The Quest for 4:54 in Super Mario Bros.

in 2010 we saw the first sub 5 minute time in 2011 we saw the first 458. in 2014 we saw the first 457 in 2016 we saw the first 456. in 2018 we saw the first 455 and in 2021 we have now finally witnessed the first 454. did the last second barrier in super mario brothers get defeated so quickly today let's talk about the quest for 454 yeah yes yes 4-3-0 oh my god i lost the frame on axe i don't care 455 yes 455.313 [Music] what i tied recorded i tried recording it a4 bro i don't even care i don't even care i just got i just got four 55 that's real this is real for today's story we have five different players to talk about the first one being nifsky nifsky would start running super mario brothers towards the end of 2019 and would quickly make a name for himself in the community he got a 456 by the end of the year and by mid-2020 would get his first 455 with a 455.846 clearly nifski had infinite potential in this game the date for the beginning of this journey starts on november 13th of 2020 when nifski would improve his personal best and take the record from cosmic and got a 455.430 his main time save involved him being the first human to save an additional frame rule in 8-2 in a run i presume that most people watching are familiar with frame rules but if you are not let me catch you up to speed every 21 frames or 0.35 seconds the game checks to see whether a level has been beaten or not the goal for each level in the speedrun is to play just good enough to achieve the fastest frame rule possible many players like to view it as trying to catch a bus let's get back to the specific time save at hand here dubbed tas a2 this frame rule save requires the player to not slow down at all in order to arrive at the bullet bill cannon at the end of the level as soon as possible performing a full bullet bill flagpole glitch while using this strategy saves you an extra frame rule over the traditional bullet bill glitch used in runs for many years previously this allowed him to be 0.35 seconds ahead of cosmic entering 8-4 he played 8-4 a bit saver and did just good enough to cut the record by a significant amount if you want a more in-depth analysis of this record i recommend my video that i made on it previously that link will be in the description the news of this record surprised many who weren't in the loop of the recent developments in 8-2 what's even crazier about this day was what happened right after nifski set this record after getting his 4-3-0 record niski decided to do 9 454 attempts by adding the plate 81 frame rule that requires getting a fast acceleration immediately at the start of the level as well as ending with a flagpole glitch the reason for doing nine attempts back in september of 2018 cosmic beat the any percent record by a tenth of a second with a 456.245 right after getting this record cosmic decided to do 455 attempts for fun in order to achieve this he added an additional frame rule in 1-2 at the very end near the warp zone you can clip into this pipe and skip the traditional warp zone room in order for the pipe to warp you to the right place you need to run far enough right to display the warp zone text and then immediately jump backwards into the world four pipe this is just enough time to save another frame rule on cosmic's ninth attempt he was able to get this frame rule save for the first time in a run and what happened afterwards was nothing short of legendary he got 4-1 flight pull glitch a fast enough clip in 4-2 bullet bill glitch in 8-2 another flagpole glitch in 8-3 and with a good enough 8-4 became the first human to get a 455 while achieving two world records in one session wanting to keep the tradition nifski did the same thing but with 454 attempts in order to get 454 you need to save an additional frame rule in 8-1 just 5 attempts in that's exactly what he did he got a good fast excel and ended with a flagpole glitch this gave him a gold split and put him 0.35 seconds ahead of his new record due to the low chances of this happening nonetheless so soon nisky got so distracted that he sadly messed up the beginning for setting up the bullet bill glitch in 8-2 he was still able to clutch out the rest of the run and got a 456 without bullet bill glitch which is quite a crazy achievement even though he'd lost the 454 this made him the first human to be on such a pace so late into the run this would officially mark the beginning of the race for 454 before we enter 2021 let me introduce you to our second competitor meet lukuki like nifski wakooki would start running this game around 2019. by october of 2020 wakupi would get both a 456 and then the week after a 455 which ultimately tied the record that cosmic had at that time ever since achieving this tie wakuki was also determined to break the new second barrier he constantly practiced and would do sessions where he started from a save state in world four and tried to play out a 454. on december 28th lakuki would share a stream highlight where he was able to achieve a 454 pace starting from a safe state at the beginning of 4-2 he got a fast clip in 4-2 8-1 flagpole glitch bullet bill glitch 8-3 flagpole glitch and a decent 8-4 it was calculated that if this was a full speed run from the very beginning it would clock in at a 454.948 humans had already proved that all the individual frame rules needed were possible but wakooki also now just proved that humans could do all these tricks successfully back to back now that many humans were interested in the reality of 454 let me introduce you to our third player mini land mini land started playing super mario brothers back in 2018 and by the end of the year achieved a 458 minion land would consistently progress in the game and by mid 2019 would get a 457 and by the end of the year would squeeze out a 456 throughout 2020 manyland would pull out the big guns and lower his times across the leaderboard he got a top 10 time in the minus world ending category and got a 458 any percent time in the all-stars version that run ended up being a world record and is still currently fourth place as of making this starting in may miniland would start his grind in the normal any percent category in may he would achieve two any percent personal best he was getting quite close to the top ten over the following months he would get a top 10 time in the workplace category and by november was ready to take on any percent yet another time on november 17th he achieved a 456.196 and just a couple weeks later on november 28th would be the ninth person ever to get a 455 time and he tied 8th place with a 455.929 weeks and weeks went by while thousands and thousands of attempts added up but eventually on january 2nd of 2021 manyland would beat nifski using the task 82 frame rule and got the new world record with a 455.4 he notably had a faster h4 by doing a fast excel in the third room now that humans had gotten past a two in a run many were eyeing the plate 81 frame rule more and more just a week before this record wakooki had gotten a 454 run starting from world 4 so clearly this achievement was feasible all that had to be done now was wait for somebody to grind out this attempt in sessions [Music] with two players now having tas 82 in their runs and having 8-1 flagpole glitch being required for major improvements let me introduce you to the fourth player in the story delexino delexino would start his any percent journey in march of 2019 and would get his first sub five minute time in may felixino would move up the ranks pretty quickly and would get a 458 and a 457 in june and before 2019 was over would get a high 456. months later on april 1st felixino would once again improve his time with 83 flagpole glitch and got a 456.4 time with the rate of his improvement and his personal best at this point he was becoming a huge contender for being the next world record holder entering 2021 alexino would start grinding for 455 by adding in the clips in both 1-2 and 4-2 on january 26 he would post a run that was 455 pace all the way to the end of eight three when he failed the setup for flagpole glitch all felixino needed was one clean run and he would be neck and neck with both mini land and nisky [Music] while some runners were starting their 454 journey miniland had something else in mind before going for 454 his goal was to get a slightly better time by having a faster 8-4 on february 4th miniland would do just that and improve the record with a 455.230 by doing an extra fast excel at the very beginning of 8-4 this was just enough to beat the record by a handful of frames with this record being said all the top players were officially going for 454 at this point including mini land himself miniolan's record will be just the beginning of one of the busiest months in super mario brothers speedrunning just five days after minnie lane's new record nifski would get really close and was on 454 pace all the way up to the end of flagpole glitch in 8-3 he stated that he failed a glitch due to performing inputs for the ending status just one frame early nifski and others kept grinding attempts throughout the week and just three days later on the 12th alexino would get his wish of a 455 and achieved a 455.730 this moved him up to sixth place on the leaderboard after this felix cena would start attempting to get a lower 455 time to try and beat up the record by performing a better 8-4 while delexino and others were grounding out attempts let me introduce you to the final player in this journey trio 5. trio 5 picked up this game a lot more recently as well as a lot faster than the rest of the competition he wouldn't start running the game until mid 2020 and by september would move all the way up to a 455 after many lanes two records tree would come back and start to incorporate the strats needed to get a 454 free wouldn't stream as much as the rest but it's still a nice surprise whenever he goes live and does a few attempts going back to the formerly mentioned players throughout february wukooki would have multiple runs successfully pull off 81 flagpole glitch on 454 pace eventually he would do it yet again and this time got bullet bill glitch presumably due to the high amount of nerves at this point he sadly messed up jumping over the stairs in the middle of the level which normally wouldn't be a reset point while this was happening mini land would be in the same position and by february 13th would have his first 454 pace into 8-2 this pace would sadly die halfway in 8-2 to a notoriously hard pipe jump that has been dubbed blind mini land would get many more runs into 8-2 and by this point all the runners going for 454 had made really decent progress and it was inevitable that something bigger would happen quite soon before the month was over on the 28th after consistently grinding del xeno would improve yet again and got a 455.413 beating nifski by one frame which moved him to the second place on the leaderboard this officially placed him on the 454 grind he immediately started doing attempts with the goal of a 454.8 time by having a more aggressive 8-4 with fast excels [Music] if you thought the month of february was quite busy then you aren't ready for the rest of this journey the month of march would hold some of the best paces that the game had ever seen starting on march 3rd miniland had a run that was on 454 pace all the way up to the bulletpill glitch he sadly did not hold a for the right amount of frames before hitting the bulletpill following miniland's footsteps on march 8 felix cena would achieve a 454 pace all the way to the bullet bill as well not being enough he did it for a second time just a couple days later at this point the new second barrier was becoming inevitable nifski would prove this point even further and on march 20th would successfully get flagpole glitch in 8-1 bullet bill glitch in 8-2 this time he got flagpole glitch in 8-3 successfully got the wall jump and turn around room in 8-4 swim through the water section and instead of entering the pipe right away nisky bonked and lost the run afterwards he stated that he didn't care too much about this run due to the fact that it wouldn't have been a 454 [Music] due to having a bad wall jump room due to jumping a frame lead nifski's final time on this run would have been a 455.014 on the very same day tree did some attempts and would also post a run just like nifski did a month previously he lost a 454 pace at 8-3 flyquil glitch by this point every runner had gotten at least one attempt decently far in with every runner getting unbelievably close to the once thought to be unachievable goal something crazy was about to happen [Music] entering the month of april things were rapidly heating up starting the month on a good note on the fourth delaxino would get to the end of 8-2 on 454 pace for the third time in a month sadly this yet again failed bulletproof glitch with how often these runs were being uploaded one out of these five runners were bound to do something just give it a few days later and on april 7th nifski decided to do some more attempts attempt 14 589 started and he got 1-1 flagpole glitch 1-2 clip 4-1 flagpole glitch 4-2 blazer clip got a good fast excel at the beginning of 8-1 and entered the level with a successful fico glitch he also set up task 8-2 and got a perfect ball bill glitch he successfully once again pulled off glycol glitch in 8-3 and one more level was left nisky had a good wall jump a perfect fast excel at the beginning of the third room with a good water section and a nice bowser nifski officially took back the world record and became the first human ever to achieve a 454 with a final time of 454.948 the exact same time that lukuki got starting from world 4 all the way back in december the journey took multiple months but it was finally done the first ever 454 and the last ever second milestone in this category was finally achieved why do i say the last well moving to the tool assist side of speedrunning the fastest completion of this game is a 454.03 where's the time save you may ask well in terms of additional frame rules there's only one more frame rule that can be added to the run that one frame rule is in 4-2 the golan 4-2 is to get to the warp zone as quickly as possible for years speed runners have gotten to the warp zone in this level quicker by manipulating the screen's position and entering the warp zone via this pipe instead of the intended vine over the past couple years runners have been using a strategy called blazer to manipulate the screen's position instead of bumping jumping and mashing into this wall at the right time allows you to clip in slowing it down you will see that when mario clips into the wall the screen does not move this trick changes mario's screen position just enough to trigger loading the warp zone when entering this pipe but what if there was somehow a faster way to do this ever since 2004 tool assist runs have been able to save an additional frame rule here thanks to frame perfect inputs and fast excels it wasn't until the past year that humans started experimenting with setups that could be done in real time around june of 2020 king of johnny boy posted a 4-2 task that showed off a theoretical route that a human could pull off in a real-time speed run after this nifski decided to grind out individual level sessions using this strategy and by the end of january 2021 became the first and as of making this only human to save the frame rule in a full level playthrough it requires you to bump this elevator to manipulate mario's x position the amount of pixels from these bumps are very inconsistent and can vary a lot you need mario's x position to be shifted by 11 as demonstrated on nifski's run this isn't enough though you will see that nifski's x position is now 123. in order to get the wrong warp at all mario's x position needs to be at least 132. in order to do this and still make the fastest frame rule as a human with johnny boy's strategy you need to perform a quick backwards wall jump off this pipe and instantly enter it this is easier said than done and even harder to pull off in a full run alongside the rest of the tricks this isn't even it though when entering the warp room you still need to perform a fast excel it is only then that you can make this frame rule assuming that you have a quick warp zone entry but this time save is only 0.35 seconds so where else does the task save time 8-4 in 8-4 every frame counts due to it being the last level in the game the task is able to save a handful of time by doing fast excels in every room nifski only did one fast excel in the turnaround room an additional time save the task does is pressing left and right in the water section to swim a bit faster [Music] as a human this isn't possible without a modified or broken controller so left and right inputs are currently banned a human input task was made to see what humans could get under the rules and clocks in at 454.265 while real players will never be as good as a task in 8-4 humans have stretched the limits of this level as much as they can many have grunted out 8-4 in individual level runs nifski improved the 8-4 record in february if you include the extra 4-2 frame rule and nifski's 8-4 record the human cell best plucks in at 454.31 this means that 454 is the last second barrier that any human and computer for that matter will beat yes speedruns can always improve but with one of the most researched and played games of all time it's unlikely that little or maybe even no new strategies will ever be discovered in the future all the previous time saves that humans have added into runs were previously done in tool assist humans are getting closer and closer to running out of new frame rules so what is the future of this category well when it comes to the players nifski is trying to grind out some other speedrun goals of his including getting a 455 while beating the game under the second quest game mode he also plans to get the record in beating the game blindfolded mini land is continuing the 454 grind and wants to beat the record with a 454.8 by being more aggressive in 8-4 he also has his own list of goals that includes similar goals to nifski's and also wants to be one of the first people after nifski to get the fast 4-2 frame rule in real time okay is continuing the 454 grind as well and wants to get any 454 time that he can he also wants to get better and get top times in games like the lost levels and ninja gaiden he also has plans to look into playstation speed runs like spyro d'alexino similar to minionland is continuing the 454 grind by going for a more aggressive 8-4 he also has his own list of goals including getting the fastest 4-2 frame rule eating nifski's 8-4 record and down the road wants to stretch any percent even further by using the lightning 4-2 frame rule it's very ambitious but we said the same thing about 454 in general tree o5 has still been occasionally doing 454 attempts and it seems like that'll be a thing that happens periodically tree currently wants to get a low 455 before grinding for a 454 again it'll be interesting to see what happens with his times in the future no matter what happens in this game though there is definitely more than coming to super mario brothers other people such as alden speedruns has also stated interest in getting a 454 down the road any percent isn't even the end of this game warpless has been heating up a lot and currently players such as jeremy mkw gt apes jt naught and even nifski have been competing to get closer and closer towards the first 1857 time while making this video nifski actually just barely beat jeremy's record maybe we'll talk more about this category at another date before ending i have a quick note many may have issues with the fact that this amazing run was done on an emulator and some may go as far to say that this isn't legit and should only be done on hardware now i'm not here to start any controversies but if that's what you think then i have one thing to say to you if you want the record to be on console set it yourself thank you for watching i think holy cow wait what oh my god yes yes dude what oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god i clutched it out i stayed calm and it worked holy cow holy cow holy cow holy cow okay don't throw up don't throw up i'm gonna puke what

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Id: RCwijR-96F4

Length: 24min 56sec (1496 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 14 2021