Rescue Time is an NES homebrew developed by SJ Games, the same company that made the KUBO series. A guy with a cap has to warp through time to help out a guy without a cap. He must press start to use his "watch", which doubles as an invisible time machine.
Objectives:
- Emulator used: FCEUX 2.6.4
- Uses an early warp
- Collects cartridges in a cartridge game
Here's some of the game's physics:
- The game takes 459 frames to load due to an unskippable opening cutscene.
- Sometimes the game lags. Killing enemies faster can help reduce it.
- It's believed in RTA speedruns that you have to collect 4 cartridges to warp to the final stage, but with good precision, you can warp straight to the final stage from the start of the 2nd stage.
- The first frame you can press B to load the next textbox is the frame before all the text has appeared.
Thanks for reading. Expect a couple more SJ Games TASes very soon.
- LGR
EDIT: With help from ShesChardcore, I have since improved this TAS by 82 frames - https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/638099169559133697
81 frames of the improvement were from Chard, so I’ve added her as a co-author.

feos: Claiming for judging.
feos: Replacing with an improvement and accepting.

despoa: Processing...


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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #7984: LoganTheTASer & ShesChardcore's NES Rescue Time in 00:55.14
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I really should have submitted or uploaded this sooner but I did a TAS of this about a month ago. That's my bad. https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/638099107270530014 Maybe you can find a further improvement?
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https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/638099169559133697 1 frame improvement (FCEUX takes a frame longer to load than BizHawk)
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thanks for accepting!
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This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [5098] NES Rescue Time by LoganTheTASer & ShesChardcore in 00:55.14