(SM64DS TAS) Hot Foot it into the Volcano in 23.20 (Mario) Bobby Bob 2021-02-28 | I've had the idea for this strat for quite awhile, pretty much ever since the 80 star tas started, but never tried it until now when I randomly got motivated to. The best tas of this star using the normal pole strat (As yoshi, though it barely matters) took 24.16, which would seem to indicate that this would be faster, but the old strat was last done a long time ago, when tases of this game were much less optimized and there are obviously changes to doing it as Mario, but it mostly just looks really cool and won't be applicable in the 150 star tas at all no matter what, and wouldn't be applicable to the 80 star tas for quite awhile so I decided to release it publicly now. This could also be improved by quite a bit if I was able to cut out the dive reset backflip, which is quite a slow method of gaining height, so I'd be a bit surprised if it isn't faster in the end.
SM64DS - Quintuple Star Activation Bobby Bob 2024-08-14 | Beat that @pannenkoek2012 I am moving back to school very soon so I wanted to make one more somewhat higher quality video before I go, but unfortunately that means I probably won't be uploading much/at all until December, unless I somehow have the time and energy to make more TASes during the semester. This is my first more edited video in awhile so it should hopefully be a bit higher quality than my older ones, but let me know if you have any feedback on the editing since I'm still really bad. Disclaimer: in addition to being Tool Assisted this video uses a few hacks to improve the visuals (most notably changing camera position and making it so the stars can be seen from a further distance) but these hacks have no impact on the gameplay and the original TAS was made without any of them enabledIf you read this far you are pretty cool, unfortunately for you this description is a bit shorter than usual so I have no money for description readers
Beating King Whomp in 31.2 Seconds (SM64DS TAS) Bobby Bob 2024-08-04 | This TAS is an improvement of 1.48 on the previous record by Sharkey91 from a very long time ago (youtube.com/watch?v=f80lxSYkt_k). The main inspiration behind this TAS were some optimizations made by Rupa and I to the movement from the beginning of the star up to the roof, which is also used for the Fortress star. Another new strat used in this TAS is a glitch noticed by Rupa, where by ground pounding the top of King Whomp when he is standing vertically, he instantly takes damage upon landing. Though this cannot actually damage King Whomp any faster than hitting him normally, it is very useful on the 3rd hit as it allows the cutscene and star grab to be done faster. Because we don't have to actually hit King Whomp as he lands, we can instead use that time to position ourselves directly underneath the star and switch to first person camera. After the textboxes are closed at the end of the fight, the camera pans back to its previous position before the star can spawn, so by using first person the camera can be positioned closer to Mario, reducing the length of the cutscene.Rupa and I also improved the Fortress star from 10.94 (youtube.com/shorts/6pKayZDVIvc) to 10.61, but I decided not to upload it since it isn't that different in appearance from the previous version. Both stars combined took about 10,000 rerecords, which is more than I usually use, so hopefully both stars will be good to go when the 150 star TAS reaches Whomp's in a few stars.If you read this far you have an iq of at least 108 and I will give you 5 dollars
(SM64DS TAS) Fall Onto the Caged Island in 11.28 Bobby Bob 2024-07-04 | It is the birthday of America, you know what that means: time to make a TAS of Mario jumping onto an island and clipping through the back of a cage to get the star slightly faster than before, just as the founding fathers intended. This TAS is an improvement of .53 on the previous record by Adeal (youtube.com/watch?v=_o6iHnrsb4s). The main improvement is the clip through the cage at the end of the TAS, which I found in 2021. The fence on the island has no collision on top, so you can fall into it. Because the fence is so close to the cage, when you try to exit the fence and the wall pushes you slightly out, that push actually pushes you far enough into the wall of the cage that you can just go through to the star. I first used this clip later that year to do the star faster as Yoshi for the 80 star TAS, which you can watch here (youtu.be/wzYXBXdsedQ?t=354), but I wasn't sure if it could be faster as Mario, since Mario has to dive to the island to make the jump, which would risk bonking. I figured out that you can triple jump with a far enough left angle so that Mario won't bonk on the cage, then dive into the fence to perform the clip mid-dive, and bonk into the star, which is a little bit faster. Another less obvious improvement over Adeal's run is that this TAS avoid grabbing the line of 5 coins at the start, which saves 1 frame per coin after the star is collected, as the game counts up all coins collected in the star in the castle. Though this timesave is not reflected in the time of the TAS as an individual level, it will save time when this is used in the 150 star TAS.2975 RerecordsUnfortunately I ran out of money after last video so if you read this far you are a part of the top 10% smartest people in the world, and if you meet me in real life I will give you ten dollars
(SM64DS TAS) Star Cancel Using Lava Damage Bobby Bob 2024-06-21 | I've decided to stop uploading my TASes as shorts for the time being, as they've been doing badly lately and generally feel way more shallow than actual video uploads. Plus, this allows me to type incredibly long descriptions explaining everything!!!Also, the SM64DS 0 star TAS that I and others have been working on for a few years is finally done, and is viewable here: youtube.com/watch?v=usqxR6ZmTUkIt's the first full game TAS that I've put significant work into that has actually been completed, and I think it's pretty cool so you should watch it and subscribe to SM64DS TASing god Adeal's TASes as well as all other contributors to the TAS.The death animation from lava is unique from most others, as you keep control over the character throughout the entire fadeout. As a failsafe, the developers made it so that you couldn't interact with stars during the fadeout (which starts the frame the health bar visibly reaches 0), to try to prevent shenanigans such as these. However, they failed, as for some reason, once the fadeout starts, if you then bounce on lava again, after that point any star you touch will actually be collected during the fadeout. This mechanic has been known about for several years, however SM64DS only has a few stars in close proximity to lava, and none of them seemed to be positioned in a way that made it grabbable during the very short fadeout animation. A few days ago, I realized that because the fadeout only starts once your health visibly reaches 0, regardless of how much damage you have actually taken, you can go underneath the bridge at the end of the star to quickly take a lot of damage, which lets you set things up to land on the lava almost immediately after your health reaches 0 to maximize the time you have to reach the star. Using this, and taking advantage of the fact that Luigi accelerates faster in the air than all other characters, it is possible to reach this star with only a few frames to spare before you are respawned in the castle. As shown in the video, this is an entirely valid way of collecting the star which is counted by the game, but skips the collection animation. This TAS regains control in the castle about half a second faster than our best TAS of this star as Mario, so it may be used in the 150 star TAS, but we aren't sure yet until we optimize various strats better in the future. Unless new information is discovered, this is probably the only star in the game that can be cancelled with this method in a way that isn't incredibly impractical and slow, but it happens to work quite well on this star. If you made it this far in my description you are in the top 1% smartest people in the world and are a true fan of my channel, if I ever meet you in real life I will give you $35
Chests in the Current with Water Storage in 22.58 (SM64DS TAS) Bobby Bob 2024-01-14 | Youtube is so cool intentionally making descriptions virtually impossible to see unless you specifically look for them to encourage garbage content with no depth type something silly down in the comments if you see this4785 rerecords
(SM64DS TAS) Koopa Surfin Switch Star in 16.91 Bobby Bob 2024-01-02 | This is the worst tas I've made all year946 rerecords
Eye to Eye in the Secret Room Without Luigi in 48.95 [SM64DS TAS] Bobby Bob 2023-08-09 | Using my new pink bobomb clip (youtube.com/watch?v=q_P5GEwCz8s) it is now possible to collect this star without the use of Luigi or the vanish power flower ability. That in itself is pretty cool I think, but this route is also likely to be faster for the 150 star TAS. Using a Luigi cap (as the route would otherwise have to do) for this star will take about 48-49 seconds, so while this route isn't officially confirmed to be faster, I am very confident that there is more potential for improvement on this TAS, since the normal route puts you on a fixed timer for over half of the star with no potential timesaves.As for the TAS itself, we cannot just jump up to the eye's room immidiately, because it is unloaded. To load it, we must enter the upstairs room from out of bounds, then leave it through a door. Once this is done, we can clip out of bounds again to re-enter the now loaded eye room and complete the star. Rupa (youtube.com/@Keiki-cv2im) contributed to this TAS through several small optimizations in the first two rooms and the bobomb clip. 5902 Rerecords
(SM64DS IL) Mysterious Mountainside as Mario in 26.51 Bobby Bob 2023-08-04 | The pink bobomb revolution is underway. A few hours after the one in BBH (youtube.com/watch?v=q_P5GEwCz8s), I realized you could use the same clipping method to get out of bounds at this spot in TTM. Conveniently, this is right next to water and upwards wind which make Mysterious Mountainside easily accessible inside its cage, and faster than the previous best method (youtube.com/watch?v=Fnn0YCsnbZM). As an IL, this star is now like 8 seconds faster than the next fastest star in 80 star, so could theoretically be used to save that time, however I don't think that will happen any time soon because 1. This clip is really, really hard and inconsistent, and 2. The first time you talk to this bobomb on a save file, you are forced to watch a several second long cutscene of the cannon opening, which would make a first try clip only save a few seconds. Shoutouts to SkicoNow for providing moral support.
You cant do bomb clip in Super Mario 64 DS!!! Bobby Bob 2023-08-03 | This is an NPC clip, the same thing mechanically as the rabbit clips used to skip the 30 and 50 star doors in any% speedruns. The reason this wasn't found for so long is because this particular pink bobomb only spawns if the red coin mission is selected, which it rarely is in a typical playthrough/speedrun. There is 1 pink bobomb with the same spawn conditions in each of the 15 stages, so I decided to take a look at all of them and see if they could be used to clip out of bounds. All the others are too far away from walls, but this one turned out to be barely close enough to the wall to clip through by jumping over the bobomb, and landing inside it to get the biggest possible push. This has the potential to be pretty useful, since this is the first known out of bounds trick in BBH outside of the basement (which is too isolated from the rest of the level to be as useful). This should make it possible to collect Eye to Eye in the Secret Room without Luigi, and might allow for faster access to other stars in the level for the 150 star TAS. Most applications of this glitch haven't yet been tested, but expect more to come on this channel if I find any cool uses. Shoutouts to SkicoNow.
(SM64DS TAS) To the Top of the Fortress in 10.94 Bobby Bob 2023-06-11 | Improvement of .3 off of this youtube.com/shorts/piBjaY3M1LA , using a new strat idea by Rupa to do the triple jump wall jump strat with a ledge grab at the end to avoid having to fall down with the star. Rerecords: 5650 (includes the slower TAS that this was improved off of, probably around 2k for just this version)
(SM64DS TAS) Reverse 1 Star Door Skip for the 0 Star TAS Bobby Bob 2023-04-16 | If you don't know what Quantum Tunneling is: youtube.com/watch?v=dFImVnkCLU0After a measly 2 years, I am finally getting close to finishing the optimized 0 star TAS!!!! The only tunneling segment I have left is endless stairs skip, which will need another wall tunnel to get out of bounds, which shouldn't be much harder than this one theoretically. After that, we will have to optimize the BITS stage and Bowser fight, since those both have known improvements since the last any% tas, but then this project might actually be done. Found by Migu awhile ago, this skip is useful for the 0 star TAS because the 1 star door is still locked, even from the inside, and saves a few seconds over going into the slide and exiting course. This is the first segment I've done which uses a wall tunnel, which is much more difficult (I think) to do, since you need an extremely precise position on the X and Z axis, instead of the Y axis, and precisely controlling position while long jumping is not easy. I tried for awhile to come up with some kind of brute-forcer that would allow me to long jump twice in a row without stopping at all and still get the correct position, but I couldn't think of anything that wouldn't require reverse engineering a lot of the game's code, so I went with a slightly slower but overwhelmingly simpler solution of calculating the position needed to clip with horrible graphing stuff, then find a position I could stand at on the floor to run forwards and long jump to hit that exact position. Getting an extremely precise floor position is much simpler to do, but requires the small single jump to adjust my position, so is technically slightly sub-optimal.Rerecords: 1167 (though I'd say 2/3 of my work on this segment was just me theorizing stuff and doing math)
Bowsers Inside Story: Pump works OOB Bobby Bob 2023-01-24 | If you squish Mario, then start a battle, Mario will be forcibly turned back to normal. If he is underneath a low enough ceiling when this happens, he will be pushed through. The battle is being started in this video using the blooper at the very bottom of this area (seen at the beginning of the video) and is actually very precise to have it land far enough to the right to be reachable by Luigi while Mario is under the ceiling. I manipulated its position by switching the water levels back and forth, causing the blooper to do a dash while large, then immediately fall down. This would be basically impossible to do RTA without some form of memory watch, and is completely useless regardless, but this is basically the first ever OOB in a 2d section of this game so it is cool anyways.
Bowsers Inside Story: Walking Glitch (TAS) Bobby Bob 2023-01-16 | Contrary to its incredibly uninteresting name this glitch may have the potential to be the largest ever in this game. Obviously most of the details are explained in the video itself, but if you have any questions ask in the comments.The OOB clip in the electricity room was found by lordmagecar: youtube.com/watch?v=DS6eJ9Gxq-w
Bowsers Inside Story: Globin Jump (TAS) Bobby Bob 2023-01-11 | In this section of the game, there are 5 pipes to sub-areas, in which you are supposed to go to the right to complete a series of rooms, then hit a block to activate a tip of the star (All 5 of which are needed for progression), then exit. The switch blocks are all directly left of the entry pipes, however it is supposed to be impossible to reach them without going to the right. In one of them, the globin block and the invisible walkway to a secret item happen to be lined up perfectly to just barely allow a jump between them, allowing a large portion of the sub-area to be skipped. Unfortunately, this sub-area contains the drill upgrade, so we have to first go to the right to get that, but it is still 23.1 seconds faster to go back to the left afterwards to skip the rest of the rooms. This jump is double frame perfect (I think) so probably not RTA viable.
Bowsers Inside Story: Barrier Cutscene Skip (TAS) Bobby Bob 2023-01-09 | You may be shocked, angrily banging on your keyboard that I am not uploading a sm64ds video, but I've been messing around with this game for the past few days.This video uses an already known glitch called an NPC clip, in which an npc can push you through sloped walls by jumping or spin jumping in a certain way. There were several known NPC clip locations, but none in this room. I found earlier today that you can clip with this toad through a wall in the top right corner of this room, however I then noticed something even more useful. When you enter Toad Town for the first time, toad walks outside his normal walking area to talk to Mario and Luigi, and you can intercept him on his way back. For some reason, this can cause him to walk infinitely to the left even though he would never go there ordinarily, which allows this toad to walk basically anywhere in this room. By bringing him towards the sloped wall near the gate, I can clip through it, and enter the next room of Toad Town.Now for the actual point of this. Normally you are supposed to walk up, where you will watch a long cutscene of the barriers rising outside of Peach's castle, then the gates will be gone when you return, and you can progress further. By clipping past the gates early, we can proceed to the next part of the route without watching that cutscene, saving 43.18 seconds over the current any% TAS. Though this skips the cutscene, this does not allow skipping the barriers themselves, since the cutscene will play normally any time you enter UNLESS you have already collected the miracle cure (much later in the run) in which case the cutscene of destroying the barrier will play instead, allowing this cutscene to be fully skipped. This is what this section looked like without this skip: youtu.be/edecILyLhck?t=7957
(SM64DS TAS) TTC Moving reds in 12.15 Bobby Bob 2022-12-29 | I don't know if this strat would save time in a full game (80 or 150 star) tas, because after you get a star in TTC and re-enter, time is stopped. It could be used on the initial entry of the level, which is on moving time, but it might be better to use that on a different star. I mainly wanted to tas this because of the strat in the original game, and even though it probably doesn't save time the strat is still incredibly cool in this game.
(TAS) The most precise glitch in SM64DS History Bobby Bob 2022-09-26 | If you don't know what quantum tunneling is: youtube.com/watch?v=eZTXjn23XDsThe clip through the tunnel is quantum tunneling, but it is an extra precise version that is explained well here: youtu.be/eZTXjn23XDs?t=361While most tunnels are precise to about 1000 units on the x and z axis, this tunnel is precise to 64 units on all 3 axis. I also must already be moving as I clip through the ground, in order to barely make it to the ground below. The most difficult part of this was actually getting the correct Y position, which required me to stop at the perfect height on the slope. However, this slope acts strangely because it is a "sticky" slope, which allows it to be walked on at very steep angles, such as the pillars in Shifting Sand Land. I don't know why, but these types of slopes prevent you from standing at certain Y positions while running, which actually made it impossible to sideflip at the correct Y position to tunnel, which would've been a second or 2 faster. However, once you stop moving, Y positions act normally, so the best option here was to backflip. You still needed a very precise Y position for that, so I eventually decided to use a brute force script to try many combinations of touch screen inputs to stop at the perfect location. From there, a much simpler technique is used to triangulate the X and Z positions while in midair to a very high level of precision, and luckily got me to the right position with 6 frames to spare, which was enough to build a small amount of backwards speed and return to the same position, to tunnel with a bit of speed. We have known that this clip could speed up this segment in theory for a very long time (pretty much as long as tunneling has existed) but also knew it would be very hard to tas, so no one tried it until now. A slightly improved version of this (not shown in the video) saves 7.88 seconds over Really_Tall's original strategy in the 0 star tas. This took 7246 rerecords, though that only includes things after the heaven's portal upwarp, since the things before that were tased earlier. A bit of those were done by Really_Tall, who made a small improvement in the ending movement of this TAS. There are now only 2 other uses of quantum tunneling to be TASed, which are both wall tunnels, so may take more time.
(SM64DS TAS) 1 Star Door Skip (Version 2) for the 0 Star TAS Bobby Bob 2022-09-24 | Watch if you don't know what quantum tunneling is: youtube.com/watch?v=dFImVnkCLU0You may be confused by this video if you saw this video (youtube.com/watch?v=TxUQgIJvHrs) that I posted a few months ago. Though this is functionally the same skip, with the same strats as in that video, we need 2 versions of this skip, due to routing of the 0 star TAS. It must be done at the beginning of the run, from the castle front doors, to initially enter the 1 star door and unlock Mario. After collecting the Mario key, however, the 1 star door is still locked, so it must be skipped again. However, this time, the segment begins at the center of the room, immediately after exiting course in Goomboss Battle. Though it appears very similar to my previous TAS, spawning in a different location means that the full TAS must be redone, which was very concerning to me, as the original TAS took me over 12,000 rerecords (12+ hours of work for 5 seconds of gameplay). Luckily, my experience from the first TAS allowed me to complete this version in a significantly lower 851 rerecords, and actually only took about 2 hours. This is the 3rd of 6 segments in the 0 star TAS which require the use of quantum tunneling to be optimized. The 3 remaining segments are entering the castle at the start of the game, clipping through the 1 star door from inside to return to the lobby, and clipping out of bounds upstairs to skip the endless stairs. Though you could say this means the TAS is "halfway done", I wouldn't say this at all, since the remaining segments have increasingly complicated forms of tunneling, which we don't even know exactly how to optimize yet. We also still need to optimize the BITS stage and fight, as there are many improvements that we can add there from the previous any% TAS. I hope to work on these later segments more frequently, now that I have some motivation to TAS again.
(SM64DS TAS) Princess Secret Slide Box Star in 19.97 (Feat. Migu) Bobby Bob 2022-07-08 | I wanted to make more progress on the 80 star tas, and this was the first star after unlocking Mario. It features slide clip, an incredibly precise clip which saves several seconds on the slide, and another precise skip to avoid the star spawn animation at the finish line, saving about 4 seconds. This skip was originally found 2 years ago by Really_Tall, and the description of this video explains how the skip works (youtube.com/watch?v=vKr7Rq9cED8). After awhile of sliding into the wall it became obvious that I had no idea what I was doing, so Migu tased slide clip, and later made a small improvement at the end of the star.Subscribe to Migu: youtube.com/c/Migu6
(SM64DS TAS) Top O The Town in 9.67 Bobby Bob 2022-06-29 | Fun little tas, since the main point of this was to compare to rta runs, this tas is a 9.27 by rta timing rules.1035 rerecords
(SM64DS TAS) Hot Foot it Into the Volcano in 21.99 Bobby Bob 2022-06-25 | I tased this star about a year ago with a very similar strat (youtu.be/bqU0hWng6-s) but I found a different way of wallkicking up that saves about a second (and wanted to upload this star in better quality)
(SM64DS TAS) Inside the Ancient Pyramid as Mario in 26.66 Bobby Bob 2022-05-29 | Slightly beats the best tas of this star using the normal strat (youtube.com/watch?v=Juh4C5a4qPM&list=TLPQMjkwNTIwMjKRv5Y3rmv95g&index=1). I don't know for sure if this is faster since both tases are probably improvable by a bit, but it looks cool.913 rerecords
(SM64DS TAS) 1 Star Door Skip for the 0 star TAS Bobby Bob 2022-02-21 | Rerecords: 12635If you don't know what quantum tunneling is: youtube.com/watch?v=dFImVnkCLU0&t=0sA few weeks ago, I completed a segment of the in progress 0 star tas (youtube.com/watch?v=qdrrSXQ07s8), and I finally finished another section. The 0 star tas route can be split into 7 main sections to show how much is left.1. Castle entry2. 1 star door skip (This video)3. 8 star door skip, goomboss battle and unlocking Mario (Already done for 150 star tas)4. 1 star door skip again to actually switch to Mario5. Reverse 1 star door skip to get back into the lobby faster than exiting the slide6. 2nd key door skip (Completed in my other 0 star tas video)7. Endless Stairs skip8. Bowser in the SkyThe most difficult remaining sections are likely castle entry and endless stairs skip, as they use quantum tunnels more complicated than we have ever tried to optimize, so those will probably take awhile, but hopefully the full project will be done in a few months.As for this video, though it may look like a similar strategy to my 2nd key door skip tas, this section is actually significantly more complicated. To optimally clip out of bounds, we must tunnel through the floor on the same seam as for 2nd key door skip, then land in between the lobby and Whomp's Fortress rooms. However, it is very difficult to not land inside the Whomp's Fortress room, while also not bumping into the railing very near to the tunneling location. I ended up needing to add to some scripts used to make tunneling easier, but it was still incredibly difficult. Unlike my 2nd key door skip tas, this section is the exact same sequence as in the original 0 star tas (youtube.com/watch?v=KwLCxGTTk5M) so we can tell that this saves exactly 4 seconds on the 1 star door skip in that tas.
(SM64DS TAS) Frosty Slide for 8 Red Coins as Mario in 50.09 Bobby Bob 2022-01-31 | I originally tased this strat almost a year ago (youtube.com/watch?v=dlCrbDMgk90) but it wasn't nearly fast enough to beat the current best tas as yoshi (youtube.com/watch?v=2R8SgIx-AZQ) which would make it fast enough to be used in the 150 star tas. I decided to try to improve it further today, and though it still is about 3 seconds short of being faster, I'm fairly confident now that it has the potential to be faster. This is almost 5 seconds faster than my previous tas, which comes from 3 main sources: 1. The previous tas took an extra little loop around the top of the mountain on the shell to get enough speed to get the top red coin from inside the ice, which I found to be unnecessary and saved about 2.5 seconds, 2. Long jumping down from the top of the mountain to the red coin in the tree, which saved about 1 second over the old movement, and 3. Triple jumping on the edge of the slope up to the star instead of side flipping then dive resetting, which saved 1-2 seconds
[TAS] Super Mario 64 DS 80 Star WIP by Bobbybob and Migu (9 stars) Bobby Bob 2022-01-20 | This project started in July 2020, and had gradual but slow progress for a few months afterwards, but then progress slowed down significantly, mainly because of the 100 coin star. I've had occasional periods of working on this since then, and very slowly finished up the 100 coin star before quitting for 4 months for no reason. Then, like a week ago, I realized there wasn't much work left before Whomp's Fortress would be done, so I decided to finish it and release this WIP.Shoutouts to Migu for helping a lot on this TAS, especially on certain parts of the 100 coin star youtube.com/c/Migu6In the end, Migu and I ended up doing most of the work for this tas, however it began as a large group project with many runners interested in tasing and some tasers. Most of them quit after like a week because tasing sounds a lot more fun than it actually is, but a lot of them made some contributions to the beginning of the creation of this tas, especially the castle entry sequence and routing. Shoutouts to Adeal, p_yoshi, Sharkey91, WildGeffe64, VTMagno, SkicoNow (I think), and Emily The Koopa (I think)Further shoutouts to Rupa and PolishedGrain for being god gamers at 80 star without cheatingyoutube.com/watch?v=5aPnPnMUyoQAdditional shoutouts to ThePianoEnthusiast for getting wr in 150 star a year ago with a bathroom break during the run, that has very little to do with this TAS but is quite funny.I am unsure about the future of this tas, but there will likely either be more updates soon or none ever ever again. Many of the early segments of this tas are likely improvable because of being made when I was much newer to tasing this game, as well as me generally only working on this TAS to escape the high optimization of the 150 star tas. Because of this, I partially don't see much reason to continue the production of this tas, but I also may decide to continue this as a slightly less optimized project than the 150 star tas (Though the optimization that takes the most time is rarely actually noticeable to viewers and lower optimization would make this tas progress much faster than other sm64ds tases)
(SM64DS TAS) 2nd Key Door Skip as Mario for the 0 Star TAS Bobby Bob 2022-01-03 | If you don't know what quantum tunneling is: youtube.com/watch?v=dFImVnkCLU0A few months ago, we unveiled quantum tunneling and a low optimization 0 star tas to demonstrate that it was possible (youtu.be/KwLCxGTTk5M) , with the promise of a well optimized tas coming soon. That didn't happen quite as fast as we expected it to, but I decided to work on it a bit and made the 2nd key door skip segment much more optimized. In the original 0 star tas, 2nd key door skip is done starting from the exit course sun thing, because the 1 star door stays locked from behind, so we had to enter the secret slide and exit course to get back into the lobby. However, since then Migu found that we can use quantum tunneling to clip through the door to go directly back to the lobby (youtube.com/watch?v=rQjTbhTd2DM) , which is much faster and results in this segment beginning from the 1 star door instead. As for the actual video, it may look like a very simple sequence, however the out of bounds environment in this room is very difficult, with lots of rooms with not much out of bounds space between them and a very awkward entry into the 2nd key door itself, having to avoid the ceiling of the hallway room as well as the walls surrounding the door to dive in. Though it's hard to say how much time this saves over the old 0 star tas because of the slight routing change, I don't think there is much room for improvement in this section and this should pretty much complete a small section of the surprisingly little gameplay in the 0 star run. 3936 rerecords
(SM64DS TAS) Behind the Waterfall Balloon Star in 0.5 B presses (+ release) (1.1 only) Bobby Bob 2021-10-01 | Various useful links will be at the bottom of the description if you don't know what something is. This star used to take more B presses than the entire current RIGless total of 19 (youtube.com/watch?v=QQTXNSBzy5o&list=PL0TeYaSr_hNcXr3_XGl7s_K38XgrkiIqB&index=34), but is now finally adds no B presses to the total!The total amount of B presses for 1.1 RIGless is now 19! (watch out og abc people)Migu helped with this by tasing the very precise horizontal positioning for the tunnel, though I came up with the strat myself. The previous record (youtube.com/watch?v=iSYi8s2-Bcg) used 1 b press to get enough height to perform a quantum tunnel through the floor, which requires an extremely precise y position as well as large downwards velocity. I avoid this press here by bringing over the goomba, and bouncing on it to perform the tunnel. This strategy only works on version 1.1 because of the difference in how bouncing on enemies works between the versions making fluttering after the bounce only possible on 1.1. The fluttering is also what requires the 0.5 B press, which is important to get over from the spot I bounce off of the goomba to the seam where I perform the tunnel. I perform the slide kick recover off of a slight slope on the ground to allow me to very precisely determine my y position. This is also why this strat requires releasing B, to give me more control over yoshi's height to reach the precise position (This could very likely be avoided with more effort, but removing the release would accomplish basically nothing for the challenge, as B press releases only affect the total count if there are more required B releases than there are actual B presses.). If you are unfamiliar with the rest of this strategy, we need to get out of bounds to perform a heaven's portal, upwarping us to the top of the map to fall down onto the star. Quantum Tunneling Explanation: youtube.com/watch?v=dFImVnkCLU0Heaven's portal explanation: youtu.be/4IVgXx-ZDHc?list=PL0TeYaSr_hNedZtktHufaFNO1usnQOuomExplanation of what a 0.5 B press is, general info on the B Button Challenge, and list of remaining B presses (as of before this video): youtube.com/watch?v=HgAIYd_cgNEOur 150 Star TAS wip that I can never promote too much and you should watch/watch again because it's cool: youtube.com/watch?v=P5QEAyyfw0w
(SM64DS TAS) Mysterious Mountainside in 26.09 (No wing cap) Bobby Bob 2021-09-05 | Disclaimer: The beginning of this tas up to the 90 degree wall jumps were tased by Sharkey91, and re used for this since that movement is used in several starsOther thing: The 150 star tas, which I am a part of, recently had the first wip (work in progress) released for it in 5 years! It is very good and cool and you should watch it and subscribe to sharkey youtube.com/watch?v=P5QEAyyfw0wOther thing (part 2): I've been doing hd recordings for my videos for awhile, but for this video I improved it further by using a layout for the screens to make the top screen much biggerThough this strat is slightly slower than a strat using the wing cap to fly to the star (youtube.com/watch?v=myjISyO6flM), this would be faster to do in the 80 star tas, because the first time you collect a wing cap, a 3 second long text box appears, so this strat would skip that text box. I actually tased this strat several months ago, and was planning to keep it private to be used in the 80 star tas, but then that project kind of died, so I decided to release it now because it is cool.
(SM64DS TAS) Scary Shrooms, Red Coins in 21.98 Bobby Bob 2021-06-16 | I suddenly got motivation to tas this game after not touching it for weeks so you get double uploads in a day. Shoutout to shake for being god gamer and for kind of inspiring the creation of this tas, since it isn't used in the 150 star tas at all but it's one I've wanted to make for awhile.2395 Rerecords
(SM64DS TAS) To the top of the Fortress in 11.24 Bobby Bob 2021-05-02 | This TAS is an improvement of .7 seconds on Adeal's former record of 11.93 (youtube.com/watch?v=y90RDMvXsGE) by doing different movement at the end, which is faster because you don't have to fall down for a long time after grabbing the star. Though I reach the top level of the stage at the same frame as Adeal, I save 5 frames in a full game run by avoiding the line of 5 coins, which each take a frame to count up in the castle, though this doesn't affect the IL time of the star. I made this for the 150 star TAS, but it will be a very long time before the TAS reaches whomp's, and even longer before it is made public up to there, so I decided to make it public now.3474 Rerecords
(SM64DS) The incredible power of Quantum Tunneling Bobby Bob 2021-04-02 | The 0 star tas: youtube.com/watch?v=KwLCxGTTk5M&t=400sA single star tas by SkicoNow: youtube.com/watch?v=o-DCuO1akQ4Inside the Cage BCCless by Sharkey91: youtube.com/watch?v=Teq_oRd1BNQ
(HD SM64DS TAS) Frosty Slide for 8 Red Coins in 54.87 (Mario) Bobby Bob 2021-03-24 | I finally decided to record all of my tases in full hd, so they should all look a lot better now!As for the actual tas, this is one of my coolest looking yet. I first proved this star possible without yoshi a few months ago (youtube.com/watch?v=wL8pjXB82NE), but it turns out I significantly underestimated the power of forward shell hyperspeed. Forward shell hyperspeed allows you to build speed at a much faster rate, and allows you to quickly fly around the map and collect other coins as you do it, making it much better for a fast tas than backwards. As I planned the route, there were many, many places where I was sure the route would fail, but I tried it anyways to see what would happen and it surprisingly went very well! My goal for this was to beat the fastest tas of this star as yoshi (47 seconds) to make this strat optimal for the 150 star tas, and though this tas is still a few seconds, short, I wouldn't be surprised if it can be faster. The main way this could be made faster is by getting a bit more speed to the top red coin inside the ice, which would allow it to be collected at a 45 degree angle and without dismounting the shell, like how the lower ice red was collected, however I wasn't able to get quite enough speed. If that were possible, I could then use shell hyperspeed to get the bottom 3 coins and get back to the star much faster than without, which might alone make the route faster. I don't plan on working on this any more right now, though I'm sure it will be looked into further when the 150 star tas reaches this star.
SM64DS Beat Bowser in the Dark World in 13:26. Bobby Bob 2021-03-13 | I spent 900 attempts trying to beat rupa's 13:25I got 13:26 3 seperate times despite my sob being 13:12Skipping any individual mistake in this run would have gotten me wrThen, rupa started runs, and beat wr by 13 seconds in 17 attemptsEven though my hopes and dreams are now completely destroyed, this run isn't that bad but I want 13:1x probably
Super Mario 64 DS Any% Speedrun in 10:46! Bobby Bob 2021-02-25 | I've been trying to get a good any% run for way too long now. 2nd key door skip (at 5:20) puts every other skip in this game to shame in terms of difficulty, so that in my about month and a half of focusing on this category, I've gotten a total of 4 runs past it. 8 star door skip makes getting a good pace into 2kds hard, and the upstairs segment is extremely hard to do well, with 50 star door skip, bits, and throws, which can each go terribly wrong, especially under the nerves of getting past 2kds. The three other runs I've gotten past 2kds all choked the rabbit grab of 50 star door skip, losing massive amounts of time, though one was able to close out decently after that in my previous 11:51 pb. In this run, I got a good set of skips for the very first time after 2kds, then played well except for 1 missed throw to get my first actual not garbage pb ever in this game. If I wanted to I could probably grind runs more to get something like sub 10:30, but this is an incredibly frustrating and tedious category to run, and I got one of my goals of bopping J_Duude's 11:00 for 2nd place, so I'm going to move on to other categories at least for now. In fact, for the past week or two my only motivation to practice or run this category was that if I got a good enough time I would get to stop running it and run a more fun category, so it feels great to have a time I'm happy leaving any% with for now.Side Note: You may also have noticed that I finally got a profile picture! It was made by c_yoshi for me as a semi-meme a few months ago, but I never put it on until now.
(SM64DS TAS) New Clip With Massive Timesave for Luigi in the Cage! Bobby Bob 2021-02-10 | This is easily the most anticlimactic strat I've ever seen in this game. You're supposed to have Luigi for this star, and get the power flower from a higher level and fall through the cage. Over the years, several ways have been found to get the star without Luigi, first by being pushed out of bounds by a rotating cube, then by kicking through a glitchy corner, then by long jumping through a brick. However, there was a report from BlockFAF of clipping directly through the right side of the cage directly to the star (not this strat), but no one was ever able to recreate it for about a year at this point. It would have saved a lot of time on this star both RTA and TAS, but no one could get it to happen again, and it was looking like it would be a massive brute forcing project when the 150 or 80 star tases reached it. Today, I got inspired to investigate the area once again, though I and others have done this many times before so I didn't expect much. However, I randomly noticed that it looked almost as though there was a gap in the cage, so I looked in SM64DSe (a program that shows collision triangle locations), and to my disbelief there was indeed a massive hole in the cage. I was then quite quickly able to long jump through this gap. Assuming it is viable, this will save about 15-20 seconds in RTA 80 star, and will save likely about 10 seconds in the 80 and 150 star tases. Though I put very little effort into optimizing the ending of this tas, the time is 12.98, which beats even the intended strat with Luigi by 7 seconds, while beating out of bounds methods by even more.Also yes, I'm aware of the really low video quality. It seems almost like it's extra bad on this video, but I'm going to try to improve it for future tases.
(TAS) SM64DS Secret of the Haunted Books in 16.53 Bobby Bob 2021-01-26 | I thought this new strat was really cool, so I made a quick tas of it. It isn't really known why this clip happens, but you can essentially just pass through the bookshelf at near long jump speeds or higher.Rerecords: 852
SM64DS (RTA) Secret of the Haunted Books in 17.99 Bobby Bob 2021-01-26 | okay so HOW did this not get found soonerOriginal IL of this strat: youtube.com/watch?v=aCYIMWOnCO0
(TAS) Super Mario 64 DS - Frosty Slide for 8 Red Coins without Yoshi Bobby Bob 2021-01-16 | This is the first time I've ever really tried to make this kind of video, so tell me what you think about it in the commentsVTMagno's channel: youtube.com/channel/UCI6HqkhUpDBgRSclhudmibwPrevious 2 A press record video: youtube.com/watch?v=AIRfYOkYFwMThis TAS in its pure, unedited form: youtube.com/watch?v=u1Rw_61lUac
SM64DS Any% Speedrun in 11:51.167 Bobby Bob 2021-01-13 | I've been practicing any% with 2nd key door skip for awhile now and been doing runs for a few days, but this was the first run I actually hit the skip. I'm honestly amazed I played so well upstairs (with the exception of the missed 50sds rabbit catch obviously). Though I'm really happy that I hit 2kds and closed out the run "cleanly", I'm definitely going to improve this by getting the rabbit catch first try, and will definitely get sub 11/2nd place, and I'll probably go for around sub 10:30, or just for as long as I can stand 2kds. This is especially important to me because I was the person to find a humanly possible method for 2kds, so it's really cool to be the 2nd person to use it in a run, and hopefully this will show people that you don't have to be rupa to do it, and maybe cause more people to do it in runs.
(SM64DS TAS) Behind Chain Chomps Gate as Yoshi in 17.90 (Fence Clip) Bobby Bob 2020-12-01 | Actual Time is 20.37, but BOB entry text has no effect on gameplay and time would be 17.90 without.This was the first star collected in the 80 star tas, and is obviously much more optimized than the previously public version, but was recently completely obsoleted by a new discovery by Really_Tall in which you can collect the star through the gate by spitting a Bobomb into it (youtube.com/watch?v=YYnVsIEcgHw), which beats this tas by several seconds. This tas took a very long time to optimize, and is a very cool strat, and since it will no longer be in the final tas I decided to release it publically.
New Alternate RTA CCM Switch Strat Bobby Bob 2020-11-21 | I've been experimenting with this lower corner, and found that it is actually much easier to clip through than the top corner that has always been used. All you need is around running speed or higher and the correct fairly precise angle. In this setup, you do the star normally as you did with the old strat until you land from the wind. Then, either grab the ledge I grab here or push up against one of the wooden triangles at the bottom of the lift to set your angle to the correct value. Then, do a combination of running straight and jumping to get to the corner without changing your facing angle. When you get there, run into the corner for a little bit, then crouch slide and hold left, which will cause you to clip in about half a second. You then have a window where you can wall jump, then dive to the star. This may be faster, as you don't have to triple jump to the roof, and seems much more consistent. With this setup you do not have to worry about getting the right angle at all, and there is plenty of time to reach the star. The only part that is harder is the wall jump dive, which I find is easiest by releasing L before you crouch and never pressing it again. Though the jump is definitely harder, even if you land in the water, which happens very often, you will still have plenty of time to reach the star. Hopefully this will allow many more people to use this trick in 50 and 80 star, and reduce the reset rate here of those who already do.
(SM64DS) Slip Slidin Away (Mario) in 25.98 (RTA) Bobby Bob 2020-10-27 | All you have to do is run forward once you enter the slide, then switch to down right at a certain point, jump, kick, and wall jump over the wall. This seems to save about 4 seconds, plus like .5 more in re entry from avoiding the 15 coins at the end of the slide. This seems like it could be realistically be done in runs.
(SM64DS) 80 Star TAS Sneak Peek #2: Tox Box Switch Star in 26.46 Bobby Bob 2020-10-04 | Pause clipping into the box with hyperspeed has been theorized for awhile, but no one attempted it until a few days ago when I managed to clip in with shell hyperspeed. The slowest star in the route was inside the ancient pyramid, taking 27.29 seconds, so this epic strat makes it into the route by almost a second. This also proves possible a way of getting this star without Wario that is much faster than the previous way showcased by Adeal (youtube.com/watch?v=0NoPiE_KvFA), and is possible as any character, adding one star to the MONC and LONC challenges, obviously the most important challenges in this game.By the way in case anyone was wondering the tas isn't actually anywhere near ssl yet, I just thought of a strat here and tested it before going any further in the tas.
(SM64DS) Bobomb Battlefield Death% in 14.47 seconds (TAS) Bobby Bob 2020-10-01 | This is technically just under 17 seconds, but this run would be the exact same except 2.47 seconds faster without the text. I was tasing this star for the 80 star tas and since you can downwarp here for a quick death, I decided to just slightly modify it to make this run. It's timed from fade in to fade out.
Potentially humanly possible modified second key door skip as Mario!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bobby Bob 2020-09-22 | AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA: the sequelThe jump from the rabbit clip to the out of bounds pocket is quite precise, and the movement to land in the door after the hp is very precise, but this is infinitely more viable than any before seen method. I did this with savestates, but entirely in real time, so if someone could pull it off without savestates this might be big for any%
(SM64DS) RTA viable SSL star cancel using fly guy manipulation (read description) Bobby Bob 2020-09-12 | This cancel in SSL has been known for a long time and was actually done in real time once by a tall person, but it was overlooked for actual runs, likely because you need to use the fly guy to cancel the star, which uses rng. However, I found a way to manipulate the fly guy without relying on rng. To start, you just go to the four pillars to open the top of the pyramid. Then, fly guy manipulation starts once you ledge grab up onto the pyramid. You have to go close enough to the fly guy to get its attention, but not close enough to trigger it to shoot fire or charge. Then, you want to keep a good distance away from it and lure it a bit closer to the star. Once it is around where it is in the video, you need to long jump to the lower side of the pyramid. Then, turn around, zoom out the camera and jump to be able to see the fly guy. What you want is for the fly guy to go into the corner where the star is and turn to its left. To do this, make sure that the star is between you and the fly guy, and stand somewhat to the right of it, so that it turns right instead of left. Once it is in the corner, you can go back up to the top of the pyramid and lick the star onto the fly guy. Then, you have to fall in the landing animation into the hole. You do this by landing with momentum on the edge of it, so that you can hold neutral and have your momentum carry you into the hole. This is usually easier the further away from the hole you are. Then, you must press any direction frame perfectly to eat the star right as you enter the hole, cancelling it. When this video here is compared against Rupa il records, this cancel can save 4 seconds in 8 star, a similar amount in bbitfs/dw and 50 star, and about 6 seconds in 150 star or 100% ils. This video is obviously very improvable, so it likely saves a few seconds more. The estimates for catagories other than 8 star also do not account for text skips and so could save more time from that. This cancel is quite hard, but I think it is definitely viable to save time in 8 star, and maybe bbitfs/dw and 50 star.
(SM64DS) Humanly Possible 30 Star Door Skip as Luigi Bobby Bob 2020-09-04 | This was thought to be impossible in real time because of the rabbit catch and the fact that seam walking is required, however the rabbit catch really isn't that bad with a setup I found, and for some reason this particular seam is obnoxiously large, by which I mean possible to walk on. I'm almost certain this can save time in 150 star, as it cuts out a trip downstairs as Mario at the cost of slower SUTM switch star, and having to rabbit clip past the door as yoshi later. I also wouldn't be surprised if there was a route where you did sutm switch as Mario, which might reduce the timeloss of doing it as Luigi.
