New Super Mario Bros. World Record Raises HUGE Questions

After months of deliberation Lekukie's run has been APPROVED by the moderators. I will provide a slightly more context in an upcoming video.

He's not eating Pizza while doing it so it must be legit.

Got worried when I thought this was going to be a video about Kosmic cheating 😂

Update: LeKukie's run was verified yesterday. The mods voted, and the results were 8 people for yes, 0 people for no, and 5 people for abstain.

One thing about the run that I think is worth pointing out: it's not actually that suspicious that he knew immediately that he tied the record. He's a top level runner of 8-4 specifically, so he would actually have a very good idea exactly how many frames he lost and how many he could afford to lose. I initially was sure it was fake but after learning about his background, how frequently he streams, etc I don't think it's super likely that he faked it. It's about as hard to have your hands perfectly match the game inputs as it is to actually play the game.

Doesn't matter, he'll never achieve the record on Bowser's Big Bean Burrito

This is legit, he wasn't eating pizza and drinking coke

For anyone interested and not already knowing. Niftski has indeed achieved the first 4:54 ever on April 7th 2021. It was a 4:54:948 to be exact.

Damn I didn't realize how close u can get to enemies without dying

Jeez, my heart almost stopped when Kosmic was the first to appear on screen, I thought this video may be about him. Phew.

It's clearly fake, he's not even eating coke and pizza.

Can you imagine if professionals in the criminal justice system had half as much patience or thorough research of the people in question as these speed runner mods do?

If you're curious, LeKukie's record is finally approved, so he's now sharing the same time as Kosmic.

8:34 "he was banned from the mario kart ds community." Idk why I laughed at this lol

I'm confused as to how "it would be too difficult to show the TV cable connection" when it's literally two feet from the output on the console to the input on the front of the TV. This reaction, combined with the history of cheating in another game, makes for a highly suspicious set of circumstances indeed. I do hope, for LeKukie's sake, that his run turns out to be legitimate, otherwise he faces the very real possibility of being blacklisted from the RTA speedrunning community as a whole. If it turns out that, once again, he is passing off a TAS as an RTA, then maybe he needs to move to the TAS running community instead, where he can show off those skills in creating perfect theoretical runs instead of trying to cheapen RTA viability.

This happens offline, too. When Wang Junxia bested the women’s 10,000 m record by a whopping 42 seconds, people initially believed she had run one round too few. The current world record is another 30 seconds faster.

I'm not even into speedrunning but it's so fascinating hearing Karl talk about it, so much effort put into this video, not to mention the players speedrunning. Cheers everyone!

Cheated or not, the admin asked him to do something and he didn’t, that’d be a DQ from me chief

His unwillingness to show the cords after having a run rejected along with history of cheating leads me to think his run should be left in limbo

Karl, you, Goose, and Summoning Salt have given me a crash course in speed running and the community. While I dont run myself, I find these record coverage and content fascinating. Keep up the good work, and let's all hope for a remaster of 007. I might would join the community then.