Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Zapdos is quite a lot more finnicky than the other birds, but still not too bad to get the perfect shot.
Zapdos is quite a lot more finnicky than the other birds, but still not too bad to get the perfect shot.
![[TAS] Mario Party 2 - Mecha-Marathon - 53.58 Yards](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gM-N5Ai0H58/mqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Mario Party 2 - Mecha-Marathon - 53.58 Yards
This is a Tool-Assisted Superplay/Speedrun (often abbreviated to TAS) where a player can edit, rerecord, and manipulate a game into doing whatever that person desires. Visit http://tasvideos.org/ for more information.
This is now my third time improving the TAS record. Its possible that the score could still go higher, but most likely not by much if at all. As RNG affects the end result, I made a simple bot with Lua to repeat perfect inputs for each controller with different RNG values and had it run for over 17K games. Eventually, I got this result.
RNG constantly updates in Mario Party 2, so you can change the result by either waiting in the pre-game menu, or pause and unpause during gameplay. From my testing, it seems that the character who would win in the case of a tie is determined once the game starts, but the actual distance they get can still be affected by RNG until close to the end of the race. I also believe the reason for variance in distance has to do with the animation of the Fly Guy as you seem to be able to get more distance if the stall at the end occurs when its at peak height.
If a better score is possible, it would require even more brute forcing of RNG seeds, or otherwise disassembling the game to deeply understand the mechanics and how to manipulate them.")
![[TAS] Defection - Agent - Death after Completion](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/j8z2f3dIKa8/mqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Defection - Agent - Death after Completion
This is a Tool-Assisted Superplay/Speedrun (often abbreviated to TAS) where a player can edit, rerecord, and manipulate a game into doing whatever that person desires. Visit http://tasvideos.org/ for more information.
On Defection with diving into the ending while out of bounds, you can either land in the lift to complete the level, or miss it and die. This TAS does both and gets an instant skip of the ending cutscene.")
