noun Gaming Slang

half A press

· noun · gaming

Counting a held-over A press as just 0.5 in SM64's A Button Challenge.

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In the A Button Challenge, an A press has three parts: pushing down, holding, and releasing. If you hold the button down from a previous level, that level only 'spends' part of the press, so it gets tallied as a half. That's how you get counts like 2.5x A presses.

“He clears the star with a half A press by holding A from before Mario even enters the level.”
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The notation that broke the internet. A press you carried over from earlier counts as 0.5, which is why pannenkoek's video had to explain itself for a quarter hour.

“Watch for Rolling Rocks, in 0.5 A presses, the most infamous half A press in the game.”
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half A press In A Sentence

He clears the star with a half A press by holding A from before Mario even enters the level.
Watch for Rolling Rocks, in 0.5 A presses, the most infamous half A press in the game.

Origin & Usage

Super Mario 64 A Button Challenge, coined by pannenkoek2012. Spawned the 'an A press is an A press' meme.

Variants 0.5 A presshalf A-press0.5x A press
Tags #sm64#speedrunning#abc#meme

People Also Ask

How can an A press be half?

Because a press spans push-hold-release across level boundaries. If you only pay for part of it in a given level, it's counted as a fraction. The famous YouTube comment 'an A press is an A press, you can't say it's only a half' pushed back on exactly this.

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