Turns out not only does NSMB work in Windows XP, it's compatible with Hourglass! This means someone (probably me) can make a TAS, possibly including 1-cycle (if I can ever get it to work)

Do you think we should make/get an autosplitter for LiveSplit? I can't get my head round how to code it, but someone on the Internet might be able to.

Any%: Complete the game as fast as possible, from the beginning to the end. Timing is from the first frame Mario appears <turns out there is RNG, don't put this bit of text in the actual thing> to the first frame of his flagpole animation. Softlock%: Softlock the game by entering the car before it stops. Timing is from the first frame of Mario moving <RNG doesn't apply> to the frame Mario disappears from view and the game softlocks. <These are the timings I use> <Technically it's not RNG it's just everything is on a timer, but whatever>

If you enter the car at the start of the game quickly enough the game softlocks, so a 'fastest softlock' category could be made for that, with a run being about 20 seconds long