The first "level" is merely just an unskippable Spade Panel. The player must go through that "level" to continue.

Following after is a group of Hammer Bro battles. Seven, to be exact. All consist of a battlefield made exactly like in World 1's only Hammer Bro battle in the original game and are shuffled up thanks to the first "level" of the game.

Six of their chests contain Jugem's Clouds, while only one of them contains a hammer, required to enter the final "battle" with Bowser and win the game.

My run breaks the system of luck and brainwashes the Hammer Bros to make the least amounts of movement possible for me to pass through. And in under a minute!

Now, behold... the IPS patch I provide to you is yours to keep if you choose to take a gander at the hack yourself.

In case you don't know yet, I'm not too bright with luck manipulation. I'm sure it can be optimized a bit further for a faster time.

My TAS, made in May 2018, speeds through the hack in record time, beating Extronic's existing run by 4.6 seconds.

Your chance to join in on the fun in Mitch's competition may be over, but your chance to download the hack's IPS patch certainly won't be! ;)

Game Objectives

Reaches end cutscene. Has invisible credits though.

Explanation

Input

  [Input]
  LogKey:#Power|Reset|#P1 Up|P1 Down|P1 Left|P1 Right|P1 Start|P1 Select|P1 B|P1 A|#P2 Up|P2 Down|P2 Left|P2 Right|P2 Start|P2 Select|P2 B|P2 A|
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  |..|........|........|
  |..|........|........|
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  |..|........|........|
  |..|........|........|
  |..|........|U...S..A|
  |..|........|U...S..A|
  |..|....S.B.|........|
  |..|....S.B.|........|
  |..|........|........|
  |..|........|.D.RS.B.|
  |..|........|U.L..s.A|
  |..|........|.D.RS.B.|
  |..|........|U.L..s.A|
  |..|........|.D.RS.B.|
  |..|........|U.L..s.A|

  <45 repititions of those 2 lines>

  |..|........|.D.RS.B.|
  |..|........|U.L..s.A|
  |..|........|.D.RS.B.|
  |..|........|U.L..s.A|
  |..|........|.D.RS.B.|
  |..|........|U.L..s.A|
  |..|........|U.L..s..|
  |..|........|........|
  |..|........|........|
  |..|........|........|
  |..|........|U...Ss.A|
  |..|........|U...Ss.A|
  |..|U.L.S.B.|........|
  |..|U.L.S.B.|........|
  [/Input]

This run is 0.27 seconds faster than the ISMin's TAS.

This TAS races through the hack in less than 20 minutes in time to save Peach, only to find that she's a whiz at 1970s music.

Download the IPS patch here.

This is a 0.38-second improvement to my old movie created almost eight years after the original run by Acmlm1 has been uploaded (to which I've also improved by 3 seconds). This was mostly due to a new strategy of killing Bowser quicker by getting on the right side of Bowser instead of the left. Because of that, this TAS is about 5.6 times faster than the current movie of the original game.

Here's where you can get the IPS patch.

And, one more thing: It's not possible to perform a warpless version of the game due to a number of issues being discovered by YouTuber Chris Akridge.

I swear it's not a problem with the script! I just need to analyze the game's RAM more thoroughly!

Ps: I wish that my run can help the authors who are TASing this game(such as Lord Tom, Mitjitsu, etc.) beat existing record successfully!

Old description:

I improved a little. And this is an unfinished movie.

World 1, 2 frames faster.

World 2, in 2-pyramid, I improved about 4 frames.

In 3-hammer, Mario can kill upward hammer without fireball. But I didn't do that. Because I found that after this stage...

In 4-2, I got P-speed faster.

In 4-6, I've tried a lot of times to get a card earlier than star. But it failed. Due to 1 less x pixel...

I guess that in 8-ship 1, it can be faster. Like warped run - push Mario ahead to get into pipe earlier.

But I can't determine if this way is suitable in 8-tank 1. Because Mario can't fly like warped run...

Other improvement maybe appear:

Author should use corner boosting and ceiling boosting. Especially ceiling boosting!