'This is still a 'tough' trick, but top runners are generally have a success rate of at least 50 percent.If you have old video games stored in a box somewhere, it's worth checking what's in there. 'Years and years ago the wall jump you see me do in the second room of 8-4 was considered TAS only, since it is a pixel perfect and frame perfect trick- you must hit a specific pixel on the pipe AND jump in a window that's 1/60th of a second long),' Darbian explains. Forget the minus world and turtle-shell exploits for extra lives: the bugs speedrunners use to shave milliseconds off of their times require frame perfect inputs that are incredibly difficult for human beings to pull off.

With Mario's route seemingly perfected, however, runners have turned to trying to adapt once TAS-only techniques to cut down their times. Tool-assisted speedruns (TASes), which use carefully preprogrammed inputs from a computer to run through a game as quickly as possible, have proven invaluable in helping discover new bugs and exploits in SMB's programming - but for years, many of the things TASes have done have been considered nigh-impossible for humans to replicate. I enjoyed watching his stream and seeing him go for all of these nearly impossible tricks just to save fractions of seconds-I think it's awesome that I'm able to do it with him now, three years later.' way back in 2013 when I was just starting out with speedrunning / streaming. Kosmic was one of the runners that inspired me to stick with Super Mario Bros. 'I don't look at him - or anyone, really-as a competitor as opposed to someone else who enjoys speedrunning the same game. 'Kosmic and I are very good friends within the community,' says Darbian (real name Brad). (As slick as they seem, they are profoundly difficult to pull off-you'll notice that Darbian has a heart rate monitor on his stream layout to show just how tense things can get.)ĭarbian has a heart rate monitor on his stream layout to show just how tense things can get.Īs happy as Darbian is to achieve a record once thought humanly impossible, he's thankful that he has competition in the community to push him further and further. Watching the video is quite a trip, as Darbian makes incredibly difficult maneuvers and bugs seem near effortless in an incredibly smooth playthrough. This tops Kosmic's 4:57:194 from just three days ago.

Though Darbian's timer says 4:57:02, the actual time is 4:56.878.

World record for super mario bros