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The History of Minus World Speedruns
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- Published on Jan 23, 2025
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Kosmic: www.youtube.com/@Kosmicd12
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I'd rather intentionally download malware then this scam
I will never try a sponsored product.
Video 3 of asking for doom eternal
"What's a framerule?"
Do not recite the ancient texts to me, witch. I was there when they were written.
LMAO!
It's a bus.
Everyone knows this.
Which*
@@Constant_YT90 brother 😂
lmao
Someone in Japan in 1984, probably: "coding in these fireworks to occur was a bit of work, but this small touch is certain to brighten someone's day"
lol!
I actually got a good chuckle out of this
I can't figure out why it appears sometimes and not others
@@njdotson the fireworks show up when the level ends, 3 fireworks when the timer ends in 3. I think it's 1 (1 firework), 3 (3 fireworks, and 6 (6 fireworks)? I forget.
@@njdotson edit: see Kosmic's response
it happens when the last two digits of the time match
Shout out to marikh who kept persevering and attempting runs even though he wasn’t able to do the flag clips. He knew he fundamentally had a half-second disadvantage on one of the tightest speed runs in the game. And he still battled even as the titans of Mario speedrunning were fighting atop the list
25:28 “xx_420_blazit_xx” really is the generic “John Smith” of gamertags
as a gamertag, john smith would definitely be more unusual
I love all the different characters in the summoning salt cinematic universe.
Summoning Salt × The Man in the High Castle
Because the internet
I remember having a kid on my AOL Instant Messenger friends list with the name 'bLaZeIt420' in like 2000. Been going on for so long lol
The bus lives rent free in your head
so true
It really does.
Nah, it's fare free.
Shouldnt've cheated smh
Cool
Can we acknowledge how funny the start of world -1 is, from, like, a story perspective?
- finds princess
- sprints toward her
- jumps over her head
- swims away in the air
- refuses to elaborate
- leaves
Plumbers Going Their Own Way
Went from learning about speedrunning from Salt's first SMB1 video in 2017 to helping with a WR history video that I'm a part of. We have truly come full circle.
Great Journey, GTAce! Through Summoning Salt, Gaming Historian, Karl Jobst, Abyssoft, and others, I’ve followed some of your career with great interest!
Congrats GT. Welcome to the big leagues XD
That's not full circle, that's climbing Mt. Everest and looking back down at how far you've come. :)
Too cool, big kudos to ya!! Can’t wait to see you in this vid :)
Goated
"I can beat this guy by one frame" might be the most speedrunner thing I've heard
me when im in a frame making competition:
One frame? Hold muh beer!
xx_420_blazit_xx as a screenname is the most speedrunner thing I've heard.
“It don’t matter if you win by an inch or by a mile. Winning is winning.” - Dominic Toretto
@@Canadas_Very_Own"family"
"A player named Niftzki"
When You hear that you know there is no player coming next
Duude he‘s not playing TAS-perfect, He IS the TAS
Brutal. I will now look this person up some more, thanks :)
@@SudrianMufflepuff The TAS is playing Niftzki-perfect
Matt Turk and Matthias of SMB combined
@@dicemaster6518 real haha
I love how xx_420_blazit_xx was just the scientist researcher for the entire video while the speedrunners put his discoveries to the test
He guides others to a treasure he cannot possess.
@@alexandermoorehead3200 being at the top is lonely but to feel it once or just to contribute must be transformative.
Just smoking bowls and unraveling the inner workings of SMB code.
Dr. Blazit
More speedrunners need recognition for their discoveries, even if they don't hold the record.
6:58 For April Fools one year you need to do a video on a speed run that actually does only have one major World Record in its history and just cut to black right there.
For April Fools next year he should cover Wii Sports "Ass%" category.
Ass% is where you switch your console to German language, then get a hole-in-one in Wii Sports Golf, prompting the screen to announce "Ass" (Ace).
There's been two, maybe three WRs in this joke category.
And that black screen has to last for at least 15 minutes
Atari 2600 Dragster, anyone?
@@rancid83 ah yes, the game where that one guy claimed to "start in second gear"
@@davidthecommenter Yep, and more importantly, the game where his score has been scientifically proven impossible (and that the best possible score has been reached a gazillion times since the 80s)
Matt Turk comming back at the end to win it all was not what I expected but a welcome surprise
I love the running joke in the Mario Bros community for frame rules “IMAGINE A BUS…”
LOLL YEA probably best way of explaining it
I think it’s more of a meme than a joke these days
@@WowOafus What if I told you all jokes are memes in the original meaning of the word "meme"?
@@Flamewarden_Honoushugoshin how so? If nobody ever repeats or cares about a joke, how is it a meme?
Now all I do is imagine busses. An unusual problem to have. New band name: Imagine Busses.
27:36 wow bro that was pretty embarrassing
how silly of you
In a muscle man voice
Don't worry, nobody saw it.
@ThePoodle You know who else thinks that's embarrassing?
What a pathetic loser
I love how every Super Mario Bros video starts with Darbian and AndrewG, then Kosmic and then finally Niftski is just the rest of the video.
"It...was...over." *Sees 20 minutes left in the video* Wow, the credits must go crazy in this one
It’s just a video game. Go outside
@olis3907 it's just a RUclips comment, call your mother and tell her you're sorry you didn't live up to expectations.
@@olis3907 it's just a comment, shut up
@@olis3907 Its just a comment. go outside
@@olis3907god forbid people have interests and passions and get invested in interesting stories
Love it when the record starts becoming an absurd trade of frame perfect time saves and we're still just halfway through the video. We're either discovering a new massive skip or we're fighting for scraps until we all die and i would have it no other way.
All the while just waiting for the Niftski finale
this was definitely the most times in a video where I was confused by how much run time was left in the video
We have shed all of our humanity, now we can start in earnest 😂
Typically the cycle. Strat -> optimize -> strat -> optimize
@@fulltimeslackerii8229 the question is, will there be new strat?
48:27
"...and the term 'human limit' becomes meaningless."
This has to be one of the most impactful statements you've ever written out and spoken in any of your documentaries. This is the essence of our incredible hobby. Keep doing what you're doing, salt.
Very true. Didn't expect to see a wild gameguy appearance 😎
Mario speedrunning be like "He was miles ahead with an insurmountable 0.0002 second lead, no mere mortal could comprehend how he could beat the World Record by that degree".
And they have a name like “Buttmuncher70” or “Zoop”
Technically you can only beat certain records by a specific margin. Imagine a bus at the end of the level....
Man, one time I really missed a bus by just a frame.
They don't stop for nothing.
"but then, shitmeister3000 showed up"
@@suckieduckie framerules (bus) don't matter on the final level
think of it like this: you don't need to wait for a bus if you've already reached your destination
The rivalry between Salt and Bismuth is always funny to see in their vids. The fact that Bismuth had a joke about 'Bus Skip' is also hilarious.
It’s a rivalry that will go on into legend. Mohammad Ali and Joe Frazier, Sherlock and moriarty, bismuth and summoning salt
Who is bismuth
@@jedispartancoolmanA fellow speedrunning channel. He also talks about Super Mario Bros. speedruns, and the two of them have been in a sort of rivalry as of recent.
That sent me 💀
@jayhabstudios It honestly seems more like fans are trying to make a rivalry when there really isn't one.
Summoning Salt be like: this new runner Niftski- me immediately: oh this record is going down he's going to destroy this category.
I swear this is the most unhinged Summoning salt video, bismuth being referenced, random zoom in on darbion's face, and the "john smith" among other things is just insane.
Don’t forget the reference to a DaThings YTP of himself.
Imagine a bus !
@@EmergentSea1 shit i didn't catch that reference. you got the timestamp?
How about the craziness when he said "and that's why this record stands till this day... Just kidding." after the first record?!?! That was so reckless! My mind was blown! 🤣
@lilaniloxi 2:36
Bismuth vs. Sodium Chloride, truly one of the rivalries of all time
We need Nile Red to answer this question
'Battery' vs 'Assault'
As a pepto bismal user myself I need that Bismuth more😊
beryllium vs sodium chloride
truly a battle against the elements
I remember being a kid and seeing people talk about tricks that “aren’t humanly possible” like the flagpole glitch and thinking “it sounds like you guys just aren’t good enough” and it is very gratifying to discover that the community felt the same way
"Oh okay cool, looks like this is pretty well optimized" *checks video time* "...Oh"
that's why Salt's videos are so great. he narrates so well that you think "wow, that was an amazing run. that has to be the current record." NOPE. You still got 30 minutes of video to watch...
@@adam_allday9470which we are glad for. Love these videos.makes me wanna improve my 12 48 in smw 11 exit!
One of my favorite parts about speedruns is that it’s a collaboration of two entirely different skillsets. On the one hand you’ve got hunters and TASers like Blazit and Kriller, discovering precise methods of breaking the game’s limits and then refining those into something a person can achieve. Then on the other hand you have runners like Saradoc and Darbian and Niftsky actually implementing those strategies back to back. Without both parties, these limit-breaking speedruns just can’t happen.
Too bad only one of those groups gets paid for their efforts.
@@SeppelSquirrel you guys are getting paid?
@@umair5602Speedrunners may get paid from stream revenue, perhaps.
@@Johnxxxxxxx competitions too
It's crazy that the entire history of this record only brings the time down by 7 seconds. Speedrunners are something else.
Two summoning salt videos in the span of barely more than a month what a time to be alive
These videos are the fastest clicks ever. I truly feel these are the best videos on RUclips
Bro i saw this and my jaw fell to the ground. I don’t have X so i was shocked that he dropped again
Bills to pay. He is fat also. 😅
Niftski is an actual monster. Man came outta nowhere, and evolved beyond the realms of man.
"Tool assist? My tools are left hand and right hand."
Using a keyboard so
...and a keyboard
👉👈
people clowning for him using a keyboard like they could do better if they had one
or they just think people are dumping NESs and Mario Bros copies online for people to get easily
@ he has access to physical copies and hardware, just chose not to use in his runs for… reasons
Your videos touch me deeply. Like the best movies I watched in amazement as a child. They take me away to another place... and in that other place anything is possible. You produce dreams, not videos. And I thank you so much for what you do. Thank you, Thank you Thank you a thousand times.
Watching Mario automatically squish the blooper at the end of World -3 so many times gives me life.
It would have been so easy for the blooper to be a few frames up or to the left and just kill you at the end.
Truly, proof that God is real and loves us.
Poor Princess
Man. I am only mildly interested in video game records, but you're so good at maintaining tension and making every new run feel like an actual revelation. I love this channel.
Wow, I’ve watched almost all of your content and am amazed at how many truly incredible progressions keep on coming. That was fabulous.
the fact niftski literally matched the human limit THREE SEPERATE TIMES *and THEN* went and managed to not match a tas by only SEVEN FUCKING FRAMES is actually unbelievable. holy hell dude i didnt even know that could happen ever
it’s a christmas miracle
Heard this in The Boss’s voice
@@NexusKirinLOLLL I NEED TO WATCH SMILING FRIENDS AGAIN
21:45 "as long as he didn't do anything dumb"
average viewer: "he got this"
Summoning salt vet: *bated breath
Incredible work once again salt, Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas man, I appreciate you!
@@SummoningSalt Are you ever gonna make a face reveal?
@@entasy4096 why would he? there's nothing to gain from it
Legend has it he's attended gaming contests and conventions and been entirely unnoticed. ❤
"This is it, the Human Limit has been reached."
I pause the video and see its at 33:10 and the video still has 20 minutes to go.
Good ol' Summoning Salt. xD
Did the exact same, hahah
i like your little avatar there.
I already knew it was like 50+ minutes, and was pretty sure I hadn't sat here for almost an hour already.
THIS IS TO GO EVEN FURTHER BEYOND
@@ghoulbuster1 *screams for 37 consecutive runs*
Once every year i find and stop by an 1 hour video about mario speedrunning, can't complain, been great so far
"I think money is great" Please keep saying this on every relevant sponsorship. The summoningsalt ytp must live on
on a raid sponsor:
"I think games are great"
7:30 The most important segment of this video, the imagine a bus speed run record rivalry between summoning salt and bismuth
A Desert Bus speedrun race between Salt and Bismuth?
Why are they rivals? It’s so stupid.
Summoning Salt!!! You're so close to 2 mil, Happy early 2 mil subs!!!
Best part of watching fullscreen with the progress part invisible and having a poor sense of time is being able to be faked out, wondering if this is it... and then suddenly Summoning Salt says something that immediately results is _at least_ ten more minutes.
>be bored
>new summoning salt video
>not bored anymore
Perfectly balanced.
@@fidmidfr 😂😂
@@fidmid as all things should be
his monotone voice makes me very bored, I tapped out after 5 minutes
Im still Bored.
I discovered your channel today. Just looked up and roughly six hours have passed since I started watching.
Your cadence, choice of background music, and narrative style remind me VERY strongly of the BobbyBroccoli documentaries. 10/10 instant sub.
The dude giving me a haircut talked about summoning salt and i was like yo I know that guy from RUclips. And we bonded over that. Thanks bro
That's awesome. I am pretty sure I'd be friends with anyone into this channel.
bro has a barber that knows summoning salt?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!!?!???!??!
What da hellllll
Your barber: "hey check this out. Haircut Any% speedrun." *sound of electric razor*
I hope the barbershop was in front of a bus stop
Summoning Salt drop in the middle of finals week? This is gonna be a great video.
Pray for my Spanish exam tomorrow but I have to stay up for this 🫡🫡
Summoning salt content is the only thing that can keep me sane after doing pre-cal 🫠
STUDY FOR YOUR FINALS!!
Just got out of the exam centre and I’m blessed with this, this feels like a true Christmas miracle
Good luck y'all! Just finished with mine ;-;
You need to get 2 million, I only watched for 2 minutes but it’s already good.
A surprise summoning salt video on my timeline! Must be a Christmas miracle
mery krima
@ThatGoober merby crimbas
🙄
Good luck on finals, bro!
Only in SMB can a literal 1-frame record be not just seen as possible, but actually done.
Summoning salt is unique in how he can post literally anything and I will immediately watch it.
Imagine a bus that brings you to summoning salt's channel
Depends on the frame you catch the bus
Man that very first run already looks like a nearly optimized run just without many glitches, it's like we're starting halfway through the video
I really love your current editing style, integrating the timeline graphic into the story. It really shows the full story while leaving room for the innevitable future.
Shots fired at Beryllium, one of the best speed run youtubers
???
@@jamesknapp64did you miss something?
eh, close enough
Welcome back AndrewG
@umair5602 lol I used to play it off like I was the real one in college at bars and such. Early 2000s; just enought cell phones to verify what I was saying, but not enough to stream video disproving it
I had no idea this even existed.
Summoning Salt makes a 50 minute video about negative levels was not on my RUclips bingo-card.
Summoning Salt should always be on your bingo card lol
(it's actually level 36-1 but 🤫)
@Xnoob545 shows how much I know.
29:40 love the competetion spirit of Kosmic, acknowledging the effort of his competitors, and congratulate them when he was beaten.
Fun fact: The "Minus World" is actually world "Space", level 1 which equates to W36-1, as the space character is the 36th character as seen by the game.
I too watched that excellent Kosmic video -- recommend it to anyone! ❤
Yep, I was hoping SS would mention it. And "Blank dash one" sounds better than "-1".
@@b.clarenc9517 Yeah, back then we used to call it "Nothing dash one". I mean, when we talk about things like "1-1" we don't call it "One minus one" either.
It's amazing how people keep discovering new things in old Nintendo games. It truly speaks to both the quality of the games and the dedication of the fanbase.
I must say that your videos are really captivating. Everything from the storytelling to the music is top notch. Literally gives me goosebumps. And you can really feel the excitement build up when new runners attempt for the record.
Thanks for all the effort you put in making these magnificient videos.
Greetings from Sweden
For a long time, I was wondering when Niftski's gonna show up. When I learned that he had no previous records at this point, that was wild, seeing this as his road to stardom. Man, what a guy, and what a video! Honestly, it's beautiful the way you put these together, every single one just leaves me with happy feelings and in a good mood.
Watching Mario repeatedly squish the blooper at the end of World -3 gives me life.
Classic Tiffany!
Wtf is your only playlist "pussy shavings" the other person said classic Tiffany so I was like oh maybe they do something and I get hit immediately with just "pussy shavings" scared the shit out of me
I got got by a bot
The 1 frame A press for the pipe clip is absolutely brutal. Props to the runners for pushing past it
Summoning Salt's video drops are more exciting than anything Netflix, Hulu, Max, or any other streaming service. Every time I see his videos pop up I stop everything I'm doing at work and watch.
This one is a bit more playful than past ones and I LOVE IT. The "And the record stands til this day" gag near the beginning was hilarious and it had me to the point where I double checked the video length.
It would be amazing if he manages to find an actual record that was never beaten after being set for the april 1st video, just to pull of that gag but for real this time.
Literally I get more excited for a new vid of Mr. Summoning Salt then these billion-dollar movies, companies, or streaming service ever can!! Sad, they think we want 16k Ultra Graphix and all we want is some good ol 8 bit lolZ
Justice for the blooper that gets killed at the end of every run.
RIP Tony
After every *full run. Most runs do not reach the end. This is something that watching ”end result videos” gets hidden in the details 😅
Playing Marios for years, and now i see different
the blooper getting bonked at 1:17 is fucking funny
Hell Yeah! It's as though the blooper knows it's not even supposed to be there, especially after Mario drops the axe! Then to be bonked! The Irony is palpable!
can't help but wonder if Niftski's use of a keyboard (and presumably an emulator?) has ever been a source of controversy... it's even mentioned in the video that the FFPG was nigh impossible on original hardware so I was kinda confused when that never came up again
It has, yes, even in this very comment section. Yet no one can deny he's the savant of Super Mario speedruns, he's demonstrated his skills in original hardware before.
Removing his keyboard would be like removing fight sticks from the FGC in some way.
The only people that complain anymore are the uninformed.
Niftski tied one of his older WRs with a controller on hardware, so his skills are legit. And most high level smb1 runners think using a keyboard is actually a handicap with how you input directions.
Emulator is generally fine for smb1 because we have nes emulators that are essentially 1 to 1.
I believe emu runs have to have hand/input cam and only certain emulators are allowed.
His using keyboard is generally not seen as an issue by those involved in the community. He's demonstrated that he is still incredibly capable on real hardware and most runners agree that kb doesn't provide an advantage.
Regarding ffpg on original hardware, as far as I understand it, it should be the same as on emu. It's just incredibly difficult. Take what I'm saying with a grain of salt though.
It was when he was new but once he cooked on original hardware people realized it's just personal preference
also due to the forbidden gaming term it's simpler for someone to get into the game on emulator
That's cool that everyone's chill with his using a keyboard as a preference, but surely if it doesn't matter then he could prove it by matching, or at least getting within a few frames, with original hardware? Respectfully, that he was capable with a controller back in the day has no bearing on whether or not the keyboard has become an advantage to him in the time since.
I don't say this lightly or with disregard for any videos before it, but this might be your best work. EASILY half of sports movies wish they could craft a narrative this compelling.
I love that summoning salt just calls out Bismuth and doesnt explain the "LOL beef", and I noticed how Summoning salt set up a chekhov's gun, by showing the FFPG earlier in the video. Amazing story telling Summoning!
can u plz explain
Super Mario Bros on the Summoning Salt channel
I sure do wonder if public transport will be used as an example for anything
Beating any TAS is just powerful. Man vs Machine, *"But before I let your steam drill beat me down, I'd die with a hammer in my hand--"*
That's the essence of it, really.
A New Summoning Salt Video What A Christmas Gift
I found you.
This may be one of your best written videos of all time. Insane kudos on keeping me literally glued to the screen, especially in the final 20 minutes.
Literally glued? How did you separate your face later?
Salt
@@WannaKnowMyNameThey could still be attached to the screen for all we know.
I love the subtle hints to runners before they're revealed. I guess I've watched enough of your videos to know that was Darbian's face and Nifski's keyboard :D
7:02 *not me checking the date to see if it was april fools in December*
When I was one of the Publishers on TASVideos back in the day, it was always really exciting to see a new HappyLee run, because you knew something absurd (in the scope of SMB1) was going to be found.
The thought of humans replicating those tricks was unfathomable. Absolutely astonishing stuff.
2100: Niftski's Grandson does minus world ending in 18 seconds
27:35 That Kosmic clip on 2/26 missing that perfect pace run in the first 3s on -3 is absolute comedy lmao
Stopping the music as he paused is *chef’s kiss*.
Death, taxes, and summoning salt explaining the frame rule
It's very comforting to hear everytime
I remember when I was just getting into learning about speedruns, I always said "# seconds? That's kinda small" but honestly if you spend more than an hour only to miss a second from where you wanna be, it hurts a lot.
Dude I actually screamed "WHAT NO WAY" when he did this and died laughing after the reveal 6:58
Same, I yelled, "Whaaaaat!?!" In my garage lol.
I already knew it was a 50-min long video, and I was still shocked when he said that.
I love how in some of your videos a 12 second gain is a small improvement, and then in videos like this the entire net gain in the entire speedrun is like 5 seconds
32:52 You gotta love the subtitles and precise time record x'D
"When does Niftski show up?"
- Everyone before starting the video
fr 😭
2:36 “I think Money is great!”
This is a nod to Ellie Spectacular’s YTP, isn’t it
It has to be. It’s an amazing hidden gem.
an hour long video on a glitch level that only existed on a rare floppy disk release from 1986
I wasn't expecting a Summoning Salt upload but I appreciate it
3:37 lmao ok this got me
"Wasn't humanly possible"
"Someone did it!!"
Me every time. (:o)
Only Summoning Salt can make an interesting 50 minute video about a record that went down by 17 seconds in its whole history
12:54 why did you do my boy darbian like this
That was wild
He's got a nose for sniffing out good speedrun strats
I thought it was a cat pfp
2:35 I love the subtle DaThings YTP reference 😆
'I jumped, holy cow'
- Kosmic, 2018
“The Human Limit, was officially reached.” (20 Minutes left in the video)
Jokes like the one in 7:00 are what always get me to like your videos 😂
Keep up the GREAT content!!
“And then Summoning Salt uploaded…. This!!”
fr lolololll
I was about to go to bed.....
Verified under 100k?
Yeah @@JamesPanoff
@samasayed-r4y did they hit 100k subs then go under?
Dang he just dissed on my boy Boron with the framerule explanation at the beginning
Hey man don’t talk shit about Barium
How rude of him, Bohrium is one of my favorite RUclipsrs.
The answer to defeating the human limit is starting Mario in second gear
3:36 ngl idk why but this is up there with "filmed on a camera from the 1800s" and the capture card joke.