Submission #3772: mkdasher, Nahoc, sonicpacker, Jesus, Kyman, Moltov, SilentSlayers, snark, ToT, Bauru, Eru, Goronem, Mokkori, Nothing693 & pasta's N64 Super Mario 64 "120 Stars" in 1:20:41.52

This is an improvement of 09:04.17 over the previous movie by Rikku.

For comparison, the fastest non-TAS run (by Siglemic) is 1:44:23 (as of 11/12).

Yay, done at last! I didn't start TASing this game that long ago, so I have the least experience, but I really want to thank the rest of the team for letting me join and participate in this great project. It's been a really nice experience for me and I'm hoping that everyone enjoys watching the run as much as we did making it!

Yo, yo, yo! I must say, like Jeremiah and David, I'm really happy to finally see this completed run in the workbench. I had a blast TASing this awesome game with such awesome people.

I'd like to point out that a big part of this project was done by the Japanese TASers. When they were working on the "120 Stars" TAS, they used to go back a lot to redo and improve earlier stars, since they were working on a "perfect" TAS. We (sonicpacker and myself) got tired of being left aside the project, seeing how slow the progress on it was and decided to go along and do our own TAS. MKDasher later joined us. Not gonna lie, we used a lot of their inputs during the making of this movie (but always with permissions) and "quickly" finished the masterpiece that you're about to watch. Of course, some improvements were found during the 3-month period we worked on the project, but it's nothing too big.

We would like to thank all the Japanese SM64 TASers for their hard work and hope they will be able to improve this movie with a more "perfect" v2. Good luck guys!

Well it's about damn time. No, but really, working with the community towards finishing this run has given me the best time of my life and I couldn't have asked for a better way to spend my teenage years. I've met so many awesome people and have had the best partners to work with. I'm thankful beyond words and I hope everyone that watches the TAS has a great time! I could go on and write a book about it, but I'll let the run speak for itself. And remember, SM64 isn't even near dead. Stay tuned, haha!

See this page [dead link removed] for a brief description of all the tricks used in this run.

Here's a comprehensive list of all the star times. It also includes a time comparison with Rikku's run.

Of course, in every long TAS, even with the highest standards and level of optimization, nothing is ever perfect. Here's a list of the known improvements. Most were discovered when we were already too far into the run to go back. They will be included in a new version made by a different team of TASers.

Here are the YouTube channels of every authors having inputs in this TAS. Subscribe to them for more SM64 superplays!

We worked hard to add everyone that has contributed to this run is some way in this list. Hope we didn't forget anybody!

Thank you so much for all the good years.

Phew... too many highlights in this run for a single screenshot! Here is our favourite:

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Feel free to suggest more screenshots!

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Enjoy the run and share it with your friends!

Want more SM64 action? See these other submissions:

Nahoc: Added YouTube module.

Baxter: Great improvement over the currently published TAS with many creative timesavers. Accepting for publication.

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