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posted by ikuyo 8 days ago
Hello gamers of all genders, and welcome! I'm ikuyo, writer who can't type, and I am here as your band leader for this month's Load State! Follow my lead as we revisit the month gone by and find TAS work that makes me love this medium. Let's get to it! And that's game! Thank you as usual for coming along for the ride. If you have any movies you would like to shout out, you know how to do it on our Discord server on in this forum. Stay safe, stand proud, and happy TASing!
posted by kierio04 13 days ago
Hello everyone! Welcome to the second ever Competition Spotlight! I'm kierio04, and it's time for the review of all TAS competitions from May 2026.
MKWii TAS Competition 2026 (Mario Kart Wii) Each year, this competition is broken up into "sets" of 5 official tasks. May saw the commencement of Set 2 2026.
  • 3 May to 9 May: Task 6 2026: Slippery Slope (21 competitors, won by kierio04). This was a speed task, in which competitors were given 4 hours to create a TAS of custom track Compact Closed Pushy Penguins, a klein-bottle shaped course based on the Pushy Penguins gamemode from Mario Party 5. This was a very divisive task, with some people enjoying the chaos and others (including someone who had competed in every official task since late 2021) choosing to opt out of competing altogether. If you're paying attention, you'll notice that I won this task! It was my first solo task win since Task 6 2024 (which was also a speed task).
  • 10 May to 30 May: Task 7 2026: Back in the City (25 competitors across 16 teams, won by kierio04 & Police). In this task, competitors were asked to complete a lap backwards on custom track Big Express City without any mushrooms or respawns; a challenge previously done in a series called "CTGP Backwards" by the task winners themselves. Rigged? Fitting victory? Or just inevitable...?
Want to join in? Check out the MKWii TAS Competition discord server!
New SM64 TAS Competition (Super Mario 64) Coincidentally, SM64 is also in Set 2.
  • 4 May to 16 May: Task 8: It Must Be a Sign (6 competitors, won by galoomba). Despite being a task allowing teams of 2, this was won by a solo competitor! That happens sometimes, and it either means it's a quiet task with less competitors than average or the solo competitor is just that good. Let's go with both. In this task, there were custom-placed boxes and signs throughout Wet-Dry World, and competitors had to interact with all of them before collecting the custom-placed star.
  • 18 May to 30 May: Task 9: Road to the Stars (7 competitors, won by Kieran). Taking place on popular romhack Super Mario Star Road, this was the first romhack task since Task 9 2022. In this task, competitors started on the top of a tower and had to collect coins, goombas, and trees before dying to finish.
Want to join in? Check out the New SM64 TAS Competition discord server!
Trackmania is absolutely winning in 2026 with multiple active competitions running concurrently. I didn't mention this but, in April, Trackmania passed Mario Kart Wii to become the game with the 2nd most TAS competitions ever held. As of writing this post, the standings are Super Mario 64 in 1st at 419, Trackmania in 2nd at 216, then Mario Kart Wii in 3rd at 163. TASmania (Trackmania Nations Forever) TASmania, the flagship competition, is consistently performing well with around 20 competitors every month!
  • 2 May to 16 May: TASmania 30 (19 competitors, won by Rio)
Want to join in? Check out the TASmania discord server or sign up on the TM TAS Exchange! SpeedTAS Season 2 (Trackmania Nations Forever) Part of the reason for Trackmania's surge in total task numbers is the consistency of output at SpeedTAS, which hosts weekly speed tasks.
  • 3 May: SpeedTAS 17 (11 competitors, won by Rio)
  • 10 May: SpeedTAS 18 (14 competitors, won by igntuL)
  • 17 May: SpeedTAS 19 (8 competitors, won by vogtek)
  • 24 May: SpeedTAS 20 (11 competitors, won by Thoman)
  • 31 May: SpeedTAS 21 (8 competitors, won by skycrafter)
Want to join in? Check out the SpeedTAS discord server or sign up on the TM TAS Exchange! Random TAS Comp (Trackmania Nations Forever) RTC is still going strong, with another 5 tasks in May!
  • 3 May to 5 May: RTC 9 (3 competitors, won by Comfy_Ivy)
  • 7 May to 10 May: RTC 10 (7 competitors, won by ingtuL)
  • 14 May to 18 May: RTC 11 (12 competitors across 7 teams, won by skycrafter & Rio)
  • 22 May to 24 May: RTC 12 (11 competitors, won by Comfy_Ivy)
  • 27 May to 30 May: RTC 13 (9 competitors, won by Thoman)
Want to join in? Check out the RANDOM TAS COMP - RTC discord server or sign up on the TM TAS Exchange! LIC Competition (Trackmania Nations Forever) A new competition in May, which instead of aiming for fastest time, you aim for the lowest input count (LIC), i.e. the least number of unique input changes.
  • 5 May to 11 May: LIC Competition #1 (7 competitors, won by Comfy_Ivy)
  • 10 May to 17 May: LIC Competition #2 (2 competitors, won by Der_Kabeljau)
  • 20 May to 24 May: LIC Competition #3 (3 competitors, won by Der_Kabeljau)
  • 25 May to 31 May: LIC Competition #4 (5 competitors, won by Comfy_Ivy)
Want to join in? Check out the Trackmania Tool Assisted discord server or sign up on the TM TAS Exchange! UnitedTAS (Trackmania United Forever) Unfortunately, this experimental competition for the paid TMUF came to a close this month, with UnitedTAS #4 being the last edition.
  • 1 May to 6 May: United TAS #4 (TMUF-X) (1 competitor, won by CA1EBYT)
TAS of the Day (Trackmania Nations Forever) Coming in as a huge shock is the introduction of the first ever daily TAS Competition in history.
  • 7 May: LunaticBay (8 competitors, won by ArkesTM)
  • 8 May: Marina (1 competitor, won by Thoman)
  • 9 May: Marina XIV (2 competitors, won by charliethepig)
  • 10 May: »Lunatix 14 (7 competitors, won by LittleD3m0 & skycrafter)
  • 11 May: So Short # 082 (2 competitors, won by Thoman)
  • 12 May: TMN Race B-5 (1 competitor, won by Rio)
  • 13 May: I-2 (0 competitors)
  • 14 May: Kackiest Kacky #412 (0 competitors)
  • 15 May: S12 (7 competitors, won by Thoman)
  • 16 May: S87 (2 competitors, won by Thoman)
  • 17 May: Tropical Mini :) (2 competitors, won by Rio)
  • 18 May: MM Lunatic 033 (4 competitors, won by igntuL)
  • 19 May: Quic jump 13 (3 competitors, won by igntuL)
  • 20 May: Polaris XIV (1 competitor, won by igntuL)
  • 21 May: 222 - Khai-Muk (2 competitors, won by igntuL)
  • 22 May: Jsut Hard Short | 11 (2 competitors, won by igntuL)
  • 23 May: Kacky United D8 | Westie (2 competitors, won by igntuL)
  • 24 May: ~ JUMP 57 ~ (6 competitors, won by igntuL)
  • 25 May: [Speedracer] stupid LOL 42 (2 competitors, won by Bedeux)
  • 26 May: Mini Hard Project #10 (3 competitors, won by Fabi)
  • 27 May: A01-Race-Bubble (0 competitors)
  • 28 May: xtrm Hard - 9 - S107 (2 competitors, won by igntuL)
  • 29 May: Grass fun slider A2# (2 competitors, won by igntuL)
  • 30 May: Uni-Hard 06 (2 competitors, won by LittleD3m0)
  • 31 May: tracut #018 (1 competitor, won by ArkesTM)
Want to join in? Check out the Trackmania Tool Assisted discord server or sign up on the TM TAS Exchange!
That's it for May! If you've made it this far, thanks for reading! If you're interested at all in seeing more of what these communities do, consider joining their competitions! Participation helps keep these things going. I look forward to writing again June!
posted by feos 22 days ago
We've discovered that the Commodore 64 core in BizHawk became non-deterministic since version 2.11: loading different savestates from the same timeline may lead to different results later on. So we recommend to use BizHawk 2.10 or older for C64 TASing, even though it's not yet known how many C64 configurations are affected.
posted by ikuyo 26 days ago
Sometimes you add a single game tool that counts for 50 games! And this is one of those times. As of right now, CTAS movie files, developed with the CoffeeTools mod for UFO 50 are allowed for submission! This collection of games has a dedicated speedrunning and TASing scene we hope to see work on quite soon. Many thanks go to synabler, for raising awareness about the tool to staff; to our publishing team, for developing the publication process for PC games; and to Blazier and ToastGhost, main developers of CoffeeTools, for their support and for implementing changes to the format (such as including rerecords count and a timer in the file itself) to improve support on our end. Happy TASing!
Ever since Morimoto published his legendary movie in mid-2003, the players at TASVideos have repeatedly made it faster and faster and even faster! Of course, there doesn't ever seem to be a stop for when it is fastest.
This movie is 00:00.599 seconds faster than the previous movie. Most of the improvement comes from Bowser's Castle, where the authors didn't have to lose time in order to get a favourable Bowser pattern. For more details, see the run's comments.
The encodes feature commentary as soft subtitles.

PHOTOSENSITIVITY WARNING: There are flashing lights throughout the run (most notably when Boom Boom is defeated and after the wand is retrieved) which may cause epileptic seizures to those affected.

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