Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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I'm nearly there.

I'm not even sad after this fail. After this fail, I was quite happy and laughing.




So here are the explanations on where I'm saving time from record and what happened in the fail.

First, where am I saving time from record? I'm not saving any framerules from record, I'm saving time only in 8-4 — more specifically, in wall jump room. The wall jump done in this video is 10 frames faster than what record does. The Down-Right I do at 4:27 sets up the wall jump to be a two-frame window if done correctly, and the jump on the pipe (not the wall jump) is frame-perfect. One frame too early and one frame too late both lose coin toss on the plant.

Second, what happened in the fail? There's two ways I have to execute water room, and which one depends on my turnaround speed. If my turnaround is very fast (69 or 70 [equivalent to 70 or 71 on NES]), then the firebar at the very end is high up, and I have to go up top and drop down. If my turnaround is slower (71-77 [equivalent to 72-78 on NES]), then the firebar at the very end is lower down, and I have to drop down and swim up to the pipe. In this run, I got frame 74 (equivalent to frame 75 on NES), so I needed to drop down and swim up. However, I stopped my timer early and undid the split, which threw me off, so I executed the wrong swimming pattern.

Had I finished this, this would've been a 4:5​5.680 or 4:5​5.696 with perfect water, but I realistically would've lost one or two frames (more realistically two), so it would've realistically been a 4:5​5.713 or 4:5​5.730