Timing starts on power on and ends on the first frame of grabbing the cloned star.

I think this would be a good category since cloning literally gets no recognition in speedrunning despite how freaking cool it is

About 6-7 years ago I was messing around, replaying stages when I decided to fight king boo. I started the level but didn’t skip through the first cutscene, because I wanted to watch it. However, I decided to skip once the text appeared cuz I didn’t want to read it lol. Except, when I skipped, it left the text box up, and Luigi in the boss room, except with no wall collision and the room was dark except for a spotlight in the center. I don’t know if this would be useful in any way, just though I should mention it exists.

To do it: skip right before the textbox finishes popping up when king boo starts talking

So I was doing any% ace when I accidentally selected the wrong file to play on so I switched my gameboy color off and back on really fast. I do this because my save battery is dead and I try to keep some of the file names. But when I got back on, I started the game with a chicken following me around. Idk if this is a known glitch but I assume it has to do with the hardware.

I can’t seem to count very well so I usually end up in the water most of the time. Is there a metronome beat or an audio file that I could use to get it more consistently?

OoT recently allowed intro skip in their runs, making start time as the first frame of link’s movement. I think it would be nice if time could start like this in stop n swap. I understand if this idea gets turned down, as this is an entirely different community, but I think runs would be a lot more fun and relaxed knowing you don’t have to watch a 3 minute intro every time you have to reset.

I think oot’s glitch database also did this

Hi! I’ve recently been taking a break from sm64 runs and wanted to try running any% on my english 1.2 cart. I learned how to perform language change srm from MrCheeze’s video, but can’t seem to find any setups or tutorials for 1.2 ace. If anybody knows of any tutorials or wiki guides that would help that’d be great. Thanks! :)

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Last year NSO launched N64 games and I’m gonna guess at some point they are going to release GCN games as well. If this happens, what would happen to the leaderboards? Would there be tabs for GCN and NSO, or would NSO fall under the emulator category? Anyways, just wondering.

Recently my n64 controller has been getting more loose every week I use it (I do bowser throws with GameCube controller so I don’t destroy it).

I’ve been trying to find a steel bowl but they’re always out of stock on their website. If anybody knows of any good alternatives or if they’re restocking anytime soon the info would be great. Thanks!

(Edit: I know there are stick replacements, but things like sharpshooter sticks are a little too clunky and a little aggravating to use.)

Hi! I recently bought a GameShark v3.3 from a garage sale and was wondering if there were any codes that would make practicing Mario easier and more efficient. Thanks!

Cloning doesn’t get much attention in speedrunning, so I think this category could introduce some of the newer players (and maybe older) to cloning and how it works. While most of the categories here use strats that main categories use, cloning is not used in anything, despite it being a major glitch that can be used for the most absurd things possible in this game (as shown by pannenkoek2012). Anyways, the goal of this category is to collect a cloned star. Timing should start at power on and end on the frame you collect the star. The only problem I see with this is it’s difficulty, since it’s really luck based unless you have a lot of experience with cloning.

So about 2 years ago I had the idea of using an oob glitch in Delfino plaza after acquiring the rocket nozzle to boost straight into the corona mountain loading zone. I was able to get relatively close but I was still a little short of the height needed to reach the loading zone. Because of this, I don’t even know if the loading zone activated since the gate is still there. If there is a way to gain more height using the rocket nozzle while the game is checking if Mario is out of bounds or not, this could potentially save multiple minutes off of any%, and sub hour may even be possible. I’m going to be attempting this for awhile, and if anything comes up, I’ll post it on my yt.

(edit: sry if my wording sucks I’m writing this while doing calculus lol)

So I recently tried to submit a 1 star vc time when it got rejected due to google drive videos not being viable. I’m not allowed to use twitch or youtube, so are there any other methods of providing viable links?