TAS in videogames

[danieleche]

TAS (Tool Assisted Speedrun) is a speedrun played in an emulator to demonstrate a theoretically perfect game by playing a video game, unlike a conventional speedrun where only the player's skills count, in the TAS tools are used to improve times such as save, rewind, slow and fast forward frame by frame, create macros and scripts to perform automated actions.

In a topic from a long time ago I talked about conventional speedrun in video games and I said that there are leaderboards to document the best times, in the video game GTA San Andreas they do not allow a TAS in a leaderboard because with the use of tools you can have an advantage and in a speedrun the idea is that everyone competes on equal terms.

I have seen Speedrun of several video games but in the only one where I have seen a TAS is in GTA San Andreas, a person through the use of glitches passed the game in 3 hours and 48 minutes, there are things that make you think that if it is a TAS as very fast handling of the menus, ideal vehicle appearances, driving with few errors and very precise aim when shooting, the one who made the TAS had the game in Polish language but it is enjoyable, then I leave it in case someone wants it watch.