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After almost 28 years, Super Mario 64 has been beaten without using the A button
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this post was submitted on 23 May 2024
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Jokes aside, a lot of devs love watching stuff like speedrunning. It means someone loved their creation enough to minutely analyze it and spend countless hours with it.
eg check out the devs watching a guy beat Psychonauts https://youtu.be/lsDc1YVxHA0?t=517
(I'm pretty sure there was similar version of this where they guy wasn't in the room and they were just watching the earlier recording of the speedrun but I can't find it now)
a lot of devs love watching stuff like speedrunning
True, but some of them hate it. But with the growing presence of speedrunning friendly features in new titles (looking at you, Supergiant), I think that's becoming less of a problem.
Either way, these "devs watch" reaction videos are fantastic.
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For anyone wondering, this was done on the virtual console version, so the floating point glitch that lets you skip the climbing pole from Bowser in the fire Sea is available.
The A Button Challenge still stands for the console versions.
Oh boy, is the A Button Challenge still ongoing. There is quite a hunt to further reduce the approx. 18 presses to get 120 stars in a full-game TAS, or to find faster and human-viable strategies to avoid these A presses.
Damn I was hoping they solved the issue.
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Can we please stop adding “After 28 years” to every article and video about this game?
not to worry, it won't be long until "after almost 29 years..."
And then 30 years...
On and on until...
"After 28 years" received a 6-minute standing ovation at Cannes
Completing the trilogy "after 28 days" and "after 28 weeks"
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt10548174/
Only reason I'm not outright dismissing this sequel is because Danny Boyle is directing it. I thought 28 Weeks Later fell short of the original but it was still enjoyable enough.
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H h h , th t's re lly wesome. Congr tz to the pl yers.
Wow, this success is truly something to be proud of. I extend the most unreserved compliments to the whole group involved. Nintendo's most well known title is thoroughly deconstructed now. I, for one, find myself delighted by the outcome.
B sed.
B sad, because A button gets to rest.
Could they not afford to buy a new controller when the A button broke?
In this economy? Better believe I'm looking up the No A Button strats.
Perhaps it was eaten by the larger buttons
The A button is already the largest button so it had to be stopped
Can't view content without enabling targeting cookies, thanks eurogamer
Can, without js.
Step 1: Run the game in an emulator
Step 2: change "A" button function to another button on your controller, set "A" button to a non functional button assignment. NEVER have to press "A" again.
Step 3: PROFIT
You forgot the most important step: Eat the A button.
Finally!
Clip of the moment it was beaten: https://clips.twitch.tv/ZanyIntelligentSwanAMPTropPunch-7MB14zIDcRvO0X-a
Video documentary on the history of this challenge (2022) [5h22m]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXbJe-rUNP8
Cool we're done we completed games, delete your steams everyone we're doing crossstich now!
Came wait for the explanation video to drop. Bowser I'm the Fire Sea was the last stronghold a year ago. Here is a history of the no press challenge.
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Why?
Because they can as well as being fun and novel to try and beat the game in weird, unintuitive ways? There are challenge runs similar to this* in Minecraft that get super popular all the time.
Similar in a conceptual sense, I've no idea the relative difficulty of these two different games nor the differing challenges offered in playing these way
Has no one really done an RTA 70 star ABC before now?
I love the concept of this challenge, good on this lad for doing this, I thought most strats were TAS only.
Many still are, but 70 star offers a lot of flexibility in routing to just pick the stars that are RTA-able.
I'm curious what the A count for RTA 120 could be. TAS is 13x, but humans will need more.
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It hasn't though
Well now I don't know what to believe
Believe in yourself, because you're smart and can do anything you put your mind to!
We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new bragging rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all speedrunners. But why, some say, zero A presses? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask, why climb the highest mountain? Why, 55 years ago, fly to the Moon? Why does Mohun Bagal play the Delhi Capitals? We choose to do zero A presses. We choose to do zero A presses... We choose to do zero A presses in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too.
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WOOOOO YEAH BABY
I too can't wait when biologically-modified dogs, cats and alike beat videogames using their own undeveloped-yet-modified brain for the first time.
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