Bobby Bob | (SM64DS TAS) 2nd Key Door Skip as Mario for the 0 Star TAS @bobbybobsm64ds | Uploaded 2 years ago | Updated 3 hours ago
If you don't know what quantum tunneling is: youtube.com/watch?v=dFImVnkCLU0
A few months ago, we unveiled quantum tunneling and a low optimization 0 star tas to demonstrate that it was possible (youtu.be/KwLCxGTTk5M) , with the promise of a well optimized tas coming soon. That didn't happen quite as fast as we expected it to, but I decided to work on it a bit and made the 2nd key door skip segment much more optimized. In the original 0 star tas, 2nd key door skip is done starting from the exit course sun thing, because the 1 star door stays locked from behind, so we had to enter the secret slide and exit course to get back into the lobby. However, since then Migu found that we can use quantum tunneling to clip through the door to go directly back to the lobby (youtube.com/watch?v=rQjTbhTd2DM) , which is much faster and results in this segment beginning from the 1 star door instead. As for the actual video, it may look like a very simple sequence, however the out of bounds environment in this room is very difficult, with lots of rooms with not much out of bounds space between them and a very awkward entry into the 2nd key door itself, having to avoid the ceiling of the hallway room as well as the walls surrounding the door to dive in. Though it's hard to say how much time this saves over the old 0 star tas because of the slight routing change, I don't think there is much room for improvement in this section and this should pretty much complete a small section of the surprisingly little gameplay in the 0 star run.
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If you don't know what quantum tunneling is: youtube.com/watch?v=dFImVnkCLU0
A few months ago, we unveiled quantum tunneling and a low optimization 0 star tas to demonstrate that it was possible (youtu.be/KwLCxGTTk5M) , with the promise of a well optimized tas coming soon. That didn't happen quite as fast as we expected it to, but I decided to work on it a bit and made the 2nd key door skip segment much more optimized. In the original 0 star tas, 2nd key door skip is done starting from the exit course sun thing, because the 1 star door stays locked from behind, so we had to enter the secret slide and exit course to get back into the lobby. However, since then Migu found that we can use quantum tunneling to clip through the door to go directly back to the lobby (youtube.com/watch?v=rQjTbhTd2DM) , which is much faster and results in this segment beginning from the 1 star door instead. As for the actual video, it may look like a very simple sequence, however the out of bounds environment in this room is very difficult, with lots of rooms with not much out of bounds space between them and a very awkward entry into the 2nd key door itself, having to avoid the ceiling of the hallway room as well as the walls surrounding the door to dive in. Though it's hard to say how much time this saves over the old 0 star tas because of the slight routing change, I don't think there is much room for improvement in this section and this should pretty much complete a small section of the surprisingly little gameplay in the 0 star run.
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![[TAS] Super Mario 64 DS 80 Star WIP by Bobbybob and Migu (9 stars)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wzYXBXdsedQ/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Super Mario 64 DS 80 Star WIP by Bobbybob and Migu (9 stars)
This project started in July 2020, and had gradual but slow progress for a few months afterwards, but then progress slowed down significantly, mainly because of the 100 coin star. Ive had occasional periods of working on this since then, and very slowly finished up the 100 coin star before quitting for 4 months for no reason. Then, like a week ago, I realized there wasnt much work left before Whomps Fortress would be done, so I decided to finish it and release this WIP.
Shoutouts to Migu for helping a lot on this TAS, especially on certain parts of the 100 coin star https://www.youtube.com/c/Migu6
In the end, Migu and I ended up doing most of the work for this tas, however it began as a large group project with many runners interested in tasing and some tasers. Most of them quit after like a week because tasing sounds a lot more fun than it actually is, but a lot of them made some contributions to the beginning of the creation of this tas, especially the castle entry sequence and routing. Shoutouts to Adeal, p_yoshi, Sharkey91, WildGeffe64, VTMagno, SkicoNow (I think), and Emily The Koopa (I think)
Further shoutouts to Rupa and PolishedGrain for being god gamers at 80 star without cheating
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aPnPnMUyoQ
Additional shoutouts to ThePianoEnthusiast for getting wr in 150 star a year ago with a bathroom break during the run, that has very little to do with this TAS but is quite funny.
I am unsure about the future of this tas, but there will likely either be more updates soon or none ever ever again. Many of the early segments of this tas are likely improvable because of being made when I was much newer to tasing this game, as well as me generally only working on this TAS to escape the high optimization of the 150 star tas. Because of this, I partially dont see much reason to continue the production of this tas, but I also may decide to continue this as a slightly less optimized project than the 150 star tas (Though the optimization that takes the most time is rarely actually noticeable to viewers and lower optimization would make this tas progress much faster than other sm64ds tases)")
