The Cheetahmen (Action 52) TAS in 3:56.06 by Swordless Link
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The publication of this movie can be found here: http://tasvideos.org/1584M.html
This tool-assisted speedrun, made by me, of Action 52's "The Cheetahmen" game finishes the game in 3 minutes 56.06 seconds (14187 frames). The timing ends at the last hit required to kill the last boss, because the game is over after that (it takes you back to the title screen).
This run was made on an emulator using slowdown, savestates, rerecords, and frame-by-frame shooting. It is NOT meant to show skill but rather the game pushed to its limits.
Massive thanks to Brandon for once again providing me with this amazing HD encode of my run. Check out and subscribe to his channel here: http://www.youtube.com/user/BrandMan211
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I decided to run this game after seeing phantom321's run of it on the workbench at TASVideos. I had actually planned to run the game before, after seeing the Angry Video Game Nerd's review of it, but never got around to it. After seeing phantom321's run, I noticed several places that were improvable (particularly the boss battles, and a massive shortcut in level 1 that he ignored (although he ignored it intentionally as a speed-entertainment tradeoff)), so I decided to TAS the game myself to see how much I could save. I ended up beating his run by 4755 frames (1 minute 19.26 seconds) through various improvements. I can't really be bothered listing these, because they aren't particularly interesting. If you really want to know, I'll PM them to you.
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This run isn't really meant to be "serious", although I did try my best to get it as optimal as possible. I did it mostly because I thought it would be funny to TAS a horrendously bad game, and this seemed like a good candidate for that.
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Thanks to Bloobiebla and LinksDarkArrows for "critiquing" some WIPs I showed them, phantom321 for his TAS that I compared to, and the Angry Video Game Nerd for bringing the game to my attention in the first place. :P
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