TASBot slides his way through Mega Man 3 in  

Hey. I know those folks. :D Thanks again DwangoAC and TASbot for joining us on the Mega Man-athon stage!

Are you ready to *rock, man?*

run starts at 1:33

ROB. console add on, playable character in smash, and now elite speed runner!

I knew this was going to be serious when I saw the Framemeister sync screen.

Nice commentary save at 7:00 dwango :-D

Love these videos!

Hey. I am enjoying that royal wedding DVD. Thank you guys.

Shout out to Roahm Mythril finding the Shadowman stage music erasure by accident.

22:12 it was so that he'd end up on 0 energy remaining after the boss, he did it before too.

This guy plays like a machine!

I'd love to see a Mega Man 3 Buster Only TAS...

I don't want to mock your previous MM3 video. I hope you appreciate my restraint.

PSA: Megaman Tool Assisted Speedruns are powered by lemons and the souls of sacrificed animals

Magnet Man is equally weak to Spark Shock and Shadow Blade.

Wow this run went by so fast the commentators barely had time to commentate on anything. I remember playing this game for hours. Tasbot makes it look so easy.

"Can't Stop the Top" Nice Megas reference

Is TASBot a minor form of Ai?

I'm BEGGING these speed runners to do a NATURAL run, the way the developers intended the game to be played. No bug exploitation, no glitches, just the playing and completing the game the fastest, normally. Being an expert in a game shouldn't be able memorizing the correct frames to exploit glitches in 30 year old games.

Did you assume TASBot's gender?

To complete a thought that the commentators were beginning about Robot Master weaknesses in this game, there are two "weakness circles" in the game. Weakness circles in Mega Man games refer to weakness orders, but the completion of the circle is that the weapon you get from the last Master you beat in the order would be the weakness of the first Robot Master within the order you killed. For instance, in the first Mega Man, if you followed the primary weakness order, facing Bomb Man first, then the last Master you'd face would be Fire Man, and his weapon would be the primary weakness for Bomb Man, completing the circle. Some circles became disjointed because of secondary weaknesses that some sites tend to list as primary (making it difficult to tell which weakness Capcom intended that Master to have) though since MM1 is the easiest to know the order for since it's so obvious which weapon would work on who, that's the game I listed for the example. This might be stating things most MM Vets know, but for those that don't, that's what a "weakness circle" is. For MM3, there are two intended weakness circles in the game. Five in one, three in the other. You might notice that if you go through the five Master one (Magnet > Hard > Top > Shadow > Spark), not only is Spark Shot Magnet Man's primary weakness, but you do not have any of the weaknesses for the other three (Snake > Gemini > Needle). Needle Cannon is Snake Man's primary weakness. They could be used as secondary weaknesses (a few from the five Master circle will succumb to the Needle Cannon and a few from the 3 circle don't like the Hard Knuckle or Shadow Blade too much), but this was one where either Capcom's rush to get this game out made them not realize they had two circles here, or they did that to switch some things up. I was waiting for them to complete that thought, but they never did. So decided to come with the knowledge swag.

I wish TASbot videos had a controller display in the corner. I love watching buttons flash like it's at a rave.

In the American version, the room before the boss at 26:15 doesn't have the platform in the middle, but has a ledge to the right with the weapon power ups on it.

Still super happy I got to hold TASBot after the run, thank you again Dwango! You made this gamer's (and her Husband's) Day at MAG!

dude needs to finish conversations with himself before starting more conversations with himself

When I was young Dr. Light always looked like he had giant pig nostrils.

been binge watching TASbot, interesting to see my favorite games being destroyed

When I grow up I want to be a "resident megaman 3 expert"

TAS videos can be a little confusing. They list it under Rockman, not Megaman, for some reason. Every other one is Megaman, but not the NES version. I get having Rockman as the title, but they should also link to it as Megaman, so that people not acquainted with the Japanese name can find it.

that guy's name is a Chinese word "tian cai" (天才), which means "genius." presumably the whr after that are initials of the person's real name?

God I love TASBot. He's so fast and amazing, and he hardly ever screws up! I don't think I've ever seen him do it

Ugh, when that lag generator pukes out a dust cube, am I right, guys? >:0 Speed run lingo is just as great as head canon game lore. Mega Man taught me that twins hate snakes! o_o

the jump at 26:48 .... WHAT! lol

Back when I was young I legitimately thought that Dr. Light meant that Dr. Wiley stole some radiation.

Anyone want to try the lag drinking game?

You don’t get Rush Jet at Magnet Man... good video though

3:05 Megas reference!

Tasbot the hero we need but not the one we deserve

2:44 I am always surprised that I never see Tas Bots doing slide off the screen. You have to press up and A on player 2 controller in order to walk off the screen.

"wasn't finished when it put out" so modern games? :P we used to call that Alpha or beta level. So I gues game companies haven't changed all that much lol.

That music at 15:18 sounds pretty *bizarre.*

(15:04) I think I actually got that softlock once. Huh.

The music isn't disappearing. Capcom secretly included the Mega Man 2 Wily 6 theme and that's how you trigger it. ;)

And by Child's Play.. there aren't any red headed possessed and homicidal Chucky dolls involved right 😂

Also, that commenter looks like the dude from Leprechaun; except with a magnificent head of hair.

Very informative run. Had no idea about that snake slide skip👀

Spark man got owned!

The flashing and various background animations in Spark man and other levels don't require much effort from the game, as it's done by just swapping elements in a font-like structure that is being rendered directly by the video chip (and I mean not a GPU, I mean the producer of the video signal). I say "font" because it's structured similar to "text modes" found in DOS programs and various non-PC computers of the 80s.

lets have un-knowledgeable people commentate a TAS...

Tasbot is a fucking beast... This game took me like 6 months to beat when it first came out

24:24 TASbot: health? Any more than 0 means that I'm good to go.

Megaman goes god speed. xd

I wonder if you can get that run under 30 minutes on the PS2 anniversary edition since you don't have to go to the menu to switch weapons

HARD MAN LMAO

HOW DO I SLIDE

The MegaMan series games seem possibly the most fitting to be bot controlled

With every shot, rushjet will despawn.

This game is notoriously notorious

What pit are they talking about where you need rush jet?

So, how does a TAS work? Does a person save-state every single input or like, what? Seriously, I'd love TF out of a "Let's TAS" video explaining how it works and an example.

Ah man I want that switch!

Break Man? That’s Blues!

The rush armour makes these games like 10x easier

Shouldn't Gemini Man be called Gemini Men?

TASbot is pretty good at games

Lag-a Man 3

Timer starts at 1:34

Notoriously

Notorious

While other guys are out dating ... LOL. Half-joking aside, great TAS run.

Is it possible to buy a tas bot?

At 19:45 it is no true about having to have energy for Rush Jet, or you need to reset. Rush Coil spends no energy (despite having an energy bar), so you can always get out of that pit.

NS as the grand prize... bye...

i love how tasbot is a he. mansplaining at its best

How does TASBot work? I mean, how does it know what to do in each stage?

Umm, no, Magnet Man is not "much more weak to the Shadow Blade" than Spark Shock. They do the same damage. Only it's vertical range makes the Shadow Blade the better weapon

Total cheating BS! How dare you...

pfffft...only 30 dps.....what a hack

Video without commentary would be great

Tas bot should've been called tas man

Yes there is an order and its been known since it was first published in Nintendo Power. You start with Snake Man.

27:58 Best Music in MM3!

Also, who the hell thought Magnet Man was easier than Top Man? Jeesh!

About Shadowman. I've top spinned him to death instantly "dunno what the conditions are, since I've also managed to do minimal damage and lose all the weapon energy..." so this tasbot could do a tad bit better on that one.