The Super Mario Bros 3 with warps movie is a definitive TAS: surprising glitches to improve speed and plenty of opportunity to showboat in autoscrolling levels.
The first version, by TAS legend Morimoto, is cited by many as their first introduction to the genre:
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Published on 11/20/2003
This is a historic movie, submitted and obsoleted before the creation of the database-based (and wiki-based) site engine, before July 2004. It was inserted into the database for a history revival project by Bisqwit in autumn 2006.
When this video was first released on the Internet in mid-2003, its incredible quality of play became a phenomenon; since few people knew how the video was made, it was widely believed that it was played in real-time by an extremely skilled player. When Morimoto detailed the making of the run on his website (which can still be read here), many felt deceived and turned to criticizing the video's "illegitimacy" instead. During this time, the concept of tool-assistance was still mostly unknown, and people even went as far as claiming that Morimoto had constructed the movie in several years' time by performing video editing on every single frame of the WMV.
While this video was not the first of its kind, it was the first to gain widespread interest, and contributed greatly to the popularity of speedruns in general.

Ultimately, techniques improved and Morimoto's movie did as well.
Michael Fried provided this faster version. The major improvement was taking a mushroom in the third stage. However, because he did not have the patience to do the bouncing 1up-chaining show in the autoscrolling stages, it was considered to be more "bleh", and it did not obsolete Morimoto's movie.
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Published on 2/12/2004
This is 5 seconds shorter (thus faster) than the famous Morimoto's version, but not so hardly worked. No 99 extra lifes and skillful play with enemies here, just plain accurate action...

Soon thereafter, Genisto provided this faster, more impressive version, first time obsoleting two movies at once:
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Published on 3/29/2004
Looking for the famous Super Mario Bros 3 timeattack by もりもと (Morimoto)?
This isn't it.
This is Genisto's version, which beats Morimoto's version in the following aspects:
- is 10 seconds faster!
- has better high score!
and also, when compared to Michael Fried's run:
- collects 5 coins more!
It's sort of an improved hybrid of those two movies.
Not only is it amazingly fast, it also manages to get 99 extra lives while waiting.

Genisto improved his own work by switching to the US version, but mostly by incorporating a trick by Bisqwit:
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Published on 5/18/2005
Once again, Genisto has surpassed the presumed limit of tool-assisted SMB3 speedrunning.
The differences between the Japanese and USA versions of SMB3 entail a few seconds of change, but most of this 19-second improvement's enhancement is because of Mario's passing through walls in the final fortress ― a trick that was discovered by Bisqwit.
There are also some other new strategies that Genisto uses in this movie. Once again, of course, Genisto has acquired 99+ extra lives magnificently.
Video Downloads:
AVI
Emulator Replay:
FCEU 0.98.12

Almost 3 years later, Genisto's version was improved by the "all star" team of adelikat, Deign, Cardboard and JXQ. Only about 5 seconds faster, it incorporated many small time savers:
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Published on 2/17/2008
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.
Video Downloads:
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Emulator Replay:
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But the team submission was not the last one in the line. In May 2009, Lord Tom and Mitjitsu submitted another improvement with a surprising route in the final castle, among other things.
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Published on 5/11/2009
Ever since Morimoto published his legendary movie in mid-2003, the players at TASVideos have repeatedly made it faster and faster!
This 96 frame improvement over the previous movie features a completely new route through Bowser's Palace, even more off-screen auto-scroller action and other technical improvements detailed in the authors' comments. Finally, Lord_Tom and Mitjitsu are proud to announce that the new run once again acquires 99+ lives magnificently.

One of the authors of this TAS, Mitjitsu, has been known to make statements and/or take actions that do not reflect the values of TASVideos as a community.
TASVideos does not in any way condone the statements and/or actions made by this author.
This video is presented not to support or glorify this author, but to archive and showcase this tool-assisted superplay.

The latest improvement to the warp run came three months later, by the same team together with Tompa. It incorporated a couple new stage strategies and a surprising final boss fight.
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Published on 8/4/2010
Ever since Morimoto published his legendary movie in mid-2003, the players at TASVideos have repeatedly made it faster and faster! Of course, there doesn't ever seem to be a stop for when it is fastest.
This movie is 00:00.82 seconds faster than the previous movie. Most of the improvement comes from a trick that makes Bowser bounce much lower when defeated. For more details, see the run's comments.
Check out the video of this being played on an actual console.

One of the authors of this TAS, Mitjitsu, has been known to make statements and/or take actions that do not reflect the values of TASVideos as a community.
TASVideos does not in any way condone the statements and/or actions made by this author.
This video is presented not to support or glorify this author, but to archive and showcase this tool-assisted superplay.

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Published on 11/1/2018
Ever since Morimoto published his legendary movie in mid-2003, the players at TASVideos have repeatedly made it faster and faster and even faster! Of course, there doesn't ever seem to be a stop for when it is fastest.
This movie is 00:00.67 seconds faster than the previous movie. Most of the improvement comes from a new strategy in 8-Fortress as well as manipulating the score for lag reduction. For more details, see the run's comments.
You can see this run played on an NES right here.

The encodes feature commentary as soft subtitles.

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Published on 3/16/2019
Ever since Morimoto published his legendary movie in mid-2003, the players at TASVideos have repeatedly made it faster and faster and even faster! Of course, there doesn't ever seem to be a stop for when it is fastest.
This movie is 00:00.60 seconds faster than the previous movie. Most of the improvement comes from Bowser's Castle, where the authors didn't have to lose time in order to get a favourable Bowser pattern. For more details, see the run's comments.
The encodes feature commentary as soft subtitles.



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