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Just experimenting with YouTube's Livestreaming... Maybe I'll do more of this in future?
Just experimenting with YouTube's Livestreaming... Maybe I'll do more of this in future?
![[SM64 Hack TAS] Another Mario Adventure: Mess In The House in 2387](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cRztFb6lXck/hqdefault.jpg "[SM64 Hack TAS] Another Mario Adventure: Mess In The House in 2387
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: Another Mario Adventure
Creator: Aglab2 (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC77uQeQh3PVdbI4usjFg1rA)
Im back!
Apologies for the lack of videos recently, a lot of other projects have been taking up much of my time. Hopefully I should have a bit more time for a while now!
Ive been wanting to return to doing singlestars for a while, but my inspiration in Ztar Attack Rebooted was beginning to run low and I fancied working on something else. Fortunately, aglab2 (the creator of Ztar Attack Rebooted) recently released this new hack, and after playing it through, I was not only impressed, but also ready to TAS some stars :)
The hack itself is very well made, with a variety of level designs & many custom-coded features, all polished to near-perfection. The variety is further increased by the 10 guest-levels made by prominent members of the ROMHacking community (BroDute, Tomatobird8, UsernamesAreSpiders, scuttlebug_raiser, sm64pie, Cheezepin, Crash, MrComit, ToasterKetchup & Kaze Emanuar to be exact). With so much variety & so many new things to try out, I was spoilt for choice, with plenty of stars to TAS!
I decided to start with this star, mainly because it was one of the first interesting gimmick stars I came across. The idea here is that you are restricted to moving in 2d (within the section of the room with green tiles), but if you press L you can traverse the level in 3d, but your health quickly depletes, so if you spend too long doing this you die, like in Super Paper Mario). This level is fairly easy to beat in casual play, but still manages to make you think differently to a standard SM64 level. Unfortunately the camera always changes to very specific angles when switching between 2d & 3d, which can be pretty annoying since you might want a different angle, so youd have to change it back.
Unsurprisingly, this sort of feature in the hands of a TASer can lead to some fun stuff! :D The route for collecting the secrets seems pretty intuitive, and I couldnt think of any other viable options. The BLJ was pretty awkward since I had to kick near the end of the high platform to reach the secret & spend a long time falling, but I couldnt find any way around it. Being able to dive+recover in the gap would solve this but the speed required to do this doesnt allow enough time to turn to the correct angle to hit the secret (since Marios speed affects his 3d position even in 2d mode).
This TAS is probably improvable, perhaps even by a significant amount. Im still happy with the result though! Ive found a fair few more stars I want to TAS as well, so make sure you subscribe so you dont miss them :)
Total re-records: 2,260")
![[TAS] Super Mario 64 - Swingin In The Breeze In 1103 By Superdavo0001, Dargos & Snark122](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/f8xM5fbwUsU/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Super Mario 64 - Swingin In The Breeze In 1103 By Superdavo0001, Dargos & Snark122
• 1110 By Snark122 (also 1117 from 2012): https://youtu.be/NamWHywBEBY?t=3m30s
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• 1107 by Dargos: https://youtu.be/HY0Qte37G_I
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• 1103 By Superdavo0001 & Dargos
* Dar Gos Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEgfodfjfo3J-bUAHrwl0Lw
* Snark122s Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyoAdfPdT100F12BmXDUpbw
* TimeTravelPenguins Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUMWpmbkD0HvkgFC0BqrTFw
In this video, the star Swingin In The Breeze (in Rainbow Ride) is collected 2 frames faster than the previous record by Snark, and 1 frame faster than a run created by Dargos earlier today. This was achieved by fully optimising the new movement strat used in the original 1f save.
As was the case for our recent BitFS save, this was done in collaboration with the legendary Dargos, and we both contributed important details that led to this save.
In fact, this save happened in a remarkably similar way to the BitFS improvement (at least if you in include Plushs initial 1f save as an equivalent to Dargos initial 1f save).
It began with TimeTravelPenguin investigating the star. He asked Snark for his files, and tried to find a way to save time. Unfortunately, his searches didnt find anything improvable, but led me & Dargos to look at Snarks original run more closely. We found that he used some rather unusual movement, which didnt look like it should be optimal, shortly after the ledgegrab. TimeTravelPenguin gave us Snarks run to look at, and Dargos realised that it should be faster to grind continually instead of recovering (Snarks recovery had significantly less speed, costing a lot of distance). When he TASed the run, he found that it saved a frame, and put him quite close to saving an additional frame.
Once Dargos posted that run, I decided to look through it & see whether he did anything that could be improved, and I found a couple of things. The main one was that he took a dust-frame during the initial grind. While this was useful in BitFS, that was only because we couldnt do perfect qframe grinding otherwise. Dargos assumed the same to be true here, and so took the dust-frame to avoid having to take a 1/4 transition. However, I realised that this was actually not the case, and was able to achieve a perfect qf grind. Dargos also jumped for 1 frame before diving to reach the axle (there was probably a reason for this in his run), when it would be faster to dive immediately.
I then fixed all these details, and tried to save a frame with them. Unfortunately though, I was unable to land on the axle a frame earlier, which was needed to save the frame.
Dargos then looked into this, and found that I was just 0.6 units (subject to correct speed manipulation on the jumpdive) from saving the frame, and set to work trying to save them. As was the case in BitFS, he managed to save just enough distance to save the frame, though its still within a unit or so.
It really is weird just how similar the progression of this star is to the progression of BitFS - in both cases, a slower movement was replaced with divegrinding, which saved a frame, then I found a way to save a qframe, then Dargos finished the save by finding tiny unit-level improvements.
Although this run improves Snarks TAS by 2 frames, it still contains his inputs up to the ledgegrab, and he is therefore still an author. Pretty much all of the inputs that follow (except the grind setup, which has a few frames of my inputs) were done by Dargos. However, as I found the bulk of the most recent frame save, we decided that I should upload the run. Massive thanks to Dargos for letting me upload this one :D
Special thanks to TimeTravelPenguin for , and to Snark122 for giving us TAS files to work from! Their channel links are at the top of this description, along with Dargos channel. Id recommend checking them all out, as theyve all been responsible for some awesome TASes!
Total re-records: 62,946 (2,527 by me & Dargos, the rest by Snark)")
