The Hardest Mario Speedrun: The Lost Levels

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While Nintendo employees may have deemed the game too difficult to attempt in the 80s, players over the following decades would think the opposite. With such a challenging yet underrated Mario title, Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels would slowly build up a cult following. Today, let’s talk about how speedrunners brought the Lost Levels to life and gave it an entirely new meaning. From the humble beginnings of Andrew Gardikis to the rapid rise of Niftski -- This -- is the World Record History of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels.
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Thank you so much to the following people for helping out:
iBall:
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Kosmic:
/ kosmicd12
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Niftski:
/ niftski
/ niftski
Scalpel:
/ scalpel001
/ stanleychapel
Tecate:
/ tecate
/ giffenbone
Other Thanks to:
HitzCritz:
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Kriller37:
/ @kriller3771
Recommended watches:
The Quest for 4:54 (Super Mario Bros.) - • The Quest for 4:54 in ...
The Quest for Sub One Minute (Super Mario World) - • The Quest for Sub One ...
0:00 - Intro
1:54 - The BeginninG with AndrewG (2008)
6:02 - Agwawaf & Andrew (2009-2010)
10:36 - i_o_l era (2014-2015)
13:27 - darbian's Legendary Sub 8 Journey (2015-2017)
21:40 - Kosmic Strikes! (2017)
23:36 - Goofychocobo's 758 Push (2019)
27:06 - Somewes & Tecate's 757 Club (2019)
30:35 - Tecate's 756 Push (2020)
33:38 - Tecate & Kosmic's Friendly Rivalry! (2020)
37:37 - The Rise of Niftski (2020)
42:38 - Scalpel & iBall's Tiny Improvements (2021)
47:30 - The Second Coming of Niftski (2021)
51:00 - Conclusion
Music Used:
WarpSektor:
/ warpsektor
Citadel
Take Me Home Tonight (CyberJank Cover)
Luna Moth:
/ lunamothmusic
Lava Tango Arranged
PCE Cover - Ninja Gaiden - Unbreakable Determination
PCE Original - Nebular Battle
Fight Against an Armed Boss - Super Mario RPG
Sewer Surfin' - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV - Turtles in Time
Ultimate Team - Robo Manus (Stage 5) - Battletoads & Double Dragon
Race Theme 1 - Biker Mice From Mars
Title - College Slam Basketball (SNES)
Fujioka Qualify - Cyber Spin
Funky's Fugue - Donkey Kong Country
Front line Base - U.N. Squadron
To the South - Goof Troop
Knock You Down! - Live A Live
Technotris - Super Tetris 3
Boss Battle - Strike Gunner
Staff Roll - The Flintstones (SNES)
Title Theme - Uniracers
Fortuna - Star Fox
Battle on the Moon - SD Gundam X
Tokimeki Memorial - Pro Wrestling
Pyramid of Fear - Zombies Ate My Neighbors
The Lost World Record History of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels Speedrun World Records
#LostLevels #Speedrun #WorldRecord #Storster

Пікірлер: 169

@Kosmicd12 3 жыл бұрын

5:06 that's not an FDS! I could not be more upset

@bobbydog6762 3 жыл бұрын

So true

@olipolygon 3 жыл бұрын

almost seems done intentionally given one of your recent videos...

@Storster 3 жыл бұрын

Whoops, I missed your TED Talk

@chiefzach7418 3 жыл бұрын

Kosmic we need part 2 of your ted talk

@KJgameplay14 3 жыл бұрын

When I got to that part of the video I instantly thought about you lmao

@hitzcritz 3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad how Super Mario Bros. 2 Japan is getting more attention, that game's hard to beat even casually lmfao

@ruben._._34577 3 жыл бұрын

Lmao, also yes it is underrated

@ThaAwesome10 3 жыл бұрын

The game is much easier to beat when speedrunning than playing casually lol

@SECONDQUEST 3 жыл бұрын

Omg it's Obama!

@ZachGatesHere 3 жыл бұрын

I beat it once and I haven't touched it since. I cannot fathom speedrunning it.

@GoldenGamerFox7272fromYT 3 жыл бұрын

@@ThaAwesome10 the game is way easier when you have rewind lol

@Storster 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching everyone! This has been one of the most interesting runs to talk about to me! I started this at the very beginning of May! I'm not sure if I will be able to get something out by the end of August before college starts, but no matter what, I am not going away! Cheers to more! Edit: Niftski instantly obsoleted information in this video and on the same day of this coming out improved the 8-4 IL Record by one frame. The human sum of best is now 7:47.680!

@Real_Artician 3 жыл бұрын

"I was *shocked* how Mr. Miyamoto could have made such a cruel game." And here, 30 odd years on and people are beating that "cruel" game twice in a coffee break.

@19Szabolcs91 3 жыл бұрын

Fun fact, Miyamoto didn't actually make The Lost Levels aka SMB2(J), it was directed and designed by Takashi Tezuka. In the meantime Miyamoto was working on Doki Doki Panic which ended up bying reskinned to the Western SMB2. Fun how it all comes around.

@Real_Artician 3 жыл бұрын

Full, direct, copied, and famous, quote from Howard Phillips. Wikipedia's actually provides source for the quote too. Sorry I wasn't completely accurate with a reference to a famous quote. As I continued to play, I found that Super Mario Bros. 2 asked me again and again to take a leap of faith, and each of those leaps resulted in my immediate death. This was not a fun game to play. It was punishment - undeserved punishment. I put down my controller, astonished that Mr. Miyamoto had chosen to design such a painful game. -Howard Phillips on his test playthrough of The Lost Levels[12]

@legoboy7107 2 жыл бұрын

@@Real_Artician The annoying thing is, Lost Levels never really asks you to make a blind leap of faith anywhere if you just stop and assess the situation for once. With all those "blind parakoopa jumps" people have talked about where you can't see the parakoopa you have to jump on, you can actually always get a full perfect view of the parakoopa if you just stop, walk back, and slowly edge the screen scroll forward, and then you have everything you need to actually time your jump rather than going in blind. Similar thing with the infamous big springs, you can just use the screen scroll to tell where Mario currently is horizontally, since if the screen is scrolling that means Mario is in the center.

@AndrewgSpeedruns 3 жыл бұрын

Good stuff! I just stumbled onto this video. Glad to see the research and all. One thing I want to note is that the reason there werent earlier speedruns for this was simply because it was only available on emu or FDS prior to 2007. 2007 was the first time it was properly released outside of Japan. I would have done a run earlier hahaha

@Storster 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the watch Andrew! Good to know, thanks for all the runs you have done over the years!!!

@nogoat 3 жыл бұрын

This game doesn't get enough coverage as it's brother, Super Mario Bros. Glad it's getting covered in recent times.

@19Szabolcs91 3 жыл бұрын

By the way, "First Bowser" on 8-4 is actually Bowser's Brother according to the original manual. Really.

@richarddavis8863 3 жыл бұрын

Buruukoopa. Blue Koopa I guess

@everything.editzz 3 жыл бұрын

nah let's call him bruce

@richarddavis8863 3 жыл бұрын

@@everything.editzz Buuruuceukoopa haha

@19Szabolcs91 3 жыл бұрын

@@everything.editzz I prefer the theory that he is called Morton, and Morton Jr., along with all the other Koopa Kids are his children.

@adude6568 2 жыл бұрын

Browser

@WoddCar 3 жыл бұрын

The fact that people are able to beat this game very fast without many deaths or pauses is amazing for me

@iBall1 3 жыл бұрын

45:25 Look Gary there I am!

@Storster 3 жыл бұрын

ibowl

@Larszard 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic content as always! SMB2J is so exciting because it's a bit less optimised than SMB so big timesaves can still happen. Also, the background music in this was impeccable

@awesomefrog. 3 жыл бұрын

These videos are so entertaining, modern internet history combined with in-depth speedrunning trick explanations is just an amazing combo. Keep it up man!

@GensoBees 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you thumbnail, for finding my lost Bowser! I don't know what I would have done without him!

@legoboy7107 2 жыл бұрын

SMB Lost Levels has genuinely become one of my favorite 2D Mario games in the past few months. I've gotten good enough at SMB1 in the past couple years that I can do a normal playthrough of Worlds 1-8 (and 9) on the FDS version of Lost Levels without any game overs like it's any other 2D Mario game, and the higher difficulty honestly feels mostly amazing given how easy other traditional non-kaizo Mario games have become. Lost Levels is difficult but it's still traditional in its design, not kaizo-esque, and I love that. And, when you look at it from the perspective of how it was made specifically for players who had completely mastered everything about SMB1 and not intended for newcomers, a target audience literally no other official 2D Mario game has been designed around (the closest thing being some DLC in NSMB2), Lost Levels is actually VERY well designed with that goal in mind. It's much better designed than people give it credit for but is just designed around a very different audience from other Mario games, which is why it likely doesn't feel great for an amateur casual like other Mario games do, because it simply wasn't designed for them. I understand people who say that Mario games should be accessible and not designed just specifically for hardcore veterans, but when EVERY Mario game is designed to be beginner-accessible when Nintendo could do so much with the robust Mario mechanics in a game specifically targeted toward hardcore players, it gets stale, so it's nice to have at least ONE official Nintendo-made Mario game designed specifically for hardcore veterans. In my opinion not EVERY Mario game should have to be beginner-accessible and not targeted specifically toward series veterans, and having an entire official game, rather than just a single bonus world or some DLC, designed for veterans feels awesome for someone like me. Though reskinning Doki Doki Panic for the West was still probably the best call given the situation at the time, and in the long run it resulted in us having BOTH SMB2s which are both fantastic in my opinion, albeit for different reasons, so even though I love Lost Levels I'm still glad Nintendo made the decision they did.

@SwedePotato314 3 жыл бұрын

I can't wait!!! When I was a kid and finally upgraded to SNES, I had the SMB All-Stars cart with the Lost Levels on it... it was sooo much more challenging than the SMB I was used to, but oh man did I love it! So so so excited Sorester is doing this deep dive! Worth Worth wait, every time! 🖤🎮🕹

@ultraspinalki11 3 жыл бұрын

I heard that the version of Lost Levels in SNES All Stars is slightly toned down in difficulty, is missing a few levels and has slightly altered physics. Still, it was a blast to play.

@Kosmicd12 3 жыл бұрын

@@ultraspinalki11 it's not missing any levels, nor or any of them altered in any significant way :)

@ultraspinalki11 3 жыл бұрын

@@Kosmicd12 It's on the wiki, but I suppose it could be wrong: "The first appearance of the game outside of Japan was in remastered form in Super Mario All-Stars for SNES; some level designs were slightly modified to be made a bit easier, additional checkpoints and 1-ups were added, and poison mushrooms were altered to appear less similar to super mushrooms. A save feature was also added to allow starting the game from any accessed level." And my mistake, it was the GBC version of Lost Levels in "SMB Deluxe" that had levels missing.

@Kosmicd12 3 жыл бұрын

@@ultraspinalki11 actually the opposite is true, they removed midway points in the letter worlds, made enemies move faster, and made more of the bowsers throw hammers. There aren't more 1-ups, but you do start with 2 more lives and game overs basically don't matter since you save your progress on every level.

@SwedePotato314 3 жыл бұрын

@@Kosmicd12 The master has confirmed my childhood badassery is still intact! Thank you, senpai.

@the1barbarian781 3 жыл бұрын

Incredible video. Learned so much about a game that I’ve never played

@the1barbarian781 3 жыл бұрын

Exited for it! Also irrelevant to the lost levels but scalpels Rubik’s cube stuff is even more insane than his speedrunning

@kissen1_ 3 жыл бұрын

I too get exited

@MiniIand 3 жыл бұрын

yoooooo i just watched this whole video and its insanely good its also worth noting that on i believe the same day niftski got 7:52, he had a run a full second ahead of his 7:52 to 4-4 clip, saving triple 1-2 framerule + 4-3 double framerule save :o

@mathprodigy 3 жыл бұрын

Just in the middle of watching this rn and i love the Uniracers music. Underappreciated classic game

@joebrunina8697 3 жыл бұрын

This video is great and very informative. I love the long form docs. Big fan of the channel!

@StepBaum 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome editing and use of music. Good job honestly :), also appreciate the sections in the video

@inverse_of_zero 2 жыл бұрын

i think it was nice how darbian got the last ever minute barrier

@fredhrodrigues9019 2 жыл бұрын

This is amazing, thank you for it, keep on with the great work!

@yungvarg2301 2 ай бұрын

It's so hard because you have to find the levels first

@steveeveslage4873 2 жыл бұрын

I was not prepared for this game. Eventually learned to appreciate it though. Love the videos demonstrating the skills of the speed runners. Nice!

@ghostedisnotgoofy 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video been waiting a to see this for a while now amazing as always!

@MeesterTweester 3 жыл бұрын

I beat the game for the first time last September and this week beat it on the Game & Watch. Great video!

@kevinhay2267 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome, loved it, thanks so much for the effort you put into your videos. We should all have a party when you have 1 million subs.

@ujkloin 3 жыл бұрын

8:08 WOW that is insane that back in 2010 speedrunners went for that and in 2020 just 1 year ago not many records did it!

@mathprodigy 3 жыл бұрын

Yea man fantastic presentation, loved this quite a bit

@RealDabiOW 3 жыл бұрын

This was an awesome video that was very informative Great job!

@srich040 3 жыл бұрын

Great work as always!

@katepuddings2 3 жыл бұрын

Darbian's first sub 8 is probably the funniest Mario run i have ever watched

@kaspi644 3 жыл бұрын

good job as always!

@donwald3436 2 ай бұрын

That Niftski robot is at it again!!! lol

@sheepdog_81 3 жыл бұрын

Incredible video! Incredible game! Incredible players! Incredible story! Awesome!

@UzzyT. 3 жыл бұрын

I’m glad I have the bell hit for you.

@sarysa 2 жыл бұрын

With SMB1 more or less out of seconds to shave, I'll be looking forward to what these amazing runners can do with SMB's forgotten cousin.

@SECONDQUEST 3 жыл бұрын

Love your channel dogg!

@pawer_themaw 2 жыл бұрын

Super Mario Bros: The Lost Speedruns :)

@snakeywakey3893 2 жыл бұрын

The quality here is amazing.

@pralyuris5936 3 жыл бұрын

Happy to see this underrated game covered

@superdejan64 2 жыл бұрын

Can we appreciate that Darbian goes for sblj at the very end of his Marihour run? Can't imagine how many runs he lost to that

@chiefzach7418 3 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed the video

@thekilla1234 3 жыл бұрын

Nintendo 1986: This game is way too hard, let's make a different one. SMM Super Expert: bruh

@Selickaredeed Жыл бұрын

Great video

@ThaAwesome10 3 жыл бұрын

I kinda wish you at least mentioned lekukie’s 7:57.04/7:56.545

@ThaAwesome10 3 жыл бұрын

Can’t wait!

@DeaDGoD_XIV 2 жыл бұрын

I love the use of the Zombies Ate my Neighbors soundtrack

@skungillian91 3 жыл бұрын

i like how when niftski jumps he looks like he's playing bass

@riahlexington 2 жыл бұрын

Oh the roast beef infomercial I remember that well!!

@SlimecraftStudios 2 жыл бұрын

"Overall Cleaner 1-2" **BLURY VIDEO**

@shad0wphoenix1 3 жыл бұрын

I love storster content :’)

@PatrickDavis28 3 жыл бұрын

The crazy thing is, 7:51 could be done pretty easily. Kosmic accidentally got an FPG in 8-2 that saved a framerule, and in the same run he also saved a framerule in 8-1. The thing is, neither of those framerules are in the world record. If Niftski went for those timesaves, he could just barely clutch out a 7:51. Also, fun fact: If you count loading times, Somewes would still have the world record with a time of 7:57.

@idkyet9458 Жыл бұрын

how do you accidentally get an fpg

@NinetyLegos 3 жыл бұрын

I think Kosmic has 8-4 100% WR

@Gregggggggggg Жыл бұрын

8:56 Arabesque by Burgmuller, classical musicians unite!

@TACOINSURANCE 3 жыл бұрын

Kosmic is GOAT. We know this.

@ricogoins 3 жыл бұрын

i cant wait! its probably way harder than smb1

@serbonkers4130 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah i grew up in SEA and this is the mario 2 that i know. Never beat it once lol

@idkyet9458 Жыл бұрын

i am growing up in SEA and it feels like adults want to eradicate games from the face of the earth i hardly knew any mario games until recent years i beat this game before but used tons of savestates

@christopherjones8149 Жыл бұрын

I got close once, never made it again 😂😂😂😂😂

@qwertyrhoads9295 3 ай бұрын

Dang, this music though.

@mateolanda9547 3 жыл бұрын

You already know I have a reminder

@ThatOneLegendEmerald 3 жыл бұрын

Well, guess what I'm watching while packing for moving-

@quandle8647 3 жыл бұрын

“Flagtable glitch”

@OGGI_ZOMBIE 2 жыл бұрын

its not that Mario Lost Levels are hard, its that its incredibly trolley. I consider it the origins of Mario Maker. Why did they have to make every castle a puzzle?

@vaporwavevocap 2 жыл бұрын

13:30 what's this song? The songs in this video are such bangers I keep leaving to look them up but I can't find this one.

@ujkloin 3 жыл бұрын

17:35 what you said he beat it by "over" a second but that is 0.95 seconds saved

@andrewburris4370 2 жыл бұрын

how come some of the speedrun tricks in the first smb aren't used in the lost levels, like the flagpole glitch and stuff like that?

@dylansmith6911 11 ай бұрын

1m subs incoming

@NewSchattenRayquaza 2 ай бұрын

17:00 Bro looks just like me playing dark souls lamo

@miketate3445 3 жыл бұрын

14:23 Take me home tonight...

@manawyrm6282 3 жыл бұрын

+ Like. Can you make video about Warpless D-4 category?

@beatrizmendoza6045 3 жыл бұрын

Let’s GOO

@user-xy1is6by8v Ай бұрын

what is the name of the classical piece being techno remixed at 10:27 i played it as a child and cant remember the name

@waxknucklebearingjuice5592 2 жыл бұрын

volume inconsistency kills !

@Storster 2 жыл бұрын

I know my audio has sucked at certain points haha. I hope you'd agree my last few uploads are way more consistent. That's been a priority lately.

@alaeriia01 2 жыл бұрын

What's the music that plays at 6:53? It's quoting a piece I remember from back when I was learning piano.

@vaporwavevocap 2 жыл бұрын

Super Tetris 3 SNES - OST Technotris

@laytonjr6601 3 жыл бұрын

Is there a reason why the timing method doesn't get adjusted by the frame rate? The one with the fewest frames would have the word record instead of the one with the fastest time

@Kosmicd12 3 жыл бұрын

lower framerate means bigger window to hit tricks. The fastest time should be the fastest time haha.

@laytonjr6601 3 жыл бұрын

@@Kosmicd12 Thanks for the answer!

@19Szabolcs91 3 жыл бұрын

@@Kosmicd12 Afaik, some speedrun communities do count frames instead of raw time, and convert, like Mario Kart 64. This makes PAL very advantageous because it's easier to play if it's 20% slower.

@whiterottenrabbit 2 жыл бұрын

Love your engaging upbeat non-monothone narrating style **slow clap**

@salt2862 2 жыл бұрын

Meow wow speedrun bing has gone far

@kentbdreyer 2 жыл бұрын

what is that fake ken theme in the beginning?

@Larszard 3 жыл бұрын

I haven't found time to watch this yet but bro how many different titles has it had? Are you trying to set a new WR for amount of title changes on a KZfaq video? 😂

@Storster 3 жыл бұрын

I promise it won't change again, I couldn't settle on one haha

@rinbros 2 жыл бұрын

It’s amazing how Summoning Salt is the only one who can pull videos like this.

@billymaier6712 2 жыл бұрын

UNIRACERS MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!

@findharry7 10 ай бұрын

I feel like someone is gonna start talking about summoning salt in the comment😂

@KiraKibosh Жыл бұрын

What song is playing at 37:50?

@Suukisan 2 жыл бұрын

ey, anyone know the song at 13:27 ??

@mateolanda9547 3 жыл бұрын

Had a notification for this lmao

@spaniardprince 2 жыл бұрын

Subbed

@zLance2409 2 ай бұрын

Number 15...

@AdamFerrari64 3 жыл бұрын

But Can you beat All the levels ? 😎🔥

@starting7725 3 жыл бұрын

and that's when we have warpless

@AdamFerrari64 3 жыл бұрын

@@starting7725 lol I know I was being sarcastic. I have the wr for all levels so it’s an inside joke between me and Pat :)

@starting7725 3 жыл бұрын

@@AdamFerrari64 yea I know

@ThaAwesome10 3 жыл бұрын

@@AdamFerrari64 whos pat

@nogoat 3 жыл бұрын

@@ThaAwesome10 Storster.

@brandoncolon1160 Жыл бұрын

Beat it as a kid its fuckin brutal the japanese are intense

@Mighty_Dork Ай бұрын

Your voice sounds way different in every video of yours I watch

@thefrankperspective4247 Жыл бұрын

Are we sub-7:00 yet lol

@matts9382 2 жыл бұрын

What is that intro song?!? Rules!!!

@mokomoko1876 Жыл бұрын

WHATS THE SONG AT 47:34 PLEASE GOD IM NOT DIGGING THRU THAT HUGE SONG LIST 😿

@ujkloin 8 ай бұрын

39:27 5-1*

@ujkloin 8 ай бұрын

39:48 down*

@bloodhound1182 10 ай бұрын

1:25 WHY DID THIS TAKE SO LONG ?? WHY IS NOBODY ELSE MENTIONING THIS

@dylansmith6911 11 ай бұрын

voice mod like alt history hub and youll have a million subs

@ujkloin Жыл бұрын

16:24 sorry but thats not sml lol

@bananacat3109 3 жыл бұрын

I watched the whole video

@kakuuirukusu1868 6 ай бұрын

Had to skip to 10:02 because the music playing before that was so awful and repetitive that I wanted to blow my brains out for a minute there. Brother I wanted to hear what you had to say but that music was too much