Super Mario 64 and speedrunning go hand in hand. The speedrunning community surrounding this game pulls off feats that should not be humanly possible as they break it down frame by frame to blast through it as quickly as they can, and often with the least amount of stars they can get away with. Or the most, which is a category of its own.
But today, we're taking a look at the one-star category. As the name suggests, this means you have to defeat the final Bowser boss with just one star, which, naturally, involves using some skips to get past all of the barriers that should stop you from doing this. That has been a speedrunning category for some time, so there's a good chance you've seen that pulled off before. But have you seen it done while using a drum kit as a controller?
I can't believe this is even possible.
That is exactly the feat that content creator and speedrunner CZR pulled off this week. Mapping button inputs to a drum kit, CZR was able to complete multiple runs of Super Mario 64 in the one-star category. In doing this, he's broken his own records, pulling...
