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mcc Jun 27, 2023

Speedrunning is kinda cursed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEQWT9rSkfM

Did you know this? Apparently if you bought a copy of Super Mario Bros. 3 in the US, depending on when you bought it the "bros" in the logo is either aligned left on the label or right.

*If the logo on your cart is aligned right, you can't get a world record under current strategies.*

And until *last year*, nobody realized this was a problem. It was believed the versions were functionally identical.

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Mario 3 Version Difference Is Faster VS Slower!?

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claire, lesbnyans~ 💜⚸Jun 27, 2023

@mcc does the japanese version have the same tech as us prg0?

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mcc Jun 27, 2023

@darkwitchclaire You'd have to ask Mitchflowerpower or someone in his community.

Mario 3 JP came out like a year and a half before Mario 1, so it's reasonable to assume it's *closer* to the original Mario 1 printing (the faster one, if I understood mitch right?) than the later one. But remember this isn't *exactly* tech– it's a manipulation, and what matters is that your cart is *the same* as the one you designed the manipulation for, not that a special capability is possible.

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@darkwitchclaire And the JP version (mitch has at least 2 videos about this) is *very* different from the US version, due to the presence of a fade-in animation that occurs at the start of *every level*. The manips wouldn't even *almost* work the way they do with a "right bros" US cart. The JP version actually even has several tricks that make it potentially faster, but those tricks have to race against the enormous time loss due to the level fadein.