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Recorded on FCE Ultra 0.98.12 (thanks to blip) Settings: default, NTSC
  • no warps or passwords used
  • no programming errors used
  • aiming for fastest possible time and score
  • total frames: 78959
Rad Racer is a racing game of the famous producer called "Square" who also made Chrono Trigger and many other top games later. The graphic is pretty nice (for NES conditions) with changing backgrounds even during a race. It also has the best speed feeling like no other NES racing game and therefore requires extremely fast reactions. The opponent cars of each course are different, from Lamborghini, over Porsche till Mercedes (you drive the famous Ferrari or a F1-Machine). This game is extremely hard to beat on normal conditions, since there are no continues at all (if you lose in course 8 you will start in course 1 again) thats why many players couldn't beat this game completely.
This movie shows a complete and perfect walkthrough of all 8 courses trying to finish them as fast as possible.
Here are the times and the final scores after each course: (note that the time is a countdown, so the higher the time the better)
  • Course 1 - 45 sec remaining, total score: 8687
  • Course 2 - 42 sec remaining, total score: 17303
  • Course 3 - 53 sec remaining, total score: 26105
  • Course 4 - 43 sec remaining, total score: 35143
  • Course 5 - 48 sec remaining, total score: 43918
  • Course 6 - 39 sec remaining, total score: 51887
  • Course 7 - 43 sec remaining, total score: 60444
  • Course 8 - 43 sec remaining, final score: 69433
To reach this times in normal conditions is by far impossible since I took so many risk everytime to keep the best speed. 1 Frame later reaction would mostly end with a crash!
In Course 3 and Course 8 I was exactly 1 frame to late to reach a 1 sec better time, in Course 8 I tried to redo everything as good as I could and spended the whole last day by trying to optimize this 1 stupid frame to reach a whole sec faster but without luck. But then I found out that I can manipulate the randomness a bit by pressing pause right before the finish and on this way I still managed to reach 43 sec instead of 42 in Course 8. I'm pretty sure that 44 sec is impossible (even theoretical) at least in the last course. Course 3 was to far away to redo everything afterwards so I let this one be.
Enjoy this crazy race-thrilling!

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Posted: 6/25/2005 4:52 PM
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OmnipotentEntity
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Disgaea, *swoon*
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Posted: 6/26/2005 7:59 PM
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Makou
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I have FDDShow and Media Player Classic installed, yet I cannot watch either the OGM or MKV versions of this movie. I was looking forward to this, because the last time I played the game, I wasn't even able to complete the first race. A little help, if someone is available?
Posted: 6/26/2005 9:03 PM
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Fihlvein
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Saturn, seriously, if you see the trouble in making such a good movie that this one is, just spend just another half an hour to learn how to create an AVI by yourself - problem solved, plus an useful method learned. The most important thing is that there is the original FCM which has all the information one could need to make whatever they want to make with it. An encoded version of the movie is just a plus added to the submission and Bisqwit may use whatever method he wants to use to do that. It's not like he's bugging us with the "different" type of encoded videos. They are there for a reason.
Posted: 6/26/2005 10:12 PM
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Saturn
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Fihlvein: After all I wish I never would ask for a AVI because Bisqwit destroyed my good temper and also the whole weekend for me. I don't have the Will and the time to study perfect AVI encoding (I could do one but it would be pretty bad in quality). I'm to busy with working and with learning in the vocational school. Makou: You could try to ask Bisqwit for help, but be aware that this could be dangerous to yourself (I already got this experience).
See my perfect 100% movie-walkthroughs of the best RPG games on http://www.freewebs.com/saturnsmovies/index.htm Current TAS project (with new videos): Super Metroid Redesign, any% speedrun
Posted: 6/26/2005 10:45 PM
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Hmm.. I was right, Bisqwit was gonna make big mistakes in the future. You can take off the MKV, really. I think a person and a half is actually using it. And 2 people and a half are actually using the OGM. Oh well. And don't any of you give me the 'bisqwit does what he wants' speech. I'm not forcing him to do anything, just a (no longer friendly) suggestion. Bye.
Posted: 6/26/2005 11:06 PM
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AngerFist
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Wrong. Im most certain that in a few years people will search for other resourceful and small files to download + in the very near future, many media companies who produce dvd-players will enable them to play several different kind of files (and not just avi and mpeg, currently now). You have to be open-minded about things, I certainly want to maintain avi files but as i said, in the future (some years from now), I can almost promise that avi:s and mpeg:s will be gone :)
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Guys I come from the DidyKnogRacist communite, and you are all wrong, tihs is the run of the mileniun and everyone who says otherwise dosnt know any bater! I found this run vary ease to masturbate too!!!! Don't fuck with me, I know this game so that mean I'm always right!StupedfackincommunityTASVideoz!!!!!!
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I enjoyed this movie in which hands firmly gripping a shaft lead to balls deep in multiple holes.
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I don't want to get involved in this discussion, but as a point of fact C# is literally the first goddamn thing on that fucking page you linked did you even fucking read it
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Posted: 6/26/2005 11:10 PM
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Bisqwit
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As much as I'd like to say that MPEG-1 (.mpg) is dead, there are still people who produce even those files. Even (or perhaps, especially) in academic circles. AVI is very likely the same.
Posted: 2/10/2006 11:06 PM
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Brushy
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How about finally a screenshot for this? Here's my suggestion
Posted: 2/11/2006 10:09 PM
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Saturn
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I'm fine with this one. If no one has another suggestion we should just take this.
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Posted: 2/11/2006 10:10 PM
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How about that city level? I think that was a pretty one.
put yourself in my rocketpack if that poochie is one outrageous dude
Posted: 2/11/2006 10:12 PM
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Bisqwit
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Guybrush wrote:
Here's my suggestion
Thanks, I installed this screenshot (after recompressing it into 2.7 kB). Ps: Your signature is long. As the standard action for such signatures, I'll remove it.
Posted: 2/11/2006 10:13 PM
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Saturn
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Yeah it's nice but a bit too dark IMO. It shouldn't matter too much though.
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