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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."
sigh....
It was marked "redundant" because the fat ugly greasy gamer virgin is a stereotype that has been cited countless times in virtually all forms of media. Calling him a "loser" then is redundant. Someday there may be a "-1 stupid" or "-1 not funny" modifier but until then we will have to make do with what we have.
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Actually, you've got a point.
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Why not just use an emulator with a "record game" feature?
Or you could require someone to use an official emulator to record the game, that way the emulator's not hacked to produce flawless records...
oh heck with it, just let the record stand. Way too much work!
Karnal
Yeah once through it's not long. When you consider it probably took hundreds (maybe thousands???) of runs through the game that each took longer than 5 min 17 sec (consider his first time playing the game ever, that probably took hours), it adds up to a rather insane amount of time.
Twin Galaxies does NOT host submitted videos for the public. Why? Because most of these videos are NOT a mere five minutes. They tend to be several hours' worth, because most records, even speed runs, can't be completed any faster. If someone tries to "marathon" a classic game that he's previously mastered, it can stretch on past a day's length. (And in those cases live refereeing rather than video is probably the only viable option) That, of course, would cost them a lot in bandwidth and storage to host, even if it were only the "world records," since TG has hundreds of those.
So for those reasons, they won't host any videos at all. You'll have to take their word for it that it was true.