More Ancient Nesticle Movies Found
2 years ago
Oregon, USA

I have found several other old nesticle movies that may date back to the late 90's and early 2000's.

http://www.emulationzone.org/savestates/nesticle/ - This site has a movie titled "mengerle beats Koopa in 7 min" which could indicate an any% run clocking in around 7 minutes. This site also dates back to 1997 or 1998.

https://themushroomkingdom.net/sub-space/saves/smb#movie - This site has a movie titled "Tour de SMB" and dates back to May 27th 1999. This may be the oldest warpless run that we know of. The site also has a 4-2 wrong warp demonstration performed back in 2003 by Deezer.

I am looking for some help in encoding these movies so that they can be viewed as videos once again.

Saarland, Germany

More information (specifically about "Deezer"): He is still around today. On the mushroomkingdom website he was online TODAY as I'm posting this, and posted on the forums on July 27 2021. I was also able to find his e-mail address, which I'm not gonna post here though to protect Deezer. However we didn't find out anything about "mengerle" yet, and I'm not sure if that is even possible, the emulationzone site doesn't seem to have a forum so it'd be really hard. And we also don't know when mengerle's 7 minute any% run was performed, since the download link to the run only gives the NESticle movie file, no archive, so it shows no date. However we can be pretty sure the run was performed somewhere between 1997-2000.

Edited by the author 2 years ago
Elijah likes this
Saarland, Germany

Update: So 108Pi knows how to encode these runs, and these are our results: The 7 minutes run by mengerle didn't work, it started the movie at the very last room in 8-4, and so the run before that is lost. We were able to encode the 2003 Wrong Warp Demonstration, and with big Mario he easily clipped in the huge brick wall at the top at the start of the level by simple breaking 2 blocks, scrolling the screen a bit, and then crouchjumping in it to give himself huge XPOS. (I tried it in Pellsson, it can easily give you 240 XPOS.) Also note this is actually slower than just climbing up the vine, but it works. The best thing is, we were able to encode the Warpless run from May 1999. The time comes out to around 24:07, and the runner seemed to have a very well understanding about the game. He didn't die nor get hit a single time, and he even killed Bowser with fire. He also knew in each level where the coin cache pipes were, so that he could go down them to skip hard sections in each level, and his movement overall was relatively clean for the time, considering it was performed in 1999. (The name of the Warpless runner was "WhooHooDoh", though on another website there's an apostrophe added between "D" and "o".

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New Jersey, USA

If anyone wants to see the 24:07 warpless run, here's a rough recording I made of the NESticle movie playback back when I discovered it in July of last year:

São Paulo, Brazil

let's try to download VM Virtual Box with windows 95 iso in them to see if we can run these movies on modern computers, or is there an easier way to run these emulators?

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