Finally, it is here. This movie was very easy to make, i dont know what was troubling fuwafuwa, he must have had bad luck / bad emulator / bad rom. I haven't had a single desync while making this.

- Emulator used: fceu-0.98.12-blip.win
- Aims for fastest completion
- Gets all power ups
- Manipulates luck
- Abuses programming errors
- Skips the hint rooms
- Low level completion (only leveled up once)

The main characteristic of this route is going to the hint room in world 2 to get 10 bombs and a shield. The bombs are saved for use on the last levels (especially the last one) where theres no health to fight enemies, so its either shoot or bomb. And bombing is greatly faster than shooting.

I run through enemies, its a bug. If you and an enemy move to the same square at the same time, you will be in the same position, so you can move right through him. This works for all types of enemies (including deaths and acid puddles), i only couldn't get it to work on the moveable walls, so i push them around.

- Explanation on the power ups:
Extra Shot Power: trying to kill the dragon without this takes really long.
Extra Fight Power: it was in the way, lucky me
Extra Armor: also in the way, its usefull on the last level.
Extra Speed: it wasnt too much out of the way, and it was in world 2, which is early in the game, so this was mandatory.
Extra Magic Power: 3 seconds dedicated to grabbing it, so that my 10 potions become a lot stronger.

I manipulated the exits placement on the treasure rooms by entering the level on the exact frame so that the exits were close to the starting point.

All in all the route was planned by me, but i give special thanks to melvinwang, who submitted a very good faq to gamefaqs. It helped me speed up the process of making this movie.

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thanx for those shortcuts, i didnt know about them. as for the roms, i tried playing your movie with nearly 10 types or roms i could find and none of them played the title screen. about the menus, thats exactly how i did it, i held start and released it frame by frame untill it worked. that was the fastest possible.
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was a very pleasant surprise to check in on this site last night to find that the gauntlet movie had finally been published...you must have been working on this and planning it for a very long time...I really see no room for anyone to complain about this one...being it is such a special kind of game...it is very difficult to make precise maneuvers in the levels due to the neverending barrage of enemies and fire...it was interesting watching how sometimes you'd run into enemies, and other times, you'd simply attack...also funny how you rubbed it in by draining your energy on purpose...I think you'd probably do an excellent job if you were to undertake the game Mission Impossible! definitely your territory...
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Hah, actually i made this run in 15 hours... its true that i've been looking at this game for over a year, but i never put my hands into planning or anything. Then i was sick last friday (i had no mood to go to work) so i decided to plan it. Then on saturday morning i had a good route so i made it perfect movement. But.. you never know, the run is not perfect at all :) hehe hint hint
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don't tell me you are actually going to try to improve upon this mightily already hell as impressive run!
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just know this is one of the time attacks that I so fully appreciate...I can watch every second of it without getting bored...I must have logged in hundreds of hours on this cartridge in the day! love pretty much anything gauntlet related...if you like gauntlet games...I would strongly recommend...not as a time attack recommendation...but, just as a game to check out...Dungeon Explorer for turbografx-16...closest thing to gauntlet you will ever see...again...I can't say enough how much I love this time attack...other than this one...my absolute fave time attack is the blaster master one...so, this and that...are topmost in my collection of time attacks now...:) Hint, I would love to see Mission Impossible done...
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I second the Dungeon Explorer recommendation. Dungeon Explorer 2 is more of the same goodness. Also, nice work, FODA!
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