Super Mario Bros. 3 in 3 Minutes – World Record Speedrun Explained [video]

Post by moozilla » Sun, Sep 13, 2020, 5:39 AM UTC

esaym wrote: post #38

gfaure wrote: post #35

EDIT: I mixed up two retro gaming YouTubers. The below refers to Bisqwit, not Bismuth. His personal views aside, I hope you find Bisqwit's other videos interesting. I really respect this guy as an engineer and a retro gaming enthusiast, but he has some videos explaining his personal irrational Islamophobia that really make me wonder about him as a person -- here's one of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVxSAi4s…

Say what? Watched the video and it did not even mention Islam?

Post by thomasfortes » Sun, Sep 13, 2020, 5:48 AM UTC

striking wrote: post #16

devindotcom wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, that's why the community has specific categories for different runs. I appreciate glitched runs because of the acumen needed to accomplish them but it's 100% runs that truly impress me most as a gamer. The speedrun world is almost like a scholarly domain, with all the usual bickering about terminology, whether this qualifies as that, and so on. I would be interested to read an ethnology of the community.

> The speedrun world is almost like a scholarly domain, with all the usual bickering about terminology Right. Like the most recent 100% runs of Ocarina of Time[1], which use glitches to obtain items early and break the sequence of the game, while still obtaining every item from its source eventually making them still legitimate 100% runs. You'd think "100%" and "glitchless" were synonymous, but they're not anymore! 1…

Post by e1ghtSpace » Sun, Sep 13, 2020, 6:49 AM UTC

secabeen wrote: post #37

crazygringo wrote: post #18

That's absolutely insane. Manipulating the state of the game world so that its data maps to instructions to complete the game, and then glitching in a way that executes it. The only thing I'm not clear on: even knowing exactly what you're doing... how likely is it that you could pull this off in real-time? Did the player have to do this 10 times? 100? 1,000?

> The only thing I'm not clear on: even knowing exactly what you're doing... how likely is it that you could pull this off in real-time? Did the player have to do this 10 times? 100? 1,000? Speedrunners usually list their number of attempts in the top right corner of their splits window. In this case, it says 16/3904. My read of that is that this is his 3,904th total attempt at speed running this game (I have seen ru…

Post by Hamuko » Sun, Sep 13, 2020, 7:02 AM UTC

kibwen wrote: post #24

crazygringo wrote: post #18

That's absolutely insane. Manipulating the state of the game world so that its data maps to instructions to complete the game, and then glitching in a way that executes it. The only thing I'm not clear on: even knowing exactly what you're doing... how likely is it that you could pull this off in real-time? Did the player have to do this 10 times? 100? 1,000?

I don't know about the run shown in the OP, but there are a fair number of memory-manipulation/ACE speedruns that are feasible in RTA ("real-time attack", a.k.a. something a human could pull off, as distinct from TAS). Off the top of my head I can think of such routes for Pokemon Red/Blue, Ocarina of Time, and Super Mario World. To answer your question of "how likely is one to pull this off" for those three, the Poke…

Post by _dh54 » Sun, Sep 13, 2020, 7:11 AM UTC