Super Mario Bros. 3: “Game End Glitch” in 00:00.216

I absolutely love speed runs and think they’re a great expression of the hacker mentality.

To take a subtle bug in something like a physics engine and bend it to your will to eek out another 5s save off the world record is absolutely fascinating.

Not to mention things like TASBot which always makes a great GDQ watch https://youtu.be/7CgXvIuZR40 and got me interested in speed running in the first place!

Huh, sometimes I wonder if the people spending time on reasear like this might've actually spent more time with the game (development/ code) than the original developers.

Anyways, great writeup and an awesome way to exploit this historic bug.