SM64SR-# | Super mario star road - Hidden Palace Finale secret star (6x A presses) @SR-1 | Uploaded August 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
I collect the secret star in Hidden Palace Finale in 6x A presses. This is a TAS

This was previously done in 8x A presses by sidney: youtu.be/oS3RymHU6Ag

Since then, Sidney (@sidney600sr) found the HSG spot in the lake and suggested using that to do a hyperjump to the higher parts of the level. They also suggested jumping from the left purple roof to the pipe on the floating island to reverse enter it and save the A presses required to go up the walljump section. I had many potential blueprints to save A presses using these ideas but all of them just barely didn't work. That was until yesterday when I finally found the strat you see in this video which saves two A presses on both stars. What I do is built ~198 HSPD in the HSG spot. Then I use a jump out of water to redirect that speed, do another jump to the left wall, wallkick off that wall and do another wallkick on the floating island in order to just barely ledgegrab it. After entering the pipe the rest of the strat is basically the same as Sidney's 8xA TAS.

This reduces the total 130 star A press count from 67 to 65

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