Only time will tell if he gives River City Ransom the same treatment and goes for a ideal run through the frat guys’ turf. Darbian also equips himself with a heart rate monitor while performing these runs, with this particular run seeing his heart rate climbing to a slightly worrying 171 BPM.
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By using warps and precision timing, he eventually manages to skate by all of the obstacles and enemies to break the previous record by just 0.007 seconds!
There’s a new world record for completing Super Mario Bros in the fastest time possible after a retro gamer shaved a quarter of a second off his previous record.
This isn’t a new summit for Darbian, though. The Mario mastering marvel known as Darbian previously set the game’s speed-run benchmark by blazing through the game with a tidy time of 4:57.427.
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The video is worth a look, not only for darbian’s impressive Super Mario skills but for the sheer joy that comes from him and the chat when he beats Bowser. That one clocked in at 4:57.427. Regardless, we’re talking about a category that contains a game that takes less than 5 minutes to beat if you’re at the peak of competition, meaning the frustration of a lost run is fleeting. We go into more detail about other common Super Mario Bros. strategies here. “My quest is over”, Darbian writes below in the description for the video on his YouTube channel. Darbian played a total of eight levels. Considering how the game’s optimal speed routes have already been discovered, all that’s left is for speedrunners to ideal that said path in order to achieve the best possible time.That’s what Darbian has done.The record was achieved on an actual console, which was rigged to a stream that displays Darbian’s heart rate as he plays.
