SM64 - Plunder in the Sunken Ship - 0.5x A Presses [OUTDATED]

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I collect the star Plunder in the Sunken Ship in Jolly Roger Bay using 0.5 A presses. The A press is so that I can do a little kick into the wall of the ship, allowing me to fall down near the star box.

This video is an improvement from my previous video in which I collected this star in 1 A press. You can find that video here: http://youtu.be/fdYAXENWsUs. Since then, thanks to Gaehne D.'s suggestion, I discovered that a small kick into the wall of the ship provided enough horizontal mobility to collect the star. Simply falling down (using 0 A presses) doesn't provide quite enough horizontal distance, so I had to use 0.5 A presses.

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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