TIGSource: Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics

Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics

Derek Yu — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 02:51:00 +0000

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)

"Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics" by Eclipse

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:20:24 +0000

yes i saw the entire world 1 of Kaizo Mario

"Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics" by BeamSplashX

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:06:00 +0000

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

"Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics" by Derek

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:59:29 +0000

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

"Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics" by Eclipse

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:58:36 +0000

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.

"Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics" by Nic

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:42:28 +0000

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)

"Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics" by Al King

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:02:54 +0000

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

"Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics" by turn_self_off

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:59:57 +0000

ah yes, found it.

http://timeshiftgame.com/us/

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

"Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics" by turn_self_off

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:57:56 +0000

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…

"Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics" by Flipper Boy

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:01:48 +0000

Interesting albeit frustrating.

"Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics" by Stij

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:53:27 +0000

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.

"Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics" by K. Thor Jensen

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:41:26 +0000

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

"Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics" by Jad

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:31:07 +0000

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

"Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics" by Limousinedriver

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:21:14 +0000

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

"Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics" by Demicol

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:12:40 +0000

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.

"Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics" by ithamore

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:09:39 +0000

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.

"Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics" by PHeMoX

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:01:35 +0000

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

"Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics" by haowan

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:00:22 +0000

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

"Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics" by AzureKevin

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:30:26 +0000

This is redonkulous.

"Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics" by Stij

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:12:15 +0000

Mind=blown.

"Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics" by димон

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:07:56 +0000

И где сопственно само видео ?????

"Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics" by namuol

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:03:51 +0000

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

"Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics" by basara

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:58:25 +0000

Schrödinger’s Mario is not dead!

"Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics" by Cougarten

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:19:42 +0000

where to get that game/lvl/mod ?

"Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics" by Krystman

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:08:56 +0000

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

"Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics" by PHeMoX

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:05:22 +0000

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