SM64 - Whirl from the Freezing Pond - No Buttons Allowed
350I collect the star Whirl from the Freezing Pond in Snowman's Land without using any buttons (I only use the joystick and adjust the camera angle).
To do this, I move a moneybag all the way over to the star's item block, duplicate the moneybag excessively, and then ride over to the star by repeatedly bouncing on the moneybags. I actually conceived of this idea back when I moved the moneybags to underneath the bully's platform to assist with the red coin star, but didn't get around to TAS'ing it until today.
The hardest part was moving the moneybag up the steep hill. Moneybags are extremely stubborn to work with, and so it took MANY re-records to get them to go to climb higher up the hill consistently. It was especially difficult to transition the moneybag from the hill's slope to the flat surface above the hill, but I figured out that knocking it back with Mario's own body was the simplest way to do it. From there, it was a simple matter of moving the moneybag to the item block (without it falling into the water), and then duplicating it. Then to initiate the bouncing spree, I used the bounce from Mario's sitting position. Once the bouncing spree started, I had to move slowly so that I could activate the moneybags in front of me before bouncing on them.
.m64 stats:
length: 39 minutes
re-records: 6368
time spent making it: ~6.5 hours
The song I used was a shortened version of Sword Lord's remix of the William tell Overture, which can be found at: http://youtu.be/P7svUxY2Gns.
To see more of my No Buttons Allowed videos, you can go to my playlist of them here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=SPmvvhlevqC2fXLL55ZQT1cesNmM2qHPn1
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