Getting 919 Stars in a Single Game of Mario Party 

4:04 It’s pretty cool how, despite it being basically impossible for anyone to realistically get 99 stars without TAS, that there’s a message saying that you have the max amount of stars. I figured it would still allow you to buy a star but the counter wouldn’t increase

Really weird how the star cap is 999 in the GameCube games and nowhere else, makes you wonder if the devs actually thought you could reasonably get over 99 in a single game

3:52 oh man I have a funny story about this minigame. When my sister and I first played Mario Party 3 when we were 9, my sister landed and Game Guy and got Game Guy's Roulette. Game Guy asked if my sister wanted to know no the rules and she said "Nah." And I was like "wait, but you need to know how to play!" And my sister said "I'll figure it out." We were then on the roulette screen and we quickly realized that neither of us knew how to play and we panicked. My sister said "What do we do???" And I said, "This is why you should've read the rules!!" And my sister said, "These games are usually easy, I thought it'd be obvious!" And the timer was ticking down and we were panicking even more. So I said "pick the x 64! Bigger numbers are better right???" And my sister is like, "Are you sure? I don't think it'd be that straightforward!" And I'm like "There's 2 seconds left just do it!" So she bet on the x64 chance of it landing on Shy Guy, and we both watched it horror as Shy Guy put down a shell and spun it, and we realized we were actually betting on where it would land. My sister was like "This is your fault!" And I'm like "How was I supposed to know?! You're the one who skipped the rules!" But then our jaws both dropped as the shell finally stopped, on the sliver of the roulette that represented Shy Guy. And my sister maxed out at 999 coins and we had to sit there for a good couple minutes and watch each of those coins drop on Yoshi's head. We were both freaking out, I've never seen anyone win with those odds at Game Guy ever since 😆

While I do understand the disqualification of 9/10, I DO think a video going over how many mini stars you can rack up in each board in 9/10 could be cool, since that's a pretty interesting subject (even if they break the usual formula pretty badly)

The car mechanic is so interesting from a design perspective. I can see some of the advantages of it - variable player count, potentially better pacing and storytelling - but it does feel like they really undercut its potential with the other choices. I think it *could* work, but in 9 and 10 I don't think it *does* work, if that makes sense.

Super interesting video! Makes me wonder what the maximum star count would be for each board just out of curiosity, and what you would have to do to achieve that

Being a fan of Fir is like being a fan of Waluigi before he wasn't included in Smash

it wasn't mentioned for long, but it makes me so happy fir mentioned mario part ds since it feels like that's a forgotten title yet it's arguably one of the best

Woah I was not expecting fir, a man known for his love of the word heck and whose twitch emotes all start with soft, to drop such a gritty "fuck" 10 seconds in to a video about Mario Party.

9:31 imagine having unique dialogue for reaching a star count higher than could ever physically be reached even with perfect RNG

i bet i could get 920 😎

4:27 I had this happen to me last NIGHT ironically! I was on DK Stone Statue, the Stars were worth 5 coins, and I still ended up winning even with the CPUs set to hard! I unfortunately didn’t get 99 Stars, but I did get 33 including bonus stars!

I appreciate that Fir does mostly Odyssey content, but doesn't shy away from fun experimental videos in other series. I love it and this is the best YT channel I've discovered in the past year :)

Honestly, I love the sense of progression on Mario Party 9 boards. It feels like your slowly building up the game in the best way possible, similarly to a league table in sports. Some may say the game feels slow, and doesn't have the same chaotic nature as other Mario Party games, but that feeling is amplified by the the final few turns having plenty opportunities to either grant you the win, or get completely screwed over.

I know it makes sense that DS and 8 are on he list, but those two games were what I grew up with the most and it makes me happy to see them talked about

Big shoutout to @BeastlyN64 for making this vid possible as well as Fir for making the video. Never underestimate how much TASers put into the speedrunning and challenge community. Then again, never underestimate how much a speedrun and challenge run is a community effort. Runners name always comes first naturally, but the community always comes right behind them normally unless its the trail blazing early days where the records come hot and fast until everyone eventually builds routes based on the strats, tricks, and manipulations everyone has found.

Back then: "Neato, a star!" "Good one!" Now: "Let's f***ing goo!!! I got a star!!!" "I wish you were never born"

Just want to say technically in windmillville mario party 7. You can technically get more then 20 stars in that board without handicap. There is a happening space at the top of the board where you bounce on a trampoline to get coins that are passing by. If you manage to get every single one of them, you get a star

2:12 Correction: There are 5 Hotels that level up to up to 3 Stars with 50 Coins and 2 Lucky Area Hotels that always have 3 Stars. That means there are *7* hotels. They are in the 4 corners of the regular map and the center. The Lucky Area Hotels are outside the map at the North-West and the South-East, each of the 2 Lucky Spaces takes to one of them specifically, the one of the West brings to N-W, the North one to S-E. I know my first video game! I dare anyone to fact-check me on any of this!

Alternate title: Mario, Luigi, and Peach loan Yoshi money to feed his “Star” addiction

I love your explanations. Concise and to the point but with enough detail included to be informative. The only extra thing I think I would have liked from this video is a bit of a rundown/explanation what a "standard" board (like all of MP1, etc.) would result in, which would segue perfectly into the existence of any board that lets us get more than that number means we can now throw out 100+ boards from consideration XD

As a kid/teen i made a 50 turn game with all CPUs on the map used to get max stars in this vid, and would leave the game running while i did other things to max out the star bank, lol.

"The only thing wrong with the car mechanic is that it's an affront to God."

Great video! Thorough, funny, and informative!

Honestly this is such a Fir like viedo where it requires a bunch of research/game knowledge and pairing it with his skill it's crazy awesone how dedicated he can get

Really cool video, loved the editing and narration and explanations :)

Yes! Mario party DS got a passing mention, I'm so happy! MPDS is underated and my favourite Mario party game, so it getting even a passing mention makes me disproportionately hyped.

Your videos are just so fun to watch, they always make by day better.

Nice job it’s hard making these type of challenges keep up the work fir!

That was the smoothest subscribe plug I've ever seen. Subscribed.

@Fir Congrats on 100k! I’m new subscriber and this channel is awesome and I can’t wait to see it go up in the ranks!

I saw the 100star TAS in 10 turns earlyer this year and i knew that map would be the best :)

Super cool video. A friend of mine and me played MP6 a lot as kids and we used this exact map to farm stars. We would play as a team against cpus and would end the game with 120 stars on average after 50 turns. This shows that even through normal gameplay, we could beat the 99 count.

Great video, man. Very interesting

Such a cool idea and an awesome collab!

That subscribe plug actually made me laugh. Well played, you got a new sub.

Great video as always Fir!! The Mario party series is one of my favourites so this was really interesting to watch!

Fir is so underrated!!! Feel like he’s gonna blow up soon

A little fun fact: 919 is more than the amount of Stars required to buy everything in the Star Bank, which is around 760. This literally means you could hypothetically TAS 100% Mario Party 6 if you were willing to pour in the borderline DAYS of work required to TAS through Solo Mode to get every Minigame, and possibly even complete Endurance Alley and get Rank 16 Lab Brats, even if that isn't technically part of 100%.

this brings me back to when i was young and i played a 50 round game of mario party 7 with my friend vs 2 computers, it was on neon heights, and at the end of that game i got 800+ coins, but my friend still won cuz he had more stars then me... great video

Very fascinating! Also I'm a big fan of the use of Farewell music

I loved this video. This style of “can you do x in a game” is so entertaining. Keep it up Fir!

On the topic of mini stars, my running theory is that they are like the silver stars in 64, so 5 mini stars are equal to one regular start

After being hammered by "x% of you are not subscribed yadda yadda..." in far too many videos, its nice to see a proper speedrun of the sub mention. For that, you get my click.

Congrats on 100k Fir!

Congrats On 100k!

Great video! I never thought about if there was a cap for stars

I play Mario Party 5-7 with my friends all the time. It was very satisfying guessing the right map. We use Faire Square to unlock the voice lines and other items in the game since you need a lot of stars for it. Thank you for having Yoshi win. My friend would appreciate this.

Unpopular opinion... Mario Party 9 is my favourite Mario Party game. However, Mario Party 10 made me UNDERSTAND why everyone hated the car mechanic. So I do see where most people are coming from.

Ah.. so I found a hidden gem channel, Subscribed! I'll be here and watch your channel grow👍🏻

in mario party 8, the hotel map has 2 (or 3?) x 3 stars buildigs from the start if you land on a golden lucky spot so with handicap that would be 24 or 27

This is amazing, instant subscribe

Congrat on 99K subs

Love how direct this video was. Wasn't milked to 50 plus minutes lol.

Cool video idea! So that was the surprise. I like it

Good vid! Proud of my fellow 20HatsHats alumni :D

And then there’s that one kid who says this “actually happened to him”

MP6 is not only one of the best in the series but this map allows mayhem!

congrats on 100K subscribers Fir

Great vid!

If 55 turns was an option, maybe it would be possible to collect 999 stars.

Calling it now, somebody will figure out how to get 999 stars before the year is out.

Yoshi truly was the hero of the story fr tho this a cool vid, definitely subbing

I already knew it had to be faire square on 50 turns but the amount of stars still surprises me

I am really impressed that not even with a TAS it was possible to reach 999.

there are also two extra 3-star hotels through the bonus spaces in koopas tycoon town, making the cap 27

Nice video!

I feel like I've never heard Fir say "fuck" before but I am here for it

I love how it all comes down to the Mario Party games I grew up with aha

So this is how Yoshi evaded his taxes.

Gotta love the Farewell music in background

This must have taken a lot of time! It was surprisingly interesting though

Just seeing gameplay of what looks like just a normal game of Mario Party then there's Yoshi with fucking 795 stars is hilarious

Chaos as usual, I love it

cool video! A lot of effort just for me to see a cool thing in under 10 minutes :D

The only thing wrong with the car mechanic is it's an affront to God.... lol big time with that one

"The only thing wrong with the car mechanic is that it's an affront to God" Lol. Lmao

It took me five seconds to guess the map and game because I could not think of another map that gives as many stars as the mario party 6 map. That is honestly my favorite in the series and to this day I think 6 had the most fun mechanics.

So this is how Yoshi committed Tax Evasion...

RIP Hudson Soft, and the good Mario Party games with them, probably for forever from it looks

Fine. FINE. YOU WIN. TAKE MY SUB. But only because of your incredible chase ending in GPB's latest hide and seek video. 😂 (Yes, I'll also go and see if I can watch your POV now.😋😘)

What a lovley video!

I like how the term "tool-assisted superplay" has been adopted. I thought it was such a better term when I first heard it

"The only thing wrong with the car mechanic is that it's an affront to God." As someone who despises Mario Party 9 and 10, thank you for this line. That was amazing.

WE GET IT, YOU HATE THE CAR MECHANIC!!!

Guys, Yoshi wasn't cheating, he just had a really good gaming chair and a new pair of gaming headphones, calm down

6:26 Pause buffering is not a glitch, it’s an exploit

This was seriously interesting

Amazing vid

How the heck does he put so much thought into every video and still upload regularly

I could be wrong, but I think the 99 cap is removed on dk statue if you're playing team mode, I have a memory of me and a friend getting to 120ish stars on that map but maybe I'm just remembering wrong

Instantly guessed the map off the name of the video lol. Then I saw the image and knew I had it. God I love MP6.

I’m not saying I knew the exact map he was gonna use. Butttttt, I had a strong inkling, I have owned and played so so so much of every single Mario party but 6 was the pinnacle of my childhood with my older sister. I had a strong feeling he was gonna say that board.

I liked the a hat in time soundtracks in the backround

imagine running this tas while handing your little brother an unplugged control and telling him he’s playing

In mp superstars, if you land on a Bowser space there is a slight chance to get 100 stars

Neon Heights from Mario Party 7 should’ve included more gambling like Faire Square.

"I'm not removing 9 and 10 because they [the games] fundamentally suck" I mean they kinda do and you explain why immediately afterwards.

4:00 celeste music

I was just wondering this question recently