[TAS] [Obsoleted] NES Super Mario Bros. 3 "game end glitch" by Lord Tom & Tompa in 02:54.98
This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see https://tasvideos.org/2588M
This movie has been obsoleted by https://tasvideos.org/4032M
TAS originally published on 2014-04-29
Super Mario Bros. 3 is a very famous game for the NES. There are normally two main ways to beat it: the quick way using warp whistles to skip worlds ( https://tasvideos.org/3812M ), and the longer way which goes through all the worlds ( https://tasvideos.org/3028M ). However, thanks to some esoteric memory corruption involving glitched pipe travel, it's possible to jump right into the princess's room in under three minutes! Bowser is never seen in this run at all.
This run gets to World 7-1 as quickly as possible to perform the glitch, and some unusual moves are done with enemy spawns and positions to get the glitch to work. See the authors' comments ( https://tasvideos.org/4288S ) for some more details.
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The encodes feature commentary by the author as soft subtitles.
Watch this run on a real NES ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2QlihJAZEQ ).
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