Las películas verificadas en consola son películas que se han reproducido correctamente en un hardware real.
Desde su inicio, los TAS se ven designados a hacerlo teóricamente posible, dando habilidades súper-humanas, para recrearlos en una consola real. Usando un hardware especial, varias películas han sido reproducidas correctamente en una consola (con evidencia en video), y están abajo.
Teniendo estos videos reproducibles en una consola es una prueba de que tan precisos son los emuladores usados en este sitio y que todos los trucos y glitches representados son realmente posibles en los juegos. Actualmente, la verificación de películas en este nivel solo es posible con juegos de NES y N64 (algunos juegos de SNES son excepciones por ahora). Para más información de como se logró esto, lee aquí. Y también mira el tema en el foro (Inglés) para más discuciones de este tema.
![[Fastest Completion]](/images/fastest-completion.png "Fastest Completion")
Published on 7/6/2011
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.
Game:
Spider-Man: Web of Fire
Genres:
Action
Spider-Man: Web of Fire
Genres:
Action
A/V files:
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A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
Emulator Replay:
Gens 11b
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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.
Watch this run being played back on a real console.
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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.
Watch this run being played back on a real console.
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).
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".
Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Super Mario Bros.
Genres:
Platformer
Super Mario Bros.
Genres:
Platformer
A/V files:
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A/V file via Mirror
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 movie uses warps. For a warpless version, see [4389] SNES Super Mario All-Stars (Japan): The Lost Levels "warpless, Luigi" by DaSmileKat in 34:45.63.
Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Super Mario Bros. 2
Genres:
Platformer
Super Mario Bros. 2
Genres:
Platformer
A/V files:
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FCEU 0.98.28
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.
Watch this run being played back on a real console.
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.
Game:
Super Mario Bros. 2
Genres:
Platformer
Super Mario Bros. 2
Genres:
Platformer
A/V files:
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FCEUX 2.2.1
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.
Game:
Altered Space: A 3-D Alien Adventure
Genres:
Platformer
Puzzle
Altered Space: A 3-D Alien Adventure
Genres:
Platformer
Puzzle
A/V files:
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BizHawk 2.8
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.
You can watch the complete run being played back on a console.
Game:
Avenging Spirit
Genres:
Platformer
Avenging Spirit
Genres:
Platformer
A/V files:
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BizHawk 2.5.2
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.
You can watch the complete run played back on console
Game:
Batman: Return of the Joker
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Batman: Return of the Joker
Genres:
Action
Platformer
A/V files:
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A/V file via Mirror
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BizHawk 2.5.2
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.
You can watch the console-verification of this movie here.
Game:
Battletoads
Genres:
Fighting
Platformer
Battletoads
Genres:
Fighting
Platformer
A/V files:
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A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
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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:
Black Castle
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Homebrew
Black Castle
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Homebrew
A/V files:
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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
Game:
Boomer's Adventure in Asmik World
Genres:
Puzzle
Boomer's Adventure in Asmik World
Genres:
Puzzle
A/V files:
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BizHawk 2.6.2
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
Catrap
Genres:
Platformer
Puzzle
A/V files:
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A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
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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.
Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Cherry Rescue!
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
Cherry Rescue!
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
A/V files:
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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.
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.
This run can be seen played back on a real Game Boy Player here!
Game:
Daedalian Opus
Genres:
Puzzle
Daedalian Opus
Genres:
Puzzle
A/V files:
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BizHawk 2.6.1
Published on 2/11/2021
Daiku no Gen-san: Robot Teikoku no Yabou is a Gameboy 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.
You can watch the complete run being played back on a console.
Game:
Daiku no Gen-san: Robot Teikoku no Yabou
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Daiku no Gen-san: Robot Teikoku no Yabou
Genres:
Action
Platformer
A/V files:
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BizHawk 2.6
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.
You can watch the complete run being played back on a console.
Game:
Donkey Kong
Genres:
Platformer
Puzzle
Donkey Kong
Genres:
Platformer
Puzzle
A/V files:
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BizHawk 2.4.2
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.
Game:
Gargoyle's Quest: Ghosts'n Goblins
Genres:
Action
Adventure
Platformer
Gargoyle's Quest: Ghosts'n Goblins
Genres:
Action
Adventure
Platformer
A/V files:
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BizHawk 2.5.1
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.
You can watch the complete run being played back on a console.
Game:
Hammerin' Harry: Ghost Building Company
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Hammerin' Harry: Ghost Building Company
Genres:
Action
Platformer
A/V files:
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BizHawk 2.6
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.
This run has been console verified: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5frfopgIwI
Game:
Kirby's Dream Land
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Kirby's Dream Land
Genres:
Action
Platformer
A/V files:
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A/V file via Mirror
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8
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.
Game:
Kirby's Pinball Land
Genres:
Action
Kirby's Pinball Land
Genres:
Action
A/V files:
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A/V file via Mirror
Emulator Replay:
VBA-rr v19.3
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
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.
You can watch the complete run being played back on a console.
Game:
Mega Man II
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Mega Man II
Genres:
Action
Platformer
A/V files:
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BizHawk 2.2.1
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.
See this movie played on a console via Game Boy Interface.
Game:
Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge
Genres:
Action
Platformer
A/V files:
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BizHawk 2.4
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.
Game:
Mickey's Dangerous Chase
Genres:
Platformer
Mickey's Dangerous Chase
Genres:
Platformer
A/V files:
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BizHawk 2.4.2
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.
Game:
Mouse Trap Hotel
Genres:
Platformer
Mouse Trap Hotel
Genres:
Platformer
A/V files:
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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:
Operation C
Genres:
Platformer
Shooter
Operation C
Genres:
Platformer
Shooter
A/V files:
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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:
Operation C
Genres:
Platformer
Shooter
Operation C
Genres:
Platformer
Shooter
A/V files:
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A/V file via Mirror
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.
Game:
Pokémon: Red/Green/Blue/Yellow Version
Genres:
RPG
Pokémon: Red/Green/Blue/Yellow Version
Genres:
RPG
Tags:
Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
Major skip glitch
Final boss skip glitch
Executes arbitrary code
Heavy glitch abuse
Forgoes save data corruption
Corrupts memory
Heavy luck manipulation
Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
Major skip glitch
Final boss skip glitch
Executes arbitrary code
Heavy glitch abuse
Forgoes save data corruption
Corrupts memory
Heavy luck manipulation
A/V files:
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Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.2.2
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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.
Game:
Pokémon: Red/Green/Blue/Yellow Version
Genres:
RPG
Pokémon: Red/Green/Blue/Yellow Version
Genres:
RPG
Tags:
100% completion
Major skip glitch
Final boss skip glitch
Forgoes final boss skip glitch
Heavy glitch abuse
Forgoes save data corruption
Corrupts memory
Heavy luck manipulation
100% completion
Major skip glitch
Final boss skip glitch
Forgoes final boss skip glitch
Heavy glitch abuse
Forgoes save data corruption
Corrupts memory
Heavy luck manipulation
A/V files:
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![[Has commentary]](/images/commentary.png "Has commentary")
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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.
Game:
Pokémon: Red/Green/Blue/Yellow Version
Genres:
RPG
Pokémon: Red/Green/Blue/Yellow Version
Genres:
RPG
Tags:
Forgoes warps
Forgoes major skip glitch
Forgoes final boss skip glitch
Forgoes save data corruption
Foregoes memory corruption
Heavy luck manipulation
Forgoes warps
Forgoes major skip glitch
Forgoes final boss skip glitch
Forgoes save data corruption
Foregoes memory corruption
Heavy luck manipulation
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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.
Game:
Pokémon: Red/Green/Blue/Yellow Version
Genres:
RPG
Pokémon: Red/Green/Blue/Yellow Version
Genres:
RPG
Tags:
Forgoes warps
Forgoes major skip glitch
Forgoes final boss skip glitch
Forgoes save data corruption
Foregoes memory corruption
Heavy luck manipulation
Forgoes warps
Forgoes major skip glitch
Forgoes final boss skip glitch
Forgoes save data corruption
Foregoes memory corruption
Heavy luck manipulation
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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.
You can watch the complete run being played back on a console with additional author commentary.
Game:
Pokémon: Red/Green/Blue/Yellow Version
Genres:
RPG
Pokémon: Red/Green/Blue/Yellow Version
Genres:
RPG
Tags:
100% completion
Major skip glitch
Final boss skip glitch
Heavy glitch abuse
Corrupts save data
Corrupts memory
Heavy luck manipulation
100% completion
Major skip glitch
Final boss skip glitch
Heavy glitch abuse
Corrupts save data
Corrupts memory
Heavy luck manipulation
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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
Game:
Pokémon: Red/Green/Blue/Yellow Version
Genres:
RPG
Pokémon: Red/Green/Blue/Yellow Version
Genres:
RPG
Tags:
Forgoes warps
Forgoes major skip glitch
Forgoes final boss skip glitch
Forgoes save data corruption
Foregoes memory corruption
Heavy luck manipulation
Forgoes warps
Forgoes major skip glitch
Forgoes final boss skip glitch
Forgoes save data corruption
Foregoes memory corruption
Heavy luck manipulation
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BizHawk 2.5.2
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.
Game:
Prehistorik Man
Genres:
Platformer
Prehistorik Man
Genres:
Platformer
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BizHawk 2.6
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.
You can watch the complete run played back on console.
Game:
Solomon's Club
Genres:
Platformer
Puzzle
Solomon's Club
Genres:
Platformer
Puzzle
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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.
A resync of the TAS has been console verified
Game:
Super Mario Land
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Super Mario Land
Genres:
Action
Platformer
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VBA-rr v24
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.
This run can be seen played back on real console hardware here.
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.
You can watch the complete run being played back on a console.
Game:
The Bouncing Ball
Genres:
Platformer
Puzzle
Homebrew
The Bouncing Ball
Genres:
Platformer
Puzzle
Homebrew
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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.
You can watch this movie being played back on real console here.
Game:
The Final Fantasy Legend
Genres:
RPG
The Final Fantasy Legend
Genres:
RPG
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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.
You can watch the console verification of this movie here. For more Humans action, check out the run of the Genesis version.
Game:
The Humans
Genres:
Puzzle
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.
You can get the game here.
Watch a resync of this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Tower of Hanoi
Genres:
Puzzle
Homebrew
Tower of Hanoi
Genres:
Puzzle
Homebrew
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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.
You can watch the complete run being played back on a console.
Game:
Trip World
Genres:
Platformer
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.
This movie can be watched running on real console hardware here.
Game:
Tsuri Sensei
Genres:
RPG
Sport
Tsuri Sensei
Genres:
RPG
Sport
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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.
You can watch the complete run played back on console.
Game:
Zen: Intergalactic Ninja
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Zen: Intergalactic Ninja
Genres:
Action
Platformer
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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.
Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Note: There are two encodes available for download; the first one is the original version, and the second one is a comparison encode: you can see the original version to the left, and what you see to the right is something made with a special emulator, hacked to force the game's camera to focus on Sonic, making it much easier to follow what Mukki is doing with him. The second YouTube stream displays these views side-by-side as well.
Game:
Sonic Advance
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Sonic Advance
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Tags:
Aims for in-game time instead of real-time
Takes intentional damage
Heavy glitch abuse
Uses hardest difficulty
Aims for in-game time instead of real-time
Takes intentional damage
Heavy glitch abuse
Uses hardest difficulty
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Obsoleting Movie
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).
Game:
Sonic Advance
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Sonic Advance
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Tags:
Aims for in-game time instead of real-time
Takes intentional damage
Heavy glitch abuse
Uses hardest difficulty
Aims for in-game time instead of real-time
Takes intentional damage
Heavy glitch abuse
Uses hardest difficulty
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Obsoleting Movie
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.
Watch this played back on the Game Boy Player.
Game:
Sonic Advance 2
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Sonic Advance 2
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Tags:
Aims for in-game time instead of real-time
Takes intentional damage
Uses a game restart sequence
Uses hardest difficulty
Aims for in-game time instead of real-time
Takes intentional damage
Uses a game restart sequence
Uses hardest difficulty
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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.
You can watch the complete run being played back on a console.
Game:
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3
Genres:
Platformer
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3
Genres:
Platformer
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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.
Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Sushi the Cat
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
Sushi the Cat
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
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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.
See this movie played back on a real console right here.
Game:
007: The World Is Not Enough
Genres:
Action
007: The World Is Not Enough
Genres:
Action
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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.
Watch a resync of this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Action Man: Search for Base X
Genres:
Platformer
Shooter
Action Man: Search for Base X
Genres:
Platformer
Shooter
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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.
Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Bugs Bunny: Crazy Castle 3
Genres:
Action
Puzzle
Bugs Bunny: Crazy Castle 3
Genres:
Action
Puzzle
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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.
You can watch the complete run being played back on a console.
Game:
Capybara Quest
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
Capybara Quest
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
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BizHawk 2.8
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.
You can watch this TAS being played on a real console here.
Game:
Donkey Kong Country
Genres:
Platformer
Donkey Kong Country
Genres:
Platformer
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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.
Watch a resync of this run being played back on a real console.
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.
This movie has been replayed on console.
Game:
Fushigi no Dungeon: Fuurai no Shiren GB2: Sabaku no Majou
Genres:
RPG
Fushigi no Dungeon: Fuurai no Shiren GB2: Sabaku no Majou
Genres:
RPG
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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.
Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Garou: Mark of the Wolves 2001
Genres:
Fighting
Bootleg
Unofficial port
Garou: Mark of the Wolves 2001
Genres:
Fighting
Bootleg
Unofficial port
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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.
Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Gex 3: Deep Pocket Gecko
Genres:
Platformer
Gex 3: Deep Pocket Gecko
Genres:
Platformer
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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!
You can watch the complete run played back on console.
Game:
Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite!
Genres:
Adventure
Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite!
Genres:
Adventure
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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.
You can watch this run played back on a physical console here.
Game:
Harvest Moon 3 GBC
Genres:
Strategy
Harvest Moon 3 GBC
Genres:
Strategy
A/V files:
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BizHawk 2.8
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.
Game:
Keitai Denjuu Telefang: Speed Version
Genres:
RPG
Keitai Denjuu Telefang: Speed Version
Genres:
RPG
A/V files:
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BizHawk 2.5
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.
Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Little Green Blob
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
Little Green Blob
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
A/V files:
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BizHawk 2.8
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.
You can watch the complete run played back on console
Game:
Looney Tunes
Genres:
Platformer
Looney Tunes
Genres:
Platformer
A/V files:
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VBA-rr
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.
Game:
Looney Tunes: Carrot Crazy
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Looney Tunes: Carrot Crazy
Genres:
Action
Platformer
A/V files:
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BizHawk 2.4
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.
You can watch the complete run played back on console
Game:
Lucky Luke
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Lucky Luke
Genres:
Action
Platformer
A/V files:
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BizHawk 2.2.1
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.
You can watch the complete run played back on console.
Game:
Mega Man Xtreme
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Mega Man Xtreme
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Tags:
Takes intentional damage
Heavy luck manipulation
Uses hardest difficulty
Starts from a saved state or SRAM
Takes intentional damage
Heavy luck manipulation
Uses hardest difficulty
Starts from a saved state or SRAM
A/V files:
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BizHawk 2.3.3
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.
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.
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.
You can watch the complete run played back on console.
Game:
Mega Man Xtreme 2
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Mega Man Xtreme 2
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Tags:
Takes intentional damage
Heavy luck manipulation
Uses hardest difficulty
Starts from a saved state or SRAM
Takes intentional damage
Heavy luck manipulation
Uses hardest difficulty
Starts from a saved state or SRAM
A/V files:
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A/V file via Mirror
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Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.6.1
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.
You can watch the complete run being played back on a console.
Game:
Men in Black: The Series
Genres:
Shooter
Men in Black: The Series
Genres:
Shooter
A/V files:
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BizHawk 2.4.2
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.
Watch this run being played back on a real console.
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.
Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Oddworld Adventures II
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Puzzle
Oddworld Adventures II
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Puzzle
A/V files:
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BizHawk 1.7.2
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.
Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Opossum Country
Genres:
Adventure
Homebrew
Opossum Country
Genres:
Adventure
Homebrew
A/V files:
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BizHawk 2.8
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.
You can watch the complete run being played back on a console.
Game:
Pokémon Card GB2: GR-dan Sanjou!
Genres:
RPG
Pokémon Card GB2: GR-dan Sanjou!
Genres:
RPG
A/V files:
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BizHawk 2.4
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.
Game:
Pokémon: Gold/Silver/Crystal Version
Genres:
RPG
Pokémon: Gold/Silver/Crystal Version
Genres:
RPG
Tags:
Forgoes major skip glitch
Forgoes final boss skip glitch
Forgoes time-saving glitches
Foregoes memory corruption
Heavy luck manipulation
Forgoes major skip glitch
Forgoes final boss skip glitch
Forgoes time-saving glitches
Foregoes memory corruption
Heavy luck manipulation
A/V files:
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
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Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3.2
This movie has been obsoleted!
Obsoleting Movie
Obsoleting Movie
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.
You can watch the complete run played back on console
Game:
Pokémon: Gold/Silver/Crystal Version
Genres:
RPG
Pokémon: Gold/Silver/Crystal Version
Genres:
RPG
Tags:
Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
Takes intentional damage
Forgoes major skip glitch
Forgoes final boss skip glitch
Uses a game restart sequence
Forgoes time-saving glitches
Foregoes memory corruption
Heavy luck manipulation
Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
Takes intentional damage
Forgoes major skip glitch
Forgoes final boss skip glitch
Uses a game restart sequence
Forgoes time-saving glitches
Foregoes memory corruption
Heavy luck manipulation
A/V files:
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.4.2
This movie has been obsoleted!
Obsoleting Movie
Obsoleting Movie
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.
You can watch the complete run played back on console
Game:
Pokémon: Gold/Silver/Crystal Version
Genres:
RPG
Pokémon: Gold/Silver/Crystal Version
Genres:
RPG
Tags:
Takes intentional damage
Forgoes major skip glitch
Forgoes final boss skip glitch
Uses a game restart sequence
Forgoes time-saving glitches
Foregoes memory corruption
Heavy luck manipulation
Takes intentional damage
Forgoes major skip glitch
Forgoes final boss skip glitch
Uses a game restart sequence
Forgoes time-saving glitches
Foregoes memory corruption
Heavy luck manipulation
A/V files:
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.5.1
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.
Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Pokémon: Gold/Silver/Crystal Version
Genres:
RPG
Pokémon: Gold/Silver/Crystal Version
Genres:
RPG
Tags:
Major skip glitch
Final boss skip glitch
Uses a game restart sequence
Executes arbitrary code
Heavy glitch abuse
Corrupts save data
Corrupts memory
Major skip glitch
Final boss skip glitch
Uses a game restart sequence
Executes arbitrary code
Heavy glitch abuse
Corrupts save data
Corrupts memory
A/V files:
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.5.2
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.
You can watch the complete run played back on console.
Game:
Pokémon: Gold/Silver/Crystal Version
Genres:
RPG
Pokémon: Gold/Silver/Crystal Version
Genres:
RPG
Tags:
Takes intentional damage
Forgoes major skip glitch
Forgoes final boss skip glitch
Uses a game restart sequence
Forgoes time-saving glitches
Foregoes memory corruption
Heavy luck manipulation
Takes intentional damage
Forgoes major skip glitch
Forgoes final boss skip glitch
Uses a game restart sequence
Forgoes time-saving glitches
Foregoes memory corruption
Heavy luck manipulation
A/V files:
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.6.2
This movie has been obsoleted!
Obsoleting Movie
Obsoleting Movie
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.
Game:
Pokémon: Red/Green/Blue/Yellow Version
Genres:
RPG
Pokémon: Red/Green/Blue/Yellow Version
Genres:
RPG
Tags:
Takes intentional damage
Forgoes warps
Forgoes major skip glitch
Forgoes final boss skip glitch
Forgoes time-saving glitches
Forgoes save data corruption
Foregoes memory corruption
Heavy luck manipulation
Takes intentional damage
Forgoes warps
Forgoes major skip glitch
Forgoes final boss skip glitch
Forgoes time-saving glitches
Forgoes save data corruption
Foregoes memory corruption
Heavy luck manipulation
A/V files:
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.2.2
Additional Downloads:
(Console Verication)
(Console Verication)
This movie has been obsoleted!
Obsoleting Movie
Obsoleting Movie
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.
Game:
Pokémon: Red/Green/Blue/Yellow Version
Genres:
RPG
Pokémon: Red/Green/Blue/Yellow Version
Genres:
RPG
Tags:
Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
Major skip glitch
Final boss skip glitch
Executes arbitrary code
Heavy glitch abuse
Forgoes save data corruption
Corrupts memory
Heavy luck manipulation
Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
Major skip glitch
Final boss skip glitch
Executes arbitrary code
Heavy glitch abuse
Forgoes save data corruption
Corrupts memory
Heavy luck manipulation
A/V files:
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3
Published on 2/15/2019
Pokémon: Yellow Version is part of the first generation of games within the famous series, known for having a very large number of beneficial glitches.
This movie saves 00:04.89 seconds over the previous run via route changes and better memory manipulation.
Game:
Pokémon: Red/Green/Blue/Yellow Version
Genres:
RPG
Pokémon: Red/Green/Blue/Yellow Version
Genres:
RPG
Tags:
Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
Major skip glitch
Final boss skip glitch
Executes arbitrary code
Heavy glitch abuse
Forgoes save data corruption
Corrupts memory
Heavy luck manipulation
Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
Major skip glitch
Final boss skip glitch
Executes arbitrary code
Heavy glitch abuse
Forgoes save data corruption
Corrupts memory
Heavy luck manipulation
A/V files:
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3.1
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.
Game:
Pokémon: Red/Green/Blue/Yellow Version
Genres:
RPG
Pokémon: Red/Green/Blue/Yellow Version
Genres:
RPG
Tags:
Takes intentional damage
Forgoes warps
Forgoes major skip glitch
Forgoes final boss skip glitch
Forgoes time-saving glitches
Forgoes save data corruption
Foregoes memory corruption
Heavy luck manipulation
Takes intentional damage
Forgoes warps
Forgoes major skip glitch
Forgoes final boss skip glitch
Forgoes time-saving glitches
Forgoes save data corruption
Foregoes memory corruption
Heavy luck manipulation
A/V files:
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.5.2
Published on 5/21/2020
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.
Game:
Pokémon: Trading Card Game
Genres:
RPG
Pokémon: Trading Card Game
Genres:
RPG
Tags:
Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
Uses intentional deaths
Forgoes major skip glitch
Forgoes final boss skip glitch
Heavy luck manipulation
Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
Uses intentional deaths
Forgoes major skip glitch
Forgoes final boss skip glitch
Heavy luck manipulation
A/V files:
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.4.1
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.
You can watch the complete run being played back on a console.
Game:
Pokémon: Trading Card Game
Genres:
RPG
Pokémon: Trading Card Game
Genres:
RPG
Tags:
Major skip glitch
Final boss skip glitch
Executes arbitrary code
Heavy glitch abuse
Heavy luck manipulation
Major skip glitch
Final boss skip glitch
Executes arbitrary code
Heavy glitch abuse
Heavy luck manipulation
A/V files:
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.4.1
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.
Watch a resync of this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Rockman DX3
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Bootleg
Rockman DX3
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Bootleg
A/V files:
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.6.1
Additional Downloads:
(Converted to .lsmv)
(Converted to .lsmv)
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.
You can watch the complete run played back on console.
Game:
Spirou: The Robot Invasion
Genres:
Platformer
Spirou: The Robot Invasion
Genres:
Platformer
A/V files:
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A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3.1
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.
You can watch the complete run being played back on a console.
Game:
SpongeBob SquarePants: Legend of the Lost Spatula
Genres:
Platformer
SpongeBob SquarePants: Legend of the Lost Spatula
Genres:
Platformer
A/V files:
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
A/V file via Mirror
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.5.3
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.
Watch a resync of this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Super Jacked Up Tomato Face Johnson
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
Super Jacked Up Tomato Face Johnson
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
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BizHawk 2.8
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.
You can watch a resync of this run played back on console.
Game:
Super Mario Bros. Deluxe
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Super Mario Bros. Deluxe
Genres:
Action
Platformer
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VBA-rr v24 svn480
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.
Watch a resync of this run being played back on real hardware.
Game:
Super Mario Bros. Deluxe
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Super Mario Bros. Deluxe
Genres:
Action
Platformer
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BizHawk 1.8.3
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.
You can watch the complete run played back on console.
Game:
The Emperor's New Groove
Genres:
Platformer
The Emperor's New Groove
Genres:
Platformer
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BizHawk 2.4.2
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.
You can watch the complete run being played back on a console.
Game:
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX
Genres:
Action
Adventure
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX
Genres:
Action
Adventure
Tags:
Uses intentional deaths
Takes intentional damage
Forgoes major skip glitch
Uses a game restart sequence
Forgoes time-saving glitches
Heavy luck manipulation
Uses intentional deaths
Takes intentional damage
Forgoes major skip glitch
Uses a game restart sequence
Forgoes time-saving glitches
Heavy luck manipulation
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BizHawk 2.3
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.
You can watch the complete run being played back on a console.
Game:
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX
Genres:
Action
Adventure
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX
Genres:
Action
Adventure
Tags:
Uses intentional deaths
Takes intentional damage
Major skip glitch
Uses a game restart sequence
Heavy glitch abuse
Foregoes memory corruption
Heavy luck manipulation
Uses intentional deaths
Takes intentional damage
Major skip glitch
Uses a game restart sequence
Heavy glitch abuse
Foregoes memory corruption
Heavy luck manipulation
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BizHawk 2.3
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.
You can watch the complete run played back on console.
Game:
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
Genres:
Action
Adventure
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
Genres:
Action
Adventure
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BizHawk 1.11.5
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.
You can watch the complete run played back on console.
Game:
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons
Genres:
Action
Adventure
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons
Genres:
Action
Adventure
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VBA-rr
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.
Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Trogday Micro Game
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
Trogday Micro Game
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
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BizHawk 2.7
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.
Game:
Winnie the Pooh: Adventures in the 100 Acre Wood
Genres:
Adventure
Board
Winnie the Pooh: Adventures in the 100 Acre Wood
Genres:
Adventure
Board
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BizHawk 2.4
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.
See this run replayed on console.
Game:
Bubba 'n' Stix
Genres:
Platformer
Bubba 'n' Stix
Genres:
Platformer
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Gens 11a
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.
Watch this movie replayed on the Genesis console.
Game:
Ecco the Dolphin
Genres:
Action
Adventure
Puzzle
Ecco the Dolphin
Genres:
Action
Adventure
Puzzle
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Gens 11b
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.
Game:
Madou Monogatari I
Genres:
Adventure
RPG
Madou Monogatari I
Genres:
Adventure
RPG
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GENS
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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.
See this run replayed on a real Genesis.
Game:
Marble Madness
Genres:
Racing
Marble Madness
Genres:
Racing
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Gens 9z
Published on 1/2/2011
This movie showcases the competition mode of Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Here, nitsuja and mmarks aim to complete each level in the fastest time possible. This run is also the fastest anyone has completed each level in Time Attack.
We also have similar runs with Sonic and Tails, Amy, Knuckles, Tails, Knuckles ring attack, Sonic 100%, Knuckles 100% and Sonic and Tails on NewGame+.
Watch this TAS be played back on a real Genesis.
Game:
Sonic 3 & Knuckles
Genres:
Platformer
Sonic 3 & Knuckles
Genres:
Platformer
Tags:
Aims for in-game time instead of real-time
One player in a multiplayer game
Heavy glitch abuse
Aims for in-game time instead of real-time
One player in a multiplayer game
Heavy glitch abuse
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Gens 11b
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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.
Game:
Sonic the Hedgehog
Genres:
Platformer
Sonic the Hedgehog
Genres:
Platformer
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Gens 9z
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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.
Game:
Sonic the Hedgehog
Genres:
Platformer
Sonic the Hedgehog
Genres:
Platformer
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Gens 11a
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.
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.
Game:
Streets of Rage
Genres:
Fighting
Streets of Rage
Genres:
Fighting
Tags:
Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
2 Players
Uses intentional deaths
Final boss skip glitch
Uses hardest difficulty
Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
2 Players
Uses intentional deaths
Final boss skip glitch
Uses hardest difficulty
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GENS
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.
Game:
Taz-Mania
Genres:
Platformer
Taz-Mania
Genres:
Platformer
Tags:
Uses intentional deaths
Takes intentional damage
Major skip glitch
Heavy glitch abuse
Uses hardest difficulty
Uses intentional deaths
Takes intentional damage
Major skip glitch
Heavy glitch abuse
Uses hardest difficulty
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GENS
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.
Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Wonder Boy in Monster World
Genres:
Adventure
Platformer
Wonder Boy in Monster World
Genres:
Adventure
Platformer
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GENS
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.
Game:
Mario Kart 64
Genres:
Racing
Mario Kart 64
Genres:
Racing
Tags:
Major skip glitch
Uses a game restart sequence
Heavy glitch abuse
Heavy luck manipulation
Uses hardest difficulty
Major skip glitch
Uses a game restart sequence
Heavy glitch abuse
Heavy luck manipulation
Uses hardest difficulty
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BizHawk 1.11.6
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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.
Game:
Super Mario 64
Genres:
Platformer
Super Mario 64
Genres:
Platformer
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mupen64-rr 8
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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
Super Mario 64
Genres:
Platformer
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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.
You can also see this movie played back on a real console.
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
Backwards Long Jump (BLJ) is a game breaking glitch not used in this Super Mario 64 run so that the runners can show off a variety of other lesser known glitches. Despite BLJ being banned, Mario shows that he can still collect 70 stars with ninja-like reflexes.
Note: There are encodes of higher resolutions in the discussion thread.
Game:
Super Mario 64
Genres:
Platformer
Super Mario 64
Genres:
Platformer
Tags:
Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
Takes intentional damage
Forgoes major skip glitch
Heavy glitch abuse
Forgoes time-saving glitches
Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
Takes intentional damage
Forgoes major skip glitch
Heavy glitch abuse
Forgoes time-saving glitches
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mupen64-rr 8
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 09:04.17 over the previous movie by Rikku.
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.
Note: There are encodes of higher resolution in the discussion thread.
Game:
Super Mario 64
Genres:
Platformer
Super Mario 64
Genres:
Platformer
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mupen64-rr 8
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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.
You can also see this movie played back on a real console.
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:
Game:
Super Mario 64
Genres:
Platformer
Super Mario 64
Genres:
Platformer
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mupen64-rr 8
![[Recommended for newcomers]](/images/newbierec.gif "Recommended for newcomers")
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
Super Mario 64
Genres:
Platformer
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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.
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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.
Game:
A Boy and His Blob
Genres:
Adventure
Platformer
A Boy and His Blob
Genres:
Adventure
Platformer
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FCEUX 2.1.5
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!
Game:
A Boy and His Blob
Genres:
Adventure
Platformer
A Boy and His Blob
Genres:
Adventure
Platformer
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FCEUX 2.2.2
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.
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Game:
A Simple Platformer Game
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
A Simple Platformer Game
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
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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.
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Game:
A Week of Garfield
Genres:
Platformer
A Week of Garfield
Genres:
Platformer
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FCEUX 2.1.6
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.
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Game:
Abadox: The Deadly Inner War
Genres:
Shooter
Abadox: The Deadly Inner War
Genres:
Shooter
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FCEUX 2.2.0
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Obsoleting Movie
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.
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Game:
Adventure Island 3
Genres:
Platformer
Adventure Island 3
Genres:
Platformer
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FCEUX 2.2.2
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.
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Game:
Adventure Island 3
Genres:
Platformer
Adventure Island 3
Genres:
Platformer
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FCEUX 2.3.0
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Obsoleting Movie
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.
Game:
Adventure Island II
Genres:
Platformer
Adventure Island II
Genres:
Platformer
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FCEU 0.98.16
Published on 8/25/2011
The second in a series of Hudson's Adventure Island games. Much like its predecessor, it's extremely straightforward but by no means easy.
This run is 00:12.60 seconds faster than the previous thanks to a new glitch.
Game:
Adventure Island II
Genres:
Platformer
Adventure Island II
Genres:
Platformer
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FCEUX 2.1.5
Published on 3/25/2020
Adventures of Lolo (1989) was the first game of the Eggerland series that received a Western release. Interestingly, the series was developed by HAL Laboratory, who also created the Kirby series, and Eggerland protagonists Lolo and Lala make cameo appearances in Kirby games as Lololo and Lalala.
The goal of the game is to collect all of the hearts in every stage and then get the ball from the chest to open the door to the next room. Though it may seem simplistic, it remains a truly well-made puzzle. Finding optimal solutions to most of the rooms has proven to be a very nontrivial task, and every once in a while a new improvement is found.
This run improves the previous record by 00:00.27 seconds.
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Game:
Adventures of Lolo
Genres:
Puzzle
Adventures of Lolo
Genres:
Puzzle
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FCEUX 2.2.3
Published on 7/22/2018
Adventures of Lolo 2 is the second game in the popular Lolo-series.
This run aims to beat every room as fast as possible, often by strategies the game developers had not intended, including glitch abuse.
This is an improvement of 16.05 seconds over the previous movie, thanks to better optimisation.
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Game:
Adventures of Lolo 2
Genres:
Puzzle
Adventures of Lolo 2
Genres:
Puzzle
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FCEUX 2.2.3
Published on 3/13/2020
Alter Ego is an NES homebrew port of a ZX Spectrum puzzle game of the same name. You control a character who can switch places with his shadow a limited number of times in each stage. The goal is to collect all the items without touching any enemies. To further complicate matters, the blue-outlined items can only be collected by the shadow, whereas the pink-outlined items can only be collected by the main player.
This hardly stops aiqiyou, though, who barely avoids death in a number of puzzles and finishes in record time, while also improving the previous movie by 00:05.44 seconds.
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Game:
Alter Ego
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
Alter Ego
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
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FCEUX 2.2.3
Published on 7/22/2022
Alwa's Awakening: The 8-Bit Edition is an official NES demake of the PC game Alwa's Awakening that was co-developed by the developers of the original game. While Alwa's Awakening was a throwback to the 8-bit era of video games with its retro-esque gameplay and graphics, the NES version is a full-on port to an 8-bit video game console. And unlike most demakes, this version retains most of the levels of the PC version along with adding exclusive content.
Darkman425 forgoes the use of screen wrapping and out of bounds glitches in this run that would save over 20 minutes of game time in favor of playing the the game mostly inbounds. Other glitches are still used to save time along with soft resets. You can read the author's notes for more details.
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Game:
Alwa's Awakening: The 8-Bit Edition
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
Alwa's Awakening: The 8-Bit Edition
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
Tags:
Forgoes intentional deaths
Takes intentional damage
Uses a game restart sequence
Forgoes time-saving glitches
Forgoes intentional deaths
Takes intentional damage
Uses a game restart sequence
Forgoes time-saving glitches
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BizHawk 2.8
Published on 9/12/2022
Alwa's Awakening: The 8-Bit Edition is an official NES demake of the PC game Alwa's Awakening that was co-developed by the developers of the original game. While Alwa's Awakening was a throwback to the 8-bit era of video games with its retro-esque gameplay and graphics, the NES version is a full-on port to an 8-bit video game console. And unlike most demakes, this version retains most of the levels of the PC version along with adding exclusive content.
aiqiyou and J.Y save about 12 seconds over the previous run though better overall optimization and better routing in the glitched areas. We also have a run that forgoes the uses of the out-of-bounds glitches in favor of mostly playing the game as it was intended.
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Game:
Alwa's Awakening: The 8-Bit Edition
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
Alwa's Awakening: The 8-Bit Edition
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
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BizHawk 2.8
Published on 11/25/2012
American Gladiators is a game based on the popular TV game show of the same name. Players get to test their speed, skill and strength against a trained team of ten "Gladiators", five male and five female.
In this run, X2poet plays through all seven events, using tool-assisted precision and some glitches to finish the game in just under 17 and a half minutes.
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Game:
American Gladiators
Genres:
Sport
American Gladiators
Genres:
Sport
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FCEUX 2.1.0a
Published on 3/30/2023
Arctic is a unique action puzzle game that released only in Japan. On a grid of active rails are balls of varying colors and railway switches that can be changed on command. The objective of the game is to get the yellow and blue balls to their respective colored seats on the grid. White balls can be used to help the yellow and blue balls get to their destinations. Red balls destroy other balls they touch. Having a yellow or blue ball touch a red ball will fail the level.
In this run, TaoTao and Moyou_Jo work together to beat every level in this game as fast as possible.
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Published on 4/17/2019
Arkanoid (1987) strongly resembles the arcade game Breakout (1976). In Arkanoid, the paddle is actually a spaceship, and the bricks are space walls. The goal of the game is to break through the space walls and defeat the villainous Doh in order to escape from the space labyrinth.
Chef Stef improves the previous TAS by 1 minute and 15.62 seconds, thanks to much better optimisation in many stages. Please read the author's comments for more details.
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Published on 12/23/2010
The story of Astérix takes place in the year 50 BCE. All of Gaul has been occupied by the Romans except for a little village. Astérix and his Gallic companions live in that village, fighting the Romans.
In this game, Julius Caesar has snatched Obelix, Astérix's best friend, and is about to feed him to lions! But before anyone can even blink, Asterix comes, kicks Julius' butt, and comes to the rescue of his friend!
This game is based on one of the most successful French comic book series of the same name, with more than 325 million comics sold worldwide since 1959.
By Toutatis! A bit more than a week after the last published movie, this already improves it by 21 seconds!
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Game:
Astérix
Genres:
Platformer
Astérix
Genres:
Platformer
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Obsoleting Movie
Published on 9/4/2015
Balloon Fight is a classic NES game first released in 1984 and programmed by the late Satoru Iwata. It was first released in arcades and was later ported to the NES. The NES version came with a new mode called Balloon Trip and had some drastic level changes.
Weegeechan controls the two characters to pop the balloons of the enemies in less than 2 minutes and 40 seconds.
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Game:
Balloon Fight
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Balloon Fight
Genres:
Action
Platformer
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BizHawk 1.11.1
Published on 10/2/2022
Balloon Fight is a classic NES game first released in 1984 and programmed by the late Satoru Iwata. It was first released in arcades and was later ported to the NES. The NES version came with a new mode called Balloon Trip and had some drastic level changes.
aiqiyou and J.Y control the two characters to pop the balloons of the enemies in less than 2 minutes and 27 seconds.
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Game:
Balloon Fight
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Balloon Fight
Genres:
Action
Platformer
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BizHawk 2.8
Published on 8/4/2020
Baseball is a simplistic recreation of America's pastime designed by Shigeru Miyamoto. One of the earliest NES games, it was instrumental to the success of the system in the North American market.
In this run, the Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Oakland Athletics 1-0 in just over eight minutes. All batters are retired with just one pitch each, save for the Dodgers scoring one run in the bottom of the second.
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Published on 2/4/2008
The hero of Gotham City goes against the villain of Gotham City.
His fists are more powerful than any weapon in the world, but he rarely kills anyone. It's not like his enemies can hurt him anyway. After all, he's the hero, and heroes are supposed to be invincible.
Enjoy the movie, and the excellent soundtrack and the graphics of this game.
This movie has a full Atlas Map encode, which shows the standard encode overlaid on a zoomed out map.
Game:
Batman
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Batman
Genres:
Action
Platformer
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FCEU 0.98.16
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Obsoleting Movie
Published on 1/24/2021
The hero of Gotham City goes against the villain of Gotham City. His fists are more powerful than any weapon in the world, but he rarely kills anyone. It's not like his enemies can hurt him anyway. After all, he's the hero, and heroes are supposed to be invincible.
DreamYao improves the previous movie by 3 seconds, thanks to better optimisation and better strategies.
Enjoy the movie, and the excellent soundtrack and graphics of this game.
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Game:
Batman
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Batman
Genres:
Action
Platformer
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Obsoleting Movie
Published on 4/5/2022
The hero of Gotham City goes against the villain of Gotham City. His fists are more powerful than any weapon in the world, but he rarely kills anyone. It's not like his enemies can hurt him anyway. After all, he's the hero, and heroes are supposed to be invincible.
DreamYao improves the previous movie by 0.69 seconds, thanks to better boss strategies.
Enjoy the movie, and the excellent soundtrack and graphics of this game.
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Game:
Batman
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Batman
Genres:
Action
Platformer
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FCEUX 2.2.3.3256
Published on 2/10/2023
The hero of Gotham City goes against the villain of Gotham City. His fists are more powerful than any weapon in the world, but he rarely kills anyone. It's not like his enemies can hurt him anyway. After all, he's the hero, and heroes are supposed to be invincible.
DreamYao improves the previous movie by 43 frames, thanks to better boss strategies.
Enjoy the movie, and the excellent soundtrack and graphics of this game.
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Game:
Batman
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Batman
Genres:
Action
Platformer
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FCEUX 2.2.3.3256
Published on 3/12/2023
Battle Chess is a chess game for the NES with a few neat gimmicks. In addition to standard 2D depictions of chess pieces you get to play with, you also have "3D" pieces that walk and interact with other pieces like they're real people. You also have animations for when pieces overtake and destroy other pieces. There are also features to aid in gameplay such as letting the game suggest moves to you if you're stuck and being able to take back moves and play again.
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Published on 6/30/2022
Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril may look old, but it's actually released in 2010! Mainly inspired by the PC game I Wanna Be the Guy, this game is classic platforming action, where anything can kill the player in one single hit. While it's not unfair (as opposed to I Wanna Be the Guy), it's still really hard.
In this run, Aglar and Fortranm use a password provided by the game once it is beaten to access the secret level named "Petunia X" (slightly modified and renamed "Golden Fort" in the Japanese release) and beat it as fast as they can.
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Game:
Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
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BizHawk 2.8
Published on 10/13/2017
Battletoads (1991) is a futuristic beat 'em up game known for its extreme difficulty spread over 16 difficult levels. The mechanics in the game also change drastically from level to level, making the game one of the hardest and most varied for the NES.
In this game, the second most diabolical evil genius in the universe, The Dark Queen, has kidnapped Princess Angelica and Pimple - a battletoad. Rash and Zitz must save them by traveling through the most insane multilevel set of plans ever designed. This includes falling down huge shafts, racing through obstacle courses at breakneck speeds, riding on snakes through a massive maze of spikes, passing through a killer ventilation system, navigating through a missile defense system, climbing a never ending revolving tower, and much much more. Along the way, the Battletoads must also face off against an evil army of robots, genetically engineered rodents, and The Dark Queen herself.
In order to make the game a bit easier, its creators embedded some secret warp zones to skip a few early levels in their entirety. But that simply wasn't good enough for MESHUGGAH, feos & Koh1fds; they decided to travel directly to level 3, where they invent their own warp and skip right to the grand finale. They took a glitch found in this TAS and exploited it even further, to the point where the Dark Queen just gives up and returns Angelica and Pimple, going off to hatch an even more evil plan for next time. The glitch is done by breaking the game execution and sending it right to the game ending.
This run conquers the predecessor movie by 00:00.85 seconds by using a more accurate core and a newly discovered void jump trick.
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Game:
Battletoads
Genres:
Fighting
Platformer
Battletoads
Genres:
Fighting
Platformer
Tags:
2 Players
Uses intentional deaths
Uses warps
Major skip glitch
Final boss skip glitch
Heavy glitch abuse
Corrupts memory
Heavy luck manipulation
2 Players
Uses intentional deaths
Uses warps
Major skip glitch
Final boss skip glitch
Heavy glitch abuse
Corrupts memory
Heavy luck manipulation
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BizHawk 2.2
Published on 8/18/2020
Battletoads (1991) is a futuristic beat 'em up known for its graphics and extreme difficulty. The story is that the sexy Dark Queen who wants to rule the universe has kidnapped Princess Angelica and a toad named Pimple. Two other toads, Rash and Zitz, attempt to rescue them and defeat the Dark Queen.
This run has two players and does not use warps.
As always, a bug on level 11 prevents player 2 from moving, so he gets a game over for that level. Player 1 plays level 11 alone and player 2 comes back for level 12. This is a bug in Battletoads itself.
Lobsterzelda improves the previous movie by 00:11.10 seconds.
You can watch this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Battletoads
Genres:
Fighting
Platformer
Battletoads
Genres:
Fighting
Platformer
Tags:
2 Players
Uses intentional deaths
Takes intentional damage
Forgoes warps
Forgoes major skip glitch
Forgoes final boss skip glitch
Heavy glitch abuse
Forgoes time-saving glitches
Foregoes memory corruption
2 Players
Uses intentional deaths
Takes intentional damage
Forgoes warps
Forgoes major skip glitch
Forgoes final boss skip glitch
Heavy glitch abuse
Forgoes time-saving glitches
Foregoes memory corruption
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BizHawk 2.4.2
Published on 8/25/2020
Battletoads (1991) is a futuristic beat 'em up known for its graphics and extreme difficulty. The story is that the sexy Dark Queen who wants to rule the universe has kidnapped Princess Angelica and a toad named Pimple. Two other toads, Rash and Zitz, attempt to rescue them and defeat the Dark Queen.
Maybe you thought Battletoads was a game full of amphibians, but it is actually full of bugs. Those beta testers really should have spent a little more time on this game...
In this run, Lobsterzelda improves the previous movie by 4.13 seconds, thanks to better optimisation and recently found tricks. Please read the author's comments for more details.
To see the game broken even further with the use of memory corruption, watch this run.
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Game:
Battletoads
Genres:
Fighting
Platformer
Battletoads
Genres:
Fighting
Platformer
Tags:
2 Players
Uses intentional deaths
Uses warps
Forgoes major skip glitch
Forgoes final boss skip glitch
Heavy glitch abuse
Forgoes time-saving glitches
Foregoes memory corruption
2 Players
Uses intentional deaths
Uses warps
Forgoes major skip glitch
Forgoes final boss skip glitch
Heavy glitch abuse
Forgoes time-saving glitches
Foregoes memory corruption
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BizHawk 2.4.2
Published on 1/21/2018
Bionic Commando (1988) is a platform game with a hero who can't jump, but can quickly latch onto objects with his bionic arm. The name of the original (Japanese) version of the game literally translates to The Resurrection of Hitler: Top Secret. Nintendo censored the Nazi references for the North American version.
This is an improvement of 56.28 seconds over the previous movie, mainly thanks to a new trick in Area 12 where if damage is taken from an enemy at the same frame one would normally take damage from a barrier, one'd pass through the barrier, assuming the player's position is correct.
For more swinging goodness, check out these runs of the Game Boy and arcade versions. There is also an "all items" run which completes the optional stages as well.
Using a resync to a more accurate emulator, this run can be seen played back on console.
Game:
Bionic Commando
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Bionic Commando
Genres:
Action
Platformer
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BizHawk 2.2.1
Published on 5/2/2022
Blackjack is an unlicensed card game made by American Video Entertainment. The rules are simple: the dealer gives you and themselves two cards each. You both then have to get a number of cards so that the sum of the cards' values is as close to 21 as possible without going over. Getting exactly 21 is known as a Blackjack, which gives you an automatic win. If you go over, you lose. Otherwise, whoever is closest to 21 wins the bet.
In this run, ShesChardcore manages to break the bank (get all the money from the dealer's table) with a single doubled down hand of Blackjack in record time.
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Game:
Blackjack
Genres:
Board
Unlicensed game
Blackjack
Genres:
Board
Unlicensed game
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BizHawk 2.8
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Published on 3/10/2023
Blob Land is a simple homebrew NES platformer that was made for #1JAM Uno game jam. You play as a blob whose goal is to get to the portal on the other side. Enemies and colored blocks are in your way, but thankfully you can jump and consume potions that can allow you to pass through those colored blocks or even stand on top of them.
In this run, LogansGamingRoom beats this game in record time without resorting to the level skip function.
You can play the game here.
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Game:
Blob Land
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
Blob Land
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
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FCEUX 2.6.4
Published on 5/7/2023
Blob Land is a simple homebrew NES platformer that was made for #1JAM Uno game jam. You play as a blob whose goal is to get to the portal on the other side. Enemies and colored blocks are in your way, but thankfully you can jump and consume potions that can allow you to pass through those colored blocks or even stand on top of them.
LogansGamingRoom and Alyosha improve the previous version by 0.22 seconds, thanks to better optimisation.
You can play the game here.
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Game:
Blob Land
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
Blob Land
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
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BizHawk 2.8
Published on 1/10/2023
BlobQuest is a homebrew platformer for the NES. The premise involves the player character being turned into a blob by an evil wizard. You must now find the eight mystic rubies in order to return back to normal. Along the way, you can find special powerups for your blob form that allow you to traverse the hazardous world.
Cephla, Samsara, ThunderAxe31, and Alyosha collaborate to complete the game in record time, making liberal use of a zipping glitch in the second half of the run.
You can get the game here.
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Game:
BlobQuest
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
BlobQuest
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
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BizHawk 2.8
Published on 11/4/2018
Bonk's Adventure is a simplified port of the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 game of the same name to the NES. It features Bonk adventuring to save Princess Za from the evil King Drool. This version of the game has some different stage layouts and some changed mechanics from its PCE counterpart.
Memory defeats King Drool in record time.
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Game:
Bonk's Adventure
Genres:
Platformer
Bonk's Adventure
Genres:
Platformer
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BizHawk 2.2.2
Published on 2/16/2022
Böbl is a homebrew NES game developed by Morphcat Games for the NESdev Compo 2019. It is a nonlinear, metroidvania-lite platformer. You play as a little bubble, explore a collection of interconnected rooms, collect power ups to improve your movement and find rubber ducks to add to your collection.
Watch this run being played back on a real NES here.
Published on 2/13/2023
Caesars Palace is a licensed tie-in to the Caesars Palace brand of casinos for the NES. In the game, you get to play a number of gambling games in the titular Caesars Palace: Roulette, Video Poker, Slots, Blackjack, and the Big Wheel. Leave the casino with enough money gained from your playthroughs and you get a car based on what you have.
TaoTao saves 3.8 seconds over the previous run by using the Slots instead of the Big Wheel to get $140,000 more quickly. Time was spent playing Video Poker in order to set up the RNG for Slots. For more details, you can read the author's notes.
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Published on 2/16/2023
Castelian is a puzzle platformer in which the basic goal is to ascend towers from the base to the apex. Poro, your frog-like character, is tasked with demolishing these towers by planting a bomb at each tower's top after finding the right route up the tower.
The game was also released on other systems as Nebulus, Kyoro-chan Land, Subline, and Tower Toppler. Nebulus is the original name of the game when it was first developed for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. Kyoro-chan Land is a licensed reskin starring Kyoro-chan, a mascot for a Japanese chocolate brand named ChocoBall, with Kyoro-chan replacing Poro and ChocoBalls replacing jewels.
ktwo uses the Japanese version of the game as with his previous run and improves on it by 1.36 seconds through better lag management.
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Published on 9/25/2022
The original Castlevania is set in the year 1691. Simon Belmont must fight his way through the castle and destroy Count Dracula.
Challenger and eien86 improve the predecessor movie by 00:06.79 seconds, thanks to better optimization of the scroll glitch as well as more clever ways of utilizing it.
There is also a run of this game which destroys as little as possible.
The MSX version has been TASed as well!
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Game:
Castlevania
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Castlevania
Genres:
Action
Platformer
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BizHawk 2.8
Published on 12/31/2022
Simon is taking another shot at this castle, but feeling horrible for the destruction he caused last time, he is now trying to respect Dracula's property and leave the place untouched (even if his intention is to kill the count).
As a minimalist variation of a pacifist goal, this movie does not contain any destruction in the levels: candles and walls are left intact, items stay untouched, and no enemy is harmed — with the exception of the bosses, who are killed mercilessly with the help of the "critical hit" glitch.
With Simon sneaking by most enemies with no subweapons and only his leather whip, this ends up being quite a stealthy run.
eien86 & Challenger improve the previous run by 12.3 seconds, thanks to better optimization with the scroll glitch, a new route within the caves, better boss battles which allowed obtaining the orb early, and removal of lag frames.
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Game:
Castlevania
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Castlevania
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Tags:
Demonstration
Pacifist version
Uses intentional deaths
Takes intentional damage
Heavy glitch abuse
Heavy luck manipulation
Demonstration
Pacifist version
Uses intentional deaths
Takes intentional damage
Heavy glitch abuse
Heavy luck manipulation
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BizHawk 2.8
Published on 4/5/2023
Chicken of the Farm is a homebrew platformer that was created by mitch3b and link_7777 for the 2018 NesDev homebrew competition. Its Chinese title 田鸡 (simp.)/田雞 (trad.) is a pun where the word as a whole is the name for the East Asian bullfrog, but 田 means "field" or "farm" and 鸡/雞 means "chicken". You play as a frog whose goal is to collect keys to open portals to other mysterious worlds and face the titular Chicken of the Farm. You can also collect special golden flies along the way.
ninespaces in this run masters the rather precise jumping mechanics and beats the game in record time.
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Game:
Chicken of the Farm
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
Chicken of the Farm
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
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BizHawk 2.8
Published on 6/17/2008
This run illustrates very well the advantage of using two-player mode. Much faster than the single-player version, Chip and Dale carry each other, throw each other, abuse balloons and zip as they once again go after Fat Cat.
The improvement by dragonxyk comes now with Chip and Dale zipping on each other.
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Game:
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
Genres:
Action
Platformer
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FCEU 0.98.16
Published on 6/6/2011
Chip 'n Dale - Rescue Rangers is based on the animated TV series. In this ridiculously easy and straightforward game, the Rangers look for their neighbor's kitty and end up fighting against their old nemesis, Fat Cat.
Aglar improved Genisto's movie by 00:01.81 seconds, by using different routes and by improving the zip method. You can check out the author's comments to learn more about the improvements.
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Game:
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Tags:
One player in a multiplayer game
Takes intentional damage
Heavy glitch abuse
Heavy luck manipulation
One player in a multiplayer game
Takes intentional damage
Heavy glitch abuse
Heavy luck manipulation
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FCEU 0.98.28
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Published on 12/17/2007
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers 2 is quite an improvement over the original Chip 'n Dale in terms of graphics and a whole lot of other things. Thankfully, the original game's solid controls haven't been changed. The plot of this game is that Fat Cat has stolen the Pharaoh's Urn and wants to use its power (for evil purposes, of course).
Like the first movie, a two-player run makes for some interesting things, like Chip and Dale carrying each other around, and heavy abuse of death to take advantage of balloons. By killing off one character, he respawns on a floating balloon, thus going ahead of the other character. Unlike the first, however, this run frequently destroys bosses by using one of the characters as a weapon. Only in the Chip 'n Dale series can such apparently irrational action be justified.
This movie, the second submission for this game by dragonxyk, is a 18.55-second improvement over the previous movie. See here for a run with just Chip.
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Game:
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers 2
Genres:
Platformer
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers 2
Genres:
Platformer
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FCEU 0.98.12
Published on 5/20/2012
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers 2 is quite an improvement over the original Chip 'n Dale in terms of graphics and a whole lot of other things. Thankfully, the original game's solid controls haven't been changed. The plot of this game is that Fat Cat has stolen the Pharaoh's Urn and wants to use its power (for evil purposes, of course).
This run only uses Chip. It's an improvement of 01:19.40 over the previous "1 player" publication, through careful optimization, some new tricks and manipulating the bosses.
See this run replayed on an actual Famicom console.
For a 2-player run of the same game, see here.
Game:
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers 2
Genres:
Platformer
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers 2
Genres:
Platformer
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FCEUX 2.1.6
Published on 4/16/2019
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers 2 is quite an improvement over the original Chip 'n Dale in terms of graphics and a whole lot of other things. Thankfully, the original game's solid controls haven't been changed. The plot of this game is that Fat Cat has stolen the Pharaoh's Urn and wants to use its power (for evil purposes, of course).
fcxiaopengyou & dragonxyk improved the previous run by 00:58.62 seconds via new glitches, lag reduction, and enemy manipulation. See here for a run with just Chip.
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Game:
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers 2
Genres:
Platformer
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers 2
Genres:
Platformer
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FCEUX 2.2.3
Published on 7/1/2012
Clash at Demonhead is a complex game to say the least. There are over 40 levels in the game, and they are all connected to each other. In the network of levels, the player must control Billy "Big Bang" Blitz to find 6 medallions and then rescue the kidnapped professor. This is no simple task. To make things even harder for a (tool-assisted) speedrunner, there are items available that greatly increase the player's speed, but in return cost money. This means that the route and strategy must be carefully planned.
This movie certainly does not lack speed or complexity, and is especially entertaining if you have played the game and know how hard it is. In this run, Randil improves the previous movie by over 4 minutes primarily thanks to a new trick that allows you to use the Power Boots for twice as long. As a result, he doesn't need to shop as much, allowing him to forgo the detour to Route 22 in order to exchange his gold for money.
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Game:
Clash at Demonhead
Genres:
Platformer
Clash at Demonhead
Genres:
Platformer
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FCEUX 2.1.4a
Published on 9/11/2018
Cocoron is a game for the Famicom released exclusively in Japan in 1991. The game lets the player create customizable characters to play with, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. The first half of the game can be played in any order featuring unique entrance and exit sections.
klmz, using three characters he created, completes the game in record time.
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Game:
Cocoron
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Cocoron
Genres:
Action
Platformer
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FCEUX 2.2.2
Published on 5/27/2018
Conquest of the Crystal Palace is the story of a boy and his dog who overthrow an evil rock (or is it a brain?). It offers some cool mechanics like being able to use the dog as a platform and have it attack enemies for you.
In this run arkiandruski improves the predecessor movie by 00:24.86 seconds. A large part of the improvement comes from a faster 2nd stage boss fight, but there are minor movement optimizations throughout.
The movie file, as well as all the encodes, have the author's commentary in the form of soft subtitles.
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Game:
Conquest of the Crystal Palace
Genres:
Platformer
Conquest of the Crystal Palace
Genres:
Platformer
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BizHawk 2.2.2
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Published on 8/24/2007
Darkwing Duck (1992) is a platformer somewhat similar to Mega Man in gameplay and difficulty. The arrow gun allows the player to climb up walls and use creative shortcuts so that the absolute shortest route can be taken. In case you are wondering why the character keeps on jumping so much, it is because he has to wait a short amount of time before being able to walk. With constant jumping these stops can be avoided.
This movie is a joint venture between AnS and Randil to improve the previous run by Walker Boh, resulting in 35.7 seconds saved through means of extensive optimization, luck manipulation and lag removal. We recommend reading the authors' comments for more details.
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Game:
Darkwing Duck
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Darkwing Duck
Genres:
Action
Platformer
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FCEU 0.98.12
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Published on 6/3/2015
The city of St. Canard is plagued by an unseen crime wave. The intelligence agency S.H.U.S.H. suspects that the shady organization F.O.W.L. and their valued operative Steelbeak are its causes. The caped superhero Darkwing has made quite some enemies in the criminal circles thanks to his past heroic deeds, and now the entire city has to pay for that. Naturally, the valiant duck is determined to travel through the dangerous streets of St. Canard, defeat his foes, and foil Steelbeak's plans.
Darkwing Duck is a side-scrolling platform game featuring the titular character from the Disney television series. The gameplay is similar to Duck Tales, also resembling Mega Man games in many ways. Darkwing's default weapon is a gas gun; special adapters that modify its functions can be collected during exploration. By using his cape, Darkwing is able to deflect some of the enemy projectiles. Weapons can be changed via a sub-screen.
For a "pacifist" type of completion, this run avoids killing enemies (they might also have dropped health refills, so health management is mandatory), and to offer maximum variety in addition to the any% version, doesn't use the subweapons (yet to save a single enemy's life, a single arrow is used). It offers some fresh action and manipulation on bosses, but can't be done entirely along with pacifist, so feos has to use a single arrow to save a single enemy's life.
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Game:
Darkwing Duck
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Darkwing Duck
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Tags:
Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
Demonstration
Pacifist version
Takes intentional damage
Heavy luck manipulation
Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
Demonstration
Pacifist version
Takes intentional damage
Heavy luck manipulation
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FCEUX 2.2.3
Published on 5/17/2022
The city of St. Canard is plagued by an unseen crime wave. The intelligence agency S.H.U.S.H. suspects that the shady organization F.O.W.L. and their valued operative Steelbeak are its causes. The caped superhero Darkwing has made quite some enemies in the criminal circles thanks to his past heroic deeds, and now the entire city has to pay for that. Naturally, the valiant duck is determined to travel through the dangerous streets of St. Canard, defeat his foes, and foil Steelbeak's plans.
Darkwing Duck is a side-scrolling platform game featuring the titular character from the Disney television series. The gameplay is similar to Duck Tales, also resembling Mega Man games in many ways. Darkwing's default weapon is a gas gun; special adapters that modify its functions can be collected during exploration. By using his cape, Darkwing is able to deflect some of the enemy projectiles. Weapons can be changed via a sub-screen.
For a "pacifist" type of completion, this run avoids killing enemies (they might also have dropped health refills, so health management is mandatory), and to offer maximum variety in addition to the any% version, minimizes the use of subweapons (yet to save a single enemy's life, a single arrow is used). It offers some fresh action and manipulation on bosses, but can't be done entirely along with pacifist, so DreamYao has to use a single arrow to save a single enemy's life.
This is a 827 frame improvement over the previous movie.
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Game:
Darkwing Duck
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Darkwing Duck
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Tags:
Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
Demonstration
Pacifist version
Takes intentional damage
Heavy luck manipulation
Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
Demonstration
Pacifist version
Takes intentional damage
Heavy luck manipulation
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FCEUX 2.2.3.3256
Published on 6/24/2022
Darkwing Duck (1992) is a platformer somewhat similar to Mega Man in gameplay and difficulty. The arrow gun allows the player to climb up walls and use creative shortcuts so that the absolute shortest route can be taken. In case you are wondering why the character keeps on jumping so much, it is because he has to wait a short amount of time before being able to walk. With constant jumping these stops can be avoided.
This run by DreamYao, J.Y, and aiqiyou saves 16.39 seconds over the previous run thanks to improved jumping and arrow techniques. For more details, you can read the authors' comments.
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Game:
Darkwing Duck
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Darkwing Duck
Genres:
Action
Platformer
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FCEUX 2.2.2
Published on 12/31/2022
Defenders of Dynatron City follows a group of defenders who protect a futuristic city from Dr. Mayhem and his robotic henchmen.
Watch as ShesChardcore explores the pseudo-open world city and stops Dr. Mayhem in record time.
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Game:
Defenders of Dynatron City
Genres:
Action
Defenders of Dynatron City
Genres:
Action
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BizHawk 2.8
Published on 6/30/2007
The Dizzy series of computer games was one of the most successful computer game brands of the late eighties. They were all based around a central figure, an intelligent egg-like creature called Dizzy.
Dizzy the Adventurer is an enhanced NES port of the sixth game in the series, Dizzy: Prince of the Yolkfolk, completed fast by the use of creative routes and of course, maximum speed.
There is also a run of the second game in the series, Treasure Island Dizzy.
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Game:
Dizzy the Adventurer
Genres:
Platformer
Unlicensed game
Dizzy the Adventurer
Genres:
Platformer
Unlicensed game
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FCEU 0.98.16
Published on 9/18/2009
Donkey Kong is a classic game that has been challenged plenty of times at this site, by many players. This competitive spirit has made for some "perfect" runs. Yet each time someone manages to squeeze just a bit more out of it.
This latest completion by Phil beats the previous movie by 11 frames by carefully optimizing Jumpman's movement pattern.
This movie has a full Atlas Map encode, which shows the standard encode overlaid on a zoomed out map.
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Game:
Donkey Kong
Genres:
Platformer
Donkey Kong
Genres:
Platformer
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FCEUX 2.1.1
Published on 5/5/2023
Donkey Kong is a classic game that has been challenged plenty of times at this site, by many players. This competitive spirit has made for some "perfect" runs, yet each time someone manages to squeeze just a bit more out of it.
Unlike the other published Donkey Kong runs, this one opts to get all of the items on the 75m and 100m stages while completing the game as fast as possible.
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Published on 6/18/2022
Donkey Kong Jr. Math is an edutainment spinoff of Donkey Kong Jr. where players get to solve math problems with Donkey Kong Jr. There are three modes: "Calculate A", where two players compete to create a sum number that equals the number Donkey Kong holds up using numbers on vines and arithmetic operations laying around; "Calculate B", which is a harder version of "Calculate A"; and "+−×÷ Exercise", where players can brush up on their basic math skills.
In this run, Cephla plays "Calculate B" and manipulates the RNG in order to spawn numbers and operations in the right places so that each round can be won as quickly as possible. As only one player can win each round, the second player immediately dies to save time.
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Game:
Donkey Kong Jr. Math
Genres:
Platformer
Educational
Donkey Kong Jr. Math
Genres:
Platformer
Educational
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Published on 2/25/2006
Even the most unconventional means of fighting are nothing uncommon on this website, as shown in the screenshot. This is Phil's fifth movie of Double Dragon, now 38 seconds faster than the previous version.
Released on many systems, this game was so popular that they even released it for cellular phones and made a board game. Even a
Hollywood movie has been made.
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Game:
Double Dragon
Genres:
Fighting
Double Dragon
Genres:
Fighting
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Published on 9/3/2016
Set in a post-apocalyptic New York, Double Dragon is the story of Billy and Jimmy Lee, twin brothers trained in the fighting style of Sou-Setsu-Ken. Together, they manage a small martial arts training school, teaching their students in self-defense. One day, Billy's girlfriend, Marian, is kidnapped off the street by the "Black Warriors", a savage street gang led by a man named Willy. The Black Warriors demand the Lee brothers disclose their martial arts secrets in exchange for Marian's freedom. The Lee brothers set out on a rescue mission to crush the Black Warriors and save Marian.
Released on many systems, this game was so popular that they even released it for cellular phones and made a board game. Even a
Hollywood movie has been made.
Alyosha improves the previous publication by 7.19 seconds, thanks to a completely different experience route in order to get the elbow attack earlier in Mission 4.
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Game:
Double Dragon
Genres:
Fighting
Double Dragon
Genres:
Fighting
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FCEUX 2.2.2
Published on 11/11/2013
Double Dragon II: The Revenge is a beat'em-up game starring Billy (or Bimmy, depending on the game version) and Jimmy Lee in a quest to get revenge on a gang for killing Billy's girlfriend. Their journey starts on city streets, but it eventually goes to a variety of places like a helicopter, a dark forest, a haunted mansion, and a final fight bordering on the supernatural. You must play the hardest difficulty, Supreme Master, in order to reach the true final boss.
One interesting feature of the game is that some very powerful moves can only be used from a crouching position, usually after landing from a jump or getting up from a knockdown. This is why you see the player jump so frequently.
This run by Xipo plays the game with only 1 player. It is slower than the two-player run largely because it can't use tricks like the two players hitting each other with flying knees. However, there are still some interesting tricks and strategies in this movie well worth watching.
Watch this run get played back on a real NES.
Game:
Double Dragon II: The Revenge
Genres:
Fighting
Platformer
Double Dragon II: The Revenge
Genres:
Fighting
Platformer
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FCEU 0.98.28
Published on 6/1/2014
Double Dragon II: The Revenge (1989) is a beat'em-up game that shows the true value of teamwork. Despite sibling rivalry, Billy and Jimmy help expedite their common goal with well-timed knees to each other's faces.
This new version by xipo is 00:18.52 seconds faster than the previous effort by adelikat. Most of the improvement came from better application of glitches.
If you're more a fan of runs where one macho man defeats an entire gang alone, there is also a one-player run available.
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Game:
Double Dragon II: The Revenge
Genres:
Fighting
Platformer
Double Dragon II: The Revenge
Genres:
Fighting
Platformer
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FCEU 0.98.28
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Published on 5/21/2009
Tired of being mocked by the viruses, Dr. Mario switched to his "fast-acting" and "extra strength" medication. The viruses never knew what hit them.
This video beats Level 20, Speed Hi of Dr. Mario in record time. Don't blink, or you might miss the twist ending.
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Aims for maximum score
Best ending
Uses a game restart sequence
Heavy luck manipulation
Single level
Uses hardest difficulty
Aims for maximum score
Best ending
Uses a game restart sequence
Heavy luck manipulation
Single level
Uses hardest difficulty
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FCEUX 2.1.0a
Published on 10/29/2019
Tired of being mocked by the viruses, Dr. Mario switched to his "fast-acting" and "extra strength" medication. The viruses never knew what hit them.
poco_cpp, inari80000 and tas_suki improve the previous TAS by 37.76 seconds, thanks to better virus layouts and improved strategies.
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Tags:
100% completion
Best ending
Uses a game restart sequence
Heavy glitch abuse
Heavy luck manipulation
Uses hardest difficulty
100% completion
Best ending
Uses a game restart sequence
Heavy glitch abuse
Heavy luck manipulation
Uses hardest difficulty
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BizHawk 2.3.2
Published on 10/4/2020
Dragon Warrior is an epic RPG series which now spans 11 games across many systems. The second game greatly expands on the first to include a party of three heroes (all descendents of Erdrick and the hero of DW1) and battles that may include many enemies.
The world is much bigger and there are many big dungeons to explore as well. Luckily there are new abilities and items to make this easier. Enemies can randomly drop items when defeated and there is a lottery which is the precursor to the casinos which appear in each later DW game.
The world is much bigger and there are many big dungeons to explore as well. Luckily there are new abilities and items to make this easier. Enemies can randomly drop items when defeated and there is a lottery which is the precursor to the casinos which appear in each later DW game.
TheAxeMan improves the previous TAS by 1 minute and 52.5 seconds, thanks to new glitches and better optimisation. Please read the author's comments and the commentary subtitles in the encodes for more details.
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Game:
Dragon Warrior II
Genres:
RPG
Dragon Warrior II
Genres:
RPG
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Published on 3/19/2013
Driar is a homebrew game created in 2012 by David Eriksson and Stefen Adolfsson. It is notable for being an homage to classic NES games with no modern influences whatsoever. No score, no save points, no passwords, no timers, no plot, no hub-world; just a series of single screen levels for you to carefully complete, in order, or until your 10 lives are used up.
In this run, MESHUGGAH moves the eponymous dinosaur through all 38 levels and beats the game in record time.
You can watch the complete run being played back on a console.
Game:
Driar
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
Driar
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
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FCEUX 2.2.1
Published on 8/15/2013
Duck Tales is a classic game in which Scrooge has to collect treasures from all over the world. Some of the levels are not completely straightforward, and collecting items is sometimes necessary before proceeding. His cane also doubles as an almighty pogo stick that can be used in various ways, which makes jumping a lot more fun.
This is the sixth TAS of Duck Tales. Minor improvements and refined strategies here and there contributed around an additional half second of improvement.
This is a 00:00.58 second improvement over the previous movie due to general optimizations including lag reduction and subpixel optimization.
You can watch this run played back on a real NES console.
Game:
DuckTales
Genres:
Platformer
DuckTales
Genres:
Platformer
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FCEUX 2.2.1
Published on 7/19/2013
Scrooge McDuck is advanced in years, he travels around the lake with Niagara on one side and Scotland on another, and beats money out of half-transparent bosses. He hides in the sand and rides the vertex, gets lightning strikes and beats liquid D-1000 robot with his little toe. He also jumps on his pogo stick like he has dementia. Or maybe all that is just a fancy of his senile mind?
The authors, feos and MESHUGGAH, complete the game 00:03.66 seconds faster than the previous movie by adelikat by minimizing lag, general optimization and some new tricks.
This movie does not get the best (100%) ending, but also does not get the worst (no money).
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Game:
DuckTales 2
Genres:
Platformer
DuckTales 2
Genres:
Platformer
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FCEUX 2.2.1
Published on 6/17/2009
EarthBound Beginnings is the first game in the Mother/EarthBound series, known simply as Mother in Japan. It was localized for a 1990 US release, but wasn't released outside Japan until 2015. During that time, the original localized title, "EarthBound", was used for the English release of Mother 2.
Long referred to as "EarthBound Zero" by fans, the game was finally given an official title for its Wii U eShop release.
This movie is done on the US prototype, which does not have the "bread crumbs" glitch used in our other movie of the game. It does, however, have a run button, which means this movie may seem faster at times, even though it's a lot longer.
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Game:
EarthBound Beginnings
Genres:
RPG
EarthBound Beginnings
Genres:
RPG
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FCEU 0.98.12
Published on 7/8/2019
This is the Japanese version of EarthBound Beginnings (also known as Mother). As the first version of the game, it has a number of useful glitches. This run abuses the way the game handles the "Bread crumbs" item to warp off the edge of reality and casually walk straight into the final boss's lair 00:07.94 seconds faster than the previous run.
We also have a more normal run of the localized version, which doesn't include this glitch.
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Game:
EarthBound Beginnings
Genres:
RPG
EarthBound Beginnings
Genres:
RPG
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FCEUX 2.2.3
Published on 8/31/2009
This movie plays Excitebike really fast with an improvement of over a second compared to the previous movie by JXQ.
Times for each track are:
- 0 = 36.19 (0.35 improved)
- 1 = 37.84 (0.40 -"-)
- 2 = 38.67 (0.19 -"-)
- 3 = 41.96 (0.02 -"-)
- 4 = 41.00 (0.02 -"-)
- 5 = 31.34 (0.40 -"-)
Cumulative in-game savings: 1.38s
Main improvements come from taking ramps faster and a unique trick in which the author goes slower to get a better time. Look for further info in the author's comments.
The encode for this movie features commentary in the form of soft subtitles.
This movie also has two Atlas Map encodes, one of Track 1, and one of Track 2, which shows the standard encode overlaid on a zoomed out map.
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Published on 3/5/2020
Fantasy Zone is a short, colorful arcade port which somewhat uniquely is a shooter that does not autoscroll! Since there are no levels to scroll through, the boss battles start when eight of the enemy bases have been destroyed.
In this run, The8bitbeast saved 00:09.35 seconds over the previous movie by using different weapons and optimizing the shopping portions of the game. The submission notes explain the improvements in greater detail.
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Game:
Fantasy Zone
Genres:
Shooter
Fantasy Zone
Genres:
Shooter
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BizHawk 2.3.2
Published on 9/9/2015
Fester's Quest, developed by Sunsoft, is based on the 1960s television series The Addams Family. While out one night enjoying a quiet evening of "moonbathing", Fester witnesses an alien invasion occur against the city. Armed with his blunderbuss, Fester vows to stop this invasion by finding and defeating the 5 alien bosses (hidden in office buildings) before tracking down the UFO.
In ars4326's run, Uncle Fester briskly paces through the game's overworld and sewers, picking up a few sub-weapons from fellow Addams Family members along the way. Doing so allows quick destruction of the alien bosses guarding the clues to the UFO's whereabouts (as well as the final boss).
A time-saving glitch allowing instant wins on all of the game's bosses was forewent also, due to the author's preference not to use it.
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Game:
Fester's Quest
Genres:
Shooter
Fester's Quest
Genres:
Shooter
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BizHawk 1.11.0
Published on 3/30/2023
Filthy Kitchen is an NES homebrew platformer that was developed for NesDev's 2016 homebrew competition. Your kitchen is a complete mess and swarming with insects, and it is up to you to clean it. Avoid areas of filth and dirty utentils and kill flies to score points. But be wary how bad the filth in your kitchen can be. It may have produced something really terrifying.
In this run, LogansGamingRoom manages to clean the kitchen in record time.
You can play the game here.
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Game:
Filthy Kitchen
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
Filthy Kitchen
Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
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FCEUX 2.6.4
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Published on 3/25/2015
The world is veiled in darkness. Winds don't blow, the seas are stormy, and the earth rots. All people can hope for is that the ancient prophecy will be finally fulfilled. "When the world is veiled in darkness, four warriors will come..." And indeed, they come - the four characters you have previously chosen. Their first quest is to free a princess from the evil knight Garland, and then the real journey begins.
...or that was the intention, anyway. Instead, the heroes walk up and down some stairs, talk to a random person in the castle, and the final boss conveniently shows up.
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Game:
Final Fantasy
Genres:
RPG
Final Fantasy
Genres:
RPG
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FCEUX 2.2.2
Published on 6/8/2021
The world is veiled in darkness. Winds don't blow, the seas are stormy, and the earth rots. All people can hope for is that the ancient prophecy will be finally fulfilled. "When the world is veiled in darkness, four warriors will come..." And indeed, they come - the four characters you have previously chosen. Their first quest is to free a princess from the evil knight Garland, and then the real journey begins.
...or that was the intention, anyway. Instead, the heroes walk up and down a castle staircase 32 times in a row and the universe, mysteriously satisfied with their short journey, ends the game. The authors of this TAS improve on the predecessor movie by a whopping 05:21.77 minutes by avoiding the need for a boss fight entirely.
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Game:
Final Fantasy
Genres:
RPG
Final Fantasy
Genres:
RPG
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Published on 11/21/2012
Fire 'n Ice is the prequel to Solomon's Key, known as Solomon's Key 2 elsewhere. In it, Dana manipulates ice blocks to remove all of the fire from each level. Randil completes all 101 levels of this "highly addictive" puzzler in 1:03:26.33.
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Game:
Fire 'n Ice
Genres:
Puzzle
Fire 'n Ice
Genres:
Puzzle
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FCEUX 2.1.5
Published on 5/2/2021
Galf is a homebrew NES title from 2017. It originated as a mini-game featured in Golf Story for Nintendo Switch, where the player can play a retro style golf game. A limited release of Galf for NES was released by Limited Run Games, around the same time Golf Story had a physical release.
The game has 9 holes in total, with one of those holes being exclusive to the NES version. The Gameplay is similar to NES Golf with the only different being no view of the golfer themself.
Watch as Wipeoutjack7 soars through each course in record time!
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Published on 7/10/2016
Ghosts 'n Goblins (1986) begins with a normal scene: a half-naked knight is on a date in a graveyard with a princess. Suddenly, a demon appears and abducts the princess! The knight quickly suits up and makes rapid progres (sic) through the demon world in an attempt to rescue his royal girlfriend.
Arc and newcomer Koh1fds manage to improve the previous run by 10.48 seconds, thanks to recently discovered strategies in Stages 5 and 6. See the authors' comments for more details.
In Japan, this game is known as 魔界村 (Makaimura or "Demon World Village").
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Game:
Ghosts 'n Goblins
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Ghosts 'n Goblins
Genres:
Action
Platformer
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FCEUX 2.2.2
Published on 6/11/2021
Ghosts 'n Goblins (1986) begins with a normal scene: a half-naked knight is on a date in a graveyard with a princess. Suddenly, a demon appears and abducts the princess! The knight quickly suits up and makes rapid progres (sic) through the demon world in an attempt to rescue his royal girlfriend.
DreamYao manages to improve the previous run by 3.1 seconds, thanks to better optimization.
In Japan, this game is known as 魔界村 (Makaimura or "Demon World Village").
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Game:
Ghosts 'n Goblins
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Ghosts 'n Goblins
Genres:
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Platformer
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FCEUX 2.2.3
Published on 8/3/2010
Ghoul School is a game where a multi-talented teen named Spike O'Hara fights through a horde of various ghouls with the talent of MacGyver, needing only a towel, shoes, springs, and embalming fluid.
Normally, this game would require getting many more items, but due to heavy glitching, most of the items are skipped and the game is completed in a mere four minutes. This is a 7 second improvement over the previous run.
Warning for those with sensitivity to light flashes: it is advised to skip 4:26 to 4:34 of the video encodes.
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Ghoul School
Genres:
Action
Ghoul School
Genres:
Action
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Published on 6/12/2010
A short Japanese game about a small green toy who can summon stars to help him defeat monsters and to use them as platforms to reach high places and travel fast.
In this movie, the authors collect all of the items to enter the secret 7th level after the boss at the end of the 6th level, and do so 2 minutes and 15 seconds faster than the previous movie.
The game cartridge of Gimmick! contains a special microchip, FME7, which extends the number of sound channels in the game from 5 to 8, creating a more melodic soundtrack than in most other NES games.
This movie has an Atlas Map encode of Level 6, which shows the standard encode overlaid on a zoomed out map.
If you like this, be sure to check out the other run of this game, which skips the secret items.
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Game:
Gimmick!
Genres:
Platformer
Gimmick!
Genres:
Platformer
Tags:
100% completion
Best ending
Uses intentional deaths
Takes intentional damage
Heavy glitch abuse
100% completion
Best ending
Uses intentional deaths
Takes intentional damage
Heavy glitch abuse
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FCEUX 2.1.4a
Published on 7/6/2016
Gimmick! (1992) is another gem from Sunsoft, the company that brought us Ufouria and Journey to Silius. It was only released in Japan and Scandinavian countries, but eventually achieved something of a cult status thanks to its refined gameplay, as well as exceptional music and graphic design.
The plot follows a green toy on a quest to rescue a little girl from the clutch of other toys, who were rightfully upset at her forsaking them in favor of our protagonist. What these other toys can't do, however, is conjure stars to use them both as projectiles and very effective transportation devices!
This venture between Aglar, Hotarubi and Samsara improves the previous movie by 00:46.87 seconds thanks to a new zipping glitch that skips most of Stage 5 and a new clip that skips most of Stage 6. This run doesn't collect the special items required to access the 7th level, and thus gets a bad ending. However, we have another run that attains the best ending for your viewing pleasure!
This run has been console verified using micro500's TASLink replay device (3.5 ms timing window).
Game:
Gimmick!
Genres:
Platformer
Gimmick!
Genres:
Platformer
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FCEUX 2.2.2
Published on 1/16/2022
Godzilla 2: War of the Monsters is a strategy game published by Toho in 1992. It consists of 12 missions, where human war units fight the various monsters from the Godzilla franchise, most notably Godzilla and Mothra.
juef completes all 12 missions in record time. It should be noted that the current unassisted record is over 5 hours long.
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Game:
Godzilla 2: War of the Monsters
Genres:
Strategy
Godzilla 2: War of the Monsters
Genres:
Strategy
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BizHawk 2.7
Published on 11/2/2006
In this run, adelikat picks up maximum speed upgrades and has fun with perfect reflexes, much like the previous movie. That is certainly something nice to do, because the game scrolls automatically and the player cannot affect the speed. However, the point of this movie is not just to beat this game as fast as possible, but rather to do all kinds of unpredictable and awe-inspiring things rarely seen in any TAS — without losing time. See for yourself.
This is probably one of the best illustrations on how to create art out of a simplistic and otherwise uninteresting game to watch.
What is also different about this movie is an extra warp which significantly shortens the game, and the use of a new tool (input macro) as described in the submission text. Bots are occasionally used to generate pseudorandom input while still avoiding death.
Also be sure to check out this movie being played back on an actual NES.
Published on 3/31/2023
Halloween: October 31st is a fanmade homebrew NES game that's based on the Halloween film series. It originally created as a PC game in 1999 using the game maker programs Klik N Play and Click & Create. In this game, you play as Michael Myers, who wakes up in a cave on October 30th already wearing his iconic mask. Your goal is to kill Laurie Strode and anyone else that gets in your way.
OtakuTAS in this run puts Michael's knife through Laurie and anything else that breathes in record time.
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Game:
Halloween: October 31st
Genres:
Action
Fangame
Homebrew
Halloween: October 31st
Genres:
Action
Fangame
Homebrew
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BizHawk 2.8, BizHawk 2.9-2
Published on 3/14/2020
Hammerin' Harry is a pretty simple platformer. Armed with a big hammer, you make your way through 5 levels, and the first 3 levels have bonus levels as well. At the end of each level there is a boss, and in some levels, there are also mini-bosses. In short, this game is a "normal" platformer, you won't have a hard time figuring out what's going on.
Bloopiero improves on the previous movie by 00:12.91 thanks to many new tricks and skips, boss fights done in half the time, and major lag reduction.
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Game:
Hammerin' Harry
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Hammerin' Harry
Genres:
Action
Platformer
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BizHawk 2.3.2
Published on 7/1/2014
Notable for once being one of the hardest Super Mario Bros. hacks ever made, Hard Relay Mario (2004) is more like a puzzle game with its cryptic and difficult level layouts.
In this run, made over the course of two and a half years, watch as HappyLee abuses the game engine to its fullest, finishing the game in the time it would normally take to get past the first few obstacles.
To see the game as it was meant to be played, you can also watch HappyLee beat the original game in his "warps" and "warpless" runs.
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Game:
Hard Relay Mario
Genres:
Platformer
Puzzle
Hack
Hard Relay Mario
Genres:
Platformer
Puzzle
Hack
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FCEUX 2.2.1
Published on 11/6/2021
Hokuto no Ken 3: Shinseiki Souzou: Seiken Retsuden (北斗の拳3 新世紀創造 凄拳列伝) is the third Hokuto no Ken game released by Toei for the Famicom. Unlike previous installments, which are beat-em-ups, it is an RPG which focuses on the beginning of the manga up until the Asura arc.
AmaizumiUni, however, skips basically all of the story by exploiting a glitch.
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Game:
Hokuto no Ken 3: Shinseiki Souzou: Seiken Retsuden
Genres:
RPG
Hokuto no Ken 3: Shinseiki Souzou: Seiken Retsuden
Genres:
RPG
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BizHawk 2.6.3
Published on 2/24/2023
Home Alone is a game based on the movie where Kevin must avoid and stop the Wet Bandits from capturing him after being left home alone.
Watch as ShesChardcore completely avoids being captured by the Wet Bandits by being craftily positioned.
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Published on 10/11/2014
Hydlide is an old and somewhat notorious game, mostly because it has very strange gameplay mechanics. For the first part of the game, walking consumes health, and the character must stop every now and then to regain it.
This is one of the few games (the only one?) where the level grinding sequences are actually entertaining, while the boss fights aren't. Hitting a boss decreases your own health as well as the boss's, after which there is much waiting for more health until you can hit him again.
This is an improvement of 03:54.80 over the previous TAS, due to overall better levelling strategy and route planning.
There is also a submitted TAS that uses codes and removes the need to level grind or wait for health.
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Published on 11/18/2020
In Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road, a mysterious storm appears and Paul and Vince are hurtled thousands of years into the future. They are met by an alien creature who says that the villain Zang Zip has taken over the land.
ktwo improves the previous record by 00:00.70 seconds.
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Game:
Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road
Genres:
Shooter
Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road
Genres:
Shooter
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BizHawk 2.3.1
Published on 7/27/2016
A boy named Satoshi suffers from a unique type of color blindness — he can only see in black and white. However, he also has a special ability to turn solid objects intangible and vice versa! But despite the amazing power he holds, Satoshi only wants to see like a normal boy. He seeks out an answer to his vision problem in a mystical manor called the Denine Devil Mansion, where he meets a scientist who offers him a game. If Satoshi wins, he might gain the ability to see in color. With that goal in mind, Satoshi accepts the offer and begins the Inversion game.
In each level, Satoshi must collect all of the keys to open the door to the next map. He can use his special ability to change the solidity of all objects in the level and reveal solutions to the game's many puzzles. Springs, moving platforms, vertical conveyor belts and levers can also be used to his advantage.
In this run, MESHUGGAH & jhztfs use a few tricks and a lot of precise movement to help Satoshi beat the game in record time. This run is 00:05.94 seconds faster than the previous version by MESHUGGAH.
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Game:
Inversion
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Puzzle
Homebrew
Inversion
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Puzzle
Homebrew
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FCEUX 2.2.2
Published on 7/27/2016
Inversion is a homebrew game created by Lucas "Dizzy9" Kur. The goal of the game is to collect all of the keys from each map to open a door leading to the next level. The game also features a more challenging level set called the "Extra World", accessible by entering a password.
Here, MESHUGGAH and jhztfs play through the Extra World, using a few tricks and glitches as well as precision to beat this mode as quickly as possible. This run is faster than MESHUGGAH's previous version by 00:01.43 second.
We also have a run of Inversion's main mode.
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Game:
Inversion
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Puzzle
Homebrew
Inversion
Genres:
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Platformer
Puzzle
Homebrew
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Published on 1/22/2005
The valiant knight Kuros, who has now grown eyeballs on the outside of his helmet, must again fight off the evil wizard Malkil. This task is accomplished mainly by finding an artifact in every level, giving it to a corresponding oversized animal to get into the level boss' lair, and promptly beating him up.
Game:
Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II
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Platformer
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FCEU 0.98.12
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Published on 2/1/2015
The valiant knight Kuros, who has now grown eyeballs on the outside of his helmet, must again fight off the evil wizard Malkil. This task is accomplished mainly by finding an artifact in every level, giving it to a corresponding oversized animal to get into the level boss' lair, and promptly beating him up with a level-specific attack spell. However, this run manages to use a glitch to keep the attack spell for several levels instead of losing it at the level's end.
This is an improvement of 1 minute and 14.41 seconds over the previous TAS, thanks to much better optimization. The final boss fight was especially improved thanks to a frame war between several of the authors.
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Game:
Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II
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Action
Platformer
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FCEUX 2.2.2
Published on 9/23/2022
The valiant knight Kuros, who has now grown eyeballs on the outside of his helmet, must again fight off the evil wizard Malkil. This task is accomplished mainly by finding an artifact in every level, giving it to a corresponding oversized animal to get into the level boss' lair, and promptly beating him up with a level-specific attack spell. However, this run manages to use a glitch to keep the attack spell for several levels instead of losing it at the level's end.
This is an improvement of 5.2 seconds over the previous TAS thanks to a new technique used for beating the final boss and the usage of a brute force bot.
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Game:
Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II
Genres:
Action
Platformer
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BizHawk 2.8
Published on 4/15/2022
Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu is a side-scrolling beat 'em up/platformer. In this game, Jackie Chan and his twin sister Josephine are great kung fu fighters in China who trained under a great master. One day when Jackie and Josephine were out walking, the Master's great enemy, The Sorcerer, appeared. The Sorcerer had come to rule over China and knew the twins would stand in his way, so he cast a spell to make Josephine disappear. Now it's up to Jackie Chan to follow after the Sorcerer and battle his minions in order to rescue his sister and save China.
This run is a 3.93 second improvement on the previous run thanks to better skill management and overall optimization and lag reduction.
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Game:
Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu
Genres:
Action
Platformer
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FCEUX 2.2.3.3256
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Published on 10/10/2004
A fast-paced platform game somewhat similar to Mega Man.
This improves the previous run from Exim by over 2 minutes.
Game:
Journey to Silius
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Journey to Silius
Genres:
Action
Platformer
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FCEU 0.98.12
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