Super Mario Sunshine

I am a Super Mario Sunshine speedrunner who first played tasks casually at the end of 2018, and seriously played from Jan 2020 until Dec 2023. I achieved a 1:18:26 Any% run (then 104th place) and 7th rank in ILs overall. I also created a lot of things to do with the game, including tutorials, articles, leaderboads and documentation. I also served as a community moderator (for ILs) and adviser (for ILs, RTA and conflict-resolution) from Oct 2020 to May 2022, wherein I founded the verification process, ruleset and timing standards for the IL leaderboard. In late 2019, I had a role advising and administering the timing method change referendum.

I started because of this.

Accounts
Twitter | shoutpolenta
YouTube | @shoutplenty-sr
Twitch | shoutplenty
Speedrun.com | shoutplenty

Speedruns
About my own runs in Any%, ILs and tasks.

Projects
Things I’ve made to do with SMS (rta/il leaderboard engines and viewers; timing models; two autosplitters; stream-tracking bot).

Tutorials
My set of tutorials (in-depth video, demo video and text) and a strat-selection guide, tackling the parts of the beginner and intermediate experience I felt needed the most attention.

Articles
Things I’ve written about SMS (splitting/retiming software concepts, leaderboard philosophy, mechanics research, cheating research, rules debates, glitch discoveries).

Documentation
Documentation for SMS (retiming conventions, version text comparison, route timing, cutscene dumps, a strat analysis).

Strats
A look back at what I think are the most useful strats I’ve innovated.

Setup
Information about my technical setups for practising and running SMS.

Freedom of Information
Disclosure of information in the public interest.

Misc

Todo
My opinion on work to be done to improve the SMS community, written April 2021.

Wii Homebrew Info
A collection of tutorial links and explanations for Wii homebrew.

Resource Repositories

The first of these is resources of interest to SMS players in general; the second is my curated personal stuff (analyses of my runs, stream assets and plans); the third is my full offline SMS folder (has stuff like my scrap notes and WIPs).

Communal Resources Folder
Personal Resources Folder
Full Offline Folder