The Jiggy That Almost Ruined Banjo Tooie

[@TK-vr3km]

At the start of these races I would pause the game, switch over to my Guitar Hero drum set, then start and drumroll the whole race. She didn't have a chance

[@OmegaVideoGameGod]

Exactly

[@dragonMaster24921]

That's genius

[@matthewhanf3033]

OG players on the N64 didnt have that luxury.

[@derekadams5064]

Haha

[@THEMETALISBETTER]

Fun/stupid story about my life: as a kid I couldn't beat her. I'd mash that A button until my arm was on fire and still never got close. Later, I got into high school sports and spent a lot of time conditioning my body and strengthening my muscles, and on a later playthrough of the game I beat that gas-huffing slag. Still monumentally difficult though. TLDR: Years of weight lifting and intense aerobic exercise allowed me to 100% Banjo-Tooie.

[@pressaTD]

I’m glad you got your redemption!

[@mattkoethe6691]

"Gas-huffing slag" that made my night

[@seanobrien276]

This is the gigachad way to 100% the game. You're an example to us all.

[@nessito1]

You pulled off a solo leveling to beat Canary Mary, impressive

[@Primeevi]

Story of my life 😂 I trained the fast press so hard that no matter what game you played that required you to press quickly, I could no longer be defeated.

[@ryan20028]

The real method here is to not focus on maximum speed but to focus on consistency. If you stay at the same speed the entire race she will basically stay side by side to you. Then right at the very end you mash.

[@Rigual]

exactly what I did

[@KingJohnson1985]

only works in the 2nd race though...Not for the first

[@nicp794]

Or you can focus on maximum speed and pause the game when you start to slow down again and again and again. The game don’t punish you for pausing the game and it actually train your muscles a bit because you’re doing repetition lol. I beat it at my second try like that.

[@FOG2006]

@@ryan20028 I did this, it worked after my 999th attempt to get the Cheato page. That MFer speeds up at the very moment I began mashing to reach the finish before her, it's a bizarrely broken rubber band logic, it's infuriating.

[@9Destra]

I know a guy who can vibrate his nose and he used that to beat Canary 💀 Out of all the ways to beat her, I think that takes the cake

[@Vextrove]

Wtf lmao

[@jakedanielsen4512]

How do I learn this power?

[@Daikon_Micucci]

Fought beak with beak.

[@MegaHarv]

It is possible to brute force Canary Mary. There may be some slight rubber banding mechanics but if you're a button mashing monster you can get ahead of her and stay there. That being said this minigame is needlessly difficult, and shouldn't require spoons or pausing for rest to get through it.

[@Neon_Henchman]

I actually have a Save File left as is only for her; I can button mash as she was the one who made me a button drilling machine today, I owe much to her.

[@pressaTD]

I think it’s funny that people have to resort to using spoons to beat her lol

[@pitshoster401]

"slight"

[@markus5237]

It's the earthbound guy!

[@Junebilation7900]

I've never even gotten past her without rolling my pinched thumb & pointer finger over the x button, & that only worked on one save file :(

[@shawntraub7249]

When I saw the name of this video I already knew what it would be even before seeing the thumbnail. Brought back years of suppressed rage. Even to this day whenever I have to press a button fast I remember her, and the rage helps me push it even faster. Have to set the oven to 400 degrees? I can make it beep inhumanly fast - thanks to Canary Mary. And I remember her every... single... time. She should have been left in the mines.

[@caritafelizd828]

Whoever designed that jiggie sure wanted to watch the world burn :)

[@pressaTD]

Let’s hope they got fired

[@BananaReidy]

@@pressaTD Pun intented?

[@stefanpoirier6810]

U mean our thumbs burning

[@ryguy9876]

@@pressaTD Probably not because it was old school Rare; they were known for being outright dicks like this on purpose.

[@chompythebeast]

Of course this Jiggy was famously a victim of the increased frame rate of the 360 version, making it _much_ harder on Xbox than it was on the N64. The only reliable way of beating her is by using the Pause Menu method you mentioned: You spam A like crazy for a few seconds then you pause, and alternating like that is a slow and grueling but sure way to victory

[@euducationator]

It's good that banjo-tooie gives you alot of leniency when it comes to what jiggies you do or don't get. I love this game but the canary mary races suck.

[@pressaTD]

Agreed! There’s nothing fun about them

[@SamuraiSam]

I really didn't find Canary Mary that difficult, once I knew how her AI works. The trick is to not get TOO far ahead, then pick up the pace and go all-out near the end before she responds to your speed with a boost of her own. Yeah, I'm probably above average when it comes to button mashing, but still, I think what makes the challenge so hard for most people is that they don't understand how her AI works.

[@smokyprogg]

I remember thinking as a kid it would be like Koopa the Quick in Mario 64 where no matter what you do, they will take the same path and end with the same time and being mad when I saw years later it was based on how fast you were going yourself lol

[@MegaAvenger2]

I just Spam the button I never had any problems

[@paulybfromda303]

Same strategy as Boggy in the first game

[@TheJadeFist]

I just spam and occasionally pause and take breaks.

[@carlospandette8001]

You still had to keep button mashing, and I don't think what you're saying actually works, you have to still be on her toes so you might as well be ahead of her as fast as you can in that case, your advice is pointless.

[@FrothingFanboy]

That race has a horrible, counter-intuitive design. The mine races were just "tap as fast as you can". So, you expect the next race to be the same but faster. But actually, you are NOT supposed to tap as fast as you can. At a certain point in the race, Mary will increase her speed based on how fast you were going up to that point. So if you were already tapping as fast as you could, it would be impossible to beat her. And there is NO hint either in the game or in the official strategy guide to suggest this is how it works. I did not find out until many years later on the internet.

[@awill3454]

People say that, but I mashed at like 3/4 speed and she would end the race early.

[@ZaCloud-Animations___she-her]

​@@awill3454 Well, there's a certain point where you DO need to speed way up. It's just a matter of figuring out that timing, & how much faster you have to mash at that point. You can't do it too early or too late, or too fast or too slow, or you will lose. The nuance is hard to explain.

[@gustavohorn2194]

I won’t ever forget the lasting fatigue/pain in my arm after I got that jiggy

[@pressaTD]

That’s the legend of Canary

[@SiniAnimations]

There was a girl in my class in primary school who somehow had an impressive ability to button mash. Anytime I was stuck at a button mashing minigame I would invite her over to do it for me. She could beat CCL Canary Mary handily, although she did do some pausing to recover every so often during it.

[@ZombieaidZ]

Where is she now? We need, nay deserve the update

[@SiniAnimations]

@@ZombieaidZ Haven't talked to her in over a decade, but I think she's married and works in accounting now.

[@ZombieaidZ]

@@SiniAnimations 🙏

[@ZaCloud-Animations___she-her]

​@@SiniAnimations I bet her typing at her job is phenomenally fast. 😎

[@2l84me8]

The trick is not to go too fast but not fall behind either over the course of the race. It’s like an endurance test at first, and then a test of speed.

[@McCloudiel]

Exactly!

[@xscythe67]

Rubberband effect 4tw

[@Gruntilda-Winkybunion]

the jiggy wasnt the problem, as a kid all i missed was the cheato page.. figuring out how to "race" her was my problem! anyway, as always nice video 👌

[@pressaTD]

Thank you!

[@thend4427]

There was a cheato page to beat her?

[@ser55555]

@@thend4427 Yes, and that race is even harder than the jiggy race.

[@Robertovillanuevaop]

To beat her at the end you had to let her get a head start and then click fast at the end

[@MK0437]

You have to race her differently both times to win. For the first time, you just have to tap the button at a consistent pace once you are ahead of her. You cannot slow down. Pause if you have to. This will NOT work for the cheato race. The trick for the cheato page is press as slow as you can to stay behind her, then when coming down the downslope for the final stretch of the race for the purple island, you have to speed past her to win the race before she can rubber band. Welp, if anyone reads this, hope it helps. How I got the jiggies in one sitting

[@SonicJrandSarah]

I remember this challenge to be quite hard. I kept trying and trying and trying to beat the cloud race, but no matter how many times I tried, I was never able to do it. I even asked my older sister to help since she helped with the mine cart race, but not even she could win this. I eventually figured out a solution with this Mad Catz controller which I am certain is a third-party controller, but in any case, that was my ticket to finally winning these cloud races. On this controller, there is a special button that says "Turbo" when you press down on any button and press "turbo", it will make the controller continuously think that you are pressing the button multiple times just by holding it down. I've had to do this many times while racing Canary Mary. I would have to say it was lucky I even got the Mad Catz controller. I don't know how I would have eventually beaten Canary Mary without it, or if I even ever would have beaten it prior to the days of KZbin.

[@pressaTD]

I feel like a lot of people had used this type of controller lol

[@SonicJrandSarah]

@@pressaTD I don't know how common it is, though.

[@GuitarsRgood7]

I tried so many times as a kid to get the Cloud Cuckooland jiggy. I never got it. I think I did it as an adult

[@pressaTD]

There are many Jiggies I never got as a kid lol

[@ducksoup80]

I remember I tried a battery powered Dremel tool left a big mark on the A button! Thank God for the brawler controller. It may have bad placement of the Z button, but it makes this challenge a hell of a lot easier especially since I don’t have my friend with the quick fingers.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

Ugh, that's the only Jiggy I never obtained! That bird was too damn fast!

[@pressaTD]

Perhaps one day you’ll finally get that jiggy!

[@joey5745]

I never obtained it either, 98 jiggies,

[@MiniGoliath1]

As a kid i was never able to beat Canary Mary Luckly my big brother is a button masher monster, and without a sweat he beated her, without him i would had rage quitted

[@bonbon5000]

This was the only time a video game has ever physically harmed me IRL, since I would be mashing like a fucking maniac for the whole race. Every time I lost, I needed like 10 minutes to recover before trying again

[@davidklein8608]

I always rubbed my fingernail against the button, and yes it would get a little warm from the friction, but it worked without any pain. Never thought about using a spoon.

[@pressaTD]

That’s an interesting technique!

[@TheGoldenJiggy]

The N64 version of the races are very easily beatable if you get yourself a Brawler 64 pad which has turbo. Just enable the turbo feature on the A button, and just hold it all the way throughout, and you're golden! Too bad you can't do this on the 360 version... unless there's a knock-off 360 controller with turbo that I may not be aware of.

[@oOignignoktOo1]

if you have an xbox one or gamepass you can exploit the cloud gaming feature and use a turbo pad on the XBLA version that way.

[@thomaslikesmusic]

I will automatically like ANY new Banjo-Tooie videos, right away, before watching. Thank you.

[@pressaTD]

No thank you

[@viddysgamingviddyos4710]

One of my old friends was a button-mashing expert and got the jiggy back for me on the N64's release. But the cheato page was never got, and replaying this game I can get neither thing. Maybe one day I'll understand how to destroy that frickin canary. Seriously, were the Cloud Cuckooland races even tested, or just plain evil?

[@pressaTD]

Use a spoon!

[@Catzih]

I beat it w/o any sort of tool. It took weeks several frustrated giving up sessions butttt like eventually I did it.~ Honestly way harder than it needed to be.

[@spiritloa]

I put my hand under my T shirt and then I slide back and forth over the button. Also I pause the game when i need a break but it is truly exhausting 😭

[@DreamListW]

Have u seen the new 3d platformer Bolt Bot Screwy Viruses? It looks a bit like a N64 platformer.

[@AtlasBlizzard]

This challenge is a blemish on Banjo-Tooie, which is otherwise an all-around excellent game. I use turbo every time I play this challenge and I don't even feel bad; if the game doesn't bother to play by any rules, why should I?

[@nicp794]

The trick is you can literally pause the game at any time during the race. So you can literally press the button fast until you start to slow down, press pause take a small break, restart press as fast as you can until you start to slow down, press start again and again. I literally got it in two or three try witb this tip.

[@ThisSideUp11]

Press A! I found your channel recently after the Backlogs' Yellow Pikmin Video (in fact, your channel was recommended as another Pikmin challenge running channel before you even recreated his challenge), and I've been going back and watching some of your older videos, and I just wanted to say that these are actually amazing, and it's only a matter of time until they blow up. Well done, and keep on bein' awesome! 👍

[@Icyfire25]

As a kid who could occasionally get my mom to play something like Mario Party with me, I learned how she'd always win in those A button mashing minigames. Her technique was more or less rubbing the A button with the side of her thumb while grasping it with her index finger. Looks kinda like the spoon method. When I was a teen, and went back to Tooie one day randomly, I went back and tried Canary Mary in Cloud Cuckooland and was surprisingly easily able to win.

[@NatetheNerdy]

I was a kid who grew up playing the banjo kazooie games, but it wasn't until I was an adult that someone pointed out to me you could pause the race to give your hand a rest. It just never occurred to me.

[@thend4427]

I tried doing this for days in the cloud land it was so frustrating as fast as i could do it still couldn't beat her..I gave up I never beat her lol

[@pressaTD]

Perhaps one day

[@thend4427]

@Press A! it was a borrowed game and she lost that game these days so rip

[@OmegaVideoGameGod]

You can actually pause the game when you race her and take a break 🤣

[@nicp794]

Exactly, that’s how I beat it and got it at my second try 🤣

[@OmegaVideoGameGod]

Very cool :)

[@TCGPokemondude]

Let’s get jiggy wit it!

[@SynestriaVI]

I'm replaying this now, albeit on an emulator, and my god.. I don't know how I ever beat her as a kid, but I surely struggle with it now lol

[@KuWota2k]

the issue with the XBLA version is that trying to mash through is actually a bad idea, due to the lack of lag, her AI becomes immediately more aggressively fast and speeds through you lmao.

[@MaliciousRelax]

Just beat both races, 23 years later. They're not easy for sure but I did learn some things. The 1st race is a straight up button masher, no rubber-banding involved, at least I never noticed it. The beginning is the most challenging part as she starts off very fast but if you button mash fast enough you can catch her and her speed will come down to a more manageable level. At that point you can pause to rest a bit then continue. I was able to maintain a sizable lead for pretty much the entire race once I caught up to her. The 2nd race is the one that gets people the most because it's less about button mashing and more about understanding the mechanics of the race. She actually starts off much slower than the 1st race and 99% of the race is pretty tame, probably easier than the GGM races. It's that last tiny bit near the end that gets you and where the rubber-banding really rears its head. I had a massive lead all the way up until the big descent down the mountain toward the goal. Then out of nowhere, about midway, she absolutely torches me with god-tier speed. After several more attempts, I figured it out. You need to rubber-band the AI back. As you're coming down the final descent, slow down, let her take a reasonable lead. The key is to leave enough of a gap where you can build up to top speed before passing her. What gets people is they stay near or next to her and try to button mash to the end but fail because she speeds up way too fast. You have to time it to where you pass her very near the final turn and be at max speed, she won't be able to speed up fast enough for that last bit (the very last camera shift). Beat her at her own (programmed) game!

[@JoeContext]

That L.O.G. bit makes me hope that a new Banjo game doesn't sweep NaB under the rug, they could do so many jokes with him with everything there is to make fun of in gaming since 2008

[@BananaReidy]

That game was a dump for Bk game but could of worked a genric vechicle game.

[@Terios2001]

The instant I saw the thumbnail, my eyes narrowed.

[@keech2540]

I got this game as a kid for my 11th birthday and got a strategy guide with it. The strategy guide states to put your index finger and thumb together and then smash the A button by rubbing your fingers across the button. Works best if the button is all sweaty. Your hand WILL get hot from the friction.

[@lornadune2506]

As a kid, my go to was sliding a lighter along the A button as well as not going too fast too soon. Later as an adult, I discovered the old madcatz controllers we had for Mario party had a turbo button. So now this jiggy and page don't bother me anymore

[@xscythe67]

The secret is to rely on the rubberband effect at the start by tapping the B button at a normal pace then speeding up if necessary

[@ChosenOne41]

I remember getting the second jiggy as a kid but never getting the second cheeto page till years later

[@13lackout360]

I button mashed like a madman trying to beat her. But not one of my fingers was fast enough for the job… So I used two.

[@pressaTD]

Two is always better than one

[@gustavohorn2194]

Another jiggy that is constantly reminded as way too much work is the Triceratops kids’ problems.

[@pressaTD]

Agreed - that probably deserves its own video lol

[@gustavohorn2194]

@@pressaTD I think it does yeah - it’s proof of how Tooie made all objectives way too complex whilst decreasing the total amount of Jiggies from 100 to 90. They should’ve increased the jiggies too and made easy, medium and hard ones

[@gustavohorn2194]

@@pressaTD I mean, even the game itself says so - after they get the jiggy, Kazooie mentions that one jiggy doesn’t seem enough for all the work they did for the Triceratops

[@GeminiSaint1]

It's much, much easier to stay closely behind her for the whole race, then mash the button at the final stretch to pull ahead of her right at the last possible moment, so that her rubber-banding can't have a chance to do anything about it.

[@coconyt3623]

Very understandable that relative casuals would have a bad time with that one. As an avid masher, I actually kinda enjoy it! :D

[@Vergil.Sparda]

My 12 year old self beaten canary mary on cloud cookoo land on n64 through numerous playthroughs , I deserve a medal. My wrists was sore as hell the following school day.

[@ZanyWitch7]

Wanna know the messed up part about this? Rareware would later make ANOTHER infuriating button mashing sequence with the Lightfoot Test of Strength in Starfox Adventures. Actually there's two of those strength tests in that game, but the second one is easy to an insulting degree.

[@jreed3842]

The way we discovered how to beat Canary Mary was I was spending the night at my aunt’s house and we were going back and forth trying to beat her. (This was something she had been trying to help me beat for WEEKS by this time!) My 6 year old sister wanted to try so we let her and she was pushing SO SLOW. My aunt took the controller back from her and started mashing and ended up winning! We decided to try that method with the Cheato page. Start out really slow them button mash like crazy and we did the second race in one try with that method!

[@SukiDreemurr]

Tbh I beat both of her later races after my 2nd attempt…I managed to stay ahead of her for the whole race. Admittedly I paused halfway through to regain my strength, but then again, I did manage to outspam her, and was surprised why everyone was so upset about it, because for me it never really left an impression.

[@stefanpoirier6810]

I literally moved my right thumb extremely fast horizontally constantly pressing B for those Canary prizes. I literally got a blister having done so. It hurt badly but I was just proud to have won overall at this.

[@smartsuka]

Chrono Trigger's drinking game at the Millennial Fair taught me how to become a button mashing fiend. I can get through Canary Mary's level with 2 pauses. I still needed a break because that button mashing speed wears me out.

[@michaelhuss1]

I ended up taking the head off of my electric toothbrush and letting the oscillating metal piece go to town lol

[@pressaTD]

Amazing lol

[@eternaltwilightshoku6907]

I do have a little trick to beating Canary in the second race of the game. All I have to do is keep pressing A as fast as I can and when my wrist feels the strain, I just pause the game letting my arm rest for a minute. Then I unpause the game and I continue to mash the A bottom and then I keep pausing the game and resting over and over until I finish the race.

[@MentalCarnival95]

I had this Shrek toy as a kid. He was on the Dragon, attached to a string and when you put batteries in her wings flap. I got the idea to take the wings off so it was just the stub. It moved a lot fast since there's no weight to it. So I get to the canary mary race and I just let that battery power stub mash the A button and it took all those hours of stress away. I really wish I still had that Shrek figure because I decided to replay banjo years later 😂

[@Darkstar263]

I was able to beat the Glitter Gulch Mine races easily. The Cloud Cuckooland ones are an absolute nightmare. My hand was in agony after I eventually beat her.

[@CynicalScorpio]

* hits screen with spoon * "come on"

[@w1ntermode]

Was not aware this was an infamous challenge. Recently played through this game for the first time and beat all of the mashing things first try. I struggled more with the archaic FPS controls on the 64 controller!

[@Dhows]

Seriously..... felt like i almost broke my controller trying to beat her on the mine and cloud level. Good memories.

[@Electifried]

I used to think Canary Mary was hard. Then I learned that her rubber banding effect works in the opposite direction too. Press the A button slow and she goes slow. You wanna go as slow as you can without losing early. You can go a lot slower than you think so long as you're consistent. Then at the end, speed it up and rocket past.

[@sparrowflyaway]

I've always beaten Canary Mary the hard way. I developed a technique for button mashing that doesn't actually require me to lift and press my thumb. I brace the furthest joint of my pointer finger with my thumb, and tighten all my arm muscles to the point that my entire arm starts shaking. Then I position the appropriate button under my finger and off we go. Still need to pause and take breaks because it's ridiculous to keep your arm fully tensed for like 3 straight minutes for Mary's final race, but it's always worked for me!

[@DiabolicalCountBleck]

I always managed this as a kid by simply brute forcing it by tapping as hard as i could and then when i inevitably ran out of stamina because the race is so damn long i would pause the game until i could mash full speed again. Was tedious as hell but it worked lol.

[@smashbrolink]

In my memory, during the rematch in Cloud Cuckooland, I remember being able to go as fast as I wanted in the second lap as long as I held back in the first one. So if my memory isn't wrong about that, then it isn't rubberbanding, per say, so much as her basing her second lap's speed around your first lap's speed.

[@felipewuj]

u could make another video of dk 64, or one about zelda majoras mask like your good\bad game designs videos

[@smawzyv9281]

I did this once without pausing or special tricks, and it nearly killed me. Almost died of a heart attack from all that button mashing. I'll never do it again.

[@guyledouche7939]

The pausing method works like a charm. It takes long, but its the easiest method for sure.

[@j0rd0]

As a kid I just assumed I was terrible at mashing because of this minigame 😂 I would try over and over and over again

[@DirtyNeuronXIII]

I don't remember it being particulary difficult to beat her once you know the trick. It may sound counter intuitive, but don't mash the button as fast as you can, press the button rhythmically and you should be good to go. This method works everytime and even on the xbox 360 version of the game. I dunno if that's how you're supposed to beat her, but it works for me everytime.

[@Leachtenstein]

I remember the only reason I could beat Canary Mary in Cloud Cuckooland was because we had a turbo controller

[@AS-lg4yf]

Funny. I just beat this game for the first time this week and I beat her race on my first attempt without issue. The button tapping thing has always been easy for me. I don’t understand why other struggle so bad.

[@pressaTD]

Teach us your ways!

[@brokensights]

My arthritis envies your skill.

[@Umbreon_Eevee]

I've never had a problem with canary marry in the clouds, literally beat her my first try on every race

[@pressaTD]

You’re a legend

[@JustPablo5000]

The trick was to stay behind her until you peaked the mountain by the wasps bullseye. As soon as you start descending start mashing and you should be good. Just did it first try after failing an entire day last night haha

[@lincolnprestes7617]

I remember back in the day, a friend of mine did it for me, he had a trick which consist in put the thumb over the A button and stars to shake his hand like if he has parkinson. He did at first try.

[@indigofenix00]

This was the last Jiggy I got in the game. The way I won was by abusing the rubberband mechanic - I aimed to stay a little bit behind her and then mashed quickly to speed ahead right at the end and cross the finish line first. I don't know if this was the intended solution or if the devs actually expected players to button mash that fast, but it's a terribly designed challenge either way.

[@DesigningFor]

People are just mean, it only took me two and a half straight hours of attempts, several massages, and tears to beat the cheato page race about a year ago! People just can't appreciate design intent if it's "ohh noooo, it's causing me physical pain" or "I actually liiike the feeling of making progress". Pitiful. Always the most demoralizing bit for me was how she speeds up right at the end. I'd think I had a well-paced run, properly ahead of her, enough stamina to get past the final stretch, and then her rubberbanding doubles with what I swear is an intended speed boost for her right at the very end and she flies faster than I think is possible without mechanical aid and mocks you. Heartbreaking, truly, every time. Never knew the LOG comment though, that's pretty fantastic. Thank you for enlightening!

[@pressaTD]

Happy to enlighten!

[@orangeslash1667]

Hey Designing for, you say that Diddy Kong in Smash needs to be reckless, but that's only 30% true. You see Diddy Kong can afford to be reckless in DCK 1 because you can just jump on the bosses. Not so much in DKC 2, Diddy needs to be more careful in order to survive. Even in Dk 64, Diddy may have started out cocky, but once he fights a giant Dragon fly, he realizes that he needs to be more carful in order to survive. Meaning that if Diddy was reckless when fighting K Rool in both DKC 2 and 64, he would be doomed. That's how Diddy operates in Smash, the banana can be thrown at the opponent, the same way you throw stuff at DK bosses.

[@gishigoshi]

I beat canary Mary and my face was read and my hand hurt and my mom walked in and I’ve never been more embarrassed

[@pressaTD]

😂

[@quinnessential8917]

I used a figurine to smash flat across The buttons back-and-forth, it wasn’t even mashing the buttons. It was ironing them. My technique worked so well I had to beat that part for a friend on his 64 as well.

[@quinnessential8917]

It was basically the spoon technique

[@KingDennyFrost]

So sad growing up i had every single thing in tooie like 99.9% completed and i never got that one single jiggy from that damn bird so i never 100%ed the game :(😢

[@springbonnidreamer87]

I never made it that far into Banjo Tooie. I just made it to the zomibed Jiggy king. But I can predict myself that it’ll be a pain in the Jinjo

[@RaxiazRedux]

i found it possible by just keeping up with her then making a mad dash to the end in ccl 2nd round

[@NostalgiaVHS]

Banjo Tooie was one of my favorite games as a kid. This was the only jiggy I never got. I simply accepted it was too impossibly hard. I might dig out the cartridge and try the spoon trick.

[@Anthonyvideogame]

I thought beaver bother from DK64 was the hardest thing until I did Canary Mary

[@ryanm.968]

All you have to do is pause the game until you are refreshed, then unpause and mash. Repeat.

[@bloodbandittv]

I just did her last race for the page, and then i saw this video. I thought the races was really fun, and very charming showing the different camera angles. I can't really say that the last 2 races where difficult, because i did them on the first try.. though i was suprised on how close she suddenly was at the end of the last race. I'm currently playing on Pal, so i don't know if it's the framerate that was the factor. Because i mashed through every race.

[@udontknowhoiambutiknowhereuliv]

Framerate definitely has an affect.

[@xZippy]

I've alternated using both index fingers, I think I had that work as a kid.

[@Gator159]

Why did they stop selling Turbo controllers? Also, would you consider uploading this sort of video for the final boss of Conker's bad for a day. That boss ruined an otherwise great game for me because I can't beat the final Boss regardless of strategies from the Reddit and KZbin tutorials

[@pressaTD]

I did originally want to make this a series talking about different games and the things that almost ruined them. Still might do that, but I’ve never played Conker :(

[@Gator159]

@@pressaTD why not start? It's on RareReplay, which I assume you have since your footage is from Banjo Tooie Remastered.

[@adamk-paxlogan7330Sucks]

yeah why did they stop making turbo controllers? they were very helpful

[@Gator159]

@@adamk-paxlogan7330Sucks apparently they could still be found. Honestly I haven't been looking for them at GameStop or something, maybe that would have been the solution this whole time. At least an employee would know something supposedly, but hey I don't care to play Banjo-Tooie again via Rare replay so I don't care anymore. Now if I could get a controller that automatically beats the final boss of the conkers bad fur day I would be happy. For some reason that spinning the xenomorph in the circle over and over again always fails me

[@rapmetaldemon09]

I actually did get blisters...I got the idea to use my knuckles to rub against the buttons furiously. Close, but it still wasn't enough. I walked away missing some knuckle skin and a big chunk of my ego. Especially when there were enough people out there being like, "huh? That second race? I destroyed her easily and didn't even have a second thought." Made me think I was going crazy. Another feat that had me in a similar position was the jump roping in Mario Odyssey. That took me a minute

[@Krayfishkarl]

I could never beat Canary Mary legitimately. So when I went for 100% completion, I caved and just used a turbo controller.

[@TimewornUncle]

I bought this in Y2K. I fancy myself a pretty good button masher and was able to get that jiggy after many attempts. However, I remember thinking how NOT FUN that was!

[@mattkoethe6691]

Everyone was so creative and I just brought a GameShark controller that auto-tapped for me. I actually bought it because it was cheaper than a normal Nintendo controller, but boy was I happy when this abomination graced my trips to the mine and clouds

[@prizm9515]

I know I'm probably the odd one out, but I like the canary Mary races. The Canary Mary race song from glitter gulch mine is one of my favorite songs from the game. I was so excited the first time I beat the final race.

[@SKOT_3]

Trying to do this on an emulator was one of the worst gaming experiences I've had, had to download something to actually beat it.

[@forestmanzpedia]

My sister was button mashing like a monster and managed to get the last jiggy.

[@seanelrod2729]

I used my dad’s back massager

[@pressaTD]

Innovative!

[@Ionix0709]

So the first time I played tooie I never got the cloud cookoo land jiggie, second time I first tried it for both the jiggie and the cheato page

[@coachrenaldo]

This race was so hard I actually thought you had to do an extra step to make it fair, like getting a can of oil to make the rat racer easier to control or a “drink” to give to Mary to make her sluggish. But no, it’s just that hard and the sole reason why I never 100% Banjo Tooie

[@agentbullwinkle991]

I beat both of these on the first try, but I thought it was because I'm in my 30's, not because I'm playing the N64 copy I found in Little Tokyo.

[@jarg_64]

Never had any trouble, able to beat the bird without pausing just by button mashing, I can get ahead of her at the start and keep the lead. So I say get gud. Jk. Honestly the smart thing to do would probably be to stay close to Mary and then mash as fast as you can at the end of the race.

[@AGZhark]

You better had clarified it was a joke