Congratulations to the team and the community as a whole for this pretty amazing achievement.
Turns out the one level that the group was having trouble with was originally uploaded using something called a TAS, which renders it null and void, so they didn't actually have to beat that one to finish them all.
**Edited title. Making sure that the word 'level' doesn't fit. Have a good day. *
Congrats to Team 0% - the "last level" may have been a somewhat unceremonious fake out, but the fact of the matter is they can hold their heads up high and say they've beaten every completeable SMM level
Ok so what's a TAS?
Kind of an anticlimactic ending? The last level was uploaded by cheating so we can't clear it?
Not that it diminishes the accomplishment, but it's still a bit... meh.
Tool assisted speedrun. Basically a program that executes inputs with speed and precision humans cannot replicate. No human has ever actually beaten it, so it's an illegitimate level.
So I never played SMM, but was the idea that one had to beat their own level in order to prove it was beatable before they could upload it? And so using a TAS for that initial upload is cheating because nobody else will be able to beat it?
Point of clarification. A TAS is any speedrun done with any tools. Even button turbo counts as a TAS. Most TAS videos/discussions are about the frame by frame input tools, though, because that is the ultimate and most entertaining form of TAS.