Speedrun
A Speedrun is an attempt to do something (usually beat a game) as fast as possible. In Super Mario 64, there are a wide variety of Speedrun categories as well as individual star speedruns. There are also Tool-Assisted Speedruns (commonly abbreviated TAS) which use emulator, savestate, precise input, as well as frame advance or slowdown to make a "perfect" play through of a game.
In Super Mario 64, there are 5 Main Categories: 120, 70, 16, 1, and 0 star which have varying rule sets as well as difficulty and Routes.
External links
- Speedrun on Wikipedia