Mr.Dreadful Posted January 23, 2015 Report Share Posted January 23, 2015 Speedrunning - the art of beating a video game as quickly as possible - is all the rage. Events like Awesome Games Done Quick, the most recent of which raised over $1.5 million for charity, have become must-watch entertainment for legions of gamers. Typically, speedruns involve players perfecting moves and exploiting glitches to warp through the game world, skipping huge segments of gameplay in a race against the clock. But what you’re about to see is a speedrun of a much different color. This is the ‘Credits Warp’ glitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14wqBA5Q1yc&x-yt-cl=84503534&x-yt-ts=1421914688 That’s the popular streamer Sethbling. Though best known for making Minecraft videos, he’s playing Super Mario World for the SNES – or rather, he’s doing something no one has ever done before with it: re-coding the game while playing it. Using a variety of seemingly innocuous moves, Sethbling is essentially inserting tiny changes to the system’s memory, that, when properly executed, jumps Sethbling past the final boss and directly to the game’s credits in about six minutes. I could try to explain how it all works but I’d have to take a few programming classes first. And use about 5% more of my tiny brain. The glitch was initially discovered by fellow speedrunner Jeff356w, who performed it using a SNES emulator. Sethbling, however, did it using an old-fashioned, run-of-the-mill Super Nintendo. He’s since followed up this performance with a sub-five minute run, setting a new World Record. Incredible. https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/behold-the-craziest--super-mario-world--glitch-ever-200418244.html damn! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey D. Jiggy Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 So whoever discovered it first, looked up at the game code, noticed something, came up with a theory that involved doing all of this and it actually worked out? That's pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Generations Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 That's cool and all, but...why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Dreadful Posted January 30, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2015 That's cool and all, but...why? yeah, that is one of my favorite mario games. playing through the whole thing is way more fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunchbox Posted January 30, 2015 Report Share Posted January 30, 2015 Can it be considered a glitch? Hes basically rebuilding the entire game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Generations Posted January 30, 2015 Report Share Posted January 30, 2015 Also, how do you even figure out that you can do this? What a tedious waste of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grenade. Posted January 30, 2015 Report Share Posted January 30, 2015 What a tedious waste of time. If they enjoy doing it how is it any more of a waste of time than playing the game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarDaddyPlease Posted January 30, 2015 Report Share Posted January 30, 2015 A lot of people make a lot of money in the speedrunning community for streaming and such. Not a waste of time if he makes more money than most of us on here who discuss wrestling to a lifeless corpse daily Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grenade. Posted January 30, 2015 Report Share Posted January 30, 2015 I wouldn't say a lot of people or a lot of money tbh. A few of the top ones can make a passable living for an early 20s single dude, but there isn't that much money in it. Most people with even a job in retail or something make just as much if not more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Generations Posted January 30, 2015 Report Share Posted January 30, 2015 What a tedious waste of time. If they enjoy doing it how is it any more of a waste of time than playing the game Meh...if he can be that technical and tedious about writing code while playing a game, he can probably be putting his skill to better use than just beating an old video game in a handful of minutes. Hence, wasting time. And I was referring to all the time wasted figuring out how to do it in the first place...not just the time wasted actually doing it in the video. Anyway, in the grand scheme of life, it's a waste of time. If he enjoys doing it, that's great...but it's still a waste of time. Playing the game normally is a waste of time, so is sitting here on this computer, talking about it being a waste of time. I never claimed that I was using my time better, I just said it looks tedious and stupid...and it's a waste of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarDaddyPlease Posted January 31, 2015 Report Share Posted January 31, 2015 What a tedious waste of time. If they enjoy doing it how is it any more of a waste of time than playing the game Meh...if he can be that technical and tedious about writing code while playing a game, he can probably be putting his skill to better use than just beating an old video game in a handful of minutes. Hence, wasting time. And I was referring to all the time wasted figuring out how to do it in the first place...not just the time wasted actually doing it in the video. Anyway, in the grand scheme of life, it's a waste of time. If he enjoys doing it, that's great...but it's still a waste of time. Playing the game normally is a waste of time, so is sitting here on this computer, talking about it being a waste of time. I never claimed that I was using my time better, I just said it looks tedious and stupid...and it's a waste of time. To be fair, its only a waste of time if you have something better to do that's relative to your current living. Like, yeah instead of writing this post I could be curing diseases or something, but am I in the position to do so? Not really, so I spend my time unwinding on a wrestling forum after work or playing games. If he's making money off of it, its not really a waste of time as he'll be turning a profit off of something he enjoys doing. By your definition, pretty much everything we do every day is a waste of time, including earning money since its an arbitrary system put in place but us that means absolutely nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey D. Jiggy Posted February 1, 2015 Report Share Posted February 1, 2015 Can it be considered a glitch? Hes basically rebuilding the entire game.Well, anyone can recreate it on a console and that technically is enough to make it a glitch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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