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Hey, Tetra. I'm sure you noticed a lot of people were less than happy with this challenge. Too many exceptions, and I kind of agree. So this is what you should do... if you want, of course. 1) see how many stars are possible without ground-touches 2)see how many touches it takes(meta included) it takes to 120 star the game These are much cooler concepts, I think. Just trying to help. You obviously don't have to do any of this, I'm just suggesting.
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17:45: "Snowman's Land is next, and can you *believe* we once thought that these graphics were *good?* …Yyyyyikes." Actually, they still hold up *pretty* well on actual hardware. They're still dated, and in the case of many early Nintendo 64 games (e.g. Super Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time), they can be pretty ugly at times, but if you play the games at their native 240p resolution on a CRT TV, it's not nearly as noticeable. The biggest problem with the graphics is that most people these days play the game on TVs/monitors the game wasn't developed for - crisp crystal-clear digital LCDs instead of the often-somewhat-fuzzy/blurry CRTs - and/or emulating it at two, three, four, or more times its original resolution, which causes the low polygon count of the models and the low resolution of the games' textures to become much, much more obvious. :p
As a kid, I played Nintendo 64 and gamecube simultaneously in my youth and honestly because I played 64 games on my grandma's small CRT TV I didn't notice. Hell I don't think I would've cared they weren't as good as the gamecube graphics, because I just loved Mario 64.
@@mortenera2294 that's pretty dumb.... You must comment that on a lot if peoples videos... And if we follow that logic, you should be making a full write-up about the dudes comment... You're a weird fellow
@@FloppydriveMaestro yeah like when I saw the title and didn't know he was using moon jump I thought "That's impossible! you touch the ground when the game starts!"
FloppyDriveMaestro It depends on how you look at it, and in which context. If it's in the context of a standard playthrough of the game, then it would be considered a cheat. If it’s used in the context of this challenge, then it would be a tool since it is "a thing used to help perform a job." (Literally one of google's definitions)
It is definitely possible. I beat the game both on the couch and on my bed. Theoretically, any chair or raised object would work as well, although I haven't tested it.
After collecting the last star in a level, you can just go out of bounds with the moonjump code and die, reducing the amounts of meta ground touches. Also, in HMC, you can go over the top of the map to reach the lake with dorrie and the star there.
Well at this point you might as well just do another video called “can you beat Super Mario Brothers 3 without moving at all?” And just use a warp glitch to the ending scene. (Which yes, that’s possible. But it requires a tas bot, which kinda defeats the entire purpose.)
I know it’s an old video and nobody watches it anymore, BUT in hazy maze cave there is a way to reach dory without using the lift. There is a part of the map that Mario can clip through and fall through the world to reach Dory. Most speed runners use this trick to save time
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Sure. Also, at around 11:55... Is it just me, or did you forget there's 2 stars in the Volcano? Edit: At around 13:45, you said "It looks like the only way to get down there for is to use an elevator." SwankyBox uploaded another challenge video on SM64 where he went up beyond the wall's collision and dropped down to the platform. Maybe that'll work here too? Edit 2: Oh. Looks like you addressed my first point at the end of the video. Sorry, with a video like this, if something REALLY stands out to me, I write it as I go. Otherwise, I tend to forget by the end of the video.
Is it possible to beat Mario 64 without touching the ground except you can touch the ground and use GameShark/Action Replay and also there are no doors
Well I dont know why you would expect anything else considering you cant fly legit without the wing cap so the challenge would fail as soon as you start the game.
@@gunnadahun Because its fun? It would be literally possible to even attempt this challenge without the moon jump. Anyone with a brain should know that.
You can grab bowser midair and touch a bomb, because normally mario drops the object he is currently holding, when he gets hurt... And you can exit a level by simply flying into the abyss, which should be no problem accept in bob, but you can still die from the bubbles the cannons shoot, but you still need to touch the ground to trigger the death animation
Well, it’s not as interesting if every single possible challenge that anyone ever thinks of just ends with “no, because this one unavoidable thing makes it completely impossible no matter what”
Why is it ok to touch the ground at the end of CCM slide for 1 star, but you can't grab MIPS? The exceptions you made in this challenge seem really arbitrary. Cool idea though!
There are romhacks that make marii and his hitbox smaller. But they are edited so it is possible, would be fun to see if the og game is possible with little Mario tho.
Hmmm. :3 Does entering the pyramid count as touching the ground? Technically there is ground inside of the entrance, which you MUST touch to trigger the warp, but doing so also immediately causes Mario to vanish, so... ?? Hm. I'm willing to overlook Hazy Maze's entrance since it's a continuously bobbling oil puddle.
Video title implied there wouldn't be cheats involved. If you're going to cheat why not just warp him to the paintings and stars instantly? Why not just warp yourself to the credit screen. This isn't a challenge. This was a way to cash in on the trend without putting in any creative effort. Edit: Actually this takes no mechanical skill either, while other youtubers are putting in entire routes on how to get the lowest possible score, and lowest theoretical score, while putting in sweat inducing effort to find the lowest score of every level. You just flipped a cheat switch and floated everywhere and failed immediately even though you put in a rule that let you touch the ground anyways.
I love when, even though the challenge technically fails, people keep going. It's so unsatisfying to be left with a "no." I'd much rather see "no, _but_ it only takes 4 [blank]."
For Dorrie's lake, you can just fly over some of the walls above the room. Yeah, for some reason the game lets you do that. You could have gotten extra 2 stars... but I don't think the caps would be happening anyway, since the switches require you to step on them.
"Can you use mario 64 without touching the ground?" no of course you can't "We're gonna use this cheat that lets us infinitely jump in the air" WHAT'S THE POINT THEN
Great job! The meta touches didnt bug me, these kinds of challenges are fun enough without being too nitpicky. I didnt even mind the few tippy taps you did on the ground a few times
Ok so idea; you could easily save a bunch of “meta ground touches” if instead of taking one for the last star you get, you jumped into a bottomless pit after getting it. This would let you leave the course without touching the ground, and it would work in most courses. If there’s a course that doesn’t have a bottomless pit, you could always drown yourself, too. Just a thought that I had.
@@trevorbluesquirrel899 I think he meant when the player was trying to get the red coins. He hits the ground on a few of the jumps. As well as others throughout the run on low coins. It's a touch challenge.
@@affrun11 maybe it's dumb to think literally that it's going to be possible in the first place and that there's no stretching of the truth in the title Leto
Listen I'm totally fine with making meta X exceptions but in this challenge it basically goes that every time the run should be dead you claim it's a meta ground touch. It's BS
So I mean the challenge is cool and all, but its lacking. There's no problem solving involved when you had the solution from the beginning and you removed everything that might cause issues. The first challenge video I saw was a Zelda BOTW no climbing run by GameChamp and his challenge was actually interesting when 2 minutes into the game, he had to climb a wall to exit the shrine of ressurection. Even after that, he purposefully went through certain parts of the game that would make his challenge more interesting. I hope in the future, you could come up with more creative challenges like that
The Saxiest he made exceptions because the challenge would be impossible without them. There is no sneaky trick you can do to throw bowser while in the middle of a jump.
The Saxiest the dilemma is you can’t touch the fucking ground. With few exceptions to this rule like to enter a door that teleports you to a different room or to throw bowser. None of these things can be done in the middle of a moon jump.
Ninjaz 1432 yeah, but if every single time something it's imposible you simply said "it doesn't count" then what's the challenge? Just say "no, beating the game like this it's not posible" and move on
AceMercer AMV The challenge is BEATING THE GAME WITHOUT TOUCHING THE GROUND. There are very few exemptions to this rule made to continue through the game and make an entertaining video.
Can you beat Super Mario 64 without going foward? To make this challenge more doable, I shall be using a cheat that will reverse Mario's X coordinates, while still keeping his same properties
"We can't avoid it, so let's call it a meta" - Uh, no. It means the answer is no, it can't be done. If you just make an exception whenever it doesn't work, of course it will work.
Would you have found a 5 minute video of him just explaining the rules and then saying "but we have to touch the floor to go through doors so this is impossible bye!" to be more entertaining? It was obvious the challenge wasn't possible from the start, the point of the video has pretty clearly been to see how much of the game you can do without touching the ground.
@@sir.paulord901 I would have preferred that the title is either accurate ("least ground touching") or the video not being made. Literally everything is possible if you just eliminate all the things that make it impossible. What's the point of that? "Oh here's me jumping from a water tower blindfolded onto a field of sharp knifes. Let's see if I can survive. The rules are no knives, the blindfold is transparent and the water tower is five inches high. Let's go!"
@@Airblader The title is accurate lol. It's a question and the answer can be no. In fact, from the several smb challenge videos i've seen, that tends to be the case in most of them. And it was implied that there was going to be some exceptions and some cheating to even make it remotely possible because the game starts with an unskippable cutscene of mario jumping from a pipe and landing on the floor. If you didn't assume it, then that's your problem. And the point of the video is 1. See how the game would work with a new unintended mechanic and 2. Get around the things that seem impossible with difficult tricks, except for when there are no tricks to use and it's unavoidable to touch the ground. Even then, the cases in which this happens are pointed at clearly and he even says that it's fair to say that the challenge ends there.
@@sir.paulord901 You're free to see it that way. I don't. But there's a reason the SMO category is called min captures, not no captures, and it's history proves that what is or isn't possible can change dramatically over time. Just because this guy didn't figure out how to avoid some things doesn't mean they're impossible. If you think this is obvious, you've never seen the speedrun community do its work. Ah, yes,.and of course: if you can't see that that's your problem. Blah blah.
@@Airblader I know the speedrunning community has made what seemed impossible possible, but this is a different story. Most of those challenges are about not doing something that you do actively, like collecting a star or pressing a button, here it's about avoiding something that you do passively from the start of the game, which makes it impossible without cheats or exceptions because you're doing from the moment you gain control from mario and you can't do anything before that.
@@yourfairyking It would definitely be possible with a tool-assist, but as it stands I think it must be placed firmly in the 'impossible' section without; our weak, human digits get tired too easily. That said, its an interesting scenario as stars like Peach's and the penguin's slide can't be obtained through the run
Technicly, the start and end of levels are impossible, but the middle of levels are interesting. Of course, there's a lot of levels with just trees, or bridges, or the castles are just floors. However, specific levels make this challange imteresting. And I'm talking aboit without any moonjump. Try it with world 6-2.
@@veemonjosh I remember that old video. But it was, unfortunatly, just a joke, and not a serious attempt at the challange. But it did inspire me to do that challange myself.
I LOVE this new video trend. Cool to see your channel take a slightly different approach with its content! Which isn't bad. Not only is it fun for me to upload my own variations of these challenges. But watching them are JUST as INCREDIBLE... Thanks for uploading this video, keep up the good uploads 👍👍👍
so i recently discovered this channel and not only are the videos amazing and has great commentary, it's awesome to see how many mods and challenges have been made to one of the greatest 3d platformers of all time!
2:45 And thanks to pannenkoek's absurdly in-depth guides to game coding, we know why: walls and ceilings in this game don't just act as collision boxes, they can forcibly shove Mario away or halt his movement when needed
Yeah when I saw the title, I figured there'd be some insane tricks about bouncing off enemies and using the trees, actually using creative routing. Challenge videos that directly require modding the game like this seem like they defeat the appeal of challenge videos.
I like your video. but if you keep adding exception on the road blocks, such as remove doors or even allow to touch ground to throw King koopa on the bombs, it kind of defeat the propose.
Vanessa Pucca there wouldn’t be a video and the challenge would be over. There is no trick you can do to open a door or throw bowser without touching the ground.
Vanessa Pucca the challenge was just for fun. So he should have just stopped the whole video as soon as he got to the front door? That wouldn’t be very entertaining to watch at all so he made an exception for doors that take you to a different map.
Tetra: Is it possible to beat sm64 without touching the ground? Also tetra: makes a bunch of exceptions to his ONE rule Also tetra: touches the ground like 3 times and doesn't ignoledge it