Do not buy any N64 usb controller they are all bad, if you want to start using N64 controllers on emu I recommend buying a real N64 controller and an adaptor. As for movement just try and make your rollouts dustless, practice the timing until you can get dustless almost every time. Then practice your spacing, sometimes a jump dive would be better than a long jump or a regular dive + speedkick, or etc. Maybe watch others and see what kind of movement they are doing for each star. Try not long jumping everywhere like people used to do back in 2007 I guess lol. I can't think of anything else, movement is such a broad thing, just keep practicing.

Yeah movement is a very broad thing, but I’m not really sure what else is hindering me. I mean 26 mins seems ok for a beginner, but even the sum of my best segments isn’t under 20 which is what’s making me second guess myself. Could be that my route isn’t great but after looking around at suggestions, I don’t think it’s causing me to lose time, at least not 2 mins worth.

Thanks for the tips though I’ll keep them in mind :p

Crabshack exactly what stars do you do in your route

Pro tip: Walk less,longjump/dive more ^^

Hexaforce, I go: Chain chomp’s gate Wild blue Cless Thwomp Top of the fortress Caged island Lil penguin WKWW BitDW Talon Top of the pyramid LLL reds Emergency exit Swimming beast (w/ elevator clip) Rolling rocks

The rest is just standard mips > DDD > BitFS > BLJ staircases > End

How about the toad star, you know outside of Hazy Maze