Asshole Mario and Quantum Physics

By: Derek Yu

On: February 6th, 2008

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)

Posted in Mods / Hacks, Physics, Unique / Bizarre, Videos

haowan

This needs to be turned into a full game.
AmnEn

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.
Trotim

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.
deadeye

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

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

@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.
PHeMoX

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

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

where to get that game/lvl/mod ?
basara

SchrÃ¶dinger’s Mario is not dead!
namuol

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
димон

? ??? ?????????? ???? ????? ?????
Stij

Mind=blown.
http://www.azure.co.nr AzureKevin

This is redonkulous.
haowan

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

@”?????”: What do you mean with ‘And where is(?) the video?’ ?
http://ithamore.blogspot.com/ ithamore

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.
Demicol

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.
http://gamehaus.wordpress.com Limousinedriver

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

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

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

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.
Flipper Boy

Interesting albeit frustrating.
turn_self_off

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…
turn_self_off

ah yes, found it.

http://timeshiftgame.com/us/

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

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

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)
http://0xdeadc0de.org Eclipse

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.
Derek

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

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

yes i saw the entire world 1 of Kaizo Mario