In this video I'm going to be using item C8 to win the game.
Slight correction, the warp whistle is item 0C, not 0D.
I didn't initially plan on using the RNG bytes for apart of the payload, but I wasn't able to write anything using Mario / Luigi's lives, and most other bytes that could potentially be used can't go high enough to write JSR 8FE1 without more ACE. So I settled with the RNG route. About as far from RTA viable as it gets, but hey- it works.
Another idea was using two bytes to make a branch upwards to 715, where the three bytes of score begin, but with the hard cap of 9,999,990 points (without more ACE) I'm unable to write anything useful.
Another idea I had that didn't make the cut was using Chain Chomp chain positions. You might've noticed the huge amount of 00s between 7C3C and the fireball positions. Some of these 00s are the Chain Chomp chain positions. Chain Chomps are pretty tedious to work with, so that idea was scrapped in favor of the fireball positions.
Additionally, very shortly after I defeated boom-boom when set up the fireball positions, the RNG lines up with the exact value I had to wait for, but unfortunately I had to deal with the whistle data and subpixels. It's a shame, because the bizhawk movie could've been 10 minutes shorter, ha!
Footnote 1: Another method of getting a glitch item. If you take a pink noteblock inside the world 1 koopaling fight room, you enter a glitch room that surprisingly does not crash the game! One of the structures in this room is a very large pillar of tile 88 from 7550 all the way through to 7FF0. This cuts through Mario's item inventory, giving you item 88. Note that I do not know of any methods of creating a pink noteblock inside a koopaling fight without hacks.
Footnote 2: How does Dynamic Jump actually work? Dynamic Jump begins as a JSR to FE99. First, we perform an Arithmetic Shift Left on "A" and then transfer "A" to "Y". From there, we Pull from the stack twice and store these bytes at 0000 and 0001. These bytes we just pulled form the address of where our JSR FE99 was. We use these bytes to indirectly load A with an offset of Y. So the byte we load into A is at the position of the initial JSR plus Y. After that, we increment Y and do it again. These bytes are stored in 0002 and 0003. Then we do an indirect jump off 0002 which will jump execution to whatever the values of 0002 and 0003 are.
Here's a download to the bizhawk movie file: www.dropbox.com/s/vu3euaxdu65...
Why in the world does this video have autogenerated French subtitles?