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Published on 3/31/2023
Frogger is the classic game where you must lead five frogs in each level across a road and a river to the safety of their homes while avoiding hazards like cars and trucks, crocodiles, and a venomous snake.
eien86 saves 10 seconds over the previous run through the use of a scripted bot to help find the quickest and most optimal solutions to each level.
To see another port of the original arcade game beaten quickly, see the MSX version run. We also have a run of the sequel to the original game.
Game:
Frogger

Genres:
Action
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.8

Published on 6/25/2022
Barbarian is a game developed and published by Psygnosis in 1987. As a barbarian, the player is tasked to navigate through dungeons filled with enemies and traps. Gameplay is done via on-screen icons that can be selected with the mouse, joystick or the function keys, which, suffice to say, isn't the best control scheme for this genre.
eien86 braces through the control scheme and reaches the end in record time.

There is also an alternate YouTube stream featuring audio commentary by the author.
Game:
Barbarian

Genres:
Platformer
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Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
libTAS 1.4.3 + PCem 17+st-1 + Late '80s Package

Published on 5/28/2023
Another World, known as Out of This World in North America and Outer World in Japan, is a cinematic platformer that was originally created for the Amiga and Atari ST computers and was later ported to other computers and video game consoles. It was widely known as a watershed moment for cinematic gaming and computer graphics, having an epic scale to its setting and utilizing rotoscoped vector graphics. The story involves a young physicist named Lester Knight Chaykin, who gets involved in a particle accelerator accident and soon finds himself in an alien world. Lester must now find a way to escape the planet and return to Earth.
This time, eien86 escapes from the world in the DOS port in record time.
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Compatibility MP4
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LibTAS 1.4.4 + PCem 17+st-1 + Late 90's Config

Published on 4/2/2023
In this timeless classic, the tyrant Jaffar has seized power and has forced Sultan's daughter to marry him. Jordan Mechner's brother David, the brave youth who is a prisoner in Jaffar's dungeons, must rescue her within 60 minutes. Little does poor Jaffar know that he will be defeated in a fifth of the intended time.
eien86 improves his previous movie by 10 seconds in in-game time, pushing it down to less than 12 minutes on the in-game timer. Please read the author's comments for more details on the improvements.

The author has also made a commentary video that you can watch here.

Published on 2/10/2024
In this timeless classic, the tyrant Jaffar has seized power and has forced Sultan's daughter to marry him. Jordan Mechner's brother David, the brave youth who is a prisoner in Jaffar's dungeons, must rescue her within 60 minutes.
This time, eien86 aims to defeat every single enemy in the game and also drinks every potion in the regular stages and rescues the princess in a little less than half an hour.

Published on 8/3/2022
Out of This World, also known as Another World in Europe, is a strange and difficult game. Originally released on the Amiga, it would see several ports on other consoles, including SNES and Genesis. After a failed experiment, young scientist Lester gets transported to an alien planet. With the help of a fellow prisoner (named "buddy", or as many on the internet call him: "Mike Aruba"), Lester tries to find a way to escape a place that is out of this world.
eien86 escapes another world in record time.

Published on 10/12/2021
After having defeated the evil Grand Vizier Jaffar, the brave Prince claimed just one reward: the hand of the beautiful daughter of the Persian Sultan. However, as the Prince approached the palace, his appearance suddenly turned into that of a beggar. Someone who looked just like the Prince ordered to throw him out. It turns out that Jaffar is alive and back for vengeance. Banished from the palace, the unfortunate Prince must travel to faraway lands and find a way to defeat the villain.
eien86 rescues the princess from Jaffar's evil clutches in record time.

Note: in order to playback this movie, you need to apply a patch fix to the rom that fixes a bug where jumping on the horse doesn't bring you to the next stage, you can download that ISP here

Published on 6/11/2023
Arkanoid (1987) strongly resembles the arcade game Breakout (1976). In Arkanoid, the paddle is actually a spaceship, and the bricks are space walls. The goal of the game is to break through the space walls and defeat the villainous Doh in order to escape from the space labyrinth.
eien86 improves the previous TAS by 15.06 seconds, thanks to better optimisation.

Published on 6/11/2023
This run exploits a programming error that allows the author to start playing from level 23. If you notice that there's nothing meaningful going on in the first minute of the movie, this is normal: the actual gameplay takes place only after triggering the "game over" screen.
eien86 improves the previous TAS by 3.03 seconds, thanks to better optimisation.

Published on 9/25/2022

Published on 12/31/2022
Simon is taking another shot at this castle, but feeling horrible for the destruction he caused last time, he is now trying to respect Dracula's property and leave the place untouched (even if his intention is to kill the count).
As a minimalist variation of a pacifist goal, this movie does not contain any destruction in the levels: candles and walls are left intact, items stay untouched, and no enemy is harmed — with the exception of the bosses, who are killed mercilessly with the help of the "critical hit" glitch.
With Simon sneaking by most enemies with no subweapons and only his leather whip, this ends up being quite a stealthy run.
eien86 & Challenger improve the previous run by 12.3 seconds, thanks to better optimization with the scroll glitch, a new route within the caves, better boss battles which allowed obtaining the orb early, and removal of lag frames.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Published on 9/9/2023
Galaga: Demons of Death is Namco's first major video game hit in the arcades. The player must destroy these alien ships that are shaped like bug creatures and avoid their projectiles.
Watch as eien86 completes a full cycle of stages whilst taking care of the alien bugs in record time.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.9

Published on 9/23/2022
The valiant knight Kuros, who has now grown eyeballs on the outside of his helmet, must again fight off the evil wizard Malkil. This task is accomplished mainly by finding an artifact in every level, giving it to a corresponding oversized animal to get into the level boss' lair, and promptly beating him up with a level-specific attack spell. However, this run manages to use a glitch to keep the attack spell for several levels instead of losing it at the level's end.
This is an improvement of 5.2 seconds over the previous TAS thanks to a new technique used for beating the final boss and the usage of a brute force bot.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Published on 5/26/2023
Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Super Off Road is a top-down racing game that was initially released as an arcade game and was later ported to systems such as the NES, SNES, and Atari Lynx. With the endorsement of off-road racer Ivan "Ironman" Stewart himself, you race against other cars in various off-road tracks and collect items on the tracks that can improve your car such as extra turbo boosts. You can win a certain amount of money from each race, and with that money you can spend it on upgrades for your car.
In this run, eien86 completes all 99 race tracks in this game in record time with the use of a program called JaffarPlus, allowing him to manipulate the RNG into giving him as many turbos and money drops on the track as possible.

Published on 7/1/2023
Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing is a licensed Formula One racing game that was initially released for Amiga computers and later ported to other system such as the NES, Game Boy, and ZX Spectrum. Choose your racer's name and nationality and race against others on Formula One cars on various tracks to be the world champion. Before each race, you can customize parts of your car for more personalized controls. However, be aware of how worn out your tires can get as that can affect how well you can control your car and number of times you have to make pit stops.
In this run, eien86 completes all 16 races as fast as possible with the help of a program called JaffarPlus, which minimized tire wear as much as possible.

Published on 7/6/2022
Ninja Gaiden involves an ultra superior ninja, capable of defying the laws of physics by climbing through walls, making dogs explode with his sword, and all while beating bad guys in record time.
After nearly 6 years, better knowledge of the game's emulation, and intensive bot-driven-exploration, this collaborative run by eien86 and Scumtron improves the previous movie by 1 frame.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.
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Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 8/22/2022
Ninja Gaiden is a classic action NES title known for its difficulty, starring famous ninja Ryu Hayabusa as its main protagonist. Ryu has just learned that his father has recently gone missing after being defeated in a dual against his rival. He must now take up his sword and avenge his father, all the while encountering government conspiracies and supernatural events.
In this run, a group of authors decide to eschew the usual ninja methods of killing anything that wants to hurt you and go for a pacifist run, only killing when necessary to progress. To accomplish this, the RNG was heavily manipulated and glitches were abused to skip as many fights as possible and reduce the number of enemies encountered. For more information, you can read the authors' notes here.

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 11/6/2022

Published on 7/24/2023
Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos, as known in Japan as Ninja Ryuukenden II: Ankoku no Jashin Ken (忍者龍剣伝II 暗黒の邪神剣), is the sequel to the original NES game Ninja Gaiden and one of the hardest games for the console. It takes place a year after the first game, where Ashtar continues Jaquio's goal of taking over the world and kidnaps Irene Law to further his plans. Ryu Hayabusa must now find Irene and stop Ashtar before demons and darkness spread everywhere again.
For this run, eien86 opts to go for a pacifist approach, only killing when its necessary to progress. In addition, he also follows a rule where none of the red spheres spread throughout the game can be touched. A program called JaffarPlus was used to facilitate in the creation of this run.

Published on 4/23/2023
Pac-Man features the cultural yellow dot icon in his classic maze game being chased by ghosts. This first overseas console release in 1988 was licensed by Nintendo and published by Tengen.
Watch as eien86 completes a full cycle of mazes by collecting all dots in the 20 mazes, while avoiding the ghosts Blinky, Pinky, Inky and of course Clyde in record time.
Game:
Pac-Man

Genres:
Puzzle
Strategy
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 5/2/2022
This is the NES version of the first game in the popular Prince of Persia series. The hero must escape out of the palace dungeons in order to defeat Jaffar and save the princess from certain death.
eien86 saves 56.01 seconds over the previous run through the use of a special program that discovered new skips and optimized the run overall. A detailed list of improvements is in the submission notes.
We also have runs of the SNES, Genesis, Sega CD, and TurboGrafx-CD ports, as well as a run that just completes the SNES training levels.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.7

Published on 11/13/2022
R.C. Pro-Am II is the sequel to R.C. Pro-Am by Rare. The biggest addition to the game is multiplayer, allowing up to four players to race against each other with the use of the NES Four Score accessory. Another difference is that instead of power-ups and weapons you can pick up on the track, you pick up money that can be used to purchase power-ups at a store in-between races. However, you can still collect rare letters that can spell out a word that can give you power-ups.
FatRatKnight and eien86 play the single player mode and complete all the tracks in first place, setting record times with the help of a brute-force bot to both find the fastest path and to manipulate the chance of getting the Letters so that power-ups can be collected as soon as possible. You can read the authors' notes for more details.
Game:
R.C. Pro-Am II

Genres:
Racing
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 8/4/2023
Saint Seiya: Ougon Densetsu (聖闘士星矢 黄金伝説), known in France as Les Chevaliers du Zodiaque: La Légende d'Or is an RPG based on the popular shounen anime series Saint Seiya. This title covers the Galactic wars, Silver saints as well as the Sanctuary sagas (although at the point the game was released, this particular saga was not published yet, and as such, the developers had to improvise a possible ending of it), and is the first official Saint Seiya video game that was ever released.
eien86 and TaoTao exploit a glitch in the character select screen, allowing them to skip 4 boss fights and reach the end of the Sanctuary arc in record time. Please read the authors' comments for more details.
Warning: This game contains scenes with flashing lights (notably during the fights) that are not suitable to those with photosensitivity issues.

Published on 7/23/2023
Saint Seiya: Ougon Densetsu Kanketsu Hen (聖闘士星矢 黄金伝説 完結編, lit. Saint Seiya: Golden Legend - Final Chapter) is a video game adaptation of the shounen manga series Saint Seiya for the Famicom, of which the prequel (Saint Seiya: Ougon Densetsu) saw an official French release on the NES titled Les Chevaliers du Zodiaque: La Légende d'Or. It is a RPG/beat 'em up hybrid that adapts the Twelve Temples arc from the manga, where the Bronze Saints have to save Saori Kido from a fatal injury by finding the Pope, the only one that can heal her. To do this, the Bronze Saints must cross the Twelve Temples of the Zodiac, each one guarded by a Gold Saint. The sections where the player goes to the temple is shown as a side-scrolling beat 'em up and the fights with the Gold Saints are played like a turn-based RPG.
eien86 in this run breezes through all the Gold Saints, discovers the mystery behind the Pope, and saves Saori in record time.

Warning: This game contains scenes with flashing lights that are not suitable to those with photosensitivity issues.
There is also a commentary video from the author that explains the mechanics of the game and provides an English translation.

Published on 10/28/2022
Solar Jetman is a space adventure game where the main excitement comes from the physics of the game. In the game, you explore planets with a small module you fly around, towing fuel tanks and other artifacts back to the mother ship, often from planets with a ridiculous level of gravity and narrow hazardous caverns. Anyone who has played this game surely knows how difficult it can be, while being entertaining for hours after hours.
No passwords were used in this movie, although a few warps were used to skip stages.
This run by ktwo and eien86 saves around 3.5 minutes over the previous run thanks to the use of a brute-force bot to find the triggers for a double warp in the first world and a glitch involving the final boss, among other optimizations. For more details, you can read the authors' notes.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Published on 3/30/2023
Superfast Mario Bros. is a romhack of the original Super Mario Bros. game that can only be described as a chaotic experience. The game speed has been jacked up to ludicrous levels; the frame rule is now 1 frame instead of 21, and transitions are instant. And despite all that, the romhack is surprisingly playable, albeit barely. Not that it matters in a TAS setting, that is.
eien86 and Denial140 improve the previous movie by 1.13 seconds, thanks to better optimisation as well as new tricks.

Note: This hack can be very glitchy visually and occasionally have moments of flashing lights that may be uncomfortable to some viewers.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Game Version:
SMB1fast.nes
Tags:
Uses warps
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 5/31/2023
Superfast Mario Bros. is a romhack of the original Super Mario Bros. game which can only be described as chaotic experience. The game speed has been jacked up extremely high, as well as framerules being reduced to 1 frame rather than 21, transitions are instant, and yet the game is still somehow playable. Not that it matters in a TAS setting that is.
eien86 improves on the previous run by 4 seconds thanks to a couple of new strategies and the use of a program called JaffarPlus, which found lots of optimizations.

Note: This hack can be very visually glitchy and occasionally have moments of flashing lights which may be uncomfortable to some viewers.

Watch a resync of this run being played back on a real console.
Game Version:
SMB1fast.nes
Tags:
Forgoes warps
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9

Published on 10/27/2022
Tennis is just as the name implies, Tennis. The game where one whacks a ball back and forth over a net to their opponent who has to make sure it doesn't double bounce on the ground (as long as the first bounce hits the play zone).
In this TAS, eien86 absolutely embarrasses his opponent by making them miss every single serve back at him in record time.
Game:
Tennis

Genres:
Sport
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 5/20/2023
Another World, known as Out of This World in North America and Outer World in Japan, is a cinematic platformer that was originally created for the Amiga and Atari ST computers and was later ported to other computers and video game consoles. It was widely known as a watershed moment for cinematic gaming and computer graphics, having an epic scale to its setting and utilizing rotoscoped vector graphics. The story involves a young physicist named Lester Knight Chaykin, who gets involved in a particle accelerator accident and soon finds himself in an alien world. Lester must now find a way to escape the planet and return to Earth.
eien86 improves on the previous run by about 9 seconds with the help of an intensive bot called JaffarPlus. You can find more details in these author notes.

Published on 12/29/2023
Another version of Prince of Persia... it has quite good music.
The gymnastic master, the future prince of Persia, defies the odds and beats this game in record time.
Interestingly, this game only animates at around 12-20 fps (15 fps on average), contrary to most SNES games, which animate at 60 fps.


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