Can You Beat Super Mario Galaxy Without Jumping?

[@Ansel_G]

I hope you enojyed this remake of an older video I made. This score is so much lower than I originally had it thanks to all the help I've gotten from TASers. I'm linking the playlist here if you'd like to see some of their work. kzbin.info/aero/PLNOUOE9YHiMTKw1APuSYHE63VE__y1hgb

[@cankyre]

@@Ansel_G loved getting my childhood game being torn apart like this. Fr it was really great, kudos!

[@MrJones-pq2ql]

Hey I think I know how to save a jump when getting the star from megaleg. On the platform with him, there's a seam you can walk over that for two frames puts Luigi midair... It just might work!

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

Ok

[@rubengoldman5830]

How is this even a challenge? I never need to jump when I play Mario Galaxy. Most people play the game while sitting in a chair, not jumping at all. smh my head

[@Ansel_G]

I never thought about it that way, you're so right!

[@slugintub2836]

My cousin no-joke jumps a lot when playing games lmao, he could NOT beat this challenge

[@desktop-ini]

He means Mario jumping in the game. I get your joke though

[@cherricake1796]

@@desktop-ini 🤓

[@desktop-ini]

@@cherricake1796 is that really not common knowledge? Geez.

[@MrHatoi]

I have to say "mindlessly struggling to get off a lilypad magically makes it levitate solving all of our problems" is not something I expected from this

[@Ansel_G]

anything can happen in this game apparently.

[@Mut4ntG4m3r]

A very Amazing little Bug i Wonder anyone found so far :D

[@MaximeLafreniere433]

Time for a new episode of "Core game mechanic? Forget about it."

[@Ansel_G]

not only that, but the return of that mechanic being left out

[@softpaw6234]

"What do you mean core mechanic? I can count the number of times I did that in my playthrough. This mechanic you didn't even intend is way more vital to the game"

[@kirbythe64]

"We're going to have to reach out to the realest person I know for the final star of the challenge; Luigi" was golden, that was too funny

[@kirbythe64]

Also, I just finished the video and I have to say, this is history right here. Cutting off 51 jumps and finishing Mario Galaxy in only 4 JUMPS is an absolute W, you should be proud my man

[@RealDudeFortitude]

Anyone who says "ThE rUn IsN't LeGiT hE uSeD SaVeStAteS!!1!" Is stupid. You try it without savestates. ❤ Love the video!

[@Ansel_G]

I'm only human 😭

[@KaitouKaiju]

It's just tool assisted which is fine

[@DoctorDrumsify]

“the game starts with Mario running around and jumping in a cutscene… this… doesn’t count. i didn’t tell him to do that” lol why did i get such a good kick out of that?

[@abominati0n]

mf is acting out his own volition, mf is becoming sentient xD

[@R1ch4rd_N1x0n]

21:39 "Not that difficult but very very easy to mess up." I think that's the definition of difficult...

[@wintutorials2282]

@@R1ch4rd_N1x0n na

[@CriticalMonkey623]

The lilypad bug was so perfect it's almost unbelievable.

[@Ansel_G]

it's a really odd trick. you could also alternatively use a flipbug to get out of the lilypad using starbits.

[@lr0dl012]

i it also happens in smb64 in a lava stage by just idling and idk it not as uncommon as it might seem

[@Randomusers6nu8lm]

@@lr0dl012 Yeah its on the wii vc version of bowers in the fire sea its how sm64 was actually beatenwith the a button for the first time idk what their name is though

[@sirpuffin08]

@@Randomusers6nu8lm I dunno man, I feel like I've beaten SM64 with the A button before

[@Randomusers6nu8lm]

@@sirpuffin08 i meant without lol

[@Nawer_Rapter]

"pressing down the A button" man that's just half an A press

[@HarryLLC]

an a press is an a press. You can't say its only a half.

[@msgkhntr]

@@HarryLLC hes referencing bismuth's a button challenge video

[@HarryLLC]

@@msgkhntr so was I. Well, Pannenkoek's technically

[@kikones34]

@@HarryLLC Well TJ "Henry" Yoshi, hear me out. An A press actually has three parts to it. When A is pressed, when A is held, and when A is released. And together, this forms one complete A press. Now, usually, it's the pressing that's useful. Because that's the only part that makes Mario jump. However, sometimes it's sufficient to just use the holding part, which allows Mario to do little kicks, to swim in water, to fall slowly while twirling, and to fall slowly with the wing cap. And as for the release, well, there's currently no cases where that's useful or important, so don't worry about that part. Now, if we map out the required A presses for Wing Mario Over The Rainbow, it would look like this. We merely need to hold A to reach the canon platform, we need to press A to launch from the first canon, and we need to press A again to launch from the second canon. So, how many A presses is that total? Well, it appears to be three, and if we were doing this star in isolation, then yeah, it would be three. But, in a full game A button challenge run, there are other A presses that occur earlier in the run, such as this A press needed to get into the course. So, if we take that A press into consideration as well, then how many A presses would it take? The naive answer would be four. One to enter the course and the three within the course that we established earlier. However, we can do better. We can actually do it in three by simply holding out the first A press to be used for the half A press. Because the half A press only required A to be held, not actually pressed. So in this fashion, Wing Mario Over The Rainbow only adds on an additional two A presses to the run since the first A press just leeches off of a previous A press. So, to capture this phenomenon, we call it 2.5x A presses.

[@GameJam230]

It's wild to me that half of the jumps are just for collecting grand stars and the other half are not just in the SAME level, but ALSO in the FINAL level, and not even for collecting the grand star

[@ibass43]

30:14 doing that to the poor innocent goomba should be illegal 💀 Loved the video it was impressing from the start until the end

[@Ansel_G]

@@ibass43 I was just evicting him from his home

[@egman1181]

It was so unnecessary, but hey, if it keeps the jump count at 0, it keeps the jump count at 0.

[@LeBazarDeFusette]

The lillypad really gives "Bowser in the firesea skip in Mario 64 wii version where you wait 3 days for a plateform to slowly rise due to a wrongly rounded float just to skip a jump" energy

[@PitsaGuy1]

@@LeBazarDeFusette it reminds me of the botched animation in the low% run of twilight princess where you just wait while link stares at a rupee for 16 hours.

[@rili424]

the goomba trick at 30:14 is so genuinely impressive. i don’t know how you come up with fixes like that- it’s insane. great video, man

[@Ansel_G]

@@rili424 I got a ton of help from TASers, I don’t know how they come up with some of the stuff

[@penguin84101]

Super Mario Galaxy, but mario sprains his ankle on 1:59, and so he improvises

[@penguin84101]

... by calling Luigi to replace him

[@tylazermk8271]

I like watching the video remakes because I honestly forget at least 90% of exactly what happens in the originals between the release of the 2 videos

[@aireyroblox]

22:32: Did you just murder toad

[@Ansel_G]

yes

[@randomguy_197]

let's be honest everyone flung him into the infinite void

[@Ansel_G]

@@randomguy_197 he was in the way..

[@KaitouKaiju]

Is it murder if they just respawn

[@juanandresrueda4957]

Man, the quality of editing and narration made me thing this was a big creator, good job, im going to watch other of your challenges

[@BuckingRachel]

Video starts at 0:01

[@LilTJ507]

Thanks, couldn’t tell

[@CalebBreton-tg1rk]

was really confused about this

[@ChrisOvens51]

Thanks

[@jeroen5322]

@@BuckingRachel thank you! We need more people like you in this world always helping people out

[@ADtheUber]

Bro are you dumb? It starts at 0:00 (Yes I was adding to the joke)

[@BurningWaterpark]

if yall can knock off 51 jumps i think yall can find a way for the last 4. never give up never surrender

[@erierierierierie]

i heard someone say something in a mario maker video earlier that i think applies to all of these kinds of challenges. "you only lose when you give up." the current best known minimum jump count may be 4, but that's only for this moment in history. the amount of times i've seen people say (and personally tell people) that something is impossible, only to see it be completed is too much to not think a human will ultimately reach it's goal no matter what.

[@Ultimaximus]

@@erierierierierie Given that we can just walk off a crystal and suddenly gain height, I'm sure that there's *something* we can discover for the final jumps

[@madlad255]

Here are some random thoughts I had while watching: 10:16 Bro casually improves the Minimum Starbits run while doing a completely different challenge entirely. Now that's dedication! 11:55 This really reminds me of that platform glitch in SM64 in Bowser in the Fire Sea, that allows you to Any% the game with 0 A presses. IDK, the reason why it happens might be the same. 32:30 The influence of Evil Ansel G in this video is too strong, we must temper him (unrelated: this is actually really similar to an edit I have in a video I'm working on lmao. Of course, yours looks way more professional :P) But yeah, congrats on reducing the jump total by 92.7%!

[@Ansel_G]

the lilypad trick is kind of similar to that

[@oscarwillimott9296]

Perhaps the lilypad's animation for being hit is being interrupted before it completes, raising it slightly everytime you spin. Kinda like the Minimum Percent Twilight Princess speedrun, where you stare at a Blue Ruppee for five hours.

[@ulonroa3305]

The editing and quality of the video is amazing, not to mention the challenge is impeccable and your solutions very creative. Really nice job!

[@Astr092]

The most anticipated video of the year, lets go. I havent watched the vid yet, but I'm sure it's going to be amazing just based on the beginning. Edit: Watched the vid, the editing is so good, definitely gives me persona 3 vibes, but that's not out of the ordinary, hope to see more vids like this :)

[@Phoenixwaffles]

Amazing video! I'm shocked it feels like yesterday to me you made the original jumpless challenge, this was an epic update to it

[@littlefangs6669]

I BROKE MAH LEGS TO GET HERE! *cough* WE RUNNING GALAXY TO GALAXY WITH THIS ONE 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@hclink7315]

This is my favorite game of all time, And something I thought I’ve seen everything for. I learned many new things today, And I am once again reminded that this is the reason I fell in love with this game. The more I played, The more skips I found, Skips that didn’t save time or were easy, But just… there. This video perfectly encapsulates that essence of the game

[@RipVanFish09]

19:19 it’s because you are “standing” on the crystal, so you get a grounded spin. You break the crystal, and are then in the air, and haven’t used your airborne spin yet, so you can spin “again” :) Also, I do want to note two things. One, at least on the Wii version, you can also use the B button on pull stars. And I’m pretty sure it still works on 3D all stars. And two, there is actually one difference between the Wii and 3d all stars version that I know of. It’s impossible to zoom your view in cannons on 3d all stars, because they forgot to re-do the controls for it.

[@Ansel_G]

that makes more sense

[@Ansel_G]

B button only works in galaxy 2, I think I tested it in 3DA just to make sure

[@RipVanFish09]

@@Ansel_G oh okay. I forgot that was a galaxy 2 only thing. Really weird that they must’ve intentionally added it into the sequel, but didn’t even make the cursor update it’s graphics when using B.

[@ToasterCatOfficial]

Absolutely ecstatic that KZbin brought me to the sequel I didn’t even think was possible

[@InazaDX]

It's confirmed, Mario is just Red Luigi

[@tanini56]

One of the best challenge videos I've ever seen. Great editing + gameplay

[@jemusandran1575]

Honestly this might be mu favourite galaxy challenge video I've seen

[@egman1181]

Great vid, I love the effort you put into some parts over 1 singular jump 😂

[@user-nw4jm8np4g]

Your cat at 22:35 made me run around the house trying to figure out what my cats were up to, since they only do a long meow like that when they're squaring up. 10/10 challenge, give your cat a pet for me

[@Ansel_G]

@@user-nw4jm8np4g I don’t have a cat, that was the sound of toad

[@user-nw4jm8np4g]

@@Ansel_G oop i was folding laundry listening to this and that makes sense

[@chapstixx]

thats why hes the ansel g !!!

[@JigglesMcRibs]

From what I can tell, that weird slide-spin you used to get height in mostly flat areas is likely doing this: Collision and state jank. There's usually a slight difference in hitboxes and character controllers. One of these is likely responsible for setting the grounded state for jumps, and the other for movement. So, while this normally works as expected, if you match the point right in between the grounded state where the spin jump height-gain is reset but haven't yet lost your air movement you get to keep the backwards-momentum speed + get bonus height from a spin that normally shouldn't work! I'd love if anyone has more details on it, because this is totally a guess just based on my experience and observation.

[@enricodegiovanni4540]

Gotta love the perseverance, especially with the Stars and the Goombas.

[@JoelTheParrot]

TIL luigi runs faster than mario in super mario galaxy specifically

[@squidnugget6570]

I love how creative a lot of these methods are, especially the flip bug one.

[@Ansel_G]

@@squidnugget6570 the TASers are to thank for most of these, they are incredible

[@J_-_]

fucking great video, actually implementing advanced mechanics into the run, unlike a lot of other smg challenges. great music use too! you're a genius

[@rumsotek5531]

One of the craziest videos I have seen, like, EVER! I'm honestly speechless, just gonna say well done

[@mrwolf2603]

This is awesome and a massive achievement, well done

[@ttfirebubbles]

Haven’t watched it yet but I hope the video goes like “short answer: no” then a whole playthrough of smg

[@Henroid25]

Nice opening hook to the video. Got me in

[@TheYumpster]

I was fooling around one day and I discovered that boost trick from the beginning of a cosmic clone race, and I was so proud of myself for it. It's interesting to see that even people with much more knowledge of tips and tricks than me, like yourself didn't even know about it.

[@Ansel_G]

I was wondering why I was able to crouch for years, now we know.

[@LukasVezonik]

Incredible! Great Video, I never thought all this was possible, this is my favourite game of all time and I thought I‘ve seen Everything, you‘ve just pushed the Limits of what was thought to be Impossible. Thanks 🔥🔝✅

[@SrslyTony]

The entire concept of shorejumping just inspired me to get back into my Unity project lol. Congratulations!!

[@hazzard_destroyer]

Oh I love it when people test the boundary’s with Mario Galaxy! So happy to see a vid about it

[@tmacattack8302]

This video is so high quality! The commentary was great and informing, surprised the video doesn’t have a million views and you don’t have 100K plus subscribers! Keep up the great work, you got my sub!!!

[@Jaydenbb5]

I really like the persona adjacent graphics you use throughout the video (the backplate for the text when talking about animation blocking for example)

[@diegosuarez5331]

The best editing I have seen in a while, not to mention the insane amounts of effort doing the entire challenge takes. Insane video bro thx for the great lunch break

[@Dark_Side_Productions]

Great video man! I love a good challenge run especially in my favourite Mario game

[@NeedsMoreHats]

Very cool video, I want to try shore launching now

[@Ansel_G]

it's really fun to do once you get the hang of it

[@profwoland8942]

28:25 Barely an inconvenience!

[@Kriss-ys5pl]

i usually never watch long videos like this, but i was genuinely curious on how you beat a whole Mario game without jumping

[@LaxrGary]

Man, I just did this game without Power-Ups and I was thinking to try jumpless next, but seems like you got there first lol! With your findings and what others consider a jump is, it's interesting to know that you only need 4 jumps for the whole game! Good video!

[@tfw_e8370]

this dude somehow did scuttlebug raising in Mario Galaxy, do A button challenge next omg

[@Calum79]

really cool vid! the editing and gameplay were both insane. Keep up the amazing work :) Let's hope some time in the distant future, some revolutionary momentum bug can be found to help with those last 4 jumps...

[@magnusbrenna]

37:20 bro got his kill and was so happy he stopped caring

[@Ansel_G]

@@magnusbrenna he did a little dance too

[@irobot7565]

It's nice to see someone is still doing galaxy challenge runs since there is not a lot of content on it

[@KuboYori]

I dont know exactly, but i think on the switch version you can just use the touchscreen to use a pull star without jumping

[@Ansel_G]

you're right, I show this later on in the video

[@KuboYori]

@@Ansel_G My bad

[@shopnil4]

That one astrogoomba is a legend

[@Ansel_G]

@@shopnil4 his sacrifice won’t be forgotten

[@CatTheBeast]

Genuinely such an amazing video. I love seeing stuff like this and can’t wait to see what you have in the future :)

[@hoennfanboy]

The editing on this video is so incredible. This was awesome, im very impressed too, i could never figure this stuff out the stuff you say is "easy" is blowing my mind still xD a well earned sub, keep it up man!!

[@メシャ]

Crisp editing and narration m8, great work with the challenge :)

[@reformedorthodoxmunmanquara]

2:01 The delivery on that line made me chuckle.

[@burritomensch1257]

16:20 "In certain Mario games, you can gain more momentum by moving a direction that isn't forward." _YAHOO YAHOO YAYAYAYAYAYYAYYYYAHOO-_

[@StardustStrawby]

I've watched a lot of your videos and I gotta say, you're really good at making videos like these. they're even higher quality than some of the big name youtubers I've seen.

[@Ansel_G]

Glad you like them :D

[@brendiesel386]

This was an awesome video! I loved it! I love when the game is pushed to its absolute limits to lower the score in challenge vids like this Just frickin sick man

[@andrewszanto9347]

13:33 the game only lets you walk up steep slopes for a bit before putting you in a sliding state. spinning restarts that time by interrupting the walking animation.

[@redajelloul2182]

Such an impressive challenge dude, love the content

[@Ansel_G]

glad you liked it

[@skyebourque8407]

2:34 Estelle theme from the hit game Omega Strikers had been spotted

[@M3RK_Crash]

15:00 that flipbug trick was insane. I literally sat here saying what the fuck watching it.

[@PenguinBoi27]

Fav game ever So glad you and a few others are carying its yt scene

[@oogabooga7780]

that lilypad bit seems almost fake with how perfect it is but I tried it myself and the lilipads collision really just.. gives out.. its hilariously convenient

[@esclloyd8933]

This is such a good video for a relatively small channel, you deserve more vies & subs!

[@minirop]

About your interrogation about floating, if I remember correctly, the effect stays while the crystal is on screen.

[@Ansel_G]

it can work while it's offscreen

[@flytrapguy7431]

17:20 Are you kidding me.... all the time I spent as a kid trying to get the bullet bills to hit where i needed them to and all you have to do is crouch under them?!

[@Ansel_G]

the bullet bills are just high enough to not hit you.

[@murppyisdurppy1816]

one of the best videos i ever watched on youtube

[@crossboy]

Personally I think that regular spring *bounces* should not count as jumps - it outright prohibits any stages that include it, which isn't very interesting imo. On the other hand, spring *jumps*, where you must actively press the jump button when landing, does make sense to count as a jump, because you're actually jumping. Bounces vs jumps seems like a fair thing to differentiate

[@Ansel_G]

I personally wouldn't count any of them, but I banned it completely from this challenge since it's going to get people angry either way.

[@beanie4882]

i remember watching your earlier videos on rhis. goated series of videos

[@XenoChron2]

Finally, save states!

[@ianemerson2704]

I remember a little trick from a video I watched a long time ago... You can spin with either controller, but one controller will spin you higher than the other. For Mario, that's the right controller, but for Luigi, it's the left controller. I may be totally misremembering this, but I think it might help.

[@Ansel_G]

@@ianemerson2704 you’re right, I did use that during this challenge

[@kevinr.9733]

"Passing the Swim Test Through the Poison Swamp" would be a horrifying name for a single star. Thankfully, it's not.

[@andrewszanto9347]

28:00 NAH I LITERALLY WOKE MY MOM UP AT 4 AM CUZ I THOUGHT THIS WAS JUST GONNA BE A CHILL VIDEO WITH NO MEMES 😭

[@alexortiz9777]

Luring the astrogoomba into the bossfight was so cool!

[@TokuMGTT]

I am honored to claim the first "Awesome"

[@Ansel_G]

thank you tokster

[@calebp6114]

Amazing video- you can really tell how much work went into it!

[@supercouchpotato9698]

This is like, a super well made video. Great watch!

[@quinnbuffet3825]

God this is just making me want to watch a legit playthrough. This is such a good game

[@AemonAkofakel]

"When you struggle in life there are three options: Give up, Try Again, and Call Luigi."

[@Ansel_G]

@@AemonAkofakel Mario maker 2 taught us some important life lessons

[@cuddlequeen3225]

Great video. I haven't watched it yet but I aready know.

[@ego-lay_atman-bay]

I like how he says he's going to use save states, but then proceeds to play the switch version, which doesn't have save states, and last I checked, no switch emulator has save states yet.

[@Ansel_G]

not all the stars were done on switch, I just needed to do certain specific things on switch. (and I wanted to stream some of my gameplay)

[@ego-lay_atman-bay]

@@Ansel_G oh, so you didn't do a complete run on one system. I was just under the impression that you were doing the whole thing in one go.

[@Ansel_G]

nope, I did around 30 stars on switch and did the rest on wii

[@ego-lay_atman-bay]

@@Ansel_G ah

[@SuperMario2401]

This was an incredible video and journey, you are so underrated for this. Congratulations!

[@andrewszanto9347]

30:41 lil bro was the first goomba to have a meet and greet with his boss

[@smashdriven1640]

This video was very impressive. I loved the challenge!

[@ToaDrakua]

I’d argue that simply moving around as spring Mario shouldn’t count as a jump provided you aren’t using the jump button to bounce even higher.

[@dariannisch7511]

Wow huge respect for getting that far without jumping

[@letsnotgothere6242]

Learned a lot of stuff about a game I thought I already knew!

[@soulofthemedley]

if you played on the wii version it might actually be better, considering that shaking the nunchuck as luigi to spin gains more height

[@Ansel_G]

@@soulofthemedley you can do the same on switch

[@soulofthemedley]

@@Ansel_G huh, never thought about joycons lol

[@zjmullan]

dude the editing is gorgeous, nice video