Noki Doki | Il Piantissimo’s Crazy Climb – 0x A Presses [S] @NokiDoki | Uploaded August 2017 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
I collect the Pianta 2 Shine without pressing A, using only the Spray Nozzle. This is an improvement over Venick409’s strat, where they used the Hover Nozzle: youtube.com/watch?v=i3uq_UYazzA
Getting to the flag hoverless, or even FLUDDless, is fairly simple. The only real obstacle is to get onto the platform around the hot springs, and there’s a Pianta nearby who can help us up. But unfortunately, that’s not enough to beat Il Piantissimo…
So when the race starts, I waterslide around the village all the way to the beehive at the back. I spray that beehive off the tree while sidestepping to avoid getting hit by the bees, and dive on it as it falls. The bounce gives me just enough height to dive onto the platform, allowing me to beat Il Piantissimo by mere seconds.
This video is TAS, played on Dolphin 5.0 with the PAL version of the game.
Rerecords: 1079
I collect the Pianta 2 Shine without pressing A, using only the Spray Nozzle. This is an improvement over Venick409’s strat, where they used the Hover Nozzle: youtube.com/watch?v=i3uq_UYazzA
Getting to the flag hoverless, or even FLUDDless, is fairly simple. The only real obstacle is to get onto the platform around the hot springs, and there’s a Pianta nearby who can help us up. But unfortunately, that’s not enough to beat Il Piantissimo…
So when the race starts, I waterslide around the village all the way to the beehive at the back. I spray that beehive off the tree while sidestepping to avoid getting hit by the bees, and dive on it as it falls. The bounce gives me just enough height to dive onto the platform, allowing me to beat Il Piantissimo by mere seconds.
This video is TAS, played on Dolphin 5.0 with the PAL version of the game.
Rerecords: 1079
![Il Piantissimo’s Crazy Climb – 0x A Presses [S]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JXzFY3PuhDw/hqdefault.jpg "Il Piantissimo’s Crazy Climb – 0x A Presses [S]
I collect the Pianta 2 Shine without pressing A, using only the Spray Nozzle. This is an improvement over Venick409’s strat, where they used the Hover Nozzle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3uq_UYazzA
Getting to the flag hoverless, or even FLUDDless, is fairly simple. The only real obstacle is to get onto the platform around the hot springs, and there’s a Pianta nearby who can help us up. But unfortunately, that’s not enough to beat Il Piantissimo…
So when the race starts, I waterslide around the village all the way to the beehive at the back. I spray that beehive off the tree while sidestepping to avoid getting hit by the bees, and dive on it as it falls. The bounce gives me just enough height to dive onto the platform, allowing me to beat Il Piantissimo by mere seconds.
This video is TAS, played on Dolphin 5.0 with the PAL version of the game.
Rerecords: 1079")
![Blooper Surfing Safari – 0x A Presses [H]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JYZ47PjKq9Y/hqdefault.jpg "Blooper Surfing Safari – 0x A Presses [H]
I collect the Ricco 2 Shine without pressing the A button, using only the Hover Nozzle.
Note that the Hover Nozzle is only required to get onto the first set of logs, as it is then possible to dive from one log to the next. The rest of the strat is pretty much how you normally play this level in the first place.
This video is RTA, played on PAL Wii.")
![Shadow Mario Revisited – 0x A Presses [S]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KhpENzH1SjE/hqdefault.jpg "Shadow Mario Revisited – 0x A Presses [S]
I collect the Ricco 7 Shine without pressing the A button, using only the Spray Nozzle.
This strat is the pinnacle of years of research about the game’s inner workings and… nah, just kidding, you just run and spray for 4 seconds, then wait for the Shine to just fall into your hands.
This video is RTA, played on PAL Wii.")
![Red Coins on the Water – 0x A Presses [Ø]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KxHKslj7tIQ/hqdefault.jpg "Red Coins on the Water – 0x A Presses [Ø]
I collect the Ricco 6 Shine without using the A button, F.L.U.D.D. or Yoshi. This is an improvement over my previous video using Grassdigger’s strat, which used the Spray Nozzle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xq2oyQqcUo
Grégoire found a way to get onto the logs, by sidestepping into them, get stuck between them and the platform, then pressing B as they sank low enough. This saves quite a bit of time and removes the need for the Spray Nozzle!
This video is TAS, recorded on Dolphin 5.0-6022 with the PAL version of the game.
Rerecords: 973")
![The Red Coins of the Lake – 0x A Presses [S/R] (OUTDATED)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LG9UJq88e8o/hqdefault.jpg "The Red Coins of the Lake – 0x A Presses [S/R] (OUTDATED)
This video is outdated. See its successor here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZAXE-8oP3I
I collect the Bianco 8 Shine without pressing the A button, using only the Spray and Rocket Nozzles.
For the record, 7 of the 8 red coins could be collected 0x with just the Hover Nozzle, Pondskaters and the windmill. The last one is too high and too far away from the windmill, which is currently the sole reason why the Rocket Nozzle is needed in Bianco Hills at all.
I do therefore use an A press to get past the save dialog after unlocking the Rocket Nozzle, although it doesn’t count on an individual Shine basis as it only occurs once for all Bianco Hills Shines.
This video is RTA, played on PAL Wii.")
![Turbo Track – 0x A Presses [H]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LrqwYe-E3WU/hqdefault.jpg "Turbo Track – 0x A Presses [H]
I collect the Turbo Track secret Shine without pressing the A button, using only the Hover Nozzle. This is an improvement over samgodro43’s strat, which used the Rocket Nozzle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbrZNaeSfrI
More flooded plaza shenanigans! The collision map is pretty bad in this version of the plaza, meaning we get to clip into the building bearing the pipe to Sirena. But entering Sirena isn’t really what we’re after; instead, we can swim out of bounds!
By carefully staying out of bounds, we can make our way behind the door of the police station and enter the secret area. Then we get to the Shine roughly the same way as in 20 Shines.
This video is RTA, played on Dolphin 5.0 with the NTSC-J version of the game.")
![Blue coin DP04 – 0x A Presses, no savebox [S/H/Y]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/M8N0mwDIzSk/hqdefault.jpg "Blue coin DP04 – 0x A Presses, no savebox [S/H/Y]
I collect the 4th blue coin in Delfino Plaza, using only the Spray and Hover Nozzles, as well as Yoshi.
We’ve been looking for ways to get the sewers blue coins without saveboxes for a while, mostly thinking about storing upward speed on the OoB floor below to launch into the coins after dying, but nothing really worked out. But I just realized that when an OoB floor kills Mario while he’s on Yoshi, it makes him dismount, giving him quite a bit of height.
The height that Mario gains at that point depends on his horizontal speed, so if the death occurs while he’s running, he can reach the sewers above him. And on the Japanese version, because Mario dismounts Yoshi from a higher point, he doesn’t even need to be running!
While DP03 was conveniently close to an easily accessible clipping spot, that’s not the case here, so we have to run OoB for some time. To avoid dying along the way, I dismount Yoshi every time I would otherwise die, which makes the trip a lot more tedious than I anticipated, but we still make it to the blue coin.
This video is TAS, played on Dolphin 5.0-6022 with the PAL version of the game.
Rerecords: 254")
