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Segmented 61 Star run
Verifier Responses
Decision: Accept
Congratulations to Stephen 'yoshifan' Chan!
Segmented 61 Star run
Verifier Responses
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Out of the 25 or so private threads that Flip sent out, I got six of them; and while each game I verified had its unique charm to each of them, there was one game I was looking forward to the most, and was slowly following the process since it first started. This run is so well executed, that I can't find any flaws in the run outside of the runner taking his time finishing the run.
In fact, I am not even going to talk about the run, since it is pretty much flawless from start to finish. What more can I say other than accept. All that we need to do now is to sync this run with the Mario 64 for the greatest update ever!!!!!
In fact, I am not even going to talk about the run, since it is pretty much flawless from start to finish. What more can I say other than accept. All that we need to do now is to sync this run with the Mario 64 for the greatest update ever!!!!!
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Flip, my Man:
Mario Galaxy!
No cheating, audio/visual checks out.
On to Star Gets.
So somebody FINALLY completed a Galaxy run. There have been many people who claimed they would do it, but somebody sacked up and actually did it. This run is beyond remarkable. I'm one who believes that Mario 64 is a great watch as each star is awesome to see how the runner will use tricks, jumps and whatever else to get the star in ways I'm sure the developer didn't intend. Galaxy is no exception. Some of the star grabs here literally blow your mind. There could be argument here for a largeglitch
Mario Galaxy!
No cheating, audio/visual checks out.
On to Star Gets.
So somebody FINALLY completed a Galaxy run. There have been many people who claimed they would do it, but somebody sacked up and actually did it. This run is beyond remarkable. I'm one who believes that Mario 64 is a great watch as each star is awesome to see how the runner will use tricks, jumps and whatever else to get the star in ways I'm sure the developer didn't intend. Galaxy is no exception. Some of the star grabs here literally blow your mind. There could be argument here for a large
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A Luigi run, eh? I can handle that.
Segment 1: Pretty much perfect.
Segment 2: Looked like there were a few moments of hesitation during the first star. Third star made me giggle like a girl. Seriously, leaves are way too solid in video games these days.
Segment 3: This is why I like watching Mario speedruns. There are so many little things you can do in the 3D platformers that make a huge difference. Luckily, I haven't watched enough to become disenchanted with the magic. Anyway, great execution through this part.
Segment 4: Good flinging with those sticky things. They're my least favorite things in the whole game, so you did very well. Also, the toad brigade actually helped a bit! Rolling Greens is nuts without doing everything you did, so crazy good job.
Segment 5: A speed run within a speedrun, eh? Pull Star Path didn't seem to go quite as well as it did the first time; however, if time was lost at all, it's negligible. Damage boosts and other tricks go well through Bowser's level.
Segment 6: Here's what doesn't make sense to me in Beach Bowl Galaxy. 1. The "Sunken Treasure" star is at the highest point on the island. 2. The coach thinks you're a penguin. 3. Spinning in water is a viable swimming method. Anyway, what just happened with the haunted mansion? How are you in the house?! Eh, well, I'll have to try that out myself sometime.
Segment 7: Fat loomas look way gross and sweaty when they're full. Also, cosmic Luigi has nothing on this runner's moves. Seriously.
Segment 8: I hate Bubble Breeze Galaxy both for the name and how incredibly tedious it was. You just fly right through it like nobody's business. The race with the ghost had a few rough spots with getting stuck, but that race is so incredibly annoying that they're gonna happen. Also, lemme just say how horribly ugly Baby Bowser is. It's a shame you can't just hit his face with a shell.
Segment 9: I'm starting to run out of things to say about the run, so maybe I'll make puns about the bad guys. Baron Brr? More like Baron Burn! ...or something. Honestly, though, Freeze Flame is my favorite, and you destroy it. Gusty Gardens is my least favorite, but it has the best music, so it's alright. Way to kill that mole dude.
Segment 10: A bat hit you on the spooky sprint! Reject! Reject! ...but seriously, I don't think anyone will reject this run. Still 6 segments to go.
Segment 11: Thank you for making the second round of Battle Rock entertaining. No thank you for the second gross, sweaty luma.
Segment 12: No, you're not supposed to be able to do that in this game! You're supposed to burn the snowmen and... Ah, forget it. Fine, get the star before I can write down how to get it. Okay, more Gutsy Garden. Dark Matter Plant blew my mind. That place is confusing just to play, and watching is... wow.
Segment 13: I hate star bunnies. Thank you for catching them quickly.
Missed a note in the bubble section; quick recovery. Being a bee in Mario Galaxy is apparently optional. First star on Toy Time is just amazing. Seriously. And this segment was way long. Good show, chap.
Segment 14: Luigi saves Luigi. The Space-Time Continuum implodes.
Segment 15: I didn't expect awesomeness when I saw the fat luma, but this segment - though short - is amazing. Great job.
Segment 16: Great last castle. This story is happy end.
Seriously, this run rocks. The runner chose stars in segments that were close to each other, and execution was nearly perfect. If execution were to improve, the runner could save 10 seconds. Maybe.
Needless to say, I accept.
Now if the racial tensions between lumas of different colors could end, the galaxy would be even happier.
Segment 1: Pretty much perfect.
Segment 2: Looked like there were a few moments of hesitation during the first star. Third star made me giggle like a girl. Seriously, leaves are way too solid in video games these days.
Segment 3: This is why I like watching Mario speedruns. There are so many little things you can do in the 3D platformers that make a huge difference. Luckily, I haven't watched enough to become disenchanted with the magic. Anyway, great execution through this part.
Segment 4: Good flinging with those sticky things. They're my least favorite things in the whole game, so you did very well. Also, the toad brigade actually helped a bit! Rolling Greens is nuts without doing everything you did, so crazy good job.
Segment 5: A speed run within a speedrun, eh? Pull Star Path didn't seem to go quite as well as it did the first time; however, if time was lost at all, it's negligible. Damage boosts and other tricks go well through Bowser's level.
Segment 6: Here's what doesn't make sense to me in Beach Bowl Galaxy. 1. The "Sunken Treasure" star is at the highest point on the island. 2. The coach thinks you're a penguin. 3. Spinning in water is a viable swimming method. Anyway, what just happened with the haunted mansion? How are you in the house?! Eh, well, I'll have to try that out myself sometime.
Segment 7: Fat loomas look way gross and sweaty when they're full. Also, cosmic Luigi has nothing on this runner's moves. Seriously.
Segment 8: I hate Bubble Breeze Galaxy both for the name and how incredibly tedious it was. You just fly right through it like nobody's business. The race with the ghost had a few rough spots with getting stuck, but that race is so incredibly annoying that they're gonna happen. Also, lemme just say how horribly ugly Baby Bowser is. It's a shame you can't just hit his face with a shell.
Segment 9: I'm starting to run out of things to say about the run, so maybe I'll make puns about the bad guys. Baron Brr? More like Baron Burn! ...or something. Honestly, though, Freeze Flame is my favorite, and you destroy it. Gusty Gardens is my least favorite, but it has the best music, so it's alright. Way to kill that mole dude.
Segment 10: A bat hit you on the spooky sprint! Reject! Reject! ...but seriously, I don't think anyone will reject this run. Still 6 segments to go.
Segment 11: Thank you for making the second round of Battle Rock entertaining. No thank you for the second gross, sweaty luma.
Segment 12: No, you're not supposed to be able to do that in this game! You're supposed to burn the snowmen and... Ah, forget it. Fine, get the star before I can write down how to get it. Okay, more Gutsy Garden. Dark Matter Plant blew my mind. That place is confusing just to play, and watching is... wow.
Segment 13: I hate star bunnies. Thank you for catching them quickly.
Missed a note in the bubble section; quick recovery. Being a bee in Mario Galaxy is apparently optional. First star on Toy Time is just amazing. Seriously. And this segment was way long. Good show, chap.
Segment 14: Luigi saves Luigi. The Space-Time Continuum implodes.
Segment 15: I didn't expect awesomeness when I saw the fat luma, but this segment - though short - is amazing. Great job.
Segment 16: Great last castle. This story is happy end.
Seriously, this run rocks. The runner chose stars in segments that were close to each other, and execution was nearly perfect. If execution were to improve, the runner could save 10 seconds. Maybe.
Needless to say, I accept.
Now if the racial tensions between lumas of different colors could end, the galaxy would be even happier.
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No, no, no no, no no no no NO NO. There is no way that ray surfing, especially fast ray surfing and the shortcuts, should look THAT easy. 
It may not be 100% obvious to anyone who hasn’t played this game, but anyone who has played it will recognize just how great some of the tricks and skips in this run are.
Okay, time for nitpicking. One little blip at the end of Pull Star Path where it seems like he almost loses it, but doesn’t really lose any time. Seems like another small blip on the last hit on Tarantox, but again, costs maybe a half a second max. A few little hesitations on the secret star in Beach Bowl. One or two hits here and there, and a missed note. No great amounts of time wasted, though. Maybe 2-3 seconds lost on the missed note, a half second on each of the others.
Highlights include the glitch skip in Ghostly Galaxy, Rolling Green, Bubble Breeze, the butt-burning skip in Freezeflame, Matter Splatter Mansion, the switching gravity section in Dark Matter Bowser, the eels, the final Bowser level, and…well…honestly just about everything.
Amazing.
Accept, if it weren’t already obvious.
Okay, time for nitpicking. One little blip at the end of Pull Star Path where it seems like he almost loses it, but doesn’t really lose any time. Seems like another small blip on the last hit on Tarantox, but again, costs maybe a half a second max. A few little hesitations on the secret star in Beach Bowl. One or two hits here and there, and a missed note. No great amounts of time wasted, though. Maybe 2-3 seconds lost on the missed note, a half second on each of the others.
Highlights include the glitch skip in Ghostly Galaxy, Rolling Green, Bubble Breeze, the butt-burning skip in Freezeflame, Matter Splatter Mansion, the switching gravity section in Dark Matter Bowser, the eels, the final Bowser level, and…well…honestly just about everything.
Amazing.
Accept, if it weren’t already obvious.
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A/V: From segment 9, the segments are in widescreen. Just pointing it out, it seems to make only minor gameplay differences.
Cheating: None
Since gameplay-wise this is a pretty obvious accept, I'm just going to go through and make sure all the segments line up.
Seg 1: Start: 0 stars/0 star bits, End: 1/8
Seg 2: Start: 1/8, End: 4/72
Seg 3: Start: 4/72, End: 9/150
Seg 4: Start: 9/150, End: 13/258
Seg 5: Start: 13/258, End: 16/401
Seg 6: Start: 16/401, End: 21/525
Seg 7: Start: 21/525, End: 24/174
Seg 8: Start: 24/174, End: 28/271
Seg 9: Start: 28/271, End: 34/414
Seg 10: Start: 34/414, End: 37/480
Seg 11: Start: 37/480, End: 40/249
Seg 12: Start: 40/249, End: 46/501
Seg 13: Start: 46/501, End: 58/614
Seg 14: Start: 58/614, End: 59/614
Seg 15: Start: 59/614, End: 60/14
Seg 16: Start: 60/14
All above board, so this is accept of the year! There's only one glaringly obvious mistake and it's in the middle of the longest segment of the run, in a part that's quite tricky to control, especially when playing fast.
I've also got a couple of screenshots that I'll put up shortly - like I said though, half the segments are widescreen, so I just took shots from the 4:3 segments.
Cheating: None
Since gameplay-wise this is a pretty obvious accept, I'm just going to go through and make sure all the segments line up.
Seg 1: Start: 0 stars/0 star bits, End: 1/8
Seg 2: Start: 1/8, End: 4/72
Seg 3: Start: 4/72, End: 9/150
Seg 4: Start: 9/150, End: 13/258
Seg 5: Start: 13/258, End: 16/401
Seg 6: Start: 16/401, End: 21/525
Seg 7: Start: 21/525, End: 24/174
Seg 8: Start: 24/174, End: 28/271
Seg 9: Start: 28/271, End: 34/414
Seg 10: Start: 34/414, End: 37/480
Seg 11: Start: 37/480, End: 40/249
Seg 12: Start: 40/249, End: 46/501
Seg 13: Start: 46/501, End: 58/614
Seg 14: Start: 58/614, End: 59/614
Seg 15: Start: 59/614, End: 60/14
Seg 16: Start: 60/14
All above board, so this is accept of the year! There's only one glaringly obvious mistake and it's in the middle of the longest segment of the run, in a part that's quite tricky to control, especially when playing fast.
I've also got a couple of screenshots that I'll put up shortly - like I said though, half the segments are widescreen, so I just took shots from the 4:3 segments.
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Audio/Video quality fine (though yeah, it changes to widescreen halfway through), no cheating spotted.
And I don't really have anything else to add. Incredibly obvious Accepts are hard to write for, personally.
Congrats to yoshifan for finishing this! It's been great to see the amazing effort he's put into this, and it'll be awesome to finally have Galaxy up on the site.
And I don't really have anything else to add. Incredibly obvious Accepts are hard to write for, personally.
Congrats to yoshifan for finishing this! It's been great to see the amazing effort he's put into this, and it'll be awesome to finally have Galaxy up on the site.
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A/V quality is good, didn't see any cheating.
Timing was done by the runner and posted in the planning thread, quoted below.
I was going to write up detailed comments as per the usual, but I was busy with school and I don't want to hold up the verification process, so here's the short version.
This run is incredibly optimized, incredibly well executed and very entertaining. The final time probably couldn't get much more than a minute lower than it already is at, and that's assuming a perfect SS run. I urge everyone to watch this run once it gets posted. It's awesome, I can't say enough good things about this run. Congratulations to the runner.
Verdict: ACCEPT!
Timing was done by the runner and posted in the planning thread, quoted below.
Quote from SMG runner (username redacted for anonymity):
Here's the timing I came up with (along with the number of stars in the segment for reference):
Segment 1 - 5:41.875 (10246 frames) [1 star]
Segment 2 - 9:05.845 (16359) [3]
Segment 3 - 11:52.679 (21359) [5]
Segment 4 - 10:32.832 (18966) [4]
Segment 5 - 9:59.332 (17962) [3]
Segment 6 - 9:23.730 (16895) [5]
Segment 7 - 4:31.838 (8147) [3]
Segment 8 - 8:42.522 (15660) [4]
Segment 9 - 14:13.353 (25575) [6]
Segment 10 - 5:22.789 (9674) [3]
Segment 11 - 6:03.163 (10884) [3]
Segment 12 - 14:53.926 (26791) [6]
Segment 13 - 24:50.456 (44669) [12]
Segment 14 - 1:19.313 (2377) [1]
Segment 15 - 1:48.909 (3264) [1]
Segment 16 - 6:42.202 (12054) [1]
Total - 2:25:04.763 (260882)
Segment 1 - 5:41.875 (10246 frames) [1 star]
Segment 2 - 9:05.845 (16359) [3]
Segment 3 - 11:52.679 (21359) [5]
Segment 4 - 10:32.832 (18966) [4]
Segment 5 - 9:59.332 (17962) [3]
Segment 6 - 9:23.730 (16895) [5]
Segment 7 - 4:31.838 (8147) [3]
Segment 8 - 8:42.522 (15660) [4]
Segment 9 - 14:13.353 (25575) [6]
Segment 10 - 5:22.789 (9674) [3]
Segment 11 - 6:03.163 (10884) [3]
Segment 12 - 14:53.926 (26791) [6]
Segment 13 - 24:50.456 (44669) [12]
Segment 14 - 1:19.313 (2377) [1]
Segment 15 - 1:48.909 (3264) [1]
Segment 16 - 6:42.202 (12054) [1]
Total - 2:25:04.763 (260882)
I was going to write up detailed comments as per the usual, but I was busy with school and I don't want to hold up the verification process, so here's the short version.
This run is incredibly optimized, incredibly well executed and very entertaining. The final time probably couldn't get much more than a minute lower than it already is at, and that's assuming a perfect SS run. I urge everyone to watch this run once it gets posted. It's awesome, I can't say enough good things about this run. Congratulations to the runner.
Verdict: ACCEPT!
Decision: Accept
Congratulations to Stephen 'yoshifan' Chan!
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