Current Events > TFW a tool-assisted speedrun of SMB3 on All-Stars is faster than the NES TAS

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Strictly speaking, I'm referring to the warped-but-no-ACE runs.

SNES All-Stars TAS: (10:23.77)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5rtMZScqdQ" data-time="

NES TAS: (10:24.94)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoCjEHe4aVs" data-time="

Just kinda funny. You'd think the NES one would be more optimized or something.
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the games have different physics, you can tell just from watching the first few levels that it's not just a question of optimization and the games actually play differently.

In this game, you can use left+right to quickly accelerate from a standing position, and it allows Mario to run at a speed of 64 (even though it shows 66 in memory). This is faster than the regular speed of 56 when Mario has P-Speed. After quite a bit of work, I was able to beat the time of the NES TAS. This leads me to think that this version may be faster for warpless and 100% categories too, but I'm probably not going to worry about these.

I'm honestly a bit surprised the SNES version isn't faster by a larger margin
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