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<h1>Tool Assisted Speedruns</h1>
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<p><span class="rvts17">Tool Assisted Speedruns</span></p>
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<p><span class="rvts16">What is Tool Assisted Speedrunning?</span></p>
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<p>A tool-assisted speedrun (commonly abbreviated TAS) is a speedrun movie or performance produced with the use of tools such as slow motion and re-recording. The basic premise of these runs is that a "tool" (such as an emulator that provides the author with features that are unavailable in regular playing) is used in order to overcome human limitations such as skill and reflex.</p>
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<p>Creating a tool-assisted speed run is the process of finding the ideal set of inputs to complete a given criterion - usually completing a game as fast as possible. No limits are imposed on the tools used for this search, but the result has to be a set of timed key-presses that, when played back on the actual console, achieves the target criterion. Traditionally, the only available tool for this was an emulator with re-recording - the ability to use savestate while recording key-presses. However, due to advances in the field, it is now often expected that frame-advance, stepping through emulation one frame at a time, is used. A tool-assisted speed run done without this technique may be criticised as "sloppy play". Before frame-advance became common, playing in slow motion was a common technique, but frame-advance has displaced this.</p>
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<p>In essence, Tool Assistance allows one to overcome human limitations of skill and reflex in order push a game to its limits. &nbsp;One important thing to remember is that TAS movies are not competing in terms of playing skill, nor do they claim to. </p>
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<p>For more info on Tool Assisted Speedruns:</p>
<p><a class="rvts18" href="http://tasvideos.org/">http://tasvideos.org/</a></p>
<p><a class="rvts18" href="http://tasvideos.org/WhyAndHow.html">http://tasvideos.org/WhyAndHow.html</a></p>
<p><a class="rvts18" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool-assisted_speedrun">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool-assisted_speedrun</a></p>
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<p><span class="rvts16">FCEUX TAS features</span></p>
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<p>FCEUX provides a wealth of tools and resources for creating TAS Movies for NES &amp; FDS games. &nbsp;It features the most current and cutting edge tools for optimizing movies and making the process of movie making quicker an easier.</p>
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<p><span class="rvts10">Basic Recording features:</span></p>
<p><a class="rvts18" href="MovieRecording.html">Frame advance, Slow-downs, "bullet-proof" rerecording</a>, <a class="rvts18" href="TASEditor.html">TAS Editor</a></p>
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<p><span class="rvts10">Advanced Recording features </span></p>
<p><a class="rvts18" href="Input.html">Input presets</a>, <a class="rvts18" href="AutoFireConfigurations.html">Auto Hold &amp; Auto-Fire</a></p>
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<p><span class="rvts10">Automated Movie Making Processes</span></p>
<p><span class="rvts18">Macros &amp; &nbsp;Multi-tracking</span>, <span class="rvts18">Lua scripting</span>, <span class="rvts18">Basic Bot</span>, </p>
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<p><span class="rvts10">Finding Ram values:</span></p>
<p><a class="rvts18" href="CheatSearch.html">Cheat Search</a>, <span class="rvts18">RAM Filter</span>, <a class="rvts18" href="HexEditor.html">Hex Editor</a>, <a class="rvts18" href="Debugger.html">Debugger</a>, <a class="rvts18" href="NESRAMMappingFindingValues.html">NES RAM Guide</a></p>
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<p><span class="rvts10">RAM Monitoring:</span></p>
<p><a class="rvts18" href="MemoryWatch.html">Memory Watch</a>, <a class="rvts18" href="HexEditor.html">Hex Editor</a></p>
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<p><span class="rvts10">Movie Splicing Editing</span></p>
<p><a class="rvts18" href="fm2.html">Text based file format</a></p>
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<p><span class="rvts10">Integrated development system</span></p>
<p><a class="rvts18" href="TASEditor.html">TAS Editor</a></p>
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<p><span class="rvts16">Movie making</span></p>
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<p>To get started making a Tool Assisted Movie, simply begin recording a movie (see <a class="rvts18" href="MovieRecording.html">Movie Recording</a>). &nbsp;The basic premise of TASing, however, is to use re-records to optimize the execution of a decided upon goal (usually to complete the game as fast as possible). &nbsp;Re-recording is the act of replacing an already recorded part (of a movie) with something else; also called undo.</p>
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<p>In the making of emulator movies, re-recording is done by loading a savestate of earlier event in the movie and continuing playing from that point. &nbsp;The emulator will update the movie file to undo everything that was cancelled by the savestate loading, and continue recording from that point. &nbsp;The makers of tool-assisted speedruns use re-recording very extensively to reach perfection and to avoid mistakes.</p>
<p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;* In single-segment non-assisted speedruns, re-recording is starting over from beginning. The recording of the failed playing is usually not preserved. &nbsp; &nbsp;</p>
<p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;* In multi-segment non-assisted speedruns, re-recording is starting over from the beginning of current segment. The recording of the failed segment is not preserved. &nbsp; &nbsp;</p>
<p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;* In tool-assisted speedruns, re-recording only undoes a small part of playing. The undone part will not be seen in the resulting movie. &nbsp;A tool-assisted movie may have been re-recorded anything between 50 and 200000 times, depending on the precision of the movie and the difficulty of the game. &nbsp;Often, the same small passage of the game (could be as small as fractions of second long) is attempted tens of times before continuing. </p>
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<p>For more info on making TAS movies:</p>
<p><a class="rvts18" href="http://tasvideos.org/CommonTricks.html">http://tasvideos.org/CommonTricks.html</a></p>
<p><a class="rvts18" href="http://tasvideos.org/GenericTips.html">http://tasvideos.org/GenericTips.html</a></p>
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