![SM64 - Coins Amassed in a Maze - 1x A Presses [OUTDATED] @pannenkoek2012](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hHut6M84pSU/sddefault.jpg)
Uploaded May 2014 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
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I collect the star Coins Amassed in a Maze in Rainbow Ride using 1 A press. The A press to get past the large glass box that the carpet passes through. This is necessary so that I can ride the carpet long enough to get to the top of the red coin maze. From there, I descend the maze strategically so as to collect every red coin.
This video is an improvement from my previous video in which I collected this star in 2 A presses. You can find that video here: youtu.be/L4FRU92nQBA. Since then, I discovered two helpful techniques. The first was to use the elevator to ride back up to the top of the maze after collecting a red coin. The second was to use Mario's slide recover to cross large horizontal gaps in the maze, which can be seen more slowly at the end of the video. The second of these slide recovers requires a HUGE amount of precision in spacing and timing to get it to work!
ABC Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmvvhlevqC2d6vis077yFHuLJHYtTtqe_
ABC Routes: docs.google.com/document/d/1ypRVVRyf4x-v8GqCSmKYnicrfKSIjao3Y1ZVl52RIyM/edit
THIS VIDEO IS OUTDATED - SEE A BETTER VERSION OF THIS VIDEO HERE:
youtu.be/U1KOiaDxQMQ
I collect the star Coins Amassed in a Maze in Rainbow Ride using 1 A press. The A press to get past the large glass box that the carpet passes through. This is necessary so that I can ride the carpet long enough to get to the top of the red coin maze. From there, I descend the maze strategically so as to collect every red coin.
This video is an improvement from my previous video in which I collected this star in 2 A presses. You can find that video here: youtu.be/L4FRU92nQBA. Since then, I discovered two helpful techniques. The first was to use the elevator to ride back up to the top of the maze after collecting a red coin. The second was to use Mario's slide recover to cross large horizontal gaps in the maze, which can be seen more slowly at the end of the video. The second of these slide recovers requires a HUGE amount of precision in spacing and timing to get it to work!
ABC Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmvvhlevqC2d6vis077yFHuLJHYtTtqe_
ABC Routes: docs.google.com/document/d/1ypRVVRyf4x-v8GqCSmKYnicrfKSIjao3Y1ZVl52RIyM/edit
![SM64 - Coins Amassed in a Maze - 1x A Presses [OUTDATED]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hHut6M84pSU/mqdefault.jpg "SM64 - Coins Amassed in a Maze - 1x A Presses [OUTDATED]
THIS VIDEO IS OUTDATED - SEE A BETTER VERSION OF THIS VIDEO HERE:
http://youtu.be/U1KOiaDxQMQ
I collect the star Coins Amassed in a Maze in Rainbow Ride using 1 A press. The A press to get past the large glass box that the carpet passes through. This is necessary so that I can ride the carpet long enough to get to the top of the red coin maze. From there, I descend the maze strategically so as to collect every red coin.
This video is an improvement from my previous video in which I collected this star in 2 A presses. You can find that video here: http://youtu.be/L4FRU92nQBA. Since then, I discovered two helpful techniques. The first was to use the elevator to ride back up to the top of the maze after collecting a red coin. The second was to use Marios slide recover to cross large horizontal gaps in the maze, which can be seen more slowly at the end of the video. The second of these slide recovers requires a HUGE amount of precision in spacing and timing to get it to work!
ABC Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmvvhlevqC2d6vis077yFHuLJHYtTtqe_
ABC Routes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ypRVVRyf4x-v8GqCSmKYnicrfKSIjao3Y1ZVl52RIyM/edit")
![SM64 - Seek the 8 Red Coins - 1.5x A Presses [OUTDATED]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hMvBEGUg7QQ/mqdefault.jpg "SM64 - Seek the 8 Red Coins - 1.5x A Presses [OUTDATED]
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I collect the star Seek the 8 Red Coins in Big Boos Haunt using 1.5 A presses. The first A press is to allow for little kicks to be done, which assists in collecting the 2 red coins on top of the bookshelves. Specifically, these kicks allow me to bounce on the boos consistently enough to transport them, move while facing a specific direction, and jump without needing enough speed to dive. The second A press is to jump from the top of the staircase to the second floor.
While I cant formally argue that the first A press is necessary, it would be extraordinarily difficult to execute the boo-bookend bounce to collect the red coin without the precision that the A press allows, as described earlier. But of course, in an ABC run, 1.5 A presses would be truncated to 1 A press, so its not a big deal.
If youre wondering about the half A press, read this before commenting to ask why. 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. Its 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, lets 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.
This video is an improvement from my previous video in which I collected this star in 2 A presses. You can find that video here: http://youtu.be/ORPkwVT7P_8.
ABC Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmvvhlevqC2d6vis077yFHuLJHYtTtqe_
ABC Routes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ypRVVRyf4x-v8GqCSmKYnicrfKSIjao3Y1ZVl52RIyM/edit")
![SM64 - Bowser in the Sky (without Red Coins) - 3x A Presses [OUTDATED]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ixgacnmzrnE/mqdefault.jpg "SM64 - Bowser in the Sky (without Red Coins) - 3x A Presses [OUTDATED]
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I complete the level Bowser in the Sky using 3 A presses. The A presses are as follows:
A press #1: to cross the first two gaps in the beginning platforms
A press #2: to cross the third gap in the beginning platforms
A press #3: to jump off the pole near the goombas
This video is an improvement from my previous video in which I did this in 4 A presses. You can find that video here: http://youtu.be/Gx8JByvljlM. Since then, I figured out how to get onto chuckyas platform without having to press A, namely by using the elevator (which can be seen at 0:25). You see, the elevators hitbox is a bit misleading. Here is a picture I made to demonstrate what I mean: http://imgur.com/0pcDrZ5. As you can see, the axiss hitbox rotates around along with one of the platforms, much in contrast to what it outwardly looks like. And so, I take advantage of this by going on the specific platform that the axiss hitbox is attached to, waiting for it to reach the top of its rotation, and then using the axiss hitbox to gain additional height, enough to reach chuckyas platform. Here is a picture to illustrate this: http://imgur.com/9I1oNCl. Hopefully, that clarifies why I was able to land in midair!
Note: To avoid having to do redo the 63-goomba strategy, this video is a hybrid of two videos, and I switch between them while Im climbing the pole (at 1:04). Nevertheless, the strategy I employ is completely possible to do in a single run.
The song I used was a remixed version of Sword Lords remix of the William tell Overture, which can be found at: http://youtu.be/P7svUxY2Gns.
ABC Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmvvhlevqC2d6vis077yFHuLJHYtTtqe_
ABC Routes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ypRVVRyf4x-v8GqCSmKYnicrfKSIjao3Y1ZVl52RIyM/edit")
![SM64 - Watch for Rolling Rocks - 0.5x A Presses (Commentated) [OUTDATED]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kpk2tdsPh0A/mqdefault.jpg "SM64 - Watch for Rolling Rocks - 0.5x A Presses (Commentated) [OUTDATED]
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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.
For convenience, here are the informative parts of the video:
0:35 for half A presses
3:44 for scuttlebug transportation
5:01 for scuttlebug raising
8:07 for hyper speed walking (HSWing)
10:40 for parallel universes (PUs)
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
Update: The PU route used in this video actually crashes on console, as it turns out PU crashes can still occur even when locking the camera in the main map. Nevertheless, an alternate route has been found that avoids these PU crashes and has been console verified: https://youtu.be/T-G4ymVwajw
Commentated video playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmvvhlevqC2ftzAeEpTaI7eS6b4nPN3ji
Uncommentated Version: https://youtu.be/X-zAWbM50JM
ABC Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmvvhlevqC2d6vis077yFHuLJHYtTtqe_
ABC Routes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ypRVVRyf4x-v8GqCSmKYnicrfKSIjao3Y1ZVl52RIyM/edit")
