The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past TAS by Tompa (1:16:11.05)

***READ BEFORE WATCHING***

This tool-assisted speedrun, played by Tomas Abrahamsson (Tompa), aims to complete The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past in as quickly a time as possible while still completing every dungeon in the game.

The actual page of the movie can be found here: http://tasvideos.org/2204S.html

This movie was made on an emulator, with frame-by-frame shooting, savestates and rerecords. It is NOT meant to show skill; it is ONLY supposed to provide entertainment. Therefore, any anti-TAS comments will be deleted instantly. Try to remember that speedruns and TASes are different. Speedruns aim to show how skilled the runner is, and TASes aim to provide an entertaining video for the viewer. There's nothing more to it. Try to appreciate each category for what they are.

This run was made by Tompa. He has given me permission to upload it for him. It should not be uploaded without getting permission from him first. If you actually are planning on uploading your own encode of his run, then get Tompa's permission first. It's pretty rude to upload someone else's work without their permission.

Enjoy. I'll pass any comments on to Tompa, and he'll either directly reply to them, or I'll reply to them on his behalf.

Visit http://tasvideos.org/ for more information on tool-assisted speedruns, and to watch the many already-existing TASes.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• legend
• of
• zelda
• link
• to
• the
• past
• snes
• super
• nintendo
• tool-assisted
• speedrun
• tas
• tasvideos
• tompa
• tompala
• swordless

[wrmskll]

I think the whole "TAS not meant to show skill" thing is kind of condescending and dishonest since it's just a different type of skill, imo.

[SwordlessLink]

@wrmskll I know. We just say it so as not to confuse the simple-minded people who think TASing is "cheating".

[dogkiller07]

1:17. Zelda is your... ... ... Zeldas me what!?? .... ZELDAS MY WHAT ANSWER ME!!!! haha awesome series rules ass:)

[Tomtelala]

@MrAdriano1000 No caps lock please... After you obtain the Pegasus Boots, you can press A every second frame (Only possible when making a Tool Assisted Speedrun of with the use of a turbo controller) to hover over holes.

If you follow the first link in the description, you'll find my comments for the run.

[MrAdriano1000]

HELLO FRIEND! VERY GOOD THIS VIDEO! HOW DO YOU BY PASS ON TO THE HOLES WITHOUT CAIR, VC USA SOME CONTROL TURBO? ENSIANA ME! AND THAT TO PLAYING WITH EMULATOR AND FOUND VERY INTERESTING MOVES WITH THE LINK! Thanks EVEN THE VIDEO,,, HOW YOU DOING?

[Megahedron1501]

@LoveGeekChic There's a huge bug in it actually, if you want to see it, that lets you beat the game in <5 minutes.

[Tomtelala]

@serisdovakhin You reduce the game speed to simulate the human reflexes. You play the game frame by frame (60 frames/second) and for each frame you choose what input to be made.

You also use save states constantly to overcome the human errors. The idea of a TAS is to see how fast a game can be beaten when everything is perfected. It's a run to find the limits for the game, while a real time run is the limits of the player.

You can visit TASvideos for more information.

[serisdovakhin]

ok i have a question what does TASing actually do for the player/speedrunner?

[iFalcoDZ]

Moonwalkin

LIKE A BOSS

[LoveGeekChic]

This brings back memories of my childhood. I'm stunned on how you can finish the whole game in under an hour and a half when it look me years to finish it. :-)

[TheLuckySaGe]

@TheLuckySaGe why can't*