{"id":132429,"date":"2023-03-13T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-146415"},"modified":"2023-03-13T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T14:00:00","slug":"super-mario-64s-impossible-1-up-has-finally-been-grabbed-without-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/03\/13\/super-mario-64s-impossible-1-up-has-finally-been-grabbed-without-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Mario 64&#8217;s &#8220;Impossible 1-Up&#8221; Has Finally Been Grabbed Without Dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/781189e98b2ca\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/781189e98b2ca\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/781189e98b2ca\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"R-IVI82l6kU\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/super_mario_64\">Super Mario 64<\/a> speedrunner has managed to do the impossible and get the &#8220;Impossible 1-Up&#8221; in Cool, Cool Mountain without dying.<\/p>\n<p>Using a TAS (tool-assisted speedrun), Alexpalix1 \u2014 also known as <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@PaLiX\">PaLiX<\/a> \u2014 demonstrates that it is actually possible to survive grabbing this extra life, provided you have a few hours of spare time as well as do precision-perfect wall-jumping (via <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/after-27-years-a-super-mario-64-speedrunner-has-proven-you-can-get-the-impossible-1-up-and-survive\/\">GamesRadar<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Impossible 1-Up&#8221; was first <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/KmrHxhCFOH4\">grabbed by toyuru2 over nine years ago<\/a>, but not without dying. This created a brand new challenge in the Super Mario 64 speedrunning community, where players attempted to get this 1-Up without dying. It has <em>only<\/em> just been achieved, in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Impossible 1-Up is hidden in the slide part of Cool, Cool Mountain, the level infamous for the penguins that everyone is so mean to. In the TAS, Mario clips through the wall right by the slide to follow a 1-Up, and then proceeds to wall jump for around an hour and a half. Mario then has to hit a very specific part of the wall, and eventually free-falls up until he clips through the tunnel and gets the green mushroom. Easy, right?<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/super-mario\/related-articles:132286 @ 2023-03-14T00:06:31+00:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p>TAS&#8217; are incredible pieces of kit and take a lot of work to implement, so this is a hugely impressive discovery. The <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/speedrun\/comments\/11k99d8\/tas_for_the_first_time_in_super_mario_64_history\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web2x&amp;context=3%27\">Super Mario 64 speedrunning community are abuzz with the news<\/a> \u2014 it&#8217;s probably one of the most popular games to speedrun, with tons of different categories you can enter, including many other &#8220;Impossible&#8221; items such as the &#8220;<a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sm64.com\/impossiblecoin.html\">Impossible Coin<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><em>Have you been following the history of the Impossible 1-Up? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube A Super Mario 64 speedrunner has managed to do the impossible and get the &#8220;Impossible 1-Up&#8221; in Cool, Cool Mountain without dying. Using a TAS (tool-assisted speedrun), Alexpalix1 \u2014 also known as PaLiX \u2014 demonstrates that it is actually possible to survive grabbing this extra life, provided you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}