He broke it himself by becoming the first person to beat Super Mario Bros. Kosmic’s record didn’t stand for long though. JAMES PARKINSON: The rankings are in a constant state of flux, as players around the world submit their best times, beating other speedrunners by fractions of milliseconds.
Then in February 2018, streamer and YouTuber Kosmic set a new world record of 4 minutes, 56 seconds, and 462 milliseconds. It took years just to shave a second off previous records. Over the following decade, players started to gradually improve, posting sub-5 minute times. By the 2010s, speedrunners began to exploit glitches and tricks in order to cut down their times - beating the game by any means necessary became the standard. In the 2000s, the record of 5 minutes and 8 seconds stood for years, as players struggled to beat the game any quicker. That is, completing the game in the fastest time possible, also known as a speedrun. JAMES PARKINSON: For over 30 years, people have been in pursuit of the perfect run in Super Mario Bros. This is the science and art of the speedrun. By analysing what’s technically possible, speedrunners are able to find the exploits, refine their approach and practice relentlessly, to push the absolute limits. Now in 2021, the current world record holder may have reached the human limit, coming within milliseconds of the fastest time achievable by a computer.
But, the gaming community is always changing and introducing something new, just like Kosmicd12's techniques to ace a world record setting run in the classic NES version of Super Mario Bros.For over 30 years, people have been in pursuit of the perfect run in Super Mario Bros.
Then again, years ago no one thought a speedrun like this would be possible. It's almost too clean and too pristine to be touched. Some of the comments are questioning if it's even possible to pull off a speedrun more clutch than what was depicted in the video above. It's some next level technical skill on display.Īny of the speedrunners attempting to outdo the run at Summer Games Done Quick will have their work cut out for them, because Kosmicd12 knocked it out of the park with the Super Mario Bros.
There's a Q&A at the bottom of the description that explains a lot of the ins and outs of the 2D platformer, including the wall glitches that could be exploited to reach the secret pipes the fact that some of the enemy sprites don't have properly aligned hit boxes means that Kosmicd12 could slip by the very edges of the plants without taking the hit.
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