Sidney600SR | SMSR - Colorful Coral Caverns 100 Coins + Red Coins - 0x A Presses @sidney600sr | Uploaded May 2017 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
I collect the 100 coin star and red coins in colorful coral caverns using no a presses. This is an improvement from YO_WUZ_UP's run which collected 100 coins (together with break through the floor) in 4x A Presses. You can find that video here: youtu.be/yk5hZVESlLM

Since then Notchmath made me aware of a HSW spot right near the spawn, that can be used to build up a ton of speed. What do we need this speed for? Well to clip directly into the break through the floor star area. Unfortunately it comes at a cost, we have to build up speed for almost two hours as we need around -40000 speed to clip through to a spot where Mario can stand.

Interestingly this level is one of two levels where you can only collect 99 coins in 0x (normally, the other being gloomy garden). The coins which were collected in 1x before were the ones up above on the bridges. The dilemma then came how to collect these coins in 0x, in order to get to 100. Well, as it turns out we have "Break Through the Floor", which has floors which are made of lava, so what we can do, luckily as there are only two floors, we can use the lava to lavaboost our way up to the top, thereby making the star 0x!

It is also worth noting that, collecting a star together with the 100c is optimal as it takes 1 A press to even enter the level. that is why these two are combined.

Also, I do have to appologize for my horrible swimming, I was getting bored toward the end as the swimming section takes almost 9 minutes...

.m64 stats:
Length: 1 hour 53.4 minutes
Frames: 408341 (204150 input)
Re-records: 383
Time to make: ~ 2 hours