Super Mario Bros Record Broken

An anonymous reader writes "A nimble-fingered gamer has shaved three seconds off the long-standing world record for completing Super Mario Bros. for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Classic arcade site Twin Galaxies reports that Scott Kessler of North Carolina executed a "near-perfect finish" when he took the record down to five minutes and 17 seconds. Twin Galaxies referee Robert Mruczek watched the entire game on videotape before declaring the feat a new world record."

Comments

Quake Done Quick

[jrivar59]

A great site. And you can download in game recordings so you can actually see the game run through in real time.

http://www.planetquake.com/qdq/

Hoax?

[hambonewilkins]

I thought the last one was shown to be a hoax.

The person had played the game in emulation on his PC at an incredibly slow speed so that he could hit all the jumps perfectly, kill the enemies in a line, make all the warps, etc. Then, he sped the video up to normal speed to make all the timing match.

It's really cool but when you watch it it is obvious that no human (honestly) could be that accurate and perfect the entire game.

Re:Hoax?

[Kevin143]

Yes, the last one was shown to be a hoax. The author himself came forward and admitted that it was never intended to be taken at face value.

See this poor, but understandable translation of the guy's webpage.

How about one that doesn't require an illegal ROM?

[Radix37]

http://planetquake.com/sda/other/supermetroid.html

100% in 1:00 in mp4 format, recored on the real game.