Scott Kessler

@AndrewGspeedrun I remember the DKC1 time. I remember trying to get it fixed, but I think TG was reticent to admit mistakes. It's counter-intuitive, but admitting mistakes and fixing them is a better trust model than pretending you're perfect and sweeping errors under the rug.

@sdkess It seemed as though certain things slipped by Robert... and when they did, Team Metroid would claim feats which were impossible. Notably I remember a dkc1 time, ridge racer times, and I think crazy taxi that simply werent possible with the rulesets they supposedly followed.

I'm glad this is accurate now

@AndrewGspeedrun Yes, I think Rodrigo took advantage of Robert. Unfortunately we're all fallible. I was skeptical of Metroid Team from pretty early on. Rodrigo claimed to beat NES Ninja Gaiden with no damage. I pressed him, and he didn't know anything about animation cancel mashing. Bogus claim.

@sdkess Yea im not sure what to think. I mean its was verified later on so I guess it could have been legit. TG's board at one point showed a submission date which matched with Rodrigo's claim about Carlos' time. But i think Rodrigo submitted to robert to cheat because he was overloaded.

@AndrewGspeedrun I've always wondered if Carlos' time was legit. Rodrigo, the mouthpiece of Brazil's "Metroid Team", created a topic at TG announcing a 5:09 NWR which pre-dated Trevor's 5:09. I also remember Rodrigo being frustrated at a later point because the record had not been verified yet.

It's possible that neither Trevor not I held the WR back then given the other player (Carlos Krueger of Team Metroid's) specific time is unknown. Unfortunate situation, but I think ironically the reason for this is because Rodrigo (another member of Team Metroid) was cheating.

@AndrewGspeedrun Right after the NES was released, one of my friends had to explain the difference to me. I had played Mario Bros on the Atari 2600, and he was like, you have no idea how much better this "Super" game is. Months later, I got to play SMB at a Radio Shack kiosk and was blown away.

Most people don't know there's a difference between Mario Bros and Super Mario Bros.

@Andrewgspeedrun @frezy_man I have most of my own videos that were on Vortiginous on YouTube, but I submitted quite a bit to TG without capturing the videos for public, especially high score stuff. I kept VHS copies/originals for a lot of that. I may go thru the VHS tapes one day and digitize some stuff.

@frezy_man @sdkess I'ver been thinking about the most prominent NES+SNES speedrunners and I realized that there just isn't a good compilaton of all the stuff you guys have done. For @sdkess I really wonder what remains from vortiginous whether from you or otherwise too.

It is SO funny to me that when I did this run I had the world record in Any%. This speedrun had 2 deaths and I submitted it to SDA and they accepted it. This was the world record in December, 2005! Things have certainly changed.

@Andrewgspeedrun @frezy_man Yes, I noticed a while back that some of my speed runs are not on SRC. I have never submitted a run there myself although I am glad that somebody did. My Dr. Chaos run is on there too although it's not attached to my sdkess user name.

@jay_the_wook Looks like fun, but it's too far away for me. I'm also very out of practice.

@sdkess - think about it…join us!

@summoningsalt The World 8 hands are the main reason that I never ran this game.

x.com/Kuto1k/status/… Not even 2 days later... the WR is broken again! Well deserved, Kuto has had so many runs to the hands without getting the luck. Very interested to see how much lower this goes...

One of the biggest Mario records of all time. Mitch has been speedrunning this game at the top level for 15 years, and finally achieved the 49. Several amazing players were going for this time, but Mitch came back and got there first.

@Jabes_SSB @Kosmicd12 6 months later, I kill screened the Funspot machine at the tournament. Billy called Walter who handed his phone to me. We had a nice convo, but Billy made sure to mention that he had reached the KS on his first life. I'm not saying he didn't, but that was classic Billy.

@Jabes_SSB @Kosmicd12 Billy Mitchell story time. At about 9:30 in Kosmic's video, you can see my name listed as a kill screener. I actually reached the kill screen on my first life in that game. TG's head ref said it was a first that had never been achieved before.

After 44 Years, it's finally possible to get past the Kill Screen in Donkey Kong. Video in reply explains how! 🙂

@Kosmicd12 Sidebar: NES DK has some scoring glitches on the barrel board. I was able to get 2800 points by remaining stationary over a ladder and jumping a barrel as it went down the ladder. You also get 300 points (instead of 100) for jumping over a barrel moving in your direction.

@sdkess Wait haha, this is embarrassing. It was tom votava i was thinking of with the nes dk kill screen.

@Kosmicd12 Yes, Tom Votava was the first person that I know of to reach the NES DK KS. I also remember Corey Chambers talking about it. TG has John Heins at the top of the leaderboard.

@jay_the_wook @Andrewgspeedrun @creativeloafing Cool! I played a lot of GameCube in those days as well, and actually still do once in a while.

@sdkess @Andrewgspeedrun @creativeloafing Yes! That is it! I lived in Charlotte from 1986 to 2012! That makes so much sense! Like you filled a memory gap. I was definitely playing Game Cube in those days.

Still a little baffled by this, ad maybe it's lost media. There were some speedruns on TV which I think ultimately made me decide to finally record my video gaming. But I remember seeing specifically a SMB1 speedrun and I can't locate anything about it.

@Andrewgspeedrun I can't keep everything straight either, especially as I continue to age. I do hope some footage is found because I didn't have access to G4 back then and only heard from others about seeing something on TV.

@sdkess Awesome to see these! Thanks for sharing. I have often mixed up details when trying to remember the order of events from so long ago. Maybe I did see your 5:17 on G4TV, but yea you're right that it could have been a TAS. I'm hoping we find it in the archive for curiosity's sake.

@Andrewgspeedrun Here are 2 old runs that I kept and have unlisted on my channel with some comments from me. youtube.com/watch?v=yK3CBi… youtube.com/watch?v=qVee1X…

@sdkess Very cool. Do you happen to know the date you dud your first Mario 1 speedrun and what the time was? 5:17 as for the first serious run maybe?

@Andrewgspeedrun It's possible that you saw a TAS for SMB1. Lots of videos were floating around in late 2003 and early 2004 that people didn't know were TAS. I had a slow 5:50-ish video up in December 2003. Someone told me that I "sucked" so it was then that I said, ok, WR or bust.

@sdkess It's possible it was yours in 2004 and I'm misremembering the other of events. It probably was considering I had no clue your run was featured! Some of my recollection is likely flawed. I saw the Mario 3 TAS I think prior and did runs before trying smb1

@Andrewgspeedrun @jay_the_wook @creativeloafing I should probably do a memory dump sometime of everything that I can recall about those early days. I actually did a speed run of Super Mario Bros back in 2002-ish, but I didn't record. I was competing in Super Monkey Ball, and a friend suggested beating the other SMB in under 6m

@sdkess @jay_the_wook @creativeloafing I'd be curious to hear how you got into speedrunning and specifically Super Mario Bros too. You basically had the first speedrun website also which was awesome. I dont know much about you or Tom Votava's history with gaming despite being among the pioneers of speedrunning.

@jay_the_wook @Andrewgspeedrun @creativeloafing The article may have been about me. The Charlotte Observer sent a reporter to my house in 2004 to watch me play. His article made the front page. I saved a copy from their digital archives. I also still have print copies that I should digitize. docs.google.com/document/d/1FZ…

@Andrewgspeedrun There was an article in a free weekly news paper called @creativeloafing in Charlotte, NC highlighting an engineer going after the SMB1 WR. Printed sometime between 2007 and 2012. This was my first introduction- I wish I could find the article…