Tool-assisted movies (75)

Doggone It! is a homebrew game for the Atari 2600 with a simple premise: a mailman named Hank does his job with delivering packages. The problem is that he has cynophobia, a fear of dogs. If one even just touches him, he drops any package he's holding and temporarily becomes paralyzed with fear. Thankfully, there's the Crazy Culvert Kitty, which can give Hank powerups that make deliveries much easier.

In this run, MrTASer completes all three unique stages in record time.

You can get the game here.

Peril is a homebrew game for the Atari 2600 where you pilot a helicopter armed with guns. Your job is to go into a dangerous labyrinth and destroy the RoboKing and its guardians.

With precise and tight movements, MrTASer and nymx collaborate to complete the game in record time.

You can get the game here.

Slide Boy in Maze Land is a homebrew puzzle game for the Atari 2600 and Atari 7800. You play as Slide Boy, who can only slide in one direction and cannot stop until he hits a wall. The goal of each level is to get to the exit while avoiding all hazards.

LogansGamingRoom plays on the Normal difficulty and gets through all 50 rooms as fast as possible.

You can get the game here. There is also a run for the Atari 7800 version for those interested.

Knight Guy in Low Res World: Castle Days is a homebrew action platforming game for the Atari 7800. You play as a knight who decides to go into a castle to rescue their pet from a dragon. There are 99 rooms of danger and puzzles to go through if you are to get to your pet before an hour is up and you lose completely.

MrTASer and Samsara collaborate to go through all 99 rooms and defeat the dragon as fast as possible. A cat was also chosen as the knight's pet.

You can get the game here.

Slide Boy in Maze Land is a homebrew puzzle game for the Atari 2600 and Atari 7800. You play as Slide Boy, who can only slide in one direction and cannot stop until he hits a wall. The goal of each level is to get to the exit while avoiding all hazards.

Darkman425 plays on the Normal difficulty and gets through all 30 rooms as fast as possible.

You can get the game here. There is also a run for the Atari 2600 version for those interested.

You Have to Burn the Rope is a very hard game. You have to burn the rope there.

More seriously, this is a Nintendo DS port of an intentionally trivial Flash game created by the Swedish student Kian "Mazapán" Bashiri. It was created as a satire, specifically to make fun of other games that limit the player's interaction by being easy, linear, or heavily controlled and jokingly ask at which point these games also cease to be games. -Bashiri

EZGames69 celebrates the new NDS support in BizHawk by improving the previous run by 6 frames.

Black Castle is a homebrew game by User0x7f inspired by Castlevania and Fortress of Fear. There are 4 weapons for the player to use to fight through 4 levels of sidescroller platforming, each ending with a boss fight.

CasualPokePlayer uses the mace weapon and a bit of lag reduction to clear the castle's 4 levels in record time.

You can watch the complete run played back on console.

Cherry Rescue! is a homebrew platforming game about a walking cherry named Barry rescuing his sister Mary from the clutches of a mysterious bird chef. The game has six levels of forests, cities, and construction sites that Barry must venture through in his journey.

MarioAtWork, Alyosha, and CasualPokePlayer save 2.78 seconds over the previous run thanks to much tighter optimization.

You can play the game here.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Deadeus is a homebrew horror game for the Game Boy about a boy who has a nightmare telling him that everyone in his village will die in three days. He must then see if he can save anyone before those three days are up. There are many paths to take and many endings to encounter, adding replay value to a pretty short game.

MarioAtWork decides to end the game as quickly as possible without any regard to storytelling logic by abusing a glitch that allows them to warp past important cutscenes in seconds and reach the credits very soon.

You can get the game here.

Warning: Viewers who are sensitive to flashing lights may want to skip 1:09 to 1:35 of the video encode.

Gunman Clive is an indie game made by Bertil Hörberg and released on various platforms in 2014. Set in a western environment of the 19th century, the mayor's daughter has been kidnapped by bandits and it is up to the titular character to save her. The Game Boy version, however, only contains one single level and its development has been abandoned, leaving it as a demo.

ViGadeomes plays through the level in record time.

The Bouncing Ball is a homebrew Gameboy game made by HuCABBAGE for the 4th annual GBJam (2015).

In this neat little platformer with no music, thus only sound effects, you are in control of a little ball, which is constantly bouncing around. Your goal is to bounce through all the 50 unique levels by collecting every heart you can find on your way.

The authors improve the previous movie by 00:03.05 seconds.

You can watch the complete run being played back on a console.

Tobu Tobu Girl was originally part of the third GBJam game jam and was later fleshed out to this arcade platformer you see here.

Your cat is floating into space and you must jump, dash and flap against the clock to retrieve your pet before it's too late.

Tower of Hanoi is a puzzle game that dates back to 1883 at the very least when French mathematician Édouard Lucas brought the game to the West. With three rods and a tower of discs on a rod at one end, the goal of the game is to get all of the discs to the rod at the other end while following these rules: 1.) Only one disk may be moved at a time, which then has to be placed on top of another stack or on an empty rod, 2.) No disk may be placed on top of a disk that is smaller than it.

For this run, FractalFusion plays a homebrew port of Tower of Hanoi for the Game Boy and completes all the puzzles it has to offer in record time. In this version of the game, the tower can be moved in its entirety to either section in the foreground.

You can get the game here.

Powerpig is a homebrew GBA platforming game developed by Genecyst for the NeoFlash compo 2013. One day, Powerpig is approached by his ghost grandpig who gives him a gravity gun, and that he can use it however he wants. So he used it accordingly.

Darkman425 completes the game in record time.

Sushi the Cat is a homebrew platformer for the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS that took part of a NEO Flash homebrew competition. In this game, you play as a cat that's just strolling across the city, collecting stars and avoiding enemies like huge birds and bouncing balls with eyes. At the end, you fight a giant rat that attacks you with blocks of cheese.

MarioAtWork and Technickle collaborate for this run to beat the game in record time.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Capybara Quest is a homebrew platformer for the Game Boy Color about a capybara who goes on a journey to rescue its baby capybara from a pelican that flew off with it. Along the way, the capybara can collect fruits called Yuzus as an optional sidequest.

In this run, brunovalads uses a number of glitches to collect all the Yuzus and complete the game as fast as possible.

You can play the game here.

Little Green Blob is a GBC homebrew platformer where you play as a little green blob in its journey to get the finish flag at the end of each level. Play through 20 levels filled with various platforming mechanics, but do mind the blob's size. Move too much or fall too much without getting to the finish line and the blob shrinks into nothingness.

MarioAtWork doesn't have to worry about the blob's size as they finish all 20 levels of the game at fast as possible.

You can play the game here.

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Opussum Country is a homebrew Game Boy Color game that was created for and the winner of the Scream FM game jam. You play as a food delivery guy that travels a secluded and mysterious trailer park to fulfill an order. Nothing seems right in this trailer park, and it is filled with lots of opossums. Suddenly, you find your car sabotaged and rendered inoperable. Figure out the mystery behind all this and escape before something bad happens to you, or worse.

MarioAtWork fulfills the order given to them and gets out of town in record time.

You can play the game here.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Super Jacked Up Tomato Face Johnson is a homebrew platformer about a muscular tomato with a set of trained legs. Tomato Face Johnson has just learned that there's a new protein shake in the market, but he doesn't have enough money. He must now go through inexplicably dangerous rooms and collect money along the way so he can buy his gain-enhancing protein shake. Oh, and there are some cans of beans to collect along the way.

In this run, Twisted Eye completes the game and collects every can of beans as fast as possible.

You can play the game here.

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

From Homestar Runner comes Trogday Micro Game, starring Trogdor the Burninator. It's his 19th Trogday, and how does he celebrate? By burninating the village, of course! The goal in this very short game is to squish all the peasants while avoiding all the knights before facing off against Kerrek, who stands for everything peasantry. In this run, Darkman425 does exactly that in record time.

You can play the game here.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

AlterEgo is a puzzle platforming homebrew game that was originally made for the ZX Spectrum. You play a character that has a phantom alter ego that moves in mirrored fashion with them, either vertically or horizontally. This character can switch place with their alter ego to get around obstacles, but a limited number of times. The goal of the game is to collect items needed to complete the level while avoiding hazards along the way.

In this run, MarioAtWork and aiqiyou collaborate to complete the game in record time.

You can get the game here. We also have a run on the NES version.

Passing Breeze: An Arcade Adventure is a homebrew visual novel-like game that was made for the 5th Retro Platform Jam. You are a kid in the '90s who wants to play Outrun in the arcade, but you don't have any money. Go on a summer adventure as you scrounge up coins to play in the arcade and gamble your way to the victory that is the song "Passing Breeze" as heard in the video game Outrun.

MarioAtWork speeds through the game in this run as fast as possible, getting their character to play many retro Sega games in the process.

You can get the game here.

Yazzie is a homebrew platformer about a hapless gold seeker who wanders into a strange mansion full of hazardous traps and monsters. The goal of the game is simple: collect all of the gold in each room without dying.

In this run, aiqiyou collects all of the gold in the game in record time. To avoid waiting too long, enemy movement is manipulated to get through levels quicker.

You can get the game here.

Invasion of the Zombie Monsters is a B-Movie style platformer for MSX. You take control of Ned, a geek trying to save his girlfriend from a giant demon terrorizing the city. This game was designed to be a throwback to games like Legend of Hero Tonma and Ghouls 'n Ghosts.

This is an improvement of 00:37.90 seconds over the previous run, courtesy of better boss fights and other general optimizations.

Every one hundred years, the forces of evil mysteriously start to weaken. Though some of these evil creatures band together to counteract this weakness, many of them are still slaughtered by the forces of good. But one day, One, the most evil one, found a way to break this curse and grow only stronger and stronger. Sensing the presence of a cure within the blood of a young woman, he pulled her into the darkness...right before our hero's eyes! Filled with anger, he grabbed his mystical whip and followed One through the night until finding himself at the base of One's fearsome castle. What evil awaits him there? Will he save the girl in time?

The goal in each level of this MSX homebrew game is to find the cleverly hidden white key and use it to open the door to the next level. There are also items that can be picked up along the way to help our hero in his quest.

In this run, scrimpeh manipulates enemy movement and utilizes damage boosts and invincibility frames to beat the game in under 9 minutes.

For another MSX game with very similar gameplay, see the run of Vampire Killer done by the same author.

Alter Ego is an NES homebrew port of a ZX Spectrum puzzle game of the same name. You control a character who can switch places with his shadow a limited number of times in each stage. The goal is to collect all the items without touching any enemies. To further complicate matters, the blue-outlined items can only be collected by the shadow, whereas the pink-outlined items can only be collected by the main player.

This hardly stops aiqiyou, though, who barely avoids death in a number of puzzles and finishes in record time, while also improving the previous movie by 00:05.44 seconds.

You can watch the complete run being played back on a console.

Alwa's Awakening: The 8-Bit Edition is an official NES demake of the PC game Alwa's Awakening that was co-developed by the developers of the original game. While Alwa's Awakening was a throwback to the 8-bit era of video games with its retro-esque gameplay and graphics, the NES version is a full-on port to an 8-bit video game console. And unlike most demakes, this version retains most of the levels of the PC version along with adding exclusive content.

Darkman425 forgoes the use of screen wrapping and out of bounds glitches in this run that would save over 20 minutes of game time in favor of playing the the game mostly inbounds. Other glitches are still used to save time along with soft resets. You can read the author's notes for more details.

Alwa's Awakening: The 8-Bit Edition is an official NES demake of the PC game Alwa's Awakening that was co-developed by the developers of the original game. While Alwa's Awakening was a throwback to the 8-bit era of video games with its retro-esque gameplay and graphics, the NES version is a full-on port to an 8-bit video game console. And unlike most demakes, this version retains most of the levels of the PC version along with adding exclusive content.

aiqiyou and J.Y save about 12 seconds over the previous run though better overall optimization and better routing in the glitched areas. We also have a run that forgoes the uses of the out-of-bounds glitches in favor of mostly playing the game as it was intended.

Banana Nana is a homebrew game made for Ludum Dare 32 in 2015. The player is tasked to find three bananas whilst dodging and defeating the enemies that may be on the path.

ShesChardcore, however, abuses a glitch where you can warp to an adjacent screen without needing to traverse the current screen in order to reach the end in record time. More details about the glitch can be found in the author's notes.

Battle Kid 2: Mountain of Torment is the sequel to Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril and was released in 2012. Inspired from I Wanna Be The Guy and other classic platformers, this game follows the same format of having a large map in Metroidvania style where one has a large map to freely explore and must venture to various parts of it. You always die in one hit (3 hits for easy difficulty), but there are unlimited lives and a password system that allows you to continue where you left off. In total, there are over 650 rooms, 25 enemy types, 13 boss battles, 42 music tracks, and more bonus features this time around.

This time around, Timmy ventures through a mountain base (hence the subtitle "Mountain of Torment") to thwart the villains' plans once more.

This is an improvement of 29.60 seconds compared to the predecessor movie

Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril may look old, but it's actually released in 2010! Mainly inspired by the PC game I Wanna Be the Guy, this game is classic platforming action, where anything can kill the player in one single hit. While it's not unfair (as opposed to I Wanna Be the Guy), it's still really hard.

Aglar collects every item and key before going to the last area, and takes the right path to get to the best ending, all of this on the hardest difficulty possible and without taking any damage!

Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril may look old, but it's actually released in 2010. Mainly inspired by the PC game I Wanna Be the Guy, this game is classic platforming action, where anything can kill the player in one single hit.

Actually... not anymore! This run exploits a glitch involving pausing that makes the player invulnerable to everything, allowing the author to skip items they would normally need.

Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril may look old, but it's actually released in 2010! Mainly inspired by the PC game I Wanna Be the Guy, this game is classic platforming action, where anything can kill the player in one single hit. While it's not unfair (as opposed to I Wanna Be the Guy), it's still really hard.

In this run, Aglar and Fortranm use a password provided by the game once it is beaten to access the secret level named "Petunia X" (slightly modified and renamed "Golden Fort" in the Japanese release) and beat it as fast as they can.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril may look old, but it's actually released in 2010! Mainly inspired by the PC game I Wanna Be the Guy, this game is classic platforming action, where anything can kill the player in one single hit. While it's not unfair (as opposed to I Wanna Be the Guy), it's still really hard.

In this run, Fortranm plays the secret level originally created for ScrewAttack Gaming Convention 2010 and beats it in record time.

Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril may look old, but it's actually released in 2010! Mainly inspired by the PC game I Wanna Be the Guy, this game is classic platforming action, where anything can kill the player in one single hit. While it's not unfair (as opposed to I Wanna Be the Guy), it's still really hard.

In this run, Fortranm plays yet another special stage that utilizes a new game mechanic that was introduced in version 2.0 of the game, lifts, and completes it in record time.

Blob Land is a simple homebrew NES platformer that was made for #1JAM Uno game jam. You play as a blob whose goal is to get to the portal on the other side. Enemies and colored blocks are in your way, but thankfully you can jump and consume potions that can allow you to pass through those colored blocks or even stand on top of them.

In this run, LogansGamingRoom beats this game in record time without resorting to the level skip function.

You can play the game here.

BlobQuest is a homebrew platformer for the NES. The premise involves the player character being turned into a blob by an evil wizard. You must now find the eight mystic rubies in order to return back to normal. Along the way, you can find special powerups for your blob form that allow you to traverse the hazardous world.

MarioAtWork, Samsara, ThunderAxe31, and Alyosha collaborate to complete the game in record time, making liberal use of a zipping glitch in the second half of the run.

You can get the game here.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Böbl is a homebrew NES game developed by Morphcat Games for the NESdev Compo 2019. It is a nonlinear, metroidvania-lite platformer. You play as a little bubble, explore a collection of interconnected rooms, collect power ups to improve your movement and find rubber ducks to add to your collection.

EZGames69 and ikuyo navigate through the area and reach the end in record time.

Watch this run being played back on a real NES here.

Driar is a homebrew game created in 2012 by David Eriksson and Stefen Adolfsson. It is notable for being an homage to classic NES games with no modern influences whatsoever. No score, no save points, no passwords, no timers, no plot, no hub-world; just a series of single screen levels for you to carefully complete, in order, or until your 10 lives are used up.

aiqiyou and zst save 10.77 seconds over the previous run through the usage of new techniques. For details, you can read the authors' notes here.

Frog is a homebrew NES platformer released in 2021. You play as a frog who can create a bubble in which the frog can use to traverse platforms.

MarioAtWork frogs their way through the game in record time.

Galf is a homebrew NES title from 2017. It originated as a mini-game featured in Golf Story for Nintendo Switch, where the player can play a retro style golf game. A limited release of Galf for NES was released by Limited Run Games, around the same time Golf Story had a physical release.

The game has 9 holes in total, with one of those holes being exclusive to the NES version. The Gameplay is similar to NES Golf with the only different being no view of the golfer themself.

Watch as Wipeoutjack7 soars through each course in record time!

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

Indivisible is an NES homebrew demake of the RPG/Metroidvania hybrid PC game of the same name. As this game is more of a proof-of-concept than a full-on demake, it lacks the RPG mechanics of the original. Nevertheless, the essential parts of the story are still intact, and the game comes with very well-flowing graphics even for a homebrew NES game.

FractalFusion opts to complete the game to "Clearest!" as fast as possible. "Clearest!" is basically completing it at 100%, which requires defeating the secret boss,

A boy named Satoshi suffers from a unique type of color blindness — he can only see in black and white. However, he also has a special ability to turn solid objects intangible and vice versa! But despite the amazing power he holds, Satoshi only wants to see like a normal boy. He seeks out an answer to his vision problem in a mystical manor called the Denine Devil Mansion, where he meets a scientist who offers him a game. If Satoshi wins, he might gain the ability to see in color. With that goal in mind, Satoshi accepts the offer and begins the Inversion game.

In each level, Satoshi must collect all of the keys to open the door to the next map. He can use his special ability to change the solidity of all objects in the level and reveal solutions to the game's many puzzles. Springs, moving platforms, vertical conveyor belts and levers can also be used to his advantage.

In this run, MESHUGGAH & jhztfs use a few tricks and a lot of precise movement to help Satoshi beat the game in record time. This run is 00:05.94 seconds faster than the previous version by MESHUGGAH.

You can watch the complete run being played back on a console.

Inversion is a homebrew game created by Lucas "Dizzy9" Kur. The goal of the game is to collect all of the keys from each map to open a door leading to the next level. The game also features a more challenging level set called the "Extra World", accessible by entering a password.

Here, MESHUGGAH and jhztfs play through the Extra World, using a few tricks and glitches as well as precision to beat this mode as quickly as possible. This run is faster than MESHUGGAH's previous version by 00:01.43 second.

We also have a run of Inversion's main mode.

You can watch the complete run being played back on a console.

KUBO is a homebrew NES game developed by a six-year old boy and his supportive father as part of a father and son summer project. You play as a cowboy turtle who must travel through a world full of monsters to retrieve a jewel. The game was programmed by the father using NESMaker and the designs were made by his son.

In this run, MarioAtWork exploits quirks in the NESMaker engine in order to beat the game in record time. Diagonal walking is not supposed to be possible, but a glitch called "drifting" makes it possible in all directions except the down-right direction. You can read the author's notes for more details.

You can get the game here.

KUBO is a homebrew NES game developed by a six-year old boy and his supportive father as part of a father and son summer project. You play as a cowboy turtle who must travel through a world full of monsters to retrieve a jewel. The game was programmed by the father using NESMaker and the designs were made by his son.

In this run, MarioAtWork completes the game as fast as possible using a secret warp point hidden in the first level. For more information on this warp, you can read this forum discussion.

You can get the game here.

KUBO 2: L'Aventurier Courageux (KUBO 2: The Brave Adventurer in English) is the sequel to homebrew NES game KUBO and was developed by the same father and son duo as the first one. This time, however, the son now has a hand in the level design in addition to the graphics. The story involves a cowboy turtle going into ancient pyramids and ruins in order to find a special gem that can save a nearby village from an unspecified calamity.

LogansGamingRoom, Samsara and ViGadeomes complete the game as fast as possible, going out of bounds at one point to save time, also saving 46 frames in the process.

You can get the game here.

KUBO 3 is the third game in the KUBO homebrew series and was made the same father and son duo as before. The story continues off from the second game, where after Kubo brings the special ruby to his village, he finds it suddenly being bombed by the nefarious Moglar. Kubo must now travel the world to find five gems that can keep his village safe and defeat Moglar and his partners in the process.

LogansGamingRoom saves 12 frames over their previous run by improving on the level 4 boss fight with a better damage boost strategy.

You can get the game here.

Le Manoir des Zombies, which translates to The Zombie Manor, is a homebrew NES from the same developer that gave you the KUBO series and SkateCat. You play as a tanuki that's on a quest to get his special magic item in an abandoned mansion in order to undo a curse. However, it is full of zombies and and other classic horror creatures, and you don't have any weapons to fight them off with. You must use your surroundings to fight them off and get your magic item back.

In this run, LogansGamingRoom completes this short game and becomes a human boy in record time.

You can get the game here.

Put on a lizard and go for an adventure!

Choose your lizard carefully. You can find six different ones scattered across the land, each with its own special ability.

You'll need these abilities as you make your difficult journey through many dangerous places. Carefully hop your way to the top of an active volcano. Surf down a surging river. Swim an underwater lake. Ascend a snowy mountaintop. What kind of strange creatures will you meet? Can you unravel the mysteries of Lizard?

juef improves his previous TAS by 35.84 seconds, thanks to a new route.

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

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Multidude is a homebrew puzzle game released on NES in 2014. There are 20 levels in this game. The goal in each level is to control and take each robot to an activated exit that hasn't been occupied by other robots.

You can watch the complete run being played back on a console.

Nalleland is a homebrew platformer for the NES about a small walking bear named Nalle. She decides to go out for an adventure but finds that the land around her is filled with monsters and hazards. Luckily, she has a special pin at her disposal that can allow her to defeat those monsters and safely traverse these hazards.

MarioAtWork decides to collect all the gems in this run, clipping through walls and skipping the final boss in the process.

You can play the game here.

Nalleland is a homebrew platformer for the NES about a small walking bear named Nalle. She decides to go out for an adventure but finds that the land around her is filled with monsters and hazards. Luckily, she has a special pin at her disposal that can allow her to defeat those monsters and safely traverse these hazards.

For this run, MarioAtWork plays the "Floor is Lava" mode, which makes touching the floor lethal to Nalle. Nonetheless, the floor is safely touched at points anyway and the game is beaten in record time.

You can play the game here.

Nalleland is a homebrew platformer for the NES about a small walking bear named Nalle. She decides to go out for an adventure but finds that the land around her is filled with monsters and hazards. Luckily, she has a special pin at her disposal that can allow her to defeat those monsters and safely traverse these hazards.

MarioAtWork improves their previous TAS by 1.49 seconds, thanks to a different route.

You can play the game here.

NeSnake 2 is a homebrew game made by MatrixZ in the style of the classic game Snake.

This run by MESHUGGAH and alyosha showcases the only way a Snake game can be TASed for the fastest time. Guess what happens!

This is an 80 frame improvement over the previous movie.

As the heavy amount of luck manipulation done in this TAS is not readily apparent, a secondary YouTube encode is provided that displays the inputs.

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

"It was the best dinner ever!"

Nim & Nom is an NES homebrew game released in 2018, about lizards with an eating disorder. In this run, kaizoman666 goes through the game's 2-player co-op mode.

You can watch the complete run being played back on a console.

Overclocked is a very short and superficially simple homebrew NES platformer that was developed for the ByteOff! 2020 Game Jam. You control a mouse cursor, and your goal is to get to the floppy disk on the other side of the level. A second player can also control the floppy disk itself and both of you can work together to make contact. However, if you or the second player doesn't move in a certain way the game dictates, both of you will be reset to your starting positions. Sounds frustrating, doesn't it?

LogansGamingRoom nevertheless masters the rules and completes the game using only one controller in record time.

You can get the game here.

Rescue Time is an NES homebrew game that takes inspiration from time-travel stories, specifically Back to the Future. The story starts with a genius named Austin using a time machine he built to send his friend Joe into the past. However, he is unable to bring back Joe with the machine himself and decides to send a boy named SJ to the past with a personal time-traveling watch that's powered by NES cartridges. It's now up to SJ to rescue Joe before his watch runs out of power and sends him back to the present.

With the help of a warp spot, LogansGamingRoom and ShesChardcore prevent a time paradox from happening in record time.

You can get the game here.

SkateCat is an upcoming homebrew NES game about a radical skateboarding cat. Demons are crawling around the city, and it's up to SkateCat to stop them with his trusty skateboard while avoiding the giant piles of poo that litter the streets.

The content shown in this run is a demo that contains only the first level and a boss. LogansGamingRoom plays through this demo as fast as possible.

You can get the demo here.

Inspired by the Action 52 game of the same name, Streemerz is a NES port (by thefox) of a Flash game made for the "Action 52 Owns" game jam by Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee. It is remade in Bionic Commando style, with grappling hook usage and all. This run plays through "Superb Joe mode", a time trial mode of sorts, and finishes with an in-game time of 0:45.49.

The author, MESHUGGAH, also improves his previous movie by 00:00.32 seconds thanks to better optimization and lag reduction.

There is also a run that completes the game in "Streeeeemerz Mode" by adelikat, Aglar, Noxxa, Really_Tall and Samsara.

Inspired by the Action 52 game of the same name, Streemerz is a NES port (by thefox) of a Flash game made for the "Action 52 Owns" game jam by Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee. This run plays through "Streeeeemerz Mode", which, as the name implies, features gameplay closer to VVVVVV.

It originally started with Noxxa's winning run of the SGDQ 2015 speed TAS competition organized by dwangoAC, which resulted in some interesting top-10 comparison encodes. Later, adelikat, Aglar, Really_Tall and Samsara joined the party after finding many improvements throughout the run as described in the submission comments.

There is also a run that completes the game in "Superb Joe" mode by MESHUGGAH.

This is Super Bat Puncher. You take control of Captain Roast of the Bat Excommunication and Eradication Force (or BEEF), who travels to Planet BAT to punch some bats. You get a boxing glove for that which can also be used to boost yourself off of walls, inviting various speed tricks. You also get a little bird companion called Sir Loin who can be controlled by the second player. He's used occasionally in order to manipulate bats or kill out of the way enemies. Further details are outlined in the author's comments.

Super Bat Puncher is a homebrew game for the NES by Morphcat, with music composed by Dave Harris. This TAS aims to complete two loops of the demo version of the game, using a bonus item that can only be obtained after the game has been completed once.

You can watch the complete run being played back on a console.

The Arm Wrestling Classic is a homebrew game for the NES that revolves around arm wrestling. You are Barry Biceps, an up and coming rookie who aspires to rise up the ranks and become the arm wrestling champion. Challenge people in places such people's backyards, school gyms, unused '80s parking garages, and a proper arena, and boost your strength in between matches by doing push-ups and pumping iron.

MarioAtWork in this run becomes the world arm snapper champion in record time.

You can get the game here.

Play alone or with a friend as you help Kaylee–and her brother, Justice–run, jump, duck, and climb their way out of perilous mines and up a massive tower! Collect gold, uncover diamonds, reveal secrets, and unlock new characters as you traverse the treacherous terrain and avoid the creepy crawlies that lie ahead!

The Cowlitz Gamers' 2nd Adventure is an indie platform game released by M-Tee for the NES in 2018, in which you must collect all the gold nuggets to advance to the next stage. In this run, Alyosha uses 2 players to beat the game as fast as possible.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

The Drunk Time Traveler's Fiancée is a homebrew NES platformer that was created for the ByteOff! 2020 Game Jam. You play as Mikey McMike, who wakes after a crazy night with a hangover and hours before his wedding starts. As he is about to reach his fiancée, he suddenly get sucked into a wormhole and lands in a different time period. It's up to you to get Mikey back to his proper time so he can get married properly.

In this run, MarioAtWork beats the game in record time by exploiting a glitch where a hole opens up in the middle of the screen that allows them to warp across levels and to the end screen.

You can get the game here.

The Ninja of the Four Seasons is an NES homebrew platformer about a person to aims to be the best ninja by progressing through the four seasons of the year. Along the way, this ninja will encounter various enemies that impede their journey, including samurai guards and huge sumo wrestlers. What will be at this journey's end?

MarioAtWork completes the game in record time, skipping a large portion by going out of bounds.

The Tower of Turmoil is a homebrew screen-to-screen platformer created in 2019. The mad alchemist Drake Voldenar has suddenly erected the titular Tower of Turmoil, threatening to consume the world with dark energy. It's now up to Takemaru Kurumana and his trusty Sword of Divinity to stop him and prevent the destruction of the world.

MarioAtWork, MrTASer, and EZGames69 collaborate together for this run to beat the game as fast as they can, and with a few tricks up their sleeves.

You can get the game here.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

The Wit.nes is an NES demake of the 2016 puzzle game "The Witness". The game features a various collection of grid puzzles, with each one unlocking a new puzzle or a new area on the map. Some puzzles will have different symbols that signify different ways a puzzle has to be solved, such as separating colored dots or drawing different shapes with each line.

Despite being fully playable and having the support of Jonathan Blow (the creator of the original game), The Wit.nes was only released as a demo and never saw further updates.

FractalFusion improves on the predecessor movie by 00:00.72 seconds via new routing and largely thanks to a new solution proposed by I have no name to one of the puzzles. In addition to a faster completion time, this run has a side-goal of making as many 90-degree turns as possible, which ended up being 315 (see the submission notes for more details).

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

Tiger Jenny is an unfinished NES homebrew game that serves as a prequel to Ittle Dew. Taking place 1000 years before Ittle Dew, you play as Jenny Tiger, a legendary warrior who unfortunately met her demise in a toothbrush incident. She must fight and defeat the Lichious Turnip, the leader of the Turnip race that threatens Jenny's race. Jenny initially starts out with a very short ball and chain for a weapon, but it can be upgraded to be longer, making it resemble the Vampire Killer from Castlevania.

The game doesn't actually have a proper ending as the final boss, the Lichious Turnip, didn't have a battle encounter programmed for him. Nevertheless, MarioAtWork and ThunderAxe31 reach the Lichious Turnip in record time.

Trials of the Wolf Clan: The Wolf Spirit is a homebrew platformer where a legendary wolf must cleanse an evil spirit that has cursed the world. The version shown in this run is a demo, with a full version in development.

MarioAtWork saves 72.9 seconds over their previous run by skipping past a miniboss and skipping most of the autoscrolling level by walking past the eagle and straight to the end of the level.

You can get the game here.

Underground Adventure is an NES homebrew game made for the 2019 NESmaker Byte-Off Competition. It has a simple setting of two guys finding a cave that leads to an underground maze full of gems and monsters. They must then collect as many gems as they can under a time limit, avoid (or kill with a special item) any monsters along the way, and go back the way they came.

MarioAtWork decides to just clip through the bottom of the screen and glitch their way back to the exit, beating the game in record time.

You can get the game here.

AMOK! is a homebrew Odyssey2 game, developed by John Dondzila and published in 1998 - the first O2 game to be released in 15 years after the console was initially discontinued. As with many later O2 homebrew games, it also had a limited cartridge release.

The gameplay has been likened to that of arcade classic Berzerk. The player has to shoot their way through enemy robots in top-down maze-like rooms and make their way to the exit. The walls are also electrified hazards, and running into one is instant death.

Noxxa completes one loop of the game in record time, while shooting as many targets as possible to reach a high score as a secondary goal.

It's the year 33XXX, and aliens have stolen Olivia Run's Sega Master System, and she wants it back. Oh, and they also killed her boyfriend and emptied her fridge. That is the plot of Galactic Revenge, a homebrew platformer that plays similarly to Gremlins 2: The New Batch.

Watch as Darkman425 jumps across conveyor belts, deftly takes care of any robots and aliens he sees, and trades life points for more speed in order to beat the game in record time.

You can download a ROM of the game here.

Christmas Craze is a Christmas-themed homebrew platformer created for the SNES that looks similar to Mario Bros. Aliens have stolen Christmas presents in a city that were meant for children and hid them in the city park, probably for safekeeping, as they plan to escape the planet with them. Santa's little helpers now have to get the presents back so that they go back to under the trees of all the city children who behaved well. In addition to a one player mode that follows this story, there is also a competitive two player mode where the one that gets the most presents wins.

MarioAtWork controls both elves in this two player run and has them collect an equal amount of presents, doing so in record time.

You can get the game here.

Skipp and Friends: Unexpected Journey is a homebrew puzzle game for the SNES starring three furry friends: Skipp, Wedge, and Apple. They have been kidnapped by aliens, and it's only with their special abilities that they can escape and return home before time runs out. Think of the gameplay as like The Lost Vikings, but with a faux-isometric view and single-player only.

Dacicus utilizes a rather deep understanding of the game's mechanics and bugs to complete the game as fast as possible. You can read their notes here and watch a video of the same run with an included status display for each character here.