I posted my routing for low% in the first thread, getting only 11 stars and 2 items I think this is the limit for humans, but I also have found a theoretical way to do it with only the bomb defuser.

This would be absurdly difficult, I have barely made any progress even with save states and TAS tools but it may be possible.

I will post updates here in case any crazy people want to try and make this human viable.

According to the current rules the only cage we can't skip is bowsers. I have been practicing for 8 star and found many improvements, 2 of which being a much more consistent cage skip for w3 and w5, around 70-90% success rate and it's only been a day since I found them so this is with virtually no practice at all.

Are there stars that would be faster if we could skip w3 and w5 cages?

I thought I was on version 1.01, but it was actually 1.1 or something like that. The camera is very different from all the other versions that I have tried, and I really like it. I've just tried 1.0 1.01 deluxe and final from romhacking.com and all of them seem to have the same camera that I hate.

romhacking.com also says that the deluxe version has a completely different camera and lighting system. I can see the lighting system is obviously different, but the camera isn't noticeably different at all.

Is there a speedrun legal version that has a cardinal lakitu cam and uses the dpad to adjust the camera in small increments? (dpad isn't actually that important but I have a feeling it's there because of the lakitu camera system)