The Shortest Super Mario Bros Speedrun: Minus World Ending

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When you think of completing Super Mario Brothers…what do you think of? Besides using warps, or not, there is additionally a third way to beat the game. This is the World Record History of the Shortest Super Mario Bros. Speedrun: Minus World Ending
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Special thanks to Electricpants for sharing a script they made on this:
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Thanks to the following for proofreading sections:
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Tool Assist Footage from:
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/ @tasvideoschannel
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Runner footage used:
owatax, Saradoc, darbian, AndrewG, Marikh, SoloQ, Kosmic, somewes, GTAce, Niftski, Scrimision, Scalpel, Rodr1go7
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Music Used:
0:00 - Intro
RJ ZaskerF - Passing Betelgeuse One Last Time
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1:12 - What's Minus World?
Block Kuzushi - Opening
Mario and Wario - Extra Levels
3:08 - The Origins
Battle Dodgeball - Epilogue
Cheetahmen - Main Theme
6:35 - The First Runs
Battle Dodgeball - Epilogue
EEK! The Cat - Final Rescue
Battle Pinball - Rider Table
12:39 - Flagpole Glitch
Kaizou Tyoujin Shubibinman Zero - Staff Roll
15:18 - 1-2G
Magical Taruruto Kun - It Holds Out a Little
Tiny Toon Adventures - Ending & Credit Roll (Theme Song)
Magical Pop'n - Cloudy Ice Palace
Aryol - Imprisoned Again
22:28 - Another Flagpole
Aryol - Imprisoned Again
24:08 - Blazit Clip
Gradius 3 - Fire Scramble
Street Racer - Surf
28:11 - -3 Optimization
Akazukin Cha Cha - Town
Winter Gold FX - Bobsled and Luge
Miracle Girls - Who's First
Mystic Ark - I Am a Powerful Ally!
33:01 - Another Full Flagpole Glitch
Plok! - Bonus Level
Mystic Ark - Your Fighting Eyes Are Always Beautiful
Multi-Play Volleyball - Main Menu
36:48 - Perfecting the Run
Naruhodo The World - Title
Action Pachio - Stage Clear
39:07 - Conclusion
RJ ZaskerF - Shuric Scan Sonic CD Remix
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[@ZachGatesHere]

Kosmic cracks me up. He hops into a category, sets some records, breaks a barrier or two, then decides he's done with that one and hops to another.

[@Chrixiam1998]

Pat, ever since we met at SGDQ 2019, I've been watching you get into content creation and always get excited for your new videos. So proud of you and how far you have come in the last 4 years!

[@CaptainJZH]

Yooo lucky you got to meet them at SGDQ

[@Storster]

Cheers friend, its been quite a ride!

[@surprisedlobsta8543]

@@CaptainJZH afaik they use they/them pronouns now

[@CaptainJZH]

@@surprisedlobsta8543 ah shoot my bad!

[@surprisedlobsta8543]

@@CaptainJZH it's quite alright, they haven't put their pronouns up on their KZbin channel yet although they have them up on their twitter, that's how I learned about it

[@lbdjthethird1240]

Old fart gamer here. 3:13 - Minus world glitch was known back in the eighties. Not sure where I picked it up but somehow I learned of it and went there a few times as a kid. Video games are awesome. Dope video, Slick.

[@tim_is_random]

It was mentioned in Jeff Rovin’s How to Win at Nintendo Games, published 1989

[@asasial1977]

​@tim_is_random it was well known before 1989 Common knowledge in 87-88 on the playground

[@tim_is_random]

@@asasial1977 Sure - I’m just pointing out the first in-print citation, so we can definitively place it in the 80s

[@RipJaws768]

Update: Niftski has lowered the WR to 2:30.219, using the Fast Accel Setup in -3 and an extremely good clip!

[@TheRian125]

only 0.116 slower than TAS, that's crazy gosh this guy holds every single world record in Mario Bros

[@AnthonyRagus]

34:22 is a great cut and example of Niftski's consistent inputs

[@astralnekomimi]

Normally, a game is considered complete when you reach a finality state. SMB1 has no credits, so a credits warp is impossible. However, after you beat 8-4, you effectively unlock New Game Plus. FDS -3 also triggers New Game Plus, so it should count as a completion method, as it's essentially skipping 8-4 and going straight to the credits. For FDS, anyway. (Even if there was no New Game Plus, the game would still kick you to the title screen, which it wouldn't do if it didn't load another level because 37-1 was invalid, nor if you beat normal 4-4.) It would be SO degenerate to call this Any% and rename the old Any%. TL;DR: If FDS -3 isn't beating the game then all the credits warps other speedruns have are also not beating the game

[@ZipplyZane]

I could see the argument that the "credits" for SMB is the Princess saying your quest is over. Since you still get the "Princess is in another castle" at the end of -3, it thus wouldn't count as completion.

[@DoctorSwellman]

Really enjoyed this vid Storster! Minus world speedrunning is so sick

[@Scrimsion]

such a well made video! Thanks for the trip down memory lane :)

[@rosheeki]

really great vid Stor, you've really been steppin up your game with each video u post and it's def paying off 👊😎

[@heavyink123]

Really fantastic stuff man, keep going!

[@19Szabolcs91]

Your videos are getting better and better. This was very well paced, informative, entertaining and found a great balance between explaining the run itself and the tricks, and the story of the speedrunners.

[@Storster]

Appreciate it! I’m definitely still at a point where each video is experimental in some way. Definitely want to make more down this route in the future if I can find the right topics!

[@Sincerely_Sam]

Welcome back dude ❤️ it's good to see you're feeling up to making videos again!

[@Samwy]

Amazing video, thank you for all your entertaining content!

[@sirgog]

The minus world glitch was widely known when the Super Mario Bros 3 release occurred in Australia (which I believe was 1991). As a kid I entered a 'highest score on SMB1 in 5 min' event that was run by a chain of stores here (Myer) for SMB3's release, and all the winners used the big mario clip in 1-2 to get to 5-1, then did shell kicks and intentional deaths in 5-1 until time was out. (The left and right pipes in the unloaded warp zone go to the minus world, middle to 5-1)

[@nugboy420]

Nice!!! algorithm was slow in recommending but welcome back dude!!

[@idontwantahandlethough]

great stuff as usual bro!

[@electricpants8196]

really great video! glad to see that even if i never ended up turning it into a video, the document i made was still helpful ^ ^

[@MrMegaManFan]

This wasn’t a thing I knew existed until watching this video… and now I want to watch someone do it!

[@hfcriske]

Awesome video, love it ♡ Small note: infamous means notoriously evil, not sure if I would call the minus world glitch something negative (pun unintended) at all :)

[@kelzstackz4503]

Infamous is the right use as the word “glitch”is, in itself, a negative connotation.

[@erierierierierie]

​@@kelzstackz4503"a small problem or fault that prevents something from being successful or working as well as it should" applies to minus world. is true. is not necessary a negative depending on your opinion on glitches.

[@Tyler_Mayhem]

Cool vid man. Nice work

[@CaptainJZH]

Such an underrated channel! You're def up there with Summoning Salt and Bismuth.

[@ketueettunen5406]

Cannot wait for this one!

[@KonaSuba]

Thanks for another great video

[@eitantal726]

6:30 I thought I heard cheetahmen! And sure enough, it's there. Nice touch!

[@TehSkystheLimit]

How do you not have over 100k subs. Some of the greatest content I've watched. Keep it up man

[@twinstarMD]

I dig this video. Good job!!

[@nat_cat2923]

wow thank you for speedrun history!!!!

[@Akuretaki_Nikolay]

gg on the vid storster

[@raafmaat]

at 6 minutes the soundtrack of Cheetahmen (Action 52) is playing, oh man that game just makes me giggle

[@kevinkempt]

great video!!

[@SuperStarStudiosPlush]

I think I just realized something! The - isn’t actually a minus, but the dash that normal goes in the middle, and there’s no first number! ”why does this matter?” you ask? …idk :|

[@CptJistuce]

It actually matters in the japanese cartridge version. Since the FamiCom doesn't have the game-resetting lockout chip, you can (but really shouldn't) hotswap cartridges, and data from the first game will remain in RAM. FamiCom Tennis was used to program targets for the minus world glitch in the japanese community, as the score sat in the RAM address the glitched warp pipe is reading. Then they realized Family BASIC exists and you can use a POKE to set any value into any RAM address with one command. So that glitched warp pipe can go anywhere, not just 36-1.

[@N3Selina]

it's great to see an old game like the original super mario bros. still being played today

[@stardy8131]

I just finished the video i swear it felt like 8 minutes my jaw literally dropped when i saw 40 minutes (i just clicked on it without checking how long it was lol) Other than that, Awesome video i enjoyed it from start to end :)

[@PrincessYaura]

Such a cool video!

[@VisionThing]

The Swedish version of Nintendo Power had the -1 glitch in the early 90s, so I did this glitch way back then.

[@brobeckskazooremixes8703]

Insanely high quality for a surprisingly low amount of views and subs! I hope the algorithm picks you up allowing you to get millions of views

[@tylerroberts1276]

To this day, I still don't remember how my brother and I found out about Minus World as kids; It was just like you're bound to find it someday...

[@jared05]

strapped in for this one (:

[@GeospaciallyGone]

I like to call it "World Blank".

[@some_dude_in_the_internet]

6:12 listen closely to the background music. *intense 2019 flashbacks*

[@Kivarenvi]

Let’s goooooooooooooooo Storster uploaded

[@holdingpattern245]

isn't there also an additional version of SMB, the one with Duck Hunt

[@catakuri6678]

2:00 Vsauce 2:10 Vsauce 2

[@paulstelian97]

You post this and then Summoning Salt also does a video? Hot damn

[@nugboy420]

3:28 lol the times have changed (ahem mm2 troll creators haha)

[@AkumaAPN]

GG Storster!

[@GTAce99]

i am impossible to avoid

[@dj_enby]

Thankfully! ❤

[@AntimonySM51]

do a 1-1 as fire mario world history video next Kappa

[@thegamingchannel7110]

imagine that @ToolAssistedSpeedrun comments lol

[@CloudaceMC.2]

a buddy of mine showed me this glitch in 1992

[@lordmarshmal_0643]

He had me for 20:33, ngl, and then he hit me with the decimal dot

[@TiloDroid]

Don't apologize for needing, I clicked on this video, I'm here to get nerded to!

[@JeremyMKWii]

honey new storster video just dropped

[@sierracomix]

Technically the different level loading isn't a fault of the disk format. The way the FDS works, is it loads the data from the disk into a buffer, and the RAM adapter holds that data as though it were a regular ol' cartridge.

[@CptJistuce]

The FDS RAM Adapter ALSO contains the FDS BIOS ROM, which is mapped into memory in the same address space.

[@Psoinic]

I thought sockfolder found the rta viable way to do the fpg?

[@rmcoutinho]

Short speed run for a version but no super Luigi Bros speedruns

[@mr.mutant6432]

Should totally count as a completion. It’s basically the same thing if you cheated Mario galaxy The cutscene plays and you unlock a harder replay which is counted as a completion for that game

[@scaryjam8]

If you enter in a 5k, start the race then get in a car and drive straight to the finish line, did you complete the race and deserve first place?

[@mr.mutant6432]

@@scaryjam8 sure do since you never said it's against any rule.

[@agoezwild]

I wanted to try this on the nintendo switch so I got the famicom on it and tried it and when I did it it brang me to the nes -1 and I went through all that time to acomplish nothing💀

[@CptJistuce]

Yeah, there's a persistent confusion in the english-speaking community between the FamiCom and the FamiCom Disk System. The FDS is an add-on for the FamiCom, not the base system. A japanese Super Mario cartridge is identical to the US version, but a japanese Super Mario disk is not.

[@JJ_TheGreat]

1:58 Unless you are talking about the Japanese version of the game - which has a lot more interesting “Minus Worlds”…

[@patjoyner4135]

It’s 36-1 for minus world because. (If you watch Kosmic’s letter world thing. You should probably know this). World 1: 1-1 World 2: 2-1 World 3; 3-1 World 4; 4-1 World 5; 5-1 World 6; 6-1 World 7; 7-1 World 8; 8-1 Time for the worlds that can only be seen my coding I think? World 9; 9-1 World 10; A-1 World 11; b-1 World 12; c-1 World 13; d-1 World 14; e-1 World 15; f-1 World 16; g-1 World 17; h-1 World 18; I-1 World 19; j-1 World 20; k-1 World 21; l-1 World 22; m-1 World 23; n-1 World 24; o-1 World 25; p-1 World 26; q-1 World 27; r-1 World 28; s-1 World 29; t-1 World 30, u-1 World 31, v-1 World 32, w-1 World 33, x-1 World 34, y-1 World 35, z-1 World 36, minus world -1 That’s it and plus. 3 bonus worlds World 37, square-1 World 38, blue square-1 World 39, black square-1 That’s it. Bye

[@speerunscompared]

Easy sub

[@Aryll_smb]

Plok!

[@JJ_TheGreat]

Has Niftski done a Minus World ending yet?

[@jamsstats1700]

Watch the full video

[@yeabuddy]

26:42 overlay spoilers the video a bit

[@Storster]

Haha I didn’t notice that, good catch!

[@metroidcrafter1626]

Shortest Mario speedrun = 40 minutes video Great video though

[@LukiRuns247]

and in 2023 niftski got 2:30.219

[@mirabilis]

36-1 comes after 8-4, therefore 8-4 must've been beaten.

[@YoloMenace001]

Ya

[@sierracomix]

If beating minus world beats the game, and is faster than the normal route, why aren't speedrunners all on the famicom disk system?

[@mnm1273]

Because there are different categories. Any% is defined as beating Bowser because that gives you the congratulations message that marks the end of the game.

[@CptJistuce]

Also nostalgia. People mostly don't remember the disk version of the game. Alsoalso, the hardware is less readily available. There's far fewer FDS expansions than there are base FC and NES decks, and honestly once you expend that effort... why not get a 2j/Lost Levels disk instead? Go for main run prestige instead of weird glitch "technically clear".

[@saitama741]

I tried to sub to this channel now 3 times and it didn't work wtf youtube?

[@MarioMario-fc1gw]

I just got a 2:55.45

[@some-random_username]

Hello

[@olivia_am3230]

My name is Andrew (I am not andrewg)

[@catches0308]

Minus world isn't actually a negative number ( probably ) I think it just like 1-1,1-2, 1-3... And the 'minus world' is just 0-1, 0-2 but as the number 0 didn't render it just appear as -1

[@mnm1273]

It's 36-1 as explained in the video.

[@frankie08j]

Is it real or fake

[@SunsetBear]

What

[@ujkloin]

36th

[@anir138]

If you include category extensions, this is not the shortest category

[@Storster]

True. I meant the shortest way to beat Super Mario Bros in one way or another.

[@anir138]

@@Storster Yeah. I figured you were talking about categories on the main leaderboard