What if we gave Mario a Portal gun then made a TAS? TASBot plays Mari0 at AGDQ 2019

TASBot playing Mari0 at AGDQ 2019 (with setup time removed), presented with permission from GDQ.
The SMB map packs were TAS'ed by Masterjun and the Portal map packs were TAS'ed by Lexikiq in Linux using libTAS. In both versions Mario was replaced with a sprite of TASBot so this title is technically misleading. Lexikiq was able to come on site to provide commentary. Mari0 was made with assets from Nintendo and Valve / Portal as a mashup (I'm obliged to include the word parody although it isn't) by Maurice who also made the majority of the map packs shown, along with WillWare who made Gravitas. dwangoAC would like to thank everyone who contributed in one way or another, including illy, p4plus2, serisium, and TiKevin83 who all helped in some form or another with the visualization board. This video was edited by AngelWind. This description is solely the disasterpiece of dwangoAC. (That's not intended as an insult, Disasterpiece is incredible, but I digress.)
Our scientists were too busy trying to figure out if they could that they never considered if they should. The results were predictable. TASBot was not harmed in the making of this run. The weighted companion cube was not euthanized. It was, however, used as a mid-air step. Mario was not injured at any point. Masterjun's sleep schedule was severely damaged, however.
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[@WeegeepieYT]

I love the fact that they even made a ROB custom character

[@kittykitty168]

Weegeepie hi

[@jakob1536]

It's TASBot

[@limonlx7182]

@@jakob1536 first, this comment is *year* old. Second, what does this have to do with the original comment? They said about custom character, why would you have to explain that it's TAS?

[@hiu6469]

You can download it

[@FurdoxArchive]

omg weegeepie hi! im french

[@soopershpee5842]

Just imagine what bowser sees. You are guarding your princess when this robot with a strange gun appears. He starts coming at you at godlike speeds. Next thing you know you're dead.

[@btd5ninja64]

axe exists tasbot what is collision

[@ItsYee64]

If You think about it from Bowser's perspective, It's terrifying.

[@ColorWheelHero]

You don't know it but you're already dead

[@masonking2188]

He just sees a line lol

[@jo_nm9484]

*NANI*

[@bradleyh8013]

Man, mario maker 2 looks pretty good so far

[@TheKingOfDominoes]

Doesn't it tho?

[@SuperCartoonist]

To be honest, this WAS Mario Maker before Nintendo's Official Mario Maker.

[@ralsei5116]

Yep

[@josephakintoye174]

@@SuperCartoonist Nah mate that was SMBX.

[@SuperCartoonist]

@@josephakintoye174 Well, you get the idea of what I mean. Some people would think Mario Maker was the first of it's kind since everything has to be made officially by Nintendo. Not that I'm saying everything needs to be made by them. Let just say I hate a certain fan base.

[@usernametaken4023]

Whoever gave TASBot a Portal Gun, you're fired. -Cave Johnson

[@itsoracle]

Hey Monokuma

[@AleksandrNevskiyu]

@@itsoracle hey Knight

[@sodiboo]

fantastic, i read this in his voice and now i’m laughing

[@Riskthebard]

Dont you mean hired

[@CiaranMaxwell]

I can hear him saying it, in his own voice. It's great.

[@brokeangryjerry9605]

jesus christ i just double tapped on my phone and i skipped 2 levels

[@bearcavemaximum]

Lol

[@faives]

Fr?

[@liamanderson7082]

@@faives You watched the run, didn't you?

[@zemiris]

The same happened to me xd

[@kurtislachance9958]

This is King Crimson's power

[@HandledToaster2]

"Now this version has a glitch..-" -ITS ACTUALLY FEATURE every software developer ever

[@OmegaSaurus]

That was a very Todd Howard thing to say

[@AVerySexuallyDeviantOrange]

AppleToaster It’s been such a long time since I first saw this, but that line is timeless. It is (g)old, a classic, the ragecomics of quotes

[@pelziig]

Yassir Vazquez “It just works” -Todd Howard

[@alphag4mer909]

i know a guy who always says this, people give him many glitches and bugs and he mostly just replies with "nah that's just a feature"

[@sonpham3438]

It’s a surprise mechanic

[@enque2970]

World 1 Bowser: *Wow, that was fast* World 2-7 Bowser: *NO, you're suppose to walk trough the level, you're ruining everythi-* World 8 Bowser: *GASP* I need to get out of here.

[@micahagpaoa5384]

I understood that reference

[@NightLight_SS]

SO LONG, GAY BOWSER!

[@quazar3640]

Lmao ive watched this

[@funtainment777]

t e r m i n a l m o n t a g e

[@joshmor8481]

World 9 bowser: BIRD UP

[@aidanbeattie8341]

Man this TAS guy is really good at speed running all games

[@rcpwProductions]

Please dont squish me please dont squash me

[@lolipolice7035]

I know, right? It's insane!

[@misty5015]

Damn I wanted to r/woosh someone

[@crunch.dot.73]

@@misty5015 IKR

[@xnopyt29]

Pinhead Larry I’ve seen him get a world record time for just about every game. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen him in person before.

[@BlulesBlue]

"you need to legally own SMB to play this" PFFF HAHAHAAHAHA gud joak

[@khaim0919]

FBI OPEN UP

[@BlulesBlue]

@@khaim0919 no u

[@jaredhamon3411]

@@BlulesBlue Or have the NES classic or the online subscription.

[@BlulesBlue]

@@jaredhamon3411 NES classic is too expensive here i'm not crazy to waste money on that, and switch is even more expensive, totally unaffordable, there's nothing wrong in get some emulators and bla bla bla

[@davidslevs]

@@BlulesBlue There's nothing wrong with breaking the law or bla bla bla.

[@YaBoiPatron]

The soul-crushing thing about this is that the loading between levels is longer than the levels themselfs.

[@drago2975]

To understand this, we need to talk about PARALLEL UNIVERSES

[@elvifatma1645]

Super mario 64? Sm64??

[@ldofvpg6272]

@@elvifatma1645 Something About Super Mario World.

[@BambinaSaldana]

@@ldofvpg6272 pannenkoek said it first in his video about Super Mario 64.

[@RdTrler]

9:29 Commentator looks away, literally misses entire level.

[@akiyamakn1370]

Mario : *Own Portal Gun Mario Enemies : *Chuckles* "I'm in danger"

[@looklikeluke982]

*tasbot teleports behind you* "nothing personnel, kid"

[@stef511]

This comment is clearly stolen

[@rheeeeeee2011]

Every copy of mari0 is personalized so thats why he has a gun

[@jbritain]

It's funny how the jumping on cube glitch works in this as well.

[@TuckyBlue]

?

[@Quadrolithium]

@@TuckyBlue a glitch that had been in SMB... Many speedrunners use this. 4-2

[@freshpotato7770]

4-2 the most iconic level. finishes in 14 seconds

[@lexikiq]

where's summoningsalt when you need him :)

[@eeveemaster2206]

No it's 1-1. U potato Edit: w8 u r potato

[@thewatcherinthecloud]

A majority of the commentary in this run: "What?" "Oh." "Wow!" "Well." "Wher--" "Uhm.." "Okay." "Oh. Sure." "Oh, hello." "Koppas." "Lakitu."

[@IKTeam]

and alot of laughing

[@AkiraSatou]

"And my kids are on the couch here" This man had sexual relations with a woman, not once, but twice minimum

[@quazar3640]

Twins exist, you know that right?

[@dwangoAC]

@@quazar3640 They're 10 and 12 respectively so I can personally tell you my kids are definitely not twins.

[@despecc]

Not surprised. Dwango is the ultimate gamer Chad

[@Auxbrained]

how

[@JimmyJonJillakers]

Bold of you to assume he didn't program a TAS to do it the second time

[@doctorbadass9380]

Robot to bowser: I am 4 Parallel universes ahead of you.

[@Mewtic1]

For his neutral special, he wields a portal gun.

[@crazymartin526]

This is the speed that sonic is proud

[@thomasvlaskampiii6850]

So if TASBot were a real person, he would've beaten the current (as of today) world record for a warpless speed run by a whole 7 minutes 2 seconds

[@freyathedragon899]

(Bowser stands in TASbot’s path) Bowser: “You aren’t getting past me!” (TASbot shoots a portal at the ceiling behind Bowser, then shoots a portal right at Bowser’s stomach) Bowser: “What the-“ (TASbot walks through Bowser) Bowser: “....Touché.”

[@dwangoAC]

Or, in this case, "You aren't getting through me!"

[@freyathedragon899]

dwangoAC, keeper of TASBot that’s way more accurate lol

[@purple_the_fox1727]

It doesn't matter how fast you are, toad will always beat you to the next castle

[@Nelsea7190]

love how bowser can only manage to look back before he's cooked.

[@edwinbennion3756]

This is amazing and hilarious! But now I want more of this. We need tasbot playing Super Metroid.... and Samus has a portal gun. Epic!!!

[@portalfreak7628]

>"How do Koopas communicate? With their SHELL-PHONES!!" Y'know, maybe doctors do need borders after all.

[@Raii_Chu]

Rather then saving the princess the toads at each castle should say “The cake is in another castle”. And then in the last castle Peach says “The cake is a lie.” (Portal reference)

[@downtheupstair1]

Disasterpeace IS incredible! And so is this TAS!

[@rivvie]

prop to this guy who spend 48hrs straight making this bot then go to sleep

[@ZdrytchX]

Wasn't expecting them to actually do mari0 eventually

[@thedarkdragon8642]

Don't you just love it when all the cut scenes takes longer than the game?

[@princessdio3686]

Honestly, it would be fun if the glitches from Portal made it in (ie. ABH, edge glitch, clipping glitch, portal bump, etc.)

[@chillby4198]

This man is the best speedrunner in 「The World」and you can't lie

[@Fezezen]

Mari0 was made in Löve 👌

[@illumnigd8649]

lööve

[@RealOsquo]

Still good, 2 years later

[@gardeningtips2210]

You know you like nintendo when you name your kid rintendo

[@josephfiddes60]

Seems crazy not seeing the wrong-warp on 8-4!

[@retrolegend]

Now we have to go into a portal loop for 12 hours to build up speed.

[@lexikiq]

more like 12 frames :P

[@xMistaBeastxGames]

This Portal mod is amazing

[@deathknightvade3791]

This TAS guy seems really strong! I'd love to fight him one day!

[@JeremiahJ-wv1vn]

I heard someone say dam when he said were not playing steve mode

[@moth.monster]

>Mario romhack TAS is allowed at GDQ >Sethbling doing live human ACE is banned from GDQ Nice job GDQ.

[@dwangoAC]

That's not quite a fair comparison, it's a lot more nuanced than that.

[@NomoregoodnamesD8]

@@dwangoAC Could you maybe elaborate?

[@dwangoAC]

@@NomoregoodnamesD8 Definitely, but this is a complex conversation not suited to KZbin comments and it may be better if you stopped by Discord.TAS.Bot but I'll make an attempt here. The message I was responding to had potentially misleading verbiage ("banned" instead of the more accurate "declined"), doesn't take into account the differences between the very different content types, tosses Mari0 in the romhack category when it's more like an independent game on a different platform that borrows art from previously released games similar to sampling in music, and attempts to throw GDQ under the bus all while ignoring the fact that I'm not part of GDQ and don't have any control over these types of decisions. That's a lot to unpack there...

[@DonSMDT]

I'm gonna agree with the video poster than that. Mari0, while a SMB1 game, was a ground up recreation of SMB1, as opposed to a romhack.

[@asdfghyter]

Why was Sethbling's run denied?

[@spoonface4508]

i missed every level and I only blinked once

[@marbleswan6664]

You named your kid rentendo?

[@dwangoAC]

She goes by Wrentendo and her brother goes by DefeneSam - we all use screen names online as I assume you do as well, unless your parents really did call you MarbleSwan666 in which case I have questions.

[@marbleswan6664]

dwangoAC, keeper of TASBot Oh, I legit though her legal name was Wrentendo. I may be a moron. Lol

[@dwangoAC]

@@marbleswan6664 Heh, not at all. Somehow there's this common perspective shared by many more people than just you that for some reason kids can't have pseudonyms because they've just never encountered it before. Quick poll and a very unscientific one at that, if you're reading this question please reply with how old you were when you picked your first online username. Feel free to avoid personally identifiable information, this isn't an attempt at doxing so if you're not comfortable sharing what that name was or would rather respond more abstractly go for it, I'm just curious what the average age was when people picked their first screen names. I'm going to go first, I picked my current name when I was 17.

[@jewemy5649]

I love the fact that even with portal the newer speed Run record is still fast

[@YaGirlZero]

No level that doesn't include water shall go over ten seconds Tasbot 01010

[@Dethneko]

Nerd was wrong; Rob can play any game.

[@5upl1an]

admin, he's doing it sideways!

[@tomshere8388]

Mari0 is such a great game

[@franchufranchu119]

Roses are red Kids play with marbles Our princess is in another castle

[@skinwalker69420]

Some would say that the Cheep Cheeps are really..... Cheep. I'll see myself out

[@Ziggyzaggy300]

He beat mario bros in LITTRALY 1.13 seconds

[@mudkip7251]

Wow that portal stuff should be in its own game, I’d buy that.

[@ryanchurchill5081]

Mario must be lost currently

[@crazyjaybe]

Our princess is in another cas--right here

[@morganometry]

This was a really cool Linux ad

[@gbux07]

Now we wait for Kosmic to beat it RTA.

[@milky243]

oh ok, so sonic 2 with a portal gun except it’s mario.

[@chunkyrabbit1032]

My oh my was I amazed when I saw this

[@checkoutmynewchannel6708]

Theres a pretty cool Mari0 mod called Alesan99's entities, last updated in March

[@matthewd.d238]

No one: Some guy from tech: Zelda!!

[@adennakashima2267]

he was telling them where the visual assets came from

[@homelessmanuel804]

How...

[@drchopstick9539]

Who thinks, “ hmm let’s give Mario a portal gun :D” AND THEN THEY JUST SAY, “let’s make a Mario portal gun t a s”

[@dwangoAC]

There was a several year gap, in fairness, heh

[@_GSB_]

“Raising coolness by 20 percent”

[@rob1454]

Who is TAS and why is he so good at speedrunning

[@Chazer5]

If you're looking for some form of comedy or jokes here, the best ones are in the description. And they are not good.

[@CallofWessel]

Lol yeah this is a pretty autistic part of KZbin

[@NRobbi42]

Portal is on Switch. They can make magic happen now.

[@electroshock1021]

category: *portal* guys we tricked youtube again

[@strawberrycake3474]

I knew it R.O.B was the master speedrunner he was in smash for this reason we can't compete with R.O.B's skill in video games

[@TheDisorganizedNerd]

It is also matpats choise to kill the animals

[@dailysacrificedoublee]

This is a great game.

[@SgtNomadZero]

Hahaha this is awesome.

[@Evilpricetag]

But the blocks are made of humans, the portal gun wouldn't work

[@jackrose3542]

No they aren’t, they’re made of toads

[@devilsemissary4650]

That's just downright hilarious.

[@CEOofTheVoid]

TASBot be like: *NYOOOOOOOM*

[@user-ro1cc8tz6d]

r/linuxmasterrace

[@coolwalterbennett7805]

Give mario a gravity gun and make a TAS

[@noeruchangd]

asking the real questions here

[@kevinbonin6173]

These guys build machines to play video games, yet they can't recognize Zelda 2?

[@dwangoAC]

I'm afraid that the viewers could hear what the audience member said but I couldn't and as a result I just look silly. Oh well.

[@andrewmarchitto8461]

Did this dude say his child was named "rintendo"?? I really hope that was a joke.

[@Crarshall]

Let's not forget "Difennisam" or whatever he actually said... what horrible names.

[@dwangoAC]

Her online name is Wrentendo. I happen to know she's quite fond of her real life name and equally likes the name she uses online.

[@dwangoAC]

@@Crarshall His online name is DefeneSam. I don't call him that when we're not streaming.

[@AbbigailNitro]

I tried play at times 2 speed, and the video glitched out and he started teleporting all around the screen In short, he was speed

[@over00lordunknown12]

Are they seriously clapping for TAS software? (I get that it’s for the person who made the run, but still)

[@dwangoAC]

It's called respecting the amount of time the author put in to the game. I've seen forced clapping and having been in the room this was not like that.

[@kyokonull]

wow ok that's rude tas can be cool you know

[@limbonicdragon2067]

The software had to calculate everything I'd like to see you do to same. :P

[@lexikiq]

to clarify, these input files were created by me and Masterjun over several days, not automatically made by some program. we put a lot of work into these and the audience clapped as a result.

[@agonleed3841]

I'm with you. Makes no sense. Clapping for the person who put in effort can happen before and after it's all done. Or clapping when the guy talking says something worthwhile makes sense too. Clapping to a software is kinda stupid. Like me clapping to my rumba. I its programmed to do it and feels zero appreciation orhigher motivation. It wasnt forced clap by some. There were definitely people who only clapped cause of a few other loud claps. And even they were subconsciously feeling like they must. Easy to see really. They were all being weird lol Cool recording. But they were definitely clapping to software as if they were my 1yr old clapping to his buzzlightear making noise lmao.

[@SuperCheppies]

building up speed in this Mari0 is basically the blj of mario 64, but with portals... and the sprite is R.O.B.... and it's 2d.... *fast* yet it wont be full on science until humans can do this too, we only see possibilities here but not much attempt by humans. You call that impossible Cave Johnson would have you sacked immediatly

[@MissAshley42]

Has anyone made little tiny headphones for TASBot? That would be super cute!

[@dwangoAC]

We found a tiny pair that fit him, and he wore a full-sized set during AGDQ 2019. He's cute. :)

[@alexharkler]

8:53 Those last two portals were only put there to teleport the koopa.

[@iceypumpkinhead]

It can't be that fast *Tasbot beats 1-1 in 5 seconds* ...oh

[@atomiclemon77]

Is one of his kids called Rintendo?

[@dwangoAC]

She goes by Wrentendo online, yes.

[@DanielSong39]

Superfast Mario finished this game in 1:11

[@nikkikaileb808]

The gun looks like a tampon

[@looker2k410]

1:45 bowser be like WTF happend?!

[@PresidentWoshi]

great now i wanna see portal tas

[@certainlystormy]

TASBot is best gamer

[@ivhlol7513]

How do koopas communicate? With their shell phones :)))

[@endersblade]

Dwango's kids have such unfortunate names.

[@dwangoAC]

I helped DefeneSam and Wrentendo pick their online names years ago when they were young. They have every right to pick different names in the future. They both like their real first (and rather ordinary) names and don't seem inclined to change those, for the record.

[@shawnthornton7971]

i've always wondered. what is the tasbot? Is it a prop or is it the emulator in the shape of a prop? I always assumed TAS's were made in emulators and then played back or something

[@dwangoAC]

TASBot is a mascot holding a replay device which is connected to a real console (usually) to play back what was made in an emulator on a real console.

[@santumChannelYes]

When you say "we've given him a portal gun" do you guys mean "the game developers, someone other than us, gave him a portal gun"?

[@dwangoAC]

We worked with the game author Maurice on this version that features TASBot as a playable sprite. So, yes, we did.

[@turtleb01]

Mario clearly has bhop scripts

[@jazzthehampster]

This was uploaded on my birthday lol

[@serbianspaceforce6873]

Imagine any tas run from the pov of any miniboss or bowser himself. you steal some princess and the next thing you know a plumber is running at you at supersonic speeds