Super Monkey Ball's Biggest Milestone has been Achieved

Here I've written a brief description of the video, outlined some minor mistakes and provided some links to clips used and other useful information:

Super Monkey Ball - Speedrun World Record History and Progression (G111):

The Glitch that Revolutionised Super Monkey Ball Speedrunning (G116):

Super Monkey Ball "Master" Speedrun in 14:56.75:

𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:

Just of a year after releasing my world record progression video, I'm back to report on the insane new records set by callumbal since then. A combination of fixing upon the minor mistakes in his previous world record, as well as a number of new strategies which make use of the controversial technique "pause buffering", led callum to not only improve his almost 2 year old world record, but also break the biggest barrier in Super Monkey Ball speedrunning.

𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬:

As far as I know, there are no mistakes in the video. If you notice any, please inform me and I will update the description accordingly.

𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞:

𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝:

Gameplay used to fill blank space:

Barhunga:

callumbal:

callumbal Extra:

Claris Robyn:

formerly, CosmoSpeedruns:

Gonquai:

scrap651:

𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜:

𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐬:

00:00 - Introduction
02:18 - Brief History
03:36 - Pause Buffering
05:56 - Previous Mistakes
07:02 - New Strategies
09:53 - Improvements and New Record
10:53 - The Sub 15
12:07 - New Potential Optimisations
13:37 - Credits

𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬:

The Voice of callumbal:

Google Sheets Leaderboards:

Current Super Monkey Ball Leaderboards:

Super Monkey Ball Highscores:

World Record Progression Spreadsheet:

List of Pause Frames Spreadsheet:

[Arcryoshi]

I'm always glad to see that there are still people breaking records and being active in games like this. SMB is such a great series and I enjoy learning SMB2 so much right now.


Edit: Imagine callum would've missed Master 10 while being at 14.5x, lol

[OfficialGlitchDoctor]

Wow, it's amazing to see just what was found to help improve the game further. Sub 15 is an insane time, congrats callum! 👍

[ratzinstagib]

really neat video! this speedrun is one of my favorites im really really proud of callum he did a great job here. great analysis of the run in this video as well. <3

my eyes nearly popped out of my head when i heard feno's voice narrating the callum quote i thought i fell asleep and was in a fever dream lol

[MrSmartyPants]

your videos about super monkey ball speedruns are so interesting! love watching these videos and you deserve way more views and subs for the content you make. cheers

[Frongo]

a fun little tidbit is that frame 59.65 on master 2 was first written as up-left instead of up-right before a revision was made

[rocketleaves]

Does any one has a extra copy of smb 1 and 2 for the gc

[johnhereth]

First 400 views and I feel like this is gonna go viral