A crash course in ‘Carpetless’.
The ‘holy grail’ of Super Mario 64 techniques has recently been perfected by the speedrunning community and it is capable of finally achieving a sub-1:37 time for 120-star runs.
The technique in question is all about bypassing the slow carpet ride required to nab the ‘Big House in the Sky’ star on Rainbow Ride. ‘Carpetless’ runs have been a known possibility since 2009, though nobody had been able to successfully utilise the technique in a full run to shave off any good amount of time. That is, until now.
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