Retro Games TAS Marathon 🎮 Tool-Assisted Speedrun & Superplay Videos ⚙️
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RetroLongplay is a nonstop retro gaming TV channel. In the playlist on the right side you can look up what is currently playing and what comes next. In the upper right corner you can see the time until the next game. The games are played through without audio commentary.
The playlists have been created with the help of the community over a long period of time and have been improved continuously. The videos shown on this channel are chosen carefully. I only play videos that are explicitly permitted to be used. These include videos that have been released with an appropriate license, videos for which I have the explicit permission of the creator to play and videos I recorded myself. The TASes from TASVideos were released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license. The TASes from toolAssisted.run were released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
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Epilepsy Warning
Some of the videos shown on this channel contain intense flashing lights. This can trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. For further information please visit the Epilepsy Foundation.
## What is a TAS? Tool-assisted speedruns or tool-assisted superplays (TAS) are an important part of the speedrun community. They address and define the theoretical limits of the game. Often they have a major impact on regular speedruns, as they discover new opportunities for optimization. An emulator is used to perform the TAS. The aim is to achieve a theoretically perfect playthrough. Typically, features such as *savestates*, *re-recording* and *frame-by-frame processing* are used. There are also scripts created to perform actions automatically. ## Isn't that cheating? No, not at all. TAS runs follow rules and the use of tools is transparent, no one is cheated. Every single input can be checked and verified afterwards, you can replay the whole run in the emulator. Cheating would be to change the program code of the game. But of course these tools can be used to cheat in games. ## Which emulator is used? For most of the recordings shown on this channel the BizHawk emulator was used. It's a free multi-platform emulator developed by the TASVideos community and it's a recommended all-in-one tool for creating TASes. There is also a full list of accepted emulators. ## Is this live or recorded? It's videos played live. **It's not a prerecorded stream and it's no replay or rerun.** The gameplay is recorded but everything else about this channel is live. For example, all game requests are executed live. The videos can be skipped live using channel points. Polls are performed live and usually have a direct impact on the playlist. ## Two playlists, one is scrolling?! The green playlist shows which game and system is currently being played. The blue playlist contains the full information, such as the name of the player and the type of run. Since this information does not fit on the screen, this part of the playlist is scrolling. ## What's the name of the game? The currently played game is highlighted on the playlists. The playlists are processed game by game. ## How long until the next game? In the upper right corner of the stream you can see how long the current game will take to finish. The time runs down to 0, then the next game starts. ## Why is there no sound? The games are played with original sound (often emulated). At the time the games were released, there was usually no voice output at all. It was normal that sound was only used for certain parts of the game. Some games were even released completely without sound. On some systems the number of audio channels was severely limited. Therefore sometimes sounds are missing, because all audio channels are already occupied. Sometimes the cause is instead problems with the emulation. Arcade games are often programmed so that the sound only starts when a coin is inserted. Thus the demo mode at the beginning of the game is often played without sound. This is to avoid unnecessary noise in the arcade while nobody is playing. ## Why did the player not continue playing? With very old games, arcade games and arcade ports, it happens that games do not have an end, but repeat endlessly. In this case the player plays through the game once. ## Do you also play live on this channel? No, that wouldn't fit the concept of the channel. Most people are here for nonstop gameplay without commentary. It wouldn't make much sense to change that. If I would play live, I would create a new channel for it. ## Why do you reconnect the stream? My ISP requires a reconnection once a day. Besides, Twitch streams can have a maximum total length of 48 hours. To prevent a longer interruption, I reconnect the stream once a day. Please note: If the manual reconnection is not performed before the uptime reaches 24 hours, an automatic reconnection will occur. This takes about 30 seconds and no message will be displayed in the chat. It may happen that the channel is displayed as offline for a few minutes after the automatic reconnection, although it is online. In this case, you have to click on the channel name on the channel page to get to the stream. Please inform others in the chat about what is happening. ## What are the rules? + Insults, in whatever form, will not be tolerated. + No advertising, no matter what. + Be nice and relax. + Please chat in English only. + Links are not working in chat. As a VIP you are technically able to post links. Nevertheless, please refrain from doing so if possible. Otherwise, make sure to post only high-quality links that fit the topic and answer questions of the chat.
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## What are Internet Points? *Internet Points* can be redeemed to trigger various actions. With the standard Twitch features, for example, emotes can be temporarily unlocked or modified. For some polls you can also buy additional votes with *Internet Points*. With the *extremely expensive extended features* you can influence the playlist. I have to run the extended features manually. **Please ask if I am there before you use an extended feature.** ## How to earn Internet Points? Click on the joystick icon below the chat and then scroll all the way down. Then click on "How to Earn Internet Points" to see all earning sources. ## Can I be sure that my request will be executed? No. But of course all points will be refunded if I do not execute your request. ## Why are the extended features so expensive? The channel should always remain relaxing. Constant changing of the playlist, especially skipping videos, could be disturbing. The features are a reward for viewers who spend a lot of time here. ## What are request levels? Request levels are not precisely predefined. Some requests are more expensive than others. It depends, for example, on popularity, length and when the video was last played. I only accept requests that are entertaining for a large part of the community. If I don't accept your request, you will get your *Internet Points* refunded.
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Subscribe to the official RetroLongplay YouTube Channel for exclusive longplay recordings such as the Super Mario Kart and the Mario Kart 64 longplay. There is also a longplay of Doki Doki Panic available.
Playlist Syntax
>system① game_name info② type③ category④ by player_name publication_url [version⑤] time⑥ {developer&publisher⑦ release_year genre_code⑧ system_code} ## ① System Abbreviations 3do -> 3DO 3ds -> Nintendo 3DS 32x -> Sega 32X a2600 -> Atari 2600 a7800 -> Atari 7800 amiga -> Commodore Amiga android -> Android apple2 -> Apple II arcade -> Coin-Operated Arcade bsx -> Satellaview / Broadcast Satellaview X c64 -> Commodore 64 cdi -> CD-i (Compact Disc-Interactive) channelf -> Fairchild Channel F coleco -> ColecoVision dos -> MS-DOS PC ds -> Nintendo DS dsi -> Nintendo DSi fds -> Famicom Disk System flash -> Adobe Flash gb -> Game Boy gba -> Game Boy Advance gbc -> Game Boy Color gc -> GameCube genesis -> Sega Genesis / Mega Drive gg -> Game Gear intv -> Intellivision j2me -> Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME) jaguar -> Atari Jaguar jaguarcd -> Atari Jaguar CD linux -> Linux PC lynx -> Atari Lynx mac -> macOS / Mac OS X msx -> Microsoft MSX n64 -> Nintendo 64 n64dd -> Nintendo 64DD nes -> Nintendo Entertainment System ngp -> Neo Geo Pocket ngpc -> Neo Geo Pocket Color o2 -> Magnavox Odyssey 2 / VideoPac G7000 pc98 -> PC-9800 series pcfx -> PC-FX pico8 -> PICO-8 ps1 -> PlayStation psp -> PlayStation Portable saturn -> Sega Saturn segacd -> Sega CD / Mega-CD sg1000 -> Sega SG-1000 sgb -> Super Game Boy sgx -> PC Engine SuperGrafx sms -> Sega Master System snes -> Super Nintendo / Super NES sv3x8 -> Spectravideo SV-318 / SV-328 ti83 -> TI-83 Series tic80 -> TIC-80 tg16 -> TurboGrafx-16 / PC Engine tgcd -> TurboGrafx-CD / PC Engine CD ub -> Uzebox ultimax -> Commodore Ultimax / Max Machine vboy -> Virtual Boy vec -> Vectrex web -> Web Platform wii -> Nintendo Wii wiivc -> Nintendo Wii Virtual Console windows -> Microsoft Windows PC wswan -> WonderSwan wswanc -> WonderSwan Color zx -> ZX Spectrum ## ② Additional Information If it's a ROM hack, a fan game or a homebrew game, this information is shown here. ## ③ Type of Video At this position the type of video is displayed, for example *tas* or *longplay*. ## ④ TAS Category This is left blank if it's the default category, a fast as possible playthrough of the game, also known as *any%*. All alternative categories are displayed at this position. Superplays that are not speedruns are labeled *playaround*. ## ⑤ Version The version of the game. [х] means any version. [ww] means that the game was released as a single worldwide version. ## ⑥ Time The total playing time of the video is displayed here (*h:mm:ss*). Time measurement in speedruns ends with the last input. Therefore, the speedrun time is different from the total video playback time. ## ⑦ Developer & Publisher The publisher is always listed at the end, preceded by the developer(s) of the game. A company that ports an original game to another system is considered the developer of that port. The following symbols are used here: 📍 = Developer of the original game 🖈 = Ported the original game to this system 📌 = Publisher is also one of the developers ## ⑧ Genre Code I released the genre classification system on Pastebin.
Chat Commands
**!amazon** shows a link to the retro gaming products page on Amazon. **!betterttv** shows the available channel emotes of the browser extension BetterTTV. **!freeprime** shows a link to the free 30-day trial of Amazon Prime. **!lurk** deploys you to lurk duty while you watch in the background. **!run** shows a link to the official toolAssisted.run website. You can also use this command to link to any publication page of the toolAssisted.run website (Example: *!run M100012*). **!subs** shows the current number of subscribers of this channel. **!tas** shows a link to the official TASVideos website. You can also use this command to link to any page of the TASVideos website (Example: *!tas 3220S*). **!uptime** shows how long the current stream has been online. RetroLongplay is a nonstop stream but needs to reconnect once a day. Therefore this indicates the time since last reconnection. **!youtube** shows a link to the official RetroLongplay YouTube channel.