Jul 31, 2023

The weirdest hack I ever played.

This hack claims to have 182 stars, but since everything is just vanilla, there is no way it has that many. It also claims to be tas only and while there are a bunch of tas only stars, which we will get later to, the majority of this hack was pretty much free. Most levels just have a very weird spawn and certain objects like boxes are invisible.

The game crashes after each star and every time you die. At least that was the case up to RR. It still crashes after getting a star, but suddenly dying works normally, which allows you to enter TTC moving, so you can survive spawn.

Lets just get to the stars I didnt get:

BoB spawn is possible, but king bob-omb is on the second cannon, with 2 firespitter, a chain chomp in the hole and water bubble spam and you only have 1 hp, so that certainly won't happen rta, but I could see that being possible with tas. I found some reds that don't count far up in the air, but no way to get there. Maybe with PU stuff, but not even sure how that would help.

WF whomp is way too far up in the air to ever be reachable.

JRB s1 just straightup doesn't exist. The chests aren't there and the box isn't there either. However there is an invisible amp in the ship.

After I got these stars, we figured out there is an invis WC box at the bottom of CCM, so you can survive spawn. However it is too low to reach safe land. I thought you have to do an invis box tj, but for that you need an almost 45 degree angle. The thing is with such an angle you can't wallkick.

In HMC you can't get out of that gate. With tas you can probably build up speed in the corner physics and HSWK out.

B1 is completely invisible and the rotating elevators are gone. However there is some random fire, but no idea how that can help.

B2 spawns you in the lava and no way to get back to safe ground.

B3 is still invisible and the first bridge is gone, so you can't get anywhere again.

The MC switch is super far up and I couldn't even press it with moonjump, but maybe you can do some weird firsty stuff. However the reds don't count, so you can't get the star.

The slide just crashes.

Aquarium had less than 1fps, so it was completely unplayable, but I tried again later and it suddenly worked normal.

All in all I am not quite sure what to think about this hack. As I said at the top this is the weirdest hack I ever played and I still would love to understand what the thought behind this was.