SM64 - Seek the 8 Red Coins - 1.5x A Presses [OUTDATED]

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Published on March 30, 2014 7:38:56 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMvBEGUg7QQ

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Super Mario 64 (1996)

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THIS VIDEO IS OUTDATED - SEE A BETTER VERSION OF THIS VIDEO HERE:
http://youtu.be/yBvptqoQ6w4

I collect the star Seek the 8 Red Coins in Big Boo's Haunt using 1.5 A presses. The first A press is to allow for little kicks to be done, which assists in collecting the 2 red coins on top of the bookshelves. Specifically, these kicks allow me to bounce on the boos consistently enough to transport them, move while facing a specific direction, and jump without needing enough speed to dive. The second A press is to jump from the top of the staircase to the second floor.

While I can't formally argue that the first A press is necessary, it would be extraordinarily difficult to execute the boo-bookend bounce to collect the red coin without the precision that the A press allows, as described earlier. But of course, in an ABC run, 1.5 A presses would be truncated to 1 A press, so it's not a big deal.

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.

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/ORPkwVT7P_8. ​

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

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