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Footage used:
• [TAS] Super Mario Bros...
• Super Mario Bros.: The...
• Toad's Adventure: Wher...
• (6:16.480) SMB2J World...
• Ocarina of Time 100% S...
• Super Mario Bros. "war...
• [FWR] Super Mario Bros...
Maps used:
nesmaps.com//maps/SuperMarioB...
Music used:
• Menu 1 - Super Smash B...
• Dreamy Somnom Labyrint...
• Donkey Kong Country: T...
• Yoshi's Island OST - F...
• Metroid Prime 3: Corru...
• Trainer Red Epic Remix
• Celebration - Diddy Ko...
• Sacred Somnom Woods - ...
#Kosmic #Mario #Breakdown

[@Kosmicd12]

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[@AdminHouse]

Maybe

[@conorfromouterspace]

Not sure saying that some of the app store's top 100 games are made with builbox is a good selling point💀

[@ellaquin]

"Go fast in video game - Confess to splicing" Lol, I love that little touch :) (Also I am assuming that is a joke)

[@bits3608]

Just use unreal or godot and skip the arbitrary limitations and egregious pricing.

[@PhantoFantasma]

wow, an actualy sponser related to the demographics of your videos. nice.

[@MeesterTweester]

Congratulations on passing the bar

[@Kosmicd12]

impressive comment

[@nugboy420]

@@Kosmicd12 finally a lawyer I see?

[@jestfullgremblim8002]

I kid you not, i do not understand what this comment or these replies are talking about. Help.

[@emnersonn]

you win

[@rymac100]

@@jestfullgremblim8002 “passing the bar” is a term referring to a student studying to become a lawyer graduating and becoming a lawyer

[@matthewvicksell6539]

Finally, an smb speedrun time save video that doesn't make me think about waiting for the bus.

[@Doge-zb7ku]

Oh but it did, it made you think about the bus by not mentioning the bus

[@mitchratka3661]

@@Doge-zb7ku Lmao that would be ironic, but since its a castle level there are no frame-rules, so to my knowledge there is no bus

[@Doge-zb7ku]

@@mitchratka3661 he still thought about the bus

[@diegopugaquintanilla4344]

@@mitchratka3661 even when the bus isn't with us, there is yearning for it

[@T3sl4]

"Imagine a bus that's spinning out of control and also on fire"

[@MitchDorty]

Dying at the "Confess to Splicing" in his To-do list

[@zeryle]

LMAO

[@A1rPun]

That got me too

[@ji604]

Badabing, Badabun!

[@matheuscabral9618]

yeah lmao 😂

[@rom7636]

@@ji604 omfg it’s Badabun reference the Mario speed runner who definitely did not splice together multiple different runs

[@5MadMovieMakers]

"It seems like it wastes time, but really it's calculated to save time in the end" - Me procrastinating on a paper to write it faster closer to the deadline

[@JamesPacardo]

.

[@Floppafan96]

bro has 1m+ subs and has no replies

[@arnabbiswasalsodeep]

Why do i find this channel commenting nearly everywhere. KZbin wants me to focus on the channel.

[@tbprodutions]

@@Floppafan96 his channel is popping off though. Got around 10M views per video up until this year.

[@kirbwarriork3371]

I don't know why, but I love when tricks go from "tas only, that's impossible for a human" to "here's how we teach new runners this trick". There's something so satisfying about it.

[@MegaBrokenstar]

When people describe something that shouldn’t be intuitively impossible as impossible, that’s usually a good sign that said thing will be routine in the future. Think the sub-4 mile, or the sub-10 100m. Currently, the sub-2hr conditions-legal marathon. These barriers are always more psychological or technical than physical. Once cracked, these barriers almost always collapse forcefully. Once someone cracked that sub-4 mile, within a few years it was the minimum requirement to compete in any world-class race.

[@mr.battlecats5512]

technicly, anything a tas can do, a human can do as well, things are labeld as "humanly impossiple" simply do to its large complexity or huge ammount of precision requiered

[@youtubewanderer3347]

Ever heard of Geometry Dash? Because that happens every few months there

[@Abrissbirne66]

​@@mr.battlecats5512 Do you think a human could press a button 30 times per second? Or do any movement at this rate at all?

[@mr.battlecats5512]

@@Abrissbirne66 I mean sure, consistent frame perfects at above 20 times a second are basicly impossible for humans, but that's not a factor in 99% of tas runs. Most simply require extreamly precise movement or framer perfect timing at exact intervals, stuff that while phossiple to do by a human, is so difficult that it's not really worth trying.

[@gunnadahun]

People already call out runners for cheating when they jump through piranha plants. I can only imagine the reaction to this lol

[@mrnoneofurbusiness7942]

oh boy

[@sfisher923]

That will cause some *Fiery* Issues

[@monky4640]

this will get the community pretty heated

[@PeachCrusher69]

but the panana hurt mario in my game!

[@MugCt]

If they call cheats passing through *_B L U E B A L L S_* in the impossible game then imagine passing through the fire bars

[@undefined06855]

1.75s is 5.549241x10^-8 years. Just think about that. So much time saved.

[@polite3462]

1.75s is 1.75s

[@markm0000]

When time becomes worthless.

[@ttaute]

1.75s is around 1/34th of a minute. Would help a lot with loading.

[@matheuscabral9618]

what is it in light years?

[@markm0000]

@@matheuscabral9618 You are asking a math question on the internet. You have free access to every piece of information known to mankind and the most powerful computers in existence. Do something about it.

[@monion05]

"One day we just decided we were gonna do what the tas does" this is the most factual statement i have ever heard

[@Robert_McGarry_Poems]

Truth, about truth. Doesn't get anymore meta than this...

[@harrytsang1501]

That's 5 whole framerules you're talking about

[@BaufenBeast]

And sometimes, "turns out it wasn't even that hard."

[@Channel-io1di]

What does he mean after when he says "it's not free by any means"?

[@Robert_McGarry_Poems]

@@Channel-io1di You still have to learn how to do it, and then do it in an on pace run. That is not free, even if once you learn how to do it the trick isn't that hard.

[@krum3155]

0:39 to do: -confess to splicing kek

[@Mister_Clean]

I audibly let out a "what" when I saw the TAS go straight through the fire bar

[@spk1121]

Think I said, "Huh?" 🤓

[@worldprops333]

how dare you question tas

[@Kylora2112]

"So this part is REALLY annoying. What if we just ignored it?"

[@brightblackhole2442]

@@spk1121 huh

[@thatverseguy]

You would have thought with a game speedran to death like SMB would have been fully optimised in 2022, but there's always something to be found. The future of this game looks a little exciting now.

[@dorol6375]

Imo, what makes SMB so special in comparison to other speedruns is how optimised it is. Not how much potential skips there could be. The whole reason it's so optimised is that there have not been any major skips found in 20 years or so

[@MuchWhittering]

Speedrun to death. The passive voice uses the perfect tense. I have run the game. The game has been run. The game was run.

[@EebstertheGreat]

Game is hard. When you start running out of time to save, you have to start exploring seemingly ridiculous clips like this one. But it takes a lot lot lot of work before you start running out of time to save.

[@dylantoney6971]

@@MuchWhittering we care. You deserve adulation.

[@Idran]

I'm pretty sure I've heard before that the SMB TAS actually _is_ fully optimized? From what it sounds like in the video, it's just that this specific trick was thought to be TAS-only until some people tried to get it to work in live play

[@sketchycard887]

'confess to splicing' we got him lmao, the first ever spliced streamer. truly a revolutionary entertainer.

[@ToriKo_]

>Boots up Bioshock

[@Flow99]

@@ToriKo_ ?

[@Storse]

@@Flow99 splicers are enemies in bioshock

[@otakubullfrog1665]

You'd think that some people would have glitched through the firebar by accident, but it's funny how that sort of thing doesn't seem to happen until you know it can be done. Before I started watching Mario speedrunning videos, I never knew that you could clip through pipes other than the one leading to the minus world, but then I managed to do it accidentally on a random playthrough one day despite never having done it in all the times I've played over the decades.

[@freedustin]

We have no idea how many players accidentally went thru that firebar throughout the years. I haven't touched this game in decades but I remember wonky stuff like this from my childhood where sometimes enemies and firebars just let you right thru, it's the weirdest thing in real time. Like when Vinesauce played Sonic 3 & Knuckles for the first time, he glitched thru multiple walls in Hydrocity zone back to back, in a panic he just pulled a well executed TAS strat right out his behind. Then promptly died and could not do it again.

[@heretichazel]

@@freedustin vinesauce just had some sort of divine blessing for accidentally doing TAS and frame perfect tricks from what I know, I don't really watch his content but got recommend a video of him doing a frame perfect trick on the slide race in SM64 apparently lmao

[@snickerdoooodle]

I remember accidentally doing it once when I was testing an NES my local store just let me have because they couldn't fix it. I am in no way skilled enough to TRY and do it but I think I got really lucky when I thought I was gonna die when I ran into a fire line and I just... Didn't?

[@webbowser8834]

It is not uncommon for casual players to stumble into tricks/glitches that would be viable for speedruns without realizing it. A relatively recent example of this would be "Boba-skip" in Metal Gear Solid 1, which got its name when a streamer that went by "Boba" accidentally stumbles into a massive skip while streaming a MGS playthrough. It's actually a really heartwarming story. Stories like Boba's are the exception though, most of the time the player brushes it off as a "weird glitch" and the trick just kinda dies there as the player is either unable to reproduce the glitch or doesn't think of sharing it online.

[@diegomastro5681]

@@webbowser8834 there is also the pewdipie skip in dark souls, where you can talk to an npc behind a door without opening it. Pewdipie discovered it by accident in a stream

[@thetragedyofcommons]

clicked on this notif thinking it was a karl jobst video

[@carbonfibercarpet4655]

Lmao same 😂

[@CaptainMangles]

HELLO YOU ABSOLUTE LEGENDS

[@d42kn355]

Lolol sammmme

[@generalkindle3308]

“What if I told you that this new trick save 1.75 seconds?” *phone crashes immediately in excitement*

[@losalex]

Remember tasing that skip like 2y ago, I was so happy when I finally got the skip. And now you're doing it in rta. Insane.

[@bahamas10]

“confess to splicing” lmao

[@The16bithero]

I really love this type of scripted videos as well as the gameplay ones. It's nice to have both types to add some variety to the channel. Good job, my man!

[@Kosmicd12]

I don't think it's the best for my channel growth/the algorithm (just scripted would be better, they reach a wider audience and then i post romhacks and they start unsubbing lol), but it is what I *like* to do, so that's important too.

[@The16bithero]

@@Kosmicd12 that is true. But yeah, it's what makes you feel best and the type of content that you're proud of

[@tagyuantong9807]

Gooooooood Job

[@lamenwatch1877]

@@Kosmicd12 That sucks. I love watching your romhack wednesday videos, it's too bad others dislike them.

[@Niftski]

Awesome video, I’m very happy there is now a proper documentation video so people can better understand exactly how firebar skip works!

[@dmytrotsvyntarnyi799]

Looking forward to you nailing the skip back5back, as you always do) And for a new SMB1 WR with L4-2, of course Edit: didn't see there already was a video with the skip on your channel. Well, that was expectable. GG

[@dstreetz91]

If you look close enough you can see Mario using the watergun from Super Mario Sunshine to get past the firestick and hopping through before it reignites. Hard to believe that Miyamoto thought that far ahead.

[@cantsu]

I did not think I'd see the day where smb gets a new optimization knowing how much we already know about the game

[@feluriandelights4156]

sometimes I forget that kosmic is a god gamer then he casually says that he's top three in SMB2

[@CaptainMangles]

This video really raises the bar on SMB2j speedrunning

[@thezipcreator]

badum tsss

[@matthewmcclain1316]

Love how you shared the other speedrunners channels at the end. Seems like this community is very helpful to each other. Sharing secrets and tequniques and such too. Nice to see

[@warsb06]

These types of videos are definetly my favorite, and they never have/will dissapoint

[@michaelmahoney5677]

Hyped for the splicing confession

[@loneranger4282]

0:40 "confess to splicing" lmfao, I knew you'd hide an Easter Egg like that

[@mrsqueaksrules]

Crazy how some skips are done through incredibly technical game manipulation, and others through pure schmovement

[@pafnutiytheartist]

The title succesfully tricked me into thinking that something completely new was found for smb1

[@EZScape]

Awesome video man, can’t wait to see the smb2 lore vid :)

[@TopNotcha]

First video of yours I've watched, really enjoyed the delivery, pacing and music. Keep up the good content and GLHF in your record hunt! :D

[@RS-rz4ll]

This is like a tradition going strong eager to find more techniques

[@JakeRazorClawson]

Discovering new techniques in classic games is always of peak interest. Kosmic is my favorite source for original SMB / SMB2 content, from game play to personally thorough explanations. Thanks to all the speedrunners for keeping good old smb alive 🎮🏅

[@Benobot99]

Oh boy, here we go again! Excited to see the WR improve.

[@CryptoScammers.DoNotSendMoney]

I have passed through the first firebar on one of the castle levels and easily repeatable before on lost levels being in small mario. I didn't need to turn around. I just ran as fast as I could. I never told anyone.

[@johnrhee8445]

The ad at 1:20 was the best promo I've ever seen because of Somnom Woods playing in the background

[@kubzer0]

The disparity in subs of speedruners at the end of the video really shows how niche the speedruning scene really is :(

[@slightlysnaked3725]

I thought the Koopa was going to start launching hammers 😔

[@PhluppeHimself]

Someone making a joke: "a plumber walks into a bar" Me: "Ah yes, I see you saw the new 1,75 sec timesave on the smb speedrun as well"

[@codetaku]

When Niftski says something is "a pretty good window - 100% run viable and everything", I assume that means it's 2 whole frames long

[@lunasophia9002]

This kind of thing is why I am always skeptical when people say we've gotten a game to be perfectly optimized or that we've reached a limit in how far we can go. Even a game as old as SMB still has things to discover. It's a bit like physicists in the 1800s saying that we'd solved physics or, worse, all of science.

[@Kosmicd12]

Well, smb1 any% hasn't had any new time saves found in like 14 years or something. Even if a new framerule got cracked at some point, it most likely wouldn't be possible without L+R. Smb1 is an exception case, most other games there's often room for new ideas

[@dstreetz91]

Solving science or physics is essentially impossible, while solving a Mario game from the 80's is doable. Sure, it's possible that SMB1 could have more timesave not incorporated into the TAS. Likely already solved though and even if more timesave is found it could be impossible for humans to pull off like L+R being required.

[@velveee]

Really sets a new bar of difficulty on the wr!

[@lawndogmoon2]

Fantastic video with clearly a lot of effort put into explaining everything in the voice over.

[@AnimatorChris430]

Mario: WTF how can a go through fire? Firebar: we're just built different.

[@inlovewithi]

I was really hoping that this time save was going to be for Super Mario Bros. 1.

[@enio3698]

At first i though this was smb1 skip and nearly lost my mind. Still impressive tho

[@the8thark]

Without killing the hammer Bro, the parakoopa arrives on screen at 367 time. One frame after 368 ends With killing the hammer Bro, the parakoopa arrives on screen a few frames also on 367. But this is a few frames after 368 ends. I am sure this makes a difference. When you load something into memory does affect how they behave. You would need to spawn something into the game on the same frame but have different pre-actions to determine if it is the pre-actions that determine how something spawns in, not when it spawns in. You need to remove the time element (ie spawning in on the same frame).

[@pleasedjak]

Thanks for the video kosmic! I appreciate the hard work on the vid and on your speedruns!

[@Hamster07]

Yet another great vid

[@carlosemilio385]

It’s just so amazing that a game that has existed ever since 1985 is still so popular, has a huge community around it and people are still discovering new tricks and shortcuts to complete this game faster, its amazing to watch

[@Irreverent_Radiation]

Speedrunners after finding out they can save 0.03 seconds if they violate the Geneva Convention: 😎

[@justthatcasualgamer1720]

Drove me crazy watching this video. Ended up turning it up and hearing the metroid music in background

[@eggroll5510]

This really raises the bar in speed running

[@sledgen.]

This is really setting the “bar” high…

[@EricLeePiano]

I dont even play SMB but your clear explanation held my attention thru the whole video. great job!!

[@jeremyying3602]

Summoningsalt: what a feat of human bravery and perseverance (HOME playing in background) Kosmic: "One day we just decided to do what the TAS does."

[@simanolastname2399]

you had me thinking SMB1 got a new skip 😅

[@Tr0lliPop]

I love how 4:55 is so well known by now that you used it in the introduction despite 4:54 already being done

[@StepBaum]

Great video once again! Love these short yet informful videos

[@nonamelegend_vapor]

Guess Salt’s next vid is gonna be The History of SMB2J World Records

[@idonthaveinstagram]

0:06 that guys posture is so bad

[@Stefan35141]

Poor Scalpel with only 60 subscribers :( Now 61 :)

[@shadeblackwolf1508]

Can this trick also be used to skip firebars in the original, or are they all optimised out with rng manip so it wouldn't matter anyway?

[@fishy4102]

0:41 “Go fast in video game” “Confess to splicing”

[@julienbronsch5039]

Ive seen multiple people complain that this video was for Smb2 and not Smb1 and that the video is clickbait, but there is no point in Smb1 where a firebar stops you for a few frames in Smb1 speedrunning (at least to my knowledge). Its impossible to be a video about Smb1

[@Kosmicd12]

THANK YOU!

[@julienbronsch5039]

@@Kosmicd12 lol, have people been this annoyed in the comments?

[@Kosmicd12]

@@julienbronsch5039 yes, it's apparently clickbait to deliver exactly what the title says, and every video with 8 bit mario has to be about smb1 any% (even though it's fire mario?) or else huge clickbait smh so sick of youtubers lying for views

[@kennycarter5682]

I love videos like this, idc for watching speedruns.. boring... but watching informative vids like this is amazing.. subbed hoping for more stuff like this

[@elitetatsuya]

mario maker enjoyer: I can stand between two thorn blocks with no damage yo clasic mario speedrunner: I beat a collision

[@nahidwin65]

Thx for giving a shoutout to Buildbox also this is so insane, I wonder if this trick can be implemented in a run to set a new WR

[@kiseki8351]

"confess to splicing" he's finally coming out of the closet

[@LOTGx]

Sleazy clickbait calling this an SMB video instead of an SMB2 video :/

[@emishimaru-sama6449]

5:50 The Skytown Elysia theme playing at this point, though. Pretty good xD 7:18 Goold ol' Niftski xD

[@Starwing30]

I'm actually really excited for that mario bros 2 lore video. There's a ton in that game that is strange and has never shown up in any other game. I would love to hear the take of someone who's very familar with it.

[@Kosmicd12]

Honestly I'm not *that* familiar with it, I just know that most people don't even know the full title of doki doki panic, let alone all the differences between the games. And there's a lot of misconceptions about 2j as well, so I want to clear up what I can.

[@danielrehfeldt]

0:40 Omg Kosmic exposed for splicing his KZbin video… I can’t believe you edit your content. To think all these years I thought you were one of the greatest unedited youtubers on the platform, but you actually been doing TAV (tool assisted videos) and passing them off as unedited for years! I’m extremely disappointed, today I lost a hero :(

[@alexanderskladovski]

This is such a clickbait

[@huevonesunltd]

Why? because it's Mario 2 and not 1?

[@hardlyanydiggity3953]

"You passed the bar? What a sick joke!" ~Nintendo

[@UberDragon]

"Humanly impossible" they said, yet I interjected with a simple "speedrunners are built differently, they don't confine to regular human capabilities" and I was met with silence and awe.

[@JoeDan54]

Your narration videos are *really* good, you oughta make more imo

[@tekkorb778]

Runners really do be like "let's just do what the TAS does"

[@nathangamble125]

A man walks into a bar...

[@kennythekid130]

1:20 get that bag kosmic

[@Crazy-Chicken-Media]

Well this was cool, question does the type of TV/monitor matter in these speed runs?

[@AB-mo1sr]

Okay the to-do list was absolutely amazing

[@fairrodthecapacitor]

I am so glad that something like this happening, as a speedrunner myself trying to find shortcuts this puts a smile to my face

[@Panda_SMM]

"enemies or objects in levels can be effected by what comes earlier in the level" This can sometimes apply to making levels in Mario Maker 2, which is actually awful when the interactions don't make sense like hitting a block and a koopa just changing direction. Making Kaizo in Mario Maker where everything NEEDS to be consistent or you get harassed by the players is already hard enough, but things like that happen in that game too. I hate it

[@SICW1970]

1:06 true. Even Mario Kart Wii (and other mk games) players go robot destruction mode when a new timesaving shortcut is found

[@bmt_epic6429]

i like the 'confess to splicing' joke in the intro XD

[@Valientlink]

The srm 100% with the floating megasidehop killed me x) Great video

[@rga1605]

I remember watching a video that said we're approaching the human limit of this game and yet there's still tricks to be discovered, quite amazing

[@darknessblades]

In speedruns is it allowed to make a grip case for your ness controller. so its not so sharp on the edges at these fast paced moves

[@sagacious03]

Decent analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

[@requiem6465]

Can't wait for the summoning salt video on this in 3 years time

[@TheBeast94YT]

0:38 “confess to splicing” LMAO

[@jdiaz4877]

Good narration bro! Keep it up.

[@avivmizrachi4382]

Spends hours on end researching video game levels, to save a few seconds. Love it.

[@Andross1]

I eagerly await the SMB2 Lore video 👀

[@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache]

The way they slip the hitbox through just reminds me of Touhou lol

[@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache]

Wtf I've been here last year?

[@Kilwede1]

Its ridiculous how fascinating these are. lookin forward to the onslaught

[@Ecki_Meerschweinchen]

Just saw the title and that it's 20 hours old and just like OMG HISTORY IS MADE!

[@rukeyburg1084]

This man though, not even just using this for his own gain, but giving this information just around the world for a head start to be speedrunning this game. A true community player!

[@alexrawlings541]

Very excited for a new SummoningSalts video