Super Mario Star Road - 0 Star Speedrun in

This is the result of 7 days of hard work and I'm really happy with it.
The hyperjump is a lot more luck dependant than it might seem: often you break out of the BLJ too early due to bad spacing, sometimes you lose all your speed in the middle of the BLJ, sometimes the jump into the water just doesn't work and sometimes you bonk right before the hyperjump due to bad spacing. To top it all off, sometimes you just don't have enough speed to jump high enough to make it onto the tower which has killed multiple of my attempts.
The deluxe version has a "hard mode" feature which you activate by pressing L on the file select screen, doing so makes you die instantly upon taking damage which would save time for the death warp in the wing cap stage, except for the fact that getting a damage-less hyperjump is super rare. It also makes the hyperjump itself way more luck dependant than it already is due to the fact that for some reason the overworld actually has a death barrier on the deluxe version so you'll almost always just clip through the star-shaped island when attempting the hyperjump.
Credit to Spaceman for helping with the chair BLJ and FocusSR for suggesting me to do this category lmao

[@User31662]

bro your description
"This is the result of 7 days of hard work and I'm really happy with it."
Sounds like genesis :)

[@SimplyN64]

insane

[@AspectCave]

insane

[@Yahootails789]

insane

[@TriforceTK]

Nice speedrun! Awesome to finally see someone pull off the hyper jump RTA, well deserved!

[@chrislink9737]

very much appreciated, thanks

[@Keubab]

Wasn't impressed until I saw it wasn't TAS... doing that RTA is insane, congrats!

[@superkulty64]

That is some of the sickest SM64 speedruns I've seen. Using that BLJ momentum with so much precision is something I rarely see. Really impressed by it along with your Kaizo SM64 run. XD

[@Suigi]

Sick strat Hope this ends up as a new category like 1 Key or something

[@baldi_real_no_fake]

Let just wait until 1 key is humanly possible

[@minichikimakubex]

Yo you becoming the goat hope 120 stars wr 5/5

[@btarg1]

I've never even been able to complete Star Road because of its scope and yet you finish it in a flash, this is an insane run!

[@AspectCave]

holy shit, this is insane the fact it was performed in real time is something else, congrats 🎉

[@dreeamy1807]

Holy shit what an crazy route/run for a rom hack, absolutely insane. Good job man!

[@boxset_9937]

Huge congrats, this is amazing!

[@YoshiMarioFan711]

absolutely incredible. big congrats legend, yet again

[@tjk113]

wouldn't have expected anything less from that title lol. ggs, that was an awesome run.

[@Checco105]

OH SHIT! WELCOME BACK!
Also ggs for WR

[@superwatermelon6459]

Congratulations!!! I remember trying to get the hyperjump to work a few years ago but I gave up. I didn't know that this was actually doable in real time.

[@GTM_]

damn thats pretty sick

[@AussieAdam]

legend

[@ayoitscat]

Awesome dude, nice job!

[@kingtoad6462]

gaming at its finest

[@vandust64]

GGs keep breaking these rom hacks big man

[@fautmedireenclair]

Sick run poggers !

[@Zuk0109]

its hard to believe this is not a TAS... well, its also not hard to tell its not, due to the obvious not-frame-perfect stuff, but still a really good run!! people need to speedrun this romhack more, i actually wanted to after watching this run, again great job!

[@davejay6855]

Rainbow Colored Bowser??? It a all makes'a sense now! So long...

[@maxrichards5925]

awesome run!

[@helloolleh_dis]

This is faster than the world record TAS speedrun for the original SM64
Amazing

[@natgoesfast]

This is crazy. GGs

[@heroknaderi]

Wow that was so cool

[@MarzipanCat.]

The human limit, it is insane what can be achieved before we reach it

[@x12721]

Super cool vid! Possible noob question here - does Mario preserve speed in water like you did in vanilla M64, or is that a unique feature to this hack? I admit, I only have casual experience with this game and the speed running scene

[@chrislink9737]

When you enter the water, your sliding speed is conserved, so with a frame perfect Z press you can reactivate the sliding speed and use it to hyperjump. The height of a double jump depends on your horizontal speed when jumping and because I had a ton of speed, the jump went way higher than should normally be possible.
This is a vanilla thing but you almost never see it used in RTA speedruns

[@Danny_Jarquin]

its pretty amazing how you can still blj

[@iv_pa996]

Respect

[@drybloxman]

Oh okay I thought this game wasn't gonna see any action for a while holy shit

[@EvilLightingMcQueen367]

nice run I just found a bljless trick!

[@lucasmiguel1508]

Cool 👍

[@TrillMurray]

I have no idea what I just watched

[@ryanbauman8966]

woah

[@DarkManSRuns]

Treasure World 0 star (on mobile), Kaizo Mario 64 0 star and now Star Road 0 Key.
You are just a legend man congrats for getting that
I wonder how hard is that, looks very hard, what was your succes ratio for getting the whole trick ? (just an approx, just for me to figure how hard it is to do it RTA)

[@chrislink9737]

thanks, it's appreciated!
I'd say about 1% of the runs (maybe even less) made it past the hyperjump, it's really bad because of how much spacing-dependant stuff there is which is just out of your control, even if you do the inputs right. not to mention that whenever you pull it off you just get super nervous instantly which makes it much easier to mess up the end of the run

[@DarkManSRuns]

@@chrislink9737 yeah ok i see thanks you for technical explanations!

[@murmiel]

Gg! Que emulador usas ?? Me gustaría comenzar a jugar hacks de mario 64

[@nothanksthough]

God damn

[@TehEnglishSpartan]

Damn human skill is absurd

[@hyenasenpai8227]

gg

[@drewey9997]

WHAT THE FUCK??? I thought 0 Star was DEAD after TK got the 4:49.

[@mela_mela_melancholy]

これはすごい

[@pounouche6497]

RIP triforceTK

[@fautmedireenclair]

You're not uploading your new WR on YT ?

[@Kombucha08]

cool

[@RoseQuartz692]

that you can get the hyperjump in RTA is just fucking insane
and what did you mean with this? death barrier on the deluxe version so you'll almost always just clip through the star-shaped island when attempting the hyperjump.

[@chrislink9737]

When you reactivate the speed right before attempting the hyperjump, you'll have about the same amount of speed you had when you first get in the water, and this is more than enough speed for Mario to just go through the floor, which will usually happen and make the hyperjump impossible.
What prevents Mario from going through the steep floor is the fact that the overworld has what's known as "out of bounds area" while in the deluxe version this was for some reason changed to a death barrier (like the one you find in vanilla Whomp's Fortress when you jump off the stage). I pointed this out because on deluxe if you press L on the file select screen, you activate "hard mode" which essentially means you get OHKO'd after any damage you take, which would save time for this

[@RoseQuartz692]

@@chrislink9737 so you would die if you did the hyperjump on the Deluxe version?

[@chrislink9737]

@@RoseQuartz692 you don't die because there's water underneath the whole map but yeah the run dies because the hyperjump fails

[@josefinamaria]

ive never seen this level, what game is this?

[@chrislink9737]

It's a ROM hack of SM64, called Star Road

[@panzervpanther933]

It is rom hack?

[@twiistedduck0218]

jesus christ

[@focus_sr3416]

Not impressed FUNgineer