Tool-assisted movies (81)

Basic Math is an Atari 2600 video game where you get to practice elementary mathematics with one or two-digit numbers. All four arithmetic operations are used here: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The game keeps track of how many problems you get right and shows your final score at the end.

The8bitbeast manipulates the game so that it gives him problems that can be solved with the fewest amount of frames necessary. For more information, you can read his notes here.

Dragonfire is a video game where you infiltrate into a dragon's castle and steal all of its treasure, all while avoiding its fire attacks. The difficulty of the game increases with every castle looted as the dragon itself gets more and more powerful.

In this run, ShesChardcore plays the game until the difficulty stops increasing. The white dragon is the hardest dragon and will be the only dragon available to steal from once beaten. The RNG was manipulated to give the most favorable layouts.

Othello is a board game that is a modern variant of Reversi. It looks similar to Go with its checkered board and black and white pieces, but it's completely different.

negative seven saves 7.31 seconds over the previous "maximum score" run through extensive research and development, the most notable being the usage of a modern Othello AI engine and pitting it against the Atari 2600 AI. You can read the author's notes here for all the details on the efforts put into the run, including the creation of a custom Atari 2600 emulator.

SwordQuest: EarthWorld is the first in a series of adventure games released for the Atari 2600. The games came with comic books that explained the plot of the games and contained clues needed to progress. Those that manage to solve the cryptic puzzles would then have a chance to submit their results to Atari and win prizes totaling up to $150,000. Unfortunately, the fourth game and the contest itself were cancelled in the wake of Atari's financial collapse. While the contestants would be compensated, the story of the series was left unfinished.

In this run, ShesChardcore speeds through the game with strategic use of the teleporting Amulet and efficient item management in order to get the "Sword of Ultimate Sorcery" and complete the game in record time.

Tomarc the Barbarian is an action game where Tomarc the Barbarian must rescue Senta from a cave she got herself lost in. Senta also managed to get herself kidnapped and is imprisoned in a cage that can be opened by Tomarc's sword. Unfortunately, Tomarc lost his sword in the same cave, so he must now find his sword and rescue Senta before the cave bats eat her alive. Special to this Atari 2600 is the ability to switch between two characters to control, Tomarc and Senta, and both characters continue to be affected by their environments even when you're not controlling them. While Tomarc is used to find the sword to rescue Senta, Senta herself is controlled to fend off the bats that are trying to kill her.

DrD2k9 decides not to go through all that trouble in this run by using a good amount of RNG manipulation to get a cave layout that requires the least amount of movement needed and controlling only Tormac to get the sword and rescue Senta as fast as possible.

Warlords for the Atari 2600 is best described as a competitive multiplayer version of Breakout. Each player has a tiny hitbox defended by a wall that chips away with each hit from a bouncing ball and a shield to defend the wall with. A player earns a point each round when every other player's hitbox has been eliminated. The first one to five points wins the game.

As it turns out, at the highest difficulty, you can actually win the game without even moving the shield at all. ShesChardcore takes advantage of this and provides only a quarter of a second of input time, most of it just selecting the game with the hardest difficulty.

Anarchy is a puzzle game where the goal is to shoot a number of blocks in each level using a tank under a set time limit, all while enemy droids are chasing after you. Once all the blocks are shot, an exit opens up and you have to get there before the droids get you or time runs out. Introduced in the later levels are yellow blocks which materialize in different places when shot, creating new passageways and more opportunities in how to tackle those levels.

nymx and DrD2k9 complete the first sixteen levels (the levels loop after that) in record time with help from a script created by the former to brute force the most optimal solutions out of the yellow block levels.

Yathzee [sic] is one of many ports of the dice game Yahtzee to the Commodore 64. The goal of the game is to score as many points as possible by rolling five dice to make certain combinations. Points are earned depending on the scoring category chosen. A Yahtzee is when all five dice have the same number and is worth 50 points, the most of the categories. Unique to this particular port is the usage of a synthesized voice, which sounds pretty rough due to being on an 8-bit computer.

nymx decides to max out and glitch the score counter by consistently scoring Yahtzees many times in a row. The synthesized voice was kept in to showcase its ability, despite being able to save an additional 43 seconds with it turned off.

Doom II: Hell on Earth is the hit sequel to Doom, one of the most influential first person shooters of all time. The Doomguy has returned from his mission on Mars and his banishment to Hell, only to find that Earth has been invaded by demons. He must now kill all the demons on Earth and go back to Hell so he can kill everything there.

almostmatt1 and Zero Master utilize a variety of glitches and tricks that exploit the Doom engine's quirks to complete the game on the "Ultra-Violence" difficulty as fast as possible. The RNG was also manipulated to ensure the enemy AI acts as the runners' intended. You can read the authors' notes for more details on how each level was achieved and a list of all the glitches used.

Fire Emblem: Shin Monshou no Nazo: Hikari to Kage no Eiyuu (ファイアーエムブレム 新・紋章の謎〜光と影の英雄〜) is a remake of Fire Emblem 3 developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the DS in 2010. As such, it follows the same plot as the third game of the series, but with more chapters and recruitable characters.

lapogne36 obtains the best possible rank on the hardest difficulty (for which SRAM is needed) in record time.

An alternate encode by the author that features the battle animations can be found right here.

Intellivision Lives! is a collection of Intellivision titles developed to preserve the best of the best, such as Crown of Kings, also known as Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Cloudy Mountain on the Intellivision console. These may appear identical games on the surface level, but under the hood, this is based on the prototype release, and have different RNG algorithms.

Watch as Winslinator walks through walls to retrieve the Crown of Kings in record time.

Intellivision Lives! is a collection of Intellivision titles developed to preserve the best of the best, such as Crown of Kings, also known as Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Cloudy Mountain on the Intellivision console. These may appear identical games on the surface level, but under the hood, this is based on the prototype release, and have different RNG algorithms.

Watch as Winslinator walks through walls and substantial luck manipulation to tear through the game's content while collecting the key, axe, and boat in the process.

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.

ShesChardcore opts to play the Big Wheel in order to get the minimum required ($140,000) to get the best car, a Ferrari-looking sports car, as fast as possible.

Cosmo Tank is a space tank battle game. You're the commander of the tank "Tiger Alpha-1", and your mission is to fight on land and in space against the Master Insect and his minions. The game features both top-down levels and first person levels in which you can freely move around in all directions. Settings feature both open outdoor environments, caves and space. Slowly upgrade your cannon and armor as you progress for more firepower and the ability to sustain more hits.

Alyosha improves on tool23's run by nearly 2 minutes by properly upgrading the laser weapon, better RNG manipulation, and better optimization.

You can watch this run being played on a real console here.

Final Fantasy Legend II (Sa・Ga2 秘宝伝説, Sa・Ga2 - The Treasure Legend) is a role-playing game developed by Square and is the second game in the SaGa series. You take on the role of one of eight different characters of varying race and gender who leaves on a journey to find his or her lost father and recover the Magi, pieces of a magical statue of the goddess Isis.

Unlike the standard run, Darkman425 opts to skip over half the game through careful usage of the poison bug and a well-timed game reset to overwrite the desired RAM values and get the desired ending quicker than intended.

Rolan's Curse is like a simplified version of the NES Legend of Zelda with slower gameplay and more restricted game world, resulting in a primitive hack-and-slash experience. Nevertheless, there exists an interesting storyline: The kingdom of Rolan has been invaded by the forces of some evil being called Barius. However, in this movie the final boss is never actually seen. Instead of meeting Barius face to face, the hero dies while defeating the first level boss. The game then decides to freak out and end right there, declaring the rest of the story unnecessary.

While this run appears to be slower than the previously published movie due to more accurate emulation, it is in fact faster by 16 frames if emulation differences are not accounted for.

Rolan's Curse is an action-adventure game that's very similar to The Legend of Zelda, right down to the plot. The people of Rolan are being terrorized by the evil rule King Barius, who escaped from his imprisonment, and monsters have run amuck thanks to him. It's now up to you, with your trusty sword and subweapons you can collect, to stop him and save Rolan.

In this run, not only does ThunderAxe31 end the game early by glitching the first boss into letting him win the entire game, he also uses a password to give his character maxed stats so he can beat the game even quicker.

Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance is the second Castlevania game to appear on the Game Boy Advance. Along with the main story mode is Boss Rush mode, which is unlocked after completing the story mode once. In Boss Rush mode, you can face a gauntlet of bosses from the story that you have to defeat as fast as you can. There are three difficulties to Boss Rush mode, each of which have their own different set of bosses.

In this run, Tarion plays Boss Rush mode on the Hard difficulty, which includes every major boss fight from the story. Various glitches and copious amounts of RNG manipulation are performed to put down each boss as fast as possible.

There is also a run where Simon Belmont is used instead of Juste.

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga is a role-playing video game developed by AlphaDream and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance in 2003.

The game follows Mario and Luigi and Bowser as they travel through Beanbean Kingdom in order to restore Princess Peach's voice from the clutches of Cackletta.

In this movie, Potato defeats all of the major bosses in the game in record time.

Viewers who have photosensitivity problems may want to avoid watching as there's a high amount of flashing visuals from 45:22 onwards due to the glitches that are performed and it can become uncomfortable to watch. There is an alternative encode which attempts to make these visual glitches less intensive by disabling layers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVLId2OwPME

Simple 2960 Tomodachi Series Vol. 3: The Itsudemo Puzzle - Massugu Soroeru Straws (SIMPLE2960ともだちシリーズ Vol.3 THE いつでもパズル まっすぐ揃えてストローズ) is a GBA puzzle game that's part of the Simple 2960 Tomodachi line of games published by D3 Publisher and developed by BeeWorks. In the main game mode, Straw the apprentice witch must align the stars in order to pass her graduation exam.

Darkman425 reaches the score necessary for Straw to pass her graduation exam in record time.

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX is an updated version of an older GB game which adds color, an additional dungeon, various other minor features, and a lot of bug fixes. Link, after rescuing Hyrule (again?), sets off on a journey and subsequently shipwrecks on the mysterious Koholint Island, which has been overtaken by evil monsters which he must defeat in order to find a way back home.

In this TAS, TwistedTammer goes through the entire game collecting all the permanent inventory items, which includes heart pieces, L2 upgrades, capacity upgrades, photographs, and the colored tunic upgrade exclusive to the DX version of the game. However this run does avoid some major glitches in order to make the viewing experience more enjoyable.

Wizardry II: Llylgamyn no Isan, known originally as Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, is a role-playing game in the Wizardry series. Llylgamyn is a kingdom that's being ravaged by various natural disasters, and the only way to stop it is with the Orb of Scrying, guarded by the dragon L'kbreth. It is up to you to reach the dragon and and win the orb from L'kbreth in order to save the world.

As with the NES version, it was released second on the Game Boy Color due to the actual second game, The Knight of Diamonds, being too hard for more casual gamers and only in Japan. Unlike the NES version, the maps are smaller and the party starts out at level 3 instead of 1, making you stronger right off the bat. ShesChardcore takes this into account and does copious amounts of RNG manipulation in order to beat the game in record time.

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.

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.

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.

Sharp Shot is an Intellivision game filled with four minigames that revolve around aiming at things: Touchdown Passing, Space Gunner, Submarine, and Maze Shoot. Touchdown Passing has you throwing footballs at receivers for scoring touchdowns while the rest has you shooting at moving objects. The goal is to earn as many points as you can in 60 seconds.

In this run, Winslinator manipulates the RNG and uses tight movements in order to score as many points as possible for each minigame. Two players are used in certain minigames where both can play at the same time.

Explore winding corridors! Collect magical treasures! Battle vile monsters! Escape perilous traps! You are about to face the greatest challenge any mortal has ever known -- the Tower of Doom. a roguelike featuring 10 selectable characters and 14 adventures. Surviving the Tower of Doom requires quick reflexes and quicker wits. You must learn for yourself how to use many of the items you will find. You must decide when to fight a monster, and when to trade treasure for your life. You must maintain your strength, increase your stamina, and develop your diplomatic skills.

Winslinator saves 1:32.22 over their previous run by using a more optimal seed that requires less rooms to be entered and through even more extensive RNG manipulation.

Explore winding corridors! Collect magical treasures! Battle vile monsters! Escape perilous traps! You are about to face the greatest challenge any mortal has ever known -- the Tower of Doom. a roguelike featuring 10 selectable characters and 14 adventures. Surviving the Tower of Doom requires quick reflexes and quicker wits. You must learn for yourself how to use many of the items you will find. You must decide when to fight a monster, and when to trade treasure for your life. You must maintain your strength, increase your stamina, and develop your diplomatic skills.

Winslinator decides use the most optimal character and scenario that can be used for this run, the Warlock and "The Fortress", in order to beat the game as fast as possible. For further details, you can read the author's notes.

Venture is an action-adventure game where a treasure hunter named Winky goes into dungeons to find treasure. The goal is the get all of the treasure in each level while fighting and dodging monsters. Stay in a room too long and a big monster called the Hallmonster will chase down Winky and try to kill him.

In this run, Winslinator plays the game until the difficulty can no longer increase, collecting all of the treasure in the process. The difficulty of the game stops increasing after level 9.

DEADBOLT is a stealth-action title that puts you in control of the Reaper to end the undead uprising.

Watch as JAG blasts their way through Zombies, Vampires, Dredged and Demons in record time.

Iconoclasts is a platforming game released by Swedish developer Joakim "Konjak" Sandberg. A passion project 11 years in the making, the game follows Robin, a naive and helpful mechanic, as she tries to fix a broken world ruled by a sinister religious authority known as the One Concern.

The author, ikuyo, plays through the boss rush mode of the game known as Lethal Rush, which is unlocked after beating the main story mode, and beats all the bosses in just under 10 minutes of in game time.

Iconoclasts is a platforming game released by Swedish developer Joakim "Konjak" Sandberg. A passion project 11 years in the making, the game follows Robin, a naive and helpful mechanic, as she tries to fix a broken world ruled by a sinister religious authority known as the One Concern.

ikuyo improves her previous publication by 5.1 seconds, thanks to better optimisation and improved boss strategies. Please read the author's comments for more details.

To beat The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, players must normally visit four temples and rescue the giant at each one, so that they can later be called upon with the Oath to Order to stop the moon from destroying Termina. The authors of this TAS barely even play the game, instead beating it by supersliding to the observatory and then sliding off of a pot using a bomb.

In this heavily glitched run of Majora's Mask, the authors achieve total control of the game using the newly discovered Stale Reference Manipulation (SRM) technique, allowing them to unlock inputs on a third controller and then using it to input and execute code that jumps the game straight to its credits sequence. Setting up the SRM is quite a feat, and it, along with loads of other tricks used in this run, are explained in detail in the authors' submission notes. You can also watch a version with voice commentary by BruceShankle here.

The authors improve the previous movie by 48 frames. This run is performed on the Japanese 1.0 version of the game, which features faster text than the English version, in addition to having the fastest memory setup.

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.

ShesChardcore opts to play the Big Wheel in order to get the minimum required ($140,000) to get the best car, a red Ferrari-looking sports car, as fast as possible.

The original Castlevania is set in the year 1691. Simon Belmont must fight his way through the castle and destroy Count Dracula.

Challenger and eien86 improve the predecessor movie by 00:06.79 seconds, thanks to better optimization of the scroll glitch as well as more clever ways of utilizing it.

There is also a run of this game which destroys as little as possible.

The MSX version has been TASed as well!

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Simon is taking another shot at this castle, but feeling horrible for the destruction he caused last time, he is now trying to respect Dracula's property and leave the place untouched (even if his intention is to kill the count).

As a minimalist variation of a pacifist goal, this movie does not contain any destruction in the levels: candles and walls are left intact, items stay untouched, and no enemy is harmed — with the exception of the bosses, who are killed mercilessly with the help of the "critical hit" glitch.

With Simon sneaking by most enemies with no subweapons and only his leather whip, this ends up being quite a stealthy run.

eien86 & Challenger improve the previous run by 12.3 seconds, thanks to better optimization with the scroll glitch, a new route within the caves, better boss battles which allowed obtaining the orb early, and removal of lag frames.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

The city of St. Canard is plagued by an unseen crime wave. The intelligence agency S.H.U.S.H. suspects that the shady organization F.O.W.L. and their valued operative Steelbeak are its causes. The caped superhero Darkwing has made quite some enemies in the criminal circles thanks to his past heroic deeds, and now the entire city has to pay for that. Naturally, the valiant duck is determined to travel through the dangerous streets of St. Canard, defeat his foes, and foil Steelbeak's plans.

Darkwing Duck is a side-scrolling platform game featuring the titular character from the Disney television series. The gameplay is similar to Duck Tales, also resembling Mega Man games in many ways. Darkwing's default weapon is a gas gun; special adapters that modify its functions can be collected during exploration. By using his cape, Darkwing is able to deflect some of the enemy projectiles. Weapons can be changed via a sub-screen.

For a "pacifist" type of completion, this run avoids killing enemies (they might also have dropped health refills, so health management is mandatory), and to offer maximum variety in addition to the any% version, minimizes the use of subweapons (yet to save a single enemy's life, a single arrow is used). It offers some fresh action and manipulation on bosses, but can't be done entirely along with pacifist, so DreamYao has to use a single arrow to save a single enemy's life.

This is a 827 frame improvement over the previous movie.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Darkwing Duck (1992) is a platformer somewhat similar to Mega Man in gameplay and difficulty. The arrow gun allows the player to climb up walls and use creative shortcuts so that the absolute shortest route can be taken. In case you are wondering why the character keeps on jumping so much, it is because he has to wait a short amount of time before being able to walk. With constant jumping these stops can be avoided.

This run by DreamYao, J.Y, and aiqiyou saves 16.39 seconds over the previous run thanks to improved jumping and arrow techniques. For more details, you can read the authors' comments.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

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.

In this run, MarioAtWork plays "Calculate B" and manipulates the RNG in order to spawn numbers and operations in the right places so that each round can be won as quickly as possible. As only one player can win each round, the second player immediately dies to save time.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

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 MarioAtWork improve the previous movie by 14.71 seconds, thanks to better luck manipulation. Please read the authors' comments for more details.

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.

Hollywood Squares is a licensed NES game based on the game show of the same name. It is essentially a quiz-like version of tic-tac-toe. Each contestant gets a turn to pick a square, which contains a celebrity that will be asked a question. The celebrity will then give their answer and it is up to both contestants to figure out if the celebrity's answer is true or false. Guess correctly and you get the square. Fill in the right squares to win the game.

ShesChardcore manipulates the game so that the most favorable questions and answers are given and the AI opponent answers exactly as intended in order to beat the game in record time.

This video game adaptation of Jaws appears to be based on the second half of the movie of the same name, which focuses mostly on finding the shark and killing it. None of that boring stuff such as the mayor refusing to close the town for the summer holidays despite warnings of potential shark attacks.

In this run by SpaceColonizer, the attack level is upgraded to 3 to kill Jaws in a single encounter. Luck manipulation is used to get encounters in the shortest time, and a purposeful death is used to avoid a bonus scene. He also manages to save 2 seconds over his previous run through rigorous optimization.

This video game adaptation of Jaws appears to be based on Jaws: The Revenge, with some elements from the first Jaws movie. The game has you hunting down the shark as with the second half of Jaws, but it also appears to be set in the Caribbean like with Jaws: The Revenge. Unlike Jaws: The Revenge, you cannot survive being chomped on and dragged underwater by the shark.

SpaceColonizer opts to not die in this run to save time, which would have skipped a bonus stage as he collects shells to power up. The good thing is that by completing the bonus stage perfectly, enough points can be gained quickly enough to get the mini-sub, which can kill the shark more quickly.

KUBO is a homebrew NES game developed by a six-year old boy and his supportive father as part of a father and son summer project. You play as a cowboy turtle who must travel through a world full of monsters to retrieve a jewel. The game was programmed by the father using NESMaker and the designs were made by his son.

In this run, MarioAtWork exploits quirks in the NESMaker engine in order to beat the game in record time. Diagonal walking is not supposed to be possible, but a glitch called "drifting" makes it possible in all directions except the down-right direction. You can read the author's notes for more details.

You can get the game here.

Legacy of the Wizard (1987), released in Japan as "ドラゴンスレイヤーIV Dragon Slayer IV: Drasle Family", is actually a part of Dragon Slayer series. This is a nonlinear platforming adventure game, in which you gain control over one member of the Drasle family to explore the vast dungeon filled with mind bending puzzles and obscure secrets.

The goal of the game is to retrieve a powerful sword named Dragon Slayer, protected by four magical crowns, to kill an evil dragon trapped in the nearby labyrinth. Each member of the family has different abilities, and the portion of the labyrinth only he/she can go into to retrieve one of the crowns. However, this prerequisite was circumvented by the clever use of certain glitches.

Lord Tom improves on his previous run by 58 seconds through more intense RNG manipulation in order to get the required items faster and better resource management. For more details, you can read the author's notes here.

This movie has a full Atlas Map encode, which shows the standard encode overlaid on a zoomed out map. The YouTube encode also includes the author's commentary in the form of subtitles.

Might and Magic, released in 1986, was the first installment in the series that would later evolve into a whole fictional universe, encompassing both the actual M&M games and a multitude of 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 katsuster skips most of it by using a glitch that allows the player to get all the important items in a matter of a few minutes. It also improves on the previous run that used the same glitch by optimizing the usage of the glitch and by utilizing subframe inputs to skip messages faster. For more details, you can read the author's notes.

katsuster has also provided an encode of the run that has a map and important values next to the gameplay.

NeSnake 2 is a homebrew game made by MatrixZ in the style of the classic game Snake.

This run by MESHUGGAH and alyosha showcases the only way a Snake game can be TASed for the fastest time. Guess what happens!

This is an 80 frame improvement over the previous movie.

As the heavy amount of luck manipulation done in this TAS is not readily apparent, a secondary YouTube encode is provided that displays the inputs.

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

Ninja Gaiden is a classic action NES title known for its difficulty, starring famous ninja Ryu Hayabusa as its main protagonist. Ryu has just learned that his father has recently gone missing after being defeated in a dual against his rival. He must now take up his sword and avenge his father, all the while encountering government conspiracies and supernatural events.

In this run, a group of authors decide to eschew the usual ninja methods of killing anything that wants to hurt you and go for a pacifist run, only killing when necessary to progress. To accomplish this, the RNG was heavily manipulated and glitches were abused to skip as many fights as possible and reduce the number of enemies encountered. For more information, you can read the authors' notes here.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Phred's Cool Punch-Out 2 Turbo is a romhack of Punch-Out!! with tweaked mechanics, new gimmicks, and a couple of new characters. Characters you get to fight include Zelda, Disco Kid from Punch-Out!! for the Wii, and even Doc Louis himself.

DJ Incendration goes through the entire game, one-shotting certain characters if possible, and finishes it in record time.

Phred's Cool Punch-Out 2 Turbo is a romhack of Punch-Out!! with tweaked mechanics, new gimmicks, and a couple of new characters. Characters you get to fight include Zelda, Disco Kid from Punch-Out!! for the Wii, and even Doc Louis himself.

DJ Incendration improves his previous run by 16 frames by adjusting the strategy used for the first fight against SW7 Destroyer.

Q Boy is an unlicensed game created and released by Sachen in 1994. Dr. Mouse has stolen the Flower of Dream and has terraformed the planet Phantom for his own nefarious purposes. Q Boy must now travel to the four ends of the world to look for the Flower of Dream and defeat Dr. Mouse and his associates. Despite the similarities to games like Kirby and Mega Man, it is a completely standalone game.

dekutony and Alyosha save about 12 seconds over their previous run thanks to a different route taken for Stage 4-4 and a more optimized final boss battle with Dr. Mouse.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

R.C. Pro-Am II is the sequel to R.C. Pro-Am by Rare. The biggest addition to the game is multiplayer, allowing up to four players to race against each other with the use of the NES Four Score accessory. Another difference is that instead of power-ups and weapons you can pick up on the track, you pick up money that can be used to purchase power-ups at a store in-between races. However, you can still collect rare letters that can spell out a word that can give you power-ups.

FatRatKnight and eien86 play the single player mode and complete all the tracks in first place, setting record times with the help of a brute-force bot to both find the fastest path and to manipulate the chance of getting the Letters so that power-ups can be collected as soon as possible. You can read the authors' notes for more details.

Rampage is a monster arcade game developed by Bally Midway that was ported to many video game consoles during the '80s. The premise of the game is that three humans have became giant mutated monsters due to various experimental mishaps. Now that they're monsters, their goal is to roam the nation, destroy everything in their paths, and crush any and all opposition, whether it be civilians trying to defend their home to the military trying to bomb them down.

In this run, SpaceColonizer chooses one player mode and plays as the lizard monster, completing all 128 levels as fast as possible.

Rocket Ranger is an odd war game involving Nazis, time travel, moon rocks, and aliens. American scientists have received a bunch of special items and a message in the future telling them that the Nazis have won World War II with the use of Lunarium, a special metal that was used by the Nazis to make sterilization and intelligence-lowering bombs. The scientists give you these special items, which includes a jetpack, and put you on a quest to save the world from the terror of the Nazis by invading their depots, stealing their rocket parts to make a rocket ship and their Lunarium to use as fuel, and flying to the moon to shut down their Lunarium mines. But be cautious, the Nazis may have had some help along the way.

In this run, ShesChardcore and CtrlAltDestroy both save the world. punch lots of guys, and get the girl in record time.

Solar Jetman is a space adventure game where the main excitement comes from the physics of the game. In the game, you explore planets with a small module you fly around, towing fuel tanks and other artifacts back to the mother ship, often from planets with a ridiculous level of gravity and narrow hazardous caverns. Anyone who has played this game surely knows how difficult it can be, while being entertaining for hours after hours.

No passwords were used in this movie, although a few warps were used to skip stages.

This run by ktwo and eien86 saves around 3.5 minutes over the previous run thanks to the use of a brute-force bot to find the triggers for a double warp in the first world and a glitch involving the final boss, among other optimizations. For more details, you can read the authors' notes.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

The Blue Marlin is a fishing game where the objective is to go out into the sea and find the biggest marlin or swordfish that satisfies the tournament judges. You go out to three different fishing locations and explore the waters for schools of fish to catch the biggest fish you can find. When you do find a fish, a minigame comes up where you have to tire the fish out in order to catch it.

With the help of RAM watching, ShesChardcore manipulates the game to get the biggest fish required for each tournament as fast as possible in record time.

The second quest of The Legend of Zelda is what you get by having completed the game once. It is more difficult than the first quest.

In this movie, the authors enter ZELDA as the player's name to start the 2nd quest without having to complete the game first.

This is a 666 frame improvement over the previous movie thanks to better optimization, be sure to read the author's submission notes for more information.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

The Three Stooges can be described as a board game where you play various minigames, often aiming to collect as many items or correct answers as possible. The plot of the game involves Moe, Larry, and Curly trying to raise enough money to make sure the local orphanage doesn't get taken away by the big bank.

Darkman425 in this run chooses the most optimal sequence of games to gain the minimum amount of money needed for the best ending, $20,000, and finish in record time.

The Untouchables is an NES game based loosely on the movie of the same name. The goal of the game is to take down Al Capone and his henchmen. In a series of different gameplay types, it includes a standoff shooting game, which a few platforming sections here and there.

ShesChardcore takes down Al Capone and his henchmen in record time.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is an action-adventure video game created for the NES by Rare in 1989. The game loosely follows the movie as the player wanders around Hollywood collecting items and figuring out Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Aloysha and Arc improve the previous TAS by 1.25 seconds thanks to better optimization of the final boss fight. For more details, read the authors' comments here and here.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Armored Core sees the player take on the role of a Raven: a mercenary who customizes and pilots a giant mecha (an Armored Core) to complete missions for powerful corporations in a dystopian future.

In this run, the TASers complete the game, but instead of taking the corporations' money, they actually do what they're tasked with, completing the game 100% without aborting any missions or stepping out of bounds.

Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time follows Bugs Bunny in his first 3D title where after taking a wrong turn at Albuquerque he mistakes a time machine for a carrot juice dispenser and ends up in Nowhere.

Watch as AleMastroianni collects all 124 clocks and all 333 golden carrots to return Bugs back to present day so he can make it to Pismo Beach.

Final Fantasy VII was Square's first Final Fantasy title on the PlayStation. The new CD-ROM technology let them make a massive game full of cutscenes, which veteran Final Fantasy TASer Lil_Gecko cuts down to a short (for this genre) 6 and a half hours without using Cait Sith's Limit 'slots' an ability which allows enemies and bosses to be instantly killed. Extensive planning and tricks were used; be sure to read the author's notes for more information.

Hot Wheels: Extreme Racing is a 2001 racing game for the Sony Playstation, based on the popular race car toy series. Within each race, the vehicles have the ability to transform into different types of engines, either useful for land, water, air, or all-terrain.

Using the Rollcage vehicle, and maxed-out speed options, somyeol races though (or rather zips though) all possible cups in record time.

MediEvil tells the tale of Sir Daniel Fortesque, one very deceased knight, and his quest to rid the land of undead legions and Zarok, the wicked magician who created them. The gameplay is very reminiscent of the action-platformers of old, consisting largely of running around each stage hacking up baddies, though there is also a good share of puzzles to be solved.

Watch as Crash41596 collects all 20 chalices in record time.

The Legend of Dragoon is an RPG developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation in 1999. It follows the story of Dart, who swears to avenge the death of his parents by defeating a mysterious black monster. For reasons unknown, the Sandora Empire burns his native village down and arrest his childhood friend, Shana. Dart sets on a journey to rescue her; however, Shana's kidnapping sets off a sinister plot of ancient powers and the destruction of humanity.

lapogne36 exploits a save glitch to rescue Shana in record time. Please read the author's comments for more details.

Wipeout is a popular futuristic racing game for the PlayStation. Known for its eclectic techno soundtrack, it also has a limited combat system where weapons and powerups can be used to slow down or destroy enemy racers and protect yourself from said enemy racers.

In this run, Napoleon opts to use vehicles from the Qirex team, known for being very hard to handle, and plays through the Championship Race on the Rapier difficulty, setting record times on multiple tracks.

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.

Arcana is a role-playing game from HAL Laboratory, the studio behind franchises such as Kirby and Super Smash Bros. In this first-person dungeon crawling game, you play as a wizard named Rooks, who is the last of the Card Masters, an order of wizards who use special cards that have tremendous magical power in them. An evil magician by the name of Galneon threatens the world by threatening to release the evil goddess Rimsalia and has killed all those who opposed him, including most of the Card Masters. Rooks must now go on a quest to stop Galneon and Rimsalia before they destroy the world.

Jiseed utilizes large amounts of RNG manipulation for this run to complete the game as fast as possible. Unlike most other games, the battle RNG is most often not determined by what was inputted by a controller during a frame, but by the actions taken in previous frames. This kind of RNG along with the traditional input-based RNG made for a difficult RPG to TAS.

Drakkhen is a role-playing game that was originally developed for the Amiga and the Atari ST by Infogrames. An innovative game at the time, it featured an open world that can be explored from a 3D perspective. During the process of being developed for the SNES by Kemco, the story was heavily altered by mistake due to a botched translation job. The original story involves four people who got shipwrecked on the island ruled by the Drakkhen, a race of lizard people that threaten to take over the world. In order to take back the island and save humanity, the four heroes must find the nine gem tears in order to summon the Dragon God that will help them.

In this run, ShesChardcore takes a carefully planned route that, along with a heaping amount of RNG manipulation, minimizes enemy encounters and completes the game as fast as possible. To minimize lag, two of the four player characters are killed off by monsters. For more details, you can read the author's notes here.

EarthBound is a great RPG, designed by Shigesato Itoi in 1994-1995, and is also known by the name Mother 2.

It is best described as "random", in a good way. The game has a great emphasis on a humor, and indeed many things in the game are almost caricatured, from subplots to characters. It also has a versatile soundtrack.

Although this being a speedrun (tool-assisted at that), most of the plot of the game is intact, making this movie very entertaining to watch even as a TAS.

Unlike the previous "in bounds" movie, which aimed for a glitchless route, this TAS does incorporate some glitches while never using any that put the player out of bounds.

Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 (ファイアーエムブレム　トラキア776) is the 5th game of the Fire Emblem series, which only saw a release in Japan originally. It takes place during the events of Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, where Leif attempts to re-take Manster and free northern Thracia.

The game features a ranking system, based on the total turn count throughout the playthrough and how many of the 47 units are still alive at the end of the playthrough. lapogne36 attains the best possible rank (SSS Rank), where all units are still alive, in record time.

This TAS was done in a new game+ setting, where the movement of the units is increased.

Goof Troop ST (ST standing for "Space Treasure") is a ROM hack of the SNES classic Disney's Goof Troop. Much like the original game, it features puzzle solving stages as the characters play as either Goofy or Max, who can throw items at enemies, kick star blocks, and use grappling hooks whenever they need to go across large gaps.

The story of this hack is that Goofy and Max need to return back to the island from the original game in order to obtain a secret treasure, which is rumored to have come from outer space. Goof and Max must get the treasure before the pirates do.

Le Hulk uses both players to obtain the Space Treasure in record time.

Note: the end credits are glitched out since the demos expect the original levels.

SimAnt is a simulation game where you control and cultivate a colony of ants and pit them against another ant colony. However, as these ants are in the backyard of a suburban home, they must also defend themselves against the humans that might kill them, deliberately or not. The mode played in this run is "Full Game", where your goals are to eliminate the enemy ant colony and drive out the humans from their home.

calcwatch2 plays the "Full Game" mode to completion as fast as possible, manipulating the RNG whenever possible to get the most favorable outcomes.

The author also has an additional encode that displays more information and statistics on both ant colonies and on the RNG.

Stone Protectors is a beat 'em up video game in a British multimedia franchise trying to capitalize on the "group of badass dudes with an attitude" craze in the '90s popularized by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Toxic Crusaders. It involves a bunch of mediocre rockers who find magic stones that turn them rock star trolls that can outdo the competition. These crystals are coveted by an evil alien race called the Saurians, led by the music-hating Zok, who then invade Earth to find these rock stars, now known as the "Stone Protectors".

Technickle plays the Japanese version for its faster loading times and plays both Cornelius the Samurai and Chester the Wrestler to quickly rid the screen of enemies and stunlock bosses in order to beat the game in record time. You can read the author's notes for more details such as how the RNG was manipulated.

The Lion King, based on the famous Disney movie, is a platform game where you control Simba - initially as a young cub, and later as an adult lion. The plot of the game follows the plot of the movie. Each of the levels represents a part of the movie.

EZGames69 and SBDWolf save 1:28 over the previous run by playing on the easiest difficulty instead of the hardest and through better manipulation of the RNG. For more details, you can read the authors' comments.

For a TAS of the slightly different Genesis port, you can find it here.

Wario has taken over the forest and it is up to Toad to defeat all of his monsters in huge tree trunks, caves and castles to save the day!

This is like Yoshi's Cookie and Tetris Attack all in one game. Your goal is to match lines of two or more monsters with bombs of corresponding color until you have cleared the screen. "Round Mode" is the game's story mode, consisting of 99 stages with cutscenes of Toad moving through the overworld map.

PoochyEXE manipulates the game's RNG so thoroughly that the stages barely even look like puzzles anymore, and completes the game in record time.

Wario's Woods is puzzle game that is like Yoshi's Cookie and Tetris Attack combined into one. Your goal is to match lines of two or more monsters with bombs of corresponding color until you have cleared the screen. As for the plot, Wario has taken over the forest and it is up to Toad to defeat all of his monsters in huge tree trunks, caves and castles to save the day!

Through more rigorous optimization, PoochyEXE saves 01:57 over the previous run.

Wario has taken over the forest and it is up to Toad to defeat all of his monsters in huge tree trunks, caves and castles to save the day!

This is like Yoshi's Cookie and Tetris Attack all in one game. Your goal is to match lines of two or more monsters with bombs of corresponding color until you have cleared the screen. "Round Mode" is the game's story mode, consisting of 99 stages with cutscenes of Toad moving through the overworld map.

PoochyEXE saves nearly three minutes over his previous run thanks to better strategies, better RNG manipulation, and more rigorous optimization. For more details, you can read the author's notes.

Wii Party is a party developed by NDcube and released in 2010. It features a wide array of different game modes, subdivided into Party Games (4 players) and Pair Games (2 players), which are more cooperative than competitive in nature and make heavy usage of mini-games, as well as House Party Games, which heavily rely on IRL social elements.

InputEvelution tackles the Friend Connection pair game and clears it in record time.