This video was uploaded for two reasons.

1) I was asked by Maxx to provide a video of me beating Mario in 15 minutes...I'm certain he's actually talking about Mario 3, but he said Mario 1 would be fine. It's a casual play for someone who's been playing this game for over 20 years, but not designed to be perfect. Honestly, with some runthroughs I've seen, I think it's just over-hyped these days.

2) I wanted to experiment with a way to capture good quality video from a Nintendo (and inherently, Super Nintendo).

The master recorded was an RCA DVD Recorder taking an AV input (Video and one audio cable to the White/Left audio input, causing a dual mono recording).

I then imported this video into avidemux (which seems to work very well for transcoding videos from pre-existing program formats), trying my best to maintain a quality output with a keen eye on file size (the primary transcoding attempts were actually exceeding the original +VR Recording file size, YIKES!)

I started with a deinterlace filter (this is because I wanted somthing close to the original 240p output). I decided to go with "Seperate Fields" since this would, at cost of half of the resolution (originally being 720x480), allow a progressive output format at the desired framerate (~59.94fps). I then resized the video to be more friendly for computer video (720x240 to 640x480).

After that, It's just a matter of finding a good encoder. For mobile video, H264/AVC seems to be the modern choice. After experimenting with the quantizer. I found that avidemux's default value (26 IIRC) seems to have a good trade off of quality to filesize, to the point that the errors aren't even noticable (or have been nullified/deglitched with the playback/transcoding tools).

The only thing that seems to really be lost when uploading to YouTube is the original frame rate. If you (attempt to) upload a video with anything higher than 30 frames per second, the video will be transcoded to 15fps, which does make games look quite choppy. This is resolved by resampling the frame rate prior to transcoding, and after deinterlacing.

P.S.: Here's some links to the video in higher-quality formats, as well as the original frame rate:

Youtube Format Upload:
http://www.mediafire.com/?rbolg76h3dvbz3h

Full Frame Rate Version:
http://www.mediafire.com/?p7vyu5x7cqcc8xg