Super Mario Bros.

This movie is a full warpless run-through by HappyLee and Mars608.

It is a 00:00.70 second improvement over the previous movie by MrWint by the time Mario touches the final goal on Stage 8-4. Most of the improvement comes from faster Stage 5-1 involving a Bullet Bill and faster Stage 6-2 involving a vine. For detailed information, you can read the authors' comments.

This movie has been replayed on an NES console. Watch the video of it here.

Bowser has kidnapped Peach again, but this time, Mario's hoarding tendencies are kicking in. He's grabbing all of the items in the kingdom, even when he doesn't really need them.

In this movie, the aim is to complete the game while collecting every possible item without dying, doing so as fast as possible.

DaSmileKat manages to improve on the previous movie by 00:01.38 seconds through careful optimization of almost every level.

Watch this run being played back on a real console here, or here.

Once again, Bowser has kidnapped Peach, but this time Mario isn't trying to rescue her quite as urgently. Fed up with getting no reward for his endeavors beyond cake, Mario takes a leaf out of Wario's book and decides that while rescuing Peach, he might as well make as much money as he can.

In this movie, the aim is to complete the game while collecting as many coins as possible without dying, doing so as fast as possible. In fact, Mario collects 1431 coins in total, which is rather surprising as there are only 1225 distinct coins in the game!

If you enjoyed this TAS, be sure to check out this movie, in which Mario completes the game without pressing the B button.

Watch this run get played back on a real NES!

This game is Super Mario Bros., the original, but on the Famicom Disk System. It is much similar to the ROM version of the game, except for one minor difference that is demonstrated here.

The -1 stage is completely different. In the NES and Unisystem versions, the -1 stage repeats infinitely and cannot be completed, but in FDS, it can be completed, and then come -2 and -3.

The -3 stage in FDS is a castle level, and completing it ends the game, even though it says "princess is in another castle". The princess is not seen in the ending, but she is sighted twice in the -1 stage, as shown in this movie.

This movie is 84 frames faster than the previous one due to the use of a "cheap trick".

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Bowser has kidnapped Princess Peach once again, but this time, Mario is tired of jumping around the kingdom to save her. So he instead takes a route that's a bit easier on his legs.

In this movie, the aim is to complete the game with the fewest A button presses possible. This movie uses more creative tricks and exploits than what you'd see in other movies for this game. A more in-depth explanation can be found in the authors' comments.

The total amount of A button presses done in this movie is 62, you can turn on Closed Captions in the youtube video to view a button counter.

You can watch Kosmic give an in-depth look of the run here as well as watching the premiere of the TAS here.

If you prefer console verification with no commentary, click here to watch that.

Bowser has kidnapped the princess (again) and Mario must save the day. But this time through, he takes a stroll. Nothing bothers Mario as he walks through all the stages, sometimes backwards, on his way to save the princess.

This movie demonstrates that it's possible to complete every single stage without pressing the B button. Having been bothered by the lack of running and shooting in this game, the ending outright asks the player to press B.

This movie also improves the previous one by 00:10.82 seconds through new strategies and better optimization.

The authors have provided a comparison encode, which is available for download at Archive.org, and as a YouTube stream.

This run can be played back on a real NES console, watch that here!

The current Super Mario Bros. speed record executes precise movements for a highly technical title.

This movie by OnehundredthCoin achieves total control by setting up modified RAM within Super Mario Bros. 3 in less than a second, switches carts around and proceeds to play a normal run of Super Mario Bros. at least on the surface. For a more technical explanation please read the submission comments or watch the author's explanation on YouTube. For more runs that involve arbitrary code execution, see our published list of movies which execute arbitrary code as well as discussion in our forum.

This video includes the song "Bad Apple!!" from Touhou Gensoukyou ~ Lotus Land Story (東方幻想郷 ~ Lotus Land Story). The song was originally composed by ZUN then arranged by Masayoshi Minoshima (Alstroemeria Records). It was sung by nomico with lyrics from Haruka. The music video shown was created by あにら (Anira).

If you've enjoyed what you've watched, you can view the original music video on YouTube and purchase the 10th Anniversary Album from Alstroemeria Records vendors.

You can watch this movie played back on real hardware here or watch back a live hardware capture here.