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Super Mario 64 (1996)

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After playing around a little, I was able to skip this very precise and difficult red coin.

You see, for intended you have to do some pretty precise platforming which includes a hard-to-time wallkick followed with some janky and small slope jumps. And on top of that the camera is just awful for intended. If you would like to see intended in real-game then I would recommend watching AndrewSM64's theory TAS, and go to around 2:46 in the timestamp. Here's the video link to it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuphjqLBh7o

With this strat, you can skip the climb to the red, the awful camera, and the precise and difficult platforming. For this strat you need a decent angle and a preferably a firsty (it's a little precise to do without the firsty but still manageable and definitely possible). The main problem here is that the wall in front of you, as you can see from the video, is quite annoying. You have to make sure to hold completely left after you longjump until you are past the wall.

I know this may seem like such an elaborate description for only a small skip, but small things like this make me so excited. I'm not sure if that many, or rather anyone at all will really attempt this star anytime soon. But it's little things like this that we find to slowly make every section seem a bit easier and ultimately make the star more humanely possible :)

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