TAS stands for Tool ASsisted, basically scripts pressing the buttons on the controller
On the right side of the screen each letter lighting up represents a controller input (l is left, r is right etc)
Each line represents a gamepad controller (virtual in this case). When you see multiple lines it means multiple controllers (I am assuming this, as later there is more than 8 contollers active which is strange)
Whats happening is a script running to glitch the game from the start into a certain state, beginning of the video until 1:40, then it looks like an exploit happens of the previous glitches in memory, followed quickly after by a massive data load that is the code for the pong/snake demos that follow.
TAS stands for Tool Assisted Speedruns. There's a huge history of gamers competing to complete games as quickly as possible. Eventually tools were created that allowed people to simulate key presses in such a way that previously impossible feats became a reality. For example, many game quirks rely on pixel perfect or frame perfect executions of button presses. Also, some sequences of button presses are simply too quick or elaborate for the human hand to reproduce. Thus, the TAS scene emerged and took speedrunning to a whole new level. It's unfair to compare a human speedrun with a TAS speedrun, so it is necessary to specify the "TAS" acronym whenever a run is shown having been created with the use of tools. Human and TAS speedruns are completely different to watch and both highly interesting.
> This run uses two multitaps in port 1 and port 2 which allows for 8 controllers (1-1, 1-2 ,1-3, 1-4, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4) of which 4 are used (1-1, 1-2, 2-1, 2-2) for the last input.
On the right side of the screen each letter lighting up represents a controller input (l is left, r is right etc)
Each line represents a gamepad controller (virtual in this case). When you see multiple lines it means multiple controllers (I am assuming this, as later there is more than 8 contollers active which is strange)
Whats happening is a script running to glitch the game from the start into a certain state, beginning of the video until 1:40, then it looks like an exploit happens of the previous glitches in memory, followed quickly after by a massive data load that is the code for the pong/snake demos that follow.