Another Mario Adventure - Course 6 Stage RTA in 3:47
So tala retimed my previous run to a 3:48.23. However the previous wr doesn't have a video, so it couldn't be retime and it got added as 3:48, means I was still 2nd. Had some chokes to penguin and reds, but still got this faster than expected. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9JHS8Wm0cs
0:00 Bowling but different
8:12 Ice Cube Sliding
That hangable ceiling section is so awful. After over 1h of attempts I only had 1 attempt past it, which is really frustrating knowing this is only be a super small part of reds. I got so insanely nervous for the bowling star already, but luckily I never choked the ending. Therefor I didn't get that lucky with the other star. I choked the very last jump of that ice block. I analyzed that choke and it didn't look like I did anything wrong. Seems like I misstimed my a input TWICE by less than a frame. That was insanely frustrating, but at least the next time I got up there I got the star and I have no idea how honestly. I was sliding at the bottom of the ice cube for a bit and suddenly I was able to jump again. Absolutely no clue how that worked, but I take it.
Also wtf was that star grab https://gyazo.com/651463452ec03c74d72717c1ff0cee02
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTiuRGZZpUQ
My first run of this was a high 21 and on the next day I already ended up getting a sub 12. While this run didn't have any super big major mistakes, there were still a few smaller ones. Mainly the underground area in c1, elevators in c2 and the top split. I could see a 11:3X, maybe even sub 11:30 being possible, but sadly this game isn't as fun to run as I thought, so for now I am done with this.
Also as shown at the end I beat my previous SoB by exactly 1 frame with this run
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM6yqz2dMWk
0:00 100 Coins + 10/10 Choke
13:42 Red Amulets in the Darkness
I didn't want to do this star for the longest time, since it has some tricky jumps and there is a full stage reclimb with all reds. Guess with some practice this star wasn't super bad, but the reclimb is very scary nevertheless. Luckily I only died once to it at least.
For some reason I had some pretty bad lag spikes while attempting. Sadly you can't see it at all, but at 22:20 my screen froze for literally like half a second, so no idea how I didn't miss the wallkick there. I had a few smaller lagspikes, but somehow they all didn't kill me. I really can't attempt stars harder than this when I can die to literally any jump due to lag.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKSB0V6C6Zo
Couldn't do this for a while, since I didn't find the red at 0:25 and you also can't use moonjump or open this hack in quad. Think in total I spend almost 2h trying to find that red.
Getting the 8 reds isn't too bad, but getting to the second star is quite challenging. At least I took a while to get it once with states. I guess after figuring out the angle and with some practice it wasn't too bad. Still didn't expect to fluke the star from 2 reds. But as always either I completely fluke a star or get the worst chokes ever.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9xaP9EMwXA
Think this one took me the longest - around 5 sessions. I still like the concept of this hack. You have a certain goal time and first off all you have to figure out how to achieve that time. Very often the S-Rank time seemed completely impossible, but with more and more optimizing and maybe finding different strats or maybe a new route it always became viable.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RPKkUZSFn0
0:00 Mips 1
1:41 OW1 Toad + Reds
5:18 Mips 2
6:32 OW3 Toads + Reds
10:36 OW2 Stars
OW1 and OW3 were pretty much just free stars, but OW2 was a bit challenging. Was kinda annoying that you have to climb those boxes multiple times.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Cpabq6V8g
0:00 Very Tight Hole (No Homo)
2:02 Haha Wallkick
3:28 5 Red
11:41 Umbrella
I had a super bad choke to the last jump of reds, but other than that it was a good level.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNEaQjHM9hY