This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see http://tasvideos.org/493M.html Tri-Ace's Star Ocean 1 is an RPG game similar to Namco's Tales of Phantasia or Square's Final Fantasy VI. Because it was only released in Japan, and the first (almost) complete fan translation (http://www.zsnes.com/~dejap/) of the game was finished only a few years ago, this game isn't well known in western countries. Moreover, it has only been supported by SNES emulators for a short time, due to a graphics compression chip used in the game to fit the huge amount of beautiful graphics into the 6 MB ROM chip. This is a tool-assisted speedrun of the Japanese version (the rules (http://tasvideos.org/MovieRules.html) of the TASvideos site forbid the use of fan-translations when making speedruns). We are sorry for the broken speech in the game intro. This is an emulation glitch. (Yes, the game actually includes English dialogue, which coincidentally has an identical twin in Star Trek.) For...
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