SM64 - Dire, Dire Docks 100 Coins - 0.5x A Presses
I collect the 100 coin star in Dire, Dire Docks using 0.5 A presses. The A press is to swim while holding the shell so that I am able to clone objects.
I first collect the 3 singleton coins near the whirl pool. Then I perform the coin spawn cloning glitch 7 times, which accumulates 7 * 8 = 56 extra coins. Afterwards, I collect the rest of the coins from the rings and lines of coins around the course to reach 100 coins. Finally, I collect the 100 coin star.
If you are unfamiliar with the coin spawn cloning glitch, you can watch my video on it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG2scmSIjJg. Essentially, I clone the spawning point for a ring of 8 coins, and so when I release it, I am able to collect the 8 coins without it counting. This method is superior to coin cloning in that it is 4 times faster, since it yields 8 coins per go instead of 2.
This video is TAS.
If you're wondering about the half A press, read this before commenting to ask why. I use a special notation that allows for half A presses. Specifically, if you enter a level already holding the A button, then that A press only counts as half. It's actually pretty important to distinguish between the A button being PRESSED and the A button being HELD. While pressing A allows Mario to execute several kinds of jumps, the holding of A allows Mario to swim in water, do little kicks up slopes, grab the owl, and twirl slowly. So if a star requires the A button to be held, the pressing of the A button could have been done at some point in the past, and just held until that moment. For instance, let's say there are two stars: one that requires the A button to be pressed (x1 A presses), and another that only requires the A button to be held (0.5 A presses). Individually, these stars would both require a full A press. But if these stars were collected one after the other, then the A button could be pressed during the former, and held all the way through to the next star to be used in the latter. In this manner, these stars together would only use 1 A press, whereas they would take 2 A presses if done individually. So during a 120 star run, you would round these half A presses down, but on a star-by-star basis you would round them up.
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ABC Routes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ypRVVRyf4x-v8GqCSmKYnicrfKSIjao3Y1ZVl52RIyM/edit
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