Sidney600SR | SMSR - Sandy Slide Secret Red Coins - 0.5x A Presses @sidney600sr | Uploaded May 2017 | Updated October 2024, 50 minutes ago.
A is being held the entire video.
I collect the red coin star in the secret level "Sandy Slide Secret" using 0.5x A Presses. A is being held in order to kick up slopes and such as this star doesn't look possible without that. It was long believed that this star would need to be 1x, which would be to get onto the pink structure, but I figured out that C^ hyper speed and an AB kick would be sufficient to clear the gap!
.m64 stats:
Length: 2 minutes and 16 seconds
Frames: 8140 (4050 input)
Re-records: 235
Time to make: ~ 30 minutes
A is being held the entire video.
I collect the red coin star in the secret level "Sandy Slide Secret" using 0.5x A Presses. A is being held in order to kick up slopes and such as this star doesn't look possible without that. It was long believed that this star would need to be 1x, which would be to get onto the pink structure, but I figured out that C^ hyper speed and an AB kick would be sufficient to clear the gap!
.m64 stats:
Length: 2 minutes and 16 seconds
Frames: 8140 (4050 input)
Re-records: 235
Time to make: ~ 30 minutes
![SMSR - Top of the Factory - 0.5x A Presses [OUTDATED]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Hox8NTaM-fY/hqdefault.jpg "SMSR - Top of the Factory - 0.5x A Presses [OUTDATED]
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https://youtu.be/FyZ8h9pDWF8
A is being held the entire video.
Really simple one this, hadnt realized until really recently that you can simply AB-kick your way up the last slope... lol, still the quest for 0x continues, as that is still an improvement.
(Paragraph is courtesy of Pannenkoek2012, too lazy to write my own)
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.
.m64 stats:
Length: 1 minute and 6 seconds
Frames: 3935 (1950 input)
Re-records: 78
Time to make: ~ 10 minutes")
![SMSR - Pole Jumping - 8x A Presses [OUTDATED]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Jf544gHf6Qg/hqdefault.jpg "SMSR - Pole Jumping - 8x A Presses [OUTDATED]
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https://youtu.be/Qbqe5_wclpY
I collect the star Pole Jumping in 8 A Presses.
This star is stupid, poles are literally the worst thing, though this is the best for now until some other ways of getting up to the top is possible.
The A Presses are as follows:
#1: To jump off the first pole
#2: To walljump to get higher up
#3: To sideflip to get to the chuckya
#4: To jump off the second pole
#5: To walljump to reach the third pole
#6: To jump off the third pole
#7: To walljump to reach the top
#8: Longjump to reach the star
.m64 stats:
Length: 1 minute 31 seconds
Frames: 5459 (2700 input)
Re-records: 286
Time to make: ~ 45 minutes")
![SMSR - Moving Target - 1x A Presses [OUTDATED]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KES9kti80LM/hqdefault.jpg "SMSR - Moving Target - 1x A Presses [OUTDATED]
THIS VIDEO IS OUTDATED - FIND A BETTER VERSION OF THIS VIDEO HERE: https://youtu.be/GaO83-0JjDc
This is me collecting the Moving Target star in super mario star road with only 1 A press.
The A presses are as follows:
#1: To get onto the target
Maplestrip showed an alternate way to get to the mainland here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouJnhm8dEIM
My way however uses VSC (Vertical speed conservation) in order to get up to a very high platform. From here you get more possibilities than just dive recovering your way over to the mainland. Therefore this strat has more room for improvement when it comes to other stars.
.m64 stats:
Length: 1 minutes and 35 seconds
Frames 5725 (2850 input)
Re-records: 134")
