Speedrunners are obsessed with finishing games in the fastest time possible, but they don't always play fair - any glitches in a game which allow the player to complete it in a faster time are considered by many to be perfectly legit, although they are usually classified differently to "normal" speed runs.
Even so, these glitch runs are often more interesting than standard ones as they show how a game can be exploited and even broken in certain ways to make it think it has been completed. Super Mario Land 2 is an excellent example of this - as renowned speedrunner Chris Grant shows in the video below.
By dropping through a level at the right point, Grant is able to trick the game into thinking he's beaten it - shaving plenty of time off the usual speedrun standard. What makes this particular glitch so interesting is that Mario falls into what appears to be a random sea of in-game assets and objects, including blocks, pipes, water and even text. Interacting with these elements triggers unexpected results, including a complete reboot of the game. The catch is that the exploit is apparently limited to very early versions of the game.
How people find these things, we'll never know.
[source youtube.com]
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That's.....crazy.
I noticed it was also still playing the music for Mario Zone stage 1 over the ending sequence so is it really truely a legit way to beat the game? Still impressive either way
Don't know if "clitch runs are often more exciting than normal ones". Yoshi´s Island speedrun in Summer Games Done Quick 2014 for example, was techinically so impressive that alone makes legit speedruns more interesting.
That's not to say that I hate runs with clitches like this. It´s interesting to see game broken down in order to achieve the fastest possible route.
Wow, my favourite 2D Mario game which I spent my childhood playing, and happen to own 3 copies of (4 if you include VC) and they managed to beat it super fast? that is amazing!
Whoa,that's crazy
Wow, crazy that people still find stuff like that after all these years.
My... i saw creepy skulls with a knife stabbed on walking around.
That's insane. I'll have to try this out at some point (not with my own cartridge, of course). I'm curious about what else can be done with that glitch.
How do people find glitches like this? Seriously, I wanna know.
I found some really cool glitches in this game but never like this.
Oh my gosh I need this game. If Nintendo added it to Wii U virtual console with the glitch intact I'd definitely get it! There are are few glitches that still work in Super Mario Bros. 3 on Wii U. Although I'd like them to take out the glitch that would crash my game. But you gotta admit that would be really authentic...
Cool. Coincidentally, I just bought this off My Nintendo, so I'll have to try it out!
Crivens.
Anyone know if the glitch works on 3ds vc?
@LegendOfPokemon I am pretty sure the glitch will not work on the 3DS VC version because the glitch only works in "very early versions of the game". It's very unlikely the version that Nintendo ported to VC is the 'launch' copy.
Not sure who's more annoying, the player or interviewer.
"I'm falling thru the RAM and need to hit this one buried block which triggered thevend because I can make sense of all this & am Neo."
STHU, dude.
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