Super Mario Bros: The Human Limit
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Super Mario Bros speedruns focus on completing individual levels as fast as possible, with specific optimal routes and tricks like the flagpole glitch to save time. The community continually pushes the boundaries of speedrunning, achieving remarkable records and pursuing perfection in the game.
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- Super Mario Bros speedruns focus on completing individual levels as fast as possible, not the full game speedrun, with players strategically choosing specific levels like 1-1, 1-2, warp to 4-1, 4-2, warp to 8-1, 8-2, 8-3, and 8-4 for an optimal any percent speedrun.
- The Super Mario Bros speedrunning community achieved groundbreaking progress by mastering techniques like the flagpole glitch, pipe clips, and fast accelerations, with players like Darbian, Sockfolder, Andrew G, 420 Blaze It, Stuck in a Plate, Taven Webb, and Nifski contributing key strategies to save frame rules and achieve near-perfection in record times.
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What is the focus of Super Mario Bros speedruns?
Completing levels as fast as possible.
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Summary
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"Super Mario Bros Speedrun Strategies Revealed"
- Super Mario Bros speedruns focus on completing individual levels as fast as possible, not the full game speedrun.
- The optimal route for an any percent speedrun involves playing through specific levels: 1-1, 1-2, warp to 4-1, 4-2, warp to 8-1, 8-2, 8-3, and 8-4.
- The fastest possible time for Super Mario Bros is 454.26, achieved in a tool-assisted speedrun by a tasser named Maru.
- The game operates on a frame rule system, where time can only be gained in increments of 21 frames (0.35 seconds) in each stage.
- The flagpole glitch, involving precise clipping into the flagpole block, was a crucial trick to save time in levels 1-1, 4-1, and 8-3.
- The flagpole glitch was initially thought impossible in real-time until late 2015 when players started exploring it further.
- Darbian, the world record holder, successfully executed the flagpole glitch in 1-1, achieving a perfect frame rule.
- Sockfolder developed setups to make the flagpole glitch consistent in levels 1-1 and 4-1, leading to more successful executions.
- Andrew G became the first player to save the frame rule in 1-2, mastering the clip into the pipe and warp zone movement.
- 420 Blaze It devised a setup for 8-1 in early 2018, offering a more feasible path to saving the frame rule in that level.
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Flagpole glitch revolutionizes Super Mario Bros speedrunning.
- The stage began with a fast acceleration, leading to the challenging flagpole glitch at the end.
- A speedrunner named Stuck in a Plate attempted the glitch in March 2018, focusing on making sub-pixel manipulation easier.
- Stuck in a Plate discovered that the left press could be executed during any jump in the level, simplifying the glitch.
- After 20 minutes of attempts, Stuck in a Plate successfully performed the flagpole glitch.
- The community progressed rapidly, mastering the flagpole glitch, pipe clips, and fast accelerations.
- In 2019, stages 4-2 and 8-2 remained unsolved due to their complexity and required perfection.
- Taven Webb, the world record holder, attempted to save the frame rule in 8-2, facing numerous challenges.
- Blaze it and Taven's combined efforts led to the successful saving of the frame rule in 8-2.
- The last frame rule to be saved was in stage 4-2, requiring precise movements and sub-pixel manipulation.
- Nifski, the second-place runner, successfully saved the last frame rule, achieving perfection in Super Mario Bros speedrunning.
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"Speedrunners break records in Super Mario Bros"
- Taven achieved a remarkable speedrunning record in Super Mario Bros, being ahead by a tenth of a second and dominating the leaderboard, with only one frame missed in the wall jump room.
- The record was tied by Kriller in May 2020, leading to a three-way tie eventually broken by Nifski, who continuously improved the time to 454.34 by optimizing fast accelerations in various rooms.
- The Super Mario Bros community pushed the limits of what was thought possible in speedrunning, with players attempting fast accelerations previously deemed impossible, highlighting the pursuit of perfection in the game with only two frames left to save in the current human sum of best.
