Overview

Game Objectives

• Starts from console power on.
• No warp zone usage.
• The timer is set to Fast.
• Ends on the same all sprites disappear when touching the axe in world 8-4.

Level by Level Analysis

World 1

1-2

1-2 is where the route differs, instead of a mushroom grab in 1-3, we do it at the beginning of 1-2, however due to fireworks, we must wait at the end before entering the pipe. Waiting before the pipe is faster than waiting in the outside section. This is due to the fact that the framerule system in this game doesn't apply to bonus rooms and subareas.

1-3

1-3 uses an extremely precise fireflower grab and FPG to just barely save the framerule with no frames to spare, the fireflower grab must be done subpixel perfectly and achieve running speed, with low tolerance for bad subspeeds.

1-4

This level uses a camera manipulation technique to save a framerule over what you would normally get by full sprinting through the level. Camera manipulation works by intentionally slowing down (often 1 pixel) to manipulate the time it takes on the castle ending cutscene and save 1-2 frames back.

World 2

2-1

2-1: "The ground has changed, so the techniques in SMB1 cannot be used." (oh you naive naive child), actually it can! by moving mario forwards on the screen with a pipe clip, you can barely reach the parakoopa in time and stomp him in the floor, from there you make your way onto the pillar, and do a walking speed gravity jump to clip under the floor, hit the koopa, reenter it and clip into the floor, from where you perform a full flagpole glitch. this technique just barely squeezes out a framerule over completing the level with a regular flagpole glitch. (more details in 6-1).

2-2

The water section uses a technique called whirlpool manipulation, where you offset Mario's position, so that the whirlpools pull him as much as possible to the center, and hold him back as little as possible, this technique saves 3 frames across the entire level.

2-3

2-3 remains identical. (however, RNG is incredibly difficult to manipulate here, a decent chunk of the rerecords were spent on the floor clip and finding a good cheep cheep shot to catch the framerule).

2-4

2-4 uses the same technique described in 1-4 to save a framerule over JQJ's TAS.

World 3

3-1

We included the "sliding on one foot" animation glitch in 3-1 by holding A and B at the start of the level.

3-2

A FFPG might be possible here if the parakoopa before the staircase went right, however we couldn't make it work after hours of trying.

3-3

Going through a moving platform is possible since they're thinner than a full block.

3-4

Once again, camera manipulation is used to get the optimal framerule.

World 4

4-2

Unfortunately, due to unfavorable firebar patterns down the line in 4-4, we are forced to lose 2 frames in the 4-2 underground section. In the outside section, we did FPG setup inputs on the stairs that's used by RTA runners (also called sockfolder) for fun.

4-4

The crouch through the firebar helps get camera manipulation.

World 5

5-1

By killing certain enemies and leaving others, the Bullet Bill timer gets manipulated to make the last Bullet Bill cannon fire as soon as possible. We did a corner clip followed by an FPG fakeout for entertainment.

5-4

We save a frame from optimizing the in game time countdown. The in-game time countdown in castle levels is sepreate from the framerule system, so by ending the level 1 IGT less, we save 1 frame.

World 6

6-1

6-1 uses the same technique described in 2-1, ill go more in detail as to the "how?" of this trick now. The main things to understand are the 3 relevant gravity types for bouncing off of enemies and how floor collision works, mario has 3 gravity types which determine your bounce off of an enemy, standing gravity (speeds 1-15), walking gravity (speeds 16-24), and running gravity (speeds 25-40). any one of these can be used to get under the floor, however, both running and standing gravity do not yield a high enough bounce to be able to fully stay in the floor, so we need to use walking gravity. however, getting under the floor isn't easy, it requires mario to be within a 1 y-pixel area, between where floor collision is disabled, however mario is still able to interact with enemies. in 2-1 this is easy, as the koopa is already in the floor when performing the jump into the floor, so y-positioning is trivial, however in 6-1, you have to catch the parakoopa on the way down, but also land in that 1 pixel wide gap, this requires a specific cointoss (odd/even frames), and precise speed and jump height, but is barely possible, this also improves on the non-submitted warps TAS by Zen (63 frames saved). Entertainment wise, we waited for 2 frames in the start of the level to make the koopa in the end move to the right upon level completion.

6-2

In 6-2, we manipulated sprite slots so that 5 sprites are occupied before the flagpole. After that, the star flag tries to load in and overwrites the flagpole leading to a flag despawn which has the same effect as FPG.

6-4

Shooting fireballs close to Bowser prevents a lag frame.

World 7

7-1

There was 2 different ways to complete this level the fastest, we chose the one we did because it looked cool (and it might've been the only one possible...)

7-2

7-2 uses the same whirlpool technique described in 2-2, however this time only saving 1 frame.

7-4

We slowed down on purpose and do another camera manipulation to get 1 less (231) on the timer and catch the framerule with 0 frames to spare.

World 8

8-2

A regular BBG was used. One thing we would like to note is a strategy that unfortunately didn't make it in which doesn't save time, however its a very sick swag strat that happens to not be possible under the circumstances of this TAS. The strategy in question is an 8-2 Bullet Bill floor clip, we spent quite a long time researching it, and after a few days of testing we found it to be possible to clip from the right side of the bullet into the floor, however it requires a specific cointoss bottom bullet shot, which we very unfortunately cannot achieve in time for it to save the framerule.

8-4

We saved 2 frames in 8-4, one from a more favorable pattern in 8-4 and the other is in the turnaround room similar to Super Mario Bros. "RTA rules" TAS.

Conclusion

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