SM64: The Missing Stars ~ 8 Stars + Wing Cap (TAS)

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Published on October 4, 2010 3:53:16 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp75WigBiAs

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Super Mario 64 (1996)

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This is only a concept run. I didn't optimize or attempt to max out anything. Nor am I doing/planning on doing a full game run of this. I only made this to give the people at sm64.org a guide to start with. It seemed like route planning wasn't going so well. Anyway, onto the run itself:

1st 2 Stars: It is faster to get the red coin in the corner (first one) because you only spawn near it once. The goomba star is basically in the same path of getting the red coins, so naturally you would pair those 2 together. The route for the red coins was thought of spur of the moment, and I think there ARE route improvements, but this is a decent enough rough draft. Thanks to ToolAssist for helping with the glitchy wall kick at the beginning.
3rd Star: Nothing really to say here. The cannon glitch is really useful, and this is nowhere close to optimized.
4th Star: My choice of moves was pretty poor IMO, but it gets the job done.
5th Star: This one looks pretty cool IMO. The ending might be better with a TJ or something, but I'm not sure.
6th Star + Wing Cap: This is a huge improvement to previous WIPs due to me finding out how to skip the elevator ride to the pipe. Saves MANY seconds and I'm pretty proud of it. As for inside the pipe, it was fairly rushed but again, gets the job done.
7th Star: The only reason I got this star is so that I could change it to night, which made it able to collect the next star. In a real TAS, it would probably be best to *NOT* get this star since you can get it during the day or at night. It would be better to get a night only star at this point.
8th Star: It is a terrible choice to only LJ to Yoshi. On a positive note, he is pretty easy to manipulate. I found that it is faster to Z-Slide into him instead of dive, because you can follow it with a ground pound as I demonstrated.

This took less than 24 hours to make and it's good enough to get the team at the SM64 forum off to a good start.


Lastly, you would not believe the hell I went through trying to encode this with the Camstudio Lossless Codec, AVISynth, and MEncoder. It takes far too long to get the sound to sync with all the seperate clips. Capturing + figuring everything out + syncing took roughly 3 hours. I also apologize for the graphical glitches like the black red coin switch, etc...Blame my graphics card. =P


Hope you enjoy what I put into this!

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