Iwer Sonsch | Star Road: Miscellaneous ideas for Playful Red Coins + 100 coins (TAS) @iwersonsch5131 | Uploaded October 2022 | Updated October 2024, 8 minutes ago.
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Earlier today, I went through a potential route for the coin star in Colossal Candy Clutter (youtu.be/ivgAu21oKzM ).
Upon watching it, Sidney (youtube.com/channel/UCla5Eru3DbPgxz6LwSBOyaw ) pointed out that two vital timesaves assumed in the run hadn't been confirmed yet:
1. returning from the window red (now confirmed)
2. ascending the cards using lowered chuckya (now considered infeasible).
So I made this TAS from the pipe in order to look into those two ideas.
There is a third large timesave idea that I haven't been able to confirm or disprove:
3. lowering the flyguys in order to twirl from the ground level to the high secret and to the red above the blue coin block.
I was however able to demonstrate that we can return from the dominoes to the pipe, which may come in handy during flyguy manipulation (this movement is NOT required for the slidekick).
Alternatively, we could most likely descend along the domino path to get to the chuckya and card red from there.
Each flyguy bounce is estimated to save around 70 seconds compared to an extra climb to the pipes if the manipulation can be done quickly.
Without flyguy bounces, my estimate for this star pairing is 8 minutes.
Go join the Star Road TAS Discord server to talk about routing advancements like this one: discord.gg/PYJWnBK
Earlier today, I went through a potential route for the coin star in Colossal Candy Clutter (youtu.be/ivgAu21oKzM ).
Upon watching it, Sidney (youtube.com/channel/UCla5Eru3DbPgxz6LwSBOyaw ) pointed out that two vital timesaves assumed in the run hadn't been confirmed yet:
1. returning from the window red (now confirmed)
2. ascending the cards using lowered chuckya (now considered infeasible).
So I made this TAS from the pipe in order to look into those two ideas.
There is a third large timesave idea that I haven't been able to confirm or disprove:
3. lowering the flyguys in order to twirl from the ground level to the high secret and to the red above the blue coin block.
I was however able to demonstrate that we can return from the dominoes to the pipe, which may come in handy during flyguy manipulation (this movement is NOT required for the slidekick).
Alternatively, we could most likely descend along the domino path to get to the chuckya and card red from there.
Each flyguy bounce is estimated to save around 70 seconds compared to an extra climb to the pipes if the manipulation can be done quickly.
Without flyguy bounces, my estimate for this star pairing is 8 minutes.
![[TAS] Star Road: Chuckya Harbor 100c+Reds 0xA in 33537](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PRWJ5zZ2Z_Y/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Star Road: Chuckya Harbor 100c+Reds 0xA in 33537
This video is a big timesave over both the previous red coin TAS and the previous 100 coin segmented run.
The main timesaves over reds are a cloneless stargrab and collecting the underwater reds with 15.2 swim speed.
The main timesaves over 100 coins are accessing many fast coins from hard-to-reach areas and collecting the underwater coins with 15.2 swim speed.
I could have conserved 16 swim speed by riding the shell for longer but I didnt feel like it would have been fast.
The stairs were really time-consuming to TAS, I gave up on edgegrinds for the last 3 flights and just did Eru drops which are a bit slower but a lot less annoying.
Thanks to Marbler for his advice on the flyguy manip. I still dont really understand it but Im glad it somehow worked out lol. Ill look more into it if I have to do it again.
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrQtcX0snX2cmJAKeiQ3-ncnQpc_SzCex
Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dJkV2fn_4xq8VYr_aGyI1NuWXP4MwOeI_j_yRAWvyng
Previous reds record by Sidney: https://youtu.be/kSqVSZPQaWQ
Previous 100c record by Maplestrip: https://youtu.be/4j8Gebzz67g")
![[TAS] Star Road: 1-7 Bob-omb Islands 100 Coins in 21187 (with star 2)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RZBJyG8W9K8/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Star Road: 1-7 Bob-omb Islands 100 Coins in 21187 (with star 2)
This TAS saves approximately 65 seconds on 100 coins, 35 seconds on the ship star, and another 15 seconds by combining them.
For the ship star, I was somehow able to fall for a few frames and start the Pedro spot a good amount further forward.
Total time is 30467.
Previous 100c video by Yo_Wuz_Up: https://youtu.be/15zBrWMHw1I
Solo ship video by Plush: https://youtu.be/GqCWikY3U54
Encoded by TASCompbot on Discord.
Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dJkV2fn_4xq8VYr_aGyI1NuWXP4MwOeI_j_yRAWvyng
Discord: https://discord.gg/PYJWnBK")
![[TAS] SMTW: C4 105c+parasol route idea (probably not worth it)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SBaW5179NsI/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] SMTW: C4 105c+parasol route idea (probably not worth it)
This route could be close to competitive in both 115 star and 65 star (since the latter already uses the capless route for the parasol star), but its probably either not faster than 100c+maze or too hard to be worth the risk.")
![[Remake, segmented] TWDE: Wingcap skip for Any% (26-33 star)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SVFgxPR-dCE/hqdefault.jpg "[Remake, segmented] TWDE: Wingcap skip for Any% (26-33 star)
Skipping the wingcap in Bowsers Dreamy Promenade and removing the need for the wingcap switch for accessing the end of the game. This was already known about, but nobody seems to have uploaded a video demonstration of it, and there seems to have been some confusion about the difficulty of the skip.
The first-frame wallkick on the long fall can be skipped if your height isnt as abysmal as in my demo. However, controlling your position on these wallkicks can be pretty difficult so this is definitely a very advanced strat.
The angles should be consistent, though, as long as you wallkick the exact same walls the exact same number of times as me.
Since the wingcap switch is locked behind 38 stars (and a tricky arch wallkick) and the path to the end of the game is only locked behind a 33 star door, this already lowers the minimum star count by 5 stars just on its own.
Separately, a light chuckya clip through one of the 33 star doors to course 7 had already been demonstrated in a Theory TAS by ShiN3 (https://youtu.be/au1njOW2Nhs ). Together, these strats lower the star count to the 26 stars required for the metal cap.
Done in 5 savestates because I didnt go for a lower savestate count.")
