Ebayers that I contacted:

• trollandtoadstore (unable to provide info)

• retro_game_freak

• japanvideogamers (had a GB title screen)

• durchgespieltpunktcom

• oddsonfun

• ps2-guru

• e.games (unable to provide info)

• gameboy-guru

• pokeroy (said it looks like GB when played on GB, but looks like SGB when played on GBA SP) <-- wtf? His cart is DMG-YS-USA

Ebayers that I could not contact:

• lukiegames (has too many messages in his inbox)

Amazon sellers I contacted:

• somethinginmyeye

As anyone reading this might know, the US/EU Super Gameboy Version is superior to other versions of the game because

• it has the health glitch
• the glitch route can be done on it
• fewer enemies than on GB and Japanese SGB

Unfortunately it proves to be very difficult to get a cartridge of this version. This thread will be used as a knowledge base / to discuss how to best hunt for the SGB version.

Country codes: (DMG = Gameboy game YS = Game specific code Last letters = region specific code) What is really odd is that the SGB labeled cart turned out to be GB. There may be a chance that there are a gazillion versions, imagine 1.0 GB, 1.1 SGB, 1.2 SGB(different title screen now). However, if this was true, that 1.1 can't do health bug.

DMG-YS-UKV = Unknown

DMG-YS-UKV-2 = Unknown = Has been seen with Original GB label

DMG-YS-NOE-1 = seen with german text alongside on the cover "Herausragende Seite" + SGB label = Plain Gameboy

DMG-YS-USA = May be either or

DMG-YS-FAH = Seen with french text on the cover + Original Gameboy label = Plain Gameboy

DMG-YS-ITA = Unknown = Was seen with Original Gameboy label

Right now, I'm trying to contact various ebayers to ask them to check their title screen (since the SGB version has a different look on the title screen). I have not gotten much feedback from them yet, but will update the above country code list as I get more infos.

http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=419316#419316

I think this could help you with level routing or other things

I have also put an experience chart and stat growth chart earlier in that thread.

VBA is way faster than normal. There are some areas that make the game lag for 30 frames. Also pausing takes similarly long.

In VBA each of those things only take 1~2 frames. I think throughout the game VBA might save about 2 minutes due to this wrong emulation.

I saw mgba core in bizhawk emulates the game correctly.

You could add a category and add this time

looks like this game is getting TASed (maybe) by my fellow man arandomgameTASer since he lost our little bet.

So if anyone here knows of some weird time-saving tricks or glitches, please tell them here.

The rules for any% currently state you need to defeat shadow mario in each level. I think this information is redundant. The real goal is to beat the game asap from file select, period.

Thank you, please answer my other question: What game version did you use?

1.0 or 1.1? Go here https://tcrf.net/Super_Mario_Land#Revisional_Differences and listen to the audio files, then go to your game and check if it is 1.0 or 1.1.

please make a new logo without the /sml2

this one is atrocious. Who made that

Maybe this is just a fake. It wouldn't be the first time someone posted about an amazing skip to seek attention and it turned out fake. It's apparent because the user has done little to provide information on the subject.

Did you enter a bonus room in 2-2 prior to dying?

http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=418047#418047 some info I gathered

do you have a video?

can you post a screenshot of where you died

also, which version do you use, 1.0 or 1.1? you can find information on this here https://tcrf.net/Super_Mario_Land

then, the next question is what console did you play on? super gameboy 1, super gameboy 2, gameboy player, gameboy, gameboy color, gameboy advance, emu (which one, which version of it), etc.

ok in the forest there is this one barrel where we start glitching.

Get luigi in it, select Mario's hammer and smash it. While smashing it, select "hop on barrel" and press it on the last possible frame.

After that, you can do "sign glitch". There is a pastebin that tells step by step how to do it, but I don't have it.. ask altabiscuit. Also, ask him in general how to do everything else.

Welcome :)

I can probably write up something later. For now, you can study dezero's or jettoast's run and use the route they use.

Jettoast starts timing from title screen, I think So his time is actually 28:42 or 28:43.

EDIT:

I timed it as Frame 51709 (0:28:43.633) (1 Player select ~ Last hit).

you can jump on the right bottom thing in boss 4 (but not the left one).

takes 6 shots or 2 jumps to kill one of those.

If you position yourself well, you can hit with 2 shots per emergence (your position was bad in your 12:47 so you hit only once, but you could have jumped and ended it even earlier).

Why do you ban the sgb version? we can't just ban a sgb version, a perfectly fine version of the game, for practically no good reason. We should leave it up to the runners to obtain the version they want.

Backgrounds that are set to scroll fast somehow are really slow on firefox but fast on chrome. (I have checked with http://www.speedrun.com/sml2 ) Firefox stutters around and is slow.