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If you're really into this, spend some more time on tasvideos.org

The guys that do these tool-assisted speed runs are incredible. One fellow plays 4 Mega Mans all at once with a single controller doing input for all 4 games at the same time.

This Pokemon hack is insane, but was inspired by a guy who uses it to beat the game in around 2 minutes. That particular speed run abuses the fact that everything in the game has a simple identifier. So, what he does is inserts a warp point into his inventory, drops it in front of himself, and walks through it to the end of the game.



Here's a Chrono Trigger TAS that uses similar types of hacks as this Pokemon one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgVVcnGm0eM&sns=em




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