Did you help him with a good pattern?

Said the magic words for the run 😂

IT HAPPENS EVERY TIME 😭

Probably writing the script while watching the stream. Just common sense efficiency.

And then, Kosmic did THIS!!!

the Salt blessing is no joke

I can hear the music already.

Calm down its just a game

Do people do more attempts in a session after getting a world record?

@@MattIsTheCat depends.

Sort of true. But sometimes I had runs which couldn't quite make the 8-4 record, and I went ahead and killed bowser with fire at the end of 8-4. That skips the bridge collapsing cutscene and is faster for all stages, but slower for your 8-4 time. It's kind of a weird tradeoff. Basically I was saying if I got 9-2 it would be by far the best run, instead of just slightly the best run

Yeah, this is a famicom disk system game and has to load the next segment of the disk. Same with the ending cutscene, world 9, the letter worlds, etc. You can actually see I roll the timer back several seconds to remove the loading times, because they are a different length from console to console so remove them to eliminate the inconsistency

Prior to 3-4 they were accurate, but if you look at 7:00 I was mentioning wanting to see my "sum of best" up through 8-4. I changed the comparison to the sum of best- or in other words what it would look like if I did every stage the best I've ever done it. I forgot to change it back until the end of 9-3 (and even then I'd messed up removing the right amount of loading time, so the splits weren't accurate until the end of A-1). So for most of the run the D-4 column is comparing against sum of best, that's why it looks like I'm so far behind. In actuality I was about 2 seconds ahead of the D-4 run at the end of 8-4.

@@Kosmicd12 that makes sense!

In most runs of SMB1 or SMB2-J you will see people hitting the top of the flagpole. It's only in the absolute most optimized categories where you may see them hitting the bottom. The flag has to come down all the way no matter where you hit the flagpole, so going lower doesn't save time on the flag coming down. If you grab the top of the pole, Mario will accelerate faster towards the castle, so grabbing the top does save time moving to the castle compared to the bottom (lower is actually slower, not faster!). The only exception is there is a very precise glitch you can do to skip the flag animation. If you clip into the block at the bottom, then you can prevent the flag from coming down, and in rare circumstances skip the walk to the castle entirely. It's very difficult and there's no way you could possibly do it on every flagpole in a warpless run like this. You may see it occasionally used in these runs, but only in the very short any% categories will you see it used on every flagpole, because those categories are very optimized and doing that trick is the only way to improve the run further. You can actually see both types of flagpole glitch in world 9 of this run (25:31 and 23:43). It's MUCH MUCH easier to do this trick on the underwater levels- simply by swimming near the base of the flag- whereas non-water levels you need several frame perfect inputs to do this type of glitch.

Just typed this out for someone else, hope you don't mind the copy and paste In most runs of SMB1 or SMB2-J you will see people hitting the top of the flagpole. It's only in the absolute most optimized categories where you may see them hitting the bottom. The flag has to come down all the way no matter where you hit the flagpole, so going lower doesn't save time on the flag coming down. If you grab the top of the pole, Mario will accelerate faster towards the castle, so grabbing the top does save time moving to the castle compared to the bottom (lower is actually slower, not faster!). The only exception is there is a very precise glitch you can do to skip the flag animation. If you clip into the block at the bottom, then you can prevent the flag from coming down, and in rare circumstances skip the walk to the castle entirely. It's very difficult and there's no way you could possibly do it on every flagpole in a warpless run like this. You may see it occasionally used in these runs, but only in the very short any% categories will you see it used on every flagpole, because those categories are very optimized and doing that trick is the only way to improve the run further. You can actually see both types of flagpole glitch in world 9 of this run (25:31 and 23:43). It's MUCH MUCH easier to do this trick on the underwater levels- simply by swimming near the base of the flag- whereas non-water levels you need several frame perfect inputs to do this type of glitch.

I can only make two guesses. 1) Somebody copy and pasted a big post as a prank in chat or 2) There was a stream contest being handled by a server bot and/or mod on behalf of Kosmic. Any contests will have rules and such that would necessitate a big post to shove all previous posts off-screen. Big posts can make it seem like there was video cut due to their nature of shoving all previous posts off-screen.

There was no break. There was no editing. This is exactly how it happened on Twitch, live. This run was performed and broadcasted live, you could have watched it happen in real time if you were there. The timing going back is specific to this category/game. The load times are inconsistent on that level transition, so they are always subtracted from the runs. The timer you see is from a program called LiveSplit, and it has that functionality programmed into it. The text changing was just a long message being posted into twitch chat, which covered up the whole chat display immediately.

@@teolandon225 Thanks for the explanation. I am not familiar with all of this.

The timer going backwards/load time being removed actually isn't native to livesplit; I had to write that part myself. But thanks for explaining! Yeah, I'm removing the loading time there. You'll also see the timer go backwards in world 9, but I was too hyped up from the 8-4 wr and did it wrong, which I mention. The timer gets accurate at the end of A-1