I was speedrunning Super Mario 64 - 16 Stars on my emulator and I was taking a different route. (Didn't got the whole run though) Because I'm bad at cannonless strat on Blast Away The Wall. So I was wondering if this is allowed in the run?

It doesn’t matter what route you use as long as you get 16 stars with mips :)

Okay then.

Is it faster?

Since he's not doing cless, doubtful. I'm guessing he probably gets slide star in CCM

That's what I do get slide star in ccm and I can skip the platform in hmc dont know why just have problems with it

I had trouble with that for a while too, can be hard to figure out how to do well. I eventually figured out a setup that worked for me and is generally pretty fine now.

On the subject of different routes, I noticed kanno's wr for 16 no lblj had some pretty big route changes to lunarjump's old wr.. like wf100 instead of ccm, and pless in ssl instead of rolling rocks. Does anyone know if these changes are actually faster?

Nope, anything in this link is up to date and if it were faster, then it would’ve been updated already https://ukikipedia.net/wiki/RTA_Guide/16_Star

any route is fine as long as it follows the rules of the category. locking this