Movies become console verified when they are successfully played back on real hardware.
Since the beginning, tool-assisted speedruns were created such that given super-human abilities, it would be theoretically possible to perform them on actual consoles. Using special hardware (i.e. replay devices), many movies have been shown, with video evidence, to play correctly on console. Such movies can be found below.
Getting these tool-assisted speedruns to playback on a console, is a testament to how accurate the emulators used on this site have become, and that all tricks and glitches depicted are really possible in the real games. Verifying movies to this level has been achieved on the NES, FDS, SNES, N64, Genesis/32X, Gameboy/Color/Advance, and the Atari 2600. For more information on how this is accomplished, read the verification guide. Also check out the forum for discussions on this topic.
Published on 7/6/2011
The Amazing Spider-Man: Web of Fire, one of the last games to be released on the ill-fated 32X, follows our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man's battle with the evil forces of the neo-Nazi organization H.Y.D.R.A.
This is an improvement of 00:24.58 seconds over the previous run due primarily to a new glitch allowing Spidey to pass through walls.

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Published on 12/26/2021
Adventure is a first-party game released in 1979 for the Atari 2600. The goal of the game is to find the enchanted chalice and return it to the gold castle while avoiding the three dragons guarding it. It was the first action-adventure game, and also the first game to have an inventory, a continue system, and a widely-known Easter egg.
Katistrofic2 improves the previous TAS by 3.86 seconds, thanks to better optimization.

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Published on 6/16/2017
Dragster, released in 1980 for the Atari 2600, is the first video game developed by Activision. It was programmed by David Crane, who later wrote Pitfall! The object of the game is to either beat the player's opponent across the screen, or to race against the clock for best time, depending on the settings used.
The game is well known as having the first console speedrun with the world record of 5.51 by Todd Rogers in 1982 according to Twin Galaxies. This record is known as the oldest, unbeaten world record in all of speedrunning. Omnigamer decided to try and match the elusive 5.51, and disassembled the entire game looking for how the 5.51 was achieved. After conducting his research, Omnigamer found that the long sought 5.51 was impossible to achieve within the conditions of the game, putting into doubt the veracity of the record of Todd Rogers.
Instead, this run achieves the fastest possible time of 5.57 on player one, with player two completing the track in the lowest amount of input frames.
This run has been console verified by dwangoAC using true's Multireplay device (latch per vsync using extraction board).

Published on 3/30/2018
Dragster, released in 1980 for the Atari 2600, is the first video game developed by Activision. It was programmed by David Crane, who later wrote Pitfall! The object of the game is to either beat the player's opponent across the screen, or to race against the clock for best time, depending on the settings used.
The game is well known as having the first console speedrun with the world record of 5.51 by Todd Rogers in 1982 according to Twin Galaxies. This record is known as the oldest, unbeaten world record in all of speedrunning.
MrWint & Omnigamer decided to try and match the elusive 5.51, and disassembled the entire game looking for how the 5.51 was achieved. After conducting their research, they found that the long sought 5.51 was outright impossible to achieve within the internal conditions of the game. After lots of flamewars, the now infamous Todd Rogers's record has been taken down, leading to his ban from Twin Galaxies.
This run achieves the fastest possible time of 5.57 on player two while also maximizing the distance, with player one completing the track in the lowest amount of input frames. It also improves the predecessor movie by 00:00.10 seconds, which translates to 00:00.02 seconds if you discard emulation differences. The improvement comes from the fact that the game processes the second player first, so he's the one taking the lead this time.

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Published on 7/24/2010
Otocky was created by Toshio Iwai in 1987 and was only released in Japan for the Famicom Disk System. It is best described as a musical side-scrolling shoot 'em up where the primary weapon is a ball which, when fired in one of eight directions, plays different musical notes on the primary instrument quantized to the beat of the background music.
Needless to say, when such a weapon is put into the hands of a tool-assisted speedrunner, you might just find yourself humming along to the end result.
This run was console verified using micro500's TASLink replay device (with 1 frame per latch poll).
Game:
Otocky

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.1.3

Published on 10/23/2009
This game is Super Mario Bros., the original, but on the Famicom Disk System. It is much similar to the ROM version of the game, except for one minor difference that is demonstrated here.
The -1 stage is completely different. In the NES and Unisystem versions, the -1 stage repeats infinitely and cannot be completed, but in FDS, it can be completed, and then come -2 and -3.
The -3 stage in FDS is a castle level, and completing it ends the game, even though it says "princess is in another castle". The princess is not seen in the ending, but she is sighted twice in the -1 stage, as shown in this movie.
This movie is 84 frames faster than the previous one due to the use of a "cheap trick".
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Video Downloads:
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Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.2.3

Published on 12/13/2012
This is a TAS of the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2, a.k.a. 'The Lost Levels', using Mario's brother Luigi. He jumps higher than Mario, but acts slower in many ways. However, the movie is in no way worse than the Mario version - some new creative solutions have been found.
This is an 110 frame improvement over the previous movie by Phil.

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Published on 3/11/2017
Mario has eaten too many poisonous mushrooms and as a result, decided to go on a furious killing spree. In this berserker state he has also gained the new secret ability to walk through walls at will.
Wondering how some tricks work? Information is available at Super Mario Bros. Tricks page.
This movie is 27 frames faster than the previous version due to new improvements in 1-2 and 8-4.
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This is the real Super Mario Bros 2. It was never officially released in the USA and Europe. It was later ported to SNES, and released as "Lost Levels" on Super Mario All-stars, which we have a warpless Mario run of.
FDS means Famicom Disk System. It was a Japanese disk-unit version of the NES.

Published on 8/29/2022
Altered Space is an isometric platformer similar to Solstice for the NES where you play as Humphrey, a brave astronaut. The goal is simply to escape the spaceship without running out of air, which is lost over time or if you get hit. There are items that can be used to stun enemies as well, but aren't seen in this run due to the time it takes to open the item menu.
ventuz and Alyosha improve the previous TAS by about 2 seconds after accounting for emulation differences, thanks to better optimisation.
Watch this TAS played on a Game Boy Player (via Game Boy Interface) right here.

Published on 12/6/2020
In this port of an arcade game, the eponymous avenging spirit has been summoned by his girlfriend's father to rescue her from a crime syndicate holding her hostage.
As a ghost, the protagonist has the ability to possess enemies with a selection of different abilities, but that's rarely seen in this run.
In order to pull off the rescue, three keys are needed; these are retrieved in this run so as to obtain the best possible ending.
EZGames69 and WarHippy improve the previous TAS by 1612 frames (if emulation differences are not accounted for), thanks to better strategies and optimization.

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Published on 11/3/2020
Batman returns to stop the Joker's latest insane criminal plot once again, 00:03.55 seconds faster than the last time! (See this submission's movie discussion for more explanation, though, of why the final time appears to be slower in this movie.)
This game is one of those grappling hook games, with which Batman can just swing through areas quickly. Different strategies for level 2 and a more optimized fight with the Joker contribute to this submission's improvement.

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Published on 2/15/2020
Battletoads is a classic video game by Rare for the NES, but different versions of the game were also made for many other systems, such as the Genesis and the Game Boy. All of these games are known for their comical animation style (such as gigantic fists and boots when the toads attack) and their high difficulty, essentially requiring the player to memorize the upcoming dangers to react fast enough to survive.
In this version, the player plays as the Battletoad Zitz on a quest to rescue the other two Toads, Rash and Pimple, from the Dark Queen. This game has only 9 stages, as opposed to 12 in the NES version. However, unlike the NES version of the game, there are no warps, and there is no two-player option. There are also fewer time-saving glitches. That doesn't stop Lobsterzelda, though, from beating up tons of enemies and completing the game very quickly.
In this run, Lobsterzelda improves the predecessor movie by 01:09.37 minutes by using a new skip and tighter optimization.
For more Battletoads madness, you can also see our movies of the NES version.

You can watch the console-verification of this movie here.
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3.3

Published on 6/5/2021
Black Castle is a homebrew game by User0x7f inspired by Castlevania and Fortress of Fear. There are 4 weapons for the player to use to fight through 4 levels of sidescroller platforming, each ending with a boss fight.
CasualPokePlayer uses the mace weapon and a bit of lag reduction to clear the castle's 4 levels in record time.

You can watch the complete run played back on console.
Game Version:
BlackCastle.gb
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.5.1

Published on 9/7/2021
Boomer must traverse the 8-story Tower of Zoozoon to defeat the dark lord Zoozoon himself. By digging, trapping enemies, and finding useful items such as keys and roller skates, he can regain control of ASMIK World from the clutches of the evil Zoozoon.
This is an improvement of 00:49.66 seconds compared to the previous publication thanks to better optimization.

This TAS has been console verified, you can watch the playback here

Published on 9/10/2016
Bubble Ghost, a game ported to many platforms, has the player, as a ghost, guide a bubble through a house by blowing at it; if the bubble hits anything at all it pops and the player loses a life. If that sounds difficult, well, it is - but that doesn't stop this run from making it look easy.
This movie appears to be slower than the previous publication; however, this is due to more accurate emulation. It is in fact faster by around 25.3 seconds than the previous publication, thanks to a new trick and better optimisation in many places. Please read the author's comments for more details.

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Game:
Bubble Ghost

Genres:
Action
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.11.6

Published on 5/30/2021
Catrap is a platform/puzzle game where a boy and girl work through a series of 100 puzzles. This breaks a curse and returns them to human form. Completing each level involves climbing ladders and moving blocks so that each enemy can be defeated. A rewind function is present for trail+error attempts to get to the solutions. But that feature isn't needed here.
This run makes clever use of the switch mechanics. Switch can't be used immediately after defeating an enemy, so other actions are performed while the enemy falls off the screen. Attacking from the ladder is slightly faster, the author uses this and other similar tricks to help save time.
This is an improvement of 02:23.32 minutes if BIOS time is factored out.

You can watch this TAS being played on real hardware here
Game:
Catrap

Genres:
Platformer
Puzzle
Game Version:
Catrap (U) [!].gb
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.6.1

Published on 7/7/2022
Cherry Rescue! is a homebrew platforming game about a walking cherry named Barry rescuing his sister Mary from the clutches of a mysterious bird chef. The game has six levels of forests, cities, and construction sites that Barry must venture through in his journey.
Cephla, Alyosha, and CasualPokePlayer save 2.78 seconds over the previous run thanks to much tighter optimization.
You can play the game here.

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Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 11/5/2022
Cosmo Tank is a space tank battle game. You're the commander of the tank "Tiger Alpha-1", and your mission is to fight on land and in space against the Master Insect and his minions. The game features both top-down levels and first person levels in which you can freely move around in all directions. Settings feature both open outdoor environments, caves and space. Slowly upgrade your cannon and armor as you progress for more firepower and the ability to sustain more hits.
Alyosha improves on tool23's run by nearly 2 minutes by properly upgrading the laser weapon, better RNG manipulation, and better optimization.
You can watch this run being played on a real console here.
Game:
Cosmo Tank

Genres:
Shooter
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 7/28/2021
Daedalian Opus is an early puzzle game for the Game Boy where the player must solve jigsaw puzzles with pentominoes (5-block shapes instead of the familiar 4-block tetromino). The player is awarded new pieces to use periodically to help with the more complex later levels.
Jigwally solves this game's puzzles with custom software that employs the Dancing Links algorithm to find exact covers (solutions) for each jigsaw. The author analyzed and chose the overall fastest solution for each puzzle, and completed the game in record time.

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Game:
Daedalian Opus

Genres:
Puzzle
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.6.1

Published on 2/11/2021
Daiku no Gen-san: Robot Teikoku no Yabou is a Game Boy platformer with some very impressive graphics and a variety of gameplay mechanics. This time around, the titular character Gen has to save his girlfriend from a vile robot army.
Alyosha defeats said army in record time.

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Published on 8/2/2020
This version of Donkey Kong (informally known as Donkey Kong '94, due to its 1994 release date) follows the same premise as the original game from the 1980s, in that Mario is tasked with rescuing Pauline from the eponymous Donkey Kong.
Besides adding over 90 additional stages to the original 4 stages, this release also introduces many new game-play mechanics which both help and hinder Mario from reaching his goal. Some of these new elements are patterned off concepts from other Mario games including Donkey Kong Jr., SMB, SMB 2 (USA), and SMB 3.
DrD2k9 throws barrels at DK and rescues Pauline in record time.

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Published on 10/23/2020
Gargoyle's Quest is another platform game made by Capcom, where you play as Firebrand, a gargoyle predestined to become the Red Blaze and take down King Breager.
This run beats the branch without zipping by 5:48.46 minutes.

This movie can be watched running on real console hardware here.

Published on 2/7/2021
Hammerin' Harry: Ghost Building Company is the sequel to Hammerin' Harry. This episode has Harry fighting more than just workers. He has to defeat an army of ghosts in a series of environments, including a construction site, a sewer, an airship, a jungle, and finally, the headquarters where he meets the evil ghost building machine.
Alyosha defeats said machine in record time.

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Published on 12/17/2023
Ice Cream Castle is a single-level homebrew platformer for the Game Boy that was originally made as a PICO-8 game. It was the author's first attempt at creating a game for the Game Boy with the 6502 assembly programming language. As the title implies, you navigate through a small ice cream castle so you can reunite with your ice cream cone lover at the top.
LoganTheTASer in this run completes this very short game in record time.
You can get the game here.

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Game Version:
icecreamcastle.gb
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9.1

Published on 12/6/2022
There's trouble in Dream Land! The self-appointed King Dedede has stolen all of his subjects' food for a midnight feast. Kirby, a resident of Dream Land, bravely sets out to stop the gluttonous penguin and recover the food.
This first game in the Kirby series predates Kirby's ability to absorb enemy powers. He goes on to gain that ability in the second game in the series.
This run takes more real-time than the previous publication due to improvements in emulator accuracy; the gameplay difference is a roughly 2 second improvement. This run also uses the 'Extra Game' password (up+select+A at title screen), which makes the enemies and bosses much more aggressive and damaging than usual.

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Published on 6/26/2008
Kirby is a little round thing, and like Sonic, makes for an excellent pinball. Kirby must navigate through three boards to defeat his usual foes by knocking into them repeatedly, with the help of traditional pinball flippers.
This movie skips most of the normal pinball aspects of the game and goes right to the bosses. Clever luck manipulation is used to position them perfectly for optimal damage from Kirby.

A resync of this movie has been console verified using GBI.
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
VBA-rr v19.3

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Published on 2/7/2020
Kwirk the Chilled Tomato was exploring with his girlfriend when she suddenly disappeared! To find her, Kwirk must travel through puzzles consisting of turnstiles, pushable blocks, and pits which must be filled before crossing. Sometimes his friends are available to lend a hand.
This movie completes all 30 levels of the "Going Up?" mode.
This improved version beats the predecessor movie by 11 steps.

A basic resync of the TAS for loading times has been console verified
Game:
Kwirk

Genres:
Puzzle
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3.3

Published on 3/7/2024
Kwirk, known in Japan as Puzzle Boy (パズルボーイ), is a puzzle game that was developed by Atlus. The goal of each level is to get hip tomato Kwirk (a walking potato called Spud in the Japanese version) to the stairs so he can find his missing girlfriend. Each room contains obstacles such as movable blocks, rotating turnstiles, and holes that have to be filled in with blocks in order cross.
This movie improves on the previous "Going Up?" run by 30 seconds by switching to "Bird's Eye View" mode, reducing lag, and making use of a brute force program to find the most optimal solutions for each level. For more details on the setup and hardware used, you can read the author's notes.

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Game:
Kwirk

Genres:
Puzzle
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Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9.1

Published on 12/15/2018
This time Wily is back, or actually forwards – in time that is; where he plans to destroy the future and bring back technology to destroy the past. Join Mega Man as he too travels to the future to prevent Wily and face his greatest enemy yet.
This run has fewer major glitches than some other Mega Man runs on this site, but it still has the same classic action, and it pulls off some very unlikely maneuvers that are enjoyable to watch.
Tremane & Noxxa beat the previous record by 00:16.96 seconds, mostly due to improved RNG and strategy changes.

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Published on 9/3/2016
Mega Man III, known as Rockman World 3 (ロックマンワールド3) in Japan, is the third Mega Man game for Game Boy, released in December 1992. The game continues the quest of the protagonist, Mega Man, in a never-ending struggle with his long-time nemesis, Dr. Wily. As with previous Game Boy releases, the game incorporates gameplay elements and bosses from two sequential Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) games: Mega Man 3 and Mega Man 4.
For those of you who enjoy listening to the music, the background music in this one is quite good, and the sound quality is much better than previous Mega Man games for the system.
This is an improvement to the predecessor movie by 265 frames, which translates to 225 frames if you only count actual gameplay. This is the result of difference in loading times between VBA and BizHawk.

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Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.11.4

Published on 8/16/2024
Mega Man III, known as Rockman World 3 (ロックマンワールド3) in Japan, is the third Mega Man game for Game Boy, released in December 1992. The game continues the quest of the protagonist, Mega Man, in a never-ending struggle with his long-time nemesis, Dr. Wily. As with previous Game Boy releases, the game incorporates gameplay elements and bosses from two sequential Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) games: Mega Man 3 and Mega Man 4.
For those of you who enjoy listening to the music, the background music in this one is quite good, and the sound quality is much better than previous Mega Man games for the system.
This movie by Tremane improves over the previous run by 00:07.63 seconds.

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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.8

Published on 2/1/2017
Mega Man IV, known as Rockman World 4 (ロックマンワールド4) in Japan, is the fourth installment of the Mega Man handheld series. The game continues the quest of the protagonist, Mega Man, in a never-ending struggle with his arch-nemesis, Dr. Wily. As with previous Game Boy releases, the game incorporates gameplay elements and bosses from two sequential Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) games: Mega Man 4 and Mega Man 5.
This is an improvement to the predecessor movie by 00:57.90 seconds.

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Published on 12/19/2017
This is the final installment of classic Mega Man games on the Game Boy, and the first Super Game Boy Mega Man game. Unlike the four earlier Game Boy games which copied a lot from their NES counterparts, Mega Man V has all new enemies and bosses: you fight the Stardroids, robots from outer space named after the planets of the solar system (note that Pluto was considered a planet at the time). Unlike every other classic Mega Man game, Dr. Wily is not the final boss and our hero uses the Mega Arm instead of the Mega Buster.
Tremane and Noxxa improve the previous movie by 41.83 seconds, thanks to overall better lag management, sub-pixel optimisation, as well as new tricks and strategy changes.

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Published on 5/2/2020
This game, also known as Rockman World (ロックマンワールド), is the first of a GB series of Mega Man games.
The Game Boy series is a little different from the NES series in that there are only four Robot Masters to fight at the start. Those four are borrowed from the NES game of the same number, while four more Robot Masters from the next NES game guard Dr. Wily’s fortress. Game Boy Wily also likes to have a backup fortress in space after his first one is beaten. Another recurring concept in the Game Boy games is a ninth robot boss unique to the game who gives you a new weapon that is usually the only weapon effective against the final boss.
The authors, Tremane and Noxxa, improved the previous movie by 1.59 seconds (disregarding the GBC bootup), thanks to better optimisation and lag reduction.
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Published on 9/8/2018
Mickey's Dangerous Chase is a simple platformer for the GameBoy. You can play as either Mickey or Minnie and the goal is to get back a present that Pete stole. The character can walk, jump, and pickup blocks and throw them. It heavily resembles Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers for the NES except with some autoscrollers with vehicles.
This run is 00:09.28 seconds faster than the previous movie by EZGames69. Upon joining the project, Memory added tighter lag reduction and better overall optimization.

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Published on 6/13/2020
Mickey's Dangerous Chase is a simple platformer for the Game Boy. You can play as either Mickey or Minnie and the goal is to get back a present that Pete stole. The character can walk, jump, and pickup blocks and throw them. It heavily resembles Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers for the NES except with some autoscrollers with vehicles.
This run is 174 frames faster than the previous movie. The time appears longer due to more accurate loading emulation.

Published on 11/12/2020
Mouse Trap Hotel is a Game Boy game developed by Imagineering (Who are known for the fantastic title: Bart vs. the Space Mutants) and published by Electro Brain/Milton Bradley in 1992.
The story's premise follows a mouse named Maxie who's visiting a hotel to meet up with his girlfriend. There's one small catch. The hotel is littered with mouse traps.

With some basic edits, this movie has been resynced in GBC-in-GBA mode and played back on real console: watch the video here.
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.4.2

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Published on 5/19/2007
The barechested alien crushing ultra macho hero is back, and he's portable this time!
This Contra game combines elements from the original Contra and Super C while adding some elements into one action packed game. Watch our hero cruise through 5 levels of steadily increasing difficulty yet still crushing those aliens in record time.
This movie is a 12 second improvement over the previous movie. Improvements come from use of the homing gun and from a bug that allows horizontal screen wrapping.

A resync of the TAS has been console verified.
Game Version:
Operation C
Emulator Replay:
VBA-rr

Published on 11/28/2022
The bare-chested alien crushing ultra macho hero is back, and he's portable this time!
This Contra game combines elements from the original Contra and Super C while adding some elements into one action packed game. Watch our hero cruise through 5 levels of steadily increasing difficulty yet still crushing those aliens in record time.
This movie is approximately a 23 frame improvement over the previous publication. This current movie is longer due to more accurate emulation compared to VBA-rr.

This TAS has been console verified.
Game Version:
Operation C
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

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Published on 3/22/2018
Pokémon: Blue Version is part of the first generation of games within its famous series, known for having a very large number of beneficial glitches. In fact, the game can be completed in less than one minute of in-game time using save data corruption (as evidenced by this run), but this run avoids such techniques in favor of activating an entirely different glitch.


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Published on 4/28/2018
Pokémon: Blue Version is part of the first generation of games within its famous series, known for having a very large number of beneficial glitches. In fact, the game can be completed in less than one minute of in-game time by save data corruption as shown by this run, and it can be completed in around 10 minutes using a more "conventional" glitch, as shown by this run. These runs break the game, and avoid much of the gameplay intended by the developers.
You can watch the complete run being played back on a console.

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Published on 8/7/2019
Pokémon is a phenomenon that made itself very famous in a short time a few years ago. Pokémon Blue is part of the first generation of the games of that series that were made.
Up until this day, thousands of Pokémon fans have analyzed the games, finding out the exact formulae of how each battle situation in these games works out, how experience and levels and everything works, and what are the most effective ways to battle.

There is also an alternate YouTube stream featuring audio commentary by the author on real hardware.

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Published on 4/17/2020
Pokémon is a phenomenon that made itself very famous in a short time a few years ago. Pokémon Blue is part of the first generation of the games of that series that were made.
Up until this day, thousands of Pokémon fans have analyzed the games, finding out the exact formulae of how each battle situation in these games works out, how experience and levels and everything works, and what are the most effective ways to battle.

There is also an alternate YouTube stream featuring audio commentary by the author on real hardware.

Published on 5/29/2021
Pokémon: Red Version is part of the first generation of games within its famous series, known for having a very large number of beneficial glitches. In fact, the game can be completed in less than one minute of in-game time by save data corruption as shown by this run, and it can be completed in around 10 minutes using a more "conventional" glitch, as shown by this run. These runs break the game, and avoid much of the gameplay intended by the developers.

Published on 8/14/2021
Pokémon is a phenomenon that made itself very famous in a short time a few years ago. Pokémon Blue is part of the first generation of the games of that series that were made.
Up until this day, thousands of Pokémon fans have analyzed the games, finding out the exact formulae of how each battle situation in these games works out, how experience and levels and everything works, and what are the most effective ways to battle.

You can watch the complete run played back on console.

Published on 2/3/2021
Prehistorik Man (not to be confused with the game of the same name on the SNES, which is the sequel) was a platform game for the Game Boy, made by Titus Interactive. This game is actually a port of Prehistorik 2, which was made for MS-DOS and Amstrad CPC. Even with the major cuts out from the original PC game, Prehistorik Man seems to still be a rather faithful port, and pulled off some very interesting technical feats for the Game Boy.
CasualPokePlayer and WarHippy complete the game in record time.
See this run played back on the Game Boy Player (using Game Boy Interface) here.

Published on 7/6/2021
Solomon’s Club 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. It is also the Game Boy port of the NES game Solomon's Key.
ninespaces completes all puzzles in record time.

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Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.6.2

Published on 8/19/2012
Aside from Tetris, Super Mario Land is probably the most well-known cartridge for the original Game Boy. It features a marked departure from traditional Mario enemies and themes, including Sphinxes, seahorses, fists emerging from pipes, Egyptian-themed levels, Chinese-themed levels and UFO-themed levels.
This publication improves on the previous one by 00:04.33 seconds from a new trick that allows Mario to warp around the screen on auto-scrolling levels as well as a new strategy used to end the mandatory bonus game after each world quicker.
If you enjoyed this movie, be sure to see hard mode.

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Published on 11/1/2021
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan is the Turtles' first Game Boy game and is based on the 1987 animated TV series. The Turtles must battle against Krang and Shredder, and save April O'Neil while they're at it.
The game is a platformer with a neat player death mechanic where the player takes control of a new Turtle each time they lose a life, and can regain Turtles (lives) by collecting pizza.
Alyosha speeds up the Turtles' mission by mitigating as much of the game's copious lag as possible.

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Published on 4/12/2023
The Adventures of Pinocchio is an unreleased puzzle platformer by Bit Managers. Pinocchio goes on a journey to save his master, Geppetto, from the whale.
CasualPokePlayer improves the previous TAS by 52.21 seconds, thanks to better optimisation.

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Published on 12/5/2020
The Bouncing Ball is a homebrew Gameboy game made by HuCABBAGE for the 4th annual GBJam (2015).
In this neat little platformer with no music, thus only sound effects, you are in control of a little ball, which is constantly bouncing around. Your goal is to bounce through all the 50 unique levels by collecting every heart you can find on your way.
The authors improve the previous movie by 00:03.05 seconds.

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Published on 12/25/2021
The Final Fantasy Legend, also known as Makai Toushi SaGa in Japan, is a Game Boy RPG. It is the first entry in the long running SaGa series and has a lot of strange and esoteric mechanics. You can form a team of up to four party members consisting of humans, mutants, and monsters. Each character type gets stronger by wildly different means.
Darkman425 completes the game in record time by getting the 4 spheres and defeating Ashura and the Creator. Please read the author's comments for more details.
We also have a movie that uses a warp glitch that skips the vast majority of the game.
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Published on 12/22/2020
The Humans is a kind of a crossbreed between Lemmings and The Lost Vikings. Its gameplay consists of manipulating a number of humans with unique abilities to overcome obstacles (such as dinosaurs or Neanderthals) in order to bring a human to an exit point.
artbreeder employs a number of glitches, particularly one that allows humans to pass through solid walls, to complete the game's hard difficulty mode in record time.

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Game:
The Humans

Genres:
Puzzle
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Published on 12/14/2022
Tower of Hanoi is a puzzle game that dates back to 1883 at the very least when French mathematician Édouard Lucas brought the game to the West. With three rods and a tower of discs on a rod at one end, the goal of the game is to get all of the discs to the rod at the other end while following these rules: 1.) Only one disk may be moved at a time, which then has to be placed on top of another stack or on an empty rod, 2.) No disk may be placed on top of a disk that is smaller than it.
For this run, FractalFusion plays a homebrew port of Tower of Hanoi for the Game Boy and completes all the puzzles it has to offer in record time. In this version of the game, the tower can be moved in its entirety to either section in the foreground.
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100% completion
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Published on 9/28/2015
Trip World (1992) is an aptly named game developed by Sunsoft, a video game company you might know from titles like Gimmick!, Ufouria and Journey to Silius.
It follows a rabbit-like creature called Yacopu on his quest to retrieve the Maita Flower and return peace to the hearts of the people. Along the way he gains abilities like turning into a ball and a big, scary Godzilla-like rabbit.
MUGG's latest improvement is now about 30 seconds faster than the previous version, thanks to new glitches, new routes and better optimization.

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Game:
Trip World

Genres:
Platformer
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Published on 10/26/2021
Tsuri Sensei is a River King-styled fishing game in which the player competes in a tournament to catch the biggest fish and score the most points.
CasualPokePlayer wins the fishing tournament in record time by buying the most expensive bait and catching the winning fish in a single attempt.

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Game:
Tsuri Sensei

Genres:
RPG
Sport
Emulator Replay:
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Published on 5/5/2020
Zen: Intergalactic Ninja is a game made by Konami in 1992 for the Game Boy. In it, the titular character has to stop the main villain, Lord Contaminous from harming the Earth's ecological environment.
EZGames69 defeats Lord Contaminous and saves the planet in record time.
We also have a TAS of the NES version.

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Published on 6/7/2023
Anarchaeologist is a short homebrew puzzle platformer for the Game Boy Advance about a treasure hunter named Archie Logist who's off to find plunder treasure from ancient pyramids. Help Archie get through the pyramids with his trusty revolver and unlock doors and break through blocks so he can get to the treasure he so dearly desires.
Cephla does just that in record time and gets Archie his treasure, which may or may not be worth it.
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Published on 8/22/2023
Anarchaeologist is a short homebrew puzzle platformer for the Game Boy Advance about a treasure hunter named Archie Logist who's off to find plunder treasure from ancient pyramids. Help Archie get through the pyramids with his trusty revolver and unlock doors and break through blocks so he can get to the treasure he so dearly desires.
Here, Alyosha and Cephla improve on the previous run by 2.08 seconds thanks to tighter optimization and faster strategies.
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Published on 9/1/2023
Anguna: Warriors of Virtue is an action-adventure homebrew game that was developed in 2008 for the Game Boy Advance. It would later see a port for the Nintendo DS and spinoffs created for the Atari 2600 and NES. Taking influence from The Legend of Zelda and other fantasy stories, you play as an unnamed protagonist that got themselves captured by the enemy while on a journey to defeat the dragon, leader of the monsters. You must now continue where you left off with the sword and unlocked door the monsters thoughtfully left for you.
In this run, Alyosha saves the lands from the dragon in record time with some odd glitching and RNG manipulation to get around quicker and with less hassle and a few moments of dying to cut down on travel time.
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Published on 8/15/2024
Another World, known as Out of This World in North America and Outer World in Japan, is a cinematic platformer that was originally created for the Amiga and Atari ST computers and was later ported to other computers and video game consoles. It was widely known as a watershed moment for cinematic gaming and computer graphics, having an epic scale to its setting and utilizing rotoscoped vector graphics. The story involves a young physicist named Lester Knight Chaykin, who gets involved in a particle accelerator accident and soon finds himself in an alien world. Lester must now find a way to escape the planet and return to Earth.
This time, Alyosha tackles the official conversion of the GBA port in record time.

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Published on 4/19/2024
Candy Land is a children's board game where players need to draw a card and move to the space indicated. The first player to reach the goal wins the game.
Winslinator reaches the goal in record time.

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Published on 4/20/2024
Chutes and Ladders is a children's board game based on Snakes and Ladders. In this, players flick a spinner (or a die, depending on the version played) and move the number of spaces indicated. If they land at the foot of a ladder, they climb it up and move several spaces ahead; however, if they land at the top of a chute, they slide it down and move several spaces back.
Winslinator reaches the goal in record time.

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Published on 7/18/2023
Coin Fall is a homebrew game made by 3DSage for GBA Jam 2022. Inspired by Fall Guys, the player guides a coin through four obstacle-filled courses.
Cephla and Alyosha improve the previous movie by 0.04 seconds, thanks to better optimization.

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Game:
Coin Fall

Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
Game Version:
Coin_Fall_jam.gba
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Published on 11/26/2023
Connect Four is a board game played by many people in many countries across all ages. The rules are simple: Each player takes turns dropping chips down a grid. Whoever can make a row of four connecting chips either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally wins the game. Like with Perfection and many other board games, it has received ports to many video game consoles.
Alyosha improves the previous TAS by 2.53 seconds, thanks to a better winning strategy.
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Published on 11/27/2023
Connect Four is a board game played by many people in many countries across all ages. The rules are simple: Each player takes turns dropping chips down a grid. Whoever can make a row of four connecting chips either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally wins the game. Like with Perfection and many other board games, it has received ports to many video game consoles.
Tompa, Alyosha, and Winslinator collaborate to complete a game in "Normal Game" difficulty as fast as possible, manipulating the AI to think faster so the game can be ended quicker.

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Published on 11/14/2022
Dexter's Laboratory: Chess Challenge is a licensed chess game with a few extra features. In addition to a mode where you just play a quick game of chess, there's also a tournament mode that basically serves as the campaign mode and a Puzzles mode where you have to put the opponent in checkmate under a specific layout and with specific restrictions.
In this run, Walgrey plays Puzzle mode and completes all 30 puzzles in record time.

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Published on 6/7/2024
Finding Nemo is a licensed game that is based on the animated Pixar movie of the same name. It generally follows the plot of the movie beat for beat with certain scenes turned into much longer levels for the sake of the game. Unlike the GameCube and PlayStation 2 versions of the game, you unfortunately do not get to play as Dory.
While it may not look like much of an improvement when compared to the previous run, this TAS from Odongdong and Alyosha actually saves nearly 20 seconds of game time when taking the boot screen and emulation differences into account. This is thanks to the usage of new strategies that have been discovered by real-time speedrunners ever since the previous TAS was last published.

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Published on 1/22/2020
DK: King of Swing is a Donkey Kong spin-off game developed by Paon and published by Nintendo in 2005 for the Game Boy Advance. The Kongs are planning a competition to see who's the best in the jungle! Just before it begins, K. Rool steals all the medals for the tournament! DK must hunt down K. Rool and get back those stolen medals for the tournament!

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Published on 3/13/2020
DK: King of Swing is a Donkey Kong spin-off game developed by Paon and published by Nintendo in 2005 for the Game Boy Advance. The Kongs are planning a competition to see who's the best in the jungle! Just before it begins, K. Rool steals all the medals for the tournament! DK must hunt down K. Rool and get back those stolen medals for the tournament!
The complete definition of the '200%+" goal is defined in the submission text.

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Published on 11/10/2020
DK: King of Swing is a Donkey Kong spin-off game developed by Paon and published by Nintendo in 2005 for the Game Boy Advance. The Kongs are planning a competition to see who's the best in the jungle! Just before it begins, K. Rool steals all the medals for the tournament! DK must hunt down K. Rool and get back those stolen medals for the tournament!
g0goTBC beats the game with Diddy Kong who features some gameplay differences, making the game harder than with Donkey Kong and showing different strategies. This movie is a 00:39.88 second improvement over the previous record by PiePusher11.

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Published on 7/15/2017
This game is a 2003 port of the original Donkey Kong Country for SNES. This version has increased brightness, at the cost of contrast and colour saturation, to make the game easier to see on an unlit LCD screen, some new features, including new minigames, hidden pictures, a Time Trial mode, and multiplayer games.
In order to achieve 101%, you need to play and beat every stage, find all bonus-rooms (only finding them is required, beating is not) and find all 52 cameras to fill the scrapbook. One camera requires you to collect the KONG-letters in every stage.

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Published on 7/5/2024
This game is a 2003 port of the original Donkey Kong Country for SNES. This version has increased brightness, at the cost of contrast and colour saturation, to make the game easier to see on an unlit LCD screen, some new features, including new minigames, hidden pictures, a Time Trial mode, and multiplayer games.
Watch as illayaya makes their way to King K Rool to get back the banana hoard in record time.

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Published on 9/1/2024
This game is a 2003 port of the original Donkey Kong Country for SNES. This version has increased brightness, at the cost of contrast and colour saturation, to make the game easier to see on an unlit LCD screen, some new features, including new minigames, hidden pictures, a Time Trial mode, and multiplayer games.
In order to achieve 101%, you need to play and beat every stage, find all bonus-rooms (only finding them is required, beating is not) and find all 52 cameras to fill the scrapbook. One camera requires you to collect the KONG-letters in every stage.
illayaya improves upon the previous publication by about 05:38.72.

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Published on 7/18/2021
Señor Tucán, a master super spy, has a special mission for super spies Dora and Boots: race to Tico's workshop to warn him of Swiper's plan to swipe his new rocket car. In this dangerous adventure, Dora and Boots need help from their friends, Backpack and Map, and the player. To help them, the player must find spy briefcases that contain special spy gadgets, such as spy glasses, rocket sneakers, a rope launcher, and more. The player will need these items to explore levels ranging from a rainforest and a garden to a desert and a cavern.
EZGames69 improves on his first ever TAS by 01:34.24 minutes, thanks to smarter routing and using lag reduction tricks this time around. Tico's car still remains safely out of Swiper's paws. Oh, man!

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Published on 12/18/2017
Dora the Explorer: The Search for Pirate Pig's Treasure is a platforming game based off the popular children's cartoon series Dora the Explorer that was released in 2003 for the Game Boy Advance. Dora and Boots are searching for Pirate Pig's Treasure since he lost track of it. There are 8 worlds with 3 levels in each. Throughout each level, the player must collect 3 stars in order to move on to the next level.
Thanks to EZGames69, Dora and Boots are able to find Pirate Pig's Treasure in just under 23 minutes.

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Published on 3/8/2024
Enchanted: Once Upon Andalasia is a licensed platforming game for the Game Boy Advance and serves as a prequel to the 2007 movie Enchanted. Taking place entirely in the fantasy world of Andalasia, you follow Giselle, her squirrel friend Pip, and Prince Edward as they go on a journey to save the kingdom from an evil fairy that's draining its magic and kidnapping its animals. In the levels where you control Giselle, you can switch between her and Pip to solve puzzles and get around obstacles that Giselle cannot do on her own.
SuperSqank for this run completes the game in record time by utilizing a number of damage boosts and glitches to skip significant chunks of each level. For details how each level was done and the glitches and mechanics in the game, you can read the author's notes.

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Published on 8/29/2024
Enchanted: Once Upon Andalasia is a licensed platforming game for the Game Boy Advance and serves as a prequel to the 2007 movie Enchanted. Taking place entirely in the fantasy world of Andalasia, you follow Giselle, her squirrel friend Pip, and Prince Edward as they go on a journey to save the kingdom from an evil fairy that's draining its magic and kidnapping its animals. In the levels where you control Giselle, you can switch between her and Pip to solve puzzles and get around obstacles that Giselle cannot do on her own.
SuperSqank for this run completes the game while improving upon their previous efforts by about 1291 frames.
As a note, music has been turned off in order to reduce lag.

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Published on 7/18/2023
Feline is a homebrew platformer for the Game Boy Advance that was created for the GBA Game Jam 2021. You play as a black cat that's on an adventure, going to various places ranging from up in the sky to below the ground. There are strange things in the world this cat inhabits, some plain weird and some outright hostile, sometimes even both! However, this cat has no fear and braves their way through everything thrown at them.
In this run, Alyosha completes the very short adventure the cat goes on in record time.
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Game:
Feline

Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
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feline.gba
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Published on 4/3/2024
Feline is a homebrew platformer for the Game Boy Advance that was created for the GBA Game Jam 2021. You play as a black cat that's on an adventure, going to various places ranging from up in the sky to below the ground. There are strange things in the world this cat inhabits, some plain weird and some outright hostile, sometimes even both! However, this cat has no fear and braves their way through everything thrown at them.
In this run, Alyosha improves on his previous run by 20 frames thanks to more optimized movements.
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Feline

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Published on 9/12/2011
Fire Emblem is the seventh game in the series of strategy RPGs, and the first to be given a release outside Japan. When Eliwood discovers his father is missing, he sets out to find him, but what he discovers is far more amazing and terrifying than he ever imagined.
With carefully planned strategy, the runners complete this game in a timely manner, knocking off the entirety of the first modes available in a mere 140 turns.
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Game:
Fire Emblem

Genres:
RPG
Strategy
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Published on 7/17/2011
The Fire Emblem series is popular for its tactical-role-playing element. This is the eighth installment of the series, usually taking many hours to finish and hundreds of turns.
In this playthrough, Vykan12 takes the game one step further, playing on the hardest setting - this takes a couple of minutes longer than the previous version, but reduces the turn count to a mere 93 turns.

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Published on 2/18/2023
Ice Age for the GBA is a licensed game based on the animated movie of the same name. It's a platformer that superficially appears to follow the plot of the movie, where prehistoric animals Manny, Sid, and Diego work together to bring a human baby back to his tribe. There are also some gameplay mechanics, such as the ability to throw giant nuts, that certainly have no basis in the movie.
In this run, NinjaCocktail completes the game and gets congratulated in Comic Sans as fast as possible.

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Ice Age

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Published on 9/27/2023
Ice Age for the GBA is a licensed game based on the animated movie of the same name. It's a platformer that superficially appears to follow the plot of the movie, where prehistoric animals Manny, Sid, and Diego work together to bring a human baby back to his tribe. There are also some gameplay mechanics, such as the ability to throw giant nuts, that certainly have no basis in the movie.
In this run, NinjaCocktail completes all the levels in the game, including the bonus levels, and gets congratulated in Comic Sans once again as fast as possible.

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Ice Age

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Published on 6/16/2024
Based on the animated film from DreamWorks, Madagascar follows Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria as they attempt to stop Marty from leaving New York's Central Park Zoo and accidentally wind up in Madagascar. As the game progresses, the animals develop new skills to help them explore the island, such as the stealth crawl, the sneeze jump, and the claw climb.
The game also features the ability to switch between up to four characters at any time. This enables a host of new routes and tricks like rapidly switching characters to prevent damage knockback and enable a triple jump.
In this run, CoolKirby, YoungJ1997lol, Alyosha, and SuperSqank utilize these tricks to speed through the movie's plot while saving more than 00:15.55 from the previous movie, although the time saves are likely larger when factoring out emulation differences.

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Game:
Madagascar

Genres:
Platformer
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Published on 6/16/2024
Madagascar: Operation Penguin is a licensed video game spin-off of the animated movie Madagascar. Despite what the name would have you believe, it predates The Penguins of Madagascar series by three years. This game focuses on the penguins Skipper, Kowalski, Private, and Rico and they hatch a plan to escape from the New York zoo they're in and with the help of a few other animals. As this game was only released a couple months after the first Madagascar video game for the Game Boy Advance, it reuses a good number of assets and mechanics and essentially plays just like the previous game.
In this run, Alyosha and FriiedPorkchop work together to delve into a action-packed side-story the original cartoon didn't focus on until later and reach Madagascar in record time.

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Published on 7/19/2011
This is the first Mega Man Zero game in the series for the Game Boy Advance. Unlike most other Mega Man games, Zero really is not in the mood for fighting all the bad guys, and decides to call it quits in the first few missions so that he can skip ahead to the last stages.
This run beats the previous run by 00:04.57 seconds due to a new trick called the "spike jump" which allows Zero to climb on the spikes without taking damage.
If you liked this movie, be sure to check out the all stages run.

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Published on 5/24/2017
After a long hibernation meant to purge his body of the Wily Virus, Zero is awakened to save Ciel and the resistance. Zero decides to help, but what he really wants is to have some slashing fun.
Unlike the other run of this game, this run doesn't use mission skips, which means that the author had to beat every mission as fast as possible.
This run from Flameberger improves the previous movie by 00:35.93 seconds.

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Published on 1/23/2015
The third game in the Mega Man Zero sub-series takes place two months after its predecessor.
It features mostly the same gameplay as its predecessors, but with a different Cyber Elf system and customizable armor. Also new are the Secret Disks, which can be analyzed for information about the series, enemies, items, and the characters.
This run is 00:28.38 seconds faster than the previous version.

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Published on 4/5/2020
The third game in the Mega Man Zero sub-series takes place two months after its predecessor. It features mostly the same game play as before, but with a different Cyber Elf system and customizable armor. Also new are the Secret Disks, which can be analyzed for information about the series, enemies, items, and the characters.
This run aims to collect all disks, all sub-tanks, and all Ex-Skills. It also gets a special rank when the final stage ends (Disk Capturer) and unlocks Ultimate Mode afterward. Geinuhayst saved 01:22.93 minutes from the previous run by using different Ex-Skills and tricks to allow faster movement and quicker boss fights. See the submission notes for details.
We also have a run that completes the game as quickly as possible.

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Published on 3/7/2023
Mega Man Zero 3 is the third game in the Mega Man Zero series. It features mostly the same gameplay as before, but with a different Cyber Elf system, customizable armor, and new Secret Disks, which can be analyzed for information about the series, enemies, items, and the characters. The story takes place two months after Mega Man Zero 2 when a resurrected Copy-X suddenly appears from space and takes over Neo-Arcadia once again with his reviver Dr. Weil at his side. It is up to Zero, Ciel, and friends to get to the ever-dangerous Dark Elf before Dr. Weil and the mysterious Omega does.
For this run, Darkman425 opts to use only the Z-Buster, using the Z-Saber in certain levels when the game forces him to. He also aims for a maximum mission score for every mission in the game, which requires completing every objective and meeting all the kill quotas, all while not taking any damage. He does this as fast as possible with lots of RNG manipulation involved. For more details on how this run was done and the mechanics involved, you can read the author's notes.

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Published on 2/10/2024
Men in Black: The Series is a GBA game based on the animated series, which was based on the movie, which was based on the original comics. In it, you play either as Agent J or Agent K, in which the player much fight various different alien species in 6 levels in total.
Alyosha runs through the game in record time

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Published on 2/25/2021
Rather than being able to explore the world freely and sequence break to her heart's content, Samus is at the mercy of a computer's will. As a result this game is very linear with virtually no chance to collect items out of order.

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Published on 11/26/2021
After a major surgery, Samus' Power Suit has been reduced in appearance. To compensate, she decides to arm herself to the teeth with 250 missiles and more power bombs than she really needs. It's her favorite thing to do when sequence breaking isn't as feasible.
Reseren collects all 100 capacity increasing items for Samus' health, missiles and power bombs. The abilities recovered from the Core-X are not part of this number.

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Published on 2/23/2024
Metroid Fusion is the 4th installment in the Metroid series of games (not counting the Prime games) released in 2002 as the sequel to Super Metroid.
Samus encounters a dangerous virus known as X, in which it can completely take over a living organism and mutate it. Samus after being infected has her power-suit surgically removed and is given a vaccine made from the cells from the baby Metroid she saved back on planet SR388. This makes her immune to the X virus, but something goes wrong at BSL station where parts of her powersuit were sent for examination. Samus, now with Metroid DNA, goes off to investigate the situation at BSL station.
This run by Reseren makes use of a save corruption glitch that puts Samus right before the end of the game.

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Published on 4/14/2023
Metroid: Deep Freeze is a ROM hack of Zero Mission with some gameplay adjustments in a completely new environment. This run by Mandatoby completes the game with 100% item collection, at least as far as the end-of-game display is concerned.
Reading the submission text for more information is recommended.

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Published on 10/1/2023
Metroid: Desolation is a Metroid: Zero Mission ROM hack by jasinchen and released in 2023. Featuring vastly modified level design when compared to the base game, this hack is set on Area LC-13, where Samus goes to investigate after the water source dried up for unknown reasons, leading to many species dying.
Mikewillplays inspects the planet and finishes the hack with full item completion.
An encode featuring commentary by the author is available right here.

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Published on 4/1/2024
Metroid: Scrolls 6 is a rom hack of Metroid: Zero Mission. Created for the 2018 Berserker Contest. The levels are completely new, as well as a changed soundtrack. The plot goes that Samus is bored and wants to kill a dragon, and discovers one might be nearby in a realm she finds.
Mikewillplays slays the dragon and collects 100% of the items in record time.

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Published on 12/2/2023
Metroid: Spooky Mission is a short ROM Hack of Metroid: Zero Mission that is themed around Halloween and is the winner of Metroid Construction's 2017 Fall Contest. All of the levels are entirely new and most of the graphics have been replaced with either original ones or graphics inspired by games like Super Mario World and the GBA Castlevania games. It also has a few tweaks to the original gameplay like the addition of a tractor beam power up from the Metroid Prime series.
Mikewillplays in this run goes for 100% completion, collecting all of the items and spooks in record time.

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Published on 4/3/2012
Metroid: Zero Mission is a retelling of Metroid with new plot twists and updated gameplay.
This run aims to complete the game as quickly as possible while collecting as few items as possible. This changes the gameplay, requiring more careful ammo management and new solutions to complete certain areas without powerups. Reading the author's comments is recommended.
The in-game clear time is 0:23:48. The item collection rate is 9%.

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Published on 7/14/2016
Metroid: Zero Mission is a retelling of the original Metroid's story with a couple of new plot twists and updated gameplay.
This movie improves on the previous attempt by the same author by 28 in-game seconds and 34 seconds of real time. The time saved comes from more optimized movements and a few minor tricks, but mainly from a greater understanding of RNG in the game.
The in-game clear time is 0:20:59. The item collection rate is 20%.

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Published on 7/24/2019
Samus's first adventure is retold in Metroid: Zero Mission with extra storyline, extra items and on a system with a better graphics processor. This run completes the game with 100% item collection, at least as far as the end-of-game display is concerned.
This run is an improvement over Dragonfangs's previous work. It saves about 4 seconds of In-Game time, but uses a new route that removes lots of door transitions, saving about 20 seconds of real time. The previous run used VisualBoyAdvance that runs this game inaccurately fast compared to BizHawk (mGBA core) used here, which is why the movie time appears longer.

There is also an alternate YouTube stream featuring audio commentary by the author as well as members of the speedrunning community.

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Published on 5/27/2024
Original Memory Game is the name of the Milton Bradley version of the classic card matching memory game. It was adapted into many formats, including as part of a three pack Game Boy Advance multicart that included Candy Land and Chutes and Ladders. The game is simple: with a set of cards face down, you flip over cards to find matching pairs.
Sam_Underscore and Spikestuff combine their efforts to beat a single game of the Original Memory Game as fast as possible, with some RNG manipulation done to produce a card layout that requires the least amount of cursor movements to solve.

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Published on 10/21/2022
Perfection is a board game where you have to fit a number of different shaped pieces into a board under a time limit. Run out of time and all of the pieces pop out of the board. The game has received video game adaptations to a number of systems.
In this run, ShesChardcore completes a single game of Perfection on the Game Boy Advance in record time.

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Published on 5/7/2024
Power Rangers Time Force is a 2001 platforming game on the GBA developed by Vicarious Visions. This game is based on the 9th season of the TV series, the power rangers must fight against the evil Ransik while jumping through different time periods.
MamaLuigiMomsLotsaSpaghetti completes the game in record time.

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Published on 3/6/2023
Powerpig is a homebrew GBA platforming game developed by Genecyst for the NeoFlash compo 2013. One day, Powerpig is approached by his ghost grandpig who gives him a gravity gun, and that he can use it however he wants. So he used it accordingly.
Darkman425 completes the game in record time.

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Powerpig

Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
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Published on 7/16/2023
Powerpig is a homebrew GBA platforming game developed by Genecyst for the NeoFlash compo 2013. One day, Powerpig is approached by his ghost grandpig who gives him a gravity gun, and that he can use it however he wants. So he used it accordingly.
Darkman425 and Alyosha improve the previous movie by 52.76 seconds, thanks to a glitch where the next level starts immediately if the previous level was finished at a specific point.

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Powerpig

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Platformer
Homebrew
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powerpig.gba
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Published on 5/15/2024
When a villain known only as Mr. Dark appears, trouble brews in Rayman's world. Mr. Dark captures the Toons - the source of light - and Rayman's friends. Without the light, evil creatures begin to roam, making the world unsafe for everyone. It's up to you, as Rayman, to free your friends and put an end to Mr. Dark's dastardly schemes!
Rayman Advance is a side-scrolling platformer starring the titular Rayman, a big-nosed chap with no arms or legs. Rayman can jump and use his hair to hover for a short period of time. He can also attack by throwing his fists, or winding up his fists for a more powerful punch. He can occasionally find special powerups that grant him unlimited flying power, giving him the ability to navigate through tricky mazes.
Aside from the platforming action, the other notable feature of Rayman Advance is its large, detailed and vibrant graphics, which have helped it to stand out from most other similar games in the genre.
This is an improvement of over 01:14.97, although the time save may be larger when factoring in emulation differences.

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Published on 4/23/2024
Shoot for the Moon is a homebrew platformer for the Game Boy Advance that was created as part of a university student's final project. You follow the short space-hopping journey of Yerba, a anthropomorphic rabbit that's traveling to the moon. Along the way, Yerba gets contacted Lo, an old friend who goes way back with him. Follow the two and learn the more about the relationship between them and how it came to be.
arandomgameTASer here eskews any sort of storytelling the game could have shown in favor of zipping across the screen with an edge dashing glitch, which allows him to clip through invisible walls and corners, and beating the game in record time.
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Published on 8/3/2023
Shrek 2 is a GBA platforming game developed by Vicarious Visions and published by Activision. It loosely follows the plot of the movie. Shrek is meeting the parents of Princess Fiona and wants to get the blessing from her father. The game features several levels in which the player must control more than one character to solve puzzles, in a similar vein to The Lost Vikings on SNES and Genesis.
Watch as RetroEdit completes each level and multi-character level, controlling all characters with the same inputs in record time.

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Game:
Shrek 2

Genres:
Platformer
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BizHawk 2.9.1
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Published on 7/4/2024
Snood is a puzzle game that was first developed for Mac OS in 1996 and was later ported to other platforms such as Microsoft Windows, the Game Boy Advance, and iOS. It is very similar to Puzzle Bobble, where the objective is to clear a board full of different-colored orbs by shooting at them with more orbs. If three orbs of the same color are connected by the shot, they are cleared from the board. Power-ups cab be collected and chain matches can be done to clear the board even faster.
Alyosha improves upon g0goTBC's "Puzzle" run by 00:06.71 seconds.
There is also a run of the game's "Time Attack!" mode for those interested.

This run has been console verified which you can see the footage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ucr0TGUFXM
Game:
Snood

Genres:
Puzzle
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Published on 8/16/2024
Snood is a puzzle game that was first developed for Mac OS in 1996 and was later ported to other platforms such as Microsoft Windows, the Game Boy Advance, and iOS. It is very similar to Puzzle Bobble, where the objective is to clear a board full of different-colored orbs by shooting at them with more orbs. If three orbs of the same color are connected by the shot, they are cleared from the board. Power-ups cab be collected and chain matches can be done to clear the board even faster.
This movie by Alyosha improves over the previous Time Attack mode by 01:00.22.

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Snood

Genres:
Puzzle
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Published on 11/2/2010
This movie of Sonic Advance is unique as a speedrun in one aspect: Sonic moves so fast that the "camera" of the game cannot even follow him. Therefore, he is rarely seen in the movie.
On the rare occasions we get to watch Sonic, we get to enjoy seeing him moving through walls, charging up for another dash, or making short work of bosses.
Besides the super fast speed itself, the speed also provides Sonic an ability (glitch) to pass through platforms and walls under certain conditions.
Mukki's TAS improves the previous run by 00:30.95 seconds, thanks to new routes and glitches explained in his comments.
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Published on 9/11/2015
Sonic Advance was Sonic the Hedgehog's first appearance on a portable Nintendo console, and he brought all his friends with him.
In this run, Tails shows what he's capable of and sets off to defeat Dr. Eggman once again. He aims to do so as fast as possible without using the game-destroying glitch featured in this run as Sonic.
If you want to see more Sonic Advance runs, check out the run as Knuckles, Amy and an alternate run as Sonic where the aforementioned glitch is not used.

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Published on 6/4/2017
This movie of Sonic Advance is unique as a speedrun in one aspect: Sonic moves so fast that the "camera" of the game cannot even follow him. Therefore, he is rarely seen in the movie.
On the rare occasions we get to watch Sonic, we get to enjoy seeing him moving through walls, charging up for another dash, or making short work of bosses.
Besides the super fast speed itself, the speed also provides Sonic an ability (glitch) to pass through platforms and walls under certain conditions.
While this movie appears to be around 3 seconds slower than the previous movie, it is in fact faster. This is due to more accurate emulation and also including the GBA boot sequence.
This movie has been console verified and played back on real hardware by Extrems (and was previously verified by endrift).

Published on 11/29/2023
Sonic Advance was Sonic the Hedgehog's first appearance on a portable Nintendo console, and he brought all his friends with him.
This run proves that Knuckles the Echidna is up to the task of zipping through levels at warp speed and defeating Dr. Eggman yet again. Don't blink! In this movie, the author doesn't take advantage of the game-destroying spindash glitch featured in this run as Sonic.
While it may seem that it's only 0.57 seconds faster than the previous movie due to more accurate emulation, it is in fact faster by 7.32 seconds in in-game time. Please read the author's comments for more details.

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Published on 1/28/2012
Disappointed with good movies where characters move just too slowly?
Look no further! In this extremely high-speed run, Mukki demonstrates how to break the sound barrier and why Sonic is the fastest character in the video game universe.
Mukki's TAS improves the previous run by 00:43.18 seconds. Individual act improvements are listed in the submission text.
The author doesn't collect any of the Chaos Emeralds in this movie, but it demonstrates almost every single move that Sonic is capable of in this game.

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Published on 7/22/2020
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros 3 is a platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. It is an enhanced remake of the Nintendo Entertainment System video game Super Mario Bros. 3, and is based on the remake found in Super Mario All-Stars for the Super NES.
It contains several enhancements, including the addition of Mario and Luigi's voices by Charles Martinet, a multiplayer mode based on the original arcade game Mario Bros and the ability to scan e-Cards, utilizing two Game Boy Advances, the e-Reader, and a copy of Super Mario Advance 4. Once a card is scanned, it adds certain content to the game.
EZGames69 and GoddessMaria use warp whistles to beat the game in record time.

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Published on 5/16/2023
Super Mario: The Last GBA Quest is a homebrew platforming fan game that was heavily inspired by Super Mario Land. It borrows a number of elements from that game such as the Superball powerup and various enemies such as the Flies, Dragonzamasus, and King Totomesus while keeping around other Mario staples such as Shy Guys. Instead of saving Daisy, Mario has to save his usual damsel in distress Peach from a mysterious enemy.
In this run, dekutony completes all eight levels of the game in record time, the eighth level requiring special red coins found throughout the previous seven levels in order to access.

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Published on 3/2/2024
Super Monkey Ball Jr. is a spinoff of the platforming game series Super Monkey Ball to the Game Boy Advance. It features 3D graphics mixed with 2D sprites in a third-person view, an uncommon sight to be found in a Game Boy Advance game. As with the other games in the Super Monkey Ball series, the objective is to guide one of four selectable monkeys inside their own capsule spheres to the exit by tilting the entire level.
Alyosha in this run decides to play the "Beginner" set of stages and completes them all as fast as possible.

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Published on 12/24/2022
Sushi the Cat is a homebrew platformer for the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS that took part of a NEO Flash homebrew competition. In this game, you play as a cat that's just strolling across the city, collecting stars and avoiding enemies like huge birds and bouncing balls with eyes. At the end, you fight a giant rat that attacks you with blocks of cheese.
Cephla and Technickle collaborate for this run to beat the game in record time.

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Published on 11/28/2023
The Flintstones: Big Trouble in Bedrock is a licensed platforming game that is based off the classic cartoon The Flintstones. The plot revolves around the kidnapping of Barney Rubble by the mad scientist, Dr. Sinister, who wants revenge against Fred Flintstone for thwarting him in the past. Fred must now go on a short adventure to rescue Barney with the help of his friends along the way.
Alyosha here has Fred go through some immense pain in order to beat the game and rescue Barney in record time.

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Published on 5/29/2024
Turok: Evolution for the Game Boy Advance is a side scrolling 2D shooter video game released in 2002.
In this prequel to the previous Turok games, you are Tal'Set, the saviour of natives of the River Village in the Lost Lands, who must confront the evil Lord Tyrannus, leader of the reptilian hordes. Tyrannus is bent on a "Holy Mission" to purify the Lost Land through slaughter and misery.
During the fight with your nemesis Captain Tobias Bruckner in 1886 Texas, you were injured and sucked in to the Lost Lands. After recovering in the village, you discover that Tyrannus appoints a new general to his armies – Bruckner. So you begin the war in a land of lush jungles, suspended cities, mysterious temples, reptile armies, and towering dinosaurs.
This movie is about 00:31.76 seconds faster than the previous attempt, thanks to better optimization and routing.

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Published on 2/16/2011
Arguably better known these days for the WarioWare series, our anti-hero Wario started off as the villain in Super Mario Land 2 before starring in his own series of platformers of which this is the fifth (everyone forgets Virtual Boy Wario Land).
Through strategic use of save-and-restore and a glitch allowing rapid diagonal movement and zipping, Wario gets away with all the loot in this Hard mode run (the hardest difficulty available from the outset) 22:30.68 faster than before.

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Published on 2/18/2023
Arguably better known these days for the WarioWare series, our anti-hero Wario started off as the villain in Super Mario Land 2 before starring in his own series of platformers of which this is the fifth (everyone forgets Virtual Boy Wario Land).
Through strategic use of save-and-restore and a glitch allowing rapid diagonal movement and zipping, Wario gets away with all the loot in this normal mode run by Reseren, which features different routing compared to Hard mode.

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Published on 6/12/2023
Arguably better known these days for the WarioWare series, our anti-hero Wario started off as the villain in Super Mario Land 2 before starring in his own series of platformers of which this is the fifth (everyone forgets Virtual Boy Wario Land).
Through strategic use of save-and-restore and a glitch allowing rapid diagonal movement and zipping, Wario gets away with all the loot in this S-Hard mode run by Reseren, which is a difficulty mode that's unlocked after beating the game on Hard mode. S-Hard significantly increases the difficulty in comparison to hard mode, by forcing Wario to start each level with one heart, changing the locations of the chests, as well as reducing the time you have from the frog switches (some levels even changing where you activate them).

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Published on 8/10/2023
Arguably better known these days for the WarioWare series, our anti-hero Wario started off as the villain in Super Mario Land 2 before starring in his own series of platformers of which this is the fifth (everyone forgets Virtual Boy Wario Land).
Through strategic use of save-and-restore and a glitch allowing rapid diagonal movement and zipping, Wario gets away with all the loot in this Hard mode run by Aut0, Reseren and andymac, this time also collecting all the CDs in the process.

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Published on 4/2/2024

Published on 9/26/2021
007: The World is Not Enough is based off of the 1999 James Bond film of the same name. In it, Pierce Brosnan's Bond must investigate the murder of a British oil tycoon and attacks on his new pipeline, which leads to a larger sinister plot requiring gunplay and frequent flier miles to diffuse.
The GBC port is most well known for appearing in GBC emulator issue trackers for its non-standard use of the window. It also pans the music to the left ear and the sound effects to the right ear for some reason.
Alyosha completes the game in record time.
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Published on 8/20/2013
Alex "Action Man" Mann makes a stop over onto the Game Boy Color where once again he must stop the world from falling into the clutches of the evil Dr. X. The player takes control of Action Man as he travels through seven different levels ranging from jungles to the Arctic, battling a sizable army of robots with a variety of weapons and battle suits in search of Base X and stopping Dr. X from launching a terrifying new weapon that could very well bring an end to the world.
The game is a standard side-scrolling action platformer where the player advances through the levels by shooting at enemies and jumping over obstacles. Along the way, Action Man can find new items and suits which allow him to discover alternate routes, new levels, and even more items.
In this TAS, Noxxa runs and jumps through the game, carefully choosing items and paths and using a few tricks to finish the game as fast as possible.

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Published on 3/26/2023
Bugs Bunny: Crazy Castle 3, initially released in Japan as Soreyuke!! Kid: Go! Go! Kid (それゆけ!! キッド Go! Go! Kid), is the sequel to The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2 and one of many games in Kemco's Crazy Castle series. As with the other games in the series, the goal of game is complete each level by collecting all the keys necessary to progress to the next level. Enemies in the form of clones of various Looney Tunes characters threaten Bugs Bunny and require special items to combat them or other ways of getting around them.
Alyosha and Brandon both collaborate to complete every level of the game and reward Bugs with Lola Bunny from Space Jam in record time. We also have a run of the first Bugs Bunny game in the series.

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Published on 4/28/2023
Capybara Quest is a homebrew platformer for the Game Boy Color about a capybara who goes on a journey to rescue its baby capybara from a pelican that flew off with it. Along the way, the capybara can collect fruits called Yuzus as an optional sidequest.
Despite this run looking longer than the previous one, Alyosha and brunovalads actually save one frame of gameplay time with a single carefully timed button press.
You can play the game here.

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Published on 8/19/2022
Donkey Kong Country is an SNES platforming game that has received ports to the Game Boy Color and the Game Boy Advance. While the Game Boy Advance version more or less plays the same and looks the same as the SNES version, the Game Boy Color version has a number of significant differences due to having to be ported to an 8-bit handheld console. The most noticeable difference is that Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong are much more balanced, with one not holding a significant advantage over the other.
For this run, DeathKontrol has studied and dissected the game as much as he can in order to beat it as fast as possible. The author has also provided a detailed breakdown of each level, technique, and glitch done in this run for those curious.

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Published on 4/24/2023
Flooder is a simple homebrew puzzle game where the goal is to turn a grid filled with squares of different colors into a single large square of a single color. Starting from a single square of a certain color, you change the color of that square so that it matches the color of an adjacent square, assimilating it. From there, you then continue to change the color of the chain you created, assimilating more squares until the entire grid is one single, uniform square.
Cephla plays a single level of the game in this run and completes it in record time with the help of a brute force script.
You can play the game here.

WARNING: This run includes flashing lights that may trigger epilepsy.
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Game:
Flooder

Genres:
Puzzle
Homebrew
Game Version:
flooder.gb
Tags:
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Published on 3/20/2021
Fushigi no Dungeon: Fuurai no Shiren GB2: Sabaku no Majou, translated as Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer: Demon Castle of the Desert, is a roguelike game developed and published by Chunsoft, released only in Japan in 2001. The game follows Shiren the Wanderer, and his talking weasel Koppa.
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Published on 5/26/2022
Garou: Mark of the Wolves 2001 is a bootleg port of Garou: Mark of the Wolves to the Game Boy Color, using sprites stolen from The King of Fighters games for the Neo Geo Pocket Color along with a few new sprites based on those games' art style for characters that aren't in those games. It is a surprisingly average fighting game for a bootleg, with responsive controls and an impactful fighting system.
dekutony chooses Rock Howard and uses his overpowered Hard Rush attack to elbow his way through easily manipulated AI opponents to complete the game as fast as possible.

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Published on 4/4/2023
Gex 3: Deep Pocket Gecko is the portable version of Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko. The plot and goals are the same as in its home console counterpart, though all the levels have been remade as a standard 2D platformer. Gex the Gecko has to save the world from the evil cybernetic Rez once again, this time also saving his kidnapped human lover Xtra.
Alyosha and mmbossman save 2.6 minutes over the previous run thanks to much improved routing and a number of new tricks that were discovered since the publication of the previous run.

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Published on 5/19/2024
Grimace's Birthday is an unlicensed Game Boy Color game that was commissioned by the McDonald's Corporation as part of their 2023 promotional event of celebrating one of their mascots' birthday. It is a short platformer that has skateboarding levels as a throwback to late-1990s pop culture and regular platforming levels. The story in the game has Grimace gathering a number of other McDonald's mascots for his birthday so they can watch him blow out the candles on his birthday cake. However, the candles have already been lit, so he must get all of his friends before the candles go out.
Cephla and Alyosha improve the previous run by 0.7 seconds, thanks to better optimisation.
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Published on 8/8/2020
It's Hamtaro time! Boss has a big secret in store for the Ham-Hams, but he's gotta find them first! The guy's got too much on his hands already, so he sends the loveable Carrot-headed Hamtaro out on the search for the Ham-Hams. The thing is... Hamtaro's gotta learn some hip Ham-chat if he wants everyone to listen to him. So as he ventures on in the game, he becomes the street-wise hipster, learning Ham-chat and getting into tons of adventures... and trouble!

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Published on 6/2/2022
Harvest Moon 3 GBC is a farm simulation video game for the Game Boy Color developed and published by Victor Interactive Software. It takes place on an island, which has some mountainous regions, a grassland, a small village, and the farm where a lot of the game takes place. There are no shops to buy things like tools, crops, and animals; every Monday and Thursday a ferry is available to take the character to the mainland, where all of the shops reside.
ViGadeomes improves on his previous run by almost 5.5 minutes through better use of the day glitch that makes the three years required to complete the game go by even faster.
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Published on 4/18/2021
Keitai Denjū Telefang (携帯電獣テレファング) is a series of video games produced by Natsume and published by Smilesoft. The games are monster-battling games, where the player contacts various creatures using a cell phone-like device called a D-Shot in order to get them to battle the foes he or she will encounter. The name of the series derives from Keitai, which is Japanese for "cell phone," since phoning creatures is an integral part of the game, and "fang," to symbolize the various beasts involved.
jlun2, MisterChess and CasualPokePlayer improve the previous movie by 1 minute and 56.52 seconds, thanks to a game breaking glitch that triggers the credits really early. Please read the authors' comments for more details. Of note the previous publication relied on an emulator bug for it to work, whereas this one has been console-verified and a video of it can be viewed right here.

Published on 3/12/2023
Little Green Blob is a GBC homebrew platformer where you play as a little green blob in its journey to get the finish flag at the end of each level. Play through 20 levels filled with various platforming mechanics, but do mind the blob's size. Move too much or fall too much without getting to the finish line and the blob shrinks into nothingness.
Cephla doesn't have to worry about the blob's size as they finish all 20 levels of the game at fast as possible.
You can play the game here.

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Published on 5/25/2010
In this special episode of Looney Tunes, Bugs, Daffy, Tweety, Porky, Taz, Speedy Gonzales, and the Road Runner decide to rip off popular games such as Atomic Runner, Sonic the Hedgehog & Gradius. They do this by going through this Sunsoft classic as fast as possible so that they don't die from all of the ripoffs.
This has led to even stranger results than the other run, clearing five and a half minutes thanks to a glitch that allows for skipping several levels.

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Published on 1/18/2021
Looney Tunes: Carrot Crazy, also known as Bugs Bunny & Lola Bunny: Operation Carrot Patch in Europe, is a 1998 action platformer developed by VD-dev and published by Infogrames. Yosemite Sam, Daffy Duck, Taz, Marvin the Martian, and Elmer Fudd have stolen all of Bugs and Lola's carrots and hid them in the nearby studio. Bugs and Lola must head through five different studio sets in order to get them all back!
Winslinator improves upon the previous publication by 36 frames thanks to a new optimization in Taz's Zoo Scene 2.

You can watch the console-verification of this movie here.

Published on 4/9/2021
Lucky Luke is a game based on a famous comic series created by Belgian cartoonist Maurice De Bevere. The gun-slinging Dalton brothers have escaped from jail again and are up to no good, and it's up to the titular cowboy to catch the criminals and lock them back up.
While the author, TheKDX7, finishes the platforming stages as fast as possible, he also adds in some entertainment to the long autoscrollers to make them more interesting.
This is an improvement of 7.38 seconds over the previous movie if emulation differences are not accounted for. There is also a run by the same author which achieves 100% completion.

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Published on 2/9/2020
Mega Man Xtreme is a port of the popular Mega Man X series to the Game Boy Color. It adapts the Mavericks and their stages from that series and wraps it into gameplay more suited for the portable console.
Here, FractalFusion & Alyosha speed through the game and exploit glitches to create a movie worthy of what we have come to expect from Mega Man at TASVideos.
This movie is about 7 seconds faster than the previous record by FractalFusion. It appears longer due to significantly more accurate emulation of the loading times in this run.
This movie is played from a save that has unlocked "Extreme mode", which allows you to play all of the levels in one game. Runs that start from a savestate are not normally allowed; see the Movie Rules for more on this.

WARNING: Viewers who have photosensitivity problems may want to avoid watching as there's a high amount of flashing visuals during boss fights that can become uncomfortable to watch.
Watch a resync of this run being played back on a real console by Alyosha or by TiKevin83.

Published on 5/8/2021
Mega Man Xtreme 2, like its predecessor game Mega Man Xtreme, pretty much copies content and bosses from the main line of Mega Man X games. However, Xtreme 2 gets ideas and designs from a much wider range of games, ranging all the way from Mega Man X to Mega Man X5. For instance, there is a Parts system allowing upgrades to your characters. However, there is also an original story (though it's still as silly as many Mega Man storylines), along with some new stage designs and bosses.
Noxxa and Alyosha improve the previous run by about 2 seconds if emulation differences are not accounted for, thanks to using Zero throughout the entire game instead of splitting between X and Zero.

WARNING: Viewers who have photosensitivity problems may want to avoid watching as there's a high amount of flashing visuals during boss fights that can become uncomfortable to watch.
This run starts from a save file in order to unlock "Extreme Mode", which allows visiting all of the game's stages and battles in one run. Runs that start from SRAM are not normally allowed; see the Movie Rules for more on this.

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Published on 9/8/2020
Men in Black: The Series is a GBC game based on the animated series, which was based on the movie, which was based on the original comics. In it, you play as rookie agent J as he goes up against an alien invasion to save Earth and rescue K.
TehBerral abuses a wall-jumping glitch to make short work of this very derivative game. Furthermore, Alyosha noticed and corrected a mistake that saved an additional 7 frames while working to console-verify the TAS this run obsoletes, yielding an improvement over the previous movie of 0.09 seconds.

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Published on 12/9/2022
Microidvania is a Game Boy Color homebrew platformer that was made for the game jam Metroidvania Month 16. A horrible thing called the SKRAAGHRHSCH threatens the cosmos, but your magic has suddenly disappeared. You must now traverse a strange world and gather special crystals that somehow have your powers in order to fight back the SKRAAGHRHSCH.
In this run, Cephla and feos exploit a bug involving a key item's abnormally large contact hitbox, allowing them to collect it without needing the other key items normally required to get it. The rest of the run is dedicated to beating the SKRAAGHRHSCH as fast as possible.
You can get the game here.

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Game:
Microidvania

Genres:
Platformer
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Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 6/8/2023
Mona and the Witch's Hat Deluxe is a homebrew platformer and a remaster of Mona and the Witch's Hat for the Game Boy Color. One night, as a young witch is getting ready to turn in for the day, Mona, the witch's pet cat, decides to stay up for a little longer and reach for the treats that the witch left behind. However, things go wrong in the process and the witch's hat lands on Mona's head, bringing everyone around her to life. It's now up to Mona to make things right with the magic granted by the witch's hat.
Cephla improves on the previous run thanks to finding a way to skip by the text screens.

You can play the game here.

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Published on 8/20/2014
Oddworld Adventures 2 plays very similarly to other Oddworld games. Abe's job is to free his fellow Mudokons who are being used as slave labor to dig up the bones of their ancestors. The Glukkons use the bones to make Soul Storm Brew. Abe's vocabulary is limited to "Hello", "Follow me" "Wait" and "Work". He must use these commands to direct slave Mudokons to their freedom. When enough slaves in a level have been saved, you go on to the next level to do it all again.

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Published on 2/25/2023
Opussum Country is a homebrew Game Boy Color game that was created for and the winner of the Scream FM game jam. You play as a food delivery guy that travels a secluded and mysterious trailer park to fulfill an order. Nothing seems right in this trailer park, and it is filled with lots of opossums. Suddenly, you find your car sabotaged and rendered inoperable. Figure out the mystery behind all this and escape before something bad happens to you, or worse.
Cephla fulfills the order given to them and gets out of town in record time.
You can play the game here.

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Game Version:
Opossum Country.gbc
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 1/2/2013
Pocket Bomberman is unlike the previous Bomberman games in that it's a side-scrolling platformer instead of a grid-like puzzle game. It's also one of the few games that allows Bomberman to jump.
"Jump Game" is the second of the game's two modes. The object of this minigame is to get to the goal at the top of each of the long vertical levels, defeating a boss several times in order to progress.
However, in this run, Robert_Ordis uses a glitch allowing him to clip through walls to skip several boss fights and finish all three stages in less than 2 minutes.

The Nicovideo stream features a cool heads-up display, including RAM information, input view, and even a level map.

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Published on 3/4/2020
Pokémon Card GB2: GR-dan Sanjou! is the Japan-only sequel to Pokémon Trading Card Game. Team Great Rocket has stolen TCG Island's Pokémon cards and kidnapped the Club Masters, and you must travel to GR Island to put an end to their evil plans, by defeating them in Pokémon card duels.

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Published on 8/10/2019
MrWint's Pokémon Crystal glitchless TAS completes the Johto League including 8 badges and the Elite Four, then obtains the 8 Kanto badges before defeating Blue and Red for the final credits roll. This is done without any use of the typical memory corrupting glitches seen in Pokémon Gen 1 and 2 TASes.

The TAS instead uses luck manipulation to avoid encounters and spinning trainers, breeze through battles, and obtain Raikou as early as possible with optimal stats. Despite the run's length and complexity, console verification of the TAS was possible due to MrWint's own work emulating Crystal's Real Time Clock.

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Published on 8/2/2020
Pokémon Silver and Gold form the second generation of Pokémon, after Pokémon Red and Blue. The main differences between the generations is that the game is now in full color, and that there are 251 Pokémon instead of 151.
This movie plays through Pokémon Silver in a fairly fast manner, catching only a half dozen Pokémon in the process, but acquiring all the gym badges, and ultimately beating the protagonist of the previous generation of Pokémon games.
The authors of this movie have written very extensive details of anything regarding this movie, including even some of the mathematical formulas used by the game. As usual, we recommend reading these comments.

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Published on 12/31/2020
Pokémon Gold and Silver form the second generation of Pokémon, after Pokémon Red and Blue. The main differences between the generations is that the game is now in full color, and that there are 251 Pokémon instead of 151.
CasualPokePlayer employs a staggering amount of luck manipulation and extremely careful routing (accomplished using the RouteTwo program) in order to improve upon the predecessor Silver run by 01:23.49 minutes. Only a few Pokémon are collected in this run, but all gym badges are acquired before defeating the protagonist of the previous generation of Pokémon games.
The author of this movie has written very extensive details about anything regarding this movie, including even some of the mathematical formulas used by the game. As usual, we recommend reading these comments.

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Published on 6/5/2021
Pokémon: Gold, Silver and Crystal from the second generation of Pokémon, after Red Version and Blue Version. New features include full color, a new region called Johto, and 100 all new Pokémon.
In this run, CasualPokePlayer improves on the previous movie by exploiting a point in Gold. For more information, see the author's comments.
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Published on 8/3/2021
Pokémon Gold and Silver form the second generation of Pokémon, after Pokémon Red and Blue. The main differences between the generations is that the game is now in full color, and that there are 251 Pokémon instead of 151.
CasualPokePlayer employs a staggering amount of luck manipulation and extremely careful routing (accomplished using the RouteTwo program) in order to improve upon the previous movie by 00:35.50 seconds. Only a few Pokémon are collected in this run, but all gym badges are acquired before defeating the protagonist of the previous generation of Pokémon games.

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Published on 3/31/2018
Pokémon: Yellow Version is part of the first generation of games within its famous series, known for having a very large number of beneficial glitches. In fact, the games can be completed in less than one minute of in-game time by save data corruption as shown by this run, and completed in around 10 minutes using a more "conventional" glitch, as shown by this run. These runs break the game, and avoid much of the gameplay intended by the developers.
In contrast, this run by TiKevin83 refrains from using any memory corrupting glitches and beats the game in a little over an hour and half. The Pokédoll trick is used to skip a dungeon in the game, but that is considered a minor developer oversight and does not corrupt the memory.

The author provided video commentary for this movie that can be viewed here.

This movie has been adjusted to synchronize on the real console, as well as on the 2.3 release of BizHawk. The resynced movie is linked alongside the main one, and is called tikevin83-pokemonyellow-consoleverified. The author provided a commentary video for this resync that can be seen here. For more information, see the canceled submission, whose movie was added in this publication.

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Published on 12/31/2018
Pokémon: Yellow Version is part of the first generation of games within its famous series, known for having a very large number of beneficial glitches. In fact, the game can be completed in less than one minute of in-game time using save data corruption (as evidenced by this run), but this run avoids such techniques in favor of activating an entirely different glitch.



Published on 1/21/2021
Pokémon: Yellow Version is part of the first generation of games within its famous series, known for having a very large number of beneficial glitches. In fact, the games can be completed in less than one minute of in-game time by save data corruption as shown by this run, and completed in around 10 minutes using a more "conventional" glitch, as shown by this run. These runs break the game, and avoid much of the gameplay intended by the developers.
In contrast, this run by TiKevin83 refrains from using any memory corrupting glitches and beats the game in a little over an hour and half. The Pokédoll trick is used to skip a dungeon in the game, but that is considered a minor developer oversight and does not corrupt the memory.

The author provided video commentary for this movie being played back on console that can be viewed here.

Published on 5/21/2020

Published on 6/26/2020
Pokémon Trading Card Game is the video game incarnation of the popular Pokémon Trading Card Game (Pokémon TCG). It features digital versions of the first three sets of real-life trading cards, along with exclusive cards that are not available outside of the game. Normal gameplay involves finding and battling other trainers and Masters, eventually becoming the Champion and earning the Legendary Cards.
However, the author instead decided to glitch out the first battle and confuse the game into reading deck contents as code. This allows the author to reach the game's credits in just under 3 minutes. For more information, see the authors' comments.
We also have a similarly short run of the sequel, Pokémon TCG2.

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Published on 4/5/2014
Rockman DX3, also known as Zook Hero 2, is an unlicensed pirate game developed by Vast Fame that rips gameplay off the Rockman X series. Just like Rockman X, there are eight stages, and six of them contain a boss who gives you his weapon upon defeat. The protagonist, Zook, also has abilities nearly identical to those of X. Despite these similarities, the code and graphics appear to be completely original and the music is actually decent.
Unlike the other run of this game, this run uses a release that doesn't have all stages unlocked from the start, which means all bosses must be defeated and all upgrades obtained first before Zook can tackle the final stages.
We also have a run of this game's prequel, Zook Hero Z.

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Published on 5/3/2023
SK8-BIT is a simple homebrew skateboarding game for the Game Boy Color. It is an autoscroller with two modes that differ in their controls. Challenge mode has you jumping over obstacles and pits, and any crash will cause you to explode into a bloody mess. Freestyle mode gives you the freedom to perform a number of skateboarding tricks, and the only way to fail a level is to fall into a bottomless pit.
LoganTheTASer and BlackWinnerYoshi collaborate to complete all 19 levels in Challenge mode as fast as possible. The 20th level is a killscreen where you immediately fall into a bottomless pit at the start and is considered the end of Challenge mode.
You can play the game here.

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Game:
SK8-BIT

Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
Game Version:
SK8-BIT.gbc
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
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Published on 6/23/2023
SK8-BIT is a simple homebrew skateboarding game for the Game Boy Color. It is an autoscroller with two modes that differ in their controls. Challenge mode has you jumping over obstacles and pits, and any crash will cause you to explode into a bloody mess. Freestyle mode gives you the freedom to perform a number of skateboarding tricks, and the only way to fail a level is to fall into a bottomless pit.
BlackWinnerYoshi in this run decides to play Freestyle mode and completes every available level in the mode as fast as possible, deciding to forgo doing any tricks in favor of speed.
You can play the game here.

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Game:
SK8-BIT

Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
Game Version:
SK8-BIT.gbc
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9 / 2.9.1

Published on 11/27/2019
Based on the Spirou comic, this 2-D platformer for the Game Boy Color has the hero foiling an invasion led by the evil gynoid Cyanida.
ViGadeomes and zoboner complete the task in record time by using precise movement and a number of glitches. See their comments for details.

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Published on 1/19/2014
In this game featuring the famous SpongeBob SquarePants, SpongeBob stumbles upon a legendary statue that opens the way to the Dutchman’s Underworld. SpongeBob must unlock the statue and defeat the Flying Dutchman to get the Golden Spatula and become the Master Fry Cook.
Here, CoolKirby improves on the previous co-authored run by 00:06.04 seconds through slightly different routes, a couple of new tricks, and better optimization. For more information, see the author's comments.

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Published on 8/2/2022
Super Jacked Up Tomato Face Johnson is a homebrew platformer about a muscular tomato with a set of trained legs. Tomato Face Johnson has just learned that there's a new protein shake in the market, but he doesn't have enough money. He must now go through inexplicably dangerous rooms and collect money along the way so he can buy his gain-enhancing protein shake. Oh, and there are some cans of beans to collect along the way.
In this run, Twisted Eye completes the game and collects every can of beans as fast as possible.
You can play the game here.

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Published on 9/2/2013
Super Mario Bros. Deluxe (1999) is the Game Boy Color version of the original Super Mario Bros. In addition to the standard game, it features some new unlockable modes, such as a challenge mode and "You vs. Boo", where Mario must race Boo through several levels which have been modified to make them more interesting in a race.
In this movie, got4n and negative_seven complete the You vs. Boo mode, beating Boo in all eight levels, and over half a second faster than the previous run.
Note: Although this run appears to be longer than the previous movie, that run's time was calculated with an incorrect frame rate. This run is indeed faster.

This run starts from a save file that has beaten the game and collected 100,000 points in challenge mode to unlock the "You vs. Boo" mode. Runs that start from SRAM are not normally allowed; see the Movie Rules for more on this.

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Published on 3/18/2015
Mario is back to the Game Boy, but this time in color.
Super Mario Bros. Deluxe is a remake of Super Mario Bros. with some new game modes, including a challenge mode where coins and time remaining are crucial to gaining the target score, and a race mode where Mario competes against Boo to reach each level's finish first.
This run completes the Original mode, and 33 frames faster (ignoring lag frame differences due to different emulators) than the previous version. While this mode looks like a direct port of the NES game, there are different physics and glitches, making optimizing Deluxe a very different task.
There is also a run of the You vs. Boo mode by got4n and the author of this TAS.

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Published on 7/27/2023
Super Mario Bros. Deluxe is a remake of the original Super Mario Bros. with some new game modes, including a challenge mode where coins and time remaining are crucial to gaining the target score and a race mode where Mario competes against Boo to reach each level's finish flag pole first. While this mode looks like a direct port of the NES game, there are different physics and glitches, making optimizing Deluxe a very different task.
While it may look three seconds slower, this run is actually 12 frames (0.2 seconds) faster than the previous version, with the improvements coming from the usage of a Fire Flower to complete World 8-4 faster and better optimizations. The time differences are due to the addition of the Game Boy Color boot screen and emulation differences.
There is also a run of the "You vs. Boo" mode.

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Published on 8/25/2020
The Emperor's New Groove is the companion game for the Disney movie of the same name. The game takes place after Emperor Kuzco has been turned into a llama, and your goal is to guide llama-Kuzco back to his palace in order to change him back to a human. Although this is a relatively simple platformer, Kuzco's llama form requires careful attention to fully optimize movement speed.
This run beats the previous one by over 51 seconds.

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Published on 8/11/2019
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX is an updated version of an older GB game which adds color, an additional dungeon, various other minor features, and a lot of bug fixes. Link, after rescuing Hyrule (again?), sets off on a journey and subsequently shipwrecks on the mysterious Koholint Island, which has been overtaken by evil monsters which he must defeat in order to find a way back home.

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Published on 12/21/2019
Proving yet again the lengths a TAS can go in destroying a game, this run features a warping glitch that allows for severe sequence breaking. The final boss is reached within a handful of minutes and defeated with minimal weaponry.
TwistedTammer improves the previous run by 00:26.00 seconds.
There is a movie of this game that does not use the warp glitch.

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Published on 4/21/2016
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages is the time-themed counterpart to Oracle of Seasons. In it, the Oracle of Ages, Nayru, is possessed by Veran, Sorceress of Shadows. Link must travel throughout Labrynna's past and present to collect the 8 Essences of Time, power up the Harp of Ages, and defeat Veran.

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Published on 2/1/2012
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons is a Game Boy Color game that carries over much of the graphics from Link's Awakening. Surprisingly, much of the game engine is completely different and developed by Capcom. In it, the Oracle of Seasons, Din, is kidnapped by Onox, General of Darkness. Link must travel throughout both Holdrum and Subrosia to collect the 8 Essences of Nature, power up the Rod of Seasons, and defeat Onox.
This game has been attempted by various authors over the past 5 years. Finally, SwordlessLink, along with Tompa, who joined the project after dungeon 4, beat this legendary game in 1:25:57.22 primarily through the use of pitwalking, Pegasus Seeds, and enemy manipulation. Please see the authors' notes for more details.

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Published on 6/16/2023
The Pact is a short homebrew puzzle-platformer for the Game Boy Color. The simple premise has sworn enemies Bop Bop the Rabbit and Wile F. the Dragon being forced to work together to escape Cayate the Ogre's castle after he traps them there. Each character has their own unique quirk: Bop Bop is the only one that can end the level by reaching the exit, and Wile F. can walk on spikes. Both characters have the ability to turn into statues that freeze in place while they take turns moving. This can be used to get around various obstacles in each room.
In this run, brunovalads plays the 1.0 version of the game for the level breaking glitches it has that were fixed in later versions, and beats the game while collecting all the fruit in record time.
You can play the game here,

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Published on 4/26/2022
From Homestar Runner comes Trogday Micro Game, starring Trogdor the Burninator. It's his 19th Trogday, and how does he celebrate? By burninating the village, of course! The goal in this very short game is to squish all the peasants while avoiding all the knights before facing off against Kerrek, who stands for everything peasantry. In this run, Darkman425 does exactly that in record time.
You can play the game here.

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Game Version:
Trogday2022.gb
Video Downloads:
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Published on 1/19/2021
Winnie the Pooh: Adventures in the 100 Acre Wood is an adventure game developed by NewKidCo and published by NewKidCo and Disney Interactive. It was released in North America in April 2000 for the Game Boy Color.
The game follows Winnie the Pooh as he interacts with other characters in the wood. Most of the game uses a board game structure, where the player rolls a dice and draws cards to move around on the map in an attempt to explore the wood. The game is aimed at a younger demographic and was designed to be simple. It was the first Winnie the Pooh game to be released on a video game console.
In this movie, Winslinator achieves "100% Knowledge", equivalent to 100% completion of the game, in record time.

You can watch the console-verification of this movie here.

Published on 2/10/2010
Here's another run-of-the-mill platformer, released concurrently for the Amiga and Genesis/Mega Drive. Bubba, a delivery man for the local zoo, is abducted one day by aliens; accompanied by the appropriately-named sentient stick Stix they must try to find a way back home. As this run demonstrates, this takes a lot less time than you might expect.
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Published on 7/3/2014
Ecco the Dolphin is a game where you control a fast, but hard to maneuver dolphin who travels into hostile environment to save the other dolphins after a freak waterspout storm.
This run improves the previous one through better execution, a new route and new glitches. As in the previous run, damage is avoided, as it almost always slows Ecco down. At the same time, a major new glitch allowing Ecco to go through nearly any wall was not used because the frequency of its use would make the run very repetitive.

NOTE: The sound issues are a result of inaccurate emulation.

Published on 7/3/2009
Madou Monogatari (魔導物語) is an RPG best described as 'strange' (and probably more known for its spinoff series, Puyo Puyo). The game has overly cute design and the battles are probably a little different than you would expect. The story revolves around a girl who is on a quest to pass her final exam in a magic school.
A defining moment is one of the cutscenes, where a slime is encountered and suddenly defeated by a strange girl bursting through a brick wall. Then, an equally strange armored knight drops in from the ceiling and the two of them proceed to ignore you and chase each other away.
The fast completion time is achieved mostly by using a random-effect spell, which has a small chance of producing a devastating elephant stomp (yeah, really). Naturally, in a TAS, the "small chance" gets a new meaning.

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Published on 8/11/2007
The Genesis remake of Marble Madness is not directly comparable to the original. In addition to having much worse audio quality, the rules on where (and what) the marble can go (and do) are relaxed, allowing for many shortcuts not possible on the NES.
This improvement by SprintGod is 10 seconds faster than adelikat's previous version.

Published on 1/2/2011

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Published on 2/15/2007
Somewhat fast bouncing around. The lack of a spin-dash makes the strategy a bit different than the other Sonic runs, since it becomes a lot more important to preserve your momentum. Completed without collecting any emeralds.
This is the third run of this game, improving on the previous effort by nine seconds.

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Published on 7/3/2014
Sonic bounces around surprisingly fast. The lack of Spin Dash makes the strategy a bit different from that of Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 & Knuckles runs, since preserving your momentum becomes a lot more important. However, this doesn't prevent the author from achieving crazy velocities even with such a significant limitation. In this run, the game is completed without collecting any emeralds.
This is the eighth run of this game, improving on the previous effort by 00:03.19 (of in-game time), primarily due to higher optimization.
To see a movie of this game that doesn't take advantage of zips, watch the "no zips" run by Aglar.
See this run played back on a real Genesis.

Published on 2/19/2008
A typical streetfighting game which spawned the popular Streets of Rage trilogy. This game is rumored to have used the same engine as Golden Axe, which is why the A button summons magic (sort of) to damage all enemies on screen, instead of doing some sort of roundhouse, like almost all other beat'em ups.
Completed on the hardest difficulty.
Compared to the previous movie, this is over 10 minutes faster. Primarily due to the use of 2-players and a glitch that skips most of the last level.
Details can be found in the authors' comments.
See this run replayed on console.

One of the authors of this TAS, Mitjitsu, has been known to make statements and/or take actions that do not reflect the values of TASVideos as a community.
TASVideos does not in any way condone the statements and/or actions made by this author.
This video is presented not to support or glorify this author, but to archive and showcase this tool-assisted superplay.

Published on 8/27/2011
A short TAS featuring an absurdly fast character with bad sound effects in a broken game. This version is over 2 minutes faster than the previous version due to a warp glitch. This glitch allows the player to start a level at the same X and Y coordinates as the player had when the previous level ended.

Note: The audio issues are a result of Gens's inaccurate audio emulation.

Published on 7/31/2006
This movie is about Wonder Boy fighting against (or running past) a horde of cute monsters.
The Oasis Boots that are normally required to cross the desert were not used in this movie, because it was slightly faster to go without them.
In Japan, the game is known as Wonder Boy V: Monster World III.

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Published on 10/24/2016
Mario Kart 64 is the first 3D game in the Mario Kart series, released in 1996 by Nintendo. Widely regarded as classic, it still retains a following to this day.
A run 7 years in the making, this Mario Kart 64 TAS features weatherton completing all 4 Grand Prix Cups in under 21 minutes. Due to the nature of the game, knowledge of the internal code allows for heavy RNG manipulation, getting even the most unlikely items on the first try. This and the incredible movement precision are used to create crazy shortcuts, often completing laps in mere seconds.
The submission text contains highly detailed information about the strategies of every track, the RNG manipulation and a lot of other information about the run.

You can watch the complete run being played back on a console.
At AGDQ 2014, the Mushroom Cup of this run was presented on console, and at AGDQ 2016, the Star Cup was presented.

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Published on 5/10/2007
In a shocking twist of events, Bowser kidnaps Peach inside her own castle. Mario shows up and rains on Bowser's parade by collecting all 120 stars and winning in record time.
Numerous bugs are exploited in order to speed up Mario's progress and the physics engine is abused to its fullest.
If you prefer to see the game beaten in the fastest time, then watch the "0 Stars" run.
If you're looking for a TAS on the Nintendo DS remake, you can watch it here.

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Published on 10/7/2011
At first there were 70 stars because Bowser demanded it. Then there were 16 stars because MIPS the rabbit demanded it. Then there was 1 star because Bowser's Sub demanded it. Now there are none because the viewers are impatient and demanded the game be quicker.
As with many other runs on this site, the goal of pure speed has resulted in the complete breaking of the game. Very little of the game's normal play remains. If you'd like to see more of what Super Mario 64 offers, see the 120 stars run.
This movie is 20 frames faster than the previous movie due to a new route and extreme optimization, explained in the submission message.
Super Mario 64 has a history of publications on this site. If you wish to see how it unfolded since the beginning, see the page SM64TASHistory. Also, if you have a hankering to see MIPs the rabbit, the 16 stars route has been improved.
Note: Higher resolution encodes are available in the thread.
If you're looking for a TAS on the Nintendo DS remake, you can watch it here.
Game:
Super Mario 64

Genres:
Platformer
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
mupen64-rr 8

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Published on 4/14/2012
At first there were 70 stars because Bowser demanded it. Then there were 16 stars because MIPS the rabbit demanded it. Then there was 1 star because Bowser's Sub demanded it. Now there are none because the viewers are impatient and demanded the game be quicker.
As with many other runs on this site, the goal of pure speed has resulted in the complete breaking of the game. Very little of the game's normal play remains. If you'd like to see more of what Super Mario 64 has to offer, see the "70 Stars, no BLJ" run or the "120 Stars" run.
This movie is 47 frames faster than the previous movie due to new strategies and extreme optimization, as explained in the submission text.
Super Mario 64 has a history of publications on this site. If you wish to see how it unfolded since the beginning, see the page SM64TASHistory. Also, if you have a hankering to see MIPS the rabbit, the 16 stars route has been improved.
Or, if you're looking for a TAS on the Nintendo DS remake, you can watch it here.

The latter encode and torrent provides high quality encodes.

Published on 6/22/2012

Published on 12/13/2012
In a shocking twist of events, Bowser kidnaps Peach inside her own castle. Mario shows up and rains on Bowser's parade by collecting all 120 stars and winning in record time.
Numerous bugs are exploited in order to speed up Mario's progress and the physics engine is abused to its fullest.
This is an improvement of 18:08.33 over the previous movie by Rikku.
If you prefer to see the game beaten in the fastest time, then watch the "1 key" run.
If you're looking for a TAS on the Nintendo DS remake, you can watch it here.
Note: There are encodes of higher resolution in the discussion thread.

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Published on 11/24/2016
At first there were 70 stars, because Bowser demanded it. Then there were 16 stars, because MIPS the Rabbit demanded it. Then there was 1 star, because Bowser's Sub demanded it. Then there were no stars, but 2 keys, because the door leading to the castle basement demanded it. Now there is 1 key because the viewers are impatient and demanded the game be quicker.
As with many other runs on this site, the goal of pure speed has resulted in the complete breaking of the game. Very little of the game's normal play remains. If you'd like to see more of what Super Mario 64 has to offer, see the "70 Stars, no BLJ" run or the "120 Stars" run.
This movie is 2457 frames faster than the previous movie due to the recently discovered and long sought after 'Moat Skip', new strategies and extreme optimizations made possible by parallel universes as explained in the submission text.
Super Mario 64 has a history of publications on this site. If you wish to see how it unfolded since the beginning, see the page SM64TASHistory. Also, if you have a hankering to see MIPS the rabbit, the 16 stars route has been improved.
Or, if you're looking for a TAS on the Nintendo DS remake, you can watch it here.

Downloadable encodes are also available in 640x480 resolution:

Published on 7/21/2021
At first there were 70 stars, because Bowser demanded it. Then there were 16 stars, because MIPS the Rabbit demanded it. Then there was 1 star, because Bowser's Sub demanded it. Then there were no stars, but 2 keys, because the door leading to the castle basement demanded it. Now there is 1 key because the viewers are impatient and demanded the game be quicker.
As with many other runs on this site, the goal of pure speed has resulted in the complete breaking of the game. Very little of the game's normal play remains. If you'd like to see more of what Super Mario 64 has to offer, see the "70 Stars, no BLJ" run or the "120 Stars" run.
This appears to be an improvement by 00:02.32 seconds, however if we account for emulation differences between Mupen and BizHawk, the improvement is closer to 00:04.90 seconds. Please read the submission notes for more information on the improvements.
Super Mario 64 has a history of publications on this site. If you wish to see how it unfolded since the beginning, see the page SM64TASHistory.
If you're looking for a TAS on the Nintendo DS remake, you can watch it here.

Since this movie was made using Mupen, with the m64 file converted to the bk2 format, you can download the original m64 file under the publication page. Timing for the m64 file is around 04:16.4.
You can watch this movie played back on a real console.
Game:
Super Mario 64

Genres:
Platformer
Emulator Replay:
mupen64 1.0.8/BizHawk 2.6.2
Additional Downloads:
(Mupen movie file)

Published on 8/9/2008
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.

Watch a resync of this run being played back on a real console.
This movie has a full Atlas Map encode, which shows the standard encode overlaid on a zoomed out map.
Game:
8 Eyes

Genres:
Platformer
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
FCEU 0.98.16

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Published on 8/25/2011
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 00:14.94 seconds faster than the previous version by Aglar, by using a new route.

Published on 9/28/2014
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 00:22.60 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!

Published on 4/1/2023
A Simple Platformer Game is a homebrew NES platformer that was created for the 2020 NESMaker Byte-Off. As the name suggests, it is a simple platforming game, but one that appears to be a little unstable. The game is built around the concept of a "kill screen", where the game will eventually become unbeatable or even literally unplayable when played long enough. But does the game really have a kill screen? You'll have to play it to find out.
Cephla completes the game as fast as possible in their quest to get to the fabled kill screen.
You can play the game here.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 6/29/2012
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.

You can watch this run being played back on a console.

Published on 12/8/2012
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.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

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Published on 2/3/2016
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 is a 1343 frame improvement to the previous movie of this game.
You can watch this run being played back on a real console.

Published on 5/31/2021
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 is a 50 frame improvement to the previous movie of this game.

You can watch this run being played back on a real console.

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Published on 9/24/2006
The second in a series of Hudson's Adventure Island games. Much like its predecessor, it's extremely straight-forward but by no means easy.

Published on 8/25/2011
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