How Speedrunners Delete the Flag to Save Time 

So happy for new videos

Hope to see the return of Romhack Wednesdays, btw watching Kosmic play super Mario bros deluxe was hilarious in the speed running 10 different versions of smb1 video. Those 8-3 hammer bros don’t play around in that version lol

Thanks! Always putting out great content!

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Oops! No Flags% when?

hi bismuth

Thanks! Even though I didn't do it all the time haha. Probably should've for all the despawns at the end. Oh well Also the HappyLee clip they're a little innaccurate, but they flip around so much I did what made it the easiest to follow I think

Hi bismuth I love your videos

@@Kosmicd12 I actually think the way you did it at the end works well, with the arrows on screen counting out the sprites, it made the ram values window unnecessary since throughout the video the viewer had been building the intuition for how it worked.

Killing piranha plants actually doesn't reduce the sprite count, they just hide dead inside their pipe

@@Kosmicd12 Ah yeah, that's right. Then it has to be either the paratroopas or the vine that's messing with something there.

Despawning platforms can also be a major pain. In some places, it makes the level unbeatable when it happens, just like despawning springboards. Sometimes I feel like there was probably a better way to design some levels to avoid that, but the sprite limit is so restrictive that it's hard to do so without compromising elsewhere.

The OG 5-3 platform has fooled me a few times, but the springs on C-3 are absolutely sadistic. Even if you kill Lakitu, if the game is in a bad mood he just respawns too soon and ruins your day anyway.

@@EebstertheGreat an ideal solution would have been for platforms and springs to have priority - nothing is allowed to replace them. So you might see an enemy disappear or fail to spawn, but the level is still beatable.

you're despawning all sorts of goombas and koopas etc. too

SMB1 doesn't have 1-ups for flag pole tops. that started with NSMB.

​@@WaluTime I meant 2-1 in The Lost Levels. When you hit the Flagpole in that game while both digits of the coins match the last digit of the timer, you get the 1UP regardless of how high up the Flagpole you got... if the flag is still there, of course

@@WaluTime The Japanese SMB2 (for the FDS) was the first game that featured that. So too did All Night Nippon SMB.

No.

​@@n646n Yes.

or maybe like low%? i don’t know how to explain it that well, i recommend looking it up if you don’t know how it works

If I had to guess, it'd be twitch.tv/GTAce99

It's impossible to despawn the flag in levels like 1-1, 1-2, 2-2 etc.

@@Opanker_ so minimum flag%

@@Opanker_ cant u turn buzzy beatles (dont judge how i wrote it) into red koopas to do it? You can also turn goombas into koopas but they die anyways so yeah

same

lols

Hello Ophelia, I have found that cosmic and his chat are very friendly and answer all kinds of questions about the game. That's not your typical (toxic) twitch channel. Come and stop by!

Games don't do QA these days thou, it's all release first fix later

I was thinking about why so many in the radical left participate in "speedrunning" The reason is the left's lack of work ethic ('go fast' rather than 'do it right') and, in a Petersonian sense, to elevate alternative sexual archetypes in the marketplace ('fastest mario'), obviously, there are exceptions to this and some people more in the center or right also "speedrun". However, they more than sufficient to prove the rule, rather than contrast it. Consider how woke GDQ has been, almost since the very beginning. Your eyes will start to open. Returning to the topic of the work ethic: a "speedrunner" may well spend hours a day at their craft, but this is ultimately a meaningless exercise, since they will ultimately accomplish exactly that which is done in less collective time by a casual player. This is thus a waste of effort on the behalf of the "speedrunner". Put more simply, they are spending their work effort on something that someone else has already done (and done in a way deemed 'correct' by the creator of the artwork). Why do they do this? The answer is quite obvious if you think about it. The goal is the illusion of speed and the desire (SUBCONSCIOUS) to promote radical leftist, borderline Communist ideals of how easy work is. Everyone always says that "speedruns" look easy. That is part of the aesthetic. Think about the phrase "fully automated luxury Communism" in the context of "speedrunning" and I strongly suspect that things will start to 'click' in your mind. What happens to the individual in this? Individual accomplishment in "speedrunning" is simply waiting for another person to steal your techniques in order to defeat you. Where is something like "intellectual property" or "patent" in this necessarily communitarian process? Now, as to the sexual archetype model and 'speedrunning' generally...

looks like Shadow was right

Gotta Go Fast! -Pope John XXIII

Gotta go fast

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There are other places reserved for Mario, and 2 fireballs. Or hammers, etc. But they're not in the main 6 variable sprite slots