After killing almost every category in Super Mario 64, speedrunning legend completes his domination with a once-unthinkable record of the game's most grueling challenge

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Super Mario 64 speedrunner Suigi quickly became an absolute legend in pretty short order, and now he's cemented that legacy with an absolutely monstrous run through the game's most grueling category.

Suigi has spent the past few years utterly demolishing Super Mario 64. In March 2023, he set unbelievable times in the 1-star and 16-star categories which many in the community believed might never be bettered. To this day, the 16-star time remains uncontested, but somebody did end up beating the 1-star time just a month later: Suigi himself. He's also held the 0-star record since 2023, and held the 70-star record for half a year before it was taken by Japanese runner ikori_o.

Despite Suigi's dominance in four of the five major Super Mario 64 speedrunning categories, he had never held the world record in the 120-star category - a grueling completionist run that takes well over 90 minutes per record attempt. The category has seen a ton of development in the past year thanks to the discovery of a viable method for performing a legendary trick thought to be a meme. That trick helped lead to six new world records in the year following its discovery, but Suigi was not one of the record setters.

Instead, Weegee's record of 1 hour, 36 minutes, and 2 seconds became the time to beat when it was set in July 2024. Suigi was nowhere close to that time. In a world where speedrun gains are measured in seconds, Suigi was over a minute off the pace, setting a 1:37:11 a day after the 1:36:02 was established as the time to beat. Suigi just couldn't beat the 1:37 barrier, and reaching a time in the low 1:36 range, where the world record stood, seemed a long way off. He was on pace to do a 1:36 just last week, but that run ended up destroyed by a rogue Gooba. The result? A 1:37:00 flat.

Which is why it was so shocking when Suigi followed up that time with a world record of 1:35:33 less than a week later. There's no massive secret to how he set this time - no big route change or