The Most Frustrating Super Mario World Speedrun History

[@Storster]

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

[@joedlvr]

impressive you remembered at all i can’t remember what i did half an hour ago

[@Sandstheskeleton]

@@DontPretendtoCarerage baiter lmao

[@Sugar3Glider]

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

[@ssj2_snake]

Where were you duing the argument you goddamn genius

[@gwvaio]

lol pretty good

[@GmNdWtchr96]

Smol%

[@Frongo]

smallways

[@turbo8628]

​@@DontPretendtoCare and here is me thinking gatekeepers are what's wromg with gaming

[@paullytle359]

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.

[@Ren99510]

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

[@LordMegatherium]

Maybe admins should step in when this kind of BS occurs and just rename it to something like Hitler%, YourMom% or %% until the community in question starts acting like adults again.

[@aegisScale]

@@LordMegatherium that sounds equal parts funny, unproductive and impractical . . . especially if the name is offensive enough to give any historians of the community an aneurysm.

[@Willowposting]

@@aegisScaleSmall dick%, perfect insult

[@topthog]

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

[@liatrisblossomheart4013]

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

[@neongrey333]

what a douchebag geez

[@asciicatface]

wtf there's pogyo lore I don't know about? and it's him being a bitch? that's really sad to hear actually

[@ShadowEclipse777]

honestly shouldn't have been allow to post his new record. doesn't matter if it's real, if you're going to act like an infant, you should be put in time out

[@plushdragonteddy]

@@ShadowEclipse777i mean, to be fair, he resumed submitting runs after years had passed. i should hope that’s a long enough time out for him to think about what he’s done lmao

[@friendofjim]

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).

[@Jazzforyoursoull]

Goddamn you're a genius and have some serious love for the game. In spite of the category naming nonsense, you've gotta consider that with some of the tricks you pulled off, you definitely helped inspire some of the crazy shit that goes on in more modern kaizo levels and helped reignite old passion and drive in the hearts of many to get back into playing this childhood classic. Much respect.

[@friendofjim]

@@Jazzforyoursoull thanks, I never would have guessed back then that speedrunning would get so big, or that SMW would continue on. :)

[@Lebon19]

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.

[@Kelm_Kisaragi]

If you don't, i will Hope he has or will step on Legos every time he ever think of doing petty sh*t like that again, there, mean words have been said

[@SockyNoob]

Ikr

[@Vidar93]

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..

[@prodbyANT]

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

[@brycedaugherty9211]

Excessive amounts of money. But documentaries are a close second

[@explodinghammeronthe17thof36]

this feels too quirky and money hungry

[@contemplation_jpg]

I think its the right balance of money hungry and quirky

[@explodinghammeronthe17thof36]

@@contemplation_jpg yes

[@LRXC1]

Nope

[@mainly_maeve]

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

[@rewandemontay]

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

[@Zackattackplayspokemon]

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.

[@Winsane]

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.

[@ShadowEclipse777]

exactly, he should have straight up been banned

[@Izzythemaker127]

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

[@Soapy-chan]

and those who are doing won't stop just because someone says it

[@PersephonevanderWaard]

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

[@kefka14]

I second this notion.

[@yurrboi]

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.

[@mallowtonmouse]

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

[@furiousbr]

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

[@DeepInZero]

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

[@FloydMaxwell]

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

[@guts60]

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.

[@piratebear3126]

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.

[@bebe8090]

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.

[@prestige_rusher_3500]

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.

[@idontwantahandlethough]

you may be crazy but it was funny so 👍

[@OfficialNoCoast]

How baked were you when you wrote this

[@prestige_rusher_3500]

@@OfficialNoCoast idk im always insane

[@maccaswam]

​@@prestige_rusher_3500same but I often forget when I go insane like this

[@uninable]

minikloon hypixel skyblock

[@Patashu]

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

[@Oboromaru]

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 💀

[@SailorShulk9]

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 KZbin algorithm is the best thing ever sometimes!

[@RedStoneMatt]

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

[@friendofjim]

imagine being the person who wrote the post being used as a reference for how old it is 💀

[@RedStoneMatt]

@@friendofjim thanks for the support bro 💀

[@pigeonapology9816]

"and with practice it should become easy."

[@friendofjim]

easy walljump 4Head

[@yeshevishman]

This sums up speedrunner's mentality in a nutshell.

[@SockyNoob]

Honestly deleting runs should result in a permaban from speedrunning sites.

[@talksickcs]

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

[@grandmastermario3695]

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

[@flowerfield8742]

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

[@Periwinkleaccount]

@@frkieran If you’re honest, people like you are one of the reasons why people don’t like the modern internet. If not, still bad.

[@WillACarpenter]

​@@Periwinkleaccountif supportive people are a problem to you... That's your problem.

[@Periwinkleaccount]

@@WillACarpenter I was replying to a now-deleted reply, not the main comment. The deleted reply said something like “the glazing here is crazy” which my first comment was in response to. You can tell because there’s only an “@[username]” if you’re not replying to the main comment.

[@ecocodex4431]

@@Periwinkleaccount Always fun to respond to a comment just to find out that the comment you were replying to was deleted and now people think YOU'RE the a-hole 😭😭😭

[@alicewonder259]

This made me so happy 🥹 go Storster! Go Storster! Some day, honestly faster than you realize, it will become a huge point of security for you At least it was that way for me! Waiting sucks but you got this!!! 🩷🩷🩷

[@solardragonmarnyr5460]

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!

[@menphris]

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.

[@Vlazeca]

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!

[@napalmzombie848]

Storster upload YIPPIE

[@queens.dee.223]

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

[@potassiumfeldspar]

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

[@michaelkreitzer1369]

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

[@Bubzia]

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

[@vvvvaaaacccc]

I wonder what pogyo's side of the story is.

[@tim_is_random]

17:40 “The early 2010s saw a new wave of Japanese runners who were completely destroying every world record set by Americans.” Just the world records set by Americans then? The Japanese runners weren’t dethroning the records set by runners from other countries?

[@Chair-Son]

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

[@actinopterygiis]

one of my fave storster uploads

[@MolniyaSokol]

Your post helped me come out, thank you Storster!

[@Storster]

makes me really happy to read comments like this, appreciate you

[@Thundawich]

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.

[@ValexNihilist]

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 👏

[@AnarchyIsLove]

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)

[@imperiallarch7610]

Good points! In fact I would say that, since exits cleared is the most important stat tracked by the game, 0 Exit is way more like a Low% run than this one is.

[@neongrey333]

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

[@vidvad]

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 😅

[@TanteiRotana]

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

[@Purble]

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

[@Punnett_Derg]

my glorious queen never misses

[@Punnett_Derg]

@@kiblebuka8257 she is a girl

[@Punnett_Derg]

​@@kiblebuka8257she's a girl :3

[@sithlordmikeyp]

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

[@LendriMujina]

While what Pogyo did is unbelievably petty and frustrating, it's very good that he seems to have grown up and got a hold of himself over those five years.

[@Nick-Lab]

Imo, if you delete your vid proof, you should just lose your spot.

[@gigaganon]

Surprising to hear some Mazinger in the background music, lol

[@Picoz245]

And 16-bit Doraemon music. For whatever reason.

[@JohnHunterPlayerr]

To spring jump before there was a spring jump... What a legend!

[@Pepstep_07]

did one guy really spam what i assume is the n word over the decision to change the name of a speedrun category? lol

[@BrianD0313]

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

[@yep2yel]

What's wild is yours was the most respectable and straight forward opinion. The mods can't agree on what to call the category? Throw it to a community vote. Granted, you'll have bickering over what names go to vote, but there's easy systems to use for that.

[@Mysterious7352]

Is there a difference in route between this category and no cape?

[@yeshevishman]

Yes. This category uses no power-ups at all while no cape allows mushrooms, stars, fireflowers, etc. - just not a cape! As she explains in the beginning of the video, besides for this being much more difficult in terms of skill (one hit from an enemy costs up to 30 seconds of time instead of around 1-2 seconds), this ALSO significantly changes the route as you can't use Star world to skip straight to world 8 using spin jumps since it doesn't break the blocks when you're small. No cape lets you do so, but it is just slower than the usual 11 exit.

[@phishphan49]

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

[@monadobusters4363]

New video hype! Congrats girl 🎉

[@ac31048]

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

[@friendofjim]

Was it an in-game timer vs real time debate, or what other timing concerns are there with that game? I watched some dk94 runs last year and was very impressed by the level of tricks and techniques used in it.

[@ac31048]

@@friendofjim It was timimg calculation that had to do with the American Super GameBoy which had a CPU that ran faster than the GameBoy, GameBoy Color and Super GameBoy 2.

[@tonypond3970]

There's no Small Only with all possible exits that are possible while small?

[@saito853]

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

[@nat_cat2923]

new speedrun hisrory video lets fucking GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@Coffeemancer]

why is pogo allowed back

[@Zackattackplayspokemon]

I mean he didn't cheat, he was just petty. Not banworthy

[@yeshevishman]

He was pretty, but stopped being as petty going forward. It's called forgiving people for being human when they fix their mistakes. It's a great strategy to actually achieve stuff in this world - unlike the "cancel culture" method where people are never allowed to improve themselves.🙄

[@SockyNoob]

Wasn't expecting Pogyo to return at all.

[@iwersonsch5131]

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

[@blokos_]

the lakitu cloud does not affect getting damage, unlike yoshi

[@WarMechGaming]

They should have called the category to "Low % 15 Exit Small Only except for Lakitu but not Yoshi" satisfy everyone

[@MizunoKetsuban]

Lakitu clouds are more just funny platforms you can control

[@LatinxGoyslop1994]

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

[@imperiallarch7610]

The koopa shell trade trick is so cool and creative!

[@mrluthfians01]

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

[@Holek2]

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

[@electron75]

The doraemon theme song you used just brought back those sweet memories...

[@aranmurphy1]

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

[@AlsoMeowskivich]

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

[@iwersonsch5131]

It should be called Super Mario all only

[@iwersonsch5131]

Glad to hear that every run going forward just swims forward. What about the runs going into the pipe? Did they just stop?

[@VertUnderscore]

​@@iwersonsch5131It is just barely faster with the cape powerup, because you also grab a shell and Mario swims faster while holding an item. No cape categories it is slower to go in the pipe.

[@tsvtsvtsv]

​@@iwersonsch5131we should split the category for people who feel like going through the pipe even though it's slower

[@kefka14]

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

[@Pomodorosan]

12:09 what even is his profile picture

[@ICountFrom0]

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

[@draculactica]

I rarely give this level of praise, but: you go, girl

[@BrandonToy]

If a really mind blowing that people have created a sport out of a game that I got on Christmas Day when I was 12.

[@truebino]

The Doraemon music caught me off guard 😭😭😭

[@pepeepupoo]

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

[@jonnevitu4979]

what I've learned: ppl indeed do become blind with some imaginary virtual sense of power just cuz they are good at a video game and also childish.

[@Memelord9001]

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

[@armythecat]

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

[@SilentOnion]

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

[@justlookaroundpeople]

Nice!

[@patrickperot6296]

To me, no Yoshi allowed means no Yoshi allowed, including holding baby Yoshi in the water to swim faster, or using him to open a block. But that's just me nitpicking I guess.

[@davidramos4707]

Been waiting for something like this.

[@queens.dee.223]

Amazing video and I love your voice ❤️

[@prizm9515]

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

[@LendriMujina]

14:02 An incorrect record is an incorrect record in a place with the purpose of keeping accurate records. That isn't pedantism, that's doing your job.

[@Rubbly]

34:26 why would Small% be a silly name? Seems straightforward to me lmao

[@alanhersch4617]

I think this argument is stupid, but I have seen the point made in other games naming wars, that people hate the % suffix to anything that isnt a number. So essentially the argument is "small isn't is a percent and it makes us sound dumb". Which although not illogical I think is being way too literal. Regardless small only dodges the problem anyways.

[@AdrianWoodUK]

27:30 - I dunno, that handcam seems sus... 😉