Kierio04 | Mario Kart Wii - Completing Mushroom Gorge & DK Summit With THE SAME INPUT @Kierio04 | Uploaded 3 years ago | Updated 1 hour ago
Same Input Challenge Volume 7
I have a bit of free time while I'm on holiday, and got a bit of motivation to make one of these again! I picked two random but strategically complex tracks that I thought I would enjoy, and found it very entertaining to return to. I had to actually restart from scratch multiple times due to needing to rethink my plan for completing the first turn of DKS into the cannon and also performing the starting section of MG fast, since they kept failing one way or another.
A way to score these TASes are by the time of the slowest run, which is DKS's 48.537. Combining the approximate times of the two lap 1 BKSes gives 32.2+31.1=1:03.3, or slower than this time. If a more optimised version of the route I opted for, or a faster route entirely are found (both of which are absolute possible), then the final time for DKS would go down significantly, as it relies on MG finishing fast, which in itself relies on allowing DKS to go far through the track.
Hopefully you enjoyed this look forward to what I have to offer next! Any 2 specific track options that might be really interesting to do that you have strat ideas for?
Playlist of all these videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnjjnFG8yVQqiairV7rK2let9NWQ3RhB
Music: N/A (couldn't be bothered to add music)
Same Input Challenge Volume 7
I have a bit of free time while I'm on holiday, and got a bit of motivation to make one of these again! I picked two random but strategically complex tracks that I thought I would enjoy, and found it very entertaining to return to. I had to actually restart from scratch multiple times due to needing to rethink my plan for completing the first turn of DKS into the cannon and also performing the starting section of MG fast, since they kept failing one way or another.
A way to score these TASes are by the time of the slowest run, which is DKS's 48.537. Combining the approximate times of the two lap 1 BKSes gives 32.2+31.1=1:03.3, or slower than this time. If a more optimised version of the route I opted for, or a faster route entirely are found (both of which are absolute possible), then the final time for DKS would go down significantly, as it relies on MG finishing fast, which in itself relies on allowing DKS to go far through the track.
Hopefully you enjoyed this look forward to what I have to offer next! Any 2 specific track options that might be really interesting to do that you have strat ideas for?
Playlist of all these videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnjjnFG8yVQqiairV7rK2let9NWQ3RhB
Music: N/A (couldn't be bothered to add music)
![[MKWii TAS] DS Delfino Square Flap - 35.524 (Supergrinding/Superhopping)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XDwxXBNC284/hqdefault.jpg "[MKWii TAS] DS Delfino Square Flap - 35.524 (Supergrinding/Superhopping)
TAS by @Kierio04 and @EjayB.
-1.555 from TAS by myself (https://youtu.be/qphlgtiyAxY)
Music: Animal Crossing: City Folk - The City (Day) (https://youtu.be/GeLcJaFBw44)
I started working on this TAS back in October, and reached out to Ejay asking if he wanted to collaborate with me. He agreed, and helped optimise the latter half of the supergrind, the fountain shortcut, and the deceptively difficult turn after. After a bit of inactivity, I was able to get a prelim 36.3 in November.
After that, little to no work was done on the TAS until this past week. Since we last worked on the flap, Thomas did significant work on a lap 1 for a 3lap TAS, showcasing optimised ODB strats. I realised that we had the incorrect cycle as the drawbridge needs to NOT be flat, so Ejay and I agreed to just clean up the rest of the lap and leave out the ending SG as the only major optimisation missed (as we would need to optimise the entire TAS from scratch multiple times to find out when we would need to start the lap, which would be very tedious and a huge waste of time). After a couple full days working on it, I was able to finish the run, saving another 0.8 from just optimising better.
Fun fact: Some of you may have seen in the TAS discord that I told Thomas about the SH around the turn at 0:31 when he was working on that part of the lap 1 TAS. I did this because I had done some work on this flap and found the SH there, only to find Thomas not using it.
Special thanks to Ejay for suggesting the music, I really like it.
Want to see more TASes and TAS projects? Visit https://mkwtas.com
or the MKWii TAS discord, at https://discord.gg/NCZghgy")
![CTGP Tracks Done Backwards - Alpine Peak 3x Respawns (3/218) [OUTDATED]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZSrOdVljJVw/hqdefault.jpg "CTGP Tracks Done Backwards - Alpine Peak 3x Respawns (3/218) [OUTDATED]
THIS VIDEO IS OUTDATED - PLEASE SEE A BETTER VERSION OF THIS VIDEO HERE: https://youtu.be/4mtIlb7tAFI
In this video, I drive a full lap of the custom track Alpine Peak backwards. In order for a track to count as being completed backwards, you must start in lap 1 and travel through all of lap 0 backwards, finishing by reaching lap -1. We will be going through the tracks of the CTGP 1.03-1112 update alphabetically, and returning to any past tracks if breakthroughs are made that change the statistics of the progression of the challenge (more on this later in the description). Here, there are 3 respawns that are mandatory to complete the track backwards, each of which can be done with any amount of mushrooms. The respawns are as follows:
Respawn #1: to get to the top of the tower
Respawn #2: to get to the ice section
Respawn #3: to get to the top of the spiral
Playlist of these videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn5oUUeubCc&list=PLbnjjnFG8yVTXfNn9_cRdo2Mx3l_9mHrv
Backstory: This is a series I had originally planned to collaborate solely with Charlie on, however, since starting the project, Jellopuff helped out with the 2nd track, and Charlie stopped doing MKWii TASing, so a lot has changed. It may be that more people contribute to this, but Id prefer the videos to be more central to my channel since its way easier for people to understand the progression of the challenge if the progress updates are consistent with the previous ones (the titles and descriptions, the rules of the challenge, the explanations made, etc.). That being said, the only reason for the delay on uploading progress on these is down to my motivation to record them, and since youre reading this, it means I got the motivation to record this specific one. I have about 10 more tracks already done that just need to be recorded and edited (Charlie and I started in April and have been putting it off a LOT).
What I do in the video is; drive up to the higher path near the end of the lap (allowing me to skip a respawn up to the final bridge), then drive off the edge of the bridge to get respawned at the top of the tower. I then show three different potential strategies for getting up to the next platform without respawning, the last of which is the only successful one. First, I had hoped to use the boost panel to give me enough speed to clip off of the platforms wooden pillars. I was able to get a clip but not one high enough or with the right angle to land back on the platform. Second, I had hoped to get a large clip off of the front of the platform using a barrel roll, but was unable to actually get a clip with the angle the barrel roll gave. Finally, I simply got stuck on the edge of the track in order to get bounces that allowed me to barely get back on the platform. What follows is a very precise bounce and sideways hop to avoid respawning too early, which would have resulted in an additional respawn. After this, I go back to the start of the ice section and perform the final respawn up to the top of the spiral. The rest is fairly trivial.
There are a few statistics and various versions of this challenge that I will keep track of that allow for a better understanding of whats going on. Below is a list of all of them:
1. Completing the track backwards with the minimum number of respawns, where you have access to a certain amount of mushrooms (a = Infinite, b = 3, c = 2, d = 1, e = 0)
2. Completing the track backwards with the minimum number of respawns, then minimising the number of mushrooms from there
3. Completing the track backwards with the minimum number of mushrooms, regardless of respawn count
Alpine peak has the following statistics to offer:
1a. 3 Respawns
1b. 3 Respawns
1c. 3 Respawns
1d. 3 Respawns
1e. 3 Respawns
2. 0 Mushrooms
3. 0 Mushrooms")
