SM64 - The Remaining A Presses [OUTDATED]

[@Tyrnn]

You know, when you thought Toad was telling you to save "A Presses", he was really telling you to "Save a Princess", right?

[@ryanthelion6926]

HA! Good one!

[@fbgrac]

hahaaahahaahaaha best comment!!

[@kostyapesterew1068]

wow nice one

[@melonsetgo]

HA! Good one! Trust me, it’s a good one. And I copied somebody’s reply to Ryan Gates.

[@Ralphiriusgr8]

"Jump to get to Rolling Rocks star" Ahahaha ahahahahahha

[@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225]

go home, Pannenkoek, you're drunk.

[@morganlak4337]

why is this funny lol I don't understand

[@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225]

+Seth Johnson looks like someone needs a lecture about parallel universes... he did a video where he used no jumps to get that Star. in order to understand, watch his commentary of watch for Rolling Rocks star in 0.5 a presses.

[@morganlak4337]

+Robbie Norris I've seen it, I get the joke now. i just didn't make the connection that that was the same star

[@Accj21]

Says TJ "Henry" Yoshi.

[@jonas-nn4bx]

We said "stop oppression" not "stop a pressin"

[@agoodduck]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHackpth... bleh... i just choked on laughter... (and my sprite)

[@bluerious5475]

Jonas Esposito We're supposed to save a princess, not save a presses.

[@tttc]

That's funny man

[@Mabi19]

Nope, the toads said "save a princess" not "save a presses"

[@m3rcurialis]

This comment is a fucking

[@supershoo4518]

18 in tick tock clock? jesus christ that upwarp glitch is all the more tantalizing now

[@apofis231]

for real. still, nobody has claimed it

[@bishubi]

the upwarp was meant to be our saviour

[@isawadelapradera6490]

I first read that as "18 inch thick cock" What the heck is wrong with me ._.

[@connfdm]

plot twist: the upwarp needed a to be pressed, it just wasnt shown since pressing a immediately upwarped them

[@joem1068]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@scalemodlgiant]

18 for TTC alone? Now I see why you want that upwarp so badly.

[@pannenkoek2012]

now you feel my pain

[@jijonbreaker]

+pannenkoek2012 Speaking of tick tock clock... graph shows you need 5 A presses to enter. I know that there's the speed glitch on the infinite stairs just across the way. Is there any way to build up speed in there, turn it around, and fling yourself into the clock that way? Or do the door and railings complicate that?

[@mr.whimsic6902]

+pannenkoek2012 Downloading Mupen 0.5.1 now. Money or not, I want to figure out this glitch so I can be important to you! ^-^

[@rarebeeph1783]

+jijonbreaker Don't you have to mash a for that glitch?

[@jijonbreaker]

DethHydra touche.

[@BrinIoca]

you are doing a noble thing, saving these a presses.

[@neilcrocker945]

The Boy with the Broken Controller: a documentary on the journey of PannenKoek2012.

[@funnybone4531]

you only need 1 A press to complete the game, non-100%. wow.

[@computercat8694]

Yep and only -a bunch of monsters- a pole stands in our way :(

[@mariosonicboom123]

and all of TTC

[@cyntheticconjurer]

TTC isn't mandatory. The any% run doesn't go there.

[@mariosonicboom123]

civlover97 Yeah I was an idiot.

[@isawadelapradera6490]

+Conspiracyman Everyone is an idiot. In acknowledgeing it, you are one step further away from the gripping clutches of human stupidity. < :^)

[@NeoSaturos123]

This is clearly an old video. I mean, an a press for watch for rolling rocks? Hah.

[@fabulog7010]

Marcin Bohdziewicz TJ """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Henry""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" yoshi

[@want-diversecontent3887]

Marcin Bohdziewicz 0.5 A presses is basically 1 A press held.

[@StuartandIanGaming]

~~TJ "Henry" yoshi

[@KyvannShrike]

"This A press has been saved. Click here to see how." Yeah, but at what cost?

[@NovaTheDark]

Raffy Tabingo actually, in the full run it doesn't count as an A press x)

[@metroidnerd9001]

It’s fascinating to go back and watch a video like this when there are only 14 A-presses left to see how far the challenge has come since the video was posted. All of the TTC A-presses (barring entering it) have been saved.

[@linkVIII]

yay for pretty grapghs

[@MattCrafter]

+linkviii grapghs?

[@aurelia65536]

+Matt Crafter Don't freaking diss Grapghs.

[@Accj21]

Since it's been almost a year since this video was released, it seems like a follow-up is necessary. Now that new techniques have been found, I'd like to see how low the number is now.

[@pannenkoek2012]

I too would like that. But I couldn't post it until after the new A press save videos are made. And those videos been on the top of the koek video queue for months. But making commentated videos is hard and not so fun, so I haven't gotten around to doing them yet

[@olivebates]

Rank your types of videos from most favored to least favored, please.

[@Lulink013]

+pannenkoek2012 You didn't post anything for months... I hope you'll have the courage to continue your work.

[@pannenkoek2012]

Lulink That's because I raised the bar so high on my last video. Only one time in my SM64 career have I been in the mood to make a video with that much effort and detail. But now everyone says they want more videos of that quality. So until I'm in the mood to do that again, I won't be posting anything on that channel, lest I disappoint everyone with a subpar video

[@Lulink013]

pannenkoek2012 That's kinda sad... A lot of your videos use the same tricks so you don't really have to explain them each time. That video was great, but now people are just going to forget about you or think you gave up. I respect your choice: it's ok not to post anything, but I personally don't mind if I am left with more questions than answers while watching your videos.

[@ronamadeo]

"The goal of a 0x A press 120 star run is closer now than ever before!" ...... You're crazy pannenkoek, but that's why we

[@RarefoilB]

Well, he's not wrong. It's closer now than its ever been before. :)

[@welcoe]

+RarefoilB it's closer now

[@JorgetePanete]

than it's even been before

[@travbrack]

Hey, I recognize your face from the ARS articles :D

[@sunk6478]

We are getting closer...

[@MetaKnight68]

you guys can do it, i believe in you all. ;_; Seriously, I can't believe how far this has come. it would be really (and hilariously) epic if you saved every a press except for bitfs and then that was the last a press to save, thus completing both 120 star and any%. :P

[@Misterlegoboy]

wow i guess that's why you put up that thousand dollar bounty

[@cyntheticconjurer]

So, your parallel universe shenanigans brought it down to 36/26, and the thousand-dollar glitch would drop it to 33/23. It's getting closer-er!

[@duncanthesniper5860]

Now only 13 left can't wait to revisit this after we reach 0

[@roshivvymegido9178]

see, you look at this kinda stuff at a surface level, and it's pretty easy to see it as nonsense, HOWEVER, all things considered, it's really wild to think that a game featuring the LITERAL JUMP MAN MARIO JUMP MAN MARIO JUMP JUMP JUMP UP MOTHERJUMPERS it's pretty damn insane that he actually doesn't have to do his job anymore to get to the end of the game.

[@connfdm]

he does, once

[@TheGael95]

Roshivvy megido

[@mehless]

"This A press has been saved." You god damn hero.

[@makooo52]

so many in TTC, surely they will never be saved

[@fabmoneyy]

surely

[@HeyKevinYT]

4:40 ohohhohooo look at TTC then vs now

[@PerfectDarkly]

Tick Tock Clock alone is fuckin' this all up lmao meanwhile, Rainbow Ride over here taking up one single jump

[@natnew32]

do you mean Wing Mario over the Rainbow?

[@upside-downtomatosandwich338]

that too

[@natnew32]

Oh, I misread "Rainbow Ride" as "Rainbow Road." sorry.

[@iAmManuze]

You must really hate the A button...

[@pannenkoek2012]

***** As facebook would say: it's complicated.

[@groszak1]

Save a princess, not save a presses.

[@notottomedic]

i bet his n64 controller's a button broke and he never bought a new one. i bet he took advantage of the a button when he was younger. abusing it, pressing it, until it broke. he now, he dedicates his life to saving a presses.

[@hmaxsaenz]

half an A still an A

[@ShanesDominoez]

I would love to see some updated graphs (:

[@brianpso]

Oh man, thanks a lot for those graphs. They'll help me a lot in explaining to my friends how genius you are and how many things you accomplished so far, lately with help, but nonetheless you are a part of this amazing story.

[@pannenkoek2012]

brianpso Thanks! :D

[@Coey8900]

37 A presses are still 37 A presses. You can't say it's only 27.

[@ourboyroy9398]

+ViridianSun All right Viridian "Henry" sun

[@MarioFan587YT]

27 UNIQUE presses.

[@WafflumW]

+ViridianSun Just to clarify in case you actually don't understand, the point saying the unique number is that there are 27 to eliminate to get to 0 A presses in a 120 star run. (Actually 24 now.) It would still be considered a 37 (now 34) A press 120 run.

[@Protnomc]

Because no one has actually explained it to you yet, there are instances in the game where having the A Button already held down means you can get to the Star (like, for example, because it makes you glide if you're holding down the A Button when you have a Wing Cap), so if you were to do that Star BY ITSELF you would need to press the A Button, but by doing it as part of a longer run you can simply keep holding down the A Button from a time that you needed to jump to get a different Star.

[@Menosh]

Actually, what was meant is that, while 37 A presses were required, there are only 27 unique SITUATIONS where A needed to be pressed. Therefore, if ways to circumvent the A presses for those 27 SITUATIONS were found, the total tally would end up being 0, as some strats could be used multiple times.

[@NXeta]

Just the kind of video ppl need! Also, nice graphs, especially like that last one :)

[@meburritoloco7475]

Damn you, TTC, and your ability to make us hit the a button!

[@sirSHREDalot802]

so much advancement has been made in the field of SM64 because of you!

[@Hathor2903]

This is so crazy! Can't waiit to see the final run. Good luck!

[@eduardolarrymarinsilva76]

At bowser in the sky, if you could somehow place the holp at exactly the first spot, where you need to start cloning, you could create a goomba cluster at the bottom, therefore saving you a lot of time and clones on screen.

[@natnew32]

eduardo marin the problem is cloning isn't possible at all in BitFS without an A press, since the only cloning that can be done in that course is with a single bob-omb found too far into the course

[@ABCDEFGHdumbo]

natnew32 Remember that the HOLP stays at the XYZ throughout the entire game, and we could use another course for HOLP placements.

[@natnew32]

we would need to grab the bob-omb in order to HOLP it, which we can't.

[@ABCDEFGHdumbo]

natnew32 I don't think you get the point. What I am saying is, we could go to another course, get a bob-omb HOLP in the area you need to, and keep duping until we can find how to get up the pole with 0 A presses.

[@ABCDEFGHdumbo]

+natnew32 Oh, the bob-omb later in the level, Sorry I didn't understand that.

[@moshilover1100]

4:40 is that zipf? That's zipf. Great job, pannenkoek, you made a zipf.

[@blunderbus2695]

Only 20% of the courses in the game have 80% of the A presses.

[@nightgallows3483]

Quizzaciously.

[@natnew32]

Current status: #4: Testing phase ; #5: Final testing phase ; #6: Early testing phase ; #11-12, 18-19: Final Testing Phase (adds #28); #13-#16: replaced w/#28-#32, but no #11 and #12 for this star (Net: 1x SAVED!) ; #25: SAVED! (VC only) ; TOTAL: 2x saved, 14x testing

[@timpunny]

+natnew32 Since when are #18-19 in the Final Testing Phase?

[@shadoxfm8822]

wtf does that mean

[@Znernicus]

great video, I really like the history of dropped A presses in the route

[@epicswagger1650]

This is awesome. Not that you need me to tell you that of course.

[@Sauspreme]

just have miyamoto add in wheelchair accesses for TTC. I guess you could call them "simpleflips" access these days.

[@nonenothingnull]

shoutout to that fuck lmao

[@xianlucax9343]

wanna shout simp out? >yes! no

[@thekingslayer1831]

Damn. This guy must be fun at parties. “How’s the wife.” “FIRST, we need to talk about parallel universes.”

[@IronicHavoc]

I think it's sub-30 full presses now? 28 total/21 unique if I counted correctly They saved: Red Coins on the Ship Afloat (#1) Big Boo's Balcony (#4) Eye to Eye in the Secret Room (#4) Big Boo's Merry Go Round (#5) Watch for Rolling Rocks (#6 - half saved) 1 in Stomp on the Thwomp (#12)* 1 in Timed Jumps on Moving Bars (#18) The Secret Aquarium (#24) Pit and the Pendulums re-entry (#25 - japan version only) And a few x0.5 A presses (only 3 left) though this won't affect the current press count You can see how all of these were saved by looking for the star names in the playlist in the description. *(The new strat actually also skips #13-16 and adds 4 new presses. So in a sense it's just swapping 4 unique A presses for another 4 in order to avoid #12. However, saying that it just saves #12 is misleading, since it is a repeated A press. Using this skip for other stars that require #12 would actually result in a net increase in the press count due to the aforementioned 4 extra presses)

[@IronicHavoc]

The new Stomp on the Thwomp route also technically skips the alt #11 A press, but you can't clone coins because of the HOLP strat used, so you're​ forced to do the first version of the #11 press anyway. Or at least I'm assuming that's the reason

[@IronicHavoc]

Also by this video's numbering the current repeated presses are: #8 x2, #12 x2, #11 x3, #25 x4 11 presses total from 4 unique presses

[@theletsplaycurse]

I can already tell the last a press we need to save will be the one used to collect the chest star in jrb

[@floppa_gamer1111]

THIS aged well when i made this comment there are 14 full a presses in sm64 that star is one of them

[@matthewferrantino9521]

6 tricks involve Goombas and 7 tricks involve other enemies. If for some reason you are new to the study of SM64 runs and actually want to start playing yourself, your first two serious topics you should study are 1. Hyperspeed/Backwards Longjump And 2. Enemy Manipulations. A lot of other neat stuff is fun to cram watching videos on but you won't get far without those in particular.

[@Viddaric]

So as soon as you figure out how to get past BitFS without pressing A, you'll release a 70-star, no A button TAS, right?

[@Nattegoya]

Plazma Dolphin It's not as interesting as an ABC, he made a whole video about it

[@FireSonicYT]

you would just be stopped at the 2nd bowser in a no B press run, as you need to press B to grab bowser

[@jongyon7192p]

These annotations are great! Good to keep track of current progress! Maybe add that you saved the 0.5 A Press for Wing Mario over the Rainbow? Maybe not as important, but whatever!

[@xopowoHiro]

"A presses" Henry : meh. "0.5 A presses" Henry : *TRIGGERED*

[@bignony1]

Right now the A presses (in all) is around 34.5, as of September 2017.

[@ThatCowGuy]

This is fantastic! Keep it up x)

[@ryanthelion6926]

The next war: pannenkoek2012 VS. The A Button

[@BrandonMixon122]

Here's how to get a A 0X run: Turn on moonjump and set it to the L button.

[@BrandonMixon122]

Also, youtube comment sections Get a sense of humor before replying to this PLEASE!!!!!

[@BrandonMixon122]

The thing is: If I say that, I will get hate. If I don't, People will take it too seriously. How to avoid either of those, I have no clue.

[@OberonGames1]

It's currently impossible to avoid those two things without pressing A :(

[@L7vanmatre]

I can testify for Brandon. Someone else made a similar joke and everyone took it seriously...

[@dumdum7786]

You have to press A then hold L to moon jump

[@claire4708]

It's at 3:49 - 3:50

[@craigcooper1967]

d00d, I would kill to see you do a TAS presentation at AGDQ/SGDQ, just talk over these videos as they play... especially in your quest to get a 0 A-press any% run... that I think would blow just about everyone's minds!

[@sawnikk]

"To get into the secret aquarium" heh heh... heh

[@pikminman13]

I love how a third of the video is TTC and now we murdered most of it.

[@the_cheese_cultist]

now TTC is just 3 reenters. 0 inside. crazy.

[@chlorobyte]

hmm... About BitS... we already found out how VS worked on the pole. We should either -somehow teleport to the top of the pole without the need of the jumps -manage to get VS to work -or find out a new glitch

[@IAmChrisAMA]

This is purely amazing. Only 37 A presses....

[@DanielCharry1025]

2:18 Greatest star clip ever!

[@keiyakins]

25 unique now, I think 35 total. The two most tantalizing improvements are figuring out that TTC upwarp and figuring out how to get past that pole in BitFS - the first saves a ton of presses, the latter lets us not-120 star beat the game without the A button.

[@lemonadecut1392]

For going to Rainbow Ride without an A press: You could talk to Toad and maybe use the star to glitch up onto the high platform. Then dive into the window.

[@Cirphlyx]

the star is not high enough in order to reach the platform. So no go :(

[@clubby2u]

Actully, sence roll outs are also set to your B button so you'll, Both the SideKick and the Dive do this. So you'll get a lower amount of A presses.

[@BrettMKW]

Wow nearly half the A presses are in TTC. Although DDD is deceptive, if we get down to 0 we need to eliminate DDD's half A presses as well.

[@pannenkoek2012]

BrettMKW Yeah, it's kind of funny. So long as there's one required A press, the half A presses won't add any additional ones. But if we do somehow manage to eliminate all 27 A presses mentioned in this video, then the half A presses would generate a new A press, which could only be eliminated by solving every single 0.5x star.

[@mariophreak]

pannenkoek2012 this means there is more than 27 a presses

[@pannenkoek2012]

Well currently there are 27 unique A presses. IF those 27 were solved, then a NEW A press would be generated. But since that one doesn't currently exist, there are still only 27.

[@BrettMKW]

pannenkoek2012 I know, what I'm saying is even if you get down to 1, not only do you have to solve that one, you also have to solve anything with 0.5x A presses. WMotR and some DDD + HMC comes to mind but there's probably others too. I'm surprised it's down to 37 I remember when it was over 100, doesn't seem all that long ago.

[@pannenkoek2012]

BrettMKW Yeah, eliminating the final A press would be extra difficult. And also yeah, the total A press count has been decreasing very quickly in the past year!

[@Aktimoose]

Is Tick Tock Clock your least favourite level?

[@kloklojul]

You can Skip all clock tower entrys with the doorskip glitch and a dive. Done frameperfect you end up flying right into the level.

[@want-diversecontent3887]

kloklojul you're as confusing as math class is to normal people.

[@NovaTheDark]

actually, if I understood well you're refering to the BLJ as " doorskip glitch ". But, the BLJ requires A to be pressed many time, so there is no way this can save A presses

[@CrisRipper]

I'm not pretty sure about this, but I think something can be done in BBH, you see, if somehow you could bring the crazy box inside the pool of water in the basement to make a fake crazy box, you could make a clone of the flames in the merry-go-round to burn yourself and get to the power star without pressing A, the problem with this is bringing the crazy box and taking it out of the water...but since you talked about the PUs and de-facto speed I think it could be possible, although I don't know about the interactions of certain objects like crazy boxes in a PU, so this is nothing more than an idea, hope this be useful for you pannenkoek, and good luck on your x0 A runs.

[@James_Moton]

# A presses as shown in the video: 27 Actual number of A presses: ~20 Difference: -7

[@charliehardcastle8432]

in snow-mans land you can use the koopa shell to climb up that steep hill on the mountain instead of having to jump over them small snow hills that heads towards you and then having to jump up and grab the ledge

[@kaleyutz474]

You are a frickin' Mario 64 ninja.

[@alecsjoholm3970]

4:43 Wave 7: (-9) 28 Scuttlebug raising parallel universes pendulum manipulation Pedro spot ...and frame-walking up the Ship Afloat

[@Descenacre]

Hold up, i might have an idea about that BitFS a press...I need to check something

[@KirkGoodman]

Never had I imagined OCD would be so interesting.

[@TheGaming100]

Here's a list of all A presses that can be saved and how A Press #3: I think you can dive and recover by pressing B twice to save that A press A press #4 (might not work): D&R to get to the slightly higher ground level at 0:45 then D&R again to land on the books to the 3rd floor A press #5: Same method as A press 3 A press #8(might not work) Immediatly D&R to exit instead of pressing A A press #20 Same method as A press 3&5

[@pannenkoek2012]

The Gaming 100 Trust me, we've tried dive recovering. It was probably the first thing we've all tried, and that by itself won't be saving any of these A presses. Also, concerning BBH, you can't dive recover onto that slightly higher ground (it's too high). Even if you could, bouncing on the bookends even with a star for additional height doesn't make it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3TNgGafZ7-JeLc

[@mariorockysonicmegasochjag]

@@pannenkoek2012 i know I'm very late, but there was one star that was conciderd Impossible, but you could just dr up to it.

[@LegitSiForNow]

In case you didn't know, there are 20 A presses left as of September 13th, 2017.

[@SimpleFlips]

Wouldn't the amount of A presses for entering TTC be 6, not 5? Or am I misunderstanding something?

[@Drakethatsme]

SimpleFlips Yeah, I feel like that's right... Also, I'm a fan of yours, SimpleFlips. :D

[@IIIIITHE1IIIII]

SimpleFlips nope: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6HQm3-hqs2qj5I

[@SimpleFlips]

Drakethatsme :D

[@SimpleFlips]

IIIIITHE1IIIII I was 100% unaware of this. Before commenting I tried to imagine how i could possibly be miscalculating it but I definitely did not imagine this. Thanks for linking this.

[@chlorobyte]

SimpleFlips there are 7 stars in TTC.

[@NutyRiver]

The compilation of A presses really hurt my bones

[@chrismason1839]

Wow! 20x A presses now. Congrats!

[@ryanthelion6926]

YAAAA! ONLY 20!

[@knavesmith]

Sometimes I like to imagine how differently the ABC would run if some game mechanics were changed, say for example being able to ground pound out of a dive recover.

[@pannenkoek2012]

***** I tend to think the other way. What if the programmers required A for selecting missions or scrolling through text or doing a dive recover? They were actually pretty generous in giving us A button alternatives.

[@eduardolarrymarinsilva76]

pannenkoek2012 We could just say that since they are technical, then we are just not going to count them, but that's just me.

[@arthex2216]

I guess in some years you will be able to beat SM64 in 0 a presses.

[@gravity8120]

...I could've sworn that pressing Z while in a cannon would launch you... Has it really been that long since I've played Super Mario 64 that I've forgotten that?

[@FourthDerivative]

#6 now famously obsolete :)

[@want-diversecontent3887]

FourthDerivative Only in a full game run perspective. From definition perspective, 0.5 a presses is a held a press.

[@tannerjacobi3497]

An idea for #27 (Enter WMotR) and #25 (Enter TTC): Spawning Displacement from Rainbow Ride. By cloning the Coins Amassed In a Maze star or dying on the proper rotating platform, Mario might be able to jump right onto the WMotR platform or into the TTC painting, if one of the rotating platforms has an axis that works. WMotR is at the same elevation as RR, too. I don't think Platform Release Spawning Displacement works in RR, but if it does--maybe the flying carpets load/unload just right?--then you have even more to work with. Both would only save an A press if the RR stars are collected first. It would only save one of the instances of A Press #25, but allows the rest of the instances to be substituted for #26 (Enter RR), which simplifies things.

[@AmaranthRBY]

A press #3, I've never played sm64 but based on your other videos and manipulations it could be possible to get height through some enemies. No clue on how to do that, that's your job. :)

[@1ted59]

Unfortunately the Goombas despawn before they get close enough to do anything with.

[@AmaranthRBY]

1ted59 That sucks.

[@TheGaming100]

***** or just D&R aka Dive and Recover

[@mineturte]

wow, how time flies

[@turtlekombat]

Surprising that 7 of these are already saved.

[@MegaQwertification]

Also i love the graphs :3

[@quaternaryyy]

I really hate to be a debbie downer, but I'm doubting 0x is even *possible*, especially with the castle jumps and BitFS. :(

[@PlushSM64]

tudd ster hah good joke bro

[@QuiVeutUneMerguez]

TheLostKooper Wait, they're doing a no buttons SMW run? I can't seem to find any info on that, do you have a link?

[@Patashu]

QuiVeutUneMerguez KZbin search 'valley of bowser cleared without pressing A or B' and look at bruno vivaldi's videos

[@switchpalacecorner]

TheLostKooper in smw, almost half of the exits are possible without a or b, however the way the run is structured is very different. It is not contiguous, and the goal is to clear levels on an individual basis and with any powerups. If a level requires any presses at all, it does not get a video.

[@TheGael95]

+TheLostKooper Caps aren't powerups ?

[@Sidney600MC]

#12: is it somehow possible to place a HOLP close to the pole so per say a Bob-Omb would knock you off? Or manipulate one of the Heave-Ho's to get you off it? #7: Can you somehow use the lava to store the vertical speed using c^, then use a bully in order to knock you off the ledge whilst keeping the vertical speed, at the perfect angle? I'm assuming the platform is waaaay too far away for this to work. Only other idea i have is to somehow spawn the 100 coin star inside the volcano by using one of the bully's coins. Then use the star dance animation in order to possibly get high enough to make it to the platform.

[@timpunny]

I'll test that...

[@timpunny]

Not that I've found. Good idea though. Probably possible.

[@DaniPaunov]

7 of the A presses have been saved :)

[@AprilTee]

From 27 to just 18. We're getting so close!

[@RealClassixX]

Oh 23... haunts my nightmares.

[@Brunn0121]

oh my god, this is amazing.1

[@littlemcminer614]

I have an idea for A Press 17, although you're an expert and probably already considered it. But it is possible to conserve enough vertical speed that if you walk towards the thwomp, you can boost yourself up there? There is a gap between the conveyor and the thwomp, which can activate Vertical Speed (I think, anyways)

[@littlemcminer614]

Oh, ok

[@blunderbus2695]

I think that was the one in the video with the Pedro Spot, but you might be talking about something else, not entirely sure.

[@IBeforeAExceptAfterK]

Just imagine what this man could do if he wasn't deathly afraid of pressing A...

[@11wildy63]

These are insane....

[@JokingJames2]

Some of the 0x A press stars take hours to actually get before the footage is edited down right? At this point is it possible to get 70 stars and beat the game in a reasonable amount of real time? I'm just curious because it would be cool to see a full run of that if possible. Maybe even at the TAS block of a GDQ event ;)

[@timpunny]

BitFS still has 1x A press, so overall Any% is 1x A presses. See the bottom of the description for the routes. It will take you to a Google Docs file, then click on the link for the full Any% ABC route. This will take you to a Google Sheets file.

[@old__h]

+JokingJames2 One of them was over 25 hours

[@SuperFromND]

And a possible A press save in TTC is twice as long as the lifespan of the universe.

[@Andrew-gu8uw]

Super! :3 ?

[@NovaTheDark]

entering secret aquarium is actually 26 hours long so... no

[@y2k890]

Now we need to somehow make progress towards killing the impossible goomba.

[@Really_Tall]

A Press #5 will be next, mark my words...

[@OGwold]

Are we getting an 100% 37 A-press-TAS soon? ... no? OK, then I would instead ask for a nice chart showing all the other button-presses. I would like to see how often the buttons are used compared to each other! LOOVE the progress you're making ;)

[@korrenkid]

Wow I just realized how much TTC sucks for 0A.

[@Ultimaximus]

korrenkid Yeah, which is why I'm more excited for TTC A press saves than the BitFS everyone wants to see

[@1ted59]

Lateralusticus I mean I'd take either if any new strat is discovered

[@natnew32]

korrenkid nearly half the A presses are either in TTC, or entering it.

[@pedroviktor5496]

yes ttc sucks realy

[@TheFatPunisher]

3 years later still can't get off that damn pole

[@hshot2000]

I see that PUs and Scuttlebug Raising and Jamborees are not on here. Wonder how many A presses were saved with just those techniques alone.

[@gowford]

Cam M 7

[@CNETech]

We can get into SA with PU movement now, just so you know. ;)

[@thiagovscoelho]

only now did it click in my head that ABC stands for A Button Challenge

[@aerospherology2001]

tfw you eat pancakes with syrup while playing and you make the A button sticky