pannenkoek2012 | SM64 - Shocking Arrow Lifts! - No Buttons Allowed @pannenkoek2012 | Uploaded 10 years ago | Updated 7 hours ago
I collect the star Shocking Arrow Lifts! in Wet-Dry World without using any buttons (I only use the joystick and adjust the camera angle).
To see more of my No Buttons Allowed videos, you can go to my playlist of them here: youtube.com/playlist?list=SPmvvhlevqC2fXLL55ZQT1cesNmM2qHPn1
I collect the star Shocking Arrow Lifts! in Wet-Dry World without using any buttons (I only use the joystick and adjust the camera angle).
To see more of my No Buttons Allowed videos, you can go to my playlist of them here: youtube.com/playlist?list=SPmvvhlevqC2fXLL55ZQT1cesNmM2qHPn1
![SM64 - Jolly Roger Bay 100 Coins & Red Coins on the Ship Afloat - 1x A Presses [OUTDATED]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/e0rB9q4Y_U0/hqdefault.jpg "SM64 - Jolly Roger Bay 100 Coins & Red Coins on the Ship Afloat - 1x A Presses [OUTDATED]
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I collect both the 100 coin star and the star Red Coins on the Ship Afloat in Jolly Roger Bay using 1 A press. Individually, the 100 coin star requires 1 A press, and Red Coins on the Ship Afloat requires 1 A press. That makes a total of 2 A presses, whereas collecting them together only requires 1 A press. Thus, I recommend combining these two stars, as it is the optimal strategy.
This video is an improvement from my previous video in which I collected these stars in 2 A presses. You can find that video here: https://youtu.be/GBRLdHZYabo. Since then, Tyler and I worked out a way to ground pound the blue coin block without needing to press A. You see, we had known for a while that a goomba bounce could be used to ground pound the blue coin block, though it seemed impossible to lure goombas far enough [https://youtu.be/eQ2GG08l3j8]. We knew we could lure goombas a bit by repeatedly knocking into them, but this required too much health to be used in practice [https://youtu.be/4jujYUtJm8E]. Fortunately, Tyler came along and analyzed the code behind goombas behavior, and realized that there were ways to exploit their behavior to extend their chase sequence. By doing so, Tyler was able to make goombas walk further away from their home than they normally would [https://youtu.be/lonr-XBRwnY]. Seeing Tylers progress and hearing his explanation of the exploit, I played around with it myself and ultimately worked out a technique that saved the A press [https://youtu.be/955e-pay6bg].
Here is how the goombas code works: When Mario gets close to a goomba, it will notice him and then chase after him. This chase ends when any of the 3 following conditions are met:
(1) the goomba moves too far away from its home
(2) Mario moves too far away from the goombas home
(3) Mario moves too far away from the goomba
During a chase, the goombas target angle is towards Mario, and the goomba turns to try and face this target angle. However (and this is where things get complicated), there are 3 situations that extend the chase:
(1) when the goomba walks into a ledge
(2) when the goomba walks onto a steep slope or into a wall
(3) when the goomba collides with another goomba
When any of these occur, the goombas target angle is recalculated (using complicated equations that arent too important for this discussion). Thus, the target angle is no longer being set to towards Mario - instead, it will just stay constant, unless another chase extension is performed. Following a chase extension, the goomba will just turn towards its target angle, and once it reaches this angle, then the chase stops.
Upon reading this behavior, you may have realized just how we can exploit it. We simply need to have the goomba chase Mario, then extend the chase, and then repeatedly extend it so that the goombas facing angle never actually reaches its target angle. In other words, the goomba will constantly be turning towards its target angle, but we have the goomba keep bumping into things that cause this angle to change, and so it never manages to face its current target angle and instead just keeps chasing forever. This is precisely what I do in the video to move a goomba all the way to the blue coin block. Using a rocks steep slope and a wall, I extend Goomba As chase to move it far away from its home. Then, using a rocks steep slope, a wall, and Goomba A, I extend Goomba Bs chase all the way to the blue coin block!
.m64 stats:
Length: 3 minutes and 26 seconds
Re-records: 5694
Frames: 12371 (6150 input)
Time to Make: ~7 hours
ABC Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmvvhlevqC2d6vis077yFHuLJHYtTtqe_
ABC Routes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ypRVVRyf4x-v8GqCSmKYnicrfKSIjao3Y1ZVl52RIyM/edit")
![SM64 - Plunder in the Sunken Ship - 0.5x A Presses [OUTDATED]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/enTbj3rTPkQ/hqdefault.jpg "SM64 - Plunder in the Sunken Ship - 0.5x A Presses [OUTDATED]
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I collect the star Plunder in the Sunken Ship in Jolly Roger Bay using 0.5 A presses. The A press is so that I can do a little kick into the wall of the ship, allowing me to fall down near the star box.
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: http://youtu.be/fdYAXENWsUs. Since then, thanks to Gaehne D.s suggestion, I discovered that a small kick into the wall of the ship provided enough horizontal mobility to collect the star. Simply falling down (using 0 A presses) doesnt provide quite enough horizontal distance, so I had to use 0.5 A presses.
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.
ABC Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmvvhlevqC2d6vis077yFHuLJHYtTtqe_
ABC Routes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ypRVVRyf4x-v8GqCSmKYnicrfKSIjao3Y1ZVl52RIyM/edit")
![SM64 - Through the Jet Stream - 1x A Presses [OUTDATED]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gzlkO-N_UaE/hqdefault.jpg "SM64 - Through the Jet Stream - 1x A Presses [OUTDATED]
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I collect the star Through the Jet Stream in Jolly Roger Bay using 1 A press. The A press is to jump to the star inside the jet stream. Note that if I simply waited out the metal cap directly under the star, I would be pushed out sideways, and thus I would not collect the star.
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/SpFhu-2Jx-g. Since then, I discovered that I could dive-recover from the rock onto the metal cap, and then ground pound to open it. This was thanks to Gaehne D., who suggested I may be able to AB-kick the box open from on top of the rock if I had enough speed. This didnt end up working, but then I realized that with enough speed, I may be able to just get on top of the box.
Note that I use pausing in order to press B on two consecutive in-game frames, the first B to dive and the second B to recover. This is necessary for avoiding dust frames, and thus conserving the most speed during the air time.
ABC Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmvvhlevqC2d6vis077yFHuLJHYtTtqe_
ABC Routes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ypRVVRyf4x-v8GqCSmKYnicrfKSIjao3Y1ZVl52RIyM/edit")
