Cheese reacts to Blindfolded SM64 16 Star speedrun by Bubzia at AGDQ2021 

Thanks for reacting to my run, I am so glad many people enjoyed the showcase as much as I did!

This is impressive but not as impressive as that guy who did all this without setups and only using his muscle memories!

man, this guy must have great muscle memory

Cheese, now you can put in your title "120 stars world record holder reacts to..." xD

I've been playing this game for 24 years and I'm still trying to get a sub 40 on just catching the fucking rabbit

he recently got a new pb of 30:30 using a new route and strats, its honestly insane, he also did 31 star in 58:27

It’s nice to see a legit time by a well respected and amazing player after the whole scandal.

Lol the people in chat complaining about him only using 1 blind fold seem to not realize he's also turned away from the screen lol (you can see it behind him)

he plays better blindfolded than i do regulary

i like putting my mouse pointer where cheese has his on screen so it is like we are holding hands

I thought he did those head movements to count reliably. It's easy to lose track of how fast you're counting but it's very easy to keep a rhythm when you bop your head to it like "1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5"

I can't imagine the stress of getting a world record where you have a hard time even seeing when you messed up. These dudes who run the blindfold category are next level as fuuuck

Seeing a man who has held the WR in this game(not blindfolded) being amazed at what this guy is doing blindfolded, just shows you how hard Blindfolded speedrunning really is.

6:47 Cheese takes any chance he can to be on bottom.

One of the most unbelievable speedruns i've ever seem. just CRAZY

“YEP CLOCK” from chat got a literal lol from me.

So happy I finally found your RU-vid Channel, love your content Cheese!!

The only thing I have to add, besides the fact that the run was insanely amazing - I am not sure if this does in fact play a role in all of this, but it is known that the hearing sense is much more precise compared to the visual, so I COULD IMAGINE that the last throw was so insanely good specifically because of him training to listening to when to throw. Which, if you think about, is absolutely bonkers, he just turned Mario into a rythm game. Nice.

I actually love the donation announcement

The commentator says that you cannot rely on purely muscle memory in this run... Pfffft, not a real blindfolded runner, clearly.

I have not subscribed to a Channel so quickly in a really long time, love you bud

My guy beats a game blindfolded in 40 minutes that it would take me days to compleye sighted

This dude would have been such a HUGE hit if gdq was irl

Omfg that was amazing to watch. I couldn't have done it without the guy explaining the strategy in the background though, I needed that. Otherwise I'm just watching someone play Mario Eventhougj I know there's so much more to it than I realize, it's not something my brain can appreciate. However with the explanations I can see how much effort but also how clever these ideas were, ontop of the dedication it must take to learn this so well, with no reward in it other than your own goal achieved. It's pure. I loved this run. That guy is unreal.

I watched this when it first happened, but I’ll watch again to see the world record holder in the most well-respected category in the game react to it! This run is insaaaaannnneeeeeee

someone may say he kinda fail some stars, by missing the star by a little, man for me is crazy enough he doesnt fail 2 second into anything, being close to take a star or having a fast back up is simply incredible

I think the head bobbing is because he isn't necessarily using the music for audio *cues* but more as for a rhythm - as if he were playing an instrument. For moments where timing is critical you can't react to an audio cue because there will always be a delay. You have to anticipate it by knowing what beat of the song it comes at and head bobbing is a great way of keeping time with the music.

I'm 33 years old and to this day I've still never even beat this game even normally.

What's crazy is he revamped his entire strategy for each star in his 120 star video....which is insane.....

This was such a good recording to show us. Amazing!

The end of this made me feel like we just landed on the moon! Holy damn that was insane

I think there should be a category for blindfolded speedruns with a Co-runner who can see the screen, with them providing vocal feedback. Kind of like a co-driver in rally

I like how you can see the tv in the background.

Mario 64 is the only Nintendo game that I’ve ever seen get so many changes, recreations, fixes, restorations, functions added, tweaks, custom music added…. So many RU-vidrs accumulated way over 100 rom hacks big and small, there is so many videos on this game both for the game itself and the rom hacks, we have it given all these fixits where we’ve given it 3D glasses functionalities, we’ve given it a emulator and pc port, we found the disk version of it for the N64DD, we recovered it’s test maps that were from the Gigaleak’s fixed source codes, we found Luigi and beta items, enemies that were erased from the games memory, the debug menu would normally direct you with the glitch area names to certain places in the game but we fixed the font, we can edit the messages that pop up, sign messages, we recreated the enemies or we recolored them, gave them different functionalities, we have so many speed runs, we have the beta of super Mario 64 actually found with its sprites on the Mario wiki, we have made so many changes, so many tweaks, covers, revisions for Mario 64 and something like Mario kart 64 only ever got to be found out to have have a beta but very small bits of it have been documented, we have gameshark codes known that it could work with, but that’s about it for that game and that’s a;so the same for 90+ percent of Nintendo’s games for all the other consoles they made. Miamoto wants Mario 64 to be remembered as much as it can ever be, the iQue, it’s 4 language release roms, it’s own fixed blj rom, Nintendo switch… Mario 64 is quite the invention of Nintendo’s, that will be remembered even in the 22nd century and further on because look at this, look at all of this continuous activity being shown and provided for this 20 year old game.

As if it wasn't painfully obvious just yet this only further shows just how insanely fake that other "blind" run was.

He's syncing his movements with the music to know exactly when he should perform them.

Yo, Cheese. I love your speedruns first of all. Paying my due respects. Also you probably have already seen it, but he also did a 120 star run blindfolded as well. It's a super long video, but it's a must see.

I just noticed his TV is behind him. Thats just insane

Dude has the clutch gene! Incredible job!!

I'm not a fan of SM64 but I stay following Cheese; Cheese is so humble and talented in that I appreciate there can be an actual breakdown and also this man is just upper echelon and can help me filter through the jokes and chokes and let me know what actual runs I should pay attention to. If you are reading this much love, brother. Keep doing you!

Pretty cool, id like to see cheeze do a blinfolded reaction to this.

“What do you call those people that do things?” I love you, cheese!

This is absolutely insane! He is a legend!

Now imagine this guy without the blindfold. His very presence gets him every star.

Cheese "new subscriber" sound at 4:46 lol

Majority of games are basically rythym exercises in 3d space. Fighting games in particular are the closest to musical performance.

Around 20:00 there's a bit of delay between his game and the stream so sometimes you see him jamming but he's further on his game

Saw his new PB 31 star run the day before! So awesome!

cant believe this is even possible, thats crazy talent

I like how in the face cam you see the TV in the background so you know he's not looking.

congrats on the WR

Not only he's blindfolded, he's not even facing the tv, this guy is insane

NGL. I have so much PTSD from SimpleFlips' green demon series, when he collected the one up on Whomp's star I thought the run was over.

It’s justcrqzy howbig the difference is in this run and the fake run! So much respect for bubzia💪🏼❤️

There should be some kind of vibration and bumping sounds on the control whenever Mario walks in certain terrains. It's easy to know when he's in water for example.

Great way of explaining the audio queues is if anyone (I’m going to assume EVERYONE) has ever played geometry dash, you know you can do that first level by listening to the beats in the music

last bowser world reminds me of TAS runs where the runners dont care about the camera and play perfectly anyway

okay, that penguin dive grab kinda sick.

The end was absolutely insane What

Whoever put sponsored by cheese is a legend

Alternative Title : Cheese gets anxiety from SM64 16 Star Blindfolded

Blindfolded is absolutly nuts

dude cheese looked so offended when he backflipped into bits lmao

for the head bobbing it is a bit like a drummer counting the beat to keep in time like 19:40 he kick the wall then fall and start bobin to count when to switch the camera, like the drummer doing a fill and getting back on the beat

Bubzia is rly good at this what a fun speed run to watch.

30:30 I was about to ask how tf can he see where he's going, and then I'm like "Oh yeah... He's blind."

I'm genuinely curious if using sound queues for Bowser throws is easier than visual queues in a normal run given how bad I am at visual based timing.

That's impressive and all but my eyes when he pulled up light themed youtube when it was pitch black my eyes were scorched.

Amazing

This run was so fucking hype

And to think the actual WR for this is 15 minutes faster: 24:03. That's only 10 minutes faster than the actual 16 star WR.

Honestly Bowser throws are the craziest shit

They mentioned he uses a gamecube controller in this run, during the CCM slide star. Which got me thinking, how would Mario speedrunners feel about people creating their own notches into their controllers like Melee players do?

trying to watch cheese on my mother's side is constantly trying to avoid OH GOWD

Literally never beat Super Mario 64 and he does it blindfolded faster than I can get 1 star. I’m not crying you are :(. CONGRATS BUBZIA!!

I'd love to see Cheese react to Bubzia's 120 star blindfolded run.

that wall kicks will work star is mental what a guy xD

honestly just the fact he can get any stars at all is mind boggling let alone 16 XD

That dude reading donations sounds like an off brand voiceover pete

Can't believe this was technically his third attempt!

This shows me that some people have superpowers

Take a shot each time Cheese says "bump his head"

Another awesome speedrun to check out is Nobori56's Blindfolded 16 Star run in 24m and 03s. It's a really cool run to watch.

Nice video

Why did he make a face before he fell off the slide at 13:01? There was so sound cue

We were the first 4 legends to see this video

at 17:00 I ACTUALLY USED THAT STRAT AS A KID WHEN I PLAYED N64 Mario, well not blindfolded but i played vs bowser using that bowser tail strat cause it looked cheeky

This and the One Handed run by Peaches are crazy!

18:05 im not sure if the commentator was TRYING to sound like Kermit the Frog, but he did

Im gonna try this

I know a guy who should start doing blindfolded speedruns of this. I'm not sure if you've heard of him. His name is TAS

6:16 - I haven't played the game once but i watch some speedrun videos. This trick looks INSANE when done by a blindfolded person.

19:32 I think he nodded because of the music, but also he knew he got the star. If you look behind him at his screen, you can see it is a little ahead of time than the main view of the game we are watching (so basically, our view is slightly delayed).

I love blindfolded speedruns

i wonder who was the first maniac to try completing mario with a blindfold

literal gaming god!

"vvvvvv whatever that is" -Cheese 2021

don’t care if you’re a god teach me the diving-little-pinguin tech

Cheese05, u'r 1 of my favourite SB64 speedrunners. U destroyed my childhood by breaking SB64. xD (just kiddin', u know. U have done great stuff. Respect 2 u and all these speedrunners who broke SB64) But just watch the newest blindfold speedrun of Bubzia. He did the most impossible thing in SB64 and speedrun history which he finished SB64 120stars blindfolded!!! Respect!!! Kindly regards 2 all of urs. Love just sent out 2 all of u!

A REAL blindfolded speedrun