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Published on 2/12/2023
Caesars Palace is a licensed tie-in to the Caesars Palace brand of casinos for the Game Boy. In the game, you get to play a number of gambling games in the titular Caesars Palace: Roulette, Video Poker, Slots, Blackjack, and the Big Wheel. Leave the casino with enough money gained from your playthroughs and you get a car based on what you have.
TaoTao and ViGadeomes improve on the previous run by about 28 seconds. The ending shown in the previous run was found to not be actual best ending, the actual best ending (which is ownership of the Caesars Palace casino) requiring at least $5,963,776 to achieve. The authors do this by getting two absurdly lucrative jackpots in a row at the Slots with some careful RNG manipulation.
Game:
Caesars Palace

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

Published on 3/30/2023
Arctic is a unique action puzzle game that released only in Japan. On a grid of active rails are balls of varying colors and railway switches that can be changed on command. The objective of the game is to get the yellow and blue balls to their respective colored seats on the grid. White balls can be used to help the yellow and blue balls get to their destinations. Red balls destroy other balls they touch. Having a yellow or blue ball touch a red ball will fail the level.
In this run, TaoTao and Moyou_Jo work together to beat every level in this game as fast as possible.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Arctic

Genres:
Puzzle
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.6.5

Published on 12/25/2016
Astro Robo Sasa is a fast-paced game that was only released in Japan. You are a robot boy named Sasa, who can only move around with the recoil from his plasma gun. You must collect or destroy all energy packs in order to clear each stage, though many must be collected as you have limited energy.
In this run, TaoTao controls two players: Sasa and his girlfriend Nana. By splitting up the work and using some wall zipping, he beats the game in a little under 5 minutes.

Published on 11/29/2023
Cadillac is a card game for the Famicom that was released only in Japan. It is a variant of the falling block puzzle game where you match playing cards by the poker hands they make. If three or more cards make a Flush, Straight or any better poker hand vertically or horizontally, the cards are cleared and you earn money based on the poker hands made. In order to complete a game, all the cards on the board must cleared and a money requirement must be met.
In this run, TaoTao completes a game of Cadillac on Level 9, which requires $2000, in record time with heaping amounts of RNG manipulation.
Game:
Cadillac

Genres:
Puzzle
Board
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9.1

Published on 2/13/2023
Caesars Palace is a licensed tie-in to the Caesars Palace brand of casinos for the NES. In the game, you get to play a number of gambling games in the titular Caesars Palace: Roulette, Video Poker, Slots, Blackjack, and the Big Wheel. Leave the casino with enough money gained from your playthroughs and you get a car based on what you have.
TaoTao saves 3.8 seconds over the previous run by using the Slots instead of the Big Wheel to get $140,000 more quickly. Time was spent playing Video Poker in order to set up the RNG for Slots. For more details, you can read the author's notes.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Caesars Palace

Genres:
Board
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8.0

Published on 3/22/2012
Double Moon Densetsu (ダブルムーン伝説 Legend of the Double Moon) is a 1992 turn-based NES RPG. The author uses a complex memory corruption glitch to skip many events, slimming this normally long RPG down to under 20 minutes. Technical details about the glitches used are in the author's comments.

Published on 5/15/2023
Dragon Quest, also known as Dragon Warrior in its initial North American localization, is the first game in the Dragon Quest franchise and one of the first JRPG video games ever created, setting in stone many of the tropes that would define the genre. The story in the game is very simple: an unnamed hero is tasked by the king of Alefgard to rescue his daughter and defeat the Dragonlord, who is threatening the kingdom and has stolen the legendary Sphere of Light.
TaoTao in this run completes the game in less than seven minutes by utilizing a significant glitch in the Japanese version that corrupts the RAM, making the game think the Dragonlord was already defeated and the kingdom saved. For further details on how this was achieved, you can read the author's notes.

Published on 6/10/2023
Flipull: An Exciting Cube Game, also known as Plotting in Europe, is a puzzle game that was initially released as an arcade game and was later ported to consoles such as the Famicom and the Game Boy and home computers such as the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. The goal of the game is to clear a grid of full of blocks so that there's only one of each block left. This is done by throwing blocks at other blocks of the same type. If the thrown block hits one of a different type, they switch places and you get the other block.
The Famicom version has two modes: "Normal", where a fixed number of blocks are placed randomly, and "Advance", where those blocks have fixed positions. In this run, TaoTao plays on the "Advance" mode and completes all 50 stages in record time with the help of a solving script.

Published on 7/5/2023
Flipull: An Exciting Cube Game, also known as Plotting in Europe, is a puzzle game that was initially released as an arcade game and was later ported to consoles such as the Famicom and the Game Boy and home computers such as the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. The goal of the game is to clear a grid of full of blocks so that there's only one of each block left. This is done by throwing blocks at other blocks of the same type. If the thrown block hits one of a different type, they switch places and you get the other block.
The Famicom version has two modes: "Normal", where a fixed number of blocks are placed randomly, and "Advance", where those blocks have fixed positions. In this run, TaoTao plays on the "Normal" mode and completes all 50 stages in record time with the help of a script to manipulate the RNG so that the most optimal puzzles are generated. For more information on how this is done, you can read the author's notes.

Published on 1/28/2024
Kaettekita! Gunjin Shougi: Nanya Sore!? (帰って来た!軍人将棋なんやそれ!?, lit. It's Back! Japanese Military Chess: What Is That!?) is a video game adaptation of the board game Gunjin Shougi, which plays more similarly to the Western board game Stratego than shougi itself.
Each player has a set of pieces that consist of various military ranks. The objective is to either capture the opponent's flag or take out all of the opponent's pieces. Both players can only see their own pieces until their pieces directly make contact. Once that happens, the pieces that make contact are revealed to both players, and the one with the higher rank wins and takes out the piece. There are also mines and missiles, some with nuclear warheads, that can respectively affect all but one rank or affect multiple spaces at once.
Here, TaoTao would rather not play any games of Gunjin Shougi and instead opts to exploit a DPCM bug that's also in Super Mario Bros. 3 to corrupt the system memory and skip straight to the credits and the special message given by the developers. You can read more information on how this exploit was done on this page.

The primary movie file for this publication mutes the game due to how the RAM was initialized by the emulator. The encodes for this tool-assisted speedrun were made with a movie file that has the RAM initialized with all zeros, allowing for the sound to be played.

Published on 10/15/2008
Kid Niki 3 (a.k.a. Kaiketsu Yanchamaru 3: Taiketsu! Zouringen) is the sequel to Kid Niki and Kid Niki 2. However, it looks quite different from the previous games. In this game, you are a ninja who is a master of bo-jutsu (stick art), and you defeat enemies and get over obstacles with your staff. This game also has many locked doors which can be opened with keys found in the levels.
TaoTao breezes through this game, in part due to a glitch which allows repeated backflips up walls. For more details, see the submission comments.

Published on 10/24/2023
Might and Magic, first released in 1986 for the Apple II and later receiving ports to many other systems, is the first installment in the series that would later evolve into a whole fictional universe. This universe encompasses both the actual Might and Magic games and a multitude of other subseries and spin-offs made in their own genres, including King's Bounty, Heroes of Might & Magic, and others.
This movie uses the Japanese version of the game, which doesn't have the item glitch that allows you to easily skip most of the game.
TaoTao improves on the previous run by a little over 8.6 minutes thanks to a glitch where you can bypass a certain barrier without having to complete the Soul Maze, which saves a significant amount of time. Other glitches involving forfeiting battles and unlocking doors without needing the required class are also used. You can read the author's notes for more details.

There is also an alternate encode by the author that has a map on the side that better shows what the player is doing.

Published on 10/30/2023
Might and Magic, first released in 1986 for the Apple II and later receiving ports to many other systems, is the first installment in the series that would later evolve into a whole fictional universe. This universe encompasses both the actual Might and Magic games and a multitude of other subseries and spin-offs made in their own genres, including King's Bounty, Heroes of Might & Magic, and others.
Normally, this game is rather long. This movie by TaoTao skips most of it by using a glitch that allows the player to get all the important items in a matter of minutes. It is also an improvement of 2 minutes and 18.91 seconds, thanks to abusing a glitch allowing one to ignore the Soul Maze and related events as well as better optimisation.

Published on 8/9/2016
Mini Putt is a miniature golf game originally developed for home computers in 1987. It was later ported to the Famicom.
This run by TaoTao doesn't putter along. It blazes through every hole in a very "mini" amount of time at just under 7 minutes.

Published on 11/30/2023
Quarth is a puzzle shoot 'em up that was initially released for the arcades before being ported to a number of systems such as the Famicom, Game Boy and MSX2. The gameplay can best described as a mix of a vertically scrolling shooter and Tetris. You control a ship that moves along the bottom and shoot tiles at incoming groups of blocks to give them a rectangular shape and make them disappear. Each level scrolls at an increasing speed until you either reach the end or a block reaches the line floating above the ship.
TaoTao improves on the previous run by nearly 16 seconds thanks to rigorous subframe RNG manipulation, making the game generate the simplest chunks to complete.

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 12/28/2023
Super Pinball is a pinball simulation game for the Famicom that released exclusively in Japan. The objective of the game is to get the mahjong tile needed to complete a winning hand for a game. Other than that, you don't actually play mahjong along with pinball. Instead, you gain the tile by beating a series of pinball tables. These tables include a sports car level, a casino level, a Breakout level complete with movable paddle, and a robot boss battle.
For this run, TaoTao manipulates the RNG to let the pinball bounce around a certain way and get the Breakout level in order to win the game as fast as possible.
Game:
Super Pinball

Genres:
Action
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.6.5

Published on 1/17/2024
SWAT: Special Weapons and Tactics is a role-playing game for the Famicom that was published by Toei Animation's video game division and released only in Japan. It takes the typical terrorist hostage situation American SWAT teams are dealing with in pop culture and turns it into a turn-based RPG. Battles can done by either doing head-on gunfights or sneak attacks that supposedly deal extra damage. The building the hostages are held in becomes the overworld, where rooms can be explored for clues on how to proceed, special items, and traps that have to be disarmed. The game is also rather quite buggy, with mechanics like critical sneak attack hits not working like they should.
For this run, TaoTao effectively skips the entire game by using subframe inputs to execute a game end glitch similar to the one used for Super Mario Bros. 3. A stack overflow is caused which then allows TaoTao to directly manipulate the memory and insert values to make the game skip immediately to the final results screen. For more details, you can read the author's notes here.

Published on 4/3/2017
The Quest of Ki (カイの冒険) is a video game developed by Namco in 1988. It is part of the Tower of Druaga series (in fact, it serves as a prequel to the series). The player controls Ki, a priestess sent by Ishtar in order to retrieve the Blue Crystal Rod, which was stolen by Druaga.
fsvgm777, ruadath & TaoTao use warps to skip most of the regular game and get to the regular ending at floor 60 in 2 minutes and 27.51 seconds, an improvement of 00:01.18 seconds over the previous movie.

Published on 3/8/2023
Vice: Project Doom, known in Japan as Gun-Dec (ガンデック), is a fast-paced NES game that blends standard platforming with racing sequences and some rail shooter scenes. It involves Detective Quinn Hart of the VICE squad as he attempts to track down his missing partner while stopping the B.E.D.A. Organization from dominating the world with a mysterious and powerful drug.
TaoTao improves on their previous run by nearly 17 seconds thanks to more rigorous optimizations and the use of a newly discovered wallzip glitch for Stage 5-1.
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 11/27/2008
One of a few dungeon crawlers on this site. The player's team of a couple characters travels through a dungeon at breakneck speed, obtaining the minimum necessary to destroy the evil wizard, then leaving.
A great amount of luck-manipulation was required; so much that TaoTao used a bot to do parts of this run. That's why the rerecord count says 200000. The number of manual rerecords is around 1000.

Published on 2/26/2023
China Warrior is a beat-em-up for the PC Engine released in 1989. Set in China, it features a Bruce Lee expy, who ventures on to defeat the Dark Emperor atop Lu Hao Yang Castle. This game is notable for having really large sprites.
In this run, TaoTao plays through the 3rd and hardest loop of the game (the in game code doesn't let you enter the 3rd loop unless you game over in the 2nd loop, which is why the author does it at the beginning). This movie obsoletes [4431] PCE China Warrior by EZGames69 in 12:03.53 as a 40 second improvement from gameplay alone, mainly due to a "special attack" that happens if the player takes damage from the boss, making their next attack super powerful.

Published on 5/25/2009
Kato Chan & Ken Chan is a gem of a PCE game made by Hudson. Often abbreviated as Kato-Ken in Japan, this game is derived from a Japanese TV program, Kato-chan Ken-chan gokigen TV. The main characters are Cha Kato (Kato-chan) and Ken Shimura (Ken-chan), who are famous Japanese comedians. One particularly distinguishing feature of the game is the ability to attack enemies with farts!
In this run, the author uses Ken-chan, though you will also see Kato-chan appear from time to time to be a nuisance to Ken-chan.


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