An update on the best possible time for humans: @TheRudyyy found a new skip where you use the invisible blocks at the flag in 6-2 to jump over it and get to a Bowser fight past the castle and flag, when grabbing the axe you will die and warp to 7-1, allowing the player to skip 6-3 and 6-4 (which was played in my speedruns of 12:26.138 for 8-4 and 13:04.591 for 8-5 | and played by the TAS). This was used (and can be seen) in his recent world record time of 11:04.983 for 8-4, and 11:43.700 for 8-5.

From what I can gather, this LOSES time in 6-2 alone, but saves around 48.653 seconds in the full RTA speedrun. Making the fastest human theory time around 10:06.501 for 8-4, and 10:42.259 for 8-5.

Those times are rough estimates, I highly doubt that's the exact time humans can get, I will make a new human theory TAS soon with the shortcut in it.

Taking the 4-1 pipe loses time. So it's not worth it unless you wanna stock up on lives by collecting as many coins as possible.

From what I know Emulator isn't slower than a NTSC NES. I'd suggest watching runs around the time of your goal (for instance watch a run that has a time of around 9:00 since your goal is under 10:00), and see how they play 8-1.

If you're new to running the game then I'd highly recommend not going for the pipe jumps. Since that's the hardest part of 8-1. Don't try to go all out like WR, just play cool. It's perfectly normal to go slow in any of the levels for a first PB. If you already have runs of it though then try to play it slightly faster in attempts over your PB. That's my personal suggestion.

I'd say either @Lul_ecks_dee , @LeKukie , @somewes or @tavenwebb2002 will get the first 454.

Oh, ok.

@Nebula_Composer So you're saying that just because he didn't finish the whole level no one's gotten the clip? I hope I'm misunderstanding you bc that's completely false.

Pretty sure the only different is the Minus World (like you said), where there's 3 levels on the JP version and 1 level that's different on the US version. I couldn't find any list of the differences on the internet.

I don't know if you're talking about console or emulator, but here's a link for a NES console controller: http://pidgezero.one/inputdisplay.php

FYI iirc for NintendoSpy (the app commonly used for input display), there is a delay from when you press the button and when it actually comes up in the display. I don't know why and this only happens for NES input display.

Over the past several days I took the time to create a human theory TAS for any% 8-4 and any% 8-5. The time for 8-4 ended up being 10:55.154 and 8-5 was 11:30.912. I kinda doubt that humans will achieve sub 11 for 8-4 bc there are some things that the TAS does that are very tricky, precise and risky to go for in RTA runs. I don't doubt that humans will get sub 12 though for both 8-4 and 8-5.

Here's the link:

For those who want to compare against the TAS, I timed the TAS via Livesplit while the TAS was being recorded, I will make a resource of them.

Hmmm, I don't know.

Hopefully someone else can find out what it is. :)

I don't know if I understand you correctly, but I'll give it my best shot.

Emulator has this thing called "Input Lag". Input lag means that there's a delay when you press the button. What I mean by this is that say if you press A, then Mario will jump slightly later instead of right when you press the button. They're usually off by a few frames.

This probably isn't the case but that might be the reason, again I don't think I understand you correctly so if I'm wrong then someone else can probably clarify. :)

Click "All Games" which can be found under the "Games" tab next to the website's logo, then click "Request a game" on the right.

I don't think this falls under the "codes" category, but there is hardware that you can use on console like the Nakitek and SD2SNES for use of savestates. Super Everdrive doesn't support savestates unfortunately, but just in case you can't find a practice ROM there's the two hardware options I listed that you can at least check out with just creating/using savestates.

In "Format" it says that the winners from each group will move on to the bracket stage. Does that mean that the 3 people who lost are out of the tournament?

Edit: Just read in the discord, nevermind. :)

That doesn't work. If you hit the right side of the axe (as far as you can go), the game with lag a little bit and the axe won't even disappear. That's slower, and Mario always slows down to walking speed after grabbing the axe.

@That_one_kid 1 firework doesn't lose time, 3 and 6 do.

Just click the submit button then insert your run's information.

You don't necessarily need to have a run on the leaderboard to be a member of this community. You can try to find new glitches or tricks that can save time or just generally help others. Or you can make a practice ROM for SML (if one's never been mae yet). But there's probably tutorials in the guides section that'll help you learn the game in a speedrunning format.

If I understand you correctly (Mario walked through the pipe), then I'm pretty sure you'd lose time since (iirc) you'd have to press left in order to clip into the pipe.