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The premise behind playing SM64 pacifist is pretty well explored at this point with videos on YouTube and the morality rom hack made by Rovertronic

However, the same can't be said for other rom hacks, like Star Road. So, I figured I tried routing a 'No Major Skips' speedrun (aka 80 star) for the hack. Obviously, beating any SM64 game or hack is technically impossible with major boss levels, so they're ruled as exceptions for this challenge.

The reason I chose a No Major Skips run instead something else is pretty simple. Doing major skips removes a lot of the stakes of avoiding altercations. If you only had to do a small portion of the actual game, where would the challenge be? In my opinion, this is where No Major Skips proves its worth. The point of the run is the challenge, not the speedrun, so a true pacifist run can only be done if you can get enough stars to beat the game normally, which is definitively possible.

I also played on SM64 Coop DX instead of the original rom hack. I think both mediums are valid ways of completing this challenge. They should be designated into their own categories, but both are perfectly valid. I personally chose Coop DX for the character select wheel at my disposal. It just made this challenge all the more fun and casual for me, which is what I wanted out of this. If you think using Character Select is cheating, it's my run and technically my category now, so I say it's perfectly valid as long as you show that custom movesets were disabled in some way. This isn't even that hard as the Speedrun Timer mod itself is able to force disable them.

This probably won't end up becoming a real category extension on speedrun.com or anything. It's not really something I have power over, so I wouldn't expect anything. I also didn't show the coop server settings anyway. You can likely deduce which settings I used just by watching, but at the end of the day I don't really care. I did this for fun, not a world record.

I think that's all I have to say. The run will be played in full with no editing as proof. I'll link the stuff I was half watching to in the background below. Enjoy the run.

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