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Moat Door Skip

bit.ly/moatdoorskip Watching the highly skilled speedrunning community dismantle and reassemble Mario64 over the years has been a source of continual fascination (tinged with no small amount of incredulity). In the scene’s latest development, a small group of players has not only managed to break the world record for an any-per-cent playthrough – in the process wiping around 39 seconds from the previous record, which is the largest single improvement since 2007 – but achieved it by unlocking what’s described as the “holy grail” of Mario64 sequence breaks, the Moat Door Skip, which requires frame-perfect timing. This detailed, jargon-heavy writeup of the technique, which is presented alongside a video of the world-beating run, is well worth a look even if you’re not into speedrunning.