Popular speedrunner Cheese has beat his world recordSuper Mario 64speedrun with a legendary time of 1h 38m 51s. Asspeedrunning grows in popularity, more and more players continue competing to shave seconds off of their times. A quick look at theSuper Mario 64Speedrun page on speedrun.net shows that 274 runners have recorded a time for the game, and the times very wildly from 1 hour all of the way up to 16.
The name at the top of the list belongs to Cheese, also known as Allan Alvarez, andhis name has held the top spot for a long time. Now, he has once again solidified himself as the 120-star master. Last night, he destroyed his own record, shaving off a legendary 24 seconds
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The stream, which runs for four hours, is archived on Twitch. The record run happens at the end, and it comes in at 1 hour, 38 minutes, and 51 seconds. In the final moments, fans flood Cheese’s chat window with an outpouring of support. Once Cheese finally takes down Bowser, he sits speechless while the credits roll.
In speedrunning, each game gets split up into different categories depending on the percent completion of the game. Generally, an any% run means that speedrunners can use any means necessary to roll the credits as quickly as possible. This usually involves exploiting major glitches that let you skip large parts of the game. The current any% run record for Super Mario 64 is 6 minutes and 39 seconds.
On the complete opposite end of the spectrum is the 100% run. These runs require that the runner complete all of the game’s objectives to qualify. This can obviously creates a huge gap in times because it becomes much more difficult to exploit glitches when you have to collect everything, especially in an open-ended game likeSuper Mario 64.
Cheese’s record is in the 100% 120-star category which means that in order for the run to count, he can’t just finish the game, he must collect every single star. Cheese must go into every single level multiple times in order to complete all of the possible objectives.
This kind of run requires an insane level of skill and muscle memory. Speedrunners like Cheese spend hours practicing these moves in order to solidify their times. This run required Cheese to have a machine-like control over Mario; a single misstep can mean a loss of a few precious seconds.
Now that Cheese has beat his own record again, maybe it’s time hemoves on to the more modern Super Mario Odyssey. Most likely though, he will jump back into Mario 64 to see how many more second he can drop.
