[TAS] NES Super Mario Bros. 3 "game end glitch" by Masterjun & ais523 in 00:00.78
Description
This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see http://tasvideos.org/4032M.html. TAS originally published on 2019-09-05.
Super Mario Bros 3 is a very famous game for the NES. There are normally two main ways to beat it: the quick way using warp whistles to skip worlds (http://tasvideos.org/3812M.html), and the longer way which goes through all the worlds (http://tasvideos.org/3028M.html).
This run improves on the previous movie (http://tasvideos.org/2588M.html) by 10469 frames (that's 2:54.18) via exploiting a bug in which very rapid input overwhelms the game's controller read routines, allowing the game to be completed directly from anywhere (in this case, the title screen). See the authors' comments (http://tasvideos.org/6466S.html) for more details.
Watch this run on a real NES (https://www.twitch.tv/videos/463665728?t=17m20s).