SM64 Speedrunning just had 3 Big Discoveries… 

Can't wait to start spamming "ASSLESS modCheck" in all of Simply's 120 runs from here on out

When he said the game is 26 years old my brain went, "That's not possible, because I'm only... oh shit"

this new route is really hard but getting so much hard thing in the start of a run is really smart Like if in the future we could get a better carpetless setup it would be insane cause we got all the level available and maybe do some minor change depending of who is playing

"We all know and love carpetless!" Me, someone who knows nothing about this but was recommended this video for whatever reason: Ah, yes, I sure know what that thing you just said is!

Super Mario 64 is now too old to date Leonardo DiCaprio.

That first trick is the sort of thing that will occasionally get discovered and prevent an optimised 120 TAS from ever existing. They'll get ten minutes from the end of the TAS and then a new trick will be discovered and they'll be like, "hold up, we can save 11 frames in Jolly Roger Bay." Then they'll edit the Jolly Roger Bay segment and everything after that will desync so they'll have to redo it...

2:10 had a crazy nostalgia moment hearing that Bomber Man 64 music. I always find it crazy how music can become so deep rooted in our brains that you can hear a song that you haven’t heard since you were a child and immediately be transported back to that moment

IT STILL HAS SAUSE?

Imagine having a thousand attempts at the last route only to get carpetless once and then you fall down the very next stage losing the 17s advantage.

I absolutely love 1:34 :-D Thats the kind of content i like! Totally got me offguard and made me laugh

Great narration and pacing. I had never heard about Swim Strength Preservation or Assless despite watching some people speedrunning the game.

I've never speedrun the game, not even watched a full speedrun of it... and yet, I found your video fascinating!

This new route is made strategically so runner's have a more broad selection of routes since they are indeed going to be getting the hard things out first and then doing the rest.

I frankly don't see Carpetless being done without Early VC. Now early VC is a whole nother beast, I think it's 14 frame-perfect BLJs with a setup that hasn't been looked into yet (I think TAS rapidly moves the joystick so copying that exact strat won't be viable), but the thing is that without early VC, any early carpetless route has to go to DDD twice and that's just not worth it cause it eats up too much of the timesave. On the other hand, early VC and nothing else would probably save as much as that entire early carpetless route, and the trick would be in the first minute of the run (and it would even excuse noping out of LBLJ since you'd have 1 star for WF and wouldn't have to visit BoB twice)

Awesome video guys! Great explanation and editing. Wondering how SSP is allowed for single star attempts since it requires a setup from a previous interaction with water (outside of the single star in question). Or am I missing something?

even today i can’t believe this game STILL has new strats being made, it’s awesome

I appreciate this type of content a lot more than just edited VODs

I like these highly produced and technical videos Simply my man

honestly I could see the new route becoming the new standard when/if we find a more consistent and reliable way to do carpetless.

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

Love these type of videos

Nice touch with the Bomberman 64 Blue Resort BGM. My fav game.

This video is fire. This is the best vibe from RU-vid Simply

More of these types of vids, please!

That carpetless was fkin sick! I'm about to add that to my 16 star run for swag

You don’t have to imagine a consistent carpetless anymore lol

"Imagine the Nerves" soulless 4 flashbacks

so hyped every time a video like this comes out even though ill never do it

Pop filter ModCheck 😂 great video as always Simply!!!

If Summoning Salt videos have taught me anything, a new strat will be used no matter how hard, once everything else has been squeezed dry for timesaves.

Chatting Liam does this

I don’t think Carpetless early will be the standard route for top runners unless a setup is found for the trick. However if that is the case one nice part about the route is you don’t just get carpetless done early, you get other hard stars over with such as DDD100, Firesea, and SBLJ. Not to mention the rest of Rainbow Ride. Would be a very interesting route if Carpetless becomes more viable one day for sure.

Thanks for breaking this down, and every discovery is a big deal!

Update: Carpetless is real and repeatable. This is the reality we now live in.

I remember back then when Xiah pull off Carpetless with a full segment run without saves states. I could be wrong, but god damm this is hard.

Hello you absolute legends.

M64 and OOT continue to have new things found. Absolutely wonderful

If you can do carpetless early, you can do carpetless late. The time save compared to early carpetless would be massive. Sure, you'll lose a lot of runs to failing carpetless, but you just need that one god run...

If rr early ever gets implemented it would probably be the hardest strat in any speedrun it would be insane

Over 26 years old? Doesn’t have a chance with Leo now

What was that song at the end it feels so familiar

Assless becomes more viable with the new route, too And any other ultimate strat in tippy you want to use.

"Now, you might be thinking: *BrEaStS"*

I'm glad ppl still keep these games alive...I have a PS5 but I always go back and play the older Gen

it indeed has high popularity some retro games on steam only had 1-5 players daily, assuming only speedrunners played them often, even on sale the player base is under 50 sm64 is hell of an achievement for being a retro game on modern streaming platforms

I'm not sure if it's an issue with my device or on my end, but the ad frequency on this video is insanity

I used to always wonder how some glitches were actually discovered. But very recently I've accidentally encountered the bob-omb acceleration and the moneybag clone.

Dude that Bomberman 64 music , gave me way too many unexpected emotions

i think circumark also showed a new carpetless route that uses HOLP

simply my man, love the videos. just wish you would have reacted a little harder for these pretty big discoveries. looking forward to more vids

Are the first technique usefull for TAS ?

This is awesome!!

I hate how many people in the comments don't realize how impossibly difficult AND luck based carpetless is. The bomb shit alone would make this route almost non viable, you still need to grind on the ledge for the regrab, but other than that, it's basically a much harder pillarless. What happens after the warp is on another level entirely however. When you get to the last platform, you can't stop your movement, you can't really do any kind of setup, and you have to jump at a ridiculously precise (way beyond human capabilities) angle, glitchy sidekick out of it, then do it AGAIN from the previous wallkick, then ground pound mid air extremely precisely... It's just not happening, ever. Not unless a reliable setup is somehow found. Sure, 3 people have done carpetless savestateless, but they did it after warming up on it for hours without doing anything else, after tens of thousands of attempts, and doing some micro adjustments every single time. And they're all single star specialists, not 120 runners. And EVEN THEY would never bet on doing it while they are fresh from doing other stuff. And lastly, it's not like the early game is a joke either. Yeah, top runners are getting good at SBLJ, so much that we're starting to see the strat appear in 120, but that "basic requirement" from the already insane "carpetless route" is already considered an insane hail mary as it is, and it's not like it will cost you a full minute of gameplay, which is what a failed carpetless will likely cost. And yeah, I know a lot of people are joking, but I also know that's not everyone.

Loved the video

The end of this reminds me a lot of acai soulless 4

0:18 My socks are still thoroughly on. Give me my money back! *realizes he didn't pay any money* Okay, we're settled then..

i remember buying this in 1999 on my birthday thinking it was brand new on the shelves. So confused.

What a time to be alive...

What's the music at 5:55?

Chatting Carpetless

Question about SM64: for the input viewer in the bottom-left, how many possible x/y coordinates are there? In other words, what’s the resolution for the analog stick? I’m used to SNES, which in some ways is easier to reproduce inputs, but other ways it’s harder since it’s 60 FPS and very punishing

hey does someone have the name of the music we hear at 5min54 ?

Good stuff

My socks are still on my feet. Where is my money?

WarOwl type voiceover

We’re learning a lot about sblj itself rn, stay tuned!

Will any of these help in ABC?

does anyone know the music that plays at 3:30 til about 5:15

My socks are already off simply. What now?

What if I used A Button Challenge strats in speedruns? Frame Perfect Squish cancels, Spawning Displacement, cloning, etc.

Imagine the nerves

I’ve got a question for all these speedruns. How do you prove someone is using a tool assistant? Im not too deep into speedrunning but I often see runs of runners who do not show their controller inputs.

This game gets manipulated so much, terminal montage is gonna have some fun with this knowledge.

Man i give it max 7 years before we see a tryhard early carpetless run, maybe not wr but i can see desperate people among the top 15 speedruners that are willing to try

SM64 just won't quit.

"Imagine the nerves" lol ok Acai

Huh, I've been doing assless for years, I assumed people knew it existed already. Of course I didn't call it assless.

what’s a flutter kick?

That was a nice report

Reminds me of Minecraft. By far the most popular speed game ever and has over 200 million players, but we just discovered last night you can avoid fall damage with a glitch in (almost) any scenario

So because carpetless is a thing now, does it mean the carpetlessroute is possible? 2 BLJs and a SBLJ doe not seem impossible

I thought the ENTIRE hatred of carpetless was that its not worth doing THAT LATE in the run. If being able to go there first, saves almost 20 seconds, why not make that the start point?

Well now I have no socks and no money, but hey, the video was great

As cool as these discoveries are, my socks are definitely still on my feet, sir.

Assless. I love Speedrun naming sometimes xD

Ease up on the blurred scenes. My eyes kept dying lol

3 big finds!

1:34 how'd he know?

We love the sauce

good video

I love Mario64 techniques because of bismuth's every glitches and technique video, thanks to him, it inspire me to learn each technique and watch runs to pull off even lower, I like Speed runners achieve their goals, not a speed runner, but I'm entertain. P.S. Simply is a god. 🙂

Dude, this is so fucking cool

Sblj and blj to do carpetless early... Just let bowser have the princess at that point.

but i dont want to lose my socks :(

Sm64:LET ME DIEEEE Speedrunners: no lol

When there's a will. There's a way.

Imagine the nerves! 😂 carpetless will never be done in a 120 star WR. Oh god, I’ve heard this before. This means we might be only two years out from it happening 😅. Kinda ridiculous to think though. I’m sure a carpetless 120 star run is way harder than an FC of soulless 4 though, lol.

what does he mean with 'long gone' i mean how long?

Never gonna take back that 120 record with that attitude😜

I WAS thinking breasts... how did you know?!