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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."
Insanity.
It takes a special sort of person I guesss to devote that much energy and time to perfecting a game. Even the games I love to death I could never play to that level without walking away from it with a foul taste in my mouth.
Still, pretty amazing, i don't think I could get through the first world in that length of time
Ok- so he obviously used the warpzone to 4 in 1-2, and the warp zone to 8 in 4-2. And he must have had the pipe sequence for 8-4 memorized. But how the heck did he beat 8-1 through 8-3 in under 5 minutes?
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
Would it be possible to either speed up the video, or record it just slightly faster to shave off a few seconds? Not enough to be noticable, but enough to give you an edge?
Then again, do I really care?
So why am I asking?
Is there a world record for beating Zork in record time?
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Shameless off-topic plug (though it's not for me in person, so I hope I get away with it): If you enjoy this, you might enjoy Super Metroid speedruns as well. Records: 38 minutes for pure speed, 58 minutes for speed with 100% items. Both by the same player, available here.
:38 :58
Mirrors:
Require ZSNES and a Super Metroid ROM.
I actually got that idea a few month ago and tried it out.
Results for SMB3:
Double speed: (120fps, ntsc)
World 1,2,3,-,7,8.. completion =) (World 7 is NOT fun..)
Tripple speed:
World 1,-,8.. completion =) (those blocks in bowsers castle that falls down when you stand on them for a while is damn hard to pass)
10x: 600fps
World 1,-,8..complete failure.. (i'm happy with finding the flutes)
Notes:
No emulator features like save and load were used.
Controller with turbo were used for flying at 3x speed and above.. (almost impossible without)
If you try this, DO NOT PLAY THE GAME AT NORMAL SPEED AFTERWARDS, (Windows feeling..)
-K (idiot)
This jostled my memory of an event taken place about 20 years ago, Wal-Mart had a contest where whoever got the most points in Super Mario Bros in their age bracket won a free game of their choice. I was all excited being a nintendo-nerd kid, I would sit and practice at home to get a stratedgy developed so I could win me that game!
After my training regiment, it was time to enter the contest. Well there was only one other person in my age bracket (13+ and older), a woman in her 20's, so I was stoked. "I'm gonna win this" came time to play and I missed a calculated jump and fell into a hole, screwed my chances right there.
It was then I had to say goodbye to my dreams of owning "Skate or Die"... eventually I bought it, but it was the whole glory of it all.
I hope the record breaker basks in all his glory, someone hook that man up with a copy of Ultra's Skate or Die, he earned it!