Jellopuff | [MKW TAS] N64 Mario Raceway Flap (Ultra) - 8.777 @Jellopuff_TAS | Uploaded 2 years ago | Updated 1 hour ago
This is a tool-assisted speedrun. This time will not count on any real-time rankings. Done on Dolphin 5.0 with savestates, slowdown, frame advance, TAS code, Info Display (created by SwareJonge), and TASToolkit Lua Scripts (created by LuigiM).

Disclaimer: 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.

TAS Flap BKT Cut: -5.175
Previous BKT: youtube.com/watch?v=J4ZqU5gJSFE (by myself, Marth, Ejay, Citrinitas, Kierio, Marth, Blahpy, and Charlie)

Kierio: bit.ly/36pRWip
Ejay: bit.ly/3jTcSrO
Ancient: bit.ly/3tUgezT
Marth: bit.ly/310ycRo
Abby: bit.ly/3tY3GaR
Zappg: bit.ly/3Lxf9E7

I discovered that we can perform the glitch without respawning and save over 5 seconds as a result. That's it. I'm going back to bed. I'll elaborate more once I get back home from my trip. Happy Arpil Flool.

5 DAYS LATER...

We did it. We have reached our holy grail. We have discovered a method to perform the Mario Raceway Ultra Shortcut without Respawning. Before I get into how huge this is, bear with me as I provide some background.

In the description of the previous video, I stated that "If we are ever able to prove a bounce across the gap possible without going back in-bounds, we should be able to perform the glitch as a whole without respawning, and if that happens, the category is easily getting taken down by another few seconds. However, after the amount of time I've put into attempting this to no avail,
I'm willing to leave it to the imagination". Well, in the 7 months since that run was uploaded, some things have changed.

My Platinum Runner TAS Strats video hit one million views on November 17th of last year, and after deciding to create a sequel, I began to theorize fitting strats to execute and include. Of those, one of the first that came to mind was the Mario Raceway ultra shortcut respawnless. This strat would be perfect for Platinum Runner due to how absurdly high its handling and drift is, and since the strat had not been performed, it would be an excellent showcase of a Platinum Runner-only strat. I proved the respawnless ultra with Platinum Runner to be possible on December 13th.

For the rest of the month, I continued to focus on PRTS2, but on New Year's Eve, Kierio inquired for me to revisit the strat with an unmodded vehicle. Though I had tested Bullet Bike in the past, for whatever reason, I had never tested the Quacker, a vehicle with substantially higher handling. I only tested BB since I thought that Drift would be the important stat to performing the seam bounce without going back in bounds (coined "Parallel Cross"). However, as it turned out, the handling stat was what made all the difference. Less than an hour before 2022, I executed the first ever respawnless rMR ultra shortcut with full setup (youtube.com/watch?v=e8CvZOlOmsc).

The rest is pretty self-explanatory. We perform the same setup as in the former BKT and then perform the ultra shortcut respawnless. There are plenty of miscellaneous details, but those are for another time. As far as I can tell, the only major ways this could be improved is either by using Toadette instead of Baby Daisy (hypothetically not faster) or by proving Parallel Cross to be possible with Bullet Bike. Hopefully we won't need to do this setup a third time though lol.

Music: Morning Star - Hydelic (youtube.com/watch?v=x47CRjxuz6A)
Composed for the Tetris Effect/Tetris Effect: Connected soundtrack.
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