How to create the perfect speedrun - Tool-assisted speedrunning explained

Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:32 - What is a TAS?
02:19 - What tools are involved?
05:36 - Why do a TAS?
07:52 - Misconceptions
14:02 - Conclusion

Special Thanks

🍌
Tompa
pannenkoek2012
MKDasher
Sethbling
Everyone who let me use their clips

Patrons:
Jacob Captein

[MishKoz]

Bismuth is the hero we need to combat every single "omg he used glitches this is a cheated/hacked run I hate it" comments.

[ezgames]

Fellow TASer here, great video. It’s great to see a more modern version of a TAS explanation video, this is by far the most accurate to date one I’ve seen.

[hallowizer]

"Unless you try to disguise your TAS as a real run"
Nobody has ever done that. Any person you suspect actually did a real run and ate pizza, drank soda, and used a lava lamp.

[leon_De_Grelle]

One day the whole of humanities computing ingenuity, in quantum computing, will be used to brute force that giant number of combinations and shave off an extra frame from SMB 1.

[stormbornapostle]

I really like the symphony/painting comparison, it really makes the difference between TAS and non-TAS speedruns easily understandable. Both are works of art, created by those who have spent countless hours honing their abilities.

[testhekid]

people got better by not going straight for perfection, but by simply getting the closest to it..

this sounds like a beautiful if not the most encouraging life tip that i've ever heard in me entire life

[LucasWills]

Damn, this TAS guy is pretty good
-every YouTube comment ever.

[dax]

As somebody with poor reflexes (diagnosed poor, like dyspraxic) who can't really compete in normal speedrunning, I really appreciate that TAS exists. I get the problem-solving, the teasing out of game mechanics, the careful thinking, without needing to be able to press buttons fast enough. Anybody who says it's cheating needs to take a long walk off a short pier. It's not like they pass off TAS runs as real-time speedruns, after all.

[PSspecialist]

I remember back a few years ago when watching Mario 1 speedruns, people would complain about Mario going through the piranha plants (because they had no clue about the way hitboxes work) and feel smug about noticing it, calling out the uploader for being a cheater in the process. As if they were the only ones who noticed... I didn't know how hitboxes worked either back then but I assumed something was going on that I didn't understand since nobody would be so blatant about cheating. Of course everyone knows this now but people jumping to conclusions without adequate evidence will always be the bane of humanity's existence. The reflex of jumping to conclusions is a character flaw that more people should work on fixing.

[orngjce]

I think of TASes as being like a mathematical proof. It shows that something is theoretically possible. Whether it's practical for a person to do is another question entirely.

[warmCabin]

Great video!
I'd like to point out that memory watch isn't usually as glamorous as the STROOP footage you showed. Unless someone has the motivation to make a cool script/plugin like that, you're pretty much staring at a dull list of numbers all day.

[greysonwilliams]

7:02 I love the in sync pop offs of SethBling and the dragster dude

[vermont]

Finally Bismuth explains this TAS dude. Everyone's been wondering what he's been doing and how he gets good times everytime.

[HappyLeeHL]

I also love Bismuth! This is the best explanation video for TAS! Thank you for amazing video. :)

[chrissabal]

"There are 4 buttons and the game runs at 30 frames per second"


Me: This already sounds expensive.

[fifdspence]

Phenomenal explanation! I never know how to explain what TASing is, but now I have a video to explain it for me :)

[ultimaxkom]

> Speedrun with _"%ANY"_ or _"TAS"_ in the title.
Intellectuals: *"Oh MuH gAwD, iT's ChEaTInG! iT's HaCkInG! dIsLiKeD!"*

[JacobParanoia]

That paper roll piano analogy is one That dwango gave in a super Mario bros console verification. It’s one that actually makes sense. And I love it

[BrunoValads]

THANKS! This video was so necessary in these 2 decades, i'm really glad you could explain all the important info about TAS in a short and clear video, which is now a tool to defend our community and also a good way to introduce new people to this niche

[timyang]

0:58 hey that's hilary hahn playing the mendelssohn concerto