Watch a Speedrunner Break the World Record "Super Mario Bros."

The speedrunner kosmickid12 broke the world record for the Super Mario Bros. speedrun, using a perfect deployment of the problems.

Kosmickid12 came in at 4 minutes, 55 seconds and 913 milliseconds, one-third less than the previous record in May. He finished the race on an original Nintendo entertainment system without using emulator.

Time is short, but high-speed speedruns are mainly focused on finding these small margins: the difference between a world record and another failure often comes down to short animations and better ways to exploit the different games. glitches.

the super Mario Bros. The record has been broken several times over the past few years by taking advantage of the mast pike, which involves breaking the masts – placing Mario (or Luigi) at the bottom of the mast at the end of the level and preventing the flag from falling. This avoids some animation images and reduce the precious seconds of a speedrun.

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Kosmickid12 spent Monday night on Twitch practicing the mast glitch and another new glitch that allows Mario to make his way through World 1-2 and head to World 4 very quickly.

"Am I about to become the most eye-catching player alive?" Joked kosmickid12 at the camera. "First run ever made." Then, as for all speedruns, when the player realizes he could shoot a world record, kosmickid12 has become silent. In his ninth inning, he played a perfect match, nailing all the jumps, avoiding each Goomba, and hugging the bottom of each mast en route to Bowser Castle.

When he hit the ax, plunging King Koopa into lava at the end of the 8th World, he broke the previous world record in milliseconds. It was an impressive race, especially for being the first to cross the wall perfectly on World 1-2.

There is a beauty in the speedrunning. Games that are decades old take on a new life when a community sits down to try to travel as quickly as possible. The Kosmickid12 record will be hard to beat, but it will be great to see people trying.

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