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Donkey Kong’s famed kill screen has been cleared for the first time

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Mario speedrunner Kosmic has passed Donkey Kong's 117th screen using a glitch in the game's bonus timer.

Kosmic made use of frame-perfect input from an emulator to pass the screen's kill screen.

The trick is impossible to pull off with human reflexes on real hardware, but it can be done easily with an emulator.

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