Super Mario World -- Credits Warp in 5:59.6 (First Time Ever on Console)

Some highlights/historically significant examples of this: Super Mario World (TAS, 2014): link Super Mario Bros. 3 (TAS, 2014): link - The same run performed RTA (i.e. by a human using a real controller) at AGDQ 2015: link Super Mario World (RTA, 2015): ▶ this video Super Mario World "total control" (RTA, 2015): link Pokemon Yellow total control (TAS, 2017): link The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (RTA, 2019-ish?): link Ocarina of Time total control/"Triforce%" (TAS, 2022): link (explanation: link )

Ever since I saw someone beat Super Mario World by reprogramming the game from within the game itself ( ▶ this video ), I realized that speedrunning retro games is truly next-level these days.

There was a time where is discovered the speedrun and tas communities and binge-watched everything it has to offer. I was constantly amazed by what the players achieved, and I especially liked the ones where the gap between tas and human player closes. SethBling made an elaborate, frame-perfect glitch exploit run of Super Mario World where he warps from the first level to the end credits - absolutely unbelievable. ▶ this video

I believe it's been posted before, but sethbling (of vanilla-minecraft-hacks fame) pulled off the impossible and did the credit warp on an actual SNES, live[1]. As this video very-nicely explains, this required incredible amounts of pixel-perfect accuracy. Lining up the line of koopa shells on exact x-offsets and very narrow heights mid jump (!) to write the landing-sled - using a controller, realtime - is utterly insane. As a side note sethbling's latest project is teaching[2] (using neuro-evolution) his machine learning bot to play SMW[2], SMB1[3], and Mario Kart (original)[4]. While he machine learning is simple by today's standards, his brief videos give a really nice introduction to the topic that should be accessible to most people. [1] ▶ this video [2] link [3] link [4] link

Oh, sure. Still, it's not the first time a speedrunning trick has made its way from TAS into "live" runs. For instance, the SMW credits skip: ▶ this video