FrostyZako | [Segmented] SM64 The Lava Hell - 100 Coins @FrostyZako | Uploaded October 2018 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This ROM had a very slight edit done by me and is therefore not quite the equal to the original. The spinning heart at 8:10 was added by me to make this star possible in the first place. From how it seems, there is no way to collect this star without this edit. If this spinning heart wasn't there, you would have to take two lava bounces to enter the tower (as you can see at the beginning of this star), and even with two bounces it's already somewhat tight to make. Eventually, this will make you have 2 HP at the top of the tower but you need 5 HP to survive the fall onto the coin box, which I see no other way to achieve besides adding a spinning heart or even more coins, which would be counterproductive concerning the challenge of collecting 100 coins and the idea of only having exactly 100 coins in the level. I don't think this change is very advantageous in any way, of course it allows for easier health management but the hack is generally so hard that the spinning heart hardly does anything to the difficulty, it's only a real difference for the red coin star anyway. Better have a slightly easier possible star than a slighty harder but entirely impossible star.