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.jajajajajaja cuando yo jugaria assi con esa exactitud, viendo como que se aprendio cada movimiento y imagino ke tuvo que aver perdido muchas veces antes de lograrlo.

Wow! Amazing SpeedRun

Jedyny do czego można się doczepić to trochę mały widok.

Very well done, had a few scares there but beautiful run through.

I love this speedrun. 10/10

It's nice to see a speedrun with no glitching, too many complicated runs. Yeah, there's skill involved, but I like runs like this a lot more. Nice job!

hola buenas soy nuevo como se puede jugar a estos juegos??

wow!!!!!!

That was cool.

I completed the first two levels in 120 seconds

Good work Andrew! If Mario and the Princess could be here today to see this, they would have been very proud of you!

Awesome. I used to need half hour to finish two first levels. ;)

while i am impressed im just saying i think i could do better

İt is game very beatifull and very old game =)

"I did see how there can be improvements. Like touch the flag at the lowest part, rather than the top, so mario doesn't have to slide all the way to the bottom. it wastes time."

that's wrong.. if you jump at the pole on the highest part... mario, and the flag slide town together... if you jump at the lowest part.. the flag slides down alone!

so its the same if you jump on the pole at the highest or the lowest point

If you get Mario far enough to the right on screen, the game gets confused and the pipe acts as the vine that you are supposed to take.

so i get the whole thing about if the vine and tunnel are there at the same time, there's a glitch.

but i don't see the vine here. the block it comes from is way off screen when he goes down the tunnel. so how exactly did he warp using that tunnel?

First, I agree with those who pointed out that you could do faster if you hit the pole lower...

Second, I didn't know about the glitch to get to the second warp zone by a pipe... Someone in the reviews spoke about it. But wait a sec, is it me or this pipe that goes to the warp is far away from the vine. You can't possibly see the vine & this pipe at the same time on the screen. Watch the video.... it's obvious... or maybe I'm missing something.

Anyway, good job Andrew! I couldn't do it faster...

This is completely accurate. Mario didn't get close enough to the plants to die. I don't get what everyone is complaining about, saying it's fake. It's exactly how I remember it from the classic NES. SMB is an easy game. I could probably get 6:00 right now without even practicing.

I did see how there can be improvements. Like touch the flag at the lowest part, rather than the top, so mario doesn't have to slide all the way to the bottom. it wastes time.

I also don't see how this is supposedly 5:00 run. after you push start from the title screen, it is 5:08, and after you start running in 1-1, it is 5:04.

this speedrun was near perfect!
note to all the noobs out there:
you CAN go through plants and live, it's because the NES isnt as good as the newer systems and had more glitches. plus, the 4-2 thing. it is possible because I have done it before, look it up if u dont believe me. first you have to break 2 blocks in the beginning and get stuck in them then mario will slide to the right then jump a few times to get on the top of the bricks when he stops then go to the third pipe around where the normal entry to the zone is and ull appear in that zone

To the people saying it's fake in any way, shape or form:

You are incorrect.

To the people complaining about warp pipes:

You're just jealous, you suck and he also has the full completion record.

To any people whose stupid activities I failed to mention or people who argue with me:

You all have Oedipus Complexes... and you're Anti-Semites.


Seeya tomorrow Andrew.

Maybe you missed the massive SDA banner near the top of the page, clearly stating that there's no cheating going on here.^^

Someone playing nintendo!

do not believe it. how on 4-2 do u land in coined area w/ no vine? (and w/o tunnel glitch or so u say). with vine btw the fastest is 3:57 and u only got 3:53. and also on 8-3 y do u pull the same pause as every1else at the very end and cant double jump 2 flag sticking u with a 2:42 time? u get stuck on the block on the flag, LAWL! and this is suppose to b real... plz go watch trevors vid. its pure truth!

Absolutely superb run. LOL at all the noobs who can't understand these glitches.

This is beautiful work Andrew! Great job!

I can't believe I created an account to say this:

And to everyone else, why is everyone so doubtful??

I was running over those pits and jumping over the tips of plants when I was a kid!!

Have yall even PLAYED this game??

Don't talk about stuff you don't know.

For all of you geniuses who say: "I always used the vine to get to the warp zone," listen up.

Super Mario Brothers was not an advanced game compared to current standards. It did not run on 64-bit hardware with 2GB of RAM. It was designed to run on the NES system, which was no powerhouse.

The designers had to cut a few corners, and one was this: For any given screen, only one "tranport" destination was available. Transports are things like vines and tubes. Only one memory area was available to identify the destination of a given transport.

In most cases, this is okay because only one transport is available on a given screen. For example, in most places, there is only one tube that you can go down, or one vine that you can climb.

However, this player took advantage of an area where the designers allowed two transports to be onscreen at the same time. If you scroll the vine to the far left (so just the edge is visible, you now have two transports on the screen: the vine and the tube. The problem is: only one destination can be used at a time. So at this point, going up the vine or going down the tube will take you to the *Exact Same Location*.

Before crying foul, try it yourself. And as always, good work Andrew.

If anyone wants to test that that pipe actually can take you to the warp zone, there is an easier (but slower) way to make it happen. Make the vine appear, and move forward so you can just barely see the vine. Approach the vine, and I think you'll mysteriously warp to the right edge of the screen. Go to the pipe and try it.

The glitch works when the screen hasn't been scrolled as far forward yet as it's supposed to be when you reach it.

I just had to sign up and say wow. That was an amazing run, perfect if you will. I don't understand what all these other people are talking about how it's not real or that you somehow cheated.

It's obvious they have never even played the game. Going through the piranha plant? It disappears once you get right to the tube, who doesn't know that? Also going through the fire? These accusations are laughable. ;)

Thanks for inspiring me to perfect my runs. Truly amazing.

This was made for Speed Demos Archive hence no emulators where used but some glitches are allowed including poor collision detection, wall jumping and alternate warp glitch. In fact, he used two of them:

For 4-2: Backwards jump into the top of a solid object, so the screen stops scrolling but Mario is still moving. Go down pipe after doing this enough.

For 8-4: Go past the pipe a certain distance, come back into it. Go down pipe.

By the way, he also did a warpless speed run for 0:19:17 just so you know.

around 2 minutes and 10 seconds (give or take), mario goes down a tube which drops him off at the warp zone. The way to the warp zone is by hitting the bricks before the pipe (a vine grows from the bricks). that tube he is taking in the video should have brought him to a screen full of coins.
all in all, this means the whole thing is rigged. 5 minutes- yeah right!

I agree with twitch he clearly goes through a plant there, I noticed that right away

look at 4:33-4:35... clearly jumps through a piranha plant... no denying that u can hit the tips without dieing but u cant go through one! and I'm pretty sure he gets raped by a hammer multiple times ,including at the end, without being injured at all... also at about 5 he gets hit with a fire spinning thing... without dieing once again! and the timing seems funny in my opinion; any serious Mario fan would be able to spot these things after watching it a couple times... I'm not too good at the newer Mario games but i love snes and nes Mario's with a passion!

P.S. not trying to be mean or anything just making sure people aren't mislead because the first time i saw it i believed it until i watched the whole thing through

great run, however isn't there a pause right after that wall jump in 8-4?

Alright all arguments about running over pits and jumping over plants aside. The second warp in 4-2. I have always gotten to this by climbing the vine after hitting the hidden blocks just before the pipes where the warp is in this video. I just tested it and when going to that pipe, I did NOT get a warp zone.

OK, I just had to sign up to this place just to say this.

Most of you that are complaining are the biggest nooblets in the world. I though everyone played this version of Mario but I guess not.

Everyone knows you can run across the single block spaces, and everyone knows you can jump over the plants right at the tip and not get hurt. At least everyone that played knows.

floatingatoll: About the "mistake" between 4:11 and 4:13 in the video... What would have happened if he would not have done that "mistake"? He would have gotten fireworks :-) slowing him down. You get 3 fireworks if the timer ends with a 3 i think

Congratulations for the practically perfect run!

Either played with the NES hooked up through your computer or on an emulator, but still good. The best I'd seen up to now was like 8 minutes or something.

Now for everyone else:

Yes, you can jump through the plants and still live. The nintendo doesn't think like the newer systems do, there is no processor in there. every 32 pixels it checks for a floor code, a enemy code, or whatever. If you jump exactly at the 32 it glitches. That's how on the other speedruns you can run through walls, and how he leaps off the pipe in the last castle.

As for the single 32 pixel holes he runs over, I was like 4 years old doing that long before I even knew what a glitch was. I would like to see a level by level speedrun, but for overall time this one is good.

This video is real. It's near-perfect, and I've done ALL those tricks myself (though not in one run!). Jumping over the plants, running across the holes, accessing the 4-2 warp from the pipe. God damn the children of this country are getting dumber every ****ing generation.

PS - Awesome job on the 5:00 run!! :D

Before Andrew submits an improvement, we must devise a rule that prohibits clueless and ignorant people from reviewing speedruns (and maybe from breathing as well).

I don't remember the clock ticking all that fast...

Between 4:11 and 4:13 in the video, Mario runs into the block below the flagpole instead of running into the flagpole itself. It seems like it could have been avoided by a very short jump from the second highest brick in the stairs and then a very long jump from the highest bricks, rather than a very long jump from the second highest brick.

i can't believe i created an account just to tell all you people who are saying it's fake how fucking dumb you are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCgaVduMt0I

that's a video live in front of an audience played live on real systems. see for yourself that jumping over the plants is real whatever. fucking idiots.

i saw the same video like 2 years ago the real game but fake play

Alright, to beat a game, you must get from beginning to end. If warp pipes were put in the game, it would be stupid not to use them when you're trying to beat the game as fast as possible. Also, if you've ever played this game, you would know that is is possible to run straight over narrow pits without falling in. And yes, it does look like he's getting hit by some of the plants, but once again, if you've played the game, you would know that it's possible not to die when you make that jump. Don't believe me? Just try it yourself.

Aside from that, good job. I was wondering though, would jumping straight to the low part of the flag pole save time?

You don't even get to the warp zone through a tube. You must go up a vine which is passed up by this player.

First off he skipped over half the worlds. I know you can do that, but how is that technically beating the entire thing? It's not. And also when there were spaces in the bricks, he would just run right over them, without falling through. If I remember correctly that's pretty much impossible, because then what would be the point of the spaces?

Nice try, but no.

You can't call this a world record if you use warps and pipes to jump ahead of a game (besides the last castle). In my book, this is null and void. Nice try though

> Notice how on the left and right sides of
> the screen are not filled by the background or
> sprite layer. This is a telltale sign of
> emulation.

No, it's simply caused by analogue overscan, i.e. the fact that you don't see these parts of the image on a normal TV.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overscan

hmm i cant count how many times u got hit by those plants. this is fake b.s.

This is clearly an emulation of the original NES game. Notice how on the left and right sides of the screen are not filled by the background or sprite layer. This is a telltale sign of emulation.

this is clearly modded he gets hit like 100 times and doesnt die, try to beat it right with that time

its a great job at this game however isnt this just regular mario because super mario bros was the the snes thats just how i remember it thoug

Truly, it is. Super Mario Bros. have always brought back great memories.

Dude, 5 minutes?! All I could say was "Wow!", "Holy sh*t, I didn't know that!", and "Warp...Warp!".

I'll surely be trying that this weekend. Ü