Kierio04 | Mario Kart Wii TAS Awards 2023 @Kierio04 | Uploaded 5 months ago | Updated 2 hours ago
Welcome to the Mario Kart Wii TAS Awards - the celebration of the past year of contributions to the MKWii TAS community. To be a part of the community, and have the opportunity to vote in next year's polls, join the discord: discord.gg/EPD9yCu
Huge thanks to @Malleo for voice-overing!
And of course, huge thanks to the people who let me use their content as background footage for this video, which meant it wasn't just a blank background with text and images popping up occasionally.
For a complete list of authors/contributors, as well as links to background clips and background music, see the following document: docs.google.com/document/d/1L2t90lAsvvlHbso-UgCUXW2N_MVZ_Kr7qEn9nKffEBQ/edit?usp=sharing
Background music playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnjjnFG8yVQR3Q84aGMmlZkW_71uq4Wd
Background video playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnjjnFG8yVSNeaxwadk1JENVJgk9jdKj
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:13 Award 1 (3lap TAS of the Year)
3:23 Award 2 (Flap TAS of the Year)
5:39 Award 3 (CT TAS of the Year)
8:31 Award 4 (CT Ultra Flap TAS of the Year)
11:00 Award 5 (Speed Mod TAS of the Year)
12:58 Award 6 (New TAS Strat of the Year)
16:53 Award 7 (New TAS Tech of the Year)
19:36 Award 8 (New TASer of the Year)
22:15 Award 9 (TASer of the Year)
27:40 Outro
One last side-note: I put almost 60 hours of work into making this video. If you could share the video to a friend after watching it, that would really help boost this and the other videos on my channel, thanks!
Welcome to the Mario Kart Wii TAS Awards - the celebration of the past year of contributions to the MKWii TAS community. To be a part of the community, and have the opportunity to vote in next year's polls, join the discord: discord.gg/EPD9yCu
Huge thanks to @Malleo for voice-overing!
And of course, huge thanks to the people who let me use their content as background footage for this video, which meant it wasn't just a blank background with text and images popping up occasionally.
For a complete list of authors/contributors, as well as links to background clips and background music, see the following document: docs.google.com/document/d/1L2t90lAsvvlHbso-UgCUXW2N_MVZ_Kr7qEn9nKffEBQ/edit?usp=sharing
Background music playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnjjnFG8yVQR3Q84aGMmlZkW_71uq4Wd
Background video playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnjjnFG8yVSNeaxwadk1JENVJgk9jdKj
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:13 Award 1 (3lap TAS of the Year)
3:23 Award 2 (Flap TAS of the Year)
5:39 Award 3 (CT TAS of the Year)
8:31 Award 4 (CT Ultra Flap TAS of the Year)
11:00 Award 5 (Speed Mod TAS of the Year)
12:58 Award 6 (New TAS Strat of the Year)
16:53 Award 7 (New TAS Tech of the Year)
19:36 Award 8 (New TASer of the Year)
22:15 Award 9 (TASer of the Year)
27:40 Outro
One last side-note: I put almost 60 hours of work into making this video. If you could share the video to a friend after watching it, that would really help boost this and the other videos on my channel, thanks!
![[MKWii TAS] Grumble Volcano Flap - 33.885 (No Glitch)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/K0hdlYZnMGg/hqdefault.jpg "[MKWii TAS] Grumble Volcano Flap - 33.885 (No Glitch)
TAS by @Kierio04 (myself) and @TASSnoop.
-0.688 from TAS by Rocky (September 2015, Flame Runner): https://youtu.be/9dajX7rBTk0
-0.596 from TAS by myself (January 2021, Flame Runner): No video
-0.595 from TAS by JMM (October 2022, Sneakster): https://youtu.be/R-MDmV70n2M
-0.362 from WIP by myself (February 2021, Flame Runner): https://youtu.be/CvhAE3coiE4
Music: Super Mario Galaxy - Freezeflame Galaxy (Fire) (https://youtu.be/q_SmaEZ0XGk)
For multiple years Ive wanted to have a crack at this category (ever since I made my first Spear 3lap here back in December 2019). In January 2021, I decided to try to make a test flap for fun and after about half an hour got down to a 34.481. About a month later, I actually optimised this and got it down to a 34.247. @TASSnoop then redid the lap setup and got an almost optimal first trick but I was too occupied with the rBC ultra 3lap and MMM SG 3lap to work on it.
Fastforward to March 2022, I wanted to try to revive some forgotten WIPs and had a crack at the first turn again. There I found that it was actually slower to do the previously assumed faster bounce at the end of the first shroom, followed by finding it actually was faster by a few frames but only if you released a miniturbo upon landing (rather than having to charge it for several frames). This progress only reached the entrance to the cave and then my motivation for RT projects was lost when the ODB strat revolution (new supergrinds, superhopping, etc.) happened soon after. That is, until last month, when I returned to make the new sub 22 MMM flap.
Almost right when I finished the MMM flap, I realised @JMM435s new TAS (34.480) had only beat my half hour attempt by a single millisecond, so my motivation spiked enough for me to get back into TASing the track. Completely forgetting about the bounce strat WIP, I redid the beginning of the lap from scratch (working off Snoops ghost, which I did remember about) and optimising until the cave entrance yet again. At this point, I remembered the WIP and found it to be 1 frame faster after the first shroom. I modified my redone beginning and managed to get it to save another frame over the former WIP.
From here, I finally progressed through the lap linearly. I got to perform some strats for the first time (for me and in TASes overall):
- the aforementioned first shroom bounce strat with instant MT release (new)
- the full RSTA cave entrance trick (new for me)
- the slip double MT in the cave (new for me)
- the full RFH low after the moving platforms (new for me)
- @mkwLukes last shroom offroad bounce strat (new for me) with full STA (not actually new, thomas just reverted to wta for some reason)
- a drift trick exiting the offroad bounce strat (new, very precise)
Expect to see more flap TASes from me in the coming months, and also look out for more TAS Competition videos since the next one is right on its way and regular competition resumes in January.
Want to see more TASes and TAS projects? Visit https://mkwtas.com
or the MKWii TAS discord, at https://discord.gg/NCZghgy
Shoutout to LuigiM for getting the closest time estimate of 33.874!")
![[MKWii TAS] DS Peach Gardens Flap - 37.532 (No Glitch, Manual) (Obsolete)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KGUcz46UB68/hqdefault.jpg "[MKWii TAS] DS Peach Gardens Flap - 37.532 (No Glitch, Manual) (Obsolete)
TAS by @Kierio04 (myself).
-0.091 from Previous BKT (37.623 by Don Capri): https://youtu.be/3-TnLdBM_ZQ
-0.563 from Current RTA WR (38.095 by Carter): https://youtu.be/_VP9CQ3f-ks
Music: Sues Soundtracks - MKDS Peach Gardens Remix (https://youtu.be/boAEQoLtTco)
Like with the rDH NG flap, I felt like TASing the track, so went in with no improvements in mind, simply TASed the flap, and ended up saving a good amount of time. Unfortunately, I started this TAS before @Alego11-TAS showed automatic to be faster for flap, which is why itll be obsoleted very soon. Im not entirely surprised, as there was never any indication that manual was ever faster - Estaloys 2018 flap was just unoptimised, which made it easy to beat with manual. However, I really wanted to have a go at optimising a manual TAS of this track, so didnt branch out into testing automatic as one might have done if they were TASing it to see the limit rather than TASing it for the sake of TASing (I also really like the look of manual strats over automatic strats for this category in particular).
Want to see more TASes and TAS projects? Visit https://mkwtas.com
or the MKWii TAS discord, at https://discord.gg/NCZghgy")
![[MKWii TAS] DS Airship Fortress v1.3-ctgp Flap - 17.205 (Ultra, Superhopping)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LWOnAoRYnmY/hqdefault.jpg "[MKWii TAS] DS Airship Fortress v1.3-ctgp Flap - 17.205 (Ultra, Superhopping)
TAS by @Kierio04 (myself)
Download the ghost here: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/930016627351756850/1055454079175884840/BC_kiro_pls_1m53s981.rkg
-1.798 from lap 3 of 3lap TAS by myself (19.003): https://youtu.be/hAsF3AIkUYg?t=98
-2.530 from RTA flap by Clément (19.735): no video
-3.218 from original demo TAS by Epik95 (20.423): https://youtu.be/SW2DrEditCE?t=272
Music: Super Mario Bros. 3 - Airship (https://youtu.be/7TO0N4KxzPE)
So yeah, end of the year coming up, I was looking at CT ultra flaps, and found the lap 3 of my 3lap (from the very beginning of this year) to be the fastest lap for this category. Of course, the first thing I wanted to do was make another TAS! Oh wait, its not a no glitch category, which means superhopping is faster... oh wait, the optimal combo is outside drift so I cant make an excuse for not using it... ughhhhh... WHY SUPERHOP, WHY.
Pain aside, I started off by getting the setup for the ultra location I used to get it shroomless (https://youtu.be/WBmqZb7UD7A), and then testing if it was faster to enter the lap with a mushroom boost (assuming it would be). Turns out, theres not enough space to slow down from 120 if you cross the finish line with 120 speed. So, now I had to test entering with less speed.
I managed to get 100 speed to barely work, but then realised I would likely benefit from a superhop entry due to starting the turnaround half way turned around. It didnt turn out as planned. First, superhopping made it much more difficult to actually slow down in time. Second, if I did slow down, I was in the completely wrong spot. So, I had to test whether SH or non SH entry was actually faster. You obviously just watched a SH entry so that was the conclusion (this may still be wrong, I was already getting quite annoyed at the run at this point).
Next up was the ultra itself. I hadnt actually thought of how I was going to do it with this method, as I had only ever used a trick boost to both start a drift and also start one far from the finish line (and at a low speed). My first solution was using a barrel roll to turn myself around, but that was forcing me to either hop late and cross over the finish line, or hop early and have no resulting speed. My final solution was getting really good QM and just sticking to the ground in order to turn and also accelerate.
Getting through the OOB wall here requires a specific ratio of sideways (FWG) and forwards (SWG) speed. The shroomless method with phantom can be done facing more forward so can have more speed with less sideways momentum. As I am using the shooting star, I could not just do that so had to intentionally halt my acceleration and exit the ground at a low speed. As a result of this, the 2nd mushroom used is barely useful, and only a result of optimising the respawn. For the majority of the time working on this, only 1 mushroom was used in the lap.
The ending section was originally done from scratch (to a 17.388, including superhopping), but then I remembered I could splice the KCP hit from the end of the 3laps lap 3, and did that (to get a 17.651). The superhopping here was actually really difficult to figure out, as there isnt much room (from where the SSMT leaves you) to start a sequence of superhops without hitting the wall on the right. This is why I seem to start it late, though it actually saves time by not going far to the left (which would force me to counterhop at least once or twice before the last turn). This is the first time I have performed the currently optimal inputs for superhopping, and also the first time I have tried optimising the angle and spin hop inputs to make for a tighter turn.
I was stuck at 17.205 and seeing as its a superhopping TAS, I knew there would be something left to improve. I was still unsure about the lap entry strat, and had considered a completely different combo (some other character on the phantom) for a faster OOB bypass and tighter last turn, since Funky Kongs speed bonus and Shooting Stars speed stat are never used. So, I decided to leave it there, and have fun with the vertical inputs, at the cost of about two tenths of a millisecond (no difference in final time).
Hope you all enjoyed this TAS, even with so many potential improvements. I didnt exactly enjoy making it, but am satisfied with the final product nonetheless :)
Want to see more TASes and TAS projects? Visit https://mkwtas.com
or the MKWii TAS discord, at https://discord.gg/NCZghgy")
![[MKWii TAS] 200cc Mushroom Gorge (No Glitch) - 1:09.278](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/M9aajPwV85c/hqdefault.jpg "[MKWii TAS] 200cc Mushroom Gorge (No Glitch) - 1:09.278
TAS by @Kierio04 (myself).
-1.833 from TAS by myself (https://youtu.be/ps53Wxj9Cc4)
-3.714 from RTA WR by Hia (https://youtu.be/NYUqIt8njqU)
Music: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: Booster Course Pass - Wii Mushroom Gorge (https://youtu.be/kJmixduEGIc)
Following the upload of my improved LC TAS in June, Cow Man suggested I improve the MG NG TAS with left route. I jumped straight into a new TAS. By the end of the month, I had made it to the end of lap 2. I didnt come back to finish lap 3 until this week, but Im done now!
Improvements since the 1:11 TAS:
- Double miniturbo on the first turns (found lap 1)
- Much lower trick on first mushroom (found lap 2)
- Double miniturbo after first mushroom (found lap 1), and slip drift strat (found lap 3)
- Triple miniturbo in cave (found lap 1)
- Left route in cave (found by RTA players before TAS started)
- Mushroom abuse on second cave mushroom (found lap 1)
- Penultimate mushroom skip (found lap 1)
- Much better gap cut (found lap 1), and also clip turn lap 3 strat
Please let me know in the comments if you have no interest in 200cc TASes. I will not do them if you do not want to see them. I enjoy making videos other people enjoy, so just saying do what you enjoy is not what I need :) Be open about your opinions on my content!
Want to see more TASes and TAS projects? Visit https://mkwtas.com
or the MKWii TAS discord, at https://discord.gg/NCZghgy")
![[MKWii TAS] N64 Bowsers Castle Lap 1 - 51.943 (Shroomless - Spear) (PRELIM)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MF2OVYbBvQY/hqdefault.jpg "[MKWii TAS] N64 Bowsers Castle Lap 1 - 51.943 (Shroomless - Spear) (PRELIM)
So yeah pretty much every 1 or 2 days from now, Ill be uploading something rBC-related in the lead up to the eventual lap 1 of the glitch 3lap as thats being worked on right now.")
![[MKWii TAS] DS Delfino Square Flap - 37.180 (Supergrinding) (OUTDATED)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MHZNL6AUlJ4/hqdefault.jpg "[MKWii TAS] DS Delfino Square Flap - 37.180 (Supergrinding) (OUTDATED)
THIS TAS IS OBSOLETE - SEE A BETTER VERSION HERE: https://youtu.be/qphlgtiyAxY
This is a tool-assisted speedrun (TAS). Played on SwareJonges Dolphin 5.0 LUA Core v3.2.1 and v3.5.1. Tools used: slow-down, savestates, frame advance, TAS input, TAS code, RAM watch (info display), LUA scripts, text files, and LuigiMs TAS toolkit.
TAS BKT Cut: -0.082
Previous BKT (37.262 by myself and Marth): https://youtu.be/Y8G_QSU6EzI
Music: DS Delfino Square - Mario Kart Wii
Surprised?
The main timesave in this run comes from the improved supergrind, with a slight timesave also coming from the new slip chain strat on the split path turn.
The beginning of this run was actually made by myself in late March 2020, however because the angle for the first shroom clip was so incredibly bad, by the time early April came, I gave up on this good supergrind setup and went back to Marth and my old one to make the 37.262 flap.
At the beginning of the day today, I decided to look at the bad setup to see if I could get anything new to happen and to my surprise I was able to get the clip to not hit the fountain wall in about 10 minutes. I then continued to optimise the rest of the run, finding the slip chain strat in the process, and got the sub 37.2 that I have wanted to see for a very long time.
Because everything in this run was done by myself, sadly Marth is no longer an author, so Id like to give special thanks to him for discovering the supergrind in June 2019 and working with me on the original 37.878 run, which started my journey to specialising in them today.
Marth: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClkb9VBvCEq3SMxE9HKS2kA
In the next few weeks, I will be testing once and for all if Spear is faster for this category, as well as uploading a 200cc TAS and a short CT TAS, working on rBC glitch lap 3, streaming and uploading Task 3 results, oh also the school year starts tomorrow so videos will be spaced out quite a lot :(
All my TASes (playlist): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnjjnFG8yVRktOQF_7lxUmslfwEi8o2_
MKW TAS website: https://mkwtas.com
MKW TAS spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-214dOJVTJyymS3eGcowJAMefI5y0QoS8R_L8ech6CI
MKW TAS discord: https://discord.gg/NCZghgy")
![[TAS] AMA C2 - Shoot into the Wilder Blue - 803](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/N-2Gp1U_iwM/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] AMA C2 - Shoot into the Wilder Blue - 803
[TAS] AMA C2 - Shoot into the Wilder Blue - 803")
![[MKWii TAS] Maple Treeway Flap - 40.651 (No Glitch)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/N7ypq0Qyv1w/hqdefault.jpg "[MKWii TAS] Maple Treeway Flap - 40.651 (No Glitch)
TAS by @Kierio04 (myself).
-1.685 from TAS by KingAlex (https://youtu.be/OnPQghpNvc0)
NOTE: This was the oldest standing TAS WR, which lasted for 4467 days (over 12 years). The oldest WR now is from well over 2 years later (RR NG flap by Mario Karter from 2013).
-1.246 from lap 3 of 3lap TAS by Lamejoin (https://youtu.be/QirYY3fT4qE?t=91)
Music: Vector U - Super Mario RPG Forest Maze Remix (https://youtu.be/jkOsPE254Pc)
Ive been wanting to make this TAS for several years now. Ever since I joined the TAS community in January 2019, this has been the oldest standing record. Back then, of course, I didnt have my eye on the category, nor did I have the skill to make the TAS. But, by 2020, I was more interested and better equipped to do it. However, I was still under the impression @Jellopuff_TAS intended to finish his own WIP for this (https://youtu.be/W84NLdC5ffM), so never pushed to work on it.
By 2022, it had been long enough. However, each time I gained motivation to work on this, there happened to be some new TASer trying this out expecting it to be a simple task, only to give up upon realising it was not. By the time they gave up, I had lost the motivation, and no TAS was ever made. This happened two or three times, the last of which I still had motivation left when they gave up, and so I got to work.
About a week ago, I finished the DS Delfino Square flap project, so was able to start work on something new. This is, of course, what I worked on. Its safe to say this is one of the most daunting flaps out there, which is why the 2011 record stood as long as it did, and after finishing the run myself, I can understand why (well, I kinda already knew after making the No Turnskip 3laps, but I finally had to TAS the turnskip here).
The lap entry has always been a mystery, since its not clear that everyone understood how Jellopuff got the ejection distance he did. I realised last week that he used one of the tree roots to get a trick boost into the RFH ejection trick, and so was finally able to replicate it.
The turnskip is brutal. It took me about 15 hours over 2 days to get it once, and that once is the one you see in the TAS. I was originally planning on maybe changing the lap entry time to have an optimal net cycle once I completed the run up to that point, but after having that much trouble with the turnskip I just left it as it was and moved on. My respects towards @l4m3join01 have risen very high knowing he did this back in 2018 without TAS code, and then another 3 or 4 times with, all in a matter of weeks.
As for the music choice... Forest Maze has always been the tradition for MT flaps ever since @Malleos 2013 ultra flap (https://youtu.be/iyHZt499_q4), and this specific rendition of the song was used in the 2018 ultra flap (https://youtu.be/XTzsIYwlsLs), Jellopuffs first TAS WR. Seeing as Jellopuffs short video is the reason I always had an interest in this category, I thought it would be kinda fitting to reuse that remix in this video as well.
Want to see more TASes and TAS projects? Visit https://mkwtas.com
or the MKWii TAS discord, at https://discord.gg/NCZghgy")
![[MKWii TAS] Mouse Hole Mania (v1.1) Lap 1 - 43.298 by Kierio and Marth (No Glitch)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NHuKrGELPXE/hqdefault.jpg "[MKWii TAS] Mouse Hole Mania (v1.1) Lap 1 - 43.298 by Kierio and Marth (No Glitch)
Authors: Kierio04, Marth
This is a tool-assisted speedrun (TAS). Played on SwareJonges Dolphin 5.0 LUA Core v3.2.1, v3.3, and v3.5. Tools used: slow-down, savestates, frame advance, TAS input, TAS code, RAM watch (info display), LUA scripts, text files, and LuigiMs TAS toolkit.
NOTE: This run takes advantage of the analog inputs of the Wii Wheel. In order for this run to be performed in real-time in a playback, pause buffering would potentially need to be used.
Lap 1 TAS BKS Cut: -0.606
Previous BKT (43.904 by myself): https://youtu.be/xRxbgzHJ7_g
Music: GBA Cheese Land Remix - Panman14 (https://youtu.be/Ezu88bvn_bk)
History of the lap 1:
The work for the video youre watching started very shortly after I uploaded my previous lap on this track and shortly before Marth uploaded his Crystal Plains lap (10 months ago). We worked on the first 20 or so seconds for about a month (from the start of September to the start of October) before other things (specifically, the rPB No Glitch 3lap) became more important, and the project died.
I revisited this in February, and worked on it myself for about a week, making a preliminary lap 1 and then getting it down from a 43.634 to a 43.393. I looked at it again twice in April, getting it down to a 43.381 and then a 43.355. I then came back 3 days ago to finally finish the run, getting it to a 43.323 three days ago, a 43.303 two days ago, and a 43.298 yesterday - which is the final time of the lap 1. I should note that a 43.297 is technically possible to get, its just the alignment into the next lap is not sufficient to keep it as an improvement.
Improvements/new strats (basically everything lol):
- Setup for the first boost panel
- Slip drift + offroad strat
- New first beam section multi tricks (with wheelie triggers)
- Improved wheelie triggers on cheese blocks
- New complex cheese block movement (hop trigger, low hop+wheelie off block)
- New complex shroomspot movement (multiple redrifts and rewheelies)
- Improved first long turn line
- Lower trick at end of long turn
- Wheelie trigger on boost ramp
- Improved second beam multi trick multi tricks (with RFH and wheelie triggers)
- Lower next boost ramp trick
- Spin drift STA on the hop trigger
- New miniturbo charge spot on second long turn
- Improved second long turn line using optimal wheelie turning strats
- New pseudo single miniturbo during boost
- More optimised miniturbo charge before last ramp
- RSTA instead of STA on the last ramp
- More optimised miniturbo charge on last turn (with lap 2 setup, including optimal wheelie turns)
Collaborators:
@MarthTAS (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClkb9VBvCEq3SMxE9HKS2kA)
Thank you to:
@EjayB (https://www.youtube.com/c/ejayb)
and Hman (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQycF6WxET2f7u-avy1KKKQ)
for supporting me during the creation of the TAS
@campbellmop355 (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTlFF4haRu3QFzfAZlCbgIg)
for giving me the spear wheelie turning patterns
All my TASes (playlist): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnjjnFG8yVRktOQF_7lxUmslfwEi8o2_
MKW TAS website: https://mkwtas.com
MKW TAS spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-214dOJVTJyymS3eGcowJAMefI5y0QoS8R_L8ech6CI
MKW TAS discord: https://discord.gg/NCZghgy")
