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Published on 12/17/2023
Crime City is a 1989 beat 'em up game that was developed by Taito for the arcades. The game involves police officers Tony Gibson and Raymond Broady, who receive a call during their day off that a huge amount of prisoners have broken out of prison and committed a number of large crimes within a very short timespan. They have managed to occupy a shipping port, rob a bank, and kidnap the mayor, among other things. It's up to the two of them to solve the problem as police officers by doing a very '80s move, killing all of them.
This was the game used in TASVideos's Dream Team Contest 11, where groups of tool-assisted speedrunners compete to produce the fastest tool-assisted speedrun within a given deadline. This movie is the combined result of all those efforts. Here, you can witness Raymond Broady die and get shot multiple times in the speedrunners' quest to beat the game as fast as possible.
For more information on Dream Team Contest 11, you can visit this link. For more details how the run was ultimately constructed, you can read the authors' notes here.

Published on 7/27/2023
Super Mario Bros. Deluxe is a remake of the original Super Mario Bros. with some new game modes, including a challenge mode where coins and time remaining are crucial to gaining the target score and a race mode where Mario competes against Boo to reach each level's finish flag pole first. While this mode looks like a direct port of the NES game, there are different physics and glitches, making optimizing Deluxe a very different task.
While it may look three seconds slower, this run is actually 12 frames (0.2 seconds) faster than the previous version, with the improvements coming from the usage of a Fire Flower to complete World 8-4 faster and better optimizations. The time differences are due to the addition of the Game Boy Color boot screen and emulation differences.
There is also a run of the "You vs. Boo" mode.

Watch a resync of this run being played back on a real console.
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Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9.1
Additional Downloads:
(Extended High Score Input)

Published on 10/1/2022
Darkman is a game loosely based on the movie of the same name. In this side-scrolling platformer, the player controls Darkman, a superhero who can jump, kick and punch, as well as swing from a rope during action sequences between levels. In each level, Darkman disguises himself as the boss of the level, whom he must defeat before the time limit runs out.
Denial140 improves on the previous run by 23 seconds thanks to better understanding of how the game spawns and handles the objects Darkman can interact with, leading to lots of optimizations. For more details, you can read the author's notes.
Game:
Darkman

Genres:
Action
Platformer
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.5.0

Published on 2/23/2015
Metal Force is an unlicensed game developed by Open Corp. (who also made Buzz and Waldog) and released in 1994 in South Korea. It is of surprisingly solid quality for an unlicensed title. It controls similarly to classic Mega Man games, except you have two different weapons which you can switch between and upgrade by collecting power-ups from enemies. Aside from that, it is a linear adventure comprised of 7 missions, with a boss battle at the end of each. The stages of each mission are quite expansive and packed with enemies and obstacles.
This game was run as part of TASVideos' Dream Team Contest 5, and this TAS was built on a combination of multiple submissions of said contest - hence the high number of authors.
In this TAS, the authors make expansive use of the weapons and the various boosts in order to beat the game in 13 minutes and 9.6 seconds.
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
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Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8


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