Hello everyone, and welcome once again to
the 8th Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door any% Tool-Assisted Speedrun. My name is Malleo,
and Iāll be your guide as we embark on our speedy journey throughout the Paper Mario
universe. If you would like to watch alternative versions of the encode, either with or without
the overlay and with or without commentary, please see the description for the alternate
encode video links. If you are watching the overlay version of the encode, then on the
left you will see visuals which track the current state of Marioās health, items,
badges etc. at any particular point in the video. If you arenāt aware of what a Tool-Assisted
Speedrun is, please visit tasvideos.org for more information. Essentially, this is a demonstration
of what the theoretical fastest completion of the game looks like. It is performed using
a game emulator on the computer, and uses slowdown and rewind to redo small sections
of the game over and over again. This is separate from normal speedruns and is not meant to
be compared to normal speedruns. This TAS is an improvement of 13:49.2 seconds or 49,752
frames. Immediately, you may have taken notice of the game language. In previous TASes for
this game, I had opted to use the Japanese version of the game. In that version of the
game, there existed a faster method of performing Teleporter Room Early, a trick by which I
can jump to Chapter 7 much earlier than intended. This method relies on a mechanic with Flurrie
which operates differently depending on the game region. However, a newer method was found
by Really_Tall, and this new method negates the need for Flurrie. Therefore, Teleporter
Room Early is now just as fast on the US version of the game as it is in the Japanese version.
Knowing this, the community then determined that the US version is faster due to even
more regional differences, namely Goomba Trio Skip late in the Prologue, as well as a faster
setup for a Super Jump leading up to Blimp Ticket Skip. Iāll discuss these tricks and
their significance as they occur in the TAS. And for those who have not previously watched
a Tool-Assisted Speedrun for this game, I will be sure to describe in detail the route
and tricks used throughout. Hope you enjoy! Once I gain control of Mario at the Rogueport
harbor, you will immediately notice a continuous chain of jumps to make my way towards the
Crump cutscene. This is a trick called Speed Swap. In this game, Mario moves left and right
with a speed of 2.25 units per frame, and moves up or down with a speed of 2.6775 units
per frame. I can actually maintain this higher up-and-down speed value by moving up or down
for one frame followed by a continuous set of jumps performed without landing for more
than one frame. Additionally, positioning the analog stick slightly against walls causes
Mario to gain a slight speed boost, raising his speed from 2.6775 units per frame to 2.794
units per frame. Though itās hard to accurately estimate, the use of speed swaps and wall
boosts most likely saves two minutes throughout the duration of the game over just walking
normally. The Crump battle is pretty straightforward.
I can deal 5 damage by jumping twice, superguarding, and jumping twice more. A superguard allows
Mario to negate all damage dealt by an enemy and instead deal one damage to the enemy.
This action is performed by pressing B within a 3 frame window right before the enemy hits
Mario. This X-Naut ambush cutscene actually has a
random length associated with it. The time it takes the X-Nauts to move to their set
positions in the cutscene is random. Thus, I had to try to change RNG to get the fastest
sequence for this cutscene. After leaving the room, the time it takes
the ending of this cutscene to progress is also random. The cutscene advances when all
the X-Nauts stop jumping. Therefore, I had to try and change RNG such that not as many
X-Nauts are mid-air, meaning the group as a whole will stop jumping sooner. And with
that, I can progress to Rogueport Central. This cutscene is pretty slow and boring. Mario
and Goombella meet each other and discuss the magical map that brought Mario to town.
Given that I canāt read or speak Japanese, it was nice to be able to read what characters
are saying for this new TAS. Though the cutscene is pretty uneventful, it does end with a cool
RNG-dependent event. During the Goombella partner cutscene, Goomther
the Goomba walks onto the screen. Goombella demonstrates her ability on Goomther and then
he walks off-screen. Even though Goomther is currently in this cutscene, he is also
simultaneously walking in the overworld. If he turns around in the overworld as heās
walking off-screen, he will turn around in the cutscene too, resulting in a pretty silly-looking
moonwalk. This doesnāt save or lose any time, but it looks super silly so I figured
I would include it. Just like the previous TAS, the route was
modified to avoid talking to Zess T and ordering her contact lens. Since I donāt need to
talk to her, I can head directly to the item shop. In the item shop I buy 9 Fright Masks.
These Fright Masks can be used to scare away enemies quickly. Additionally, they will help
with the XP route, as using a Fright Mask in battle causes only 1 Star Point to be rewarded
to Mario. In the following room, I perform a trick called
Fence Skip to avoid talking to Professor Frankly. Goomfrey the Goomba walks within a certain
circle in the room, but by positioning him along the very edge of the circle, I can cause
him to walk beyond his normal bounds. Luring him towards Merlonās door and opening the
door causes Mario to get pushed outside by Goomfreyās hitbox. This skips the need to
talk to Frankly to remove part of the fence blocking the sewer pipe. While in this black
void, certain collision is inactive, allowing me to first make my way to the right and grab
Double Dip, and then head left towards the pipe. The Double Dip badge will be used in
the Shadow Queen fight to get Yoshi into peril instantly in order to deal more damage to
the Shadow Queen. Though I never talked to Frankly, a flag in the gameās code recognizes
this is my first time entering the sewers and thus sets Frankly to appear in the sewers
and follow me. In the US version of the game, this platform moves far enough left to allow
for Mario to get pushed inside the left wall. This allows me to skip the normally required
Goomba Trio battle to save around half a minute. As youāll come to find, Frankly is going
to be following us for quite a while, so I hope you get used to that. In this room, I
only break the right yellow block. Upon returning to the sewers later, youāll find that I
can utilize the left yellow block to shave off a small bit of time later on. After revealing the staircase and grabbing
the key, I make my way into the back room to obtain the plane curse. As it stands, the
plane ability is still required to access Chapter 1 and to reach Grodusās Lair in
Chapter 8. Though you may think the plane panel in the sewers is a necessity to reach
the Thousand-Year Door room, as youāll see after Chapter 1, it is actually possible to
skip the plane panel in the sewers and still reach the Thousand-Year Door room. Additionally,
there is a way to skip both the plane panel entering Hooktailās Castle and another plane
panel further in the castle. Thus, there are only two required uses of the plane ability
left in the run. In the event we find ways to skip these required uses, I would no longer
need to obtain the plane ability in the TAS. Though you would normally visit the Thousand-Year
Door after getting the plane curse, I can instead immediately make my way towards Chapter
1 thanks to Blooper Skip, which Iāll explain in a bit. If I jump first frame when entering the room
with the Chapter 1 pipe and continuously jump frame perfectly until I reach the boat panel,
and then fall into the water, the game fails to set Marioās respawn position. Instead,
it remains at the default coordinates, which are at the center of the room. This allows
me to spawn right by the pipe to Chapter 1, obsoleting the need to visit the Thousand-Year
Door and listen to Frankly during the long cutscene afterwards. The general use case
for this respawn bug is called Hazard Respawn Glitch. This is definitely where things start to get
weird with this game, because as you can see, Frankly is still following us. There are definitely
a couple funny side effects that occur because of this, and Iāll be sure to point them
out as they occur. Iād like to mention a theoretical glitch that, if found, would save
9 minutes. I need to go retrieve the Sun and Moon Stone in order to unlock the pipe to
Hooktail Castle, however the blue switches are actually loaded inside the Sun and Moon
Stone pedestals. If I was to somehow interact with both of those switches and hit them quick
enough, I would be able to skip all of Petalburg and Shhwonk Fortress. Unfortunately for now
though, the community does not know of a way to do this. The movement in this room might look a bit
weird, but itās actually faster to diagonally move down-right so that I can get a wallboost
for a small period of time. In the following room, I can perform another Hazard Respawn
Glitch to skip the process of revealing this bridge, which saves several seconds. Fortunately
the bridge will automatically spawn once I reach a further point in Chapter 1, so I donāt
need to worry about doing this a second time. Additionally I grab a Fire Flower to be used
in the Gold Fuzzy fight a bit later into Chapter 1. Aaaaaand Frankly went for a swim. Hope
heās having fun tagging along with us! Now that Iāve reached Petalburg, I need
to speak with the Mayor of the town in order to unlock the passageway to Shhwonk Fortress,
which holds the Sun and Moon Stones. Along the way I can jump over NPCs and fall over
top of their hitbox. Doing so causes the game to eject Mario out of their hitbox with a
faster horizontal speed than normal which saves a few frames. After leaving the Mayorās house, I receive
an email and a textbox pops up on-screen. In order to prevent additional text boxes
from popping up later in the run, I need to read an email at some point. Iāll do so
when entering Hooktail Castle since I have to pause anyway. Coming up are two instances of what we call
the Shhwonk Fortress Skip. By using Goombella 3 frames before moving towards a loading zone,
I can actually bypass the loading zone trigger and get out-of-bounds. Once out-of-bounds,
I can navigate along the perimeter of the room to skip the normally mandatory Bald Cleft
and Bristle battles. For the other rooms along this trail, theyāre pretty straight forward.
The only slight challenge was manipulating RNG such that the enemies do not get in my
way and allow me to take a direct path to the next loading zone. In the last fortress, I interact with the
Thwomp and start the quiz. Thereās currently no way to skip this, so I sadly have to complete
it normally. During this quiz, there is a small chance that on questions 2, 3, and 4
the Thwomp will ask, āAre you sure?ā for your answer. That is to say that on questions
1 and 5, the Thwomp will always ask that. Whether or not it asks this on questions 2
through 4 is randomly determined, so I had to manipulate RNG such that I do not lose
frames to being asked if Iām sure about my answer. Meanwhile Frankly is awkwardly
standing next to the Thwomp. Once I enter the sewers, I grab the Multibounce
badge while making my way to the right. This will be used once during Chapter 3. Itās
also worth noting itās a few frames faster to go to the right before going to the left
just due to small differences in movement. For both of the Fuzzy fights in the sewers,
I can end them quickly through the use of Fright Masks. Oddly enough, items can never
drop from these fights, so thereās no way to avoid grabbing the Fire Flower earlier
in Chapter 1. For these hallways, it is equally as fast
to wallboost off the back wall as walking straight in the middle of the room. Upon leaving some of these hallways, I managed
to get Goombella to fall through the floor. I canāt really tell you why this happens,
but itās hilarious nonetheless. For the Gold Fuzzy fight, I start by dealing
4 damage through 2 jumps and 2 headbonks. From here, the Fuzzy Horde spawns. The length
of this cutscene, similarly to the X-Naut ambush in the Prologue, is random. I used
a brute force script to try wasting frames in different places to try to reduce the duration
of this cutscene and moved on once I could not find a better solution for some time.
I take damage on the last two horde attacks in order to manipulate the Gold Fuzzy to attack
Mario instead of Goombella, as it is 20 frames slower for the Gold Fuzzy to walk to Goombella.
Afterwards I can jump on Gold Fuzzy twice and use a Fire Flower to end the fight. Once
the fight is over I can retreat back to Petal Meadows and meet Koops along our way to Hooktail
Castle. In this room, I take a slight diagonal such
that I approach a fence towards the left side of the room. I can save time overall by using
a wallboost along these fences. When I re-enter Petalburg, I again can get
a speed boost by jumping over the Toad NPC. Once I make my way West of Petalburg, I meet
Koops. Originally, we believed that I would have to obtain Koops and forego skipping him
like I did in a previous TAS for this game. This was due to a trick in The Great Tree
that we thought required Goombella, who wouldnāt be available at that point due to side-effects
from Koops Skip. Then it was found that we could perform that glitch without Goombella,
so I got the okay to skip Koops. Then another trick was found which requires Koops in Chapter
7. Iāve had to redo this chapter countless times, but in retrospect I can confidently
say that Iām happy that I revisited this chapter in order to avoid leaving in any routing
mistakes. After obtaining Koops, I grab a Mystery item
from the bush. This will be used in a bit for the Red Bones fight. In previous TASes
I have used this item for the Shadow Sirens fight in Chapter 2, but as you will see, I
no longer enter that battle. Thus, I can use this item for Red Bones instead. Instead of using Koops, itās slightly faster
to activate both switches with Mario. I pause on top of the left block to cancel the momentum
from the bounce off of the switch. This way I can immediately speed swap to the right
and hit the right switch with just frames to spare. Additionally, during the pause menu,
I read an email in order to prevent the additional textbox from appearing when I receive emails. I can skip the use of the plane panel outside
of the castle by performing a very precise jump across the bridge. Once inside the castle,
I obtain the Power Bounce badge, which will be used to jump several times in one turn.
In the following room I used a brute force script to copy inputs and allow for RNG manipulation
for a cutscene that occurs in a bit. When I reach Red Bones, I jump right as the cutscene
starts. The length of this cutscene varies just like the X-Naut ambush and the Fuzzy
Horde. Right when Koops starts talking, I can hammer, which causes the fight to immediately
start for some reason. This prevents me from having to hammer my way through the Dull Bones
to get to Red Bones which saves a few seconds. In just a single turn, I can end the fight
by using the Mystery item and manipulating RNG such that the Mystery produces a Thunder
Rage. As a result of Goomba Trio Skip, I donāt level during this fight. This doesnāt introduce
too many issues, though. To skip the need to obtain the key for this
door, I can perform a Goombella Buffer in the following alcove, which allows me to fall
back in-bounds below. When I return to the previous room later, the game will advance
to a later state in which the door is unlocked. I can save a bit of time by shooting Koops
to the right and just barely hitting the switch, as opposed to shooting him left when close
to the switch and holding him until I approach the cell bars. This saves a bit of time over
movement. From here I can reach the spike room and obtain the curse chest key. The spike room is always fun to work on because
of the in-game timer. It was fun to try and shave off as much time as possible here, and
I managed to leave the room a few frames faster than the previous TAS. Iād like to mention that once I have paper
mode, I have satisfied the only condition necessary for Teleporter Room Early. The new
method for this trick involves unspinning from paper mode in a precise way, which Iāll
describe in more detail as it occurs later in the run. Though I could immediately leave
Chapter 1 now and go perform Teleporter Room Early, I actually need to access The Great
Tree later to obtain the Super Boots, which are necessary for the setup to Blimp Ticket
Skip. As such, I actually need to complete Chapter 1 in its entirety and sit through
a cutscene with Punio to reveal the path to the Boggly Woods pipe. So, I sadly begin traversing
farther into Hooktail Castle. On my way out of the room, I grabbed the Attack FX R badge.
This badge will cause Hooktail to lower her defense by 1, allowing Mario to deal damage
during a set of Power Bounces. Now I have to backtrack for a bit in order to obtain
the key to access the higher level of Hooktail Castle. You may have noticed some peculiar movement
when i grabbed the Attack FX R badge and I do the same here. I can delay the unspin animation
by first jumping on the same frame I exit Paper Mode. From there, I hold neutral on
the analog stick the frame before I land. The frame after, I can hold an angle and speed
swap and open doors without having to endure the slow Paper Mode unspin animation. In the large staircase room, I can avoid using
Koops to hit the switch to raise the block. Instead, I can jump on the block and pause,
just like I did when unlocking Hooktail Castle earlier in Chapter 1. This saves a bit of
time over using Koops. In this room I first go into Paper Mode and
pause to equip badges. I unpause such that I can begin walking in Paper Mode after hitting
the switch which allows me to cover some distance when I normally wouldnāt be able to. I made
sure to prevent Mario from walking too far left over the edge of the platform. Afterwards,
I jump straight to the window which skips the need to hit the left switch with Koops. To raise this block quicker, I can again skip
the use of Koops by pausing on top of the switch. Once I enter the room with Ms. Mowz,
I can obtain the key to reach the east room. After grabbing the key, I need to grab the
Honey Syrup from the other chest in order to have enough FP to defeat Hooktail quickly. I can avoid encountering this Dull Bones by
repeatedly pausing frame perfectly while moving downwards. I can skip the use of the plane panel in this
room using a floating point precision-perfect trick. There is double-sided collision for
the bars in the higher portion of the room which means that there is a very very small
gap between these pieces of collision. I can input precise analog stick inputs during a
neutral jump to offset my position down to a millionth of a unit to properly obtain this
necessary position. This allows me to simply walk to the right and reach the door without
using the plane ability. After obtaining the last key to the castle,
I can unlock the last door to finally reach Hooktailās lair. This spiral was optimized a lot better than
the previous TAS thanks to help from a community member named PistonMiner. He made the outer
wall of the spiral invisible. For the inner wall, which is really a collection of very
tall rectangles, he generated alternating colors when the angle of the wall changes.
This allowed me to observe when I was approaching a different inside wall, allowing me to anticipate
when I needed to change my angle to maximize speed obtained from wallboosting. For the Hooktail fight, we designed the route
for this fight to allow me to complete the first phase of the fight in a single turn
as opposed to two turns. To sufficiently do this, I need to perform 18 consecutive Power
Bounces, and if youāre well-informed about TTYD mechanics, youāll realize how absurd
this is. For Hooktail, after the 8th bounce, there is a ā
chance that the game will prevent
you from performing any additional Power Bounces. So from the 9th to the 17th jump, I need to
not get capped. Therefore the probability is (ā
)^9 which is a 1 in 19,683 chance.
On top of that, I also need to get a bucket to drop and hit Hooktail, which is a 2% chance.
Thus, the combined probabilities yield a chance of 1 in 1,000,000 if done humanly. However,
I can use stylishes between jumps by pressing A at the peak of my jump in order to influence
RNG. This can be used to get multiple attempts at avoiding a cap for a particular jump. A
brute force script was used to do this, and eventually I was able to successfully obtain
both an 18-cap and the bucket drop afterwards! To end the first phase, I can just use Koops
to deal the last 2 damage. For the second phase, I first need to use the Honey Syrup
retrieved earlier in the castle in order to replenish my FP. With my newly replenished
FP, I can perform 10 more Power Bounces to complete the Hooktail fight. Gotta love the
incorrect lighting for Frankly in this cutscene. After obtaining the Diamond Star, I can progress
to the first intermission sequence. As a side effect of still having Frankly follow
us, he actually shows up during the intermission, and he seems to blend in with the X-Nauts
because no one seems to notice that heās there. When I gain control of Peach, I can use a
modified version of speedswapping. If I move up or down for 2 frames instead of 1, I can
move left or right for 14 frames and retain the higher up-and-down walking speed. I first
have to enter the bathroom to progress further into the intermission. Then I walk towards
the room which stores TEC, the sentient computer that controls the X-Naut Fortress. Aaaaand
Frankly trails behind Peach for the entirety of this intermission, which is hilarious.
Itās worth mentioning that in order to maximize horizontal distance, itās faster to not
walk up or down to initialize the walking speedswap. Instead, I initialize it by walking
at a slight diagonal. This causes my left-and-right speed for that 14-frame duration to be lower
than if I were to move up or down, but because I actually cover some horizontal distance
during the initialization of the speedswap, I actually cover more distance overall. Again for the Bowser intermission, Frankly
shows up for the ride. I can again use walking speedswaps just like with Peach to walk faster
with Bowser. For some reason, Kammy asks Bowser if he likes
Fried Eggs, and itās 1 frame faster to say that Bowser hates fried eggs due to how much
text appears on-screen compared to the other option. After returning back to Petalburg once more,
I grab a Mega Rush P badge for later. As opposed to the previous TASes, I will be using Mega
Rush P badges to allow for Yoshi to deal substantial damage to enemies later on in the run. This
is ultimately faster than getting Mario into peril because I will be able to get Yoshi
into peril a lot quicker during the Shadow Queen fight thanks to the use of the Double
Dip badge and a Point Swap item. Iāll go into more detail at the end of the run. After reading Peachās email, I head westward
to return to Rogueport Sewers, being sure to use some wallboosts along the way. Along the way I grab a Mushroom. This will
be used within the next minute to skip the use of the plane panel in the sewers to approach
the Thousand-Year Door room. In the first sewers room, I jump from the
stairs to the platform which saves time over going through the bars in Paper Mode. In the
following room, I can drop down on top of the yellow block using Paper Mode. This reduces
the duration that Iām falling for and allows me to directly land on top of the pipe right
after, overall saving a handful of frames. Next, I go into Paper Mode up against this
yellow block, unspin, jump, and use an item. Doing so causes Mario to jump before using
the item, and the item causes his jump to reset, allowing for a second jump mid-air.
Thanks to Marioās smaller Paper Mode hitbox not resetting immediately, I can rise above
the yellow block and have my hitbox reset to allow me to land on the yellow block. I
visit the Thousand-Year Door in order to progress to a state that will allow me to unlock the
pipe to Boggly Woods. I love how during this cutscene, you can hear
the other version of Frankly thatās following us repeatedly jumping while out-of-bounds. After speaking with the real Frankly, I make
my way back into the sewers to talk to Punio. Like I mentioned before, I need to access
the Great Tree later into the run in order to obtain the Super Boots, which are necessary
to set up Blimp Ticket Skip. Because of this, I need to talk to Punio to have the passageway
to the pipe unlocked. Funnily enough, there is actually a small gap in the wall between
the roomās wall and the outline of the passageway opening. It is actually possible to squeeze
Mario inside this gap and reach the Boggly Woods pipe without talking to Punio. However,
upon return to Rogueport, there is no known way to bypass the outline of the blocked passageway,
as the gap in the wall can not be exploited the other way around. Unless a method is found
to bypass this wall when coming from Boggly Woods, I sadly have to talk to Punio here. Once the passageway is revealed, I immediately
ditch Punio, leaving his brothers and sisters in X-Naut captivity within the tree, which
is cruel, I know, but we care about speed here. Now I want to head towards the Teleporter
Room so I can advance to a Chapter 7 state. I can use Hazard Respawn here to get placed
on top of the center blocks, allowing me to make my way towards the West Sewers. After
I perform Teleporter Room Early and obtain a Chapter 7 state, I will be able to go to
the Great Tree and access the Super Boots. If I tried getting the Super Boots before
visiting Chapter 7, I would have to complete a large portion of Chapter 2 normally, whereas
performing Teleporter Room Early before getting the Super Boots allows me to avoid engaging
in any Chapter 2 cutscenes, which saves a tremendous amount of time. To get up to the higher platform, I can jump
on top of the upward-curving portion of this pipe and just barely land on top of the save
block. For Teleporter Room Early, I can exploit a small gap between wall collision by going
into Paper Mode and then unspinning and jumping on the same frame. Because Marioās Paper
Mode hitbox is a lot smaller, and because jumping while unspinning resets Marioās
speed to a larger value, this gives me just the right combination of factors to allow
Mario to slip right through the gap. Shoutouts to Really_Tall for finding this again! I love
how it turned out. The first visit to Chapter 7 here is a bit
different than the previous TAS, in that I grab the first two Card Keys on the first
visit as opposed to the second. It doesnāt make any difference when I grab the left Card
Key, as the movement to reach the room takes the same amount of time. As for the Card Key
in Grodusās Office, this Card Key will not spawn unless you are properly set to a Chapter
7 state. I obtain this proper state by going into a back room and reading the red note.
Afterwards, Grodusās Officeās Card Key will spawn. If I were to grab this Card Key
on the second visit, then this would mean I would have to read the red note on the second
visit, however it was found that, because of another trick during the second visit to
the fortress, Iām not actually required to read the red note on the second trip. Thus,
it saves a few seconds to grab the Card Keys in this order. After grabbing both Card Keys and reading
the red note to reach a Chapter 7 state, I can now backtrack to the Great Tree in order
to get the Super Boots. While doing so, I need to obtain two Mega Rush P badge drops.
Upon returning to Rogueport, I waste frames in a specific way in order to properly align
my RNG value such that I will get the Mega Rush Ps to spawn two rooms from now. In this
room though, I need to bypass the fallen pillar to the right, which can be done through the
use of a Super Jump. I position Koops far enough left such that when I activate him
before opening the Teleporter Room door, he has an additional frame of activation delay.
This causes the game to initialize Marioās jump, but the game fails to reset flags associated
with this initialization. Afterwards, stepping up onto a higher surface grants me Y-velocity,
and with the improperly reset flag, I can gain infinite height when I jump, allowing
me to scale the tall invisible wall by the pillar. Then I drop down onto the arch of
the loading zone to limit how long I fall, as my speed actually decreases the longer
I fall. With a sufficient RNG value upon entering
the room, I successfully managed to get both Mega Rush Ps to spawn in battle. Once the
Mega Rush Ps are held in battle, I just have to manipulate an easy 25% chance for the badge
to drop afterwards. During both of these fights I use Fright Masks to end the fights quickly,
as I donāt really have any other means of dealing a sufficient amount of damage. When leveling up, I ultimately want to keep
my FP at a maximum of 5. This will allow me to get Yoshi into peril very quickly in the
Shadow Queen fight, and there arenāt really any issues for any fights if I only have 5
FP. With that, I choose to level up BP in order to be able to equip more badges. Afterwards,
I can continue on my way to get the Super Boots. Along the way to the Great Tree, I grab a
Honey Syrup. This will be used in Chapter 7 to perform a brand new skip for the Factory
Room. And itās faster to grab an FP item like this than an HP item because FP items
actually have a shorter animation when you use them when compared to HP items. I donāt
really know why, but itās quite a substantial time difference. In the 10 Jabbi fight room, I go into Paper
Mode in a precise corner of the loading zone, unspin, and pause buffer a jump. When I unpause,
Mario gets pushed out-of-bounds, and I can then get behind the Jabbi Hive and trigger
the loading zone. Once thatās out of the way, Iāve successfully obtained the Super
Boots. I also think itās funny that the dialog that pops up says āYou got a Super
Bootsā, though from a programming perspective I imagine it would be a bit too tedious to
check whether or not the item is plural. When demonstrating how to use the Super Boots,
thereās one frame where I can jump after landing. This doesnāt waste any time and
it looks pretty silly, so I wanted to include it. When retreating to the previous room, it is
possible to use a Goombella Buffer to get out-of-bounds, bypassing the need to ground-pound
the floor panel, however switching to Goombella ultimately takes too much menuing time to
make it worth it. When I return to the 10 Jabbi fight room, the game now processes that
I am mid-Chapter 2 because I obtained the Super Boots. Thus, the Jabbi fight cutscene
starts and I get kicked out immediately. Funnily enough, getting kicked out like this actually
saves a bit of time over walking across the room normally, so thanks for that, game! With
that, I now backtrack all the way to the Rogueport Sewers. Coming up in a few minutes I will be traveling
to Chapter 6 in order to complete that chapter, and Iād like to give some background as
to why I need to beat Chapter 6 and why I had to grab the Super Boots. Ultimately, my
next main goal in this run is to obtain Yoshi, and Iāll do that by performing Blimp Ticket
Skip. One prerequisite for this glitch is that I need an email to spawn in North Rogueport.
The particular email that I use in North Rogueport only spawns if you complete Chapter 6. And
thus, I need to beat Chapter 6. In order to access Chapter 6 at this point, I need to
travel through the blue warp pipe in the sewers. These blue warp pipes can only be unlocked
by using the Super Boots to ground-pound on top of large blue switches. Thus, the Super
Boots are required in the run for the sole purpose of accessing Chapter 6. When taking loading zones, I can actually
ground-pound on the same frame as I take the loading zone, which makes for a pretty funny
room transition. This doesnāt waste any time. Here I can again use unspin cancels like in
Hooktail Castle to avoid enduring the slow unspin animation. Again for these warp pipe rooms, I use Hazard
Respawn Glitch to make my way on top of the large middle blocks. After unlocking the pipe
to Poshley Heights, I immediately fall into the water to perform Hazard Respawn Glitch
again. This allows me to reach the blue pipe and enter Chapter 6. In order to beat this chapter, I will need
to perform a Super Jump to reach a switch thatās very high up in the Poshley Sanctum.
To set up this Super Jump, I first read the note outside of the Sanctum. This sets me
in a Chapter 6 state in which the game processes that I have already completed the Excess Express
storyline. With this state, I will be able to access the Excess Express and leave as
soon as I want. Should I not read this note, then entering the Excess Express would cause
the chapter to start from the beginning, and Mario would actually be stuck on the train
heading towards Riverside Station. The entire reason for the need to access and leave the
train is to make use of a US and PAL-exclusive email on-board. This email can be used to
obtain Jump Storage, which is the state in which Marioās jump is initialized but flags
are not correctly reset. The use of this email as opposed to using a secondary save file
like in the previous TAS offers a very substantial timesave, and is one of the largest reasons
why US is now quite a bit faster than Japanese. I used Koops from far away right before acquiring
this email, and thus I now have Jump Storage. In this state, jumping normally will cause
the jump to reset after one frame, thus terminating jump storage. So up until I reach the Sanctum,
I need to use walking speedswaps, just like during the Peach and Bowser intermissions. Once inside the Sanctum, I can step up onto
the back floor and Super Jump high to the left. Off-screen I hit a blue switch which
reveals the pipe to the back room. From there, I can obtain the Garnet Star. Additionally,
this star will be really beneficial as it grants Mario the special ability āShowstopperā
which can be used to randomly scare enemies away in battle. Youāre in for a doozy because
this ability will be used on two fights, one in particular that you would not expect. After obtaining the Garnet Star, I can clip
out-of-bounds and respawn in the center of the room. This saves about a second over walking
normally. It was pretty fun to implement this, especially considering SolidifiedGaming found
this clip right when I got to this point in the TAS. I now return to the Peach intermission, and,
again, Frankly still creepily follows behind Peach. These Bowser intermissions are really fun
to work on and are pretty straightforward. Initially, I was stuck because I couldnāt
make it past the second firebar without waiting a large amount of time. After playing around
for a few hours, I managed to just barely avoid the firebarās hitbox and jump over
it. For this intermission, I did test grabbing Power-Ups to make Bowser gigantic, as that
would allow him to avoid climbing down the flagpole at the end. However, due to firebar
cycles, itās not faster to do so. Upon returning to Rogueport, I can perform
an Unspin Clip to get out-of-bounds on the train tracks. Then, I set Koops up far enough
to the left such that he has an extra frame of activation delay when I enter the email
cutscene. This gives me Jump Storage and I can step up onto the train tracks to perform
a Super Jump straight to the Blimp in the background. Aaaand Frankly falls below the
map. Gotta love that. Upon arriving at Glitzville, I leave and re-enter.
When entering Glitzville for the first time, certain flags are set that recognize that
this is your first time visiting the town. Leaving and re-entering allows the game to
not use those flags anymore and correctly recognize that you are in or past Chapter
3. This allows me to actually enter the minor league locker room. Otherwise, I wouldnāt
be able to walk past the guard. When arriving back in Rogueport, the animation
of the Blimp landing at the station is 7 seconds shorter than in the Japanese version. For
some reason, the developers just sped up this animation for the other regions. So Iāll
get a free timesave of 14 seconds since I return to Rogueport two times total. Though thereās a guard standing in front
of the door for the Minor League locker room, I can actually activate the door just by facing
away from the guard. For these fights, Jolene will give me a special condition to meet,
such as win in 5 or less turns, donāt use items, donāt swap partners, etc. Itās
very easy to manipulate RNG to allow for a suitable condition that doesnāt impede on
the route. Additionally, it was routed that I want to obtain 5 Fright Masks and 1 Point
Swap from various different item throws across the fights in this chapter. I knew going into
this chapter that that was going to be a big challenge, as we didnāt really understand
item throws that well. Essentially, we worked backwards by designing a brute force script
that mimics the RNG calls that occur in the game. Through this script we could simulate
the calculations that occur in determining whether or not a particular item that we need
will spawn. This was used to trim off 11.5 seconds from an earlier attempt which did
not use this script. Iām very satisfied with the result. For more information on how
we accomplished this, Iād recommend checking out my video on this topic entitled āReverse-Engineering
Audience Item Throws in TTYDā. To conserve Fright Masks, I chose to use a Power Shell
here to knock out all of the Goombas with Koops. As youāll see for a majority of these
fights, I want to use Fright Masks to limit how much XP I gain by the end of Chapter 3.
As a side effect of engaging in this Goomba battle for the first time, Grubba shows up
on-stage, even though Jolene shows up for all the others. I also need to conserve Fright
Masks such that I have 3 Fright Masks left over when I leave Chapter 3, as these will
be used on later fights. While waiting for the guard to arrive in the
locker room, I can move around the room and do silly things like get Koops stuck inside
a locker. For this KP Koopa fight and the following
Pokey fight, I was nowhere near the RNG values necessary to produce an item throw. Thus,
I had to just complete these fights normally. Thereās not a whole lot I can do while waiting
for the guard to arrive. Hammering, jumping, or going into Paper Mode lengthens how long
it takes the guard to appear. So the only option I have while waiting is to just walk
around. For the Dull Bones fight, itās best to use
a Multibounce, so I pause to equip it. I could have equipped it during a previous pause when
in the 10 Jabbi fight room, but doing so caused my RNG index to advance a lot further, resulting
in bad RNG for the item throws in Chapter 3, so Iām confident for now that itās
fine to equip it here. While thereās some downtime for these fights
in terms of insightful commentary, Iāll take some time to discuss the production of
this TAS. So firstly, this TAS was finished with a total of 253,000 rerecords, meaning
I loaded a savestate 253,000 times. This may sound like quite a lot, but itās put into
perspective when you recall the various brute force scripts Iāve used throughout the TAS.
On several occasions Iāve let these scripts run overnight, so they definitely load savestates
a very considerable amount in a short period of time. Additionally, during the production
of this TAS, there were multiple instances in which I had to backtrack due to modifications
to the route, including multiple times in Chapter 1. As a result, I had to let the brute
force script for Hooktail run a total of 5 times I think for all the different modifications
to the route that occurred. Additionally, when I reached Chapter 8, I noticed that I
had actually made a text modification for the Chapter 8 intro cutscene. Essentially,
after making this modification, the game ROM was repackaged such that particular regions
of the gameās data was shifted around from its normally intended location. Because of
these issues, the TAS did not correctly play on the authentic version of the game. I had
to restart from the beginning of the Prologue, salvage some of my movement inputs, and re-synchronize
the TAS on the real version of the game. This definitely contributed heavily to the rerecord
count because I had to re-run all of my brute force scripts an additional time to redo RNG-dependent
scenarios. But after working on this for more than 3 months, I am happy that I was able
to complete this TAS. Now that Iāve completed the last fight before
the Armored Harriers, I have 3 Fright Masks in my inventory, along with a Point Swap.
This way Iāll be able to complete the last few necessary fights throughout the game quickly. Though I get a condition which states that
I need to let my opponent damage me 5 times, it doesnāt matter what condition you get
for the Armored Harriers fight. For this fight, it is intended that you run away as, without
Yoshi, you cannot deal damage to the Armored Harriers. Once I run from battle, we can meet
Yoshi. As youāll notice, Frankly is sadly no longer
with us. At this point in Chapter 3 normally, a Yoshi Egg would appear and start following
us around. Then, that egg would despawn and Yoshi would appear. Even though the egg never
spawned, the game clears any followers from Marioās party, thus Frankly is removed.
For naming the Yoshi, itās fastest to just press Start to instantly set the Yoshiās
name to the default name. Yoshiās great because he will grant me the
ability to walk faster, but ultimately Yoshi is necessary for the TAS in order to perform
Palace Skip, a trick by which I can skip a plethora of chapters and a large portion of
Chapter 8. After obtaining Yoshi, I can now backtrack
to Rogueport and go to Chapter 7. When riding Yoshi, he has a horizontal movement
speed of 3.375 and an up-and-down movement speed of 4. This value fluctuates depending
on what angle I use when moving with Yoshi. Because of this, youāll notice that when
Iām walking horizontally, Iāll actually be moving at a diagonal that produces a faster
horizontal speed of 3.433. Additionally, Yoshi can also utilize wallboosts to further raise
his speed. Before heading to Chapter 7, I manipulated
RNG to produce an additional Mega Rush P to spawn in a West Sewers battle. This is the
fourth and final Mega Rush P that Iāll be obtaining. Having 4 Mega Rush Ps allows me
to reduce the number of turns it takes to defeat Magnus von Grapple 2.0, Grodus, and
the Shadow Queen, so itās highly important that I grab it. Afterwards, I can again jump to the save block
to reach the higher platform. Funnily enough, performing the Unspin Clip for Teleporter
Room Early is actually faster than entering the room normally, even though the door is
unlocked now. This is similar to Blue House Skip in Paper Mario 64 where in my TASes for
that game, I found it was faster to perform the skip again rather than open the door normally. I encounter this Elite X-Naut and manipulate
a Stopwatch to drop from the battle. This Stopwatch will be used during the Shadow Queen
fight in order to prevent her from attacking in the last phase of the fight. Afterwards,
I position Koops in such a way that he grabs the item on his ricochet. While doing so,
I activate the elevator panel, which causes the item to drop on the ground. From there,
I wait a bit to manipulate a Z-Yux far off-screen to begin walking towards Mario. From here
I get Goombella off-screen such that she activates with an additional frame delay and grab the
item as she activates. Then I manipulate the Z-Yux to hit me. Normally in this state, I
would be stuck in place until I close out of Goombellaās textbox, but getting hit
by the Z-Yux allows me to leave the battle and have full control of Mario. During this
fight I also get Yoshi into peril for later. This process grants me a state we call Text
Storage. After this fight, I push Yoshi out-of-bounds, cause him to fall, close out of the textbox
and use Yoshi. Closing out of the textbox and using Yoshi allows me to warp to his Y-position.
Since he was falling, I can reach the lower level of the fortress without having to complete
a quiz which grants you an elevator key. This saves approximately 20 seconds I believe. I was able to prevent resetting the tile cycle
by barely making it onto the lit up tiles as they swing back around to the right. With
this third and final Card Key obtained, I can make my way towards the Factory Room.
On my way there, I use Yoshi right before an HP Drain lands on me to obtain Jump Storage.
This will be used in the Factory Room to skip going into the background of the room. Once inside the Factory Room, I can step up
onto the conveyer belt to get Y-speed and jump over the tall wall to the right. From
here, I position Koops such that Mario lands below when Koops shoots out. I pause and unpause
to gain control of Mario. Then I go into Paper Mode, pause, and use an item. The delay from
unspinning from Paper Mode and the use of the Honey Syrup allows Koops to sufficiently
bring the Card Key far enough to the right in such a way that the Card Key will begin
falling. From here I switch to Yoshi and activate him as the item falls on me. This grants me
Jump Storage again, and I can use that to perform a Super Jump by walking onto the scooter
here. This skips the need to go into the background, get back to the higher platform, reveal the
stairs, and climb the stairs to Magnus von Grapple 2.0. This saves around 20 seconds.
In actuality, it saves more time in the Factory Room itself, but because this trick requires
Koops, it leads to substantial differences in the route, thus some time is lost from
not being able to skip Koops. While setting up that last Super Jump, I equipped
all my Mega Rushes in the pause menu. Thus, I can simply perform 4 Ground Pounds with
Yoshi and take out Magnus von Grapple 2.0 in one turn. I was able to activate the Sanctum door with
Bowser a lot earlier than the previous TAS. Part of the issue is that when you let go
of the analog stick, Bowser is actually slowly moving still, which prevents you from being
able to open the door. By pressing A and B on the same frame, Bowser immediately stops
moving to breath fire and he can activate the door too. Once I return to Marioās perspective, I
have to head down a sublevel to speak with TEC. For the elevators, itās fastest to
activate the elevator as far to the left as possible because this reduces the amount of
time it takes for Mario and Yoshi to walk in the center of the elevator, allowing the
elevator to spawn more quickly. I find it
really odd that in order to generate this randomized screen static, the game actually
calls RNG around 30,000 times per frame. This seems like a pretty inefficient way at handling
this static, but hey, whatever works I guess. After TEC shuts off, I can backtrack to the
teleporter and make my way back to Rogueport so I can advance to Chapter 8. After speaking with Frankly, I use Yoshi.
Instead of the normally long animation of Mario hopping off of Yoshi, I can hop off
right when I enter this email cutscene. This causes Mario to immediately hop off Yoshi
and land on the ground. This gives me Jump Storage, but I don't actually need it for
anything. Thereās a pipe that can take me to the Thousand-Year
Door room, but the path to it is covered up by a wall that is only removable with the
use of Flurrie. Since I skipped obtaining her, I have to perform a very precise jump
along the water to reach the boat panel and walk to the pipe. It was pretty fun to work
on this and implement it. In just an hour and 23 minutes, I have reached
Chapter 8 by only obtaining 3 of the 7 Crystal Stars. Onward to Chapter 8! The beginning of this chapter is pretty straightforward.
I use Yoshi as often as possible and utilize wallboosts to give myself additional speed. By using Paper Mode and some careful movement,
I can squeeze in between the two Gold Bill Blasters to avoid encountering them. I can avoid taking a sharp up-right angle
around the last set of spikes by squeezing in between the two diagonal sets at the end
of the room. There is a Hazard Respawn Glitch I can perform
in this room to spawn in the center of the room, but this loses a few seconds over just
walking normally. For the firebars, I can use some careful angling to make it around
the firebars which normally require Tube Mode. For unknown reasons, I canāt perform the
same early battle glitch like I did with Red Bones. These two cutscenes operate differently
for some reason. Additionally, it appears that the cutscene of the Dry Bones falling
does not have a random length unlike the Dull Bones cutscene back in Chapter 1. I hammer
some Dry Bones away, hop on Yoshi and encounter Dark Bones. For this fight it is fastest to
manipulate Showstopper to kill all the enemies instantly. I intentionally fail the first
action command in order to speed up the attack. Missing the action command lowers the accuracy
of Showstopper, but I was sufficiently able to manipulate RNG to allow them all to die
from it. I upgrade BP to be able to equip Double Dip later in addition to the Mega Rushes
later on. Just like before, I can bypass both sets of
the Gold Bill Blasters by using Paper Mode. For this staircase maze room, the order is
as follows: Down, Down, Up, Up, Down, Up, Down. The rooms are pretty straightforward
and I try to maximize my speed by utilizing wallboosts. Thanks to Palace Skip, I can avoid visiting
Riddle Tower, which means I donāt need boat mode, the Ultra Hammer, Vivian, Bobbery, or
the Ultra Boots. For Palace Skip, I first encounter the left
Ember and use a brute force script to manipulate an item drop. It doesnāt matter what the
item is but I need it to set up Text Storage. I then perform a Delayed Goombella Buffer
into the item by setting Goombella far enough off-screen, and I do so very close to the
other Ember. This way I can immediately enter and leave the battle to gain control of Mario
again. Then I traverse to the bottom-left corner of the room, push Yoshi out-of-bounds,
and perform a Yoshi Teleport to warp down to his Y-position. There is a spring that
normally exists for a portion of this room that is not currently loaded, and conveniently
the spring remains loaded. I use this to land on the seam of the room. I equip Double Dip,
swap to Koops, and set him up within the Emberās range of movement. Then I use the spring to
land behind the left door, jump towards the top-left corner of the room and release Koops
to hit the Ember. After running away from the fight, I can perform a Double Jump midair
to just barely land on the back seam of the room. From here, I can simply walk to a loading
zone beneath the floor to advance to the end of the chapter. This method saves a bit of
time over the previously used method in the TAS because it skips one battle encounter. After grabbing the key, the game recognizes
that I am at the end of the chapter and loads the previously unloaded portion of the room.
I take the plane panel straight to Grodusās Lair. Though itās a small detail, I activate
the plane panel on the very lower edge of it. Doing so causes the game to not restrict
the pitch of Marioās airplane while above the plane panel, allowing me to nosedive immediately
and therefore gain a lot more speed early on. During the Grodus fight, I need to get Yoshi
into peril, and I can do so by having him get hit by Grodusās lightning and a Grodus-X.
Afterwards, I jump twice on a Grodus-X to kill it and remove Grodusās shield. From
here, I can simply perform 4 Ground Pounds with Yoshi to defeat Grodus. Though we donāt
necessarily need more BP, itās still important to not upgrade FP, as that will make getting
Yoshi into peril a much slower process. You may not expect this, but Bowser and Kammy
are actually susceptible to Showstopper. For a failed Showstopper, they both have a 2%
chance of dying, so the combined probability of them getting hit is 1 in 2,500. Oddly enough,
I managed to get this scenario only wasting 2 frames I believe. Instead of walking towards the Shadow Queen
normally, I can perform something called the Gloomtail Warp. I head back left to perform
this. This is a very complex trick to explain, so
Iām going to start now. First I jump on the spring to reach the higher platform. Then
I hop on Yoshi, hit the spring twice, and on the second hit I hop off of Yoshi. Because
the spring is oscillating when I land the second time, this causes me to get Jump Storage.
I canāt control Mario during this initial bounce, so I position him under the door frame
to limit how much height I get. Then I hit the spring and land back up. From here I go
into Paper Mode, hit the spring, and then hold neutral and R and press A and Y on the
same frame to activate the plane panel. Doing so maintains my Jump Storage and Paper Mode.
From here, I spam left over the Plane Panel which for some reason allows me to gain much
more height than normal, allowing me to translate this into horizontal speed to get to the door
frame quicker. Because Iām in a weird state of Paper Mode, I can actually land on the
door frame. I get out of this weird Paper Mode state and re-enter a normal Paper Mode
state. From here, I step up onto a higher portion of the arch to get Y-velocity, and
I can Super Jump all the way to Gloomtailās room. Entering this room in the gameās current
state starts a cutscene that occurs in this room involving Frankly. Finishing this cutscene
places us at a point right before the first phase of the Shadow Queen battle, saving around
2.5 minutes. For the first phase, I need to deal 61 damage to advance
to the next phase. To do so, I need to get Yoshi into peril. I can do this by manipulating
the audience to hit Yoshi on turn 1. Then I let the Shadow Queen strike Yoshi. Afterwards,
I have the audience hit Yoshi one more time to bring him into peril. Then I can perform
4 Ground Pounds. Once the Shadow Queen transforms, I need to
attack her three separate times. I first jump with Mario. For some reason, attacking with
partners does not count as a hit. So I manipulate a Boo from the audience to attack the Shadow
Queen, which actually counts as the second hit. Afterwards, I land another hit with Mario
to end this phase of the fight. I canāt help but feel so happy over the
fact that at this point, there are so many characters in this cutscene that we never
actually have encounters with throughout this TAS. Itās amazing how much the community
has broken this game. Here I use Double Dip with a Point Swap. Double
Dip costs 4FP which brings me down to 1FP. Then, the Point Swap switches Yoshiās health
with my FP, therefore setting his health to 1. I then use the Stopwatch obtained during
Chapter 7 to make the Shadow Queen and her hands fall asleep, preventing her from attacking
after this turn. I then perform 4 Ground Pounds to deal half of her health. On the following
turn, I again use 4 Ground Pounds and successfully defeat the Shadow Queen. For this cutscene, the game never performs
checks to see if youāve actually obtained all the partners. Therefore twice as many
partners show up as I actually had throughout the TAS. I know that I have made so many TASes for
this game, and a lot of people ask me why Iām willing to put myself through that so
many times. I have to be honest in saying that I really enjoy creating these to show
off new glitch discoveries made by the community and show how crazy this gameās speedrun
has become. I love being able to face a problem, whether itās the Mega Rush P drops or the
Chapter 3 audience item throws, struggle with it, and then succeed in solving the problem.
TASing isnāt easy and itās not for everyone, but Iām happy that Iāve found and stuck
with one of my biggest passions for so long. The first TAS I helped make for this game
was almost 7 years ago at the time of uploading this, and we finished with a time of 4:52:30.
Itās crazy to think that if you were to play this new TAS 3 times, I would have defeated
the Chapter 7 boss on the third playback when the first TAS finishes the game. Itās just
insane that the game has reached this point. At the time of uploading, this TAS is now
faster than 9th place for Paper Mario 64 any% RTA, if you were to time this TAS using the
RTA method. The time gap between Paper Mario 64 and TTYD is shrinking, and I wouldnāt
be surprised if at some point we find that TTYD can be completed faster than Paper Mario
64. Iād really like to thank everyone who has
supported me throughout the development of this TAS. I was lucky enough to become partnered
on Twitch during the creation of this TAS. A lot of people expressed their interest and
investment for the development of the TAS and I canāt thank everyone enough and I
canāt express how much it means to receive this level of support. Thank you all for what
you do. Additionally, I want to thank SolidifiedGaming
for his various glitch discoveries over the years, including the newly added Super Jump
in the Factory Room in Chapter 7; Really_Tall for being the first to perform the new Teleporter
Room Early method and ultimately being the sole reason that this TAS was able to happen.
I want to thank MuzYoshi for the thumbnail and intro image for this TAS. I want to thank
Vynneve for routing. I want to thank jdaster and trivial171 for contributing to RNG manipulation
procedures. Without them, I would have undoubtedly lost 10s of seconds throughout Chapter 3 and
for the Mega Rush P drops. I want to thank PistonMiner for his help in making the Hooktail
Castle spiral easier to optimize, and for offering insight about the best ways to go
about brute forcing RNG. I want to thank CoolKirby2000 and Masterjun for their generosity in allowing
me to work with them for the first TTYD TAS. Had they not welcomed me aboard the project
with open arms, I may not have continued on to develop these TASes. I want to thank you,
the viewer, for watching all the way through. I hope you found this TAS to be entertaining.
Thank you so much. The final TAS timing is 1:47:09.03. RTA timing for this TAS is 1:46:53.22. Until next time, have a good one!
Hey there! If anyone has any questions regarding this TAS or my pursuit for a 100% TAS, feel free to let me know! I'm glad people here are taking an interest in this TAS. It's been a lot of fun to work on this and I appreciate the support.
Twitch stream where it was first shown, with live commentary.
EDIT: And the TASVideos submission, where some of the tricks are explained in more detail.
I'm literally about to head to bed, I'll watch this in the morning, but I'm assuming this includes that "holy Grail" skip mentioned in his last TAS video?
Always love Malleo videos.. super interesting to watch. Congrats on the sub 2 dude!
Wow. I planned on just watching a little bit but then got sucked in. Would you ever think about submitting this for a GDQ TAS run? Or does the RNG still make it difficult? I don't get how it all works
that bowser fight was eš ±ļøic