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I collect the star Chests in the Current in Dire, Dire Docks using 0 A presses.
This video is an improvement from my previous video in which I collected this star in 0.5 A presses. You can find that video here: http://youtu.be/w66noMTP7ko. Since then, Plush worked out a way to do it in 0 A presses. You see, since we're trying not to press A, we swim underwater by repeatedly tapping B instead of A, thereby doing a series of underwater grabs. Normally, this technique moves at a speed of 7, but it can actually preserve a speed of up to 16. And so, if we first grab the water shell to give us a temporary speed of 28, then Mario can preserve 16 speed after it breaks. And of course, I make use of this extra speed to activate the chests without being sucked into the whirlpool. Without doing this shell maneuver first, Mario's maximum speed of 7 is just too slow, making it impossible to activate the chests without being sucked into the whirlpool.
If you're wondering what a half A press is, read this before commenting to ask. I use a special notation that allows for half A presses. Specifically, if you enter a level already holding the A button, then that A press only counts as half. It's actually pretty important to distinguish between the A button being PRESSED and the A button being HELD. While pressing A allows Mario to execute several kinds of jumps, the holding of A allows Mario to swim in water, do little kicks up slopes, grab the owl, and twirl slowly. So if a star requires the A button to be held, the pressing of the A button could have been done at some point in the past, and just held until that moment. For instance, let's say there are two stars: one that requires the A button to be pressed (x1 A presses), and another that only requires the A button to be held (0.5 A presses). Individually, these stars would both require a full A press. But if these stars were collected one after the other, then the A button could be pressed during the former, and held all the way through to the next star to be used in the latter. In this manner, these stars together would only use 1 A press, whereas they would take 2 A presses if done individually. So during a 120 star run, you would round these half A presses down, but on a star-by-star basis you would round them up.
ABC Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmvvhlevqC2d6vis077yFHuLJHYtTtqe_
ABC Routes: docs.google.com/document/d/1ypRVVRyf4x-v8GqCSmKYnicrfKSIjao3Y1ZVl52RIyM/edit
I collect the star Chests in the Current in Dire, Dire Docks using 0 A presses.
This video is an improvement from my previous video in which I collected this star in 0.5 A presses. You can find that video here: http://youtu.be/w66noMTP7ko. Since then, Plush worked out a way to do it in 0 A presses. You see, since we're trying not to press A, we swim underwater by repeatedly tapping B instead of A, thereby doing a series of underwater grabs. Normally, this technique moves at a speed of 7, but it can actually preserve a speed of up to 16. And so, if we first grab the water shell to give us a temporary speed of 28, then Mario can preserve 16 speed after it breaks. And of course, I make use of this extra speed to activate the chests without being sucked into the whirlpool. Without doing this shell maneuver first, Mario's maximum speed of 7 is just too slow, making it impossible to activate the chests without being sucked into the whirlpool.
If you're wondering what a half A press is, read this before commenting to ask. I use a special notation that allows for half A presses. Specifically, if you enter a level already holding the A button, then that A press only counts as half. It's actually pretty important to distinguish between the A button being PRESSED and the A button being HELD. While pressing A allows Mario to execute several kinds of jumps, the holding of A allows Mario to swim in water, do little kicks up slopes, grab the owl, and twirl slowly. So if a star requires the A button to be held, the pressing of the A button could have been done at some point in the past, and just held until that moment. For instance, let's say there are two stars: one that requires the A button to be pressed (x1 A presses), and another that only requires the A button to be held (0.5 A presses). Individually, these stars would both require a full A press. But if these stars were collected one after the other, then the A button could be pressed during the former, and held all the way through to the next star to be used in the latter. In this manner, these stars together would only use 1 A press, whereas they would take 2 A presses if done individually. So during a 120 star run, you would round these half A presses down, but on a star-by-star basis you would round them up.
ABC Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmvvhlevqC2d6vis077yFHuLJHYtTtqe_
ABC Routes: docs.google.com/document/d/1ypRVVRyf4x-v8GqCSmKYnicrfKSIjao3Y1ZVl52RIyM/edit
![SM64 - Watch for Rolling Rocks - 0.5x A Presses [OUTDATED]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/X-zAWbM50JM/hqdefault.jpg "SM64 - Watch for Rolling Rocks - 0.5x A Presses [OUTDATED]
THIS VIDEO IS OUTDATED - SEE A BETTER VERSION OF THIS VIDEO HERE:
https://youtu.be/aFx7woWkZbc
I collect the star Watch for Rolling Rocks in Hazy Maze Cave using 0.5 A presses. The A press is to perform AB kicks on the rising elevators. Without doing these kicks, Mario would go through the elevator, and so thered be no way to navigate out of the lake area with QPU speed. For the record, this is TAS.
This video is an improvement from my previous video in which I collected this star in 1 A press. You can find that video here: https://youtu.be/yGic8wwhm6g. Since then, we discovered PU movement and scuttlebug raising, which made this strat possible.
To learn about the tricks, glitches, and vocabulary used in this video, please watch the commentated version: https://youtu.be/kpk2tdsPh0A. I even listed the time of each explanation in the description of that video.
Here is a play by play of what I do. First, I use scuttlebug transportation to move a scuttlebug to the corner of the Watch for Rolling Rocks platform. Then, I use scuttlebug raising to raise him to about the height of the platform. Next, I use hyper speed walking to generate massive speed. Finally, I use PU movement to navigate to the top of the course, launch to the scuttlebug to bounce on him, and ground pound in the misalignment of the platform to get onto it. And from there, I collect the star.
If you want to see my workspace/calculations and read about the process of TASing this, Ive chronicled it here: http://imgur.com/gallery/rK24p
.m64 stats:
Length: 13 hours and 49.5 minutes
Re-records: 6824
Frames: 2986271 (1493100 input)
This video is without a doubt the one that Ive put the most time into out of all my videos. I knew this going in, and so I decided to keep a log of how much time I spent on each aspect of it (note: if my computer was doing work like compiling/recording and I could let it be, I didnt count that time). Here are the stats:
Time to TAS: 12 hours
Time to record/manage raw avis: 9 hours
Time to create uncommentated version: 31 hours
Time to add visuals/commentary: 75 hours
Commentated Version: https://youtu.be/kpk2tdsPh0A
ABC Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmvvhlevqC2d6vis077yFHuLJHYtTtqe_
ABC Routes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ypRVVRyf4x-v8GqCSmKYnicrfKSIjao3Y1ZVl52RIyM/edit")
