Thanks all for your replies. I'll try to respond.
to antd & Derakon) - my son does regular speed runs already. I get the terminology mixed up. It's the Tool Assisted Speedrun videos that he admires but doesn't know how to do.
to Kirkq) - from
http://tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources.html I tried to download NES FCEUX - saw three choices:
* FCEUX 2.1.4a win32 Binary
* FCEUX 2.1.4a win32 Binary - Windows 2000/98
* FCEUX 2.1.4a src
The only one looked any familiar was the second one, the one for windows 98 and 2000 (although son's computer runs Vista) - but when tried to unzip that download, got a virus warning. ?? I'm just lost here. I don't even know what a port is.
Thanks for the clarification re the probable few number of TAS knowledgable people in the US. Wouldn't you think though, that the bay area would have a few of those here? And I would expect a tutor to be in college though, that shouldn't be a problem. I'm in Berkeley. I had a student from UCSF write me a PM in response to my original post. I didn't know how to respond to him really until I read your clarifications, Thanks. I want to suggest to the UCSF student that he (or anyone) might be able to scrape up enough eager Asperger gamers like my son to be able to host a profitable Saturday workshop/s for semi-computer literate gamers like us.
And thanks for explaining the rom thing. First I had heard of it /them