Okay, okay, before we begin, we have to admit: the title isn't totally factual. This Super Mario Bros. video is technically just an animation, programmed into Minecraft through clever use of Command Blocks, and the only interaction you have with it is pressing the "play" button. We're very sorry for the little white lie.
But come on, isn't this cool?! This short little animation by Reddit user u/Krickracked tells an entire story about perseverance, fraternity, and hubris, and though we won't pretend to understand how it was done (because Command Blocks are basically magic, and we only just understand Redstone as long as no one asks us to explain it), we know it's impressive.
Sadly, the closest most of us will ever get to this level of brilliance, but we can always download the Super Mario texture pack on our Wii U version of Minecraft. Sort of the same thing, right?
[source reddit.com]
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Thats cooool!
Acknowledging that your title isn't true doesn't make it any less misleading. The animation is legitimately cool but it feels cheapened by the disappointment of not being what you said it is.
@DauntlessDH Lemme guess.... it’s about ethics in games journalism?
Has Minecraft been experiencing a resurgence of popularity online recently, or have I just been noticing it more?
Looks pretty good to me, Isn't this how most ports run on switch?
[insert predictable joke about Switch players being accustomed to 10FPS here]
Super Mario Bros the way it's meant to be played.
The super mushroom is moving in the wrong direction...
@ALinkttPresent Yes.
How can one breathe through such a brown nose. It's hardly unreasonable to allow the person to politely criticise the clickbait. @nessisonett
Isn't SMB1 already like 15-to-20 FPS as is?
That was a very amusing film
@Menardi Bit racist mate
(this is sarcasm)
@Noid
It's 60 fps, like most NES games when there isn't slowdown (which in SMB is quite rare).
Deceitful clickbait, no matter how honest, is still - in the end -deceitful clickbait.
@Noid It's 60 fps. Believe it or not, many NES games were.
@Toy_Link It's uncanny how similar our comments were!
Neat, and I wouldn't be surprised if somebody already made actual mario in minecraft either! Also, the commands necessary to make this function aren't even that complex, they would just take a while for your average command hobbyist to create, maybe 20-30 hours.
@nessisonett No I just find it annoying. The animation is cool enough on it's own so I don't see any need to lie in the title.
As someone who never quite understood the ways of red stone and command blocks in MC (nor didn't really took the time to get the hang of it), I'm quite impressed!
On a side note, I don't think the title is clickbait as it suggests a clearly unrealistic feature in the game.
And the clickbait conspiracy theory on a news website that basically depends on your clicks is just nonsense. Everything is clickbait if you wanna take that road
@ALinkttPresent the dream smp and his group of minecraft youtubers have skyrocketed in popularity
@Toy_Link
That's not completely accurate.
The NES output is interlaced, meaning that it draws only half of the scanning lines on each pass. Given it only had composite out, and most TV were 480i at the time, this wasn't much of a limitation. It's why you see that "bar" moving down the screen when you watch a recording of them.
To compare apples to apples against what we all know as "FPS" you would need to be running in progressive (draw all scanning lines at the same time), and the NES games all run at 29.97hz in that format.
im cool with 10fps. this is cool.
id play sonic though, 10fps? heck yeah
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