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Published on 6/26/2008
Kirby is a little round thing, and like Sonic, makes for an excellent pinball. Kirby must navigate through three boards to defeat his usual foes by knocking into them repeatedly, with the help of traditional pinball flippers.
This movie skips most of the normal pinball aspects of the game and goes right to the bosses. Clever luck manipulation is used to position them perfectly for optimal damage from Kirby.

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Published on 1/27/2013
Hikaru no Go was published serially in "Weekly Shonen Jump" for "NARUTO" and the same period. And the animated cartoon was produced as well as "NARUTO" by "Studio Pierrot". When the comic was serialized, "the game of Go" became a boom among children in Japan.
This movie is highly recommended for those who know the Go game, because it does play around with AI, making it do the most absurd moves possible, which still serves the main goal - speed.
Game:
Hikaru no Go

Genres:
Strategy
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Published on 6/18/2009
This is the JPN version of EarthBound Beginnings (also known as Mother (マザー) ). As the first version of the game, it has a number of useful glitches; this run abuses the way the game handles the "Bread crumbs" item to warp off the edge of reality and casually walk straight into the final boss's lair.
We also have a more normal run of the localized version, which doesn't include this glitch.

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Published on 9/19/2010
This is the JPN version of EarthBound Beginnings (also known as Mother (マザー) ). As the first version of the game, it has a number of useful glitches; this run abuses the way the game handles the "Bread crumbs" item to warp off the edge of reality and casually walk straight into the final boss's lair two and a half minutes faster than the previous run.
We also have a more normal run of the localized version, which doesn't include this glitch.

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Published on 7/27/2015
Final Fantasy II is the original Japanese sequel to Final Fantasy. It is not to be confused with Final Fantasy IV for the SNES, which was renamed "Final Fantasy II" in North America.
The game introduces chocobos and an activity-based progression system, in which the characters' statistics increase depending on how they are used or acquired.
This movie by pirohiko demonstrates multiple major glitches that allow the game to be completed in an impressively short time. For more details, we recommend reading the author's comments.

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Published on 2/5/2011
Final Fantasy III for NES was released only in Japan.
In this movie, the author enlists the help of Missingno utilizes some creative glitches to breeze through the game. Reading the author's comments and our game resources page before watching it is highly recommended.

Commentary on this run can be found in the soft subtitles of the encodes.

Published on 5/21/2014
Mega Man is the first game in the famous series that now comprises games on many different systems as well as several television shows and comic books.
While the other run of this game uses lots of tricks to reach the ending impressively quickly, pirohiko and FinalFighter decided it just wasn't fast enough. In this run, they manipulate an object to appear which allows them to execute arbitrary code and warp to the credits, all using only controller input. For an advanced explanation of how it works, check out the submission text.
Watch this run on a real console (played back on the US version).

Published on 3/14/2020
On this site, we make perfect movies, and then we surpass them. Of course, if we can surpass them, they were not perfect in the first place, but who would have known?
When "perfection" is defined as "as fast as possible", it requires some sacrifices. Indeed, this movie sacrifices a lot in the playability of the game. Full of tricks to pass through walls, tricks to avoid mandatory battles, tricks to pass through enemies relatively unharmed, tricks to acquire weapon refills in little time — there is very little in this movie left that resembles normal playing. Even death is used as a viable playing strategy that saves time. All of the tricks are still performed by the means of mere controller input, even though significant portions of the input were calculated by a computer program.
This movie improves the previous movie by a tremendous 2 minutes and 37.99 seconds, thanks to a new route and better optimisation. Please read the authors' comments for more details.
Of course, upon watching this movie, one does have to question something... is it Mega Man saving the world? Or Dr. Wily trying to save it from absolute destruction?

The second set of encodes leads to a version where the graphics have been fixed.

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Published on 1/13/2009
Mega Man 2 is a game that hardly needs any introduction. This movie plays Rockman 2, the Japanese version, which is essentially Mega Man 2 in difficult mode.
This new movie, played by Shinryuu, but assisted by TaoTao, pirohiko and finalfighter, is about 28 seconds faster than the previous movie by Shinryuu. Major and phenomenal changes to the previous movie were performed in the CrashClashman, Bubbleman, Woodman and Wily1 stages. Some of these took several years to plan and to carry out.
Other new tricks were also used.
See Rockman Tricks and the submission message for in-depth explanation and answers to various questions regarding this movie.

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Published on 8/22/2009
Mega Man 2 is a game that hardly needs any introduction. This movie plays Rockman 2, the Japanese version, which is essentially Mega Man 2 in difficult mode.
This is an improvement of about 37 seconds over the authors' previous effort; nearly 30 seconds of which come from a complete overhaul (and mutilation) of the Wood Man stage.
See Rockman Tricks and the submission message for in-depth explanation and answers to various questions regarding this movie.

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Published on 10/18/2010
Mega Man 2 is a game that hardly needs any introduction. This movie plays Rockman 2, the Japanese version, which is essentially Mega Man 2 in difficult mode.
This is an improvement of 6.24 seconds over the previous run through a variety of small tweaks.
See Rockman Tricks and the submission message for in-depth explanation and answers to various questions regarding this movie.
You can also see this run played back on a real NES with an input display!

Published on 5/19/2013
Crash Bandicoot is the first game in a seminal series for the PlayStation.
Utilizing zigzag movement and other new tricks, pirohiko improves the previous movie by a staggering 09:09.65, leaving Neo Cortex wondering just what kind of flying bandicoot on a double espresso he set on the loose. For details on the new tricks, differences between the USA and JPN versions, and the strategies used, reading the author's comments is recommended.
A second YouTube stream is available with an informative overlay that the author used while creating the run. The latter pair of encodes and torrents provides high quality 480p encodes improved for 3D.

Published on 4/16/2010
This is the second in a series of seminal platformers for the PlayStation, with very similar gameplay to its predecessor.
A normal run of this game takes a rather long time to complete. However, by using a bug that corrupts the memory when jumping on top of an unbreakable box, the author gathers the crystals necessary to advance to the next set of stages unbelievably quickly, leaving only the bosses to make quick work of.

Note for viewers: The PSX emulator PCSX-RR is unable to play most sounds from this title. Thanks to the efforts in resyncing every second encode link leads to an audio restored version.

Published on 8/14/2017
Crash Bandicoot: Warped is the third game of the Crash Bandicoot series developed by Naughty Dog. The story takes place immediately after the events of the previous game. It features similar gameplay to the first two games in the series.
This run from pirohiko improves upon the previous publication by 02:37.62 minutes, thanks to a newer route compared to the previous publication.

Published on 2/4/2014
Tobal 2 is a 3D fighting game developed by Dream Factory and released by Square in Japan in 1997. Unlike its predecessor, Tobal No. 1, this game was not released in North America or PAL regions. There are four modes in the game: Tournament, VS, Training, and Quest.
In Quest mode, dungeons as well as a whole town are freely explorable. It also features role-playing elements and the ability to capture encountered monsters and use them as playable characters in VS Mode. This brings the amount of playable characters in this game to as high as 200.
In this run, pirohiko uses movement glitches and speedy fighting tactics to beat Quest Mode surprisingly fast.

Published on 1/4/2019
Tobal 2 is a 3D fighting game developed by Dream Factory and released by Square in Japan in 1997. Unlike its predecessor, Tobal No. 1, this game was not released in North America or PAL regions. There are four modes in the game: Tournament, VS, Training, and Quest.
This time, pirohiko plays through the Tournament mode in record time.
We also have a movie that plays through Quest mode.

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Published on 6/13/2009
EarthBound is a great RPG, designed by Shigesato Itoi in 1994-1995, and is also known by the name Mother 2.
It is best described as "random", in a good way. The game has a great emphasis on a humor, and indeed many things in the game are almost caricatured, from subplots to characters. It also has a versatile soundtrack.
Our description for the previous movie stated, "Although this being a speedrun (tool-assisted at that), most of the plot of the game is intact...". This time around, not so much. Thanks to some collision detection bugs, including one that shows that the Skip Sandwich is a fitting name for the item in ways the developers never intended, the author is able to move around the game's areas freely, completing the bare minimum number of tasks needed to keep the final battle from locking up.
Also unlike the previous movie, this one does use a death as a shortcut. However, the teddy bear survives this time around.

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Published on 9/28/2010
EarthBound is a great RPG, designed by Shigesato Itoi in 1994-1995, and is also known by the name Mother 2.
It is best described as "random", in a good way. The game has a great emphasis on a humor, and indeed many things in the game are almost caricatured, from subplots to characters. It also has a versatile soundtrack.
pirohiko and mugg made a movie that is 39:18.83 faster than pirohiko's other Earthbound run, by entering a debug menu by doing a glitch inside the Boogey Tent. This debug menu cannot normally be accessed except through this glitch on the Japanese version, or Game Genie codes.

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Published on 1/9/2012
EarthBound, also known as Mother 2, is a great RPG, designed by Shigesato Itoi in 1994-1995. It is best described as "random," but in a good way. The game has a great emphasis on humor; indeed, many things in the game are almost caricatured, from subplots to characters. It also has a versatile soundtrack.
MUGG and pirohiko improved their previous TAS by 21:40.35 by finding a faster and more reliable method to access the debug menu and using it to skip most of the game, including the credits.
Game:
EarthBound

Genres:
RPG
Emulator Replay:
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Published on 10/17/2013
EarthBound, also known as Mother 2, is a great RPG, designed by Shigesato Itoi in 1994-1995. It is best described as "random", but in a good way. The game has a great emphasis on humor; indeed, many things in the game are almost caricatured, from subplots to characters. It also has a versatile soundtrack.
Pirohiko improved the previous TAS by almost 5 minutes by resetting at precisely the right time to corrupt the SRAM and skip most of the game, including the credits.

The second YouTube encode includes a scrolling input display.

Published on 2/28/2014
Final Fantasy IV, renamed to Final Fantasy II in North America, was a role-playing game that revolutionized the genre. It was the first Final Fantasy title to introduce the Active Time Battle system and one of the first RPGs to feature a complex, involving plot.
In this TAS, pirohiko blazes through the game in under two hours using a host of tricks, glitches, and battle strategies. We recommend reading the author's comments for more information on the route used.

A second YouTube stream is available with an informative overlay that the author used while creating the run.

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Published on 4/30/2018
Final Fantasy V is probably the least known of the Final Fantasy series on the SNES, because it was never published in the USA (PS1 port and GBA remake aside).
Through save corruption, game-breaking glitches and heavy glitch abuse eventually leading to arbitrary code execution, pirohiko ends the game in less than 11 minutes. Please read the author's comments for more details.

Published on 9/29/2019
Final Fantasy V is probably the least known of the Final Fantasy series on the SNES, because it was never published in the USA (PS1 port and GBA remake aside).
pirohiko improves the previous game end glitch TAS by 3 minutes and 14.16 seconds, thanks to a new route leading to arbitrary code execution. Please read the author's comments for more details.

Published on 4/29/2017
Final Fantasy VI (renamed to Final Fantasy III in North American publication) is arguably the most famous RPG on the SNES console.
This run by Keylie, eddie, pirohiko and Kadmony improves on the previous movie by 08:21.29.
For more details, we recommend reading the authors' detailed comments.

The second YouTube stream cuts almost all the game overs out, only leaving the first and the last one.
Downloadable encodes have the authors' commentary as soft subtitles.

Published on 9/4/2009
Kirby's Avalanche is a Tetris-based game where you go through Dreamland, fighting various opponents from the Kirby games. Your goal is to become the Avalanche champion.
Game:
Kirby's Avalanche

Genres:
Puzzle
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Published on 9/21/2009
Puyo Puyo is an extremely popular puzzle game series in Japan that originated as spinoff of Madou Monogatari. By making a chain of 4 or more Puyo's, they explode and deliver garbage onto the opponent's screen.
This run of Super Puyo Puyo 2 produces combos strong enough to completely overwhelm the competition every time.
The previous entry in the series, Puyo Puyo, has been localized under other names such as Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine and Kirby's Avalanche with different themes, but the gameplay remains the same.
Game:
Super Puyo Puyo 2

Genres:
Puzzle
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Published on 3/17/2014
Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom is an RPG from the well-known Wizardry series of games. Normally, these games are very long. However, in keeping with the TASVideos tradition of making long RPG runs short, this run reaches the ending in a little over a minute through extensive glitching of the inventory. See the author's comments for more information.
For more Wizardry runs, see the first game, the second game, and the third game.

The primary encode for this run has subtitles from the author. If you want even more information available when the run is playing, see the author's own encode with subtitles, memory watch and map on YouTube.

Published on 7/18/2017
Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom is an RPG from the well-known Wizardry series of games. Normally, these games are very long. However, in keeping with the TASVideos tradition of making long RPG runs short, this run reaches the ending in half a minute through extensive glitching of the save data. See the author's comments for more information.
In this run, pirohiko improves his previous glitched TAS by 00:39.83 seconds.
For more Wizardry runs, see the first game, the second game, and the third game.

If you want more information available when the run is playing, see the author's own encode with memory watch on YouTube.

Published on 5/13/2014
Mario has returned to the Mushroom Kingdom from a trip, only to find that Bowser has started a construction campaign of building new hideouts. The construction projects are depriving the kingdom's plants of sunlight and thus, Mario decides to demolish the projects with his hammer. Along the way, he meets his old enemies from the original Wrecking Crew, including former rival Foreman Spike.
This Japan-only sequel to the original game takes a more competitive approach, giving two opponents their own sides to demolish as many panels as they can. Once one of the sides is completely filled up, the other player wins.
In this run, pirohiko takes advantage of a shortcut that humorously ends a level instantly if three lines of at least three panels of the same color overlap.


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