ColonThree

ColonThree is currently the worlds longest pit hack. While creativity and uniqueness was prioritised over sheer difficulty, it is still widely considered to be one of the hardest Super Mario World hacks ever made. Featuring shelljumps, walljumps, block duplication, keyjumping, and corner clipping to name a few, ColonThree is bound to prove a challenge to any TASer, and poses an absurd level of difficulty when it comes to optimisation.

The hack consists of 1 “level” with many rooms, followed by a boss level, featuring an excruciating caped flying level in which the player must juggle a mushroom all the way to the end of the room. Only after doing so will they be able to face the boss; ColonThree.

There is a bonus level after the boss fight, but the difficulty is substantially easier and not considered to be required in “beating the game”, as far as playthroughs or TAS’s are concerned.

Aided by a vague storyline with appropriate cutscenes, updated palettes and scenery, and plenty of brutally frame perfect puzzles, the player is sure to feel accomplished if/when they defeat ColonThree.