This New Super Mario 64 World Record Is Unbelievable 

Glad you're all doing well.

So sorry to hear that man, hope everything takes a turn for the better soon!!

Love u man

i’m glad your cancer was caught early (i’m assuming and hoping!).

Blimey hope you and your family get well and stay healthy mate

Thanks for being awesome

SM64 120 GOAT!!!!

I’ve been a fan of yours ever since I saw Karl’s video on your record run at the live event in 2020 in Sweden. It’s great to see you back on top.

keep crushing it champ!

You absolute legend

that's a good line.

Nice saying.

Cheese is the Greatest Of All-Time no matter what happens in the future. The amount of "title defenses" will probably never be beaten. We are blessed to see peak Mario64 speedrunning right now, it'll be a sad day when any of these top 5 players retire.

Wow, I’ve never heard of that saying and it’s extremely inspiring!

I have a shitty version of this saying for anytime a gamer tells me to get gud when I've died a 100 times on a boss. Instead of ya know giving advice.

Karl Jobst is even calling him a "threat", which shows how much Liam holds the antagonist figure in the story (seriously though, he is an amazing runner and deserves the WR as much as Cheese does)

@@jojomtms saying somebody is a threat to beat the world record is not antagonizing them at all

@@UbiqMan I don't think he meant antaognist as in making them out to be bad, more like "the enemy" in this particular story. This story is from Cheese's persepective and from his perspective, Liam as the record holder is the antagonist in a professional sense at least.

@@FeatherWait yeah, from what my professor told me in my film as art class, the protagonist is basically the main character (good or bad) of the story juxtaposed to the antagonist who is basically the person or object (again, good or bad) who gets in the protagonist's way. In some stories both can be equally good or bad.

Liam is the heel to Cheese's face, to use pro-wrestling terms. Even their names fit the dynamic, as does Cheese hulking out when he beat the world record.

While being sick as well iirc

@@ShinDarkShadow can you send me the link?

@@salvadorhenriquez4091 it’s one of the earlier vids on karl’s channel man

Good card

Oh yeah

Lol

It really helps convey how tedious the process of achieving these new WRs is

You're a legend for never giving up and for not letting cancer ruin your step, and take you down. I'd say that's pretty legendary

Stay Strong, never give up and always keep on fighting.

Does Cheese have a pile of torn shirts documenting his chokes/WR?

I literally almost died laughing after reading this. That's such a good, fun detail that only people who watched the stream would know. Thank you for sharing that. Cheese is such a hilarious and fun guy to watch.

How the turn tables*

There is ALWAYS gonna be room for improvement in this run. It's an hour and a half long with 3d movement and tons of oceans strats. I don't think it's ever going to get fully optimized. There will always be some margin of error and room to improve.

Simply was ahead of everyone when he got his PB (wr third place) and only dropped off in the late second half

@@Truestoryguy Ya, unfortunately Karl didn't even mention that Simply had a WR pace just last week...There's a possibility that the world record will exchange hands soon and potentially often. This has turned into Federer/Nadal/Djokovic rivalry where any one of these guys can take it at any time. Amazing time in Mario64 speedrunning right now. Would be cool to have future "live tournaments" with trophies and shit.

You should have said that Cheese "*melted* off a nice chunk of time"

Puncayshun is still playing too safe so I don't see him break the 1:37:xx anytime soon. He also seems to be in a speedrunning break right now. Cheese is going to step down now because he has a lot of IRL stuff going so I don't see him break it, either. Liam is a grinding machine with insane skill who adapted difficult strategies from shorter categories after coming back from a long break. He has the highest potential to break this record now. Simply is an insane player as well and I believe that reaching the 1:37:xx is his big goal. He recently had one of the best first hour runs of the 120 star category ever. It's only a matter of time until he comes close to the record of cheese. (Or breaks it) And with Weegee who is the 70 star wr holder we have a very young and talented runner who is learning 120 stars right now and has so much potential in this category because he never uses safe strats. Besides that we still have veteran runners like Taggo or promising newcomers like Dowsky who is learning 120 stars as well. The future of sm64 speedrunning won't be boring.

Simply has that one for sure

Simply has done it.

LowShirt% : complete the game as fast as possible, while wearing a shirt as little as possible.

Which is better: playing the whole game shirtless strat, or ripping the shirt off at the end strat?

@@Xhoven How 'bout both be 2 different categories?

@@L_Train It is the tenacity of man, pushing their own limits as well, innovating strategy or improving oneself. There are also glitchless runs, but the point remains.

ok but u bought your channel

@@L_Trainu a prude

@@poggertroll haha. Not this guy. Most of the random check marks did, but if you’ve been on RU-vid for the last 4 years you know this is just a guy who comments on literally every video that’s promoted

@@L_Train easily exploitable =\= bad. exploitability can even be a benefit to a game’s depth like with gunz or super smash bros melee

I 100% agree with this, Cheese works on so many things that AREN'T Mario 64 and can still show up and learn these strats. He's an absolute beast and doesn't look like he'll stop anytime soon. He's also just super entertaining and a stand up dude. The gays stay winning, etc.

he only active what he did, cus he do all those things,

I disagree. Doing athletics keeps your body healthy, and I've found that doing larger movements balances out the fine movements you have to do in gaming or music. Meanwhile, playing music gives you discipline, teaches you how to practice and optimize your fine movements, and keeps your senses sharp. There's a reason why most people aren't good at just one thing, and why people who are great at one thing tend to be multi-talented. Also, having multiple pursuits means you have more opportunities for small successes throughout the day. If he no lifed it, his physical and mental health might not sustain his performance, and he might burn out quicker.

@@mbvglider you are totally right. Also the practice he has while playing is more efficient, he focus in it the whole time he is doing it, if he no life it he would waste a whole lot of time hitting his head in the all without being in 100% capacity to train himself. the focus is limited by around 40 minute and diminishs really fast after that, doing all those things makes his mind fresh so he can concentrate and deal with anxiety way better than otherwise.

I have to agree with the replies here. All of the most clever and useful ideas I've had came from experience in completely unrelated fields and activities. Ideas that often nobody had ever considered before, because they had a different set of knowledge and experience than I did. You'd be amazed the number of things cars, knives, firearms, computers, cooking, RPGs, and aquariums have in common.

I disagree. Simply is a total scrub and his opinion should not be encouraged at all

@@irbster cope.

@@S1lv3r1 I'm so sorry you disagree but these are facts.

@@irbster "scrub" also top 3 120 runner

@@irbster cope harder.

Yeah, even with that incident when he got distracted just by telling the story of the _"insanely cute guy"_ he once saw that costed him one or two seconds in LLL100 x)

Aww thanks alot this means alot!

@@cheesespeedrunningyt Me: "That's a fake one again..." **clicks** "... oh shoot, it's the real Cheese !" You WILL go down in history as the speedrunning GOAT for the most famous video game category of all time. Liam made me doubt you, but not anymore !

@@cheesespeedrunningyt congrats mate. you are a fucking beast.

I think this is a testament to how well-made SM64 really is as a game. It doesn't really try to force the player to play a certain way, and the mechanics of the game are pretty simple and solid (even with the glitches following from that era of gaming). Add in that every stage is very "episodic" and it raises the skill ceiling quite a lot. On the other hand, games that have glitches that provide huge skips and time saves tend to be more linear or "gated" in their progressions. RPGs, cut-scene heavy games, or games with strict mechanics/flags/keys (Legend of Zelda, Metroid, etc) come to mind. Though, it's still a bit unfair to compare a SM64 120+ stars run to some any% category in a game with heavy time-saves glitches. Because you can technically use glitches in SM64 to skip _huge_ chunks of the game and complete it in less than 10 minutes by collecting 0 or 1 star. The categories do end up playing a role in strategies used.

he even said erlier i that run: "my shirt lifes another day"

The Hulk Hogan of speedrunning

I was thinking this too

such a great journalist, or whatever he is. love karls vids

Hey commentator, just wanted to comment that your comments are fantastic.

Also, I just ruined your 69th like. 😿

@@NullScar thank you dude. Also 69 haha funny number

Is he Pavlov and you a filthy cur?

That part is pretty cringe tbh

also what nero did

It's a simple rule, if Karl posts a new video, you watch it! Even if your house is on fire, doesn't matter...you watch it now!

Well, he even has a video of him talking about mental health, in which he admits he sees therapist (at least partially because of speedrunning - didn't see all of it, so can't speak for sure)

@@hitofuuki well, the ocd component is understandable in a way, but tendonitis, a physical injury? That sucks man, unlike musicians / others theres just no way to properly mash or do certain movements!

Tendonitis generally heals by itself. It just has to be managed.

@@rjc276 yeah but once you get it once you need to be super careful to not make it flare up again.

I think he projects too much tension in his muscles on that area, he maybe exaggerates on the grip holding the controller, stiff wrists... maybe.

It was a nice shirt

he even said erlier i that run: "my shirt lifes another day"

you can always get another shirt, but you might not get another proper shirt-ripping moment

he actually did say that, in the video a minute after that he goes "i ripped my nice shirt, why did i do that?" and it was so funny LMFAO

lmao. Speedrunning trimming your pubic hair sounds like a risky proposition but hey, you do you.

@@Vonias why just shave off pubes when you could also shave off a few seconds from your PB?

WR in No Foreskin 100% category

@@stephencarmody5375 LMAO

cheese also has alot of strats that he doesnt do and other runners do so its very balanced, hes not far ahead than the others

As a regular viewer, can you tell us whether he always rips his shirt off live on stream?

If you like the storytelling aspect of Speedrun coverage you should check out the channel Summoning Salt.

Best part is earlier in the run he made a mistake and explicitly said "well shirt is safe I guess". The shirt was lied to and it's trust betrayed. Cancel cheese for this atrocity.

@@Syllaren The shirt didn't suffer long, however

Thank you! I recognized a distinct part of this music, but i had no idea where it was from.

Yeah, seeing Cheese back with the SM64 WR is like seeing ZFG back with the OoT WR. It's expected, even if it might ultimately take a while to happen. You don't get that kind of PB WR consistency without having some serious skill, after all. ...especially when your game has real competition, due to being one of the most popular games to speedrun.

thats what i find most fascinating about insane world record runs. Sometimes theres some incredible run that the entire community goes insane over, and theres 5, 10, 60 seconds of time loss in the run. shows that a much better run can be made with the current strats if the runner just plays a bit better, which i have no doubt somebody will do.

@@ciarangale4738 I can't wait for the day when 120 star runs will be so optimized that people will end the run after a small mistake that costs seconds. Like I said before we are probably years away from that but I know it will happen someday.

I sucked so much on the Nintendo DS version of this game, I can't imagine how much *more* skill it takes to use the original controller.

Uhh, I don't think tinnitus is the word you're looking for

Wait, your childhood was this game on the Wii? Damn, now i feel old. I was in my late Teens when this game was released on the N64 😅

@@christianstachl Yeah, I grew up with the wii and had mario 64 and many other games

@@ExplodingDreamz Good for you 🥰 It's jsut fascinating as an older generation to see hwo younger ones experienced all the good stuff!

@@christianstachl You and me both lol. There are people now feeling nostalgia over the 3DS. Man it's a crazy thing.

@@skorpsaiyan2361 Soon they'll be people nostalgic over the switch too. Damn...

there are ways to detect this, it wouldnt get past the moderators now a days.

@@Koalaz1 but if they can look into the data of the game, witch ppl back in the days couldn t have acces to so easy, it s not really fair. Others just relied on skill n experience. It s not fair.

​ @Justin Macarrhur i mean there are easy ways to see if its a tool assisted run or spliced without looking at the data of the game. only the video.

@Professor Thinker i just asked around more and i was right. I m guessing you re just upset.

@Professor Thinker the op is right numbnuts, knowing frame data in a game allowed many modern players to beat records. There is a huuuuge diference between playing the game based on skill and experience only and adding frame data to it.

Hmmmmmmmm goat cheeeeeese.....

gg

I wasn't quick enough. Oh well, enjoy being first. You earned it.

You earned it next time I’ll let you have it