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[Tier: Stars][Console-verified]NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA PRG0) "warps" in 10:29.05 by adelikat, Deign, Cardboard & JXQ.
FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-02-17)
AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 23.97 MB, length: 12:50)
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Submission #1859 — Author's comments
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Obsoletes movie #342 (10:34.55)
Rating: 8.7 (38 votes)
   
- Uses warps
- Heavy glitch abuse
- Genre: Platform
Award - NES TAS of 2008

This movie has been obsoleted!

Click here to see the movie that obsoleted it.
Surprise Super Mario Bros 3. improvement from nowhere!

Apparently, the team of adelikat, Deign, Cardboard and JXQ had been working some time on this movie, which improves the previous movie by some 5.5 seconds (no small feat at this point), due to a wide variety of different improvements discussed in the submission message.

And of course, a wadload of extra lives are again achieved in the mandatorily slow autoscrolling levels.

For those that still prefer to see 99+ lives, the authors have also put together an alternate run that sacrifices time in order to gain those extra lives.

This run played on a real NES

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Added [Tier: Vault][Notable improvement][Console-verified][Fastest Completion]NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA PRG1) "game end glitch" by Masterjun & ais523 in 00:00.78 (2019-09-05)
- obsoletes [Tier: Moons][Console-verified][Fastest Completion][Has commentary]NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA PRG0) "game end glitch" by Lord Tom & Tompa in 02:54.98 (2014-04-29)
Added [Tier: Stars][Recommended for newcomers][Console-verified][Has commentary]NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA PRG0) "warps" by Lord Tom, Maru & Tompa in 10:24.34 (2019-03-16)
- obsoletes [Tier: Stars][Console-verified][Has commentary]NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA PRG0) "warps" by Lord Tom, Maru & Tompa in 10:24.94 (2018-11-01)
- - obsoletes [Tier: Stars][Console-verified]NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA PRG0) "warps" by Lord Tom, Mitjitsu & Tompa in 10:25.6 (2010-08-04)
- - - obsoletes [Tier: Stars][Console-verified]NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA PRG0) "warps" by Lord Tom & Mitjitsu in 10:26.42 (2009-05-11)
- - - - obsoletes [Tier: Stars][Console-verified]NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA PRG0) "warps" by adelikat, Deign, Cardboard & JXQ in 10:29.05 (2008-02-17)
- - - - - obsoletes [Tier: Stars]NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA PRG1) "warps" by Genisto in 10:34.55 (2005-05-18)
- - - - - - obsoletes [Tier: Stars]NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (JPN) "warps" by Genisto in 10:53.52 (2004-03-29)
- - - - - - - obsoletes [Tier: Moons]NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (JPN) "warps" by Michael F in 10:58.92 (2004-02-12)
- - - - - - - obsoletes [Tier: Moons]NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (JPN PRG0) "warps" by Morimoto in 11:03.95 (2003-11-20)
Added [Tier: Stars][Console-verified][Has commentary]NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA PRG1) "arbitrary code execution" by Lord Tom in 08:16.23 (2016-01-13)
Added [Tier: Moons][Has commentary]NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA PRG0) "warpless" by Lord Tom & Tompa in 46:20.3 (2015-12-21)
- obsoletes [Tier: Moons][Has commentary]NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA PRG0) "warpless" by adelikat, andymac, Lord Tom & Tompa in 47:04.7 (2010-06-27)
- - obsoletes [Tier: Moons]NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA PRG0) "warpless" by adelikat, Deign, Cardboard & JXQ in 47:33.52 (2008-02-18)
- - - obsoletes [Tier: Moons]NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA PRG1) "warpless" by JXQ in 48:29.17 (2006-01-11)
Added [Tier: Moons][Notable improvement][Console-verified][Has commentary]NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA PRG0) "all levels" by Lord Tom & Tompa in 1:04:36.9 (2015-05-04)
- obsoletes [Tier: Moons]NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (JPN) "all levels" by Tokushin in 1:17:40.7 (2001-02-05)

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