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I found a way to go through certain walls.
Even though this submission loses in speed to Genisto's movie, the strategy is not to blame ([1]with exception). I didn't play carefully enough, as I was in somewhat hurry.
This submission is not to be "published" and certainly not to obsolete Genisto's current movie.
I provide this movie for public viewing and I hope someone uses the idea and makes a serious version.
The glitch is used only in the last fortress.
Besides that, I tried to be entertaining in the time limits (I wanted to complete it today).
Glitch explained: SMB3 has walljump, just like SMB1. But you need speed. And SMB3 always ejects properly, except when Mario's head is already inside the wall. Therefore, it only works in ceiling-wall corners (duck-jumping).

Oh, right - the necessary info :P
  • Uses FCEU, no left-right/up-down required
  • NES
  • Abuses luck
  • Abuses glitches
  • Uses flutes / warps
  • Genre: platform

Misc rambles from IRC:
<Bisqwit> I lost to Genisto. But I'll submit it anyway, because I know that the strategy allows beating Genisto's time, even if I wasn't skillful enough.
<TNSe> get genisto to just change the final castle
<Bisqwit> Despite evidence suggesting the contrary, I think I played something from the first world faster
<omeg> ↑ getting the mushroom earlier
<Bisqwit> Timewise, I only know I lost in the following: 8-1, 8-2 (had to wait where Genisto didn't) and most importantly the Koopa match.
<Bisqwit> Also, matches against the small koopas (in castles) might have been a few frames slower, but I'm not sure. And I lost in score, too. But that I didn't care about.
And another quote I wanted to share :)
<BagOfMagicFood> Now I'm not sure whether I like it better when Mario does lots of different stunts, or when he just goes all out with the jumping to get as many lives and points as possible.

More demonstrations of the topic glitch of this movie:
  • smb3test.av] (1.5 MB) - demonstrating how to skip a large part of the World 1 fortress.
  • smb3test2.avi (2.5 MB) - demonstrating an alternate (but 2.5 seconds slower) route in the World 8 fortress.

[1] For the record, the last wall trick in this movie (the long one that leads directly to Koopa's lair) is a bad choice. It's faster to run the regular route instead of doing that.
I tried fixing this mistake, but then Koopa started acting bad (jumps before I manage to kill him (and even sooner than in the actual submission)), and therefore I still was 20 frames short of beating Genisto's time.

adelikat: Removing links to avi files that do not exist, keeping file name for historical records and if anyone has a copy of the file


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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #580: Bisqwit's NES Super Mario Bros. 3 in 10:56.80
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New technique! Very cool, I'm gonna check this out later (and race you to a perfectly done version of this game!)
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As you said, you did it for just showing wall tricks for Future SMB3 Timeattackers. Trick is impressive & might save more time. I think Genisto can do it. More entertaining to watch as he did old one. So Genisto :PPPPPP
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An amusing exercise, sure, but for a slower movie without the 99 1-UPs I must vote NO.
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Considering it's slower than Genisto's existing run, it shouldn't be published, but the prospect of seeing more new SMB3 runs in the future now is sweet. ^_^ I wonder if the warpless run could be improved using this glitch, too?
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I wonder if the warpless run could be improved using this glitch, too? Besides just this glitch, the warpless run can be improved a lot in several different ways.
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I'm voting no, just because this run is by Bisqwit :p nah, I havent actually watched it yet, so I'm holding off on voting But the glitch mini-vids were very nice.
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... Why are you people voting? He said in the submission text that he wasn't going to publish it anyway.
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This submission is not to be "published"
Please ensure your movie is good. Don't waste the judges' time with movies that have obvious mistakes - read the guidelines!
Hm. You said previously that the submission area is not a free file storage for movies not intended to be published. Now it's obviously your own file you are storing, but I feel this probably would have been better as a post in the forums. Nice trick, anyway.
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Truncated wrote:
I feel this probably would have been better as a post in the forums.
I admit this.
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Shoulden't this submission be canceled or locked or something? Since it will not be published anyways?
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Whoa. I didn't realize it was still "new".