The History of the A Button Challenge - Part 6: Conquering Tick Tock Clock

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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:32 - JRB 100 coins
01:35 - Pendulum Manipulation
06:14 - Kick Recoil Momentum and 2017
09:00 - Modern history of RTABC
18:05 - Hyperspeed punching
19:16 - BitFS 0xA on Wii VC
22:11 - Enter Secret Aquarium 0xA
30:16 - Enter SA: Complete route
38:35 - Hyperspeed grinding
40:30 - Timed Jumps on Moving Bars 1xA
43:09 - Stomp on the Thwomp 2xA
47:01 - Get a Hand 0.5xA
53:03 - Conclusion
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[@linkthepringlesman3951]

STROOP! They called their toolset STROOP! That’s hilarious. For those who don’t know, a stroopwafel is a Dutch waffle cookie with caramel or maple syrup filling. For those who also don’t know, pannenkoek is a Dutch style of pancake.

[@Bismuth9]

There's another tool called wafel actually

[@chipsnegativeharmonyrips7187]

I also came here to point this out. Stroop is Dutch for syrup, a natural pairing for pannenkoeken ☺️. This is related to the English word "blackstrap", as in molasses

[@Fritzafella]

Wait seriously?!? Who came up with the perfectly logical acronym that is ALSO is a brilliant pun?? I guess I can't be too surprised there's something about STROOP I don't know... after sll I've only been TASimg for a few months amd theres a litteral ocean of data there. But the name? I didn't get the pun in the *name?!?*

[@geenaccount9652]

finally, someone that acknowledges the joke

[@marksmithwas12]

Look at the logo for Stroop. It's a stack of waffles with syrup dripping (or in the case of a stroopwafel, the caramel filling melting out the side) 😆

[@Kobalent]

the end had me scream "HUH?!?!" out loud when i realized the date was TODAY and then seeing how wild that movement looks! I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEXT PART!! FANTASTIC WORK AS ALWAYS!!!

[@DanielVCOliveira]

Wait what

[@charmandergamer1287]

@@DanielVCOliveira 53:40

[@MrLuigiBean1]

HOLY COW HOW DID I NOT REALISE. That single second of video is amazing!

[@nikolafitilyov688]

YO SAME

[@Omekyuu]

YES OMG

[@Kosmicd12]

Wow, yet another oldhead speedrunner showing up in these ABC videos. Z1mb0bw4y's Portal run at sgdq 2012 was legendary

[@Z1mb0bw4y]

I'm surprised I even ended up in the video! It's an honor to have one of my runs called legendary by you 😄

[@mjul7003]

@@Z1mb0bw4y You are loved

[@ventriloquistmagician4735]

@@Z1mb0bw4y may you have peace and rest in your body

[@jongyon7192p]

@@Z1mb0bw4y Pls join and hang out in the abc server more lol, even if it's just chilling in #other or #voice

[@AlecK47]

@@Z1mb0bw4y I was surprised too. I didn't realize you'd contributed to this, even indirectly. Shoutouts to the board game crew!

[@henryaggerate9669]

The pendulum having ten triangles, just enough for the spawning displacement to work, makes me believe we’re destined to one day get to 0X ABC

[@Agedude]

Considering the number of 0.5s, I wonder if 1X is more likely.

[@marksmithwas12]

@@Agedude I wonder how many 0.5 A Press stars can be chained from pressing and holding A from the file select screen? 🤔

[@TREK5900cheats]

Wingmario over the rainbow scares me.

[@acblook]

​@@marksmithwas12 None in a full run because the first star, secret aquarium, requires a to not be held. Unless you mean quitting out, pressing a, and starting again before each half a press. There are only 4 half a presses left anyways

[@marksmithwas12]

@@acblook good point actually 🤔

[@lapiscarrot3557]

5:49 "Now that the pendulum manipulation is in *full swing*" Good pun

[@taigastenton427]

"In 2022, the A press count is still at 19" *proceeds to save 3 A presses at once* Everyone: bro :/

[@JK17-2]

why did pannenkoek kick the bucket

[@taigastenton427]

@@JK17-2 right at the end of this one

[@scotterboi9]

@@JK17-2 You should watch the new video on pannenkoek's channel. It's frickin' insane.

[@stevegamer68]

@@scotterboi9 *pannenkeok aka UncommentatedPannen

[@scotterboi9]

@@stevegamer68 I'm stupid.

[@a2aaron]

Part of what I find so compelling about the ABC is that it's a challenge that no one knows if it's possible to complete. It's like climbing Mt. Everest--no one knew if it was even possible to do that until someone did. The mountain doesn't care if it's possible--it was never "designed" to be climbed. In the same way, SM64 was never designed to be done 0xA. Getting to 19xA is a monumental achievement because its impossible to have known if such a thing was even possible. It feels like the ABC is a "puzzle designed by god". It's a hidden game inside of regular SM64, created by the negative space from the design that the game devs had originally carved out. A secret riddle with no intended solution or even possibly any solution at all. Every level is more of a toybox of movement tech and glitches that, if strung together in just the right way, would just barely be able to work. It's a game where the levels get harder--have to get harder because if there was any easier way to do it we would've found it already.

[@ccgarciab]

Underrated comment

[@DesTr069]

Oh yeah this shit is beautiful, well done. Even if we never get below 10 A presses, it won’t matter, since the journey is what this is about

[@scotterboi9]

Now, with just 16xA presses, there is hope.

[@carly5]

"puzzle designed by god" perfect description

[@alexisarrowsmith2575]

This is a really beautiful sentiment

[@Charcoal190]

This was the best ending reveal. A bit of a shame that some people in chat couldn't stay quiet, but still a sick reveal nonetheless!

[@nicoborken9963]

aaand this is why I turned off chat

[@RichConnerGMN]

hi

[@Charcoal190]

@@RichConnerGMN richconner you missed the 2 people group watch in the server >:(

[@radaf4429]

Now you are one of those people

[@maxfecteau]

charcoal jumpscare

[@TJ-Henry-Yoshi]

Very late to the party on this one and I have nothing to add that hasn't been said already, but even though I knew about Pannen's most recent return, the ending reveal still gave me goosebumps accompanied by a loud, audible "WHAT?!" followed by flabbergasted laughter at seeing the preview of what's to come. Love you Bismuth, your dedication to this series is what makes all the effort of the ABC team approachable to normal people and easy to appreciate by people of any level of background knowledge of sm64.

[@sagacious03]

That moment at the the end, when it was revealed that the A Press Count had decreased, & all those new tricks were shown off.... I was honestly surprised. It's not all 7, but it's still an incredible amount of progress, & because it seems like it was so recent, I like to think it means there's hope for this. Excellent video! Once again, thanks for making this, Bismuth!

[@joshuashoup4261]

> It's not all 7 :)

[@quinn7894]

So, I suppose that's the e-*WHAT*

[@Rabbit_101]

I love how pannen was waiting to release saved A presses untill after you made this video ;)

[@RichConnerGMN]

they were just console verified yesterday, so that's probably the real reason (also those came out during the premiere)

[@threehead99]

@@RichConnerGMN reality be damned. Let's just act like he wanted another episode to himself.

[@RichConnerGMN]

@@threehead99 sorry, that doesn't work either because it was such a huge collaborative achievement that he actually put "we collect the star" in his descriptions instead of "i collect the star"

[@Bismuth9]

@@RichConnerGMN There was coordination but it only stemmed from a coincidence. If we hadn't talked to each other he probably would have released it a few days earlier at most.

[@acblook]

@@RichConnerGMN most all a press saves after 2015 or so are huge collaborative achivements. It says "i collect the star" for a lot of pannen's videos cuz he put together the tas, not because he figured it all out by himself.

[@Hue_Sam]

The ABC Crew’s determination to get the amount of A presses down is legendary.

[@extremechimpout]

Never seen anything like it. Maybe going to the moon in the 60s

[@SuperViperT302]

Throughout 2016, the ABC crew had several dead-end strategies in TTC that ended up documented on Pannen's secondary channel. Bismuth didn't go over them here (understandably so, the video's long enough as it is), but when going back through the archives between this and Part 5, two in particular fascinated me and I'd like to give them a whirl. Spinner Pedro Spot: It was found that if the red coin spinners are within a certain angle range, there is a Pedro Spot that could be used to build up speed and save 2 A presses (1 on The Pit and the Pendulums, 1 on Timed Jumps on Moving Bars). On the random setting, it's impossible for the spinners to stay perfectly still, but it was theorized that one could simulate stillness by getting enough good RNG calls ahead of time (remember, RNG can't be manipulated while inside the Pedro Spot) to have the spinner rotate back-and-forth the minimum amount. When a spinner finishes a rotation, it calls RNG twice to determine both its direction (CW or CCW) and the number of frames (30, 60, 90, or 120) of its next rotation. However, due to a quirk of how the spinners move, their rotations ACTUALLY last 31, 61, 91, and 121 frames, ultimately resulting in a net CCW movement over time. Thus, the spinners exit the desired angle range too quickly to build up enough speed for this strategy to work. Random Cog Pedro Spot: This was a crazy one. If this turned out to be possible, TPatP, Stomp on the Thwomp, and TJoMB would've been at 1x, 2x, and 1x way earlier. When a cog rotates on the random setting, it calls RNG twice to determine the magnitude and sign of its next target angular velocity. 0 is a value it can target (which it does 1/7th of the time), and it can target this value an infinite number of times in a row, so in theory you could manipulate RNG ahead of time to keep the floor cog still enough long enough for Mario to build up speed:1200 frames at most. Unfortunately, the chance of this working was calculated to be 10^-1014. The number of possible states TTC could be in was also calculated to be 10^155, which is way too many to iterate through or even calculate the probability that a state succeeds. So, Pannen wrote a program that would simulate the effects of RNG on every object in TTC. Using this, he could move forward in time and determine how long it would take for the cog to stay still for a certain number of frames. This number increases exponentially, to the point where to get just 12 measly frames of stillness took 52 YEARS. Using an exponential trend line with the data, it was calculated that getting the necessary 1200 frames would be predicted to take 10^1101 years (not accounting for the fact that TTC has a limited number of states). So, this strat was declared infeasible to achieve in practice. Obviously, it's not needed nowadays since there are now superior routes. There was a benefit from researching the RCPS, though. In writing that program, Pannen had to study the behavior of pendulums on the random setting, which ultimately led him to finding pendulum manipulation. This is a great example of how sometimes, you need to put your focus into other areas to find the solution to a different problem, a philosophy of how Pannen goes about documenting stuff on his secondary channel.

[@Bismuth9]

I did plan on talking about RCPS eventually but yeah, the successes are already so plentiful and complex that also talking about all the failures would take many more hours.

[@NeviTheLettyFan]

This is one of the craziest things I've ever read holy shit

[@MagikMKW]

It would be so sick to have a strat that takes until the heat death of the universe to finish

[@SuperViperT302]

@@MagikMKW I think the closest we've got for that so far is a crash in TTC that involves using pendulum manipulation to make the pendulum's angular displacement too large to convert into a 16-bit integer. Console verification of that crash took 39 days.

[@MagikMKW]

@@SuperViperT302 hahahah that's a cool one

[@TylerKehne]

Love the RTABC coverage, didn't know that much about it and it's a lot cooler than I realized. Also love the camera work throughout this series and in this video especially. Oh yeah and really appreciate your coverage of the SA lobby movement, that was super nice :)

[@SiczakHT]

Yeah! thats was incredible to see! i saw the original strat and now see this other angle is so cool!

[@Pixelcraftian]

I've only just found this series (unless i'm stupid and don't remember watching), and another part's appeared right now! That's luck for me lol

[@redcrewmate1813]

early on a verified comment

[@Snidbert]

RNG manipulation

[@NearlyBatman]

Same exact thing for me. KZbin algorithm.

[@jeremymarcil6287]

WHY ARE YOU HERE WHY ARE YOU ALWAYSVHERE I CANT ESCAPE YOU NOT EVEN IN SHORTS

[@samuraimaster321]

You're so late my man! This is the best series on KZbin!

[@misterrocketman]

I gasped out loud when you revealed the 3 A press save at the end - brilliant stuff!

[@Kierio04]

That moment when people finish the premiere and realise there’s 3 A press saves that were uploaded WHILE watching the premiere, meaning the end of the video was technically up to date at the time of premiering

[@Heriarka]

"but on 0 stars there's no tornado here" This is where I remembered that this entire manipulation is to enter a stage with the same amount of A presses but on a different version of the game.

[@KrissyBlues]

Only like 5 seconds in and already hit with "this wall isn't always a wall" Phenomenal

[@alpha9775]

Bismuth, you know how bad I want to write a whole multiple-paragraph appreciation letter to your incredible work. But instead I'm just gonna say what any other casual viewer would say: Holy cow!

[@zaku28]

current action: bye bye was definitely my favorite part. This journey has been incredible to relive, it's strange feeling going from the beginnings of the challenge to more recent stuff that I actually was able to witness. Tick Tock Clock is definitely a remarkable area for this challenge because its complexity is both a blessing and a curse.

[@Fritzafella]

Glad someone else saw the Action: Bye bye Got a chuckle out of me for sure. And yeah... TTC is a blessing and a curse. Theres a lot of objects with interesting behavior that leaves plenty of room for abuse. But there are a LOT of objects to sort through. Wiggler's red coins have the exact opposite issue. There are exactly two objects able to do stuff. The fire spitter, and the Wiggler boss (technically 6 obj but whatever) Whats heartbreaking is BOTH of these objects are pretty close to saving the first of the two A presses, but because there aren't any other objects present it isn't enough. Idea 1: we can gain hyperspeed by bouncing on wiggler, then land and use text redirection. Then force our speed to turn negetive, and use that to do a negetive jump strait through the floor to the first red coin. Hold that A for a bit lets you then blast to the second coin, skipping the double jump. The issue? We need about -1900 SPD for the negetive jump to work, and while we can get several thousand SPD using the wiggler, theres not a way to preserve more than a few hundred. Idea 2: The fire spitter is in a pretty odd place and can sometimes shoot its fire out into the air. By doing a DR on the platforms we have access to, and then doing a fire bounce gives juuust enough height the grab the ledge with the first coin. The issue? Can't grab ledges while burning. And absolutely nothing in the room is capable of putting Mario out except for spawning a 100 coin star, and you can't spawn one near enough to the ledge to do a Star Dance Clip.

[@KingMatthewXV]

The ending where he acknowledges the 3 new A press saves

[@aurafox1]

Regular gameplay: "Never play Tik Tok Clock in the chaotic mode, it's basically unplayable." ABC: "Only play in the chaotic mode, it makes you GOD."

[@mcfighter2923]

Part 6? Man I can’t wait to see Jolyne beat up a priest!

[@ThetaMaths]

There might be a way to reach tick tock clock heaven, and I'll do everything to get here

[@skepticpunk_]

Just wait until the end of Part 6: Part 6: Part 3. Many good writing choices were made there.

[@mcfighter2923]

@@skepticpunk_ I love Part 6's ending. I guess I can see why some people don't, but cmon, what else would've happened?

[@iantaakalla8180]

Clearly, they are already on their way to making Tick Tock Clock Heaven given that their abilities have evolved Maneuversnake into A-Moon. They already have shaved 3 a presses already, Which is similar to Pucci shaving off two days by using C-Moon to make a weightless area to float to the conditions he needed to get Made In Heaven

[@ZorotheGallade]

The priest only wanted a world where everyone knew what their next RNG value would be

[@ChanceTheCheetah]

38:35 I am in love with Bismuth's timing

[@almo9004]

(Ukulele strum) "2 days later"

[@vanderkarl3927]

That's right, this "history"... it's still being written! Ludicrously inspirational.

[@lasagnapig630]

I never knew about RTABC before this video. thats absolutely insane

[@KuKa00]

One of the best series on KZbin, can't wait for this new video

[@memez4u945]

You don't have to

[@poopsmithjones1]

@@memez4u945 wdym

[@CalebSpronk]

To be so incredibly invested in this series for the last 14 months... And see that ending... I have never felt so connected to the actual history of the speedrun community as in this moment. Just magical. Sincerely, hats off to you Bismuth.

[@sh_dragon]

Can't wait for part 7. I just watched Pannenkoek's recent TTC videos and I don't have enough PhDs to fully understand that insanity. Thank you Bismuth for this awesome series! Also, it's crazy RTABC is actually a thing. I never would've expected people to use some of these tricks.

[@DesTr069]

“Don’t have enough PhDs” too true lmao, this shit is beyond what most people will ever be able to grasp in their lifetime, and that’s barely an exaggeration

[@PKMNwww411_MkII]

New A press save in Lethal Lava Land brings the A press count down to 15

[@TimofAwsome]

I thought the series had to be done because you already got to 19, which I knew was the current count...was not expecting that ending.

[@JK17-1]

you thought it was 16... It's 14 A presses now

[@TimofAwsome]

@@JK17-1 no it isn't bruh

[@JK17-1]

@@TimofAwsome well I gotta change my comment now

[@ChibiRuah]

I’m too invested in this silly challenge. It’s like art of the soul

[@DesTr069]

I KNEW IT!!! I CALLED IT!!! I knew that this episode would coincide with new A presses being removed, LETS GOOO

[@NeviTheLettyFan]

I thought I had seen it all but this episode blew me away The culmination of all sorts of tricks and techniques in order to make the Aquarium entrance work, it's like puzzle pieces finally matching together And gosh, I really thought it was the last one, that last teaser was unexpected to say the least. I can't wait for the last part, love this series!

[@LeBazarDeFusette]

That ending made me way more happy than it should have

[@aidanbennett3586]

The amount of dedication displayed by not only you for making these videos, but the abc crew as a whole is astonishing. Can’t wait to see how this episode turns out.

[@lankyjuggler]

I've heard high schoolers ask "but when am I ever going to write an essay in real life?" Y'all these are great essays.

[@avasam06]

It's not just the editing that's phenomenal. It's also the research! I've been subbed to pannenkoek for years and still managed to miss so much of the behind the scene.

[@MachDialUp]

caught up to the present only to be hit with that To Be Continued!!!! fantastic! legendary work by the abc crew and another legendary video about it

[@onijester56]

"In 2022, the A button count is still 19" Shows graph that has it dip to 16 presses. Has "To be continued" at the end. Hm...Curious...

[@joshuashoup4261]

Check out pannenkoek's channels! They synced releases today.

[@enochliu8316]

That's his joke.

[@gabrielgabi543]

No

[@a-zadri]

Oh my god, I knew that Pannen had uploaded new improvements, but that ending gave me chills.

[@MogaTange]

Wait 100% of part seven is going to be stuff that never even happened when part one was made. You could keep making this series on and off forever.

[@bloodlust_9890]

Part 1 was released over a year ago!

[@MogaTange]

@@bloodlust_9890 feel old yet?

[@PhoenixClank]

Now I finally understand why Get a Hand & re-entry .5xA wasn't a case of "just kick the wall duh". It required the stars to align (almost literally) to still be able to land on the spinner. Ever since I've seen this series I've gained a whole new appreciation for the amount of serious work the ABC crew put into their research!

[@justinalicea1590]

47:22 "I used an A press to destroy an A press."

[@quijassajiuq900]

THAT ENDING MAKES ME SO EXCITED WHAT THE FUCK

[@louid187]

It is just amazing how most tricks just barely work, as if it was intended to be found

[@somegoodshrimp2155]

As someone who absolutely sucks at math,, who doesnt know anything about code, who has never even played mario 64 or any nintendo 64 games, this series, or no, this channel explains everything insanely well It's all very clear and well done, nothing feels rushed, it's a masterpiece No words could actually explain how I feel about this, not only the videos but also the community, all of this accomplished simply because of love for this single game, it's just so fun to see something like that even if you're not a part of it AAlso! wanted to add that the piano covers in the background add a lot to the video, they're amazing!!

[@FlaminGamin7]

I was watching a random Nathaniel Bandy video a few days ago, where he very briefly said "I was watching Pannenkoek's video on the 19 remaining A presses". For whatever reason, it caught my attention so I decided to look into it, which lead me to watching your series. Then, only a couple days after I finish it, you upload part 6?! Then out of nowhere you reveal the count is at SIXTEEN as of today! I feel so lucky, keep up the great work!!

[@want-diversecontent3887]

What cideo was that?

[@FlaminGamin7]

@@want-diversecontent3887 What happens when you leave Mario 64 running for a month

[@cheetahgaming1873]

Bismuth : *Going to release the last part of A button challenge* ABC Crew : The story isn't end here

[@theFLCLguy]

I think KZbin would break if Summoning salt and Bismuth did a crossover. Could be called Summoning Bismuth.

[@Nico2718_]

I really thought it was the last episode of the series, I knew the A press count was 19.... until the end. We still have another episode!!

[@jatelitherius9842]

I thought it impressive that mario can traverse parallel universes, accelerate indefinitely, & clone goombas, but controlling fate itself by kicking up dust is by far the most impressive power

[@shellsterdude]

As I've gone through this series, I've gone from "Wow! That's a cool trick, I need to understand it completely!" to "This is black magic and there is no way I'm going to be able to understand it entirely!" I'm blown away with the ingenuity and sheer dogged determination.

[@DrMario-]

Gosh that ending. Just finished watching the TASes, and was hoping they’d be at the end of this vid.

[@mcintoshpc]

Also absolutely stunned that we aren’t done yet, thanks for the dedication to telling this story in such detail! Eagerly awaiting for the next one to be ready

[@fredmug]

Thank you for this series, sometimes it's hard to wrap your head around some of the abc stuff and this series has really helped me understand just how insane the work going into these discoveries is

[@esotericVideos]

That break on June 23rd 2018 felt like it would never end...

[@Cirphlyx]

the secret aquarium a press save might be the most insane sequence i’ve ever seen. incredible job from the people who made it work

[@mcintoshpc]

Even after multiple viewings of every previous installment of the series, i have absolutely no hope of understanding whats going on Cheers for another great video sir

[@stuffbenlikes]

Sometimes I put these on while tripping.

[@Anteksanteri]

I feel like I would understand more if I paid more attention. I would mostly rely on a rudimentary understanding of game programming and the C language. Understanding Mario 65 seems to just rely on know how badly it's programmed and the shortcuts it uses. The game uses multiple different number systems leading to collision errors, there are multiple frame perfect tricks caused by bad ordering (or lacking duplication) of lines in the code and the collision system uses midsteps instead of casting presumably to make its implementation easier. These crazy tricks just stem from those errors and very simplified actor behavior.

[@BrisingrFan55]

I *just* got the joke of Pannenkoek (Dutch pancakes) making a tool called Stroop (A Dutch pastry)

[@ZorotheGallade]

"Now that the pendulum manipulation is in full swing" Love stealthy puns.

[@niji_k]

A recent discovery by the ABC community: TTC has been saved an extra A press. Maybe an update in the comments?

[@Loto974]

I legit screamed at the end of the video when I saw the counter go down. So much improvement at the same time, it's amazing.

[@tricanico]

That ending was actually moving.

[@Demento56]

Sometimes it feels like Nintendo was planning for crazy shit like this all along; so many things are just barely, barely possible, like that insane 10 triangle wall push

[@ballom29]

The scariest thing : 16 A press is not the end yet. From what've understood the ABC crew seem to has find way to shave 6 other A press, yes , not 2 or 3 , but SIX a presses ! Takign down the count to 10

[@want-diversecontent3887]

Elevator tour 0x, stomp on the thwomp 0x, and fire sea 0x. What are the other 3?

[@ballom29]

@@want-diversecontent3887 I initially though they might had found a way to do TTC 0xA entry , wich took 3 A presses. But guess I was wrong

[@notnullnotvoid]

That reveal at the end literally gave me chills dude wtf, absolutely GOATed

[@ramuthra1]

This series is incredibly well made. So glad I saw the notification before deciding to sleep! Can't wait to have my mind blown yet again

[@frankie_is_broke5591]

"the most off-the-wall insane ABC achievement yet: entering the secret aquarium in zero A-presses without parallel universes." is the type of line I delight in. Something that excites and makes total sense to us nutjobs who follow these labours of love religiously, while making no sense and exposing our insanity to anyone else.

[@fruiter]

Thank you so much for this Bismuth. Just binged all 6 episodes. I tried writing many nice things in this comment to you but alas i'm simply lost for proper words and right now feel so touched by the story that i cant even stay in myself. So simply, thank you! Amazing work and likewise for our speedrun team and community.

[@naucs_]

One of the best parts of getting through one of these videos is the sense of wonder at what can possibly come next. The music really does a great job. Well done.

[@TristanJ1984]

I haven’t seen many sm64 videos in a while, so “entering the secret aquarium without parallel universes” kinda caught me off-guard

[@lukkuss]

Wake up honey new bismuth video just got scheduled

[@kronusaerospace8872]

This whole endeavor has grown old-goomba-bridge-like. It's honestly incredible the collective amount of work that's gone into achieving an utter pipe dream, that becomes more and more plausible by the day.

[@thegay]

i am always blown away by how incredible these videos are, im so glad that the abc has such a sophisticated archive in this series, and the reveal at the end was jawdropping. as always, beautiful beautiful work

[@arleendo]

What an amazing community. Also thank you Bismuth for doing gods work. This needs to be preserved.

[@joepo6522]

That’s a lot of one simple problems 😳 Fr though, this has been a fascinating journey, well done!

[@benwiarda23]

I loved the section on the IRL/RTA ABC runs. I never new people were grinding that out. So cool

[@jakecole8343]

I can tell this is gonna be one of those series that I can sit and re-watch multiple times. The only other series like that for me is the Chris Chan documentary.

[@jakecole8343]

Also, this is a well timed upload seeing as Pannenkoek uploaded 3 new videos yesterday.

[@theodorpanait6098]

The dedication AND creativity for these people is insane. I would have never thought about anything like the SA A press save in a billion years!

[@Chase3141]

5:49 “now that pendulum manipulation is in full swing” I see what you did there

[@probablypablito]

so happy to have seen this episode go from an idea to realization!

[@atuliyengar9638]

same here buddy

[@jonahschwab]

This might just be a coincidence, but at 16:27 the A press counter changes to 120 right as Bismuth begins talking about the 120 star run!

[@shuttlecrossing7084]

Bismuth frequently times stuff like that on purpose.

[@jonahschwab]

@@shuttlecrossing7084 I should start looking for that kind of thing then lol

[@nerdporkspass1m1st78]

I can't believe this was uploaded on the same HOUR as pannen's three TTC A-press saves LOL

[@mrmimeisfunny]

It's almost as if it was planned

[@l9m241]

This get's uploaded the day of some TTC a press saves? Man, what a treat! Also that little tease at the end of what was saved TODAY was a nice touch. It's incredible how much this community has came together to save that many! Though the final push of those last bit of a presses are going to be the hardest.

[@integercyclolcyc]

3 more TTC saves to 16 a presses

[@mithy7525]

No fucking way, the new 3 A-press skips was found/revealed the same day this video came out

[@notalostnumber8660]

I started crying tears of joy when the number changed at the end

[@dainbramage9508]

I swear watching these videos is like watching an anime character breakdown everything that they did when they moved faster than the human eye could keep up with

[@thebulletbot3329]

I don't know what's funnier, the fact that pannenkoek keeps naming his tools after pancakes, or the fact that everyone keeps butchering the names.

[@thebulletbot3329]

In case you were wondering. Stroop can be pronounced by putting an S in front of the word trope. (So, strope) The oe in PannenkOEk has the same pronounciation as the oo in cOOkie. ( there is a ton of story behind the word cookie actually.)

[@RichConnerGMN]

watch the second video. pannen himself pronounces them that way.

[@thebulletbot3329]

@@RichConnerGMN that's even funnier

[@AWESOMEME360]

I’ve been loving this series I’m excited to watch this next part. Your videos are extremely well made and I always love watching them. You’re definitely one of my favorite youtubers rn.

[@RichConnerGMN]

to this day, that ending is still INSANE. the upload date coinciding with the 3 a press saves might just be the craziest moment in the series history, even rivaling the pannen reveal at the end of part 1

[@raafmaat]

this will release at 1am here, well... guess ill just be working tired tomorow

[@rougiflan8427]

Pareil

[@KingMetalMario]

2 am here

[@Miju001]

Ahh we are getting so close to the end!! That was such a sick reveal!! And wow, this is the episode with BitFS 0x on Wii VC and Enter Secret Aquarium 0x on console! I remember both of those, they were legendary! It was great hearing about them again c:

[@Unknownlight]

Jeez, if the final video is as long as the previous videos, this series will be 5 hours long in total. Absolutely wild and phenomenally impressive.

[@NateTheOhioan]

Does anyone who watches these videos just ever wish that someday they could be good enough at a game where they are put in a documentary like this? I’m just imagining like: “But this new improvement would come from a relatively new player. His name, Nate the Ohioan.”

[@DustinHaning]

Honestly, I've never been so invested in a video game project until this series. I sincerely hope these guys can find a way to pull this off. This is one of the most impressive things I've ever seen.

[@ster2600]

I really hope we can get a future video explaining all of the remaining a presses, why they are difficult, what ideas there are for collecting them, and which ones are the hardest!

[@iscremintothevoid]

33:42 The way you phrased this made me laugh, that was good