Uploaded September 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The ABC strat to enter Pianta Village relies on a glitch that lets Mario clip through the ground if he exits the box game room with downward speed stored. Then we can hover into the room’s warp from below without actually entering the room, in order to gain a lot of height and dive onto the Shine Gate.
This is usually done by ground pounding inside the room, which stores a vertical speed of -75 (the biggest downward speed you can get without turbo storage). However, I discovered that a vertical speed of -8 is enough to clip, which gives us a lot more leeway to reach the warp. In fact, we can simply dive into it that way.
So I use a fruit to store -11 VS from a dive, sidestep out of the room, dive and ground pound into the warp while simultaneously Y-turning towards the Shine Gate, dive again, and voilà! Pianta access without A or FLUDD!
This video is TAS, played on Dolphin 5.0 with the PAL version of the game.
Rerecords: 31
The ABC strat to enter Pianta Village relies on a glitch that lets Mario clip through the ground if he exits the box game room with downward speed stored. Then we can hover into the room’s warp from below without actually entering the room, in order to gain a lot of height and dive onto the Shine Gate.
This is usually done by ground pounding inside the room, which stores a vertical speed of -75 (the biggest downward speed you can get without turbo storage). However, I discovered that a vertical speed of -8 is enough to clip, which gives us a lot more leeway to reach the warp. In fact, we can simply dive into it that way.
So I use a fruit to store -11 VS from a dive, sidestep out of the room, dive and ground pound into the warp while simultaneously Y-turning towards the Shine Gate, dive again, and voilà! Pianta access without A or FLUDD!
This video is TAS, played on Dolphin 5.0 with the PAL version of the game.
Rerecords: 31
![Gooper Blooper Returns – 0x A Presses [S/H]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sbCkNs_JLeo/mqdefault.jpg "Gooper Blooper Returns – 0x A Presses [S/H]
I collect the Ricco 5 Shine without pressing the A button, using only the Spray and Hover Nozzles.
Bouncing on a nearby Pianta and hovering at the peak of the bounce gives me enough height to grab onto the ledge of a roof, from which I can hover to the fruit machine and reach the helipad. This Gooper Blooper fight is just as easy as the first; I spray Gooper Blooper’s face to make him attack with all four tentacles, dodge the attack while still spraying him, so that I can clean his mouth and grab it before the attack animation ends. For some reason, this causes him to stay idle as I pull his mouth back.
This video is RTA, played on PAL Wii.")
![Ricco Harbor 100 coins – 0x A Presses [S/H]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sqF3QJ4G4To/mqdefault.jpg "Ricco Harbor 100 coins – 0x A Presses [S/H]
I collect the 100 coin Shine for Ricco Harbor without pressing the A button, using only the Spray and Hover Nozzles.
Once again, I use a boss battle for the 100 coin Shine. Ricco Harbor has around 130 coins, but many of them are in the sewers, and we can’t leave the sewers without the A button or the Rocket Nozzle. So I collect 70 coins in Ricco 1, then trigger the Gooper Blooper fight. It may not look like it, but this fight actually takes place in a different version of the map, where the plaza has extra coins, but all other coins have been removed. Fortunately, Bloopers and crates are still there, allowing me to get the remaining 30 coins.
In this Shine, avoiding the blue coins is actually a challenge itself. Like Shines and Nozzles, blue coins open a text box that allows you to save, and there is no way past that text box without A, even if you don’t want to save, and even if you don’t have a Memory Card in. So I need to make sure I don’t collect any blue coins, and 5 of them are in my way.
Another tricky part is the chainlink maze: hanging onto the ceiling is fine because I can let go with B, but if I get too close to a wall, I grab onto it, and then the only way to let go is using A, or reaching a floor (at the top or the bottom of the maze). This makes 4 of the coins there impossible to reach, as they are completely surrounded with walls below a ceiling and with no floor under them.
And then there’s the jellyfish. I don’t fully understand how to get it to push me out of the water, as you can see, but attempting this trick can also “break” the jellyfish, as shown in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWUCMO5jiqk Weird stuff, and I’m pretty glad I managed to get out of the water twice (the 98th coin falling into the water wasn’t exactly planned). Another way would be to swim below the Goop to the grate platform, but it’s pretty hard to do and may result in death. Or you could also just swim to the beginning of the level and use the slope to walk out of the water.
This video is RTA, played on PAL Wii.")
![Red Coins of Windmill Village – 0x A Presses [H] (OUTDATED)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tvIi6lEFb0w/mqdefault.jpg "Red Coins of Windmill Village – 0x A Presses [H] (OUTDATED)
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I collect the Bianco 4 Shine without pressing the A button, using only the Hover Nozzle.
While getting all 8 red coins is fairly easy, the Shine spawns on a platform that I thought was way out of reach. Usually the only ways off a tightrope are to jump off using A and to let go using B. The former is obviously not possible in an ABC context, and the latter just makes you drop straight down with no way to do anything until you land on the ground below.
However, this rope has Wire Traps that we can use to our advantage: jumping or falling onto them usually causes a fire bounce, and by swinging around the rope near one of them, we can trigger the same effect (though less consistently). The fire bounce gives Mario enough vertical momentum to make it onto the Shine platform.
This video is RTA, played on PAL Wii.")
![Yoshi’s Fruit Adventure – 0x A Presses [S/H/R] (OUTDATED)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uW6fqIErUuo/mqdefault.jpg "Yoshi’s Fruit Adventure – 0x A Presses [S/H/R] (OUTDATED)
This video is outdated. See its successor here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2chBZPliyVk
I collect the Ricco 8 Shine without pressing the A button, using only the Spray, Hover and Rocket Nozzles.
The first step is getting the Rocket Nozzle, and from a specific Nozzle Box at that. Since I haven’t unlocked the Rocket Nozzle yet, I need to get to the highest box, and I do this by following the route I already used in Ricco 3 and 4. (In a full run, the Rocket Nozzle could be unlocked in either of those episodes for more convenient access in this one.)
Once I have the Rocket Nozzle, I use rocket storage to shoot to the coconut tree, then to the Shine platform with a coconut. Finally, I use the coconut to clip through the cage, and shoot a final rocket to grab the Shine. The clip was discovered by Goldfire.
This video is RTA, played on PAL Wii.")
![Box Game 1 – 0x A Presses [H] (OUTDATED)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vU48JUn8d4U/mqdefault.jpg "Box Game 1 – 0x A Presses [H] (OUTDATED)
This video is outdated. See its successor here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4eIHWF6Qmw
I collect the Box Game 1 Shine without pressing the A button, using only the Hover Nozzle.
When Mario ground pounds a crate, he technically lands before the crate breaks. This sequence of events interrupts the ground pound and puts Mario in a falling state. I take advantage of this to save time by immediately hovering from one crate to the next without touching the ground.
This video is RTA, played on PAL Wii.")
![The Secret of Ricco Tower – 0x A Presses [H] (OUTDATED)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/w2jN6PuzWB0/mqdefault.jpg "The Secret of Ricco Tower – 0x A Presses [H] (OUTDATED)
This video is outdated. See its successor here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B3y8IzGLcA
I collect the Ricco 4 Shine without pressing the A button, using only the Hover Nozzle.
Continuing the route from Ricco 3, I find a beam that lets me reach the top of the tower without A presses. I nearly died twice but it’s actually pretty easy to navigate this secret area, as the rotation of the platforms always lets you stand higher than the platform you want to dive onto. There are only two simple guidelines to follow: recover from each dive as soon as possible (otherwise you obviously end up sliding off) and always dive onto the rising side of a platform (because it gives you more time to recover).
This video is RTA, played on PAL Wii.")
