A week after uploading this video, I have recovered surviving footage of pogyo's 14:46.1. I found this in old DMs with a SMW runner, and funnily enough I was the one that posted this link - I did not recall this four to five years later and am kicking myself for not rediscovering till now. www.dailymotion.com/video/x5hn7wr

They didn't call it _'SMALLs'_ !?! Small Mario Always, Least Levels

Oh my god dude you got a screenshot with my rabbit testicle avatar in it :DDDD I've already laughed like 8 times in this video just three minutes in. Looking forward to watching your take on the madness I unleashed on this game by introducing this category (for one main reason, that being I didn't want to have to compete with someone for best time aka new category = "free" world record).

I am simultaneously shocked and not at all surprised that there was such a commotion over the naming of a category.

pogyo: "If you don't call it low% I'm deleting everything" mods: change it to have low% in the title again pogyo: deletes everything anyways so he's THAT petty. got it

About ten or twelve years ago, when I was first discovering speedrunning, I asked an IRL gamer friend of mine if he had ever heard of speedrunning. He replied simply "I know about it yeah." It was several years before I learned he was jimsfriend and about stuff like this category. Good video, thanks for making.

Is there anything better than watching an hour-long documentary about a niche community of people who play old video games faster than anyone?

"As a moderator, just let me fix that real quick>' Chad mod and chad use of power.

From one videogame historian to another, I like it when you get frustrated and give your unfiltered opinion. Please do this more! ❤

Jesus the swapping of the koopas red shell for the green shell so it walks off the edge is genius, big mario may have brawn but small mario has brains

pogyo wasn’t very pog, yo. Top tier vid ❤️

You know, I could at least understand people getting upset if it was something like the old any% and 0 exit and complaining over who was technically any%. But with this category the fact that small only (which is the best description of what the category is) caused such a stir is astonishing.. Its funny how most people once they get a little bit of power they throw tantrums over the littlest things when they cant excersize that control over people. I mean 0 exit makes more sense to be called lowest% than small only. Because lowest% implies that a lower completion level no matter the time would trump a faster run with an additional exit. You've got to love the Internet..

Pogyo cared so much about the name of a category, he made me think we should just not care about any records he may have held until he puts his pants back on.

Honestly I think this video is a very good case for why people should care more about keeping a record of things. Even apart from the whole 'purposefully deleting runs' thing kinda screwing with the ability to make that section of the video (which honestly ended up also overshadowing his rival's records in the video), so much of the jimsfriend era of stuff could have easily been lost but because it wasn't, we got a whole story out of it. I'm not saying "they werent pogyo's runs to delete" because as much as I am a 'preserve the history' advocate everyone has their own reasons and beliefs but I am saying "don't be petty about something that really doesn't matter". I'm not gonna get in your way if you feel you need to delete your runs for some reason, but just please don't be extremely petty and pull a stunt because you didn't get your way, it doesn't make you look good.

HOLY SHIT. Deleting everything you've ever done in a game OVER A FUCKING CATEGORY NAME? I won't say what I truly think because it's not a pretty word... Holy shit.

That unfiltered opinion part was satisfying, much better than a disingenuous "don't harass people kids" even though no one was going to anyways.

As a History student at university i feel it every last bit when you rage on ppl deleting records and sources. Stay strong sis!

Wow, great vid! So comprehensive and love the effort you put into highlighting the specific strats used to beat records. Also, to prevent further destruction of the leaderboards.. It should require moderator approval to delete / private a Top 10 run (top 10 @ the time it was posted). Posting a run should be basically tied with signing a "contract" that you approve this run to be seen by the public, and promise to keep it there forever, for archival purposes.

"Someone has to solve the questions not being answered sometimes" queen

Epic video as always Storster! Low%/Marinho%/Small Only category has a special place in my heart...

Great job. Huge amount of effort. Without videos like this we'd never be able to appreciate all these amazing speedrunners.

one fish two fish red fish blue fish. the fish dupe let players dupe fish. to a dish a fish into two requires a wish from you. through the wifi you cant deny a supply of fish will multiply. but soon sigh,cry,and say goodbye after minikloon said whoop went boop to the dupe.

Fire doc as always, and excellent work reassembling the timeline and making it easy to follow. Learning more about SMW history is always a good Saturday night. It also makes me feel old when the terrible sound version of Snes9x was considered the good emulator over ZSNES in my day.

I’m going to delete all my future world records by not even running the category unless they change it to Poopy Pants Percent. The alliteration, man. The _alliteration_ . Also, what _didn’t_ Scott Kessler run? Seriously, which game’s history does not include that guy’s name? Get out of my head, Scott Kessler!

Storster upload YIPPIE

The only thing worse than naming wars is people who take them seriously lmao. This category is sick though, I love how hard it is

I sincerely think that if someone wants to delete their footages and names from the leaderboard, their record should also be scrapped, since there is not video footage anymore. Even more so for such petiness.

This video was literally top suggestion after a video of Mortimer Mouse using his shrink ray and saying "Pete is big, and now he's small!" The KZfaq algorithm is the best thing ever sometimes!

Ive been playing the game since about 2002, its 1 of my favorite mario games ever.

It's very funny that you mention how someone born on October 1st, 2005 would almost be an adult by now, as I was actually born on July 25th 2006, a day that seems very important to this category and the community. Very in-depth and easy to understand video, it is good to know about this category's history!

"and with practice it should become easy."

thank you for not bothering to explain the entire lineage of mario games before getting into the actual subject. big ups.

I always do enjoy your content. Very informative and relaxing, the way you deliver things are wonderful. Keep it up, very happy with the progress you’ve made in a lot of regards!

Should have called it "Smol plumber%" Honestly, great job once again with this history. I'm sure you're gonna start backuping all future WRs just in case 😅

Another banger video. Thanks! Re the drama, all I gotta say is act like a child, get treated like a child.

Speedrun histories are always so fun to watch, and you have such a nice voice to listen to too!

What a cool bit of history! I love this sort of stuff and you're great at it 🎉

Oh man, i dont even run this game or follow it much, but hearing about pogyo nuking all his own records over the category rename pissed me off so much 💀

one of my fave storster uploads

Awesome video!!! 1 hour full of SMW, what a treat! 🎉

Surprising to hear some Mazinger in the background music, lol

Small Only makes more sense to me. Low% sounds like it would fit for a low score challenge. But I would not really care if it was named something else. Thank you friend.

It's really not important, but I dont see this as a true low%. Imo (seriously opinion and no authority on the subject) if this was an actual low% run, anyone who would use less items and enemies (of course without powerups and lowest amount of exits) to beat the game should have the record, even if it's slower, since they interacted with less tools/treasures provided by the game and in spirit would have a lower %. So if I spent the next 48 hours doing a run, but use 1 less item somehow, I would have the new record with 48 hours by typical low% rules. It's close to how games with actual % completion do it, if you pick up less items in your inv it counts as a lower % even if the game save file doesnt count the item toward %. Like in the Zelda runs! Picking up rupees count toward the category completion rules, less is better, but they dont affect your save file % at all. so yea coins should count toward items too in my made up bs. I only bring this up because low% is kinda specific, but I dont see them keeping track of that sort of thing in this run; they use and ignore items depending on strats and finish time is the only thing that determines the record, so low% just doesnt describe what's going on. I would call it smol% hehe (super mario, only little)

this catagory seems very cool & neato, thank you for the upload!

52:02 I was born on January 8th 2005, so while it is still 9 months earlier than this post, I don't know how to feel about your sentence lol

Storster…. YOUR VOICE TRAINING IS SO GOOD KEEP GOING GIRLY

hoooo boy one of these knife fights. i wasnt a party to to this particular one but boy howdy do i know how it goes and i have been on the wroooong side of too many of these arguments over split hairs lmao

my glorious queen never misses

Nice!

Pogyo is a great example of how you have to understand the full history of someone to know who they are, rather than just going off of their positive achievements. Achievements alone, you’d think he is an impressive and hardworking person. And that’s probably true. However, you wouldn’t know they are incredibly petty and immature until you learn the history of the Small Only/Low%/Low% (Small Only) category naming drama.

New video hype! Congrats girl 🎉

i remember watching pogyos low% runs back in the day, didnt know about the whole temper tantrum

i used to be the de facto top mod of r/finalfantasy... the exasperation is relatable.

4:24 Cant believe I never noticed you could put a spring on those blocks to get to the pipe

new speedrun hisrory video lets fucking GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

The Doraemon music caught me off guard 😭😭😭

So I read a comment about voice training (first time viewer). I listened closesly and assumed you were a girl voice training to sound masculine. Went and watched and old video and WOW. Great work 👏

This video is awesome, you go queen. Let the haters hate ❤️‍🔥

Is there a '96' Exit Small Only category (or however maximum possible exits can be completed while in small + Yoshi mode) ?

I remember watching Dram play low% around 2014. I always though the cloud was a dumb addition to low%, it's a powerup! I even posted a no cloud strategy for that level kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZtOReLKlvdCceGg.html . Good times!

12:23 looks like it predates KZfaq's public release too

The great War of 2017. Many casualties, and like all other wars that came before and after, the cost was too much

Aa a Doraemon speedrunner, love the random Doraemon theme song in there around 19 minutes in. Also, great vid!

The koopa shell trade trick is so cool and creative!

Been waiting for something like this.

I know key want to run small only now. Great video and super interesting category.

funny enough, though I don't run the game, I use some of these strats in randomizers.

I was half expecting the video to end with Nanafuse also deleting their videos for comedic purposes lol

Low% is a dumb name for a category. The point of naming a category is to give a brief overview of the goal/restrictions, thats literally all its supposed to do.

Snes9X movies bring me back. Man, those were the days

I once dreamed to do a no power up 100% exit speedrun

47:56 What a manchild.

Only bout 36.5k subs (at time of commenting), eh? You got talent Storster, it's an interesting topic and you put down about an hour, that's impressive.

35:00 This exact thing happened in the Donkey Kong 94 speedrunning community, but with timing rules.

It should be called Super Mario all only

Thats so stupid deleting world record runs because of a side category name being changed to something that made more sense

Holy shot amazing video!!!

Amazing video and I love your voice ❤️

are there any speedrun category where you play it like it's mario run

Wait does Yoshi count as a powerup but the Lakitu cloud doesn't?

Storster is going the way of Thomas Game Docs?

I dont quite understand why pogyo(and others) cared so much about the label. I mean, surely there was a reason. Right?

0:39 🤓Erm actually some coins are consitored powerups in the game's code

Is using baby Yoshi in star world 2 a powerup? The run is small only. By that definition, small Mario sitting on Yoshi is still small Mario. Why is sitting on Yoshi not allowed but holding a baby Yoshi allowed when both are being done by small Mario. If you consider using Yoshi of any kind to "power" up Mario to be able to do things he can not do on his own, then why allow baby Yoshi as that allows Mario to move faster in the water. So this run is tough to name. Calling it small only, means both Yoshis (normal and baby) are allowed as the only qualifier is small Mario. However if you call this a no powerup run, then it's up to the community to define what a powerup is. Of cause items that directly changer Mario's state (Shroom, Flower, Feather and Star) are all banned. But what about Yoshi and baby Yoshi? Neither directly change Mario's state but both allow Mario to do things he otherwise could not do without them. The community calling both or neither powerups makes sense, as the community makes the rules for each challenge run. The issue however, is when one of the two (Yoshi or baby Yoshi) is considered a powerup by the community but the other is not. If you consider baby Yoshi to be like a shell that's fine but then you have the ability to eat enemies. Not at all useful in the run but it is a thing you technically could do. What does every one think about this? Also as an aside, in a no powerup run, stars are banned but in a small only run stars are allowed. For the obvious reason, stars do not change Mario's size but they are a temporary powerup. So Sorster's definition (I assume this is the community's definition) of a no powerup run is a little off. It should be a "no permanent powerup" run. Assuming permanent is defined as until hit by an enemy, dying or collecting the opposing stage 2 powerup (flower vs feather). A complicated run to define in the run name, so the community just got lazy and called in "small Mario" and defined what that means in the run rules. As it's not obviously clear what all the run restrictions are in the run name itself.

this is brilliant

NEW STORSTER LET’S GOOOOOOOOOO

You would think it was called (pick a slur)% by that discord drama 😂

Great news honey new storster dropped

Getting to the end of the video, I'm trying to think of small only moves she hasn't really talked about that migjt make the run more optimized AND THEN SHE MENTIONS WALL JUMPS AND I FORGOT THEY WERE A THING IN THIS GAME! I be dumb sometimes. 😂

Honestly themoment I realized that the song that was playingon the B was the Tenchi Muyo credits theme I as just shcked, I thought nobody knew that game even existed

i refuse to believe pogyo was that petty. that's like. bigotry in the core of the community levels of destruction. why was a category name that wasn't even accurate a hardline.

No yumps in the switch palace footage? Throw the whole video out.

woah

Is cloud not counted as a powerup? It can be stored... kinda?

There is already so much hate in the world... I understand getting frustrated over other people's actions or opinions... But i still consider that spreading vitriolic comments (no matter how well deserved they be) is not helping anyone... Loved the video btw

why is pogo allowed back

gg !

Sounds like a category that would fit smallant.

Also, shrimp on the barbie

If people act like children and delete their history and videos they should be removed from the leaderboards.