Snowman's Big Head

For a tutorial on speedrunning this star, see the RTA Guide
For a tutorial on RTABC for this star, see the RTABC Guide

Snowman's Big Head is the 1st star of Snowman's Land.

Snowman's Big Head
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Star Info
Course Snowman's Land
Height Above Ground 148.01[1]
Course Records
TAS World Record 7.57[2]
RTA World Record 8.50[3]
ABC Minimum 0[4]
ABZ Minimum 0[5]

A Button Challenge

This star can be done in 0 A-presses. The strategy is to navigate to the freezing pond, bounce off a Spindrift to reach the exclamation boxes, and then use a dive recover to open the box containing the Koopa Shell. Then, the shell is ridden up to the edge of the stage and Backward shell hyperspeed is used to build up speed to reach the ice platform with the penguin. From there, Mario bounces off a Fly Guy to reach the star. In the RTABC challenge, this star is collected in 1 A-press by using the cannon.

TAS History

Snowman's Big Head History
Date Time Improvement (Frames) Improvement Author(s) Save Description/Notes
2010 February 8 9.30[6] Nahoc
2010 March 6 9.23[7] 2 Eru
2010 May 13 8.80[8] 13 Nahoc
2010 May 15 8.63[9] 5 Mamunine
2010 May 18 8.53[10] 3 Mamunine
2010 May 19 8.33[11] 6 Mamunine
2010 May 20 8.27 [12] 2 Nahoc
2010 October 3 8.23 [13] 1 Nahoc
2012 November 24 7.97 [14] 120 TAS
2019 April 2 7.90 [15] 1 Alexpalix1
2019 August 19 7.87 [16] 1 Madghostek
2021 Jun 9 7.83 [17] 1 Alexpalix1
2022 Sep 25 7.67 [18] 5 Alexpalix1 New route up the snowman
2022 Oct 11 7.57 [19] 3 Alexpalix1 Saved 2 frames on DR and 1 frame on ending

References