Kierio05 | New Supergrind on Bowser's Castle @Kierio05 | Uploaded 2 years ago | Updated 3 hours ago
Video in the comparison is the 42.923 no glitch flap from Monster's channel (youtu.be/0gtfGke1io0).
As seen in the comparison, this currently saves 9 frames over the high trick entry. I suspect I can get it to at least double that number by the end of the night because of how quickly I threw this together (15-20 minutes).
Edit: Managed to get it to be 21 frames faster than high trick entry.
People have tried numerous ways to get a Bowser's Castle supergrind to work, using these stairs, using the offroad next to the stairs, and using any of the geysers in many directions. I can say with experience that none of these worked, as I have tested all of them at least two or three times each over the past 3 years.
What makes this different to the ideas we had before is the use of the shooting star, an outside drifting bike (ODB). ODBs have a different "range" of facing angles they can start supergrinds at relative to the direction you want to supergrind in. Inside drifting bikes have their own range, which has its limits, preventing something like Ancient's recent GV supergrind or this one. This range includes starting it facing forwards and moving sideways already, using the sideways momentum from a drift or hop (which is also exclusive to ODBs).
This is the first original Nintendo track supergrind strat I have found in well over a year and a half (618 days or 20 months) so I am very pleased that this worked as well as it did. Fingers crossed that I can improve it to save enough time to make the shooting star and the supergrind viable for glitch flap!
While writing this description I thought of another supergrind idea :o
Video in the comparison is the 42.923 no glitch flap from Monster's channel (youtu.be/0gtfGke1io0).
As seen in the comparison, this currently saves 9 frames over the high trick entry. I suspect I can get it to at least double that number by the end of the night because of how quickly I threw this together (15-20 minutes).
Edit: Managed to get it to be 21 frames faster than high trick entry.
People have tried numerous ways to get a Bowser's Castle supergrind to work, using these stairs, using the offroad next to the stairs, and using any of the geysers in many directions. I can say with experience that none of these worked, as I have tested all of them at least two or three times each over the past 3 years.
What makes this different to the ideas we had before is the use of the shooting star, an outside drifting bike (ODB). ODBs have a different "range" of facing angles they can start supergrinds at relative to the direction you want to supergrind in. Inside drifting bikes have their own range, which has its limits, preventing something like Ancient's recent GV supergrind or this one. This range includes starting it facing forwards and moving sideways already, using the sideways momentum from a drift or hop (which is also exclusive to ODBs).
This is the first original Nintendo track supergrind strat I have found in well over a year and a half (618 days or 20 months) so I am very pleased that this worked as well as it did. Fingers crossed that I can improve it to save enough time to make the shooting star and the supergrind viable for glitch flap!
While writing this description I thought of another supergrind idea :o
![[badTAS] Super Mario 64 - Casual% - Enter the Castle](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_fD_nQ7IOfU/hqdefault.jpg "[badTAS] Super Mario 64 - Casual% - Enter the Castle
Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bslu4qM0glA
(Originally uploaded on 10 July 2020)
This is the very first part of a new kind of full-game TAS - explained below...
THE MAIN GOAL OF THIS TAS IS ACTUALLY NOT TO OPTIMISE FOR TIME, BUT FOR THE MOST ENTERTAINING WAY TO SHOWCASE THE GAME POSSIBLE. CASUAL% IS BASICALLY JUST AIMING FOR ENTERTAINMENT WITH LEARN% AND INTENDED% AS RESTRICTIONS
Heres a run down of how this is going to work:
Casual% is a combination of many different types of speedruns. 120 stars, BLJless, All Signs, All Toads, and etc. As the name suggests, this run is intended to demonstrate how a newcomer would learn the game. The catch is, the only way that you can actually do any action is if youve learned how to do it. This means that you cant learn how to do something such as a dive until youve been specifically taught how to from a sign (that specific sign is in the BBH courtyard). This run will also attempt to present every feature in the game in the way that the developers intended you to discover them. This means kicking down the plank to collect red coins in WF, using the hangable ceiling for HMC Amaze-ing Emergency Exit, using the cannon for all the stars where it was originally intended to be used, visiting Yoshi after collecting 120 stars, taking a moment to look at the view from the bridge on TTM, using the hand for TTC Get A Hand and Stomp on the Thwomp, only collecting 100 coin stars once we are taught that they exist, only collecting red coin stars once we are taught that they exist, only collecting stars that involve secrets once we are taught that they exist, taking every secret castle warp and death exit possible where they can be used. This TAS will showcase as much of the game as is possible, all while acting as a regular person learning how to play Super Mario 64.
SM64 Casual% Route: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1mpzPFrZjpMlz2D_AB5niLhGrNM2vHM2b4OPgsQhkCmw/edit")
