Sidney600SR | SMSR - Wall Kick Up the Tower - 1x A Presses @sidney600sr | Uploaded June 2017 | Updated October 2024, 55 minutes ago.
I collect the star "Wall Kick Up the Tower" Using 1 A Press. This is an improvement over the last video where I collected the star using 2 A Presses. You can find that video here: youtu.be/Y7Z-9H7MfEc
Since then Zimbo found a way to enter the pedro spot in 0x, which made it possible to get this star using 1 a press. However the way that it was entered was using the first flyguy, but the problem with that was that you couldn't turn Mario around to face the right way towards the tower. So what we do instead is use the other flyguy which is much higher up to get high enough to turn around and get into the pedro spot, from there we build up speed for 3 minutes to allow us to jump all the way to the top of the tower!
The A Presses are as follows:
#1: To jump from the pedro spot to the top of the tower.
Discovery of improvement: youtu.be/ehm6VybssKc
.m64 stats:
Length: 4 minutes and 1 seconds
Frames: 14442 (7200 input)
Re-records: 638
I collect the star "Wall Kick Up the Tower" Using 1 A Press. This is an improvement over the last video where I collected the star using 2 A Presses. You can find that video here: youtu.be/Y7Z-9H7MfEc
Since then Zimbo found a way to enter the pedro spot in 0x, which made it possible to get this star using 1 a press. However the way that it was entered was using the first flyguy, but the problem with that was that you couldn't turn Mario around to face the right way towards the tower. So what we do instead is use the other flyguy which is much higher up to get high enough to turn around and get into the pedro spot, from there we build up speed for 3 minutes to allow us to jump all the way to the top of the tower!
The A Presses are as follows:
#1: To jump from the pedro spot to the top of the tower.
Discovery of improvement: youtu.be/ehm6VybssKc
.m64 stats:
Length: 4 minutes and 1 seconds
Frames: 14442 (7200 input)
Re-records: 638
![SMSR - Hidden Palace Finale - 11x A Presses [OUTDATED]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DmG2Gu2wq_s/hqdefault.jpg "SMSR - Hidden Palace Finale - 11x A Presses [OUTDATED]
THIS VIDEO IS OUTDATED, SEE A BETTER VERSION OF THIS VIDEO HERE: https://youtu.be/VUDo7a3K-2k
Now the amount of A presses in this level seems huge, and that is well because it is. This level has so few things to work with that saving A presses in this one is almost impossible. This is least amount of A presses Ive managed so far to reach the very top. 11 A presses in 13 seconds, too bad...
A presses are as follows:
#1-#4: To get to the floating platform
#5: To longjump from the platform to get to the balcony
#6-8: To get to the pipe
#9-11: To get to the the top of the level
.m64 stats:
Length: 40.5 seconds
Frames: 2432 (1200 input)
Re-records: 461")
![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]
THIS VIDEO IS OUTDATED - SEE A BETTER VERSION OF THIS VIDEO HERE:
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")
