Super Mario 64 | 0 Star FAQ

Super Mario 64 | 0 Star FAQ

What is 0 Star?
- I'm beating the game whilst collecting 0 Power Stars. This is done by doing a trick called LBLJ to get to the 1st Bowser Stage. Once completed, I can go to the basement, do SBLJ + DDD Skip to get straight into Fire Sea, which gains me access to Upstairs. From here I do standard BLJs to get into Sky, where I beat the game.

LBLJ? SBLJ? BLJs?
- The "BLJ" stands for Backwards Long Jump. This is likely the most infamous trick in speedrunning history, so you have probably seen it before. Basically when Mario long jumps backwards, he gains a small amount of speed. You can do this on staircases or places with invisible ceilings above you to gain insane amounts of speed.

The "BLJs" specifically refer to the 50 star door BLJ as well as up the endless staircase.
"LBLJ" refers to Lobby Backwards Long Jump, which is done at the start of the run. This is the BLJ done to get access into Dark World.
"SBLJ" is done as soon as I enter basement, and is used to get past the 30 star door, however for 0 star I will be using the speed gained to get past the DDD portal to get into Fire Sea without collecting the Sub Star.

What is the hardest part of this run?
- All of it is really tricky, but SBLJ is by far the hardest part of this, and probably what you'll see me reset over the most.

What do you play on?
- I play on Emulator.

What is your goal?
- I don't have one, as I'm running this for the league I just want to get a PB, I highly doubt I'll grind this down.

What is WR?
- The Emulator WR is 6:38 by Kanno
- The N64 WR is 6:27 by Kanno.