Hello, I've always been intrigued by speedrunning and I thought I'd try SM64 because it is a game I really enjoy playing. If you aren't familiar with it, speedrunning is trying to beat a game as fast as possible. This includes using various glitches and skips in order to get the fastest possible time. There are 4 main categories for SM64; 0 star, 16 star, 70 star, and 120 star. I am going to do 70 star. I am avoiding 0 and 16 star because those categories just aren't that fun. 120 star is going to be too difficult so I am just going to do 70 star.

I have not been able to complete a full run because things keep popping up in the middle of it but I estimate my 70 star time to be around: 2:30:00

My goal by the end of the month is to shrink this to 1:15:00 This should be an obtainable goal because right now I am both very out of practice as well as not familiar with the routes to beat the levels.

I am using Puncayshun's (current WR holder) 70 star route and I might need to make some changes. I will probably add some slower stars that are easier to obtain and remove some of the more difficult ones.

Right now I am just going to focus on learning the routes for the stars and then I'll learn some of the more difficult "fast-strats" later. For anyone interested, here is a video tutorial of a 70-star run. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oti-rGRyY0E

I just finished a full 70 star run and got 2:15:45, which is about what my prediction was. There were a few easy stars that took me like 5-10 minutes because I'm bad so I have lots of time I can cut out pretty easily.

I got 1:48:29 just now. I think my plan is going to be to continue with my granny-strats and slowly work on some fast-strats and incorporate them into the run.

Got 1:36:48. Then I practiced some Snowman's Land. I really need to practice Tick-Tock Clock more, along with everything else.

I practiced for about an hour today. I'm getting better at getting to the top of the Snowman's head on on Snowman's Land. I've been working on one of the tricky jumps on Tick-Tock Clock but still haven't gotten it. I also practiced bomb-clip a few times and 100 coins on Cool Cool Mountain. I still fuck up getting coins on the slide.

Did some more practicing over the last couple of days. More SL, a little bit of TTC, and 100 coins on CCM.

Did a run today and got 1:37:55. I was kind of disappointed because when my pb is so bad I really should be beating it pretty easily. My biggest time losses were on Whomp's Fortress and Hazy Maze Cave. I really need to practice all of basement pretty much. I got some nice time saves on TTC and SL which is nice because that's what I've been practicing the most. I think next I'm going to practice HMC, LLL, and WF the most. My Wet Dry World wasn't great but that was just movement issues. My SSL isn't terrible mostly because I don't even try pillarless and the stars are pretty easy to get.

1:34:27. CCM, TTM, HMC, and TTC were pretty garbage. I wasn't too upset with everything else. I'm hoping to get sub 1:30:00 by the weekend.

Got a game over 26 minutes in. I had a lot of dumb deaths on Dark World and CCM.

Just got 1:24:38.58. Pretty good run, made some bad mistakes on RR and TTC, could have potentially had 1:20. But this is good progress. I cut my distance to my goal of 1:15 almost in half.