Just for the record, there's a whole community of people trying to beat sm64 with as little "A presses" as possible. It seems like when new things are discovered they send it to pannenkoek and he makes a video documenting it. They've been doing it for years now and is something still happening. If nothing else, it's just really cool seeing people break down the coding and figuring things like this out. I love it when people understand how a game works and use its flaws against it. Also, I'm sure he did it on an emulator, so he probably sped up the emulator so that 12 hours was like 12 minutes.
Shimmering Bass It’s done tool-assisted, so he’s not actually pressing buttons, but is instead writing a bot to do it for him. This allows his inputs to be frame-perfect.
I was mentioning what a TAS is not for you, but for anyone who happened to read that comment. As RarityDash is a (mostly) non-gaming channel, I suspect that there are plenty of people who are unfamiliar with the term.
While Pannenkoek and the rest of the ABC crew do extensively use emulators when testing/scripting routes, they very specifically make sure that anything they work out is verified on a real, live Nintendo 64 with an authentic version of Mario 64 (specifically the original release of the JP version of the game). These days they do Twitch Streams of the console verification and then upload the video to youtube for documentation purposes. So yes, he did use an emulator, but when those 12 hours elapse, that's all video editing. The actual console verification video of the strategy isn't available (they were a bit sloppy with console verification six years ago) but there is an actual console verification video for a faster version of this star that they later found, and it's a full five-and-a-half hours long: th-cam.com/video/w_8rurxBUYc/w-d-xo.html
"I get this star with a half an A press." - That's weird. "I transport this scuttlebug across the map." - Never mind. That's weird "I repeatedly step back and forth to load and unload the scuttlebug, causing it to rise above the ground." - Never mind. That's weird. "Now I build up infinite speed in order to teleport between multiple, parallel universes." - ....
It’s weird that some people can’t just… APPRECIATE when someone puts a humongous level of work and passion into such a mundane goal. Like sure, you yourself wouldn’t have fun performing this, but isn’t the sheer ridiculousness of how much effort he put into something so trivial at least… SLIGHTLY mentally stimulate you? Guy literally performed quantum displacement just to beat a Mario level without pressing A, and you’re acting like you’re watching paint dry.
TheBilateralGamer Bad Word However, everyone…! It is important to practice self awareness… and… We ARE the ones watching him watch these videos …for at least 18 minutes and 44 seconds. What are all of our lives?!
im quite certain this was only requested because "... we need to talk about parallel universes" has kinda become a pretty famous meme amongst people who both do and watch these weird mario challenges and just speedrunning in general.
I've never seen one of his videos before, but I can totally see how that line became a meme. The things you have to do to get stars like this without jumping are so delightfully ridiculous x)
It would be interesting to know if you had any experience with the game before watching this video, that could greatly change your view on something like this. A presses are used to jump, and ""Watch for rolling rocks" is a star that you'd never be expected to get without jumping since it's located at a very high altitude. So the title of this video intrigued me before it even started. And yes, the SM64-community is much more active than you might think, from speedruns to no-jump-challenges to hacking the game (which I tried myself), many people who grew up with this game are still interested in that kinda stuff.
I genuinely love this video, and I'm glad it became a meme so I could find out about it. Pannenkoek's style makes all the mad technical stuff he explains understandable, energetic, and fun. It's only natural that this became a meme, but mocking the guy misses the point. This is peak TH-cam content.
He didnt played that in realtime. He used tas (tool Assisted speedrun) tools to do that. He could exactly set which buttons are pressed in each frame and set the exactly wanted joystick coordinates for each frame. At the end he had a list for each frame and this file could be played back
I asked about the whys, once. Basically, I was told that it's a beloved game but everyone's already done everything, so this was a way to keep playing while still having a fresh challenge.
Because it's extremely popular, has millions of views and many people find it extremely interesting. It's definitely not for everyone though, but the extreme popularity of tech gaming videos and speedrunning is showing many do. But again, I find people either love it or hate it.
@@Atlas_Redux That's... a rather serious response to a trivial comment, but like, I _get_ why it was requested. I just don't think it was an appropriate video to throw at someone who hasn't shown any prior interest in the whole speedrunning and 'can we beat X with/without doing Y' communities, because I just don't think you'll get the kind of reaction you'd want, unless it _is_ the '...I don't get it. Why are you doing this?' reaction you're after. But regardless, it is people's choice to do so and if RD doesn't mind these kind of videos then I'm not complaining. I still enjoyed the video and found it entertaining.
@@Meteorite_Shower I agree, but RD also never showed any interest in Filthy Frank etc. and ended up actually quite enjoying some of his videos (which also is very much either you hate it or love it). Gotta give it a shot!
I found this to be fascinating. He's a passionate guy who found an interesting way to beat a game. It's strange how you're more focused on wondering why *you* would want to do it. Maybe just chill out with the perpetual "WUTFACE LOL WAT A NERD" reactions. It's easily understood.
"Isnt it more fun to just play the game" and THERE is your answer for why people do this. This game is 22 years old. Stuff like this is what people will do if they still want to get new things out of a game like that.
Are you familiar with the concepts of tool assisted speedruns and challenge runs? The satisfaction comes from beating a game with an additional challenge. In a speedrun that challenge is minimizing time, and here the challenge is to press A as little as possible. Usually the community defines what you're allowed to do because it wouldn't have been a lot of effort to mess about with the memory and just put mario right onto that star without pressing anything at all. And yes, having that one goal means sacrificing everything else if necessary. He could have pressed A just a few more times and gotten the star much faster (to be honest, that 12 hour period was probably just in the emulator and went by much faster) but time is a non factor in this run. Speedrun would be the complete opposite. Here a runner might sacrifice safety, just to gain half a second.
That long three-minute explanation and five-paragraph description just to say "It's like a no jump challenge, but you're holding the button down the whole time instead of not pressing it at all." Articulation's not all its cracked up to be.
This wasn't really your kind of video, but I loved your deadpan reaction to it. It's legitimately more complex than the physics in Steins;Gate but with fewer waifus, so I can't blame anyone for getting a bit lost.
This is such a left field thing to request, Jesus Christ. I'm gonna go become a patron just so I can request weird videos on obscure topics only I care about, get ready for the entire "Sex Survey Results" video by Lasagnacat.
I think it needs to be mentioned that this wasn't actually played by a human being and would probably also be impossible to (in case it wasn't obvious). This was a tool-assigned speedrun where instead of going fast the goal here is to beat the game in the least amount of A presses. Seems like a weird challenge but the fun here lies in figuring out the routes and optimisation and stuff I think.
Probably one of the strangest things to react to tbh. ^^; I like SM64, but I don’t think a speedrun/informational video reaction is necessary... 😅 Interesting reaction, I guess?...
Honestly i didn't care for the original video glitches and speed runs are cool just not as much to me. Any way for another suggestion i would pick ProjectPKFlash's POLLYANNA: An Animated Earthbound Tribute.
@@shai8800 Basically the guy set himself a challenge to beat the level with half an 'a press' then exploited the properties of the game code and physics to achieve it. Lots of programming knowledge, patience and math enabled him to do something normally impossible!
Sometimes I wonder why these videos get requested, like I get youre just trying to get someone to react to a video you love but this had pretty much nothing to do with what RD reacts in general. I felt the same way about the Game Grumps videos or the Gorgeous Freeman ones. Why would you waste your money on a video RD will either 1)Not understand or 2)Not find interesting?
It's just a speedrun with a weird constraint and no timer. To be fair, speedruns are weird. My favorite is the segmented hl1 speed run, probably because I know the game. What game does RD know well? We should request a speedrun of it.
@@ianlauthner9018 you can't say you have muscles when there's no way to prove that. Get in a fricking dm and post your pecks there or whatever. ...just make sure they're not a minor tho-
Also, I somehow bet this video would be incredible drunk, just this nasally nerd talking video game physics and science in a way too long, way too cringy format would have me floored with just a slight buzz going.
![[Blind Reaction] Amazing Frog - Game Grumps](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/YIxCvFUUa4c/mqdefault.jpg)
![ประสบการณ์ จ้าง Developer ที่ผมจะไม่มีวันลืม [ภาค2]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/pZbsSDRrmXA/mqdefault.jpg)
Just for the record, there's a whole community of people trying to beat sm64 with as little "A presses" as possible. It seems like when new things are discovered they send it to pannenkoek and he makes a video documenting it. They've been doing it for years now and is something still happening. If nothing else, it's just really cool seeing people break down the coding and figuring things like this out. I love it when people understand how a game works and use its flaws against it. Also, I'm sure he did it on an emulator, so he probably sped up the emulator so that 12 hours was like 12 minutes.
Shimmering Bass It’s done tool-assisted, so he’s not actually pressing buttons, but is instead writing a bot to do it for him. This allows his inputs to be frame-perfect.
@@GoldenSandslash15 Lol, you're telling someone who makes TAS's what a TAS is. Granted I'm not very good at it but still.
I was mentioning what a TAS is not for you, but for anyone who happened to read that comment. As RarityDash is a (mostly) non-gaming channel, I suspect that there are plenty of people who are unfamiliar with the term.
@@GoldenSandslash15 this didnt age well
While Pannenkoek and the rest of the ABC crew do extensively use emulators when testing/scripting routes, they very specifically make sure that anything they work out is verified on a real, live Nintendo 64 with an authentic version of Mario 64 (specifically the original release of the JP version of the game). These days they do Twitch Streams of the console verification and then upload the video to youtube for documentation purposes.
So yes, he did use an emulator, but when those 12 hours elapse, that's all video editing. The actual console verification video of the strategy isn't available (they were a bit sloppy with console verification six years ago) but there is an actual console verification video for a faster version of this star that they later found, and it's a full five-and-a-half hours long: th-cam.com/video/w_8rurxBUYc/w-d-xo.html
"I get this star with a half an A press."
- That's weird.
"I transport this scuttlebug across the map."
- Never mind. That's weird
"I repeatedly step back and forth to load and unload the scuttlebug, causing it to rise above the ground."
- Never mind. That's weird.
"Now I build up infinite speed in order to teleport between multiple, parallel universes."
- ....
Not infinite speed but this comment made me laugh anyways. lol
*Raritydash builds up confusion for 12 hours*
@@MattTOB618 and travels -Q- PUs to move up a hill
then after that he returns to the main map to use an elevator@@PixalonGC
Shoutout to Simpleflips
*insert 100 TJ "Henry" Yoshi comments*
I love reaction videos
I love speedruns
They don't necessarily need to coincide
I don’t love reddit mods that’s why I hate this video
It’s weird that some people can’t just… APPRECIATE when someone puts a humongous level of work and passion into such a mundane goal. Like sure, you yourself wouldn’t have fun performing this, but isn’t the sheer ridiculousness of how much effort he put into something so trivial at least… SLIGHTLY mentally stimulate you? Guy literally performed quantum displacement just to beat a Mario level without pressing A, and you’re acting like you’re watching paint dry.
agreed.
Exactly this
18:44 OH, THE IRONY!
OOF!
Jrockten truth lmao
TheBilateralGamer indeed
TheBilateralGamer Bad Word However, everyone…! It is important to practice self awareness… and…
We ARE the ones watching him watch these videos …for at least 18 minutes and 44 seconds.
What are all of our lives?!
Jrockten good question, glad I didn’t watch the whole thing
im quite certain this was only requested because "... we need to talk about parallel universes" has kinda become a pretty famous meme amongst people who both do and watch these weird mario challenges and just speedrunning in general.
I've never seen one of his videos before, but I can totally see how that line became a meme. The things you have to do to get stars like this without jumping are so delightfully ridiculous x)
Building up speed for 12 hours has become memetic as well.
“An A Press is an A Press, you can’t say it’s only a half” is another meme from this video
It's not everyday someone reacts to god in his purest form
It would be interesting to know if you had any experience with the game before watching this video, that could greatly change your view on something like this. A presses are used to jump, and ""Watch for rolling rocks" is a star that you'd never be expected to get without jumping since it's located at a very high altitude. So the title of this video intrigued me before it even started. And yes, the SM64-community is much more active than you might think, from speedruns to no-jump-challenges to hacking the game (which I tried myself), many people who grew up with this game are still interested in that kinda stuff.
Never forget machinimists!
you stole the words outside my mouth!@@KingMetalMario
He pretty much did all that to get that 1 star in few A presses as possible which was the whole point of the challenge.
Crazy I know.
I genuinely love this video, and I'm glad it became a meme so I could find out about it. Pannenkoek's style makes all the mad technical stuff he explains understandable, energetic, and fun. It's only natural that this became a meme, but mocking the guy misses the point. This is peak TH-cam content.
It’s not that 3 million people watched the video, it’s that 30,000 people had to watch it 100 times to understand it
Ha!
He didnt played that in realtime. He used tas (tool Assisted speedrun) tools to do that. He could exactly set which buttons are pressed in each frame and set the exactly wanted joystick coordinates for each frame. At the end he had a list for each frame and this file could be played back
Idk what everyone is talking about!? This is freaking RIVETING!!! AWW MAN! WOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I asked about the whys, once. Basically, I was told that it's a beloved game but everyone's already done everything, so this was a way to keep playing while still having a fresh challenge.
I did 2 A Presses while commentating this video
I have no idea why this was requested, but at least I finally understand what a half A press is.
Because it's extremely popular, has millions of views and many people find it extremely interesting. It's definitely not for everyone though, but the extreme popularity of tech gaming videos and speedrunning is showing many do. But again, I find people either love it or hate it.
@@Atlas_Redux
That's... a rather serious response to a trivial comment, but like, I _get_ why it was requested. I just don't think it was an appropriate video to throw at someone who hasn't shown any prior interest in the whole speedrunning and 'can we beat X with/without doing Y' communities, because I just don't think you'll get the kind of reaction you'd want, unless it _is_ the '...I don't get it. Why are you doing this?' reaction you're after.
But regardless, it is people's choice to do so and if RD doesn't mind these kind of videos then I'm not complaining. I still enjoyed the video and found it entertaining.
@@Meteorite_Shower I agree, but RD also never showed any interest in Filthy Frank etc. and ended up actually quite enjoying some of his videos (which also is very much either you hate it or love it). Gotta give it a shot!
i unironically love the game information on ho mario 64 works in the base ganme
RarityDash's confuced silence was a treat
I found this to be fascinating. He's a passionate guy who found an interesting way to beat a game. It's strange how you're more focused on wondering why *you* would want to do it. Maybe just chill out with the perpetual "WUTFACE LOL WAT A NERD" reactions. It's easily understood.
I entirely understand why people want to do this, and if it's what they like then I fully support them.
They're still giant nerds though.
@@MnemonicHack If you watch reactions then you're much worse than a nerd.
@@milesedgeworth132 A super nerd?
Buddy, you've got no idea.
*[Raritydash builds up confusion for 12 hours]*
Pannenkoek really is about 4 QPU ahead of everybody else.
"Isnt it more fun to just play the game"
and THERE is your answer for why people do this. This game is 22 years old. Stuff like this is what people will do if they still want to get new things out of a game like that.
This is great.
A video reaction is a video reaction, you can't say it's only a half.
These are the types of kids I shouldn’t have bullied in high school.
If you watch RD I'm pretty sure you were bullied
Miles Edgeworth Nah I wasn’t a pussy back then
Are you familiar with the concepts of tool assisted speedruns and challenge runs?
The satisfaction comes from beating a game with an additional challenge. In a speedrun that challenge is minimizing time, and here the challenge is to press A as little as possible.
Usually the community defines what you're allowed to do because it wouldn't have been a lot of effort to mess about with the memory and just put mario right onto that star without pressing anything at all.
And yes, having that one goal means sacrificing everything else if necessary. He could have pressed A just a few more times and gotten the star much faster (to be honest, that 12 hour period was probably just in the emulator and went by much faster) but time is a non factor in this run. Speedrun would be the complete opposite. Here a runner might sacrifice safety, just to gain half a second.
Its for fun and a challenge(and just knowing what is possible and not possible)
"Reads description". That's really saying something.
22:20 lmao that’s such genuine disappointment!
That long three-minute explanation and five-paragraph description just to say "It's like a no jump challenge, but you're holding the button down the whole time instead of not pressing it at all." Articulation's not all its cracked up to be.
who knew you had to have a PHD in quantum mechanics to play SM64
This wasn't really your kind of video, but I loved your deadpan reaction to it. It's legitimately more complex than the physics in Steins;Gate but with fewer waifus, so I can't blame anyone for getting a bit lost.
But how do you defeat a goomba
I know my spelling is crap
a ship is a ship, you cant say its only a half
I actually watch pannen videos, but its weird to see rd reacting to him. But happy anyway
Like one commentator said, OH, the irony...
"What is YOUR, life?"
this is a meme in the sm64 community about how an a press is just an a press its halarious
When I read the title.. I was so excited! But then I read carefully and saw that it wasn't SMG4... I felt sad again...
Thought the exact same thing.
This is such a left field thing to request, Jesus Christ.
I'm gonna go become a patron just so I can request weird videos on obscure topics only I care about, get ready for the entire "Sex Survey Results" video by Lasagnacat.
A Rarity Dash is a Rarity Dash. You can't say it's only Rarity Jack
press A for...
Press half A to pay half respects
I think it needs to be mentioned that this wasn't actually played by a human being and would probably also be impossible to (in case it wasn't obvious). This was a tool-assigned speedrun where instead of going fast the goal here is to beat the game in the least amount of A presses.
Seems like a weird challenge but the fun here lies in figuring out the routes and optimisation and stuff I think.
The world of Speed Running games is not for mortals to comprehend.
Turn out there is a whole lot more math involved in "Gotta Go Fast!"
Keep in mind, he probably used an emulator to speed up the time for those multiple hours.
Okay, I seriously didn't expect to see one of Pannenkoek's videos reacted to on this channel, ever.
What's next? Ceave Gaming?
... why was this suggested
An a press is an a press. You can't say it's only half.
The goal is to not let go of the "A" button- It's the challenge
People like a challenge.
It's as simple as that.
You honestly sound like someone who wouldn't like harder difficulties in games.
I can explain why this is so popular.
But first...
...we need to talk about SCUTTLEBUG RAISING
If things couldn't be better on your channel
Now we got to explain to him what Gay Baby Jail is!
Looks like you have another video to blind react bucko
Probably one of the strangest things to react to tbh. ^^;
I like SM64, but I don’t think a speedrun/informational video reaction is necessary... 😅
Interesting reaction, I guess?...
Honestly i didn't care for the original video glitches and speed runs are cool just not as much to me.
Any way for another suggestion i would pick ProjectPKFlash's POLLYANNA: An Animated Earthbound Tribute.
People like the video because of how ridiculous it is.
Oh lord this account
Interesting info if it's not something you looked for or into games as much it can be boring
i expected you to be blind. scammed
_notices_
Me: ...um, wut?
Do you watch SMG4 videos?
Lol I don’t understand 😭😭😭
What is going on here, I’m not even halfway through the video and I’m still confused
@@shai8800 Basically the guy set himself a challenge to beat the level with half an 'a press' then exploited the properties of the game code and physics to achieve it. Lots of programming knowledge, patience and math enabled him to do something normally impossible!
Atom Teuoxtonion oh....
May wash sml
“Overly technical nonsense” nice one reddit man
omg XD
Sometimes I wonder why these videos get requested, like I get youre just trying to get someone to react to a video you love but this had pretty much nothing to do with what RD reacts in general. I felt the same way about the Game Grumps videos or the Gorgeous Freeman ones. Why would you waste your money on a video RD will either 1)Not understand or 2)Not find interesting?
These are just getting ridiculous now
It's just a speedrun with a weird constraint and no timer. To be fair, speedruns are weird. My favorite is the segmented hl1 speed run, probably because I know the game. What game does RD know well? We should request a speedrun of it.
Are ppl really that desperate to find new ways to play super mario 64 o_O jezz
These people seriously need a life
your commenting on a reaction channel about mlp and anime. not tryn to be superior just look where you are lol.
Those are fighting words🤜🏻🤛🏻👊🏻
@@ianlauthner9018 🗿🔪
You’re just jealous of my muscles
@@ianlauthner9018 you can't say you have muscles when there's no way to prove that.
Get in a fricking dm and post your pecks there or whatever.
...just make sure they're not a minor tho-
100th comment
Also, I somehow bet this video would be incredible drunk, just this nasally nerd talking video game physics and science in a way too long, way too cringy format would have me floored with just a slight buzz going.
Well, that was a wasted half an hour
this is like some hard core math