(*= Comparable timing. Subtract 2 frames to get Famtasia timing.)
(Input-end refers to the frame when all buttons are released, not movie-end.)
It was made by Pom soon after he discovered about Phil's
unpublished movie, but Pom thought the improvement is too
small to be worth anything.
However, apparently his opinion changed :)
Note: You may notice that some levels are not played as fast as
they could be. This is because of the 21-frame rule inherent
in the Super Mario Bros game. The rule means that completion times
of all levels (except the last one) are rounded up to the next
21-frame boundary, regardless of the exact time.
NesVideoAgent: Hi! I am a robot. I took a few screenshots
of this movie and placed them here.
Here goes!
Where does this improvement come from? I think it might be from jumping down to the warp pipes in 5-2.
Even though it is a very small improvement, I think it's worthy of a publish.
Where does this improvement come from? I think it might be from jumping down to the warp pipes in 5-2.
You mean 4-2. No, it doesn't come from there because that scene is also subject to the 21-frame rule.
The only place where sub-21 improvement can come from is the last part of 8-4.
I haven't watched it and maybe not since I am tired of this game but I think it is wort publishing even if he had done some strange moves like I did and seems the video to be slower.
I agree for doing those moves .
Phil's unpublished movie Input end at 17979!? I have never stopped my movie at those frames but 17995.
Phil's unpublished movie Input end at 17979!? I have never stopped my movie at those frames but 17995.
None of the times I wrote in the text were movie-end times.
"Input end" time corresponds to the frame where all buttons are put to rest for the remaining of the movie.
I'm surprised to see a new record run that doesn't collect any power-ups. There are clearly places where Mario needs to slow down because he can't shoot an enemy, so there must be must be enough of an improvement over the old "power-upless" strategy to compensate. Would you care to elaborate on what those improvements were?
TASing or playing back a DOS game? Make sure your files match the archive at RGB Classic Games.
Crap, it was the full run that uses Fiery Mario. What threw me was the necessary wait after the pirahna plant (where Mario must run past the pipe) before the water stage in 8-4. It reminded me of the improvement that was made in SMB2J, in which time was saved by shooting a pirahna plant instead of waiting for it to descend. Between the first two Japanese Super Mario games looking so much the same, and the warped and warpless runs of SMB1, I got confused. My bad.
TASing or playing back a DOS game? Make sure your files match the archive at RGB Classic Games.
Nicely done.. But i have a few Questions.
0.09: You slow down to hit the koomba. Why not just run across a pipe and be able tp jump over him not causing the slow down.
0.51: You slow down there to be able to jump 'up'. Could you have just found a way to go in under instead?
3.14: Why not just run across the cannon thingy and jump all the ways on top of the ledge instead of slowing down there too.
4.23: Would it be faster if you just jump across the full lava pit instead of that very short stop on the moving plateform?
Every time the screen blacks out, the delay that occurs will be rounded up to 21 frames.
This means that if you complete a level in
1 frames, the level length will be N+21 frames
15 frames, the level length will be N+21 frames
20 frames, the level length will be N+21 frames
21 frames, the level length will be N+21 frames
22 frames, the level length will be N+42 frames
30 frames, the level length will be N+42 frames
42 frames, the level length will be N+42 frames
43 frames, the level length will be N+63 frames
And so on.
Where N is a constant minimum length of the black screen.
If you have the emulator version of this all you have to do is stop the movie when he gets inside the pipe in 1-2 and then move over to the pipe and go down.
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