Please don't shill BetterHelp. They're awful and their reputation is actually worse recently.

Please dont promote BetterHelp in any way. I understand you need to make money, and sponsors are a great way to do that, but surely you can take sponsors from more ethical companies

I scrolled down to the comments and my hair got blown back like i stuck my head out the car window.

100% of the comments are betterhelp... Makes sense It's a giant scam

I hope you took that sponsorship without knowing how bad better help is

Don't know who here will see this, but want to say I ALLEGIDLY had a conversation with Kosmic and he ALLEGIDLY told me his thoughts on the BetterHelp sponsorship. He took the sponsorship a couple months back and the research he did on the company said they only hire licensed therapists now and paid people millions of dollars in refunds to people who were unsatisfied with their services in the past, so he thought they changed for the better. He also had someone in his personal life say they used BetterHelp and that it helped them a lot. With this information, he felt comfortable accepting the sponsor. He also was happy to not just promote mental health, but to also get paid promoting something he cares a lot about. He also tried his best to promote it in the video as just an option; not a substitute for in-person therapy. After the video's release, he saw the negative attention the sponsor got. He tried to explain where he was coming from in the comments, but admits he didn't do a good job, regrets the way he talked about things in the comments, and those comments have since been deleted. He wishes he could talk openly about all this, but unfortunately he and his family can't afford to lose out on the sponsor money, so he has to stay quiet to avoid any complications. Sometime in the future, you may see a proper response to this situation from him. This debacle very much took a toll on him, because he does truly care about his audience, and is upset that they are hurt by his sponsorship in this video. I can confirm you will never see another BetterHelp sponsor on this channel. If you have any questions, feel free to reply to this comment. Have a good one.

I love how NONE of the comments are about the video

The secret ending was taking the sponsor and making all comments just about the sponsor and nothing else about the video itself

In all my years of being aware of the FDS, I’d never seen it physically plugged in before

Atleast this sponsorship had the unintended effect of letting the less informed of us know to avoid better help at all cost

sorry we dont support betterhelp here!

super mario really has a secret ending... the better help ending D:

Really good video, but like a lot of people, I'm very disappointed in the BetterHelp sponsorship, especially as someone who cares a lot about mental health. However, knowing Kosmic personally, I'd like to believe it wasn't promoted maliciously, and more came from a place of either being misinformed or not knowing their history. The criticism is obviously valid, but the ridicule seems a bit intense. I hope the takeaway from this is to just not promote this company again in the future.

not betterhelp man :(

The fact a nearly 40+ year game still is not beaten in the fastest way possible is amazing

when you are reminded that the guy who made Doki Doki literature club, Dan Salvato, is also knee deep in the speedrun scene.

The FTC has a pretty well encompassing article on how Better Help broke their privacy promises and expectations. It also includes a link to the original complaint form (it's a whole bunch of legal jargon so I'd just read the article)

i almost thought this was an april fools video because of the sponsorship

Mario: "You think you're-a safe? I clipped into-a your walls."

It's becoming very alarming that people are just taking BetterHelp sponsorships out of nowhere like that public spat with Philip DeFranco never happened.

i demand a genetic analysis of niftski, he seems like from another world

I recreated all of SMB2's "minus world" in Mario Maker 2, down to the soft lock in W -3. XD Quite pleased with how it turned out. Threw in some extra rooms and a couple of twists, too. Sorry to hear about the sponsorship screw up. Tired of all the black-and-white thinking in the comments, seems like an honest mistake to me. Hopefully everyone can move on after this..

Please don't support better help

Better help sponsor rly?

15:15 honestly, I think people who explain the glitch levels this way are missing the point. I believe most people think that when a level is stored in a game, there's something like a big picture, like the level maps you see in strategy guides. People think the game takes this map picture and loads it into memory. For these old NES that's simply not the case - there's not enough memory to actually store level data like that! So what did they do? *They made a level generation program* Level data is simply instructions to the level generator to tell it what it needs to create next (ie create a bunch of blocks with goombas when this point is reached by the player.) Glitched levels are simply bad instructions to the level generator program.

7 frames from PERFECTION is crazy

I know he won't snatch prominent records again, but man I still miss Darbian.

Well, the good news is that nobody's talking about Niftski's hardware.

Always use sponsorblock extension and UKposts revanced.

BETTER WHO?

was sent this video specifically for the Famicom Disk System explanation and yeah it's a solid simple explanation that it's an add-on for a console and not a console of its own (albeit I'd put an asterisk on the FDS working on NES cause pin adapters and expansion audio) and the tone of your voice explaining the differences is pretty telling just how many times you've had to give this talk in the past

So what I'm gathering is that a Famicom and a Famicom Disk System ar ethe same thing

Don’t you just hate it when your lives go to 👑9 or 👑A or 👑📐 because you tortured a koopa on a staircase on world 3-1

Amazing explanation of the original minus world clip

wasn't better help ousted a few years ago for bieng extremely corrupt and not having real therapists

I know that betterhelp isn’t a good sponsor and that defending & supporting it is dangerous, which is why i think kosmic should be criticized for promoting it. But a lot of the ppl in this comment section are acting like kosmic is a terrible person in general for this. Yes, he is in the wrong. But you need to understand that content creators cant be perfect role models all the time; they can be wrong, just like everyone else. I’ve watched kosmic for a few years and he just seems like a good person overall, never getting into any controversies or anything. I don’t think he is doing this out of pure malice against his fans, nor is he just blindsided by money. He is simply in the wrong about betterhelp. Again, i think he should be criticized for defending it, but he shouldn’t just be bashed on like this. And, if you don’t wanna support betterhelp, that’s fine, just don’t support this video. But he doesn’t deserve to be completely unsupported overall.

When I was quite young, in 1987 or so, there was a rumor about a secret level in Super Mario Bros., accesible from the first water level, just above the pipe at the end. In there, supposedly, you could throw knives and fight using chairs. Some of my friends claimed to have seen it. Ridiculous, but I remember it to this day.

Comments: 99% BetterHelp situation 1% Something related to the video

21:17 Princess Peach just hanging out like it’s whatever lol.

the frustration with the famicom disk system confusion hits hard

Even if BetterHelp has supposedly changed, (which I am very skeptical of considering the only thing I can tell that BetterHelp has proven is that they're more than willing to engage in immoral practices and lie if it means they can make an extra profit) i'd still argue against letting them sponsor your video. All that's showing other companies with ill intentions is that you can keep your company afloat and get UKposts sponsors if you apologize and seem sincere enough, which could lead to unfortunate consequences in which companies called out for similar situations get some PR to write an essay about how sorry they are, and then just go back to harvesting data like nothing ever happened, maybe a little more secretive this time.

Better help is a scam.

Better Help has been caught selling your medical data, and doesn't verify credentials. Please don't platform predatory 'services.'

The content of the video is really engaging, I always enjoy learning more random knowledge about the games I grew up with.

You already lost me (as I'm sure it's the case for many here) with betterhelp already, BUT I'm genuinely curious why you took the sponsorship deal,,, did you try it personally? Have you NOT seen its bad history? Has anything changed? Let us know if you can, thanks.

I made up a story for this ending because idk: So basically one day mario finds a pipe underground. He goes in it thinking maybe it will bring him to a different world perhaps. But this pipe is different. Mario finds himself in another dimension. This dimension is called the Nothing dimension, where there is water in the sky and there are different living things everywhere. He even sees the princess 2 times. After he grabs the flagpole and goes into the castle, he goes back to his dimension. But instead he is at 7-3, so he just finishes the level. When he goes into the castle at the end of the level, he is back in the Nothing dimension. Now he is at -3, and now he is in the underground. He see water, but in this dimension water is burning hot. When he gets to the end, he finds an axe. After that, a voice says “Thank you Mario (for visiting our dimension)! But our princess is in another castle.” After that, everything around mario fades, and now he is in his own dimension. But then he realizes he has a new power. Now he can switch what world to be in!

fun fact super mario bros. can be completed under 65 million hours

17:05 The original version also includes this gap in hard mode. The arcade version is basically just smb with harder levels, anyways.

Anyone who commented about better help is just kinda annoying. I wanted to see what people thought of the video, not the sponsorship.

Cheers for this video, mate! I didn't know about the "blank character" tile or the FDS. It was cool learning something new about Super Mario Bros that I didn't already know.

thanks for explaining these minus worlds. it's crazy how people still can make new content about SMB

Are people really not watching the video because of the BetterHelp sponsor? That doesn't make any sense to me.

more like wetter help, bc you’re stuck in an endless water level

Minor correction: The 36th character in the tileset would actually represent 35, as the first character is 0 and there is no "0th world".

Brain: "It's time to go to bed" Me: "One moment, I just want to see this secret ending" ... *a FeW MoMeNtS LaTeR* ... "before we touch on some important details of the speed run, let's touch on some important details of life. I believe in always trying to progress as a person..."

I'd love a breakdown on why the keyboard is considered legal. Not because I think it shouldn't be; I'm just curious.

As soon as you showed the NES my computer bluescreened...love when it does that.

Betterhelp is not a good company. Please don’t accept their sponsor ship

OK, WE GET IT, BETTERHELP = BAD! YOU DON’T NEED TO KEEP EXPLAINING IT! JUST TALK ABOUT THE VIDEO!

Since so little of the comments are talking about the video, I will just say that the Minus World is one of the weirdest anomalies in all of Mario, just a collection of near-endless random stages.

For confused fans wondering why this video is getting hate: It's the sponsor, BetterHelp. Do not use their service. They have been known to record what you say to therapists and sell it to advertisers, along with a whole lot of shady garbage. I frankly have no idea why Kosmic would accept a sponsorship from these people, but I hope it gets clarified soon. It may be a lack of due diligence. Don't assume too quickly

All of the people in the comments raging about the Better Help sponsor like Kosmic is a terrible person. Maybe he had no idea about what claims are being made, I'm chronically online and this is the first I've ever heard of these claims.

edit: the fact that you're going as far as defending them in the replies has led me to unsubscribe. less than a year ago, the ftc took action against betterhelp to make them stop sharing sensitive user data -- for a therapy platform, that's absolutely unacceptable to do, and they should not be trusted because of that. i don't want to doubt you're a good person, and money being a concern is very valid as well, but in the future, looking into your sponsors more may be a good thing. in the end, though, this all has left a bad taste in my mouth, and if you look at the comments, others feel the same way. original message: was excited to see this, but i guess i'm not going to watch it because of the betterhelp sponsor... hopefully you're just locked into a contract or something, but there's a lot of stuff going around about their business practices being shady. (as well as at least one case of a gay man allegedly getting a therapist telling him to be straight) there's a page by the us federal trade commission about all this if you'd be willing to look.

Im disappointed that so many people seem to think youtubers should be held to a higher standard than the people running and working directly for the evil corporations that make the world so messed up.

Bruh everyone talking about better help like it's the devil and everyone know about it. Whatever they did. I belive you. But please. I didn't knew about thoses issues and I'm cronicaly online. He made a sponsorship, and honestly considering his content it's probable he did a research on what he was selling. Again considering his content if he closed the deal it's probably because he didn't found anything against them. So pls don't act like it's so far spread around that everyone know about it. You are just hurting people.

Disappointed in people that take betterhelp sponsors in 2024

Never heard of betterhelp before but im also european. Ps to 99% of the comments: no sponsor on yt is ethical besides a handful

Yes, awesome! I was hoping you'd introduce the Disk Drive version of the Minus World, & was not disappointed. Very nice short explanation of how that works (& good recommendations for more indepth ones). And the run optimization is so crisp now, very awesome. Thanks for this awesome vid. 🙂

dan salvoto???? did i hear that right?? 3:55 the DDLC guy????????????????????????????

Fun fact. Rather than nothing, Nintendo considers that blank number before the dash a "Space". That's why their convention that they ran in Japan for a long time was called... wait for it... SpaceWorld. It was a reference to the glitch.

9:08 oh my god, the crowns in super mario 3d world when you get to max lifes is a reference to super mario bros!!!

not betterhelp bro....

Great video. Thank you, thank you, thank you also for the simple act of pronouncing Super Mario Bros. correctly.

This was one of my favorite videos of yours. Awesome job, man. Niftski is unreal.

Speedrunning really is an artform.

Betterhelp literally scammed a friend of mine irl, really devastated to see the sponsership, but I get times are tough.

Good video! Really informative! While better help is a bad company, I'm pretty sure you didn't know that. And I don't care about ignorance about a service you probably don't use, that is only natural. I only care about your knowlidge on super mario, which as this video demonstrates, is more than enough to be teaching people about

“Shoutout to Dan Salvato for this chart” Dan Salvato? The Dan Salvato of DDLC fame? Omg it is wow

It's interesting to think this category is short enough that a truly perfect run, tying the TAS, doesn't feel out of reach. (By the way, there are even faster game completions possible if you allow the more dubious technique of swapping to another cartridge and then back. Works with Tennis, Legend of Zelda, and a japanese-only Go game that lets you directly choose what world you want to start in by selecting specific game rule options.)

I wonder why it doesn’t give a memory index out of bounds exception and crash the game. Perhaps the developers never implemented code to prevent this. Often times a glitch isn’t anything wrong with the code at all but simply an outcome not desired by the developer, hence it is prevented from happening.

0:55 Just forget the words and sing along~

5:09 i think the reason the game disables collision at the top of the screen is to stop Mario from banging his head on the ground tiles at the bottom of the screen (as their collision likely wraps around to the top of the screen). Just a theory though.

Kosmic, please do us a favor and reupload the video without the betterhelp sponsor. It's not worth it.

betterhelp REALLY?????

Thanks to the speedrunners and their passion... and borderline crazyness at times. :)

here before this video gets deleted

Appreciation for preempting the keyboard controversy with 29:23 as always.

awesome video!! im always hyped to see faster categories, this one is a really cool one too! it's awesome this category gets so much care, and is so optimized!! congrats to niftski on an awesome record 💪🔥 and to all the people who pioneered the strats necessary to get there!

Really disappointing you decided to take a betterhelp sponsorship:/. A shame, as I was looking forward to the rest of the video. I really hope you just weren't aware of how bad they are.

NOOOO BETTERHELP GOT HIM

I would rather you have taken a Raid sponsorship over BetterHelp. What an unfortunate thing to tie to a good video. Please dont take a sponsor from them again sir.

Thanks for such a comprehensive video about the topic.

This might be your best breakdown video yet! Thanks for it also your awesome!

During my childhood I can SWEAR I saw my dad doing some interesting animation of Mario entering the pipes. Like, Mario was entering the pipe while waving his hand. I saw him doing it several times for sure. But I can't find eny info about different entering pipe animations at all. Can you explain it, please, or my childhood memories are some crazy stuff out of nowhere? Thanks!

BETTER WHAT?

3:09 "It's pretty simple." -Explains how it works in a complicated way that is hard to follow along with...

Cool informative video! Good job also explaining how the data on the game is just used as though it were level data or a number sprite or whatever!

Betterhelp More like Get a Bettersponser

2:15 if you wanna skip the sponser

Sorry, I don’t think I want to get help from BetterHelp.