Kriller37 | New Top Clip Set Up For Lightning 4-2 @kriller3771 | Uploaded February 2021 | Updated October 2024, 5 days ago.
Setup: This set up uses the same concept as my previous video "4-2 new top clip method" ( youtu.be/RpE00PkKL6g ), but with a slight variation.
You can use . and , to go frame by frame or watch the slowed down gameplay to see the exact inputs done, but the basic concept is a jump into the ceiling and pressing left as you jump, then release left after landing and before jumping, then time a jump, press right to speed up and press left to clip into the wall

The right press to speed up towards the wall is frame perfect, but there is a good bit of leniency that allows you to still clip in without a perfectly timed left press.

Also, every top clip set up I have ever seen has always had basically everything be frame perfect except for the left press for clipping in the wall, but this set up actually has some leniency! You can do this exact same set up, but instead jump a frame later on the jump up into the wall clip (this requires the left press to clip in the wall to be timed perfectly). You can also do all the same D pad inputs, but do both jumps a frame later, and the set up will still work (and this one has lots of leniency for the left press to clip into the wall). Keep in mind that these other 2 slight variations of this set up are both 1 frame slower than the set up shown in this video.

One last thing I personally really like about this set up is that you can easily practice individual parts of this set up. What I mean by that if you want to just practice the first jump and the timing of the left press, you can just see what sockfolder value Mario stops at if you do those inputs and then let Mario slide all the way to a stop without doing the second jump, and then go and practice that RTA. If you want to practice that along with the timing of the second jump, you can do all of that and then do a full jump for the second jump, not repress right, and then see what sockfolder value Mario stops at, and then try to match that RTA. And there is many other things like this you can do to practice this set up. Not knowing what you did wrong on top clip set ups with much more D pad inputs is something I and many others don't like, so this ability to practice is very nice. I have already gotten very close to getting this set up RTA.

Also it is worth pointing out that this TAS does not get the very precise extra frame save in warp zone, and the ultra fast pipe entry method isn't required for this set up, it is possible to get up to H into warp zone with the standard pipe entry method.