Oh, interesting. I guess I just need to figure out what I'm doing wrong with that then. Any special trick to it? It seems for me that the second jump on the hill doesn't get as far for me as yours did so I'd love to know what I might be doing wrong.

I think for N64, this might be a PAL only trick outside of TAS. I've gotten VERY close to getting up there on NTSC but always fall just short of hitting the platform. I'd be happy to be proven wrong though as this way seems faster than using Banjo to go up the middle.