Of course, “SethBling” never actually rescued Princess Peach. But this is the first time a human player has injected code to skip the game on a physical console. At speedrunning convention Awesome Games Done Quick in 2014, an intrepid player used a tool-assisted run, with a computer putting in the game inputs, to program Pong and Snake into the Mario game code. Super Mario Bros.: Current world record with no restrictions such as simultaneous left+right inputs, created by HappyLee, stands at 4:57.31 (4:54.03 in RTA timing) using warp pipes. The glitch that allows code injection into Super Mario World is not new. The stream has been parodied by several YouTubers of the genre, including Kosmic, former world recorder holder for Super Mario Bros. SethBling’s run, explained below, proves the glitch is humanly possible on the game’s original platform, and has a lot of room for improvement. The run is a new record for Super Mario World while played on a Super Nintendo Entertainment System console-Twitch streamer Jeffw356 used the same glitch to beat the game even faster in a run on emulator in July. And it’s no less amazing for the distinction. It is a speedrun about a player conquering the code underneath that challenging platformer as quickly as possible. The credits warp is not a speedrun featuring a player trying to conquer a challenging game as quickly as possible.
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