Super Mario World

Super Mario World is one of the most popular SNES games of all time. Its relevance in today's gaming culture cannot be understated. From its colorful graphics, to its smooth and satisfying controls, to its memorable soundtrack, and to its many many glitches.

Over the years, Super Mario World has had a wide range of exploits in order to do some crazy stuff. However, many of the glitches don't save any time in a speedrun. This TAS by IgorOliveira666 aims to showcase as many glitches and exploits in this game as possible, without worrying about speed. Some glitches are so intense that they crash the game, necessitating a restart of the console.

WARNING: This video includes flashing lights which may cause epileptic seizures to those affected. The heaviest spots are at the 43:24, 53:02, 57:49, 1:16:19, 1:37:36, and 2:09:15 marks of this TAS.

Acknowledged as one of the best Mario games of all time, Super Mario World is a must see for fans of classic games. This run completes the game fully (all 96 exits) and makes use of almost every known glitch to make it as fast and exciting as possible.

This TAS by bahamete, Kaizoman666 & Masterjun is an improvement of 06:43.97 minutes over the previous movie. The improvement comes from new glitches and better optimization.

If you like this video, be sure to also see Super Demo World 100% completion (120 exits) in 2:02:04.49 by PangaeaPanga.

This movie has a full Atlas Map encode, which shows the standard encode overlaid on a zoomed out map.

This is the 5th published movie in a category of impressively fast Super Mario World TASes. It beats the game by jumping to the credits from one of the two levels available from the start, Yoshi's Island 2. This happens because a glitch involving eating a Charging Chuck allows manipulating the code being executed by the game using only controller input.

This run is 00:00.13 seconds faster than the previous movie thanks to better movement and a more efficient payload. Reading the submission comments for more information is highly recommended.

For more movies like this, see this list of TASes that execute arbitrary code.

You can watch this movie played on a real hardware here.

Super Mario World is a classic platforming game for the SNES that has influenced countless other platforming games after it. It took on the the already acclaimed gameplay elements of Super Mario Bros. 3 and built upon them even further. However, as turned out many years later, Super Mario World turned out to be a very exploitable game. While playing the game as intended usually reveals nothing out of the ordinary, tons of glitches and bugs have been found that can break the game so hard, it can be beaten in less than a minute.

For this run, oddboo goes for a unique goal: beat the game as fast as possible without completing the levels as intended. That means no crossing the goal tape, no defeating bosses, and no unlocking of intended keyholes. As an extra restriction, the execution of arbitrary code can only be done to get out of a program crash; it cannot be used to instantly warp to the credits. The corruption of the game memory is fully allowed, however. For all the details on what was done during the run, including how the RAM was corrupted, you can read the author's notes.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Masterjun builds upon his previous work at destroying Super Mario World by programming some simple games inside it, using only controller input!

A technical explanation is available on the submission page.

This movie famously premiered via playback on a real Super Nintendo, at Awesome Games Done Quick 2014, as part of the first TASVideos presentation at a Games Done Quick event, which are hosted by SpeedDemosArchive.

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Mario's doctor heard about the "Magic Mushrooms" which make Mario grow to twice his normal size and let him break bricks. Fearing for Mario's health, he orders Mario to avoid those nasty powerups.

This run aims to complete as many exits as possible without collecting any permanent powerups, including Mushrooms, Fire flowers, Feathers, Switch Palace blocks. Unable to fly, Mario is forced to confront most obstacles and overcome them in unique ways. Riding Yoshi is also banned. 86 out of the total 96 exits are completed.

In this run, the author, PangaeaPanga, saves 01:32.43 over the previous movie by using better paths, new tricks, and lag reduction. For a level by level analysis of the improvements, please see the author's notes.

IgorOliveira666 builds upon the previous work at destroying Super Mario World by increasing the complexity in taking more creative control of the title itself and bringing in new life within the levels. An explanation is available on the submission page.