Super Mario Brothers: The Lost Levels Speed Run (8:34)

A speed run of the obscure Super Mario Borthers 2 (the real one, only released in Japan, until now), I did not run it, this was done by Andrew Gardikis in 8:34. This is from www.speeddemoarchive.com.

Author's comments:
Thanks to Mike for transferring my tape to DVD!
Super Mario Bros. 2 (Japan) has always been known as being much tougher than the original version. This game has more of a goal to try and kill you at various points, such as adding poison mushrooms in boxes which are hard to not hit. It's a pretty challanging game at points.
I've been wanting to do this run ever since I found out that this game was released on the Wii's Virtual console. Unfortunately I do not have a Wii at the moment, so I did this run when my friend came over my house. I've been practicing "The Lost Levels" on the SNES version, so I had enough practice to complete this run rather quickly. The time is around an 8:34, which is a decent time, but obviously because I do not own this game I made many mistakes. Still, it's the basically the same as Smb gameplay.(except for when you bounce off of enemies) I think the limit for a speedrun of this game would be around an 8:10. Although the TAS is around 7:54 (ouch).
I noticed that in nearly every level during this run, I had some bad luck and had to change my original route a lot of the time. So here and there I lost 1-3 seconds in a few levels, and I accidentally got 3 fireworks in one level. The fireworks are based on the number of coins you have compared to the game timer at the end of each level, so it was kind of foolish of me to get 3 fireworks, so I have to remind myself it's alright to get 1, 3 or 6 at the end of each level. I hadn't been paying attention to the number of coins I had. I like to try and utilize some interesting glitch in each of my runs and in this one I do one in 5-2, a pretty fast method I came up with while trying to duplicate the TAS.
This is a good run, but it's definitely not my best quality work. Maybe I'll end up buying a Wii sometime and get a great looking run for this game. Also, I may eventually do a run as Luigi, but I find that a bit annoying.

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[idalia28ful]

9:31 why toads

[TheNovanCritics]

@idalia28ful acid trip from the mushroom land? lol, i have NO idea.

[SOFProductionsSOFP]

AHH memoris

[ClubPenguinSeramiop]

that ending. is prahaps the best 8 bit ending. ever

[Atthero]

@idalia28ful well why the fuck not? :D

[TommittajaFIN]

5:28 what the hell... where'd you get that glitch from?? :oo

[TommittajaFIN]

@MrEricrulz

yes.

[Akfamilyhome]

YAY So that's where the extended ending song came from!

THANK GOD, PEACE IS PAVED!!!! PAVED!!!!!!!

[1Lukeskywalker202]

Jumpy.

[TitanPointZero]

thank god peace has been paved.

[delaronpal]

the time it took u 2 beat the whole game is about how long i played it b4 gettin pissed and turnin it off

[Lightoverdeath]

Yup, Peach most definitely is "Paved".