[dx87]

For anyone else interested in similar tricks, here is an in-depth video where someone talks about getting a star with half a button press. It starts out straightforward enough, but eventually gets really interesting when they start talking about parallell worlds that you can only access by abusing bugs to reach unrealistic speeds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A&t=77s

[sonofgod]

Strongly recommended watching, in my opinion: very clearly describes some quite complicated manipulations, the circumstances in which they work and how to move between those circumstances, to achieve what should be impossible.

If you're going to watch one commentated "tool-assisted" run, this is it.

[LambdaComplex]

Best followed by this video, which made me laugh my ass off for several minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSa-pwML4z4

(I grew up watching SpongeBob, if that matters)

[Causality1]

That was excellent. If I may suggest a followup: https://youtu.be/Pyn3N55elS4