The first hardware TAS was... Seaman? Jaku explains #tasbot
Channel: dwangoAC, keeper of TASBot
Date: 05/02/2024

Jaku was the first person to get a full Tool-Assissted Speedrun level of Super Mario Bros. to sync on a real console, but before that he played with Seaman - See https://youtu.be/CLd3hd_NKpo for the full story

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This short about the Dreamcast game Seaman as played by renowned hacker Jaku is from TASBot Re: Gradius which is the first video in the TASBot Revisited series where the history of how TAS runs were pitched (and how Gradius desynced) at AGDQ 2014. See the full uncut presentation of https://youtu.be/Tx5U_bh2uIk and check out https://TAS.bot/wiki/AGDQ_2014 for more details.

TASBot's very first run at a charity event was on January 5th, 2014 at AGDQ 2014 playing adelikat's TAS of Gradius with two console verification TAS replay attempts on a real console using true's NES/SNES replay device held in TASBot's hands. This TASBot Re: presentation is an opportunity to provide context around  past charity event runs with full attribution of the TAS authors and presenters that helped make it all happen and the challenges the TASBot team faced.

Credits for the source video of this short - TASBot Re: Gradius (TASBot Revisited episode 1) 
TAS Author - Adelikat
Lead - dwangoAC
Presenters - dwangoAC, micro500, Weatherton, TheGreekBrit
Video Editing - Spooey
TASBot Opening - CraftedCart
Outro Graphics - DrD2k9, Briar
End Credits - Reisama
Thumbnail - Pepman
TASBot theme music - JohnGabrielUK, WhimsyHeath
World's first replay device - Jaku
Seaman Gameplay - KilobyteKeith,Level Breakers
NES/SNES Replay Device - true
NESBot - micro500
Super Mario Bros. TAS - HappyLee
Wizards & Warriors III played on NESBot at SGDQ 2011 - DarkKobold, Speedgame Main Marathon History
TASVideos Founder - Bisqwit

All Games Done Quick charity event content used with permission. All TASVideos.org content used with permission under CC-BY-2.0 licensing (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)

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