This will make it much easier to see what areas of the game need more practice. You’ll be able to compare your current time and pace against your personal bests. LiveSplit allows you to name and track times against subsections of the playthrough. For this purpose, most people will use an app called LiveSplit. While you can use a simple stopwatch to track your times, it’s much easier, more efficient, and more accurate to let a program do that for you. This gives incredible flexibility with regard to practicing the individual challenges throughout the game. For example, while practicing a route for a star, you can reset the level, or warp back to a previously saved position in the world. Also known as a trainer, Usamune ROM is a hacked version of the game that allows you to practice any portion of the game quickly and repeatedly. Super Mario 64 is a great game to speedrun because of how accessible quality practice is using Usamune ROM. This will allow him to clip through gated content, as during one frame, he’ll be in front of a blocked path, and during the next frame, he’ll be behind the blocked path, avoiding collision detection. If you do it right, Mario will generate an absurd amount of speed. To do this, you’ll have to long jump backwards, repeatedly pressing the jump button quickly and at a consistent pace. To skip those barriers early, you can use a glitch called BLJ (Backwards Long Jump). Normally you would need 30 stars to open a special door upstairs from the main lobby, and 70 stars to climb the otherwise-endless stairwell located before the final level and bowser fight. I am currently running the 16-Star speedrun category which, as the name implies, means that you complete the game after collecting only 16 stars. Some stars can be found outside the paintings, hidden around the castle. Each level has 7 possible stars to collect. By jumping through a painting, you enter the corresponding level. The castle interior contains many paintings, each of which links to a different level. When you start up the game, you will be placed in the yard of a large castle.
While there are 120 stars to collect, you’ll only need 70 – without glitches – to complete the game. With enough stars accumulated, you’ll be able to access the final boss fight with Bowser, and rescue Peach. Your primary goal in Super Mario 64 is to collect stars hiding throughout Princess Peach’s castle.
The notches can make some tricky movements easier, as you can rely on the consistency that the notched angles provide. Stick longevity aside, I’d also recommend a controller that has a stick with notches. Most top level runners will switch to a Hori Mini Pad to prevent this, as its stick is much more robust. The bowser fights require that you rotate the stick quickly, which wears out and eventually destroys the N64 controller stick. I recommend the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) N64 controller for most of the game, and a separate controller for the three Bowser fights throughout the game. Though you are running the game through your PC, playing with a keyboard is less than ideal. Once the rom and emulator are installed on your machine, you’ll be ready to start playing. The ROM can be found on various sites online. You will also need the ROM (read-only memory) of Super Mario 64. Emulator and console runs are technically submitted under different categories due to the fact that games will run slower/faster according to the platform. Fortunately, it‘s perfectly legal to submit speedruns for the Project64 Emulator, so long as you’re using version 1.6. Most people don’t have an N64 lying around. Mario 64 is traditionally played on a Nintendo 64 gaming console. If you’d like to speedrun this game as well, or just want to play the game casually, all of the information you need to get started can be found in the resources section of the Super Mario 64 Speedruns Discord. I decided to start speedrunning Super Mario 64 at the end of 2021. To beat previous times, players will have to continually optimize their gameplay, master fancy movement, and perform sometimes difficult glitches. To perfect a speedrun, players will dedicate hundreds, thousands, and even tens of thousands of hours to playing a game over and over again. Speedrunning is when you play through a video game or a section of a video game as quickly as possible.
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