A new theory...?
2 years ago
United Kingdom

In Summoning Salt's newest video about the human limit, he talks about two TASes: a 4:54.26 (considered the human limit) and a 4:54.03 (faster, but currently not possible). In the 4:54.03, he mentions that the TAS involves moving left and right to gain more momentum faster, so that got me thinking. And I've come up with something that probably seems rather outlandish, but it might just work.

After watching that part, I thought "Well, Super Mario Kart players shaved down some small bumps under their D-Pad to get better drifts than the controller originally allowed, right? So why don't Super Mario Bros. players shave down bumps under their D-Pad too (if they have any that is)?". Yep. That's the entire idea. Just shaving any bumps you might have under the D-Pad. But if SMK players can get drifts down straights by doing this, surely it would be possible for SMB players to do the same thing and be able to get momentum faster...right?

Israel

No, this will not happened, the SNES controller are desinged in a such a way that makes it so the bump shave off natrually, and instead of banning tens of players becuase their controllers had that problem, they decided to just let everyone shave off the bump, so they will have the same advantage.

The NES controllers don't have that problem and shaving off the bump just makes no sense in this context.

Basque Country

i dont get that of bumps doing things in the NES, but is not a controller thing at all, i mean TAS is not controlled by a human lol, there is no faster way to do anything about momentum with speed, there is a maximum speed on the game that you mantain constantly in the most of the run, you can just get faster in that aspect while fast acceling and thats alredy knew and done where is needed

Edited by the author 2 years ago
United States

L+R is explicitly banned in the rules. Even if you modified your controller to be able to press that input, you wouldn't be able to submit any runs using it to the leaderboard.

youtubeman06 likes this
United Kingdom

well that's unfortunate

Colorado, USA

Most communities ban L+R in runs which usually design their rulesets around original, unmodified hardware.

IMO, it would be kind of absurd to start allow that and have runners damage/break controllers (not an infinite resource) for a nearly 36 year old system.

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