So when I was playing Super Mario 64 on my phone (using an emulator). Everything was normal until when I defeated King bom-omb (I forgot the spelling of the name). Usually when you grab a star and ground pound, you'll just fall to the ground quicker to save time in speedruns. I jump to the star and ground pound, instead of doing the star animation, it does the ground pound animation. I was surprised! The music stopped and I move around and suddenly the music is back (I mute the sound because I don't want to be noisy while in my room). Anyways, the game actually thinks I collected the star. So maybe the name of this glitch is called "Star cancel". This may be useful in speedruns! I don't know if it works on N64 but it works on emulator. Sorry if there are some parts that are not clearly explained, I'm ryping this using a phone so it's harder for me to explain clearly. Anyways, thank you for reading!

Do you have a video of this glitch?

maybe you have the non-stop cheat on by default

sounds like non-stop mode to me

Either that or it's the emulator's fault. I bet it's not a glitch that comes from the game

Doubt this is legit, the only star skip I know of was in the DS version of 64. This game has been so broken down that I doubt this hasn’t been discovered yet. However, if it is real, then this could probably save over, say, 5 minutes on 16 star or so, so that could be an easy WR. One idea is a theory I have about inputs over the entire game. You could have timed inputs at just the right frames through your entire play through, which could have caused a glitch, like with Mario World 0 Exit run. Still though, pretty unlikely.

Seems like nonstop to me, even if it wasn’t activated the emulator could’ve gotten confused or something. I’m pretty much certain this can’t be done on console

I think is an error of emulation, because is it was in phone, nothing can be asegurated

Yeah probably nonstop

I don't have a video of it but what's a non stop?

Is it some kind of cheat?

Non stop is a gamemode/cheat that when enabled you can collect stars and won't be exited out of the level when you do so. Which is like the scenario you described so that's why people said it may be non-stop.

I didn't use the non stop at all. The only thing I did was jump to the star but suddenly it does a ground pound animation.

I tried doing it again with the floating island star by using save states and I had a hard time doing the star. I just give up but I still have save states to try again.

It's probably the emulator.

I have to wait for my phone to charge to see if I have the cheat or not.

can you stop spamming my notifications

If you can do it again, record a video of it and post it in the discord. I'm going to lock this thread and for future reference you can turn off notifications for the forums for any games you follow. I recommend doing that for this game.