MCMoo Shroo | [TAS] Yoshi Star Galaxy - Saddle Up With Yoshi (0x A Presses) [M] @mcmooshroo2974 | Uploaded 3 years ago | Updated 1 hour ago
Shoutouts to SaladBowl for figuring out how to this stage and explaining it to me. Absolute Chad.
Ignore the weird movement from 2:50 to 3:07. I was trying to launch from the spring onto Yoshi's Egg and start a triple bounce onto the small brown planet. I was unable to get it, sadly, and overwrote all my savestates before 2:58, hence the going back and forth from the spring to the grassy area.
This trick would have saved the second of three required damage boosts, therefore saving the death in this stage.
Shoutouts to SaladBowl for figuring out how to this stage and explaining it to me. Absolute Chad.
Ignore the weird movement from 2:50 to 3:07. I was trying to launch from the spring onto Yoshi's Egg and start a triple bounce onto the small brown planet. I was unable to get it, sadly, and overwrote all my savestates before 2:58, hence the going back and forth from the spring to the grassy area.
This trick would have saved the second of three required damage boosts, therefore saving the death in this stage.
![[TAS] Yoshi Star Galaxy - Saddle Up With Yoshi (0x A Presses) [M]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oDwTyycRkYw/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Yoshi Star Galaxy - Saddle Up With Yoshi (0x A Presses) [M]
Shoutouts to SaladBowl for figuring out how to this stage and explaining it to me. Absolute Chad.
Ignore the weird movement from 2:50 to 3:07. I was trying to launch from the spring onto Yoshis Egg and start a triple bounce onto the small brown planet. I was unable to get it, sadly, and overwrote all my savestates before 2:58, hence the going back and forth from the spring to the grassy area.
This trick would have saved the second of three required damage boosts, therefore saving the death in this stage.")
![SMG2: Flipsville Galaxy - Flipsville’s New Digs (1x A Press) [M] {Spliced}](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ov0UGaSr_qc/hqdefault.jpg "SMG2: Flipsville Galaxy - Flipsville’s New Digs (1x A Press) [M] {Spliced}
Imagine dying to a fuzzy after collecting 4 silver stars and having to splice your run")
![SMG2: Starshine Beach Galaxy - Surf, Sand, and Silver Stars (0x A Presses) [M] {TAS}](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pYMJ3tNISJ0/hqdefault.jpg "SMG2: Starshine Beach Galaxy - Surf, Sand, and Silver Stars (0x A Presses) [M] {TAS}
With a well-timed Blimp Berry grab, you can avoid fluttering to get the silver star above the statue")
![SMG2: Cloudy Court Galaxy - Silver Stars In The Purple Pond (0x A Presses) [M] {Spliced}](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/q5-G7drUkFY/hqdefault.jpg "SMG2: Cloudy Court Galaxy - Silver Stars In The Purple Pond (0x A Presses) [M] {Spliced}
This is a spliced run of Cloudy Court Secret courtesy of me and PurpleSun. His channel can be found here, although Im pretty sure if youre reading this you already know him: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyxsDlkuNy-MCPEuXIi7lGg
His original footage can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v CBvGA64BMc
This star has one of the most interesting saves in the whole game, and shoutouts to Purplesun for proving it to be possible.
I spend the first half of the stage getting collectibles and using the abundance of cloud flowers to get around: 30 coins for the luma and about 30 for starbits for enemy manipulation later on. The coins are surprisingly easier to come by than the starbits; if there were a little fewer starbits from either the cymbal or Star Piece Cluster (yeah apparently they have a name https://www.mariowiki.com/Star_Piece_Cluster), this level might require a forced death in the run.
A small thing worth noting, it looks like I bumped the galoomba in midair at 1:35, not sure how I managed to do that, especially while ground-pounding.
Anyway, the real magic starts on the Lumas planet. One of the silver stars is just far enough anyway that 3 clouds cant cover it. Even with all 3 clouds, it just isnt enough to cross get there and back. Luckily, there are 3 paragoombas on this planet, just waiting to get manipulated. By shooting these paragoombas with starbits, Purp knocks them down onto the poisonous floor, which they can survive somehow (maybe its their little shoes). By continually dazing them, he manages to get them close enough to chain a triple bounce off of. This trick can cover a lot of horizontal distance, and an airspin provides enough height to get back onto the cloud level.
Purp also uses turnaround spins to get across gaps that are too far for a normal airspin. By walking off a ledge while facing the opposite direction, you can travel much further (as both Mario and Luigi accelerate much faster when traveling backward. This movement quirk is quite helpful for the ABC.
Another small thing worth noting is the cloud bridge at 5:38. (I think I just coined that term, but its pretty self-explanatory). By making multiple clouds at the same elevation, you can walk across them with needing to jump or airspin. It might not sound like much, but its a pretty handy way to grab something (like another cloud flower) while maximizing distance and spawnable clouds.")
![SMG2: Supermassive Galaxy - In Full Bloom (2x A Presses) [M] {LOTAD}](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qDlXMTllACY/hqdefault.jpg "SMG2: Supermassive Galaxy - In Full Bloom (2x A Presses) [M] {LOTAD}
This one goes out to BillyWAR because he told me to do this one. You can read all about him in this dedicated discord server that I created in his honor. https://discord.gg/qWVzVF6
Oops wait I think thats the SMG ABC Discord link mb. You should still click it though. And join. And work on the ABC. That would be rad")
![[TAS] SMG2: Starshine Beach Galaxy - Purple Coin Beach Dash (0x A Presses) [M]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rDMxCixTmvc/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] SMG2: Starshine Beach Galaxy - Purple Coin Beach Dash (0x A Presses) [M]
Ok I have time to give this star a thorough explanation so here goes:
This star was like the easiest RTA (1x) for a long time where you just jump into the star at the end, but it had serious potential to be lower with all the ledges, objects, and Yoshi. As far back as 2017, Annoying thought it would be possible to bounce off a Smeech or chain several of them together from further away to grab the star.
By 2018, we brought it down to 0.5x by Yoshi fluttering off the dock, landing on a lured Smeech, and fluttering into the star. I think this was proven by Bloopiero but I cant find the video for it if there was one.
In 2020, Salad mentioned 2 Smeeches were probably enough to grab the star with just an airspin to start it off, and talked about how Smeeches have a weird home that they return to after they chase Mario. Im not sure what his actual plan was after luring both the Smeeches but it was probably similar to what was done in this video.
Anyway, tonight I independently discovered you could push Smeeches if you were behind them (already known), push them if you already had a Smeech on Yoshis nose (probably already known), and that you could turn Smeeches to face whatever direction you want by luring them away from their home and having them fly back in the desired direction (probably known by Salad). I was just the person to put all these together to grab the star 0x
So that is the evolution of this star but the actual tech is pretty cool too. All of it is pretty simple and demonstrated in the video so I wont talk about too much though. First, you just play the star as normal, bait 2 Smeeches to face away from the star, grab a third Smeech, push the first 2 to the other side of the star (so they are now facing it), get hit to get off Yoshi, airspin onto the first Smeech, land on the second to get more distance, and grab the star.
You dont need to trigger the Smeech to get it lower to the ground to land on it or do the HGP off the second. Those were just for extra style points.")
