[TAS] Vanish Cap Under the Moat Reds+Switch 0xA - 44"77

[TAS] Vanish Cap Under the Moat Reds+Switch 0xA - 44"77

This TAS is only slightly faster than pannenkoek2012's excellent TAS of this course, shown here:    • SM64 - Vanish Cap Under the Moat (and Cap ...   . I believe pannenkoek2012's TAS reached the earliest possible elevator cycle. I did my best to optimize the beginning, but was not able to reach the previous cycle. Therefore, the only opportunity to save time was on the switch press/final red coin/star grab at the end. It's a bit faster to brake and turn into the switch misalignments instead of turning all the way around, and I was also able to save some time in the final sequence after breaking the box. You may be wondering why I walk for a few frames before slidekicking at the beginning. When Mario lands from a slidekick while he's still in the slidekicking action, he bounces, which is bad here. It's preferable to cancel the slidekick into a freefall, which lets him land on the ground instead of bouncing. One of the checks the game uses to determine whether a slidekick should be cancelled into a freefall is a check on how far above his floor Mario is. If I slidekicked a frame sooner, Mario wouldn't have been high enough above the slope for the slidekick to turn into freefall, so he would have bounced instead.