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The Complete History of the A Button Challenge

Bismuth · 2.4M views · 2022-12-20 · 5:22:14

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Overview

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.

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Recommended as a deep-dive rabbit hole showing extraordinary knowledge of game internals.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2023–2024

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Speedrunning, glitches & game hackingGame history & retro gaming
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What people said

g___ · 2024-04 · Recommendation

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 1500-2000 hours. [VIDEO]

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houseatrielah · 2024-02 · Recommendation

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]

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pests · 2023-07 · Recommendation

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.

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