| Level | Frames gained | Reason | Frames sacrificed | Reason | Total Gain |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-1 | 1 | Less hammer brother RNG lag | 0 | - | 1 |
| 1-2 | 32 | Sliding speed abuse | 5 | Bad hammer brother luck later forced this loss anyway, so we took a flower card by delaying the level entrance | 27 |
| 1-3 | 2 | Greater precision | 4 | Better hammer brother luck | -2 |
| 1-Fortress | 10 | Better running at the beginning, starting flight later | 0 | - | 10 |
| Map | 1 | - | 0 | - | 1 |
| 8-Tanks | 4 | Reduced lag and better pipe entrance | 0 | - | 4 |
| 8-Ship | 51 | Scroll glitch to the right side of the screen, better time countdown | 0 | - | 51 |
| Pipe | 1 | Subpixel abuse allowed farther sliding | 0 | - | 1 |
| Map | 4 | Better luck on the bridge | 0 | - | 4 |
| 8-Airship | 7 | Better pipe entrance and boom-boom fight | 0 | - | 7 |
| Pipe | 1 | Subpixel abuse allowed farther sliding | 0 | - | 1 |
| 8-1 | 1 | Greater precision | 0 | - | 1 |
| 8-2 | 13 | Greater precision and sliding speed abuse | 0 | - | 13 |
| 8-Fortress | 3 | Greater precision | 0 | - | 3 |
| Pipe | 1 | Subpixel abuse allowed farther sliding | 0 | - | 1 |
| 8-Tanks2 | 42 | Scroll glitch to the right side of the screen | 0 | - | 42 |
| 8-Castle | 138 | New route | 0 | - | 138 |
| Bowser | 22 | New strategy | 0 | - | 22 |
| End | 5 | Better time countdown | 0 | - | 5 |
| Total | 339 | Thanks for watching! | 9 | - | 330 |
Also, maybe it is worth testing if mario's arm pumping saves time. Afterall, it worked in Super Metroid.
For those of us who don't care about forum politics, and who are only casual viewers, could someone explain how the apparent speedup of the autoscroller levels works?
Certainly an excellent run, from an excellent group of TASers. I was a little bummed about the lack of 99 lives, but for the sake of time it is worth it. Yes it up!
Killing the skeletons sooner or letting the skeletons live (unlive?) won't affect that at all.
