AgentMuffin: Created page with "The '''No Input Challenge''' is a trivial challenge where no buttons may be pressed and the Control Stick may not be moved from the neutral position. Due to the lack of automatic courses in ''Super Mario 64'', it is clearly improbable for much to be accomplished this way. As such, it is usually mentioned as a degenerate-case parody, subset, or combination of other challenges, like the A Button Challenge. A full-game run..."

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Created page with "The '''No Input Challenge''' is a trivial challenge where no buttons may be pressed and the Control Stick may not be moved from the neutral position. Due to the lack of automatic courses in ''Super Mario 64'', it is clearly improbable for much to be accomplished this way. As such, it is usually mentioned as a degenerate-case parody, subset, or combination of other challenges, like the A Button Challenge. A full-game run..."

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The '''No Input Challenge''' is a trivial [[challenge]] where no buttons may be pressed and the Control Stick may not be moved from the neutral position. Due to the lack of automatic courses in ''[[Super Mario 64]]'', it is clearly improbable for much to be accomplished this way. As such, it is usually mentioned as a [[wikipedia:Degeneracy (mathematics)|degenerate-case]] parody, subset, or combination of other challenges, like the [[A Button Challenge]].

A full-game run is impossible because the player would not be able to navigate the main menu nor dismiss any of the [[Time stop|time-stopping]] textboxes that occur throughout progression, and not even the title screen demos can be manipulated. On a single-star basis, theoretical strategies would be limited to prior variable manipulation (including [[spawning displacement]] and [[RNG]]) and then waiting (compare for example [[Wii VC Round-to-Zero#Platform drift|Wii VC platform drift]]), or perhaps [[sheNaNigans]]. In practice, in most courses, [[Mario]] quickly lands and stays still outside of the range of any [[object]]s that could interfere with his position, speed, or progression. Afterwards, there is no state space to search beyond observing the deterministic outcome of loading the course.

==Anything==
In the [[Secret Aquarium]], one [[1-Up Mushroom]] will be activated and collected as Mario sinks down from the starting point.<ref>pannenkoek2012 (25 October 2025). [//youtu.be/-7VhlsqeeqI "Can You Get a Star in Super Mario 64 Using Only ONE Button?"]. ''pannenkoek2012''. YouTube.</ref>

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