Ninja Gaiden speed runs set new records

I love the SDA. You definately see games in a different light after these guys run through the games. And for everybody out there, these runs are not done on emulators, they're actual people playing the actual console.

Wow, this will be the first time I see the endings to any of those games LOL

Wow, the boss fights sucked in the original Ninja Gaiden. Most of them are over in under 1 second.

I didn't know that game came out so late in the NES lifecycle.

i have completed all of the games listed already however i am not so good as to clock those times

The SDA record is STILL 3-5 minutes away from matching the TASR records? I thought they'd be much closer by now... http://tasvideos.org/Search.html?key=ninja+gaiden

Man that BGM takes me back...

Only Ryu could survive falling into lava on multiple occasions.

Also, Ninja Dog? Is that worse than Lesser Ninja? I never did get Ninja Dog before.

Yea, these "new" records suck. The records over at tasvideos.org are about 3+ minutes better, and I know what a TAS (Tool Assisted Run) is and everything done in them is actually possible to be done by humans on an actual console. Nothing is cheated, they just use features such as slowdown to perfect them.

everything atheletes who use steroids do is doable by humans... they just use steroids to help perfect it.

that dude who ran like a madman thru ninja gaiden black sucked all the fun out of the game.. speed runs suck, they're no fun to play it seems. just for bragging rights on the tubes. plus he kept using the damn combos over and over. sad to see a great game reduced to this.

Can you imagine the furor if someone released a game today that you could play through in fourteen minutes?

Sonicandtails/Cypher: SDA and TAS are completely different. And TAS uses much more than just slow down, including frame advance, RNG and RAM checkers, and hex editing. Judging by the fact they break world records in all games, including Super Punch out, it's not humanly achievable. Or if you watch the newest Mario Kart video where huffers breaks the World Records by upwards of 60 seconds...

Sorry, I'm a daily visitor to both sites, and it annoys me when people undervalue TAS or legit ones. I find both amazing to watch. I can only wish you agree.

#11:

If you think that's bad, there's 13-minute Morrowind speed runs out there on the Net if you were inclined to look.

Fuzzmosis: My point was that even though TASrunners indeed check RAM and manipulate luck and use frame advance and all other such means used through any rerecording emulator, it does not mean that it is impossible to be done by a human. All button presses could be done by a human, nothings saying you can't. It just wont happen because the intense precision needed is almost impossible to replicate. But the key word there was 'almost'. It CAN happen. But it won't.

When humans get frame precise (60 fps games) controlling abilities, I'll agree with that. Till then, it's a reason it's tool assisted.

Like racing a car. Someone has a pretty distinct advantage, but you're damn good if you're close to it.

I used to love Ninja Gaiden. I was so young when I played this game (3 or 4 years old) and I never knew what game it was. When I see the video now, I'm shocked because I actually remember parts of the game. Now, at 20 years old, I finally know what game it is! Thanks Joystiq!!!

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So Sonic...your saying that they ARE cheating, but just not using a GAME GENIE????

am i rite?

I can remember playing all of these games back in the day and both Ninja Gaiden 1&2 speed runs seem completely doable. Ninja Gaiden 2 I found to be extremely easier than 1, but Ninja Gaiden 3 was damned hard and that speed run was very impressive.

Three steps to successful Ninja Gaidening-

1. Keep moving

2. Know your enemy placement/pattern

3. Get the correct magic weapon for that level and NEVER let it go.

Boy do those videos bring back memories. I'm going to have to dust off the ol' PSP (or DC) and start playing again.