I've trained my whole life for this moment 

It's 2 AM here, and I have class in 6 hours. Of course, I can spare 15 mins for Mario goodness.

I used to make self-imposed achievements on old games like N64 and PS1. Awesome to see the same idea being done for real.

To me achievements are interesting for challenging you to play a game in different ways or explore things you otherwise wouldn't. For Kosmic, these are just a morning routine.

This was incredible to watch, best collab ever. Grats for Leaderboard subset and first ever mastery, and thanks so much to suspect15 for all your hard work!

Kosmic: ties the TAS in 1-1 Also Kosmic: immediately dies to a goomba in 1-2 (jk I know it wasn't your fault)

I was expecting speedrunners to come into this for ages and wondering why we didn't have any. It's literally what I thought day 1 would be with Kosmic topping the leader boards.

congrats, this was awesome to watch. retroachievements seems pretty cool as well! Would love to see you tackle some other achievements for SMB or even other games on there.

These achievement challenges are intense, congratulations getting all the smb records. Your contemplative conversations are always appreciated with speed running 🧠👏

I enjoyed your point about talent and transferrable skills. I appreciate your editor splicing those segments together into the video.

I remember playing Smash at my friend's TV that has more input delay than my monitor and I hated every second of it. Props for doing it in spite of the delay.

Man, I've watched so many of your videos, and you make SMB1 look so easy. It's given me a false confidence - I've booted up a rom thinking I'd beat it in one go only to get destroyed in World 8. 8-1 has definitely been giving me a lot of trouble. That said, I think my controller has some input lag, so I'm going to swap it for another tonight and see how it goes!

It's always really enjoyable to watch these videos. Great skill, great player, and great human behind the pad. It's refreshing to hear someone confident about their abilities without being overly bragging, or overreacting. Love the little conversations in the middle with the chat, you seem like a cool dude to hang out with :) I wish you the best for future runs!

I love RetroAchievements! Thanks for making the video, Kosmic!

I love your thoughts on skills, talent and transferrable skills! I couldn't agree more!

I used to have a 240hz gsync monitor, and on one emulator (maybe it was in retroarch) I was able to set it to use gsync and it felt like I was on a CRT. It was really good. I wish I could remember what it was.

OMG the thing he starts talking about around the 6 minutee mark. THANK you. I've been telling people this for years and everyone looks at me like I'm crazy or tries to argue with me.

Kosmic already bullying the leaderboards.

Awsome project! Amazing Amazing Games SMB and 2J/Lost Levels. I bought a NES retail in the mid 90's @ 12 years old with my own Money. And discovered the small fire glitch and basic block clips entirly on My own😊 Even occasionally played upside down laying flat on the floor. As a young teen! Love you bud.

The arrow key part was interesting, I'm so used to using the arrow keys to move for webgames and sometimes on emulators

Hope to see more content with this new system

omg you talking about using arrow keys to more mario reminds me of when I played Sonic 3 & Knuckles on PC like 20 years ago and had the same issue. it was SO hard trying to play with the movement and jump controls on opposite sides.

@8:03 - Joy to Key is a great program for stuff like this

Funnily enough, Kosmic still has the record for 1-1, but Niftski has every other record.

Around 8:00 I know what you mean. I'm a chess player and these days I mostly play on a 2D board online but when I occasionally play on a real board it's suddenly so hard to calculate and play well because it's 3D although it's exactly the same game

Wow, still #1. Still THE Master of Super Mario Bros. Congrats!

8:08 dude I feel u. First emulation I saw was late 2002 or 3. I know it was 8th grade week before Christmas. But can’t math atm. Irrelevant anyway. I was the one who blew it up a few technology inclined kids had gotten the emulators into an open folder where ANYONE could use it. I HATED not knowing how to change the keys nor at thst time WHAT to program them to, but having the right and left hands doing different things ALWAYS fucked with me. We finally got road rash 2 on my buddies computer (around that Same school years’ spring break) and I hated myself for sucking due to not knowing what it was to steer with my right hand and accelerate and brake with my left. It’s all confusing. Idk how Nintendo even decided to use left hand for movement and right hand for actions, but they deserve the whole universe for cooking up that control scheme

8000 kick achievement

This is awesome. I'm not sure how this system works exactly, but if it's just watching RAM values, you could make achievements for all sorts of stuff, like walljumps, getting all the coins or all the 1UP mushrooms, small fire, FPG, two 1UPs with one shell, high scores, etc.

Talent does exist, perfection of that talent through repetition enhances it.

RetroAchievements does what Nintendon't.

Congrats 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 I love retroachievements.

8:26 Maybe because I've trained myself to do so, but I've never had issues using my right hand with the arrow keys to play on a computer. I never use the WASD key for directional input unless the game involves the mouse (like Minecraft, Terraria or any FPS. Maybe it's just a skill you can pick up.

the funniest thing would've been going to check the achievements leaderboard when you were done and seeing andrewg somehow did it first again

Retro Achievements has been around for a long time. It's these Mario speed achievements that are new and on Beta.

new room? very nice kosmic

welcome to the achievement hunting hobby! RetroAchievements for retro games is such a fun idea, love the site

big gaming

i dunno if joy 2 key remapping causes extra input lag, but getting an videocard with native svideo output (without using any converters cuz these causes extra screen latency, absolutely pointless if you have lcds) and plugging it into a crt tv does help with screen latency

I really liked the talk about being good at things. I completely agree. Talent is a myth and an excuse for people to not work hard at improving.

Wait, why is there a 1-2 frame additional delay? That is a really big deal.

Hey ! This is a great discovery, thank you ! I already do the sub 5, but in softcore mode aha, let's do the hardcore one now :)

Another great video. Never a doubt in my mind you'd get the sub5

Achievement; isn't that what a world record is?

Was it ever addressed why there are 4 timers visible? 😅

Where do you you get your game roms from for emulation?

10:17 if bowser actually vanished around your reset I would have lolled. Not obviously one flub won’t INSTANTLY LOSe it I’m a dummy

yo this is cool and epic

Why was there a delay in your inputs when not playing on console?

RetroAcheivements kick ass

You can adjust latency settings in RetroArch, right?

I love how you casually blessed us with a first try sub 5 like it was nothing. God tier.

Kosmic has a second channel?!?!

I use Retroachievements all the time and it makes me so happy seeing people make content about it ❤

Of course talent exists. Magnus Carlsen was a chess prodigy from childhood and became world chess champion. You and I could practice for 10,000 or 100,000 hours and never be as good as him. Some people's brains work differently.

Are you experiencing input lag when playing on emulator? I thought modern emulators eliminated that. Is it because you're streaming too?

Okay, I'm not sure if that is a warranted feedback but this video, and only this one, keeps cr*pping out and freezing (will probably resolve itself but just in case other people might have the same issue I thought I post it here).

Really shows how difficult this speedrun has become, even getting something as 'lenient' as sub 5 still takes so many attempts..

I love Retroachievements even if some are a little too hard imo.

How did you get the timers?

Saying talent is only based on experience or transferable skills is like trying to argue tier lists in video games with multiple characters aren't valid. People are genetically different, and have different skillsets that favor them without experience. No one said it was fair, but that's the way it is.

You might have run out of things to do in Mario 1, but how about this, try to do a pipe wall jump in real life. Or the flagpole glitch in real life but getting the flagpole might be the hardest part about it

Neat! I guess if you were to skip necessary levels it would auto fail you right?

why do you never speedrun duck hunt?

also inb4 someone just loads up a tas

How long before Nintendo sues Suspect15 into oblivion for this?

Bruh he is the first in 2 things

a spoiler: he does not get the sub-5 in the vid

3:25 nerd in chat alert.

Are 8000 kicks in there? How about bingo cards?

With a title like that, how can you not click?

Nice

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HOW DO I PLAY?? 🎉

didn't know retroarch was so sucky lmao but yeah, great vid.

Wow!!

Yeah.... Sure you did...

Where is the Rom hack this week?

where is suspect15's nose!?

Once you get good at this game you won't be able to back to the console 😅

sus

Good luck to suspect15's project staying up more than two seconds after the lawsuit happy company finds out.

I wish you stuck to not explaining why 😅

I can't watch your videos, it always gets 30 - 50 seconds in and then just stops working, i dont have this issue with any other creator, any ideas!?

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0:30 fft art? hell yeah.

“I trained my whole life for this moment.” *jump-cuts the video everywhere and badly* Wellp, that’s time wasted.

how does these achuivements work? is it a rom you download and patch it onto the base rom? or is there something else that has to be done. im pretty curious to try some of my fav classics with some achivos going