Some speedruns exploit this with "RNG manipulation", where you play the same way every time to get a known random sequence. This is the principle that makes TASes possible. What's interesting is that although PRNGs produce apparently random numbers, they produce the same random numbers every time, as long as you feed in the same seed. These are algorithms that have a non-random but at least very unpredictable outputs, and you "seed" them with some source of real-world entropy- on an old computer like an NES³ this might be something like what buttons the player pressed when, or how many seconds passed between bootup and the player pressing START to begin the game. As you might know, true randomness is hard in a computer and so computers use "Pseudo-Random Number Generators". Grinding to get the random early hammer was brutal even by the standards of the RNG-heavy Mario 3 run, so Mitch started to use a "manipulation". Mitch's Warpless world record margin is just 36 seconds, so clearly getting this randomness is make-or-break. If HAMMER makes it to the near side of level 3 by the time you beat the fortress, you can use the hammer item to break the rock and thus skip levels 3,, 4, and 5 and save an entire minute. It's unlikely, but possible, that the HAMMER brother can just book it from the start and get to the left of the MUSIC BOX brother. In warpless SMB3 runs, there's an early (second world) instance of randomness:Īt the end of each level, the hammer brothers do a random walk around the map. Possibly nothing he says will make sense to you anyway. This is why my link above jumps directly to 10:19. 3 and posting about it on the Internet, so in this video he stalls for about ten minutes (right until the point where YouTube normally shows an ad), then does a sponsored pitch for a T-shirt company², before he actually gets to the point. Poor Mitch here is trying to make a living in our post-capitalist hellscape entirely by playing Super Mario Bros. He is- there is little question of this- the best Super Mario Bros. The entire tribute ends with each runner celebrating their achievement.This is MitchFlowerPower. And then of course there’s the tool-assisted speedrun (TAS) by Human Theory, currently setting the benchmark for the best possible theoretical time at 4:54.265. More recently, a runner named Niftski has been leading the pack using a keyboard rather than an NES controller. Next Darbian came onto the scene, followed by the Kismic. Kessler and a speedrunner named Trevor Seguin traded records throughout the early 2000s. It was the last time more than a few seconds would be saved in a single run. In April 2004, Scott Kessler cut down the known records by another minute. “I don’t think they were intended to be ‘speedruns,’ but are the earliest known videos of Super Mario Bros. “The first two runs were emulator movies posted to ‘High Level Challenge’ in 1999,” GTAce said. A month later, a player who went by Xox shaved over three minutes off. It was the kind of run reminiscent of the best kid on your block growing up showing off in the basement. It begins with a player called Casion who established the first record of sorts with a time of 9:51 in April 1999.
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