Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Yoooooo. I'm back with another 7 Star TAS in another Super Mario 64 ROM Hack. This one is Shyrate Desert made by @dorrieal released in March of 2019. Simple, fun, and cool.

There are just 7 Stars. No Bowser fight.
This is an All Stars, 100%, Full Game, Tool-Assisted Speedrun.
Finally, although timing usually ends on last input, I stopped timing once Mario lands from the last star grab.

My Comments (Spoilers):
- Collision is a little weird in some areas. Certain terrain and objects appear to have a specific shape, but are actually disguised as walls or out of bounds. So you'll see me avoiding some terrain because of this.
- I couldn't HSWK into the anchor's pole. Angle from C^ Sliding wasn't good enough. Seems possible though.
- Fly To The Tall Pillar actually has a wing-cap route. But the route I used was about 10 seconds faster. I was going to add "Extras" like I've previously done for other small SM64 ROM Hack TASes I've done, but this was the only route that was different enough from the rest. And, it even borrows half its movement from the "Board The Shyrate Ship" star. So, not worth it.
- Reds & 100 Coins route movement looks so bad lol. The red coin rocks have hitboxes that sit above them which you can jumpkick and break. You can avoid this by ground-pounding them on the edges. I do both of these options depending on which one provides the fastest movement to the next area. Sometimes they even tied. There's better movement I'm sure but I just wanted to get these stars over with.

(Star)(Time)(Re-Records):
Inside The Big Pyramid - (47"90)(4,155)
Board The Shyrate Ship - (45"70)(9,672)
Fly To The Tall Pillar - (19"97)(1,264)
Box Puzzle In The Little Pyramid - (18"83)(2,511)
Vanish Cap Atop The Pyramid - (19"77)(2,686)
8 Red Coin Rocks & 100 Coin Star - (1'14"10)(14,771)
(Timing starts from 1st VI the course is loaded. Timing ends on the 1st VI Mario performs the star celebration.)

Effective Re-Records (Used in 7 Star TAS): 27,733
Total Re-Records Overall: 39,047

SM64 Shyrate Desert (Release & Download):
youtube.com/watch?v=vIMNPUGUKhM