Color-Blind Age - Red Coins
Color-Blind Age - Red Coins
SM64 The Black Virus
SM64 The Black Virus
Any Version
Any Version
In his theory route groink did the ending intended, but that features a super long tight wallkick section to the top, some qslgs and very stupid crossovers, that require an insanely precise longjump to reach, so I am very glad I found a way to use WC to skip that.
Obviously even with those strats, this star was still insanely difficult, in fact it's the hardest star I got in this hack. After a ton of practice I wanted to go for a 3 segment completion and my first goal was to get the shell section in one go and I struggled a lot with it. I kept dying to random stuff, but I was able to find better strats for pretty much everywhere I died. The biggest problem is that the attempt dies if you fall down, since there is no way to climb back up and the shell doesn't respawn, so you also couldn't just do the 2nd half early. I finally got the shell segment in one go and somehow I did the rest of the star as well, so I got the star from 0/16 in practice.
As always the next day I was super unmotivated to do attempts. Back then I just lost motivation when the grind went on for many days, but nowadays I am already too scared to just start attempts, which really sucks. After being stuck at spawn for a bit I got that 11/16, which died in a dumb way, but I was really happy with that attempt for the first day. Little did I know after practicing a bit, my very next attempt will get the star. Despite nothing being like crazy hard, I still can't believe I fluked it from there. Since the beginning is that inconsistent and literally just luck, I always had sweaty hands before even reaching the shell, which was the main problem of the star. No idea how I handled the pressure for that long and also no idea how I didn't choke the final 2 climbs to the wc + the wc section with such shaking hands.
~ katze789