SM64 - Hazy Maze Cave 100 Coins - 1x A Presses [OUTDATED]

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Published on March 28, 2014 8:00:59 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eepq4z2rfTI

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Super Mario 64 (1996)

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I collect the 100 coin star in Hazy Maze Cave using 1 A press. The A press is to jump up to slam on the blue coin block.

I spent a lot of time formulating this route, as you can see in the diagrams below. I drew a graph of the different sections of HMC with their respective coin counts and the # of A presses to cross between them. I soon came to a problem, which was that in the maze, I needed 3 bats to reach the alcove, 1 bat to reach the highest blue coin, and 1 bat to leave. However, this required 5 bats, and was thus impossible. Eventually, I discovered that I could use a bat to get back onto the balcony from the rolling rock alley. This meant that I didn't need a bat to exit the maze, since I could collect the lake coins before entering the maze and just end in the maze.

I finally figured out how to reach the alcove purely by bouncing on the bats. See, there are 3 levels that the bats will fly at (see Swooper Levels below). The bats start at the low level by default. They can get to a medium level by flying onto the blue coin block platform or the montey mole platform. Then they can get to the high level by flying onto the ramp leading up to the exit. Mario needs to bounce on a bat from all 3 levels in order to reach the alcove. Recently, I discovered that a bat will respawn only when you leave both it AND its starting location (see Double Radius Principle below). So, instead of following the bats around, I could just wait at their starting locations until they aligned in front of the alcove purely by chance. Since I didn't have to follow them around, this meant I didn't have to worry about Mario dying from the toxic gas, or about the bats diverging and Mario being unable to accompany both. Instead, I just waited patiently for the RNG to do its thing.

Diagrams:
HMC Graph: http://bit.ly/P9a1to
100 Coin Route Brainstorming: http://bit.ly/1o8ykHI
Swooper Levels: http://bit.ly/1pjC5Y7
Double Radius Principle: http://bit.ly/1jDZpAC

This video is an improvement from my previous video in which I collected this star in 2 A presses. You can find that video here: http://youtu.be/WZ61wDa9Qbk. ​

ABC Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmvvhlevqC2d6vis077yFHuLJHYtTtqe_
ABC Routes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ypRVVRyf4x-v8GqCSmKYnicrfKSIjao3Y1ZVl52RIyM/edit

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