He's right you know

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>>379436579

>>379436579
But you can have half an X press on the PS2

How many times do you need to press A throughout the entire game?

X amount of times.

The confusion arises when you attempt to split up each stage as "# of A presses in this stage" which is irrelevant.

>>379436579
>you will never watch that video for the first time ever again

it hurts

>Im-fucking-plying

If you enter a level already holding the A button, then that A press only counts as half. It's actually pretty important to distinguish between the A button being PRESSED and the A button being HELD. While pressing A allows Mario to execute several kinds of jumps, the holding of A allows Mario to swim in water, do little kicks up slopes, grab the owl, and twirl slowly. So if a star requires the A button to be held, the pressing of the A button could have been done at some point in the past, and just held until that moment. For instance, let's say there are two stars: one that requires the A button to be pressed (x1 A presses), and another that only requires the A button to be held (0.5 A presses). Individually, these stars would both require a full A press. But if these stars were collected one after the other, then the A button could be pressed during the former, and held all the way through to the next star to be used in the latter. In this manner, these stars together would only use 1 A press, whereas they would take 2 A presses if done individually. So during a 120 star run, you would round these half A presses down, but on a star-by-star basis you would round them up.

He's right, it's not a press, it's really a hold. A hold is not a press.

>>379437496
>>379437262
but he releases the button at some point, meaning the button has been pressed

It's just the way the A-button speedrun community notates what happens. The "half" part is arbitrary. When all the action requires is that you hold down A instead of pressing it, they call it "half press" because there are contexts where it means you don't have to press A again because it will already be held down from a previous action. They could also have called it "only holding A" instead of "half A press" and make a lot of people a lot less confused

>>379437654
you are actually retarded
read before posting

>>379436579
t. TJ "Pancake's Cocksleeve" Yoshi