Tool-assisted movies (32)

AlterEgo is a puzzle platforming homebrew game that was originally made for the ZX Spectrum. You play a character that has a phantom alter ego that moves in mirrored fashion with them, either vertically or horizontally. This character can switch place with their alter ego to get around obstacles, but a limited number of times. The goal of the game is to collect items needed to complete the level while avoiding hazards along the way.

In this run, MarioAtWork and aiqiyou collaborate to complete the game in record time.

You can get the game here. We also have a run on the NES version.

Animaniacs is a platformer puzzle game released for the Genesis / Mega Drive in 1994. It is an entirely different game from the SNES version of the same name. After going around to collect various props from the studio to open up a hip culture shop, Pinky and the Brain plot their newest plan for world domination. They will take the items the Warners acquired to achieve this, but not if the Warners have anything to say about it.

The8BitBeast completes the game in record time.

Barney's Hide & Seek Game is a 1993 Sega Genesis game for young kids. It has Barney looking around for his friends in a game of hide and seek, and features educational concepts such as counting, matching, and problem solving.

The game also has a feature that walks the player through the whole game without requiring any input. However in this TAS, that is not done and instead the authors opt to beat the game manually as quickly as possible, using tricks to reduce lag and maximize walking speed.

DecapAttack is a Genesis exclusive game starring the mummy Chuck D. Head who's on a quest to stop an underworld army. To do so, Chuck must overcome several dangers, such as clever fishes, seals with sunglasses, and maniac bulldozers. At his disposal, Chuck has several ability-enhancing potions, as well as a spare skull to chuck at his enemies.

This is a 10 second improvement over the previous run. Most of the time saved comes from better optimization and use of the swinging poles that can be used to go faster than with regular running.

Flicky is an arcade-style Genesis game in which a flightless blue bird named Flicky must rescue her Chirps dispersed throughout the 48 rounds and bring them safely to the exit. In doing so, she must travel through a series of houses, some being in Egypt, others in space. She must also avoid the tigers led by Tiger and the chameleons led by Iggy, who just happen to be in the houses too. Luckily, there are miscellaneous items on the ground Flicky can throw to really send them rolling!

Winslinator improves on the previous run by 53 seconds thanks to improved routing, more floor clips, and crafty techniques to go slightly faster than the speed cap. This TAS also minimizes time-costly bikini girl bonuses and extra life pauses. You can read the author's notes for more details.

Gemfire is a strategy game by Koei for the Sega Genesis in 1992. The goal of the game is to control every territory of the fictional land of Ishmeria, where a tyrannical king, Eselred, abused the titular object's power in order to instill fear among his subjects. The king also imprisons his daughter, Princess Robyn, after she seized Gemfire and pried the 6 wizard gems loose.

ShesChardcore completes the most difficult scenario in the game and saves Ishmeria in record time.

Marble Madness is an arcade game where you roll a marble down or up a tall structure to the finish line while avoiding obstacles and falling off the structure itself. The Genesis version, however, is not directly comparable to the original arcade version. In addition to having much worse audio quality, the rules on where (and what) the marble can go (and do) are relaxed, allowing for many shortcuts not possible on the NES.

adelikat improves on SprintGod's previous version by 4 frames with a new trick for crossing the finish line in the first level. While it looks like there's 17 second difference between the two runs, the previous one has input for the high score screen while this one doesn't as it was considered unnecessary.

Mega Man: The Wily Wars is a collection of the first three NES Mega Man titles with enhanced graphics and sound. Along with the original games is the short game "Wily Tower", where special bosses exclusive to this game can be fought with your choice of any weapon from the first three games.

Darkman425 completes all games, including the exclusive “Wily Tower”, without using the Zip glitch.

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

eien86 escapes another world in record time.

Passing Breeze: An Arcade Adventure is a homebrew visual novel-like game that was made for the 5th Retro Platform Jam. You are a kid in the '90s who wants to play Outrun in the arcade, but you don't have any money. Go on a summer adventure as you scrounge up coins to play in the arcade and gamble your way to the victory that is the song "Passing Breeze" as heard in the video game Outrun.

MarioAtWork speeds through the game in this run as fast as possible, getting their character to play many retro Sega games in the process.

You can get the game here.

Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure is a sequel to an old Atari game with a similar concept to its predecessor: Get through the jungle alive and fight something at the end.

This run by Juarez improves the previous movie by 00:52.90 minutes using new tricks and better optimization.

Rolo to the Rescue is a platformer for the Genesis, starring an agile elephant, Rolo. Gameplay involves freeing animals from cages. Switching to the saved animals allows for different movement modes, which adds some puzzle elements. The overworld is assembled by getting pieces from clearing stages.

By herself, Rolo can only take one hit, but the animals she frees will take a hit then leave the group. Rolo is a perfectionist, anything less than 100% gets the bad ending, which is quite dark for a game that seems aimed at kids.

This is an 808 frame improvement over the previous publication.

Shadowrun is an action RPG game based on the tabletop RPG game of the same name. It has a cyberpunk fantasy setting where cybernetics, megacorporations, and the ability to jack into the Matrix coexist with magic, elves, and orks. The plot involves a man named Joshua, who spends most of the game figuring out who killed his brother Michael so he can avenge him, but not without a few obstacles along the way.

In this run, Daelixx beats the game in record time by manipulating the RNG to minimize random encounters and through the usage of a few good bugs.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992) was the game that introduced the Super Dash Attack. The ability, referred to as Spin Dash in later games, has become one of the most beloved features of the series and, indeed, one of the most prominent features of the speedrunning scene as a whole.

In this exhilarating movie, the authors speed their way through this classic's bonus stages to collect all 7 chaos emeralds, as well as the varied acts making good use of Spin Dashes to finish them in record time. The authors also control Tails — Sonic's two-tailed foxy buddy — to allow for even faster routes and making shorter work of bosses.

We have a run where Knuckles replaces the main characters and finishes the game in record time, and another run where he goes for the max rings challenge.

We also have movies in Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog CD and Sonic 3 & Knuckles.

Every second link leads to a CamHack encode that keeps Sonic visible all the time.

The Lawnmower Man is a hybrid 3D rail shooter and 2D shooter for the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo. The game is based off the movie of the same name. The games make use of some rather impressive 3D technology at the time to mimic the virtual reality scenes from the movie.

The8bitbeast defeats the lawnmower man in record time.

Thunder Force II for the Sega Genesis is a port of the Sharp X68000 game of the same name. It is both a side-scrolling shoot 'em up and a top-down shoot 'em up all in one. Compared to the X68000 version, the Genesis version cut some levels out and has some graphical downgrades, but features almost no lag.

The story of the game involves the ORN Empire, led by the rogue AI named Khaos, invading and pillaging planets that are part of the Galaxy Federation. In response, the Federation sends the ship Fire LEO-02 "Exceliza" to combat the ORN Empire and take down Khaos.

In this run, Darkman425 plays around with the side-scrolling stages and finds the quickest ways to beat the top-down stages. For details on the techniques used and how the levels were tackled, you can read the author's notes.

Based on the 1992 Tom and Jerry movie, this game follows the popular cat and mouse duo as they help the young girl Robyn reunite with her father. It is a mostly linear platformer.

SpeedyTheHedgehog completes the game in record time via precise movements and time-saving damage, saving nearly 7,440 frames over the previous publication. We have a number of other Tom and Jerry runs.

Tyrants: Fight Through Time, known as Mega-Lo-Mania in Europe and Japan, is a real-time strategy game where the goal is to conquer multiple islands from your enemies with gradually evolving technology. You choose from one of four factions, each with their own deity they worship (and you are that deity), and with that faction you fight your enemy on an island with all the resources you need to build your weapons.

The8bitbeast plays the game in this run in record time by manipulating the game to give him the most favorable starting positions. For more details, you can read the author's notes.

Yazzie is a homebrew platformer about a hapless gold seeker who wanders into a strange mansion full of hazardous traps and monsters. The goal of the game is simple: collect all of the gold in each room without dying.

In this run, aiqiyou collects all of the gold in the game in record time. To avoid waiting too long, enemy movement is manipulated to get through levels quicker.

You can get the game here.

Ninja Gaiden for Game Gear is quite unlike the NES version or even its cousin on the Master System. It has a similar (but simpler) feel as the Master System version, but has the wall climbing element of the NES game. But like the others, it has ninjas. And ninjas are cool.

The key to a TAS of this game is special weapon maintenance. Bosses receive double the damage when hit with special weapons, so managing the weapons used and conserving force are critical to optimizing this game.

This movie improves the previous run by 861 frames.

Sonic Spinball is a pinball game based off of the animated series Sonic the Hedgehog, better known as SatAM. In this game, Sonic himself takes the role of a pinball in a giant pinball table-like contraption built by Dr. Robotnik, who plans to use the machine to turn the entire population of Mobius into his robot slaves. Sonic must collect all of the Chaos Emeralds that power the machine in order to defeat him.

Finalflame maneuvers through the very awkward physics in this Game Gear port and completes the game in record time.

Myst is the epic puzzle game whose puzzles will take you hours to solve. Unless, of course, you know the answer. Although you'll encounter many brainmelting puzzles when normally playing through Myst, all the game really requires you to do is flip the eight switches around the island, get the blank page and bring it to Atrus.

One of the hardest things about this is the fireplace code which must be obtained in order to get access to Atrus. However, this being a TAS, the code is known and is entered in the most entertaining fashion the author could think of.

This TAS plays through the Sega Saturn version of the game, flipping all the switches, getting the page, and entering the code in the fireplace in record time.

Puzzle & Action: Nido aru koto wa Sand-R (２度あることはサンドア～ル), known as Puzzle & Action: Treasure Hunt overseas, is an arcade game that was developed for the Sega Titan Video arcade machine and was later ported to the Sega Saturn. Two treasure hunters managed to find themselves a large treasure chest, but a band of thieves suddenly steal it from them and split it amongst themselves. The treasure hunters must now travel the world to find these thieves and get their treasure back by completing a series of minigames, some of which appear to be highly anachronistic to say the least.

Darkman425 decides to play the game using two players and uses copious amounts of RNG manipulation in order to beat a number of minigames in record time and the whole game as fast as possible. For more details, you can read the author's notes.

Night Striker is a third-person shoot 'em up developed for the arcades by Taito. Taking place in a cyberpunk world in 2049, a terrorist organization had kidnapped Doctor Masker Lindberry and his daughter, and it's up to you, as part of the United Nations Special Service Agency, to lead task force Night Striker and take down the terrorist organization and rescue Masker Lindberry and his daughter.

In this run, Darkman425 decides to take a more scenic route, showing off as many of the unique bosses the game can offer, and dodges everything that wants to destroy him while only destroying the bosses that are required in order to proceed. Unique to the Sega CD version of the game is a special arrangement of remixes of the original songs, which are chosen and played here for additional entertainment.

Rise of the Dragon is a point and click adventure action game, set in a futuristic cyberpunk Los Angeles. When the mayor's daughter is found dead, he turns to private detective Blade to find out who's responsible for her death.

The author Rebcart solves the mystery in record time.

Rise of the Dragon is a point-and-click adventure game with shoot 'em up sections, set in a futuristic cyberpunk Los Angeles. When the mayor's daughter is found dead and mutated with the mysterious drug MTZ, it is up to private detective Blade Hunter to find out who's responsible and solve the mystery behind MTZ.

Rebcart saves about eight seconds over his previous run by improving on the Qwong wire minigame, along with minor optimizations throughout.

Pitfall II: The Lost Caverns (ピットフォールII) is the sequel to Pitfall and was released for a variety of systems during the mid-1980s including the SG-1000 in 1985. It was also ported to Sega System 1 arcade hardware by Sega. Gameplay is similar to the original game, but the levels are more maze-like. It features tweaks such as a lives system, minecarts, balloons and even a final Demon boss. Other than that, the plot is identical to the versions released for the Atari 2600.

aiqiyou retrieves the Raj diamond in record time.

Wonder Boy is an arcade game developed by Sega that serves as a sort of precursor to the Adventure Island series. You play as a tribal jungle boy known as Wonder Boy, who must rescue his girlfriend Tina from a dark king with his trusty hatchet and skateboard. It has received ports to the Sega SG-1000 and Master System, the former essentially receiving a remade game due to system limitations and lacking items such as the skateboard.

In this run, Darkman425 plays the SG-1000 version to completion as fast as possible.

Desert Speedtrap Starring Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote is a Sega Master System video game based around the Looney Tunes shorts of Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote. In this game, Road Runner must outwit Wile E. Coyote to avoid getting caught and reach the end of the stage, where Coyote will be seen destroying himself as is typical in the shorts.

The8bitbeast and aiqiyou avoid Coyote and beat the game in record time.

It's the year 33XXX, and aliens have stolen Olivia Run's Sega Master System, and she wants it back. Oh, and they also killed her boyfriend and emptied her fridge. That is the plot of Galactic Revenge, a homebrew platformer that plays similarly to Gremlins 2: The New Batch.

Watch as Darkman425 jumps across conveyor belts, deftly takes care of any robots and aliens he sees, and trades life points for more speed in order to beat the game in record time.

You can download a ROM of the game here.

My Hero, known as Seishun Scandal (青春スキャンダル) in Japan, is a beat 'em up arcade game that was released in 1985 and later ported to the Sega Master System in 1986. You play as a guy named Steven (Takeshi in Japan), whose girlfriend Remy (Mari in Japan) suddenly gets kidnapped by some gang leader. Steven must now go across town to save Remy, beating up any thugs that try to stop him, and defeat the gang leader.

Unique to the arcade version is the inclusion of a hostage that can be rescued mid-stage and fight for you until they are defeated. It also has extra stages that change the setting and enemies, with the second stage involving ninjas in Edo period Japan and the third stage involving ape-beings in a far-off future a la Planet of the Apes.

In this run, enderpal7 and ThunderAxe31 both complete a single loop of the game in record time, kicking everything off the screen.

Rocky is a video game adaptation of the famous Rocky movies, featuring familiar characters like the Soviet superboxer Ivan Drago.

In this run, ShesChardcore improves the predecessor movie by 00:06.31.