Editing Tool-assisted superplay

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A '''tool-assisted speedrun/superplay''' (abbreviated '''TAS''') is a playthrough of a game or part of a game utilizing tools unavailable in normal gameplay, usually with the aim to create a theoretically perfect [[speedrun]] through the use of otherwise humanly infeasible execution and techniques. Typically, the game is played in an emulator and a sequence of button presses is recorded (one for each human player) that will always yield the same outcome when played back. The tools used include but are not limited to: using savestates to rewind to earlier points, advancing the game frame by frame and monitoring the game's memory.

TAS videos frequently feature particularly extreme use of advanced techniques or exploits in order to perform matches that would ordinarily be impossible by human players without external assistance. TAS videos commonly feature players playing through matches without taking any [[damage]] in single-player modes, speedrunning through the modes at an inhuman level, or achieving other incredible feats that are outside the realm of human capability. Another popular subject of TAS videos is playing [[versus]] matches that feature long, extensive, and intricate [[combo]]s between player-controlled characters in drawn-out matches, that also involve extensive use of glancing blows and/or extreme [[DI]] and [[SDI]], surviving what would easily be killing blows via [[tech]]ing in abnormal places, and often ending the match by having both players lose their last stock on the same [[frame]], including in the resulting round of [[Sudden Death]]. Actual battles are not the only subjects of TAS videos; TAS has also been done on modes such as the [[Home-Run Contest]] and [[Target Test]] games in order to achieve humanly impossibly high distances or low times.

While the development of the [[Dolphin]] emulator was still in its early stages and unavailable for TAS purposes, some players made use of ''Melee''{{'}}s [[debug mode]] which features a frame-by-frame mode. Videos created in this mode came to be known as ''AR videos'' due to the mode being accessible through [[Action Replay]]. In theory, the player carefully crafts an input sequence through trial-and-error and on the final playthrough, saves a screenshot on each frame and splices them into a video afterwards. Notable examples of this are the [[Perfect Control]] series and other videos created by {{Sm|SuperDoodleMan}}, and the [[Target Test|Break The Targets]] record videos created by {{Sm|Ajp_anton}}.  

Later on, Dolphin became available for TASing, allowing players access to more tools such as savestates. JPleal10 created the first true TAS video, playing as C.Falcon against three CPU players without taking damage. {{Sm|Wak}}, {{Sm|MUGG}} and {{Sm|SW-1988}} (among others) competed in beating each other's HRC and Event Match videos, slowly beating all of the existing AR videos. An up-to-date listing of TAS records can be found [https://tasvideos.org/GameResources/GC/SuperSmashBrosMelee/Records here].

==''Smash 3DS'' TAS examples==