Uploaded September 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Note: This is TAS (tool-assisted).

Shoutouts to p_yoshi for TASing everything up until 5:43! I actually had no idea he was working on this Star until he messaged me about it a few days ago. You can find his channel here: youtube.com/channel/UC2_Hr7Qkdikzbh5fvjDKBaA

The game mechanic that is used the most throughout the video (besides backflipping) is the character's ability to dive when jumping from a backwards buttslide. If you ground pound on a slope that causes you to slide and you're facing uphill, your character will be in a backwards buttslide. From there, if you jump and then dive, the dive will launch your character forwards. Combining this with the fact that the baby penguin dives whenever your character dives, p_yoshi was able to get the baby penguin to dive in whatever direction it was previously facing, which ultimately moves the baby penguin to wherever we want. Some instances of this technique being used are at 0:58 and 1:23.

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