I can understand the appeal, and non-assisted runs impress me greatly, but I would never want to do it. Once I know a game well enough that I could speed run it, I actually PREFER to fuck around. I can beat SMB1 pretty quickly, but I rather try and execute the Small Fiery Mario trick in every castle instead.

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Syd Lexia wrote: I can understand the appeal, and non-assisted runs impress me greatly, but I would never want to do it. Once I know a game well enough that I could speed run it, I actually PREFER to fuck around. I can beat SMB1 pretty quickly, but I rather try and execute the Small Fiery Mario trick in every castle instead. I could never get that trick to work when I was younger. Alas, now that I am older I forgot how to do that trick. Probably still wont be able to do it still.

It's fairly simple, I did it entirely by accident when I was a kid. To do it, you need to be Super Mario and you need to be in one of the first seven castle. 1-4 works the best, as there's no bricks, hammers, or fireballs to worry about. Sneak past Bowser and wait by the axe. Bowser will come towards you. When he gets close, jump up. You need to time your jump so that hit the axe and get hit by Bowser at exactly the same time. If you do it correctly Mario will flash and you'll hear the shrinking sound, but Mario won't shrink. When you start the next level, you'll still be Super Mario. The next power-up block you hit will have a Magic Mushroom. Touch it; you'll shrink. The next power-up block you find will have a Fire Flower. Get it and you'll become Small Fiery Mario.

I was never able to do the SMB "infinite" lives trick until I saw someone do it. I read how to do it in live 15 different hint books and I never understood exactly what the meant. Once I saw someone do it, it was easy as hell. I've still never done the Minus World trick without using emulator save states to try over and over again. That one is a fucking pain.