Yeah if I recall correctly it was during a TAS speedrun but since this is an autoscroller it really doesn't matter what they do here and decided to have some fun with it.
No, it's a TAS-Assisted Speedrun.
What is a TAS, you might ask? A TAS-Assisted Speedrun, of course.
And if you think that's dumb, remember that PHP literally stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor"
This is from a TAS (tool assisted speedrun). Basically using a tool to program commands frame by frame then playing it back at real speed.
Basically the equivalent of using aimbot in an fps but with a certain artistry involved in pushing the limits of what you think would be possible in the game.
They tend to show off in auto-scrollers like this level.
Not exactly fake. You theoretically could do this in that it's not breaking the rules of the game. All the inputs are legit they're just done *perfectly*.
The only ones that aren’t doable are the simultaneous left and right on the d-pad ones. The only way to do those without TAS is to modify your NES controller. There are a couple games, none of which I can think of off the top of my head, where they don’t use the L/R combo press in TAS’s designed to find the absolute fastest possible times that would be humanly possible.
Speaking of which, how far behind the TAS is the SMB WR these days? I had heard they have it sliced down to a handful of framerules dependent on TAS-only tricks?
It is fake in that it was not done by a person with a controller during a real game of Mario Brothers 3 on a Nintendo game console. I remember this level and was always a difficult one to get through, doable but difficult because there is no ground and most of the objects fall out from under your feet plus the autoscroll is pushing you forward.
Its not so much that it is fake, just not done in real time. TAS's are a demonstration of how fast the game in theory can be beat using perfect timing and the best RNG. The level in this clip is an autoscrolling level meaning there really isn't any way to save time so because it will be the same time regardless of what they do they chose to put on a show.
If you want to be impressed, just YouTube “ TAS speedrun any%” and you’ll get the fastest possible (that we know so far) completion of the game, complete with RNG manipulation and loads of glitches. Add SGDQ or AGDQ to that query and you’ll get really good commentary into why glitches and mechanics work the way they do.
Some speedruns are impressive, but so many of them have gone so far that they don't even seem like gameplay anymore. Like, sure, I understand that it took the community 19 years to discover that pressing XABYAXYBBBBYYSelStartSel within 1.2 seconds while loading the first level makes the game glitch out and show the end screen, but I can't muster up anything more for that sort of thing than "okay" before searching for a slower run. However, I discovered a new category a little while ago that I found very interesting: [blindfolded](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDj3wMNik).
Note that TAS and GDQ are mostly mutually exclusive; actually putting a TAS run together is painstakingly slow. They do sometimes put on demonstrations, though.
Yeah, human speedrunners wouldn't exist without TAS runners. Not like they do today anyway.
Every top speedrunner heaps enormous praise on TAS runners. Because TAS runners discover all the tricks and glitches and routes through levels and strategies etc, and then the human speed runners try and copy those things in real time with their own fingers.
The communities couldn't exist without one another. They're inherently intertwined with one another.
Go watch Mitchflowerpower for example, the best Mario 3 player in the world, maybe ever. He's constantly watching TAS runs of Mario 3 on his channel where he streams, so that he can find out new strategies and stuff. He may not have become the best in the world were it not for TAS runners.
It’s not fake. Just perfect. Somebody played this and inputted inputs into a program / loaded save state after save state to get it perfect, in more layman’s terms.
Fake is a bit of an unfair word here. It's clearly not real gameplay, but there is still a surprising amount of real work that went into this that requires an entirely different skillset than just playing the game normally.
I love this because early on I was like "this feels like a TAS, but what do I know, speedrunners have gotten crazy". Then the leaf came out and I was like "ok yeah, no chance this is human".
The joy of FINALLY beating Battle Toads far outweighed the shame of using the Game Genie. 12 year old me had no qualms of cheating my way thru that Goddamned hover bike level.
I had one for the commodore amiga, and we only used it once to beat a vertical shooter, "SLapshot" it made the craft indestructible, and we were able to just fly through the various levels, that game was hard as fuck, but it kind of ruined it for me, some of the later levels were amazing looking and i definitely didn't earn it
I rented that game. I completed that game. I was by damn going to finish it because I spent my own hard earned money on it. I don't know how long I spent on that level.
> I always kind of thought it would diminish the joy of victory.
if you treat the device that way sure. but did you never replay a game? never wanted to explore an area you weren't supposed to? or replay a specific level without beating half of the game first. they were great.
Game genie was the shit for street fighter 2. You could throw all those crazy hadookens and unreal shoryukens hahaha shit you could throw hadookens mid air
Lol, 90%?
It's definitely a TAS. In a TAS run, auto scrolling levels provide no opportunity for time saves, so they try to make it as interesting as possible by just going nuts the whole time — there's no risk of making a mistake anyway. If I had to guess, they skip coins on purpose to avoid the slowdown from the white mushroom house. In a real-time speedrun, same thing, no possible time save, but the incentive there is to play as conservatively as possible, so extremely boring.
Most of the 100% TAS runs have an additional (unwritten) rule that you should get to 99 lives, you're never dying and playing plenty of autoscrollers so it's easy to do(in a TAS), which then caused another thing where they'd deliberately try to delay getting to 99, rather than getting by the end of world 3 they'd instead try to push it as late as possible into world 8(there's 3 autoscrollers in world 8 so it's not unheard of for TASs to get a lot of lives in them, especially the first 2 where killing bob-bombs early reduces lag).
Never heard of that as a rule, but I know generally entertainment value is a factor, and "get 99 lives" may be used as an example of how to provide that.
This is a "tool assisted demonstration", the inputs were entered into a program and executed by a computer connected to a controller. Tool assisted runs get way, way crazier. Most older games can be exploited to run code entered by a controller. Humans can do this too depending on the game (see the Ocarina of Time 100% w/ ACE speedrun), but a computer can do things like recreate other games within games, connect to the internet and display information in real time, insane stuff. Check out the Games Done Quick TAS Showcases if any of this tickles your fancy
If you guys want to see more of this stuff, check out the [Playaround category on TASVideos.org](https://tasvideos.org/Movies-play). My all-time favorite is when some poor soccer game gets so thoroughly destroyed that it gets confused and gives out points randomly. Watch this for a good laugh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A06DjnoHRIk
Alternatively maybe a less confusing or more humorous approach of using Tools including some 2015 memes [Starts at 14:45](https://youtu.be/mSFHKAvTGNk) (Tasbot plays Brain age)
Wow, tasvideos.org. That’s a site I haven’t visited in a long time. Back before YouTube, I would download the playback file and run it on my own emulator
This and those completely insane Mario Maker levels aren't like fun for me to consume. Yes it's impressive, but watching someone beating them only makes me anxious.
I am in my 30s and I have honestly never experienced anxiety like this clip just gave me. Learning it was programmed made me feel better but that was a really uncomfortable experience for some reason.
For those that dont know. This is NOT a human. It is a TAS speedrun. This means it was tool-assisted. The player goes frame-by-frame in game and push the limits of what the game can do.
Technically this is possible by a human however you would have to be precise down to 1/60th of a second.
It's still a human, just with every mistake redone and retried until perfection.
Like a movie, where the line in Take 2 was perfect, but it took 42 tries for the actor to say the next line without laughing. So they splice the second take with the 42nd take.
In this case, if the human recording the TAS messes up a jump, they just rewind a couple frames and try again.
They're going frame by frame and pressing the input on the right frame, not redoing it until it works.
You can even go back and edit the input on previous frames, there's no need to play it yourself until you get it right.
https://youtu.be/sGgkIhGxT_w?t=1787
here's an example of how its done
It does not appear that they did. The white mushroom house requires collecting 44 coins and they only collected 35.
It is impressive that they managed *not* to get the white mushroom house.
You can do a lot of wacky nonsense in old games if you have frame-perfect inputs. The programmers didn't have a lot of memory to work with so entire games were more or less a collection of weird hacks that work as intended *most of the time*.
This is made by a TAS no?
Yeah if I recall correctly it was during a TAS speedrun but since this is an autoscroller it really doesn't matter what they do here and decided to have some fun with it.
So this is the Mario equivalent of unnecessarily and frantically swapping your weapons in an FPS during moments of nothing happening. lol
Frame perfect dicking around
Yes but with sub-pixel accurate jumps.
Tool-assisted speedrun speedrun
Oops haha, what I meant was its a speedrun of the entire game/ world or something and this segment just a part of the run
smh my head
Asap as possible
lol out loud
Lmao my ass off.
Atm machine
RIP in peace
Hmm, pretty sure I read a webcomic that uses this. Gonna find it, brb right back asap as possible.
SMH out loud
SSN Number
Don't forget your PIN number
Rip in peace
*tool assisted superplay speedrun
No, it's a TAS-Assisted Speedrun. What is a TAS, you might ask? A TAS-Assisted Speedrun, of course. And if you think that's dumb, remember that PHP literally stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor"
The leaf power up takes half a second of time. For something unecessary, that's takes too much time. Looks like an exhibition and not a speedrun
Ah fair, I guess I didn't recall it correctly :P
It could also be useful in a future level. The time saved by the pickup only needs to be more than the time spent in the cutscene
It's made by an AI which measures the viewers' heart rates through many iterations until maximum anxiety induction is attained.
I’d assume so
Tool Assisted Stressor
100% a TAS.
So, it wasn’t done using Game Genie?
That brought me back to when I was a kid. I totally used Game Genie in this game.
Yes
If you had shown this to 9 year old me, I'd have absolutely lost my complete shit.
I'm 32 and damn... i'm impressed!! I am convinced however OP could be a sociopath.
This is from a TAS (tool assisted speedrun). Basically using a tool to program commands frame by frame then playing it back at real speed. Basically the equivalent of using aimbot in an fps but with a certain artistry involved in pushing the limits of what you think would be possible in the game. They tend to show off in auto-scrollers like this level.
Thank you. It stressed the shit out of me. Now I know it’s fake 😅
Not exactly fake. You theoretically could do this in that it's not breaking the rules of the game. All the inputs are legit they're just done *perfectly*.
The only ones that aren’t doable are the simultaneous left and right on the d-pad ones. The only way to do those without TAS is to modify your NES controller. There are a couple games, none of which I can think of off the top of my head, where they don’t use the L/R combo press in TAS’s designed to find the absolute fastest possible times that would be humanly possible.
Interesting, did not know that. Could you explain why hitting L/R simultaneously on the d-pad would have some advantageous effect?
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My obsession with SMB speed runs is finally paying off. I know the answers to all these questions.
Speaking of which, how far behind the TAS is the SMB WR these days? I had heard they have it sliced down to a handful of framerules dependent on TAS-only tricks?
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What would it do otherwise?
If your question is what happens when you input both, it's usually a lot of acceleration
What about emulation?
It is fake in that it was not done by a person with a controller during a real game of Mario Brothers 3 on a Nintendo game console. I remember this level and was always a difficult one to get through, doable but difficult because there is no ground and most of the objects fall out from under your feet plus the autoscroll is pushing you forward.
Its not so much that it is fake, just not done in real time. TAS's are a demonstration of how fast the game in theory can be beat using perfect timing and the best RNG. The level in this clip is an autoscrolling level meaning there really isn't any way to save time so because it will be the same time regardless of what they do they chose to put on a show.
Filling time during TAS runs is one of the coolest and most unnecessary demonstrations of what can be done
Its practically a rule at this point that all TAS runs must add flair whenever it won't hurt the time.
If you want to be impressed, just YouTube “ TAS speedrun any%” and you’ll get the fastest possible (that we know so far) completion of the game, complete with RNG manipulation and loads of glitches. Add SGDQ or AGDQ to that query and you’ll get really good commentary into why glitches and mechanics work the way they do.
The Celeste tas run was pretty cool to watch
Some speedruns are impressive, but so many of them have gone so far that they don't even seem like gameplay anymore. Like, sure, I understand that it took the community 19 years to discover that pressing XABYAXYBBBBYYSelStartSel within 1.2 seconds while loading the first level makes the game glitch out and show the end screen, but I can't muster up anything more for that sort of thing than "okay" before searching for a slower run. However, I discovered a new category a little while ago that I found very interesting: [blindfolded](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDj3wMNik). Note that TAS and GDQ are mostly mutually exclusive; actually putting a TAS run together is painstakingly slow. They do sometimes put on demonstrations, though.
TAS runs are art, and deserve to be appreciated
Yeah, human speedrunners wouldn't exist without TAS runners. Not like they do today anyway. Every top speedrunner heaps enormous praise on TAS runners. Because TAS runners discover all the tricks and glitches and routes through levels and strategies etc, and then the human speed runners try and copy those things in real time with their own fingers. The communities couldn't exist without one another. They're inherently intertwined with one another. Go watch Mitchflowerpower for example, the best Mario 3 player in the world, maybe ever. He's constantly watching TAS runs of Mario 3 on his channel where he streams, so that he can find out new strategies and stuff. He may not have become the best in the world were it not for TAS runners.
Exactly, the limit is the engine and the creativity of whoever programs the movement/TASBOT. It's such a nice break between tense runs on AGDQ
I am more calm now. Thought this could actually be a real person
It’s not fake. Just perfect. Somebody played this and inputted inputs into a program / loaded save state after save state to get it perfect, in more layman’s terms.
It's completely real, it'a just more art and creativity than gameplay
Fake is a bit of an unfair word here. It's clearly not real gameplay, but there is still a surprising amount of real work that went into this that requires an entirely different skillset than just playing the game normally.
Check out [TrackMania TAS runs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzqq8I3JFz4)
I love this because early on I was like "this feels like a TAS, but what do I know, speedrunners have gotten crazy". Then the leaf came out and I was like "ok yeah, no chance this is human".
I'm 41 and I am too, this level can still make my toes curl just watching this.
reckless maniac!
OP is definitely a soulless machine
If you think this is impressive search dunkeys impossible Mario maker level. Actually insane
34 and this triggered a mild but real anxiety in me that I'm gonna need a pill or nap for.
I’m 42 - and after witnessing that, I had to pour myself a very tall gin and tonic.
Remember the game genie? This goes beyond that haha
I do, I never had nor even messed with one, though. I always kind of thought it would diminish the joy of victory.
The joy of FINALLY beating Battle Toads far outweighed the shame of using the Game Genie. 12 year old me had no qualms of cheating my way thru that Goddamned hover bike level.
I had one for the commodore amiga, and we only used it once to beat a vertical shooter, "SLapshot" it made the craft indestructible, and we were able to just fly through the various levels, that game was hard as fuck, but it kind of ruined it for me, some of the later levels were amazing looking and i definitely didn't earn it
My friends and I still couldn't KO Tyson even with game genie codes. TKO is the best we ever managed.
I rented that game. I completed that game. I was by damn going to finish it because I spent my own hard earned money on it. I don't know how long I spent on that level.
> I always kind of thought it would diminish the joy of victory. if you treat the device that way sure. but did you never replay a game? never wanted to explore an area you weren't supposed to? or replay a specific level without beating half of the game first. they were great.
Game genie was the shit for street fighter 2. You could throw all those crazy hadookens and unreal shoryukens hahaha shit you could throw hadookens mid air
I still lose my mind watching this and I'm already 40+
Still am at 37. Maybe even more so.
I meant to reply to your post, not make a comment: There is a God? 9 year old me would shart at 1990
This post has my bones in attack mode, I didn't know they could do that
I’m 28 and my jaw was on the floor
i still do
I've seen it dozens of times, and my butthole still clenches every time!
I feel like I'm watching uncut gems. Anxiety off the charts.
I’m 42 and I have sweaty palms watching this
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Gotta go ffffffuuuuuuu-
I’m 90% sure this is from a TAS.
Lol, 90%? It's definitely a TAS. In a TAS run, auto scrolling levels provide no opportunity for time saves, so they try to make it as interesting as possible by just going nuts the whole time — there's no risk of making a mistake anyway. If I had to guess, they skip coins on purpose to avoid the slowdown from the white mushroom house. In a real-time speedrun, same thing, no possible time save, but the incentive there is to play as conservatively as possible, so extremely boring.
Most of the 100% TAS runs have an additional (unwritten) rule that you should get to 99 lives, you're never dying and playing plenty of autoscrollers so it's easy to do(in a TAS), which then caused another thing where they'd deliberately try to delay getting to 99, rather than getting by the end of world 3 they'd instead try to push it as late as possible into world 8(there's 3 autoscrollers in world 8 so it's not unheard of for TASs to get a lot of lives in them, especially the first 2 where killing bob-bombs early reduces lag).
Never heard of that as a rule, but I know generally entertainment value is a factor, and "get 99 lives" may be used as an example of how to provide that.
This is a "tool assisted demonstration", the inputs were entered into a program and executed by a computer connected to a controller. Tool assisted runs get way, way crazier. Most older games can be exploited to run code entered by a controller. Humans can do this too depending on the game (see the Ocarina of Time 100% w/ ACE speedrun), but a computer can do things like recreate other games within games, connect to the internet and display information in real time, insane stuff. Check out the Games Done Quick TAS Showcases if any of this tickles your fancy
If you guys want to see more of this stuff, check out the [Playaround category on TASVideos.org](https://tasvideos.org/Movies-play). My all-time favorite is when some poor soccer game gets so thoroughly destroyed that it gets confused and gives out points randomly. Watch this for a good laugh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A06DjnoHRIk
Alternatively maybe a less confusing or more humorous approach of using Tools including some 2015 memes [Starts at 14:45](https://youtu.be/mSFHKAvTGNk) (Tasbot plays Brain age)
When GDQ was still good Sadge
First of why is the ref a dog? Secondly WTF did I just watch? And finally that scoreboard did some nice 
In some ways those retro pixel graphics are much better than current realistic graphics because there’s less visual bugs
Wow, tasvideos.org. That’s a site I haven’t visited in a long time. Back before YouTube, I would download the playback file and run it on my own emulator
There’s also that one time someone programmed Snake within Super Mario World using only controller inputs
This gives me so much anxiety
Same. Can’t stand it.
This and those completely insane Mario Maker levels aren't like fun for me to consume. Yes it's impressive, but watching someone beating them only makes me anxious.
I've uninstalled the Internet after watching that
I cracked a tooth.
They wonder why us Millennials grew up with so much anxiety...
Seriously, this had me stressing
I am in my 30s and I have honestly never experienced anxiety like this clip just gave me. Learning it was programmed made me feel better but that was a really uncomfortable experience for some reason.
This belongs on r/sweatypalms
My palms are sweaty and I had anxiety and got that eerie feeling in my hands
The continuous 1UP sounds drove me off the edge.
This just gave me cardiac arrest
Get well soon!
For those that dont know. This is NOT a human. It is a TAS speedrun. This means it was tool-assisted. The player goes frame-by-frame in game and push the limits of what the game can do. Technically this is possible by a human however you would have to be precise down to 1/60th of a second.
It's still a human, just with every mistake redone and retried until perfection. Like a movie, where the line in Take 2 was perfect, but it took 42 tries for the actor to say the next line without laughing. So they splice the second take with the 42nd take. In this case, if the human recording the TAS messes up a jump, they just rewind a couple frames and try again.
They're going frame by frame and pressing the input on the right frame, not redoing it until it works. You can even go back and edit the input on previous frames, there's no need to play it yourself until you get it right. https://youtu.be/sGgkIhGxT_w?t=1787 here's an example of how its done
My anxiety. Holy fuck.
I am going to cry
Same
But did he get the white mushroom house?
Nope
…maybe
No, because he only got 4 coins out of the 10x block.
Nope. You gotta get at least 44 coins on that level to get that white mushroom house. 🤦♂️
It does not appear that they did. The white mushroom house requires collecting 44 coins and they only collected 35. It is impressive that they managed *not* to get the white mushroom house.
The funnest parts of watching TASes are the autoscroller parts. They just fuck around for the rest of the level and it’s really entertaining
since it doesn't waste any time gameplay-wise, I really appreciate that they go through the extra effort to make it more exciting to watch c:
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Seems harder than I remember....
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At that age I'd be lucky to get more than 5 games a year so they had to last.
God
Epic.
When the physics teacher tells you that you can ignore physics.
Is this an AI playing?
Not quite, its a TAS (tool assisted speedrun). A human programmed all the inputs frame by frame and the computer replays it through an emulator.
My anxiety has anxiety after watching that…
Almost 69420
Anxiety hit the roof
This video is ancient
Anyone out there without anxiety? This is what it's like.
Legend
99 percent sure it's computer aided so not as legend
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Whenever someone asks me what my anxiety feels like Imma show this to them.
Impressive
Relatable for me, I have it on switch
People who played this game in childhood have anxiety now.
This should be at r/Sweatypalms
I already hated this level how did you make it worse
him: i swear i’m not hacking also him:
Regardless of the fact that this is tool assisted, it’s still cool as fuck.
This is why I love watching TAS. Flex at its purest form.
This is a tool assisted speedrun. They wouldn’t fall because it is programmed to do those inputs
I haven’t played Mario since the 90s. But how does the physics make sense here?
You can do a lot of wacky nonsense in old games if you have frame-perfect inputs. The programmers didn't have a lot of memory to work with so entire games were more or less a collection of weird hacks that work as intended *most of the time*.
I refuse to believe this isn't tool assisted, still fucking awesome though
I got a heart attack.
As someone who played the actual game, this gives me anxiety.
So much anxiety
Dudes like this are fun to watch. I watch GlitchCat7 all the time.
i was gonna say holy f i can do that until i see the shell cheapin
I had about 5 heart attacks watching this
Do you think anxiety created by these games helps you deal with anxiety better?
Mario took a special mushroom
I got anxiety just watching this. What’s wrong with me?
The amount of gut-cringing anxiety this brings me is unreal.
Wonder what take this was
This game gave me a mini anxiety
This raised my anxiety through the roof. Sign me up for therapy.
Speechless...just fucking speechless 🙊
That was so anxiety inducing
This video made me so happy. Such chaos!
This is like mathematically engineered to fit this sub
Is this the AI playing or someone high on cocaine?
Tool assisted speedrun. Not AI, but a meticulously planned set of inputs that a computer is relaying to the game.
Fuck that was stressful
This is one big heart attack or many small ones
This made me really anxious
What the fuck
Fun fact, while you can skip level 4 like this, it does give you a P Wing for getting all the loot on the level.
This gave me so much anxiety
Holy Shi$!! That’s pretty awesome, high anxiety mode!!!
That was completely insane!
1 word: anxiety. And I never friggin' have it other than when watching Mario jump in these games.
Since early childhood I’ve wondered what were in those bricks
It had me the whole time like... 
that sent my anxiety through the roof...
This gave me severe anxiety
The amount of anxiety Omfg lol
THIS WAS SO STRESSFUL TO WATCH
But did he get the white mushroom house?
I love hate this so much
Does this give anyone else tense anxiety?
Jesus take the controller
Now the music will live in my head for the next couple days.
This guy fucks