SM64 DS - 50 Star Damageless + 80 Star Deathless katze789 2026-09-21 | SM64 DS - 50 Star Damageless + 80 Star Deathless
Pokemon Diamond RetroAchievements Part 3 katze789 2025-09-30 | Honestly idk what I should put here for every part...
Servus 64 RetroAchievements katze789 2025-09-29 | I started this like 2-3 months ago and was working on it on and off. Overall the hardest stars went decently well (at least from what I remember), except for b3 reds. Back then I complained dying with 7/8 to an invis wall I never hit. Well now I died to new invis walls 4 fucking times at the end.However that was still nothing compared to that boo challenge. After finding strats in practice I thought I could just first try it, but in the end I spend literally an hour on it. I already was in a pretty mood and every death just made me more mad. Honestly one of my most miserable experiences. A big problem I am having is that when I am really pissed I am way too stubborn to practice again. I could've gotten it way quicker if I spend a couple minutes trying to look for a better strat on the final hit, but instead I chose endless suffering.The hardest challenge is getting all 1-ups in c11. It's really difficult to get an attempt going and the ending is super chokeable. I could not figure out a consistent strat for the 2nd to last 1-up. I didn't attempt the cheevo for days, because I didn't have much motivation to attempt something that chokeable. Attemptwise I got it really quick. I still took 2 sessions with one choke to the final path, but both session were only around 10 minutes.
NPCLess 64 [playthrough] katze789 2025-09-27 | Was somewhat fun, but don't really get the point of the hack. It basically just makes a bunch of stars impossible by removing the boss fights. Also it makes no sense what count and what doesn't count as npc.The CCM penguins are gone, but the SL one is still there. The eel counts as npc for some reason. The normal bullies in LLL are there, but not the ones that gives stars and the plants on THI got removed, except for one.
Pokemon Diamond RetroAchievements Part 1 katze789 2025-09-26 | And this is only the very beginning...
SM64 Lost Worlds Remake Nightmare Edition - Course 9 Dark Harbor [savestateless] katze789 2025-09-25 | 0:00 Road to the Box4:52 Same Mission, Different Difficulty10:00 Climb the Tower but for Real14:42 100 Coins27:05 Double Nightmare Double Annoyance33:16 Get the Red Coins Around the Port44:34 Battle With Eyerok Again!The first 3 stars were pretty difficult, since they all required non retryable firsties with a chokeable ending. I somehow choked the star grab for star 1 and a couple times the ending of star 2. Was kinda frustrating, especially when just finding new invis walls you never hit in practice and never dying to the actual hard jumps.Reds seemed impossible, since they are very spread out and would require doing those firsties multiple times, but turns out from act 4 onwards you can raise the water. From there on the level becomes a lot easier to the point where remembering everything is the hardest part. Would've honestly been a really sick level without the required firsties on the first 3 stars.Also I checked out C10, but couldn't figure out anything, so might already be done with this hack again.
Mario and the Forgotten Adventures II - Course 8 (Outside Stars) [savestateless] katze789 2025-09-24 | 0:00 Entry3:00 An Infernal Hell -MC-7:50 A Magnificent View From Above -MC-16:23 Eight Glimmers of Hope -MC-29:50 The Electrical Trap One of the most cursed things I ever experienced. I wanted to make a massive choke comp out of this, but it just seems like so much work. Will decide if I want to make one after the stars in the downtown area. At least if I will go for them, since as of uploading this I went through them once with states and they seem like completely impossible.I didn't even have some absurdly bad choke for reds, but they still took multiple days full of misery. It was rather the ways I kept dying over and over were ridiculous. Also I once got the star first try from 2/8 and on the next day I died like twice with 3 reds and then got the star again from 2/8 and I still had this many deaths in attempts.
Phis Green star Challenge [savestateless] katze789 2025-09-23 | For the most part this was pretty fun, even if a lot of the star placements weren't that great. I get that it's not that easy hiding stars in harder hacks, but so many stars are literally next to the stars in the normal game. You mostly have to climb the entire level and then jump down into the star, which was especially annoying in the final stages.
Mario and the Forgotten Adventures II - Course 7 Soulless Mountain [savestateless] katze789 2025-09-22 | 0:00 Entry4:03 Across the Bullet Bill8:35 Red Cover in the White Mist20:47 Unleash the Pandaemonium24:09 Master of Trickery -MC-26:26 100 Coins37:11 Five Tilted Towers -WC-48:08 You Will Never Find Me! -WC-I was so glad after fluking the ending of star 1, just to find out that's only a small part for most of the following stars.I found some huge skips in this level. It took me a long time to make it somewhat consistent, but I found a way to skip to the end of star 2 and star 3 with a hyperjump. That strat was also incredible helpful for reds, since it skips the by far hardest jump. I just could not get intended and I also took over 10 min to get a jump on the right path just once and like 7 min to get another jump on that path. Luckily I was able to skip that path with a reclimb, because there was just no way I could start every attempt with jumps that inconsistent. I am glad I found those skips, but it also worries me that I can't get jumps in c7 already.I spend forever learning and practicing reds, but I got such an absurd fluke. I had such a high heart rate after getting the hyperjump already and I just got more and more nervous. I got so close to dying on the final crossovers, but by some miracle I didn't false ledgegrab.I guess I used all my luck on reds, because 100s went exactly the opposite. You have to reclimb the wc part and I was really scared I would choke that. It's just a triple jump off a slope, but under pressure it's certainly scary and I know I am often not too lucky. However I did not expect to choke TWICE, yes twice past that. I have no idea how thats even possible, since you basically just fly to the final coins.
Katze Stuck in the Toilet 64 RetroAchievements katze789 2025-09-21 | Pretty fun set if it wasn't for the firsty spam sign in vc.
Slop Revenge 1: SLOP Takeover [playthrough] katze789 2025-09-20 | Pretty fun green comet, but maybe also because for once I didn't waste 20h trying to find every single star on my own.
Super Mario 64 RetroAchievements - Subset Bonus katze789 2025-09-19 | I final vanilla subset I had left and it was actually pretty decent.After getting 30 stars damageless, I decided to continue to see how many stars I can get without taking damage. I got tippy out of the way, so in case I take damage during lategame I can still easily get the 70 star deathless achievement. I choked it to an invis wall at 71 stars and I was too scared doing another 50 stars, so I decided to just get the deathless 70 star cheevo right away. Meaning I had to get all 120 stars again from the start, which was pretty draining.The smaller challenges were pretty cool again, even if some were quite tough to beat.
Mario and the Forgotten Adventures II - Course 6 Central Underground Station [savestateless] katze789 2025-09-18 | 0:00 The Spectral Army8:14 Trespassing Into Line 11 -VC-14:07 One Sided Corridors In Line 116:57 On the Roof of Line 1418:57 Risky Link in Line 423:33 100 Coins35:13 The Roof of Bienvenue's Evil -VC-i absolutely LOVED the idea of this level. I can't recall a single romhack underground station level. The first section after the pipe isn't anything too special, but I already really liked the atmosphere there. After that the maze part starts and it just was so incredibly fun exploring. At first you just see split path, after split path, after split path, after split path and it's just so overwhelming, but if you spend enough time you slowly learn the entire maze and realize it's actually not even close to as big as it first seemed. I just love the entire exploring process, that's why b3313 is one of my favorite hacks. Also back then I had so much fun exploring underground stations irl when we visited a big city and this was a pretty similar feeling.Sadly attempts didn't go that well. Star 1 took me a while already. Getting to the maze part in attempts was ridiculously cursed. It wasn't that bad, since it's not that far into attempts, but the deaths I had were just pure insanity. If I knew I had to reclimb the entire section at the end of reds, I would've gotten way more frustrated.100s went very poorly. I started with the s1 path again, which was incredibly inconsistent and I had quite a couple deaths past it, including 2 to the basically last jump.Reds was really fun to route, but having to do the entire vc path kinda ruins the star for me. You have to do the by far hardest normal star in the middle of reds and also nail a really scary jump to get back to the main area. Yes still not a fan of having to go past normal stars for single red coins.I had a pretty far in death and a bunch of absolute random deaths, which were kinda frustrating. I lost like 4 attempts in a row to missing random wallkicks and it did not feel like I mistimed any of them. I more feel like my keyboard is dropping random inputs, which I've noticed more recently, but I am not certain about that. Still my practice experience carried my enjoyablity with this star.
Super Mario 64 RetroAchievements - A Button Challenge Subset katze789 2025-09-17 | Without a doubt my biggest RA journey yet.For the longest time I was sure, that I could never beat this set, since a few achievements are just way too absurd. I still wanted to see how many I can get, so I kept going and eventually I was actually able to fully clear this.Still there was a point, where I felt like that most of the remaining achievements would be too hard, so I decided to attempt that 18 stars no a presses/70 stars below 50 a presses thing. I uploaded it as a separate video, because it was a pretty big run and it wouldn't fit in this vid anyway. I talk about everything relevant in that description: youtu.be/XTrOeITy9TE?si=n-ViaqroPfSM88ahAfter a couple more cheevos I got to RR. The normal stars were really difficult already, but 100s was on another level. You only get 3 a presses, so you are forced to clone a couple coins. The cloning is really awful, so my successful attempt was nearly 2h long. The worst part is the section before and after that. I literally could not get the bottom part in one go in practice for AGES and getting on top of the ship is nowhere near consistent, so I didn't even expect to get to the cloning part on my first session. The cloning part so scary, since one little mess up can easily make you fall down, which kills the attempt. Also grabbing the bomb a frame too early kills you as well - 7:28:55The ending isn't super difficult, but again falling down will kill the attempt and handling the pressure of an insanely unfun 2h long attempt isn't exactly easy. Without a doubt the star that made me the most nervous.TTC...I tried to learn it multiple times during this playthrough, but I just could not do the beginning even with states. I spend forever, but I finally learned spinners. However that doesn't mean they were even remotely consistent. For reference, I died twice (however thats even possible) with 8/8 reds and both attempts were over 20 minutes. And keep in mind I did reds last, so by that time I should really know how to do spawn.After getting some lower stars, which I already got really unlucky on, I decided to check out 100s and the top one and they actually seemed really doable after some messing around. I practiced more and on the next day I was decently confident about attempts...Lets say I am used to getting unlucky, but that was on another level. I had my worst breakdown all year and one of the worsts I ever had. Losing an attempt 20+ min in to some random bs that never happened in practice is incredibly painful, but that happening like 10 times is just too much to take. In the end I just shut down my pc, which kinda corrupted the current recording. Meaning I could not add all parts together with avidemux, so I had to take shotcut, which takes a lot longer to save vids. Saving this video literally took 15h and now get this. After 13h my computer randomly shut down during me brbing. I have NEVER seen that happening. It might give you a black screen on goes on standby mode, but never in my life my pc just turned itself off.I planned on cutting out the corrupted file and uploading it as extra video and suddenly with some miracle avidemux was able to save the full vid.And now that I checked again, I noticed TTC 100s is missing in this video...Just gonna make a separate one for real now: youtu.be/ePo-2DBV5gE?si=7IFecy3OEOhyan5oDDD was the other big boy left.I literally used my life savings on 100s Comedy gyazo.com/fbb0b9c6b27028f430671d1730731ffaThere was just no way I would be able to hold a button for potentially hours.I couldn't really use that strat for reds, since it requires multiple A presses during the star. I got really unlucky on the star again, with a bunch of pretty painful chokes. However the most painful was the successful attempt. I just could not get good rng on the cloning and my fingers were about to fell off. I don't think I could've continued holding that button for another minute.One thing I noticed about this set is that the points are just complete memes. RR 100s is the worst and hardest star in the entire set and is only worth 25 points. Just learning that star took me 7h and bits is worth the exact same amount. Bits fight + reds are both worth 25 points each and I was able to clear both in 2-3h, including practice. Also the RR triangle star is worth 25 as well and that one took me like 5 min to learn and I got it first try. Most 3-5 points achievements are harder than that.BoB Behind the Gate was even worth 50 points and yes it took me a long time to figure out. I spend multiple days and probably like 8h playtime trying to understand that cloning. It was just a knowledge issue and once I figured it out, I got it first try. Not even anywhere remotely close to RR 100s difficulty and it's worth twice as many points.I could give more examples, like that the TTC pendulum star is harder than anything else, but gives the least points, but I am running out of space and I think you get the point.
Ztar Attack Rebooted RetroAchievements katze789 2025-09-16 | Wanted to do the RA of this hack after beating the green comet version, but I just never found time to do so. Now like a month later I finally got to it and thanks to my goldfish memory I forgot everything about this hack already.At first this was super fun and it could've easily been the best RA set I've ever played. Many sets force the same challenging over the course of the entire hack, but here every level has unique challenges, which is really cool to see. However lategame had some really nasty challenges, which just ruined my enjoyment with this hack. Mainly forcing a damageless final fight is just agony. That fight is already the worst part of the game and during all my playthroughs I barely was able to clutch it out.I struggled a lot with the shockwave phase at first, but eventually I got better at that. However the final 3 hits are so bs and rng heavy. I choked them many times, but I got really lucky during the successful attempt. I got a free double hit and somehow neither the shockwave nor the fire hit me afterwards.
Mario and the Forgotten Adventures II - Colorful Maze katze789 2025-09-15 | 0:00 Maze Star 3 (Icy Slide)2:05 Maze Star 5 (Lava Tunnel)4:55 Maze Star 1 (Block Path)6:26 Maze Star 4 (VC Box)8:37 Maze Star 2 (Cork Box Path)10:16 Water Maze Entry12:24 Red Coins + 100 Coins21:11 Hidden Path22:51 TTC Buff Entry23:41 Still in the Cage26:25 Crossing the Lines in the Darkness31:52 More Red LightsAfter finishing the colorful maze stars and the water side level, I took a pretty long break from this game, since the TTC buff just seemed very unfun.At first the maze stars also didn't seem that great, since learning such a maze takes forever and for every attempt you have to walk through the entire maze before getting to the real challenge and while I had some annoying chokes, it wasn't too bad overall.The TTC buff took a long time to learn. Really wasn't a huge fan of that level, because the lighting up only happens every 3-4 sec and only for a few frames, which makes timing some jumps really annoying, especially the ones on the 2nd layer with the 2 scuttlebugs. I wouldn't even say the level is that bad designed, it just wasn't very fun to play, so I am just glad I had no chokes at the very top.
Super Craziicueva 64 [playthrough] katze789 2025-09-14 | Kinda weird, but decently fun hack, at least till you get to that random super kaizo OW star.
Super Mario 64 RetroAchievements - Subset Coin Collector katze789 2025-09-13 | I went for all coins back then already and I was pretty scared of having to redo THI. While getting all coins on the small island is pretty awful, overall it wasn't as bad as expected. However BitS and LLL were a way bigger problem than I remember. In BitS I got trolled multiple times by the bob ombs on top and the final Bully in LLL is awful, which killed my first attempt.
Super Mario Meltdown [playthrough] katze789 2025-09-12 | During my first playthrough I had a bit of a meltdown (no pun intended) during lategame. I made a very long and detailed description to actually give some constructive criticism.I send it to the creator and after talking about the points I had, I figured most of my criticism is pretty much invalid, so I decided against making that video public.However based on some of my points and the feedback of other people we got a couple updates to this hack.Since I got another 11h workshift (yes I am uploading in chronological for once) and couldn't stream for more than 1h, I decided to check out the update and replay lategame.The only valid criticism I had for B2 is that you can't get back from the middle platform and there is no indication that you will get there later in the level. I suggested some transparent walls, but the creator just added a platform to get back, which works as well.The other that annoyed me a lot back then was c7 secrets. As I suggested there is now a barrier indicating you shouldn't go to the secrets area with the shell. The star really isn't bad or unfair designed in any way, for the most part it was just on me.I also saw a couple other qol updates that I recommended, which is really cool to see. Appreciate it a lot when creators listen to feedback, tho as I said a lot of my feedback was pretty useless.All I can say is that this hack is amazing and it's super impressive what people can make as their first hack.
SM64 70 Star With 41 A-Presses katze789 2025-09-11 | This is part of the sm64 abc subset, but it deserves an own video.Considering this run has been done within 0 a presses, getting it in less than 50 sounds pretty easy, but this was anything but easy. There are a bunch of strats I couldn't even get once with states, even after trying for hours.In general I was kinda hitting a wall with the normal challenges and I am still certain there are many I won't be able to beat.However the getting 18 stars without pressing A once seemed doable enough, so I decided to go for that. After that I got the stupid idea of attempting a 70 star run, since I've done most stars of my route.There were many ups and downs during this run. I got absurdly unlucky with SSL reds, DDD cloning and WF whomp. Especially DDD and SSL weren't just really annoying, they were incredibly painful, because I had to keep holding A the entire time. Holding a button for over 20 min isn't the most fun experience. I had to come back to DDD and WF multiple times, but eventually I finally got the stars.This attempt got so long I decided to go for the THI koopa race instead of WDW 100s or TTM reds. Could've beaten it in 39 A presses, but I wanted to finish it before dinner, which got pretty close.While I somewhat counted my A presses, I couldn't be certain how many I am at. Only after the run I learned enabling leaderboard gives you a counter. However even like this I got added to the leaderboard, so I was able to tell the exact amount in the end.The highlight of the run is obviously bits. The pressure hit me all at once after the first few steps, because one little mess up could kill the last 5 hours and during this run I got another phone call, telling me I got another 11h workshift the next day, so I really did not want to choke now. I tried telling myself it's only vanilla bits, but I just got more and more nervous, Even after getting to the fight I still couldn't be certain I actually beat it. It was such a massive relief, once the notification popped up.
Hudsons Dawn [savestateless] katze789 2025-09-10 | 0:00 WC Switch0:41 Hudsons House3:01 Star 75:40 Beginning of Middle School7:50 Cannonless is EZ B Head11:49 Waking Up to the Tragedy of Having to go to Jr High14:05 Geomery Dash15:38 Soy or Jorrow RedsI am not sure why ozsef called this bad and unplayable, this hack is an absolute banger.
Super Mario 64 RetroAchievements - Speedrun Subet katze789 2025-09-09 | I did not want to do this set only because of 0 star, but before we get to that lets talk about some other achievements first.Because of my experience with the longer categories 70 and 120 star weren't that big of a problem. The only problem was I didn't have splits to compare against, so I had no idea which pace I was on until the very end. While I have a 151 in 120 star, I had moonjump code enabled on accident during that run, so that run doesn't count officially, meaning this run was a legit pb. I also was a pretty good pb pace in 70 star, but had to miss the final throw 3 times, which killed it.16 star felt way harder to me, since you can make hardly any mistake and that category has a ton of inconsistent tricks. I actually had a decent run, but lategame kinda screwed me over. Bad mips clip, missed early cycle in FS, horrible bljs, failed left side and missed a throw. Somehow I still clutched out the achievement by like 1 second.I ran the other categories before, but I never touched all signs before. It seemed kinda annoying to learn where all the signs are and you can't know if you missed one until the very end. I also was scared of the goal time, since the world record is insanely optimized, but this estimate is super forgiving and way easier than the other categories. It was my first run, I died at the end of a DW reds, had a complete meltdown in SSL and still beat the goal time by over 5 minutes.The stage rtas are mostly completely free. Besides the BBH one I got all of them during the 120 star run and that is the only one that is actually hard to beat.The single stars are super unbalanced. For example you get 22 seconds for the snowman star in SL when the single star record is around 8 sec and even the fullgame run strat doesn't take much longer than 10 sec and then there is stuff like the shipsclip star in JRB. You need a sub 50, which requires a perfect shipsclip, not getting hit by the eel and you can't even do the smallest mistake in the rest of the star. I had to get a perfect entry 3 or 4 times before I finally got that achievement.So lets finally talk about 0 star. Lets start by saying I practiced SBLJ across multiple weeks for literally 50h and got really close to just giving up many times.I learned a lot of valuable information from different videos. So gonna sum up the most important things I found out:For starting the blj hold left, instead of up left, to clip into the stairs easier. Delay the second lj and go from holding left to up left before jumping. Jumping from that little pillar is frame perfect and I tried to make it more consistent with pause buffering. In general I was messing around a lot with buffering. but while it sometimes seemed more consistent at first, it never really helped in the end. Instead of jumping of that pillar, hold up after building up some speed. It's nowhere near consistent, but a lot better than the other strat.Still the worst part is clipping through DDD. I never got more than m432 speed, but after a few days I figured out, you have to hold neutral before holding left, which stores a lot more speed. With different amount of speed you can do different camera inputs to clip through, except it's just not consistent in the slightest. You can have the same speed, do the same inputs and still get different results. I made a whole list trying to somewhat understand the clip gyazo.com/47a3b22f9048f2deaab7672cd1faab55However the only strat that worked every single time was the one with m455-m464 speed.I got the clip quite a couple times from a savestate at the stairs, but I took so long to get it once from entering the room. Few days later after getting it a couple times, I decided to do a couple attempts and somehow my first one actually finished, which gave me some confidence. However on my next attempt I couldn't even get the blj once after 10 minutes of trying. 2 or 3 days later right before an 11h workshift I did a couple meme attempts and my very first attempt on stream got the sub 10. The sblj took forever, but I somehow still clutched it out. No idea how I didn't miss a throw with so much pressure, especially after having such a meltdown on throws on the other categories. I guess it was my classic, practice for 50h and get it in 30 minutes.1 star had a really bad early game, but a first try sblj and again a super sick lategame, so I actually ended up getting a 1.5 min pb.
sweetbubblegum [savestateless] katze789 2025-09-08 | Really neat little mini hack. At first the goomba bouncing section felt quite difficult, but after doing it a few times it wasn't bad at all anymore.Can't really complain about anything, other then dying at the end of a star to a invis I didn't hit in practice.
Super Mario and the Cursed Castles - 121 Star in 1:52:28 katze789 2025-09-07 | Really good early game, only had one major mistake in OW1. C10 was a bit meh and a quick death in c8. Overall still pretty good till after key 2, but then I had a breakdown on the hyperjump star and a second one in C13.Glad I got a pb, but still disappointed, since it could've been so much better.
Mario Kart 64 RetroAchievements katze789 2025-09-06 | MorningStorm64: katze789: Vanilla and kaizo are so awful, I'm so glad RA will give me years of less painful content!RA:Well that sums it up pretty much. While the first days were still somewhat fun, later on this became nothing but misery.I got told you can retry every race if you get 5th or worse, which was super helpful information, so I got through the first couple achievements. I finished more cups and did some time trials on the side. I was watching some tips vid and checked out the wr. I practiced the first track for nearly 4h, but just couldn't beat the goal time even with states. I was about to give up, but then I remembered that video advised to use yoshi or toad. I knew that the entire time, but for some reason I did not realize I was playing with luigi. With yoshi beating the time was pretty much no problem anymore.The rest of time trial was ok overall. However some were completely free, so I got them first try practiceless and others took me AGES to beat, so I don't think the difficulty balancing was very well made. Also all TT achievements give the same amount of points, so I don't think that big difficulty difference was intended.Since TT was way more skill based it didn't piss me off as much as other achievements, tho some stuff was still very annoying. I constantly lost attempts to not drifting or to not getting the speed boost. While top runners can just spam drifts and get the speed boost in no time, I couldn't do that at all. After drifting I always had to wait for a bit before I was able to do the next drift, which killed so many attempts, since he just jumped, but didn't start the drift and drove into the next wall. The other problem I had that even after flicking left and right, the smoke often didn't change color. WR runs even drift on straight lines and I couldn't get that even with states.The really awful achievements were the don't touch walls one. The star and special cup both took some practice and with some I meant A LOT. I practiced bowsers castle for like 4h alone. I was sure I wouldn't go for these, but after a while I discovered a very important strat - you don't have to hold A all the time. I tried to perfectly drift into each turn, but just going slower is infinite times easier. While those 2 cups were still difficult, they were decently doable with all that practice. You can still retry if you get 5th or worse, but that means you have to finish a race first. Sure is fun wasting minutes after crushing into the first wall.For star cup you can rather easily get first on the first 3 tracks, so you can go for 3rd or 4th place on bowsers castle, which is very helpful.In special cup nothing is as hard as bowsers castle, but every single track is pretty challenging, so I'd say it's harder still, since you still need to get 1st in the overall ranking.For these 2 you had to get first in the overall ranking, but now for the 150cc no wall achievements you also have to get perfect score. For mushroom cup you are not even allowed to use retry after every race. However that one actually wasn't that bad. While I choked to the 2nd or 3rd lap on the third track, that one was still pretty fun.Now for the one that was so ridiculously miserable - 150CC Flower Cup, don't touch walls and get perfect score. Something that annoyed me a lot during this entire thing are the cheating cpus. They can use items without ever collecting those boxes and their speed depends on you. What I mean is that they don't get ahead of you if you drive right next to them, even if you go really slow, but on the other hand they go WAY faster when they are off screen. So even if they get hit and you lead by quite a bit, they caught up again in a matter of seconds. But also if they are ahead of you, you will not be able to catch up again. For example in toads turnpike one cpu is a bit ahead, suddenly can drive way faster, goes off screen and is shortly after half a lap ahead without me doing something wrong. That happened over and over, which was so annoying.What counts as wall hit is pretty questionable as well. Once it got screwed right on the finish line. In Frappe Snowland I drove off a slope and it counted as touching a wall and in the Koopa Troopa Beach the same happened, except it was the ramp.Frappe Snowland seems free at first, since there really is only one small section with walls, but holy shit I got so much random bs. But all of that was nothing compared to the next track. Obviously most of it is cut out, since I can only upload 12h videos and I did not want to split this game into multiple videos, but I will just say the amount of bs would've be enough for an entire choke comp.Also since the cpus are cheating, you could in theory lose on the finish line, so imagine you already spent nearly 2h, are insanely pissed, finally get past that track, just for that to happen, so you have to start over and experience all the bs over again. If that would happen to someone, that would truly suck...
Victory Verse [savestateless] katze789 2025-09-05 | Decent hack made by a bunch of different people.The catch is, most people have only been giving 15 minutes to make their levels, so obviously not everything is perfect, since there was no time to test. Besides some jumps ended up being way harder than intended, it's really impressive to see what people can create in such short amount of time.There was also no rules giving regarding difficulty, so while some levels were just casual, others were really difficult and took a lot of practice.This hack needed an update, since the 45 degree wallkicks didn't work in marias level and the star ID for reds in the final level was wrong. Reds in that level would probably be harder than my hardest star. I took over 5 min to get a random jump just once and you basically have to do it twice, since you need to go back from that path. I didn't even bother trying the rest of the star or even the rest of that path, I just moonjumped through it. I was sure I couldn't finish this, so I was pretty annoyed during this playthrough.Well turns out it was just a troll and the star was supposed to get nerfed later. The updated version didn't seem changed at all and I thought it's another troll, but you are just not supposed to do reds at all. Reds is star 2, but there also is a star 2 in the same spot as star 1 earlier.When I came back to this hack after the update to the final 3 stars, I thought it shouldn't take super long, but secrets in marias level were ridiculously cursed. Despite finding good strats in practice and also being really consistent, I just couldn't get the star. I never died to anything remotely difficult, but every death was more random than the previous one. I honestly could've make an entire choke comp out of it.The last star didn't go any better. My very first attempt got to the top of the level, but since I had to wait for the update for a week, I forgot my setup for the star grab, so I hit an invis wall. And after that I just couldn't get to the top again for AGES and to top it all off I died to the final jump again.
Lazy Lakitu Challenge RetroAchievements katze789 2025-09-04 | I really did not want to replay this, because of TTM 100s alone. Back then my attempt was over 4h long and I did not want to go through that again. First off many stars were actually really hard and a way bigger problem than I remembered. Stars like WC reds, VC reds, JRB ship/eel, DDD manta, THI koopa, DW reds, FS reds, BitS reds all took a while, but are overshadowed by TTM coins.While this time the attempt was way shorter, in total it took me over 8h. I really did not want to clone for 4h again and I was sure the slide is impossible, so when I started this I doubted I'd beat this game 100% again. But then I was like what if we could somehow get through the slide, which would skip over 30 clones. I took forever to find any strats, but in the end it actually seemed viable enough, since you can just spam attempts. I wanted to grind it offline, because for one it didn't seem very interesting to stream, but also because I am way better at handing chokes offline, so just in case I will somehow choke after the slide. Little spoiler I would've been more than happy if I only died once past slide.I remember the first time I got down the slide i had a like 160 heart rate, which isnt the best thing at the beginning of an attempt. That attempt did not live much longer...Later I got an insane attempt. I got 55 coins before the mountain clip, but sadly I died to that trick, which hurt a lot. Literally 2 attempts later I got down the slide again and I eventually got to the cloning part. I was sure you can only choke it by falling down somehow, but guess I was wrong. I didn't want to make the vid public, but here is what happened: youtu.be/yUW-3uzJu8w?si=kszF2-17eNYSEJ6ETo sum it up: I got the first 4 clones first try and after that I just wouldn't being able to clone a coin again, no matter how long I tried. At some point I cloned the bomb-omb, which I've never seen. I thought that won't give me a coin, but I tried anyway. It seemed like the original bomb won't come back now, but eventually it respawned again. However I just couldn't clone coins anymore. At some point it was completely gone, so what I tried instead was going for the 2nd bomb. It's way harder, but I thought it's better than starting over. I was able to clone a coin again and then the same happened. I could not get another coin and after a bit that bomb also randomly disappeared and I still have no idea why.The next day I decided to stream this, because I wouldn't be able to enjoy anything after that choke. I spend a lot more time practicing to make sure everything works, but on stream I just found more and more bs, it was unreal. Multiple chokes past the slide, including one to somehow exiting course while grabbing the crazy box and one to the monkey. My setup was to speak to him in a certain spot and then just having to hold left and to make sure you get on top of the mountain, you can adjust with holding up. This attempt it worked perfect without doing anything different, but on that attempt I somehow still just false ledgegrabbed, which screwed up the camera, making the rest of the star impossible.A big problem of this hack is not being able to know what you did wrong. Good example for this is vc. You don't see the level at all and the pause menu doesn't show anything either, so I had to get more creative. Right before the elevator path I ledgegrabbed the edge and backflipped at 29 sec. Waited for like 3 sec, did another backflip, while holding up right, which puts you in the perfect spot for the red. Then I had to turn around and double jump on the next elevator. The next section is way harder, since I had to go based on counting, which is not very accurate, especially because the elevators might not be in the perfect spot from previous inaccuracies. I expected many deaths there, but at first I couldn't get any attempts there. I kept failing the 29 sec backflip to the point I thought my timing is wrong. I checked in the vanilla rom just to confirm my setup is correct. I switched back to this rom and from there on I didn't die a single time to that jump anymore and I had many chokes afterwards. I still have absolutely no idea what went wrong, because I didn't change my setup in the slightest and since it doesn't matter if the elevator is rather high or low, it's not remotely tight either.I am just glad I am finally free from this game now.
Ztar Attack Rebooted Green Comet [playthrough] katze789 2025-09-02 | Overall a pretty decent green comet, but a couple stars are way harder than the rest. At first I had a lot of fun. The stars are pretty well hidden, but since the early game stages are rather small, searching the stars was pretty fun and never took too long.However I did the mistake of trying to find and figure out as many stars as possible by myself, which made the 2nd half of the playthrough absolutely miserable. I actually got almost all stars like this, only had to look up like 3, but come on stuff like c7s5 is just not findable. The indicator coin is way too far off the stage, so it doesn't even render even if you are looking towards it.I also wanted to look up the final OW star, but I just couldn't find it anywhere in quad. I was about to give up when I noticed it was literally right next to me lol
Super Mario Vortex [playthrough] katze789 2025-09-01 | Really neat casual hack. This also seems like a very good speedgame, only the carpet ride star in c2 might be a bit annoying. It certainly feels pretty similar to sapphire, it even has the same star count. Unlike sapphire, the final bowser level doesn't require all stars, which creates another category. Also decided to upload this is separate video instead of putting it in a comp, for one because the hack is pretty good, but also because I am kinda running out of daily videos. Certain projects like NoD RA, SoR RA and running Cursed Castles (which I am still on) took so much time.
Stars of Reincarnation RetroArchievements katze789 2025-08-31 | I thought NoD was a big journey, but this took like twice as long. In total it took me 24 sessions (of just attempts) gyazo.com/386582ec6932d2221c33fd1dba4e90dfI wanted to start with the hardest stages to have them out of the way and be more motivated for the rest.However the game was overall just way more difficult than I remembered. I was scared of the final stage obviously and maybe stuff like the core levels or c14, but all OW3 levels were really brutal and even OW2 was pretty tough. Even OW1 gave me some trouble, since it has a couple challenging achievements.I had many ups and downs during this playthrough. While I had a couple really lucky flukes, other stars did not go that well and gave me some of the most ridiculous bs chokes I've ever seen @C9 sign, @C15 reds.The biggest problem for me was how nervous I got all the time. I am already really bad if it comes to nerves, but having this beaten before added so much pressure, since I felt like I shouldn't be stuck for too long on any star.Anyway really glad I was finally able to finish this journey now.
a bunch of hacks thrown together 23 katze789 2025-08-30 | 0:00 Mario Souls Bowser Festival10:23 Vessel of Power DEMO20:38 Kitchen Midventure Green Seconds46:24 Depths of the Abyss1:41:37 Fleeing Mario's Factory2:12:38 Bob-Omb Village2:24:26 Cosmic Clone Concept2:29:26 The Drop642:50:13 PikMario - Pikmin in SM64 3:04:43 Quicksand Ledgegrab Training 2 Electric Boogaloo 3:09:00 Super Mario 64 But B U R G E R3:14:14 SM64 test stages3:10:54 Super Mario 463:40:08 Adventure Alpha3:56:41 SM64 Redrawn (DEMO)4:42:20 Mario's Spectacular Spook5:11:11 Mario School Run (Alpha Build 0.3.5) - Using Left (A) closed9:12:20 The Realm Of Marios Head9:35:10 Mario's Hat Attack!9:44:23 Super Mario Quagsire Cove9:55:47 Not So Scuffed City10:06:35 Bob Omb Battlefield Remake HD 4K made in Paint 3D10:08:38 SM64 Darkness - Alpha1:44:50 Beta Spin Jump 64Probably the last bunch of hacks video for a long time (I think I said that before).
TWDE: Course 9 - Vengeful Red Spirits Erratic Step + 120 Coins [savestateless] katze789 2025-08-29 | I didn't really want to do more kaizo stars this difficult, but I put so much time into this star already that I wanted to get it one day. Over the years I learned this star probably like 10 times by now and I don't mean messing around with a few jumps, but actually learning the entire thing. However either it seemed too hard, I wanted to do other stuff first and kinda forgot about it or I just had no motivation to attempt it. Over the past 2 weeks I relearned the star once again and I put a lot of effort into making a route without the precise lavabounces. The thing is it didn't really work out and it also would be harder, considering it adds a full reclimb on both sides. Since the coins are already really low, it just wasn't worth it at all.The precise lavabounces at 12:40 is by far the hardest part of the star. In a successful attempt it doesn't look that insane, but it's incredibly precise. You can do them earlier, but that would mean having to do the spawn reclimb at the very end and it still would be over 5 minutes into the attempt, so it just wasn't worth it. Since comeback I easily practiced just this section for over 10h. I tried to analyze which input on which frame gives the most distance, which wasn't exactly easy, since every time I thought I figured out something, it just stopped working completely. I changed my strats for that part a lot, in fact even right before this session. My old strat stopped working once again, so I messed around with holding neutral on the second lavabounce. The problem was during this attempt I forgot what I came up with. I couldn't remember if I should do another buffer while holding neutral, that's why the long pause. I decided to go with this and it actually worked out.Despite this being a lava level with a lot of coins, you are hardly allowed to do any mistakes, because there are quite a lot required lavabounces. I somehow did a mistake at every single section where I was allowed to do one:I missed the jump at 10:10Bad angle at 15:43Peak mistake at 17:29, wasn't a big deal, but would've liked to keep the coins just in caseBarely lived that 19:48 Not sure how that fire hit me, but just lucky I didn't fall off 22:18Didn't take damage, but reacted on the last frame 24:45This makes it seem like a forgiving star, but it really isn't. You are only allowed to do a mistake in certain sections and if I took any more damage I wouldn't have lived.Even with all the practice I put into this star, I just can't believe I fluked it like this. My first day of attempts went really poorly, didn't get a single attempt out of spawn. This session didn't start out any better at first, but then I finally got a pb at least, which died in a very.. uh interesting way (as seen at the beginning of the vid) and then this attempt happened out of nowhere. So I got the star 4 times from before precise lavabounces, one time even from 7/20, from before even starting that path, but doing it in an attempt is just so much harder. I was shaking since lavabounces, so every jump becomes a million times scarier and I just overthink everything.
Tsucnents Boss Battle Test RetroAchievements katze789 2025-08-28 | Another set I didn't want to do because of how nervous I got during reds the first time and lets just say I wasn't any less nervous this time. I had a lot of really annoying deaths, but eventually I finally got a good attempt. I should've died to the lavabounce coin, which made me so much more nervous for the rest of the star, but luckily I didn't choke it again.This also has a couple other pretty hard challenges, like having to get 120 coins, all 1-ups or only being allowed to use certain buttons for some stars. Especially having only A limits the moveset a lot and makes even the easiest jumps quite challenging.
Marios Nightmare 64 Green Dream v1.3 [playthrough] katze789 2025-08-27 | What an absolute nightmare this was (no pun intended).Certain stars were so ridiculously cursed, it just left me speechless.For some reason I couldn't add the different parts together, so I had to use shotcut and the first time the program crashed and on the next day I took over 12h to save the vid bruh gyazo.com/51edcca46c32cf40911becfa1f3e0f81
Cursed Castles RetroAchievements katze789 2025-08-26 | Warmup for running this game again.It's not looking great so far...
Mario and the Forgotten Adventures II - Course 4 Warped Skies - Downside [savestateless] katze789 2025-08-25 | 0:00 Light Shine Upon The Chosen Ones -MC-5:30 Once Upon A Mushroom7:53 Inverted Geometry9:22 Red Or Blue?19:55 Crossovers in the Darkness23:05 New Blue Blocks On The Side23:58 Star 7Course 3, except it's upside down.I didn't want to do this level for a while, since it didn't seem very fun to learn. The level is way too dark, so figuring out where to go takes forever. Once I found out what to do, the normal stars were pretty fun.Reds however didn't feel that well designed. The 2nd red is basically the entire star 1 with a scary wallkick to get back. Unless I was missing something but the next red requires a bunch of firsties. They are somewhat retryable, but everytime you don't get a firsty you lose a bunch of height. After that you have to get that precise second frame and what I really disliked was the big reclimb, so you had to nail that jump twice. There are also a bunch of other scary jumps, like those tight wallkicks to the top, which you have to do twice as well. Pause buffering makes it not super bad, but you still can easily get collisioned.I was super nervous after the reclimb, so I am really glad I didn't choke the ending.I didn't do 100s, because I got told there is a !box replacement for it. What I didn't know is that box is probably even harder than just collecting 100 coins. You have to do all of star 5, which is the by far hardest normal star and then nail an insanely tight jump. I still went for it, since for one no one else even found that box, but also because I didn't want to route and practice coins on stream.
Super Mario 74 Extreme Edition RetroAchievements katze789 2025-08-24 | With all my ee experience I hoped this wouldn't be too hard, but I actually struggled quite a lot. Even the early game stages gave me some problems, which was really annoying.The only star that went really well was venino reds. I wanted to separate 100s and reds, but somehow still clutched out reds on my very first attempt.Crudelo didn't feel that hard, because I have a lot of experience with it and para cam helps quite a bit. I was scared thinking it's not that bad would backfire and it sure did. I had many deaths to spawn, one to the last reclimb, a 14,16 and 19/20 choke. Sure is fun having to end the session after chokes like that.
Mario and the Forgotten Adventures II - Course 2 Dragons Temple [savestateless] katze789 2025-08-23 | 0:00 Entry0:42 Secrets Under the Starry Night7:16 Atop the Normal House8:40 Solve the Dragon's Riddle11:02 The Upsidedown -MC-15:28 Blue in Blue -MC-VC-18:13 100 Coins22:56 Abnormal Red Flight -WC-The 2nd half of the level needed all caps, so I had to take a pretty big break inbetween.Overall another decent level, the only thing I could criticize is that star 5 is basically star 4 again, except for the very ending.
SM64 Relax Your Life - 0 Star in 2:20 katze789 2025-08-22 | Had a few small mistakes in b1, but I was so nervous at the throws, since I really wanted those 5 gifted subs to be in the highlight.
SM64 - Surge of Starlight [savestateless] katze789 2025-08-21 | Really good light kaizo. Honestly just impressive what people can create as their first hack. Level design wise I really can't complain about anything, there are only a few modern patches missing. For example showing blues when standing on the switch, fast turns for those red/blue flipswitches, having a cap timer and respawning shell boxes. Having these missing isn't a huge issue, just would be a very small improvement idea.Also the majority of this game is rather easy, but c12, b3 and especially c15 is a huge difficulty spike. Those levels aren't bad, in fact I really liked the b3 idea, they just felt a bit too hard in comparison to the rest of the game.
Mario and the Forgotten Adventures II - Wing Cap [savestateless] katze789 2025-08-20 | 0:00 Entry1:58 Switch + Star next to it8:00 !Box in the Nightsky14:14 Arch at the Beginning16:03 Lavabounce Tower21:17 Red CoinsFor some reason I was super nervous the entire time playing this stage. I usually get way too quick way too nervous, but here it was especially bad and I have no idea why. I was just flying to some of these stars, because I didn't want to learn intended, but I also wanted to get more practice with the climb. And for the !box star I couldn't even figure out what intended is.I hoped the pressure would get less after doing the climb a couple times, so I did reds last. However I suddenly couldn't climb the stage at all anymore. I kept dying to random stuff over and over again, so when I finally reached the top again I was even more nervous than the first time I got up there. Honestly no idea how I didn't choke it with that pressure. Also missed the last red and almost didn't make it back in time. I never missed that in practice, so I had no idea flying back will be that tight.It's still a decent level, I just really wasn't a fan of the tower at the beginning. While it's not super bad, the amps are still really annoying and it has some collision issues. That shouldn't be that big of an issue, but I just kept falling down over and over again.
Star Revenge 2: Night of Doom RetroAchievements katze789 2025-08-19 | Oh boy this was a journey. I spent around 2 weeks on this.While there were a bunch of pretty interesting challenges, like the get the top BoD star with 20 coins or less (which I didnt see at first, so had to do the star twice), others weren't that great. Having to do AW in just lakitu cam and the kill 6 bullies in the key 2 fight was horrible. The biggest problem was having to get all reds in every single level, which made the 6/8 patch completely irrelevant. That could've been a decent challenge for a few levels maybe, but having to do that in every stage just feels really uncreative.I remember being at not even 120/252 achievements, but already had 6:20h of material, so I really started to doubt I can fit this into one vid, since you can't upload videos longer than 12h. I tried to play a bit faster and chat less during attempts, which I guess wasn't super necessary. While I had long levels like c15 or c6 still left, I got the hardest levels out of the way early, meaning many achievements I did late were rather short.Also speaking of c15. Overall it went alright, especially only having one death past spawn for reds was really lucky, but the warp to b3 and the tower star were ridiculously cursed. I spend longer on those, than on all other stars combined, including practice. In general a couple completely random stars were just cursed. Like the c8 koopa star where I died to an invis 3 times at the very end. The B2 lavabounce star with uncountable chokes, after getting the ending first try in practice without even having a strat or the last star in c7, where I just could not get out of spawn anymore.I had many ups and downs, but overall it was a decently enjoyable experience.
Mario and the Forgotten Adventures II - Course 5 Skyhigh Islands [savestateless] katze789 2025-08-17 | 0:00 Bramble Island's Post3:25 The Decimated Trunk6:48 Chin Up for Red Coins + 100 Coins + To Crown Yourself For A Star19:19 The Upwards Waterfall21:01 Gambling Your Life Under The Mist -MC-After star 1, I took forever figuring out where to go next, just to find out there is another path right next to the spawn.In this level reds don't take you out of the level, so you can combine them with star 4. However these stars went pretty awful. I didn't really have super bad chokes, but I just could not get attempts going. Getting to the main reds area isn't even that hard, but I got ridiculous death after ridiculous death.
Stars of the Beast 2.5 RetroAchievements katze789 2025-08-16 | Another set I was really unsure if I should do, since coins are very hard.I practiced them for like 2 days and started with some normal stars, but they went awful. I game over twice before even getting a single attempt past the first path. I also died twice to the end of panels, but from there on stuff went really well. I had 2 dumb deaths past spawn, but fluked the rest. I know it's not that worth, but I wanted to separate 100s and reds. I came up with a route to spawn 100s before that pillar jump. I missed the lava red, but I was able to get another red, so my route worked out and somehow I just never died afterwards. Honestly no idea how, because I was insanely nervous and had absolutely no confidence in any jumps.
Marios Nightmare 64 v1.3 [savestateless] katze789 2025-08-15 | Really good qol update. The major changes are aglab cam, 7/8 reds patch in main levels, 6/8 reds in side level and side levels are non stop now. There are also a bunch of small changes like adding 2 boxes in c15 to nerf those awful heave ho throws.Still took me 3 days to beat, since some stars are still kinda tough, but overall replaying this hack was really fun.
Mario and the Forgotten Adventures II - Metal Cap [savestateless] katze789 2025-08-14 | 0:00 Entry0:44 Switch2:04 Top3:55 Water Rising8:11 Box Above Quicksand8:56 Alcove10:29 Red CoinsAnother pretty cool stage. I struggled quite a lot getting on top of the level, because getting a good angle from that slope is kinda difficult and the collision on those thins on top is a bit awful. I was really worried having to do that late into reds, but when I finally got to reds I discovered there is a completely different section, which also leads you to the top.I found a way to get the red from the switch path and go back to the beginning and get the 2nd switch path red from the top, so I could skip the middle section. However I am not even sure if that's easier, since the middle section really isn't that hard and you just delay getting to the hard part of the star.
Gate of the Good RetroAchievements katze789 2025-08-13 | I wasn't sure if I should do the RA set for this, since reds here were really difficult.There also was an extra challenge to do the top star damageless, which gave me a lot of trouble, but funnily enough I got reds on my first attempt afterwards. I am not sure if it counts, since I got the star before, but if we ignore that reds here is the hardest star I ever got first try.
Mario and the Forgotten Adventures II - Bowser 1 [savestateless] katze789 2025-08-12 | 0:00 Entry1:00 100 Coins + Fight Entry6:45 Fight8:45 Entry 210:07 Box in the Middle11:02 Hidden Star13:45 Red Coins + VC Star17:53 Bully StarDespite this being a side course, it still has a 100 coin star. I took forever routing it, since I never really had enough coins at the end. I found another 6 coin on the path for the bully star, but at the end I did barely have enough time to get all boxes from that little wallkick section, because the ceiling was too far down already. I didn't want to use the reds area to get extra coins, since they are pretty hard and getting into the pipe is awful. Also couldn't find a way to get back, so that wasn't an option anyway. However then I remembered the 10 coin box in the middle, which made this way more viable.Attempts went pretty bad. I had many far in chokes, so killing all those goombas over and over again became quite annoying.This level is still pretty cool with some unique challenges. The slowly moving down ceiling is an interesting concept and while I didn't like reds at first, they still offer a creative challenge, which is decently doable with the right strats,
