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Last Updated by Mitjitsu on 3/25/2020 12:36 AM
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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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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Soon thereafter, Genisto provided this faster, more impressive version, first time obsoleting two movies at once:
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Genisto improved his own work by switching to the US version, but mostly by incorporating a trick by Bisqwit:
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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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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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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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