Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics

Posted by Derek Yu Wed, 06 Feb 2008 02:51:00 GMT


This is so unbelievably geeky and amazing. A Japanese guy creates an insanely difficult Super Mario World hack called “Kaizu Mario” and records his friend playing it. Eventually the video ends up on YouTube, under the mistranslated title “Asshole Mario,” and becomes a cult hit. Inspired by the hack, an intrepid fan in turn hacks the Super Nintendo emulator SNES9x so that he can superimpose all of his 134 attempts to beat the first stage onto a single recording (seen above), and then uses the recording to explain theories behind quantum physics.

I love it.

The hacked emulator and quantum physics are here, and the Kaizu Mario patch is here (IPS patcher required).

(Source: haze, via selectbutton)

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  1. haowan said about 2 hours later:

    This needs to be turned into a full game.

  2. AmnEn said about 2 hours later:

    Took a while for Kaizo to appear here. There was a thread about it somewhere, where people recorded their attempts to play it while commenting on it at the same time.

  3. Trotim said about 2 hours later:

    I don’t think this is about Kaizo, because that’s old. It’s about the superimposed movie! And that one is just incredibly awesome.

  4. deadeye said about 2 hours later:

    Amazing. This proves the many worlds theory is true, because in 10^18 alternate universes my head just exploded.

  5. Stwelin said about 3 hours later:

    Glad I watched this this morning, I’ll probably try and get my physics prof to watch it.

  6. Sebioff said about 3 hours later:

    @haowan There’s something similiar available at: http://splax.net/game/jump.html

    It’s a Jump & Run game where you play against/with replays of previous players.

  7. PHeMoX said about 5 hours later:

    Wow!! That’s just insane! So you actually control all Marios until only one of them stays alive? Great game mechanic, love it.

  8. Krystman said about 5 hours later:

    Reminds of the 1k Project from TrackMania http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG5XJY18y-o

  9. Cougarten said about 5 hours later:

    where to get that game/lvl/mod ?

  10. basara said about 6 hours later:

    Schrödinger’s Mario is not dead!

  11. namuol said about 6 hours later:

    His article states that this is merely a playback of all his saved-states, i doubt he could possibly have a full run-through as the game is hard enough without having a hundred decoy marios to further confuse the matter ;p

  12. димон said about 6 hours later:

    И где сопственно само видео ?????

  13. Stij said about 6 hours later:

    Mind=blown.

  14. AzureKevin said about 7 hours later:

    This is redonkulous.

  15. haowan said about 8 hours later:

    I’ve been thinking about it and I’m having a hard time conceptualising this into a game. Hmm

  16. PHeMoX said about 8 hours later:

    @”димон”: What do you mean with ‘And where is(?) the video?’ ?

  17. ithamore said about 8 hours later:

    That video showing the 134 plays simultaneously was absolutely funny and wonderful. I want to play a game with that sort of mechanic as part of the gameplay and character representation. That’s one variation of the kind of innovation I’d like to see in games.

  18. Demicol said about 8 hours later:

    To stupid commenters, hope this clears thing a bit:

    This IS a full game (patch is in the article), the name is Kaizo (not Kaizu), and you do not controll all the Marios, the video is just all of his attemps at the stage played at the same time.

  19. Limousinedriver said about 9 hours later:

    I felt like I was watching Next, except I was having fun!

  20. Jad said about 9 hours later:

    This shit was great, I’m happy that you did a feature on it, Tigersaucers :]

  21. K. Thor Jensen said about 9 hours later:

    It’s amazing how so few comment-leaving visitors can actually read.

  22. Stij said about 9 hours later:

    I actually had an idea for a game like this, where your character could see into a number of possible futures…sort of like clairvoyance.

    You also would have the (limited, of course) ability to influence the future. For example, if an enemy had a gun pointed at your head, and there were two outcomes (the bullet hits you or the bullet misses), you could “force” the second one to happen. You could only use this power every so often, though - screwing with casualty takes a lot out of you.

    This game would probably be a programming nightmare, though. I don’t know much about that kind of stuff.

  23. Flipper Boy said about 10 hours later:

    Interesting albeit frustrating.

  24. turn_self_off said about 12 hours later:

    isnt there a game in development or available where you can at any time go back in time and use your “future” self to help get past obstacles and similar?

    as in, walk over and press a button that opens a door that close seconds later, go back in time so that you can walk over to said door before your “future” self press the button. then as button is pressed and door opens, you walk in.

    its one of those things that when you think about it to much your head may well explode…

  25. turn_self_off said about 12 hours later:

    ah yes, found it.

    http://timeshiftgame.com/us/

    it even have single player and multiplayer demos available. i guess ill give it a spin ;)

  26. Al King said about 12 hours later:

    turnselfff, yep, one of the levels in Braid works that way.

  27. Nic said about 13 hours later:

    On the same topic, there was http://thenewgamer.com/content/archives/averaging_gradius from a while back.

    (although this was many different people instead of a single person slowly going insane)

  28. Eclipse said about 13 hours later:

    I traveled all that parallel universe that has internet, tigsource.com site on it and this news. I read all the comments, and actually 90% of peoples didn’t understand that the video showed a superimposed playback of a lot of matches.

    oh, I’ve found also a parallel universe in witch actually Cactus worked on the same game for 8 months.

    …but then I discovered that 8 months were 2 days of our time.

  29. Derek said about 16 hours later:

    My bad, I didn’t realize I had fucked up the links. The Kaizo Mario patch link is now fixed.

  30. BeamSplashX said about 16 hours later:

    Evil. Pure evil. There aren’t more levels, are there?

  31. Eclipse said 6 days later:

    yes i saw the entire world 1 of Kaizo Mario

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