The vault is the 3rd publication tier at TASVideos. Its focus is exclusively on being tool-assisted speedrun records.

Overview

• This category represents the fastest completion times for a minimum set of goals.
• Its purpose is to fulfill the site's goal of being

Entertainment Requirements

• Entertainment value has little to no significance
• Opportunities to entertain the audience where it does not affect time is not a requirement. However, it is encouraged and can be used as a tie-breaker for two equally fast movies.
• It is possible for a faster movie to be published in this category while a slower but "more entertaining" movie is published in another tier.
• Aims to fulfill the site's goal of being a Tool-assisted Speedrun records site, as well as be an information based central repository for the body of TAS literature.

Technical Requirements

• Must beat all known unassisted records and beat or match all known tool-assisted records.
• Must show a proficient understanding of TAS techniques and be perceived as well optimized. I.e. should not have obvious pauses, mistakes, or sloppy play.
• In rare cases, there will be a sloppier movie that is faster than a more optimized movie due to the use of a major skip discovery. In this case, the faster of the two movies is preferred.

Game and Goal choice

• Must be clearly definable as a game.
• Must be clearly definable as having completed the game.
  • Games that loop endlessly can still be defined. The completion point is one where there is no new content, and the game is no longer increasing in difficulty.
  • Hacks are not eligible for this category, but unlicensed games are.
  • For the purposes of this tier, board games and similar types that are a human vs CPU match in which the player beats the CPU as fast as possible is not defined as a game completion.
• Goal choice is limited to fastest completion time (any%), or full-completion (100%).
  • Other goal choices are not eligible for this category.
  • Goal choice criteria must be clear and non-controversial (A clear consensus and what constitutes full-completion, or when a game is completed).