Hello everyone, I present to you a new... series of videos ?
Where I will be attempting to complete, using TAS, the True Jumpless Challenge in NSMBW !

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Buuuuut... What's the True Jumpless Challenge (TJC) ?
The spirit of this challenge was to create a challenge that:
is about not jumping
is easily defined
isn't trivial

Following these three principles, I came up with this definition :
In order to complete the TJC, you must beat the game, in any way, without:
pressing 2
pressing A
using motion controls
These restrictions don't apply outside of levels.

ok, but why these restrictions ?
Well, let's take a look at what happens if you remove one of them:
if you allow pressing 2, you can beat the game normally by jumping. If you allow motion controls, it's the same with spinjumps but easier since you have access to the propeller and grabbing objects.
If you allow pressing A, then you can do an infinite height glitch by bubbling and popping with 2 characters, which trivializes this challenge.
If we apply these restrictions outside of levels, we get stuck trying to enter the first level. You need to press 2 to enter levels. But that's not interesting, and it's not in the spirit of the challenge, and I make the rules, so the restrictions don't apply outside levels.


Okay, now we have our rules, do we have a hope of beating the game this way now ? Well, unfortunately, I can already see that not having motion controls is a problem of it's own, because shaking is also used for controlling bubbles, and to activate things like screws in 8Airship, that HAVE to be activated in order to complete the level.
Yeah, but that's not a shaking used to jump, like a spinjump would, so I don't think it's a game over either.
But now we're stretching the rules of the challenge, and I don't think I can make rules that stay simple, but still encapsulates this specific use of motion controls.


OKAY, but in terms of jumps, in the spirit of the challenge, do we have any hope of completing it following these rules, with maybe a few exceptions that don't break the challenge and that we'll try to limit as much as possible ?
Well, NOW the question isn't trivial ! And that's what I want to answer !
So, after more than 2000 characters defining the challenge, let's explain what happens in this level.

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What happens, how did I do it ?
Our first obstacle, as any good mario games begins, is the first goomba.
This is already a pretty threatening obstacle.

Our only way of gaining height in this challenge is to pop out of bubbles or bounce on an enemy or player. But since we're on flat ground, bouncing on something isn't possible.
So we have to play in multiplayer, kill one of them, and pop the bubble (since A is banned, we can't bubble without dying). But since we don't have motion controls, the bubble spawns on the other side of the screen, and isn't fast enough to catch up to the goomba before it kills our other players.

Therefore, we do the coolest stupid trick that makes this challenge not fail at the first goomba: "When the music goes 'bah', slide under the goomba!"

let's gooooo

Okay now we can make some progress, yellow toad continues through the level, unpops everyone and enters the pipe. In the subzone we do some head bouncing to get to the exit pipe. Now, we do stacked head bounces. A cool trick of this game is that if a player bounces on another one, and that other one was currently jumping or bouncing on something else, the player on top will get a huge vertical speed boost. This trick is used quite a lot in this challenge.

Next, we have some stairs, that we can climb by popping bubbles continually. we can then continue the level using all of the previous tricks. There aren't many other tricks in the rest of the level, so we can make our way to the end quite easily. At the end, we have to pop a bubble and head bounce juggle a player to the flagpole.

And with this team effort with all 4 players, I am able to beat this level Truly Jumpless.

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Thank you for watching, and thank you for reading these 4k characters ! I absolutely love you all.
I will make more videos of this challenge until I get bored or run out of ideas I think.

Thanks for watching and reading !
I love you all !
❤