Superdavo0001 | [WR] SM64 Ztar Attack 2: Any% Warpless in 32:14.900 (+Announcements!) @Superdavo0001 | Uploaded 3 weeks ago | Updated 9 hours ago
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Chapters:
0:00 Announcements
0:54 Course 1
8:04 Course 2
16:46 Course 3
23:10 Course 5
ROMHack Info:
Name: Super Mario 64 Ztar Attack 2: A Blast To The Past!
Creator: @TheGael95
Previous WR: 33:45 by @Phanton404 : twitch.tv/videos/537269903
This speedrun is a record I've wanted for a long time, and now thanks to new strategies & years of practice, it has finally happened!
The two biggest timesaves come from new major sequence breaks:
• 1-3 SBLJ: This skips the entire loop needed to open the gate. It took a long time to learn but in the end I got more consistent with it than I expected, and it became a viable trick for the run
• 3-4 block skip: This is something people have wanted to do for a long time, but seemed out of reach. @AndrewSM64 demonstrated in 2023 that it could theoretically be done RTA via light-chuckya, but this was unreasonably difficult. In the end, I realised the bob-ombs before the block platform were good candidates for instant-release & failsafe snap, and I found a HOLP setup in 1-1 that worked perfectly!
This run is still very improvable, and had a bunch of minor mistakes. My best pace ever into 3-1 was a full minute faster! I'll be grinding for sub-32 on the new version though.
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Chapters:
0:00 Announcements
0:54 Course 1
8:04 Course 2
16:46 Course 3
23:10 Course 5
ROMHack Info:
Name: Super Mario 64 Ztar Attack 2: A Blast To The Past!
Creator: @TheGael95
Previous WR: 33:45 by @Phanton404 : twitch.tv/videos/537269903
This speedrun is a record I've wanted for a long time, and now thanks to new strategies & years of practice, it has finally happened!
The two biggest timesaves come from new major sequence breaks:
• 1-3 SBLJ: This skips the entire loop needed to open the gate. It took a long time to learn but in the end I got more consistent with it than I expected, and it became a viable trick for the run
• 3-4 block skip: This is something people have wanted to do for a long time, but seemed out of reach. @AndrewSM64 demonstrated in 2023 that it could theoretically be done RTA via light-chuckya, but this was unreasonably difficult. In the end, I realised the bob-ombs before the block platform were good candidates for instant-release & failsafe snap, and I found a HOLP setup in 1-1 that worked perfectly!
This run is still very improvable, and had a bunch of minor mistakes. My best pace ever into 3-1 was a full minute faster! I'll be grinding for sub-32 on the new version though.
![[WR] SM64 Ztar Attack 2: Any% Warpless in 32:14.900 (+Announcements!)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GGCwjVUshXE/hqdefault.jpg "[WR] SM64 Ztar Attack 2: Any% Warpless in 32:14.900 (+Announcements!)
Join my Discord!: https://discord.gg/GJdHvSCwRp
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My non-TAS speedruns: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbYjr0fKUh3qLn2MKhSVPfIi0zidQd7up
My Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/superdavo64
My Twitter: https://twitter.com/superdavo0001
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Chapters:
0:00 Announcements
0:54 Course 1
8:04 Course 2
16:46 Course 3
23:10 Course 5
ROMHack Info:
Name: Super Mario 64 Ztar Attack 2: A Blast To The Past!
Creator: @TheGael95
Previous WR: 33:45 by @Phanton404 : https://www.twitch.tv/videos/537269903
This speedrun is a record Ive wanted for a long time, and now thanks to new strategies & years of practice, it has finally happened!
The two biggest timesaves come from new major sequence breaks:
• 1-3 SBLJ: This skips the entire loop needed to open the gate. It took a long time to learn but in the end I got more consistent with it than I expected, and it became a viable trick for the run
• 3-4 block skip: This is something people have wanted to do for a long time, but seemed out of reach. @AndrewSM64 demonstrated in 2023 that it could theoretically be done RTA via light-chuckya, but this was unreasonably difficult. In the end, I realised the bob-ombs before the block platform were good candidates for instant-release & failsafe snap, and I found a HOLP setup in 1-1 that worked perfectly!
This run is still very improvable, and had a bunch of minor mistakes. My best pace ever into 3-1 was a full minute faster! Ill be grinding for sub-32 on the new version though.")
![[TAS] Katze Stuck In The Toilet 64: Any% In 1:21.20 by Superdavo0001 & TheCopperhead](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GOHQwVHRmiY/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Katze Stuck In The Toilet 64: Any% In 1:21.20 by Superdavo0001 & TheCopperhead
Check out TheCopperheads version, with input display! https://youtu.be/nxfG-MiJo88
My playlist of TAS runs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbYjr0fKUh3qCSR9CMqyJGhMcaObah7wU
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ROMHack Info:
Name: Katze Stuck In The Toilet 64
Creator: Tomatobird8 (https://www.youtube.com/user/fincraft0eng)
Total re-records: 6,188
In this TAS, created by me & TheCopperhead, Katze Stuck In The Toilet 64, a ROMHack of Super Mario 64 made by Tomatobird8, is completed as quickly as possible, using any glitches & tricks at our disposal.
This hack is pretty fun, both for casual play and for TAS. Its mainly based on a bunch of ROMHack community jokes, but in spite of basically being a meme-hack has impressively high-quality levels, and should be a fun playthrough even if you dont know all of the jokes!
Ill write the rest of the description after the premiere. For now, enjoy!")
![[TAS] Another Mario Adventure: Bowser In The Ice Mines in 1563 (Any% Preview!)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Habg6U67sP0/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Another Mario Adventure: Bowser In The Ice Mines in 1563 (Any% Preview!)
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)
In this video, I complete the first Bowser stage (not including the fight) as quickly as possible. This is a pretty short TAS but its a nice little preview of things to come :) I think Ive made it pretty clean as well, though Im sure someone will prove me wrong :P
While I would have preferred to show this with the full Bowser fight, I decided against TASing that for now because it includes some RNG-dependent parts, which will have to be done from the start. Oh well, that just means more new stuff in the final run!
Timing is from the usual starting point to the first fully black frame.
Total re-records: 823
#SuperMario64 #AnotherMarioAdventure #TAS")
![[TAS] Releasio 64: Shoot To The Island In The Sky - 950 [Outdated]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IE3uswz6d90/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Releasio 64: Shoot To The Island In The Sky - 950 [Outdated]
[UPDATE] Beaten by Ethan, then beaten again by Dargos. Current WR: https://youtu.be/ZWsXZh7lAe4
1130 by Ethan White: https://youtu.be/uNrJ7sE-Uvg
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950 by me
Turns out you dont need the cap to do this star fast - in fact, its faster without it!
Ive actually known about this route for months - ever since work on the Releasio 120-star TAS began. I tried to TAS it ages ago, but got impatient & left it... Until now!
Most of this route is pretty self-explanatory - I just jump to wherever I need to go. I never really found a good place to use the -4000spd from pressing B or Z, so I just run & jump as efficiently as I can.
The key breakthrough of this route was realising that its just possible to jump to the island if youre moving at 200 speed. After I realised that, I quickly came up with the route you see in the video.
This is 100% improvable - Ill make it better in the near-future. For now, I just wanted to share this cool route! :-)
Re-records: 413")
![[TAS] Bowser In The Fire Sea In 1750 (No Reds) By Superdavo0001 & dar gos](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Mm1sxN1lSLI/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Bowser In The Fire Sea In 1750 (No Reds) By Superdavo0001 & dar gos
Previous best: 1753 by Plush https://youtu.be/MaRoWuoVLNU
Dargos channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEgfodfjfo3J-bUAHrwl0Lw
In this video, Bowser In The Fire Sea is completed in 1750, saving 1 frame from the previous record by Plush. This is achieved by taking a slightly different approach to optimising quarter-frame movement, as explained below, along with a couple of general unit-scale improvements.
Additionally, by using different camera angles to reduce lag we were able to improve the console run-time by a significant margin.
This was done in collaboration with the legendary Dar gos, and this run contains inputs done by each of us. Both of us contributed towards different elements of this run, and we both found essential details without which the run would have been impossible.
This improvement means 1-key is now 1 frame faster (plus lag-frames on console), bringing the total emulator-time down to 42113, and the console time down to 42104.
So how did we save a frame? The answer lies in how the game handles movement. Basically, in order to reduce the likelihood of Mario clipping through hitboxes, the developers made Mario move in 4 substeps per frame, checking for collision at each. These are known as quarter-frames (abbreviated to qframes, qfs).
Ordinarily, you wouldnt expect this difference to have much effect, but when Mario transitions from being on the ground to being in the air (or vice-versa, jumps & related movements from ground-to-air are unaffected) on one of these qframes, he will not move for the rest of the frame afterwards. So for example, if Mario lands (air-to-ground) on the first quarter-frame, he will not move for any of the other three, so his net movement is only a quarter of what it could have been.
Because of this, it is optimal to always go from ground-to-air or vice-versa on the last possible quarter-frame. This is used throughout the grinding at the start, as well as various other places where Marios quarter-frames can be controlled.
There is one place where its a little more difficult though, and thats the last grind before the jumpdive. You see, Mario must strain during the time hes on the ground in order to get a good angle for the jumpdive. This will in turn cause Mario to strain more rapidly back towards the edge, which means he must be further away from it initially in order to make the 4/4 qframe transition work. It turns out that if you strain in too far from the edge, it becomes impossible to strain back out in 1 frame. It turns out that this means its not possible to get the required angle while still getting a 4/4 exit (or anything better than a 1/4).
So how should this situation be handled in order to travel the greatest possible distance? Plushs answer was to take the loss from 1/4 qframe, but still maintain optimal speed & the ability to control the qframe he landed on the next platform at (by changing his speed).
However, it turns out that this is not quite the optimal strategy. I looked at this problem, and realised it would actually be faster to abandon the requirement of leaving the platform in 1 frame entirely, and take a second frame to strain to the correct angle, while still being able to leave the platform on the last quarter-frame. This would cost some speed, and would mean losing a quarter-frame on the next platform (the loss of horizontal speed makes Mario land a quarter-frame too early), but overall, it adds up to around 12 or so units saved.
On its own, this is not enough to save a frame anywhere in the run (the minimum required is 21), but there were other units to be saved too. Doing the jumpdive a frame earlier meant Mario had 1 more frame of acceleration in the air at the start, giving him 0.15 more speed each frame, and therefore causing Mario to get further ahead by 0.15 units per frame, at least until he slows down again & loses them while the old run would still be in the air. This stretching of distance-saves, combined with a few more units Dargos managed to save along the way, added up to just enough additional distance to allow Mario to land on the platform below the pole/tilting platforms a frame earlier, and therefore allowed us to save a full frame. Pretty complicated, but pretty neat!
At the end of the video, I show a slow-motion comparison between the new run & Plushs old run. The differences are subtle, but noticeable. The background music is Rashay Phase 2, made by DotStarMoney & used in SM64: Last Impact - a hack made by Kaze Emanuar. More info about both can be found here: https://youtu.be/pUwAXDd45wc
Thanks to Rcombs for console-verifying this run. He is Twitch channel can be found here: https://www.twitch.tv/rcombs
Total re-records used: 5,323")
![[TAS] SM64 Last Impact: Bee Mario Exploration - Without The Bee Powerup](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NhEH01B-q5k/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] SM64 Last Impact: Bee Mario Exploration - Without The Bee Powerup
In this video, I complete the stage Bee Mario Exploration in Super Mario 64: Last Impact, without collecting the bee mushroom. I do this by utilising a wall triangle which is actually a very steep (and walkable) slope, and lots of precise platforming.
This run is also a TAS WR benchmark for this star, with a time of 2917. However, as there are efficient methods of getting the bee powerup without talking to the queen, theres a good chance that this isnt as fast as just collecting the bee powerup. To help test this in future, I tried to ensure I wasnt too sloppy with this run, thus giving a fair comparison with any bee-powerup run. That said though, I wouldnt be surprised if a full second could be saved with a few key optimisations.
Anyway, heres a detailed explanation of what I did:
• First, I navigated to the outside area. I was able to avoid swimming by briefly landing on the lilypads, and long-jumping away before they sank low enough to make me enter the water. Interestingly, this also makes it possible to collect the red coins without the bee powerup, but this is almost certainly slower.
• Next, I dive & recover onto a very steep floor triangle (thats supposed to be a wall). Normally it wouldnt be possible to stand on that wall, but in the most recent version of Last Impact, Kaze made it so that you can walk on pretty much any slopes, regardless of steepness. However, I will still slide if I lose all my speed, and I cannot land on it from any airborne state which involves dust-frames. This means my possible movement options are limited & slow. I navigate to the top of the slope, so I have more height for precise platforming later.
• Next, I use hyperspeed punching to efficiently cross the floor triangle. This is a glitch where punching on sufficiently steep slopes causes Mario to gain speed, rather than losing it. In the original game, this is possible on slopes with rather narrow ranges of steepnesses (too steep = Mario slides), but because of Last Impacts aforementioned slope physics changes, it is possible to perform HSP with far steeper slopes, and far more acceleration. Thus, I accelerate to around 100 speed before I break free. I do two 1-2-kick sequences, followed by 3 punches, which moves me just far enough for the next step to work.
• Next, I turn around & jumpdive onto the mushroom. This is pretty precise, but would be easier (and slower) had I continued the HSP for longer.
• I then get to the bar platforms using a long-jump + wallkick, being careful to pass under the ceiling of the other bar.
• Next I go to the next platform by long-jumping, and using the narrow floor of a gap in the white wall to reset my vertical speed, delaying the fall & allowing me to make it all the way.
• Finally, with a long-jump & 2 wallkicks, I make it to the star platform & collect the star.
SM64: Last Impact is a major ROMHack of Super Mario 64, created by Kaze Emanuar. His channel (with links to the hack & other projects of his) can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/user/KazeBG0
Also, shoutouts to MKDasher for making a LUA script which automatically finds the best possible input for moving at a given angle. This is the first TAS Ive made using the script, and I found it very helpful. Heres his channel, where he does a mixture of SM64 TAS and Mario Kart DS time-trials: https://www.youtube.com/user/mkdasher
Total re-records: 2,906")
![Evolution Of A Space Photo - Planet Jupiter From Raw Video To Final Image [1080P]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/P3lxcBNnZ4w/hqdefault.jpg "Evolution Of A Space Photo - Planet Jupiter From Raw Video To Final Image [1080P]
Hello everyone!
Been a while since I made a space video, but I decided to make this one because a few people have often wondered how I take images of the stars and planets, so I decided to outline this process in a video (not in too much detail - dont worry!).
The data I used was of planet Jupiter, taken with my DMK 21AU618.AS camera, through my Explorer 200P telescope. The processing used a wide variety of software, which I will link to at the bottom. Anyways, enjoy the video!
Just to outline the process:
1. Use the software PIPP to align the images, and sort them into quality order
2. Stack them in Registax, and sharpen them with the wavelets feature
3. Combine them, and post-process in in Photoshop
Software is all free, except Photoshop
PIPP : https://sites.google.com/site/astropipp/ (Norton Security moaned at me when I downloaded this - just ignore it)
Registax: http://www.astronomie.be/registax/
Photoshop: http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/photoshop.html (This is the [ripoff] Creative Cloud version, Im sure you can find the older versions for yourself)
Music is Venice Beach, by Topher Mohr & Alex Elena (Its a free song in the YouTube standard set)")
![[TAS] Super Mario And The Cursed Castles - 1 Star in 14972](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PTG94Hmf2os/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Super Mario And The Cursed Castles - 1 Star in 14972
This video completes Super Mario And The Cursed Castles, a Super Mario 64 ROMHack created by Foxen, as quickly as possible using any skips available, shaving a little over a minute off the previous best TAS (25207 by Nathan10nathan) using a variety of new strats.
This TAS is the most ambitious single project Ive completed solo, with over 18,000 rerecords and many hours of work. I tried pretty hard to make it as clean as possible, though as is inevitable for a TAS this long, there are definitely still frames out there to be saved.
For the purposes of this run, the end-time was chosen to be the frame Mario enters the crouching animation before entering the warp at the end. The ending beyond that point is not shown in this run as Foxen requested (via a sign in the hack) that it not be shown in streams or videos.
Ill update the description with the usual verbose detail about all of the strats & optimisations after the premiere is done, but for now Id rather just let you enjoy the run without spoilers :-)
Nathan10nathans run: https://youtu.be/mDYSEVjCm5E
Foxens channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCujhsrnMLVE4GAIaGlmTClQ
My playlist of TAS runs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbYjr0fKUh3qCSR9CMqyJGhMcaObah7wU
My Twitter: https://twitter.com/superdavo0001
Total re-records: 18,626 (the most Ive ever done!)")
![[TAS] Releasio 64: Slip Slidin Away In 1842 [WR]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Q6v4vKseWCE/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Releasio 64: Slip Slidin Away In 1842 [WR]
1945 by Ethan White: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_0llSTVSko
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1892 by me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MQWG9vGkfI
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1842 by me.
15 frames saved on my previous TAS, as I found a faster way to enter the chimney. I do this by jumping and gaining super-speed to move away from it, then press B to gain -4000 speed, moving me to the chimneys warp in a single frame.
This manoeuvre is quite interesting. I suspect that the warp detection is performed 4 times per frame, and since I move at 4,000 speed, this gives 4 possible points where I can launch to the warp, at 1000, 2000, 3000 and 4000 units away from the warp respectively.
I tested this quite a lot, and found the method used in this run, which I think hits it on the second qframe from 2,000 units away.
If I could hit it on the first qframe (i.e. 1,000 units away), I wouldnt have to travel so far to reach the correct location, saving a few frames (~2-5). However, I couldnt make this work. Basically, at the super-speed, I move 200 units per frame, and theres room in the igloo for 50-100 ish, so only some trajectories line up close enough. After extensive testing, I couldnt find one that would work for the first qframe, so this one on the second was the best I could do.
Note that at the start of the run, I press B to momentarily gain super-speed and move to a different location. This was necessary here, as this was the only way to make everything sync up so I could aim accurately at the chimney and enter the warp. The usual location just wouldnt work for me, unfortunately. However, because this location is further away, its actually quicker to reach 2,000 units away from here than the other spot!
As well as this, I attempted to improve the slide area, by using vertical displacement (like in my Tiny Evil Penguin TAS) to fall faster. Unfortunately, I couldnt find a setup which allowed this glitch to be performed, and which allowed me to fall to the correct location, plus any setups I found to do it at all had a 14-frame cost to begin with, so I had to use the tried-and-true punch-straight-away strategy.
Im not explaining the rest of this TAS fully here, as I explained it in my previous version of it, and nothing has changed.
Rerecords: 429
Dont forget to subscribe - I have a non-SM64-related video in the works!")
![[TAS] Super Mario 64: Treasure Of The Ocean Cave in 1763](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Q8a0JLddCtA/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Super Mario 64: Treasure Of The Ocean Cave in 1763
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
1830 by me: https://youtu.be/9lbPa07tyJc
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1776 by AruaErueru (previous WR): https://youtu.be/gGlQ0NzgHQA
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1763 by me
If youre curious about the full history of this star and its many TAS iterations, Id highly recommend checking out Ukikipedias page on the subject: https://ukikipedia.net/wiki/Treasure_of_the_Ocean_Cave
In this video, I collect the star Treasure Of The Ocean Cave in Jolly Roger Bay in 17.63 seconds, 4 frames faster than the previous record by AruaErueru. This was achieved by:
• Entering the water a frame later, in order to travel further before losing 75% of Marios speed to the water entry, saving 2 frames (I had already saved these frames in my former WR but Eru unfortunately missed this save)
• Improving the movement while collecting the chests, saving an additional 2 frames.
I wasnt expecting to be back here & uploading so soon (Ive been very busy with exams & stuff), but after Eru demolished my oldest TAS WR with this new & awesome strategy for activating the chests, I couldnt resist trying to claim it back :P
In all seriousness, I only wanted to improve the run because I noticed Eru had not used the 2-frame timesave from entering the water late that I found in 2017, so I figured it was worth correcting this mistake. When I reached the chests though, I realised I was able to save another 2 frames!
The new chest strategy involves approaching at a different angle (facing more anticlockwise to be able to turn quicker), and rapidly jumping after clipping under the wall to lose speed. After several jumps, Marios speed drops low enough that he can double-jump with positive vertical speed, and kick high enough to reach the chest platform. With about 95 speed remaining, he can then use this momentum to reach & activate the chests significantly faster than he could with the old forward movement.
Im not entirely sure that this run is fully optimal, as there may be things I didnt fully test. If nobodys improved this star by the time Im free from exams, Ill take some time to thoroughly test everything I can think of.
This run was done using Mario cam rather than fixed-cam because I branched off my old run which does the same. I will need to redo it sometime using fixed-cam so it can be incorporated into the 120-star TAS, but for the moment Im unfortunately too busy.
This video was made using the SM64 Ghost Race (v1.1) hack made by Kaze Emanuar. The ghost shown is the run made by Mickey/VIS which is used in the 2012 120-star TAS, with a time of 1843 (24 frames slower than this run). Using the ghost makes it pretty clear where & how the new strat saves time, as well as showing the 2-frame save at the start. More information about this hack can be found here: https://youtu.be/pNBdr9kZlAE
Total re-records: 5,951 (of which 1,704 were used for this improvement)
Also, this is my 100th published video :O Thank you everyone for supporting my channel for all this time!")
