Niftski Takes Super Mario Bros. Any% Record To Two Frames Off The Theoretical Best
Speedrunner Niftski set a new Super Mario Bros. Any% world record of 4:54.299 on November 1, during a live stream in which he ran the game in a Mario costume.
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Reporting from 2 sources: Inside, Game Spark.
Why it matters
The gap between the fastest human run and the tool-assisted benchmark is now two frames, so the remaining margin in Super Mario Bros. Any% is small enough that a human tie with the TAS is a live question rather than a hypothetical one.
The time sits 0.034 seconds, or two frames, off the 4:54.265 TAS benchmark held by Maru. Niftski had taken the record from LeKukie in August with 4:54.332 before lowering it again.
Maru's 4:54.265 was produced with tool-assisted optimization, which lets a program pick inputs frame by frame. Niftski's 4:54.299 came from a live stream on November 1, run start to finish in a Mario costume for Halloween. The two runs are separated by 0.034 seconds on a console that redraws the screen sixty times a second.
LeKukie held the record at 4:54.365 in June, six frames off the benchmark. Niftski took it on August 14 at 4:54.332, four frames off, and then cut his own time again.
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