Perfect Gameplay of Games

Hello there.

First time on TV Tropes, being reading your wiki a lot, I've even backed up lot's of documents in html format on my harddisk via various firefox extensions for further consultations (I'm a professional, still not paid novelist, so your website is key to understand characters and inspire myself and I commend that).

Have you ever read about a "TAS", or "Tool Assisted Superplay"?

It's a sub-art of videogamiing: it's a way to play a game legitly while doing possible things into it that usually requires very strict timing of deep knowledge of such a game.

There is also a dedicated website with a detailed forum, full of interesting trivia, informations and tools to easen the deed. It makes watching a game very entertaining.

You can easily find them across youtube by looking for "Tool Assisted".

The most famous tool assisted gameplay is that of "Super Mario World" games and "Metroid" games, but there are many other types of genres into the mix (Jrpgs are another common one, due to luck-factor that can be manipulated to do very quirky deeds).

I do tases myself, focusing on fighting games TASES, by adding custom music via various programmes.

There is a catch: my TASES focuses on PSP games played via PPSSPP emulator, but it's impossible to TAS them normally, so I do a manual modification via Virtual Dub of a very long video to make it just like a traditional tool assisted video - it just takes much more to do.

You can find me on youtube, my channel is "quellochevedeivideo", aka "Bottega del doppiaggio", if you are interested on such game genre played almost theatrically (the Tekken 6 tases are quite flashy)

Mine are not very very perfect, because I can't use normal tases tools, but they are very akin to them (usually it's just a single error on a video, if that happnens).

I suggest you to dig into the Tool Assisted world, it's very entertaining - just avoid glitchfests, those are very boring videos.

edited 26th Apr '14 10:23:43 AM by garath90

So it's like hacking into a game in order to alter the background details and quirk up the mechanics to make your characters do interesting things. Not outright cheating, like altering the luck mechanic in a JRPG to always give you strong hits, right?

I like watching occasional non speedrun "Stylish Hard Action" TAS videos. But anything that just glitches its way into the goal in five minutes just isn't my bag.

edited 27th Apr '14 3:44:14 PM by Schitzo

ALL CREATURE WILL DIE AND ALL THE THINGS WILL BE BROKEN. THAT'S THE LAW OF SAMURAI.

Yes, I stumbled upon one of these and brought it to the Smash Bros thread. I didn't know what TAS was at the time and thought it was just some crazy-skilled players duking it out.

Quite glad I was wrong, or I might have just stopped trying to get better at video games all together.

Akira Toriyama (April 5 1955 - March 1, 2024).

Yeah, it's sad when all those cool levels are skipped because some code was a little too exploitable... But that's what glitch-abstaining categories are for.