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There seems to be a bit of misinformation.

TAS (tool-assisted speedruns) doesn't involve using some kind of "tool" like game genie or things like that.

TAS is about a person (or group of persons, if it's a colaborative work) playing the game frame by frame (using emulators developed just for that), that way being able to perform inhuman inputs and being efficient exactly to the frame. TAS are created for entertainment and experimentation, nobody sees them as a showcase of skill (it'd be a showcase of patience, anyway).

There are some TAS that shows brutal glitches impossible to perform by a human, like this one recently made of SMW:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHErkex2tXg

And some showcases what the perfect game would be, like CarlSagan42's Yoshi Island TAS, which was designed with the purpose of being a guideline for actual speedruns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2AADM1Zr_U

Anyway, I know it's not for everyone and I understand that some "purist" people would just dislike them, I just wanted to properly explain what a TAS is, because when I first read about "tool-assisted" I also thought it was using glitches and shit.