Really_Tall | Super Mario 64 DS - New 50 Star Door Skip @Really_Tall | Uploaded 7 years ago | Updated 2 hours ago
This skip makes it possible to get past the 50 star door as someone other than Mario for the first time ever, specifically as Luigi. If it can be done as Mario (still awaiting confirmation) then the game can now be beaten with 0 rabbit clips in an Any% TAS, likely saving time and requiring a new TAS to be created! Not only would the lengthy time of catching the rabbit be skipped, we would no longer need to talk to Toad to spawn the rabbits in the first place. This may also affect the 150 Star TAS but implications are currently uncertain.
To start off I make my way to the mirror room as Luigi. Once there I do a glitch found just today by J_duude: getting Out of Bounds using the Wario painting (youtu.be/zT-YBK1NrA8). He did it by diving into the painting, and discovered it completely by accident. However, I do it using a sideflip, which means I can do a dive reset (youtu.be/LYE3pbvhlcE) once I clip through. I backflip after this dive reset to land on the seam of the room. It's easier than in most rooms as the actual floor is rectangular and thus stretches past the walls next to the mirror, meaning there is a large OoB space where I can walk. The exact details of how the clip works are still not fully understood, but we believe it is the painting frame that allows this clip to happen. Also unknown is whether this clip could occur with any other painting.
Once OoB, all it takes is a triple jump with Y run to make it up to past the 50 star door. The textures for all the rooms outside the mirror room would not usually be loaded here, but I have some cheats on that make the textures visible. I actually stay OoB by landing inside one of the steps, which means that my method of endless stairs skip (youtu.be/uF2mOEEDm4w) could be done extremely fast directly afterwards in a TAS. However, I just dive into Over the Rainbows from underneath for fun.
This skip makes it possible to get past the 50 star door as someone other than Mario for the first time ever, specifically as Luigi. If it can be done as Mario (still awaiting confirmation) then the game can now be beaten with 0 rabbit clips in an Any% TAS, likely saving time and requiring a new TAS to be created! Not only would the lengthy time of catching the rabbit be skipped, we would no longer need to talk to Toad to spawn the rabbits in the first place. This may also affect the 150 Star TAS but implications are currently uncertain.
To start off I make my way to the mirror room as Luigi. Once there I do a glitch found just today by J_duude: getting Out of Bounds using the Wario painting (youtu.be/zT-YBK1NrA8). He did it by diving into the painting, and discovered it completely by accident. However, I do it using a sideflip, which means I can do a dive reset (youtu.be/LYE3pbvhlcE) once I clip through. I backflip after this dive reset to land on the seam of the room. It's easier than in most rooms as the actual floor is rectangular and thus stretches past the walls next to the mirror, meaning there is a large OoB space where I can walk. The exact details of how the clip works are still not fully understood, but we believe it is the painting frame that allows this clip to happen. Also unknown is whether this clip could occur with any other painting.
Once OoB, all it takes is a triple jump with Y run to make it up to past the 50 star door. The textures for all the rooms outside the mirror room would not usually be loaded here, but I have some cheats on that make the textures visible. I actually stay OoB by landing inside one of the steps, which means that my method of endless stairs skip (youtu.be/uF2mOEEDm4w) could be done extremely fast directly afterwards in a TAS. However, I just dive into Over the Rainbows from underneath for fun.
