets and explosives and defeat many baddies.
Like in this run's predecessor, zyr2288 uses both Bill and Lance simultaneously to fire through each level. In addition, he makes use of some better routes, boss fighting strategies, and lag manipulation.
Note: This game was released under different names, such as 魂斗羅 (kontora) in Japan, and Probotector in Europe. GryZor is also used in Europe on some other systems. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-07-05) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 20.70 MB, length: 15:00) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2720 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.2 (18 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| This game, ostensibly a spin-off of the Contra series, began life as a completely unrelated game, yet still manages to invoke the spirit of the other games in being an insanely difficult, one-hit-kills-you shooter. Contra Force offers a selection of one of four characters, a jumping glitch involving the pause screen, and lots and lots of lag - and yet the game is still completed remarkably quickly. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2012-12-06) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 15.81 MB, length: 19:53) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 15.94 MB, length: 19:53) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #747 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.0 (7.5 votes) View Publication | - Aims for maximum score - Maximum kills - Best ending - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Sport | |
| Crash 'n' the Boys: Street Challenge is part of the Kunio-kun series. Kunio is the protagonist of the series and the guardian of Nekketsu High School. His name has been localized in a variety of ways: "Crash" Cooney in this game, Mr. K in Renegade, Sam in Super Dodge Ball, and Alex in River City Ransom. In this game, representatives of the high schools compete in five no-holds-barred events. In this run, GuanoBowl ends all the races early by knocking his opponent out. Rockets are purchased to make the hammer throw go farther and gum is used to help him hold his breath underwater. This run gets the extended ending by winning as Crash's school. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-07-01) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 10.85 MB, length: 06:33) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 12.48 MB, length: 06:33) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3998 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #2400 (05:56.36) Rating: 6.5 (7.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Cross Fire is a 2D Platformer game, developed and published by Kyugo Boueki, which was released in Japan in 1990. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-03-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 88.38 MB, length: 42:58) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 96.77 MB, length: 42:58) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3463 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1322 (52:44.47) Rating: 8.7 (7 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Genre: Action - Genre: RPG | |
| Crystalis is an awesome action rpg by SNK. What little plot there is involves the world ending on October 1, 1997. Naturally, after that the world became full of mutants and monsters. Technology regresses and people can use magic. There is an evil empire trying to revive the ancient technology, specifically the obligatory tower floating in the sky. The hero pops out of some sort of stasis chamber and proceeds to topple the empire and take down the tower with the help of some wise men and a friendly dolphin. There's a heroine named Mesia, but she only shows up a few times, most of which are skipped in this run.
This beats the previous run by almost 12 minutes. As with that run, the second-controller cheats are off-limits (the fm2 only has data for controller 1). Other than that, no holds are barred. Many new glitches are used. For a complete list, see the game resources page. Movement is faster by abusing the no-subpixel engine. Much effort went into lag reduction, especially in certain areas. However, the vast majority of the time savings is due to better experience management.
We recommend watching the movie on an emulator and using the author's LUA script. There's quite a bit of useful information. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2012-11-04) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 5.11 MB, length: 05:05) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 5.56 MB, length: 05:05) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #951 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.5 (9.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Shooter | |
| Cybernoid is considered extremely difficult to beat. You can only take one hit before you die, and you have only nine lives. In this run, Randil makes use of all given weapons to save time. The run has no music, because sound effects were chosen by default instead. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-08-24) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 24.96 MB, length: 12:21) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1673 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #174 (11:35.15) Rating: 7.9 (50.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Darkwing Duck (1992) is a platformer somewhat similar to Mega Man in gameplay and difficulty. The arrow gun allows the player to climb up walls and use creative shortcuts so that the absolute shortest route can be taken. In case you are wondering why the character keeps on jumping so much, it is because he has to wait a short amount of time before being able to walk. With constant jumping these stops can be avoided. This movie is a joint venture between AnS and Randil to improve the previous run by Walker Boh, resulting in 35.7 seconds saved through means of extensive optimization, luck manipulation and lag removal. We recommend reading the authors' comments for more details. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-01-01) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 9.22 MB, length: 07:05) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 10.29 MB, length: 07:05) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3745 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 3.8 (5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum was a game developed by Beam Software and published by Data East in 1990. Your objective is to guide the spaceman Dash Galaxy to the top of the alien rocket he has been imprisoned in, where an escape pod leads to his freedom. The author, CtrlAltDestroy, skips most of the puzzle rooms and gathers only the required items from the platforming stages in order to complete the game as fast as possible. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-09-28) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 2.35 MB, length: 02:41) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 2.72 MB, length: 02:41) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4441 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1865 (01:41.73) Rating: 6.2 (7 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia (1989) is a popular, whimsical game in which a shapeshifting blob (named Blobert) from the planet Blobolonia teams up with an Earth boy to overcome obstacles on both planets and to defeat Blobolonia's evil emperor. This movie is 22.59 seconds faster than the previous one thanks to a couple of route changes and some new tricks. You can see this movie played back on an actual NES here! Now with an awesome input display to boot! | ||
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| Bizhawk movie (.bkm) (date: 2014-08-01) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 22.62 MB, length: 11:20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 28.76 MB, length: 11:20) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4379 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #503 (15:20.27) Rating: 6.9 (6 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Major skip glitch - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| Deadly Towers is an infamous 'Nintendo Hard' game, where you control Prince Myer in his quest to destroy seven bells guarded by seven bosses and stop the evil wizard Rubas. The character is slow and takes a lot of damage very easily, making the game usually a great challenge. While there are powerups which boost your abilities, they are generally found in secret passages with no indication of their location. In this run by ars4326, the Japanese version Mashou (魔鐘) is used due to it containing an inventory glitch that, essentially, gives you unlimited bells after death-warping and defeating Cold Killer twice. New routes, sequence breaking, and movement optimizations are also involved in this updated run. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-07-31) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 2.55 MB, length: 04:16) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 2.64 MB, length: 04:16) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4026 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.2 (9.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Strategy | |
| Defender of the Crown is a strategy game loosely based on the historical novel Ivanhoe. It was originally released by Cinemaware for the Commodore Amiga in 1986, and was later ported to many other home computer systems and game consoles. In this run, £e Nécroyeur uses luck manipulation and frame precision to complete this game in the fastest time possible. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-08-10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 16.28 MB, length: 07:50) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 15.83 MB, length: 07:50) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2023 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #968 (07:59.63) Rating: 6.9 (25 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Demon Sword (1989) is the kind of a game that Legend of Kage should have been.
It features a hero named Victar, who can easily jump on a tall tree (and sometimes over it, since he just can't jump much lower) and is willing to defeat the evil demon that conquered the world. The key to defeating it is Victar's sword, which is conveniently broken into pieces that must be collected over the span of the game.
So watch his sword get bigger and more powerful every few minutes, until its wielder | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-05-10) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 134.36 MB, length: 1:23:40) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2656 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #556 (1:46:41.87) Rating: 6.0 (16 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
Destiny of an Emperor was Capcom’s first RPG, released in 1989―90, and is based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The battling style of this game can be described like Final Fantasy meets Pokémon; your team of warriors versus the opposing team of warriors, and any opponents freed from their posts can be later picked up in the wilds and converted to your side!Acmlm bests the previous movie by over 25 minutes by reverse engineering the game and brute forcing luck manipulation. Critical hit, it's super effective. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-07-15) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 5.57 MB, length: 04:14) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2740 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.5 (19.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Genre: Platform | |
| Digger T. Rock is searching for the Lost City and must dig through eight caverns to find it. On the way he must battle... dinosaurs! This run underwent several revisions before reaching the form you now see before you. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2012-11-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 38.56 MB, length: 22:56) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 38.81 MB, length: 22:56) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2973 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.2 (6.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Based on the famous animated movie, Walt Disney's The Jungle Book is a platform game where you control Mowgli, the boy who was raised by wild animals deep in the jungle, as he journeys to the human village to find safety from the tiger Shere Khan. The author, X2poet, uses precise jumping and swinging to finish this game in just over 20 minutes. There are also runs of the Genesis version and the SNES version. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-04-26) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 9.15 MB, length: 07:29) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1062 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #180 (07:38.65) Rating: 5.5 (30.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action | |
| The Little Mermaid is a simple game based on the movie of the same name. You control the mermaid Ariel as she swims through several stages and beats up bosses by tossing fish encapsulated in bubbles. Normally, shooting bubbles stops Ariel, so a speedrun would try to avoid all the enemies. However, the author manages to fire shots with little movement delay thanks to a glitch involving turning around. Luck manipulation is also used to beat the bosses quite quickly. For more details, see the submission comments. This run, AnS's first published movie here, improves the previous version by 51 seconds. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-06-30) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 13.30 MB, length: 08:55) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1530 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (29 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
| The Dizzy series of computer games was one of the most successful computer game brands of the late eighties. They were all based around a central figure, an intelligent egg-like creature called Dizzy. Dizzy the Adventurer is an enhanced NES port of the sixth game in the series, Dizzy: Prince of the Yolkfolk, completed fast by the use of creative routes and of course, maximum speed. There is also a run of the second game in the series, Treasure Island Dizzy. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-09-18) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 899.88 KB, length: 01:22) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2397 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1316 (01:08.97) Rating: 7.8 (42.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Donkey Kong is a classic game that has been challenged plenty of times at this site, by many players. This competitive spirit has made for some "perfect" runs. Yet each time someone manages to squeeze just a bit more out of it. This latest completion by Phil beats the previous movie by 11 frames by carefully optimizing Jumpman's movement pattern. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-11-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 940.54 KB, length: 01:10) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 1.02 MB, length: 01:10) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3765 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.9 (11.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Genre: Action | |
| In the third installment in the Donkey Kong series, Stanley the bugman discovers Donkey Kong in his greenhouse, releasing insects that are attacking his precious flowers. To save his flowers, Stanley aims to stop the ape by blasting him away with a bug spray can. In this movie, MESHUGGAH improves on the previous run through better luck manipulation, more precise shooting, and by dying on a very specific frame to skip the score countdown after the first level. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-11-14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 1.84 MB, length: 01:25) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2444 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1078 (01:12.95) Rating: 7.4 (32.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| A very important part of Nintendo's history is being presented here on our website — as a tool-assisted speedrun. Donkey Kong Jr., along with Donkey Kong, were classic games that were played by millions of players on various consoles, including the NES, Atari 2600 and Game and Watch. The story is that Jumpman, now known as Mario, has captured his rival Donkey Kong and it's up to Junior to save his dad. Although one would not expect a movie of Donkey Kong Jr. to be interesting to watch, except in the retro sense, this movie is actually quite surprising. The vines are cleverly utilized to move the hero forward faster than any member of the Kong family before or after this game. This is a 1 frame optimization of Level 4 compared to the previous movie. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-11-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 5.02 MB, length: 07:42) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 5.16 MB, length: 07:42) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3550 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.6 (8.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action | |
| Double Dare is closely based on an old Nickelodeon children's game show. To win, each team must answer a few of the trivia questions before time runs out. If the team answering thinks the other team might not know the answer, they can "dare" the other team to answer the question for double the points. However, the other team has the option to "double dare" them right back for a chance to win quadruple the points. The winning team gets to race through the Double Dare obstacle course, which features obstacles like the 1-Ton Human Hamster Wheel and a tank of Nickelodeon's iconic green slime. Thanks to tools and the low difficulty of the questions, the author, goofydylan8, doesn't have to dare the other team even once to win. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-02-25) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 8.85 MB, length: 09:24) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #985 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #52 (09:35.15) Rating: 6.7 (40.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Fighting | |
| Even the most unconventional means of fighting are nothing uncommon on this website, as shown in the screenshot. This is Phil's fifth movie of Double Dragon, now 38 seconds faster than the previous version. Released on many systems, this game was so popular that they even released it for cellular phones and made a board game. Even a Hollywood movie has been made. Check out this movie being played back on an actual NES. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-11-11) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 13.78 MB, length: 11:12) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 15.30 MB, length: 11:12) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (youtube.com) Submission #4106 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (4 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform | |
| Double Dragon 2 is a beat'em-up game starring Billy (or Bimmy, depending on the game version) and Jimmy Lee in a quest to get revenge on a gang for killing Billy's girlfriend. Their journey starts on city streets, but it eventually goes to a variety of places like a helicopter, a dark forest, a haunted mansion, and a final fight bordering on the supernatural. You must play the hardest difficulty, Supreme Master, in order to reach the true final boss. One interesting feature of the game is that some very powerful moves can only be used from a crouching position, usually after landing from a jump or getting up from a knockdown. This is why you see the player jump so frequently. This run by xipo plays the game with only 1 player. It is slower than the two-player run largely because it can't use tricks like the two players hitting each other with flying knees. However, there are still some interesting tricks and strategies in this movie well worth watching. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-06-01) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 13.63 MB, length: 10:15) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 13.95 MB, length: 10:15) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4321 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1279 (08:40.13) Rating: 8.0 (5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform | |
| Double Dragon 2 (1989) is a beat'em-up game that shows the true value of teamwork. Despite sibling rivalry, Billy and Jimmy help expedite their common goal with well-timed knees to each other's faces. This new version by xipo is 18.51 seconds faster than the previous effort by adelikat. Most of the improvement came from better application of glitches. If you're more a fan of runs where one macho man defeats an entire gang alone, there is also a one-player run available. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-08-09) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 13.91 MB, length: 11:48) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2026 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #882 (10:38.82) Rating: 6.8 (26 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform | |
| In this movie, the author speeds through the game, beating up all the bad guys quickly and efficiently, making full use of each character — and killing them off when they are no longer useful. The characters' special abilities are abused to provide some unorthodox shortcuts. This is the author's 3rd version and is an improvement of about 28 seconds over his previous movie. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-03-22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 23.82 MB, length: 26:30) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 27.28 MB, length: 26:30) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3477 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.4 (5 votes) View Publication | - Major skip glitch - Uses a game restart sequence - Corrupts memory - Genre: RPG | |
| Double Moon Densetsu (ダブルムーン伝説 Legend of the Double Moon) is a 1992 turn-based NES RPG. The author uses a complex memory corruption glitch to skip many events, slimming this normally long RPG down to under 20 minutes. Technical details about the glitches used are in the author's comments. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2012-11-19) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 17.77 MB, length: 18:52) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 18.89 MB, length: 18:52) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1882 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.0 (12 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action | |
| Based loosely on the novel with a similar name, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde follows Dr. Jekyll as he walks to his wedding. For some reason though, everyone and everything is out to kill him, and if he gets attacked too many times, he will involuntarily transform into the monster Mr. Hyde. Once he becomes Hyde, he enters a mirror world where he must kill a number of demons to return to the real world and his normal self. Jekyll must advance further than his doppelgänger in each level in order to successfully reach his wedding. By taking almost no damage in this TAS, the demon world is never seen. This is practically impossible to do without tool assistance, and even causes the game to exhibit glitches that speed up the game. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-05-21) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 3.18 MB, length: 03:02) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2250 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (41.5 votes) View Publication | - Aims for maximum score - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy luck manipulation - Single level - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Tired of being mocked by the viruses, Dr. Mario switched to his "fast-acting" and "extra strength" medication. The viruses never knew what hit them. This video beats Level 20, Speed Hi of Dr. Mario in record time. Don't blink, or you might miss the twist ending. Check out this movie being played back on an actual NES. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-01-30) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 6.74 MB, length: 04:38) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 7.66 MB, length: 04:38) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3842 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1422 (03:53.6) Rating: 5.7 (7 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Dragon's Lair is much better known in its incarnations for other platforms as an FMV game with only slight amounts of control over the player's action. The NES version is more of a traditional platformer, but very smooth animation for the era and funny-looking characters inspired by the cartoon graphics of the other versions - this includes the final boss, who isn't seen very much in this run thanks to abuse of the game mechanics. This is an improvement of around a second to the previous run. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-08-06) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 24.89 MB, length: 14:30) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1107 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (23.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Dragon Fighter is a cross-over between a platformer and a shooter. It starts out in platform mode, where you can collect dragon points. When you have enough, you can transform into a powerful dragon, turning the game into a autoscrolling shooter. The game scrolls slowly in this mode, but the dragon moves fast. By continuously switching between the two modes, it allows the player to go as fast as possible, which makes an otherwise boring game interesting. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-03-06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 20.07 MB, length: 20:05) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2590 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #469 (18:10.47) Rating: 7.4 (20 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
This is the sixth published movie of Dragon Warrior, a seemingly complex, but ultimately, fairly simple NES RPG. This is an improvement of 20.96 seconds from the previous run. The character completes his quest at Level 7. There are several things about this movie that might seem odd if one is not aware of them beforehand:
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-04-30) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 65.90 MB, length: 49:24) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1026 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (21 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
Selected comments from the author:The second Dragon Warrior game beaten as fast as possible. Dragon Warrior is an epic RPG series which now spans 8 games across many systems. The second game greatly expands on the first to include a party of three heroes (all descendents of Erdrick and the hero of DW1) and battles that may include many enemies. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-07-31) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 167.39 MB, length: 1:58:50) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 243.51 MB, length: 1:58:50) Mirror www.archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1618 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #838 (2:14:07.67) Rating: 5.9 (18 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Forgoes major skip glitch - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| This is a non-glitched run of Dragon Warrior 3, now under 2 hours long. This game is known in the TAS world as being a pain to play due to the RNG (random number generator) being much harder to manipulate than most other games. As a result, seemingly random actions throughout the game are actually intentional manipulation of the RNG to ensure favourable outcomes, such as avoiding monsters or good battle outcomes. To give you an idea of how surprising this time is to most players, the previous run is about 24 minutes longer than this one. Even before that, any run that was under 3 hours long was deemed to be very difficult to perform. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-03-06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 70.95 MB, length: 56:48) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2577 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #955 (57:28.27) Rating: 5.2 (12 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Major skip glitch - Heavy glitch abuse - Corrupts memory - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Dragon Warrior 3 completed quickly by using a bizarre glitch that allows the author to fill his inventory with useful items, manipulate his stats, and even add places to his return list! This allows most of the game to be skipped. Thanks to this new method of item glitching, this is almost exactly nine minutes faster than the previous version of the run. The author wrote detailed comments explaining this glitch. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-04-03) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 185.98 MB, length: 2:18:48) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1028 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.5 (27 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Dragon Warrior 4 is a very long RPG. During the planning phase, it was expected that this movie would be 5 hours long. Suffice to say the result was a pleasant surprise. The author intentionally kills off his party in order to save some travel time. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-03-19) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 10.33 MB, length: 06:02) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 12.32 MB, length: 06:02) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3893 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (7 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
| Driar is a homebrew game created in 2012 by David Eriksson and Stefen Adolfsson. It is notable for being an homage to classic NES games with no modern influences whatsoever. No score, no save points, no passwords, no timers, no plot, no hub-world; just a series of single screen levels for you to carefully complete, in order, or until your 10 lives are used up. In this run, MESHUGGAH moves the eponymous dinosaur through all 38 levels and beats the game in record time. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-11-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 1.14 MB, length: 01:57) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 1.17 MB, length: 01:57) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2557 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.1 (14 votes) View Publication | - Uses a game restart sequence - Genre: Shooter | |
| Duck Hunt is the classic NES zapper game. No live ducks are seen in this movie. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-08-15) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 12.35 MB, length: 08:56) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 13.18 MB, length: 08:56) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4042 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1267 (07:06.02) Rating: 8.0 (7 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Duck Tales is a classic game in which Scrooge has to collect treasures from all over the world. Some of the levels are not completely straightforward, and collecting items is sometimes necessary before proceeding. His cane also doubles as an almighty pogo stick that can be used in various ways, which makes jumping a lot more fun. This is the sixth TAS of Duck Tales. Minor improvements and refined strategies here and there contributed around an additional half second of improvement. This is a 0.58 second improvement over the previous movie due to general optimizations including lag reduction and subpixel optimization. You can watch this run played back on a real NES console. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm3) (date: 2013-07-19) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 15.97 MB, length: 10:58) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 18.20 MB, length: 10:58) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4003 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1104 (08:45.82) Rating: 7.6 (7.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Scrooge McDuck is advanced in years, he travels around the lake with Niagara on one side and Scotland on another, and beats money out of half-transparent bosses. He hides in the sand and rides the vertex, gets lightning strikes and beats liquid D-1000 robot with his little toe. He also jumps on his pogo stick like he has dementia. Or maybe all that is just a fancy of his senile mind? The authors, feos and MESHUGGAH, complete the game 3.66 seconds faster than the previous movie by adelikat by minimizing lag, general optimization and some new tricks. This movie does not get the best (100%) ending, but also does not get the worst (no money). | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2008-10-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 2.67 MB, length: 02:30) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 2.52 MB, length: 02:30) Mirror www.archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2112 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.9 (38 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: RPG | |
| After hearing about how the dark overlord Darces has returned, our hero goes on a quest to unite | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-01-19) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 7.64 MB, length: 10:16) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3419 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1260 (10:16.98) Rating: 6.7 (6 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Storybook | |
| A storybook game like Shadowgate and Uninvited. In this one you star as Ace Harding, a detective who wakes up having no idea who or where he is. As the game progresses you discover that you have been framed for a crime you didn't commit, and must find a way to clear your name. This, the fifth submission of this game by the same author, is a 35.45 second improvement over the author's previous attempt. Most of the improvement comes from using a "leave bullet" bug, as detailed in the submission text. See the Déjà Vu GameFAQs page for more information about this game (we recommend Mr. Kelly R. Flewin's Déjà Vu Speed Guide). | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2009-06-17) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 35.62 MB, length: 54:31) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 73.05 MB, length: 54:31) Mirror www.archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2252 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.9 (18 votes) View Publication | - Forgoes major skip glitch - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Heavy luck manipulation - Unofficial game - Genre: RPG | |
| EarthBound Zero is the first game in the Mother/EarthBound series. It was localized, but never released in the US. Technically, the game was localized as EarthBound, but the sequel was localized and released as EarthBound, so this game generally goes by the name EarthBound Zero. This movie is done on the U version, which does not have the "bread crumbs" glitch used in our other movie of the game. It does, however, have a run button, which means this movie may seem faster at times, even though it's a lot longer. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-09-19) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 44.32 MB, length: 23:50) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2827 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1303 (25:41.67) Rating: 6.3 (15 votes) View Publication | - Major skip glitch - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| This is the JPN version of EarthBound Zero (also known as Mother (マザー) ). As the first version of the game, it has a number of useful glitches; this run abuses the way the game handles the "Bread crumbs" item to warp off the edge of reality and casually walk straight into the final boss's lair two and a half minutes faster than the previous run. We also have a more normal run of the localized version, which doesn't include this glitch. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-11-30) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 7.27 MB, length: 07:18) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2475 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #471 (07:59.37) Rating: 5.6 (22 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| A rather simple, unique classic game. The hero of this game is a spy/agent who raids buildings infested with men in black. He collects important documents from various apartments/closets (which, for the sake of simplicity, are colored indicatively), and then leaves by his car to the next raid. After raiding the last building, he goes to raid the same buildings once again, ad infinitum. Even a small game like this isn't free of bugs. The unsafe elevators of this game offer a few maneuvers that should not be attempted in real life. Four levels were played. This is an improvement of just over a minute over the previously published run. | ||
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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.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2383 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1070 (05:31.37) Rating: 8.3 (48 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 fast with an improvement of over a second compared to the previous movie by JXQ.
Times for each track are:
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2009-08-09) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 31.31 MB, length: 20:08) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2317 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.5 (29 votes) View Publication | - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
| Extra Mario Bros. is a hack of the original Super Mario Bros. It is noteworthy for being a complete "Metroidvania" game built around the original SMB engine, with very few changes to the engine itself. The five areas in the game are all interconnected (via pipes, naturally), and permanent upgrades have been added to give it a more Metroid-ish feel. (Did I mention the music from Super Metroid? Because there's music from Super Metroid.)
However, despite his newfound ability to return to levels he's visited before and acquire upgrades that don't go away when he dies, Mario still cannot scroll to the left.
This movie collects all of the keys and fights the true final boss but only collects two of the upgrades.
Note: An IPS patch for the hack can be downloaded from http://tasvideos-moviefiles.googlecode.com/files/ips%2Bpatcher.zip. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-12-18) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 5.61 MB, length: 04:07) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1364 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (24 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Shooter | |
| Fantasy Zone is a short, colorful arcade port which somewhat uniquely is a shooter that does not autoscroll! Since there are no levels to scroll through, the boss battles start when eight of the enemy bases have been destroyed. In this run, Hisatoki manipulates luck and buys and uses better weapons in order to finish this game as fast as possible. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-03-11) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 36.44 MB, length: 24:12) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1877 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #269 (31:00.75) Rating: 6.6 (23 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| In comparison to the usual run-through platform games, this is one of the games that requires more planning to play efficiently. The game features an inventory and equipment and a spells system, all of which were rare to see in NES games when this game came out. This is the 3rd published version of the TAS, now over seven minutes faster than the previous version. The author has written comments describing all the planning and tricks that went into this movie. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-09-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 41.00 MB, length: 24:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2831 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #738 (22:53.27) Rating: 6.1 (9 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| This game is about a classic cartoon character, Felix the Cat, who goes on an adventure to save his girlfriend, Kitty, from a mad professor. It's a simple platformer like any Mario game. This is a 24.26 second improvement over Randil's previous run. This is due to several strategy changes, such as using the airplane more often in flying levels and using a different power to fight the final boss. For more details, see the author's comments. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-04-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 94.31 MB, length: 1:21:46) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 112.67 MB, length: 1:21:46) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3512 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.2 (7 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Uses a suboptimal character - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Final Fantasy is a well known RPG about saving the world with the usual assortment of characters. Here, the author defies all common sense and takes a team composed entirely of White Mages, the token "weak healing caster" class. What's worse, three of them meet their untimely demise at the hands of pirates not very far into their journey. Not to worry, because this survivor has a few tricks up her sleeve. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-07-20) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 90.89 MB, length: 1:15:03) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 105.88 MB, length: 1:15:03) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3656 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1714 (1:10:06.81) Rating: 7.0 (7 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| The original Final Fantasy follows four heroes who are trying to restore the four orbs which have been contaminated and ultimately defeat Chaos.
Unfortunately only one of the warriors is actually a hero; the rest are sissies who die early on during the quests. Strange as this may sound, much time is saved by doing so since fewer commands need to be entered every time the player runs from a random encounter.
On TASVideos, perfect runs are continually improved, often through very unexpected changes. This run by TheAxeMan improves the old TAS by 9.11 seconds by getting lower stats and spending more time at inns and item shops.
For those who think they have a better sense of humor than the author, he has provided Python scripts which allow you to recreate the entire run with your own choices for character names substituted for his. Available as a Windows standalone program or as source.
The downloadable videos and the YouTube stream contain soft subtitles with commentary from TheAxeMan. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-08-20) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 11.74 MB, length: 12:40) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 12.04 MB, length: 12:40) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4048 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1730 (39:37.27) Rating: 6.7 (11 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Major skip glitch - Final boss skip glitch - Heavy glitch abuse - Corrupts memory - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Final Fantasy III was the second of two Final Fantasy NES games to be released only in Japan, leading to the fourth game in the series being released to the rest of the world as Final Fantasy II. The game brings back the experience point system from the first game while changing up the character jobs formula by allowing the player to change a character's class mid-game as well as acquire new and advanced classes. In this movie, the author, AmaizumiUni, abuses a bug that causes character inventory to overflow, corrupting the game's memory and triggering the credits early. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-11-21) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 78.93 MB, length: 1:07:43) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 87.81 MB, length: 1:07:43) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2281 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.1 (8 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Fire 'n Ice is the prequel to Solomon's Key, known as Solomon's Key 2 elsewhere. In it, Dana manipulates ice blocks to remove all of the fire from each level. Randil completes all 101 levels of this "highly addictive" puzzler in 1:03:32.59. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-02-06) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 16.72 MB, length: 11:15) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 18.25 MB, length: 11:15) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3855 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 3.9 (5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Puzzle | |
| In Fisher-Price: Firehouse Rescue, the player controls a fireman driving a firetruck. Both the fireman and the firetruck bear the familiar style of the popular Fisher-Price toy line. The object of the game is to rescue pets from trees and people from houses in the immediate neighborhood. There are 2 parts to this task: the first part involves navigating the maze-like streets from an overhead perspective in order to find the troubled residence. Once the house is reached, the second part of the job is to maneuver the firetruck's ladder underneath the person or animal in need of rescue, from a side perspective, and letting them down to safety. While the first level confines the entire neighborhood to a one-screen maze, later levels span multiple screens, thereby increasing the challenge. Further, later levels also add time limits and additional keys that the player must collect before attempting the rescue mission. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-02-25) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 11.17 MB, length: 08:06) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #547 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.5 (28.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Fighting | |
| Fist of the North Star is the American version of the NES's Hokuto no Ken 2, a game which is inspired by a popular Japanese manga Hokuto no Ken. In this funny video, we can see enemies that move faster than thrown knives and arrows. | ||
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| Bizhawk movie (.bkm) (date: 2012-09-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 23.74 MB, length: 16:08) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 24.51 MB, length: 16:08) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3706 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #532 (14:30.47) Rating: 7.2 (9.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy is a 1991 NES tie-in to the popular Flintstones franchise. In it, Fred Flintstone must save his pets from a time-traveling thief. The author improves on the previous publication by 21.89 seconds from a new glitch that allows Fred to move through the ice level at an astonishing rate. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-06-08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 3.61 MB, length: 03:27) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3165 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #416 (03:03.9) Rating: 6.4 (16.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Friday the 13th is a video game adaptation of the movie series of the same name. You are one of six camp counselors on a mission to defeat Jason Voorhees three times before he kills the other counselors or some of the children. In this three second improvement to a five-and-a-half year old movie, Jason is defeated faster than ever thanks to some tricks to force him to appear more often than normal. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-11-09) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 3.58 MB, length: 02:49) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 3.68 MB, length: 02:49) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2331 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.5 (14 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action - Genre: Shooter | |
| Front Line is a military combat-themed game ported from the arcade. The objective is to fight off infantry units and tanks until you reach the enemies compound. was0x completes the first iteration of this game in 2:39.23, though the game repeats this stage forever upon completion. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-11-21) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 36.89 MB, length: 20:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1758 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #558 (18:36.43) Rating: 5.9 (23.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| The Cobra Command threatens the world and the G.I. Joe team is needed to stop it! G.I. Joe (1991) is a platformer difficult because of its intricate routes and bosses, but the author makes short work of both. In particular, this movie sports some of the shortest boss fights of any game. It also provides entertainment through varied character and vehicle use (thankfully, the game still manages not to lag immensely even with all the action thrown in). This is an improvement of 107 seconds to the previous movie by Ferret Warlord. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-06-21) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 23.00 MB, length: 10:07) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2706 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (14 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| GI Joe: The Atlantis Factor is an NES game released by Capcom USA around 1991. It is known to be a sequel to the original GI Joe NES game released a year before. In this run, the author manipulates luck in order to achieve his goals. Note that he jumps a lot, but that's because jumping makes the character move faster (from left to right and vice-versa) than just walking around. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-03-23) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 36.34 MB, length: 29:44) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 38.22 MB, length: 29:44) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3498 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.8 (6 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure | |
| A long time ago, before human being appeared, there lived a monster named Firebrand. In this game, Firebrand (the red gargoyle) fights against the evil that has invaded his homeland. Along the way, he becomes more powerful and becomes able to fly longer, jump higher, and shoot more weapons. goofydylan8 conquers this game in a little under 28 minutes with careful lag management, damage-boosting, and aggressive boss fights. TASVideos also has movies of this game's prequel for the Game Boy and sequel for the Super NES. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-08-14) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 19.66 MB, length: 14:04) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #771 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #371 (13:09.0) Rating: 6.3 (37 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| Gauntlet is a Dungeons & Dragons simulator of sorts. You choose a class of Warrior, Valkyrie, Wizard or Elf to navigate the Gauntlet, collect treasure, slay wicked monsters, and save your beloved peasant hometown. Walkthroughs for this game estimate a completion time of several hours when playing normally. Here, we see the game completed in only 12 minutes! Usually clues have to be collected to discover the password to the last dungeon, but this is selected at the game's beginning, so the clues are unnecessary in a TAS. There is also some collision detection abuse and lots of luck manipulation. This updated version takes a better path, manipulates fights more, and abuses luck to get the password with shortest input time. There is a huge amount of secrets and hidden paths to take in this game. The author recommends the FAQ by melvinwang on GameFAQs, and would like to thank fuwafuwa and TurboC for their help with this video. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-01-25) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 3.14 MB, length: 02:50) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 3.26 MB, length: 02:50) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3427 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1381 (01:34.98) Rating: 4.8 (10 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Major skip glitch - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action | |
| If what was done in this movie was possible in real life, economies worldwide would crash.
Ghostbusters is a hastily produced game based on the 1984 movie of the same name. The NES version is a notoriously bad port, and the Japanese version contains a glitch that allows the Ghost Alarm item to be sold for more than it costs, allowing entry into the Zuul Building much earlier than intended.
In this movie, MESHUGGAH improves the first run of this game by 38 frames through a few small optimizations. See the author's notes for more details.
Note: A bug in the Japanese version causes the ending screen to incorrectly display "りり". This movie will also sync while the PAXKKLAA Game Genie code is used, which shows the corrected text: Conglaturation !!! You have completed a grate game. And prooved the justice of our culture. Now go and rest our heroes ! | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-05-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 17.15 MB, length: 08:32) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 26.02 MB, length: 08:32) Mirror www.archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1551 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #692 (17:21.75) Rating: 6.9 (29.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Ghosts 'n Goblins (1986) begins with a normal scene: a half-naked knight is on a date in a graveyard with a princess. Suddenly, a demon appears and abducts the princess! The knight quickly suits up and makes rapid progres (sic) through the demon world in an attempt to rescue his royal girlfriend. Arc is a veteran when it comes to making TASes of Ghosts 'n Goblins. This TAS is his ninth version, and it is 15.083 seconds faster than the previous version by Guanobowl. There is a vast amount of luck manipulation throughout the game, and there are multiple instances of the rare 'boost from enemy damage' trick. Note: The previous movie ran through the game twice (after the first completion, the game does not show the real ending). This movie only runs through once, hence the much shorter overall time. The actual first-quest time difference is 15.083 seconds. In Japanese, this game is known as 魔界村 (Makaimura or "Demon World Village"). | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-08-03) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 19.52 MB, length: 05:08) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2748 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1266 (04:09.53) Rating: 6.4 (15.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action | |
| Ghoul School is a game where a multi-talented teen named Spike O'Hara fights through a horde of various ghouls with the talent of MacGyver, needing only a towel, shoes, springs, and embalming fluid. Normally, this game would require getting many more items, but due to heavy glitching, most of the items are skipped and the game is completed in a mere four minutes. This is a 7 second improvement over the previous run. | ||
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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 (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2699 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1284 (06:08.73) Rating: 8.6 (36 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 us Ufouria and Journey to Silius. It was only released in Japan and Scandinavian countries, but eventually achieved something 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 refined tricks and shortcuts. This run doesn't collect the special items required to access the 7th level, and thus gets a bad ending. However, we have another run that attains the best ending for your viewing pleasure! | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-06-12) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 14.53 MB, length: 09:45) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 14.59 MB, length: 09:46) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2700 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #579 (09:59.63) Rating: 8.7 (31.5 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Best ending - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| A short Japanese game about a small green toy who can summon stars to help him defeat monsters and to use them as platforms to reach high places and travel fast. In this movie, the authors collect all of the items to enter the secret 7th level after the boss at the end of the 6th level, and do so 2 minutes and 15 seconds faster than the previous movie. The game cartridge of Gimmick! contains a special microchip, FME7, which extends the number of sound channels in the game from 5 to 8, creating a more melodic soundtrack than in most other NES games. If you like this, be sure to check out the other run of this game, which skips the secret items. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-12-01) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 57.29 MB, length: 50:37) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 59.82 MB, length: 50:37) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1156 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.2 (5.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Shooter | |
| Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode is a game based on a popular Japanese manga. You control Golgo 13, an assassin who is ordered to take out the leader of the DREK Empire. The game features four different gameplay modes: action, flying, 360 degree shooting and 3D maze. The author, dave_dfwm, speeds through this little-known game in less than 45 minutes. | ||
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| BizHawk Movie (.bk2) (date: 2014-07-25) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 5.28 MB, length: 04:12) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 10.20 MB, length: 04:12) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4370 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 1.7 (10.5 votes) View Publication | - Demonstration - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Shooter | |
| Gotcha! The Sport! is a video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System that was released in 1987 based on the 1985 film Gotcha!. It is a Capture the Flag-style game played with paintball guns loaded with simulated paintballs. The player's mission is to get through the level, capture the enemy flag by shooting it, and return it to your base. This is while simultaneously trying not to get shot by the other team, run out of ammo, or run out of time. A light gun is necessary for this game, but one needs to also use the controller. The directional pad will move the screen left and right. Ammo boxes can be found sitting on the ground or carried by enemies in the background. It seems that only misses cost you ammo, so if one's aim is precise, they will receive a significant bonus for leftover ammunition. There are three levels in the game: Woods, Warehouse District and Snow Fields. The Woods and Snow Fields levels feature enemies in military garb, while the Warehouse District features enemies modeled after early 1980s punks. These rounds repeat in this order infinitely; each time around, the reaction time needed for the enemies to aim and fire is reduced. In this run, adelikat uses his amazing uber-Aimbot skills to decimate anyone and everyone who stands in his way to capture the flag. This movie is a demonstration of NES Zapper support in the most recent versions of BizHawk, and is the first movie to use the new bk2 file format for BizHawk. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-11-02) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 14.73 MB, length: 11:41) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 14.28 MB, length: 11:41) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1324 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #19 (14:12.0) Rating: 8.3 (81.5 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - 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 kinds 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 are occasionally used to generate pseudorandom input while still avoiding death. Also be sure to check out this movie being played back on an actual NES. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-07-25) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 17.42 MB, length: 08:40) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2333 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #232 (07:04.82) Rating: 7.2 (22.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Gremlins 2 done quick — the | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-02-21) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 32.00 MB, length: 15:10) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1836 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #771 (13:33.13) Rating: 6.6 (23 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Shooter | |
| x2poet seeks to quell the revolution in record time! This movie not only plays on the hardest setting, but it manages to do so almost 30 seconds faster than the previous movie. This is accomplished by controlling two players at once which finished boss battles quicker. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-12-06) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 18.36 MB, length: 15:27) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 17.65 MB, length: 15:27) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2065 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.8 (5.5 votes) View Publication | - Aims for maximum score - Maximum kills - Genre: Shooter | |
| Gumshoe is a game developed by Yoshio Sakamoto of Nintendo (known for his work on the Metroid games). Using the NES Zapper accessory, shoot the enemies and obstacles in the hero's path or shoot the hero himself to make him jump over them on his way to save his daughter from the Mafia. Since the game is an autoscroller, highness aims for maximum kills and score instead of time. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-11-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 20.55 MB, length: 23:16) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 20.66 MB, length: 23:16) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1668 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.1 (6 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Gyromite is one of two video games designed for use with the Robotic Operating Buddy (R.O.B.), the other being Stack Up. You control a professor who must clear levels by picking up lighted bundles of dynamite while R.O.B. raises and lowers the red and blue gates. The author, kirbymuncher, plays through the game as fast as possible with optimized movement and a couple of glitches. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-06-27) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 14.89 MB, length: 08:43) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3189 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #902 (07:17.83) Rating: 6.6 (10.5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Hammerin' Harry is a pretty simple platformer. Armed with a big hammer, you make your way through 5 levels, and the first 3 levels have bonus levels as well. At the end of each level there is a boss, and in some levels, there are also mini-bosses. In short, this game is a "normal" platformer, you won't have a hard time figuring out what's going on. NitroGenesis improves on the previous movie by 5.72 seconds thanks to more optimized jumps and faster bossfights. For more info, we recommend reading the submission text. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-07-01) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 9.83 MB, length: 08:32) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 10.90 MB, length: 08:32) Mirror www.archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4347 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1063 (08:03.37) Rating: 8.3 (4 votes) View Publication | - Demonstration - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Notable for once being one of the hardest Super Mario Bros. hacks ever made, Hard Relay Mario (2004) is more like a puzzle game with its cryptic and difficult level layouts. In this run, made over the course of two and a half years, watch as HappyLee abuses the game engine to its fullest, finishing the game in the time it would normally take to get past the first few obstacles. To see the game as it was meant to be played, you can also watch HappyLee beat the original game in his "warps" and "warpless" runs. Note: Due to how similar Air 2 is to this game, this game obsoletes it as it is overall more entertaining to watch. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-12-02) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 24.17 MB, length: 17:37) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 24.34 MB, length: 17:37) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1632 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 3.7 (4 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Sport | |
| Heavy Shreddin' is a relatively obscure snowboarding game with five different events: Downhill, Slalom, Halfpipe, Moguls, and Backwoods. Though the screen scrolls at a set speed, there are several speed altering techniques that can be used to obtain a faster time. TGPrimus uses these techniques along with TAS precision to finish all slopes and events in less than 18 minutes. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2008-11-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 29.30 MB, length: 20:52) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 35.12 MB, length: 20:52) Mirror www.archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2116 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.3 (28 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action | |
| Selected comments from the author: High Speed was released on the NES by Rare Inc. in 1991 and is based on a real pinball machine released by Williams pinball in 1985. The core rules of High Speed were ported over fairly faithfully from the original pinball machine although Rare added in two different minigames and a "wizard mode" goal which is reached by completing a total of 8 cannon minigames and 6 race minigames. Completing all three races and all four cannon minigames causes a spaceship to appear which displays a message that states "you have beaten the system... for now”; beating another round of three races and four cannon minigames causes a rocket to appear which states “you have beaten the system this time.” and marks the end of the game. Reaching this final “you beat the system” bonus is the goal of this speedrun. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-03-25) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 27.90 MB, length: 16:33) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1482 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #20 (14:32.25) Rating: 7.0 (24 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Despite the fact that this is a Konami game, this game is not well-known in western countries. This game is really quite difficult. 火の鳥 = bird of fire (Japanese name for phoenix). This is a 15.5-second improvement to the previous author's movie, through a route change and extensive luck manipulation. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-06-11) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 41.72 MB, length: 18:27) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1586 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #513 (16:28.9) Rating: 6.1 (25 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Here is a game that was made as a tribute to Ronnie James Dio and features him as the main character. Also, the name of the game is taken from Dio's band's Holy Diver album. Beside that, the ending contains additional references to other famous rock/metal figures. Gameplay of this game is very similiar to Castlevania and some textures and the last boss are similar to Contra's. This game is also known to be nearly impossible to complete on a real console. This is a 1 minute 36 second improvement over the previous movie due to the use of new tricks, weapon selection, and some new shortcuts. | ||
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| Bizhawk movie (.bkm) (date: 2012-12-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 13.17 MB, length: 09:15) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 13.26 MB, length: 09:15) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3628 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 3.8 (9 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action | |
| A weird game, very loosely based on the second movie of the Home Alone movie series. Features, among other things, Kevin McCallister dodging brooms and suitcases, obtaining the Screw Attack from Metroid, and, of course, fending off those two crooks that are going after him. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-07-22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 44.61 MB, length: 23:34) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2738 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.4 (14 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Hook is an NES game based on the movie of the same name. Unlike the SNES game based on the same movie, this game is less linear, though there are still a limited number of effective routes on the map screen. Also, four items need to be collected to beat the game. GlitchMan plays through this game quickly, using some collision glitches which allow him to do things like fall through floors (as the screenshot for this movie shows). For more details, see the author's comments. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-10-11) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 6.27 MB, length: 06:02) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 6.31 MB, length: 06:02) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4452 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #760 (09:07.32) Rating: 6.6 (9.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Hydlide is an old and somewhat notorious game, mostly because it has very strange gameplay mechanics. For the first part of the game, walking consumes health, and the character must stop every now and then to regain it. This is one of the few games (the only one?) where the level grinding sequences are actually entertaining, while the boss fights aren't. Hitting a boss decreases your own health as well as the boss's, after which there is much waiting for more health until you can hit him again. This is an improvement of 3:54.79 over the previous TAS, due to overall better levelling strategy and route planning. There is also a submitted TAS that uses codes and removes the need to level grind or wait for health. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-01-03) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 41.09 MB, length: 19:33) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #927 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #169 (21:51.5) Rating: 4.9 (42.5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - 2 Players - Genre: Platform | |
| This movie completes the 32 mountains of Ice Climber as fast as the author could do. It catches the bird in every bonus stage, which almost doubles the movie length. It's not a very exciting movie as whole, but due to how hard the character is control, the game is difficult to beat by normal playing. This fact might make the movie a bit more interesting. This movie is 2.5 minutes faster than the previous version by the same author. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-11-10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 3.27 MB, length: 03:31) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 3.01 MB, length: 03:31) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3352 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (11.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade lent itself to two well-known video game adaptations - an adventure game and a straight-up action game. This game, made by Taito, is neither of those two; it is comprised of several short smaller games with varying genres. This run by MESHUGGAH and Randil is the result of careful luck manipulation and several time-saving tricks. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-10-21) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 1.53 MB, length: 02:00) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 2.01 MB, length: 02:00) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4071 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (6 votes) View Publication | - Uses a level password - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
| Inversion is a homebrew game created by Lucas "Dizzy9" Kur. The goal of the game is to collect all of the keys from each map to open a door leading to the next level. The game also features a more challenging level set called the "Extra World", accessible by entering a password. Here, MESHUGGAH plays through the Extra World, using a few tricks and glitches as well as precision to beat this mode as quickly as possible. We also have a run of Inversion's main mode. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-09-27) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 4.65 MB, length: 06:04) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 5.55 MB, length: 06:04) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4075 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.2 (7 votes) View Publication | - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
| A boy named Satoshi suffers from a unique type of color blindness — he can only see in black and white. However, he also has a special ability to turn solid objects intangible and vice versa! But despite the amazing power he holds, Satoshi only wants to see like a normal boy. He seeks out an answer to his vision problem in a mystical manor called the Denine Devil Mansion, where he meets a scientist who offers him a game. If Satoshi wins, he might gain the ability to see in color. With that goal in mind, Satoshi accepts the offer and begins the Inversion game. In each level, Satoshi must collect all of the keys to open the door to the next map. He can use his special ability to change the solidity of all objects in the level and reveal solutions to the game's many puzzles. Springs, moving platforms, vertical conveyor belts and levers can also be used to his advantage. In this run, MESHUGGAH uses a few tricks and a lot of precise movement to help Satoshi beat the game in record time. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-07-05) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 27.95 MB, length: 13:40) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 32.03 MB, length: 13:40) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4001 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.2 (5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Shooter | |
| Iron Tank: The Invasion of Normandy (1988) is a top-down action shooting game by SNK, based on their earlier arcade game TNK III. You take control of a commando named Paul (codenamed SNAKE) as he mans the titular tank to infiltrate the German stronghold. In this run, £e Nécroyeur uses tool-assisted precision as well as some tricks, glitches, and luck manipulation to blast his way to victory in a little under 12 minutes. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-08-10) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 14.07 MB, length: 09:04) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2000 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #967 (07:36.9) Rating: 6.4 (21 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Forgoes time-saving death - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Shooter | |
| Unfortunately, Red from the last year's carnage got into an accident involving a badly thrown grenade and a few land mines, so Green takes it on all by himself in this new episode of Jackal. Not having to deal with the larger amount of two-player mayhem also means the game goes faster, which is a win for everybody. (Except that Red guy.) Coupled with better playing, this constitutes the 9 second improvement over the previous movie by xipo. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-09-04) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 30.61 MB, length: 19:27) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #791 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #216 (17:03.6) Rating: 6.2 (21 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Jackie Chan is not a particularly impressive game, except for its music, which is relaxing to listen to. Jackie Chan has been played a few times on this site. Three times by Arc, once by Dan and now once by Baxter. Every submission was faster than the preceding one, and this movie is not an exception. This movie is 27.5 seconds faster than the previous version by Dan, and also takes 100% less hits than the previous version. In other words, no damage was taken. We recommend reading the author's notes of this movie. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm3) (date: 2012-12-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 30.57 MB, length: 19:36) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 32.95 MB, length: 19:36) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3773 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (8 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Second quest/Post game-completion - Uses a level password - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| James Bond Jr. is a 1991 video game developed by Eurocom. The world’s greatest scientists have mysteriously disappeared! Intelligence reports indicate that James Bond Junior's old enemy, SCUM Lord, has imprisoned them on his island fortress in the Caribbean. Without hesitation, Junior heads out on four dangerous missions to save the scientists and thwart SCUM Lord’s plans!
Here, our brave hero ignores normal elevators, uses all available items and manages their amounts very precisely, and generally abuses his lifebar.
We also have a run of the SNES version.
This movie features the new .FM3 format, intended to be watched in TASEditor, where detailed comments on the run are visible. You can play around with branches included in the movie as well. See the author's explanation on how to use this feature. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-01-16) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 6.40 MB, length: 05:10) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1413 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #274 (04:19.07) Rating: 5.5 (33 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Adventure | |
| Anyone up for some fishing? In this TAS of Jaws, the attack level is upgraded to 3, which is the minimum required to kill Jaws in a single encounter. 30,000 points are needed to get the mini-sub which has double attack power. Because of this, a regular encounter is substituted for a Jaws encounter, so that Jaws can be hit for more points. This movie is a 42.6 sec improvement over the previous one. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2012-12-08) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 13.15 MB, length: 09:18) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 14.38 MB, length: 09:18) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1487 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.2 (6 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Joe and Mac is more or less your average caveman game. The heroes have to save the babes from dinosaurs and other historically accurate baddies by throwing stone wheels, bones, and fire at them. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-03-24) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 14.64 MB, length: 11:08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 15.49 MB, length: 11:08) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3495 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1014 (09:32.03) Rating: 7.5 (9 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| A fast-paced action platformer from Sunsoft with similarities to both Mega Man and Blaster Master. What could go wrong with a mix like that? This movie shaves a cool 1.38 seconds of input time over the previously published run. (The actual time improvement is slightly greater because this movie plays at a slightly higher framerate than the previous movie. This difference does not cause any changes in gameplay, though.) | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm3) (date: 2014-12-06) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 7.46 MB, length: 07:05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 7.64 MB, length: 07:05) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4485 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (4 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| In Joust, players take control of a knight with a lance who rides their flying ostrich (or stork, for Player 2) to do battle against computer-controlled evil knights who ride atop vultures. This game has 90 waves, and starts looping after wave 40 (in the NES version), so this run beats 44 waves. After the movie ends, one can see how wave 45 is beaten with no input and massive amount of deaths (encodes don't have it). | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-01-07) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 2.44 MB, length: 01:00) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 2.82 MB, length: 01:00) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3769 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 3.4 (8.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Unofficial game - Genre: Action | |
| This run further proves that pirate games can be broken not just upon release, but even more so after being TASed. MESHUGGAH speeds through this unlicensed port of the SNES game based on the movie, using optimized movement and a glitch to jump through the egg pen wall to finish in a mere 50.84 seconds. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-01-29) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 18.91 MB, length: 11:56) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #963 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #327 (10:23.67) Rating: 7.2 (31 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Kabuki is a well-made platformer with a lot of climbing and jumping acrobatics as well as straightforward action. And a main character that isn't afraid to use his hair as a weapon. Nitsuja's new version here is just over 1 minute faster than the last version due to playing extremely aggressively and taking as much damage as possible. Check the author's comments at the submission page for more information. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-01-10) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 14.70 MB, length: 08:58) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 19.35 MB, length: 08:58) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4154 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (4 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action | |
| Kamen no Ninja: Akakage, or "Masked Ninja: Akakage", is a Famicom-exclusive video game based on the 1987 anime series of the same name (which itself is a remake of the 1967 Akakage tokusatsu). While the game mainly features the Red Shadow, Akakage, you can also freely switch to Aokage (a young boy) and Shirokage (an old man).
This run by mtvf1 mostly uses Akakage for his superior arsenal of weapons, but switches to Aokage at a few points when the young ninja can move faster.
There is some commentary by the author in the emulator movie file and in the primary (HQ) encode. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-05-23) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 9.20 MB, length: 08:47) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 10.36 MB, length: 08:47) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3608 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (5 votes) View Publication | - Uses warps - Genre: Platform | |
| In Kanshaku tamanage Kantarō no Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi (かんしゃく玉投げカン太郎の東海道五十三次), you play a fireworks-maker traveling the Tōkaidō road. The game actually bears quite a resemblance to the actual geography of the Tōkaidō road; famous landmarks, rivers, and flora types are reproduced as well as they can be given the limitations of the Famicom. The game is quite difficult -- the hero is slow moving and hard to control, and your only weapon is an endless supply of fireworks. The author's comments detail the methods used as well as explaining all of the various baddies encountered during this quest. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2008-11-27) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 16.18 MB, length: 09:28) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 25.24 MB, length: 09:28) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2130 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #349 (09:04.25) Rating: 6.6 (22 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
Karnov is one of those games whose fame defies my logic― Bisqwit. The game retells the legend of a muscular fire-spitting man called Karnov, employed by Scottish villagers to eat gypsies' babies and pillage their settlements. Except in this particular case, Karnov's full name is Jinborov Karnovski, he looks like an old-school Ukrainian, turns blue when hit, and his goal here is to take some kind of treasures from feeble, unsuspecting enemies. Later in the game he also grows a pair of wings and flies. In doing so, he strongly defies laws of physics, common sense, and notions of subtle Kid Icarus mockery. The developers of this game, Data East, probably decided it would be a good idea to only let the screen scroll in one direction at once, and pretty slowly at that. It's not particularly surprising, though, considering the previous paragraph. This new version of Karnov TAS by adelikat is a ~5 second improvement over the previous movie by Arc. The time was saved thanks to taking damage in a different part of the run, as well as various small optimizations scattered around. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2012-12-10) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 19.06 MB, length: 15:35) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 18.89 MB, length: 15:35) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1842 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.9 (5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Kero Kero Keroppi no Dai Bouken 2: Donuts Ike ha Oosawagi! is a Famicom exclusive starring Keroppi the frog, a character created by Sanrio (well-known for their Hello Kitty character). In this sequel to Keroppi's first game, monsters have taken all the children in Donut Park and Keroppi is out to stop them. The author, x2poet, hops his way through the stages, chaining enemy and floating block jumps and speeding through minigames to get to the end as fast as possible. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-12-31) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 101.84 MB, length: 1:00:50) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 117.77 MB, length: 1:00:50) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3398 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Kickle Cubicle is a game where the title character kicks ice cubes to solve puzzles. Unlike most other NES puzzle games, it has a plot and even boss fights. Every story mode and bonus level (101 total) is completed in this hour long movie. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-08-13) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 20.68 MB, length: 10:13) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2050 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #431 (08:58.48) Rating: 6.5 (22 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Kick Master (1991) stars a hero named Thonolan, who really likes kicking things. Obviously, the first thing you'll see him doing is kicking some odd-looking trinkets out of the enemies. By doing so repeatedly and collecting the trinkets like a true hero, he levels up and gains new abilities, allowing him to kick the various enemies stronger and faster than before. You will marvel at the laws of physics being stomped by Thonolan's feet. This game loops, and has to be completed once in order to unlock a higher difficulty mode, but since all it does is double the enemies' HP, it has been considered unnecessary. Dragonxyk's take on this game is 26 seconds faster than the previous movie by foda. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-08-09) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 29.15 MB, length: 21:54) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2359 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #89 (20:41.57) Rating: 6.8 (18.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| For the fans of the Castlevania series ― here's a TAS of a Castlevania game that is hmm.. much much more aimed toward children than the darker-themed games. The game was only released in Japan.
There is also a Game Boy sequel that is known as Kid Dracula.
This is a 50+ second improvement over the previous movie by Phil and Genisto. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-11-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 39.13 MB, length: 24:13) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2469 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #899 (22:42.23) Rating: 7.7 (18.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Here's an improvement to the run of this famous game. A total of 24.85 seconds was saved. The improvement comes from a pause trick to manipulate the speed of platforms, buying a health drink in level 2-4, additional damage boosting, and more. See the author's comments for details. Note: The movie's torrent and Archive.org download have been replaced due to a desynchronization that has occurred. Please redownload the movie file. We apologize for any inconvenience. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-06-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 14.71 MB, length: 16:43) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2691 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (13 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Kid Kool, a game created by Vic Tokai, stars "Kool" as he gains 7 magical herbs to cure the king of a dreaded illness. He does this along with his helpful red partner "Wicky" who can kill enemies and help defeat bosses. If the player fails to complete the game in under three hours (in-game), then the king dies. So this is a frantic game where speed is key. In this run, Randil uses zipping glitches (aided by MATLAB) and expert playing to finish with an in-game time of under ten minutes, leaving the enemies in the dust and saving the king with much time to spare. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-09-02) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 20.25 MB, length: 10:01) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1669 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #483 (09:21.88) Rating: 5.8 (20 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| This is the fourth TAS movie of 快傑ヤンチャ丸 2 - からくりランド (Kaiketsu Yanchamaru 2 - Karakuriland). This is a pretty straightforward and simple game, but the author was still able to improve the old movie by 15 seconds primarily by getting more speed shoes. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-10-15) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 14.39 MB, length: 09:14) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2096 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (25.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Kid Niki 3 (aka. Kaiketsu Yanchamaru 3 - Taiketsu! Zouringen) is the sequel to Kid Niki and Kid Niki 2. However, it looks quite different from the previous games. In this game, you are a ninja who is a master of bo-jutsu (stick art), and you defeat enemies and get over obstacles with your staff. This game also has many locked doors which can be opened with keys found in the levels. TaoTao breezes through this game, in part due to a glitch which allows repeated backflips up walls. For more details, see the submission comments. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-11-12) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 24.65 MB, length: 34:16) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 27.74 MB, length: 34:16) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1950 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.3 (5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Adventure | |
| King Graham sets off on a journey to save his family from the evil wizard Mordack. Unfortunately for him, the number of beings in the world that desire to kill him are vast, and only the most silly usage of items can save him from impending doom. He also has a sidekick, Cedric the Owl, who is next to useless. A port of the PC game from the well-known King's Quest series, King's Quest V is an adventure game infamous for its numerous dead ends, long fetch quests, and overly obscure solutions. The game is highly restrictive, with minimum points necessary to beat the game being not much less than the maximum 260 points, and as such, this TAS goes for the maximum. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2013-07-18) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 5.36 MB, length: 04:13) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 5.82 MB, length: 04:13) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4014 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #721 (03:04.13) Rating: 7.0 (7.5 votes) View Publication | - Major skip glitch - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action | |
| King Kong is out to rescue his girl from a fortress that is impenetrable without eight keys from other fortresses. Luckily, that turned out to be false once tools were added to the mix. This movie improves on its predecessor by 5.75 seconds thanks to a route change and some new tricks. For a run of another game featuring King Kong, see the Wai Wai World TAS. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-10-18) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 70.18 MB, length: 41:58) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1314 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #42 (53:17.0) Rating: 7.2 (42 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes major skip glitch - Forgoes final boss skip glitch - Heavy glitch abuse - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Foregoes memory corruption - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Kirby's Adventure is a colorful game that's very long for a NES game. Normal gameplay forbids the UFO from being taken from level to level, but using a bug discovered by kirbymuncher, JXQ manages to keep the UFO, and blazes through much of the game using it. The speed with which he defeats midbosses and bosses is often very surprising. This movie is several minutes faster than the previous unpublished movie by kirbymuncher, and is well over ten minutes faster than the original by Bisqwit. To see the game completed even faster, see this run, which uses an unusual glitch involving the Stone ability and water to activate the credits early. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-06-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 7.27 MB, length: 03:22) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 9.03 MB, length: 03:22) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3990 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1947 (05:44.57) Rating: 7.9 (16.5 votes) View Publication | - Major skip glitch - Final boss skip glitch - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Corrupts memory - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform ![]() | |
| Kirby's Adventure is a colorful game that's very long for a NES title. However, a bug was discovered which caused unpredictable results (including triggering the credits) upon using the Stone power while entering the water.
This movie saves over five minutes from its predecessor. This is because instead of playing multiple levels to reach a spot for the glitch, a new wall-clipping trick is used in the third room of the very first level.
This movie was also the result of an intense frame war that spawned over a dozen attempts and ultimately resulted in an improvement of over 3 seconds of the initial attempt.
This movie has two YouTube encodes. The primary version has deliberately glitched ending graphics, whereas the second one displays proper graphics. Both versions have identical input except for the last frame. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2009-08-14) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 8.04 MB, length: 03:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2360 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #587 (03:58.45) Rating: 7.0 (19.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| In this game, you control a kiwi bird and rescue other kiwi birds trapped within the level. There are numerous warps, used to cut this game many minutes short of its expected completion time. The ceiling and wall physics are very similar to Bubble Bobble, which means some of them can be passed through when you wouldn't expect it. In addition to this there is a glitch that sends you through the floor, saving a lot of time in the final stages. The first submission was almost 14 minutes long and thought to be optimal, and now we are below 3 minutes. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-10-03) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 3.20 MB, length: 04:12) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.viddler.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2401 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #340 (03:42.55) Rating: 7.0 (22.5 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Fighting | |
| Kung Fu (1985) is a simple beat-'em-up game in which the protagonist known as Thomas has 5 floors of bad guys and bosses to fight through in order to save Sylvia, his girlfriend. Unfortunately, as the final screen tells us, their happiness "does not continue long" — a common arcade trope to make the player beat the game in a second loop.
Phil bested the predecessor movie by over a second thanks to better luck manipulation and decreasing the amount of jumps.
This movie aims for lowest in-game time. The completion times for each floor are: 1552, 1558, 1552, 1545, 1550.
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-10-05) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 18.59 MB, length: 12:10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 24.72 MB, length: 12:12) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4451 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #589 (09:02.92) Rating: Too few votes (1) to display View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Kyatto Ninden Teyandee is a side-scrolling action game in the style of Ninja Gaiden, based off the Japanese TV show produced in 1990 by Tatsunoko Productions and Sotsu Agency. The show was localized in the USA as Samurai Pizza Cats. There are eleven stages in total, and you can play as any of the main Secret Ninja Team Nyankii members. They include Yattaro, leader of the team, who uses his Cat's Eye Sword as his main weapon; Pururun, the only female on the team, who attacks with projectiles and her razor-sharp nails; and Sukashii, who uses an umbrella to dispatch his enemies. In this run, you'll see a lot of use of the cat who can fly to create shortcuts, but the other cats are used from time to time for their special abilities. In this game, there's an important bug in which Yattaro can perform a Level-3 ninpo attack on the very first frame of a boss fight and kill the boss immediately. This works for every level except the second. This run is an improvement over the previous run by about six seconds due to a new shortcut in level 6. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-08-20) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 105.84 MB, length: 1:50:42) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2719 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.7 (10 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| 'Lagrange Point' (ラグランジュポイント), is a very late (as in, released in 1991) Japanese-only RPG produced for the NES. This game is notable because Konami teamed up with readers of Family Computer Magazine (ファミリーコンピュータマガジン) to form a group, called 芸夢工房 (geimukoubou, art dream workshop), in order to make this game. The readers were permitted to design the characters, monsters, events, message-texts, music, the title-screen, and such. With enhanced sound for the NES due to Konami's VRC7 sound generator Integrated Circuit, the game is considered a masterpiece to many Japanese people.
The story is about a pilot, Jin (also known as Gin), who is exploring a biohazard outbreak at a space colony, linked to the disappearance of Dr. Stolte. He arrives, only for the spaceship to be attacked. The effect of the outbreak soon becomes clear.
More information on the game can be found on the Japanese Wikipedia (machine translation).
The MKV has been continued until past 1:50:00 to show a secret message after the end.
This run of a Japanese-only RPG with an unofficial translation by Aeon Genesis (the run won't sync in it) features commentary in the form of Advanced SubStation Alpha soft subtitles created by FractalFusion and the author, neo_omegon. If you use MPlayer to view the MKV, add the -ass option to the commandline to view the subtitles with their proper layout. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-09-30) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 26.89 MB, length: 17:40) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1680 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #884 (17:21.83) Rating: 7.5 (26 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Legacy of the Wizard (1987), released in Japan as "ドラゴンスレイヤーIV Dragon Slayer IV: Drasle Family", is actually a part of Dragon Slayer series. This is a nonlinear platforming adventure game, in which you gain control over one member of the Drasle family to explore the vast dungeon filled with mind bending puzzles and obscure secrets. The goal of the game is to retrieve a powerful sword named Dragon Slayer, protected by four magical crowns, to kill an evil dragon trapped in the nearby labyrinth. Each member of the family has different abilities, and the portion of the labyrinth only he/she can go into to retrieve one of the crowns. However, this prerequisite was circumvented by the clever use of certain new glitches. According to the author, this movie employs a completely different route, better luck manipulation and some new tricks that result in a 3:38 faster movie than the previous version. Moral of this movie: Beware of short fat men, for they're surprisingly quick. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-01-31) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 31.00 MB, length: 37:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3424 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Legend of the Ghost Lion features a young girl, searching for her parents and the mystery of the White Lion, using the power of dreams to summon allies to fight for her. Maria is seemingly a lucid dreamer, and gains the ability to control her dream and guide it to the truth of this game with the minimum of fuss. Now that's what I call a power nap! | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-01-11) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 36.80 MB, length: 30:29) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2965 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (7 votes) View Publication | - Unofficial game - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
Linus Spacehead's Cosmic Crusade is an unlicensed Nintendo game by Codemasters, which is also available licensed on the Genesis as Cosmic Spacehead. The game features a mix of adventure and side-scrolling action.
Here is the plot, according to Wikipedia:
Linus is an alien from the planet Linoleum who crashed into the legendary planet Earth. After returning home and expecting a hero's welcome, Linus soon found his fellow Linomen were skeptical of the existence of the so-called "planet Earth" and decides to return to it, this time with a camera. However, he is flat on the planets' currency, Linobucks, and must deal across the planet to get a new cosmic car and a camera. In his adventures, Linus deals himself out of Linoleum, quashes a robot revolution in Detroitica and gets gas from an abandoned space station.In this run, watch Bag of Magic Food breeze through this game in just under half an hour with precise playing and some glitches. For plenty of details, including transcriptions of the amusing pieces of dialogue in this game, read the author's lengthy comments. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-10-27) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 33.20 MB, length: 27:12) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2408 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1000 (23:39.2) Rating: 7.3 (17 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Little Nemo done more optimized than before, with about 90 seconds saved. All levels have been improved. The improved time comes from new routes, getting killed to save time, subpixel optimization, lag reduction, faster boss fights and better damage boosting. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-04-05) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 22.68 MB, length: 14:42) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1913 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #584 (14:13.08) Rating: 7.8 (24 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Little Samson and his team are out to deliver tool-assisted fun! This game consists of four heroes with very different strengths and weaknesses. The object (and fun) of the game is to use these traits to your advantage depending on the situation. This movie improves the previously published movie by JXQ by almost 4 minutes, due to new glitches, better strategies and better precision. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-05-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 16.31 MB, length: 14:20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 17.60 MB, length: 14:20) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3596 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.8 (6 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Low G Man is a futuristic action video game developed by KID for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The game is really difficult to run: the controls are at times clunky, the screen refresh is frustrating and finally the last boss is an example of a difficulty spike as it suddenly becomes much harder than the rest of the game. The author manages to complete the game in just 10 minutes, beating the real-time speedrun by 5 minutes. Read the author's comments for more information. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2010-07-08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 18.88 MB, length: 24:55) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2676 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (19 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Sport | |
| Lunar Ball, known as Lunar Pool in the US, is, as the name suggests, a pool game for the NES, comprising 60 stages of oddly-shaped tables. With some heavy support from a bot and the help of an unusual glitch on two tables, the game is completed in record time. The friction of the pool table can be adjusted; in this run it is left alone. See also the frictionless run. Reading the submission text is recommended. The emulator movie requires FCEU 0.98.15 or an earlier version of FCEU. On later versions of FCEU, the last table desyncs. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2010-04-08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 50.27 MB, length: 38:27) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2609 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (24.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Genre: Sport | |
| Lunar Ball, known as Lunar Pool in the US, is, as the name suggests, a pool game for the NES with the curious ability to adjust the friction of the surface of the pool table. Indeed, it is quite possible to play with no friction, and while this may sound easy, it actually proves to be impossibly difficult due to removing the major obstacle from the balls just continuing to roll forever, causing the game to never end. With some heavy support from a bot (and massive loss of sanity), the author manages the nigh-impossible feat of making it all the way to the end of all 60 tables even in the face of this overwhelming opposition. Reading the submission notes is highly advisable to explain some of the oddities such as the occasional pocketing of the cue ball. (In short: The cue ball is deliberately pocketed in order to avoid getting a perfect score on every level because the point counter would take unbearably long to tick all the points, up to a half minute per level.) For more heavy optimization of pool tables, see also the run of this game with the default friction level. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-07-09) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 48.88 MB, length: 27:56) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #981 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #438 (27:21.43) Rating: 6.4 (24 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes warps - Genre: Platform | |
| This M.C. Kids movie is different from the other one in that it completes all the levels in the game, not just the required ones. This run is 56 seconds faster than the previous version by a different author. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2009-02-03) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 42.09 MB, length: 19:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2167 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #697 (19:14.0) Rating: 7.4 (21.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Once you get past McDonald's blatant advertising and the fact that this game is about Ronald the clown, this game is actually quite good. The controls are a bit slippery but the level design more than makes up for it. In this particular movie the author collects only the cards that are necessary to complete the game. If you want to see all the cards collected and the secret levels played, check the other movie of this game. An improvement of 58 seconds arises from better acceleration techniques and strategic differences. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-12-08) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 28.12 MB, length: 13:24) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 26.26 MB, length: 13:24) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1125 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.9 (5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action | |
| Mad Max is based on the 1981 Australian film Mad Max 2. The object of the game is to survive life after the end of the world by battling survivalists and collecting valuable food, water, gasoline, and money. There are three nonlinear stages, referred to as Road Wars, and each one ends in an Arena where the goal is to demolish every car and be the last one standing. Twisted Eye blazes through this game, utilizing precision and a few glitches to get to the end in a little more than 13 minutes. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-02-02) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 23.85 MB, length: 11:50) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2550 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1288 (12:12.18) Rating: 6.2 (15 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Meet Paul -- A guy who starves to death five minutes after a grand meal. He also feels experienced from doing trivial things like entering a store or delivering mail.
While many heroes would depend on hours of fighting for experience, Paul instead gets his experience from those trivial things in order to defeat Abadon in a timely manner. Best ending requires all such trivial tasks done, ensuring you see Paul gaining experience from delivering a letter or talking to a tree.
Along the way, there are vicious enemies who beat up Paul. Being in a hurry, Paul doesn't stop for them, preferring to use the UNKNOWN spell to patch himself up. Normally this has a high chance of killing Paul in some of the most gruesome or comical ways possible, but instead it is manipulated to heal him.
This beats the authors previous run by a little over 38 seconds, primarily due to a new route.
Reading the author's comments is recommended.
This movie features commentary by the author, which has been added to the encode in the form of soft subtitles. If watching embedded stream via Archive.org, you can press the nearly invisible commentary button on the top right corner to see the commentary. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2012-12-07) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 32.35 MB, length: 20:40) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 41.72 MB, length: 20:40) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1554 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (4 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure | |
| Majou Densetsu II may have the same (translated) name as the MSX game Knightmare II: The Maze of Galious, but it's almost a completely different game. Though the plot is the same, the maps are totally different and there are some different items and fewer dungeons. Hisatoki runs through the Maze, utilizing damage boosts and a glitch to fall through the floor underneath a ladder to finish in less than 19 minutes. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-02-18) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 4.77 MB, length: 08:30) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 5.13 MB, length: 08:30) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1838 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #444 (07:15.78) Rating: 6.0 (28 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Adventure | |
| Maniac Mansion (1990) is a unique game that has weird humor and crazy music. It features cutscenes, multiple ways to win, useless items (like Chuck the Plant), and microwavable hamsters. In the storyline, Dave and two of his friends infiltrate the Edison family's mansion in order to rescue Dave's girlfriend. In order to save her, the teens must get access to the inner lab, deal with Purple Tentacle, shut down the ZOM-B-MATIC, and defeat the evil Meteor. This movie—Arc's eighth TAS of Maniac Mansion—is about 46 seconds faster than the previous attempt. The author's comments for the submission help to explain the multitude of tricks and glitches used. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-01-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 5.86 MB, length: 03:14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 5.53 MB, length: 03:14) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2986 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #913 (02:48.4) Rating: 7.6 (24.5 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Genre: Platform - Genre: Racing | |
| Marble Madness is an isometric game similar in its style to Snake Rattle 'n Roll. The objective in these two games is quite different, though. In this game, the player must roll a marble from one point to another. This is, of course, not as easy as it sounds, and certainly not as easy as it looks in this movie. Aglar improved adelikat and Deign's movie by 5.10 seconds. A second encode is available using a camera hack to focus on the marble, which subtly alters the gameplay. Also, you can see this movie played back on an actual NES! | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-08-18) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 63.62 MB, length: 51:11) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 68.82 MB, length: 51:11) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3672 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1484 (49:42.39) Rating: 6.6 (9.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
Mario Adventure is a hack of Super Mario Bros. 3. These are its most noteworthy characteristics:
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-08-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 9.86 MB, length: 09:24) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 8.36 MB, length: 09:24) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4407 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (7 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Mario and Luigi, the best plumbers in the world, have a real job on their hands. A host of characters have taken over the sewers, and the brothers must clear them out of the pipes. The platform puzzle which first introduced Luigi to the world has both single and multiplayer action with two differing game types. Crabs, turtles and fighter flies must be cleared out by jumping underneath the platform they're on, then kicking them away. Each level is cleared when all of the enemies are defeated. In this TAS, Spikestuff plays on the European version for its greater difficulty and completes one round (23 phases). The Bros.' potential for both hilarious antics and impressive teamwork is nicely demonstrated here. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-12-01) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 14.62 MB, length: 14:40) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 15.53 MB, length: 14:40) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Submission #2921 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1103 (15:29.27) Rating: 9.4 (62 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes major skip glitch - Forgoes final boss skip glitch - Heavy glitch abuse - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Corrupts memory - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform ![]() ![]() ![]() | |
| On this site, we make perfect movies, and then we surpass them. Of course, if we can surpass them, they were not perfect in the first place, but who would have known? When "perfection" is defined as "as fast as possible", it requires some sacrifices. Indeed, this movie sacrifices a lot in the playability of the game. Full of tricks to pass through walls, tricks to avoid mandatory battles, tricks to pass through enemies relatively unharmed, tricks to acquire weapon refills in little time — there is very little in this movie left that resembles normal playing. Even death is used as a viable playing strategy that saves time. All of the tricks are still performed by the means of mere controller input, even though significant portions of the input were calculated by a computer program. This movie is a considerable improvement of 3:04.39 to the previous movie; this is mainly due to a new technique which tricks the game into calling an 'end of level' object. Of course, upon watching this movie, one does have to question something... is it Mega Man saving the world? Or Dr. Wily trying to save it from absolute destruction? | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-05-21) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 2.35 MB, length: 02:17) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 3.28 MB, length: 02:17) Mirror www.archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4308 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (13.5 votes) View Publication | - Major skip glitch - Final boss skip glitch - Executes arbitrary code - Heavy glitch abuse - Corrupts memory - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Mega Man is the first game in the famous series that now comprises games on many different systems as well as several television shows and comic books. While the other run of this game uses lots of tricks to reach the ending impressively quickly, pirohiko and FinalFighter decided it just wasn't fast enough. In this run, they manipulate an object to appear which allows them to execute arbitrary code and warp to the credits, all using only controller input. For an advanced explanation of how it works, check out the submission text. Watch this run on a real console (played back on the US version) | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-10-18) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 30.56 MB, length: 27:34) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2881 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1346 (23:54.75) Rating: 9.3 (40.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - 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 6.24 seconds over the previous run through a variety of small tweaks. See Rockman Tricks and the submission message for in-depth explanation and answers to various questions regarding this movie. You can also see this run played back on a real NES with an input display! | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-08-07) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 45.09 MB, length: 33:48) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 47.19 MB, length: 33:48) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4033 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1150 (30:44.73) Rating: 8.2 (10.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Mega Man 3 (USAのロックマン3) is the first game in the Mega Man / Rockman series to introduce sliding (though the ability to charge the Mega Buster would have to wait until game 4). It also introduced Rush the robotic dog, who provides the abilities of Rush Coil, Rush Marine, and Rush Jet. Furthermore, after you beat the 8 robot masters, the game makes you revisit modified versions of four stages to fight the Doc Robots, who imitate the robot masters from Mega Man 2. This set a precedent in the Mega Man series to have additional stages between the main robot masters and Dr. Wily's fortress. This run completes the game about 20.61 seconds faster than the previous movie thanks to a new route, more glitches, and better optimization. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-05-23) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 187.62 MB, length: 43:32) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1566 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.6 (67 votes) View Publication | - Demonstration - Multiple games in one movie - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform ![]() | |
| The games Mega Man 3, 4, 5 and 6 are all the same. Eight robot masters are defeated and Mega Man steals their weapons. After some kind of distraction, Mega Man attacks Wily's fortress and it typically gets blown up. If you don't believe that's true, we offer this movie. While driving home the point in honor of our first multi-game movie, Baxter and AngerFist prove that Capcom really has been making the same game over and over again by playing Mega Man 3, 4, 5 and 6 using the same input. No attempt is made to synchronize the endings of these games. Mega Man 6 finishes first and Mega Man 4 finishes last. The CPU demands for playback of this movie are unusually high. Systems under 1.2 GHz may struggle to play this video. The audio has been processed by adelikat for virtual surround sound. We recommend sitting back as far as possible and looking (staring?) at the center of the screen when watching the AVI. If you like this movie, you may like to check out some other movies in which multiple games are played simultaneously with one controller. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-01-19) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 76.25 MB, length: 38:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2521 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #545 (34:34.38) Rating: 7.8 (20.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| This is the sixth published movie of Mega Man 4 (USAのロックマン4), played for the first time by GlitchMan. There are improvements in all of the stages, some more visible than others. The total amount of time saved is 34.36 seconds, achieved by being more accurate and using some cool glitches. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-06-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 51.75 MB, length: 35:24) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2707 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #476 (33:04.05) Rating: 8.4 (22.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| This is Mega Man 5 (USAのロックマン5) played by GlitchMan, in an improvement of 1 minute and 22 seconds over the previous run. Improvements include several new glitches involving the Super Arrow and new strategies for two of the boss fights. Reading the submission text is recommended for details on the glitches. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2009-01-11) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 60.36 MB, length: 36:11) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 77.33 MB, length: 36:11) Mirror www.archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2156 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1083 (30:54.55) Rating: 8.3 (49 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Mega Man 6 (USAのロックマン6) sees everyone's favorite blue robot ruin Dr. Wily's plot for world domination for the sixth time. In this improvement, Shinryuu manages to save 7.55 seconds compared to his previous version by doing a complete run overhaul, utilizing the discovery of new glitches to hasten Mega Man's movement and firing capabilities, a route change, and heavy subpixel optimization. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-11-11) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 50.38 MB, length: 21:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2904 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.2 (10 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Genre: Action - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Mendel Palace is an action-puzzle game. When playing in real-time, it becomes more action than puzzle, and when TASing, it becomes more puzzle than action. The idea is to shove your opponents into the walls of the arena by flipping over ground tiles. This is harder than it looks, since the enemies often approach in swarms and can kill you with one touch. Flipping can also reveal some other tile types. For instance, the sun tile flips over everything else, which often cleans up the arena in a hurry. However, there are also extra enemy spawn areas that can be uncovered, especially in the last levels. For more details, see the run's submission comments. DarkKobold beats the game in just over 19 minutes by using 2 players at the same time. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-02-12) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 25.22 MB, length: 23:55) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 27.34 MB, length: 23:55) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3847 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1992 (22:35.93) Rating: 6.8 (4.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action | |
| Metal Gear!? It can't be! This is the NES port of the first entry in the ever-popular Metal Gear series of stealth video games created by Hideo Kojima and developed and published by Konami; there are significant differences between it and the original MSX version. It is infamous for its engrish, containing such ever-popular phrases as "I FEEL ASLEEP!" and "UH - OH! THE TRUCK HAVE STARTED TO MOVE!". This movie utilizes quite a wide variety of game glitches and collects the minimal set of items needed to complete the game. This movie is a 8.35 second improvement, due primarily to a route change in the beginning and from lag reduction. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-04-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 31.88 MB, length: 24:45) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 36.02 MB, length: 24:45) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3928 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #2218 (25:07.15) Rating: 5.9 (3 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| In Metal Max, a mysterious war known as "The Havoc" has almost destroyed the human civilization. It's unknown how it broke out, and no one even dares to find out. The few who are left have to struggle to survive. Among them is our young hero, E, who just makes his decision to become a great Hunter. Released by Data East in Japan in 1991, Metal Max was one of the more "creative" console role-playing games due to more freedom in the story. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic future, in which surviving people cluster from villages to ruins, while some Hunters among them fight monsters and outlaws in the "wild". In this run, suwei improves the previous run by 50.66 seconds by using "dud" shells instead of panic shells and buying the teleport item from a different place. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-06-26) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 20.68 MB, length: 14:23) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 22.67 MB, length: 14:23) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3991 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.9 (5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Metal Mech: Man & Machine is a poorly-designed platformer. It has some similarities to Blaster Master: you play as a red-suited man who can pilot a larger vehicle in your quest to destroy aliens. In the first five levels, the mech is usually abandoned in favor of silly-looking bunny-hopping through the levels to get a key (the circular icon with a red K) and reach the end of the stage. The last level features a giant blue robot that flies through the level and fights the Alien Queen at the end. Note that there are sound glitches, so there is no music during the final boss fight and credits. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-02-27) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 68.94 MB, length: 14:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #545 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.9 (23 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Second quest/Post game-completion - Uses a level password - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| An ultra-powerful gigantic mechadroid that can take one hit before exploding into confetti. Pah. This video uses a password to go directly to the second, harder version of the game. Note that the password shown on screen is not the one actually accepted by the game - the password is entered so fast the graphic function glitches. Another (more useful) glitch is that you can stand on spikes and other sorts of materials which ultra-powerful gigantic mechadroids have a natural weakness against if you jump all the time. The fireball form used for the first few levels more or less grants invulnerability when used constantly, as well as being a strong offensive weapon. It is not very effective against the sixth boss, so the author switches to a better projectile weapon before that. This switch entails that the rematches against the earlier bosses are slower, but the improvement on the sixth boss makes up for it. Please note that the AVI has been replaced with an updated MP4, this file provides both size and quality benefits over the former one. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-01-19) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 22.35 MB, length: 13:38) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 13.33 MB, length: 13:31) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2547 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1413 (11:45.46) Rating: 8.3 (24.5 votes) View Publication | - Low% completion - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Metroid completed using just one item: the morphing ball.
Uses a game restart sequence (Up+A on second controller) to save time in backtracking.
This is an improvement of 36.7 seconds over the previously published run, thanks to a new route and general optimization.
This movie features commentary by the author, which has been added to the encode in the form of soft subtitles. If can see them when watching the embedded stream via Archive.org. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-07-05) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 56.28 MB, length: 35:47) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 39.80 MB, length: 35:46) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2305 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #202 (41:43.33) Rating: 7.5 (21 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| This is a full completion of Metroid, meaning that all items (100%) were collected. This is a 8 minute 16 second improvement over the previous movie by Zoizite. Much of the improvement comes from using the Up+A restart sequence, though many new shortcuts and optimizations also save time. This movie has now been console verified. Watch this run being played on a real NES console. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-07-20) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 18.58 MB, length: 10:39) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 9.41 MB, length: 10:40) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2032 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #844 (08:52.18) Rating: 8.1 (40.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Metroid completed as fast as possible without holding back, and without concern for the game's sanity. A wealth of new tricks contribute to this 33 second improvement over the previous movie. The run uses a game restart sequence (Up+A on the second controller) to save time in backtracking. See Metroid Tricks for more information about the door glitch as well as other tips and tricks. Andy Dick has made a video which plays this run on top of the game map. This provides a unique perspective on the door warping glitches. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-04-03) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 26.34 MB, length: 18:29) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1854 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (21.5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Released as part of the mostly Game Boy Mickey Mouse series, Mickey Mouse III: Dream Balloon was released in September 1992 by Kemco in Japan for the Famicom. Due to copyright issues it was changed into Kid Klown in Night Mayor World for its US NES 1993 release. In this run, Mickey uses balloons as weapons, as platforms, and as floatation devices to make quick work of the stages. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-05-02) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 13.79 MB, length: 07:23) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1519 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #55 (07:31.7) Rating: 6.5 (26 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Even though at first sight this might seem like a kiddie game, when you start playing it you'll see that it's no cakewalk, and is actually very challenging. There's a lot of fighting in this game, so this movie is nonstop action, and it has very accurate shooting. This movie is a 35.5 second improvement over the previously published movie. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-05-13) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 13.30 MB, length: 10:24) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1418 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.5 (22 votes) View Publication | - Major skip glitch - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: RPG | |
| Might and Magic, released in 1986, was the first installment in the series that would later evolve into a whole fictional universe, encompassing both the actual M&M games and a multitude of subseries and spin-offs made in their own genres, including King's Bounty, Heroes of Might & Magic, and others.
Normally, this game is rather long. This movie by Dammit skips most of it by using a glitch that allows the player to get all the important items in a matter of a few minutes.
We strongly recommend reading the author's comments for further details and explanations. For viewers' convenience, we included some of them in the AVI as subtitles. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-07-23) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 15.50 MB, length: 11:16) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1571 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.1 (19 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Uses death to save time - Uses warps - Genre: Platform | |
| Mighty Bomb Jack is a game where Jack goes to rescue his family from a pyramid. Along the way, he meets many enemies who start as mummies and change forms when they hit the ground. He also finds bomb-filled rooms at the end of each round, which work like warp rooms with a twist: you can warp ahead to the bomb room of the next round if the first lit bomb is the last bomb collected. Using this, the author warps past many rounds. However, this movie aims for the best ending, which is obtained by freeing all the family members in Round 12. This means that the author avoids warping past some rounds in order to collect items. For more details, read the submission comments. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-02-19) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 11.96 MB, length: 11:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1841 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #964 (10:24.47) Rating: 6.1 (21 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Fighting | |
| Mighty Final Fight is modeled after its arcade cousin Final Fight but features more cartoon-like graphics and lacks multiplayer. In this movie, the mayor of Metro City spins, punches and piledrives his way to save his daughter, all without the benefit of a shirt. The author rarely takes damage, with the notable exception of multiple suicides down an elevator shaft. This is nearly a minute and a half improvement over the previous movie. Also, the author made a switch from the JPN version to the USA, which results in a 5 second slower intro screen. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-07-06) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 12.74 MB, length: 06:10) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1103 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #285 (07:20.72) Rating: 5.8 (30 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Puzzle | |
| The title of this game is very appropriate, as wherever you look there are walls you can break through, or invisible blocks you can make appear. In order to complete this game as fast as possible, every little secret must be known ahead of time, and the author clearly exhibits such knowledge. This movie was made with the Japanese version, 迷宮組曲 (Meikyuu Kumikyoku, meaning labyrinth composition), but it is essentially identical to the English version, except for the shop/intro text language. It is about two minutes faster than the previous version, mostly due to much faster boss fights and more precise maneuvers. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-11-03) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 26.98 MB, length: 19:59) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1702 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (19 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| In this Japan only game, our psychic hero with a magical trident must defeat a variety of enemies, including possibly trolls. The kind with big pink fluffy hair. This run features no death and very accurate use of weapons. The trident in particular is very similar to Mega Man V. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-05-17) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 24.72 MB, length: 16:35) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1943 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #909 (21:29.57) Rating: 6.7 (20 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Moai Kun is a fun, fast-paced puzzle-platformer where the goal is to rescue all your pink friends and then reach the door - to continue to the next stage. It has a surprising amount of action for a puzzle game. In this run, all 56 levels are well-solved and well-played. There are some unexpected twists, such as going through walls, that allows levels to be beaten much faster than normal. This game is yet another example of Konami's fascination with moai (Easter Island statues). | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-04-04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 1.10 MB, length: 01:52) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 1.18 MB, length: 01:52) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1011 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #488 (00:33.62) Rating: 6.7 (70 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Sport | |
| This movie aims for the fastest time to get the CPU player bankrupt, and abuses luck to its fullest to make that happen. After a few turns of Monopoly war in the submissions, this version won out. It utilizes the same strategy from the previous one, but several seconds have been shaved by reverse engineering the random number generator and a brute force computer search to achieve the desired randomization with the least possible delay. Details can be found in the submission comments. Under assumption of pure randomness, the odds of reproducing this dice and card sequence on a console is 1 in a few (North American) trillions (22 568 879 259 648, divided by the few slight variations that could work). FractalFusion has produced an alternate superplay of Monopoly that is 3 seconds faster, but controversial. It has been cancelled. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-11-21) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 2.40 MB, length: 03:32) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 2.64 MB, length: 03:32) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1199 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.4 (57.5 votes) View Publication | - Demonstration - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Sport | |
| While the CPUs were distracted, FractalFusion changed the dice on them and then left the board for a few minutes. When he came back, all the CPUs were crying. The fraud squad is still investigating. This movie aims to defeat 4 CPU controlled players, ceasing to press buttons on the controller after as little time as possible. Luck is manipulated for the first 1:08, and then the CPUs are left to lose by themselves without requiring any further actions by the player. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-09-14) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 22.47 MB, length: 15:47) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2066 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.2 (20.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| This game follows the adventures of miniature Dracula and Frankenst… rather, "Vampire" and "The Monster" as they dodge giant golf balls, fight miniature Godzillas and ultimately do battle with a massive head on an equally large television screen. The authors frequently make use of two players simultaneously to both fight enemies quicker and also provide choreographed dancing. This also allows for more damage- and death-abuse to be used to save time. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-03-10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 21.88 MB, length: 16:14) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3027 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (11 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Genre: Platform | |
| Mark is on his way back home from a baseball game when an alien gargoyle called Bert summons him to save his home planet from evil monsters using his almighty baseball bat. In this very strange game, you must defeat bosses in each stage before obtaining a key to the next stage. The player normally controls Mark, but by picking up a pill from monsters, Bert can be used. Bert can fly and shoot powerful shots, but he only lasts a short while unless another pill is obtained. This is the fifth effort to tackle this game and the first to be published. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-06-04) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 19.99 MB, length: 11:07) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 23.90 MB, length: 11:07) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3974 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #2240 (08:35.12) Rating: 7.7 (7 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Moon Crystal (ムーンクリスタル), a platformer only released in Japan, follows a boy on his quest to save his family. The mechanics of the game are slightly reminiscent of Ninja Gaiden and Prince of Persia, with rather detailed animation. This is a 16.07 second improvement to the previous movie using better lag reduction and some new tricks. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-07-14) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 19.21 MB, length: 15:18) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 19.78 MB, length: 15:18) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4004 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| In Mystery Quest the player is Hao, an apprentice wizard who finally has a chance to prove himself. The Great Wizard has challenged Hao to seek out his four hidden talismans, which he has placed in four different castles. Hao has a magic attack which can be upgraded once in the game, and can shoot left and right as well as jumping and upward angled shots. There is also a limited variety of items that can help Hao progress through his quest. In this run, TASeditor runs, jumps and shoots his way through the castles and completes the quest in under 15 minutes. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-04-05) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 2.58 MB, length: 03:15) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 3.13 MB, length: 03:15) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3908 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.9 (9 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses hardest difficulty - Uses a level password - Unofficial game - Genre: Puzzle | |
| NeSnake 2 is a homebrew game made by MatrixZ in the style of the classic game Snake. This run by MESHUGGAH showcases the only way a Snake game can be TASed for the fastest time. Guess what happens! | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2008-11-27) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 32.21 MB, length: 20:16) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2122 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (21.5 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Genre: Action | |
| The New Ghostbusters II is a much different game than the USA edition, even though they are based on the same movie. The European version, shown here, takes a Blaster Master-esque approach to the gameplay with a top-down view. Zus has spent a lot of his time making sure enemies are in highly ideal places, which in turn means that a lot of re-records were spent comparing and working out the best possible route. As a result, Zus saved over 11 seconds from his previous version. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-11-04) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 11.56 MB, length: 10:55) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 12.08 MB, length: 10:55) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4101 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #744 (08:27.67) Rating: 6.0 (3 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Fighting | |
| Nightshade's story begins with the murder of Metro City's hero, Vortex, at the hands of the crime lord Sutekh. Filling the need for a new superhero is Nightshade — a guy in a trench coat! Guide Nightshade through Metro City as he builds popularity and fights rats, gentlemen, female ninjas, and most importantly museum statues. This run by MESHUGGAH speeds through the game as fast as Nightshade is able to, ignoring lesser goals such as finding the museum items, saving a kitten, or checking out the women's dressing room. It is 22.31 seconds faster than the previous version by Maximus. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-02-28) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 7.28 MB, length: 05:57) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 8.19 MB, length: 05:57) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1868 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1006 (04:10.38) Rating: 7.3 (24.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Genre: Platform | |
| The story is about a mysterious robotic force which attacked the world and drove the ninjas out of Japan. Two of the ninjas set out to reclaim the land, but not only did they abuse the powers given by the ninja-obsessed video game industry, they did it in style. The teamwork of the two ninjas is remarkable. One of the ninjas often transforms into a tiger on which the other ninja can ride. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-07-10) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 26.57 MB, length: 16:26) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1119 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #539 (11:02.47) Rating: 8.4 (42.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Ninja Gaiden involves an ultra superior ninja, capable of defying the laws of physics by climbing through walls, making dogs explode with his sword, and all while beating bad guys in record time. This run is about 10 seconds faster than the prior submission due to the ninja thinking more like a ninja. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-04-09) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 28.11 MB, length: 17:24) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1497 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #569 (09:18.27) Rating: 8.2 (31 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| NINJA外伝2 — The Dark Sword of Chaos, now completed about 4 seconds faster than the previous version by the same author, due to lots of small optimizations throughout every level.
The shadow clones are a unique gameplay element not seen elsewhere in the series, but in this movie they are used mainly to make extremely short work of bosses and entertain the viewer immediately afterwards.
The game has a rich plot with lots of cutscenes. Because of this, the author has also supplied the "story" version of the movie, which exhibits the same gameplay but includes all the cutscenes skipped by pressing start (which sum up to about 3/4 of the entire movie). It can be obtained here.
A good sense of humor is strongly advised to note the irony present in some of the later dialogues between characters. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-01-05) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 41.63 MB, length: 15:47) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 45.02 MB, length: 15:47) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4150 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #997 (11:11.93) Rating: 7.9 (3 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| The least-subtle ninja in history is back for a third entry in one of the hardest video game series ever. Here, Rum improves upon Scumtron's previous movie by 2.09 seconds through better optimization. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-03-07) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 37.68 MB, length: 17:50) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 33.40 MB, length: 17:50) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4203 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: Too few votes (1) to display View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Ninja Jajamaru: Ginga Daisakusen is a fast-paced action game that was only released in Japan. Its gameplay and art style are highly similar to that of a certain famous game. Watch as MESHUGGAH bounces over, around, and through this game's many levels and traps, making short work of anything that breathes in the process. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-11-19) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 1.27 MB, length: 01:42) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 1.39 MB, length: 01:42) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3754 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #2125 (01:20.02) Rating: 5.2 (9 votes) View Publication | - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Strategy | |
| North & South is a humorous, cartoony kind of game about an incredibly bloody war. In it, you move army units around on a board until you approach your opponent, at which point a battle occurs. MESHUGGAH improves the previous run by 9.09 seconds at a higher difficulty level by choosing south and manipulating luck better. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-06-10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 6.61 MB, length: 14:25) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3164 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1361 (14:21.3) Rating: 5.8 (11 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Forgoes warps - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Platform | |
| Nuts & Milk is a platform game deriving influences from a number of famous Nintendo games, including Kirby (puffy pink blob as a protagonist), Mario Bros. (green and red fireballs), Donkey Kong Jr. (spring platforms, jumping from ladder to ladder and fruits) and Wrecking Crew (barrels). This improvement of 15.22 seconds over the previous published movie collects all the fruit in all stages, including the bonus round (the latter of which triggers the 'PERFECT' ending). | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-01-11) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 22.76 MB, length: 14:46) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1760 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (21 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Chef Cookie must navigate through his cursed restaurant to foil the wicked Ohdove (which is like saying "Hors D'Oeuvre" with a cold). On his way he dispatches anthropomorphic food items with deadly kitchen utensils. The author does this with maximum speed, utilizing damage boosts, managing lag and swiftly defeating bosses. A must see for fans of the absurd. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-12-25) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 22.14 MB, length: 12:07) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1380 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (39.5 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Demonstration - Uses death to save time | |
This run of Paperboy performs a perfect delivery every day. The author crashes his bike Monday - Saturday to avoid the obstacle course but then plays and finishes it flawlessly on Sunday. It does this as fast as possible, but does
not go for score. Instead, it has different subgoals set up every day:
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-06-17) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 9.78 MB, length: 05:54) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 10.04 MB, length: 05:54) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3175 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #746 (04:09.3) Rating: 6.5 (13 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action | |
| This game features a classic save-the-princess plot... in the form of a pinball game. This run saves 29.36 seconds over its predecessor (accounting for a frame rate difference) due to improved strategies and increased precision. If you like pinball games featuring characters as the ball, also check out Sonic Spinball or Mario Pinball Land. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-06-26) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 4.15 MB, length: 04:26) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 3.95 MB, length: 04:26) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1996 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (31 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Pipe Dream is a game about keeping unsolidified jello in tubes long enough for it to solidify. More or less. In this movie, Explosion Pills places pipes faster than a plumber on fifteen cups of coffee and only goes as far as absolutely required to contain the goo. Unfortunately, the annoying music played though most of the game is the "turbo mode" music, and since turbo mode makes the goo flow faster, it can't be ignored in a run that aims for fastest time. It's a good idea to just turn off sound while watching this movie. This movie stops after playing though all stages once. After that, the set of stages repeats endlessly, not unlike Elevator Action and Circus Charlie. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-12-26) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 11.91 MB, length: 12:17) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2484 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.6 (9 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Delivering pizza is not normally a job one would consider dangerous. This is not always the case, as this game proves; here our protagonist is called upon to deliver pizza to such odd locations as a construction site and a haunted house, all the while dodging enemies apparently intent on claiming the pizza for themselves. If you were hoping for free pizza from slow delivery, look somewhere else; the author succeeds in deliveries so quickly you'll think the guy was there before people even placed their order. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-11-21) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 13.40 MB, length: 10:34) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 16.07 MB, length: 10:34) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2363 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.7 (8.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Genre: Action | |
| A game based on movie of the same name. Some of the maps are mazes, which can be cleared fairly fast if one knows where one is going. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-01-02) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 3.90 MB, length: 03:41) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 4.10 MB, length: 03:41) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3777 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.6 (8 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Popeye is an arcade video game developed by Nintendo, designed by Shigeru Miyamoto. In it, Popeye must dodge Bluto and his infinite stack of beer bottles, and other threats that come in his way such as skulls and vultures - while collecting a number of hearts, music notes or letters spelling "HELP" from Olive Oyl. In this tool-assisted speedrun, MESHUGGAH plays through one loop (three stages), while aiming to get as high a score as possible. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2009-03-19) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 30.25 MB, length: 17:26) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2198 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #193 (17:10.7) Rating: 7.3 (20.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Power Blade is an underdog title by the folks at Taito, highly reminiscent of the Megaman series. It also features a hero who looks a lot like Arnold Schwarzenegger. This is one of those obscure games that you may wish you had played as a kid. In this updated run Aglar decimates the previous version by 45 seconds thanks to improved frame precision in what was once a highly contested game, now revived. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-03-16) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 12.06 MB, length: 17:46) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 13.58 MB, length: 17:46) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1002 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #178 (16:39.05) Rating: 5.8 (32.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Tackling the crazy architecture of ancient Persia in record time, Gavin Ward improves his previous movie by just a few seconds. This movie makes the "Prince of Persia" look like a gymnastic winner. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2012-11-09) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 26.94 MB, length: 39:51) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 27.60 MB, length: 39:51) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #881 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 2.8 (4.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Storybook | |
| Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom is a menu-based game resembling Déjà Vu. In it, the main character, Sir Cucumber, sets out on a quest to save Princess Tomato from the sinister Minister Pumpkin upon the request of the late King Broccoli. Aided by his sidekick, a baby persimmon named Percy, the author, Tool23, navigates through 9 levels to save the day in record time. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-11-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 10.57 MB, length: 12:03) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 11.30 MB, length: 12:03) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3565 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.4 (9 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Fighting | |
| Pro Wrestling is a wrestling game in which players can utilize many unique skills and moves to pin their opponent. However, instead of fighting your opponent, it is much faster to cause a ring-out and let the referee do the work for you. It doesn't even matter who gets thrown out; if you leave the ring, your opponent follows you. If he remains outside of the ring after the 20th count is made, and you don't, you win. Here, goofydylan8 does this for 6 rounds to become the Video Wrestling Association (VWA) Champion and continues the strategy for 10 title defenses to become the Video Wrestling Federation (VWF) Champion as well. Each time, he uses different fighting styles on his opponents as the timer counts down. Then, Brandon takes over for the Great Puma bout, cutting off the input as quickly as possible by getting back into the ring while giving his opponent the most amount of time to try to do the same. The result is a run with an in-game time of 5:52, the absolute minimum possible, and a real-time length of 9:47.06. And with that, "A WINNER IS YOU". | ||
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| Bizhawk movie (.bkm) (date: 2013-11-27) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 20.93 MB, length: 19:02) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 18.51 MB, length: 19:02) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4113 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1695 (17:47.71) Rating: 8.9 (8 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Sport | |
The objective is not to beat your opponent... but to humiliate him by winning as fast as possible.
Clock Times:
Glass Joe 0:42.00 Von Kaiser 0:35.61 Piston Honda 0:36.97 Don Flamenco 0:14.97 King Hippo 0:37.25 Great Tiger 0:47.48 Bald Bull 0:55.25 Piston Honda II 0:39.97 Soda Popinski 0:43.48 Bald Bull II 1:08.82 Don Flamenco II 0:58.00 Mr. Sandman 2:16.48 Super Macho Man 0:44.25 Mike Tyson 1:58.XXThis movie, the 7th publication for this game, improves eight fights, totaling a 20.93 second clock time improvement and 496 frames of real time improvement. No clock stopping glitch in this run, though we have a submission that does exploit this glitch. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-12-22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 15.02 MB, length: 29:14) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3364 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.6 (5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Puzznic is one of the lesser known puzzle block games on the NES. Normally, each level takes a minute or so to complete. In this movie, each one is completed in just a few seconds. The author even manages to overflow the score display before completing the game. Read the author's comments for more details on the "block-juggling" and other glitches used in this movie. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2014-08-23) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 27.07 MB, length: 23:31) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 20.19 MB, length: 23:31) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4399 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.9 (6 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Q*bert was originally an arcade video game developed and published by Gottlieb in 1982. It uses "isometric" graphics to create a pseudo-3D effect. The goal of the game is to color all the squares the designated color by stepping on them, while avoiding any enemies that come your way. Originally made in 2008, watch as unagi quickly blazes through this puzzle game, coloring all squares while getting some unexpected help from a certain little bugger. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-06-15) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 2.20 MB, length: 02:10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 2.85 MB, length: 02:10) Mirror www.archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1001 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.5 (34 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Single level - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Puzzle - Genre: Shooter | |
| Quarth might be best described as a mix of a shooter and Tetris. You control a ship that moves horizontally at the bottom, and shoot incoming blocks or groups of blocks (adding tiles to them) to give them a rectangular shape and make them disappear. Each level scrolls at an increasing speed until you reach the end, and you lose if a block reaches the line floating above the ship. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-03-16) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 11.93 MB, length: 15:02) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 13.77 MB, length: 15:02) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3459 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (6 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Best ending - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Dizzy, the intelligent egg-like creature, is back in this second game of the famous series from the 1980s. He needs to gather items that he can trade for boat parts to escape from some islands. For the best ending, he also needs to find 30 coins, some of which are hidden. This game has a reputation of high difficulty because of its physics and control scheme, but goofydylan8 makes it look like a relaxing platformer through masterful route planning and item management. We also have a run of Dizzy the Adventurer. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-05-31) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 5.00 MB, length: 04:44) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 5.38 MB, length: 04:44) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1976 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (33 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Sport ![]() | |
| R.B.I. Baseball is a baseball video game developed by Namco and published by Tengen. It was the first game to feature the names of real baseball players from the 1986 and 1987 seasons, adding a dimension of strategy if you knew the sport and the players' strengths and weaknesses. This playaround by adelikat shows off ridiculous plays, bizarre glitches, and other wild antics. You can see this played on a real NES by clicking here. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-06-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 48.84 MB, length: 22:58) OGM file via BitTorrent (size: 48.37 MB, length: 22:58) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #713 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 3.6 (29 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Racing | |
| Rad is a slang term, short for radical. This movie shows what radical sports is when applied to car driving on NES. Curiously, the game Rad Racer was made by Square, which is probably best known for its Final Fantasy game series. Quite a different game, this here... If you decide to play this game, we recommend the Power Glove. It's so bad. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-11-30) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 20.04 MB, length: 15:05) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 21.35 MB, length: 15:05) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3008 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.0 (5.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Rainbow Islands is a sequel to Bubble Bobble. Protagonists Bubblun and Bobblun now appear in their human forms as Bubby and Bobby. The objective is to climb to the top of each stage in a time limit, while avoiding or destroying various baddies along the way. The players can summon rainbows which can be used as platforms and weapons. In a TAS, they can be abused greatly to allow dizzying rates of ascent. This run obtains the bad ending, because it does not collect any of the Big Diamonds used to unlock the secret last level. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-11-19) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 23.56 MB, length: 19:33) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 24.35 MB, length: 19:33) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1163 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 3.9 (5 votes) View Publication | - Forgoes time-saving damage - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Rambo is a game closely based on the film Rambo: First Blood Part II, in which you kill wasps and snakes and then robots that shoot fireballs. Mostly using a knife, the author, dave_dfwm, completes the game in record time. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-03-20) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 7.53 MB, length: 07:30) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 6.15 MB, length: 07:30) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4216 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.4 (4 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses easiest difficulty - Genre: Fighting | |
| In River City Ransom, Alex and Ryan face off against gangs of students and evil bosses to win their town back and rescue their girlfriends. Several bosses need to be found and beaten before you can enter River City High and beat up the final bad guys (including an obvious imitation of the Double Dragon heroes). The gameplay also has elements of an RPG, where you can level up your character with shop purchases, but none of that is done here. This is a run that only uses Ryan, who is normally Player 2. This has some very important differences compared to the two-player speedrun. One cutscene is significantly shorter when playing only as Ryan. There is less lag, though there are also fewer glitches and acrobatics. More boss fights, especially at the end, use the boss's superior strength against him, taking advantage of an exploit with kicking trash cans. For more details, see the run's submission comments. For a River City Ransom movie that concentrates more on goofing around than aiming purely for speed, click here. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-02-25) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 8.78 MB, length: 08:10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 7.23 MB, length: 08:10) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4190 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #944 (06:53.42) Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses easiest difficulty - Genre: Fighting | |
| In River City Ransom, Alex and Ryan face off against gangs of students and evil bosses to win their town back and rescue their girlfriends. Several bosses need to be found and beaten before you can enter River City High and beat up the final bad guys (including an obvious imitation of the Double Dragon heroes). The gameplay also has elements of an RPG, where you can level up your character with shop purchases, but none of that is done here. A glitch that is abused often in this run, pressing Left and Right at the same time, causes the player character to do all sorts of crazy things and usually lose all of his power. This is done to reduce lag during running segments and abuse collision detection. This run obsoletes the previous one by nearly a minute due to much more optimization of boss fights and some new tricks. Weapons are also used more, so expect to see some chains and trash cans! For a River City Ransom movie that concentrates more on goofing around than aiming purely for speed, click here. For a run that only uses Ryan, click here. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-12-04) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 19.66 MB, length: 16:13) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1740 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #37 (08:59.95) Rating: 7.0 (49 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - 2 Players - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses easiest difficulty - Genre: Fighting ![]() | |
River City Ransom is a goofy game that deserves a goofy TAS. This movie showcases cool tricks and some glitches that don't necessarily result in the fastest completion. We also have a movie which aims for speed.
Selected Quote from the authors:
We looked at previous submissions and demonstrations of this game and tried to include the most entertaining parts of what was available, and add in a few ideas of our own along the way. Hopefully you'll get a kick out of it. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-01-01) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 5.79 MB, length: 04:50) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 5.73 MB, length: 04:50) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3774 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.2 (8 votes) View Publication | - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Racing | |
| Road fighter is racing game. Oddly enough, there are no explicit opponents, even if initially it may seem so. In this run, mtvf1 destroys as many other vehicles as possbile, racking up quite an amount of destruction. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-08-15) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 12.14 MB, length: 06:13) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 17.62 MB, length: 06:13) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2051 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (25.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action | |
| Based off the movie of the same name, Robocop 3 is a game where you play as a cyborg while killing thugs. In this run, Robocop walks slowly, but has insane shooting skills. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-09-09) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 2.18 MB, length: 02:57) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 2.29 MB, length: 02:57) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1120 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.4 (32 votes) View Publication | - Uses hardest difficulty - Uses a level password - Genre: Platform | |
| Whoever said cats can't fly needs to watch this movie.
Rockin' Kats is a nice platformer with tricky gameplay similar to
Bionic Commando and Ninja Five-O. This little movie represents the hardest part of the game - Channel X, which normally appears as a secret bonus stage after the normal ending. This TAS however does not play through the entire game, but inputs a password in the beginning to access Channel X right away. This 1-minute movie has all the ingredients needed for a good TAS: high-speed acrobatics involving a punchgun and unmotivated violence towards various types of canine. If you liked this movie, be sure to also check out the movie that beats the actual game. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-10-15) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 19.74 MB, length: 20:11) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3329 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #432 (21:43.47) Rating: 7.4 (11 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| In Rockin' Kats, Willy the Kat's girl Jill is kidnapped no less than five times by the local crime boss, and, armed with little more than a 'punch-gun', he sets out to rescue her. This run was the winning submission to TASVideos' Dream Team Contest 4, and improves the old run by just over five minutes. There is also a run of this game that completes the hidden Channel X. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-04-19) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 73.50 MB, length: 47:00) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 84.98 MB, length: 47:00) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 105.57 MB, length: 47:00) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4278 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #2348 (38:52.78) Rating: 8.6 (10 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Unofficial game - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Rockman 4 Minus Infinity is the most extensive Mega Man 4 hack in existence, and probably one of the most extensive hacks of any game in existence. It features heavily reworked weapons, brand new weapons, new items, all-new boss patterns, and brand new stages with new music and entirely new gimmicks. All kinds of obstacles, enemies, bosses and minibosses have been taken from other games from the series, including the Game Boy series and even the SNES and PSX games. It must all be seen to be believed. This run improves the author's previous run by 3:12.51 through a new route, new glitches and better optimization. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-05-24) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 41.04 MB, length: 33:01) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2675 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1526 (27:27.7) Rating: 7.0 (16 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Uses hardest difficulty - Unofficial game - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| This popular hack for Rockman 2 contains a wide variety of new bosses, weapons, levels, graphics, and music, going far beyond the capabilities of the original game. Two versions of this hack exist - "normal" mode and "hard" mode, with the primary difference being no mercy invincibility on hard mode. This run uses hard mode. The normal run is obsoleted despite being around 2 minutes faster due to playing on hard. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-12-31) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 26.18 MB, length: 15:16) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 27.29 MB, length: 15:16) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2155 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.9 (16 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Unofficial game - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Rocman X is an original game created by the Taiwanese company Sachen, the most profilic unlicensed developer for the NES/Famicom. Despite the name and pirated title screen, this game has almost nothing to do with Mega Man. The game takes place in Thunder Blaster Man's home of Gadem City. The mayor is in the middle of throwing a big party for the city's centennial when a mysterious figure crashes the party and kidnaps the mayor's daughter, Miss Lucy. The kidnapper turns out to be the leader of an evil crime syndicate who demands a large ransom for her safe return. Now it's up to the eponymous hero to save Miss Lucy and bring the syndicate to justice! In this run, FractalFusion jumps and flies through all four levels of this odd platformer and saves Miss Lucy in just under thirteen and a half minutes. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-01-15) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 13.11 MB, length: 08:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3420 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.6 (5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Rod Land is a game with as many incarnations, as differences between them. In their NES outing, Tam and Rit overcome a rare video game impediment - the inability to jump - as they go around stages, trapping enemies with their magic rods and smashing them to make power ups. Hm, I wonder where I've seen that before... In this run, MESHUGGAH uses precision and lots of luck manipulation to beat the game in under 8 minutes. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-06-07) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 28.20 MB, length: 15:50) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 30.61 MB, length: 15:50) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3975 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (7.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Rollergames is a side-scrolling platform game where you play as a member of a roller skating gang battling two other roller skating gangs...on roller skates, naturally. In this run, N?K chooses the fastest character and speeds through the game, beating it in only thirteen and a half minutes. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-03-30) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 32.74 MB, length: 11:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2608 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #373 (11:50.58) Rating: 5.9 (12 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses hardest difficulty - Second quest/Post game-completion - Genre: Platform | |
| Some longlegged dude has had his future wife kidnapped by Ku Klux Klan wannabe space aliens. Between the levels they taunt him by showing pictures of her in risqué positions on wide-screen TV, while dancing in front of it (We wish we were making this up, but NES games can be pretty weird sometimes). The author uses a password to get the hardest difficulty, thus not having to finish the game twice. The author also improves on the previous run by about 51 seconds. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-06-25) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 17.66 MB, length: 11:41) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2712 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #499 (09:37.27) Rating: 6.4 (11.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| In this game, two jovial brightly-colored soliders infiltrate enemy forces. Everyone here runs around menacingly, and bullets are a bit slower than a housecat. This movie is about a 2 second improvement to the previous version. Note: The name of this game is Rush’n Attack. The 'n does not stand alone as a contraction of and, unlike Ghosts ’n Goblins. Given the theme of the game, the pun on “Russian Attack” is quite obvious. You can watch this run played back on a real NES console. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-07-28) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 13.15 MB, length: 09:19) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2743 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.8 (18.5 votes) View Publication | - Low% completion - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Major skip glitch - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| Rygar is an action game involving a hero with a shield as a weapon. Normally, the hero must obtain items, such as a grappling hook, to be able to explore the world of Garloz, and he must also defeat five bosses to gain access to the final area. However, these requirements can be circumvented with glitches. Indeed, this run kills no bosses except the final boss and does very little leveling. In contrast to the any% run and the warpless run, which use the European version of Rygar, this movie uses the American version. The two ROM versions have some different glitches. For more details about the ROM choice, as well as some background explaining what in the world is going on here, see the movie comments as well as our Rygar tricks page. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-04-05) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 11.21 MB, length: 07:14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 13.75 MB, length: 07:14) Mirror www.archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1916 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #391 (06:28.72) Rating: 7.2 (31 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Major skip glitch - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| This movie completes the PAL version of Rygar with only one item, the grappling hook. It also uses a warp glitch to skip forward in the game as well as many smaller tricks.
It is an improvement of 65.58 seconds to the previous movie by Walker Boh – this time played by Lord Tom.
Although the route in this movie is almost exactly the same, time was saved mostly by accumulating the tone points (for Rygar's strength) a lot faster. There were other improvements as well. We recommend reading the author's comments for more details.
Note: If you are watching the FCM, don't forget to enable PAL emulation in FCEU! It's under the Config menu. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-05-17) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 40.19 MB, length: 17:33) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1957 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #317 (20:26.7) Rating: 7.3 (23 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes major skip glitch - Heavy glitch abuse - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| This movie is different from the other Rygar movie in that it plays all levels and doesn't use any glitch to warp from a boss battle to another. Aside from that limitation, this movie makes full use of all the bugs and glitches in the game which can be used to speed up the run. If you are wondering what really is going on in this movie, see the Rygar Tricks page for some info about the tricks used. This is a 4 minutes and 43.38 seconds improvement to the previous movie. Note: If you are watching the FCM, don't forget to enable PAL emulation in FCEU! It's under the Config menu. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-12-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 22.14 MB, length: 15:45) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 23.88 MB, length: 15:45) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2053 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.1 (4 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure | |
| Saiyuuki World is a port of the arcade game Wonder Boy in Monster Land with a major graphical overhaul to make it resemble the Chinese novel Journey to the West. The authors, Max12187566 and J.Y, utilize damage boosting and some small glitches to finish the game in less than 15 minutes. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-08-14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 4.50 MB, length: 08:30) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.radiokj.com Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3248 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1827 (08:23.84) Rating: 6.9 (14.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Storybook | |
| Shadowgate is a storybook game in which you wake up in front of a big castle and must make your way through it solving a variety of puzzles.
This run created by Randil is 41.84 seconds faster than the previous run of the game. For more details about the improvements done in this run, you can read the author's comments.
Author commentaries are available through the run in the form of subtitles. They can be enabled or disabled in the YouTube stream. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-08-20) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 21.81 MB, length: 12:36) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1653 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #856 (09:22.13) Rating: 6.7 (22 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| In the year 2029, evil Emperor Garuda somehow establishes a dictatorial government in the United States. After many lives are lost, two ninjas attempt to overthrow him. Shadow of the Ninja is one of the rare games in which constantly jumping and slashing is faster than regular running. The author makes sure to use this move extensively both to travel and to deal damage to enemies, and so it may seem that the ninja has a severe case of ADHD. This game was released in Europe as Blue Shadow and in Japan as Kage. Note: the previous movie was erroneously played on the European PAL version in NTSC mode, making the game run too fast. Its actual completion time was 11:15, making this movie 1 minute and 26 seconds faster. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-06-24) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 34.74 MB, length: 21:04) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2711 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #585 (18:07.58) Rating: 6.8 (14.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Shatterhand is a bit like Batman. However, Shatterhand is longer, has no walljumps, and is a lot laggier. On the other hand, in this game, the main character can buy a powerup to give him a cool brown vest, doubling his punching power, and this vest lasts until the player takes damage three times (it even lasts between stages). This movie by Cardboard is about 24 seconds faster than the previous version by JXQ, largely due to decreased lag. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-10-31) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 14.23 MB, length: 08:13) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 22.08 MB, length: 08:13) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4464 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Not rated View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action | |
| You control a ninja, Shinobi, who must battle his way through each level in search of hostages which must be rescued. You have shurikens, kicks and punches to defend yourself with, as well as powerful ninja magic which can clear the screen of enemies in one go. This movie by MESHUGGAH improves on all of the rejected submissions for this game while incorporating a host of tricks documented on the game's Game Resources page. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-11-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 9.21 MB, length: 05:46) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 13.95 MB, length: 05:46) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4483 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.6 (4 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Heavy luck manipulation - Unofficial game - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Silent Assault is an unlicensed game developed by Joy Van and published by Color Dreams in 1990. In this game, an alien force has somehow taken control of all of Earth's military forces. However, the player character is not under the alien power's control, meaning he's the only one who can fight back. Said character now has to fight through enemy military and alien forces over the course of 8 levels of varying awfulness. The author of this TAS runs through the game in only 5 minutes and 26.91 seconds. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-11-04) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 49.96 MB, length: 31:02) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 52.33 MB, length: 31:02) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3049 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.3 (7.5 votes) View Publication | - Pacifist version - Genre: Action - Genre: Shooter | |
| Silver Surfer is a shoot 'em up released in 1990. You take control of the Silver Surfer across various levels that alternate between a side-scrolling and an overhead perspective. The game is infamous for its legendary difficulty. The Silver Surfer has an enormous hitbox and can only take one hit, and there are many enemies cluttering each of the levels. To make matters worse, touching any wall, no matter how softly, results in instant death. Despite this, Skaad and HardCoreMangeur ride through the game without harming a single enemy (except for the bosses, which are destroyed to be able to progress). Listen for the great music by the Follin brothers! | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-11-02) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 20.51 MB, length: 12:36) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #756 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.4 (20 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| Yo dude! Skate or Die 2 is an NES game infamous for its unresponsive controls and other obvious problems. Luckily, bad programming can work to one's advantage in a project like this. Luck manipulation is also a big part of getting through this game quickly. Skate straight! | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-08-12) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 30.61 MB, length: 33:27) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 38.62 MB, length: 33:27) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2045 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (19 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action | |
| In a not-so-canonical sequel to Metal Gear, Solid Snake returns with newfound abilities to stop his own bullets, take minor damage to avoid major damage, and use cans of tuna to replenish his breath while underwater. For those interested, the author has provided a Lua script that allows you to view the HP of enemies, bomb timers, hostages rescued, and body count when using FCEUX to play the movie. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-01-26) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 17.40 MB, length: 08:55) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #959 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #445 (08:56.98) Rating: 7.7 (30 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Forgoes warps - Genre: Platform | |
| Snake Rattle 'n Roll is a 3D game mostly about collecting the "nibble bibbles" or something like that. The biggest part of the game is the tricky maneuvers required to complete the big mountain levels. This movie is a 1.5 minute improvement to the previous author's movie, due to better maneuvers, luck manipulation and other tricks such as controlling two snakes at the same time. No warps are used. There is also a more recent one-player run available. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-12-15) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 25.52 MB, length: 08:26) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2934 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.5 (11 votes) View Publication | - Forgoes warps - Genre: Platform | |
| Snake Rattle 'n Roll is a 3D game mostly about collecting objects along the line of "nibble bibbles". The biggest part of the game is the tricky maneuvers required to complete the big mountain levels that are difficult to perform in real time. This is a single player speedrun of this game, the two-player speedrun can be viewed here. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-10-08) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 25.09 MB, length: 17:36) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1718 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #45 (16:45.05) Rating: 5.0 (24 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Forgoes warps - Genre: Platform | |
| This game is a little similar to Bubble Bobble. Two players defeat hordes of enemies in fifty stages, only progressing when all enemies are gone. Enemies can either be turned into snowballs or can be killed by rolling a snowball on them. Unlike Bubble Bobble, though, there are boss fights every ten stages. This is a 2 minute 48 second improvement over the previous movie. Like the previous movie it uses 2 players and does not take warps. This movie is slower than the one-player version primarily because the slot machine bonus game after bosses takes longer with two players. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-01-12) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 20.14 MB, length: 16:30) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 24.13 MB, length: 16:30) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3799 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.2 (6 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Forgoes warps - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| This game is a little similar to Bubble Bobble. Players defeat hordes of enemies in fifty stages, only progressing when all enemies are gone. Enemies can either be turned into snowballs or can be killed by rolling a snowball on them. Unlike Bubble Bobble, though, there are boss fights every ten stages. This is a one-player run through the game. TASVideos also has a two-player run through the game. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-02-12) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 26.12 MB, length: 17:18) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 33.40 MB, length: 17:18) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4188 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #495 (23:04.42) Rating: 7.5 (5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Genre: Shooter | |
| Solar Jetman is a space adventure game where the main excitement comes
from the physics of the game. In the game, you explore planets with a
small module you fly around, towing fuel tanks and other artifacts
back to the mother ship, often from planets with a ridiculous level
of gravity and narrow hazardous caverns.
Anyone who has played this game surely knows how difficult it can be,
while being entertaining for hours after hours.
No passwords were used in this movie, although a
few warps were used to skip stages.
This movie features many changes compared to the previous author's movie,
leading to an improvement of about 7 minutes. There's a new warp in the
very beginning. A different module is purchased, which lets the player tow
wormholes closer to the fuel items you have to collect and allows for some
new physics abuse. Some different items are used, such as anti-gravity
items. For more details, see the submission comments.
There is some commentary by the author in the emulator movie file and in the primary (HQ) encode. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-10-01) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 1.06 MB, length: 01:05) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.nicovideo.jp) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3303 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1096 (00:47.27) Rating: 5.7 (20.5 votes) View Publication | - Unofficial game - Genre: Strategy | |
| Solitaire is a family of single-player card games. The particular form featured on the NES is called Klondike, and you can find it distributed with many desktop operating systems, such as Windows. This run improves the previous one by ~4.5 seconds, which was done on the same layout, thanks to movement optimisation. Please read the submission comments for more details. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-05-04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 31.79 MB, length: 26:47) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3145 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #498 (26:35.83) Rating: 5.9 (7 votes) View Publication | - Best ending - Forgoes time-saving death - Forgoes warps - Genre: Platform - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Solomon’s Key is a puzzle platform game with an old clumsy magician who has the power of creating and destroying platforms. And through that power, he saves the world. This movie plays all the rooms of the game, including the hidden rooms with Page of Time, Page of Space, and even a princess of some kind. (Fairy collection rooms were not included.) No warps were used. Due to those secrets, it accomplishes the best ending of the game. This movie is almost a minute and a half faster than the predecessor movie. In addition, it marks the obsoletion of the last Famtasia movie. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm3) (date: 2013-02-04) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 6.72 MB, length: 07:00) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 7.83 MB, length: 07:00) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3854 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #2262 (05:39.61) Rating: 6.7 (5.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Solstice: The Quest for the Staff of Demnos (1990) follows a wizard called Shadax on his quest to retrieve the eponymous staff in order to save a princess from being unjustly incarcerated. The game is essentially a huge isometric labyrinth filled with devious traps and oddball creatures to ensure especially frustrating peril in the absence of any kind of map to help the player. (Well, at least it was like that before the Internet era, but make no mistake: the game isn't by any means easy nowadays, either.) One of the most memorable aspects of the game is its jazzy musical theme filled with deep bass notes uncommon for the NES. This movie is 1.18 seconds faster than its predecessor, thanks to better optimization and some new strategies. We also have a 100% Solstice run. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm3) (date: 2013-05-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 11.96 MB, length: 12:25) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 14.22 MB, length: 12:25) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3971 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #2347 (11:04.74) Rating: 6.7 (6 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Solstice: The Quest for the Staff of Demnos (1990) follows a wizard called Shadax on his quest to retrieve the eponymous staff in order to save a princess from being unjustly incarcerated. The game is essentially a huge isometric labyrinth filled with devious traps and oddball creatures to ensure especially frustrating peril in the absence of any kind of map to help the player. (Well, at least it was like that before the Internet era, but make no mistake: the game isn't by any means easy nowadays, either.) One of the most memorable aspects of the game is its jazzy musical theme filled with deep bass notes uncommon for the NES. This is a 100% completion run of Solstice. Getting 100% means visiting every room and picking up all of the items. We also have an any% Solstice run. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-09-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 10.22 MB, length: 07:20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 9.14 MB, length: 07:20) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4076 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (7 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Fighting | |
| Spartan X 2 is a 1991 beat 'em up developed by Tamtex and published by Irem exclusively in Japan. You play as Johnny Thomas, an undercover investigator tasked with taking down the drug syndicate known as Hawk. Whereas Johnny's previous adventure was set entirely in a five-story pagoda, this game sees him fight his way through a variety of different locations, including a train, a warehouse, a boat, an airplane, a mansion, and the Hawk drug plant. Bernka guides the fearless fighter through all six stages and finishes off Hawk's leader in a little over 6 minutes. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-02-12) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 7.56 MB, length: 05:03) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 8.32 MB, length: 05:03) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3859 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1799 (04:46.66) Rating: 7.8 (8.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Spelunker is a simple adventure game, but a difficult one. The player character dies very easily, and the creator of this TAS utilizes that death many times to save time. This movie is a 18.11-second improvement to the author's previous movie due to route changes and new tricks. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2008-08-24) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 11.32 MB, length: 06:59) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 21.55 MB, length: 06:59) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2063 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #691 (06:02.6) Rating: 6.6 (19.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| The Sinister Six have rejoined in hopes of ruling the world (as usual), but Spider-Man has a lot of errands to do, so he decides to beat all of them in record time. The mechanics of this game make it difficult to make a fast TAS. If Spider-Man stays in the air too long after a jump, he'll drop straight down, and his web-slinging is easily stopped by enemy projectiles. Despite these obstacles, mmbossman manages to improve the previous movie by over 35 seconds thanks to improved speed management and more efficient boss fights. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-12-07) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 21.64 MB, length: 17:37) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 23.39 MB, length: 17:37) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1300 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Unofficial game - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| Spiritual Warfare (1992) is an unlicensed NES game created by Wisdom Tree. The company specializes in the niche market of Christian-themed video games. The gameplay in Spiritual Warfare is very similar to The Legend of Zelda (1986). The game's story is taken directly from the Bible (Ephesians 6:12-18):
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 13 Therefore, take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day and, having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girded about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and your feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace. 16 Above all, take the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17 And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, 18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. The Christian concept of spiritual warfare is a metaphor for fully accepting whatever Christ teaches. The ongoing spiritual war against Satan requires the whole armor of God, meaning that a faithful Christian should always obey the Lord's authority in order to defeat evil. The author of the TAS utterly ignores the philosophy of obtaining the whole armor of God in order to defeat Satan. The power of prayer, rather than the Helmet of Salvation, is enough to protect the hero's physical body from dynamite explosions. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-12-15) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 35.60 MB, length: 20:10) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1115 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.9 (20 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| "Splatter House: Wanpaku Graffiti" looks like a parody of the other more serious Splatter House games. Armed with a big meat cleaver, you fight various bizarre creatures such as a purple woman's severed head, spiders bursting out of a woman's gut, and Synchronized Dancing Dracula and Zombies (tm). This movie by Diman tries to do something interesting during the waiting times. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2012-11-14) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 7.89 MB, length: 09:17) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 8.43 MB, length: 09:17) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1296 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.0 (5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Genre: Action - Genre: Strategy | |
| Spy vs. Spy is a game based on the famous MAD cartoon of the same name. In it, the two spies each try to collect items and then leave the embassy by plane. This gives for some interesting route planning, and at one point the author even lets his spy die so as to get the quickest time possible. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-12-23) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 90.31 MB, length: 1:04:40) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1807 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #424 (1:05:43.3) Rating: 5.2 (19 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Adventure | |
| This is a long RPG-like adventure game with lots of witty dialog and the hero equipped with a yoyo. This is a ~4 minute improvement to the previous movie by Sami O.. A major part of this shortening comes from a glitch that skips the last chapter of the game, ignoring certain plot details. If you want to see the actual ending, watch the previous movie. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-11-05) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 123.24 MB, length: 1:03:34) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #856 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.6 (20 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure | |
| The StarTropics series, generally considered cult classics by many gamers, are NES action-RPGs that follow our hero Mike. In this installment of the franchise, he recieves a telepathic message from a princess he rescued in the previous game how to solve a cipher that him and his father found. However, as he reads it aloud, he is transported into the Stone Age. As he saves some children from a flesh eating boar, he discovers a Tetrad piece and decides to collect them all. However, while in England, he notices Zoda, a villain again from the predecessor, trying to steal one. As Mike defeats Zoda, the villain reveals himself as Zoda-X. So Mike must travel through time to retrieve the rest of the tetrads and defeat Zoda-Y and Zoda-Z. Sami helps Mike destroy the enemies with tool-assisted precision and finishing the game in a little over an hour. If you're looking for action with Sherlock Holmes and in Transylvania, look no further than this. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-10-21) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 23.18 MB, length: 10:03) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2880 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #877 (09:45.68) Rating: 7.2 (12.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| This Star Wars game is quite versatile. It features a sort of overworld, optional items and quests, a lot of platformer action, some first-person spaceship shooting and you even get to blow up the Death Star! You can't see all of that in this movie, but it's very entertaining nonetheless. The game's plot is based on the first Star Wars movie (Episode IV), and it even features some of the movie's awesome music. This run improves the previous movie by almost two minutes thanks to optimized movement and a new shortcut. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-10-02) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 22.96 MB, length: 14:33) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3290 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (7 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| The Galactic Empire, under the leadership of the villainous Darth Vader, is in pursuit of Luke Skywalker and the rest of the Rebel Alliance. While Vader chases a small band of Luke's friends across the galaxy, Luke studies the Force under Jedi Master Yoda. But when Vader captures Luke's friends, Luke must decide whether to complete his training and become a full Jedi Knight or to confront Vader and save his comrades. While Luke only learns a few force powers in this speedrun, he still is able to take on Darth Vader and the forces of the Empire with no problems. Clearly, the Force is strong with this one. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-07-18) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 1.81 MB, length: 01:37) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 1.85 MB, length: 01:37) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4015 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #2326 (00:53.84) Rating: 7.2 (6.5 votes) View Publication | - Aims for in-game time instead of real-time - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
| Derived from the Action 52 game of the same name, Streemerz is a NES port of a Flash game made for the "Action 52 Owns" competition by Arthur Lee. It is remade in Bionic Commando style, with grappling hook usage and all. This run plays through "Superb Joe" mode, a time trial mode of sorts, and finishes with an in-game time of 0:45.49. The author, MESHUGGAH, also improves his previous movie by 0.31 seconds thanks to better optimization and lag reduction. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-07-04) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 37.77 MB, length: 19:06) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #680 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #107 (18:55.27) Rating: 5.7 (26 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Street Fighter 2010, completely unrelated to the fighting game series, is a unique game to say the least. The player must go through a series of levels, collecting enough powerups to warp from one to the next. To progress as quickly as possible, proper planning of which enemies to target and what order to target them in is imperative. As this planning is evident here, this run by foda is all the more impressive. Even one who is not familiar with the game should find this run very beautiful and a lot of fun to watch. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-12-03) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 6.77 MB, length: 06:16) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 7.84 MB, length: 06:16) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4490 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #2036 (03:42.18) Rating: 6.9 (4 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Strider is a side-scrolling action adventure game released by Capcom for the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America in 1989. This game normally takes around half an hour to complete, but biggyboy manages to finish it in less than 4 minutes due to some wallclipping glitches. Note: While the movie saves about 27 seconds from the previous movie, it still contains a number of vividly flashing scenes, so don't stare at it too closely. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-11-07) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 25.82 MB, length: 13:23) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 33.36 MB, length: 13:23) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4102 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #2418 (12:25.19) Rating: 8.4 (3 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Uses death to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| This game, a.k.a. Probotector II: Return of the Evil Forces, is, implicitly, Contra 2. The guy who has an infinite supply of ammo and destroys worlds bare-chested is back! Unlike our other movie of Super C, this one uses only 1 player. The most noticeable improvement over previous versions is a new skip in the last level. This movie is 7.78 seconds faster than the previous one due to improved tricks and optimization. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-04-11) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 31.53 MB, length: 13:30) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 38.86 MB, length: 13:30) Mirror www.archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1490 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #105 (12:39.42) Rating: 8.1 (30 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| This game, aka. Probotector II Return of the Evil Forces, is, implicitly, Contra 2. The guy who has an infinite supply of ammo and who destroys worlds bare-chested is back! This movie is a 19-second improvement over the previous version by Genisto. There is also a one-player run of this game. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-01-19) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 28.12 MB, length: 14:30) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 32.03 MB, length: 14:30) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3755 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.4 (7 votes) View Publication | - Pacifist version - Uses death to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Shooter | |
| Super C completed as fast as possible, with an additional goal: do not kill enemies directly unless absolutely necessary to complete the game. Our bare-chested hero shows the ultimate display of pacifism by sacrificing his own life multiple times near the end against stationary enemies. This awe inspiring TAS by Heidman has the hero dancing through densely packed screens of enemies and weapon fire, narrowly avoiding certain death again and again. Watch riveted in your seat, as you wonder how will he escape each new situation he gets into. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-08-24) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 7.86 MB, length: 04:53) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 8.75 MB, length: 04:53) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3681 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #2046 (04:39.87) Rating: 6.3 (16.5 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Heavy glitch abuse - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Super Contra 7 is a pirate game based off the Contra series, developed by E.S.C. Co (alias of Waixing) in 1996 for the Famicom. It is likely a hack of either Contra or Super C, given that the engine appears to be a modified version of the Contra engine. The game features a pretty psychedelic soundtrack and several glitches that aren't present in other Contras, and Marx makes sure to use them well. This time he uses 2 players and improves the previous movie by 6.75 seconds. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-12-18) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 5.58 MB, length: 05:48) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1302 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (27.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Sport | |
| This game takes dodge ball to the extreme! In this movie the author constantly tortures helpless CPU players with "power shots", sending them to fly around the world (actually, just the screen) and letting them just barely get back on their feet. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-01-06) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 6.23 MB, length: 05:20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 4.93 MB, length: 05:33) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2964 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1330 (04:57.33) Rating: 8.9 (40.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Here at TASVideos we make perfect movies... and then we beat them again — this time by 1 frame, which, considering the fiercely competitive history of this run, is actually significant. And if watching this TAS on an emulator isn't satisfying enough, why not see it played back on a real console! | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-02-01) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 21.35 MB, length: 19:01) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 22.85 MB, length: 19:01) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3434 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1349 (18:41.7) Rating: 8.5 (16.5 votes) View Publication | - Forgoes warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| This movie is a full warpless run-through. It is a 3.48 second improvement over the previous movie by the same author, HappyLee. Most of the improvement comes from new instances of glitches that make Mario decide to ignore the castle and instead rub sensually against the flag pole's support. For more information, it is encouraged that you read the author's comments. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-08-25) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 31.65 MB, length: 25:43) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 40.31 MB, length: 25:43) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4409 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1895 (25:30.05) Rating: 8.0 (6 votes) View Publication | - Demonstration - Forgoes warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Bowser has kidnapped the princess (again) and Mario must save the day. But this time through, he takes a stroll. Nothing bothers Mario as he walks through all the stages, sometimes backwards, on his way to save the princess. This movie demonstrates that it's possible to complete every single stage without pressing the B button. Having been bothered by the lack of running and shooting in this game, the ending outright asks the player to press B. This movie also improves the previous one by 9.31 seconds through new strategies and better optimization. The authors have provided a comparison encode, which is available for download at Archive.org, and as a YouTube stream. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-07-11) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 55.74 MB, length: 11:52) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 54.69 MB, length: 11:52) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4332 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1778 (10:39.75) Rating: 7.9 (11 votes) View Publication | - Demonstration - Multiple games in one movie - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Final boss skip glitch - Executes arbitrary code - Heavy glitch abuse - Corrupts memory - Genre: Platform | |
| While decidedly not the same game, the Super Mario Bros. games on the NES are similar enough in game mechanics and controls that all four of them can be played at once with the same input. This second version of the quad-run utilizes the credits glitch found in the newest Super Mario Bros. 3 run. As such, the focus is now on finishing Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels as fast as possible, allowing Super Mario Bros. 3 to entertain while waiting for the other three games to progress. The run also features an ending that may surprise you. If you like this movie, you may want to check out some other movies in which multiple games are played simultaneously with one controller. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-01-21) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 10.16 MB, length: 10:32) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Submission #2981 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1002 (07:52.67) Rating: 8.7 (37 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Super Mario Bros 2 is one of our most competed games. This movie is Aglar and Andrewg's improvement of 10.73 seconds over adelikat and Cardboard's attempt to perfect this route. This time, the authors found new glitches to get to the end faster. If you are wondering how some of the tricks in this video work, see the Super Mario Bros. 2 tricks page. If you want to see the differences between this run and the obsoleted one, you can download a comparison video. You can also see this movie played back on an actual NES. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-03-01) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 20.91 MB, length: 21:26) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3015 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1001 (19:39.93) Rating: 9.1 (31.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform ![]() | |
| Warpless Super Mario Bros. 2 has been improved by 1:08.73 over the previous submission thanks to some astonishing new glitches. For more information about some of the tricks used in this movie, check the Super Mario Bros. 2 tricks page. You can also watch this movie played on an actual NES. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-10-06) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 14.71 MB, length: 11:28) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1720 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #960 (08:43.23) Rating: 7.2 (36 votes) View Publication | - Uses a suboptimal character - Takes damage to save time - Uses warps - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| This is an improvement of 13.66 seconds over laughing_gas's princess-only run of Super Mario Bros. 2 (aka. Super Mario USA). The concept for this run originated long ago because Princess was the only character not used in the normal run aiming for fastest overall time. Since then, improvements have removed Mario from that run as well. (In fact, Princess is the only character not used in the fastest warpless run either.) This run played on a real NES | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-06-27) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 71.33 MB, length: 49:26) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2714 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1059 (47:33.52) Rating: 8.5 (31.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes warps - Forgoes major skip glitch - Forgoes final boss skip glitch - Heavy glitch abuse - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Foregoes memory corruption - Genre: Platform | |
| Super Mario Bros 3 completed fast ― without using the magic whistles.
Although this movie doesn't use the magic whistles, it does
skip stages, and actually skips them quite a lot, with the aid
of various items such as the hammers.
This is an improvement of about 24.2 seconds over the previous movie.
The YouTube stream for that movie has authors' commentary as subtitles. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-08-04) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 30.50 MB, length: 12:22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 14.24 MB, length: 12:48) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2765 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1286 (10:26.42) Rating: 9.1 (42 votes) View Publication | - Uses warps - Forgoes major skip glitch - Forgoes final boss skip glitch - Heavy glitch abuse - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Foregoes memory corruption - Genre: Platform | |
| Ever since Morimoto published his legendary movie in mid-2003, the players at TASVideos have repeatedly made it faster and faster! Of course, there doesn't ever seem to be a stop for when it is fastest. This movie is 0.82 seconds faster than the previous movie. Most of the improvement comes from a trick that makes Bowser bounce much lower when defeated. For more details, see the run's comments. Check out the video of this being played on an actual console. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-04-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 5.78 MB, length: 04:45) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 6.66 MB, length: 04:45) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4288 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.5 (13.5 votes) View Publication | - Major skip glitch - Final boss skip glitch - Executes arbitrary code - Heavy glitch abuse - Corrupts memory - Genre: Platform | |
| Super Mario Bros 3 is a very famous game for the NES. There are normally two main ways to beat it: the quick way using warp whistles to skip worlds, and the longer way which goes through all the worlds. However, thanks to some esoteric memory corruption involving glitched pipe travel, it's possible to jump right into the princess's room in under three minutes! Bowser is never seen in this run at all.
This run gets to World 7-1 as quickly as possible to perform the glitch, and some unusual moves are done with enemy spawns and positions to get the glitch to work. See the authors' comments for some more details.
There are also author subtitles provided with the emulator movie file and primary encode to explain some of the key differences in this run. Watch this run on a real NES. And here is how human beings perform the same glitch in real time. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-05-08) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 17.16 MB, length: 06:48) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #667 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #81 (11:52.22) Rating: 5.9 (27 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Genre: Platform | |
The movie is an amazing 5:32 improvement to the previous Super Pitfall movie. The author doesn't want to spoil what makes this version so much faster than the last one. You'll have to watch it in order to find out. Hopefully you've already seen
the 11:52 version so that you can understand this movie better.
In order to beat the game (the first quest, at least), Pitfall Harry must accomplish 6 tasks:
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-07-04) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 29.61 MB, length: 10:46) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 37.50 MB, length: 10:46) Mirror www.archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1087 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #277 (10:21.82) Rating: 6.9 (20 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes warps - Genre: Platform | |
A fast completion on Super Turrican ― a game that is said to be extremely difficult, and entirely produced by one man.
This movie improves the previous author's movie by 103 seconds ― a huge difference in this kind of fast-paced game. The boss fights especially were improved.
Note that this movie was played on the European version of the game, but it used NTSC timings. You may need to disable the PAL mode in the emulator manually if you watch the FCM.Contrary to most games, this game recognizes whether it is run on a PAL or NTSC console, and runs at the same speed on both systems. Therefore, the length of this movie is proper regardless of the NTSC/PAL mixup that the author didn't bother to fix. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-04-01) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 54.15 MB, length: 43:11) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 63.72 MB, length: 43:11) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3895 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.3 (4 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Sweet Home is a survival horror RPG developed by Capcom for the Famicom. It is based on the Japanese horror film of the same name. The game is sometimes perceived as the original survival horror game, and was a prototype of the Resident Evil series. | ||
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| Bizhawk movie (.bkm) (date: 2013-01-18) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 13.16 MB, length: 06:20) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 15.10 MB, length: 06:20) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3822 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #820 (05:26.88) Rating: 5.8 (4 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Even though the gameplay of this game doesn't look very interesting, the creators have been playful with the graphics of the game. It almost looks like NES supports layers, which it doesn't. Ventuz - the author - improves the previous movie by 11.66. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-04-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 12.61 MB, length: 16:06) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 13.02 MB, length: 16:06) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3946 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.3 (5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes major skip glitch - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Created by a Japanese comedian who hated video games, this game was meant to be near impossible to complete. Rumor has it that at one point the player must leave the controller untouched for 1 hour and fight a "final boss" with over 1 million hit-points. Although this rumor isn't true, the game makes no sense, which is why it is so hard to beat. In this run, was0x completes the game without using the "scrolling glitch", the only major timesaver in the game. We also have a run demonstrating that glitch. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-04-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 6.18 MB, length: 04:17) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 6.66 MB, length: 04:17) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3943 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1324 (03:53.58) Rating: 5.9 (6 votes) View Publication | - Major skip glitch - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Created by a Japanese comedian who hated video games, this game was meant to be near impossible to complete. Rumor has it that at one point the player must leave the controller untouched for 1 hour and fight a "final boss" with over a million hit-points. Although this isn't true, the game makes no sense, which is why it is so hard to beat. The author, was0x, instead completes the game in a mere 4 minutes by simply walking off the edge of existence and magically ending at the final treasure room. He also beats his previous run by 1.19 seconds by making the old man appear sooner and by keeping his speed in the corrupted map by avoiding an NPC. If you want to see more of the game, we also have a run that forgoes the warp glitch. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-11-18) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 24.02 MB, length: 18:17) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 24.71 MB, length: 18:17) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1811 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.5 (3.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Shooter | |
| Talespin is a shoot 'em up game featuring Baloo the bear from Disney's 'The Jungle Book' in a high flying, dare devil race to save his company from takeover by the evil who-body. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-01-11) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 25.89 MB, length: 11:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1795 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #250 (13:46.8) Rating: 5.0 (29 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Sport | |
| This movie doesn't aim to run up the score. Instead, it plays an entertaining game of American football by keeping the score close for drama and by utilizing a variety of wild plays with interceptions, fumbles, impossibly long passes, etc. Thus, the movie manipulates luck often. In addition, the author exploits a number of bizarre bugs, such as CPU players tackling their own teammate, and a very unorthodox final play. True tecmobowlers will enjoy the team choice and final score. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-08-07) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 23.83 MB, length: 17:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2785 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #917 (16:33.5) Rating: 7.6 (14 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| In this game you get to control all four turtles and draw use of their different abilities ― or, at least that was the intent, but Donatello has both better reach and damage than the others, so he is used more or less constantly. The game features a well-written in-game dialogue, such as “Here.” and “Oh!” This is the fourth movie by adelikat which improves on the previous versions. Much improvement comes from better lag reduction and discovery of a new trick involving conveyor belts. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2011-01-06) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 70.95 MB, length: 33:17) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2959 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.1 (13 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Genre: Fighting | |
| TMNT2 is a classic beat-em-up game, featuring 4 reptiles. This may be that rare case when the Turtles can really prove they are ninjas. Because being a ninja is not about walking and fighting... After Splinter taught his students how to teleport short distances, it was all over for the Foot Clan. Michael Jackson also taught them how to moonwalk, because this was the 80's and Michael Jackson was cool then. It never spoiled things that with 2 players the game spawns around 8/5 more enemies than with one player. The increased HP didn't help the bosses to stand that sudden turtle attack either. Note: This movie must be played with FCEU 0.98.26, or else it will desync on the first stage. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-08-06) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 46.29 MB, length: 29:57) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1129 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #104 (31:08.5) Rating: 7.1 (34 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Genre: Fighting | |
| TMNT2 is a classic beat-em-up game with 4 classic main characters: Raphael, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Donatello. The latter is the only turtle used in this movie. This movie is Baxter's new and improved version, which is an astounding 4 minutes faster than his previous version. Donatello has learned the secret ninja art of teleportation and... no, actually, a glitch that enables the player to move around extremely fast is used to hit all the enemies as soon as they come on screen. But most of the improvement comes from outstanding luck manipulation. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-10-26) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 69.97 MB, length: 33:29) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1688 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #720 (33:46.0) Rating: 6.3 (26 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Fighting | |
| TMNT3 is the last installment of the TMNT series on the NES. Unlike in the second game, the turtles have different special attacks with different power and speed. The special attack also consumes one life point, unless there is only one life point remaining. Raphael is by far the fastest turtle, but he also has the weakest special attack. Michaelangelo has the strongest special attack, though he is slow. Leonardo is also used occasionally in this run, since his special attack can hit some bosses twice. Unfortunately for Donatello fans, Don is not used in the run. This movie improves the previous one by over 3 minutes, due to the use of two turtles and careful management of score and health. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-04-16) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 943.17 KB, length: 01:08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 1.10 MB, length: 01:08) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4272 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (7 votes) View Publication | - One player in a multiplayer game - Uses a level password - Unofficial game - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Tengen Tetris is a version of Tetris made by Atari, which pretty much follows the basic formula of stacking tetrominoes and completing lines. Even the theme music has a similar feel to the more familiar NES Tetris game by Nintendo. This movie plays through just the final level, level 17, and clocks in at just over one line per second. Notably, luck manipulation does not work the same way in this game as in other versions of Tetris, leading to quite different strategies. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-11-08) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 17.59 MB, length: 13:11) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 18.11 MB, length: 13:11) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3441 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (6.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform | |
| Terminator 2: Judgment Day for the NES, released in 1991, is one of the better LJN games. In this game there are 4 platformer levels and one where Terminator rides a motorcycle. The game generally follows the plot of the movie, so for a more detailed synopsis go enjoy the film. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-08-09) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 4.38 MB, length: 03:31) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 2.18 MB, length: 03:44) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2786 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #924 (03:29.67) Rating: 8.3 (39.5 votes) View Publication | - Aims for maximum score - Best ending - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Puzzle | |
| This movie aims for the fastest possible time to get a score of 999999 in this game. A surprising 17.53 seconds have been shaved off the previous movie through the discovery of a new glitch.
It warps directly to the 18th level and fills half of the field quickly to be able to operate short distances in the top part of the field. From there on, it only gets tetrises (4-line clearings) until the score is maxed out.
A glitch involving pressing several directional buttons at once is used to manipulate luck for the next pieces. Flickering of the next piece block and piece in play results. Of course, the fun doesn't stop there, the L blocks also have their say in getting tetrises.
For the record, this is the fastest speed the NES game is capable of. For more extreme Tetris fun, please see movies
from Arika Online. There's some really awesome stuff there. (Click to download - 14 MB) This run played on a real NES | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-04-09) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 1.21 MB, length: 02:22) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2620 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.6 (38 votes) View Publication | - Playaround - Demonstration - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Puzzle | |
| To the average player, Tetris is a fast-paced action/puzzle blend where reflexes become a huge factor as pieces pile up and speed increases dramatically. For one with perfect reflexes, however, it's no longer a challenge of 'where does the next piece go to make lines / avoid piling up?' so much as 'where can I put the next piece to make things look the most interesting?'. This run exemplifies that philosophy, exploiting the ability to manipulate the next piece that appears to the fullest in the service of creating a pattern which would be nigh impossible to duplicate in real world conditions. If you thought that TASing was only about speed, look no further than this example to prove otherwise. This run played on a real NES | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-07-23) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 656.64 KB, length: 01:22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 673.57 KB, length: 01:22) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1633 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #920 (00:50.53) Rating: 7.3 (45.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses hardest difficulty - Genre: Puzzle | |
| This movie completes the B-mode of Tetris at level 19-5. Its goal is to clear all blocks from the screen upon the final line cleared (known as a "Bravo" in some games). And of course it aims to do this as fast as possible. Note: The author manipulates luck by pressing up+left+right to slow down the block's falling speed. This run played on a real NES | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-12-13) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 29.55 MB, length: 13:45) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1788 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #294 (13:43.32) Rating: 5.3 (26.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| The Addams Family (1991) is an extremely difficult game in which Gomez Addams must find his missing family members and recover the family's home from their greedy lawyer, Tully Alford. Gomez must collect US$1,000,000 in order to get through the security door in the basement. The game is very badly programmed; Gomez must avoid objects by a significant distance in order to avoid taking damage. This version is a 43-second improvement over the previous movie. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-11-06) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 23.85 MB, length: 21:06) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1712 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #236 (18:10.22) Rating: 5.6 (26.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Racing - Genre: Shooter | |
| The Adventures of Bayou Billy (1989) contains a trinity of genres: beat 'em up (like Streets of Rage), sniping (like part of Golgo 13), and car racing (like Rad Racer). In the game, "Bayou" Billy West fights his way through Louisiana en route to New Orleans in order to save his kidnapped girlfriend, the luscious Annabelle Lane. The American version of this game is a lot more difficult than the Japanese one (Mad City), although this video makes it seem easy. This is a 56 second improvement over the previous movie by Phil. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-12-08) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 11.48 MB, length: 08:50) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 12.43 MB, length: 08:50) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1315 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.2 (5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
| The Adventures of Captain Comic is an unlicensed port of an MS-DOS game to the NES. It was created by Color Dreams, a company famous for bypassing the NES' lockout chip and producing poor quality unlicensed games. The story is that galactic hero Captain Comic must recover three treasures which have been stolen away and hidden on the remote planet of Tambi. The author, Randil, picks up all three treasures and completes the game in only seven and a half minutes. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-02-05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 24.48 MB, length: 20:07) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #511 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #281 (17:50.75) Rating: 5.6 (19 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| A space-based platform game with plenty of exploitable bugs, including collision detection and skipping past portions of some levels. For a full explanation of this run, see the author's submission. The music in this game is very strange. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2012-12-03) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 14.26 MB, length: 11:05) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 14.65 MB, length: 11:05) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #399 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.3 (4 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action | |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a platform game very loosely based on the classic American novel. Tom has fallen asleep in class and you must help him navigate through his dream and defeat dangerous monsters on his way to save Becky from Injun Joe. The author, Dan_, beats this odd game in just over ten minutes. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-09-02) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 17.68 MB, length: 12:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1175 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #292 (19:51.85) Rating: 7.4 (39.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
The Battle of Olympus (オリュンポスの戦い) is set in ancient Greece.
A mortal man named Orpheus receives help from the gods and nymphs in
his quest to save his lover Helene from Hades. People often compare
this game with Zelda 2 because of its similar gameplay.
This movie is 9:11 faster than Arc's version, mostly
because of the utilization of a gameplay-altering glitch: pressing
Left+Right simultaneously in order to make Orpheus move with almost
unlimited velocity growth. The trick is documented at GameResources/NES/BattleOfOlympus.
The route used in this movie is decided by a few things the hero (Orpheus) must do:
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-11-16) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 6.81 MB, length: 04:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2454 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1172 (04:27.95) Rating: 8.0 (28 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| The story of The Blues Brothers is that the Blues Brothers have to take unorthodox routes in order to sneak their way into a gig. This game is really fast-paced. Do a TAS of it, and… see for yourself. :) This new version is 47.82 seconds faster than the previous movie by the same author. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-04-01) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 28.70 MB, length: 26:56) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3051 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.4 (10 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout, known in Japan as Happy Birthday Bugs and in Europe as The Bugs Bunny Blowout, is a Kemco video game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The game is a sequel to The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle, which was released the previous year. As the beginning of the game tells you, Bugs Bunny is trying to get to his 50th birthday party, and he needs to get past the numerous obstacles and enemies in his way. Several factors make this game quite difficult. For instance, after taking damage, Bugs cannot swing his hammer until the damage blinking stops. When an enemy is hit with the hammer but doesn't die, he is pushed back a little. These factors make it tricky to coordinate multiple hits on a boss in a row. Also, some of the later stages are quite mazelike with their network of warp entrances (similar to warp pipes in Super Mario Bros). In addition, a TASer needs to manage heavy lag and avoid collecting too many bonus carrots (so that fewer time-wasting bonus games are played after the stages). Despite all this, Bhezt Rhy moves through the game speedily, taking more damage than Rambo and finishing in a little over 26 minutes. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-05-31) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 46.85 MB, length: 43:00) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 49.36 MB, length: 43:00) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3155 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.7 (16 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Action - Genre: Puzzle | |
| The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle is a frustrating action puzzler. In it, you take control of Bugs as he collects carrots while avoiding enemies such as Sylvester the Cat, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, and Wile E. Coyote. Equipped with nothing but an occasional boxing glove which he can throw and some invincibility potions, Bugs must eat his way through 60 levels without getting trapped by a mob of Looney Tunes.
In this run, the author, Brandon, exploits the game's AI, which is anything but intelligent. Only one of these enemies follows actual movement, while the others will track your input, even if the input changes nothing. As such, the author is able to often render the enemies useless, allowing him to take the most optimal path. When he can't do this, he tries to find the best possible workaround, often pausing for the exact amount of time to make it past a baddie. As a secondary goal, Brandon also attempts to maximize the score without losing time. For more details, as always, please see the author's notes, and also make sure to watch the captions provided in the encodes.
The author has also created a run of this game's "Special Levels".
This run has two YouTube streams. The first contains no input display while the second one does. This was included as the luck manipulation is heavily based on input and it's hard to follow the run otherwise. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-07-21) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 5.55 MB, length: 04:27) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 5.53 MB, length: 04:27) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3226 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.1 (11.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Uses a level password - Genre: Action - Genre: Puzzle | |
| The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle is a frustrating action puzzler. In it, you take control of Bugs as he collects carrots while avoiding enemies such as Sylvester the Cat, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, and Wile E. Coyote.
This game features 4 "Special Levels" which can be accessed either by the "No Carrot Signs" found in several levels or by a password. In this run, the author, Brandon, completes these difficult levels with absolutely no help from the boxing gloves and potions featured in the main game. All he has to work with is precise movement and luck manipulation, and although this, coupled with the numerous enemies, make these levels far less trivial than the main ones, the completion time is still relatively small. Much of the length of this movie is a result of the unavoidable and abnormally long tube scenes in S4 and S1. For more details, as always, please see the author's notes, and also make sure to watch the captions provided in the encodes.
The author has also created a run of the main game.
This run has two YouTube streams. The first contains no input display while the second one does. This was included as the luck manipulation is heavily based on input and it's hard to follow the run otherwise. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-04-24) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 8.95 MB, length: 06:15) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 10.01 MB, length: 06:15) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3947 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.3 (6 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
| The California Raisins: The Grape Escape is a California Raisins video game made by Capcom in 1990. You control a California Raisin through five stages in an effort to rescue the band and their musical notes, which were stolen by a gang of jealous musicians. While it is a complete game, it was never commercially released for unknown reason. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-10-27) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 2.84 MB, length: 03:10) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2407 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1051 (02:33.63) Rating: 6.9 (21.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| The few players who have seen this game know that it's an evanescent one. An average speedrun might achieve a time such as 6 minutes. A 5 minute record is an excellent time for speedruns of this game, but requires a lot of luck. But here we have a movie that is 50% faster than even that! This movie beats Phil's previous movie by 120 frames. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-09-20) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 29.26 MB, length: 24:01) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 30.02 MB, length: 24:01) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3687 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (8 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| The Goonies 2 is a sequel to The Goonies, despite the fact that there is no sequel movie. In it, you control Mikey, who must rescue all of his friends from the Fratellis. While we already have a published movie of this game, in this one the author collects all items and secrets. Details about the route are in the author's comments. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-08-23) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 21.32 MB, length: 16:05) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 22.16 MB, length: 16:05) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3677 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #411 (16:45.85) Rating: 5.7 (9.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Mikey's friends, the Goonies, have been kidnapped by the Fratellis, an Italian family of small-time crooks and counterfeiters. Mikey must rescue all six of his friends as well as a captured mermaid named Annie. This movie improves the previous one by a minute and 36.5 seconds thanks to a route change, some new tricks and a switch to the Japanese version of the game. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-06-11) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 5.03 MB, length: 03:39) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1595 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #888 (03:18.78) Rating: 6.8 (29 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Fighting - Genre: Platform | |
| An extremely short game based on the movie The Karate Kid. Had the kid been this strong in the movie, it would certainly have been... interesting. This movie is about 10 seconds faster than the previous publication due to some surprising fighting strategies. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-09-10) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 24.66 MB, length: 14:47) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1178 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #337 (16:30.73) Rating: 6.9 (22.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| The Krion Conquest is a platform game remarkably similar to the early Mega Man games - so similar that it's pretty easy to consider it a rip-off. This movie by Shinryuu is 3:10 faster than the previous TAS by Acmlm. Much of this improvement is gained by utilizing the various glitches in the game, which are also similar to the Mega Man series—using items to get into walls and move through them at fast speeds. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-09-10) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 10.72 MB, length: 06:12) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1189 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #87 (06:04.98) Rating: 6.0 (27 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Kage no Densetsu (影の伝説) is a story based in old Japan. The beautiful princess Kiri has been kidnapped by evil ninjas. Many samurai warriors were sent to rescue her. None ever returned. The player is Kage, a young ninja who goes to rescue the princess Kiri. Speedrunwise, this game is all about luck manipulation. Like any good ninja game, it hides many secrets inside, and the player (Bisqwit) set out to discover every one of them that is important in making a TAS. A detailed story of those secrets can be found in the submission message, but in conclusion it lead into this 28-second speedup compared to the previous movie by Walker Boh. The theme music of this game sounds a lot better if you imagine it being played on a Japanese koto, like this: http://bisqwit.iki.fi/music/misc/kage.mid | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-01-05) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 42.22 MB, length: 33:37) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 44.48 MB, length: 33:37) MKV file via BitTorrent (Very High Quality) (size: 60.33 MB, length: 33:37) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Mirror archive.org (MKV Very High Quality) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4145 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 8.7 (6 votes) View Publication | - 100% completion - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| The Legend of Zelda (ゼルダの伝説) is an adventure game that needs no introduction to most NES players. This time, Link is not just satisfied with collecting the Triforce and saving the princess; he feels like getting through Hyrule with a lot of shiny artifacts and weapons, even if he never uses them after getting them. In this run, the player collects the best version of every object and status upgrade, including all the heart containers, every inventory item, the best sword, and both bomb upgrades. Link even buys the Bait an extra time more than required, so that the bait remains in his inventory at the end of the game. For more details about what constitutes a 100% run, see the submission comments. We also have other runs for The Legend of Zelda: an any% run through the first quest, a 'swordless' first-quest run, and an any% run through the second quest. Watch this played back on a real NES. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2008-10-16) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 41.05 MB, length: 26:20) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2091 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #8 (29:15.9) Rating: 8.3 (30.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Second quest/Post game-completion - Uses a level password - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| The second quest of The Legend of Zelda is what you get by having completed the game once. It is more difficult than the first quest. In this movie, the authors enter ZELDA as the player's name to start the 2nd quest without having to complete the game first. This movie is 4 minutes and 13.6 seconds faster than the previous movie by Sleepz. The authors provide detailed explanations of the time savings in their submission text. You can watch this run played back on a real NES console. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-08-23) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 51.60 MB, length: 26:13) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2804 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1577 (26:40.33) Rating: 7.5 (20 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| Of all the challenging ways to play Legend of Zelda that people have attempted on a NES console, one of the most famous is the "swordless" challenge. In this challenge, the player must beat all of the game, up until the final boss Ganon, without using a sword. It is not possible to damage Ganon without a sword however, so many swordless runs reach Ganon's room to die there. In order to actually complete the game, Baxter does pick up a sword and kills Ganon. However, the sword is only obtained shortly before attempting the final level, and even then, the sword is not used until absolutely necessary. In the meantime, sit back and watch a run which relies heavily on luck manipulation and effective bomb usage to beat the game very quickly. For more details, see the author's comments. This is a 86-second improvement over the previous movie by jprofit22. You can watch this run played back on a real NES console. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-11-29) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 23.44 MB, length: 25:02) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 25.19 MB, length: 25:02) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2916 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #868 (24:04.05) Rating: 8.3 (21.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| The Legend of Zelda (ゼルダの伝説) is an adventure game that needs no introduction to most NES players. It is a large game that normally takes days to beat, but at TASVideos, we often reduce games to the minimum necessary in order to complete them. This is the fifth The Legend of Zelda TAS at this site (not counting the alternate movies), and is ~85 seconds faster than the previous movie, largely due to better optimization and manipulation of item drops. You can watch this run played back on a real NES console. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2009-07-04) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 29.39 MB, length: 19:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1598 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.9 (20 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Unofficial game - Genre: Action - Genre: Adventure | |
| In this The Legend of Zelda hack, Link must save Hyrule (again), reclaiming the Triforce of Power from Thunderbird. Baxter does it masterfully, exploiting glitches from the original game to get the job done quickly.
This movie completes both quests.
If you'd like to see a movie of the original unhacked The Legend of Zelda, we have that too, as well as a movie of the second quest and swordless challenge. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-01-04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 22.89 MB, length: 15:21) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 23.28 MB, length: 15:21) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3400 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| The Rocketeer, based on a 1991 movie (itself based on a 1982 comic book series), tells the story of Cliff Secord, who dons a prototype jetpack to fight back against Nazi spies bent on stealing it. There's surprisingly little jetpack use about present in this run, but there might as well be for the speed at which it rockets through the game. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-06-17) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 21.65 MB, length: 14:11) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2702 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #761 (15:19.8) Rating: 6.6 (15.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Bart Simpson has discovered that mutants have a machine to enter ingredients which will allow them to conquer the Earth. Bart goes in search of these ingredients to hide them or to take them, avoiding disaster. His adventure will take him across an amusement park, the shopping mall, and the museum, to name a few. This is a very hard game. Its controls are very poor, and the collision detection is very glitchy, making you fall through platforms to your death. This movie beats the previous movie by 2 minutes and 20.9 seconds. Much of it comes from using a "bunny hop" trick. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-01-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 13.98 MB, length: 06:35) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 18.12 MB, length: 06:35) Mirror www.archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2982 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (13 votes) View Publication | - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Before The Terminator came to the Genesis and Sega CD in various forms, it arrived on the NES... if the end result can even be called a game. Much running around ensues in a plot narrowly resembling the movie and glitches abound to no end. Fortunately, most of the atrocities are crushed by completing the game too quickly for them to really sink in. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-02-14) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 18.23 MB, length: 13:26) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 22.32 MB, length: 13:26) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3450 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.9 (5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles is an action platformer named after the television show of the same name. In it, you will embark on an adventure across the globe showing the young life of the famous movie character. Along the way, you will fight some baddies and collect some treasure using motorcycles, aeroplanes, and of course, his iconic whip! In this run, the author, goofydylan8, improves upon XTREMAL93's cancelled run by 34.88 seconds. This also improves XTREMAL93's improvement, which was worked on independently and submitted on the same day, by 15.68 seconds. See the author's notes for more details. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-11-03) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 14.94 MB, length: 10:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3339 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Platform | |
| In the year 2999, an evil planet has sent armies to four different time periods, with the objective of changing history in order to make mankind easier to expunge in the present. The "Time Lord" has to destroy all the armies by January 1st, 3000 or he'll self-destruct along with the time machine. Against link_7777 they don't stand a chance, as he quickly runs through the levels destroying the armies and never taking damage. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-07-24) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 12.94 MB, length: 13:16) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2747 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #990 (11:18.25) Rating: 7.3 (14 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| Tiny Toon Adventures (1993), based on a cartoon show of the same name, is a fairly easy game to play. However, it has a nasty bug lurking within it: if you press left and right simultaneously (you can do it if you break your controller's directional pivot), you can get some impressive momentum. This is an improvement of 17 seconds over the previously published run. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-07-31) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 21.00 MB, length: 15:25) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 21.78 MB, length: 15:25) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4012 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #2154 (13:59.1) Rating: 6.9 (6.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Trouble in Wackyland is similar to the first Tiny Toon Adventures, except this time, the adventure takes place in an amusement park. Invited to the park by a "Secret Admirer", Plucky, Hamton, Babs, Furball, and Buster are in for a wild ride! The author, Palidian, improves the previous movie by 45.99 seconds with a few new tricks, detailed in the author's comments. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-08-07) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 9.73 MB, length: 04:05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 13.96 MB, length: 04:05) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4385 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.8 (5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Unofficial game - Genre: Fighting | |
| Titenic (sic) is a Famicom beat 'em up based on the 1997 film Titanic. The game originally surfaced on a ABAB 3-in-1 multicart and was later found on a 15-in-1, separated into two games. Watch as Jack and Rose jump through the Titanic, beating up everyone in order to ensure the ship sinks in a brisk 4 minutes. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-03-19) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 17.75 MB, length: 11:49) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 20.32 MB, length: 11:49) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3480 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.6 (6 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| An evil wizard has changed you into an ape and stolen your girlfriend! Can you get her back? Toki was originally an arcade game and was popular enough that it was ported to many systems, including the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Genesis. Here XTREMAL93 uses tool-assisted precision to soundly defeat the witch doctor and encounters many strange looking minions along the way. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-01-19) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 14.57 MB, length: 09:43) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1829 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #785 (09:41.28) Rating: 6.4 (23 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| A seemingly cute game based on the cartoon series of the same name. Of course the author abuses the game with tool-assisted glitches and shortcuts. This is a 64 second improvement over the previous movie. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-09-02) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 16.92 MB, length: 07:40) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 16.98 MB, length: 07:40) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4065 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #2176 (07:28.99) Rating: 5.7 (5 votes) View Publication | - Uses warps - Unofficial game - Genre: Action | |
| Toobin' is an unlicensed port of a 1988 Atari arcade game to the NES. Your goal is to float an inner tube down several themed rivers, avoiding obstacles and picking up collectable items. There are also warp whirlpools that can be reached if you destroy the branches surrounding them fast enough. The author, devanwolf, reaches every warp and achieves top speed in each level by staying along the bottom of the screen, finishing the game 1.41 seconds faster than his previous run. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-11-30) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 24.78 MB, length: 27:55) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 24.89 MB, length: 27:55) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3758 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.5 (5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action - Genre: Shooter | |
| Top Gun is a game based on the movie of the same name. The NES version was developed by Konami in 1987, and they decided to make it a flight simulator from the view of the main character Maverick's airplane cockpit. There are four missions, and each has two parts: a flying mission where enemy planes, an enemy base, and finally a space shuttle must be shot down and a landing mission where the plane must be precisely landed on an aircraft carrier. While it is very difficult in real-time play to land the plane successfully because of the precise speed and angle necessary, TrenchAce makes it look easy in this run. Have a watch if you've never made it to Level 2. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-09-18) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 30.18 MB, length: 16:39) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1191 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.3 (25 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Totally Rad, also known as Magic John in Japan, regales the odd story of a boy who learns to use magic from a magician. Shady storyline aside, this movie displays many speedy techniques using the protagonist's magical transformations. For a much more detailed and whimsical description of all that happens in this publication, Bag of Magic Food's submission text is not one to be missed. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-11-02) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 8.85 MB, length: 05:56) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 9.32 MB, length: 05:56) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4099 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1235 (05:02.0) Rating: 7.5 (5.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| This game is based on the movie of the same name, although some liberties are taken to give Arnold a chance to punch some hobos with boomerang tophats and go on an even more extended car chase than in the actual movie. There is also some terrible yet strangely hypnotic music. This run by MESHUGGAH improves the previous one by 15.39 seconds through overloading the object table to prevent some enemies and objects from spawning, better health management and various optimizations. For more information, see the author's comments. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-09-30) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 13.27 MB, length: 13:17) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 14.90 MB, length: 13:17) Mirror www.archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1716 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #34 (08:28.05) Obsoletes movie #35 (09:05.4) Obsoletes movie #36 (08:56.48) Rating: 6.3 (34 votes) View Publication | - Aims for maximum score - Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs - 2 Players - Genre: Sport | |
| This movie of Track and Field plays with two players: One of them aims for a maximum score, and the other aims to demonstrate clumsiness, quirks and other humor. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-07-18) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 7.21 MB, length: 05:03) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2301 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.4 (22 votes) View Publication | - Uses warps - Genre: Platform | |
| Autobots, transform and roll out! Transformers - Convoy no Nazo (トランスフォーマー コンボイの謎) is about the Autobot Ultra Magnus cruising a very frustrating and difficult journey to discover who killed Optimus Prime. No, I'm serious. Angry Video Game Nerd covered this game recently. Quoting adelikat: "As he describes in the video, this game notoriously difficult to play. Poor hit detection, 1 hit and you are dead, awkward controls, and very little in the way of power-ups make this game frustrating for the average player." | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-07-10) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 30.69 MB, length: 19:51) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 52.50 MB, length: 19:51) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4356 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: Too few votes (2) to display View Publication | - Best ending - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Treasure Master is a side-scrolling action game that sends your character on a quest of treasure acquisition. Jump your way through a variety of world environments including the islands, microprocessor-level circuitry, and the moon, and accumulate all of the material wealth you can possibly amass. You have a number of enemies to beware of (such as sharks, caterpillars, and springs). But you also have an impressive array of tools to help you in your quest (moon buggy!). Treasure Master offers the opportunity to collect not only virtual treasure in a video game, but also treasure in the real world. After practicing the game, players had the opportunity to compete for real prizes. Spoiler: Hover over the screenshot. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-09-08) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 13.86 MB, length: 07:40) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 16.46 MB, length: 07:40) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4422 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1184 (06:16.73) Rating: Too few votes (1) to display View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Nintendo games are generally hard games to play, but that doesn't mean they are hard games to play around with. In fact, this TAS makes Trojan look easy, having the player character destroy an entire army with a single sword. Then again, aren't main characters usually intended to be all-powerful? This is a 144 frame improvement over its predecessor through better luck manipulation and optimization. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-07-05) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 32.57 MB, length: 27:13) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 34.06 MB, length: 27:13) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3997 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1216 (25:32.43) Rating: 7.9 (4 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Ufouria is a game that was strangely never released in the United States, even though it was released in Europe in addition to Japan (where it's known as Hebereke). The game itself is a Metroid-style adventure: it takes place in a world that can be freely explored and several items need to be found and bosses defeated in order to gain access to some areas that initially seem inaccessible. This run beats the previously published one by 1:39.84 due to newly explored tricks and better optimization. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-06-15) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 20.92 MB, length: 26:28) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 21.67 MB, length: 26:28) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3625 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.5 (5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Uses a game restart sequence - Corrupts save data - Genre: RPG | |
| Ultima: Exodus is a NES port of the third game in the Ultima RPG series. First released in 1983, the game set many standards for the genre.
At TASVideos, that also includes being beatable very quickly through glitching and luck manipulation.
The author has provided a running commentary, available in all of the encodes and streams as togglable subtitles, so you can tell what's going on. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-11-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 8.07 MB, length: 05:22) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 9.45 MB, length: 05:22) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3430 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.2 (6 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action | |
| Another game based on X-Men comics. In this movie, Nightcrawler walks through walls and mostly ignores bosses. The second player immediately suicides. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-08-05) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 5.69 MB, length: 09:49) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 5.85 MB, length: 09:49) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2008 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #930 (08:13.9) Rating: 5.4 (17 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Storybook | |
| This is a game similar to Shadowgate and Deja Vu. In it, you wake up in a crashed car just outside a strange mansion, desperate to explore the ghost-ridden building to find and rescue your missing sister. The speed at which the author manipulates the menus is impressive. This is an 4.12 second improvement over the author's previous movie. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-08-15) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 442.73 KB, length: 00:42) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 591.95 KB, length: 00:42) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3253 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1706 (00:27.82) Rating: 5.5 (18.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Fighting | |
| Urban Champion is one of the most memorable games for the Nintendo Entertainment System, where two normal-looking guys trade blows in front of your favorite neighborhood drugstore, in broad daylight, pausing to look nonchalant and whistle in innocence when a police cruiser passes by. Alternating between high and low punches, and fast or slow jabbing speeds, you seek to outwit your urban adversary and knock him backwards, a screen at a time, until finally he falls to his death by plummeting, helpless, headlong into the darkness of an open sewer-access manhole. By finding a new glitch, using a different fighting technique, and further polishing the run, the author, t3h Icy, beats his obsoleted movie by 0.84 seconds. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2010-02-22) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 33.58 MB, length: 13:57) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (aktan.site90.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2573 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #222 (13:02.87) Rating: 7.4 (19.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Vice: Project Doom stars Detective Quinn Hart of the VICE squad as he attempts to track down his missing partner and leads on a new type of drug. It is a fast-paced game that blends standard platforming with racing sequences and some rail shooter scenes.
This run is 26 seconds faster than the previous run from 2004, and features commentary from the author in the form of soft subtitles.
The Youtube encode features Author's comments through soft subtitles, they are also included in FM2. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-07-19) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 37.95 MB, length: 20:31) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1960 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.5 (21 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| This game is an adaptation of the cartoon Wacky Races. Instead of playing as the hero, the main character is the dog sidekick of the villain Dick Dastardly. The author deftly controls Muttley the dog as he runs, jumps and glides his way to boss fights with various other racers in their sometimes quirky cars. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-11-29) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 14.74 MB, length: 09:18) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 14.94 MB, length: 09:18) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3455 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.5 (6.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Unofficial game - Genre: Platform | |
| Wait and See! is a pirate game based off of "Nu, pogodi!", a Russian cartoon about a wolf chasing a rabbit. In this game, the rabbit looks a lot like Bugs Bunny, and he collects carrots (which magically turn into mushrooms) as he runs to the end of each stage. Bad controls and jumping physics make this a hard game to beat in real-time. XTREMAL93 almost makes this game look easy as he races to the unsurprisingly lame ending. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-12-05) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 54.24 MB, length: 32:30) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #893 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #200 (34:24.33) Rating: 6.5 (22 votes) View Publication | - 2 Players - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| Wai Wai World is a strange Konami game that mixes together components like characters, enemies, levels, and theme songs from many of Konami's previous games, such as Castlevania, Goonies and Twin Bees.
This movie by Fuzi2 is about three and a half minutes faster than the previous
movie due to some new tricks involving using two characters simultaneously.
Note: The vertically scrolling level has some anomaly in scrolling if watched with old versions of FCEU. Versions of FCEU from 0.98.13 onward should display this stage correctly. | ||
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| Bizhawk movie (.bkm) (date: 2014-04-05) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 9.25 MB, length: 05:42) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 14.43 MB, length: 05:42) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4243 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #2554 (05:38.86) Rating: 4.7 (5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform | |
| In this game loosely based on the movie of the same name, Wayne and Garth are trying to stop Benjamin Kane from buying out their show and taking Cassandra for himself. This excellent quest will take them through five areas full of living instruments, nasty ninjas and aggressive appliances trying to stop them. In this run, Dooty utilizes Garth's laser gun and Wayne's spinning high jump in their respective levels to win in just under five and a half minutes. He also beats the previous run by 8.86 seconds through some new tricks and better application of the old ones. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-03-13) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 17.00 MB, length: 11:23) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2197 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #361 (11:24.75) Rating: 7.8 (41.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| This game is evil. It gives you power-downs constantly of which you're bound to pick one up sooner or later. The traps and hazards in this game usually go off when they are in the middle of the screen. Because Werewolf has discovered how to walk backwards and not scroll the screen, it means that he doesn't have to deal with most of them. Also if he manages to somehow get stuck inside a wall and jumps, he will fall through it. The game features a lot of lycanthropian acrobatics and good visuals for its time. This is a joint collaboration between AndrewG and AnS, saving 2 minutes 25 seconds compared to the previous version. Together they quicken the boss fights, glitch up the game even more, do a little dance, and howl at the moon. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2013-01-30) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 2.60 MB, length: 03:02) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 2.84 MB, length: 03:02) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3843 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #2126 (02:12.5) Rating: 3.1 (10.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Puzzle | |
| Where's Waldo? is a video game adaptation of the classic puzzle book series of the same name. The player needs to identify crude, pixelated versions of Waldo amidst enormous crowds, guess blindly where he is in a cave, collect items on a subway track, and finally send him to the moon where he can no longer hide in crowds. In this movie, MESHUGGAH improves the previous run by 6.68 seconds through better luck manipulation. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-11-27) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 68.21 MB, length: 2:02:00) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 70.79 MB, length: 2:02:00) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3187 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.3 (9 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Storybook - Genre: Strategy | |
| Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego? is an educational game created by Brøderbund Software and ported to the NES by Konami in 1991. Travel through time to find clues and collect warrants in order to capture Carmen Sandiego and her henchmen! The game focuses on teaching geography and history as you go to each time period, find the clues and arrest the crooks. As in the "no save corruption" run of Pokémon: Blue Version, the enormous amount of luck manipulation needed to optimally play this game was calculated entirely by a bot written by the author of this run, Bobo the King. For more on this impressive program, check out the author's very creative submission text. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2012-12-01) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 7.38 MB, length: 06:12) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 7.58 MB, length: 06:12) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #834 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 4.8 (7.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Genre: Adventure | |
| Who Framed Roger Rabbit is an action-adventure video game created for the NES by Rare in 1989. The game loosely follows the movie as the player wanders around Hollywood collecting items and figuring out Who Framed Roger Rabbit. In this run, Tool23 collects items which are spawned randomly in the world. The first item acquired is the whistle, which calls the taxi, which makes movement easier. The early deaths save time by skipping items which would otherwise need to be collected. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2006-09-24) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 21.80 MB, length: 13:39) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1147 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #189 (12:15.67) Rating: 7.3 (23.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Whomp ‛Em is a somewhat lesser known action-packed platforming game. Although it may not seem like it, this game is somewhat similar to Mega Man in idea. There are multiple stages you can visit in any order and you gain new abilities from winning each level. Like Mega Man games, the new abilities include platform generating items which the author uses to create many shortcuts. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-08-27) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 11.01 MB, length: 07:54) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 14.68 MB, length: 07:54) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2068 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #813 (05:48.83) Rating: 6.9 (26.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| This game is a platformer about a purple alien shape-shifter named Widget. Along with being able to turn into a few different animals to run faster or get through small passageways, he has the power to zip through walls, shoot at ridiculous rates, and find doors where there were no doors before! ..all the while, keeping that creepy, stupid grin on his face. This is an improvement of 13.21 seconds over the author's previous run. An in-depth explanation of the routes and glitches used in this movie can be found in the submission text. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-11-27) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 1.14 MB, length: 03:21) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 1.19 MB, length: 03:21) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2128 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 7.0 (37.5 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| One of a few dungeon crawlers on this site. The player's team of a couple characters travels through a dungeon at breakneck speed, obtaining the minimum necessary to destroy the evil wizard, then leaving. A great amount of luck-manipulation was required; so much that TaoTao used a bot to do parts of this run. That's why the rerecord count says 200000. The number of manual rerecords is around 1000. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2009-12-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 2.13 MB, length: 03:43) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.dailymotion.com) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2499 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1338 (01:12.81) Rating: 6.4 (14 votes) View Publication | - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| This game, the second in the series, is the direct sequel to Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. Here, the heroes | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-07-04) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 1.29 MB, length: 01:28) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 857.17 KB, length: 01:24) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3195 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.8 (20 votes) View Publication | - Major skip glitch - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: RPG | |
| Although Legacy of Llylgamyn is the third game in the Wizardry series, it was released second for the NES because Knight of Diamonds, the actual second game, was deemed to be too difficult for beginners (though it was, eventually, released for the NES as well). Here, the object of the quest, the Orb of Earithin, mysteriously appears in a shop by way of a lost battle and a glitch involving the occasional result thereof of causing a character to be lost in the dungeon, bringing the quest to a close impossibly quickly. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-09-10) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 22.21 MB, length: 10:51) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1683 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #166 (10:53.07) Rating: 6.4 (24 votes) View Publication | - Major skip glitch - Final boss skip glitch - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| In this game, you're an armor-clad knight with a big sword. You collect gems to bribe a red knight, kill evil beasts and rescue several "distressed damsels".
This movie, an improvement of 76 seconds over the previous, takes advantage of a glitch that allows you to re-enter the first map and substitute the last few levels with the first levels. There is also a slightly longer movie that does not use this trick.
Do you want to see more adventures of the iron-clad hero of this game, Kuros? Read the Knights of the Old Coding online comic. It's hilarious. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-07-29) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 20.96 MB, length: 13:26) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1636 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #171 (13:47.02) Rating: 6.8 (23.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes major skip glitch - Forgoes final boss skip glitch - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Wizards & Warriors is a famous platform game with quirky physics where a mere bird can make a heavy iron-clad knight bounce several feet into the air. This is a full completion of the game. We also have a run that beats the game as fast as possible using the "reuse levels" glitch. This TAS is around 92 seconds faster than the previous version by Walker Boh due to better luck manipulation and new minor glitches. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-01-22) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 21.75 MB, length: 09:32) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #495 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.1 (26.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| The valiant knight Kuros, who has now grown eyeballs on the outside of his helmet, must again fight off the evil wizard Malkil. This task is accomplished mainly by finding an artifact in every level, giving it to a corresponding oversized animal to get into the level boss' lair, and promptly beating him up. This run played on a real NES | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2005-08-28) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 36.17 MB, length: 19:53) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #781 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #316 (17:53.23) Rating: 6.7 (26 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Major skip glitch - Heavy glitch abuse - Genre: Platform | |
| The third game in the Wizards & Warriors series. Having been tricked out of his victory in the previous game, Kuros once again returns to do battle on evil and pretend he will marry every princess he meets. There is some major sequence-breaking going on in this movie. Only 6 out of the 9 supposedly mandatory quests are cleared, meaning the author has to find original ways of passing obstacles he's not supposed to pass. The ending of this game is epilepsy-inducing. This particular movie is an updated version of the second TAS, with Malkil beaten with some magic not even the game programmers knew about. The first 17 minutes are identical to the previous version, and were played by Ferret Warlord. The Malkil battle was played by Dacicus. You can also see this run played on a real NES here. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-01-20) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 14.60 MB, length: 10:10) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 13.12 MB, length: 10:10) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3423 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.7 (10.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
| Wolverine is an action-platformer starring the hero of the same name from the X-Men. In it, Wolverine finds himself stranded on an island full of obstacles, enemies, and hamburger power-ups. He must navigate through it all with his iconic claws to defeat his evil adversaries Magneto and, finally, Sabretooth. In this run, the author, goofydylan8, goes "berzerk" through the game using careful health management, movement, and attacking. Please see the author's notes for more details. Please also check out the run for Spider-Man/X-Men: Arcade's Revenge, which is a SNES game, also made by LJN, where Wolverine's gameplay was ported to the applicable levels. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-04-12) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 13.20 MB, length: 10:38) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 17.77 MB, length: 10:38) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4265 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #531 (10:17.22) Rating: 6.5 (4.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action - Genre: Platform | |
In this game you are supposed to hunt down an evil crime syndicate (so what else is new?) by freeing kids from blocks of ice, and capturing the red guys to get clues. Unfortunately the ninja didn't have time for that, he just walks past all baddies and kills the bosses.
The syndicate turns out to be selling drugs, but the Black Manta sets them straight: Drugs kill you think you're cool but you're not.Yeah! This version is 23.71 seconds faster than the previous version by adelikat. We recommend reading the author's comments for this movie. This game has a crazy main music theme. It has also been verified to play back on a real NES console. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2012-11-21) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 1.32 MB, length: 02:04) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 1.39 MB, length: 02:04) Mirror archive.org Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #2138 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.7 (10.5 votes) View Publication | - Genre: Fighting | |
| Yie Ar Kung-Fu is considered to be the original fighting game. It follows the quest of Oolong as he fights through 5 tough opponents to become the Grand Master of Kung-Fu and honor the memory of his father. The game features a variety of moves that can be performed by pressing the punch or kick button along with a directional button. As this game loops after 5 stages, Selene only plays through the first loop. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2009-07-05) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 34.41 MB, length: 20:52) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1409 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 6.0 (21 votes) View Publication | - Pacifist version - Uses warps - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Yo! Noid is a game centered around a short man in a rabbit suit making his way through New York City to defeat an identical man in a different color rabbit suit for a pizza reward. The game was conceived as part of a 1980s advertising campaign for Domino's Pizza. As anyone who has played the game knows, the game is quite difficult, since the controls are sluggish, one hit kills you, and the pizza bonus games at the end can be difficult to win if you don't pick up enough useful powerups. With some movement glitches, warps, and luck manipulation, FODA beats this game very quickly. Not only that, to make the run even harder and more impressive, he doesn't kill any enemies. | ||
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| FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2007-06-19) AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 23.83 MB, length: 15:58) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #1590 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #7 (14:30.55) Rating: 5.7 (20 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Adventure - Genre: Platform | |
| Literally translated, the name of this game means "demon travel journal".
It tells a story about a boy, Tarosuke, who seeks to meet Buddha, who will decide about Tarosuke's next life. In order to meet Buddha, Tarosuke has to do lots of good deeds which earn him "piousness". This movie is ~80 seconds faster than the previous movie by Morimoto, which was the oldest non-obsoleted movie on this site at the time, being almost 4 years old. Because there is a lot of interesting dialog in this movie, but all in Japanese, the provided AVI is made to contain English subtitles for all in-game dialog text, as well as some explanations. It should help understanding the game events as well as enjoying its weird sense of fun. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-04-26) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 13.66 MB, length: 11:39) Mirror www.archive.org Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3114 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Rating: 5.6 (10 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Platform - Genre: Shooter | |
| Yume Penguin Monogatari (夢ペンギン物語) is a hybrid platform/shooter video game developed by Konami in 1991. The player takes the role of a penguin named Penta, who is getting dumped by his girlfriend Penko, because he has become far too obese for her liking. The game follows Penta's quest to win back his ex-girlfriend by losing weight via collecting diet drinks and avoiding enemies. This game was only released in Japan. | ||
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| BizHawk movie (.tas) (date: 2012-03-18) MKV file via BitTorrent (size: 13.30 MB, length: 05:01) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 16.79 MB, length: 05:01) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3484 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #734 (03:26.22) Rating: 7.2 (8 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Uses warps - Uses a game restart sequence - Single level - Uses a level password - Genre: Shooter | |
| Zanac is one of those space shooter games in which you are trying to save the earth. Due to the highly repetitive nature of this game, the hidden 9th input button (the console's Reset button) is used to enable stage select to warp to the final (12th) level. This results in an unusually long gray screen at the start of the movie. Starting on the final level with 3 lives and only the initial pea-shooter for a weapon normally makes the game near impossible to win. This is the author's 4th iteration of this movie. It improves on the previous publication by almost 10 seconds by utilizing a hidden fairy and by better boss optimization. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-04-19) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 71.35 MB, length: 48:14) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 56.34 MB, length: 48:14) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4266 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1114 (47:57.05) Rating: 8.8 (5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Forgoes major skip glitch - Uses a game restart sequence - Forgoes time-saving glitches - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform - Genre: RPG | |
| Here is a non-glitched run of the black sheep in the Zelda series. Zelda has been put to sleep by an evil spell, and you must waken her by completing six palaces and then obtaining the Triforce again. Unlike most Zelda games, the action parts are done in a side-scrolling view instead of an overhead view, and there are fewer items to use. One surprising feature of the TAS route is that magic levels are prioritized over attack levels at the beginning of the game; see the previous submission's comments for more explanation of that choice. This time, the run is improved by nearly two minutes due to different leveling, better optimization, and by skipping the Jump spell. For more details, see the submission comments. This movie avoids pressing Left and Right at the same time which causes an acceleration bug that can massively glitch the game. Watch this movie played on a real NES console. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2014-07-28) MKV file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 11.03 MB, length: 08:08) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Compatibility) (size: 14.21 MB, length: 08:08) Mirror archive.org (MKV Modern HQ) Mirror archive.org (MP4 Compatibility) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #4371 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #2557 (05:36.43) Rating: 8.1 (4.5 votes) View Publication | - Uses death to save time - Takes damage to save time - Major skip glitch - Uses a game restart sequence - Heavy glitch abuse - Heavy luck manipulation - Genre: Platform | |
| Zelda II: The Adventure of Link is quite different from most of the early games in the Legend of Zelda series. It combines an overworld view with side-scrolling platform stages. In addition, the character can gain experience and levels, visit towns, and earn spells and items which are needed to proceed. However, the game also has a large glitch which produces massive speed when both Left and Right are pressed at the same time. Most of this run features Link racing across Hyrule so fast that the screen can't keep up, inexplicably warping between places that shouldn't be connected. Only a few items and one spell are collected, and the only enemy ever fought is the final boss. Luckily, he takes the same amount of damage no matter what level attack you have. In this run, TASeditor improves on his previous run by half a second due to a few small optimizations, mainly better luck manipulation. See the author's comments for more details. We also have a run that completes the six palaces without using the Left + Right glitch. | ||
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| FCEUX movie (.fm2) (date: 2011-12-09) MP4 file via BitTorrent (size: 24.33 MB, length: 13:38) MP4 file via BitTorrent (Modern HQ) (size: 22.77 MB, length: 13:38) Mirror www.archive.org Mirror www.archive.org (MP4 Modern HQ) Watch on (www.youtube.com) Submission #3386 — Author's comments Discuss this movie Obsoletes movie #1282 (11:46.65) Rating: 7.4 (10.5 votes) View Publication | - Takes damage to save time - Genre: Action | |
| The Earth is endangered by global pollution! Zen, the environmentalist ninja of ECO-POWER, must save the Earth from the big defiler, Lord Contaminous. As one of the latest NES games from Konami, Zen featured graphics and music that pushed the limits of the 8-bit console. This movie by feos improves the previous run by 11.28 seconds. | ||