SM64SR-# | Super mario star road - Fluffy Castle Climb (0x A presses) @SR-1 | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 19 seconds ago.
I collect "Fluffy Castle Climb" in 0x A presses. This is a TAS

This was previously done in 1x A press by Sidney: youtu.be/hO2-nFqaJi0?si=17uKgikuHRzKdKiH

Since then it was realized that the bees found in Cloudrail station and Mad musical mess are basically just flyguys with three key changes in behavior, namely that they do everything twice as fast, they can move through walls and they don't give you a twirl when you bounce on them. And since they are basically just fast flyguys this also meant that you can manipulate the bees in the same way you can manipulate the flyguys. However the only people in the community who knew how flyguy, and by extension bee manipulation worked didn't want to do it since bee manipulation is very tedious and difficult. So, since I had nothing to do a few days ago I decided to learn how to do bee manipulation and after a few rudiment attempts I finally got the general principle on how to manipulate the bees efficiently.
Here's what I do: First I lure the train flower bee out of its home radius in a position near the fluffy castle. Then, I go out of its draw distance sphere so it stays in place and won't fly back to its home. After that I make the bee go into a twirl using the pendulum by going from the low zone which stars at 400 units below the bee, to the high zone which starts at 200 units below the very fast. I then briefly activate the bee so it spirals upwards to about y=900. Next I go back to the start and go on the elevator from which I can manipulate the bee further. I make it go into a spiral by once again going from the low to the high zone really quick, this time by using the raising of the elevator and a well timed DR but after going to the high zone to make the bee go into the spiral and change its direction I immediately go back into the medium zone which causes the bee to stop twirling and now it would start facing back to its home, however before it can do that I go back into the high zone with yet another dive recover which causes the bee to fly to the new angle instead and conveniently I did it in such a way that it lunges towards the castle. Since the bee ended up being to far away though I went down from the castle while making the bee fly to y=1300 which was a more favorable position. After doing the same elevator maneuver once more to make the bee fly to the castle once more, I could then reactivate it from the top platform and while strategically manipulating it while on the donut platform I can then bounce on the bee and reach the wing cap boxes and from there the TAS is basically the same as Sidney's 1xA TAS.

This reduces the total 130 star A press count from 54 to 53.

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