The Jiggy That Almost Ruined Banjo Tooie

At the start of these races I would pause the game, switch over to my Guitar Hero drum set, then start and drumroll the whole race. She didn't have a chance

Fun/stupid story about my life: as a kid I couldn't beat her. I'd mash that A button until my arm was on fire and still never got close. Later, I got into high school sports and spent a lot of time conditioning my body and strengthening my muscles, and on a later playthrough of the game I beat that gas-huffing slag. Still monumentally difficult though. TLDR: Years of weight lifting and intense aerobic exercise allowed me to 100% Banjo-Tooie.

It is possible to brute force Canary Mary. There may be some slight rubber banding mechanics but if you're a button mashing monster you can get ahead of her and stay there. That being said this minigame is needlessly difficult, and shouldn't require spoons or pausing for rest to get through it.

Whoever designed that jiggie sure wanted to watch the world burn :)

The real method here is to not focus on maximum speed but to focus on consistency. If you stay at the same speed the entire race she will basically stay side by side to you. Then right at the very end you mash.

I know a guy who can vibrate his nose and he used that to beat Canary 💀 Out of all the ways to beat her, I think that takes the cake

I really didn't find Canary Mary that difficult, once I knew how her AI works. The trick is to not get TOO far ahead, then pick up the pace and go all-out near the end before she responds to your speed with a boost of her own. Yeah, I'm probably above average when it comes to button mashing, but still, I think what makes the challenge so hard for most people is that they don't understand how her AI works.

I won’t ever forget the lasting fatigue/pain in my arm after I got that jiggy

the jiggy wasnt the problem, as a kid all i missed was the cheato page.. figuring out how to "race" her was my problem! anyway, as always nice video 👌

It's good that banjo-tooie gives you alot of leniency when it comes to what jiggies you do or don't get. I love this game but the canary mary races suck.

I will automatically like ANY new Banjo-Tooie videos, right away, before watching. Thank you.

When I saw the name of this video I already knew what it would be even before seeing the thumbnail. Brought back years of suppressed rage. Even to this day whenever I have to press a button fast I remember her, and the rage helps me push it even faster. Have to set the oven to 400 degrees? I can make it beep inhumanly fast - thanks to Canary Mary. And I remember her every... single... time. She should have been left in the mines.

Of course this Jiggy was famously a victim of the increased frame rate of the 360 version, making it much harder on Xbox than it was on the N64. The only reliable way of beating her is by using the Pause Menu method you mentioned: You spam A like crazy for a few seconds then you pause, and alternating like that is a slow and grueling but sure way to victory

The trick is not to go too fast but not fall behind either over the course of the race. It’s like an endurance test at first, and then a test of speed.

There was a girl in my class in primary school who somehow had an impressive ability to button mash. Anytime I was stuck at a button mashing minigame I would invite her over to do it for me. She could beat CCL Canary Mary handily, although she did do some pausing to recover every so often during it.

Ugh, that's the only Jiggy I never obtained! That bird was too damn fast!

Everyone was so creative and I just brought a GameShark controller that auto-tapped for me. I actually bought it because it was cheaper than a normal Nintendo controller, but boy was I happy when this abomination graced my trips to the mine and clouds

You have to race her differently both times to win. For the first time, you just have to tap the button at a consistent pace once you are ahead of her. You cannot slow down. Pause if you have to. This will NOT work for the cheato race. The trick for the cheato page is press as slow as you can to stay behind her, then when coming down the downslope for the final stretch of the race for the purple island, you have to speed past her to win the race before she can rubber band. Welp, if anyone reads this, hope it helps. How I got the jiggies in one sitting

I tried so many times as a kid to get the Cloud Cuckooland jiggy. I never got it. I think I did it as an adult

You can actually pause the game when you race her and take a break 🤣