Hi, On top of what the others have said before me, I would like to add that "glitchless" might not be the best idea for a new branch, mainly because it doesn't offer anything unique to Super Mario Bros. runs. You are now comparing yourself to this 21-year-old run that happens to be almost a minute faster than you; it has since been obsoleted thanks to the newly-found uses (at the time) of the walljump and wrong warp (in 8-4), the wrong warp in 4-2, the wall clip in 1-2, the flagpole glitch, and the full flagpole glitch in 8-2. Then it was simply pure optimization from there. (Sidenote: This is the latest "glitchless" run that I could find published on TASVideos. It still uses Left + Right for the moonwalk in the third room (of 8-4), but that's negligible as Bisqwit was actually waiting for the Piranha Plant in the correct pipe to go down. My point should still stand in that case.) There was a somewhat similar submission six months ago that banned the use of "Left + Right" (also known as "RTA Rules", in that the game is played under normal means; as if a superhuman was behind a normal NES controller).

"RTA Rules" or "No L + R" doesn't make for an interesting enough goal for a Super Mario Bros. run to be published here; if we had something like that (even if it's greatly optimized), then it'd be largely similar to HappyLee's original run. Worse yet, that's the fastest run of the game thus far, with no further improvements found since.

_{(...and here's the part where I drone on about optimization at its finest... @~@;)}

it's sloppy, but I'm happy enough to get a run out.

That's what we have the Userfiles for; anything that you feel is sloppy or not worthy of publication goes there. Heck, I still have quite a ways to go for mine. My recommendations:

• Take some time to get to know your emulator and the tools it possesses, such as savestates, slowdowns, frame advance, TAStudio, etc.
• Study the game you have in mind for a TAS, and learn about any oddities, secrets, or tricks it may have.
• As Bigbass said, ask questions, either on the forum or in the Discord server; I can't stress this enough.
• I don't think there's much else you can do for this game in particular... Maybe try TASing ROM hacks of the game instead? There's loads of them to choose from (not to mention there are other original games to choose from too, not just hacks).
• If you think a run of yours is sloppy, then don't submit it. Upload it to the Userfiles instead.
• Most important: All of this is to encourage you, not discourage you! So don't be scared about seeing this post because it feels like a lot. There's probably tens, if not hundreds of people that want to see you improve; I want to see you improve. I know that because I have to deal with handling submissions and runs correctly myself, just to make sure my runs are decent and abide by the rules. Take it slow if you have to; don't rush it. I like to think of it as "quality over quantity", in that better runs are better than more runs.

Hopefully this helps (and that I didn't mess anything up). Not voting unfortunately.