Note: This is a legacy page for archival purposes. The Fastest Completion flag was removed on May 7th, 2024.
This page aims to keep track of movies that TASVideos considers to have accomplished a legitimate "fastest completion" objective. The legitimacy rules for this objective are the same as for usual "low completion" and "full completion", but otherwise no goal is imposed other than speed.
There is a common tradition to call this objective "any%" for short in casual chatting, but this term is as undescriptive as it is prevalent, so it can't be officially enforced.
Since the amount of movies fulfilling this goal is unavoidably very huge, it's broken up by platform.
| Atari | NEC | Nintendo | SEGA | Sony | Computers | Other devices |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| • Atari 2600 • Atari 7800 • Atari Lynx | • PC-Engine • PC-Engine CD • PC-FX • SuperGrafx | • Nintendo DS • Famicom Disk System • Game Boy • Game Boy Advance • Game Boy Color • Nintendo GameCube • Nintendo 64 • Nintendo Entertainment System • Super Game Boy • Super Nintendo Entertainment System • Virtual Boy • Wii | • Game Gear • Genesis • Sega 32X • SegaCD • Sega Saturn • SG-1000 • Sega Master System | • PlayStation | • Apple II • Commodore 64 • DOS • DOOM • MSX • Windows | • Arcade • Colecovision • Intellivision • Neo Geo Pocket • Uzebox • WonderSwan |
Rules
This objective fulfills the record keeping goal of TASVideos, which is also a goal of the Standard class. In that regard, the movie rules for this flag are the same as for the Standard-eligible "fastest completion" category.
The list of games eligible for Standard is broad, though limited. Here are the rules imposed for games.
For games with separate modes (level sets, episodes, etc.) available from the start, each mode is treated as a separate game, so a movie for each such mode needs a Fastest Completion flag. If "fastest completion" movies of different versions of the same game are considered different enough to be published side-by-side, they all need the flags.
Movies with speed/entertainment tradeoffs are eligible for this category if the goal is still "fastest completion", and no goal that principally contradicts it is applied (see the list below)
Movie tags ineligible for this category (if they require extra time):
- Playaround
- Aims for maximum score
- Pacifist version
- Maximum kills
- Multiple games in one movie
- Uses a suboptimal character
- Forgoes time-saving death
- Forgoes time-saving damage
- Forgoes major skip glitch
- Forgoes a time-saving restart sequence
- Forgoes time-saving glitches
- Forgoes save data corruption
- Forgoes memory corruption
- Single level
- Starts from a saved state or SRAM
- Abuses unintended environment
Obsoleted movies and obsoleted fastest completion branches
- If a new branch appears that is now considered fastest completion, the flag needs to be moved over from the current publication whose branch was considered fastest completion before.
- If a fastest completion movie is obsoleted, there's no need to remove the flag.
- If there is an obsoleted movie whose branch was in the past considered fastest completion, it needs a flag for historic reasons.
Discussion thread
TODO: Make updating platform list easier