Superdavo0001 | Testing LiveStream: Super Hexagon [EPIC RUN!!] @Superdavo0001 | Uploaded 7 years ago | Updated 2 hours ago
Just experimenting with YouTube's Livestreaming... Maybe I'll do more of this in future?
[Post-Stream Update] This was amazing... Watch the miracle unfold from 3:27!
Just experimenting with YouTube's Livestreaming... Maybe I'll do more of this in future?
[Post-Stream Update] This was amazing... Watch the miracle unfold from 3:27!
![Testing LiveStream: Super Hexagon [EPIC RUN!!]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/or-gZulNEys/hqdefault.jpg "Testing LiveStream: Super Hexagon [EPIC RUN!!]
Just experimenting with YouTubes Livestreaming... Maybe Ill do more of this in future?
[Post-Stream Update] This was amazing... Watch the miracle unfold from 3:27!")
![[TAS] SM64 Ztar Attack 2: World 1-2 (2 stars) in 4708](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qY3KCE3fNxA/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] SM64 Ztar Attack 2: World 1-2 (2 stars) in 4708
My playlist of TAS runs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbYjr0fKUh3qCSR9CMqyJGhMcaObah7wU
My Twitter (where I often post minor TAS stuff): https://twitter.com/superdavo0001
Super Mario 64 TASing/ABC Discord server: https://discord.gg/ECskvyF
ROMHack Info:
Name: SM64 Ztar Attack 2 - A Blast To The Past
Creator: TheGael95 (channel: http://www.youtube.com/c/TheGael95)
Previous record: 10343 by RSw https://youtu.be/ykCKV_DNzIM
In this video, I complete world 1-2 (Mushroom Cavern) of Super Mario 64 Ztar Attack 2: A Blast To The Past, as quickly as possible, while collecting both available stars.
The strategy for the first star mostly involves simple forward movement, aside from a BLJ at the end, while the second star is... quite the opposite.
The core glitch behind the hyperspeed route to the second star is known as forward speed conversion, and is performed by holding neutral while on a specific type of slippery floor with backwards hyperspeed. This causes Mario to reflect off the wall, and face forwards. With this forward hyperspeed, Mario can jump extremely high (since his vertical speed increases with horizontal speed) and can wallkick, allowing him to ascend very quickly. The downside of using forward hyperspeed is that it is much more difficult to maintain and allows much less control over Marios angle, since his speed will be capped if he walks on the ground (since its only conserved in sliding movements or while airborne). The only viable way to changing Marios angle is wallkicking, and there are only so many walls available, so finding a route which navigates through the level can be very difficult. Fortunately, after a lot of testing, I was able to find a workable route which gets almost all the way to the end, and terminates right next to a BLJ spot which could take me to the star!
Because of these routing challenges, this proved to be one of the most difficult & time-consuming TASes Ive made for its length. However, I was determined to push through since I knew the strat would be something pretty special!
This hack more than most seems to make for some really cool TASes, so Ill definitely have to do more in the future! I might turn this into a regular series at some point, working on new levels when I get the chance.
I actually made a small mistake in this run, in that my movement at the start is slightly slower than RSws old TAS. I had assumed based on intuition that my movement should certainly be faster since it more quickly gets Mario to full speed, but I failed to take into account the advantage of getting a better angle at the cost of speed, and the fact that RSws movement allows him to maintain the fast slidekick chain for longer rather than having to break it to turn, and I only realised this error after Id progressed pretty far into the TAS. This TAS was mainly made for entertainment & not for being 100% maxed, and there are other areas where it can be improved slightly anyway, so it didnt seem worth going back for a few frames.
Shoutouts to RSw for coming up with the BLJ before the first star - a strat I hadnt thought of before I saw it in his run!
Total re-records: 9,670 (bringing the full Ztar Attack 2 file to 20213 & making it my largest single-file TAS project ever!)")
![[TAS] Another Mario Adventure 120 Star in 59:42.93](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rK_4rlFiibg/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Another Mario Adventure 120 Star in 59:42.93
Another Mario Adventure is a ROM hack made by aglab2 and guest ROM hackers from the community, who created the guests levels. The hack has 120 stars, with 14 main stages in total.
Time: 59:42.93 (TAS timing)
Total Re-records: 1,405,113
Authors: FeijoadaMolhada, ChouxZi3, RSw and brqm
This TAS was also made possible with the help of multiple other TASers:
• ShadoXFM: C1 reds, C5 reds, G1-2 alternative movement after blue coins, G4-4, G4-5, Wing Cap, Jungle Falls: old GWK chain route in Slide and Jump, Cosmic Wall: Fly to the top and both stars in Cosmic Cart Joy Ride
• L3dry: C1 faster entrance to Frozen Flux Slide, C1 blue coins, C8 reds route testing and fence wall kick, G1-1, G5 blue coins, OW2 night reds and pre-1.11 routes for both stars in Airship Force
• tjk: C4-4 skeeter bounce to reach the pole, C6-1 fast penguin drop, C8 reds route testing, Cosmic Cart Joy Ride freeruns and OW2 night reds
• Crackhex: G1-2 and 4 warp entry optimization, C6-5 old route and G4-4 optimization
• galoomba: C1-4 faster ending (obsoleted by DSG), original strat for C2-3 and G1-5 BLJless route
Frame: G1-1 King Bob-omb quick release optimization, G3 reds route testing and helping optimize G5 beginning
• Madghostek: G2-4 route testing and OW2 night Metal Cap skip attempts
• PurpleJuiceBox: Original strat for C2-1, 2 and 5
• Superdavo0001: C4-2 strat and routing, C5 Metal Cap entry BLJ optimization and original idea for OW2 night Metal Cap skip
• slither: C4-4 timesave and helping with video encoding
In this run we collect all 120 stars of the game as fast as possible, using glitches and various tricks to lower the time as much as we can.
The TAS was started in 2020/08/22 and finished in 2022/01/03.
For more information about the TAS: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QORp7_lCtTCyi6TycXA8ZAsgBpzeJ9ULR9h1gigaw5Q/edit?usp=sharing
YouTube channels of everyone who contributed:
FeijoadaMolhada: https://www.youtube.com/c/FeijoadaMolhada
ChouxZi3: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2BRYSlctEGCRT6iKdk9kEA
RSw: https://www.youtube.com/c/RSw_Why
brqm: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTzULS5sXbp04fuGMpGlOpg
ShadoXFM: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfHeXD8sGb3rRYIM6NNueQg
L3dry: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwwwbw6PqCKFUzk4wiD8iCQ
tjk: https://www.youtube.com/c/SuperMario142MC
Crackhex: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_9O61Cu6DpvjDVMLWdUGCQ
galoomba: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChh6RNVE2N7Ibob0wsCe_VQ
Frame: https://www.youtube.com/c/Themastercube
Madghostek: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqGw9_iYSGFYpXiy_lDhCpw
PurpleJuiceBox: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEKNrx_AxmaZ7dSHd8jnIZA
Superdavo0001: https://www.youtube.com/user/Superdavo0001
slither: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-IqrO42f61i8Af1VEtyZ3A
Superdavo0001 comment: What an honour it is to be able to host such an insane project! Thank you to everyone for letting me upload it! Im sorry I took as long as I did. Excellent work and huge congrats to everyone involved, I wonder which hack is gonna be next!")
![SM64: Collecting A Star During Death-By-Lava [Glitch Demo]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/szh637BuDdw/hqdefault.jpg "SM64: Collecting A Star During Death-By-Lava [Glitch Demo]
This particular glitch came up as a topic of discussion on a SM64 conversation, so I thought Id make this video to clear things up, and demonstrate some cool glitches in the process.
[UPDATE: Ive been told that its possible to collect the star if you do it before you reach 0hp - LLL red coins can be done this way]
[UPDATE 2: Kaze has said that he added this on purpose, as he didnt like that vanilla did not allow it]
Basically, its been found that if you collect a star while dying, the star-dance is cut short, and Mario dies. However, he keeps the star. Since the death animation is far shorter than star-collection, this has saved time in TASes on two levels (Behind Chain Chomps Gate, Mystery Of The Monkey Cage).
This glitch is often known as the Death-Star glitch, or DSG.
In these levels, the star is collected after dying by either going out-of-bounds, or falling to the death barrier, which are quite difficult to achieve, and require rather specific terrain.
A more obvious idea would be to use lava - after all, you bounce up after hitting it, so reaching nearby stars shouldnt be hard!
Unfortunately, however, the SM64 devs spotted this, and made the stars intangible while Marios in the lava-bounce animation, making this strategy impossible in regular SM64.
However, for some reason, in the ROMHack SM64: Last Impact, it was discovered a while ago (by me :-)) that the star does not become intangible, for some reason. It is therefore possible to collect the star while dying from a lava-bounce, which saves a fair few frames wherever its used.
I used this glitch in my TAS of the Hexagon Heat minigame (which features in this video).
Enjoy!")
![[SM64 TAS] PU Navigation (Success!)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vqW3KPE3SGA/hqdefault.jpg "[SM64 TAS] PU Navigation (Success!)
I navigate to a PU (Parallel Universe), and back again, in order to bypass the wall in HMC and collect the star Navigating In The Toxic Maze. This took about 9 minutes in total, and is NOT a useful strategy for collecting this star.
Why did I do this? To see if I can navigate PUs using TAS, out of general curiosity. It seems like there arent particularly many TASers who can navigate PUs like this, so I decided to set myself the challenge.
In the end, it was extremely difficult, even in this simple case where I always moved along the X-axis, stayed QPU-aligned for the entire journey, and always remained on flat ground. The angle-perfect maneuvers took a lot of attempts to get right, and a fair amount of Maths was needed to navigate blindly in the QPU grid!
Anyways, heres a run-down of what I do in the video:
• First, I activate the lift. As it drops, I mess about a bit to pass the time. (well, so YOU can pass the time - it only made it take longer for me!)
• When the lift reaches the bottom, I begin long-jumping. I hold this state until Im near the top, when I PBLJ (pause-buffered backwards long-jump, I needed to buffer otherwise Id fall off the lift at my angle) to gain speed. I initially have about 9 QPU (2,359,296) speed, but it immediately drops to a bit over 8 QPU. I then jump, lowering it to a bit over 6 QPU speed.
• I then punch repeatedly until my speed drops to just above the syncing speed, before aligning myself with the X-axis, moving myself 48 PUs, and a small distance forwards (past the wall).
• I then turn around, and punch repeatedly again until my speed drops to exactly the syncing speed, before moving 48 PUs back, returning to the real universe on the other side of the wall.
• I then collect the star. Pretty trivial.
This strat is not optimal in any way. It wasnt intended to be.
At the end of the video, I also show a version with the coin/star counters hacked to show which universe Im in at any given time.
If you dont understand what any of this means, here are some links with more info:
A full description of PUs: http://pastebin.com/uH5GhHbp
Pannenkoek2012s ABC video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A&feature=youtu.be
Im thinking of making a tutorial about how to make a TAS with PU navigation. Would you be interested? Tell me in the comments!
Also, like/subscribe plz :-)")
![[TAS] Releasio 64: Snowmans Lost His Head In 3260 *WR*](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/w1gScNaXqlU/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Releasio 64: Snowmans Lost His Head In 3260 *WR*
Another Releasio star done, and once again its in CCM! I seem to find myself TASing this level a lot...
This ones pretty simple really - I was quite surprised to discover that you can get to the snowman instantly by punching though! After that, the TAS is just pretty much what youd do casually, with a couple of tricks to spice it up a bit. Ill probably re-do it with more spice at some point - after all, you can never have too much spice! :P
Anyways, enjoy, and dont forget to subscribe for more Releasio TASes! Theres still plenty to be done...
Finally, apologies for the audio issues.
Rerecords: 452")
![[TAS] Desert Mario 64 in 6:32:38.62 (really)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wtNvi4r5bWA/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Desert Mario 64 in 6:32:38.62 (really)
Yes. I actually did it.
In this video, Desert Mario 64, a ROMHack inspired by the infamous game Desert Bus, is completed as fast as possible, which, it turns out, is not very fast at all.
This is because the hack is just one near-endless flat plane with no other interesting geometry to exploit, as per the source material. The hack also adds a couple more features, in order to make the game more challenging:
• Mario has a heat-meter, which builds when hes on the hot ground. When it gets too high, Mario overheats & the floor is momentarily treated as lava, costing health
• The road Mario is on has a speed limit of 55 (units/frame). If he goes too far above that limit (i.e. over 58 units/frame), he rapidly loses health. This is actually pretty unlikely to present a challenge to anyone completing it in real-time, as reaching that speed requires several slidekicks to be chained together after a jumpdive, but for TAS this is a significant limit.
* Marios HP is slowly restored, so if you make any mistakes they wont last forever
Under these conditions, the optimal movement for long periods of time is to repeatedly slidekick, and use joystick inputs to stay as close to 58 speed as possible without actually exceeding it. This is because slidekicking is one of only a handful of movements which conserve Marios speed when its above 48 (because the game caps the speed for non-sliding ground movement at 48), and the only one which does not lose speed when performed (below ~95 speed, when the speed lost in the crouch-frame increases to match the speed gained while in the air). A small amount of time can additionally be saved by breaking the 58 speed limit for short bursts every time Marios HP is fully restored. During these bursts, the fastest movement is to continue slidekick chains while actually building speed, then perform a speedkick at the end of the chain when there is no longer time for another slidekick.
So how did I manage to TAS 6.5 hours of slidekicks optimally without losing my mind? The answer lies in their repeatability, as if I can efficiently perform a single slidekick I can just copy/paste those inputs many times to produce a full TAS.
That is actually more difficult than it sounds in this hack, and its all because of the 58 speed limit. Without it, I could just hold the joystick straight forwards & repeat the slide over & over & over again, but with it, I need to maintain a speed as close to 58 as possible without crossing it, requiring different joystick angles. The trouble with this is that the slidekick *must* end with the exact same speed, to a very high precision, otherwise over the course of the countless slidekicks in this run, Marios speed will begin to drift. Were it to increase, it would eventually cross the 58-speed limit at the wrong time, ultimately killing Mario. If it decreased, I would begin to lose time. Furthermore, maintaining the closest possible speed to 58 (and matching the speed exactly, as explained before) nearly always required greater input precision than could be achieved using forward-only joystick inputs. Thus, some lateral movement is needed, which also needs to be cancelled out, otherwise Mario will drift to the side until he hits the edge & bonks! Left/right joystick inputs also dont behave completely symmetrically, so no help there.
Achieving sufficiently precise speed/position matches proved to be very difficult, and even with the best circumstances I could manage I needed an additional correcting step, performed after each speed-limit abuse, to counter the slow leftward drift. Even with all this, by the end of the run, Mario still drifts noticeably to the left, which I correct at the very end for aesthetic reasons.
Because of the length of this TAS and the ability of small differences to accumulate through the many hours of the run, fully optimising this TAS down to the last frame is practically impossible. In fact, I believe around a second is savable just by getting even closer to 57.999... speed. However, I am happy with the level of optimisation of this run, and I see no need to push it further.
Now we know how this TAS was optimised, the next question is why I bothered at all. I have two answers for that:
• Because the idea of a 6.5-hour TAS of desert-bus straight-line movement is funny in an absurd kind of way
• Because optimising & efficiently TASing such a long straight-line is an interesting & unusual problem to solve (at least for a nerd like myself)
My playlist of TAS runs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbYjr0fKUh3qCSR9CMqyJGhMcaObah7wU
My Twitter: https://twitter.com/superdavo0001
Kazes channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/KazeBG0
Total re-records: 4,099
Now get comfortable, this is gonna be a long journey...")
![SM64 Last Impact - Bee Mushroom Without Talking To Queen [TAS]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xyWhbe6nOjY/hqdefault.jpg "SM64 Last Impact - Bee Mushroom Without Talking To Queen [TAS]
In this video, I test the idea of clipping past the guard bee in Harried Honey Hive in order to grab the bee mushroom. Turns out you can get the mushroom, but you cant escape again! :(
The result was a pretty interesting TAS with a cool BLJ though, so I thought Id upload it.
Some extra thoughts for anyone who may want to try this for themselves:
• There are no useful BLJs inside the blocked area, with which to
escape. Theres one on top of the door, but I couldnt make it work
- Mario would just jump off the door.
• I couldnt find a way to clip through the wall generally. I may be
missing something though.
• Getting the mushroom like this may not be necessary anyway - most (if not all) stars could probably be collected mushroom-less. Ill have to look into a few of them, but most are definitely possible...
Hope you enjoyed this little video - if you did, dont forget to subscribe! Ive already got a 100-sub video to finish making...")
![[Speedrun WR] SM64 Ztar Attack 2: Any% in 5:22](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yy8UwP1HM9g/hqdefault.jpg "[Speedrun WR] SM64 Ztar Attack 2: Any% in 5:22
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My playlist of TAS runs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbYjr0fKUh3qCSR9CMqyJGhMcaObah7wU
My non-TAS speedruns: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbYjr0fKUh3qLn2MKhSVPfIi0zidQd7up
My Twitter (where I often post minor TAS stuff): https://twitter.com/superdavo0001
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Super Mario 64 TASing/ABC Discord server: https://discord.gg/ECskvyF
Super Mario 64 ROMHacks server: https://discord.gg/BYrpMBG
ROMHack Info:
Name: SM64 Ztar Attack 2: A Blast to the Past!
Creator: TheGael95 (https://www.youtube.com/@TheGael95)
Previous WR: 8:09.866 by @Tomatobird8 https://youtu.be/whGnwkNu4ks?si=OgKdFo8BmX9HY1tD
Previous warpless WR: 33:45 by @Phanton404 https://www.twitch.tv/videos/537269903
Well this is an unexpected way to break a world-record!
This run uses a bizarre glitch I found recently, in which going to the Game Over screen seems to corrupt the save file in a number of weird ways, including losing Marios cap and giving him 182 stars. Most notably though, it unlocks the wing cap box, which in this hack contains the path to the final boss! This means if I can die 10 times I can skip straight to the end, rather than having to use a different corruption involving the cannon opening bob-omb in 2-4 (see Tomatobirds run for that).
Finding the fastest way to die 10 times was kinda tricky, as there are no death floors in the hub, and you have to get pretty far into 1-1 before you find any there. In the end I opted to complete 1-1, collect the star, and use the checkpoint there to repeatedly go back & die. Tbh Im not sure why I entered 1-2, I didnt need to lol. To complete 1-1 fast, I also implemented a handy BLJ on the mushrooms, which is fairly consistent and saves a few seconds if done well.
Interestingly, because it doesnt require any warp-rooms or the level-hub at the bottom, this run should actually qualify as warpless, saving an insane 28 minutes from Phantons already impressive record!
The run is very improvable as I kinda just wanted to show it off, I could definitely fix the execution flaws with more attempts.
...Ok yeah you know what this is from the date it was uploaded, but whats *actually* going on? The corruption glitch is legitimate, but based on my testing seems to be an emulator-specific quirk, as I only got it to occur in Project64 1.6. Heck, for all I know I could just have a cursed emulator or something. Because of this (and the fact this would make any% quite dull tbh) I suspect this run wouldnt count as legitimate. Still, I felt it would be a fun thing to show off to celebrate April Fools Day, and I hope you all enjoyed it!")
