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Brain Age is a puzzle game to exercise your brain a little each day. It is inspired by the research of professor Ryuta Kawashima. You will play a variety of puzzles to train your brain. Although there has been controversy over the scientific effectiveness of the game in keeping your brain active, the game got very popular.

Game objectives

  • Emulator used: desmume-0.9.6
  • Abuses programming errors
  • Manipulates luck
  • Uses game restart sequence
Note: The replay is not quite deterministic. If the replay runs desync,
1, Save at frame 117 during playing the movie.
2, Load the savestate slot.
3, Play the movie from beggining again and it will run well.

About the run

This run shows you how you can abuse the number recognition program by secretly drawing the number answer in each picture. You can see random characters on Brain Age Check mode, and video game stuff on calculations X 100 mode. The latter mode, the run ignores the game time and failed to launch a rocket. This is because the run aims to be as entertaining as possible.

Special thanks

  • ISM, Kuromitsu, Magi, 890, 0xwas, and WaddleDX, for their runs.
  • Writers of Nico Nico Pedia, for their article
Suggested screenshots: 5570, 8403, 14657
adelikat: Accepting for publication. Note to publisher: This is a "playaround" not a tas, make sure to label the filename accordingly.

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Posted: 7/10/2010 7:52 AM
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blahmoomoo
Joined: 2/1/2008
Posts: 347
Hmm... didn't think about that. Sorry.
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Posted: 7/11/2010 10:58 PM
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snorlax
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Posts: 174
Location: Wisconsin
Thank you for starring this and bringing it to my attention. I would have missed out otherwise.
Posted: 7/12/2010 4:01 AM
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Tub
Joined: 6/25/2005
Posts: 1377
You did draw a dinosaur, but the lack of colors make this games unsuitable for TASing. Voting NO. j/k, I really enjoyed it. These are the kind of TASes I can even show to my non-gamer friends to make them laugh.
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Posted: 7/12/2010 9:11 AM
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BadPotato
Joined: 1/26/2009
Posts: 558
Location: Canada - Québec
Uhh, I wonder if anyone write a lua script that could draw a SVG picture -to- DS screen... a bit like the Alden script for mario paint.
Posted: 7/12/2010 11:09 PM
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sameasusual
Joined: 5/19/2010
Posts: 259
Location: California
This TAS, like the Family Feud TAS, shows the true potential of creativity with regards to TASing. Post-publication Yes vote.
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Posted: 7/13/2010 7:45 AM
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no_name
Joined: 5/31/2009
Posts: 4
I got a desync very soon into the movie, so I followed what the submission says to do it that happens. Trying that didn't change the desync at all, unfortunately. Does anyone have a savestate past the tricky spot that they could put up? I think I'd be able to watch the movie just fine if it just wouldn't desync shortly into it.
Posted: 7/13/2010 8:25 AM
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goldfish
Joined: 2/20/2010
Posts: 209
Location: I'm in space
Unbelievable. This, for me, is right up there with Gradius and Family Feud; watching rampant creativity at work is extremely entertaining. WELL DONE!! Post-pub *huge* YES.
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Posted: 7/19/2010 5:35 PM
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Warp
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Posts: 7698
Location: Finland
AngerFist wrote:
But what is so earth-shattering about this run that it needs to get a star? It is quite artistic and all, but star material? I think not.
Stars are not an award to innovative runs which show extreme TASing prowess (in fact, they aren't awards of any kind). I think Tub wrote the core reason why it deserves a star:
Tub wrote:
These are the kind of TASes I can even show to my non-gamer friends to make them laugh.
Oh, and this was one of the most entertaining runs I have seen in a long time. Great job.
Posted: 8/4/2010 4:36 AM
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Shyft-
Joined: 3/25/2010
Posts: 34
I almost cried laughing. What a brilliant TAS! Thank you for this.
Posted: 8/5/2010 10:10 AM
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nfq
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Posts: 1204
at first i thought this would be the most boring TAS ever, but it was pretty cool. i'm not familiar with the game, but at least there was some nice drawing skills. i especially liked the hookshot.
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Posted: 8/8/2010 8:01 PM
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Nach
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Location: In his lab studying psychology to find new ways to torture TASers and forumers
Fantastic TAS. Nice to see the author is a fan of Super Smash Bros, and Nintendo.
Warning: Opinions expressed by Nach or others in this post do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, or position of Nach himself on the matter(s) being discussed therein.
Posted: 9/4/2010 8:49 AM
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timy93
Joined: 1/20/2010
Posts: 18
Location: france
waaah absolutely insane when I watch this movie I understand why I love this site very very very good TAS
PS: I'm French and I use google translation so I'm sorry if my text is not well written. So please write completely the words.
Posted: 10/29/2010 1:45 PM
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Noob_Irdoh
Joined: 6/4/2009
Posts: 570
Location: 33°07'41"S, 160°42'04"W
I watched this today for the first time (I somehow missed it when it was submitted) and I say it's epic. Have a belated yes vote. ... though I was secretly hoping to see a Sonic somewhere
Posted: 1/29/2011 3:43 PM
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pirate_sephiroth
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New systems TAS of 2009
Imma let you finish, but this is the best run of all times. Of all times.
"Genuine self-esteem, however, consists not of causeless feelings, but of certain knowledge about yourself. It rests on the conviction that you — by your choices, effort and actions — have made yourself into the kind of person able to deal with reality. It is the conviction — based on the evidence of your own volitional functioning — that you are fundamentally able to succeed in life and, therefore, are deserving of that success." - Onkar Ghate
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Drama, too long, didn't read, lol.
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