THE VIDEO SHELF · super mario 64 speedrunning
The Complete History of the A Button Challenge
A five-hour documentary history of the Super Mario 64 A button challenge, which aims to beat the game with as few A presses as possible. It covers the bugs and exploits discovered over the years.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a deep-dive rabbit hole showing extraordinary knowledge of game internals.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Bismuth
- Topic
- super mario 64 speedrunning
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2023–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Complete History of the A Button Challenge [VIDEO] It's over five hours long. I put it on in the background or to pass the time. The amount of knowledge and abuse of bugs these guys are performing is insane.
pests on Hacker News · 2023-07
In Super Mario 64 – Watch for Rolling Rocks – 0.5x a Presses [video]Langlangs program (The Dream: Riemann Hypothesis and F1 (RH Saga S1E1)) [LINK] History Dose (The Mongol vs. Order of Assassins War) [LINK] Beat Mario64 without hitting the A-Button (5h22m long!) [VIDEO]
houseatrielah on Hacker News · 2024-02
In Ask HN: What niche YouTube rabbit hole do you recommend?For over a decade, the author of this video has been leading an effort to complete Super Mario 64 with the smallest amount of A presses, often using extremely complex strategies. Here's a 5h video with the history. Bismuth says the history video took roughly …
g___ on Hacker News · 2024-04
In Super Mario 64's invisible walls explained [video]
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