General Info

  • Aims for fastest time
  • Abuses programming errors
  • Uses warps
I mixed a few styles up together. I just don't know what style is the most popular with most people.

The Only Improvement

  • Not lowering flags
I once got this idea, and I made it the first time after hundreds of failures. I don't know how it works exactly, but I am sure that you have to somehow get into the block under the pole and then jump up. You may need to steer or NOT to steer to SOME directions when you are inside the block. If you make it, you'll skip the flag-lowering animation.
Note: I didn't use this trick in stage 8-3 otherwise I would have had to decide whether to waste 42 frames in watching three fireworks or not to by wasting 19+ frames somewhere else to miss them....

Special Thanks

Thanks to Phil, genisto and pom for their well-optimized movies that I studied and JXQ for his FCMFix tool.

NesVideoAgent: Hi! I am a robot. I took a few screenshots of this movie and placed them here. Oh! I also corrected the ROM name.
  • You indicated Super Mario Bros. (JU) [!]
  • I updated it to Super Mario Bros. (JU) [!].nes

adelikat: I guess no movie is unimprovable :P Accepting the movie due to awesomeness, and encoding.


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What an awesome improvement! The idea is so simple, yet it's so effective. A screaming YES vote. Good job klmz
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Entertaining, not to mention that it beats the supposely perfect run. Easy YES vote!
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Do you realize that now there are probably like 5 other runs that can be improved?
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Congratulations! And good thinking outside the box... erm, inside the block. I found the other parts entertaining as well.
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Oh my goodness!
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Voted yes. Does this mean another 18 submissions, each 2 -3 frames apart, and 60 pages of arguments?
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Is that new trick on the flag poles even possible to do with big Mario?
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I was going to make some crude joke about Big Mario and his pole, but I decided to abstain. You're welcome.
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Sure yes. I was sure I would never ever see a Super Mario Bros TAS again, because the last was perfect too. ;-)
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yes
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AKA wrote:
Is that new trick on the flag poles even possible to do with big Mario?
I would think so just because ducking with big mario is basically the same as being small and I would think it would work, but I'm not 100% sure.
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I vote no because flag dropping is COOL. *angry face* Actually, I voted yes. I just wanted an excuse to make angry face and say I voted no.
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DarkKobold wrote:
Voted yes. Does this mean another 18 submissions, each 2 -3 frames apart, and 60 pages of arguments?
God damn, shut up. Anyways, I'm very pleasantly surprised. I was not expecting this at all. Great job!
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Kles wrote:
DarkKobold wrote:
Voted yes. Does this mean another 18 submissions, each 2 -3 frames apart, and 60 pages of arguments?
God damn, shut up.
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I'm sorry, but the extent of your posts that I've seen have been nonstop negativity, even if they have been jokes. I rarely get so blunt as to tell someone to outright stuff it, but I kind of got irritated with it. Kindly stop it please. :) ANYWAYS ALSO, does anyone else have any other ideas of possible improvements? It would be nice to see something gamebreaking. :P
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DarkKobold wrote:
Kles wrote:
DarkKobold wrote:
Voted yes. Does this mean another 18 submissions, each 2 -3 frames apart, and 60 pages of arguments?
God damn, shut up.
Ahhh, I feel the love.
Kles wrote:
I'm sorry, but the extent of your posts that I've seen have been nonstop negativity, even if they have been jokes. I rarely get so blunt as to tell someone to outright stuff it, but I kind of got irritated with it. Kindly stop it please. :) ANYWAYS ALSO, does anyone else have any other ideas of possible improvements? It would be nice to see something gamebreaking. :P
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I wasn't planning on going any further. :)
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Kles wrote:
I'm sorry, but the extent of your posts that I've seen have been nonstop negativity, even if they have been jokes. I rarely get so blunt as to tell someone to outright stuff it, but I kind of got irritated with it. Kindly stop it please. :) ANYWAYS ALSO, does anyone else have any other ideas of possible improvements? It would be nice to see something gamebreaking. :P
I doubt there are any other improvements that can be made, heh, but most likely I'm wrong. I think something in 4-2 has potential for beaing faster, but there's the 21 frame rule, so I still doubt another improvement. EDIT: I can't view the video, could someone possibly upload it elsewhere? ;) Also... I still am thinking that warping from one side of the screen to the other with the vine in 4-2 still has potential.
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Yes, though I found the previous run more entertaining, because Pom kept an eye on the frame rules (didn't he?). The movie seems to be able to be ended earlier which would shorten the movie length.
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Amazing improvement. I think Mario's been very spoiled this month with all these improvements on various games! (I'm still trying to catch my breath from the N64 0-star run honestly)
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Very nice.
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Kles wrote:
I wasn't planning on going any further. :)
Thats what she said! ... Carry on. Of course, I wouldn't make a post without putting something of relevance in (honest!) so here we go: whos going to finish the 100% with this new bug first? It'll be interesting to see who has the spare time to do such a thing. It'll also be interesting to see who does it just to get their name on the front page for a while :)
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Well, I am currently working on SMB1 warpless, SMB1 FDS and those SMB2j runs as mentionned in my homepage 30 minutes after this get submitted. But if someone is already working on some runs, I would like to be informed so I and he won't lose free time for nothing. Also, Bionic Commado project is paused for that, don't worry, I'll continue working on it after those runs get done.
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moozooh wrote:
Chamale wrote:
ZOMG mario improvement! That's the third in the last month... or two months?
Try fifth. In the last month alone, even.
Wow. Time... doesn't fly? I was only thinking about the SMB2 mario runs, and I thought those had been more than a month ago. I suppose time is slowing down because it's so near Christmas... On another note, who voted "meh"?
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Nice job. I was impressed.