SM64 - The Remaining A Presses [OUTDATED]

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• The 28 Remaining A Pre...
I show the remaining A presses that have yet to be saved. Currently, the 120 star ABC run takes 37 A presses, and of these only 27 are unique A presses.
ABC Playlist: • Super Mario 64 - A But...
ABC Routes: docs.google.com/document/d/1y...

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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 ._.

[@funnydogman9534]

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.

[@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.

[@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)

[@neilcrocker945]

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

[@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.

[@kevwaffles]

+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.

[@duncanthesniper5860]

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

[@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.

[@BrinIoca]

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

[@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!

[@linkVIII]

yay for pretty grapghs

[@MattCrafter]

+linkviii grapghs?

[@aurelia65536]

+Matt Crafter Don't freaking diss Grapghs.

[@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

[@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

[@jordanjohnson714]

you will notice annotations appear on a few of these that say "This was saved, click here to find out how".

[@travbrack]

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

[@Misterlegoboy]

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

[@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.

[@funnydogman9534]

he does, once

[@TheGael95]

Roshivvy megido

[@mehless]

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

[@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

[@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

[@Hathor2903]

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

[@NXeta]

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

[@sirSHREDalot802]

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

[@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

[@PlushSM64]

>2015 >no voice commentary on important stuff like this

[@PlushSM64]

***** Yes but his voice makes me hard

[@Shyguymask]

Plush I prefer text.

[@Ultimaximus]

Plush He's got a cute voice, I'll admit..

[@9fly640]

Plush holy shit slush!

[@1ted59]

Plush you have a good point

[@ThatCowGuy]

This is fantastic! Keep it up x)

[@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.

[@Znernicus]

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

[@meburritoloco7475]

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

[@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!

[@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

[@Aktimoose]

Is Tick Tock Clock your least favourite level?

[@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!

[@Kyrbi0]

I am absolutely flabbergasted/intrigued by the chart & it's contents at 4:47. Please tell me these are explained somewhere (preferably by you)?

[@nonexistentcontent2955]

We need an updated version of this video.

[@renakunisaki]

I hope when you do publish a full run video, you'll include an input display. And maybe a timer so we can get an idea of just how long it really is, since no doubt there'll be hours of repetition sped through.

[@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.

[@makooo52]

so many in TTC, surely they will never be saved

[@fabmoneyy]

surely

[@TheUnknownsShow]

Hey, Pannen, could we get an updated Remaining A Presses video, now that more presses have been saved? I wanna see some updated graphs! :D

[@MrHobo-zi5qg]

Have you ever tried VSC from C^ when Mario stutters on ledges? Even if that were possible it would probably be adding negative VSC. I was thinking that if the value got negative enough it could loop back around to become positive and send Mario up absurdly high.

[@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 ;)

[@TheBilli96]

Hey, Pannnkoek! Can you make an updated video on the remaining A Presses, since so many of them have been saved now!

[@thekingslayer1831]

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

[@IAmChrisAMA]

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

[@kaleyutz474]

You are a frickin' Mario 64 ninja.

[@epicswagger1650]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@Echocookie8948]

So currently it takes 25.5 A presses for a 120 star run if I'm not mistaken? I really want to see the ABC full run video (with time skips for those stupid long speed building sessions).

[@bignony1]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@turtlekombat]

Surprising that 7 of these are already saved.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@QuintetMagician]

So my question is, IS it possible to complete the game without pressing the A button even once? I mean, I understand that half presses depend on the context, so would you be able to do it with or without those, too? I'm really curious. Your videos are super interesting!!!

[@calvindang7291]

there is currently one required A press for any% and like 100 stars that take 0.

[@NinjaKnuckleJoe]

+pannenkoek2012 for the a press to get the star around all the chests in the water stage, couldnt you bounce (for lack of a better word) onto the chest and then bounce forward to get the star?

[@LegitSiForNow]

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

[@JordanMSeverns]

i want to see an updated version of this

[@xs0ulLess]

Just discovered this, and I'm interested - but I don't understand what you mean by A-Scripts? You want to get 120stars with only these A-sequences? :O

[@Srcsqwrn]

I would like to see an update video to this.

[@NutyRiver]

The compilation of A presses really hurt my bones

[@MegaQwertification]

Also i love the graphs :3

[@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.

[@lizarddude1000]

Can you place a HOLP in the middle of the upper story room and then leap from the upper story and bounce into Tick Tock Clock? Can you even do HOLP stuff outside of courses (sorry, not sure how those work still). I can't see any other way of solving those entering-TTC A presses, besides somehow cloning some of the fire in the basement and bouncing your way up, but I doubt that you could get a clone past the loading zones even if there were something to clone with? Just throwing out terrible ideas since you asked haha.

[@pannenkoek2012]

Michael Hicks There's no way to clone anything from within the castle, and also no goombas to bounce on :/

[@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

[@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

[@ericvilas]

You should make annotations to track the ones you finished!

[@ryanthelion6926]

The next war: pannenkoek2012 VS. The A Button

[@TheFatPunisher]

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

[@chrismason1839]

Wow! 20x A presses now. Congrats!

[@ryanthelion6926]

YAAAA! ONLY 20!

[@hamsterpoop]

Pannenkoek2012, you should put together an awesome overview of your entire effort and show it at AGDQ during the TAS block. Then show the bounty video at the end and get the whole world to start figuring out how to get those TTC A-presses down! Get em!

[@hamsterpoop]

***** AGDQ has a section for TAS. I'm saying to compile a few "highlights" to show off the entire project to a larger audience. I am sure everyone there would be psyched to see this!

[@pannenkoek2012]

Currently, the 120 star TAS would take 16 hours (but 5 hours 20 minutes when repetitive sequences are fastforwarded) and the any% TAS would take 2 hours 50 minutes (but 2 hours 15 minutes when repetitive sequences are fastforwarded). Thus, if anything were shown in real time for entertainment purposes, it would be the any% run. For the any% run, we only need 70 stars, so we can be more selective about which ones we actually collect. Consequently, we can avoid almost all "repetitive" stars that take long to execute. The only exception is Bowser in the Sky, which is unavoidable and takes ~40 minutes. However, the any% run currently uses 1 A press, and we (the ABC crew) would really like it to be 0 A presses for when we TAS it. The only thing that takes an A press is Bowser in the Fire Sea, for which we are hoping to one day eliminate the A press. Until then, we are putting off the final TAS.

[@pannenkoek2012]

Also, I'm pretty resistant to the idea of showing off the bounty video. I get far too much criticism for putting $1000 towards a glitch from people who say I should have donated that money to charity instead. I can only imagine how this would go down during an event specifically directed at donating money to charity.

[@hamsterpoop]

pannenkoek2012 Yea, you're right about the bounty video (although I am totally for bounties for glitches). But do consider at least showing a few of the cooler stars at GDQ. I know when I first found out about your project my first thought was: "Why am I JUST NOW finding out about this?!". So, yea... I'm sure many there will feel the same way.

[@hamsterpoop]

pannenkoek2012 Btw, if you want to keep the bounty idea, but make it more charity-friendly, you could always start a pool that will be donated to a certain charity when the glitch is found. And let us, your supporters, pitch in for the pool! I'd even commit to donating $20 to any charity for each new A-press you drop! If you pitch it correctly, this could be a really cool donation incentive. GL!

[@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 :(

[@KirkGoodman]

Never had I imagined OCD would be so interesting.

[@mineturte]

wow, how time flies

[@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.

[@TheMaplestrip]

I'm sure this has been thought of before, but is it possible to save some "Enter" A-presses by using spawn displacement, like shown on 2 :30 in your video on the topic? ("Spawning Displacement") If you could pull that off even once, you've saved an A-press. I doubt it will be a solution for all five A-presses, though.

[@craftyawesome6830]

Upstairs is separate than castle foyer. You have to go through the normal animation.

[@xopowoHiro]

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

[@thiagovscoelho]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@HeyKevinYT]

4:40 ohohhohooo look at TTC then vs now

[@FabbrizioPlays]

Is there literally no way to get the JRB cave star without jumping for it? It seems like you should be able to dive rollout up onto the chests to get height. I mean considering the crazy shit you've done to save other A-presses, I'm positive you already thought of that. I'm more just curious if there's a particular reason it doesn't work.

[@pannenkoek2012]

The chests can only move Mario sideways, not up or down. And you can't stand on them either. Also, a dive recover (AKA rollout) doesn't go high enough.

[@FabbrizioPlays]

pannenkoek2012 Ah, that sucks. But makes sense.

[@DaniPaunov]

7 of the A presses have been saved :)

[@Khronosian]

Can you BLJ glitch, or similar, from the platform above the entrance to the third floor, to enter any of the third floor levels? Maybe MIPS Clipping, or similar, can do something with the loading zones for RR or WMotR?

[@MrGOOMBAGUY]

BLJ is scores and scores of A Presses. *Kappa*

[@semisadist8072]

Just a wacky idea you've probably heard before: Could you use vertical speed conservation (for instance, from the top of the bowser staircase) to get into TTC?

[@vtmangotases5296]

You can't get VS there, and a VS of 26 wouldn't help us anyway

[@IBeforeAExceptAfterK]

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

[@horizontal]

#3 - could you use a holp and some cloning with a shell to move a goomba around the star?

[@Lugmillord]

Nice statistics. But TTC is one hard rock on the way. As for #3, you probably already tried luring the goombas there, right? (Edit: nevermind, that's too far away from the triplet's spawn point) And there probably isn't the right angle for the cannon to open the box of #2. Weeeeell, since you are already at the quatum mechanics level my stone age advise probably won't help. D:

[@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?

[@nightgallows3483]

You've done it in other missions: try collecting a 100 coin star at the right angle to get a boost and save A presses. (No specific stars in mind, just a suggestion.)

[@Honuandhisson]

so quite a few have been saved

[@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

[@emeraldkooper1610]

The Gaming 100 Too bad you can't clone them

[@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