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Team 0%: Super Mario Maker 1 is completed. 'The Last Dance' was the final level, beaten by @Yamada_SMM2
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What happened to Trimming the Herbs?
This was posted by the Creator of that level.
"TTH was made to be unreasonably difficult and to cause a ruckus. I put effort into promoting it in 2017 so that it could be played, dissected, and scrutinized. Once that would happen I would announce that TAS existed for SMM. I did not expect that it would go unnoticed or perceived as easy from watching the video, or that it would take nearly seven years to be uncovered. The sunk cost fallacy of wanting to follow through with the failed troll, combined with new IRL responsibilities, allowed the nonsense to continue. I knew about Team 0% so I let things be until they would uncover it. I delayed uploading bombs5 until the uploads shut down because bombs5 is also illegitimate. I deserve no credit for either, and will not deny Team 0% their victory.
From attempting to upload bombs5 I developed tendon issues in my thumb. After some breaks and noticing they weren’t healing properly, it became unrealistic to continue. Once I accepted this, I felt a sense of relief.
Someone had messaged me about a TAS they were working on for the Wii U. In a video they sent, it seemed to me like they had it working, but they told me they were abandoning the project. The TAS was replicated by my friend after two days of building.
Because I had already resigned to leave streaming and pursue other things, and suddenly had a working TAS, I thought that the bomb guy should go out with a bang, so TTH was constructed. The PogChamp contest was made because I wanted there to be a venue for kaizo enthusiasts to gather. The judges were doing a live viewing of the contest levels, and I let them know that I (intentionally) broke the timer rules and that after showcasing TTH, they should disqualify me.
The past week, when the time bomb finally blew up, things escalated quickly, and the community was divided, which was not my intention. I’m sorry for the drama it caused within the community, and I regret the ordeal, but at least it was interesting. However in the end the truth matters most. Congratulations to Team 0% for their well-earned achievement! SMM is cleared, and The Last Dance was the last level!"
I understand like 10% of what they have written. Most of it reads like incoherent babble. Interesting.
To me, not a player, it seems like there's a long winded explanation/justification for why they uploaded a illegitimately approved run. In Super Mario maker, if you make a level you need to beat it to upload it. They beat it with a tool instead of skill, to ensure the sequence of frame perfect tricks could be completed, something nearly impossible to do by real players.
There were many top level players all at once playing that level non stop. So I feel for them. Training their muscle memory to execute robot timings for what came out to be not a legit level.
Most of what was said was irrelevant, they managed a life story in the middle of an apology.