Well, your opinion is wrong then. Like i said before, this isn't about skills, it's about thinking (even so, i think i have gaming skills, but that's not the point). I got the 8 red coins in DDD way faster than the video by <forgot his name>. A lot of the games timeattacked in these forums are made by people with no prior knowledge to those games. And still, it looks like perfect.
A game is nothing but a computer program, and understanding it's rules as a program - not as a world where mario is - is essential to searching for fastest as possible. 100 coins routes will be proven trivial as i go through. What is it that a experienced speedrunner will know that i don't already? I've too spent many hours playing this game, on n64, on emulator, on n64 again, and again, got 120 stars several times etc. Just because i didn't remember where the star from vanish cap takes me after it being acquired doesn't mean someone who has played more than me would make a faster TAS. I'm confident that we'll pull off a very consistent run, either by me thinking by myself or by getting feedback from the forums. I don't see how it can be too hard to compare the distance between point A to B to C or from A to C to B. There goes 3 red coins or something. Yes i'll know it's the fastest, the character can't do magic to reach objectives faster, it's driven by the program's rules. And that has little to do with experience defeating bowser 50+ times.
edit: btw, i'm not trying to make the same, "pixel perfect". I've said, but you must have missed it, that the videos i watched served to either help me getting to know the levels better or to see unusual stuff that happens only with a lot of luck. I don't mean to copy anything. If you mean the JRB door glitch, well, tell me how an experienced player would get in every door without having to open it, as fast as possible, and i'll believe you. For now, all we know, is that the way we have planned is the fastest possible.
