Kosmic sets a new world record for Super Mario Bros. (4m 56s 462ms)

[ItWasMeantToBe19]

No, it's slightly faster to touch the top. Mario spends the same amount of time on the actual flagpole, but he gets more acceleration if he slides from the top.

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He's talking about doing the flagpole glitch in 8-1 like Kosmic does in earlier levels.

But the flagpole glitch only saves like 15-20 frames IIRC and a perfect 8-1 has you 21 frames away from the next frame rule so executing the flagpole glitch in 8-1 would save 0.000 seconds.

Kosmic would save time if he did the flagpole glitch in 8-3 though, but I guess he's not comfortable with that glitch.

 

[Deleted member 15428]

Oh my friend, wait until you get into Pannenkoek's Mario 64 videos. It's all parallel dimensions and half button presses and blinking timers.

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But are those videos actually interesting or relevant to anything?

 

[Pirateluigi]

But are those videos actually interesting or relevant to anything?

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Interesting definitely. Relevant? Ehhhhh.....

 

[McNum]

Interesting definitely. Relevant? Ehhhhh.....

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I think the Any% of SM64 uses a parallel worlds warp or two in real time now. So somewhat relevant.

 

[Randdalf]

Are the splits automatic?

 

[ItWasMeantToBe19]

Are the splits automatic?

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No, they have to do they manually, so some splits will be off.

 

[Deleted member 25140]

how people can even play games with this level of precision is completely beyond me

i probably would have died in 1-1

 

[Lee Chaolan]

Poor Darb

 

[Speevy]

Except for the continuing thing where YouTube people call the game "Super Mario Brohs" and not the correct "Super Mario Brothers." I don't know where that shit started but it should be nuked from orbit.

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I find speedrunners are usually 10 years younger than I am.

 

[Shaneus]

Apologies for not seeing this mentioned anywhere, but what machine is this done on? Classic NES, emulator, AnalogueNT?

 

[Basileus777]

Apologies for not seeing this mentioned anywhere, but what machine is this done on? Classic NES, emulator, AnalogueNT?

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Original hardware.

 

[Tiber]

Fascinating, I know nothing about speedrunning, but that was really interesting to watch

 

[Fishsnot]

Anyone who's remotely interested in (Super Mario Bros) speedrunning should watch this:

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This was awesome to watch.
Oh and congrats to Kosmic.

 

[bytesized]

Incredible

 

[N.Domixis]

How long would it take to get these times?

 

[blame space]

Anyone who's remotely interested in (Super Mario Bros) speedrunning should watch this:

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this was so fucking good. the

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reveal was incredible.

 

[ItWasMeantToBe19]

How long would it take to get these times?

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Probably a few hundred hours of good practice (like practicing the correct strategies all the time)

 

[Deleted member 15428]

record has been beaten

 

[MikeProtagonist]

Can a 0.2s difference with manual timing really count?

 

[ShinNoNoir]

Can a 0.2s difference with manual timing really count?

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The final speedrun time is based on the video and checking which Bowser pattern you got in 8-4.

 

[valentine]

Imagine playing the game like this right after it launched lol