Please don't shill BetterHelp. They're awful and their reputation is actually worse recently.

Please dont promote BetterHelp in any way. I understand you need to make money, and sponsors are a great way to do that, but surely you can take sponsors from more ethical companies

I scrolled down to the comments and my hair got blown back like i stuck my head out the car window.

I hope you took that sponsorship without knowing how bad better help is

The secret ending was taking the sponsor and making all comments just about the sponsor and nothing else about the video itself

I love how NONE of the comments are about the video

In all my years of being aware of the FDS, I’d never seen it physically plugged in before

100% of the comments are betterhelp... Makes sense It's a giant scam

Don't know who here will see this, but want to say I ALLEGIDLY had a conversation with Kosmic and he ALLEGIDLY told me his thoughts on the BetterHelp sponsorship. He took the sponsorship a couple months back and the research he did on the company said they only hire licensed therapists now and paid people millions of dollars in refunds to people who were unsatisfied with their services in the past, so he thought they changed for the better. He also had someone in his personal life say they used BetterHelp and that it helped them a lot. With this information, he felt comfortable accepting the sponsor. He also was happy to not just promote mental health, but to also get paid promoting something he cares a lot about. He also tried his best to promote it in the video as just an option; not a substitute for in-person therapy. After the video's release, he saw the negative attention the sponsor got. He tried to explain where he was coming from in the comments, but admits he didn't do a good job, regrets the way he talked about things in the comments, and those comments have since been deleted. He wishes he could talk openly about all this, but unfortunately he and his family can't afford to lose out on the sponsor money, so he has to stay quiet to avoid any complications. Sometime in the future, you may see a proper response to this situation from him. This debacle very much took a toll on him, because he does truly care about his audience, and is upset that they are hurt by his sponsorship in this video. I can confirm you will never see another BetterHelp sponsor on this channel. If you have any questions, feel free to reply to this comment. Have a good one.

super mario really has a secret ending... the better help ending D:

The fact a nearly 40+ year game still is not beaten in the fastest way possible is amazing

Atleast this sponsorship had the unintended effect of letting the less informed of us know to avoid better help at all cost

The FTC has a pretty well encompassing article on how Better Help broke their privacy promises and expectations. It also includes a link to the original complaint form (it's a whole bunch of legal jargon so I'd just read the article)

Mario: "You think you're-a safe? I clipped into-a your walls."

not betterhelp man :(

when you are reminded that the guy who made Doki Doki literature club, Dan Salvato, is also knee deep in the speedrun scene.

I recreated all of SMB2's "minus world" in Mario Maker 2, down to the soft lock in W -3. XD Quite pleased with how it turned out. Threw in some extra rooms and a couple of twists, too. Sorry to hear about the sponsorship screw up. Tired of all the black-and-white thinking in the comments, seems like an honest mistake to me. Hopefully everyone can move on after this..

sorry we dont support betterhelp here!

i demand a genetic analysis of niftski, he seems like from another world

i almost thought this was an april fools video because of the sponsorship

Really good video, but like a lot of people, I'm very disappointed in the BetterHelp sponsorship, especially as someone who cares a lot about mental health. However, knowing Kosmic personally, I'd like to believe it wasn't promoted maliciously, and more came from a place of either being misinformed or not knowing their history. The criticism is obviously valid, but the ridicule seems a bit intense. I hope the takeaway from this is to just not promote this company again in the future.

15:15 honestly, I think people who explain the glitch levels this way are missing the point. I believe most people think that when a level is stored in a game, there's something like a big picture, like the level maps you see in strategy guides. People think the game takes this map picture and loads it into memory. For these old NES that's simply not the case - there's not enough memory to actually store level data like that! So what did they do? *They made a level generation program* Level data is simply instructions to the level generator to tell it what it needs to create next (ie create a bunch of blocks with goombas when this point is reached by the player.) Glitched levels are simply bad instructions to the level generator program.

It's becoming very alarming that people are just taking BetterHelp sponsorships out of nowhere like that public spat with Philip DeFranco never happened.

was sent this video specifically for the Famicom Disk System explanation and yeah it's a solid simple explanation that it's an add-on for a console and not a console of its own (albeit I'd put an asterisk on the FDS working on NES cause pin adapters and expansion audio) and the tone of your voice explaining the differences is pretty telling just how many times you've had to give this talk in the past

7 frames from PERFECTION is crazy

I know he won't snatch prominent records again, but man I still miss Darbian.

Well, the good news is that nobody's talking about Niftski's hardware.

Please don't support better help

Always use sponsorblock extension and KZfaq revanced.

Amazing explanation of the original minus world clip

Comments: 99% BetterHelp situation 1% Something related to the video

Better help sponsor rly?

When I was quite young, in 1987 or so, there was a rumor about a secret level in Super Mario Bros., accesible from the first water level, just above the pipe at the end. In there, supposedly, you could throw knives and fight using chairs. Some of my friends claimed to have seen it. Ridiculous, but I remember it to this day.

So what I'm gathering is that a Famicom and a Famicom Disk System ar ethe same thing

The content of the video is really engaging, I always enjoy learning more random knowledge about the games I grew up with.

the frustration with the famicom disk system confusion hits hard

BETTER WHO?

I wonder why it doesn’t give a memory index out of bounds exception and crash the game. Perhaps the developers never implemented code to prevent this. Often times a glitch isn’t anything wrong with the code at all but simply an outcome not desired by the developer, hence it is prevented from happening.

Fun fact. Rather than nothing, Nintendo considers that blank number before the dash a "Space". That's why their convention that they ran in Japan for a long time was called... wait for it... SpaceWorld. It was a reference to the glitch.

21:17 Princess Peach just hanging out like it’s whatever lol.

I know that betterhelp isn’t a good sponsor and that defending & supporting it is dangerous, which is why i think kosmic should be criticized for promoting it. But a lot of the ppl in this comment section are acting like kosmic is a terrible person in general for this. Yes, he is in the wrong. But you need to understand that content creators cant be perfect role models all the time; they can be wrong, just like everyone else. I’ve watched kosmic for a few years and he just seems like a good person overall, never getting into any controversies or anything. I don’t think he is doing this out of pure malice against his fans, nor is he just blindsided by money. He is simply in the wrong about betterhelp. Again, i think he should be criticized for defending it, but he shouldn’t just be bashed on like this. And, if you don’t wanna support betterhelp, that’s fine, just don’t support this video. But he doesn’t deserve to be completely unsupported overall.

Don’t you just hate it when your lives go to 👑9 or 👑A or 👑📐 because you tortured a koopa on a staircase on world 3-1

You already lost me (as I'm sure it's the case for many here) with betterhelp already, BUT I'm genuinely curious why you took the sponsorship deal,,, did you try it personally? Have you NOT seen its bad history? Has anything changed? Let us know if you can, thanks.

wasn't better help ousted a few years ago for bieng extremely corrupt and not having real therapists

17:05 The original version also includes this gap in hard mode. The arcade version is basically just smb with harder levels, anyways.

Yes, awesome! I was hoping you'd introduce the Disk Drive version of the Minus World, & was not disappointed. Very nice short explanation of how that works (& good recommendations for more indepth ones). And the run optimization is so crisp now, very awesome. Thanks for this awesome vid. 🙂

thanks for explaining these minus worlds. it's crazy how people still can make new content about SMB

Since so little of the comments are talking about the video, I will just say that the Minus World is one of the weirdest anomalies in all of Mario, just a collection of near-endless random stages.

As soon as you showed the NES my computer bluescreened...love when it does that.

Cheers for this video, mate! I didn't know about the "blank character" tile or the FDS. It was cool learning something new about Super Mario Bros that I didn't already know.

This was one of my favorite videos of yours. Awesome job, man. Niftski is unreal.

It's interesting to think this category is short enough that a truly perfect run, tying the TAS, doesn't feel out of reach. (By the way, there are even faster game completions possible if you allow the more dubious technique of swapping to another cartridge and then back. Works with Tennis, Legend of Zelda, and a japanese-only Go game that lets you directly choose what world you want to start in by selecting specific game rule options.)

Even if BetterHelp has supposedly changed, (which I am very skeptical of considering the only thing I can tell that BetterHelp has proven is that they're more than willing to engage in immoral practices and lie if it means they can make an extra profit) i'd still argue against letting them sponsor your video. All that's showing other companies with ill intentions is that you can keep your company afloat and get KZfaq sponsors if you apologize and seem sincere enough, which could lead to unfortunate consequences in which companies called out for similar situations get some PR to write an essay about how sorry they are, and then just go back to harvesting data like nothing ever happened, maybe a little more secretive this time.

awesome video!! im always hyped to see faster categories, this one is a really cool one too! it's awesome this category gets so much care, and is so optimized!! congrats to niftski on an awesome record 💪🔥 and to all the people who pioneered the strats necessary to get there!

Minor correction: The 36th character in the tileset would actually represent 35, as the first character is 0 and there is no "0th world".

I'd love a breakdown on why the keyboard is considered legal. Not because I think it shouldn't be; I'm just curious.

dan salvoto???? did i hear that right?? 3:55 the DDLC guy????????????????????????????

Speedrunning really is an artform.

“Shoutout to Dan Salvato for this chart” Dan Salvato? The Dan Salvato of DDLC fame? Omg it is wow

more like wetter help, bc you’re stuck in an endless water level

5:09 i think the reason the game disables collision at the top of the screen is to stop Mario from banging his head on the ground tiles at the bottom of the screen (as their collision likely wraps around to the top of the screen). Just a theory though.

9:08 oh my god, the crowns in super mario 3d world when you get to max lifes is a reference to super mario bros!!!

Great video. Thank you, thank you, thank you also for the simple act of pronouncing Super Mario Bros. correctly.

fun fact super mario bros. can be completed under 65 million hours

This might be your best breakdown video yet! Thanks for it also your awesome!

no wonder it's so hard to make a satisfying platformer, you have to cram so much in even in one this simple, just to keep it smooth and pleasant. and we never even noticed, we just noticed when worse games didn't manage it.

Are people really not watching the video because of the BetterHelp sponsor? That doesn't make any sense to me.

During my childhood I can SWEAR I saw my dad doing some interesting animation of Mario entering the pipes. Like, Mario was entering the pipe while waving his hand. I saw him doing it several times for sure. But I can't find eny info about different entering pipe animations at all. Can you explain it, please, or my childhood memories are some crazy stuff out of nowhere? Thanks!

This is such a well put together video Kosmic! Great job!

Better Help has been caught selling your medical data, and doesn't verify credentials. Please don't platform predatory 'services.'

betterhelp REALLY?????

Thanks for such a comprehensive video about the topic.

Thanks to the speedrunners and their passion... and borderline crazyness at times. :)

Appreciation for preempting the keyboard controversy with 29:23 as always.

For confused fans wondering why this video is getting hate: It's the sponsor, BetterHelp. Do not use their service. They have been known to record what you say to therapists and sell it to advertisers, along with a whole lot of shady garbage. I frankly have no idea why Kosmic would accept a sponsorship from these people, but I hope it gets clarified soon. It may be a lack of due diligence. Don't assume too quickly

Brilliant job with this video! Very inspiring!

Brain: "It's time to go to bed" Me: "One moment, I just want to see this secret ending" ... *a FeW MoMeNtS LaTeR* ... "before we touch on some important details of the speed run, let's touch on some important details of life. I believe in always trying to progress as a person..."

Good video! Really informative! While better help is a bad company, I'm pretty sure you didn't know that. And I don't care about ignorance about a service you probably don't use, that is only natural. I only care about your knowlidge on super mario, which as this video demonstrates, is more than enough to be teaching people about

OK, WE GET IT, BETTERHELP = BAD! YOU DON’T NEED TO KEEP EXPLAINING IT! JUST TALK ABOUT THE VIDEO!

Cool informative video! Good job also explaining how the data on the game is just used as though it were level data or a number sprite or whatever!

Thanks for the timestamps in the list of soundtracks used in the video.

Better help is a scam.

edit: the fact that you're going as far as defending them in the replies has led me to unsubscribe. less than a year ago, the ftc took action against betterhelp to make them stop sharing sensitive user data -- for a therapy platform, that's absolutely unacceptable to do, and they should not be trusted because of that. i don't want to doubt you're a good person, and money being a concern is very valid as well, but in the future, looking into your sponsors more may be a good thing. in the end, though, this all has left a bad taste in my mouth, and if you look at the comments, others feel the same way. original message: was excited to see this, but i guess i'm not going to watch it because of the betterhelp sponsor... hopefully you're just locked into a contract or something, but there's a lot of stuff going around about their business practices being shady. (as well as at least one case of a gay man allegedly getting a therapist telling him to be straight) there's a page by the us federal trade commission about all this if you'd be willing to look.

sorry i dont need therapy

Never heard of betterhelp before but im also european. Ps to 99% of the comments: no sponsor on yt is ethical besides a handful

The worst part about BH is the explicit targeting of people who need some of the MOST help and usung them to get profit.

Putting aside the sponsorship, this is a pretty fun, informative video. I do enjoy it when Kosmic shows more personality and gets his style of humor in, too. More videos like this is always welcome

But it is the keyboard because of his hand position. He's not sitting cramped to a small controller and the buttons are more responsive

0:55 Just forget the words and sing along~

Disappointed in people that take betterhelp sponsors in 2024

All of the people in the comments raging about the Better Help sponsor like Kosmic is a terrible person. Maybe he had no idea about what claims are being made, I'm chronically online and this is the first I've ever heard of these claims.

I remember first being fascinated about the minus world back when I first saw the original JWittz video back 10 years ago! Still one of my favorite video game glitches of all time! Great video!

"The developers DID make them." (Blaster Master music starts). Epic.

Also, each different port of Super Mario Bros. has a different Minus World: NES: World -1: Welcome to the minus world!: World 7-2: 01/81 FDS: World -1: Minus World: 09/89: Underwater 5-3, World -2: Deja vu?: World 7-3: 27/A7, World -3: Blooper Castle: 44/C4: Underground 4-4 Genesis: World -1: Pipe Land strikes back: World 6-2: 23/A3, World -2: ???: 34/B4: Coin Heavens B that T's you up the moment you enter the level, you will get T'd up until you game over. SNES: Minus World varies based on the frame the Super Mario Bros. minigame spawns due to a TAS in the Super Mario World game. The most commonly used SNES port's Minus World is underwater 4-2 or 1A/9A, but your SNES port's Minus World had a -1 world which is world 5-3 or 26/A6, and a -2 world that is similar to the -3 world on the FDS version, with the underground 4-4 and the Bloopers. Also, doing the power cycle on your emulator in the SNES port of Super Mario Bros. will pick random tuning areas for the world (16-bit integers), and assign them to the 8-bit areas that normally crash, such as area 49/C9, 4C/CC, 4E/CE, 51/D1, 52/D2, 56/D6, 57/D7, 5A/DA, 5D/DD, 5E/DE, 7D/FD, and 7F/FF. C64: World -1: Minus World: 07/87: Underwater 3-1, World -2: Deja vu?: World 1-1: 25/A5, World -3: Underground Coin Room: 42/C2 VRC6: World -1: Minus World: 08/88: Underwater 1-1, World -2: Deja vu?: World 5-3: 26/A6, World -3: Blooper castle: 43/C3: Underground 1-4 Sunsoft: World -1: Minus World: 10/90: Underwater 6-3, World -2: Deja vu?: World 1-1: 25/A5, World -3: ???: 4F/CF ???: World -1: Minus World: 0A/8A: Underwater 7-3, World -2: Deja vu?: World 2-1: 28/A8, World -3: Blooper and firebar castle: 45/C5: Underground 2-4

3:55 DDLC creator!

Thanks for recommending Displaced Gamer's video! Liked it quite a bit.

Hey love the video! The content is awesome and I learned a lot.

Dude I dig how you've been branching out into more historical/explainer vids. They're really great, good job man

29:11 DAD I DID IT, I MADE IT IN A KOSMIC VIDEO!!!

3:55 Dan Salvato? DAN SALVATO?!?! THE Dan Salvato of Doki Doki Literature club fame made your collision flowchart and is your patreon supporter?!?! Nice.