Superdavo0001 | What Is SM64 TAS Competition 2019? @Superdavo0001 | Uploaded 5 years ago | Updated 12 hours ago
A short video explanation of what the TAS competition is, how it works, and how to take part.
Relevant links:
• TAS Competition Discord server: discord.gg/yTnEgvY
• GSA Twitch channel (for reveal streams): twitch.tv/speedrun
• MKDasher's YouTube channel (for compilations): youtube.com/user/mkdasher
• 1Ted59's YouTube channel (for reveal stream videos): youtube.com/user/1ted59
• My WIP TASing tutorial series: bit.ly/2LFDJVG
• Sonicpacker's explanation video of what a TAS is: youtu.be/R3-ohYvi_fc
This video was made in collaboration with the TAS Competition and its organisers (of which I am one). Thanks to all involved for helping in various ways ensure that this video was as good as it can be!
A short video explanation of what the TAS competition is, how it works, and how to take part.
Relevant links:
• TAS Competition Discord server: discord.gg/yTnEgvY
• GSA Twitch channel (for reveal streams): twitch.tv/speedrun
• MKDasher's YouTube channel (for compilations): youtube.com/user/mkdasher
• 1Ted59's YouTube channel (for reveal stream videos): youtube.com/user/1ted59
• My WIP TASing tutorial series: bit.ly/2LFDJVG
• Sonicpacker's explanation video of what a TAS is: youtu.be/R3-ohYvi_fc
This video was made in collaboration with the TAS Competition and its organisers (of which I am one). Thanks to all involved for helping in various ways ensure that this video was as good as it can be!
![[TAS] Releasio 64: Cavern Of The Metal Cap (+switch pressed) 1635 *WR*](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VkRvLjsQbTc/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Releasio 64: Cavern Of The Metal Cap (+switch pressed) 1635 *WR*
Long time no upload! Apologies for that - Ive got a few projects (SM64 & otherwise) in the works at the moment, but havent had the time & energy to work on them for a while. Theyll be coming soon - sort of.
For now, I have another Releasio TAS! This time, I complete Cavern Of The Metal Cap & activate the switch, in a WR benchmark time!
Heres what I do:
• Upon entering the level, I punch, gaining -4000spd & rapidly moving to the sign.
• I then quick-turn & perform a backflip, which takes me to the small area with the two red coins.
• Once there, I jump repeatedly to let my speed drop until I can start moving again, and collect the red coin.
• I then turn around & use this speed to reach the other red coin, before letting my speed drop to zero
• I then backflip again, which takes me behind the island with the switch. I then start moving forwards, so that I land very close to one of the red-coins
• I then collect the coin & jump, grabbing the switch. I then pull myself up ASAP & deal with the text. This may be skippable, but its not easy to route.
• I then start running forwards & grab the other coin along the way, before running off the edge & bumping into the wall. This moves me back towards the next red coin.
• I then turn around & collect the coins under the water.
• Finally, I collect the star. I quickly jump after collecting the last red coin, which takes me right to where the star spawns, saving a few frames.
Rerecords: 1048
Im not done with this star yet - theres still plenty more to improve. I just thought it was worth showing what I have now - it looks pretty cool even if its not yet optimal!")
![[TAS] SM64 Ztar Attack 2: A Blast To The Past Any% In 15743 (Widescreen HD)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XwG90ptA-XY/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] SM64 Ztar Attack 2: A Blast To The Past Any% In 15743 (Widescreen HD)
RTA WR at time of upload: 80987 by TomatoBird8: https://youtu.be/whGnwkNu4ks
In this video, I complete SM64 Ztar Attack 2: A Blast To The Past (A ROMHack created by TheGael95) in the shortest time possible, using any glitches available. This is done by skipping straight to the final boss battle using hyperspeed wallkicks to clip through the door to that stage & into the warp behind it.
I tried pretty hard to make sure as much of this run as possible was as optimised as possible, and tested as many movesets as possible in each area. Some parts are probably improvable though, especially the flying, which probably isnt quite so optimised, as I dont fully understand flight optimisation.
As the TAS is too long to fully describe/explain, instead, here is a section-by-section description, along with some interesting details in each part:
• First, I navigate to the warp to the Ztar Seal Temple. This is just a straight-line, but time can be saved by using the correct moveset, and landing on the last possible quarter-step in a frame wherever possible (otherwise Mario will not move for the remaining quarter-steps, losing distance). Speedkicking twice at the end is faster than slidekicking, as although slidekicking loses less speed, it loses it immediately rather than at the end of the movement, so speedkicking allows you to use the speed you have for longer. This saved a single frame.
• Next, I navigate to the pipe to the underground area. Turning around after navigating behind the staircase proved tricky to optimise, and it turns out the fastest movement is just to walk around & turn as tightly as possible. I tried wallkicking off the walls & speedkicking after turning, but I guess sometimes the simpler strats are the best. Note that I didnt pipe-clip as it would not save a frame here. Diving 1f earlier means my angle is too far off to reach the pipe at all.
• Next, I navigate to a small wall where I will wallkick to build up speed. This part was very tricky to optimise, both with the pipe in the way at the start and the awkward turning to get into the HSWK gap at the end. At the start, I abuse the pipe collision to almost clip through it both in & out, allowing me to reach the edge in 1f instead of several, and dive twice to gain speed, using the pipe to return to the freefall state. This part may be improvable with a different moveset, idk.
• Next, I wallkick repeatedly, abusing Marios unbounded forward acceleration to gain speed.
• After the HSWK, I break out, and clip through the door. This was reeeeally hard to optimise, as I had to use the minimum possible speed, making the clip very precise. In the end, I clipped through the door within a ~0.1 unit (spacing-dependent) window, and given that Marios acceleration is 0.15 units per frame (meaning the window would be -0.05 units if done 1f sooner, though perhaps possible with a better angle), Im not convinced that I could save another frame here, and because attempting it would require redoing much of the HSWK, Im not going to try.
• Next, I collect the wingcap & go to the spring. Imo this part looks rough, but it seems to be the optimal movement. I saved a frame here by gradually shifting Marios angle so he strains gradually more over time, allowing him to get closer to the wing-cap box while still having enough speed to reach it a frame earlier.
• Next, use the spring to start flying. By holding A for 2 frames, I could delay Marios landing by 2 quarter-frames, giving him a perfect qf landing. This may or may not save a frame.
• After that, I kill all the Ztars (basically remodelled boos), by flying through them. By not landing, I can avoid their text, saving many seconds. This part is extremely tough to optimise & definitely improvable, but it looks pretty clean.
• After that, I fly down to collect the time-star. The arc path I took down saved a frame over flying in a roughly straight downward line, which is pretty interesting.
• Finally, in the ending, I navigate back to the Ztar Seal Temple, which resets the game. I end timing on the frame Mario disappears (because TASVideos timing is flawed). This part has different movement to the start, as you can dive immediately, and the sign is no longer there.
This video is encoded in an unusual way. I wanted to try encoding in widescreen, but the only plugin that lets me do that is Jabo 1.6, which doesnt look as good, so I decided to also encode the central section using the Rice video plugin to get the best quality, and combine the two. Theres a noticeable seam, but imo it looks better than encoding normally.
As mentioned already, this hack was made by TheGael95. Its really fun to play, and Id definitely recommend checking it out! Gaels channel can be found at: https://bit.ly/2QpmMDQ
Total re-records used: 14,645 (my largest TAS project yet!)
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![[TAS] SM64: Last Impact - Hexagon Heat Minigame In 2:01.68 *WR*](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YP1pBVJwNTg/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] SM64: Last Impact - Hexagon Heat Minigame In 2:01.68 *WR*
I thought this star would be simple and uninteresting, with no tricks to save time...
I was wrong!
Detailed description of what I did:
• I entered the pipe. I did this using a downward VSC of 75 because
I felt like it...
• I completed most of the minigame. All I had to do was avoid
touching lava, and stay on the platforms, but to make it bearable
to watch, I tried to do as many little tricks as possible. I ran out of
ideas about halfway through though...
• At the very end, I use a ground-pound to clip through the floor, and
hit the lava, making the star appear.
• Next, I do a lava bounce, briefly landing on the platform. Doing
this saves me waiting through the full arc of the lava bounce,
saving time. (about 20 frames)
• I almost immediately fall back into the lava again, killing Mario,
and triggering the death sequence. I then collect the star before
Marios warped out of the room. The star still counts! This is
known as the Death Star Glitch (DSG for short), and saves
considerable amounts of time, as you dont have to wait for the
star animation cutscene, and once warped back to the main
room, the death cutscene is quicker than the star cutscene!
Timing is from the first off-black frame in the minigame to the first frame of movement outside the minigame, to take into account the timing effect of the DSG
SM64: Last Impact is a Super Mario 64 ROMHack made by Kaze Emanuar. Id definitely recommend downloading it!
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![[TAS] SM64 Last Impact: Calm The Ancient Attacker In 2943](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZepxjOD8QW4/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] SM64 Last Impact: Calm The Ancient Attacker In 2943
BLJLess WR benchmark.
Came up with the strats for this run a few days ago, and decided to put them together in a run. Its almost certainly improvable, but probably not by too much, and I think the overall strats are probably optimal.
Beating the boss quickly requires the use of two precise ground-pounds, each exploiting a different trick:
1. The front segment of the boss overlaps with its head, so ground-pounding it very near the front can allow Mario to land back on the head, rather than falling to the ground. This is used in RTA speedruns, and isnt too difficult to perform.
2. Ground-pounding the seam between two segments causes both to fall at the same time, dealing two hits of damage at once. Doing this makes it almost impossible to stay on top of the boss though (I managed it by accident, but its very slow), hence I use it for the final blow. The boss only requires 3 hits anyway, so theres no point in trying to do this for the first hit. I dont know whether this trick is known, but its quite easy to do RTA - if a little risky. Miss the two hits and youll have to climb back up!
The rest of the TAS is pretty self-explanatory.
Total re-records: 1410
Ill probably try to improve this run sometime. I have a couple of ideas...")
![[TAS] SM64: BBH Eye-To-Eye In The Secret Room CCCLess 9626 (Abridged) [PU Route]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_0vkAUp8If8/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] SM64: BBH Eye-To-Eye In The Secret Room CCCLess 9626 (Abridged) [PU Route]
This is the abridged version, where I skip nearly a minute of punching in the air. The other versions can be found here:
Unabridged version (with overlay): https://youtu.be/Do3TwRzLFzI
Unabridged version (without overlay): https://youtu.be/bYbzoxgSZBM
In this TAS, I collect the star Eye To Eye In The Secret Room in Big Boos Haunt, without collecting any coins, or using caps or cannons, in what is known as the CCCless Challenge. The main challenge of this particular level is the fact that theres a painting which youre supposed to use a vanish-cap to collect, but of course we cant do that!
Initially, this problem was solved by using Hyper-Speed Wall-Kicks (HSWK) to gain enough speed to clip through the painting, but this is very slow, and takes a long time to build up the required speed.
Since HSWK was discovered, and CCCLess was forgotten about in this level, the Parallel Universes glitch was discovered in SM64. In short, due to integer overflow in Marios position used for floor detection, there are a (near) infinite number of infinite duplicate versions of the course (without objects & stuff), which can be reached by gaining a large amount of speed. I wont explain the full technical details of navigating PUs here, but Ill link to a video that does. Needless to say, by moving from point-to-point across PUs, you can travel to any arbitrary point in the map laterally quite quickly.
However, because the painting is quite high, we need vertical motion as well, and conveniently, a side-effect of the PU glitch - the Overflow Jump (OJ) can help us. Basically, when Mario jumps, while moving at high-speed, he incurs a vertical displacement related to his speed. When hes moving backwards at QPU speed, he can reach speeds fast enough to fall into PUs *below* his current location. When this happens, he immediately snaps up onto the nearest floor relatively below him in the QPU grid, which can be anywhere, with correct planning.
The PU route used here was found by Timestoppa - I just executed it optimally.
Anyway, heres a detailed look at what happened in the TAS:
• First, I navigate to the elevator, and activate it as quick as possible. Since I made this, I found out that 2 frames can be saved between the start and reaching the door, by long-jumping once, then diving (shoutouts to Luigihaxd for spotting that).
• While the elevators falling, I kill the Mr I. I didnt need to do this, but I had time to kill, so I decided to kill with my time. He never stood a chance.
• Once the elevator hits the ground, I activate it again on the first frame possible, so it starts to rise. Once Im on it, I mess around a bit, and move to the correct position for the start of the PU movement.
• I then BLJ, gaining ~4,147,200 speed. To do this optimally, I needed to very precisely get the correct speed immediately (so I dont have to lose any, and waste frames). This was very a tedious process, but it allowed me to start the PU movement immediately.
• Once I have the required speed, I perform an OJ. This takes me to PU (-9, 9), and to the top of the balcony relatively.
• Next, I drop my speed, first by jumping, then punching. Unfortunately, due to the route, this takes a long time.
• I then perform two more PU movements, in quick succession, taking me first to PU (-1, 1), and relatively on the balcony, then back to the main map inside the secret room.
• I then kill the big Mr I. Unfortunately, the camera became stuck in the elevator room, so I had to TAS this bit blind. Fortunately, its possible to hack the camera during TASing, so I could - to some extent - see what I was doing. This was still very tedious, and probably not quite optimal.
• I then collect the star.
An explanation of PU movements more subtle details can be found in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A
Rerecords: 1896
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![[TAS] Super Mario 64 Land: 4-4 (star 1) in 2007 (SM64 Hack Singlestar)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_S1AhJkSnpU/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Super Mario 64 Land: 4-4 (star 1) in 2007 (SM64 Hack Singlestar)
This video completes the main star of world 4-4 in Super Mario 64 Land - a Super Mario 64 hack made by Kaze Emanuar - as quickly as possible. This is achieved by bypassing much of the level using three major skips:
• Ascending to a higher platform shortly after the start of the stage using first-frame wallkicks (firsties) to keep enough speed to reach the wall without losing height
• Superjumping across to a later platform near Yoshi using the speed obtained during the firsties
• Jumping straight to the end by abusing Yoshis physics to gain speed exponentially before jumping off him to hit the star (this forward Yoshi hyperspeed glitch is completely new afaik)
Ive been looking for cool stuff to TAS in this hack for a while, and eventually settled on this star after discovering the superjump skip. I had planned on using another form of Yoshi hyperspeed I already knew of (Backwards Yoshi Hyperspeed, which I discovered years ago in Last Impact, and which was first brought to peoples attention by Super Watermelon 64) for the ending. That form of hyperspeed works because riding Yoshi with a sufficiently large negative speed causes Mario/Yoshi to gain speed exponentially & without bounds. However, as I was TASing that method I noticed that Yoshi was behaving weirdly when I held the B button, as when he hit a wall, he would rebound off it with a ton of speed. I initially saw this as a faster way of setting up Backwards Yoshi Hyperspeed, but after messing about for a while I realised this strange state had the same unbounded acceleration! Knowing that, I was able to save a ton of time setting up the backwards hyperspeed glitch, and could just head straight for the star!
From what I can gather, this glitch seems to be triggered by either holding B when mounting Yoshi or holding it from the first frame of a jump. I have no idea why exactly it works, but I suppose its probably due to Mario/Yoshi being put in an unintended state which Kaze didnt cap the speed for, allowing the exponential speed-gain to take hold.
For this video, Ive also changed up my encoding quality somewhat, switching to a widescreen view, using a better graphics plugin, and increasing the resolution to 4k! Shoutouts to Tomatobird8 for giving me advice ages ago which ultimately made the 4k encode possible! Check out his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/fincraft0eng
As already mentioned, this hack was made by the legendary Kaze Emanuar. His channel can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/user/KazeBG0
My playlist of TAS runs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbYjr0fKUh3qCSR9CMqyJGhMcaObah7wU
My Twitter: https://twitter.com/superdavo0001
Total re-records: 2,167")
![[TAS] Casino Bingo Slide 64 In 13463](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aTcInmZHY98/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Casino Bingo Slide 64 In 13463
In this video, I complete Casino Slide 64 - a hack created by Aglab2 and the winner of the second task of Simpleflips ROMHacking competition - in 13463, timed from the first frame to the frame Mario turns to face the camera after collecting the star. I chose to use this timing system rather than the TASVideos system as this system more accurately reflects the time taken to reach the end-credits, and ensures that the fastest run gets the fastest time (see this joke SMW TAS which has a TASVideos time of around 93 seconds, yet takes so long to complete that all structure in the known universe will have decayed long before the run is over for an extreme example: https://youtu.be/n_PylKovg5k).
This hack is designed to be completed in 4 stages, which are:
1. Navigate from the start to the warp at the bottom
2. Go down the first slide, collecting numbered casino chips. You must get enough to get a complete row, column or diagonal, but collecting more will make step 3 easier.
3. Navigate back to the top & enter the final slide. The chips you collected earlier are now platforms, which you can use to climb up. Trying to do this without a bingo will trigger an anti-cheat mechanism, placing you in an area thats almost impossible for a human to escape. Its possible for a TAS to get out (and might be faster), but I opted against using it in this run, as it would be less interesting.
4. Complete the final slide in under 35 seconds & collect the star.
My movement during steps 1 & 3 was somewhat unusual, and used techniques that dont look optimal at first glance, such as sliding and quickturning, stopping & punch-starting again rather than just walking forward. This is because the level is set to have the slide floor type (used for Princesss Secret Slide in the original game). This has a few notable properties:
• Standing on any non-flat surface will cause Mario to slide
• Mario doesnt accelerate from rest as quickly as usual, gaining only 1.1 speed rather than over 8. I overcome this by quickturning to face the correct direction, and using the punch-trick, which immediately gives Mario 10 speed.
• Sliding doesnt reduce Marios speed nearly as much as usual. Since sliding is not bound by the 48 speed cap, this means turning while sliding is a convenient way of maintaining more than 48 speed while changing angle. Marios speed can then be recovered/increased by being airborne, allowing for significant speed accumulation, and saving a fair amount of time.
During the slide sections (steps 2 & 4), it is optimal to be airborne wherever possible, as sliding has a speed cap of around 105, whereas speed increases without bounds in the air. Furthermore, Mario moves slower on slopes due to the de-facto multiplier. Ideally you would want to be airborne & building speed all the way, but sooner or later you have to land otherwise youll just fall to your death. This turns out to not be a problem, because if you land for a single frame before becoming airborne the frame after, the speed cap is not applied. Furthermore, the slope still applies its acceleration, causing Mario to gain up to around 5 speed each time. I abuse this glitch very extensively in both slides, allowing me to gain as much as 150 speed, and saving many seconds.
During step 3, it is fastest to intentionally die at the wallkick area rather than manually crossing it, as Mario will respawn on the other side.
Step 4 has a weird start, where the whole stage appears to move relative to Mario, causing him to seemingly fall through the floor, before returning to normal. This glitch is entirely visual, and does not affect the gameplay. Ive seen it in a couple of places in Last Impact as well, and Im not sure why it happens, but Id guess it has something to do with how hacks handle cameras.
This run is the single largest TAS project Ive ever completed alone, with a total rerecord count of 10,586 (my first TAS to go over 10k!). I was inspired to create this after seeing TomatoBird8s playthrough (https://bit.ly/2E10tiJ) of the hack. I completed step 4 first (because if I lost motivation at this stage, I could just upload this part), before slowly working on the other parts occasionally over the following 3 months or so. Unfortunately, when I came to hex it together a few days ago, I found that I couldnt make step 2 sync with step 1, so I ended up remaking it. This was a blessing in disguise, however, as I found a way to continue conserving speed right to the very end, saving 29f & making what was the worst part of the run an awful lot cooler.
This run is definitely improvable, but hopefully not by too much...
Shoutouts to:
• Aglab2 for making the hack itself: https://bit.ly/2Qvo4cC
• Simpleflips for running the hacking competition: https://bit.ly/2y7AJxt
• TomatoBird8 for making the playthrough that inspired me to make this TAS: https://bit.ly/2CtxjY3
Dont forget to check out the rest of my channel & subscribe before going to theirs though ;-)")
![[TAS] SM64: Treasure Of The Ocean Cave 1833 [Outdated]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bAFwAKyhkLw/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] SM64: Treasure Of The Ocean Cave 1833 [Outdated]
1843 by Mickey/VIS: https://youtu.be/xL6VE_5PddM?t=41m38s
↓
1833 by me
↓
[UPDATE] 1830 by me: https://youtu.be/9lbPa07tyJc
In this run, I collect the star Treasure Of The Ocean Cave 3 frames (0.1 seconds) faster than the previous world record. The saves were as follows:
• Saved 2f by staying out of the water (and so not losing 3/4 of my speed) for an extra frame
• Saved 1f at the end by activating the final chest a frame earlier (mainly because I was able to dive 2f earlier than the previous best)
I actually did it... I beat a star in the 120-star TAS! And by 3 frames!
I actually started work on this way back in June. I quickly spotted the potential of the first save, and worked to try to complete the star. Unfortunately, without realising, I immediately lost one of the frames to bad movement in the water, so I only thought there was potential to save 1 frame. I then struggled to keep hold of that frame, and got frustrated & gave up.
However, quite recently, with the new 120-star TAS in full-swing and Kazes Ghost Data hack now available (and my skills much-improved), I became motivated to try again. I re-did everything after the BLJ, and realised there was a second frame up for grabs (the theoretical max this technique could give is 3 frames, but practical limits reduce it to ~2.5). With the ghost data as reference, and a 2 frame lead, I continued to progress through the TAS. At the end, presumably due to improved optimisation around the third chest, I realised I could dive much earlier, and activate the last chest a frame earlier, taking my total to 3 frames as I finished the run.
I would explain everything about this TAS, but itd take too much space. If you have any questions, ask in the comments!
One thing that is worth explaining is the ending - due to my choice of angle, I couldnt replicate the previous WRs ending (I cant kick off the wall). However, that ending route doesnt actually save time, rather, it just looks cool, so I went for an alternative. Interestingly, this actually brings me rather close to saving another frame! The backflip I did allowed me to gain more height before the ground-pound, meaning I have more VS when I collect the star. This causes me to fall quicker, but it just isnt enough to save an extra frame. Backflips also have fixed vertical speed, which means I cant manipulate speed to allow me to hit the star lower, unlike an ordinary jump (which doesnt go high enough to get max VS anyway).
A couple of important things to note:
• I didnt actually branch off the 120 star TAS until the start of the BLJ, so the inputs before then are still those done by Mickey/VIS.
• This video was run on the SM64 Ghost Race V1.1 ROMHack, by Kaze Emanuar. It actually incurs a lag frame shortly after entering the water, so the timing based on this video would actually be 1835. However, Ive also run the TAS on regular SM64, and this lag frame didnt occur. I guess it must be because of the extra object on-screen...
If you want the .m64 for whatever reason, just ask me :-)
SM64 Ghost Race V1.1 (note that there are updated versions available): https://youtu.be/kwlSfQ_7vrk
Rerecords: 5,417 (estimate)")
![[TAS] SM64: BBH Eye-To-Eye In The Secret Room CCCLess 9626 (Raw TAS) [PU Route]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bYbzoxgSZBM/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] SM64: BBH Eye-To-Eye In The Secret Room CCCLess 9626 (Raw TAS) [PU Route]
This is the raw version - unabridged, and lacking overlay, for the purists out there. The other versions can be found at:
Unabridged version (with overlay): https://youtu.be/Do3TwRzLFzI
Abridged version version: https://youtu.be/_0vkAUp8If8
In this TAS, I collect the star Eye To Eye In The Secret Room in Big Boos Haunt, without collecting any coins, or using caps or cannons, in what is known as the CCCless Challenge. The main challenge of this particular level is the fact that theres a painting which youre supposed to use a vanish-cap to collect, but of course we cant do that!
Initially, this problem was solved by using Hyper-Speed Wall-Kicks (HSWK) to gain enough speed to clip through the painting, but this is very slow, and takes a long time to build up the required speed.
Since HSWK was discovered, and CCCLess was forgotten about in this level, the Parallel Universes glitch was discovered in SM64. In short, due to integer overflow in Marios position used for floor detection, there are a (near) infinite number of infinite duplicate versions of the course (without objects & stuff), which can be reached by gaining a large amount of speed. I wont explain the full technical details of navigating PUs here, but Ill link to a video that does. Needless to say, by moving from point-to-point across PUs, you can travel to any arbitrary point in the map laterally quite quickly.
However, because the painting is quite high, we need vertical motion as well, and conveniently, a side-effect of the PU glitch - the Overflow Jump (OJ) can help us. Basically, when Mario jumps, while moving at high-speed, he incurs a vertical displacement related to his speed. When hes moving backwards at QPU speed, he can reach speeds fast enough to fall into PUs *below* his current location. When this happens, he immediately snaps up onto the nearest floor relatively below him in the QPU grid, which can be anywhere, with correct planning.
The PU route used here was found by Timestoppa - I just executed it optimally.
Anyway, heres a detailed look at what happened in the TAS:
• First, I navigate to the elevator, and activate it as quick as possible. Since I made this, I found out that 2 frames can be saved between the start and reaching the door, by long-jumping once, then diving (shoutouts to Luigihaxd for spotting that).
• While the elevators falling, I kill the Mr I. I didnt need to do this, but I had time to kill, so I decided to kill with my time. He never stood a chance.
• Once the elevator hits the ground, I activate it again on the first frame possible, so it starts to rise. Once Im on it, I mess around a bit, and move to the correct position for the start of the PU movement.
• I then BLJ, gaining ~4,147,200 speed. To do this optimally, I needed to very precisely get the correct speed immediately (so I dont have to lose any, and waste frames). This was very a tedious process, but it allowed me to start the PU movement immediately.
• Once I have the required speed, I perform an OJ. This takes me to PU (-9, 9), and to the top of the balcony relatively.
• Next, I drop my speed, first by jumping, then punching. Unfortunately, due to the route, this takes a long time.
• I then perform two more PU movements, in quick succession, taking me first to PU (-1, 1), and relatively on the balcony, then back to the main map inside the secret room.
• I then kill the big Mr I. Unfortunately, the camera became stuck in the elevator room, so I had to TAS this bit blind. Fortunately, its possible to hack the camera during TASing, so I could - to some extent - see what I was doing. This was still very tedious, and probably not quite optimal.
• I then collect the star.
An explanation of PU movements more subtle details can be found in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A
Rerecords: 1896
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