You can see all links and common questions associated with this video by going to the right and clicking more info. You can help, support this channel by rating and commenting on the video, you may have seen on YouTube or some other site, but many of you have seen the videos where they beat old school games like Mario and Maganan in like ten minutes or 30 minutes, extremely fast. Yeah, well this is the site that sets it up, it's tasvideos.org it's sort of standardize, making speedrun video games. It's tool-assisted speedruns that's what the TAS stands for. What I really want you to check out on the site is the recommended movies which are the best speedruns.
If you go to the right of this video, I have in the video description, a ton of my favorite speedruns. So check them out, if you haven't seen it before, you really, really have to. Basically, they just play a video game, old school video game on like an emulator this one is for NES and then they just record themselves over and over and over again until they get it perfect, and they go on to like another section or something. They try to finish the game as fast as humanly possible. If you could go slow motion and if you could reload the game as many times as you want to.
On the main page, you can see Starting points and it has NES, SNES, and different consoles you can go to, but don't think it's just old school games, a lot of people have been doing it for PlayStation and PS2 PC games, Deus Ex or something like that. They even did RPGs, they finished like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy III in like four hours or something. They did a speedrun of a four hour game, it's insane. So check them out, it's not just Maganan and Mario. You can actually go to the left of the page and click on the FAQ and it has in general a Why and how section. How are these movies created? And how you can start creating your own speedruns, even if you don't want to create speedruns, it's actually really, really entertaining to watch especially, if you have played the games before.
Some of them are really, really creative and funny. It also has Emulator questions. It says, emulators are basically the programs that let you play all the console games on your computer, you just open the RAM, which is the game and you start recording piece by piece. I like VS and AS, but they are used on the site SNES9X or something like that. You can checkout exactly the details in the Why and how section. It may be surprising to hear this, but archive.org actually has its own speedrun section.
So those of you not familiar with archive.org, it's a page that let's say Yahoo!, let's see what Yahoo! looked like in 1997. It will take you back to how websites looked a long time ago. Here is 1996, this is what Yahoo! looked like in 1996. but archive.org it's a pretty powerful big site or whatever. It has a speedrun section, it's archive.org/detail/speedrun, all links will be in the video descriptions if you don't want to copy them.
But it basically lists a whole bunch of speedruns and you can download them directly from the site too instead of using BitTorrent, the tASvideo site actually uses BitTorrent to transfer the videos. archive.org actually uses its own bandwidth and here we have Final Fantasy III, you can see the Most Downloaded Items Last Week, Most Downloaded Items Last Month, the Most Downloaded Items Ever and you can click More for more info. You can actually stream them from the site too. Now, it has its own flash streaming stuff like YouTube it that uses Flash, so you don't have to download the video, you can just start watching it directly from and there is actually another page. It says speedrundemosarchive/gamelist/Fulllist, I will put the link of the description.
They are basically, they are listed by game and it list the game in alphabetic order and it has the time. Now, it doesn't actually use any of its own bandwidth and it has tons of ads, but it actually organizes them very well. Puts author's comments and it's a very easy to navigate site. You can also search on Google Video, time the tacker speedrun and you will get the most popular usually. But again, these are really, really entertaining especially if you played the game when you were a kid, it really take you back. Like many of the games I didn't finish and there would be parts where I couldn't beat the game or I would get stuck at some certain point and these guys just blow through as if there was nothing. So these are actually very entertaining, check it out.
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