So, several speedrunners got together, programmed TASbot to bash the hell out of the NES’ buttons in just the right way, and sure enough, the little plastic guy got to the end of Super Mario Bros. ![]() Like jump directly to the end of the game. Basically, Redditor/speedrunner Ais523 discovered that mashing buttons very quickly at the beginning of many NES games (like, around 6,000 times per minute) will mess with the code, and let you do strange things. Yup, Nintendo’s games are being bested by its own creation – how deliciously ironic. that has been modified to play old video games. The record as achieved by the TASbot, a version of Nintendo’s classic R.O.B. 3 is three minutes, eight seconds, but somebody has trained a robot to beat the game in a mere two seconds. For example, the current human speedrun record for Super Mario Bros. But what if you taught a robot to play video games? That would result in some truly mind blowing speedruns. ![]() ![]() The things video game speedrunners do can be pretty amazing, but in the end they’re still confined by the limitations of their fleshy, human fingers.
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