TTC The Pit and the Pendulums & Re-Enter 0xA

[@Hawlo]

There's a point in the video where I completely forgot which Star we were getting lol

[@xwddydfy_3]

yes because the inputs are kinda the same but different

[@danielqu]

I love how this time, the description opens with "WE collect ... using x A presses" instead of "I collect ...". Huge collaborative effort for this star, congrats to everyone involved!

[@SerabiiBot]

10 *thousand* hours of computation?! Man, that's dedication if I've ever seen it. Congrats to everyone in the crew!

[@skill_issuesmo7367]

iirc its like a few billion rerecords by burteforcers or smth

[@Jisatsu]

dude 19 to 16 A presses, the people behind this are crazy for coming up with these strats

[@jongyon7192p]

Hello, this took a lot of work to create, but the ABC Team is still hard at work! We're not done yet... We have more plans for TTC! My ABC Wave 10 Plans Montage Video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWfPaYqrZp6aiM0 Marbler's Stomp on the Thwomp 0x Plan: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mIWoq2lqYtN2fac

[@vincenzofranchelli2201]

So when u say BitFS 0x and LLL 0x are yu dreaming or is that almost confirmed?

[@jongyon7192p]

@@vincenzofranchelli2201 90% confirmed

[@vincenzofranchelli2201]

@@jongyon7192p is the 10% console confirmation or is any of the TAS route still incomplete?

[@jongyon7192p]

@@vincenzofranchelli2201 Oh sorry, 90% confirmed possible, or I should've said we're 90% *confident* that this is possible, since that was your question. As for the work, it's gonna be very difficult. We are building a new heavy tool but we need to soon run it to find out how close we are to finding that solution.

[@vincenzofranchelli2201]

@@jongyon7192p so you have a very promising idea but havent brute forced the combinations yet to see if it actually works in practise? Didnt i see a clip of PU speed in BitFS and actually grabbing the star in LLL, was that with theoretical hacked values?

[@horsejohnson7499]

Exactly how I used to get this star as a kid after the A button broke on my controller! (Seriously, well done).

[@DarkSim64]

yeah it's a pretty standard method for all of us poor kids whose parents couldn't afford new controllers.

[@maskedkoopa2975]

Weird it took like 10 years for some people to figure out this very simple strategy.

[@kruje314]

u serious?

[@thewierdragonbaby4843]

how did you get into TTC?

[@horsejohnson7499]

@@thewierdragonbaby4843 had to wait for a random cosmic ray to flip a bit.

[@Trilobita98]

Watched it live on twitch- ABC is far from dead people are theorycrafting and making tons of progress behind the scenes!

[@Hidden4125]

Pannen has a twitch?

[@skill_issuesmo7367]

@@Hidden4125 idk, but what they meant was the verification stream

[@Supergupo]

Is there someone else who does SM64 TAS streams on twitch? Would love to see it

[@skill_issuesmo7367]

@@Supergupo uh i dont think so,

[@theescargotconsumer]

@@Hidden4125 pannen does have a twitch account but he doesn't stream on it

[@JackBond1234]

I think I might cry if I ever live to see a 0xA run of the whole game. It'll be like watching video games as an entire concept be beaten for the first time, and I was there watching it happen every step of the way.

[@NXTangl]

Only BitFS left...

[@Shadrake]

To this day A presses are actually still able to be saved, this is crazy, you guys are amazing

[@extremechimpout]

With this level of dedication i'm certain they will get the whole game down to 0 eventually

[@guillaume5313]

@@extremechimpout jrb chests sadge

[@exylophone1]

@@guillaume5313 maybe one day there will be an at-will upwarp Copium

[@B0ssguy]

@@exylophone1 surely there's some way to get tons of speed in the water and use it to bounce off one of the cave goombas into the star, or mess up their movement patterns to get closer to the chests

[@yurei4414]

@@extremechimpout PSS and WMotR are kinda unlikely to go down.

[@koorah305]

At the end when Mario go tossed out and he started punching and kicking I thought, “that’s a cute celebration”… (9 minutes of RNG manipulation…, “ahh of course”.

[@clayton8or]

Pannen releasing 3 videos at once right after Bismuth uploads his 6th part on ABC concerning TTC is perfect.

[@charmandergamer1287]

watch the end of Bismuth's video

[@JorgetePanete]

after- after- OH

[@scotterboi9]

"There haven't been any more A press saves" Anyways, that's too bad. Well, I'm gonna go- *this happens* me: WHAT THE FU-

[@FORGOTTENMINDFREAK23]

Right Like, thank you for providing Bismuth the start of the 7th video

[@JK17-1]

There’s 8 and 9 (it will be)

[@nicot7891]

Mans really out here to make sure Bismuth’s series never ends

[@chair547]

It will end when they hit 0

[@theendlessweltkrieg7276]

@@chair547 Negative A Press

[@skill_issuesmo7367]

@@chair547 no because there is rtabc and 70abc which shaves time

[@ariscop]

7:28 ABC crew couldn't find an upwarp so they built one

[@inkorporeal204]

Necessity is the mother of invention

[@Diriector_Doc]

I like the new effects and visualizations. Seamless editing on your part. Without them, I'd be lost on those parts.

[@Leylite]

This is what scientific progress looks like. Simply amazing. Thank you all for not only pushing the A Button Challenge even farther, but also putting together a nice video package for us all to enjoy.

[@CG64Mushro0m]

2:13 my man legit just threw lakitu

[@sirpikapika1129]

Glad you coordinated with Bismuth, it's always fun when a history video adds modern history :D

[@patrickdinte1093]

I was amazed just watching those ground pounds at 7:30, but then I realised I wasn’t even halfway through the video.

[@CR055H41RZ]

when the wall goes transparent to visualize mario going through the wall, :chefs_kiss:

[@Nintendrone42]

14:50 Finally, a use for the silly breakdance kick

[@jammish9802]

Oh my goodness it's so simple. All it took was teleportation, cloning, the ability to phase through walls, manipulating the very fabric of reality itself and the power of Nyoom. How could this be missed for so long?!?! :P But seriously, congrats to everyone who worked on this, it's a prime example of what the ABC community is capable of.

[@BlueEighthNote]

I'm gonna try my best timestamping the steps listed in the blueprint (in the description), along with my limited understandings, and so there could be errors still: ==TTM== 1) 0:00 TTM HOLP (at top of TTC's pole) ==TTC Beginning== _Place fire clones, for getting past the pole, and for getting up to the cage area using the pendulum_ 2) 0:35 TTC Collecting coins 3) 1:19 Behind-Camera-Anywhere (BCA) throw fire clone at HOLP (thrown at 2:14) 4) 2:17 Clone coins up to 96 5) 2:41 Clone coins 97 ~ 99, but don't collect them (they're needed for restoring HP later) 6) 3:03 Set HOLP under Get a Hand pendulum (set at 3:25) 7) 3:30 BCA release 3 fire clones at pendulum HOLP in ascending order (dropped at 3:55, 4:24, 4:42) ==Set up for First Ascent (1 Bob-omb)== _Place the bob-omb to be re-activated at the cage area_ 8) 4:46 Set HOLP out-of-bounds on moving bar (set at 5:07) 9) 5:10 BCA throw Bob-omb clone at moving bar HOLP (thrown at 5:51) 10) 5:54 Set HOLP out-of-bounds at treadmill (set at 6:09) 11) 6:12 Instant Release the moving bar Bob-omb at bloat size 4 (IR at 6:26) ==First Trip up to the Elevator== _Get up to the cage area, then to the elevator to set HOLP for the fire clone and coin clone to get past it_ 12) 6:30 RNG Manipulation on the pendulum 13) 6:50 Get into position and begin the sequence of squish cancel ground pound chain (chain begins at 7:29) 14) 7:33 Backwards rollout into bob-omb radius (Step 11), clipping both Mario and Bob-omb into the cage 15) 7:37 Grab Bob-omb and glide to elevator 16) 7:49 Grab Bob-omb fake and set HOLP at the elevator (set at 7:52) 17) 7:54 Drop down, BCA throw fire clone at elevator HOLP (thrown at 8:13) 18) 8:15 BCA throw coin clone (100th coin) at elevator HOLP (thrown at 8:37) ==Set up for Second Ascent (2 Bob-ombs)== _Set two bob-ombs to be reactivated: one at the cage area, the other past the pole_ 19) 8:40 Set HOLP on the hand near the cubes (set at 9:03) 20) 9:06 BCA throw explosion clone on the hand HOLP (thrown at 9:43) 21) 9:47 Throw 3 explosion clones (thrown at 10:07, 10:18, 10:30) 22) 10:32 Set HOLP out-of-bounds on moving bar (set at 10:54) [same as step 8] 23) 10:56 BCA throw Bob-omb clone at moving bar HOLP (thrown at 11:43) [same as step 9] 24) 11:46 Set HOLP out-of-bounds at treadmill (set at 12:24) [same as step 10] 25a) 12:28 [!] Pause-buffered Hitstun, extended by explosion clones (step 21), until Mario clones the yellow star spawner (so HOLP doesn't update) [flashing lights warning 12:38 ~ 13:47] 25b) 13:48 BCA release the bob-omb clone from the cubes (dropped at 14:38) 26) 14:43 Breakdance Instant Release Bob-omb at the pendulum area, bloat size 4 (IR at 14:51) 27) 14:53 Ascend to the hand with pendulum (to avoid reactivating the bob-omb on the other side of the map) 28) 15:13 Knockback from explosion clone (Step 20), Pause-buffered Hitstun to drop the bob-omb [brief flashing between 15:15 ~ 15:17] 29) 15:19 Fall onto the top cube 30) 15:30 Instant Release the moving bar bob-omb at bloat size 4 (IR at 15:43) [same as step 11] ==Second Trip up to the Elevator== _Get up to the cage area, then to the elevator and go past it_ 31) 15:42 Collect the 3 coin clones (Step 5) 32) 15:47 RNG Manipulation on the pendulum [same as step 12] 33) 15:54 Get into position and begin the sequence of squish cancel ground pound chain (chain begins at 16:20) [same as step 13] 34) 16:26 Backwards rollout into bob-omb radius (Step 30), clipping both Mario and Bob-omb into the cage [same as step 14] 35) 16:35 Grab Bob-omb, glide to elevator, collect coin clone to spawn 100-coin star, fire bounce star dance clip to get past the elevator ==Past the Elevator== 36) 16:51 Climb pole and dismount with the fire clone (Step 3) 37) 17:02 Grab reactivated Bob-omb to set HOLP at the pole again (for Timed Jumps on Moving Bars next) 38) 17:10 Grab The Pit and the Pendulums star with punch recoil to land on treadmills (Spawning Displacement to save 1xA on re-entry) (mario begins the steps for grabbing the star at 17:54)

[@ccgarciab]

After reading the explanatory image I was tempted to write this comment, but decided to not do it, because there were some steps that I didn't quite understand. Thanks for doing it, it's very clarifying!

[@CowardEdd]

Appreciate the time spent doing this, cheers.

[@mekafinchi]

is this coordinated with Bismuth's video? very epic

[@joshuashoup4261]

Yes, this was coordinated.

[@l9m241]

Honestly I thinking having Behind Camera Anywhere really opened up the floodgates to help out the last few A-presses on TTC. Wish this glitch was discovered sooner. Also, that trick with the ground pound cancels finally came into use. I thought it would never see the light of day. Nice to know it's finally used! ds273 really helped out making this possible and wow. This strat is insane.

[@sinteleon]

Isn't ground pound cancel the same trick Knuckles uses in Sonic Boom? /jk

[@minuspi8372]

BCA always looks so funny. Mario just stops and waits for Lakitu to awkwardly look away while he performs black magic.

[@joekrause7346]

Very glad the 3D games don't have level timers like the 2D games do!

[@HEYimHeroic]

i think this might be the first pannen video in which i can confidently say: i have no clue what is going on. awesome work everyone!

[@Norrieification]

The ABC crew is living testament to the fact that mankind can achieve anything we put our minds to. In this case, these absolute fucking legends, decided to solve the A Button Challenge, and today 3 massive steps have been taken towards that noblest of goals. This is incredible, I salute you all.

[@jameskollinger5488]

I was just thinking about this yesterday, feeling resigned to the fact that there probably wouldn't be any more A button saves. I'm floored. What a day.

[@rksworld4405]

the sheer genius to even theorycraft this is amazing

[@nothankyou4859]

well done and congratulations to everyone involved in figuring this out. absolute geniuses

[@theendofthestart8179]

this is easily the 2nd weirdest Two Tower Chimps(TTC) I have ever had the pleasure of watching...

[@MikeOShay]

Huge win for the whole community and all their hard work. I appreciate all the video editing effort you put into this as well!

[@labrosmatsas]

This is insane. It for sure took a lot of effort to tas this route. Even after so many years you are continuing to make great achievments. Congratsulations to everyone that contributed in it this masterpiece

[@GutenBare]

Masterful display. So many pieces coming together. I'm as amazed as when I saw Secret Aquarium 0xA

[@CosmicDomo]

I've never seen a stage in such disarray. Great work.

[@NintenGunner]

It's always magical to find new ABC improvements come up on my dash. Very well done to all of you!

[@asterie_stythia]

That's really really insane to see the boundaries get pushed even more. Congrats to the whole ABC team !

[@Mcfighter2K]

I absolutely love the collab with you uploading these just as Bismuth's 6th part of his ABC series is premiering.

[@switchpalacecorner]

the 3 year wait was more than worth it

[@cosmicangel233]

OH BABY A TRIPLE

[@Wituz]

Probably the most incredible TAS I have ever seen

[@poombie]

imagine going back in time and showing this to a mario 64 developer

[@Britaliope]

"Yeah, your game is nice, I just found a couple of bugs you might want to fix before the release."

[@--ivypool--]

I love how during the punch recoil, a bobomb just randomly explodes

[@jmarvins]

maybe the real TTC upwarp was the thousands of cloned friends we made along the way

[@boboisnotyou]

Just seeing Mario cancel ground pounds in the air is oddly satisfying

[@Bladster94]

My god, you and the ABC crew always find more impressive ways to make progress in this challenge. Awesome work!

[@DallinBackstrom]

It's great to see the pendulum strats bear fruit after all the time and effort that was put into researching them. Congratulations to everyone involved in finding a valid solution to these crazy puzzles.

[@bobthegiraffemonkey]

Congrats on pulling this off. This has to be the craziest and most precise sequence of glitches ever, right? ABC crew really is something special, and cool to see someone new making a huge contribution with the scgp brute force solver. Can't wait to see what else is still to come.

[@RichConnerGMN]

most precise for now... just wait for sott 0x, bitfs 0x, and lll 0x :)

[@RichConnerGMN]

just wait for sott 0x and bitfs 0x :)

[@TiloDroid]

Great video, thank you for presenting your discovery and congrats to the whole team!

[@BlockCheddar]

Stuff like this is incredible because not only was SM64 coded in such a way that things like coin cloning can happen, but speedrunners and glitch hunters have been able to find them too! And because the internet allows us to communicate, we're able to perform feats like this.

[@cosmic_rival]

The critics said a another A press would never be saved but I knew I was right to hold out for HOLP.

[@vanderkarl3927]

Ah, just how I used to play. Good times, those.

[@hioman]

When bismuth changed the counter to 16 and the date to today in his newest video, I had no idea how to feel

[@sporedoutofmymind]

Oh sure when Pannen clones coins he gets universal acclaim but when I do it, I get investigated by the US Treasury

[@nerdporkspass1m1st78]

At this point, they're going to learn how to do arbitrary code execution in SM64 with 0xA presses

[@keiyakins]

Honestly, most ACE strats are easier to understand than... Whatever the hell this is.

[@fuschiawarrior2159]

The strats shown on the video are impressive but the behind the scenes are even more so. Congrats to the team.

[@snoopyrobot5993]

I was thinking about how much I enjoyed watching your videos yesterday, and what a pleasant coincidence that you happen to upload 3 a press saves! this channel and community is wonderful

[@elephantchessboard9060]

Pannen is the kid that my friends told me caught mew during lunch break.

[@Collin0]

I've been watching the abc team progress on lowering A presses since 2017, and I gotta say this is probably the most insane complex thing I have ever seen in this project without a doubt. Incredibly well done by ds273 and Sjmhrp (and the rest of the team ofc). Very impressive work.

[@cristinagomezvida841]

0:54 Ya- hoohoo ho-wa ya ya hohohohya yahoo

[@SSoup64]

I am confused, but amazed at the same time.

[@streetguru9350]

LOVE YOU ALWAYS PANENN, NEVER STOP. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Make a commentated video on these 3 A Presses, or just a video on what the future may hold

[@dustykh]

Every new discovery made I think that it cannot get more impressive. And with every new discovery, and subsequent progress made, I am proven wrong.

[@DesTr069]

YES!!! I knew that Bismuth’s series would coincide with new A presses being removed, LETS GOOO

[@adamdapatsfan]

Pannen runs the world's most successful cargo cult. Seriously, it's crazy to see all this black magic, huge props!

[@speghi]

I find it absolutely insane that after all these years and all the already done improvement, there's still progress made in the A Button Challenge

[@Greennoob2]

Simply incredible that,, not only can the star be collected like this but, also you get the displacement needed for re-entering. So incredibly cool

[@georgeerniej]

Amazing, congrats to you and the team!

[@tyrannosaurusrusticus9703]

Jfc I won't even pretend to understand half of what's going on, I can only salute the amount of work and dedication that went into this!

[@waffleisyummy]

This video should win an Oscar. I want to rent a theater and force everyone I know to watch them.

[@Ryu_D]

Description: *Detailed explanation of the process of achieving something that took people WAAAAAY smarter than me, more time than I have probably put into any project ever.* Me watching the video: "Heheh, Mario go brrrrr." XD

[@iamalanresnicknorly4real]

you know this game better than Miyamoto knows the back of his own hand. and for that, we love you

[@benwaffleiron]

i dont know what's happening at all but ill never tire of watching these

[@nerdporkspass1m1st78]

I can't believe it. THREE new A-press improvements. Christmas came early today!

[@LemmaEOF]

Huge congrats to everyone who worked on these BIG A press saves! Y’all did amazing!

[@IsabelleChiming]

I'm so so so so excited!!!! I've been following the progress for years and it makes me so happy to see A presses finally shaved off once again. I would love to see a commentated version of this, by anyone on the team! So we can fully understand in one place everything going on here. Of course that's a ton of work and a big commitment, but I hope that someone plans on putting something like that together like the one made for entering the Secret Aquarium. Anyway, this is amazing and congrats to everyone who helped put this together.

[@FedoraMark]

Soon this will be “Super Mrio 64”

[@GodLandon]

I feel like a HOLP how this bomb dropped on me

[@sagacious03]

Nice video! Glad that progress is still being made on the ABC! Thanks so much for uploading!

[@NovaBushido]

Been so long I forgot how insane this guys strats are.

[@littlelum9773]

I was planning on watching something else, but that changed the moment I saw this. I don't think I've ever clicked on a video faster.

[@ccgarciab]

ds273's answer to pannens quantum physics is straight up string theory

[@Nerdule]

I really didn't think there were three entire A-button saves left! While we will likely never see the A-press count hit single digits, I'm still extremely happy to see this :D

[@T101G]

Finally down from 19 after over 2 years!

[@FemMushroom]

I'm starting to think this might not be an RTA viable strategy...

[@corb805]

This honestly feels like ACE setups in SM64 at points

[@spootot]

I don't understand a thing but you'd better bet that I'll be watching all of these

[@spootot]

(I understand some parts but not all, but I haven't finished the video yet so maybe it will make sense)

[@trentthen642]

After 3 years, a new save! Well, three So pog

[@invictus127]

I love watching these videos with absolutely 0 understanding of the glitches being used. I'm just sitting here wondering how everything's all going to come together in the end.

[@TheUnknownsShow]

3 A press saves?! Christmas has come early this year!

[@ptnsmuls9393]

I'm so glad you're back, I really missed you

[@borederlands5387]

HOLY SHIT A USE FOR THE CROUCH ATTACK

[@tumm1192]

Incredible job everyone!

[@The23rdGamer]

I'm so glad I get to live in this timeline

[@jetx_47]

Good work team! Definitely the most anticipated save for a while!

[@jasonpm213]

Vsauce and Panenkoek upload videos again, I'm bout to cry

[@QuiteDan]

Question: During the time 17:29, why can't Mario dive from the square platform onto the pendulum to reach the star? It looks reachable but I guess it's not?

[@fazaazafg]

My guess is that he actually can, but Mario needs to wait a little bit at an exact moment so that he can punch the wall and collect the star at the same time to recoil off of the wall while doing a star fall to get on the spinning platform so that he can get a re entry

[@QuiteDan]

@@fazaazafg oOOOOOH the re-entry, I see

[@junkmail2223]

it's unbelievably exciting to open up a new ABC video and have no idea what's going on at several points of it

[@kruks]

Holy moly this is complex.