Today I got bored so I decided to make a TAS to see how many A presses you need to complete the game. My TAS has 116 A presses (not 100% sure) , does anyone know the lowest number of A presses needed.

Where could I improve the TAS?

https://www.speedrun.com/smb1/thread/jn5nv

idk why but it comes to my mind that maybe pal might be better for even this category. idk why. i think maybe its because of the enourmous amounts of clips you can do

I guess I beat that by 1 A press. Does anyone know where it could be improved? I might make another one on PAL to see if it helps

i think i might try this soon

Wow, nice TAS! :D

Some improvments, in order of the most easy to the most unknoweds:

• For sure: in 8-4, you start the water section pressing A at first to go up, no? So, well, what you can do is to just maintant the A button pressed while entering the pipe, with this you just start like if you press A, and you realy avoid the press, so is -1 on A presses
• Probably: also in the 8-4 water section, at the final part you click in total 3 times to reach to the pipe, and it seems like that its posible to do it with only 2, but no sure
• Doesnt know, maybe: in 8-2 at the start, you press A 3 times until the spritn, so, only as a idea, maybe it can be do it in only 2, no?

Okey, I been proving it: 2 A PRESSES IMRPOVED My fail the 2nd one I mentioned, but for sure the 1st one yes, and the 3rd one also is posible if you reach to the top with just 2 jumps of 2 A presses and then you run avoiding the death I prove it in video (filles realy prepared before to prove it)

@KilleDragon Thanks, the turnaround strat works and so does the beginning of 8-2, but you still need to press 3 times at water exit.

I guess that brings the total down to 114 A presses

1 more question: Does anyone know if it would be possible to make a rom hack that displays the A button press count? (like the abc challenge sm64 rom hack)

@xenon04 so all nice And, well, i doesnt know to do room hacks, but, well, knowing what the people do, I can imagine its perfectly posible and very easy to do to the counter up every time you press it in a room hack, no?

i think i counted the A presses in my TAS wrong

wa, f

i found a way to do 4-1 with 11 A presses, i saw you do 13

I managed to find another A press save (ignore the lost fire flower LUL)

@Allenbot how? Edit: @Allenbot is it by entering the pipe (saves another 2 A presses)

Here's another A press save

Update: I think I might have done it in 111 A presses: 10 in 1-1 10 in 1-2 11 in 4-1 9 in 4-2 22 in 8-1 14 in 8-2 12 in 8-3 23 in 8-4

how ya doin PAL

Is that water section really optimal? I would've thought it would be better to just walk on the ground

Me and @Allenbot got 110 or 109 on NTSC

btw @Losalexanderos421 that tas is still very improvable but gj

better but not good enough