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Mars02
@mars02.bsky.social
Cautiously moving with magnificent precision through classic Mario games since 2017.

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mars02__
Discord: http://discord.gg/wH9CeNS
New world record for MCMG NES Trilogy 100%! I didn't think I would ever get this record, but since I got much more consistent at SMB3 this year, it gave me more confidence to go for it.

With this run I am now the first person to have held all 6 Trilogy world records for MCMG.
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
As of today, I am officially the first person to beat the original 5 Mario games on their original versions in under 4 hours. This is one of the most monumental barriers for MCMG speedrunning and I'm glad I did it on my first ever run! With loads time is 4:00:59.703.
November 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I PB'd in SMB2J All Stages! 36:47 w/o loads. This is the 2nd game I've PB'd in this week for Pentathlon prep. Feeling really good about the 3:59 grind!

Unless I'm busy tomorrow afternoon, I will officially begin the grind to beat the first 5 Mario games 100% in under 4 hours!
November 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Today was meant to be the last day of SMW prep for Pentathlon, and I ended up getting a PB out of the run! I "clean clipped" in FOI2 which lost ~40s.

With this run, I can still get a low 3:58! I'll spend this week derusting 2J+2U, and then Pentathlon will begin next weekend!
November 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I finally got my first 1:27 no-reset run for 96 Exit! This run had 5 try FOI2 clip, and lost ~20 seconds in FOI1 from bad Yoshi grab. Lost 67 seconds total in w5, and another 25 in w7 to silly things. This time could get me a mid-3:58 in Pentathlon, a real confidence-booster!
October 31, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Here's my first completed run since this past summer. I was still carrying a high 1:27 pace into part 2 of Vanilla Dome (~70min into the run), but took an unfortunate death in VD3 followed by one in SW1. Looking to get a mid 1:28 for 3:59 Pentathlon so honestly not a bad start!
October 25, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Gamed in the weekly today.
October 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Redeemed myself after Friday's disappointing run with a 1:11:10 in the SMB3 weekly 🙂 would've loved to have gotten an 0x but didn't keep pspeed in 8-1 and had a 2nd-try 1UP clip in BC. Didn't feel like running it back today but still happy to get some good practice in!
September 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Finally got a complete run for SMB1 Engine 1 Warp with no hits in any of the games! Final time is 48:33 w/o loads. The run is still very improvable, my sum of best is ~48:12 w/o loads. I'm happy with this run though 🙂

11:36 Vs. SMB + 14:30 SMB2J + 11:29 ANN + 10:57 SMB1
September 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
A couple good reps for the 100% tournament 💪 B2B too.
August 31, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Finished my first derust run for the tournament. Got hit in W2 airship, 3-2, 4-2, W4 airship, had to chase W5 box bro around and a death in 6-6. Pretty solid time all things considered. My goal for the tournament is to get at least one 1:11!
August 30, 2025 at 9:33 PM
After some reflection, I concluded that I wasn't happy with the Mario 3 in this run. So I played a better world 1 + got 0 hands this time instead of 2! 😂 W/O loads time is 48:44! Very happy that I returned to this category tonight. 1+2J in this run was 0.1 off the WR. 😐
August 29, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Thank you everyone for helping me reach 3 big milestones on social media. 🙂 This summer has been amazing.
August 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Tonight, the second annual MCMG tournament comes to a close! GGs to @vinzchillin.bsky.social for an incredible finals match. Make sure to give everyone who participated a follow! Thank you so much to @speedgaming.org for helping us put on another one this year ❤️ until next time!
August 18, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Tonight at 6pm EDT, we will have the GRAND FINALS for the MCMG Famicom Trilogy tournament! Myself and vinzchillin will race in a best of 5 matchup, which will be hosted on SpeedGaming. Come by and watch!

Photo credit: vinzchillin
August 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
To me, this would be the ultimate Decathlon speedrun. Sub-7:30 would be the final barrier I'd like to break. And all the times are pretty reasonable (sum of times minus YI are 3 minutes slower than the new Warpless record, so I could almost achieve a 7:27/7:26 with a 1:49 YI).
August 12, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Here is yesterday's Decathlon Warpless speedrun (RTA & LRT respectively). We've broken into (what is very likely) the final hour barrier realistically possible. In theory, humans can get under 7 hours, however the sum of WRs for all 10 categories is still around 7:00:30 LRT.
August 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Tomorrow we will make history.
August 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Nice improvement in All Five 100%. Only one death in the entire run which was in B-3 of Lost Levels. T'was a silly death too so 4:03 was almost a reality. Don't care enough to grind 4 hours again for a small improvement

Also forgot to file check SMW sorry mods. 🙃
July 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
5 years to the day after the very first MCMG Decathlon Any% speedrun was performed (clocking in at 4:54:18 with loads removed), we made the biggest world record cut in the category's history. The new world record is 4:09:03 with loads, and 4:06:41 without loads.
July 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Until just now, I only shared it in a small discord server that myself and a handful of my buddies hung out in around 2020-2022. Said server is rarely used nowadays, but according to this screenshot, the game crash happened on the 18th of September, 2020.
July 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Sometimes I think back to one night about 5 years ago where I was practicing SMB3 off my Everdrive N8 while using a pin connector to play on my AV Famicom, and then the game crashes. I don't think I've shared this before. Mario staring at you gives it the perfect spooky touch!
July 26, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Last night I got 4:05:29 in SMAS All Five Games 100%. Most of the run was honestly not that great for me. Taking out SMW to make it an all four run, it would have been around 2:37:26. The good thing from this is that my All-Stars resume is now all podium ranking speedruns! :)
July 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Crushed it!!! Jumped over 1:28 AND 1:27! My mid-game was super powerful for my standards. Lost a little bit of time towards the end, however there were virtually 0 big mistakes in this run. It is now time to do some multi-game speedruns! 😀👍
July 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Tonight at 9pm EDT, vinzchillin and abellabrothers will face off in a best of 3 matchup in the MCMG Famicom Trilogy tournament! The race will be streamed on www.twitch.tv/speedgaming . Commentary will be provided by yours truly. Be there or be square!

Photo credit: vinzchillin
June 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM