I stand in awe. Even if he did cheat (something about a warp pipe not going to a warp zone earlier in the thread), this video is amazing. So many places I would have rushed or lost control and died. Amazing.
Sorry to quote you again, but I just dusted off my old gameboy colour and gave it a whizz through, I have the Super Mario Bros. Deluxe edition, but I'm guessing it's the same as his version.jerrrry said:The one thing I don't understand though is how he got up to where the vine takes you via that pipe in 4-2. Can anyone explain what happened there?
I'm more wondering about him running across gaps myself. Now, it's been awhile, but I'm pretty sure if you try to do that you just fall...captainjackofms said:He's clearly hitting the piranha plants
From Youtube Video description:Hero in a half shell said:Sorry to quote you again, but I just dusted off my old gameboy colour and gave it a whizz through, I have the Super Mario Bros. Deluxe edition, but I'm guessing it's the same as his version.jerrrry said:The one thing I don't understand though is how he got up to where the vine takes you via that pipe in 4-2. Can anyone explain what happened there?
He does indeed appear to cheat at 2:32 in the video. The Warp zone is located in the three blocks seen at 2:21, he however passes these, and goes down a pipe that leads to an ordinary coin zone, but in his game, it leads to the warp zone.
Also of note was a disappearing plant at exactly 7:00, it doesn't go back down into to pipe, it just disappears, and I may be wrong, but I think the pipe he travels down in the flying fish bit is the wrong pipe (7:26) I think he actually should go across the lava pit and into the next pipe.
I dunno, unless he has some strange version he must have done some mods.
It's still pretty impressive even though glitches and exploits were used.I pull off a couple interesting tricks and glitches to make this work. In 4-2, I backwards jump into a few obstacles to scroll the screen without Mario to trick the pipe into taking me to the vine's usual location. In 8-1, I have to perform a pretty precise jump off a goomba to avoid some coins. Also, getting under the first set of 2 coins towards the end of this level takes a very careful jump, and always makes me nervous. In 8-4, I scroll the screen to just the right position to allow me to use some blocks as platforms. No wall jumps are required in this run at all.![]()
I agree, the jump goes higher than you can actually do in the game. Theres no way to jump over those piranha plants unless you use some kind of hack.SoopaSte123 said:That's the only part that looks fishy. You tested it? Full speed jump over the plants doesn't work like that?rated said:gonna have to call bs on this one after 4 watches and actually experimentation on my part he did indeed hit the piranha plants twice in world 4-1
He probably wouldn't have made such a low jump without it.conflictofinterests said:IF ONLY HE HAD WAITED A SECOND LONGER AND MISSED THAT GOOMBA, HE WOULD HAVE GOTTEN A 500pt RUN!
No seriously, I don't understand why I'm so riveted to this.
The goomba stomp was on purpose. If he had tried to clear the jump normally, he would have been forced to take the coins. If he didn't hit the goomba, then he'd fall to his death.conflictofinterests said:IF ONLY HE HAD WAITED A SECOND LONGER AND MISSED THAT GOOMBA, HE WOULD HAVE GOTTEN A 500pt RUN!
No seriously, I don't understand why I'm so riveted to this.
Nope, you can sprint over the gaps if they are only 1 block wide.Cain_Zeros said:I'm more wondering about him running across gaps myself. Now, it's been awhile, but I'm pretty sure if you try to do that you just fall...captainjackofms said:He's clearly hitting the piranha plants
It's just really annoying to see people make "too much free time" comments every time someone posts something cool like this. For the same time it takes to play one modern video game, any one of us could perfect something like this and have a 100k+ youtube video to show for it, instead of some Mass Effect 2 (or whatever) achievements that literally no one else cares about.RidetheLightning said:Sheesh I didn't mean to blaspheme against your Lord and God in my earlier post and for that I deeply apologise. I didn't put much thought into the comment and it was only meant to be a tongue in cheek remark for the bazillion amount of hours it must have taken to do the video but who am I to assume common sense in internet forums. I only assumed other users had a a sense of humour. Gosh if you got that upset about my comment then I doubt you'd survive watching Zero Punctuation. (Which I'll assume you do despite your seemingly glass sensitive feelings) Please note this post is NOT to be taken seriously and to be honest I was actually very impressed with the players skill in controlling Mario and I profusely apologise again if anyone reading this post is offended or upset, I promise to post more carefully so I don't tread on forum Emos next time.Serving UpSmiles said:Egh, posts like yours really upset me, if you think they have so much free time why don't you ask them? eyhe might be just a loyal fan doing this over the weekend, how prude and condescending >_>RidetheLightning said:A prime exampe of people with wayy too much free time
P.S Thanks for bothering to read and reply to my comment looks like the Mario gamer and myself aren't the only people with too much free time
Free Speech LOL
If you're running, you can pass tiny gaps. Game design.GasMasksAreForChumps said:He seemed to walk over some gaps....or is it just game design? Anyways, I was laughing my butt off at the hammer bros, when they can't hit him when he's right in front of them.
You do realize that you are saying gaming is a waste of time on a gaming forum, right?Gottesstrafe said:They should build a monument to videos like this. An entire parthenon filled with video clips of people trying to speed run Super Mario Bros. or beat the first Final Fantasy with increasingly more elaborate handicaps like "All Blackbelts", "All Thieves", and "One White Mage". Then, at the bottom of the hill leading to those grand marble steps, we'll erect a giant sign with words written in every language proudly proclaiming "This is why we haven't invented the flying car or cured cancer yet."