====Description==== CarnEvil is a 1998 light gun shooter arcade game released by Midway Games. It is often noted for its heavy use of graphic violence and dark humor. It is Midway Games' most successful light gun shooter. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CarnEvil Tool-assisted superplay (TAS) of CarnEvil Arcade (Very Hard) in 20:54 (4,761,970) Settings: -Game Difficulty = Very Hard -Monster Strength = Very Hard From pressing Start at 0:39 until the last bullet kills the last boss at 21:33 = 20:54 Notes: -The save/load state in Mame with a .CHD game has some problems, but not enough so that I cannot do a TAS of this game. -The game let you fire at 20bps, which is faster than the Machine gun. -As far as I know, the flamethrower doesn't do anything more than regular shots except set enemies on fire. It takes the same number of shots from the flamethrower as with normal bullets. -But with 'Acid Bath', you shoot enemies with a single shot. -In the corridor with the arms, there is a scratch animation but no loss of energy (3:02). I shot the arms as far as possible so as not to lose energy this time (like in the WIP). -I find it funny that the TAS can take a coffee break in the middle of this very fast paced game. (4:32) -I couldn't find a way not to lose energy on the bumper car section (8:50). I redid this part about 4 times and always lost about half of my energy. -I also lost some energy in the monkey-spider house (12:27), I don't know what hit me. -On the third section many enemies take 6 hits, they took 5 on the second section. It's probably the "Monster Strength" setting that does this. With normal settings, you don't need to fire as many shots. -Note that the game didn't think it would be possible to shoot the enemy at 12:15 and even if no one jumps on the seesaw we still jump in the air. -Also, those enemies didn't fall to the ground when I shot them (17:34). ===Bosses=== -When 'Evil Marie' attacks by swinging the axe, you have to shoot the hand to stop her movement (I am not sure of that). But in a TAS when shooting at 20bps it doesn't work. I had to stop firing for a few frames for my shot to the hands be effective. -With Krampus, if I shoot him at 20 bps only on his stomach, he is able to hit me twice. To avoid this, I shot him in the leg. This triggers an animation of him losing his balance, that way he loses enough time for me to finish him. -As for Junior, shooting him at 20 bps he is not able to move. I could have shot him all night but after exhausting his energy, shooting him doesn't give any points, so there's no point shooting him for nothing. Unlike the first 2 bosses, he does not die when his energy reaches 0. The game must show you his video, Junior only dies at the end. In the meantime, I had to shoot him a few times to avoid being hit by him. -For the last boss (TokkenTakker), like Junior, the game has some animations to do. You can't finish him until he's on the ship. Meanwhile, at least when you shoot him, you get points. I could have shot him more times but I got bored :) -Small technical note: For a .inp (or a TAS) to replay without desynchronizing, you must delete the .dif file in \diff\carnevil.dif . When you complete a game, this file is updated and will affect the rng for the next run. It took me a little while to realize this. This is the first TAS I've had to do this. -It took me about 20 hours of work to do this TAS. What is a TAS? kzfaq.infoabout For a good introduction to TASing: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f8uknpRevMibn40.html For more information visit tasvideos.org. 00:00 Start-Settings 00:41 1-Haunted House 05:44 2-Rickety Town 10:27 3-Freak Show 15:43 4-Big Top 21:33 Ending 22:37 Score 23:06 Credits 28:36 Attract

What Tokkentaker didn't realize is that he just trapped a guy with aimbot in his park.

CarnEvil, now featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series

19:35 "AT LAST, WE MEET!" **gets vaporized instantly**

i love how the player is just shooting casually until hambone shows up and enters hyperdrive mode

As someone who was terrified of Umlaut as a child, I took immense pleasure in watching him die so fast you couldn’t even see his face behind the light gun

I love how the firecap for the default gun is way higher than the machinegun's ROF

19:36 _At last we meet _*_OOHH OOWWCH OH AH EEE OOOO WHOA AAAA IM SHATTERED_*

When the T-800 gets a ticket.

For anybody wondering why he takes damage despite this being a TAS, this game, while being very fun and oozing personality, has several moments of "mandatory damage" where there's simply no way to avoid it no matter how good you are. In fact, the first Hambone fight has a whole bunch as he just chews through your health bar without flinching, but I guess he's no match for the inhuman fire rate of a TAS bot? I'm surprised to learn that's also not scripted damage. Anyway, they wanted to make sure you couldn't beat this on one life, so they splashed in several helpings of bullshit to coax those quarters out of your pockets. Regardless, I love this game so much, there are so many little touches and details that just bring the whole experience together. I kinda wish the devs would get back together and make a sequel or something, maybe re-release this one as a special edition with upscaled graphics.

0:42 - _"Welcome to the _*_Haunted House!_*_ Meet a ghoul who's lost her head. If you'd like to stay and join us, you're always welcome- alive or _*_DEAD!"_* 5:45 - _"What goes up, must come down! Now you're headed for _*_Rickety Town!_*_ Ride all the rides, have some fun- then eat your heart out on a _*_SESAME SEED BUN!"_* 10:28 - _"It's _*_The Freak Show! The Freak Show!_*_ See the strange and bizarre. Step right up, we'd love to see you- we think _*_YOU_*_ could be the _*_STAR!"_* 15:48 - _"You've made it to our main attraction- the three-ring circus in the _*_Big Top Tent._*_ We hope our clowns will entertain you- before making _*_YOU THE MAIN EVENT!"_*

This game is impressive, with pre-rendered images with a z-buffer that makes 3d rendering knows where it should render and where it not to do, to render interactives, such as characters and effects (that are not pre-rendered) and rendering 3d transparency in real time in 1998 arcade is totally insane!

I like that Umlaut laughs menacingly at the end as if he didn't know the protagonist wanted to wreck him a 2nd time

I can't help but imagine some guy in the arcade straight up gun-kata-ing it like an anime protagonist made flesh.

POV: your cicis pizza memories get unlocked.

Midway punishing speedrunners during the Junior and Ludwig boss fights when their HP hits 0. This is the very 1st time I’ve seen an arcade soft shooter do that. Anyway, that was a great run!

8:18 That zombie employee is just chilling despite receiving acidic burns 😂

When John Wick wakes up in Carn Evil:

The TAS shot Tokkentakker so much that he glitched through the fences of the top of the airship!

The computer did not hesitate to absolutely curbstomp the baby

This game needed a TAS for the longest time, so thank you for making it. I knew that there was a decent chunk of forced damage in the game so I didn't expect a 1CC to be possible. Happy to see that a 1CC is possible, but I am disappointed in the game for having so much truly forced damage.

This guy is the CarnEvil equivalent of; “I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with me!”

19:35 meeting Umlaut 19:42 saying goodbye to Umlaut

Dang, I never got past level 2 in the arcade though I was pretty young when it came out. It was nice to see the rest of it. That ending was neat, with an FMV sequence and everything. Also, this game's got some Simpson-esque sign gags going on, notably in the Museum of the Slightly Curious, we have "Thing in a Bottle?", "World's Biggest Shoe", "Ancient Mystery Skull of (Tiles?)(can't make it out), "Mechanical Killer Rabbit (10 cents)", "80lb Flea", A Caveman "Frozen in TIme", and a "Horse with No Mane!?". Also don't forget to order your Crusty pizza: 555-ROTT. Awesome TAS.

Tokken Takker: You're not leaving this park alive! The TAS player: Eat lead you horror abomination! Tokken Takker: OH CRA-

I believe in some versions of the arcade, instead of getting Junior, there was a giant teddy bear named Deaddy.

Evil Marie is gahdamb STACKED

Player throughout the game: Casually having fun and taking down any enemies. When they encounter a boss: Omae Wa Mo Shinderu The Boss: Nani?!

This man's pistol literally shoots faster than an automatic rifle 😂. EDIT: I always saw this in arcades as a kid, but never actually played it. I figured it was supposed to be campy, but I did not expect THIS level of campiness! They really go straight to the xmas theme in stage 2 😂.

shooting Tokkentakker so fast he ends up shimmying off to the side was unexpected and hilarious

*boss shows up* "so anyway I started blasting"

When I saw that ending all I can say was “dude you literally barely survived a place that tried to kill you, why the hell would you insert that coin again?”

I really enjoyed this! You can see so much of the environment and "blink and you miss it" gags. I'm still so impressed by the full 3d zeppelin

And all this time I was waiting for part 2, but you actually finished it. I'm impressed!

4:30 he was given a chance to fight, it did not end well

The game is as entertaining as I remember it. Your skilled TASing makes it even better; great job and thanks for all the effort you put into this!

Very interesting as how Krampus can die on the first screen, but Junior has to run through the whole fight before dying.

This game needs to be remaster, remake, upgrade, and expand today for us who still love this! Hopefully the staff and crew who made this would consider it.

I played that game yesterday at the arcade, it was wicked as hell

This should get a Switch remake. More levels. A Japanese castle haunt walkthrough: Forgotten Pagoda Weird Little World (Like It's a Small World, first starts out children singing about the wonders of Tokkentakker, and becomes sort of Dynasty Warriors-like singing for how Tokkentakker and Carnevil claims unfortunate visitors to the park) Hunter's Jungle (A river rapids ride with murderous tribesmen, and a three-headed game-hunter boss)

Great job, glad to see a tas for CarnEvil!

I enjoy your TAS. Keep it up!

It's nice to see someone do this game. There clearly was a lot of effort put into it (I can't tell you how many times I had to back up to catch something I missed), but I can easily understand why it's not very appealing. For normal players, it's super-cheap with the forced damage and ridiculous reaction times required. For honest speedrunners, it's really tiring with all the bullets required. TASVideos wouldn't even consider something like this. They prefer games that require mapping, strategizing, planning, really diving into the game, not "shoot the pop-up, shoot the fast little thing, shoot another pop up, shoot a bunch of fast little things, etc." Looks about as clean and gory as you could've made it (which is _not_ a contradiction in this case). Well done. (You'd know better than me, but is there any particular reason you took Rickety Town second? I think first would've been the most logical, especially with that huge hit on bumper cars.)

22:48 when you realize you didn't leave enough room but don't want to do it all over again

The style & presentation in this is awesome. Also I love the how they made you able to draw your name instead of entering initials for the high scores such a cool idea :D

Thanks so much for this. I've seen other people do vids, but the quality of this one is absolutely the best. Always loved this game and to see you just wreck it was amazing.

You know, I've been waiting for this, for a long, long time.

This is basically like if Arnold Schwarzenegger was in Carnevil. A fun fair version of the final Commando scene where he kills all the soldiers 😂

Just found your channel today and have been binging. Have to I love your taste in arcade games based on what you've TAS'd. I poked around TASvidoes enough to understand that the level of effort and knowlege required to make and optimize one of these runs is very high. If you're ever looking for an alternate video idea, I'd love it if somone who makes these mame/arcade TAS's would explain the process. There guide that is often linked to is very good, but is specific to NES. The MAME process is a mystery.

I love the look and feel of this game! It kind of feels like a mature version of Grabbed by the ghoulies!

Thanks for the good work! I don't see anyone else making gun shooting TAS videos, so I'm very entertained.

I don't know what's scarier. The monsters in CarnEvil or the hyper precision of the TAS massacreing everything with perfection.

Never though i'd see a TAS of this game, sick

I always find TAS gameplay so satisfying to watch

I love TAS runs so much and this one was amazing. Thank you for it! I am curious; Why the long pause on shooting the zombie @4:39?

Used to play this at a bar my dad's band played at regularly, "Mom, can me and (brother) have some quarters? Watching TAS wreck things so cleanly is so satisfying. 😮

The are many things I wish would get a remaster on PC. THIS is one of them.

John Wick finds Carnevil.

I played this game a lot. Very creative levels and enemies

I played this a few times when I was staying at a hotel in Miami, 2013. Wish I could play it somewhere in the UK it was very fun playing with a friend.

Love how the TAS turns the default gun into the Auto 9.

I Extremely Love This Light Gun Rail Shooter!

I didnt even know it was possible to get through the game without getting damaged.

this gives a whole new meaning to the ending

Interesting that you can still take damage, even with a TAS on. I guess the rumors are true. You will take damage, no matter how good you are.

When your mom only gives you one quarter.

this is the only arcade game I ever beat as a kid

I still remember the poem on the cabinet: "Welcome to the Carnival, We're coming to your town! No, that's not the walking dead It's just a silly clown! We open after midnight And close before the dawn! Your mommy may come look for you BUT BY THEN YOU'LL BE GONE!"

so that's what the game looks like after the 2nd boss.....how were we supposed to do this as kids? amazing TAS hope to see more lightrail stuff

Still to this day my favorite light gun game.

This game gives me Insane Clown Posse vibes and I love it 😂

There's something hilariously satisfying seeing a revolver imitate a minigun XD

Seeing this game get destroyed gives me a weird sense of satisfaction. Good run!!

I love this goofy ass game and the tas makes it so much sillier.

11:09 Hilarious Death Sound with Echo

Ngl, I think it's a tragedy we didn't get a sequel or even a port for console, given we have the means to port this to (especially) modern consoles. Maybe it's a hardware thing, but I'd love for this to not only get that treatment, but also get either a secret ending (probably for beating the game a 2nd time in one sitting), or a sequel in some form. But, beggars can't be choosers, and at least we got this amazing gem.

I can’t believe that they still never port this best underrated shoot ‘em up survival horror game to newer consoles! 😞

Hambone got hamboned, holy hell

All the time: *Full auto* Hambone shows up: *Fuller auto*

can you do beast busters arcade hardest mode tas? please and thank you

Awesome as always. Question! Is it possible to get a 100% hit ratio?

When the Moon is full and trees are bare - Walk though the Cemetery if you dare. Where skeletons rot and corpses fester - Locate the tomb with the skull of a Jester. Feed him the token all shiny and new - It is then that CarnEvil will return for YOU!

someone gave the kid a fucken Micro-Uzi, Jesus Christ!

You rock at this game, I'm impressed

*Hits everything with perfect robotic accuracy* Game: “Accuracy: 94.4%”

Is it possible to get 100% Accuracy in this game?

Kinda hard to believe I used to be afraid of this game at my local arcades. Shit's silly as fuck lol

Come on and ride! Big Bunyan Ride!

Classic 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥... We need this ported onto modern consoles ASAP!!!!!!

The speed of light level select makes me laugh every time lol

So what IS up with that lengthy pause at 4:32 anyway?

"I've yet to meet someone who can outsmart bullet..." Heavy Weapons Guy ...poor Tokkentaker: he seems to have a seizure XD

1:52 Pistol goes BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT

Happy Halloween 👻👻👻

Insane how much damage you take even in a TAS..

CarnEvil, but if the protagonist was John Wick.

Misheard: Come on and Ride Big Butterfly (Bunyan Ride) 7:04 Hanna Hanna HAAAAAA!!!!!! 10:07

00 agents in carnivals be like

90’s kid nostalgia

this is what the streets of san antonio feel like when i'm geekin off the za