I have at leased watched HappyLee's movie three hundred times and I think the only way anyone can beat it is to work on the flagpole glitch. In stage 8-2 HL used a special flagpole glitch involving stomping a bullet bill (also can be done with a koopa shell) that saves more frames than a regular flagpole glitch. If someone can find a way to perform this special glitch without having to stomp something, the time can be optimized. Otherwise it's probably unbeatable, since it has been there for many years.
Rather than seeing the run 300 times, it's probably better to utilize RAM Watch + frame advance + savestates and concentrate on the parts you're stuck on. I mean using tools on HappyLee's movie, not just your own. http://tasvideos.org/GameResources/NES/SuperMarioBros.html There's an entire page of tricks here, along with memory addresses at the very end.
Looking at the image of 4-2 above, why isn't it possible to enter the stairs like a wall or a ledge and run directly through to the world 8 pipe, no fall-through-the-floor PAL-only glitch needed? Even if you do need to load the warp zones by walking a certain distance to the right, seems like it would still be a bit faster if you could just walk through the stairs to the area with the 3 pipes.
i always wanted to see how far you go after the flag,i was kinda hoping you'd have shown it
+fsvgm777 never censoring anything.
i always wanted to see how far you go after the flag,i was kinda hoping you'd have shown it
Hi, I found a 20 frames improvement to my previous video. Old Score: 04:58.69 New Score: 04:58.36 Please give me some suggestions so I can continue to improve. Thanks:) Link to video
I looked into the disassembly once to see how the Bullet Bill Cannon works. I don't remember the exact details and memory values, but here's the general idea: The cannon has a counter that starts at 14 and checks every frame if it should be reduced by 1 and shoots the bullet at 0 (or stays there if Mario is too close to the cannon for it to shoot). The check works by looking if there is an enemy in slot #3. If it's empty, a bitwise operation (I don't remember what exactly) is performed with the 3rd RNG value to see if the value will be reduced. If it reaches 0 at that time (and Mario is far enough away from the cannon), the bullet bill is spawned in the 3rd slot. If the 3rd enemy slot is already full, it goes to the 2nd slot and takes the 2nd RNG value and if that one is full too it goes to the 1st and takes the 1st RNG value. So the outcome can be manipulated by trying to change what enemy slots enemies go into by varying when you despawn previous enemies. But it's probably too chaotic to just directly calculate what to do. If the bullet shoots left just before you get there, you have it almost right. If Mario is within the range where it can't shoot when the value reaches 0, you will get a perfect shot right as soon as you pass it.
