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☆✓NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA PRG0) 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: 8.8 (37 votes)
   
- Uses warps
- Heavy glitch abuse
- Genre: Platform
Award - NES TAS of 2008

This movie has been obsoleted!

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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 [1590] NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA PRG0) by Lord Tom, Mitjitsu, Tompa in 10:25.6 (2010-08-03)
- obsoletes ☆ [1286] NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (JPN/USA PRG0) by Lord Tom & Mitjitsu in 10:26.42 (2009-05-10)
- - obsoletes ☆ [1053] NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA PRG0) by adelikat,Deign,Cardboard&JXQ in 10:29.05 (2008-02-16)
- - - obsoletes ☆ [342] NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA PRG1) by Genisto in 10:34.55 (2005-05-17)
- - - - obsoletes ☆ [14] NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (JPN) by Genisto in 10:53.52 (2004-03-29)
- - - - - obsoletes [667] NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (JPN) by Michael F in 10:58.92 (2004-02-12)
- - - - - obsoletes [668] NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (JPN) by Morimoto in 11:03.95 (2003-11-19)
Added ☽[1558] NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA PRG0) "warpless" by adelikat, andymac, Lord Tom, Tompa in 47:04.7 (2010-06-26)
- obsoletes [1059] NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA PRG0) "warpless" by adelikat,Deign,Cardboard&JXQ in 47:33.52 (2008-02-17)
- - obsoletes [455] NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA PRG1) "warpless" by JXQ in 48:29.17 (2006-01-11)
- - - obsoletes [15] NES Super Mario Bros. 3 (JPN) "warpless" by Tokushin in 1:17:40.7 (2001-02-05)

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