VIDEO: Watch someone literally play all 4 Super Mario Bros games for the NES at the same time
Matt Hawkins Please he beats them, too!
So how is it done? Via emulators running the games separately, yet all have the same controller input. Okay, that somewhat makes sense, but if one button press does the same thing in all games, then why aren’t all the action identical across the board?
That’s what I was wondering, and funny enough, the best answer can be found via the comments section in this Kotaku post…
“The run was accomplished by running four emulators at once, with all of them recording an input movie (which essentially a hex file containing data on what the input is of each frame). He then used a macro to have all four emulators accept the same input at the same time. In terms of normal TAS tools, he used frame advance (essentially assigning a hotkey to inch the game forward one frame at a time) and savestates.”
BTW, for what TAS means…
“TAS, means tool assissted. Basically that gives him the ability to save and restore, and a restore also brings the video back as well. Making the playback look like a single play-through. One of the original records for Mario 3 had something like 10,000 restore’s.
This video only differs in that he is controlling 4 games with one controller (or keyboard, or whatever).”
That makes TOTAL sense, right? Right? BTW, for whatever reason, the clip above reminds me of my favored hacked version of Super Mario Bros 3, simply titled Super Mario Bros X…
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