Majora's Mask in 29 A Presses [Commentated]

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This run aims to complete Majora's Mask in as few A presses as possible. This run does not use SRM or ACE.
In normal gameplay, the A button is typically used for the following (not an exhaustive list):
Opening doors
Opening chests
Rolling
Sidehopping
Backflipping
Jumpslashing
Talking to NPCs
Reading signs
Advancing text
Selection textboxes (ex: "Yes" or "No" choices)
Picking up and putting down objects
Grab/Push/Pull
Put away
Returning from first-person
Learning songs
Playing songs
Warping with Song of Soaring
Speeding up song/mask cutscenes
Diving
Dropping from ladders or ledges
Mounting and dismounting Epona
Going faster on Epona
Deku spins
Deku flowers
Goron curling
Zora swimming/surfacing
File select navigation
Interacting with pause screen
Snapping pictograph
Zooming the telescope

This run was made possible with the collaboritive help of the zelda 64 challenge community (discord:   / discord   ).

A few special thanks:

Gigopler: spearheaded the challenge and created the route. This run would not exist otherwise

PushyMisumi: saved many difficult A presses, and inspired me to do challenging segments of this LOTAD

Ennopp112: completed the old route of 59 A presses in realtime (   • Zelda Majora's Mask Completed in only 59 A...  ) which was an invaluable resource

Thu Ox: edited the abridged version of this video for me

Note that there's a small timer glitch in the encode, but it corrects itself: "The timer jumped up at the end of the Great Bay speed up (47:05 in the video), and then corrected itself at the Ranch speed up (1:00:10). So the timer is correct for the rest of the run. It's just off for those thirteen minutes."

On-screen Lotad art by ttto!