I'm not done yet! Next week I'll start runs to take 5 more seconds off, and my ultimate goal is to get under 21:10. Follow my stream to watch live! www.twitch.tv/kosmic
@@aidanhogan-thomas1797 1 second in 3-4, 2 seconds in 6-4 with firebar skip, 2 seconds from 7-4 to the end, and then a bunch of little bits of time here and there that adds up to the rest
When I heard of the run I watched the last 3-4 worlds and missed the whole part about it initially being a small fire run. Nice job with the explanation, it really does make sense that this was an accidental WR!
@@DavidvanDeijk Probably, but the short answer is that if there are too many things on screen like bullet bills, etc, the flag fails to spawn/despawns.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail - Benjamin Franklin I thought of this immediately when you talked about the 4-two pattern. Except you did the inverse “By succeeding to prepare (for just such an event), you prepared for success” This record is an actual testament to the very tangible benefits of preparation and planning
@@Tuvok_Shakur I apologise, I was trying to make a sarcastic comment for comedic effect about the nature of how different people react to achieving world record speedrun times and how it's quite normal for a wide variety of reactions depending on the person.
3:44 Where kosmic searched and copy/pasted the link for his small fire video is part of the run in my book. Super fast! But because little Gregory asked that question in chat, it caused kosmic to become distracted and grab the fire flower.... And the rest is history!
Have you seen Darbian's Dan Marino run (Super Mario Land I think)? Or his "Now that's roast beef!" SMB1 run? Classic world record runs, where I think the humor the whole time must have helped keep him relaxed. But still clutch!
That part at the 23:32 was really funny. I'm not sure what advnaced strat Kosmic was trying to do, but it just looked like Mario completely flubbed the jump . Fun world record to watch!
You can't get full running speed by just heading right, so I walked left to get more room to accelerate. Jumped like 1 frame early and didn't get speed.
This run was a real rollercoaster of emotions for us there watching it. At first we thought you killed the run, then we slowly realized you were on WR pace...it was a good day
I could actually feel the moment where it went from, "This is not supposed to happen" to "OMG this is happening". My anxiety bro. Seems like when you have the skill and knowledge it's just a matter of time for everything else to line up for a WR run. Attitude seems to go a long way too. A player has to be somewhere in-between relaxed and hyper focused, which is what happened on this run. Congratulations Kosmic!
Is there, like, a World Record Pace Signal (akin to the Bat Signal) that alerts Niftski and Miniland to appear in the chat right in the middle of world 8? :D
It makes sense that Kosmic says unironically yes If someone in your speedrunning community is possibly getting world record or a really good PB, especially if you run the game/category, you're gonna want to hear about it and I'm sure someone is blowing up a Discord or your DMs 😂
My man's doing speedruns without intention of winning, and wins ... if i didn't know any better, i'd call it luck, but this is a skill non-issue! This man could do it the pro way, by eating and drinking whilst getting his WRs. He also casually counts all pixels in the game, cuz why not? Well, GG and GZ! You did it again!
i can understand fluking a run like those mentioned in the beginning but being able to just adapt to a completely different run like that while still maintaining wr pace is absolutely ridiculous to me, its really impressive!
Congrats man. Crazy journey. After that ridiculously long unlucky rut, you got a pb and then turned right around and got this like a week later. It's insane how these things just kind of come in bunches.
I love the absolute chad move you did on Retroachievements, came, got the first mastery of the 5 minute challenge and disappeared from the site as fast as you arrived.
Congratulations Kosmic! Your ability to stay optimistic and hopeful is always an uplifting thing to witness! Here’s to many more great memories and moments to come 🎊
Hi, Kosmic! It was so nice to see you show up on my recommended page! I was subscribed to NRG and I was so sad when it stopped! You and LittleKirbs really carried the channel, but I was never into Mario content until the Mario Movie! Glad to see you're still killing it :)
Heck yeah kosmic! Thats how its done! You say you wanna take it lower than this, dont see how thats possible this run was already amazing. Guess we'll have watch and find out
It would be interesting to know about the history of glitches like small fire. When the game was fresh in the 80s the minus world was well known, but small fire would have blown everyone away and either wasn't known at all, or at least not described in any guides at the time.
You should switch the type of runs you do more often. In fact, every time the run gets too easy, switch. And switch back once the other run gets too easy. Our brain tends to work less when we are in a habit, and your performances will plateau. So when we put it in a situation that breaks the habit, it will be sharper. It is not a guarantee you will PB or WR every time, but you might get it more often.
Just played through all of Lost Levels last night out of morbid curiosity; it’s actually a good game surprisingly enough (with the 1-up exploit in W1-1 of course). I do think the general talk about LL being ball-crunchingly difficult is a bit exaggerated; not to say it isn’t a very tricky game but it’s considerably easier than the Ninja Gaiden trilogy, Ghosts & Goblins and BattleToads.
I do the same thing with Minecraft, there is points in any run where you can go faster by x-raying, so it's very easy to switch between random seed and glitch seed world records (on Bedrock). Since you know strongholds are under towns it's cheeky to take a quick x-ray by throwing some sand or gravel on your head and seeing the stronghold from the town bell.
I accidentally got a new Google Minesweeper pr on normal mode of 17 seconds, which would be cool if I had actually recorded it. My previous best was 21 seconds, and that was already a very optimized time, so for me to drop the time by 4 seconds is insane. Too bad it was just a random game after I had finished my homework, so i didnt start recording
For those of you wondering like the person in chat on the video, regarding how small fire works. Each time you get hit, there is a process that is run in the background to check which state Mario is in. If he is big Mario/fire Mario, the process registers Mario as being hit and shrinks you, but if you are small, the process registers as death. If I remember correctly, the gist of it is: When you are hit by Bowser as normal fire Mario and you get the axe at the same time, the game doesn't know what to do with this information. The game's background process has an on/off switch for big Mario (0 for off/shrink and 1 for on/grow). Since you got the axe at the same time as getting hit, the game starts to initiate the process of you getting hit while big, but is cancelled mid-way by completing the level. So you stay big, but the game has already halfway done the switch and registered you as small, but did not finish the process and change Mario's sprite. The next time Mario gets a mushroom the game still has Mario registered as being small (0), but since his sprite is still big, it can only go the opposite way, so the mushroom shrinks Mario instead. But now now the game registers Marios state as having a mushroom (1), so the next time Mario gets a flower, it sees the mushroom state in the background process and just changes his color palette and gives Mario the flower ability while small. It's as complicated as it sounds.
_Bowser's Minions_ "We're sorry sir...that bastard of a plumber was a demon! He just blew past all of us...to him, most of us weren't even worth killing!"
I'm not done yet! Next week I'll start runs to take 5 more seconds off, and my ultimate goal is to get under 21:10.
Follow my stream to watch live!
www.twitch.tv/kosmic
How do you shave off another 8 seconds off a run like this???
@@aidanhogan-thomas1797 1 second in 3-4, 2 seconds in 6-4 with firebar skip, 2 seconds from 7-4 to the end, and then a bunch of little bits of time here and there that adds up to the rest
What?? I thought 21.18 was crazy
congratulations
i'm surprised you still got his approved by the mods, because of the accidental livesplit change
@@ggarzagarcia livesplit has no actual bearing on the speedrun
SummoningSalt subscribing during the run? It's like he knew.
the salt had been summoned
divine intervention
He hath blessed the run
That's about the time when you know history is being made.
It is lol. Now he has to make a video on it lol
4:35 Kosmic: *accidentally grabs the fire flower*
Narrator: "It was no accident."
SummoningSalt must be good luck hahaha
2:34 "I guess I'll do one more...", he said casually
When I heard of the run I watched the last 3-4 worlds and missed the whole part about it initially being a small fire run. Nice job with the explanation, it really does make sense that this was an accidental WR!
Is there a video that explains the flag not being there in 2-1
@@DavidvanDeijk Probably, but the short answer is that if there are too many things on screen like bullet bills, etc, the flag fails to spawn/despawns.
@@DavidvanDeijk I'm not sure that spell to summon GTAce still works
@@ArloMathis I need this in the format of a 10 minute UA-cam video for me to watch while eating lunch please.
@@zeruzio1345 Honestly, you could probably search the channel. SOMEONE's made an explainer by now for the flag despawn.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail - Benjamin Franklin
I thought of this immediately when you talked about the 4-two pattern.
Except you did the inverse
“By succeeding to prepare (for just such an event), you prepared for success”
This record is an actual testament to the very tangible benefits of preparation and planning
Other runners get WR: screaming, crying, swearing
Kosmic: “Yes. Yes dude”
Kosmic is so used to getting WRs so he's not amused anymore.
it's almost as if each runner is a different person and reacts in different ways to getting a world record 🤔
@@Tuvok_Shakur I apologise, I was trying to make a sarcastic comment for comedic effect about the nature of how different people react to achieving world record speedrun times and how it's quite normal for a wide variety of reactions depending on the person.
@@nuggnugg8464 I for one thought it was hilarious and not the least bit rude...
@@nuggnugg8464 Loved the sarcasm dude. Have fun today.
3:44 Where kosmic searched and copy/pasted the link for his small fire video is part of the run in my book. Super fast! But because little Gregory asked that question in chat, it caused kosmic to become distracted and grab the fire flower.... And the rest is history!
This has to go down as the funniest smb speedrun ever lol
Kosmic was so lost for most of it yet he still clutched it. Legend.
Have you seen Darbian's Dan Marino run (Super Mario Land I think)? Or his "Now that's roast beef!" SMB1 run? Classic world record runs, where I think the humor the whole time must have helped keep him relaxed. But still clutch!
"I have no idea what am I doing here" speedrun
It was also a lost levels run
really impressive how you were able to secure this WR while fiddling with all the splits hahaha
Did it help as a diversion from the pressure?
Summoning Salt casually subscribing in the middle of the run was a pleasant surprise
Honestly the accidental world records always end up becoming the most memorable :)
Congrats Kosmic!
I love how you couldn't figure out your pace for almost the whole run, but you still stopped your timer within 0.01 seconds of the true time.
The fact that you didn’t even know where you were standing and correct timers throughout the run…. That’s making the run way better 👌
Speedrunner: Does the most impressive thing I’ve ever seen
“Oh nice”
Great run. Making a "mistake" and then SummoningSalt subbing for a run that ends up a WR? Serendipity at it's finest
That part at the 23:32 was really funny. I'm not sure what advnaced strat Kosmic was trying to do, but it just looked like Mario completely flubbed the jump . Fun world record to watch!
Looked like he was trying to do a fast acceleration (which requires doing a tiny backwards jump, hence the turning left)
You can't get full running speed by just heading right, so I walked left to get more room to accelerate. Jumped like 1 frame early and didn't get speed.
@@kosmicspeedruns I see. Ty. Glad it didn't cost you the run!
Nice! Well done Kosmic. If it's not some bizarre conversation in the middle of the record run it'll be a completely accidental run instead.
So do you think the "get confused and spend the first half of the run adjusting your timer" strat will catch on?
Casual superiority
This run was a real rollercoaster of emotions for us there watching it. At first we thought you killed the run, then we slowly realized you were on WR pace...it was a good day
I really enjoyed hearing about the context of the run. Made it super entertaining
Typical Kosmic. Why not to make a WR run on the category that you wasn't supposed to play. Bravo.
Ain't this the way?
Take off a lil pressure and BOOM.
I could actually feel the moment where it went from, "This is not supposed to happen" to "OMG this is happening". My anxiety bro.
Seems like when you have the skill and knowledge it's just a matter of time for everything else to line up for a WR run. Attitude seems to go a long way too. A player has to be somewhere in-between relaxed and hyper focused, which is what happened on this run.
Congratulations Kosmic!
16:53?
Is there, like, a World Record Pace Signal (akin to the Bat Signal) that alerts Niftski and Miniland to appear in the chat right in the middle of world 8? :D
Unironically yes
@@Kosmicd12 Thought as much.
It makes sense that Kosmic says unironically yes
If someone in your speedrunning community is possibly getting world record or a really good PB, especially if you run the game/category, you're gonna want to hear about it and I'm sure someone is blowing up a Discord or your DMs 😂
Is there literally a summoningsalt cameo in this film? saying sorry wrong splits?... legendary
22:45 chat : "gets WR by accident" ; nice shot
Congrats! I saw you go live and I was like, "no! I'm busy today. Oh well, at least they are not speed runs"
"Oh, whoops! World Record!" Congrats, man. That was amazing!
Nothing like a suprise world record 😊 GGs kosmic, very entertaining run👌
Credibility Speedrun WR too!
8:07 "This is an expert in his craft."
8:16 "Wait... is that cheep right?"
some people trip, some sneeze, the most clutch gamer alive gets world records on accident
"but then, he did this!"
"I guess I'll do one more."
I think this one of the only acceptable times to say, “didn’t expect to see you here! Lol!” For real congrats on the run, true legend!
Top of my Recommended videos list right now: SMB2-J Warpless Speedrun in 21:22.8. Yeah...I don't think I need to see that video anymore.
That crouch swimming in 6-2 was amazing!!!
It was great that this was just an off chance speedrun.
May the speedrun gods hold this record for a long time!
Congrats! I've really been enjoying your content recently, love to see you do well!
normally when you get a wr on accident is that you were doing runs not expecting wr, but was literally on accident lol
GG sir!
Love the Clerks vibes, "I'm not even supposed to be here today!" hahaa
My man's doing speedruns without intention of winning, and wins ... if i didn't know any better, i'd call it luck, but this is a skill non-issue!
This man could do it the pro way, by eating and drinking whilst getting his WRs.
He also casually counts all pixels in the game, cuz why not?
Well, GG and GZ! You did it again!
can't wait for this run in the speedrun history video next year
i loved that you had a good explanation in the start!
i can understand fluking a run like those mentioned in the beginning but being able to just adapt to a completely different run like that while still maintaining wr pace is absolutely ridiculous to me, its really impressive!
That's the "most clutch gamer alive" effect
Congrats man. Crazy journey. After that ridiculously long unlucky rut, you got a pb and then turned right around and got this like a week later. It's insane how these things just kind of come in bunches.
Bro 😮 that 3-2 water section was ❤ perfect 😲😲
I love the absolute chad move you did on Retroachievements, came, got the first mastery of the 5 minute challenge and disappeared from the site as fast as you arrived.
Because you didn't add the time in the description (the video is almost spot on), here it is
21m 18s 062ms
Oh whoops, you're right. Thanks!
The legendary SMB-J Change-Splits-In-The-Middle-of-The-Run Warpless WR!
that guy in the chat saying its a tas at about 15 minutes in lol
Congratulations Kosmic! Your ability to stay optimistic and hopeful is always an uplifting thing to witness! Here’s to many more great memories and moments to come 🎊
That's the effect of Summoning Salt's blessing
CONGRAGULATIONS! This is so well deserved and you should be proud of yourself.
The title reminds me the meme "I accidently built a shelf"
Hi, Kosmic! It was so nice to see you show up on my recommended page! I was subscribed to NRG and I was so sad when it stopped! You and LittleKirbs really carried the channel, but I was never into Mario content until the Mario Movie! Glad to see you're still killing it :)
His name is Kyle or Jeremiah or something……
Heck yeah kosmic! Thats how its done! You say you wanna take it lower than this, dont see how thats possible this run was already amazing. Guess we'll have watch and find out
It would be interesting to know about the history of glitches like small fire. When the game was fresh in the 80s the minus world was well known, but small fire would have blown everyone away and either wasn't known at all, or at least not described in any guides at the time.
I knew you could it, bro! Never thought it could be so soon, but that's so great!
Well played my, friend that was an awesome speedrun.
Congrats on get the funniest world record!
Though weird, this was not as puzzling as Tetris Mario.
That was a very timely summoning salt sub
14:34 I watched this twice, absolutely awesome 👏
You should switch the type of runs you do more often. In fact, every time the run gets too easy, switch. And switch back once the other run gets too easy. Our brain tends to work less when we are in a habit, and your performances will plateau. So when we put it in a situation that breaks the habit, it will be sharper. It is not a guarantee you will PB or WR every time, but you might get it more often.
I was there for this! It was SO HYPE
Just played through all of Lost Levels last night out of morbid curiosity; it’s actually a good game surprisingly enough (with the 1-up exploit in W1-1 of course).
I do think the general talk about LL being ball-crunchingly difficult is a bit exaggerated; not to say it isn’t a very tricky game but it’s considerably easier than the Ninja Gaiden trilogy, Ghosts & Goblins and BattleToads.
Huge congratz! This is an awesome achievement!
unreal, congrats kosmic!!
I don't even know how often I have to play a game to begin to know what second I've been playing for.
congrats on the world record that you have been working on!
I do the same thing with Minecraft, there is points in any run where you can go faster by x-raying, so it's very easy to switch between random seed and glitch seed world records (on Bedrock). Since you know strongholds are under towns it's cheeky to take a quick x-ray by throwing some sand or gravel on your head and seeing the stronghold from the town bell.
Did you just call a village a town 💀
Townagers be like "Hrmmmmm"
the classic ''i will do just one more ''' . well done!!
I accidentally got a new Google Minesweeper pr on normal mode of 17 seconds, which would be cool if I had actually recorded it. My previous best was 21 seconds, and that was already a very optimized time, so for me to drop the time by 4 seconds is insane. Too bad it was just a random game after I had finished my homework, so i didnt start recording
Thanks for the explanation intro. That helped a lot
we need summoningsalt to do a documentary about you good job on the world record im so proud of you
1:17 summoning salt subscribing for 65 months O.O
congratulations king you deserve it!!
The most clutch gamer alive strikes again! GG
Moooooooooom! I'm on the video!!! I'm famous!
To be more serious good job Kosmic. It was an honor to witness your wr!
For those of you wondering like the person in chat on the video, regarding how small fire works.
Each time you get hit, there is a process that is run in the background to check which state Mario is in. If he is big Mario/fire Mario, the process registers Mario as being hit and shrinks you, but if you are small, the process registers as death.
If I remember correctly, the gist of it is: When you are hit by Bowser as normal fire Mario and you get the axe at the same time, the game doesn't know what to do with this information. The game's background process has an on/off switch for big Mario (0 for off/shrink and 1 for on/grow). Since you got the axe at the same time as getting hit, the game starts to initiate the process of you getting hit while big, but is cancelled mid-way by completing the level. So you stay big, but the game has already halfway done the switch and registered you as small, but did not finish the process and change Mario's sprite.
The next time Mario gets a mushroom the game still has Mario registered as being small (0), but since his sprite is still big, it can only go the opposite way, so the mushroom shrinks Mario instead. But now now the game registers Marios state as having a mushroom (1), so the next time Mario gets a flower, it sees the mushroom state in the background process and just changes his color palette and gives Mario the flower ability while small.
It's as complicated as it sounds.
22:40 VentiGlondi called it
_Bowser's Minions_
"We're sorry sir...that bastard of a plumber was a demon! He just blew past all of us...to him, most of us weren't even worth killing!"
It's hilarious how often new strats and methods are discovered accidentally.
Super intense truly awesome run, excellent work 🌠
yooo finally he did it congrats my man
GG and gratz on achieving an exceptional run and getting the wr
Looking forward to the Summoning Salt documentary and "what started out as a joke run became a world record."
speedrunner: "i was playing a rom hack and it turns out to be shorter than expected"
me: of course it would be
Holy crap that water section in 6-2 is insane dude!!! What was that movement??? Is that just every lost levels warpless?
it was the ice creams, trust me
CONGRATS KOSMIC
How crazy is that?! Congrats!
"There is no accident."
I hate when I accidentally get world records. But for real congrats!
Oh shit, I had no idea you did this after playing that "interesting" hack. Congrats!
Grats Kosmic!! Very entertaining and impressive speedrun! 🍻 🕹🍄
Bowser has really got to fire his castle designer. Quit fighting on a collapsible bridge over lava. Congratulations on the WR.
What a Chad run this was. WoW
That was SO epic!! Congrats Kosmic youre a legend