Tool-assisted movies (23)

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Published on 1/25/2020
Bobby is Going Home is a simple platform game developed by Bit Corporation and released in 1983. The goal of the game is to guide a boy named Bobby through diving hawks, dashing chickens, tricky pits, thorny rosebushes, and deadly sinkholes to the safety of his home.
Lobsterzelda improved the previous run via better character movement. However, this run is longer because it completes two loops of the game in order to show all of its unique content.
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3.1

Published on 3/15/2020
Cabbage Patch Kids: Adventure in the Park was released for the ColecoVision. A version was also ported by Coleco to the Atari 2600, which went unreleased due to the video game crash of 1983.

Published on 8/22/2019
Pitfall II: Lost Caverns is a platforming video game originally released for the Atari 2600 in 1984. The sequel to the popular Pitfall!, it opens up the world into a free-roaming adventure instead of progressing on a linear path. Among the other new features are swimming sections, save points, and catchy music.
Pitfall Harry's quest in this game is to find the Raj diamond, his niece Rhonda and his cowardly lion companion, Quickclaw.
Lobsterzelda improves the previous movie by 00:00.22 seconds, thanks to better optimization.
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3.2

Published on 8/23/2019
Pitfall II: Lost Caverns is a platforming video game originally released for the Atari 2600 in 1984. The sequel to the popular Pitfall!, it opens up the world into a free-roaming adventure instead of progressing on a linear path.
This run is different from the any% TAS in that it does everything necessary to achieve the maximum score. This means avoiding falling down pits (which decreases your score by 100 each time) and following a much longer route in order to obtain all items.
Lobsterzelda improves the previous run by 00:04.57 seconds.

Published on 7/22/2019
Pitfall! was a game released for the Atari 2600. In it, you play as an explorer named Pitfall Harry. As you travel through the jungle, your goal is to collect all 32 treasures hidden throughout the world within the time limit the game gives you (which is 20 minutes). You also have only 3 lives while exploring the game, and touching an enemy or falling into a tarpit or water will cost you a life. If you die three times, it's game over for Pitfall Harry, and the game offers no continues.
Lobsterzelda collects all 32 treasures in record time.
Game:
Pitfall!

Genres:
Adventure
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3.1

Published on 7/24/2019
Road Runner was released for the Atari 2600 in 1989, making it one of the last games officially released by Atari for the Atari 2600. The game was a port of an arcade game of the same name, which was also ported to several other consoles like the Commodore 64.
You play as the Road Runner, and you spend each level running to the left trying to dodge obstacles and avoid Wile E. Coyote. The road is littered with landmines and speeding trucks, which will kill the road runner on contact. They can also kill Wile E., but he respawns again after a few seconds. Wile. E. also has guns set up at certain portions of the road, roller skates, and a rocket ship which he can use to try to grab the road runner.
Game:
Road Runner

Genres:
Racing
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3.1

Published on 4/11/2021
Entirely unrelated to the TV series seaQuest DSV, Seaquest is a submarine combat game in which you control a water vessel and must pick up divers at different levels of depth while avoiding fish and enemy subs. While most of the game takes place underwater, you also must resurface for air from time to time so your air meter doesn't run out.
Like Tetris, the game ends when the score reaches the maximum 999999. Watch as Lobsterzelda torpedoes 90 levels-worth of submarines and rescues as many divers in record time.
This movie is actually 15:22.17 minutes slower than the movie it obsoletes, but does not use emulation glitches as the previous movie does to quickly reach maximum score. The judgement history for Seaquest is complicated, as well is this movie's own judgement. See the submission notes and judgement for more information.
Game:
Seaquest

Genres:
Action
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.6.1

Published on 6/27/2019
Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle is a 1982 video game published and developed by Coleco for the ColecoVision and Atari 2600. The game is based on the television series The Smurfs. In the game, the player must brave a series of obstacles to rescue Smurfette from Gargamel's castle.
Lobsterzelda and ViGadeomes complete all three skill levels of the game, from easiest to hardest, in just under three and a half minutes.
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3.1

Published on 8/13/2023
Cabbage Patch Kids: Adventures in the Park is platforming game that was released in 1984 for the ColecoVision. Based on the Cabbage Patch Kids doll line, the game has you play as a Cabbage Patch Kid walking through the park that's named "Babyland General®". In that park are lakes to jump across with a hanging vine or a lily pad, bees that attack you, pollen fuzzys that trigger your allergies, and lit campfires that shoot flames at you. Get to the end of the park and you win a stage.
Here, Lobsterzelda opts to complete all 99 stages of the game as fast as possible, going left the entire time.

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.
For more Battletoads madness, you can also see our movies of the NES version.

You can watch the console-verification of this movie here.
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3.3

Published on 8/26/2019
Based on the 1994 Disney movie of the same name, The Lion King follows Simba's life as he grows from a lion cub to the ruler of the Pride Lands. Originally published for the Genesis and SNES, the game had several ports with various differences.
In this run of the Game Boy port, Lobsterzelda exploits the game's mechanics to guide Simba from an unruly child to a hero in under 10 minutes.
Game:
The Lion King

Genres:
Platformer
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3.1

Published on 10/30/2019
NFL Street is an American football video game developed by EA Tiburon and published by Electronic Arts. It was originally released for the PlayStation 2, GameCube and Xbox on January 13, 2004.
"NFL Challenge" is the main mode in the game. You create a team, from logo to players height, and go through a series of challenges against other teams, unlocking new football stadiums, teams, equipment, and development points for improving your team;by completing several challenges that vary in their difficulty.
Lobsterzelda beats NFL Street's "NFL Challenge" mode as fast as possible, featuring a lot of quick, frame perfect dodging and maneuvering around the computer to score points, which is sure to impress the viewer.
This run is a 9:32.93 minute improvement over Lobsterzelda's previous record.
Game:
NFL Street

Genres:
Sport
Emulator Replay:
Dolphin 5.0

Published on 7/25/2020
NFL Street 2 is the second game in the series by Electronic Arts. It features team rosters from the 2004 NFL season. As in the first game, players can accumulate style points during play, but this game adds wall moves as a new method to get the points.
"NFL Challenge" mode remains the primary mode of the game but has changed from the first game. Players have 150 days to prepare a team for a tournament against the other NFL teams, with the winner challenging the NFL Legends.
In this run, Lobsterzelda completes the "NFL Challenge" mode as quickly as possible, using the wall moves to rack up style points and manipulating the computer teams to choose plays that lead to their rapid defeat.
Lobsterzelda improves his previous record by 3:45.80 minutes due to using the hardest difficulty.

Published on 11/6/2022
Star Fox Adventures is a game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo in 2002 for the GameCube. Originally intended to be a title that bears no relation to the Star Fox franchise named Dinosaur Planet, it stars Krystal, who receives a distress signal from Dinosaur Planet and decides to investigate the incident, as well as Fox McCloud, who gets called by General Pepper to repair Dinosaur Planet by putting the broken pieces back in place.
Lobsterzelda does so whilst avoiding a glitch that skips most of the game (called Void Travel) and instead relies on other pretty significant glitches, like OoB, and defeats the culprit in record time. Please read the author's comments for more details.
A video encode with voice commentary by the author can be found here.

Published on 3/19/2021
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a platform game very loosely based on the classic American novel. Tom has fallen asleep in class and you must help him navigate through his dream and defeat dangerous monsters on his way to save Becky from Injun Joe.
Lobsterzelda improves the previous TAS by 9.11 seconds, thanks to better optimisation and improved lag reduction.

Watch a resync of this run being played back on a real console.

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.
This movie has a full Atlas Map encode, which shows the standard encode overlaid on a zoomed out map.

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.
You can watch this run being played back on a real console.

Published on 11/5/2020
Battletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team is an action packed beat 'em up crossover that features essentially the same physics as Battletoads. Together, these heroes must defeat the Shadow Boss, the Dark Queen, and an assortment of other baddies.
Lobsterzelda and feos improve the previous movie by 1 minute and 13.58 seconds, thanks to better optimisation and newly discovered tricks. Please read the authors' comments for more details.

Published on 2/23/2020
The Lion King, not to be confused with the bootleg title Super Lion King, is a very late NES port of the Game Boy version. It was released exclusively in Europe and was the last official NES game.
In this run, Lobsterzelda & Bluely improve the previous record by 2 frames.
Game:
The Lion King

Genres:
Platformer
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3.3

Published on 3/28/2021
Super Cobra is a side-scrolling shooter based on the arcade game. You're a chopper pilot on a surveillance mission in enemy territory; your goal is to make it through the various obstacle courses alive and score as many points as possible. Tall buildings, mountains, narrow tunnels, and various enemies (such as tanks, rockets, mines, and more) can all get in the way and destroy your chopper if you aren't careful.
Lobsterzelda completes two loops in record time.
This is the first ever Odyssey 2 (also known as the Videopac G7000 in Europe) publication on this site.
Game:
Super Cobra

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.6

Published on 3/28/2021
Lethal Enforcers is an arcade shooting game developed by Konami. You take control of an officer named Don Marshell, an elite cop who has to fight a major criminal organization that has taken the city of Chicago hostage.
The game features digitized sprites of real people, and came with a light gun called the Justifier, which was similar to the NES’s Zapper. This lead to controversy as it depicts the idea of shooting real people, and was one of many games brought up in the 1993 violence in video games US Senate hearing.
Watch as Lobsterzelda uses lightning fast reflexes to shoot the bad guys and save the city, all while saving 2 minutes and 18.36 seconds from the previous movie after accounting for emulation differences.
Game:
Lethal Enforcers

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.6.1

Published on 8/1/2023
HyperChase: Auto Race is a straightforward racing game with a 3D third-person view for the Vectrex. The objective is to race many other cars to the finish line, avoiding them and other obstacles in the process. With the vector-based graphics, the game can be quite the spectacle even today.
In this run, Lobsterzelda completes a single race in record time.
Game:
HyperChase

Genres:
Racing
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9

Published on 9/16/2023
Putt-Putt Saves The Zoo is the 3rd game in the Putt-Putt series of games developed by Humongous Entertainment in 1995. In this game, Putt-Putt travels to see the grand opening of a brand new zoo, but discovers that some of the baby animals have gone missing, and the zoo can't open until this is fixed. It's up to Putt Putt to help rescue these animals so the zoo can have their grand opening.
Lobsterzelda saves the zoo in record time.
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
libTAS 1.4.3 + ScummVM 2.7.1


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