The History of Super Mario Bros. 2 World Records

Super Mario Bros 2 has been a speed racing classic for years, it was one of the most popular games of its time, but to beat the game as quickly as possible you must master precise platforming, a variety of mechanics and some of the craziest . Cheats in NES The

history

of Mario 2's

world

record dates back over a decade and a half during that time, some of the best players to ever pick up a NES controller had their turn with the record for at least a period of time, They could say they were the best in the

world

in a Nintendo classic.

This is the story of the Super Mario Bros 2 world record. As with most games, it is almost impossible to determine the oldest world

records

for Super Mario Bros 2. Chances are people beat the game in less than 15 minutes in the late 80s and 90s, but without video evidence it is difficult to determine with certainty; However, as far as recorded races go, some of the earliest on the internet appear to date back to 2005, a trio of races by some of the best sprinters of the time, the fastest being August 2005, with a time of 9 minutes and 42 seconds, performed by Scott Kessler.

In regards to speedrunners from the mid 2000s, the early ages of speedrunning. Scott Kessler was simply legendary. He had

records

in Super Mario.

bros

super

mario

world metroid and several other games his

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mario

bros

2 record was just one of many but it was really good that's how it was, you can choose between 4 characters for each level in mario 2. Peach and Mario are never used anymore They are slow and cannot jump very high. Scott Kessler chose Luigi 1-1 since he jumps higher, allowing him to reach high platforms in the level and reach the underground quickly once he used the bomb. to get through the door you got to the birdo fight that appears at the end of most levels you have to hit birdo with three eggs and one egg is shot every 256 frames since the stage starts that means you can get to birdo . at any time within a window of 256 frames or approximately 4 seconds and not waste any time.

There is an analogy for this that involves transporting a particular 4-wheeled vehicle. If this vehicle leaves a station every 256 frames, then it doesn't matter if it gets there in one frame. before it leaves or 255 frames before, as long as you are inside that window, you will catch the same four-wheeled transport vehicle. Kessler barely made the cycle and arrived just as he shot the first egg and then quickly tossed the other. two to defeat birdo the next was 1-2 where luigi was once again chosen to jump through large gaps at the start of the leg. Kessler virtually never stopped holding down the run button, just tapping at the right moments to jump without slowing down the birdo.

The fight was more of the same waiting for three eggs to shoot and then throwing them as fast as possible in 1 3. Kessler switched to toad because it has a very strange but useful mechanic if an enemy or other heavy object is picked up with a toad, run. much faster than normal, he is the only character in the game with that property, so he can be incredibly useful for passing levels quickly. Kessler ran most of the level with a shy guy on a toad's head and then threw a potion on top of the vase to warp himself. to world 4.

World 4-1 was pretty easy. Kessler picked up an enemy and ran with him, jumping to avoid the enemies in his path. There is a rocket in the middle of the stage that operates on a global timer similar to that of Birdo's eggs. You can only take. to send you to the next part of the stage every 64 frames, as long as you arrive within a 64 frame window, you'll never waste time here. 4-2 is similar to picking up an enemy with a toad and dodging everything else he picked up. potion again at this stage to move on to world 6, although it had some slowdowns along the way.

World 6 is where the game really takes a big step up in difficulty as Kessler used a toad to pick up a cobra and run around the stage as best he could. Could it really be difficult to do it so quickly given the location of the other enemies? He then went underground and had to dig to collect the key. Digging quickly required precise pacing so as not to waste time, as did jumping out of the sand once he had the key. Virto was quickly defeated with a mushroom block and then made it to 6-2. Kessler returned to Luigi here and then slowly rode that albatross over part of the gap.

It took him a long time, but he was sure. He then jumped over other enemies to cross the rest of the hole until the bird fight at the end, Kessler returned to the toad for 6-3 and at first waited until he was under the sand to run under the wall and reach a door at the which then came. birdo who he quickly defeated with mushroom blocks and then the 6th world boss, Tri-clyde, where he jumped and threw a mushroom block 3 times to defeat him in world 7. The last world in the 7-1 game features many big jumps.

Then Kessler used Luigi again, caught a rocket to go to the next screen, and then went up a series of stairs and platforms. It helps to have Luigi here to gain vertical distance quickly, but Kessler still had to hesitate quite a bit after another brute fight. He reached the final stage 7-2. This is the longest level in the game, featuring an outdoor section, a long indoor section, and some boss fights. However, Kessler can skip much of the level by performing a trick where he jumps from a ladder to the ceiling and ran through the various rooms, past Alberto to the Falcon's Mouth fight, where he hit him with a block. of mushroom three times and then reached the final boss.

The wart vegetables fire every 256 frames, kind of like the Eggs work in Birdo, you have to hit him with a vegetable when his mouth opens six times. Kessler took the first four hits, had to retreat and delay the fifth hit for a cycle, then took the sixth hit to finish him off and just like that, he was done. super mario bros 2 in just 9 minutes and 42 seconds the route was pretty simple start in world 1 work your way up to world 4 then move on to world 6 and play worlds 6 and 7 to finish the game kessler sent the race to both files speed demo and twin galaxies, the two leading speed racing websites at the time and that's where the recorded record was located.

It was an imperfect race with small slowdowns at almost every level, but it was a start and it stood as the undisputed world record for months, but for the next two years. You would be defeated twice. The first to do so was a runner named Chris Knight, better known as Kak. In August 2006 he scored a 919, a 23-second improvement. Most of the time the saves came in the back half of the race. He got a couple. of world 4 seconds for hesitation less while carrying the potion and at 6-2, instead of slowly riding the albatross, he accelerated it by jumping, however, most of his time savings came in the last leg 7-2 , he used toad instead of luigi, so save some time by picking up enemies and running with them.

The rest of the level was also improved. Fewer doubts: faster kill of the hawk's mouth and faster kill of the warts, so it was a pretty big improvement, but a year later, in June 2007, the record was broken. the name of the runner would be lowered again this time it was andrew g, a guy who would hold the world records for super mario bros super mario bros 2 super mario bros 3 and super mario world in some cases for years only a legendary mario speedrunner his super mario 2 the time was 9 15 a 4 second improvement over kak's race but there was something different about this three years later it was still holding firm at the top of the leaderboard which made this race so good in the world 1 who matched kak's quick execution and added in this potion throw on 1-3 instead of carefully placing the potion on top of the vase, Andrew threw a shot from afar to avoid slowing down, he timed it perfectly and it worked, although accidentally they beat him at 4-1. time goes back in 4-2 from jumping off the first ladder by accurately jumping off the side of a ladder to climb further, you can get to the top faster than having to climb it slowly in 7-1 used this trick to the maximum advantage flying by the long vertical section in the middle of the level after a 7-2 that equaled Kak's run Andrew had a 915 which he celebrated in the speed demos archive forum thread and then the record just went dormant, this was still in Speed ​​racing was practiced at quite young ages, so games that had large gaps between records were still quite common, but for a game like Super Mario Bros 2, a record that long was a big deal.

However, in October 2010, the race was finally surpassed. This time, the runner was Menbu93, who is best known in the speedrunning community for his legendary Super Mario world record run from 2013, three years earlier; However, he managed to beat Andrew's record in Mario 2, but only by one second with a 9 14. Interestingly, this race was slower than Andrews' in many ways. There were a handful of sloppy mistakes and he couldn't make the quick ladder jumps at 7-1 like Andrew did, but where Men Boo's career shined was with a couple of important new strategies, one was his birdo kill at 6-2 , where he was very aggressive and stacked mushroom blocks to hit Birdo quickly.

The other big one was at 6-3 instead of slowly sinking into the sand and running under the wall. Menbu did this, threw a timid guy to bounce and jumped off him. at just the right time to cross the wall, he saved four seconds on the slowest route and in the end it was enough to barely beat Andrew's 915 and that was the state of Mario 2 speedrunning in the early 2010s. It's You may be noticing a pattern. a record would be set here and then a couple of years would go by without any activity by 2012 the only record for the last five years was Men Boo's 914 it was a strange dilemma instead of accelerating the growth of the community it had slowed down drastically they needed something new So in 2012 a group of players decided to change things up before most players sent their Mario 2 runs to twin galaxies and one of the basic rules of twin galaxies was that no glitches were allowed, which severely limits the possibilities of many fast races for that summer. mario 2 speedrunners decided to just ignore that rule and start making glitchy races and it's a good thing they did because it turns out that super mario bros 2 is one of the most broken games on nes once this decision was made mario 2 runner suddenly had a Lots of new material to work with Some of these tricks that had been known for years but were specifically banned by the Twin Galaxies, like the double jump when you run out of an enemy's corner and jump, the game thinks you're still standing on he. even while you're in the air, so if you press a again you'll be able to jump once more and gain additional height.

This trick had a few uses throughout the run, but was most important in world 1-1 when using the double jump. to get to the top you could use Toad instead of Luigi and run through the rest of the stage faster. Other tricks were a little more complicated like this warp on 1-1, so what happened here was Andrew G's variation of a bug that Richard Uretta first used in a tool-assisted speedrun back in 2005. Mario 2 It has a very strange property where if you are in an invincible state and are climbing a ladder, an enemy that lands on you automatically reverses your direction, so what can you do?

It's that the shy guy intentionally hits you to get into an invincible state, then pick him up, run to the ladder and throw him once you're at the bottom of the ladder, you grab him very quickly to start climbing and when the shy guy hits you. Your direction is reversed and you climb to the bottom of the floor. The game thinks you've legitimately moved on to the next screen, so it places you just outside the bird fight as if you got there normally compared to the old pick-up method. the bomb and blow up the gate barrier, this mistake was certainly faster than before and was enough to get me to birdo one egg cycle early to save a full 5 seconds, finally at 1-2 there was one last mistake, this one was discovered by the control. -alt-destroy in November 2009, if you jump on the carpet, then move to the left to respawn another one when it appears, you can approach from the side and pick up the pidgey, the combination of two carpet sprites on the screen and the fact That the toad is holding the pidgey means the mat will move at hyperspeed, you can fly to the end of the level and potentially get to birdo one cycle early.

These failures combined could save more than 10 seconds and the other stages were also not fully optimized, so a final time under 9 minutes was conceivable given the current record of 9 14. The question was who was going to finish first. In AugustIn 2012, a player named Sven was able to come close to beating Men Boo's race by three seconds, unfortunately, even though this race was live. streamed on Twitch, never saved the stream, so the video no longer exists; However, this race wouldn't last long because later that month, an old school racer returned on August 25, 2012. Andrew G posted this time this was his first.

He once recorded a sub 9 minute run of Super Mario Bros 2 and it was legendary. He gained a 7-second lead on the record in World 1 thanks to new misses and cleaning up men's mistakes, but the time saved didn't stop there, men. he fell down the ladder at 7-1 and had a relatively slow mate with a hawk's mouth at 7-2, allowing Andrew to save another 9 seconds between misses and the world. 7 time saves were enough to get him an incredible 858. This race would be over. Standing for a few months it was daunting trying to get out of world 1 with all the tricks needed to hit and even if you did make it the next 7 levels weren't much easier but in November 2012 someone else came back this time it was kak . and on November 18th he managed to get an 852 beating Andrew by 6 seconds.

Most of his saves came in the back half of the career, such as when he successfully executed a shot on Warts that Andrew missed. It was the first time in five years that Kak officially held Mario 2's record, but there was something very special about this race. Remember how at Andrews 858, the run that Kak beat and double-jumped at 1-1 was clipped. He crossed the floor with the shy guy and did the mat trick at 1-2. Well, Cack didn't do any of that. He beat Andrews 858 with a flawless 852. So how did he get it right? Kak lost 5 seconds at 1-1. because it didn't do the warp, meaning it got to the birdo and egg cycle later, but in andrews 1-2 it was actually slow enough that it didn't get to birdo one cycle earlier, meaning it didn't save time for a technical problem. free stage so Kak managed not to lose time there, even with a faultless world 1 he was only 5 seconds behind Andrew and from there Cack had some time and knew he could save Andrew who had hesitated a bit in 6- 2 while jumping.

Kak was able to improve in both areas and save 4 more seconds, but the biggest time saving in the entire race was at 7-2, as mentioned before, he saved 5 seconds of the hit. A shot at the wart that Andrew missed, however, saved another five seconds of getting to work fast enough to catch a previous cycle of vegetables, just like Birdo's eggs, the wart vegetables are shot every 256 frames at a time. tighten his move at 7-2, he was able to scrape. They saved enough time to get to Wart a couple of seconds early and catch the early vegetable.

In total, he saved 10 seconds on the last stage, allowing him to surpass Andrew's record without problems, since it turns out that CAC had reportedly achieved times as low as 854 in 2010, but did not always record them, for Which begs the question: If Cat could get times in the low 850s without fail, what could he do with them? As expected, congratulatory messages poured in from the entire community. This was 20 seconds before His flawless run was by far the best Super Mario Bros 2 run ever, as was Andrew's run, he saved 5 seconds on 1-1 from doing the warp on 1-2 and Added an extra trick to save even more time after riding. on the carpet he threw a potion on top of a vegetable and entered the door, then immediately left and in the first possible frame after leaving, he picked up the vegetable from under him, causing it to get stuck on his head instead of being transported as Normally, normal vegetables cannot be carried from room to room, however, since it was trapped in his head, this does not apply, so he was able to take it to the boss room and defeat Birdo extremely quickly, saving a whopping 6 seconds over time. flawless route which meant that coming out of world 1 he was 11 seconds ahead of his record but he didn't stop there at 4-1 he did another double jump so he didn't have to hesitate at 6-2 he did multiple double jumps over the long gap to Avoid slowdowns in 6-3 instead of going all the way to pick up the shy guy to jump over the wall.

Kak used a strategy invented by Jeff Sledge where he threw a potion and jumped out of it and in 7-1 he was able to successfully perform the quick stair climbs like Andrew G did. In short, it was remarkable how close to perfection the speedrun was. Cack actually calculated that all the possible remaining time saved could only reduce the record by 6 seconds, which meant that according to Cack Mario 2's perfect speed run would be 8 26 he was so close to perfection but in the end he didn't want to. try to lower it further cax 832 was from June 2013 a year later I was still at the top of the leaderboard with second place almost 20 seconds back a year later nothing had changed 832 was still up by a mile it was a good race but then in September 2015, the record finally got a new challenger, the person's proper name was I Love Mario, he was a high-level racer on a handful of platforms including Blaster Master Mario 3 and Mario World, but in September 2015, I Love Mario began focusing all of his efforts on Super Mario Bros 2 and lowered his personal best from 840 to 830 on September 22.

He was only three seconds behind the record, much of what he was looking to save time on the record was with birdo kills in the world 6. At 6-1, birdo jumped over kak's first shot overall. I love mario, he knew he could save about 4 seconds in world 6 just thanks to faster boss kills that brought him closer to the theoretically perfect 826. on september 23 he went on a run that was almost on par with the record after worlds one and four, he knew he had time left to save. He attempts to defeat cax 832 this race he would end up finishing with a time of 832.1 beating cac's record by a fraction of a second.

I love mario was the new world record holder. His biggest notable mistake was at 6-2 when he got trapped. a ledge at the end of the second room, however, he got most of the birdo kills he was looking for and the vast majority of the run looked clean, at least it was enough to surpass Kak's record, but apparently that didn't It was enough. because I love mario because the next day he got an 8 30. It took two years for someone to beat cax 832, but I love mario it only took him one day to beat his own 832. This race was practically identical to his last record, except that cleaned. made the mistake at 6-2 to save a little over a second the world record was now just four seconds behind the hypothetical cax 826 the record calmed down for a few months after this, i love mario, had demonstrated his dominance in the category and a time of 8 30 was enough for him, but at the beginning of 2016 another runner arrived.

He got his personal vest in the 830s and in March 2016 he was at the point where he felt like he could take the record from I love mario and maybe just maybe take it to the 820s, this is bjw. bjw's initial goal wasn't to go for the world record, but once he got close he found some imperfections in I love mario's run that he thought he could improve on, one of the biggest being in 6. -1 the vase room of the puck could have been cleaner, especially jumping out of the sand after grabbing a key. Bjw knew he could be faster and not take such a wide angle, allowing for a smoother ride to the top.

There were also improvements in birding. kills he could get by quickly shooting the mushroom blocks faster with these upgrades combined, getting an 829 was doable even if the rest of the run wasn't absolutely perfect, so he got to work on March 7th and had a run that won a second in the world. 1 from a very quick birdo kill, he also won a second at 6-1 from a quicker transition after picking up the key, so going into world 7, bjw had a chance to achieve this as he flew through the last world, the seriousness of the situation. It suddenly became very real to him, he could do this guys, yes, yes, yes, yes, well, that was certainly a sub 8 30.

As it turns out that his 7 world was almost perfect, he went up the stairs in 7-1, he nailed it 7-2 and had the perfect wart kill at the end but as great as it was bjw still wasn't entirely happy with this record it's not over yet guys this game needs an 827 at least no It's over, but the first hard part is done. bjw recognized that 827 was possible, but what about Kak's original perfect tense of 826? Well, we have to analyze the race and see what time was left to save 1-3. It was possible to capture the fragment at the beginning of the stage. from below in order to reach maximum speed sooner, this would save a fraction of a second on the record.

It was also possible to be a little faster at the beginning of the 1-2 when moving to the second mat cutting the tighter turn. potentially saving another fraction of a second and of course it was possible to be faster in a couple of birdo fights at 6-2 the orb landed and bounced in the wrong direction for bjw meaning he had to lose a fraction of second going to Understand it, some other fights could also be improved in small amounts with faster execution, taking into account all the aforementioned time savings, it was theoretically possible to reduce the record to 8 26 and equal Kak's theoretical perfect time and when i love mario returned later that month, to take bjw's record, he realized that 826 might not be so unreasonable after all, on may 27, 2016, i love mario, he made

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, he wasn't just a 826, it was a low, low 826, got the sniff, got the birdo. kill the ladder skip the glitches and all the moves Kak's 826 had happened truth be told 8 26 was no longer a perfect time as a couple of new minor strategies had been discovered since Cat came up with it, but it represented a moment that was approaching the limits of What was possible?

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that this was one of the best sprint races in the world when it was held and it stood at the top on its own, an almost unbreakable world record, but incredibly, in October 2017, it actually beat the time . saves were minimal at 4-2. He was able to jump higher on the ladder at the beginning to get to the top faster. He also once again saved fractions of a second in the world. 6 birdo fights thanks to tighter execution, but it was barely enough. to get an 8-25 at this point i love mario's dominance in the category it was clear that he was in essentially the same position that cack was in a few years earlier comfortably at the top of the rankings after having lowered the record several times followed over the years without a real rival, but it was at this point in October 2017 that the story takes an interesting turn.

During that month, a promising challenger lowered his personal best to five seconds behind the record and decided that he was going to try to beat it. The problem was that the remaining saving time was becoming extremely minimal, but if there was anyone who could do it, it was this guy. He was a world Super Mario speed racing champion with records in numerous categories. This is the taste of green death aka gdf again. there really wasn't anything new gdf could do to help him, the key to breaking the record would be small optimizations, cleaner movement at the start of the 1-2, catching the sniff that mario island had missed, and as always, small birdo optimizations. and on top of that he would have to shave five seconds off his personal best to beat the record.

It took him more than two years to break the record by five seconds. Gdf was going to try to do it in a fraction of that time and so On October 28, 2017 he ran this race, it seemed like a tie, the world record was 825.81, which meant it was time to count the frames when fast races have an extremely close duration. Human error in stopping the stopwatch means it is difficult to know if the race was actually the record or not, gdf now had to go back and carefully look at exactly when he started and finished the race to get the exact race time.

The time to beat was 825.81 oh man it's still 24, now it's at 25. walk please walk please walk please walk well no no just four frames away from the world record, a smashing race, but in the end, GDF would never run so close to the world record again. It stopped grinding and I love it. Mario's 825 continued at the top for months. For the next year or so there wasn't much movement at the highest levels, the record was so streamlined that it was becoming incredibly difficult to take time off, but in October 2018, another old runner returned, ladies and gentlemen, Andrew G He had returned.

Only this time he wouldn't come back to do new races, he would come back to drop a bombshell of a new strategy. See back in 2011, Andrew G had worked on a Mario 2 tool-assisted speedrun with Aglar creating a bunch. oftheoretical strategies that were too precise or difficult for humans to perform, one of them was an extremely fast way to complete 1-1 for 7 years. This trick was still impossible for real-time runners, but in 2018, Andrew G reviewed it and it appeared. I came up with a way to do it, it was extremely difficult, definitely the hardest trick of the entire course, but it was possible to start with a potion.

Remember the vegetable bug in 1-2, where you could get a vegetable stuck in your head to take it to the In the next room, in 1-1, you had to do that with an energy block, then it would be stored in memory of the game and would appear when you enter the next room, but remember that this trick only had a window of one frame to work or a 60 of a second then once you are in the underground you jump towards the shy guy and throw the block friend with the release of the friend block you have a two frame window to store an enemy if you pick him up at the right time, that's what you can Do it with the shy guy, although it doesn't look like you are picking him up, he goes to the game memory just like the friendly block did on the last screen to finally cross the floor to the next room you had to go through. two bombs have one that lands on your head at the bottom and then goes up the ladder while the other lands on you just like in the last clip, this will make you go up the bottom of the floor to the next screen when you get there .

Grab the shy boy from before by throwing him at the right time, he can bounce three times to defeat Berto much faster than normal. Doing all this could save about four seconds on the 1-1, but think about everything that has to go right. frame trick, then a precise move, a two frame trick, careful maneuvering to get the bomb clip, then a super precise throw with the shy guy 1-1, he would very quickly develop a reputation as prison level because almost none race at record pace would escape with a 4 second improvement to the first level, the world record now had huge potential to be lowered when Andrew found this setup in September 2018, there were two active runners at the world record level, the first was the record holder.

I love Mario, the second one was. a relatively new racer to mario 2 but a person who had one of the greatest speedrunning resumes in the world the mega man world record holder the mega man 2 world record holder the strider world record holder top 10 in mega man 3 top 10 in castlevania even 13th place in the coveted pringles a whole percentage in sega genesis the name of this racer very appropriately was cool boy in october 2018 I love mario and cool boy were racing with the new strategies 1 -1, but it would be I love Mario who hit Initially, on October 1, he beat the record by 2 seconds with an 8 23, gaining 4 seconds at 1-1, but bleeding some time at 1-2 and 7-2 the next day, however, another massive world record cut by i love.Mario managed to gain almost a full second on 1-1 because the orb didn't bounce very far from him and another second on 1-2 because he fixed the slow start from the latest record.

The cool guy was now in a pretty difficult situation. being five seconds behind i love mario but all he could do is keep trying ten days after i love mario's 8 20 hulkhead made a run he was a little behind after 1-1 because he missed a jump after the warp but he made the time up in world 4 by fixing an I love mario bug and a new power squad jump strategy to go higher in the latter, however he would fall behind in world 6 thanks to a couple of birdo kills slightly neglected when reaching world 7 that I needed. At some point it was certain that he would have a shot at breaking the record, so he decided to go for something incredibly risky, a trick known as the 7-1 quick.

Remember how rockets can only take off every 64 frames. Well, fast 71 involves playing as fast as possible to catch a previous one. rocket gdf was the first player to experiment with this trick. The most important part is on the second screen, where you need to accurately jump towards the albatross right away instead of waiting and then quickly shifting left to reach the post. You can see here how. You have to be much faster than the previous method, if done correctly you can barely make it to the previous rocket and save all 64 frames, unfortunately it was incredibly difficult, but the cool guy had no choice but to try if he wanted the world record, oh .

Oh my goodness, it's okay, it went up to 820p, because it turns out fast. 71 was enough for a new record of 820.55. Okay, I don't want to say for a whole second, but for the first time in two and a half years, Mario 2 had a new record holder, cool guy. able to add another record to his list and eight days later he would do it again, that's pretty cool, the cool guy had one out in the battle for the world record. Both he and I love Mario stopped playing after this 819 with Isle of Mario behind the cool guy. for just a second and for the next year that's where the world records stood and 819 was incredibly strong and without a new strategy to beat it it would take a lot of effort, but then as happened so many times in the history of this game before that new strategy, We were looking.

It was discovered that he was once again at 1-1, but this time it was much simpler than before. It turned out that the energy block could be dropped into the underground earlier to begin the deformation process earlier. This not only saved time. get to the next screen faster but it also allowed another time saver with the old strategy you used to have to jump to the pole after the shy guy grabbed you to slow down because if you get to the end too fast birdo would actually jump over the shy boy casting because of the point in the pattern you were at at the time of saving in the cave, however, it meant that you were so fast that you would reach birdo before that point in the pattern, so you didn't have to slow down intentionally in the post and was able to save some additional time there in total improvements to 1-1 was able to save another second and a half which was enough to bring Cool Kid back in November 2019 had a successful time-saving streak at 1- 1 and although the rest of the race went up and down, the new 1-1 strategy was enough to reduce the record to 8 17.

Thanks for the guys at hggs, as you could probably tell by the wild reaction of the cool kids, this It was a really solid record besides the new 1- In 1 time save, he also managed to quickly hit 7-1 to save a little more time, so now it was Mario Island's turn and a week later he got an 8-18 for placed a second behind Cool Kid, but had trouble saving everything. The time he needed to enter 2020, Cool Kids 817 was still at the top of the rankings, until January 17 of that day, Mario Island had a streak that was almost tied with the world record 1.

He won more than half. a second at 4-1 because the cool guy had missed the double jump but lost it again at 7-1 for missing the quick rocket, ended up being enough to cancel, so when Mario's Island stopped the splits at the end of the race. they read a time that was essentially tied with the cool guys world record once again it was time to count frames this time it would go in favor of the runner just ahead of the cool guys 817.4 these two guys have been rivals for years and after all That at the time when their personal bests were separated by only a tenth of a second, but there was still a little more time to beat this record, there was a new strategy they were able to do in 1-2 where they accurately grabbed the pigeon from the side, allowing the second to generate sooner to reach the end faster.

I love Mario's ladder move at the start of 4-2 it wasn't as good as it could have been either and at 7-1 it was still possible to achieve the quick rocket cycle so there was definitely room to lower the record and with two competitors practically at the same level there was no telling who would take it there, but on January 26, 2020, some cool guys started a Mario 2 world record attempt session. That's really cool. This was the first 816 in Super Mario Bros 2 history and it's also where the world record sits today, but as good as it is, there's a good amount of time left on the table here at 6-1, the guy great couldn't grab the first block of sand correctly. away and at 7-1 he missed the fast rocket, those two tricks alone could reduce the record to 8 15.

But if more tool-assisted speedrun tricks can be incorporated, who knows where this record could go in the future of mario 2 speedrunning. it's unknown but brilliant thanks for watching hey thanks for making it to the end if you enjoyed it it means a lot to me if you could share this video with one or two other people it really helps a lot on youtube so thanks and happy news. year