{"id":4850,"date":"2003-12-03T11:16:37","date_gmt":"2003-12-03T19:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/03\/4850\/"},"modified":"2003-12-03T11:16:37","modified_gmt":"2003-12-03T19:16:37","slug":"mario-3-in-11-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=4850","title":{"rendered":"Mario 3 in 11 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geek moment:<\/p>\n<p \/>\nThe web is on fire with accounts of the video of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00009WAUO\/ghosthouse01-20\">Super Mario 3<\/a> being beaten in 11 minutes, a game which traditionally takes several hours to complete.  <a href=\"http:\/\/keithdevens.com\/weblog\/archive\/2003\/Nov\/26\/SuperMarioBrothers3\">Keith Devens<\/a> lists a number of mirrors of the video itself.<\/p>\n<p \/>\nThe video is very cool- the economy of movement is incredible, and not even the tiniest detail is overlooked- for example, the player &#8220;Morimoto&#8221; intentionally gets 3 mismatched cards, because if the cards had all been of one type, he would have gotten extra lives and a &#8220;congratulations!!&#8221; display, wasting precious seconds.<\/p>\n<p \/>\nThe way it was done was by running the game on an emulator at 1\/30 speed, and saving and restoring repeatedly to &#8220;tune&#8221; the game to the absolute most streamlined game possible.  The effort (and attention span) required to achieve this is incredible.<\/p>\n<p \/>\nOddly, there is a bit of a controversy over whether the game is &#8220;real&#8221; or not&#8230;  even though the guy who did this, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/soramimi.egoism.jp\/\">Morimoto<\/a>,&#8221; described this process on his <a href=\"http:\/\/soramimi.egoism.jp\/emu.htm\">EMU page<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/soramimi.egoism.jp\/emu.htm\">http:\/\/soramimi.egoism.jp\/emu.htm<\/a>.  Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.excite.co.jp\/world\/url\/body\/?wb_url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoramimi.egoism.jp%2Femu.htm&#038;submit=%83E%83F%83u%83y%81%5B%83W%96%7C%96%F3&#038;wb_lp=JAEN&#038;wb_dis=2&#038;wb_co=excitejapan\">Excite translation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>The web is on fire with accounts of the video of Super Mario 3 being beaten in 11 minutes, a game which traditionally takes several hours to complete. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geek moment: The web is on fire with accounts of the video of Super Mario 3 being beaten in 11 minutes, a game which traditionally takes several hours to complete. Keith Devens lists a number of mirrors of the video itself. The video is very cool- the economy of movement is incredible, and not even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}