BlazeMSX | [MKW TAS] Coconut Mall (No Glitch) - 1:56.812 (Kart) @MalleoSquirrelX | Uploaded 3 years ago | Updated 7 hours ago
This is a tool-assisted speedrun created to show the theoretical limits of this course, and isn't designed to compete with real-time runs.
Huge shoutout to Ejay for recording this! youtube.com/channel/UCL6IvK60jAvowbyeDnu0Ybw
Real-time kart BKT is 2:00.616 by Iván youtu.be/IqIhav0lENo
This track has some interesting mechanics that cause the kart run to differ heavily from the bike TAS, including a lot of tricky snaking tech that was difficult to optimize.
A detail you might pick up on is that I tilt back on the last ramp landings, which might look kind of strange if you're used to only seeing bike TASes. For some reason, this seems to be faster with karts, at least on this type of trick ramp, since it allows you to land further forward without spending too much time in the air.
Also, I know I said that Funky Kong was probably going to be made mostly obsolete by Dry Bowser in kart runs, but for Coconut Mall he seems to still be the fastest character. This is likely to do with the high amount of trick and boost ramps, so Dry Bowser's overpowered miniturbo stat can't be taken advantage of enough to mitigate Funky' speed stat. Consider this track more of an exception, with the general rule being that Dry Bowser is usually faster than Funky Kong on more driving-based tracks.
This time actually beats Jascha's old 1:56.821 from 2011, which stood as the bike WR for over three years. I'll try to get a multighost video uploaded, since it makes for a really fascinating comparison.
Music: ポップンミュージック 12 いろは - 月雪に舞う華のように
This is a tool-assisted speedrun created to show the theoretical limits of this course, and isn't designed to compete with real-time runs.
Huge shoutout to Ejay for recording this! youtube.com/channel/UCL6IvK60jAvowbyeDnu0Ybw
Real-time kart BKT is 2:00.616 by Iván youtu.be/IqIhav0lENo
This track has some interesting mechanics that cause the kart run to differ heavily from the bike TAS, including a lot of tricky snaking tech that was difficult to optimize.
A detail you might pick up on is that I tilt back on the last ramp landings, which might look kind of strange if you're used to only seeing bike TASes. For some reason, this seems to be faster with karts, at least on this type of trick ramp, since it allows you to land further forward without spending too much time in the air.
Also, I know I said that Funky Kong was probably going to be made mostly obsolete by Dry Bowser in kart runs, but for Coconut Mall he seems to still be the fastest character. This is likely to do with the high amount of trick and boost ramps, so Dry Bowser's overpowered miniturbo stat can't be taken advantage of enough to mitigate Funky' speed stat. Consider this track more of an exception, with the general rule being that Dry Bowser is usually faster than Funky Kong on more driving-based tracks.
This time actually beats Jascha's old 1:56.821 from 2011, which stood as the bike WR for over three years. I'll try to get a multighost video uploaded, since it makes for a really fascinating comparison.
Music: ポップンミュージック 12 いろは - 月雪に舞う華のように
![[MKW TAS] Coconut Mall (No Glitch) - 1:56.812 (Kart)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gzEG7bxiqJA/hqdefault.jpg "[MKW TAS] Coconut Mall (No Glitch) - 1:56.812 (Kart)
This is a tool-assisted speedrun created to show the theoretical limits of this course, and isnt designed to compete with real-time runs.
Huge shoutout to Ejay for recording this! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL6IvK60jAvowbyeDnu0Ybw
Real-time kart BKT is 2:00.616 by Iván https://youtu.be/IqIhav0lENo
This track has some interesting mechanics that cause the kart run to differ heavily from the bike TAS, including a lot of tricky snaking tech that was difficult to optimize.
A detail you might pick up on is that I tilt back on the last ramp landings, which might look kind of strange if youre used to only seeing bike TASes. For some reason, this seems to be faster with karts, at least on this type of trick ramp, since it allows you to land further forward without spending too much time in the air.
Also, I know I said that Funky Kong was probably going to be made mostly obsolete by Dry Bowser in kart runs, but for Coconut Mall he seems to still be the fastest character. This is likely to do with the high amount of trick and boost ramps, so Dry Bowsers overpowered miniturbo stat cant be taken advantage of enough to mitigate Funky speed stat. Consider this track more of an exception, with the general rule being that Dry Bowser is usually faster than Funky Kong on more driving-based tracks.
This time actually beats Jaschas old 1:56.821 from 2011, which stood as the bike WR for over three years. Ill try to get a multighost video uploaded, since it makes for a really fascinating comparison.
Music: ポップンミュージック 12 いろは - 月雪に舞う華のように")
![[MKW] Candy Coaster Freerun (Tool Assisted)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/i_ekCsymBgw/hqdefault.jpg "[MKW] Candy Coaster Freerun (Tool Assisted)
Heres something that I doubt any of you were expecting. To be honest, this wasnt even something I initially had planned on doing - I was trying to figure out a faster way to do that ultra shortcut from last years compilation (which, by the way, turned out to be barely faster due to the respawn point) when I realized just how much potential this track had for TAFing.
This was the first time I had used TAS code (de-activatable live replay) for a TAF, since I had finally found an infinite shrooms code that functioned with it enabled. This actually turned out to be a massive gamechanger, since it allowed me to do much more precise tricks than before. This is also why the item display isnt animated, although thats just a minor visual issue.
After not TAFing for nearly half a decade, Im kind of curious to see what other tracks I could possibly try in the future. Id love some suggestions, although no guarantees that Ill actually do it.
Music: Touhou 10 - Native Faith")
![[MKWii TAS] New Mario Circuit Glitch Strat](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jmPNxroxgYc/hqdefault.jpg "[MKWii TAS] New Mario Circuit Glitch Strat
bad driving")
![[MKW TAS] Mario Circuit (Glitch) - 41.506](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kPYdxsd4ZtY/hqdefault.jpg "[MKW TAS] Mario Circuit (Glitch) - 41.506
This is a tool-assisted speedrun created to show the theoretical limits of this course, and isnt designed to compete with real-time runs.
Thanks to Ejay for recording! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL6IvK60jAvowbyeDnu0Ybw
The main timesave in this run comes from the lap 1 glitch strat, which saves around .4-.5. In case youre confused as to how/why this even works, I briefly clip the side of the offroad terrain from the OOB as I fall into the tunnel, and quickly start charging a standstill midair to position myself to the left. Landing on the grey curb in an extremely precise position allows you to bounce forwards slightly, giving you just enough speed from the momentum to enter a drift, completely negating the need to charge a standstill miniturbo. Clipping into a ceiling completely kills your speed/momentum, so this trick allowed me to artificially get back up to drift speed after entering the tunnel.
I tried for a few days to get this strat to work on laps 2/3 with the tree clip, but it seems like the highly angled alignment from clipping the side of the mountain is necessary in actually clipping the offroad while still falling, since Im pretty sure this trick only works if the front tip of your bike touches it for a single frame. You can still get the acceleration from the curb and enter a drift without doing the standstill realignment midair, but it isnt faster because your angle is completely off. Going out of your way to clip the mountain instead of clipping the tree on laps 2/3 loses much more time than the ~.5 timesave from the nostop recovery.
The massive timesave on lap 1 allowed for me to enter lap 2 quick enough to go to the left of the goomba on the first turn, which seems to be at least .05 faster than going around it. On lap 3s first turn I utilize a slipdrift to get my miniturbo out faster, but this unfortunately doesnt work on lap 2 because the goomba doesnt give you a whole lot of leeway, although this doesnt really save as much time as it might look, since spears (relatively) high acceleration stat and poor miniturbo stat make slipdrifts a lot less powerful than they are with Flame Runner.
Music: Demetori - アリスマエステラ ～ Flow My Tears, the Said")
![[MKW TAS] Garden of Dreams - 2:24.068](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/l45SKiRk_m4/hqdefault.jpg "[MKW TAS] Garden of Dreams - 2:24.068
This is a tool-assisted speedrun created to show the theoretical limits of this course, and isnt designed to compete with real-time runs.
Real-time BKT is 2:27.719 by Jak (-3.651 cut)
I have a new computer now, meaning that recording and rendering Dolphin recordings isnt completely unbearable anymore, so Ill hopefully be able to upload more regularly now, since I still have a backlog of unuploaded TASes. Huge thanks to Ejay for showing me his recording and render settings. This track is easily one of the most visually stunning CTs Ive ever seen, and it has a lot of cool gameplay elements I could make use of.
Music: Katsumi Horii Project - BuHouse of Peninsula")
![[MKW TAS] Mushroom Island v1.2 - 1:49.467](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mIy4TtqpAR8/hqdefault.jpg "[MKW TAS] Mushroom Island v1.2 - 1:49.467
This is a tool-assisted speedrun created to show the theoretical limits of this course, and isnt designed to compete with real-time runs.
Huge shoutout to Ejay for recording this! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL6IvK60jAvowbyeDnu0Ybw
For whatever reason, flip tricking into a mushroom pad at a certain angle causes you to bounce off it with a massive speed boost, almost as if youre shrooming off it (look at the speedometer). You can also reduce your airtime off of these mushrooms by nosediving into the edge. Im still not entirely sure why any of this works.
The last turn on this track is extremely awkward, and theres really no pretty way to approach it. I found it was fastest to slightly cut into the grass on the last turn lap 3, since it made my alignment tighter.
Music: Horii Katsumi Project - Flashback")
![[MKW TAS] N64 DKs Jungle Parkway Lap 1 - 43.998 (Kart)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mrp775TcXLU/hqdefault.jpg "[MKW TAS] N64 DKs Jungle Parkway Lap 1 - 43.998 (Kart)
Im not normally a fan of uploading unfinished TASes, but I honestly dont think Im ever going to complete this just because of how difficult the shortcut will be to replicate. Taking into account that lap 1 is automatically ~.150 slower on DKJP because of the start line position, as well as the time save from the super miniturbo on the first turn laps 2/3, mid 2:11 should be possible.
Expect some more uploads soon.
Music: Tim Follin - Silver Surfer Stage 1")
![[MKW TAS] Heart of China - 1:36.357](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nC3tGKsfYaY/hqdefault.jpg "[MKW TAS] Heart of China - 1:36.357
This is a tool-assisted speedrun created to show the theoretical limits of this course, and isnt designed to compete with real-time runs.
Thank you to Ejay for recording and rendering!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL6IvK60jAvowbyeDnu0Ybw
Real-time BKT is 2:00.882 by Daesia
I thought this track would be an fun undertaking, since I felt that the typically-two shroom crate cut the BKT uses could be done shroomless, which would not only allow me to do it all 3 laps, but would let me keep the shroom for the additional shortcut at the end. But what really got me interested in this course was the gate blocking the path on lap 1, since I wanted to see if there was a cool way to cheese the blocked path and get onto the lap 2/3 path on lap 1, which would save me a few seconds. As it turns out, the entrance to the secret pool area was not far away from the gate, which is completely adjacent to the lap 2/3 path, so all I needed to do was find a way to quickly escape it. Conveniently, theres a small mushroom pad on top of the pool, which was the solution I needed. Everyone knows that mushrooms are arguably the most broken collision type in the entire game, but a lesser known effect of the wall ride mechanic is that you can actually break through walls using the wall ride glitch, just as long as you trick against an inside corner. While its probably a little too precise to be worth attempting shroomless in RTA, I imagine it would be pretty easy if you shroom off the mushroom pad, although it may be difficult to get it to save time over simply just doing the normal lap 1 path. Even with TAS, I only managed to save a few seconds. I ended up finding a faster way to do the crate jump on all 3 laps, but Im happy with how this run turned out otherwise.
Music: Wangan Midnight - Lonely Chaser")
