World Record Progression: Super Mario Bros 3 any% 

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that's cool. my record is 4 months and 12 days.

I love how half of the time when someone gets a world record they freak out, and the other half of the time they go, "Argh, that was a terrible run."

"Just for fun, let's try a wrong warp" *gets WR* I was watching the stream when that happened, it was amazing.

How in the everliving hell was that "wrong warp" trick ever even discovered in the first place??

I love this kind of video, thanks a lot for putting it together.

That music at the end while showing MFP's live Wrong Warp was perfect lol. Great video!

I almost cried at the end because of the perfect pixel part. It touched my heart somehow

*high 5* That entire AGDQ2015 section in the last 3 minutes was absolutely fantastic direction/editing by you. Love the pauses, explanations and the background ambience. Totally could see this entire video extended as a full length Netflix-documentary !

That ending is just sublime.

can we talk about how the NES gets better fps than a wii?

“Shoutout to Jon Bois” That’s what these videos remind me of, the greatest sportswriter in the modern age. Jon Bois is probably my favorite RU-vidr, so the comparison between you two comes from me as very high-praise. These videos are absolutely fantastic

I have really high P-speed when I drink too much water

5:47 “Everybody wants to rule the world” as NES music Brilliant 👍

Love the 8 bit everybody wants to rule the world!

"But then in 2013..." *Sees that there is more than half the video left* OH SHIT HERES WHERE IT GETS COMPLICATED.

Imagine being the world record holder for the hardest catagorie in SMB3 and some runner who had quit the catagorie tries just for the heck of it and beats your record first try

"Quite a bit lower over the years" [inserts gif of downward arrow]

*EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD!* Nice background song.

My grandma introduced me to video games with this game when I was about 5 years old she was so good at it and she had the player guide and when she showed me how to get that warp whistle behind the wall in the castle in the first world I was so amazed. Going to show her this video wish you had one on Donkey Kong Country because that is her favorite game =P

I'd love to see a video regarding the progression of Ocarina of Time from you!

Requesting World Record Progression: Super Mario Sunshine please

Never clicked on a video so fast. Keep up the good work!

Did he really just do a shout out to Jon Bois? Thats awesome.

only the people who have tried to do wrong warp will understand why you made the ending so dramatic lol

5:47 is that "everybody wants to rule the world" in 8 bit

Not sure if you know, but even even if Morimoto's TAS was the one that got spread the most on the web, another SMB3 TAS, though for the 100% category, was made two years earlier, in 2001, which was also really great for its time. Still, as mentioned, these videos are great.

I know this video is old, but I cant help but feel like your descriptions of TAS's are shallow and unfair. It's not always just programming inputs. Most TAS runs are actual people putting months and months into hundreds of thousands of save states, replays, and several other things that go into it. Its arguably harder to TAS a game perfectly than to play it RGA, just because it takes so much more time, effort, and knowledge to pull them off. A good TAS run is usually the culmination of years of practice and work by small teams of people. Like the 100% Ocarina of Time TAS. Its insanely impressive. I just cant help but think that you feel negatively about TAS runs from the way you describe them. I do love your videos though and will continue watching. Subscribed. :)

Summoning Salt just created a interesting, non-clickbaity, Documentary alike, quality content. My fav Creator

Summoning salt: hmm how do I visually represent the record getting lower over time? *downarrow.png*

Love this series, great journalism! Hope you keep making these!

lol i just found your channel yesterday and kept watching your videos for like 3 hours and you upload on the next day

man that ending was epic. His love and passion for the game paid off. Legend

Jon Bois is amazing.

I didn't realize why I was singing "Everybody wants to rule the world" in my head.

You should do Wind Waker since the barrier skip was just discovered recently

I just realized that you have a comprehensive list of every piece of music used in every single episode of this show, timestamps and all. I have gained so much more respect for you with that.

16:06 So when is the academy going to start handing out Oscars for best RU-vid documentary cause 17 minutes into this shit has me in tears like the end of Shawshank Redemption & I don't even care about video games. Absolutely spectacular!

i was gonna hang myself, with youtube on the side with random vids, and this one popped out. As im feeling to die, it took my attention and finally went down and start watching it, suddenly, without knowing it, my pain was gone, hard feeling too, memories that haunt me, every bad thing that was making me sick was gone for 18 minuts, i'm just gonna keep watching more speedrunners video, Thanks for having posted that vid 3 years ago, even tho probably no-one will ever read that i still feel the need to say thanks, for brigning a new attention to myself that saved me.

Just curious, what's the Shoutout to Jon Bois mention a reference to? I only know Jon Bois as the author of the excellent Breaking Madden articles.

Could you do Super Mario Bros. 2 next

Well I was going to sleep but NEVER FREAKING MIND

It's nice to come back to nestoliga

Casual shoutout to Jon Bois, the legend.

That 8-bit Tears for Fears cover was awesome.

You know, if you wanted to slightly shake up the formula a bit, you could do something like "The history of TASes" Or something like that. Either way, I love these videos dude, they're so interesting and seem very well researched. Keep em coming!

watching this again because of alpharad huh? yeah, i see you

5:48 I’ve watched Summoning Salt’s videos multiple times, and I never picked up on the midi version of Everybody Wants to Rule the World until almost five and a half years later.

This is the fourth time I've watched this video and I *just* noticed the 8-bit "Everybody Wants To Rule the World"

The music during the AGDQ part combined with the descriptions of everything he did correctly gave me goosebumps

That Jon Bois callout was Pretty Good.

I love your world record speed running progression videos man, these are the best. I'm glad that they're fairly long at around 20 minutes and the way you edit and narrate the videos makes them sound like stories, perfect for getting comfy in bed before sleeping :)

I love watching older videos from creators and noticing the poor audio and rough presentation. It makes me appreciate their newer, more polished, stuff even more.

I still have an old photo of me when I beat this game the day it came out. Way back when, you could get duplicate photos when they were developed. I sent the second one in to Nintendo Power, but nothing ever came of it. Good times.

Could you please list - all - of the music used in the video?

I am binging SummoningSalt videos rn and loving it

Who's here cuz of alpha

Summoning salt now: home-we are finally landing Summoning salt then: 8-bit cover of everyone wants to rule the world

Big Jon Bois energy on the ending that was great editing man

What about World Record Progression for Mario Odyssey Any%?

That ending was PRETTY GOOD Like if you get the reference

muchlove🖤😥😰😭😭.. keep it up everyone and brothers, much love🖤😥😰😭😭..

These videos are so freaking awesome. You're really refining your storytelling. The ending of this one was spine tingling. Well done. Any chance we could get something about Goldeneye 007? I remember in college ('97/'98?) my friends and I buying disposable cameras, taking pictures of our times, taking them to a drug store that developed the film then transferred the photos to CD-R, then emailing the pictures to a website in Canada that kept track of "record times." We got in vicious wars of words with the site owner over our "fake times." Was exciting until we found out the site owner was 13 years old and videos started showing up online that proved our times were unexceptional at best. Ah, the good old days when being better than anyone on your street made you think you were the best in the world. Now your own feeble insignificance is only a click away.* *These have been a the completely unrequested musings of old man Wells.

5:47 - Tears For Fears!! I must say then, with computerized vs human speed runs: I can't stand this indecision.

What I'd really love to see for all these games you cover is the 100% runs. While the glitches are crazy hard to pull off, I think it'd be cool to see people use nothing but their raw skill and endurance to power through every single level.

welcome plussies

Without looking it up, I instantly knew the background music at the start was from silver surfer for the NES, one of the worse games on it with the best soundtrack

Low key the first thing I thought when starting to watch your videos was, "Wow.. This is like if Jon Bois talked about video games instead of sports and TV. And then you say "Shout out to Jon Bois" and my heart just fucking explodes my dude!!

5:47 XD where did you get this Tears for Fears 8bit cover?

As a kid I remember getting past world one, I thought u had finished my first game ever and got to the end.... I was disappoint but happy realising there were many more worlds

Progression of halo CE or Halo 2 would be amazing!

Music choice was on point this video. Not sure it holds up to the nostalgic feeling of your traditional music but, man, loved it. That ending 10/10

So I just found out about the 1-3 warp whistle. Could have used that a few decades ago...

That was the BEST feel good ending of anything I've ever seen. If I wasn't dead inside I coulda maybe cried.

God I love these. You've earned a new subscriber. The music, editing and storytelling are just plain excellent. It just feels so epic.

P speed: that fast walk to the bathroom

Love your work. 1/8 is exactly 12.5% so not getting 'nohands' has an exactly 87.5% chance of happening. 87.5% chance of ruining a run. :)

17:58 Mitch is basically Speedrun Jesus.

Morimoto's TAS is the run that eventually led me to SDA in 2005 and onward to all that good-times spicy speed-drama, so it has a special place in my heart. Shame you didn't talk more about Frezy and Kirua, but I get that time is limited. Frezy was so fundamental a part of the speedrunning community in the late-2000s-early-2010s that it feels bad to more or less skim over him in favour of Mitch, and Kirua was so active in the years that followed pushing all categories downward that a mere passing mention in an SMB3 video (even one about his weakest category) makes me sad. Like I know you have creative license to make a narrative about "that one speedgod of the game," but I feel like all of these videos need a common language to show the dominant forces in the game's adjudicators. Moving from TG to SDA to SRL and whatnot. All the games you've covered experienced these transitions but you consistently portray them as independent of one another. This isn't about your vids being crap though! I really enjoy them, but I think there's room for a video putting out an explanation of like "Before 2005, the rules were dumb because of TG, then things got more free-flowing because of SDA, then around 2011 the degree of collaboration skyrocketed because of SRL," then in individual videos call back to that using a common language. With your videos having an inherent obsolescence, there's always room for a refresh of done topics. Don't sweat it though, these vids have improved massively since your first forays out of MTPO, I expect they'll continue to do so.

What if they added a WR for 1 hand, 2 hand, and 3 hand? So if RNG fucks you you can still try to run a different record? I realize this is probably a very very dumb idea, but thought I'd throw it out there

I love that I can hear a remix of Everybody Wants to Rule the World in the background

Mario Bros 3 really was a Magnum Opus. There are a couple other games I prefer on the NES but it really deserves props for evolving the Mario formula. Making the game into something several levels superior to the First game, The Second game *AND* The second game!!!!

[Comment last edited on November 3, 2018] The current world record for Any% (No Wrong Wrap) is 10:44.416 by mitchflowerpower on October 23, 2018 www.twitch.tv/videos/326119606 The current world record for Any% is 3:04.333 by Kirua on September 28, 2017 www.twitch.tv/videos/178152895

Alpharad raid who up

i love how everybody wants to rule the world is playing in the backround

Always excited to see a new video. I'm a real fan of your work, keep it up!

i knew when i saw SMB3, id end up seeing Mitch...i was preemptively "wheeooo"ing as i watched this xD

my pb is 9 years 6 months 8 days 5 hours 17 minutes 27 seconds

That unsymmetrical arrow at 0:40

Spongebob Super Sponge background music is 👌👌👌👌

haha here comes alpharad's gang. enjoy these videos, they are addicting!

Ngl, I amazed how Mitch has stayed so dominant over the years holding the record not only on multiple occassions but also on different categories even the meme ones

I loved the 8-bit cover of "everybody wants to rule the world"

This is such a cool series!

Jon Bois? As in the SB Nation man?

10:30 ‘the wii u runs at a slower FPS than the nes’ *Laughs*

Man I’ve rewatched this progression videos so many times and this time I just realized one of the songs being played was everybody wants to rule the world. Awesome

Hey, would you be able to include for reference what the manufacturer's expected play time was, and maybe what the average consumer's playthrough times were? Are these games supposed to take like three hours? I think that would be a cool feature to include in your videos if you can.

Which song is playing in 16:00 minutes?

Awesome video ! Does anyone knows the music name at 11:20 ?