The most hardcore Mario yet
by James Konik 
{ May 7th 2007 at 6:00PM }
So, you found all the coins in New Super Mario Brothers? Easy. All the levels on Super Mario World? No problem. If you're after a real challenge, try Hard Relay Mario Brothers. This swirling maelstrom of spikes, jumps and spinning fireballs looks almost impossible to play through. You'll need to take advantage of minor glitches in the game to complete this emulator-only hack. You'll also need patience, skill and balls of steel if you want to make it to the end. Making use of emulator save states might also give you an edge.
A lot of the jumps here involve lining Mario up exactly with the bottom of each block. If this done correctly, the game tries to push Mario through the block, enabling him to jump again. Around the 11.30 mark, more than 20 of these jumps are strung together - impressive stuff.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Nushio @ May 7th 2007 6:49PM
That is truly impressive. It takes a lot of skill to do half that.
JC Fletcher @ May 7th 2007 7:01PM
Gorgeous. Why can't we see original content like this on the Wii VC?
Zachary Hinchliffe @ May 9th 2007 1:38PM
wow.
Nushio @ May 7th 2007 7:12PM
What really amazes me, is that I'm pretty sure its legit.
Perhaps he did use savestates (there were waaaaaay too many "perfect jumps"), but other than that I have no reason to believe that wasn't done in the original NES Mario Bros engine.
Kefka @ May 7th 2007 10:19PM
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking Nushio - looks like the original NES SMB engine hasn't been modified, just the glitches in it exploited for crazy stuff.
Very impressive...
GT:Spectre @ May 7th 2007 10:38PM
This is the most FUCKED version of mario i have ever seen. LOL at 02:51
GT:Spectre @ May 7th 2007 10:38PM
LOL at 01:44, 01:03 and 00:12 also.
and 00:08 takes teh cake.
Shanks @ May 8th 2007 3:34AM
I'm calling tool-assisted without having seen the video.
Tamba @ May 8th 2007 8:11AM
similiar:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6204903272262158881&q=mario+frustration
shaoron @ May 8th 2007 10:38AM
this... is just plain screwed!
Zachary Hinchliffe @ May 9th 2007 5:51PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzbYRCEgIsc
Air.