World Record Progression: Super Mario 64 any% 

The most shocking thing in this video is that a guy posted "in 5 days, I will reveal a revolutionary new tactic", and then he actually came through.

One small step for man, one Backwards Long Jump for an Italian Plumber.

10:00 Here I am, in 2021, watching a random video on RU-vid when suddenly a post I made on GameFAQs 17 years ago shows up on the screen. I gotta say, I really did not expect that. I remember doing a 16 star "run" back then, but I actually didn't remember posting about it on GameFAQs, which made it even more surprising.

"There is no video of this run." Is the speed running version of "My girlfriend goes to another school you wouldn't know her."

Gamers in 1996: "One day, maybe someone will beat Mario 64 in under an hour!" Speedrunners now: *start game* "YAHOO YAHOO YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA SOLONGAYBOWSER"

I like how you don't even name the cheaters. Zero recognition. Not even for cheating. Lol.

I love how back then people could just say they had records without actually recording them.

“We are leaving in 10 minutes” “Ok, let me just beat this Mario game real quick”

Speed runners then: “Maybe one day someone will get a sub-hour run” Speed runners now: maybe someday someone will get a sub minute run

Programmers: You need 70 stars to beat the game. Speedrunners: Zero. Take it or leave it.

*2055: BEAT THE GAME WITHOUT PLAYING THE GAME*

Discovered this channel through Jacksfilms’ Content Awards, and really enjoyed this! Subbed

"The players ran into a wall" *shows footage of puncays run dying due to invisible wall glitch FeelsBadMan*

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how insanely well-made this video is?

“Mario why are all the doors locked?” “I didn’t get any stars, I clipped through every wall”

Nothing is more satisfying than a glitchless run, people who've mastered a game, and clearing challenges that took me hours in the blink of an eye.. But nothing shows complete mastery more than an any%, in which players learn more about games than the people who made it, truly making it their own.

these videos are 100% incredible to watch and super interesting!!!!WELL DONE SUMMONING SALT!!!:DDDDDD

Wanna see me beat Super Mario 64? ... Wanna see me do it again?

2037 - Luigi beats SM64 by doing absolutely nothing

Speedrunners: you can't defeat me 119 stars: I know, but he can *points towards dire dire docks*

Now to beat the game with no A presses.

i love the way he says "dire dire docks"

I just want to say that you were amazing with this video. Even though I already known that this game could be beaten with 0 stars you still made me feel the excitement of what everybody else was feeling in the forums. Please, never stop.

Bruh....how do people find glitches...like for real, imagine: "I'm gonna back jump on the stairs, I feel like it's gonna glitch" "I'm gonna put this rabbit here and jump behind it, maybe it's gonna push me through the wall"

If humans are good at something, it's breaking stuff. And boy did they break Super Mario 64 xD.

Just realized i technically watched a documentary and enjoyed it

I can't believe you used a clip of Puncay hitting that invisible wall when he lost a wr run. That's cold man. lol. Another great vid, keep it up!

2003: This BLJ thing looks fun! 2019: ParALLeL uNiVeRsEs

19:49 "When there was no Twitch to stream on, but instead gaming communities that you communicated with through text, and, on rare occasions, a low quality VHS tape." Man, if this is how we talk about the gaming/speedrunning community from 10-15 years ago, think about how the current generation will be talked about in a couple of decades... When things like video sharing and live streaming become primitive like VHS tapes are to us now...

6:47 SummoningSalt just summoned his ultra roast.

6:47 Now THAT clip used for “running into a wall” is a mean callback. I love it

Peach: The Power of the Stars have been restored to the castle... Mario: 0 stars lol

I can’t help but think there might be some yet-earlier endless stairs skip thread or video on some old Spanish-language website

I love these videos so much, we need to promote these for Agdq 2018 for the breaks

I love these speedrun documentaries

I like these ones that go more in depth about how and when the skips were discovered over which runners had the WR at different points in time

7:12 Imagine being a speedrunner and seeing that image. The shock and awe must have been intense.

Some people, though, don't play by the rules **Menu music starts playing**

My favorite series on YT

Damn that was some serious super Metroid shade. I don’t know, super Metroid has a major glitches category too

6:46 "And it seemed like everyone was running into a wall, sort of' video shows clip of deadly invisible wall glitch.

"seems everyone was running into a wall sort of" Lmao

Yo Jacksfilms talked about you and linked other people to this video, this is so cool.

6:48 "Running into a wall" *footage of the glitch where you run into an invisible wall* Nice

How did 500 people dislike this video? I mean seriously, even if you don't care for the game, how can you hate on the studiously meticulous research and straightforward yet entertaining presentation? I just discovered your channel my friend, and I'm hooked on learning more about the games I played as a child. I hope you find the time and energy to keep it up!

Developers: You need at least 70 stars to beat the game Players:*Beat with no stars* Developers: AM I A JOKE TO YOU

Oh boy 3 AM

0:41 The first glitch I ever found by myself as a kid

I remember in late 2004 they aired a sm64 16 star run on G4 TV, wish I could find it.

Dude I love how you add space for just music and footage. It creates breath and shows an artistic sensitivity

Good call putting Halo 1 music while mentioning GameFAQs. The early 00s nostalgia was real.

I've watched this video at least 5 times. It's just so interesting and fun to watch. Thanks for the great video

Nintendo-backward long jump Valve-accelerated back hop

13:50 was the calmest I’ve ever felt

It's a Me M.....no time to say ario

My FBI agent: *Oh... you’re watching this again...*

Peach: My parents aren't home Mario: *YA-YA-YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAHOOOO!*

Nice video. I wish you would mention the 1 Key TAS though.

Ilari Pekkala? The Goldeneye dude? Wtf that guy is a god at gaming.

Currently on the leader board as bosh for my starfox 64 speedrun. Starfox 64 would be a cool vid in your series.

"I'm a fucking legend!" rofl

"No! You're supposed to collect ALL the stars!"

Wow, it's incredible how this went from over an hour to under 10 minutes over the years. I loved hearing the history of sharing tips via forums way back in the day before you could just easily RU-vid it all.

I've always wondered how the blj was even discovered

Did I hear correct? Was the spliced run found out to be fake just this year, 2017?

Great video. But frankly I don't think it's right to say "a TAS is done by a computer", because you can't credit months of a TASer's hard work on an emulator to a computer. A TAS is not done by a human in real time, but it's still done by human with an emulator.

Now its 2018 and we have parallel universes

Dear Mr. Salt: Tanks buddy. Life is a real pain in the ass right now but being able to kick back after such a horrible day and enjoy stuff like this really makes my troubled life that much more tolerable. I really appreciate what you do. Thank you.

So, BLJ speeds are possible because while the speed is building up negatively, the clamp was only checked on the positive bound. It's simply something the programmers didn't think about. If they did, It would get down changing literally one line of code, which is checking that the abs(speed) < maxSpeed, instead of speed < maxSpeed. It could have been literally 5 characters in the game's code, to change the history of sm64 speed running, and make all this impossible. Talk about the butterfly effect.

well this is pointless at this year, but i am from colombia and remember try and make te trick of the backwarrd long jump "backward yahooo" as we call it, when that number of club nintendo come out, actually i recorded almost everything i thought it was weird on vhs, tricks and endings by these years, i beat bowser with 50 stars that christmas of 1999, but i am sure a lot of people in latinoamerica make that with the magazine, when i saw the trick of the backward jump on the lobby i remember tried a lot for 2 days with no succes, this one need too much practice compared to the others. Sorry my caca english.

Shoutout to simpleflips

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how much time an effort goes into these videos (research, finding videos, editing, etc). Really makes me smile how genuine these are. Great job Summoning Salt.

The way you sayed Ilari Pekkala was cool. It's fun to see how people pronounce finnish names :D

This will remain one of my favorite games for this reason. There is so much packed into this one game cartridge.

i wonder how the mexican duo feel about their achievement now?

I always love the more serious and cinematic parts of these videos showcasing the most insane things. That long bout of silence with just the music in the background playing on top of the endgame cutscene when the TAS beats the game with 1 star... it's ethereal.

0/10 too many A presses

Man, he's really good at this mario guy.

The question remains... Can you beat the game with -1 stars?

Production value for these videos are top notch. Thank you sir and please continue to provide quality videos as such.

"...requires incredibly precise mashing" Me, a DBFZ player: my time has come

Recently stumbled on your videos and I absolutely love them as an outsider to the speedrunning community. One thing I will nitpick is you say that the developers' time wasn't wasted because of all the different categories, but it would have been nice to acknowledge other styles of playing than speedrunning or at least a chuckle to indicate a tongue-in-cheek nature of the note.

Don't know why every World Record Progression episode feels like a serious "30 for 30" ESPN documentary 😂

I can honestly say I’ve watched these Mario World Record Progressions over and over again. They never get old because I love how SummoningSalt is so informative and gives the audience a good watch. This is probably my 10th time watching this video. I love em.

64k subs. Super Mario 64 video? ILLUMINATI CONF- oh is that meme dead now

Really enthralling stuff. I really enjoyed watching, thanks.

When I watched this all I can think about is pannenkoek2012 :)

These videos are always amazing to watch. The amount of detail you go into the run is so engaging to watch. I never knew that the runs changed this much over the years.

"I just don't like speedrunning it's not interesting"-plays a summoning salt video- *hold my phone*

4:28 AlexPenev, the original TJ """"""""Henry"""""""" Yoshi.

"you can't just skip all the levels!!!" hAhA BaCKwaRdS LoNg JuMp Go BRRRRRR

I never realized how crazy speed running old video ganes is until i started watching your videos a while back! Thanks for always coming out with quality videos man!!

3:06 Esos de Club Nintendo, esos si eran unos viciaos de verdad, en especial el Gus Rodriguez, lastima que la revista murio de forma poco ceremonial. Pero esto prueba que estamos aunque nadie lo crea a 50 pasos adelante.

I love it so much that the spongebob supersponge ost made it into this video! I could have sworn I recognized it and had to look through the google doc (which I also appreciate)

11:55 Ah. I see where the splice is--it's right where the words "Splice here" appear on-screen. I can't believe we missed that for almost 10 years!

Yo man i'm blown away by your videos, i just discovered them recently when i first saw the 4-2 super mario video and then the sonic adventure 2 battle video n stuff like that. I just love your way of narration and making the audience feel excited about these things. Keep it up man, love your stuff!

Trying to remember why it's 16 stars, is that how many were needed for the Bowser fight or one of the star doors?

I hear that Plok music, you glorious connoisseur.

Glad jacksfilms shouted u out cuz ive enjoyed y for a long time and u deserve it

imagine the guy who worked at nintendo who coded the long jump mechanic who was responsible for all this