Speedrunning is a particularly neat part of gaming culture, in which extremely dedicated and skilful players push games and their coding to the limit. Often exploiting glitches and - in the case of retro games - memory limitations of the original hardware, gamers find clever way to beat classic titles in a matter of minutes.
Super Mario World is a title that's often tackled in speedruns, with methods found to clear it in well under 10 minutes. Achieving this is extremely tricky, so the latest video from the A+Start channel on YouTube is well worth a watch. Though this run is over 40 seconds off the world record in its category - there are some quicker categories - there's some nice commentary that explains what's happening.
Check it out and let us know what you think, while this run from SethBling shows another - quicker - category, too.
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Don't really get why this is a thing......speed running the game proper, awesome without a doubt......initiating glitches in order to see the ending in a minute or so, rather lame, and it doesn't show much talent outside of knowing how to break games, so who cares?
You did great. I've tried to do speedruns before, but I lack the patience. You really worked for your accomplishment.
@sub12 Actually they don't break the game here. This particular speedrun only has one thing out of place, and that's getting a lakitu cloud during the bowser fight. Everything else is legit.
@sub12 A lot of glitches take a lote of time to do and can possibly completely ruin your run (The original Metroid door jump glitch for example, which can make Samus become trap in a wall and unable to kill herself to restart) so speedruning really does take a lot of skills. So require pixel perfect and frame prefect timing which is extremely hard to do with certain glitches. Plus glitchless speedruns are really boring and can really take all the energy out of you, don't get me started on glitches, %100 speedruns. Those can take many, many hours and making one mistake can make one good 10 hour speedrunning thrown into the trash, so that is one of the many reasons why people don't really do glitchless speedruns.
Pretty sure you guys shared this before..?
It's worth mentioning that Summer Games Done Quick is kicking off soon, Sunday July 26th.
The starting speedrun will be a 100% run of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. It's estimated to be a 3 hour run, there's no shortcuts in a 100% run like this!
There'll be plenty of other Super Mario speedruns this year, although SMW isn't one of them.
Nice, it's always amazing how quick people can be
Love SMW
Why not under 5min
http://youtu.be/gECESOoU8Es
Love this narrated Speedrun. That's the way to do these videos. Hope he'll do more of em.
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