Averaging Asshole Mario

**YellerDog** · 11 Feb 2008, 11:58 AM

Holy shit @ Trackmania. I wonder how long that video took to render out.

**Opaque** · 11 Feb 2008, 02:12 PM

Pobably forever since it was done with an XP2000+ and a 6600.

**YellerDog** · 11 Feb 2008, 10:26 PM

Originally Posted by epmode

edit: I liked the Mario video too. I'm not entirely sure how something like that was put together without having a pre-defined camera path. Do those hacked Mario games support ghost data?

Originally Posted by the original article

This refers to the way that most emulators, if you are recording a video of yourself playing a game and you do the save-state rewind thing, they’ll rewind the video too, such that the video shows only your final attempt, not any of your messups. People use this to make “speedruns” showing a best-of-all-possible-worlds recording of them playing through some game or other, with all the errors scrubbed out. The guy’s point was that watching Kaizo Mario World this way kind of ruins it, since most of what makes Kaizo great is watching someone fail over and over and over again until they finally get it right.

On the other hand, Kaizo Mario World involves SO much failing that this means all the “real” videos are, like, twenty minutes long just to get through what in a tool-assisted run would have been a two-minute level. So I was thinking, what if you had a special tool that instead of erasing all the screwups, it saved all of them and made a video of all the screwups plus the one successful path superimposed? I kept thinking about this and eventually I just sat down and hacked SNES9X to work exactly like that. The result was the video up top, showing the 134 attempts it took me to successfully get through level 1 of Kaizo Mario World.

No telling how he actually programmed the thing to work, unfortunately.