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NES "warpless" Super Mario Bros 3 (USA PRG0) in 47:33.52 by adelikat, Deign, Cardboard & JXQ.
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 101 MB, length: 49:49)
Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-02-18)
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Read author's comments in submission #1858
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Obsoletes movie #455 (48:29.17)
Rating: 8.4 (19 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses no warps
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Platform
Super Mario Bros 3 completed fast ― without using the magic whistles.

Although this movie doesn't use the magic whistles, it does skip stages, and actually skips them quite a lot, with the aid of various items such as the hammers.

Note: This movie no longer uses death as a shortcut.

This is an improvement of about 56 seconds over the previous movie.


NES Super Mario Bros 3 (USA PRG0) in 10:29.05 by adelikat, Deign, Cardboard & JXQ.
Download AVI file via BitTorrent (size: 25 MB, length: 12:50)
Download FCEU movie (.fcm) (date: 2008-02-17)
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Read author's comments in submission #1859
Discuss this movie
Obsoletes movie #342 (10:34.55)
Rating: 8.8 (34 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes no damage
- Uses warps
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Platform
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.

More movies:
Added [1059] NES "warpless" Super Mario Bros 3 (USA PRG0) by adelikat,Deign,Cardboard&JXQ in 47:33.52 (2008-02-18)
- obsoletes [455] NES "warpless" Super Mario Bros 3 (USA PRG1) by JXQ in 48:29.17 (2006-01-11)
- - obsoletes [15] NES "warpless" Super Mario Bros 3 (JPN) by Tokushin in 1:17:40.7 (2001-02-05)
Added [1053] NES Super Mario Bros 3 (USA PRG0) by adelikat,Deign,Cardboard&JXQ in 10:29.05 (2008-02-17)
- obsoletes [342] NES Super Mario Bros 3 (USA PRG1) by Genisto in 10:34.55 (2005-05-18)
- - 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 (2003-11-20)
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