Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I show what A presses would be used for collecting the SSL pyramid stars when you enter the pyramid from the lower entrance. Specifically, 2 of the pyramid stars require A presses when entering from the lower entrance:
0:00 Inside the Ancient Pyramid: 1 A Press
1:51 Pyramid Puzzle: 1 A Press
The A press is for jumping off of the pole and onto the grindel.
This is an updated version of my previous video that answered the same question (youtu.be/0nnOsGgliJc). Since then, @sidney600misc found that you can use the non-descended elevator to get from the grindel to the Inside the Ancient Pyramid star, which reduced the star from 2 A presses to 1 A press (in the context of entering from the lower entrance).
Now you may be wondering, why is it relevant how many A presses are required when entering from the lower entrance? It's because the strats that involve entering from the upper entrance are basically at a dead end, since we've been unable to find any way to escape the elevator 0xA. And so, our only remaining hope for lowering the A press counts for the pyramid stars is to use the lower entrance, and hope that the A press counts of these lower entrance strats can somehow be reduced to 0xA. Thus, I'm documenting the current state of the lower entrance strats, in case it sparks any ideas for how they might be improved. The lower entrance strats originally required way more A presses than the upper entrance strats, but at the moment, both strats for both stars are at 1xA. So we just need one more breakthrough for the lower entrance strats, and then finally the stars would be at 0xA.
Thanks to @ds27315 for helping TAS the strats shown in the video.
I show what A presses would be used for collecting the SSL pyramid stars when you enter the pyramid from the lower entrance. Specifically, 2 of the pyramid stars require A presses when entering from the lower entrance:
0:00 Inside the Ancient Pyramid: 1 A Press
1:51 Pyramid Puzzle: 1 A Press
The A press is for jumping off of the pole and onto the grindel.
This is an updated version of my previous video that answered the same question (youtu.be/0nnOsGgliJc). Since then, @sidney600misc found that you can use the non-descended elevator to get from the grindel to the Inside the Ancient Pyramid star, which reduced the star from 2 A presses to 1 A press (in the context of entering from the lower entrance).
Now you may be wondering, why is it relevant how many A presses are required when entering from the lower entrance? It's because the strats that involve entering from the upper entrance are basically at a dead end, since we've been unable to find any way to escape the elevator 0xA. And so, our only remaining hope for lowering the A press counts for the pyramid stars is to use the lower entrance, and hope that the A press counts of these lower entrance strats can somehow be reduced to 0xA. Thus, I'm documenting the current state of the lower entrance strats, in case it sparks any ideas for how they might be improved. The lower entrance strats originally required way more A presses than the upper entrance strats, but at the moment, both strats for both stars are at 1xA. So we just need one more breakthrough for the lower entrance strats, and then finally the stars would be at 0xA.
Thanks to @ds27315 for helping TAS the strats shown in the video.
