Game Overview:
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is a 2004 role-playing video game developed by Intelligent Systems. The Thousand-Year Door is the second game in the Paper Mario series following Paper Mario, and is part of the larger Mario franchise. In the game, when Mario and Princess Peach get involved in the search for a mystic treasure that holds great fortune, Peach is kidnapped by an alien group called the X-Nauts; Mario sets out to find the treasure and save the princess.
This is the first recorded TAS of the category "All Crystal Stars" and manages to achieve a time under the 3 hour mark, which is over half an hour faster than the current RTA WR set by SwayNC on 01/21/2021.
Syncing
- Emulator used: Dolphin 5.0 LUA Core
- Idle Skipping off
- Dual Core off
- DSP LLE audio recompiler
- Memory Card in Slot A
- Uses OpenGL
- 6x Native internal resolution
- No Anti-Aliasing
- 1x Anisotropic Filtering
- Enable MMU under game properties
Game objectives
- Obtain all seven of the games "Crystal Stars" as fast as possible
- RNG manipulation
- Sequence breaking
- Taking damage to save time
- Abuses save files
I use the Japanese ISO with the MD5 checksum:
bec52fb8c1912bc6f8014801b6281422
Highlighted Glitches and Skips of "All Crystal Stars"
Bookcase Jump
Bookcase Jump is a sequence break in Glitzville that allows me to skip the majority of Chapter 3. Later in the chapter, there is a cutscene that occurs by entering Grubba's office through an air vent, setting the game's sequence to right before the chapter's boss fight. By denying Grubba's offer to sign up for the Glitzville tournament at the beginning of the chapter, Mario is able to move around Grubba's office freely. With that, I am able to make a precise jump up the bookcase, walk through and into the air vent, triggering the end of the chapter way earlier than intended, and effectively skipping all of the minor and major league battles, which saves about 30 minutes.