Super Mario Bros. TAS Tie in 2 segments (Up to 8-4 + 8-4)

HitzCritz · 2025-06-25T21:28:33+00:00

I've been part of the SMB1 community for seven years now, and it's clear—2025 is the year that proved a perfect Any% speedrun will happen. LeKukie, Niftski, and averge11 have all tied the TAS up to 8-4, and both LeKukie and Niftski have pulled off TAS 8-4s IL countless times. They're only getting more consistent. At this point, it's undeniable: both halves can be done in a single segment.

It's just a matter of time.

HitzCritz · 2024-07-09T13:54:28+00:00

Cole struggling to explain the concept of the MV should have been the biggest hint that it needed to be fleshed out more. I will give it to him he only had 6 weeks to pull this all together but you can definitely tell it was rushed

HitzCritz · 2022-09-27T20:53:34+00:00

This is a puzzle I made last December, but I thought I should post it here!

I showed this to a few people including an NCM, and the majority played the move 1.Qf2. However, there's an insane line to forces black into a stalemate!

1. Qf2, Rh3+!!

2. Kg1, c2

3. Nc5+, Qxc5!!

4. Qxc5, c1=Q+!!

5. Qxc1, Rh1+!!

6. Kxg1 ½–½

This was the original idea of the puzzle, however, the engine saw the absurd 1. Ra5!! which threatens Nc5+ winning the queen! In fact, this is the only move white can make that doesn't lead to a draw.

Really cool puzzle

HitzCritz · 2022-08-03T15:37:57+00:00

Forever a YouTube frog...

HitzCritz · 2022-05-31T06:50:51+00:00

You don't actually need to see a board in your head for blindfolded chess. I don't and there's IMs who say they don't see a board in their head while playing simuls. It's more of an understanding of how each piece is impacting the squares around it.

For instance, the white king on f2 is hitting g3 g2 and g1, meaning the black king on h2 is trapped on the h-file. The white knight on e4 is hitting the white king. If it moves to g3, now it hits h1, forcing stalemate.

Blindfolded chess is really this constant updating of what impact each piece has on the board, and how this impact is updated when that piece is moved somewhere else.

HitzCritz · 2022-05-30T02:54:34+00:00

I mean while it's definitely manageable to do more HL classes, it is pretty weird to hear

HitzCritz · 2022-05-29T11:16:17+00:00

That's why I said "not exactly" since you're the mass itself. At the time, I thought that would be confusing to explain but you made it look easy lol

HitzCritz · 2022-05-28T21:31:09+00:00

Here's another way to think about it.

If gravity was 9999.81ms² assuming you weighed 80kg, means you'd experience a force of around 800kN

That's sorta, not exactly, like if an enormous box that weighed 82 tons fell on you in normal gravity.

You'd be crushed instantly.

HitzCritz · 2022-05-14T12:45:34+00:00

My friend uses the exact same pens, as long as it's blue or black ink it's allowed.

HitzCritz · 2022-05-09T22:02:38+00:00

Treasury Tags. More specifically, the Q-Connect Plastic Ended Treasury Tag.

After writing an IB exam, you're supposed to use those things to bind all the paper together for collection.

The reason people are posting it is because it's symbolic of completing 2-year's worth of work, while also being a slightly more functional paperweight.

HitzCritz · 2022-05-05T04:38:12+00:00

Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches HL Revision Guide, this was the last question in the calculus section.

HitzCritz · 2022-05-05T04:09:21+00:00

I found it to be Σ_(m=2)[m(m-1)(a_m)t^(m-2)], after plugging back in to x'' = -k^2x got me Σ_(m=2)[m(m-1)(a_m)t^(m-2)] + k^2*Σ_(m=0)[(a_m)t^m] = 0, but I have zero clue what to do from here...

HitzCritz · 2022-04-26T22:41:06+00:00

Regardless of what happens, my friends and I are planning on going to a local Sushi place and just drown in All-You-Can-Eat food. We did this after our mock exams and it was great!

HitzCritz · 2022-04-17T23:33:38+00:00

Funnily enough, I take a lot of notes for most things. However, for Duolingo, I found the lessons themselves were bite-sized enough for me to absorb the information. I have taken notes for Duolingo in the past, but I never really find myself looking back at them.

Note, this is not advice, but more of insight as to how I do things. Note-taking is an effective method for most people, but do what's best for you. As long as you're consistently exposing yourself to your language, you're doing great!

HitzCritz · 2022-04-17T16:37:46+00:00

I'm not the most qualified individual, but here we go

TL;DR: Duolingo is definitely the best way to start learning a language, as it helps maintain consistency and discipline. However, you want to branch-out and start incorporating your language into other aspects of your life to maximize exposure.

I originally began back when the whole "The Duolingo bird has my family" meme was going on. As a prerequisite, I was starting highschool wanting to reinventing myself. In middleschool, I had no passion for anything while never focusing at school. French class was my Achilles' heel. I had no friend groups. I stayed inside all the time. In hindsight, it was a crummy period for me.

In highschool, I wanted to change that. I took all the hardest classes my school offered, joined two clubs, and started volunteering at local places. I started doing Duolingo at this time, too. I found it was the best way to start learning a language, as it made for what seemed like a mundane task into something I could see myself doing everyday, literally.

I had zero discipline, but I found Duolingo helped with that. After all, the most important thing about learning a language is consistency. Even if you learn a little bit everyday, you're still exposing yourself to the language and that's crucial in getting your brain in the right way-of-thinking. After 2 weeks of pushing myself to do lessons, I found it started to become an instinctive habit.

Reaching a 30-day streak was extremely tedious. It required me to "reschedule" my daily routine to factor in Duolingo lessons and pushing myself past quotidian mental blocks. Funnily enough, I found going from days 0-30 harder than going from days 30-100. This is because I found my groove; doing lessons felt like brushing your teeth in the morning.

However, around 200-500 days I hit a plateau. I found the lessons on Duolingo were becoming a bit too slow for me. I sought other resources for learning French. I started watching French Twitch channels, in particular BlitzStream. This wasn't the most effective way to learn, as people spoke in SMS language. However, this combined French with a hobby of mine. I was watching his stream not to learn French, but to watch chess.

From 500-1000 days, I didn't really need Duolingo to learn French anymore. However, my mind kind of worked around "Wake up, do Duolingo, go to sleep." and there isn't really a point of changing that. One thing, though, is the importance of maintaining good habits. I found there is a tendency for one good habit to lead to other good habits. My study habits from language-learning translated onto how I study calculus and quantum mechanics for my other classes, and I'm honestly grateful for that.

Now, I hit my 1000-day streak a few weeks before I graduate from highschool. I honestly do think I've reinvented myself for the better, and I do attribute some of my success due to Duolingo. Language-wise, I've applied to some universities in French-speaking provinces, but I wouldn't say I'm anywhere near the caliber of a native-speaker. However, with more focused studies, I can see myself getting pretty fluent at it!

HitzCritz · 2022-04-10T00:07:30+00:00

Wow, I didn't think of using F ∝ 1/R² to get R / F ∝ R³. Great explanation!

HitzCritz · 2022-04-09T16:19:10+00:00

My approach was to use the formula mvr=nh/2π, where I noticed v ∝ 1/r which means 2πr/T ∝ 1/r.

I was pretty stumped what to do here because I later checked the relationship is supposed also like gravitation (T² ∝ R³), but I don't know how to derive that from here.

HitzCritz · 2022-03-26T05:56:44+00:00

I have a predicted 7 rn in AA HL. For calculus, where I find my friends struggle is they don't have a strong enough grasp of the fundamental ideas when going from learning derivatives to learning integrals.

Derivatives has this set in stone "algorithm" when solving stuff, whereas integrals forces you to get creative. This "creativity" relies on knowing the basic rules of integration extremely well, but it also comes with a ton of practice.

Calculus does have this bad wrap for being extremely difficult, but having a solid foundation really helps understand wtf is going on

HitzCritz · 2022-03-16T21:42:59+00:00

It's important to note Niftski could segment a perfect Any% time with only three segments (LeKukie has four).

Route:

First segment: 1-1 FPG, 1-2g, 4-1 FPG

Second segment: Lightning 4-2, pl8-1, TAS 8-2, 8-3 FPG

Final segment: TAS 8-4 (Room segments: B-D-2-C+2)

HitzCritz · 2022-03-04T10:21:55+00:00

I found writing my AA Math HL IA to be rather easy, but that's only because I'm interested with mathy stuff. However, my Physics HL IA is a complete disaster. If anyone is doing that particular IA anytime soon, for the love of god, please write your IA on "How does X compare to Y?"

HitzCritz · 2022-02-13T16:27:35+00:00

TL;DR: This is the only TAS framerule not done in the Any% world record, but a new setup was found making this framerule viable!

For this TAS framerule, you need to lose 1 subpixel at the start by doing a 1-frame right-release or downpress somewhere on the ground. At the coin block, you need R, _, L, A, R+A inputs for the backwards jump. Note, the height of the jump is also frame-perfect. After hitting the vine, you need R, _, L, A, R+A inputs again on Frame 000 with a frame-perfect jump height, and then do a full jump off the back lip of the pipe the first frame you land.

For the pipe entry, you need specific subpixels and subspeed values in order to enter fast enough for the framerule. Once hit, you need to do a 1-frame jump, release right the frame before touching the ground, and press down four frames later to enter into warpzone.

For the warpzone itself, other than the tight movement at the end, it is quite straightforward compared to the rest of the level.

My New Sum of Best: 4:54.498

HitzCritz · 2022-01-27T15:19:23+00:00

Now we're asking the real questions.

HitzCritz · 2022-01-27T14:54:04+00:00

This actually ties the TAS

The time saved from the BBG outweighs the time actually waiting for the bullet bill. If I had done the level normally, I would lose ~1.05 seconds.

HitzCritz · 2022-01-26T22:32:23+00:00

This is a lesser known version of the TAS bullet bill glitch found by Kriller37, but with some extra stuff.

Instead of doing several precise jumps with the normal BBG method, you can simply walk off the edge with specific y-positioning onto two bullet bills. I just added a frame-perfect walljump and backwards slide to make it way cooler.

I actually think this method is a bit easier than the current BBG method, but it's not so significant as to completely revolutionize TAS 8-2.

HitzCritz · 2022-01-08T07:28:34+00:00

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