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Woop  8)

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:(  Now I'll never get any work done

SMB3 done in under an hour I reckon....challenge!

That reminds me of that dude that did it in 11 minutes. Craziness

Thats fake though, as he missed part of world 8 out!

Is it?

I used to have that somewhere and I've never noticed.

I might take you up on the hour challenge. If I do the SNES All-Stars version I can even record it. I doubt I could do it without dying, so it wouldn't be very spectacular to watch.

I just realised that I don't think I've played any of worlds 2-7 in about half a decade. They truly are the forgotten levels of the 2nd (or maybe 3rd, or 4th) best Mario game.

The Nes Metroids are more a priority of playing for me at the moment. Having played through Prime on the GC for the lots'th time and being near the end of Super Metroid. (probably the last great Snes game that I'd never got around to playing).

yeah, level 8 is in 4 parts....the first part with the tank and ship, second part where you run across the 5 levels and the hand drags you in....the 11 minute man goes from this to the final bower stage without doing the levels in between...

http://www.supermariothree.com/images/map8-3.PNG

I'll double check but im sure he misses that bit out....

I think you might be right.

In my head he moves straight for the bit where you got to run across dodging the map bits.

he also runs across the 5 levels without being dragged into one, which is possible....but highly unlikely.

actually it appears he does do the bit I thought he didnt do, he still goes through a wall somewhere and the way he beats all the enemys....still not convinced its real...

I'd give him that. If you ever look into speed runs then these people take advantages of patterns and glitches and shit to the extreme. Don't underestimate the excessiveness of geeking it up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J31klTM6q78&feature=related

I can't get these to work, my laptop just goes to 100% CPU usage and sits there until I end the process.

You need the latest version of Java installed.

He used an emulator and slowed the frame rate down so he did cheat, so I have no need to question the other details  8)

That's still pretty impressive. Slowing the frame rate down to even just a 5th would have meant he did nearly an hours worth of perfect manoeuvring, a lot from memory. Is there a reference to this fact?

I'll have a hunt for it. I think it took him over a year to do. So that's why it's pretty impressive in a geeky way.

There's a reference to it. The original link within is dead though I think

http://forums.sohh.com/showthread.php?t=410941

I watched the Super Mario Brothers film tonight  :D  in a slightly relevent way

I still have my NES and all my games