Super Mario 64 Tool-assisted speedrun world record explained

TAS: • [TAS] Super Mario 64: ...
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Notes:
At 10:06, the action "In water with an object" is labeled as only being reachable using glitches. You can actually get it without glitches by, for instance, grabbing a cork box in Shifting Sand Land and swimming in the oasis with it. However, "Metal in water with an object" cannot be done without glitches, as there are no levels with all the elements required to get that animation. You can achieve it with glitches in Jolly Roger Bay, which is the method demonstrated in the picture.
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction, History of the any% route
02:46 - BLJ to Vanish Cap Under the Moat, Pause buffering, Quartersteps, Negative jump
08:30 - Vanish Cap Under the Moat BLJ, Deathwarp, Sliding speed conservation
11:50 - Moat Door Skip pt. 1: Parallel universes
14:44 - Moat Door Skip pt. 2: Overflow jump
18:49 - Moat Door Skip pt. 3: Walking into the door
23:10 - To Bowser in the Fire Sea, Dive grinding, Glitchy wall kick, Side BLJ
27:54 - Bowser in the Fire Sea, Pole warp, BLJ, Lag reduction, to Upstairs
30:08 - 50-star door and Infinite stairs skip: BLJ, Sliding speed redirection, Clock punch
37:25 - Bowser in the Sky
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[@Bismuth9]

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[@hello-on4kb]

FINNALY

[@ThaAwesome10]

No way

[@sonicexer1856]

That's really n i c e.

[@breadcat292]

Thank you for spreading the holy TAS run

[@Seanderson3]

I remember when the pinned comment was saying how that joke has been made And now the joke has been made into a reality

[@dude0216]

now i get the “I am four parallel universes ahead of you” joke

[@JaCaBrA144]

Watch pannenkoek2012, he’s the guy that made the parallel universe meme

[@Tumbleflop]

Well JaCaBrA "Just" JaCaBrA, hear me out...

[@PC_Simo]

@Tumbleflop @JaCaBrA Just JaCaBrA A meme actually has 3 parts to it: pannenkoek2012, TJ ”Henry” Yoshi, and the rest of KZbin.

[@PC_Simo]

@robeatzzz So do I.

[@qymaenjaisheelal5142]

JaCaBrA Just JaCaBrA and now try to pronounce it correctly;)

[@mscup8814]

"Damn, door's locked. Mario, d'you wanna go find the key or someth--" *"Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y--"* "Uh oh."

[@DormantChris]

I think that boswer was saving peach from mario

[@malters7136]

Chrisgaming10 yes

[@DanIsDistant]

Mario: Hang on let me go defeat bowser- Y-Y-Y-Y-

[@Jess-rz3qw]

Ah shi* here we go again

[@dede_hdd5035]

This were the last words he heard as the world started to shatter.

[@ericpeterson6520]

It's funny how I know most of the TAS tech in SM64, including most of the stuff covered in this video, but I had never heard of a negative jump at all simply because it involves pressing the A button

[@jaade9485]

same lmao

[@eduardoaugusto1549]

are you pannenkoek2012 by any chance

[@tahriazel8957]

They use the same strat in portal iirc, since they speed capped the bhop, speedeunners decided to try and see if backwards bhop was capped and guess what it. It wasnt

[@floppa_gamer1111]

pannkoek 100

[@vyor8837]

​@@tahriazel8957 It was discovered in HL2 and Half Life Source, it just also works for Portal.

[@Masterbpk4]

I know this comment is a year late but what I appreciate most about this explanation is that whenever he starts explaining a difficult concept he starts from the simplest possible starting point and builds from it. As someone who is going into the education field this is such a valuable piece of advice.

[@Bismuth9]

I try to always build up from understood concepts. It's tough to organize the script sometimes but it's worth the effort

[@YaBoiWilhelm]

@@Bismuth9 Based

[@pancakehm5563]

Exactly, they also have a great balance between just letting you watch the Speedrun unfold, then explaining thingsvwhen they need to. They never overedit or explain too much, they still let you just enjoy the run.

[@TmanT321]

@@Bismuth9 You are a fucking legend. I wish everyone would explain stuff the way you do.

[@NoriMori1992]

@@Bismuth9 Even someone like me who's never played any of these games is able to understand your videos. Your efforts are appreciated.

[@premejon8300]

“When you press A the game will make Mario jump” Yup, this is all I understood the entire video.

[@RadiantSharaShaymin]

When you press Start, the game pauses.

[@oH_._]

@@RadiantSharaShaymin Nope, now you lost me.

[@RadiantSharaShaymin]

@@oH_._ Sorry, I'm bad at explaining stuff.

[@zezus001]

@@oH_._ When the start button is pressed, the game will pause. This makes Mario not being able to move.

[@brysondunn3472]

Honestly

[@SpasmanGaming]

peach: come over mario: i cant or my vector integers will overflow peach: my parents arent home mario:

[@alex.polychronopoulos4487]

Ffs good one

[@elderanafurhat6077]

wait... who are peach's parents

[@MarcusMaddox91]

That was great ty for this.

[@ImBarryScottCSS]

Mario: PogChamp

[@StayAwayFromMyCat]

@@elderanafurhat6077 King and Queen Peach obviously, if she's Princess Peach.

[@MrCompassionate01]

It takes 23 minutes to explain how Mario ENTERS the castle to begin the game. What an absolute work of art this speedrun and explination is.

[@guillermoleon0216]

The final step of the TAS: 38:20 Moonwalk to assert dominance

[@Ollie.H-2301]

It was very hard not to laugh at this

[@Siwdvi]

The thing I like in TASes is autoscrollers and stuff like that, because in the mean time while tas is waiting for the screen to scroll he can show off some really ridiculous things that just weren't nessesary for the run itself

[@maxalon2479]

Hee hee

[@nikkiesplats4450]

Beat me to it

[@nathankoziol7368]

I'm guessing that's Mario's animation of walking towards Bowser yet still in a BLJ state

[@Joshua12450]

What I expected: Over-the-top play, some BLJS, fast movement What I got: Camera manipulation, negative jumps, parallel universes

[@CptPICHU]

+ Brain Pain

[@c4f3r0s3]

@@CptPICHU +points on physics exams

[@robohobo2213]

@Fredrick Emad i knew it too. But this blew my mind.

[@Retro_Static]

What I got: A migraine

[@Maxgamer-fd7hv]

When you expect a smart person to be strong

[@caleboch8181]

Mario became a quantum physicist to defeat bowser in 5 minutes

[@cooldude2251]

That cake had to be good

[@thewardenofoz3324]

@@cooldude2251 The cake is a lie. But in the quantum realm, it's also a truth.

[@CosmiaNebula]

In this game, knowledge is POWER.

[@DarkPortall]

@Quel Gamer Mancato This is a kids game.

[@malachiluna9777]

@@DarkPortall Your point?

[@Blackadder125]

So taking the 1 unit=1 cm approximation, the 3.4 million speed Mario reaches at 10:30 converts to 1020 km/s. Which is about a 300th of light speed, or two times as fast as the entire Milky Way's escape velocity!

[@kimotokirby1601]

luffy is faster

[@ajek3607]

no shaggy is

[@mahayounus8303]

@@ajek3607 My waistline even faster

[@flyingtomato98]

I guess in this games universe the “light speed” would be how fast you need to be to frame clip lol. Bro is literally traveling faster than the games relative light speed in order to hop between parallel universes.

[@joaqueim5201]

For my Americans out there, that is just under 2.3 MILLION miles per hour

[@DarkestHour752]

Remember guys, summoning salt = history and bismuth = science

[@hepatitisf7495]

But Bismuth made an a button challenge history series

[@gigaslave]

And Pannenkoek = advanced quantum physics, the really weird stuff

[@ballsofsalsa01]

​@@gigaslavehe's Math Calculations, geometry and statistics Bismuth is technical, computational Summoning is narrator, storyteller

[@Ozukai]

​@@ballsofsalsa01true, ss is rhetorical

[@iyanez]

Imagine having to go to a parallel universe just to open a door

[@labmasterx5599]

Mario really wanna get Peach :LennyFace:

[@mimszanadunstedt441]

Funny Valentine

[@scanalesd]

xD 10/10

[@ichabodlorax7585]

"imagine having to go to a parallel universe just to open a door" -Rick c137, sometime in Season 5 of Rick and Morty (probably)

[@Benrob0329]

The real trick would be finding a parallel universe where the door is already open.

[@FourthDerivative]

Nintendo: *forgets to put cap on backwards speed* TAS community: "It's free real estate"

[@handokurimu]

lmao

[@bootmii98]

@MageBurger Until Shindou, which is what every Japan rerelease has been.

[@MaximumADHD]

David Calman It’s kinda neat that they patched the bug years before the public actually discovered it, though nothing super special.

[@mr_pants278]

Instead, they put the cap on Mario's head.

[@engineergaming7407]

@@mr_pants278 What if he lost his cap?

[@Kaiasky]

It's absolutely delightful to me that the file theme cuts in at 12:00 for the PU explanation. It's a delightful nod

[@arandomhashbrown3756]

I can't believe it's easier to open an underwater door in real life than in Mario 64

[@wyattchucklemaster2266]

Sonic: YoU'rE tOo sL-- Mario: *travels to multiple parallel universes in hundredths of seconds*

[@gigaslave]

IIRC it's possible for Sonic to hit the level loop barriers in the S3K engine so fast he loops into infinity. No accelerating for 12 hours, just hit the slope at the correct angle to alter his quantum state and clip through.

[@suop4618]

Chris Goh Kirb is capable of traveling infinity + 1 mps just by running in fact the only being capable of even getting close to kirb’s speeds is sanic using his full power.

[@rooban989]

@@suop4618 Source? By the way, Sanic can go past infinite speeds as seen in Sanic Ball; as Super Sanic, he can accelerate infinitely

[@suop4618]

Rooban ! m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2LPZ5aXZ7Zmj7c And just so know the video is slowed way down plus the kirb you see in the video is just his image not to mention last time he used more than 25% of his power he almost collapsed the whole omniverse kirb 1 sanic 0.

[@sheeloesreallycool]

Terrell Mccray ha

[@zeno9794]

I just wanted to see a speedrun. Instead I got a PHD on mario64 and graduated speedrun school. Now I can ya-hoo at 239 km/s. Thanks!

[@yourverybestfriend1263]

Yeah, but to do that, we need to talk about _parallel universes_

[@hskg]

godspeed brother o7

[@cernixs223]

@@typtrue after watching his videos, i think i could beat life with 3.5 A presses

[@attilaschweininger6867]

cool I am the 890th like

[@henryg.8762]

bwahahaha

[@ianalex9062]

I think my favorite part of the video is when he begins to talk about PUs, he starts with “Ok, so how does this work? First, we need to talk about Overflow Jumps.” But before the words “Overflow Jumps” appears on screen, for under a second you can see “Parallel Universes” pop up before they are mentioned.

[@RichConnerGMN]

yes

[@Christian_Luczejko]

I don’t know what’s more impressive, the ability to pull this off or the ability to explain it so concisely.

[@kxlsin]

nobody can pull this off; it's run by a bot

[@mahayounus8303]

@@kxlsin By an AI or recorded inputs

[@kxlsin]

@@mahayounus8303 you can't possibly do the inputs, since they're frame perfect and such. the human finger is not fast enough

[@mahayounus8303]

@@kxlsin no programming the inputs on the emulator

[@harmony.enforcer]

Nintendo in 1996: I can't wait to see our fans play this! Ah! The innocence of childhood! Gamers in 2019: *Now, a platform rotating 2,8 degrees usually has no noticeable impact, but MAGNIFY IT OVER 3 MILLION units of distance-*

[@christianschweda2530]

Laughed loudly, nice comment!

[@casedistorted]

Genius.

[@maxwell-lt]

​@@Bedrock_Armor Most countries use a comma as the decimal separator.

[@harmony.enforcer]

@@Bedrock_Armor bUt WhY THaT's sO wEirD. DUDE. Most other languages use that system because that's how it came to be. I could ask you why you use Farenheit which is based on the melting point of HALF-SALTED CHURNED BUTTER instead of just water but see, I don't care. Why a comma is so important to you I will never understand, but what I do know is when you look outside your little bubble you see the world isn't just translated from English.

[@Bedrock_Armor]

I'm out. I wanted a peaceful, civil conversation, but you're treating me like I live under a rock.

[@lordsmorgasbord2646]

"when you press A, the game will make Mario jump" holy shit

[@lukefrancois6173]

That's your only takeaway?

[@SkylarGlider]

WHAT! MARIO JUMPS!!

[@frankmerker630]

"with the exception of the 48 following circumstances"

[@alaeriia01]

_angry Pannenkoek2012 noises_

[@YodielandInhabitant710]

@@alaeriia01 Scuttlebug jamboree intensifies

[@MaximumHeresey]

I want to believe that, someone in our world, actually moved into another parallel universe using whe Wahoo effect. The only problem is that the person in question, would have been literally ripped into gazillion pieces due to the horrendous speed.

[@gestaltblitz8296]

Im still waiting for someone to write a creepy pasta or a scp based on the yahoo effect

[@aubueruser7228]

@@gestaltblitz8296Making a way via utilizing a precise buildup of kinetic energy would be crazy

[@ferrouslam]

22:55 The 4 screens to visualize all the parallel universe hopping has to be the most mind-bendingly awesome thing ever. I especially love seeing the Actual Camera screen legit track Mario universe hopping. It raises an interesting question. Who's more powerful? Mario who can jump through parallel universes or Lakitu who can track Mario jumping through parallel universes?

[@tristencox5914]

My parents explaining how they got to school:

[@rhain9388]

*yahooing intensifies*

[@eavankhadka2678]

Lol.

[@yazzindev]

lmfao💀💀

[@ruben_smo]

Going in a parrellel universe to leave the house

[@sapphireaurora9634]

You forgot the both ways. He only did it once

[@Luar77]

Now I understand the "I'm four parallel universes ahead of you" meme

[@dashi-musashi351]

Oh shit you’re right! 😂

[@FriskyD.]

It could be 32 for accuracy

[@tommybomby4122]

@@kreuner11 you mean 8

[@dalemonshateu6948]

Raul Semede [Luar77] If you watched far enough to see that part of this video then you should watch Pannenkoek2012 and Uncommentatedpannen, they’re more or less the expert on SM64

[@Luar77]

@@dalemonshateu6948 I watched the whole thing and never played this game, however this feels quite satisfying and interesting to see how the speedrun works. I'll check that out whenever I can though

[@callmeobsequious]

I watched a video on how TASes are made and then came back to this video remembering that I'd been meaning to watch it. Having a newfound appreciation for the HUNDREDS of hours of work that go into speedruns like this made this super interesting.

[@meganbarhorst5272]

Can't believe the Super Mario 64 creators designed all these unexpected mechanics perfectly to make the best possible run of the game the weed number

[@dumpmuch]

Plottwist: That underwater door was not a coincidence. Without that door it would never possible to skip the first key. The developers knew about and this game was intended to beat the game without 0 stars and 1 key, or wait…maybe even 0 keys but its not discovered yet…

[@filipe691]

8 hundredths of a second away from perfection

[@alaeriia01]

​@@filipe691Good news, there was an optimization. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6Wznot_Za19mtE

[@commandershepard8878]

Problem solving with TAS will lead to the next real world physics discovery. The key to interstellar travel is locked inside the wahoo man.

[@LordTyph]

Dante: What the hell is this? Wrong wahoo man

[@frederik1268]

The wahoo man...

[@alexanderminer1537]

Strangely enough, I was thinking exactly the same when I found this comment....

[@dede_hdd5035]

Indeed

[@PatchesFM]

Honestly what this shows us is with the right amount of speed and correct positioning we could just warp to other planets in milliseconds! Even bend time and space to our will! You wished that one thing went different in your past boom you can travel to alternative Earths where what you wished happened did! We can all live our best and happiest lives on other earths!! Sorry for the ranting I just wanted to get that off my chest! P.S. I love science and space!!

[@jordanbluett1308]

I'm still absolutely gobsmacked at how half this video is about forcing mario to open an underwater door.

[@Thatguy-ft-dog]

That frikin door

[@GustavoFring19.]

You know it’s serious when you use “gobsmacked” lmao

[@CaesarCrown]

“I am 4 parallel universes ahead of you” makes so much more sense now

[@jevilplusby]

@@CaesarCrown yes

[@davidmarker737]

@@CaesarCrown how do u know. What if I'm two vertical parallel universes below u? (cue the dramatic music).

[@TheDMan2003]

I’d like to just point out that, as someone who is currently taking a university-level programming course, as well as someone who is actively working on a ROM hack, videos like these, which break down the technical aspects of everything are godsends. You and Retro Game Mechanics Explained have taught me-and by extension the rest of the world-quite a lot about the mechanics of how games work. And now that I can actually apply these concepts to real examples, that just makes me appreciate this content even more than I already did. Every time I learn something in class, I’m able to apply these videos’ content to it. I don’t know what it is, but I take solace in the fact that I can learn things from videos about things I like: games, and breaking them down.

[@arbitrario3845]

Door: *exists* Mario: I can go through that! Door: *is obscured by a drop of water* Mario: *_What an interesting issue. To solve it, I must ascend the hill and find a spot where I can perfectly execute my so-called "BLJ", or Backwards Long Jump. To do it, I will do the move called "Long Jump" while making a "yahoo" sound and reverse my direction in the air. Now I have backwards momentum, so i can perform another Long Jump. Doing this process repeatedly will make me obtain large amounts of backwards speed. I will use it by moving to a different parallel universe where my relative position would be on the other side of the obscured door. By doing this, I can enter._*

[@BridgetGuiltyGear621]

💀

[@Aaa-vp6ug]

Bro’s a JoJo character

[@fchef8370]

“With -3.4 million units of speed he is actually able to go somewhere.” Why was that so funny to me

[@mimszanadunstedt441]

Because its like being so bad at something you succeed.

[@pewwdiepie]

did I mean mario can go up peach's.. y'know her..

[@fchef8370]

tall nut her what.

[@pewwdiepie]

@@fchef8370 y'know.. her vegana..

[@fchef8370]

tall but oh ok lol.

[@thiccburger290]

Imagine breaking a game so effectively that you have to talk in terms of multiversal relativistic physics so that you can explain walking through walls faster. Edit: obviously, there’s no relativity involved. It’s just hyperbole

[@joethomas8464]

Q: Why does this work? A: Perfectly precise abusage of quantum mechanics. Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y

[@ultrio325]

They could've called it anything they like so not really

[@joethomas8464]

@@ultrio325 What's the story behind that username?

[@ultrio325]

@@joethomas8464 idk my brain said it was a good name

[@joethomas8464]

@@ultrio325 The source of some of the best usernames.

[@emralddragon6669]

Speedrunners are something else. I’m always so impressed by the things they can pull off with or without tools.

[@draculactica]

i love how sm64 save music is a MUST when explaining parallel universes. god bless pannenkoek.

[@DanielGarcia-uq7vu]

Don't mind me just trying to get my SM64 PhD

[@OfficialGlitchDoctor]

frfr

[@justsomeone5314]

Is it just me, or was the 23:51 part featured in a similar topic video? I have a deja-vu. It's as if I've seen this specific hack several years back.

[@DanielThirion]

@@justsomeone5314 Pannenkoek probably. He does lots of videos about SM64

[@aquamidideluxe5079]

Getting to the credits with 70+ stars: SM64 high school diploma Getting all 120 stars: SM64 Associate's degree Non-TAS speedrun: SM64 Bachelor's degree TAS speedrun: SM64 Master's degree Completing Watch For Rolling Rocks with 0.5x A-Presses: SM64 PhD

[@yoink297]

@@justsomeone5314 same

[@dpm2937]

Others: falling Me, an intellectual: Negative jump

[@shapman280]

Intellectual level 2: downward jump

[@flamvellyt1910]

Intellectuell lvl3 Falling fly negativ jump fly sky

[@shapman280]

Intellectual level3: positive fall

[@dpm2937]

@@shapman280 that would be a jump

[@shapman280]

@ᴛʜᴇ sᴏᴠɪᴇᴛ ᴜɴɪᴏɴ level 6 intellectual: negative uping

[@7zako578]

見ててすごく興味深くて面白かったし、全く違和感のない翻訳の日本語字幕もあってとても面白かったです！ありがとうございます！

[@Bismuth9]

字幕が役に立ったことをとてもうれしく思います！

[@dorol6375]

日本語が話せます

[@greasy8496]

I can not imagine how insanely long it took to get the correct inputs in for the PU trick, even with frame advance.

[@bigkoat245]

2019: SM64 TAS explained 2030: How to use SM64 to time travel

[@zildjianvaleros391]

2150: sm64 cures every thing

[@alyssasalmon4883]

wut am i even sm64?

[@Kitsune_Chara_CG]

in 2300 sm64 is used to travel through in real life pararel universes and to destroy black holes

[@poobman6]

2571: Mario 64 used to create universes

[@jmlmcaffeinated5132]

3500:sm64 becomes life

[@imjustethan213]

Dude I'm so stressed, I'm Taking AP Super Mario 64 Speedrunning next year, I don't know any of this

[@ABHyt]

Don't worry bro, I believe you'll get it.

[@greylandrum9164]

don't worry man. This is all fluff. None of it is actually on the exam. Just read the textbook and you'll be fine.

[@anonymoususer9837]

That class mostly focuses on Applied Glitch-Using Timesaves and the List of Backups, along with some standard classes on route optimization. Next year you'll probably take Pre-TAS, which is a demanding course but also a good way to gradually learn the material shown here (that's taught in TAS for AP).

[@imjustethan213]

@@anonymoususer9837 Ah thanks for the heads up, School starts in one week and I've mastered the backwards long jump, Time to wing it

[@novarender_]

Three weeks in at my school, we just started learning about quarter a-presses. It's so confusing, I didn't know it got this complicated

[@jayfugazi9751]

I love how theres a universal language among mario 64 speedrun videos to make these visual graphs and diagrams that always include a png of mario that could pass as high class abstract art without context

[@jayfugazi9751]

19:46 like the only way somebody without context of this could possibly describe it is that its some kind of abstract art

[@JohnSmith-of2gu]

Watching this after your ABC series, it's cool to see how much more awesome power Mario gains when he's allowed to use his famous jumps. And yet some techniques like Parallel Universes are quite familiar. Fascinating how the speedrun uses similar tools to overcome a totally different obstacle: A DOOR.

[@kamarapikachu4991]

When you are so sick of the princess getting captured you go get a theoretical physics degree so can BLJ through parallel universes just so you can get it over with in under 5 minutes.

[@dry90125]

Could you imagine if this was possible irl? Aight boys I’m gonna go to McDonald’s. (Hitless, any%)

[@disputeone]

I mean at this point it's just physics.

[@tohruearth3580]

Imagine your theoretical physics professor starts clipping through your house walls because you missed his lecture

[@Baltimore_Hood_Vines_2014]

David Deutsch would be proud.

[@kirklincoln4389]

yet even though Mario has a PhD in advanced theoretical quantum mechanics physics he still makes 42k a year

[@mkdasher]

Honestly this video is a masterpiece. As an author of this run, I found all this information really accurate and well explained, while using super good visuals to help everyone understand what is going on this run. Definitely 10/10.

[@brianarden3584]

Good job on your run!

[@d3c0deFPV]

Nice work, I really like watching these videos.

[@Epck]

this is really incredible and yeah he helped anyone who wasnt hardcore into it understand the insanity

[@Hans5958]

Bro 0 stars is already too insane to comprehend, now were talking about 1 key, congrats man

[@johnsans534]

9/10 Really shit the bed at the end, expecting viewers to understand everything at that point and just blaze through the final part without describing the specifics any morem

[@passat2413]

Bro, i didn't even care that much how this tas works, but you explained this so damn well, sir, you just earned a new subscriber 👍🏻

[@VoxNerdula]

Those PUs only exist conceptually. It's actually the overflow enabling mario's positional calculation to "wrap around" the coordinate space.

[@danival2090]

A direct analogy for the virtual particles of quantum field theory ..but in a 90's video game. Damn.

[@gbugis6706]

@@danival2090in topology, a common example to introduce quotient spaces it to show that such a “PU” is homeomorphic to the torus.

[@Miju_YT]

Programmers: "Oh and what should we do, if Mario's position is higher than that value?" "Oh, that will never happen. It will result in an overflow and will just be in the right range automatically." Speedrunners: " *There are Parallel Universes* "

[@FairArc]

Yeah lmao

[@Miju_YT]

@@RoonyKingXL That shouldn't be a problem :D

[@SuperSmashDolls]

Most C programmers don't even think that far. After all, they're prohibited by ISO 9899 from even considering about numerical overflow, lest the compiler shove Wario-shaped demons up their nose. Most likely, someone in QA asked "Hey, the game lags too much in Wet-Dry World" (or whatever level was personalized that day) and the programmer realized, "Holy shit there's too much geometry in this level". After being told by Miyamoto and the level designer that under no circumstances is the programmer to simplify their levels, the next step would be to try and make physics faster. The programmer dutifully starts changing "float" to "short" in the code until the game runs faster, and then checks the bug off their list. 20 years later, and the entire Internet hears the phrase "But first, we need to talk about parallel universes."

[@scanalesd]

Mario: "no problem"

[@charliep7112]

By this point, Bowser is just mocking a god, and paying the consequences.

[@SplinterCellRocks]

"even now the evil seed of what you've done germinates within you" - Mario

[@dannylamb456]

>tfw mario is a reality bending hellspawn and you're just trying to protect the princess from the ensuing singularity, only to draw the Italo-Void being right to you

[@idrissberchil25]

Mocking a devil

[@FizzleFX]

Rick and Morty. The infinite Mario

[@oqo3310]

Mario : _"This, is the power of a god !"_

[@chrisoneal2718]

29:52 You answered a question I had been wondering… once inside the basement with this TAS trick, could you open the locked basement door to get into the rest of the castle, or would the game say “you need a key to open this door?” The answer turns out to be the former! I’m guessing the programmers never expected you to get into the basement before getting the dark world key, so they probably didn’t program the statement “this key doesn’t fit! Maybe it’s for upstairs…” like they did for when you attempt to open the upstairs door with the basement key.

[@toaster581]

Babe wake up, the sm64 tas video got recommend to me again.

[@neropilled]

at certain times, Mario displays multiple frames in which his eyes open and close suddenly. *this is called blinking*

[@skyjack1]

Does he breathe?

[@neropilled]

@@skyjack1 no

[@neropilled]

@@skyjack1 there is a tree within his lungs constantly producing oxygen tho

[@-jobrocodwawz-6226]

Kobilua ah pannenkoek

[@teovinokur9362]

pannenkoek actually did a video on character blinking

[@SlayCC]

Newton: Haha apple fall funny gravity Mario: Because there is water infront of the door, I will travel Faster than Light, Move in a Parallel Universe and do pixel perfect movement to enter the door

[@Fujimokou985]

The virgin issac newton vs the chad mario mario

[@omarkinggames7579]

This is good like

[@villagerjj]

That's just Mario for you. Meamoto grounded him after sm64 for blj-ing to much.

[@MrHkl8324]

@@Fujimokou985 Mario is a simp.

[@tyb.c.4332]

Not to be nitpicky, but technically the fastest he goes is 102,487,012.5 cm/s. The speed of light it 29,979,245,800 cm/s, so he actually only goes about 1/292 the speed of light.

[@laureeeeeeeeeeeeeeen]

When he said *"The castle is divided into three levels, the ground level, the basement, and the upstairs"* I felt that.

[@jamiesnow8190]

I've already watched this several times. I keep coming back because it's just so well done! Thanks for great content

[@SalokinQuagsire]

I need to watch something stupid after this to normalize my IQ and anxiety levels

[@theorderofthepurplephoenix3321]

Salokin terminal montage totally legit non tas and terminal montage fox vs mario

[@justice7788]

same

[@orangeboi3387]

Suggest: top 10 numbers from 1 to 10, and anti vaxxer arguments

[@wellsjn1]

True

[@Kitsune_Chara_CG]

YAHOO (mario) vs HIYAAA! (meele fox) is good

[@GenesisTheKitty]

I love this, there's so much complicated information but you managed to break it down in a way that makes sense to me, someone who hasn't spent time learning about this stuff at all

[@MisterGreen1997]

Excellent video! You broke everything down really well. It was so interesting to see how this process works. Great work!

[@Jesus-dj2ss]

Should SM64 become a college course at this point?

[@SigSelect]

Honestly a lot of old Nintendo games have some really great C code in them; the Nintendo way of creative solutions over brute force fixes permeates every layer of their game; it really shows how coding can be inarguably refereed to as high art.

[@someguylostontheinternet4504]

Yes!

[@mannyc6649]

Indeed he says "research help" in the end!

[@novawolfsrl]

I would major in a SM64 degree in a heartbeat

[@dream-nd6jw]

i think the same

[@Freshy10]

Bismuth: To answer that, we need to talk about- Me: *don't you say it.* Bismuth: Overflow jumps. Me: *relief* Also Bismuth: and Parallel Universes

[@bonbonpony]

That's how to trick YOUR collision detection :D

[@gavinbrown216]

ButtermilkPannencake I love your name, and from the pannen in it, I assume you watch pannenkeok2012

[@dede_hdd5035]

OH NOOOOOO!!!!!! (jojo reference)

[@TheBeba87]

Mistakes were made...

[@mech1x]

This comment's reply thread single handedly holds humanity back by 2 centuries.

[@marshallhorton7154]

10:43 Mario: *millions of units away from the map* Yoshi: *yoshi noises intensify* (look how they can mimic a fraction *OF THE SIZE OF MY-* )

[@albertlofling7310]

Reminder, we all sat here for 23 minutes to watch a plumber walk out of the castle he is supposed to enter

[@GodOfPizza]

Mario: dies to an angry mushroom Also Mario: casually warps reality and travels to alternate dimensions for fun

[@casualgoats]

I JUST watched a video where a dude is using a microphone program that translates words into controller inputs, so he did the slides in SM64.

[@HD-zj7dy]

@@casualgoats Yup it was DougDoug who did that, name the man next time

[@goonhardt]

andersen chill bruh

[@HD-zj7dy]

@@goonhardt Something wrong with giving credit to a guy

[@deus_ex_machina_]

@@HD-zj7dy I think they meant that there was nothing wrong with not remembering the name of someone who did something, but remembering what it was they did. If I was recommending something as they were, I would make an effort to find their name and a link/explanation, but I wouldn't be mad at OP for not doing so, which it seemed you were.

[@emoadnomad]

Mario: walks Bismuth: so what’s happening here? Well it’s actually pretty complicated. Mario was programmed to move in all different directions which can manipulate his x and y position. His sub pixel position determines his current location in relation to the level. However Mario can also run which can result in his manipulation of his x and y position and sub pixel to increase rapidly.

[@Minuey]

Mario: *breaths* Bismuth: as mario exhales, his horizontal collision decreases by a unit of 7 subpixels. This mechanic is known as "hitbox manipulation" that not only alters marios hitbox, but also how objects react to mario. For example, when mario is in his normal state--his conventional model for which he stays for 72 frames--we are not able to bound between the tiny crevice of the wall and the door. However, using hitbox manipulation, if we are able to time when mario activates that state between the 73rd frame and the 98th frame, then we can clip out of bounds inside the crevice with a set amount of speed. The game doesn't know how to react when two collisions overlap each other, so for some weird function it fortunately prioritizes mario's model, which is why we were able to clip out of bounds.

[@emoadnomad]

Mario:Literally exists Bismuth: The Mario exists is through years and years of programming which causes the programmers to alter their hitboxes, x and y position, and their sub pixel movement. This process is known as development/irl manipulation. If the programmers don’t undergo this process, Mario existing would be physically impossible

[@mathprodigy]

Mario: doesn't exist before 1981 Bismuth: there's actually a lot going on here. what's actually happening here is the future developer's ancestors had a premonition of pixels and set up a long chain of events, beginning with the Revolutionary War, in the middle parallel universes, and ending with the world's favorite jumping mascot with overalls. You see there was an oversight in capping the negative speed of their thought and they completely jumped out of reality, but overflowed all the way back in. Their brain cells checked out the first few quarter steps but collided on the 3rd, thus changing which neural pathways were prioritized and altering the outcome to result in Jumpman.

[@DiegoG2004]

Yes, yes, every single action in this game is incredibly complicated with insanely low speeds.

[@RubyPiec]

Mario: dies Bismuth: so whats happening here? It's quite complicated. Mario was programmed to die when losing all the power, when this happens, a series of events happen, he goes through 11 different sprites and his y level decreases by about 0.03 cm, assuming he's human-sized, this can be abused to make Mario die more.

[@dyjhjfrtt6607]

Half of the video: okay, so this is how the collision detection works! The other half: Mario then shatters the multiverse with his speed going thousands of times the speed of light.

[@DrDankPhD]

This explainer is incredibly well done, and perfectly explains an insanely complicated process of steps. I'm in awe of the people who developed it, and of you for your teaching skill. Great vid.

[@Notafoundationspy]

Peach: Hey babe come over. Mario: I can't, my current speed exceeds that of which can be contained in our physical universe. Peach: My parents aren't home. Mario: *P A R A L L E L U N I V E R S E S*

[@radioactivian4412]

underrated as hell

[@etrnal_raijin]

JAHAHAHAHA

[@matt4193]

Change the parent stuff for "the Toads are not in the castle"

[@jmrq]

Peach's first line should have been about the lecture which peach took in the Toad Univ. featuring Mario's infinite availability to run as fast as Mario can leap endless amount of *parallel universe*

[@tommybomby4122]

*SCP joke*

[@Vegatable]

Imagine being one of SM64's programmers and watching this

[@NexusKirin]

“What have I done”

[@astralten]

"Maybe we could already have a medicine again cancer if the masterminds of the world would unite to work on this instead of completely demolishing the code of a 20 year old kids game"

[@SuperchargedCoffee]

Programmer: if (player.speed > SPEED_MAX) { player.speed = SPEED_MAX; } Speedrunners in litterally hundreds of games: I'm about to end this mans whole career

[@windblazeanims6253]

@@lunaticzeroone Let's be honest there probably is a cure for cancer, they just realise that if Cancer is cured there won't be donations to find a cure anymore

[@manuelmoscardi6606]

Only because one programmer didn't set a max negative speed

[@TheRussell747]

"We need to get from here to that door. Simple, right? Short walk and we're there." This video: not quite. We've gotta run all the way around the globe just to end up right over there

[@devintheundertalefan5611]

Bruh we need more speedruns explained by you man, you do so great with these

[@MxPokirby]

People: "Jumping always makes you go up." Bismuth, an 'intellectual': *"Negative Jump."*

[@red5t653]

I mean, jumping off a ledge is basically a negative jump.

[@petrusrauhala4883]

@@red5t653 after the jump it becomes a fall, not a jump. A negative jump would be to prong your legs but subsequently just going down.

[@bmxscape]

@@petrusrauhala4883 a negative jump would be to increase your falling acceleration by pushing off of something before you fall

[@petrusrauhala4883]

@@bmxscape that would just be falling but with extra power, kinda like swimmers do. A jump means you temporarily give yourself upwards velocity, followed by downwards velocity. A negative jump would be to jump but going down first, then up. If you're an australian and let's say you are standing upside down, then jumping, that would just be a normal jump but upside down. Sorry if this was confusing

[@bmxscape]

@@petrusrauhala4883 ah, but if you had looked up the definition of jump in a dictionary, it would not state you need to return. jump : to push oneself off a surface and into the air by using the muscles in one's legs and feet. check mate

[@matthewtoland2850]

I live the fact that in order to explain how Mario walked through an underwater door, we have to understand the mathematical calculations of negative quarter stepping through horizontal and vertical parallel universes.

[@DJEevee257]

lol

[@Angel-xf2lc]

Miles Tails Prower FT lol

[@mnc1009]

I Got An Ad As Soon As The Glitch Was About To End It. The Biggest Blue Ball I've Ever Seen And It Was Worth It

[@Taric25]

love*

[@Wavepush]

And people say math isn't important

[@ElTaitronAnim]

Fantastic video and explanation of all the concepts at play!

[@QuandalePluhington]

I have watched this 5 times, will watch again.

[@RonsonDenmark]

I can hear Miyamoto laughing all the way from japan.. "they found my easter egg"

[@hoomanadaw365]

heh, now for stage 2 of my master plan

[@finniko1995]

@@hoomanadaw365 To create the first inter-universal colony

[@adrianbudgell9550]

But first lets talk about alternate universes

[@slothchunktakingcareofyour323]

well, those are glitches used as powers, i remember the "strife jump" in quake 3, i'm not sure but i think it was an easter egg for sure

[@RonsonDenmark]

@@slothchunktakingcareofyour323 Surely Miyamoto though of parallel universes, BLJs and such long before they were found. You do know he is a god, right?

[@Yowesephth]

Ahh, mario 64, my favorite pan-universal trigonometry simulator

[@dry90125]

Because only normies call it a platformer.

[@SilverLining1]

To be fair, trigonometry is fucking awesome. It's a shame how they teach it in schools as a bunch of memorization, when in reality it's an extremely powerful and simple tool that makes things like this tas a lot less painful than they could be.

[@neekk040]

vsauce has nothing on this guy or pannen

[@nothing5819]

DrunkMasochist I really need a profanity filter on mobile...

[@hilbertblack]

this video is awesome! I even feel the inspiration from pannenkoek's video, the music and the helpful graphics really sell it to me as an enjoyable and understandable experience

[@marqimoth6987]

Bismuth is the only person who can get me to watch a vid fully that's 9 times longer than what it's explaining

[@makuru_dd3662]

Speedrunning 2020: we need to talk about parallel universes Speedrunning 2040: we need to talk about quantum physics

[@Juli-lf5kc]

That already happened.

[@cojack9609]

Ok

[@ClassifiedGamez]

Hopefully they find out how to do that upwarp

[@YoshisaurUnderscore]

Quantum computers are currently being developed, so that might be true.

[@memesistolefromifunny9165]

@@cojack9609 ok?

[@Sph1003]

Next video: *How Mario 64 was solved using quantum physics*

[@wackpendejo3000]

This are quantum physics

[@leonbyrne1927]

Just straight up hops in a time machine and goes back to when the speedrun was started

[@rwnp7439]

More like how quantum physics was solved using Mario 64! :D

[@jondonnelly4831]

Marioshock infinite

[@Batman-jm7np]

And vortex math.

[@NikkiLayne]

Fascinating stuff! There is so much more to speedrunning than I ever could have imagined!

[@TheWanderingNeko]

i come back to this video every time i can't fall asleep due to insomnia. Just so relaxing to listen to

[@uljk5699]

Dr. Strange: I've seen 14,000,706 possible outcome for SM64 Capt. America: In how many of them did Mario beat Bowser? Dr. Strange: Every single one

[@oH_._]

@SleepyWolf Should of been on a parallel universe like Mario. Fucking normie Captain America.

[@ninjiinc.8883]

Oh wait there’s one where a 3 year old controls him and consistently dies and she just gives up

[@AssistantCoreAQI]

@@ninjiinc.8883 *_But Since It's Still One Of The Winning Timelines, The Child Comes Back 23 Years Later And Decides To Finally Beat The Game, For Nostalgia._*

[@philandermcfly6441]

-In how many posible futures does Mario open the door? - 1

[@AlphaSquadZero]

0.5 futures

[@MIITRIN]

AlphaSquadZero a future is a future though

[@Octopig44]

@@MIITRIN nah .5 futures is basically time saying "well yes but actually no"

[@fusrosandvich3738]

he enters the door and the game crashes.

[@fiona9891]

@@MIITRIN you can't say it's just half

[@Julian-AJCP]

The production value of this video is insane. I would be interested how long it took to make it.

[@Bismuth9]

About 240 hours of work over 23 days.

[@vakapont]

i have no idea what's happening and what's being explained but all i know is that i'm fascinated and that i fell asleep twice watching this

[@sirsanti8408]

this “tool assisted” dude is really good at speedrunning

[@RichConnerGMN]

that's a pretty original comment bro. i love how it's totally not the 67865468810th time i've seen it.

[@BITBITBIT-fd3gu]

YoU IdIOt, TaS iSNt A PersON ITs A rOBOT ProGrAMmed By HUmaNs, CheCK YouR FaCts

[@manillametro9952]

@@BITBITBIT-fd3gu yOur DuMB iTs a JoKE r/woOOsH

[@kriss3488]

@@manillametro9952 "your"

[@JediEdi]

@@kriss3488 wELL aCtuAlly iT's tHe RigHt wAy tO saY iT aNd aLso n0bOdY caREs sO yEaH.:..:

[@informitas0117]

Poor Bowser. Seeing this glitching phantom jitter towards you must be a nightmare.

[@RustyNova]

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[@joseviteri2953]

@@RustyNova May the stars in the Mushroom Kingdom be plentiful, for you sir. Superb video.

[@llmkursk8254]

@RustNova 016 I really want to see this updated to the new record...

[@RustyNova]

@@llmkursk8254 don't we all?

[@OrangeC7]

informitas 0: something about how bowser feels about all of this ​@@RustyNova: *Drops in and links to the single greatest youtube video in existence*

[@Jakeus101]

One time I accidentally BLJ’d so perfectly in the spooky level that I went into a parallel universe, promptly before my game crashed

[@Bismuth9]

It's actually fairly easy to reach parallel universes in BBH. If you set your camera to Lakitu / Stop in the pause menu, you can hold R and keep the camera in-bounds as Mario soars into eternal emptiness, never to be seen again.

[@DrNo64]

Mario is more active than people make him out to be. We barely ever see him eat anything ( I only count mushrooms) he never even does eat in this game and he's long jumping around parallel universes at the speed of light yet people still call him tubby. also He's yelling practically the whole time and he still has energy after all that. he never stops to catch his breath, or even shows any signs of tiredness.

[@jaredlind2888]

I want a "Developers React" on this from the OG Nintendo crew.

[@conteudooriginal4600]

**looks at the physics engine coding** "Look how the massacred my boy"

[@nostalgianetwork1225]

"uruuks urike someone did sia homuwoku"

[@thanque7689]

we really need this ;-;

[@elK12345]

they will probably demand the people who made this tas

[@kakyoindonut3213]

they probably going to mad and demanding to cancel every speedrun attempt because "this is not how you play the game"

[@2-question-marks]

Me: stops paying attention for a second Bismuth: NEGATIVE JUMP

[@frezzyflame3844]

The first 2 times I tried to watch this video i had just woken up and literally had no brain power to begin comprehending wtf he was talking about

[@davemarx7856]

@@frezzyflame3844 I watch these types of videos to zone out. These people's voices and the insanity of the topics are great for not paying attention. And they still get my views and likes.

[@frezzyflame3844]

@@davemarx7856 I do that a lot. I just scroll through my feed until I find some long ass analysis video and just use it as background noiss

[@thomastuohy7688]

Great content brother! Just found out about your channel and I love it!

[@saamajama]

Mad respect edting and getting all these angle clips and math and stuff prob took a long long time

[@BlackillusionQpang]

A 38 minute explanation of a 4 minute TAS. This is what I live for.

[@KokiriKidLink]

To be fair, we had to be careful and watch for rolling rocks

[@supermarioluigi9053]

The longest explanations are the most often selected to explain.

[@benjaminusplus1]

I looked into SM64 and saw 14.000.605 parallel universes. In how many does Mario open the door? 1

[@theisgood0]

Dr Mario meets Dr Strange

[@samuelmarzo722]

I understood that reference

[@rayretz362]

@@theisgood0 Dr strangio

[@suade596]

Samuel Marzo so did 216 other people lol

[@benjaminusplus1]

@@suade596 All men of culture as well

[@KZzero]

Ok, now I need a Math and Physics diploma just to undertstand how the red man opens a door

[@WhiskeredStalker]

Thank you for the visuals! It makes it much easier to understand