[Outdated TAS] Whirl from the Freezing Pond 0xA - 1557

This TAS has been improved by Marbler: /watch/UyOI1kybcDWbI This is a 6 frame improvement over the previous WR by lemon: /watch/stbaABz8bXm8a Life has been a bit busy recently, but I've still been picking away at the upstairs stars from time to time. I did this one a while ago and thought I might still be able to improve it by 1f more, but I haven't managed it yet and decided to upload it as-is. If I remember correctly, there are actually two tied strategies for the final part, though I don't have the file for the other approach. lemon does a dive recover into the spindrift instead of the freefall grind I do here. The dive recover has less speed, but it doesn't get the bad quarterframes I get during the standing grind. This combined with some tradeoffs with Mario's angle make these two strategies tied, as far as I can tell. The ending box break is actually pretty difficult, as Mario has to lose a lot of speed to be able to break the box and then stay within the star's future hitbox while the box breaks, so I wouldn't be surprised if I've missed a frame at the end by not landing on the spindrift 1f sooner in one of the strategies. Typically, it wouldn't be difficult to get perfect quarterframes in a grind like this where Mario spends multiple consecutive frames in freefall. However, the ledge Mario is grinding on isn't aligned with the floor next to it, so there are a bunch of out-of-bounds unit squares peeking through. If Mario hits any of these unfortunate squares, he either bonks (if he's in an air state) or his movement gets cancelled for that quarterframe (if he's in a ground state), so instead I avoid them at the cost of some quarterframes.

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