User Files for Super Mario Bros. - Two Players Hack

Crazy new TAS, improving SMBistic & Arbono's previous record by 337 frames (~5.61 seconds).

The main highlights and improvements are in 8-1, 8-2, and 8-3. By using a new & complex Koopa shell–kicking strategy, we skip entering the castle, saving a significant amount of time.

The entertainment value has also been improved. I added some music-synced gameplay in 4-1 and 8-4 - did you notice it?

Note: This is not the original Super Mario Bros., but a Two Players hack based on the original game. Both players must touch the flagpole to clear a stage, and both must press Down simultaneously to enter pipes.

Authors: HappyLee & Kzwbz Time: 04:49.09 Re-records: 13222

This is my first dual-player TAS. Special thanks to Kzwbz for his help.

This is a 17 frames improvement over my previous run. 21 frames were saved in 4-2, and 1 frame for 8-4 2nd room, and 5 frames were lost in the last room due to bad Podoboo RNG.

In my previous attempt, Luigi hit the hidden coin block and then Mario used it as a stool to reach the vine, which I already knew was unnecessary because even without the coin block they were at a high enough level to hit or reach the vine. The reason I overlooked this is that if you scroll the screen too far to the right before the vine grows enough, Mario won't be able to grab it. My previous TAS was spending too much time waiting for the vine to grow, so I improved on it and managed to gain a 1 frame rule.

And only simple improvement and loss were made in 8-4. I would be glad if someone could make a perfect movement up to the last axe without losing any time.

At long last, here's a complete warp-less LOTAD of this hack: https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4180/ For reference, the current RTA world record for this hack is 23:10.75

This run shows what the fastest Super Mario Bros. Two Players Hack warps run looks like. The major differences from the original is that the pipe loads bit faster, and cannot manipulate the both player's On Screen X to use wrong warp by usual method; there are various differences from the existing SMB warps movie.