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Published on 3/17/2006
Deadly Towers is an annoying enough game to play, let alone make a TAS of, but the author manages a final time almost 3.5 minutes faster than the previous version. This improvement is mainly from buying orange scrolls, which are used to teleport from the top of each tower back down to the Holy Flame. Check the author's comments for more detailed information.
This game suffers from sprite overload very frequently.

Published on 7/31/2013
Defender of the Crown is a strategy game loosely based on the historical novel Ivanhoe. It was originally released by Cinemaware for the Commodore Amiga in 1986, and was later ported to many other home computer systems and game consoles.
In this run, £e_Nécroyeur uses luck manipulation and frame precision to complete this game in the fastest time possible.

Published on 12/31/2022
Defenders of Dynatron City follows a group of defenders who protect a futuristic city from Dr. Mayhem and his robotic henchmen.
Watch as ShesChardcore explores the pseudo-open world city and stops Dr. Mayhem in record time.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Published on 8/10/2008
Demon Sword (1989) is the kind of a game that Legend of Kage should have been.
It features a hero named Victar, who can easily jump on a tall tree (and sometimes over it, since he just can't jump much lower) and is willing to defeat the evil demon that conquered the world. The key to defeating it is Victar's sword, which is conveniently broken into pieces that must be collected over the span of the game.
So watch his sword get bigger and more powerful every few minutes, until its wielder finally reaches maturity decides it's big enough to save the world.
Xipo comes back to this game with yet another large improvement: This time 108 seconds were saved over the previous movie. It was achieved by manipulating enemies to drop speed upgrades upon their death.
Note: This movie was created using an overdumped ROM. It needs "Demon Sword (U) [o1].nes" to playback properly.
Game:
Demon Sword

Genres:
Platformer
Emulator Replay:
FCEU 0.98.25

Published on 6/12/2020
Destiny of an Emperor was Capcom’s first RPG, released in 1989-90, and is based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
The battling style of this game can be described like Final Fantasy meets Pokémon; your team of warriors versus the opposing team of warriors, and any opponents freed from their posts can be later picked up in the wilds and converted to your side!
Acmlm bests his previous movie by 05:07.11 minutes thanks to new tricks and better luck manipulation.
Game:
Destiny of an Emperor

Genres:
RPG
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.2.3

Published on 2/9/2021
Die Hard is a top-down action game based on the movie of the same name. The game has multiple endings.
This run reaches a good ending by "dying" with health remaining. This is done by activating a scripted explosion sequence on the roof of the Nakatomi building while standing just out of range of the blast. In-game time is advanced quickly by damaging John's feet and making repeated trips up and down the stairs. In addition, Heinrich's position is manipulated so the detonator can be collected quickly.
ajfirecracker and Coiser improve the predecessor movie by 00:03.53 seconds thanks to a new strategy: shooting open the roof door instead of collecting the key.

Published on 8/26/2023
Difficult? Punch-Out!! is a difficulty-oriented ROM hack of Punch-Out!! that was partially inspired by the Title Defense mode from the Wii version of Punch-Out!!. In this romhack, all the attacking patterns from every opponent are changed up and any punch, with the exception of those from Super Macho Man and Mike Tyson, can knock you down. Yes, even Glass Joe can knock you down with one punch. Little Mac also does less damage this time around, making for even longer matches.
DJ_Incendration here proves that he's up to the challenge and wins the championship in record time.
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FCEUX 2.6.5

Published on 2/12/2016
Digger T. Rock is searching for the Lost City and must dig through eight caverns to find it. On the way he must battle... dinosaurs!
Jules improves the previous run by 0.87 seconds, thanks to slightly better optimisation.

Published on 11/18/2012
Talespin is a shoot 'em up game featuring Baloo the bear from Disney's The Jungle Book in a high flying, dare devil race to save his company from takeover by the evil who-body.
Game:
Disney's TaleSpin

Genres:
Shooter
Game Version:
TaleSpin (USA).nes
Emulator Replay:
FCEU 0.98.15

Published on 12/28/2018
The Little Mermaid is a simple game based on the movie of the same name. You control the mermaid Ariel as she swims through several stages and beats up bosses by tossing fish encapsulated in bubbles.
In this run, Jigwally, improves upon the previous movie by 00:03.74 seconds.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Published on 6/30/2007
The Dizzy series of computer games was one of the most successful computer game brands of the late eighties. They were all based around a central figure, an intelligent egg-like creature called Dizzy.
Dizzy the Adventurer is an enhanced NES port of the sixth game in the series, Dizzy: Prince of the Yolkfolk, completed fast by the use of creative routes and of course, maximum speed.
There is also a run of the second game in the series, Treasure Island Dizzy.

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Published on 4/15/2016
One day at an amusement park an evil being kidnaps a girl. Her friend hurries to the rescue.
Doki! Doki! Yuuenchi (which means "Thump! Thump! Amusement Park") is a typical platform game featuring a boy who kicks a ball at the enemies (in the original Japanese version). When damaged the boy changes the color of his shirt and the power of his weapon increases. Among the stuff that remains from the fallen enemies he can collect a bird that will chase and defeat foes.
For the European market, the sprite of the main character was redrawn to depict a popular troll character under license from Russ Berrie & Co, and the game was renamed to The Trolls in Crazyland.

Published on 2/5/2024
Don Doko Don 2 (ドンドコドン2) is a platforming game for the Famicom that was released only in Japan. It is the sequel to the arcade game Don Doko Don, which was also only released in Japan. In this game, you play as a dwarf that's tasked with collecting the ingredients to an antidote that will turn a recently transformed frog prince back into a human. Featuring the usage of a large mallet and the ability to throw knocked out enemies, the game can be a little reminiscent of Super Mario Bros. 2 and later Mario games that made more use of Mario's hammer.
Here, Exonym does some extensive RNG manipulation and a couple of nice platforming tricks to keep the dwarf going at max speed and beat the game as fast as possible. For more information on the tricks used and details on how each level was done, you can read the author's notes.

Published on 9/6/2019
Donald Land is a 1988 platform video game produced by Data East in association with the McDonald's Corporation for the Family Computer.
This game was featured in Dream Team Contest 7. This movie is a collaborative effort by the participants of the contest as well as the host, Memory.
Game:
Donald Land

Genres:
Platformer
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.2.2

Published on 9/18/2009
Donkey Kong is a classic game that has been challenged plenty of times at this site, by many players. This competitive spirit has made for some "perfect" runs. Yet each time someone manages to squeeze just a bit more out of it.
This latest completion by Phil beats the previous movie by 11 frames by carefully optimizing Jumpman's movement pattern.
This movie has a full Atlas Map encode, which shows the standard encode overlaid on a zoomed out map.

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

Published on 5/5/2023
Donkey Kong is a classic game that has been challenged plenty of times at this site, by many players. This competitive spirit has made for some "perfect" runs, yet each time someone manages to squeeze just a bit more out of it.
Unlike the other published Donkey Kong runs, this one opts to get all of the items on the 75m and 100m stages while completing the game as fast as possible.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Published on 3/19/2023
In the third installment in the Donkey Kong series, Stanley the bugman discovers Donkey Kong in his greenhouse, releasing insects that are attacking his precious flowers. To save his flowers, Stanley aims to stop the ape by blasting him away with a bug spray can.
In this movie, klmz improves on previous submissions through better optimization as well as an extra death abuse that's used to skip ending level transitions.
Game:
Donkey Kong 3

Genres:
Action
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Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.1.6

Published on 12/29/2020
Donkey Kong Country 4 is an unlicensed "demake" of Donkey Kong Country by Taiwanese pirate developer Hummer Team. The game has 5 stages the player must travel to, each containing several levels and ending with a boss fight from the original game. Gameplay is similar to the official Game Boy Color port of Donkey Kong Country, allowing players to swap Kongs any time they want (provided both are available) by pressing the Select button. Like other games released by Hummer Team, the cartridge this game was released on contains a graphics variation in the ROM, enabled by soldering different points on the PCB, that transforms the game into The Jungle Book 2.
The authors take advantage of Diddy Kong's superior movement speed and an underwater zipping glitch to complete the game in record time.
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.4.2

Published on 3/23/2019
A very important part of Nintendo's history is being presented here on our website — as a tool-assisted speedrun.
Donkey Kong Jr., along with Donkey Kong, were classic games that were played by millions of players on various consoles, including the NES, Atari 2600 and Game and Watch. The story is that Jumpman, now known as Mario, has captured his rival Donkey Kong and it's up to Junior to save his dad.
Although one would not expect a movie of Donkey Kong Jr. to be interesting to watch, except in the retro sense, this movie is actually quite surprising. The vines are cleverly utilized to move the hero forward faster than any member of the Kong family before or after this game.
This is a 539 frame improvement over the previous movie thanks to time-saving glitches.

Published on 10/28/2022
Donkey Kong Jr. Math is an edutainment spinoff of Donkey Kong Jr. where players get to solve math problems with Donkey Kong Jr. There are three modes: "Calculate A", where two players compete to create a sum number that equals the number Donkey Kong holds up using numbers on vines and arithmetic operations laying around; "Calculate B", which is a harder version of "Calculate A"; and "+−×÷ Exercise", where players can brush up on their basic math skills.
ShesChardcore and Cephla improve the previous movie by 14.71 seconds, thanks to better luck manipulation. Please read the authors' comments for more details.

Published on 9/17/2018
While the NES versions of Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Donkey Kong 3 and Donkey Kong Jr. Math don't share the same amount of stages, they appear to be similar enough to be beaten at the same time with the same controller input.
This movie improves on the previous movie by playing an additional two games as well as improving by 3.99 seconds.
If you like this movie, you may want to check out movies of other games in which as many as four games are played simultaneously with one controller.

Published on 3/1/2023
Donkey Kong: Original Edition is an attempt to take the Nintendo Entertainment System port of Donkey Kong and make it more like the arcade original. While still inferior to the original coin-op in terms of cutscenes, graphics, and sound, it has restored the 50M level, which was absent on most home ports.
In this run, GoddessMaria collects all items available in each stage while also defeating Donkey Kong in the process, this run also improves on the previous publication by 12 frames.

Published on 4/25/2023
Donkey Kong: Original Edition is an attempt to take the Nintendo Entertainment System port of Donkey Kong and make it more like the arcade original. While still inferior to the original coin-op in terms of cutscenes, graphics, and sound, it has restored the 50M level (the pie factory level), which was absent on most home ports.
Unlike the "all items" run, this run by adelikat and Spikestuff opts to complete the game as fast as possible, utilizing glitches that are present in the original NES version of Donkey Kong.

Published on 5/9/2017
Double Dare is closely based on an old Nickelodeon children's game show. To win, each team must answer a few of the trivia questions before time runs out. If the team answering thinks the other team might not know the answer, they can "dare" the other team to answer the question for double the points. However, the other team has the option to "double dare" them right back for a chance to win quadruple the points. The winning team gets to race through the Double Dare obstacle course, which features obstacles like the 1-Ton Human Hamster Wheel and a tank of Nickelodeon's iconic green slime.
This run improves the predecessor movie by 00:06.92 seconds.

Published on 9/3/2016
Set in a post-apocalyptic New York, Double Dragon is the story of Billy and Jimmy Lee, twin brothers trained in the fighting style of Sou-Setsu-Ken. Together, they manage a small martial arts training school, teaching their students in self-defense. One day, Billy's girlfriend, Marian, is kidnapped off the street by the "Black Warriors", a savage street gang led by a man named Willy. The Black Warriors demand the Lee brothers disclose their martial arts secrets in exchange for Marian's freedom. The Lee brothers set out on a rescue mission to crush the Black Warriors and save Marian.
Released on many systems, this game was so popular that they even released it for cellular phones and made a board game. Even a Hollywood movie has been made.
Alyosha improves the previous publication by 7.19 seconds, thanks to a completely different experience route in order to get the elbow attack earlier in Mission 4.

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

Published on 11/11/2013
Double Dragon II: The Revenge is a beat'em-up game starring Billy (or Bimmy, depending on the game version) and Jimmy Lee in a quest to get revenge on a gang for killing Billy's girlfriend. Their journey starts on city streets, but it eventually goes to a variety of places like a helicopter, a dark forest, a haunted mansion, and a final fight bordering on the supernatural. You must play the hardest difficulty, Supreme Master, in order to reach the true final boss.
One interesting feature of the game is that some very powerful moves can only be used from a crouching position, usually after landing from a jump or getting up from a knockdown. This is why you see the player jump so frequently.
This run by Xipo plays the game with only 1 player. It is slower than the two-player run largely because it can't use tricks like the two players hitting each other with flying knees. However, there are still some interesting tricks and strategies in this movie well worth watching.
Watch this run get played back on a real NES.

Published on 6/1/2014
Double Dragon II: The Revenge (1989) is a beat'em-up game that shows the true value of teamwork. Despite sibling rivalry, Billy and Jimmy help expedite their common goal with well-timed knees to each other's faces.
This new version by xipo is 00:18.52 seconds faster than the previous effort by adelikat. Most of the improvement came from better application of glitches.
If you're more a fan of runs where one macho man defeats an entire gang alone, there is also a one-player run available.

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

Published on 5/28/2017
In this movie, the author speeds through the game, beating up all the bad guys quickly and efficiently, making full use of each character — and killing them off when they are no longer useful. The characters' special abilities are abused to provide some unorthodox shortcuts.
This is the author's 4th version and is an improvement of about 6.46 seconds over his previous movie.

Published on 2/14/2023
Double Dribble is a basketball video game that was initially developed by Konami as an arcade game. It later received ports to home consoles and computers such as the NES, the Commodore 64, Game Boy, and iOS. Play basketball with all the techniques you expect from the sport such as three-point shots, ball steals, free throws, and even slam dunks. Earn the most points against the opposing team to win!
In this run, ShesChardcore scores as many points as needed to win the game while also manipulating the AI so that it will never take the lead in its attempt to catch up. In doing this, the actual input ends at 1:46 in what appears to be a 12 minute speedrun.
Game:
Double Dribble

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

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 12/1/2015
Based loosely on the novel with a similar name, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde follows Dr. Jekyll as he walks to his wedding. For some reason though, everyone and everything is out to kill him. Unfortunately for them, he has mastered the art of phase walking.
This run is an improvement of over a minute over the previous run, thanks to more optimization and a new glitch that allows Jekyll to clip through the screen.

Published on 10/29/2019
Tired of being mocked by the viruses, Dr. Mario switched to his "fast-acting" and "extra strength" medication. The viruses never knew what hit them.
poco_cpp, inari80000 and tas_suki improve the previous TAS by 37.76 seconds, thanks to better virus layouts and improved strategies.
You can watch this run being played back on a real console.

Published on 8/6/2006
Dragon Fighter is a cross-over between a platformer and a shooter. It starts out in platform mode, where you can collect dragon points. When you have enough, you can transform into a powerful dragon, turning the game into a autoscrolling shooter. The game scrolls slowly in this mode, but the dragon moves fast.
By continuously switching between the two modes, it allows the player to go as fast as possible, which makes an otherwise boring game interesting.

Published on 11/7/2019
Dragon Warrior is a seemingly complex but ultimately fairly simple NES RPG. The character completes his quest at Level 7.
In this eighth published movie of the game, RationalMonkey saves 00:13.39 seconds over the previous run, mostly by using wings in Rimuldar rather than a deathwarp. See the author's comments for details. There are several things about this movie that might seem odd if one is not aware of them beforehand:
  • All unnecessary random encounters have been manipulated into not happening.
  • The player dies several times in order to get transported back to the beginning.
  • Action commands are often delayed intentionally in order to manipulate critical hits and such.

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 10/4/2020
Dragon Warrior is an epic RPG series which now spans 11 games across many systems. The second game greatly expands on the first to include a party of three heroes (all descendents of Erdrick and the hero of DW1) and battles that may include many enemies.
The world is much bigger and there are many big dungeons to explore as well. Luckily there are new abilities and items to make this easier. Enemies can randomly drop items when defeated and there is a lottery which is the precursor to the casinos which appear in each later DW game.
TheAxeMan improves the previous TAS by 1 minute and 52.5 seconds, thanks to new glitches and better optimisation. Please read the author's comments and the commentary subtitles in the encodes for more details.

You can watch the complete run played back on console

Published on 7/31/2007
This is a non-glitched run of Dragon Warrior 3, now under 2 hours long.
This game is known in the TAS world as being a pain to play due to the RNG being much harder to manipulate than most other games. As a result, seemingly random actions throughout the game are actually intentional manipulation of the RNG to ensure favorable outcomes, such as avoiding monsters or good battle outcomes.
To give you an idea of how surprising this time is to most players, the previous run is about 24 minutes longer than this one. Even before that, any run that was under 3 hours long was deemed to be very difficult to perform.

Published on 3/6/2016
The last in the original Dragon Warrior storyline, this one follows "the Hero", who is tasked with saving the world from the archfiend Baramos. After cobbling together a group of people to take with him, the Hero must travel the world to find a way to Baramos's lair.
Or at least, that was what was supposed to happen. Thanks to a glitch involving a party of dead characters, vaxherd manages to manipulate his inventory and warp list to not only have extremely rare pieces of equipment from nothing, but also warps directly to where Baramos is located in a fraction of the time it would take normally.
In addition to this, vaxherd also uses a glitch involving resets and character names to manipulate the RNG and encounter formula at certain points, thereby beating the previous run by over seven minutes.

The encodes feature commentary by the author as soft subtitles.

Published on 5/23/2023
Dragon Warrior IV was the last of the Dragon Quest games to be released on the NES. It features an epic, five chapter spanning story.
This run by adelikat is an improvement of 5829 frames to his prior run thanks to better luck manipulation and routing.

Published on 11/30/2022
Dragon's Lair is much better known in its incarnations for other platforms as an FMV game with only slight amounts of control over the player's action. The NES version is more of a traditional platformer, but very smooth animation for the era and funny-looking characters inspired by the cartoon graphics of the other versions - this includes the final boss, who isn't seen very much in this run thanks to abuse of the game mechanics.
This is an improvement of around two seconds to the previous run.
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Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 8/23/2023
Dragon's Lair is much better known in its incarnations for other platforms as an FMV game with only slight amounts of control over the player's action. The NES version is more of a traditional platformer, but very smooth animation for the era and funny-looking characters inspired by the cartoon graphics of the other versions - this includes the final boss, who isn't seen very much in this run thanks to abuse of the game mechanics.
ktwo improves the previous TAS done on the USA release of the game by 0.17 seconds, thanks to better optimisation. Note that there are differences in execution for some of the levels when compared to the Japanese release. You can watch the TAS of the Japanese release of the game here.
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Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
Bizhawk 2.9.1

Published on 6/8/2022
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.
Game:
Driar

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

Published on 7/25/2019
Duck Hunt is the classic NES zapper game.
DrD2k9 beats "Game B - 2 Ducks" by completing 27 levels. See the author's comments for details on how this game mode works.
Game:
Duck Hunt

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3.1

Published on 5/19/2023
Duck Hunt is a classic light gun shooter game for the NES and the game best associated with the NES Zapper. It has three modes: Mode A, Mode B, and Mode C. Modes A and B have you shooting ducks to score points, with A having one duck on the screen and B having two. Mode C has you shooting clay pigeons for points.
For this run, DrD2k9 opts to play Mode A and score the maximum number of points the score counter can display, manipulating the RNG to ensure the desired birds are shot.
Game:
Duck Hunt

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

Published on 8/15/2013
Duck Tales is a classic game in which Scrooge has to collect treasures from all over the world. Some of the levels are not completely straightforward, and collecting items is sometimes necessary before proceeding. His cane also doubles as an almighty pogo stick that can be used in various ways, which makes jumping a lot more fun.
This is the sixth TAS of Duck Tales. Minor improvements and refined strategies here and there contributed around an additional half second of improvement.
This is a 00:00.58 second improvement over the previous movie due to general optimizations including lag reduction and subpixel optimization.

You can watch this run played back on a real NES console.
This movie has a full Atlas Map encode, which shows the standard encode overlaid on a zoomed out map.
Game:
DuckTales

Genres:
Platformer
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.2.1

Published on 7/19/2013
Scrooge McDuck is advanced in years, he travels around the lake with Niagara on one side and Scotland on another, and beats money out of half-transparent bosses. He hides in the sand and rides the vertex, gets lightning strikes and beats liquid D-1000 robot with his little toe. He also jumps on his pogo stick like he has dementia. Or maybe all that is just a fancy of his senile mind?
The authors, feos and MESHUGGAH, complete the game 00:03.66 seconds faster than the previous movie by adelikat by minimizing lag, general optimization and some new tricks.
This movie does not get the best (100%) ending, but also does not get the worst (no money).
You can watch this run being played back on a real console.

Published on 10/13/2008
After hearing about how the dark overlord Darces has returned, our hero goes on a quest to unite all five one elements in order to defeat Darces and save the kingdom.
In this storybook-view RPG, the author zooms around the game world, entering the most dangerous of dungeons, killing two powerful monsters, and collecting the bare minimum needed to beat the game in incredible fashion. Despite the player being unable to survive one hit, the author subverts certain death with the handy pause system. Despite the player supposedly being unable to damage the monsters, an underflow glitch allows for massive damage. Despite the final boss standing right there to kill him, the viewer sees all of 3 frames of the dark overlord. It's an RPG done in just over one minute, without warping or save glitching.
The author had spent much effort in understanding the game, and all that work has finally paid off. We recommend reading the author's comments.

Published on 1/19/2012
A storybook game like Shadowgate and Uninvited.
In this one you star as Ace Harding, a detective who wakes up having no idea who or where he is. As the game progresses you discover that you have been framed for a crime you didn't commit, and must find a way to clear your name.
This, the fifth submission of this game by the same author, is a 35.45 second improvement over the author's previous attempt. Most of the improvement comes from using a "leave bullet" bug, as detailed in the submission text.
See the Déjà Vu GameFAQs page for more information about this game (we recommend Mr. Kelly R. Flewin's Déjà Vu Speed Guide).

Author's commentary is provided in the movie file and the YouTube encode.
Game:
Déjà Vu

Genres:
Storybook
Game Version:
Deja Vu (USA).nes
Video Downloads:
High Quality MKV
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.1.4a

Published on 6/17/2009
EarthBound Beginnings is the first game in the Mother/EarthBound series, known simply as Mother in Japan. It was localized for a 1990 US release, but wasn't released outside Japan until 2015. During that time, the original localized title, "EarthBound", was used for the English release of Mother 2.
Long referred to as "EarthBound Zero" by fans, the game was finally given an official title for its Wii U eShop release.
This movie is done on the US prototype, which does not have the "bread crumbs" glitch used in our other movie of the game. It does, however, have a run button, which means this movie may seem faster at times, even though it's a lot longer.

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

Published on 7/8/2019
This is the Japanese version of EarthBound Beginnings (also known as Mother). 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 00:07.94 seconds faster than the previous run.
We also have a more normal run of the localized version, which doesn't include this glitch.

You can watch the complete run played back on console

Published on 4/28/2021
Earthworm Jim 2 (Shin-Shin) is an unlicensed NES port of the SNES/Genesis game "Earthworm Jim 2". This bootleg is a very stripped down version of the original game with only a few levels showing up, including "Anything But Tangerines", "Granny Chair", and "Puppy Love".
There are two versions of the game, one version features less levels than the other version for whatever reason. This TAS by XTREMAL93 plays on the version with more levels and beats it in record time.

We also have a TAS of the official game on Genesis.

Published on 6/28/2020
Eggsplode! is a power pad game that came on a combo cart with Short Order. Step on the bombs that the naughty fox has placed before they Eggsplode!
Game:
Eggsplode
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.4

Published on 3/6/2016
A rather simple, unique classic game.
The hero of this game is a spy/agent who raids buildings infested with men in black. He collects important documents from various apartments/closets (which, for the sake of simplicity, are colored indicatively), and then leaves by his car to the next raid.
After raiding the last building, he goes to raid the same buildings once again, ad infinitum.
Even a small game like this isn't free of bugs. The unsafe elevators of this game offer a few maneuvers that should not be attempted in real life.
Four levels were played.
Alyosha improves the previous publication by 10.13 seconds, thanks to better optimisation.

Published on 8/31/2009
This movie plays Excitebike really fast with an improvement of over a second compared to the previous movie by JXQ.
Times for each track are:
  • 0 = 36.19 (0.35 improved)
  • 1 = 37.84 (0.40 -"-)
  • 2 = 38.67 (0.19 -"-)
  • 3 = 41.96 (0.02 -"-)
  • 4 = 41.00 (0.02 -"-)
  • 5 = 31.34 (0.40 -"-)
Cumulative in-game savings: 1.38s
Main improvements come from taking ramps faster and a unique trick in which the author goes slower to get a better time. Look for further info in the author's comments.
The encode for this movie features commentary in the form of soft subtitles.
This movie also has two Atlas Map encodes, one of Track 1, and one of Track 2, which shows the standard encode overlaid on a zoomed out map.

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

Published on 8/9/2009
Extra Mario Bros. is a hack of the original Super Mario Bros. It is noteworthy for being a complete "Metroidvania" game built around the original SMB engine, with very few changes to the engine itself. The five areas in the game are all interconnected (via pipes, naturally), and permanent upgrades have been added to give it a more Metroid-ish feel. (Did I mention the music from Super Metroid? Because there's music from Super Metroid.)
However, despite his newfound ability to return to levels he's visited before and acquire upgrades that don't go away when he dies, Mario still cannot scroll to the left.
This movie collects all of the keys and fights the true final boss but only collects two of the upgrades.

Note: An IPS patch for the hack can be downloaded here.
Video Downloads:
High Quality MKV
Emulator Replay:
FCEU 0.98.28

Published on 11/21/2022
Family Feud is a game show that has received multiple video game adaptations to a number of consoles. As with most game shows, you compete against others as part of a group to answer questions. Unique to Family Feud is that the questions given have multiple answers, so the answers given must be the closest to the public consensus answers for a contestant to get the most points. For the NES version, a game is won when a player reaches $20,000.
SpaceColonizer has rigorously studied the game in order to beat it in record time. 2 controllers are used to shorten the intro. To keep things from getting too boring, questions are not repeated at any point in the run, which would have saved time. For more details, you can read the author's notes.
Game:
Family Feud

Genres:
Gameshow
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.4.0

Published on 3/5/2020
Fantasy Zone is a short, colorful arcade port which somewhat uniquely is a shooter that does not autoscroll! Since there are no levels to scroll through, the boss battles start when eight of the enemy bases have been destroyed.
In this run, The8bitbeast saved 00:09.35 seconds over the previous movie by using different weapons and optimizing the shopping portions of the game. The submission notes explain the improvements in greater detail.

You can watch the complete run being played back on a console.
Game:
Fantasy Zone

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3.2

Published on 12/29/2016
In comparison to the usual run-through platform games, this is one of the games that requires more planning to play efficiently.
The game features an inventory and equipment and a spells system, all of which were rare to see in NES games when this game came out.
This is the 4th published version of the TAS, now 00:16.71 seconds faster than the previous version.
The author has written comments describing all the planning and tricks that went into this movie.

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

Published on 9/20/2010
This game is about a classic cartoon character, Felix the Cat, who goes on an adventure to save his girlfriend, Kitty, from a mad professor. It's a simple platformer like any Mario game.
This is a 24.26 second improvement over Randil's previous run. This is due to several strategy changes, such as using the airplane more often in flying levels and using a different power to fight the final boss. For more details, see the author's comments.
This movie has an Atlas Map encode of Round 1-1, which shows the standard encode overlaid on a zoomed out map.
Game:
Felix the Cat

Genres:
Platformer
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
FCEU 0.98.28

Published on 2/4/2024
Feng Shen Bang (封神榜, Investiture of the Gods) is an unlicensed Chinese role-playing game that was released in 1995 by C&E Inc for NES consoles. It is a loose adaptation of the 16th century Chinese epic novel of the same name. Large chunks of the plot were left out and the ones there were kept in were simplified to fit the constraints and style of a classic NES RPG. Set during the end of the Shang dynasty, instead of following the rise and fall of King Zhou, the last ruler of the dynasty, and the gods and spirits involved, the game focuses the adventures of a group of ordinary humans as they unite to take down the tyranny of King Zhou and the spirits let loose across China.
Fitterspace in this run takes on the task of tackling this RPG and makes good use of RNG and AI manipulation and beneficial glitches to complete the game as fast as possible. For full details on the story and how the run was achieved, it is highly recommended to see the author's commentary that's included in both the YouTube and downloadable encodes.

Published on 9/9/2015
Fester's Quest, developed by Sunsoft, is based on the 1960s television series The Addams Family. While out one night enjoying a quiet evening of "moonbathing", Fester witnesses an alien invasion occur against the city. Armed with his blunderbuss, Fester vows to stop this invasion by finding and defeating the 5 alien bosses (hidden in office buildings) before tracking down the UFO.
In ars4326's run, Uncle Fester briskly paces through the game's overworld and sewers, picking up a few sub-weapons from fellow Addams Family members along the way. Doing so allows quick destruction of the alien bosses guarding the clues to the UFO's whereabouts (as well as the final boss).
A time-saving glitch allowing instant wins on all of the game's bosses was forewent also, due to the author's preference not to use it.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Published on 3/30/2023
Filthy Kitchen is an NES homebrew platformer that was developed for NesDev's 2016 homebrew competition. Your kitchen is a complete mess and swarming with insects, and it is up to you to clean it. Avoid areas of filth and dirty utentils and kill flies to score points. But be wary how bad the filth in your kitchen can be. It may have produced something really terrifying.
In this run, LoganTheTASer manages to clean the kitchen in record time.
You can play the game here.

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Game Version:
filthy-kitchen.nes
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.6.4

Published on 4/13/2012
Final Fantasy is a well known RPG about saving the world with the usual assortment of characters.
Here, the author defies all common sense and takes a team composed entirely of White Mages, the token "weak healing caster" class. What's worse, three of them meet their untimely demise at the hands of pirates not very far into their journey. Not to worry, because this survivor has a few tricks up her sleeve.

Published on 7/20/2012
The original Final Fantasy follows four heroes who are trying to restore the four orbs which have been contaminated and ultimately defeat Chaos.
Unfortunately only one of the warriors is actually a hero; the rest are sissies who die early on during the quests. Strange as this may sound, much time is saved by doing so since fewer commands need to be entered every time the player runs from a random encounter.
On TASVideos, perfect runs are continually improved, often through very unexpected changes. This run by TheAxeMan improves the old TAS by 00:09.10 seconds by getting lower stats and spending more time at inns and item shops.
For those who think they have a better sense of humor than the author, he has provided Python scripts which allow you to recreate the entire run with your own choices for character names substituted for his. Available as a Windows standalone program or as source.

The downloadable videos and the YouTube stream contain soft subtitles with commentary from TheAxeMan.

Published on 6/8/2021
The world is veiled in darkness. Winds don't blow, the seas are stormy, and the earth rots. All people can hope for is that the ancient prophecy will be finally fulfilled. "When the world is veiled in darkness, four warriors will come..." And indeed, they come - the four characters you have previously chosen. Their first quest is to free a princess from the evil knight Garland, and then the real journey begins.
...or that was the intention, anyway. Instead, the heroes walk up and down a castle staircase 32 times in a row and the universe, mysteriously satisfied with their short journey, ends the game. The authors of this TAS improve on the predecessor movie by a whopping 05:21.77 minutes by avoiding the need for a boss fight entirely.

You can watch the complete run played back on console.

Published on 9/23/2021
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 naruko improves the previous movie by 02:53.50 minutes thanks to new routing. For more details, we recommend reading the author's comments.

There is also an alternate YouTube stream featuring Japanese commentary by the author.

Published on 9/24/2021
Final Fantasy III was the second of two Final Fantasy NES games to be released only in Japan, leading to the fourth game in the series being released to the rest of the world as Final Fantasy II. The game brings back the experience point system from the first game while changing up the character jobs formula by allowing the player to change a character's class mid-game as well as acquire new and advanced classes.
In this movie, the author, naruko, abuses a bug that causes character inventory to overflow, corrupting the game's memory and triggering the credits early.
This is an improvement of 00:29.22 seconds.

Published on 11/21/2012
Fire 'n Ice is the prequel to Solomon's Key, known as Solomon's Key 2 elsewhere. In it, Dana manipulates ice blocks to remove all of the fire from each level. Randil completes all 101 levels of this "highly addictive" puzzler in 1:03:26.33.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Fire 'n Ice

Genres:
Puzzle
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.1.5

Published on 2/6/2013
In Fisher-Price: Firehouse Rescue, the player controls a fireman driving a firetruck. Both the fireman and the firetruck bear the familiar style of the popular Fisher-Price toy line. The object of the game is to rescue pets from trees and people from houses in the immediate neighborhood. There are 2 parts to this task: the first part involves navigating the maze-like streets from an overhead perspective in order to find the troubled residence. Once the house is reached, the second part of the job is to maneuver the firetruck's ladder underneath the person or animal in need of rescue, from a side perspective, and letting them down to safety.
While the first level confines the entire neighborhood to a one-screen maze, later levels span multiple screens, thereby increasing the challenge. Further, later levels also add time limits and additional keys that the player must collect before attempting the rescue mission.

Published on 12/22/2021
This is a platform beat 'em up based on the anime series Hokuto no Ken. According to the manual, Kenshirou, the main character, has to save the people from the evil Emperor Heaven. The game itself, however, features no story whatsoever, but a lot of platform action instead. You have to run quickly through the levels (there is a time limit), punching and kicking your enemies, causing them to fly away or to explode. Occasionally you will meet a boss, visit secret areas behind doors and collect various power-ups.
Lucky Bacon improves the previous movie by 1 minute and 12.82 seconds. Please read the author's comments for more details.
There is also a run of the precursor to this game.
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.6.2

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 6/26/2018
Formation Z is a side-scrolling shoot 'em up video game initially released in arcades in 1984 by Jaleco. The arcade release was distributed by Williams and known as Aeroboto outside Japan. It was later ported to the MSX and to the Famicom. Taking place in the year 2701, the player controls a robot which can transform into an aero fighter on a mission to stop an alien super weapon from reaching the Earth. The robot may move forwards, backwards and jump, and the aero fighter may travel anywhere on screen but has limited fuel in which to do so. A combination of the two must be used to avoid obstacles, as well as to destroy any on-screen enemies for extra points.
klmz did precise shots in order to stop the alien in record time.
Game:
Formation Z

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.2.3

Published on 6/26/2015
Frankenstein: The Monster Returns is a NES game released by Bandai in 1990. The evil monster Frankenstein has risen from the grave and kidnapped the girl Emily. Our hero is out to save her and defeat the evil monster once and for all.
This TAS completes the game as fast as possible using several glitches like boss skips. Check out the author's commentary for more details.

Published on 8/4/2018
Friday the 13th is a video game adaptation of the movie series of the same name. You are one of six camp counselors on a mission to defeat Jason Voorhees three times before he kills the other counselors or some of the children.
In this run, klmz beats jlun2's previous movie by an impressive 00:37.75 seconds, taking a well-planned new route that is mostly TAS-only due to tight luck manipulation and control required.

Published on 1/1/2023
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.
Cephla frogs their way through the game in record time.
Game:
Frog

Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
Game Version:
Frog
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 11/9/2012
Front Line is a military combat-themed game ported from the arcade. The objective is to fight off infantry units and tanks until you reach the enemies compound. illayaya completes the first iteration of this game in 02:38.97, though the game repeats this stage forever upon completion.
Game:
Front Line

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.1.0a

Published on 11/21/2007
The Cobra Command threatens the world and the G.I. Joe team is needed to stop it!
G.I. Joe (1991) is a difficult platformer because of its intricate routes and bosses, but the author makes short work of both. In particular, this movie sports some of the shortest boss fights of any game. It also provides entertainment through varied character and vehicle use (thankfully, the game still manages not to lag immensely even with all the action thrown in).
This is an improvement of 107 seconds to the previous movie by Ferret_Warlord.
Game:
G.I. Joe

Genres:
Platformer
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
FCEU 0.98.15

Published on 12/7/2015
G.I. Joe: The Atlantis Factor is an NES game released by Capcom USA around 1991. It is known to be a sequel to the original G.I. Joe NES game released a year before. Unlike the original game, this one allows you to take multiple routes to the end. Completing some stages will unlock other characters you can use to make the game easier. However, speedruns will just use the shortest route to the end and stick with the default character, General Hawk.
Alyosha improves the previous run by 25.08 seconds, thanks to overall better optimization and lag management.

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.
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9

Published on 5/2/2021
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.
Game:
Galf

Genres:
Sport
Homebrew
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.5.2

Published on 8/4/2019
A long time ago, before human being appeared, there lived a monster named Firebrand. In this game, Firebrand (the red gargoyle) fights against the evil that has invaded his homeland. Along the way, he becomes more powerful and becomes able to fly longer, jump higher, and shoot more weapons.
Jigwally improves the previous publication by 1 minute and 55.06 seconds, mainly thanks to using death warps, but also thanks to better optimisation.
TASVideos also has movies of this game's prequel for the Game Boy and sequel for the Super NES.

Published on 6/8/2015
Gauntlet is a Dungeons & Dragons simulator of sorts. You choose a class of Warrior, Valkyrie, Wizard or Elf to navigate the Gauntlet, collect treasure, slay wicked monsters, and save your beloved peasant hometown.
Walkthroughs for this game estimate a completion time of several hours when playing normally. Here, we see the game completed in only 12 minutes! Usually clues have to be collected to discover the password to the last dungeon, but this is selected at the game's beginning, so the clues are unnecessary in a TAS. There is also some collision detection abuse and lots of luck manipulation.
This version takes a better path, manipulates fights more, and abuses luck to get the password with shortest input time.

Downloadable encodes include the author's commentary as soft subtitles.

Published on 1/25/2012
If what was done in this movie was possible in real life, economies worldwide would crash.
Ghostbusters is a hastily produced game based on the 1984 movie of the same name. The NES version is a notoriously bad port, and the Japanese version contains a glitch that allows the Ghost Alarm item to be sold for more than it costs, allowing entry into the Zuul Building much earlier than intended.
In this movie, MESHUGGAH improves the first run of this game by 38 frames through a few small optimizations. See the author's notes for more details.

Note: A bug in the Japanese version causes the ending screen to incorrectly display "りり". This movie will also sync while the PAXKKLAA Game Genie code is used, which shows the corrected text:
Conglaturation !!!
You have completed a grate game.
And prooved the justice of our culture.
Now go and rest our heroes !
Game:
Ghostbusters

Genres:
Action
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.1.6 (interim svn2267)

Published on 12/5/2022
Ghostbusters II for the NES (not to be confused with New Ghostbusters II, which was developed by HAL Laboratory) is a licensed video game that is based off of the movie the same name and was developed by Imagineering, who developed games such as Bart vs. the Space Mutants and Ghoul School. It loosely follows the story for the movie, reenacting set pieces such as going through the abandoned transit tunnels full of slime and piloting the Statue of Liberty across the city. Breaking the norm from most linear scrolling games at the time is that you go from right-to-left instead of left-to-right. It also has driving levels and shoot 'em up levels for some variety.
In this run, ShesChardcore cleans the entire city of ghosts in record time, taking damage or even dying to avoid bonus rounds and to get more screen-clearing bombs to spawn.

Published on 6/11/2021
Ghosts 'n Goblins (1986) begins with a normal scene: a half-naked knight is on a date in a graveyard with a princess. Suddenly, a demon appears and abducts the princess! The knight quickly suits up and makes rapid progres (sic) through the demon world in an attempt to rescue his royal girlfriend.
DreamYao manages to improve the previous run by 3.1 seconds, thanks to better optimization.
In Japan, this game is known as 魔界村 (Makaimura or "Demon World Village").

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

Published on 8/3/2010
Ghoul School is a game where a multi-talented teen named Spike O'Hara fights through a horde of various ghouls with the talent of MacGyver, needing only a towel, shoes, springs, and embalming fluid.
Normally, this game would require getting many more items, but due to heavy glitching, most of the items are skipped and the game is completed in a mere four minutes. This is a 7 second improvement over the previous run.
Warning for those with sensitivity to light flashes: it is advised to skip 4:26 to 4:34 of the video encodes.

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Game:
Ghoul School

Genres:
Action
Video Downloads:
High Quality MKV
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.1.1-interim

Published on 6/12/2010
A short Japanese game about a small green toy who can summon stars to help him defeat monsters and to use them as platforms to reach high places and travel fast.
In this movie, the authors collect all of the items to enter the secret 7th level after the boss at the end of the 6th level, and do so 2 minutes and 15 seconds faster than the previous movie.
The game cartridge of Gimmick! contains a special microchip, FME7, which extends the number of sound channels in the game from 5 to 8, creating a more melodic soundtrack than in most other NES games.
This movie has an Atlas Map encode of Level 6, which shows the standard encode overlaid on a zoomed out map.
If you like this, be sure to check out the other run of this game, which skips the secret items.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Published on 7/6/2016
Gimmick! (1992) is another gem from Sunsoft, the company that brought us Ufouria and Journey to Silius. It was only released in Japan and Scandinavian countries, but eventually achieved something of a cult status thanks to its refined gameplay, as well as exceptional music and graphic design.
The plot follows a green toy on a quest to rescue a little girl from the clutch of other toys, who were rightfully upset at her forsaking them in favor of our protagonist. What these other toys can't do, however, is conjure stars to use them both as projectiles and very effective transportation devices!
This venture between Aglar, Hotarubi and Samsara improves the previous movie by 00:46.87 seconds thanks to a new zipping glitch that skips most of Stage 5 and a new clip that skips most of Stage 6. This run doesn't collect the special items required to access the 7th level, and thus gets a bad ending. However, we have another run that attains the best ending for your viewing pleasure!
This run has been console verified using micro500's TASLink replay device (3.5 ms timing window).

Published on 1/16/2022
Godzilla 2: War of the Monsters is a strategy game published by Toho in 1992. It consists of 12 missions, where human war units fight the various monsters from the Godzilla franchise, most notably Godzilla and Mothra.
juef completes all 12 missions in record time. It should be noted that the current unassisted record is over 5 hours long.

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Published on 12/20/2022
Godzilla: Monster of Monsters! is the first Godzilla video game for the NES. In this game, you play as both Godzilla and Mothra as they travel across planets to beat various other monsters such as Hedorah, Gigan, and King Ghidorah. On each planet are many alien armies that are there to stop you from reaching the monster that controls each planet. To portray this, each planet is shown as a virtual gameboard with Godzilla and Mothra on one end and the enemy monster on the other. Each space is either empty, has an alien army, or has an enemy monster. You level up by destroying anything that gets in your way, and you progress to the next planet by defeating an enemy monster in one-on-one combat.
In this run, SpaceColonizer opts to play the "Destr0y All M0nsters" mode using a special password. Here, all the enemy monsters in the game are on one board and are set to their endgame levels while Godzilla and Mothra are at level 8. The mode is considered complete when all the enemy monsters on the board are defeated. You can read the author's notes for more details.

Published on 6/29/2017
Golf is a sports game developed and released by Nintendo in 1984. As the name of the game suggests, Golf is about playing Golf. It was the first golfing game to use power and accuracy bars, paving the way for future golfing games.
link_7777 completes all 18 holes as quickly and with as few strokes as possible.
Game:
Golf

Genres:
Sport
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.12.1

Published on 12/1/2012
Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode is a game based on a popular Japanese manga. You control Golgo 13, an assassin who is ordered to take out the leader of the DREK Empire. The game features four different gameplay modes: action, flying, 360 degree shooting and 3D maze.
The author, dave_dfwm, speeds through this little-known game in less than 45 minutes.

Published on 7/25/2014
Gotcha! The Sport! is a video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System that was released in 1987 based on the 1985 film Gotcha!. It is a Capture the Flag-style game played with paintball guns loaded with simulated paintballs.
The player's mission is to get through the level, capture the enemy flag by shooting it, and return it to your base. This is while simultaneously trying not to get shot by the other team, run out of ammo, or run out of time. A light gun is necessary for this game, but one needs to also use the controller. The directional pad will move the screen left and right. Ammo boxes can be found sitting on the ground or carried by enemies in the background. It seems that only misses cost you ammo, so if one's aim is precise, they will receive a significant bonus for leftover ammunition.
There are three levels in the game: Woods, Warehouse District and Snow Fields. The Woods and Snow Fields levels feature enemies in military garb, while the Warehouse District features enemies modeled after early 1980s punks. These rounds repeat in this order infinitely; each time around, the reaction time needed for the enemies to aim and fire is reduced.
In this run, adelikat uses his amazing uber-Aimbot skills to decimate anyone and everyone who stands in his way to capture the flag. This movie is a demonstration of NES Zapper support in the most recent versions of BizHawk, and is the first movie to use the new bk2 file format for BizHawk.

Published on 11/2/2006
In this run, adelikat picks up maximum speed upgrades and has fun with perfect reflexes, much like the previous movie. That is certainly something nice to do, because the game scrolls automatically and the player cannot affect the speed. However, the point of this movie is not just to beat this game as fast as possible, but rather to do all kinds of unpredictable and awe-inspiring things rarely seen in any TAS — without losing time. See for yourself.
This is probably one of the best illustrations on how to create art out of a simplistic and otherwise uninteresting game to watch.
What is also different about this movie is an extra warp which significantly shortens the game, and the use of a new tool (input macro) as described in the submission text. Bots are occasionally used to generate pseudorandom input while still avoiding death.
Also be sure to check out this movie being played back on an actual NES.

Published on 11/13/2015
Gremlins 2 done quick — the 10th version by total now.
This movie features a 4.49 second improvement over the previous one. It makes Gremlins 2 look like it's just some avoid-obstacles-jump-and-walk platform game, which it really isn't at least meant to be.
Don't watch it after midnight, outside at sunshine or while drinking some water, you might spill it!
This movie has a full Atlas Map encode, which shows the standard encode overlaid on a zoomed out map.

Published on 2/21/2008
X2poet seeks to quell the revolution in record time! This movie not only plays on the hardest setting, but it manages to do so almost 30 seconds faster than the previous movie. This is accomplished by controlling two players at once which finished boss battles quicker.
Note: There are instance of rapid flashing after defeating bosses, which can cause epileptic seizures.

Published on 12/6/2012
Gumshoe is a game developed by Yoshio Sakamoto of Nintendo (known for his work on the Metroid games). Using the NES Zapper accessory, shoot the enemies and obstacles in the hero's path or shoot the hero himself to make him jump over them on his way to save his daughter from the Mafia.
Since the game is an autoscroller, highness aims for maximum kills and score instead of time.
Due to regular flashing caused by the use of the Zapper and the ending, viewers prone to epileptic seizures are strongly discouraged from watching this movie.
Game:
Gumshoe

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.0.2

Published on 11/13/2012
Gyromite is one of two video games designed for use with the Robotic Operating Buddy (R.O.B.), the other being Stack Up. You control a professor who must clear levels by picking up lighted bundles of dynamite while R.O.B. raises and lowers the red and blue gates.
The author, kirbymuncher, plays through the game as fast as possible with optimized movement and a couple of glitches.
Game:
Gyromite

Genres:
Puzzle
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.1.5

Published on 3/31/2023
Halloween: October 31st is a fanmade homebrew NES game that's based on the Halloween film series. It originally created as a PC game in 1999 using the game maker programs Klik N Play and Click & Create. In this game, you play as Michael Myers, who wakes up in a cave on October 30th already wearing his iconic mask. Your goal is to kill Laurie Strode and anyone else that gets in your way.
OtakuTAS in this run puts Michael's knife through Laurie and anything else that breathes in record time.
You can get the game here.

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Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8, BizHawk 2.9-2

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  2. The movies must be prominently labeled as tool-assisted speedruns.
  3. The actual player(s) (always shown at this site) must be properly credited.
Do not label them with speculations. If unsure, ask the site staff for details.