I've been trying to speedrun 16 star but for some reason mips doesn't appear in the basement when I reach 15 stars. Mips only appears when I reset my console. My version of Project64 is 2.3.2.202 if that is needed. Here is a video of it happening while doing nonstop: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18BKACeS7IuAwT0CVg0zlERDwETLBXSR1/view?usp=sharing. Thanks

WTF. This is weird, Mips should appear, I play on version 1.6. I think I already know what the problem is. (I have seen the video and realized the possible cause)

When you have achieved the fifteenth star, when you make that jump and reach the top, for some reason the scene of Mario getting a star does not happen. I think that is the possible cause, the fact that the scene did not come out will have caused Mips not to appear in the game.

As far as I know, MIPS only appears when you "get to the castle with 15 stars". So either get the Toad star before that or leave the basement and reload.

(Feel free to correct me, been ages since I've ran this game)

You can't collect a toad star as your 15th star to spawn mips. If you got your 15th star in a level he'll be there. So either re-enter a level and die quickly, or leave the basement and go back down and he'll be there.

I've only had problems with this on emulator, because if you can see my 16 star pb on VC that didn't happen, so I think it's just project64 being weird.

Also, I have tried multiple 16 star runs on emulator (regular) and the same problem happens. Even if I reload the loading zone for the basement, or get the toad star before all HMC stars I need, it still doesn't work.

Fuck. Yes, it is rare that this happens in project 64. It will be a possible bug (I don't know).

The only thing I can tell you is that you do what they have told you not to take that star as the fifteenth so as not to mess it up.

MIPS can only spawn if you've collected a star from a level, the toad star doesn't count as a level and MIPS cannot spawn from that as you are still in the castle.

You need to have the 15 stars for MIPS to appear, since you only had 14 when you arrived at the castle, that's why it did not appear, because it is the same area where MIPS appears. Simply catch the star of the Toad before doing the last of level 6, so that when you leave the level you already have the 15 stars, and that is how it will appear.

I got toad before HMC and it worked, thanks

Skov, you need to collect the 15th star in a level in order for MIPS to spawn. To fix this, grab the Toad Star before you go into hmc. That way you will hit 15 stars in a level, and MIPS will spawn.

mips only checks ONCE whether he should exist when the entire area is loaded, so if you get 15 stars without unloading and reloading the area (by getting the toad star) MIPS won,t appear out of thin air, so you gotta make sure in your 16 star runs that toad isn't your last star, so pick whether you want him to be your 13th or 14th star, since he spawns at 12

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