The scary thing about this was that I actually felt relieved when the PU map came on screen, as it was the only thing I could understand in this whole video.
I mean, I understood that he was building up the bully's speed for something, I later realized it was so some kind of interaction with it would allow entering a parallel universe, but I'm still not sure by what mechanism he is building up the bully's speed, nor do I know what kind of interaction is being used to emter the parallel universe.
The basic idea is that unrealistic physics lets the bully produce kinetic energy when bumping into it. This is exploited to use the bully as a battery (or a capacitor?) to build up speed on Mario's behalf
That Bully just experienced something far beyond its comprehension. Being nearly killed, only to survive, being ran into for 21 hours straight, smearing across the volcano in some sort of Bully superposition, going thousands of times faster than it has ever gone, sending another being to a parallel universe by a monumental transfer of speed... It would be easier to explain to this Bully how it happened, but it could never, ever understand why. "Bully, we did this to you to avoid pressing this button once." A mind-breaking experience for... an A press? But in the end... "An A press is an A press." No matter the cost.
@@Raebybbid BitFS will be faster than this, but it will need a lot more explaining: there are much more accessible non-trivial fast bully battery spots, hence allowing us to begin FBB earlier.
@@jgcodes2020 Is it basically confirmed this strat will help in BitFS too? Kind of out of the loop, but the way you write makes it sound like you’re pretty confident it will be possible to do.
A moment of silence for Bismuth having to explain how this works in the future. That montage was jaw-dropping. The amount of effort in these TASes just keeps rising. Congratulations to the ABC team for this achievement!
For real though, a lot of strategies were deemed infeasible in practice like the pedro spot in TTC with the cog, but here we are seeing this. Its insane. Had this been uploaded by anyone else im pretty sure we all would have debunked it as false. Now its just waiting for the explanation as to what is going on.
I never noticed that, either. The texture isn't even animated, so I suppose they just made the lava plane rotate rather than make the texture animate in order to save resources. Even in the *"lava waterfall"* the texture just scrolls downwards.
Another weird thing I discovered about the texture is, it's actually water, only way to discover that is typing this gameshark code below that I've made and going to Lethal Lava Land and going inside the volcano, and once you're inside the volcano press D-Pad down and it'll spawn a glitter star, and once you jump up and touch the glitter star the lava texture would rise and Mario would be swimming in it. That's weird. Here is the code 81331AEA 2620 81331AEC 0000 80330E94 0003 8133D2DE 0001 812CB2BE 2288 812CB30A 2288 812CB356 25F8 812CB35A 008B 812CB36E 0164 812CB372 0000
i once saw someone describe the ABC as a "puzzle sent by god". like, a task that doesn't have to be done, isn't defined as necessary by anyone, and offers no true reward, but once one has started on it, it becomes clear that it's utterly insane and complex to do, and it's only even possible through ludicrous levels of confluence and luck alongside immense skill. it's like... they say "people climb mountains because they're there". but the ABC is like a mountain you climb even though it's *not* there. it's a task defined by absence, and yet it's unequivocally possible to climb. you just have to find the right spots to fray the fabric of the world...
0xa almost definitely wont happen without arbitrary code execution being discovered because of wing mario over the rainbow red coins, no way to start flying without a cannon shot or a triple jump which both need an a press. 1xa could be in the realm of possibility but a lot more stuff would have to be discovered Jrb 0xa and wmotr 1xa have a whole lot of things that almost work so a breakthrough there could come from a lot of places (jrb moreso than wmotr) SSL would probably need eyerok manipulation of some kind THI needs wiggler manip PSS would probably need some kind of discovery with maintaining speed when breaking the block or something, cuz you can use the demo to spawn in the stage at a huge offset and with crazy vertical/sliding speed The 5 a presses in the lobby would need some discovery with crazy spawning displacement while exiting a stage that's somewhere on the second floor (on the jp version of the game) And then stomp on the thwomp and bowser in the fire sea are being saved right now
You actually don't. 0x can only plausibly happen via a trivial solution, whereas there might be interesting and unique solutions for a few more of them.
@@fisch37 these young folk nowadays got their fancy motorbikes and electric cars. Back in my day, we used to burn our britches boarding the bully, and we didn’t complain about building speed for 21 hours!
Even by A button challenge standards, this is insane... and Pannen knows it. The damn fast forward through the brute forcer as it built up bully speed and the music... Absolutely bonkers, and... congrats? To everyone involved.
fucking insane when you think about the fact that new shit is STILLLLL being achieved on a 26 year old game. the 100% speedrun of this game hasn’t even been fully optimized on RTA or TAS yet. I love it.
That's not really special when you think about it. The only game that's fully optimized rta that I can think of is Dragster. There are a few more with TAS like SMB1 but it's still pretty rare that there isn't room for improvement.
@@poudink5791 Yeah, but SM64 is a game with an incomprehensibly massive community with thousands of people perpetually poking holes at it. The fact that it still hasn’t been fully poked is fascinating - whether it be for admiring the loopholes in the coding or the sheer amount of human fascination for this game or humanity’s ability to keep poking towards the goal until we get there. It’s fascinating to those who are at least easily impressed by numbers, which I am, and I don’t mind it lol.
@@Varooooooom And luckily humans love seeing big numbers (most of the time). "Wow 1000000 speed is a lot more than 40" and "Wow you have to sit and wait for 20 hours" are interesting for people like us lol
Just a fantastic showcase of pushing the technical limits of this twenty-six year-old game. I audibly said "oh no" the first time Mario bumped into the Bully and I saw its speed go up. Great work!
Mario: Time for me to utilize parallel universes again LLL: Ha, there are no HSW spots, what are you gonna do now? Mario: lemme just torture a bully for a whole day and use it at the end for a split second, simple. Just to flex I might just cover 1000 PU this time In all seriousness, I remember seeing a demonstration video stating that the star could be obtained with around 800 speed while lava boosting with this speed, and I thought the bully battery was going to be a lot simpler, but man, never did I expect this. if LLL demands this by itself, I can’t even imagine what is required for BitFS 0x.
that bully concept is insane, imagine showing something like this to people at the start of the ABC huge props to everybody involved for making this even half of a possibility i never thought i'd see near 1000 PU movement at a time, you don't get nearly enough credit for managing to figure out these crazy PU movements
What is this year am I right? 4 A press saves after so many years of none being improved. The editing was just perfect, I loved that you showed the bruteforcer code, it's gonna help people who just watch the videos understand how complex these strats are and anything that helps increase people's appreciation of the science and art that goes into creating a TAS of this caliber is definitely welcome. This is another evidence in the huge pile of things that show why the SM64 TASing community is beyond any other out there, you are all crazy! Only 15 left! Praying for SotT and BitFS now!
@@Blobfish_Times oh awesome I was wondering if they even console-verified these insane things or if it was all emulator (I remember Bismuth saying in one of his parts that there was a technique possible to use but it was only emulator-viable for reasons)
Possibly the most epic fast forward section to date. Awesome stuff and it's great to see this A press save that's been talked about for so long finally come true!
I was initially going to say "I love the cute bully icon on the HUD, what a great touch!", only to be blown out of the water by the montage. Very cool, love that presentation!
what. WHAT. the level of insanity we're reaching, man. this is what i takes to save the final A-Presses. 15 to go. very good luck to you and your team.
My god. I have no idea HOW the HELL you did it, but this managed to be more impressive than Watch for Rolling Rocks in 0.5x A presses. Here I was thinking "ok new tech, he just saved a bully while it was in the lava, what is he doing with that" Little did I know that was very fast gonna turn into over 3.4 Million Mario Speed. For reference, that's a bit over a million meters per second, almost 3000 times the speed of sound or about 0.34% the speed of light. Jesus Christ.
@@poudink5791 yeah, at this point HMC 0.5x is like a mid tier strategy in terms of complexity and involvement. SA, almost everything in TTC, and some stuff in RR or WDW overshadow it. And I'm probably missing more.
This just boggles my mind on every level. I can't even begin to fathom the number of months it took to engineer this, let alone program and implement it in-game as efficiently as possible. This is some exceptional work, bravo!
This has been in the works for months and seeing it all come together into an over 24 hour tas is amazing. Great job to everyone involved and good luck on sott and fs
In this episode of ABC, Mario loses a deal with the devil and gets trapped into Hell. As a way to take out his frustration, he starts bullying the bullies for 21 hours until he realizes he can build speed with them to travel into Parallel Universes to steal the star and escape. Fun fact, the name of level actually hints at the solution. Mario uses the elevator to take a deTOUR into a parallel universe. Clearly this was intended by the devs.
Wow. This is amazing. The visual of moving so far across PUs so quickly that you can visibly see Mario moving across the map and falling to land on a platform in the relative view is a sight to behold.
If anyone ever asks: "why is math so important anyway?" I'll show them this. The fact that people spend their free time to figure out all of this crazy multidimensional stuff just so they can save an A press or two is insane to me. We're still finding out new things about this 26 year old game TO THIS DAY, when technology has long since progressed past games like this. We can even emulate this game through a webpage with how far we came. So even if you won't need to learn math all like this to do something amazing like this, you can't deny how cool it all is to see
I remember seeing one of your videos from 6 years ago saying elevator tour couldn’t be done even with infinite lava boosts. So seeing this so many years later makes me happy.
With every new A press video, there is so much living tension in knowing that _something_ insane is about to happen, but not knowing what, how or when it'll happen
The only word I think describes what I just watched would be "arcane"... I have no understanding of what I just witnessed, or of why you did it the way you did. But it worked. I don't think the word "impressed" adequately describes my attitude to this. Complete and utter befuddlement is all I have experienced. Great stuff!
With little regard of the exact context of this video, I decided to go in and watch the whole thing in full screen, observing it as if it were an artwork. Watching Mario running around in circles or just standing still to shift around levitating Bullies was a peculiar experience. Once the good ole quadrants showing the cameras and maps came in, I knew that they pay-off was approaching, and it was quite satisfying! I also quite appreciate the humor in the early sped-up segment, given its inclusion of dramatic music over imagery of Mario running around over many hours while various graphs giving context to what is happening go over the screen.
Absolutely nuts!!!!! Insane how much went into this strategy. Thrilled to see it bring the A count down so soon after the last ones. The brute forcer bit was also quite funny
*WE DID IT?!* I thought this was going to be one of those impossible ones that would likely never be done à la Winged Mario Over the Rainbow, but here we are! The number grows smaller! It seems like the source code leak has helped us a lot.
The leak wasn't helpful at all. The SM64 decomp was already complete by the time the leak happened and I believe the bully battery strat was being talked about even before that.
Another A press save! It's really unbelievable how far can this game go in terms of crazy setups and hidden/unintended techs, hope to see that A press count reaching 0 sometime soon!
I came in expecting to be completely bewildered, but this was utter insanity. Just when you think, "wow, that was the most complicated and genius improvement yet!" there's another marvel of pure dedication that somehow tops the previous one. Fire Sea is next guys! The pole will once and for all be conquered!
Reading the description is like following along an article in a scientific journal abstract. The amount of jargon, the procedural steps, and the conclusion all have such a charming and familiar tone to them considering I have no idea what any of it means.
amazing. everytime someone dares to think an a press cant be saved, a new strat comes up and lowers the number. i think i subscribed when the A press count was around 23 or 26. i thought i was looking at a finished project. but here we are.
Kudos for a comprehensive credits list for how this entire effort was put together. I like knowing that the ideas that give birth to these insanities are traceable at least to some extent, rather than handwaving the issue away with "The community came up with [this and that and those]"
These community efforts genuinely give me hope and inspiration for humanity. And thank you for the edits Pannen, unnecessary but made this even more enjoyable :)
Jeez this level was an absolute feat of engineering! The cooperation and input from all of the people in the ABC community never ceases to amaze me. Good work!
@@Merluchit’s updated in the official Google sheets document to be 1 minute They have yet to release a video on how as of now, so it should be coming soon now that Pannen is done with the invisible walls video
@@Splax77 that's for the current 120 star strat that still has A presses currently though. The subvariant of 70 star 0xA still takes longer than that, just because of waiting for a floating platform. :P (though I imagine they'll likely find a faster solution to that soon with the new tech they're playing with)
My brain hurts. I knew the 3x speed outa a bully was a thing, but my brain just melted trying to figure out how ot drifts across the map that way. Also that python scirpt montage at the start was hilarious.
I’m so glad you’re still making these videos. I forget about videos like this until they suddenly come up. But honestly, I’m glad they’re still being made. Mario 64 tricks are super cool.
Yet another one of those methods you guys could've definitely make a research paper out of for publication. The combination of these really already mind boggling glitches is what baffles the mind. I really love to watch these
I was wondering when the bully battery strat here was going to be completed, this was wild to watch be experimented with then and it still is wild to see now
Good lord, I get impatient when a program takes 10 minutes to finish... You waited a WEEK on a program to finish?! You are all incredible beings, congrats to everyone involved in chopping off another A in Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaario 64!
At this point, getting burned by lava is a suggestion, bullies are questioning their existence, and you can cross thousands of PUs just by running into a bully for 1.5 days
Life advice: If a bully bullies you, just kill it and play with its still dying corpse for nearly a full day to give it enough internal potential energy to launch it into a parallel universe, but only such that it doesn't travel to a parallel universe, then use its potential energy to add to your own so you can go to a parallel universe, such that you do travel to a parallel universe, so you can use an elevator platform to teleport to your dream life so you can rub it in that dumb bully's face and say "I told you I could do it!" and make your dreams come true!
“Oh wow! I wonder how Pannen saves this A-press?” “Today we’re going to split a Bully between the planes of life and death and build dimension-tearing speed off its ruptured astral projection for 21 hours, until neither the laws of physics nor the laws of any divine can catch up with Mario.” I watch your career with great interest. Congrats on the A-press save!
I applaud you and your seven contributors for what has to be the most creative strategy in the history of Mario 64. This was wild and definitely deserving of O Fortuna.
Nice this is pretty cool but my little brother discovered this on accident when we rented the game back in 1998. Glad to see someone managed to record it though.
![[TAS] SM64 ABC Trials 0xA in 17m44s](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/8E8Ty_gFBng/mqdefault.jpg)
The scary thing about this was that I actually felt relieved when the PU map came on screen, as it was the only thing I could understand in this whole video.
When Parrallel universe map is theonly thing someone understand, yeah that's a really complicated TAS.
Yeah for real I have no idea what kinda black magic got pulled out for those bullies, but it sure was complicated.
I love seeing the PU maps come on screen, it's always a "aw shit, here we go!" kind of feeling XD
I mean, I understood that he was building up the bully's speed for something, I later realized it was so some kind of interaction with it would allow entering a parallel universe, but I'm still not sure by what mechanism he is building up the bully's speed, nor do I know what kind of interaction is being used to emter the parallel universe.
The basic idea is that unrealistic physics lets the bully produce kinetic energy when bumping into it. This is exploited to use the bully as a battery (or a capacitor?) to build up speed on Mario's behalf
That Bully just experienced something far beyond its comprehension.
Being nearly killed, only to survive, being ran into for 21 hours straight, smearing across the volcano in some sort of Bully superposition, going thousands of times faster than it has ever gone, sending another being to a parallel universe by a monumental transfer of speed...
It would be easier to explain to this Bully how it happened, but it could never, ever understand why.
"Bully, we did this to you to avoid pressing this button once." A mind-breaking experience for... an A press?
But in the end...
"An A press is an A press." No matter the cost.
and you cant say its just a half
This had me laughing😂😂😂
"An A press is an A press, no matter the cost."
Damn
Bully went through purgatory
The real bully was Pannen all along.
It's funny how the bully sounds glitched out because it spends half of the frames in a PU
Good luck trying to explain everything lmao
This is your Rolling Rocks - have fun
@@Raebybbid BitFS will be faster than this, but it will need a lot more explaining: there are much more accessible non-trivial fast bully battery spots, hence allowing us to begin FBB earlier.
or before that when you hear it in stereo since it spends half the time across the room lol
@@jgcodes2020 Is it basically confirmed this strat will help in BitFS too? Kind of out of the loop, but the way you write makes it sound like you’re pretty confident it will be possible to do.
In all seriousness it’s amazing how there has been a 3 year gap then 4 a press saves in just this amount of time.
Hopefully more to come with BITFS and SOTT!
3 year gap* last a press save before 2022 was in july 2019
What were the other 3?
@@TepidBlack A press saves in 3 TTC stars
it takes a lifetime of painting to express a swan in a single stroke
A moment of silence for Bismuth having to explain how this works in the future.
That montage was jaw-dropping. The amount of effort in these TASes just keeps rising. Congratulations to the ABC team for this achievement!
@Zeta at some point Bismuth's gonna give up and be like "You know what? Magic. Pannen and the ABC Crew are secretly wizards."
@@Damian_1989 considering everything Bismuth has explained, he might as well also be wizard
I gave up trying to keep up with all the tricks years ago. at some point everything relevant will be explained in a bismuth video
For real though, a lot of strategies were deemed infeasible in practice like the pedro spot in TTC with the cog, but here we are seeing this. Its insane. Had this been uploaded by anyone else im pretty sure we all would have debunked it as false. Now its just waiting for the explanation as to what is going on.
Video description^^
What I learned from this video: The lava texture spins! Never noticed that.
same here
I never noticed that, either. The texture isn't even animated, so I suppose they just made the lava plane rotate rather than make the texture animate in order to save resources. Even in the *"lava waterfall"* the texture just scrolls downwards.
Another weird thing I discovered about the texture is, it's actually water, only way to discover that is typing this gameshark code below that I've made and going to Lethal Lava Land and going inside the volcano, and once you're inside the volcano press D-Pad down and it'll spawn a glitter star, and once you jump up and touch the glitter star the lava texture would rise and Mario would be swimming in it. That's weird.
Here is the code
81331AEA 2620
81331AEC 0000
80330E94 0003
8133D2DE 0001
812CB2BE 2288
812CB30A 2288
812CB356 25F8
812CB35A 008B
812CB36E 0164
812CB372 0000
I lucked out, and landed on a block ledge!
If you've ever looked at Jolly Roger Bay or Dire Dire Rocks it's very obvious there as well.
i once saw someone describe the ABC as a "puzzle sent by god". like, a task that doesn't have to be done, isn't defined as necessary by anyone, and offers no true reward, but once one has started on it, it becomes clear that it's utterly insane and complex to do, and it's only even possible through ludicrous levels of confluence and luck alongside immense skill. it's like... they say "people climb mountains because they're there". but the ABC is like a mountain you climb even though it's *not* there. it's a task defined by absence, and yet it's unequivocally possible to climb. you just have to find the right spots to fray the fabric of the world...
A "puzzle sent by god" encapsulates this series perfectly
Haha funny pancake man goes ZOOM
I HAVE A DREAM
THAT 0XA IS POSSIBLE
NO MATTER WHAT ODDS OR PEOPLE SAY TO YOU
IT'S POSSIBLE, IN SOME WAY OR ANOTHER
11:07 Okay, it makes sense that PUs would be involved given the crazy high speeds...
HOLY FUCK THAT PU MAP GOES TO 1000
I DIDNT NOTICE WHAT THE SHIT
3.2M speed..
@@Brain-washed2 3,2M speed means you need 20 frames to reach the 1000th PU
This Is Exactly My Reaction
“By using this brute force program, I can force the bully to enter every point in every parallel universe simultaneously”
For this channel being "UncommentatedPannen" the code scroll and brute forcer sure felt like commentary
I actually feel bad for the bully now.
@@55ocsguy67 The game said to Bully the Bullies. It didn't give any restrictions on *_how_*
@@55ocsguy67forced to endure quantum superposition while submerged in lava
Only 15 A presses to save, I really hope it actually happens one day
Nathaniel scuttlebug bandy every time
0xa almost definitely wont happen without arbitrary code execution being discovered because of wing mario over the rainbow red coins, no way to start flying without a cannon shot or a triple jump which both need an a press. 1xa could be in the realm of possibility but a lot more stuff would have to be discovered
Jrb 0xa and wmotr 1xa have a whole lot of things that almost work so a breakthrough there could come from a lot of places (jrb moreso than wmotr)
SSL would probably need eyerok manipulation of some kind
THI needs wiggler manip
PSS would probably need some kind of discovery with maintaining speed when breaking the block or something, cuz you can use the demo to spawn in the stage at a huge offset and with crazy vertical/sliding speed
The 5 a presses in the lobby would need some discovery with crazy spawning displacement while exiting a stage that's somewhere on the second floor (on the jp version of the game)
And then stomp on the thwomp and bowser in the fire sea are being saved right now
I unfortunately highly doubt 0x will ever happen, mainly because of Wing Mario Over The Rainbow along but we can dream
nathaniel b
You actually don't. 0x can only plausibly happen via a trivial solution, whereas there might be interesting and unique solutions for a few more of them.
You know, I was not expecting Quantum Entanglement to be the next part of the A press puzzle but here we are
Next up: we summon Shigeru Miyamoto himself to flip the star count bytes on the ROM
@@JorgetePanete after that, we make a time machine to let us go off polls without using the a button
@@Your_choise The final A press will be saved using Cosmic Bit-Flipping.
I like that at least 3 people's minds went to subatomic physics, the sped up sections like 4:30 made me think of electron drift velocity
More like Quantum Superpositions.
Not that this changes your point of the OP. 😉
And we all thought mario building up speed for 12 hours was insane. Now featuring it's sequel: Bully speeding up for 21.4 hours!
its*
without fbb i think it would be years
@@Wookis i care
@@Wookis i care too
@@Wookis kid named who:
you know it's a good strat when the video actually starts in the level that the star is in
you can't grab anything in the volcano.
@@gdash6925 you can grab bob ombs
@@RepressedButton oh ok. I didn't know there were Bob ombs there?
@@RepressedButton where are there any Bob ombs?
@@gdash6925 oh I thought of bully’s as bob ombs in my head. I’m a little stupid lol
Classic. I remember doing this in 97
That's how my grandparents got to school back in the day
@@fisch37 these young folk nowadays got their fancy motorbikes and electric cars. Back in my day, we used to burn our britches boarding the bully, and we didn’t complain about building speed for 21 hours!
@@GodLandon Yeah, and if you woke up late, you had better hope that your friend a few miles away had room on his bully
1:29 I love how Mario collects those numbers in time with the music
Even by A button challenge standards, this is insane... and Pannen knows it. The damn fast forward through the brute forcer as it built up bully speed and the music...
Absolutely bonkers, and... congrats? To everyone involved.
Can't believe the devs didn't think of this in the 90s, literally unplayable.
God damn this is incredible though.
fucking insane when you think about the fact that new shit is STILLLLL being achieved on a 26 year old game. the 100% speedrun of this game hasn’t even been fully optimized on RTA or TAS yet. I love it.
That's not really special when you think about it. The only game that's fully optimized rta that I can think of is Dragster. There are a few more with TAS like SMB1 but it's still pretty rare that there isn't room for improvement.
@@poudink5791 Yeah, but SM64 is a game with an incomprehensibly massive community with thousands of people perpetually poking holes at it. The fact that it still hasn’t been fully poked is fascinating - whether it be for admiring the loopholes in the coding or the sheer amount of human fascination for this game or humanity’s ability to keep poking towards the goal until we get there. It’s fascinating to those who are at least easily impressed by numbers, which I am, and I don’t mind it lol.
@@Varooooooom And luckily humans love seeing big numbers (most of the time). "Wow 1000000 speed is a lot more than 40" and "Wow you have to sit and wait for 20 hours" are interesting for people like us lol
what do you mean they didn't think of this? This is fully intentional.
Just a fantastic showcase of pushing the technical limits of this twenty-six year-old game. I audibly said "oh no" the first time Mario bumped into the Bully and I saw its speed go up. Great work!
LMAO SO IT WASN'T JUST ME
based kkhta pfp
Right? You see it go up, and then go up again, and you just feel a pit in your stomach as you immediately realize what is about to commence
Mario: Time for me to utilize parallel universes again
LLL: Ha, there are no HSW spots, what are you gonna do now?
Mario: lemme just torture a bully for a whole day and use it at the end for a split second, simple. Just to flex I might just cover 1000 PU this time
In all seriousness, I remember seeing a demonstration video stating that the star could be obtained with around 800 speed while lava boosting with this speed, and I thought the bully battery was going to be a lot simpler, but man, never did I expect this. if LLL demands this by itself, I can’t even imagine what is required for BitFS 0x.
that bully concept is insane, imagine showing something like this to people at the start of the ABC
huge props to everybody involved for making this even half of a possibility
i never thought i'd see near 1000 PU movement at a time, you don't get nearly enough credit for managing to figure out these crazy PU movements
A possibility is a possibility. You can't say it's only half
@@thekiss2083 Well,
@@thekiss2083 50% of the time it works everytime!
wait till you see the PU movement in bitfs
What is this year am I right? 4 A press saves after so many years of none being improved.
The editing was just perfect, I loved that you showed the bruteforcer code, it's gonna help people who just watch the videos understand how complex these strats are and anything that helps increase people's appreciation of the science and art that goes into creating a TAS of this caliber is definitely welcome.
This is another evidence in the huge pile of things that show why the SM64 TASing community is beyond any other out there, you are all crazy!
Only 15 left! Praying for SotT and BitFS now!
bullyforcer*
What is SotT?
@@CrashCubeZeroOnestomp on the thwomp from tick tock clock
@@DerpinGoose ohhhhhh, gotcha. I've only seen level names abbreviated, didn't think it was a star
@@CrashCubeZeroOne symphony of the night
I always had hope that the bully battery glitch would eventually save an A press here. Amazing work!
_The sound of metal banging fills your head_
Looking forward to Bismuth reading out a 20 minute long explanation on this as the select file piano rendition music plays in the background
Don't forget! That video is coming out in 3 hours 19 minutes!
I haven't forgotten, i just had other stuff to do at 22 UTC.
Shoutout to the developers who created this game with no memory leaks so it stays stable even after playing a level for a full real life day.
This comment is very ironic
Was there for the moment in the stream, insane work everyone! So glad to see LLL finally get beaten 0x! :D
what stream?
The console verification ones that rcombs always does
@@B0ssguy twitch.tv/rcombs
@@B0ssguy The console verification stream, you can find the link to the VOD near the bottom of the video's description
@@Blobfish_Times oh awesome I was wondering if they even console-verified these insane things or if it was all emulator (I remember Bismuth saying in one of his parts that there was a technique possible to use but it was only emulator-viable for reasons)
Possibly the most epic fast forward section to date. Awesome stuff and it's great to see this A press save that's been talked about for so long finally come true!
deeeeEEEEES
The fact that this guy is still out here improving the A button challenge after all these years… we need more people like Pannen
Look into the description. Pannen didn't do this alone.
_And we do..._
narrator voice
@@artey6671 The fact that there is still a whole community dedicated to this after all these years is even more amazing.
@@namenamename390 I agree. ;)
We have more people like pannen, which is why discoveries continue to be made!
I was initially going to say "I love the cute bully icon on the HUD, what a great touch!", only to be blown out of the water by the montage. Very cool, love that presentation!
The bully icon is awesome. Great work all around!
@@novarender_ agree!
editing made me actually laugh out loud. great stuff yet again from the community!
I laughed like a maniac. Felt pretty appropriate too.
what. WHAT.
the level of insanity we're reaching, man. this is what i takes to save the final A-Presses.
15 to go. very good luck to you and your team.
Well, all the easy ones are done (probably), it's all uphill from here. :P
I laughed for half a minute straight when "O Fortuna" started. You guys rock.
I liked that too!
My god. I have no idea HOW the HELL you did it, but this managed to be more impressive than Watch for Rolling Rocks in 0.5x A presses. Here I was thinking "ok new tech, he just saved a bully while it was in the lava, what is he doing with that"
Little did I know that was very fast gonna turn into over 3.4 Million Mario Speed. For reference, that's a bit over a million meters per second, almost 3000 times the speed of sound or about 0.34% the speed of light.
Jesus Christ.
Mario went nearly 1000 PUs
Relativistic Mario
@@Your_choise That does put things into perspective
More impressive than HMC 0.5? Thats underselling it.
@@poudink5791 yeah, at this point HMC 0.5x is like a mid tier strategy in terms of complexity and involvement. SA, almost everything in TTC, and some stuff in RR or WDW overshadow it. And I'm probably missing more.
In literally all the years I’ve watched this challenge progress, this one takes the cake for the most absurd sequence I’ve ever seen.
did u watch the recent TTC videos? they are way crazier
@@Rmac524 are there more besides the ones from a month ago?
This is a pretty good rival to Watch For Rolling Rocks
And then the geniuses made a new TTC video that's crazier still
This just boggles my mind on every level. I can't even begin to fathom the number of months it took to engineer this, let alone program and implement it in-game as efficiently as possible. This is some exceptional work, bravo!
Pannenkoek is a multidimensional being who can comprehend more than god himself
This has been in the works for months and seeing it all come together into an over 24 hour tas is amazing. Great job to everyone involved and good luck on sott and fs
Are you ever going back to smb1?
@@aidanbennett3586 maybe one day, whenever I try I get bored really fast.
months? try years! 😎
ruclips.net/video/TcKLX9-S4GA/видео.html
In this episode of ABC, Mario loses a deal with the devil and gets trapped into Hell. As a way to take out his frustration, he starts bullying the bullies for 21 hours until he realizes he can build speed with them to travel into Parallel Universes to steal the star and escape. Fun fact, the name of level actually hints at the solution. Mario uses the elevator to take a deTOUR into a parallel universe. Clearly this was intended by the devs.
"Clearly this was intended by the devs"
@@xRockLobster75x "Clearly this was intended by the devs"
Let's make this a meme
@@xRockLobster75x "it's not a bug, it's a feature!"
Wow. This is amazing. The visual of moving so far across PUs so quickly that you can visibly see Mario moving across the map and falling to land on a platform in the relative view is a sight to behold.
If anyone ever asks: "why is math so important anyway?" I'll show them this. The fact that people spend their free time to figure out all of this crazy multidimensional stuff just so they can save an A press or two is insane to me. We're still finding out new things about this 26 year old game TO THIS DAY, when technology has long since progressed past games like this. We can even emulate this game through a webpage with how far we came. So even if you won't need to learn math all like this to do something amazing like this, you can't deny how cool it all is to see
True
Coming here just after this star was solved in 1 minute
You know it's gonna get good when the Parallel Universe map pulls up
Nice job everyone involved, this is some truly insane stuff!
Watching this feels like watching a toddler struggling to put the cube in the circle hole but I'm the idiot.
I remember seeing one of your videos from 6 years ago saying elevator tour couldn’t be done even with infinite lava boosts. So seeing this so many years later makes me happy.
With every new A press video, there is so much living tension in knowing that _something_ insane is about to happen, but not knowing what, how or when it'll happen
The only word I think describes what I just watched would be "arcane"... I have no understanding of what I just witnessed, or of why you did it the way you did. But it worked. I don't think the word "impressed" adequately describes my attitude to this. Complete and utter befuddlement is all I have experienced.
Great stuff!
With little regard of the exact context of this video, I decided to go in and watch the whole thing in full screen, observing it as if it were an artwork. Watching Mario running around in circles or just standing still to shift around levitating Bullies was a peculiar experience. Once the good ole quadrants showing the cameras and maps came in, I knew that they pay-off was approaching, and it was quite satisfying! I also quite appreciate the humor in the early sped-up segment, given its inclusion of dramatic music over imagery of Mario running around over many hours while various graphs giving context to what is happening go over the screen.
Another day, another A press defeated
Congrats marbler and pannen and everyone else! You did an amazing job with this. Again.
The saving of A presses is always a treat to view, even if it doesn't occur often. Amazing work!
I love that a video that starts with a brute forcer set to O FORTUNA is what made my day.
I've never been a part of this community, but I love seeing what y'all have been up to. Every time a new a-press is deleted, it's a huge win.
Mario: Hmm, today I will accelerate a Bully past the speed of light so I don't have to jump.
This was needlessly dramatic and I love it so much. Congrats to everyone involved.
Absolutely nuts!!!!! Insane how much went into this strategy. Thrilled to see it bring the A count down so soon after the last ones. The brute forcer bit was also quite funny
*WE DID IT?!* I thought this was going to be one of those impossible ones that would likely never be done à la Winged Mario Over the Rainbow, but here we are! The number grows smaller! It seems like the source code leak has helped us a lot.
The leak wasn't helpful at all. The SM64 decomp was already complete by the time the leak happened and I believe the bully battery strat was being talked about even before that.
@@poudink5791 Oh. Interesting.
I haven't been this mind melted in a long time. Here's hoping that a certain other lava level gets solved soon.
Another A press save! It's really unbelievable how far can this game go in terms of crazy setups and hidden/unintended techs, hope to see that A press count reaching 0 sometime soon!
I love how pannen just disappears and then suddenly comes back stronger than ever
Wow, and I thought certain other A button saves got quite complicated. It's amazing how this one even managed to get figured out and executed.
I find it hilarious that the real answer was not to make Mario build speed. But to have a bully build up speed for 20 hours
I have no idea what you’re doing, but you, sir, are a mad man. Have an upvote!
This is where hard mode begins, we have to TAS the TAS to figure out these new saves.
I came in expecting to be completely bewildered, but this was utter insanity. Just when you think, "wow, that was the most complicated and genius improvement yet!" there's another marvel of pure dedication that somehow tops the previous one.
Fire Sea is next guys! The pole will once and for all be conquered!
Eventually, the bully stopped thinking.
Reading the description is like following along an article in a scientific journal abstract. The amount of jargon, the procedural steps, and the conclusion all have such a charming and familiar tone to them considering I have no idea what any of it means.
amazing. everytime someone dares to think an a press cant be saved, a new strat comes up and lowers the number. i think i subscribed when the A press count was around 23 or 26. i thought i was looking at a finished project. but here we are.
Kudos for a comprehensive credits list for how this entire effort was put together. I like knowing that the ideas that give birth to these insanities are traceable at least to some extent, rather than handwaving the issue away with "The community came up with [this and that and those]"
You know it's getting real when the PU grid is in the hundreds.
My head has never hurt as much as it did reading and comprehending the description. All of you are legends, abc team
These community efforts genuinely give me hope and inspiration for humanity.
And thank you for the edits Pannen, unnecessary but made this even more enjoyable :)
Thank you for editing these videos for our sake... What a man you are...
@@jongyon7192p Pannen will keep moving forward for 10 years at least!!
nice pfp
that's the........ bigender flag??
@@RichConnerGMN Yup! Closest label to how I identify
@@DraconicCatgirl your such a snowflake
This takes "Bully the Bullies" to the extreme.
Just when you think the potential of this game is fully tapped... AMAZING
Jeez this level was an absolute feat of engineering! The cooperation and input from all of the people in the ABC community never ceases to amaze me. Good work!
Here after it dropped down to 1 SINGLE MINUTE
Same lmao
Where
@@Merluchit’s updated in the official Google sheets document to be 1 minute
They have yet to release a video on how as of now, so it should be coming soon now that Pannen is done with the invisible walls video
@@kaybeedee there's a video of the tas on marbler's channel @supermarble94
Not only that, it is now possible on Shindou versions as well.
Ever since I saw the explanation for bully battery, I fell in love with it. Glad to see it be put into good use!
I don't think this is what the devs had in mind when they named a star 'Bully the Bullies'
This is incredible. The complexity makes N64 Secret Aquarium look like a first grade quiz.
And the tick tock clock recent save also makes this seem easy
Remember when watch for rolling rocks 0.5xA was first done and it seemed overly complicated? That was barely 6 years ago
This is so amazing and impressive
Really makes me wonder just how long the entire A button Challenge speedrun would actually take
About 40 hours for 2 stars. Still not even close to as ridiculous as SM64DS's equivalent though.
The full 120 star run is currently estimated to take 58 hours. Pannen has a spreadsheet linked in the description.
@@Splax77 that's for the current 120 star strat that still has A presses currently though. The subvariant of 70 star 0xA still takes longer than that, just because of waiting for a floating platform. :P (though I imagine they'll likely find a faster solution to that soon with the new tech they're playing with)
Excuse me?! It amazes me how this challenge is still going strong! Also nice editing.
Even though there are far more pressing things to be interested by, I've never noticed that the lava texture in the volcano slowly spins.
My favourite part about this is how he still flexes and does party tricks on the elevator in the middle of this insanity
That Bully was tortured for more than a full day just so Jumpman didn’t have to jump. What a hero.
When it's your turn on the N64 but your brother says "just one more star"
My brain hurts.
I knew the 3x speed outa a bully was a thing, but my brain just melted trying to figure out how ot drifts across the map that way.
Also that python scirpt montage at the start was hilarious.
It looks like Bullies are the new key to the multiverse.
I’m so glad you’re still making these videos. I forget about videos like this until they suddenly come up. But honestly, I’m glad they’re still being made. Mario 64 tricks are super cool.
I still can't believe this happened before sott 0x and bitfs 0x
Same
Teeeeechnically BitFS 0x is possible
@@Doge-zb7ku yeah and so is sott 0x ;)
Yet another one of those methods you guys could've definitely make a research paper out of for publication. The combination of these really already mind boggling glitches is what baffles the mind. I really love to watch these
I was wondering when the bully battery strat here was going to be completed, this was wild to watch be experimented with then and it still is wild to see now
the editing on the brute forced slow bully battery is incredible and hilarious, i love it
Great job to everyone who contributed to this!
Good lord, I get impatient when a program takes 10 minutes to finish... You waited a WEEK on a program to finish?! You are all incredible beings, congrats to everyone involved in chopping off another A in Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaario 64!
Woah, didn't see this coming! Happy to see another improvement
At this point, getting burned by lava is a suggestion, bullies are questioning their existence, and you can cross thousands of PUs just by running into a bully for 1.5 days
It's all fun and games until O Fortuna starts playing. From that moment on where are no longer watching a TAS, but watching art.
I really shouldn't be surprised. But I am! How does it keep getting more crazy!?
Truly outstanding stuff!
Life advice: If a bully bullies you, just kill it and play with its still dying corpse for nearly a full day to give it enough internal potential energy to launch it into a parallel universe, but only such that it doesn't travel to a parallel universe, then use its potential energy to add to your own so you can go to a parallel universe, such that you do travel to a parallel universe, so you can use an elevator platform to teleport to your dream life so you can rub it in that dumb bully's face and say "I told you I could do it!" and make your dreams come true!
POV: Mario sends a bully to hell before getting bored and picking up the star
“Oh wow! I wonder how Pannen saves this A-press?”
“Today we’re going to split a Bully between the planes of life and death and build dimension-tearing speed off its ruptured astral projection for 21 hours, until neither the laws of physics nor the laws of any divine can catch up with Mario.”
I watch your career with great interest. Congrats on the A-press save!
TerminalMontage's Speed Demon has never been more accurate
I applaud you and your seven contributors for what has to be the most creative strategy in the history of Mario 64. This was wild and definitely deserving of O Fortuna.
Nice this is pretty cool but my little brother discovered this on accident when we rented the game back in 1998. Glad to see someone managed to record it though.