'Super Mario Bros.' speedrunner hits nearly inhuman 4:55 world record

Re:'Super Mario Bros.' speedrunner hits nearly inhuman 4:55 ... by mikepurvis on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @07:57AM (#18074971)

This is, as always, a local maxima— new strats may come along which change everything again. Summoning Salt's WRP videos do a great job of showing how the strategies for a particular game evolve over time as new things are uncovered:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtUbO6rBht0daVIOGML3c8w/vid...

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Re:'Super Mario Bros.' speedrunner hits nearly inhuman 4:55 ... by kibwen on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @09:41AM (#18075791)

I came here to paste the link to Summoning Salt, and an upvote alone isn't enough to emphasize how much I recommend his channel. Here's the link to his retrospective on Super Mario Bros specifically (now a bit out of date, of course): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdAkY7RfajY

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Re:'Super Mario Bros.' speedrunner hits nearly inhuman 4:55 ... by msla on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @01:57PM (#18078553)

Summoning Salt makes great videos. The SMB1 video has already been linked, but I also love his video on the Choco Mountain track in Mario Kart 64. It has some great livestream captures which show records being broken, and contextualizes them well enough to give them some pathos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y99Wj-NStok

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Re:'Super Mario Bros.' speedrunner hits nearly inhuman 4:55 ... by jMyles on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @09:16AM (#18075559)

Summoning Salt makes absolutely incredible content. I'm interested to see how (if at all) he covers this event.

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