Introduction to TAS: Tool-Assisted Speedrunning (What, How, Why?)

[@sonicpacker]

Here's my favorite TAS that I've personally made: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYeriJeEdsSKr5Y

[@cosmicangel233]

sonicpacker I

[@deoxal7947]

Could you please link to speed run that makes use of arbitrary code execution? That sounds really interesting.

[@GDKillaMillaJR]

You are the god of yahoooooo

[@embeddedinsideplaceholderl162]

Nope!!!!!!!! The best one is

[@had0j]

okay

[@moosemaimer]

I look at is as: speedrunning is about finding out *how fast you can beat a game.* TASing is about finding out *how fast a game can be beaten.*

[@sonicpacker]

Agreed!

[@HappyLeeHL]

Well said. :)

[@SatyamAk]

moosemaimer without external cheat device

[@Wtahc]

orange complimented writing :o

[@roxxor3]

THIS is the reason why i watch TAS gameplay. just to see how perfect run would look like.

[@mischacarlberg6631]

I always thought TAS was some really insane speedrunner who had a lot of world records.

[@andeggbreaks]

Damn this TAS guy must have insane reflexes

[@RiorXD]

Bro watch the getting over it tas.... Its epic

[@myttydohun4851]

Legend has it TAS is really just some Asian guy with a 754 IQ

[@chrissmith1152]

I even started to admire this TAS guy

[@justintownsend2217]

@COOLkid123 goodForLife_103 it is I person once had 400 iq

[@YTSunnys]

Great explaination. I'm getting so tired of seeing these "TAS is cheating" comments.

[@MrCat-se7ws]

Offensive Phenomena Stop talking about yourself.

[@MrCat-se7ws]

Offensive Phenomena Yet they make up most of the population. Don't worry. You little weird shits are getting bred out.

[@MrCat-se7ws]

Offensive Phenomena Then stop replying, idiot.

[@KingDice]

🎇ARGUMENT🎇

[@MrCat-se7ws]

MKgumbα It's the Internet. Arguments are so common.

[@magik4353]

My pastor says TAS is sinful because you're not using the tools God gave you to speedrun. "Did Jesus use save-states when he turned water into wine?" "If God intended us to execute frame-perfect inputs, he would have given us emulators instead of brains."

[@samb.6579]

Magikrazy if this is real I don't know if he's a funny guy that I want to meet or if he's an idiot that I can't think of a punishment for

[@romajimamulo]

Magikrazy ... why does he even what

[@juelz1019]

You sir have earned my thumb

[@MattTheCommenter]

Magikrazy LMFAO

[@olzhas1one755]

Magikrazy please do not stuff religion into video games

[@Santarrosa44]

Common Comments I've encountered: > "TAS is cheating" - How is this cheating? Are they fooling the game? No, because a game is just an scenario with simple objectives like “beat the final boss”, but players are free to decide which way to do it, some players go with full power ups, some will go well equipped, some will prefer the challenge of doing it without weapons, some will take the short path, and some will take the long path, TASers just do the same thing in a different way, or is solitaire the only right way of playing with cards? Are they fooling the community? No, TAS players keep things separated from normal runs, if a TAS run beats a normal run time record, they don’t claim the previous record was beaten, because is a different category, TAS runs are only compared to other TAS runs because they belong in the same category, they don’t try to discredit the normal run achievements. Are they fooling the viewers? No, they just show some amazing gameplay so people can see things they couldn’t with normal runs, they gameplays are meant to be enjoyed by people who like to see incredible speedruns, not to make them think is a normal run, that’s the reason they put the word “TAS” in the title, so anyone can know that is not a normal run, if they wanted to fool someone they woulnd’t put that tag > "It has no merit" - So, taking weeks or months for a 5 minute perfect run has no merit? Setting a new record that demands other people to have lot of patience, dedication and knowledge to beat even with tools has no merit? Just because they use tools doesn’t mean the process of making the runs are effortless, it requires a lot of time to do something good, because the bar is too high, they don’t do simple good runs, they do as close to perfect as possible runs > "With glitches anyone can do it" - Yes, anyone can do awesome things with glitches but not anyone can do perfectly optimized runs (usually because of lack of knowledge/dedication/time), sure, you have a glitch that lets you beat the game under 3 minutes, but can you beat the TAS record of beating the game in 2 minutes 8 seconds? Is not as easy as it sounds > "That way the game can't be enjoyed" - This is very relative, TASers like to do what they do, maybe they don’t play the game as intended, but they still enjoy it, TAS-target-spectators are people who know what a TAS is, and they like it anyway so they still enjoy the run because of it’s awesomeness. If someone doesn’t enjoy it, is not the TASer fault, is just that he/she is watching something not aimed for its tastes, is like watching horror movies when you hate being scared > "They hack (modify the game), to make it work differently" - No they don’t, the use natural bugs that are present in the original game, so those things are possible on real consoles, some are replicable and some aren’t, but that’s because of human limitations, but aside from that, the glitches are a natural part of the original game. They don’t modify game elements to do the gameplays, the exceptions are for creating new content and ways to play, like creating new levels, but that’s a different subject

[@sonicpacker]

Santarrosa44, great comment!

[@Santarrosa44]

Thanks, and thanks for the video too

[@abbomuhaleysadon6055]

Santarrosa44 yes to do hack to make it work differently but the tas community decided it doesnt count if your only ahcking the clock speed so you can frame by a frame. Normal operation of hardware has lots of frames a second and you cant control that the community should own the fact that theyr hacking and say yes were hacking so what whats so bad about hacking

[@Santarrosa44]

jimbo smith you are right, and I agree about the frame by frame, but to clarify, I was talking about modifying elements of the game like cooldown times, player stats, enemy behavior, etc. specifically I was trying to say that glitches are not hacking, for example, the wrong warp glitch in ocarina of time that lets child Link fight against Ganon, anyone could think that the game code was hacked (modified) to make it teleport Link directly to the final battle, while in fact is a natural glitch of the game and it happens without the need of changing the game code, TASers simply take advantage of the existence of those glitches

[@JorWat25]

For "It has no merit", it seems some people actually think that a TAS is made completely by a computer, i.e. you give a program a game, and it automatically generates a speedrun.

[@TASSnoop]

Finally when someone says "Cheater" I dont have to write a whole book to them anymore... now i can just send them this video! :) Very nice and good job explaining everything.

[@TASSnoop]

Also, this video maybe should be staged somewhere on TASVideos.org so if someone goes there he will recieve Information in a video if he is too lazy to read.

[@Pandaxtor]

I seen regular speed runners accepting TAS as part of the community. I remember when they hated TAS and call therm cheaters but not realizing how difficult it can be to build a complete TAS. Even to the point that it is harder that regular speed running (For 3D that is). Eventually TAS community found a lot of glitches that some eventually become humanly possible due to further research. Regular runners now have to accept TAS as part of their community due to how many important discovers they did. Others didn't take it so well and quit when TAS community found a major skip that become RTA. Few examples are: Palace skip is one that was found using TAS. Now it is RTA possible which is seen at AGDQ 2017. Someone found a hidden rainbow coin in DK 64, 17 years after release. He used TAS to find an unusual values.

[@marionose1]

Cheater

[@jojo0753]

marionose1 lol

[@TASSnoop]

wulfenlord please tell me you are joking

[@OleSMM]

That TAS guy is an actual legend, he gets WR on EVERY game, He's so epic

[@ORaYBeast]

Even though I know what a tas is I still came on this video and you are really good at explaining

[@BboyHotArab]

phrasing

[@anonymoususer9837]

Same

[@zakenmaru8612]

Whatever rocks your boat did

[@caspardebruyn6663]

so if i underdtand right, a person could do the same as a tas, if he would be able to do everything frame perfect?

[@sonicpacker]

Caspar de Bruyn: Correct!

[@badhermit7717]

Caspar de Bruyn yes but sadly we're limited as humans

[@PaxerCal]

But it’s more or less impossible, because not only do you have to be frame perfect, but with some runs (especially Super Mario 64) the button mashing is ridiculously fast, so you could only physically do it as fast as possible by slowing down the game.

[@KingdaToro]

If you were to hand a controller to God and say, "Here, beat the game as fast as you can", the result would be equivalent to a TAS.

[@octobbie]

androids can TAS confirmed

[@pixcalibur123]

Nice explanations to clear up common misconceptions, which aren't really that prevalent nowadays given most people are aware of the differences between RTA and TAS. RTA is basically how fast can you complete the game using the resources and RNG you're given, trying to minimize human error as much as possible. TAS is basically answering the question of how fast could you beat the game if you could control every RNG variable and get every input perfect.

[@Chris_Tower]

I've been wondering about TAS for quite a while, tried looking the definition up and hearing things like "memory watch" left me massively confused. Here you spell things out in a very clear manner and I thoroughly enjoyed it thanks a lot!

[@PollPerson]

I always pronounced it "tass" instead of saying the letters individually

[@MattTheCommenter]

Same. A lot of TASers say it like 'tass'

[@MattTheCommenter]

MK Flame Runner why? Why would the s be pronounced as a Z? Makes no sense

[@MattTheCommenter]

MK Flame Runner it could be your accent

[@gamermapper]

They are just 2 type of people : T A S ers and tassers.

[@LilLeanCuisine]

M A How many times have you peed on yourself

[@Varooooooom]

Really glad this exists, but it kinda sucks that most people who claim "FAKE" on TASes are most likely too dumb to understand most of this video.

[@quantum6692]

really dumb comment

[@mikecheeze4312]

🤯🔫 these idiots kill me!

[@tetsuo999]

thanks for educating me! I had a concept of what a TAS run was but I didn't consider the time and painstaking effort to perfect every frame of game input, or that it only relies on game glitches alone. I just thought it was using a gameshark or something. highly informative video 👍

[@BrandNewByxor]

I've always wondered how to make a TAS until now. Thank you.

[@groszak1]

I didn't know I was TASing the entire time, using save states and slowdowns to help complete games.

[@BrandNewByxor]

Oh cool, I never realised I've commented here before. I recently started making my first TAS for Tony Hawk's Underground 2 on pcsx2-rr, but the inputs take at least 5 frames to have any effect and it's really annoying me. I think it's a problem with the game and not the emulator. Does mario 64 have any delayed-input effects while TAS'ing?

[@loansharkjoe6687]

excellent video! i understand this MUCH better now and i really love the way you made this video! also am obsessed with your 120 star tas i thought it was phenomenal! love your TASs even more since i understand how difficult they are to make now as opposed to before

[@TheRealBeanJr_official]

A TAS is a TAS. You can't say it's only a half

[@PlushSM64]

Original

[@evanmagolor1812]

Correction: "A TAS is a TAS. You can't say it's only hacks."

[@medicineman5344]

Evan Magolor and cheating. Because that's what most people say.

[@ellengenerous2893]

a bad joke is a bad joke so shut the fuck up

[@prairielilycop]

I get the joke, and I love it.

[@StevenCasteelYT]

Thank you. I typed TAS software to learn and your video told me EXACTLY what I wanted to know.

[@Dartht33bagger]

I needed this video in 2007 when I was getting into TAS's and didn't have a clue what I was doing for quite a while.

[@teksosthegamer3184]

Thanks for explaining the whole TAS meaning in video games since i have been working on speedrunning Ocarina of time and Super mario 64

[@TompaA]

Pretty nice video! I'll probably link this when I answer TAS comments on KZbin now :).

[@kick1ass20]

I never knew TAS runs were done so manually... like animating a video. Thanks for the video and your TAS runs :)

[@nessisasquid]

This was really enlightening. Until I saw this video, I assumed that "TAS" meant that the run was accomplished by a computer and not real people! I'm glad I can really appreciate what goes into these kinds of runs now.

[@GohgoDerp]

Great video! I'm so tired of seeing comments talking about how much they're tired of seeing "TAS is cheating!" comments. :) nah but seriously, nice vid

[@sheepertheclassical6597]

"What how why" those are the three words people say when they first see a TAS.

[@taylorross5672]

Very well done! Before, I was confused at what exactly a TAS was. Now, I know what it is and can respect the time each individual run takes.

[@SkicoNow]

I honestly wasn't expecting you to include that "nice vsc at the end" joke at the end. Nice video!

[@TheDBest1994]

Formally I didn't know there were programs that were created for people to speedrun these games. Now I just understand a lot more.

[@its_anonymous1289]

1:43 am and the thought that came to mind was “what exactly does tas do?” Thank you now I can sleep

[@LinCrash]

It's a miracle that we've come to this now, thanks to your overview. Sticky this to the kind people who know what TAS really is! :-)

[@weeguardio4086]

Wow, that's a lot of theory to know in order to understand how to make a TAS-video. I've allways wondered how you do it. Thanks for making this video!

[@therealpixels]

You should probably directly address the "TAS is just a robot making speedruns, no humans are involved" opinion because it's so common it hurts.

[@softwet6393]

Agreed.

[@unknownname3703]

For a long time i had a similar misconception. I thought TASer’s were basically like programmers who wrote a string of inputs for the emulator to preform consecutively, but that wouldn’t explain the RNG manipulation.

[@LucasSouza-we1ze]

Great explanation! I've always wondered how a TAS works.

[@asdf1234]

Mate, awesome movie. Had no idea what TAS was an your explanation was clear and concise. Thanks!

[@Shankalten]

I love tas because it shows me how fast a game can be beat at if someone did everything perfect. Thank you for the good video.

[@ENCHANTMEN_]

I love TAS runs, I'm more interested in the strategies and glitches used to break games more than the skill aspect, and TAS runs can make use of so many optimizations that would otherwise be missed, whether they be difficult skips that skip half the game, or a small optimization that saves only a single frame.

[@koyzumie]

This was a great video, thank you for putting it together. It was both informative, and well edited/produced.

[@sonicpacker]

Quill Point: Much appreciated!

[@estroncio64]

So little i knew about TASing a week ago, thanks for your vid, it's what I was looking for

[@k00lk33f420]

Thanks for the explanation. Makes a lot of sense to me now. A lot of entertaining and useful glitches would still not be discovered yet if not for TAS

[@Superdavo0001]

Thank you for making this! Nice vocal-commentary too! Nice VSC (and 1-frame Plush) at the end.

[@SuuperW]

"Playback of the input uses no tools." Well, aside from the playing back of that input! Also I'd just like to mention that the best way to TAS is to not press the input buttons yourself, even for simple 2D games. If you can get a TAS Editor or TAStudio-like tool, that's much more effective. All of my TASes are done this way. (When creating most of my TASes I only use my keyboard buttons for controlling framerate/advancing/pausing and saving/loading savestates. The rest is the mouse.) It's unfortunate that this tool is so overlooked by many TASers. Some I've talked to even actively reject it because they don't immediately understand the benefits (which are huge) or think it's just more convenient to do what they're used to (when convenience is actually one of the benefits!). Yes it is very awkward to TAS like this at first and it will take time to learn and get used to, but it's _so_ worth it.

[@PlushSM64]

I fully relate to this. I use mouse for every game input as well

[@MariaNicolae]

BTW, TAStudio can support pressing buttons yourself, you don't have to click it all. But yeah, TAStudio is way too overlooked. Hell, some people still use Snes9x to TAS D:

[@pdvaughn1415]

At first when I saw some of these TAS gameplay especially of my classic games I was like no way but I did notice the TAS label when I found out what it was I was like I knew it had to be something to it. Great video.

[@chagmenlietons3606]

I'm glad this is thoroughly explained. Keeping this video at ready for such people who keep saying everything bad about TASing. The only thing about TASing I hate is certain games that VI change like every 2 or 3 in-game frames(OoT/MM). I can never understand the input frames, but I have no issues with any other N64 game TASes.

[@phantomguy5628]

I thought that TAS was a bot that speedruns the game perfectly XD

[@samanimations2002]

That’s what I thought too!! So it’s basically people putting in frame perfect save files on an entire level

[@alexw0310]

This kinda reminded me of Behind the Meme. Good job :)

[@Kevelinu]

Very good explanation. I mean after knowing about and watching speedruns for years I knew all of it, but still nicely done for people who are unaware!

[@Rolanmen1]

Very nice video sonicpacker, I believe this will help to resolve a lot of misconceptions people tend to have about TAS in general.

[@sonicpacker]

#thedream ...and thank you :)

[@chamyto160]

I don't understand why people could even think TAS is cheating, speedrunning have a lot of categories; 0%, 100%, glitchless, etc, so why a computer beating the game can't be a category, and the configurations of that computer are not for default, the programmer of the TAS has to make it frame by frame in the parts that need it, it could be considered cheating if it's not stated that is a TAS and the speedrunner sais that is he beating the game by himself. (i'm sorry for the bad english)

[@dargos]

nice meme at the end

[@MariaNicolae]

Nice "Nice VSC at the end" at the end.

[@3SoccerPlayer3]

Very well done. Glad to see you back in action.

[@gamerfreak5665]

I don't know how I just found this video now, but thanks for the video! Now I can redirect people to here to explain. (and thanks for using one of my clips!)

[@DjVortex-w]

One minor improvement to the video could have been, at the end, to give a concrete example of a technique discovered in TASing that was then adopted by real-time speedrunners.

[@sonicpacker]

WarpRulez I agree, it would've been good to vocally mention a specific example. Instead, I settled for using a video example when the topic was mentioned at 7:27. The "Wario World" clip displays the superjump I discovered (in 2011 or 2012) that non-TASers have since adopted for their speedruns

[@CKDEV]

or sm64 1/0 star?

[@mikecheeze4312]

Oh stfu!!! Let's all live in a fantasy world and cut and paste computer input videos and shownpff how cool we are! Your all worthless waste of space, every last one of you! Go contribute something useful to society ffs!

[@MrBroken030]

its all about pushing a game engine to its boundaries and sometimes even through boundaries :D

[@brianpso]

What an amazing presentation man, I hope this brings a lot more people to TASVideos.

[@paraplonk7269]

I think the name "Tool-Assisted Speedrun" is what makes some people think it's cheating to use TAS. The "tool assisted" part in particular. This was informative though! Thank you for explaining!

[@LB_]

Thanks for this video! By the way, why does your voice audio quality alternate randomly throughout the video?

[@sonicpacker]

LB, I just wasn't happy with the inflection and wording of certain sections from my first recording attempt. So some stuff was redone months later. I also used the mic on my smartphone rather than a proper one, and it sometimes causes slight inconsistencies/artifacts. And you're welcome, glad to hear you liked it :)

[@1ted59]

nice vsc at the end

[@TylerKehne]

end vsc at the nice

[@OblivionWalkerVerified]

at the nice vsc end

[@want-diversecontent3887]

1ted59 Nice end at the VSC

[@Kebabrulle4869]

The nice end at VSC ...that sounded like a poem

[@spik330]

VSC end at the nice

[@EAprima]

Thank you for this video, it answered my question perfectly. :)

[@lukycat7572]

Oh thanks god, I feel like I was waiting this video for years, after I saw all the guys saying on TAS videos that it's cheating, this video please me, thanks.

[@CeeSZee]

awesome editing!

[@datenegassie]

Some use tools to beat a game as quickly as possible. Others use tools to stand under a ceiling while being partially submerged in water for 12 hours.

[@TheWhiteyOfDarkness]

He doesn't need this anymore. He has uploaded a much faster strategy.

[@mikecheeze4312]

Some have lives. Other don't.....

[@benhadley8577]

Your welcome,bro :) Keep up the good work!

[@JeremyMYG]

Great explanation! Big fan of TAS, especially 100% completion of RPGs. Those probably take months/years of hard work so I am always grateful to see something. (Final Fantasy 9 100% is omgomgomg)

[@TylerKehne]

Very well explained and illustrated. Required watching for normies.

[@Olivruh]

damned normies. reeeeet.

[@mikecheeze4312]

You ignorant fucks are ruining games just like all ignorant fucks ruin everything in life

[@Jba03]

I really liked this video! I also am a TASer myself :P

[@jojo0753]

Jba03 hey

[@Jba03]

Hey

[@Maxawa0851]

Do you electrocute people?

[@yumenokira7595]

really apprecialbe explanation altough it made me changed my mind about going on to TAS myself. The fact that you were able to explain it so clearly makes me realized how daunting and tideous the process can be. I wanted to do some TAS to bring forth some fan made story telling i love to create but i'm not sure it is worth the investement now.

[@jaceybella1267]

Thank you! I was watching a video of yours and was thinking about what TAS could be, and this video popped up!

[@Odme_]

why do you sound so much like pannenkoek

[@TheRealBeanJr_official]

Can we talk about parallel universes now please?

[@Kebabrulle4869]

And scuttlebug jamborees?

[@GoldenKingStudio]

All people who work with old games sound exactly the same. MagicScrumpy, maker of Super Smash Bros Melee mods sounds exactly like Stryder7x, who does Paper Mario TAS runs and glitch explanations. They all sound exactly the same. More seriously, it is just your imagination. Either that or parallel universes.

[@jabelsjabels]

hi odme

[@MrFennmeista]

Odme 😍🏍

[@poetry8888]

Good video mate. Even though personally TAS seems too much work for me I understand that you lot are just helping the rest. Haters are idiots always.

[@dotdyboii5023]

Tl,Dr: tas bots are a set of moves of perfect frame by frame set of moves made by the player, and replayed at the normal speed

[@spectreshadow]

I never really knew how TAS worked but thank you for this.

[@LSpiro]

Fun to watch, but first we need to talk about parallel universes.

[@sonicpacker]

L. Spiro the MHS god!!

[@unrealpigeon1722]

Thanks I thought TAS was people pretending to play a game while an AI does the real inputs,now I know what it really is 👍🏻

[@phj9894]

gamer64 stuff there is no AI who can play the games like TAS.. AI hadn't developed to that level yet.

[@gh0rochi363]

hijong park ai in games have the ability to be frame perfect. The ai is made in a way so that it’s fair To the player. Try playing street fighter with a frame perfect ai. (Which you can do). You’ll get perfected every time.

[@Superbug-tf8zy]

@@gh0rochi363 The issue is you can't get an ai to speedrun as fast as a TAS, since an ai would need to process what it is seeing

[@No-Me3]

It's almost a form of macinima. And it's entertaining as hell. A lot of the things people do with TAS make me laugh or go "how the hell?!" It's great. So thanks to the Speedrunning and TAS communities for providing me a load of entertainment and thanks sonicpacker for this enlightening video.

[@tayyipcakmak5825]

nice video, well explained and all thanks for making this. also happy birthday :)

[@FaIIenImpact]

3:38 I lagged so hard for some reason it was like thiiiiiiihihihihihihiihissss ihihihihihihiihisssss

[@dennishenk]

Where did the "nice vsc at the end" thing originate from?

[@PlushSM64]

CeeSZee said that on one of my TAS vids. My fans started spamming it for some reason lmao

[@Superdavo0001]

Nice VSC at the end

[@4212luigi]

blame ted for saying it the most

[@sonicpacker]

give credit to ted**

[@CeeSZee]

lol did i? i cant even remember aha

[@HighLordOfHouseIX]

honestly, this was really eye-opening. very cool, and you earned a sub!

[@TimeTravelPenguinTAS]

Duuuuuuude, I've been working on this exact kind of video for over a year D: I had to stop cos my computer broke. Once again, you've done something faster than me

[@mikecheeze4312]

You couldn't just "tas" it?

[@someguylostontheinternet4504]

@@mikecheeze4312 but it would take even more time!

[@mikecheeze4312]

@@someguylostontheinternet4504 and mean absolutely nothing other than showing you have no life lol Not you obviously but yeah you know what I mesn

[@feldinho]

how TAS deal with RNG? every TAS start from fixed seeds?

[@quaternaryyy]

Felds Liscia Usually every console starts with a fixed RNG seed when you power it on, and it advances based off of some "crazy" value, such as the amount of time spent on the main menu (Final Fantasy IV) or the amount of text characters drawn to the screen (Paper Mario: TTYD). Taking a peek through the game's code can reveal all of the methods that can be used to get "perfect" randomness, and TASers routinely "manipulate luck" by carefully playing with all these different triggers 😃

[@rickypingui3270]

I thought TAS meant Truly Amazing Speedrun

[@emilio1044]

Lol

[@CurtSP]

Nice video! I did never take a stand about this "TAS is cheating." comments because I didn't know what a TAS is; Now I know...

[@Lizuma]

I was wondering what TAS was! Thanks for making this video!

[@lepe]

How is it "cheating" if they announce it's TAS? You need to have the mental capacity of a 6 year old to actually think that's even remotely cheating.

[@adriansookai]

Fr

[@bobmario511]

Hi Jerbear!!!

[@drakez341]

Yooo bobmario the legend himself

[@el3ctriknotikx73]

love u !! i want to be in the tas compétition but i'm French and i'm a bit noob

[@Pleumel]

I always looked at TAS runs as the runs that show the theoreticly possible perfect run if all the stars would line together, you got the jackpot in lottery and trained speedrunning one game for 5 entire lifes at once. Just a "What if..." run. And that is super fascinating for me.

[@KaizoM]

T-A-S? yo siempre lo he pronunciado todo junto :C

[@DlcEnergy]

cheating is just about being dishonest/unfair. like going against the rules of a competition. for example, splicing footage is always gonna be invalid to any form of competition. but if someone did it just for fun (not to be dishonest/unfair) then it's not cheating. it's just a segmented run (which usually involves multiple players clips) to show what's humanly possible. and even literal in-game cheats (like in gta) would only be considered cheating, in competition to someone not using cheats. because it'd obviously be unfair competitively. but then again they may be having an unfair competition on purpose. heck, even some games specifically let you give players a handicap. (like a much stronger dude holding an arm behind his back to be fairer to a weaker individual) also choice isn't unfair. you could say it's unfair that people are using different options (like choosing automatic/manual in mk), but that's their own choice in the competition. these choices aren't against their rules. and if you prefer to watch completely equalized competitions (same exact loadouts), then that's ok too. a tas itself has nothing to do with cheating. tas's don't cheat. people do. lol

[@jamesgillam6478]

Awesome video man :) I've wondered for a while exactly what a TAS entails :)

[@deadmemelol]

Trauma Center: New Blood's TAS is almost scary; especially in 7-6 (the final boss), the speed and precision is insane.

[@fyter2738]

They told me to try to TAS. I'm not gonna.

[@sunk6478]

Fyter It's quite hard

[@Henrix1998]

The greatest form of speedrunning

[@mikecheeze4312]

I dont even know how to respond without calling you every name in the book. So I'll just say your a worthless pos in life

[@NVUSAttitude]

Thanks, I was going to start TAS’ing and I needed some introduction

[@porrasm]

Respect to both TAS and non TAS speedeunners.

[@someguylostontheinternet4504]

TAS IS CHEATING! Haaah,it's just a prank,bro!

[@GoldenKingStudio]

Hopefully this will get more people interested in the genre. It is always cool to have more people studying how old games work. ...And then use that information to destroy all that was good and sacred about those games. ;P

[@johndewberryiii9925]

Interesting. I don’t have the patience but I enjoy the videos.

[@LIES1988GNR]

I just think that TAS is "to play"in a perfect way