Golf With Your Mario is a romhack of Super Mario 64 you can download here. It was created as part of SimpleFlips' Slide Hack Competition 2024. The goal is to play minigolf where Mario is the golf ball across 10 courses in as few strokes as possible. This TAS completes the very short hack in 13 strokes, which is the best score I was able to get. Possible improvements might be hole 3 and hole 5.
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CoolHandMike: Claiming for judging.
CoolHandMike: Replaced submission with improvement. Less Strokes with faster holes.
CoolHandMike: Welcome Emil_Borg and congratulations on a well made first TAS! The game choice is well done with this transformative rom hack of Mario 64. Golf With Your Mario was a fun game to watch and judge. The idea of literally using Mario as the golf ball and seeing him bounce around made me chuckle more than once.
The current submitted branch of "Best Score" is the same as Any% aka Fastest Completion even according to the author. Since that is the case accepting this submission of Golf With Your Mario to Standard.

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A couple questions. 1) Which version was this tas made on? I see that v1, v2, v3, v4, v5, and v5.5 exist. 2) How precise can you change the angles? I see that you have a lot of circling around the hole at the end on almost every stage. Could you not just precisely aim at the hole and get Mario in the Hole asap? 3) Can you control Mario at all after "releasing" him towards the hole? 4) Can the camera be controlled?
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CoolHandMike wrote:
A couple questions. 1) Which version was this tas made on? I see that v1, v2, v3, v4, v5, and v5.5 exist. 2) How precise can you change the angles? I see that you have a lot of circling around the hole at the end on almost every stage. Could you not just precisely aim at the hole and get Mario in the Hole asap? 3) Can you control Mario at all after "releasing" him towards the hole? 4) Can the camera be controlled?
1. This was made in version 5.5. 2. I don't know exactly how precise the angles are, but I do know that there two ways to change the angle. The D-Pad is used for precise angles and the C buttons are used to quickly change angles. 3. No. 4. Yes.
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So right now this submission lacks precise magnitude inputs. Look at the video below where I decrease the magnitude of how hard I release Mario so he smoothly and quickly glides into the hole. Mario visually enters the hole on frame 446, while my Mario enters the hole on frame 390. At this point in time I would recommend pausing this submission and reviewing this for improvements. Please be gentle with Mario's holes. Link to video
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Emil_Borg wrote:
https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/638526628469993210
Thank you Emil_Borg this looks much better! Good use of the making more use of the magnitude and careful positioning.
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Emil_Borg I have one question about the goal for "Best Score". You stated that you wish to complete this in as few strokes as possible, but is this method also the fastest way to complete the game? Or is there another faster method of beating this game with more strokes?
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Emil_Borg I have one question about the goal for "Best Score". You stated that you wish to complete this in as few strokes as possible, but is this method also the fastest way to complete the game? Or is there another faster method of beating this game with more strokes?
I think it's slower if you aim for Par. In hindsight, I should have matched it with the Neo Turf Masters TAS https://tasvideos.org/5874M
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Emil_Borg wrote:
CoolHandMike wrote:
Emil_Borg I have one question about the goal for "Best Score". You stated that you wish to complete this in as few strokes as possible, but is this method also the fastest way to complete the game? Or is there another faster method of beating this game with more strokes?
I think it's slower if you aim for Par. In hindsight, I should have matched it with the Neo Turf Masters TAS https://tasvideos.org/5874M
So just to verify this submission would be equivalent to an Any% aka Fastest Completion?
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CoolHandMike wrote:
Emil_Borg wrote:
CoolHandMike wrote:
Emil_Borg I have one question about the goal for "Best Score". You stated that you wish to complete this in as few strokes as possible, but is this method also the fastest way to complete the game? Or is there another faster method of beating this game with more strokes?
I think it's slower if you aim for Par. In hindsight, I should have matched it with the Neo Turf Masters TAS https://tasvideos.org/5874M
So just to verify this submission would be equivalent to an Any% aka Fastest Completion?
Yes.
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This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [5998] N64 Golf with Your Mario by Emil_Borg in 01:14.42
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Welcome to TASVideos Emil_Borg. This is a well executed, first time TAS. But something I noticed, and found out and this may be an idea for a future run. Is that you don't take advantage of the snapping the camera with c-stick enough, or take advantage of d-pad down to reset the camera to be behind Mario. Just to showcase what I mean, I saw Hole 5's input and tried to tackle it myself and attempted to go for an Albatross, and failed in the short time of basically running Mario off the map. I managed to push out something, that's slightly faster with the same 3 strokes. I did notice that the earlier holes could have been completed faster, but Hole 3's rotation weren't favorable, basically making those improvements void. I didn't really validate past Hole 5 to see if anything else would have to be adjusted, or shots would have to be taken much later (basically making the improvement on 5 also void). But, it's something that may be good to consider for a future TAS if you go about it again.
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