VOTW: Mario 64 With 1 Star In 6:47

By Jeffrey | September 23, 2007

From tasvideos.org:

Ever wonder if Mario was actually a ninja wearing blue overalls? Now you know.

This run completes the game after collecting 1 star. It was originally intended that the player collect a minimum of 70 to finish, but a few bugs allow Mario to pass through doors and barriers that require a minimum number of stars to open. Creating the fastest Super Mario 64 run was previously believed to require 16 stars, but this run manages to glitch through the Dire Dire Docks door without using MIPS the rabbit.

Mario has a very wide range of skills for mobility and some of the physics of this game are easily abused by an experienced player.

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51 Responses to “VOTW: Mario 64 With 1 Star In 6:47”

  1. O yeah?

    Posted by: Tacos on September 24th, 2007 at 6:52 am

  2. Holy crap!

    Posted by: Jeremy on September 24th, 2007 at 6:58 am

  3. Nice xD!!

    Posted by: DarthDie on September 24th, 2007 at 7:03 am

  4. mario goes through all that sht and all he gets is a fricking cake? ripped off!!!

    Posted by: brad on September 24th, 2007 at 7:22 am

  5. ya-hoo!

    Posted by: G1 on September 24th, 2007 at 7:32 am

  6. OMG!!…The credits and the cut scenes is almost longer than the actual run. Totally owned that game

    Posted by: JungleJim on September 24th, 2007 at 7:39 am

  7. umm.. owned the game?

    tool-assisted = lame.

    Posted by: Alex on September 24th, 2007 at 7:48 am

  8. “it’s me, Mario”

    Posted by: Mario on September 24th, 2007 at 7:51 am

  9. ugh voice of peach needs to be stabbed in the throat

    Posted by: noo on September 24th, 2007 at 8:09 am

  10. Mario rules! This was impressive!

    Posted by: andy samberg on September 24th, 2007 at 8:14 am

  11. exploited . so its not valid.

    Posted by: ky on September 24th, 2007 at 8:52 am

  12. Dude “making a cake” is just so that the 10 yo’s playing the game don’t know that they are actually gonna go make mushroom babies of their own. ;)

    Posted by: Aaron on September 24th, 2007 at 8:59 am

  13. Mario goes through all that and all he gets is a cake. LAME! I’d want more than a cake, hahaha.

    Posted by: Brandon on September 24th, 2007 at 9:11 am

  14. Meh. You’d think they could make it cooler since they’re using tools.

    Posted by: Agreed on September 24th, 2007 at 9:22 am

  15. It’s very unlikely that somebody could make a run with ZERO mistakes, there were moments the guy couldn’t even see where he was going… I think it was a key logger, he saved the best button sequence and deleted the rest.

    Posted by: Kal on September 24th, 2007 at 9:53 am

  16. I hate people who say that the TAS isn’t valid. To see a game pushed beyond human limits is a beautiful thing. As long as the publisher doesn’t try to pretend that he or she actually ran the game by using a controller, there’s nothing invalid about it. A TAS is not the same as a speedrun, and to watch them with the same mindset is a mistake.

    Posted by: Mike on September 24th, 2007 at 9:57 am

  17. Y dont mario and peach just get a room so he wont have to get beat up all the fuckin time

    Posted by: Steven Powell on September 24th, 2007 at 10:13 am

  18. Craziest thing I’ve ever seen!

    Posted by: CB on September 24th, 2007 at 10:57 am

  19. So “Baking a cake” is what they call it now-a-days.

    Posted by: Maxx on September 24th, 2007 at 12:01 pm

  20. Omfg, now I can die happy.

    Posted by: Wasa.B on September 24th, 2007 at 12:42 pm

  21. hax

    Posted by: Rekzai on September 24th, 2007 at 12:59 pm

  22. Hax

    Posted by: l3v14th4n on September 24th, 2007 at 1:41 pm

  23. It looks fake, there’s a bunch of “glitches” that warp him around the world, and my guess is that the “tool assist” isn’t just a key logger but rather some hacks, which invalidates anything he was trying to prove.

    The idea of a tool assist, is simple stuff like save states and flawless runs.

    Essentially a TAS should be possibly by anyone just playing the normal game with some trial and error, not something that a person who bought the console and the game can’t do.

    Posted by: Kinglink on September 24th, 2007 at 1:47 pm

  24. still awesome

    Posted by: mbc on September 24th, 2007 at 2:14 pm

  25. The last glitch he does where he jumps backward up the stairs is in the real game. That being said I think this is a fake. Even speedrunner have small mistakes now and then and some of the he clearly couldn’t see unless he keylogged.

    Posted by: RndmGdNck on September 24th, 2007 at 3:27 pm

  26. whats so fake about it? all this stuff is in the real game and can easily be pulled off if you know where to preform at.

    Posted by: boon on September 24th, 2007 at 3:33 pm

  27. That was so cool I baked my own cake while watching it…

    Posted by: tobias on September 24th, 2007 at 4:41 pm

  28. as for the mistakes the start of the video says he had to rerecord it like 8,000 times…

    Posted by: Ungo on September 24th, 2007 at 4:48 pm

  29. Tool assisted speedruns include a tool to slow down the game, and play it frame by frame. He did not use a single hack, only ingame bugs. The glitches used in the game, albeit harder to do, are very possible on an original N64 cartridge. Go ahead and try it, especially:
    -the spiral staircase, he jumps up through the ceiling, possibly the easiest
    -the staircase reverse jump, do the same jump pushing forward on the first half of the jump, and once you land and from then on hold the joystick to down and hammer at the jump button like a maniac.

    Posted by: z on September 24th, 2007 at 6:08 pm

  30. You guys are acting as if TAS runs are easy to make. They really, really are not. They require a lot more time and effort to make than regular speed runs.

    Posted by: Verz on September 24th, 2007 at 7:29 pm

  31. Congrats… Now go outside and maybe get a job.

    Posted by: Dave Greiman on September 24th, 2007 at 10:53 pm

  32. i bet that other speed record guy is pissed

    Posted by: Cert on September 24th, 2007 at 11:37 pm

  33. jesus how bored can you get? honestly..

    Posted by: ghost on September 25th, 2007 at 2:37 am

  34. Yes this is very cool and brought back memories, but..

    I don’t think he did this with a regular version of the game. At 8:24 on the video clock (8:24 left) he does a super ‘yah-hoo’ jump just from the start. I”m pretty sure it took 3 jumps before you can start doing those, could be wrong

    Posted by: blackcracka on September 25th, 2007 at 6:33 pm

  35. I’ve done this run before, it took me a while longer, but it is possible, he probably keylogged some of it, but its possible, the backwards staircase at the end was most likely to be keylogged, because its so damn frustrating if you skrew up

    Posted by: Anonymous on September 25th, 2007 at 6:51 pm

  36. WOW I DINT KNOW THAT WAS EVEN DONE!!!!!!!!!

    Posted by: WOW on September 26th, 2007 at 8:12 pm

  37. >brad: mario goes through all that sht and all he gets is a fricking cake? ripped off!!!

    He got a kiss.

    Posted by: Jack on October 4th, 2007 at 2:54 am

  38. I think Mario is going to be “eating” some delicious “cake” for sure, maybe with a cup of “hot coffee,” eh?

    Posted by: Obscene-o Man on January 25th, 2008 at 11:06 pm

  39. THE CAKE IS A ….OOPS THE CAKE IS REAL

    Posted by: ron jeremy on January 26th, 2008 at 5:42 am

  40. Go ahead and say it: THE CAKE IS A LIE!!!

    Posted by: Test Candidate 32387 on January 26th, 2008 at 6:27 am

  41. Mario 64 beaten with 0 stars in 5:47
    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DTzs9bcNgMQ :P

    Posted by: Peruna on January 26th, 2008 at 3:16 pm

  42. THE CAKE IS A LIE!!!

    Posted by: Portal Man on January 26th, 2008 at 3:48 pm

  43. You bastards, I wanted to say the cake was a lie in a humorous portal-referencing way, and then I get down here and see its already been done.

    Posted by: Pissed off guy on January 27th, 2008 at 5:24 pm

  44. the cake is a bi

    Posted by: who knows on January 28th, 2008 at 7:32 am

  45. [...] This is an unbelievable update to the previous video of Mario 64 being beaten in 6:47 with 1 star. [...]

    Posted by: VOTW: Mario 64 Beaten In 5:47 With 0 Stars at SavvyGeek on January 28th, 2008 at 12:03 pm

  46. cant you all see that the cake is a lie?!?!

    Posted by: Jarsh on January 28th, 2008 at 2:53 pm

  47. “video no longer available”. That’s the biggest problem with leeching your main content from Youtube; you never know when the content creator is simply going to yank their video.

    Posted by: josh on January 29th, 2008 at 10:25 am

  48. Josh -

    Um, it is still up. What are you referring to?

    Posted by: Jeffrey on January 29th, 2008 at 1:12 pm

  49. the cake is a lie!!

    Posted by: chris on January 29th, 2008 at 10:25 pm

  50. I kept expecting him to fall or something, pwnage!

    Posted by: Nate on January 30th, 2008 at 9:33 pm

  51. been done with 0 stars in 5 min. So big woop too this i say… big woop.

    Posted by: fgbfx on February 2nd, 2008 at 4:42 pm


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