Back then, it wasn't even considered possible until AndrewG found glitches that save massive amounts of time. He then became the first person to achieve a time under 5 minutes in any% Now, 9 years later, a full 100 different people have their sub 5 runs verified on this leaderboard! This is the 100th sub 5 run btw https://www.speedrun.com/smb1/run/y81q321z
Yes, really nice, almost at same time, when my youtube chanell got 100th subscriber, lol.
Here's a screencap of Summoning Salt's smb1 any% video - 2 years ago
TWO YEARS AGO, that's not THAT long ago
4:58 put you in SIXTH place 4:59 put you in 16th... and 5:00 put you in 19th place O.o
To compare to now... 4:56.6 puts you in sixth 4:57.4 puts you in 16th and 4:57.6 puts you in 19th and of course, as of this posting 4:59 puts you in 100th place
In this time, user @Pallidus moved from 7th to 67th
7th to 67th
SEVENTH TO SIXTY-SEVENTH
Mario has really come a long way in a relatively short amount of time
When I started running (April 2017) 100th place was around 5:13.
Between 2017 and now, approx. 500 people have joined the SMB1 community. Since when I started, there were around 300 any% runs, and now there's 800.
Our community is growing fast. :D
Sub 5 was proven possible about 7 years before Andrewg got it. He didn't find any massive timesaving glitches, just ways that he could implement already known glitches. Just like xx_420_blazit_xx did not find wall clips, just an RTA viable way of doing them. Also, sub 5 probably would've happened sooner if TG didn't hold Andrew back from doing glitches for a few years.
Good job and congrats to everybody who has achieved things in SMB1 :)
Yeah I didn't use @roopert83 as an example on purpose :) - but 22nd to 130th is pretty insane.
But, I think we can all agree that if roopert spent a teeny amount of time grinding any% he'd pb
nudge nudge <3
Now when the hell are 100 people gonna achieve sub 20? We're sitting at 60 which is still pretty good but you know. We need more.
Wo, i remember when i started in late 2016 there werent even 200 runners on the lb
i remember getting top 100 with a 5:04. boy how this game has come a long way
When I first started running SMB1 a year and a half ago and was just messing around with AISSON, I never thought I’d get a sub 5, much less be the hundredth person to do it. Its amazing how much fun this game has been for me.
Any% (NTSC) runs below 4:57.000 must now fulfill additional requirements in order to be verified.
- The run's full session must be included in the submission description.
- For emulator runs below 4:57.000, some form of input display must be visible for the duration of the run. A hand-cam or input