About three weeks ago, blindfolded speedrunning prodigy Bubzia shared a newly discovered Super Mario 64 hack he predicted would change the game "forever," and a ridiculous new world record bears that out.
As GR's resident speedrunning sicko Dustin Bailey pointed out then, the new trick is called the crackslide, and it renders a notoriously difficult maneuver that had previously been integral to the 1-star speedrunning category – that is, Mario 64 runs completed with only one star collected – completely trivial.
Now, drumming-focused speedrunner (what a title) CZR now claims the new world record for the first-ever 1-star completion of Super Mario 64 using a drum kit "thanks to the new strat, crackslide!"
According to a comment corroborated by CZR, controls are mapped to the drum kit so that the different drum heads manipulate what would be the analog stick on a normal controller to decide which direction Mario moves in, and the outer rim of the heads is what controls the C buttons. How hard CZR hits the drum heads also matters, which just makes this whole feat even more impressive.
Anyway, you can watch CZR's whole journey from Peach's Castle all the way to final boss Bowser in the video above, and at just 12 minutes long, I'd say it's worth a watch if only for the novelty and CZR's internet mandated "let's fucking go" at the end.
