Iwer Sonsch | [SM64 custom level] A Tall Atoll - dev showcase @iwersonsch5131 | Uploaded February 2024 | Updated October 2024, 10 minutes ago.
Been working on this for about 2 months. This level is a remake of Platforming Prelude, the first course from Compact Challenges 1.
There are 32 different stars in this level, split evenly between the 4 colour. Each colour uses its own save file - A for red, B for blue, C for green, and D for yellow.
Alternate showcase: youtu.be/YLXJ7aqGKAE
Known issues:
- Water is only visible while the red area is active
- The vanish cap switch might not be pressed in all areas
Been working on this for about 2 months. This level is a remake of Platforming Prelude, the first course from Compact Challenges 1.
There are 32 different stars in this level, split evenly between the 4 colour. Each colour uses its own save file - A for red, B for blue, C for green, and D for yellow.
Alternate showcase: youtu.be/YLXJ7aqGKAE
Known issues:
- Water is only visible while the red area is active
- The vanish cap switch might not be pressed in all areas
![[SM64 custom level] A Tall Atoll - dev showcase](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1vFcfqijD7Y/hqdefault.jpg "[SM64 custom level] A Tall Atoll - dev showcase
Been working on this for about 2 months. This level is a remake of Platforming Prelude, the first course from Compact Challenges 1.
There are 32 different stars in this level, split evenly between the 4 colour. Each colour uses its own save file - A for red, B for blue, C for green, and D for yellow.
Alternate showcase: https://youtu.be/YLXJ7aqGKAE
Known issues:
- Water is only visible while the red area is active
- The vanish cap switch might not be pressed in all areas")
![[TAS] Star Road: Moving Target 0xA in 15927 (by @ZerolinGD and Iwer)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/205gNg62jxQ/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Star Road: Moving Target 0xA in 15927 (by @ZerolinGD and Iwer)
Thanks to Zerolin for TASing the goomba cloning with BCA (behind camera anywhere), I havent yet learned how to do that myself.
The climb to this star was the most sought-after place for improvements in the 80 star route, as it is used a total of 4-6 times for 3-4 different 0xA stars in this stage.
Sidneys route (https://youtu.be/GaO83-0JjDc ) carried 4 goomba clones to the back of the target, each requiring both a framewalk with an object and a cork box despawn timer.
Using BCA and a new idea for the ending (https://youtu.be/CD3eAcWPn0Y ), I was able to reach the top of the target after only 1 object framewalk and 1 cork box despawn timer.
Setting up the conditions for BCA in this stage is not easy. We needed a HOLP that
1. can be set within CCCandy (since we need to use the crazy box at the start),
2. is over 2905 units away from the goomba spawner (since a dropped cork box would appear at the HOLP and we have to grab it without already spawning the goombas), and
3. lets us get on top of the target with any number of goomba clones.
Luckily, 3. turned out a lot more lenient than I had thought, so the entire climb is possible with just 1 goomba clone.
Previous run by Sidney: https://youtu.be/GaO83-0JjDc
Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dJkV2fn_4xq8VYr_aGyI1NuWXP4MwOeI_j_yRAWvyng
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrQtcX0snX2cmJAKeiQ3-ncnQpc_SzCex")
![[TAS] Star Road: Sinky Spiral Cavern 0xA in 2730](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2ge8hzxIGGA/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Star Road: Sinky Spiral Cavern 0xA in 2730
The previous video by Adeal (https://youtu.be/VWd6k4LPMfo ) lured two koopas to reach the secrets on the lowest two platforms. I improved on that with some reasonably advanced movement through the higher pillars near the center. The second secret was pretty straightforward, the first one used an Eru drop and a pause buffered divegrind facing quite a bit off the edge.
Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dJkV2fn_4xq8VYr_aGyI1NuWXP4MwOeI_j_yRAWvyng
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrQtcX0snX2cmJAKeiQ3-ncnQpc_SzCex
Discord: https://discord.gg/PYJWnBK")
![[TAS] SMTW: Genuine Dominance - Sky High Castle Red Coins Capless without mandatory firsties](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2z-dVMm5TPY/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] SMTW: Genuine Dominance - Sky High Castle Red Coins Capless without mandatory firsties
I accidentally put 1-2 firsties into this TAS but theyre definitely not needed. I would have rather not put them in, but redoing the later parts would have been too much effort.
This video is an improvement over a much lower quality TAS I had made of this star: https://youtu.be/_zlnwaBBlzg . Since then, I obsoleted the firsty chain for the first red, and I used frame advance and Stroop the whole way through.
The key breakthrough in this video is the jump at 0:39, which was previously thought to barely not reach the ledge, resulting in 11-13 firsties and a second blue spire being required.
Let me describe to you how precise this jump is:
1. In order to gain enough speed without losing too much height, we need to land directly on the downhill slope at the back of the spire. Since the slope of the spire is steeper than Marios falling trajectory, this requires us to clip through the uphill slope via quarterframe spacing and is precise to about 1 unit in the x direction.
2. In order to end up with enough height, we need to land on the highest 4x4 unit square of the downhill slope.
3. In order to get enough distance, we need to move the joystick during the sliding frames to a roughly degree-perfect, or at a fixed magnitude bit-perfect joystick angle (curving the joystick in a different way should be possible, but being an average of 1 input bit off will probably cause you to end up with the wrong angle and not making it). Then for the jump, you need to flick the joystick back to directly forward.
4. This didnt occur in my first proof of concept of this jump, but in the final TAS I had to move the joystick slightly to the right on the last 2 frames. Moving it too far will definitely also cause you to miss the ledgegrab.
5. It is still not explored whether quarterframe spacing on the wall lip makes this trick even more precise than I described it, requiring slight adjustments after the slopejump based on spacing nuances that are impossible to notice without TAS.
6. In order to gain enough speed in a tight space like this without a chain longjump (which would have been a nightmare to work into a precise non-TAS setup), I had to hit a decent 47.x trick, which is also hard to incorporate into a precise setup for non-TAS. The best method I could find was a frame-perfect punch cancel into a frame-perfect longjump to get 47.85 speed, which is more than what any lower starting speed could produce in the same number of frames.
7. The camera is not normalized, so I basically had to do this with trial and error even after already solving a hackless proof of concept. I can only imagine how insane it would be to do this with only savestates, let alone without.
8. Any setup for the near unit-perfect starting position will have to be done very rapidly because *theres a heave-ho*.
Anything else in this TAS is easier by orders of magnitude. The blind spire jump to the red past green garden? Yeah its tough, and even with a camera setup itd be tough, but its nowhere near this difficult. The spires after the 5th and the 8th red? Mere eye-catchers. The forward sideflip on the blue castle path? Literally free. This is still a pretty difficult challenge even without the insanely precise jump at 0:39, but it pales in comparison.")
![[TAS] Star Road: The Angry Suns Pyramid Climb 0xA in 2963](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3Q3cswt4g2Q/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Star Road: The Angry Suns Pyramid Climb 0xA in 2963
Nothing particularly notable about this star. Tried out a few endings, this one seemed fastest.
Previous video by YoWuzUp: https://youtu.be/QaSfIRxI2FE
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrQtcX0snX2cmJAKeiQ3-ncnQpc_SzCex
Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dJkV2fn_4xq8VYr_aGyI1NuWXP4MwOeI_j_yRAWvyng
Discord: https://discord.gg/PYJWnBK")
![[Outdated] Star Road: Cloudrail Station 100c+Reds 0xA in 23222 (by @SR-1 and Iwer) (TAS)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3R82Z6enVV4/hqdefault.jpg "[Outdated] Star Road: Cloudrail Station 100c+Reds 0xA in 23222 (by @SR-1 and Iwer) (TAS)
The ending has been improved by SR: https://youtu.be/LPa7OnRPxbc
Thanks to SR for TASing the bee manipulation, it turned out really fast. They also saved a few seconds at the beginning, but I didnt feel like redoing the rest of the star since there are still so many underexplored stars left.
Previous reds video by Sidney: https://youtu.be/xafXfSt_9EM
Previous 100c video by Bloopiero: https://youtu.be/zTyqzHAjc-A
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrQtcX0snX2cmJAKeiQ3-ncnQpc_SzCex
Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dJkV2fn_4xq8VYr_aGyI1NuWXP4MwOeI_j_yRAWvyng
Discord: https://discord.gg/PYJWnBK")
