This Speedrun Tech Breaks PS1 Games (TAS)

Special thanks to The8BitBeast, Joester98 and Nitrofski for helping me out with information about their speedgames!

Crash 3 Commentated TASes:

Spyro 3 Commentated TAS:

Pac-Man World TAS notes:

Videos used:

[TAS] Farewell (Celeste Chapter 9) in 9:59.998

[TAS] NES Mega Man 2 by Shinryuu in 23:38.98

TAS Item Abuse 3 in 7:05.47

[TAS] (Uncommentated) Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped Any% in 8:23.838 by The8bitbeast

Crash Bandicoot 1,2,3 Glitch - Zip-zagging

(Uncommentated) LOTAD Crash Bandicoot 1 any% in 25:06 by The8bitbeast

[TAS] PSX Crash Bandicoot: Warped by The8bitbeast in 39:00.52

[TAS] PSX Bubsy 3D by solarplex in 23:05.28

[TAS] Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back 100% in 1:02:50.12 by SuPeRbOoMfAn

[TAS] PSX Crash Bandicoot: Warped "105%" by The8bitbeast in 1:55:33.38

Crash Bandicoot - Any% 39:52 [WR]

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Crash Bandicoot 3 - Zip Zagging into the 5th warp (gate clip)

Pac-Man World by Joester98 in 32:36 SGDQ2019

Pac-Man World Any% Speedrun in 29:25 (Current World Record)

Pac-Man World - Any% by Joester98 in 33:09 | WAM 2022

【WIP】Pac-Man World to 4-2 (パックマンワールド 20thアニバーサリー)【TAS】

Pac-man world - TAS test run, part II

[TAS] PSX Pac-Man World: 20th Anniversary in 22:07.14

[TAS] PSX Spyro: Year of the Dragon "117%" by Nitrofski in 2:27:54.15

Spyro: Year of the Dragon 117% speedrun in 2:52:56

Spyro 120% WR - 1:21:03

Bamboatless TAS demo

Spyro 3 Year of the Dragon (Cutscenes)

[bailey]

Check out Mario Kart Wiis tas scene rn. They just discovered a new thing called superhopping which is completely shifting the meta from inside drifting bikes to outside drifting bikes

[Mtorsagmannen]

TAS are so interesting, very cool to see them being explained like this

[stigmaoftherose]

I personally would love to make a YouTube channel that just does commentaries on new tases. So often a popular game has 0 commentary on the the tas or worse the commentary is no longer viewable as it was only done on twitch so people don't watch it as they have no idea what is going on. Maybe some time this year I will try it once I get a consistent work schedule.

[Thebitbeast]

Love seeing a spotlight on TASes and seeing the explanations of these tricks come to life. Nice video!

[AdmiralBobbery]

I'd love to see more videos like this - I especially like seeing the TAS videos compared to RTA to show the difference the tech makes.

[Isaax]

Holy shit, this is crash's equivalent of Mario's multidimensional backwards long jump. I can't wait for the TerminalMontage Animation where they fight

[JP]

Nothing puts a smile on my face more than watching a TAS destroying Crash Bash.

[idontwantahandlethough]

Please do more of this type of video dude, this was awesome and there is 100% a vacuum where this kind of content should be, so I know people would watch the crap out of this kind of thing!

(or, you know, just do whatever you want since your videos are always great lol)

[rawmbow]

Thanks for this, much needed moment of respite.

[YungCuzz]

My favorite TAS is for the NES version of Arkanoid by Chef Stef. It's over a decade old by now, but the method for developing a way of brute forcing every possible outcome in a game of Arkanoid is so massively insane that it really deserves more recognition. TL;DR version is that he re-created Arkanoid's code and built a program to run through every input combination for every level until it found the most effective way of completing a level. Even that explanation is massively simplified, I'd definitely recommend looking into it if you can stomach a highly technical explanation.

[heterodoxagnostic]

yo, awesome, i hope this continues, i love tases, they are very interesting, i'd personally like to see NES tas games next

[davideisenberg]

I love this idea! Commentating Tas's is a brilliant idea, and I'd love to see more of it!

[Joester]

Great vid man, happy to see some Pac-Man World action shown off to the masses. Sorry the new TAS dropped like right after you uploaded this lol

[AndrewTaylorNintyuk]

TASBot is always my favourite section on any GDQ event

[bal]

Crazy seeing Crash move like that. The PS1 Crash games will always be my favorite and I still keep learning new things about them. Awesome stuff!

[rruhland]

I really love TAS stuff like this. Commentated TAS like the stuff Malleo does and TAS explained like Bismuth’s SM64 1 Key and DK64 any% are really really interesting.

[QBrute_]

I'm always looking for new TASes to watch, so this series is right up my alley :)

[SFants]

So insane to see my own (old) TAS be featured in this video! I'm sorry for finishing the new TAS after this video went up lol. This is a great video and I'm happy to see Pac-Man World get more attention, it's criminally underrated!

[LeKukie]

One thing about Zip Zagging in the Crash games: You don't need to alternate directions every other frame, you just need to do it fast enough to where the game lets you build negative speed. Some time ago I was messing with it in Crash 2, and figured out that holding one direction on the analog stick, and spamming the opposite direction on the DPAD, I was actually able to perform it and build up lots of speed. This is easier on pal, I'd imagine both because the framerate is 50 instead of 60FPS so mashing speed per frames doesn't need to be as high, but also the physics were adjusted for the slower framerate (I could be wrong abt this bit but afaik this would make sense). The same applies to Crash 3, but the issue is that building up speed with it is way harder to perform for some reason, even on pal which is very unfortunate since that's the game where we'd benefit the most from it.

[Dayoman]

These really are some of the best games out there to speedrun. Big ups to anyone who learns them. Also, 6:13 there's me! :D