Kierio04
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(SM64 TAS) going to a PU (i think) @Kierio04
![[MKWii TAS] DS Desert Hills Flap - 24.799 (No Ultra)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/l0Izg8TmMbM/hqdefault.jpg "[MKWii TAS] DS Desert Hills Flap - 24.799 (No Ultra)
TAS by @Kierio04, @thepolice3822, @ancientmkw, and @campbellmop355.
-0.700 from TAS by Ejay and David (https://youtu.be/9Mi5a7GWzw0)
Music: Sonic Mania - Stardust Speedway Zone Act 2 (https://youtu.be/1orb9P194ao)
This TAS has been in the works for a long time. So long, in fact, that the combo used here isnt even optimal anymore. Regardless of that, its finished now, and you all get to see the strategies used!
It all started in August 2020, when @09cf found you could clip the pole to get on the blocks shroomless, slowing his stop by hitting the edge of the banner.
In February 2021, Campbell, Ancient, and @kall796 decided to work together to start a collaboration for this flap category, but never got past the first turn. At the time, this was a big step forward for up-and-coming TASers, since the only big collaborations so far had been from people in TASLabz. As such, Ive always had my mind on this project, hoping to see it to its completion some day.
In March 2022, activity was high in the TAS community, and a legendary video had just been released (https://youtu.be/K_FE0P_PyDM). In it, half a dozen new strats, including a new way to perform the U-turn skip on DS Desert Hills. I was intrigued by this, and wanted to test its potential, so decided to finally revisit the old TAS that Id wanted to work on for a while. I branched off Campbells setup and Ancients flap progress, and found a way to get the first turn with almost no slowdown.
I then reached out to Police (who had recently being having huge success in the TAS competition, and who was a major contributor in my CTGP backwards videos), and asked if he could try to find a way to get onto the blocks shroomless. He responded a little while later with a triple trick (https://youtu.be/NA8w-hn-JU4), but unfortunately neither he nor I could get the U-turn skip and hill skip with a single mushroom like Jellopuff did, so the strat ended up being slower overall.
In the process of working on the flap with the correct first shroomspot (where I had got the time down to 25.303), I was struggling with the RFH strat for the third shroomspot, and found you could eject high enough to end the lap without touching the blocks. I switched my focus over to the no glitch flap, and uploaded that on April 1st, in protest of the category rules at the time (which had banned the end cut from no glitch).
A couple weeks ago, and almost a year later, I finally worked this project to its completion. I improved the first turn by another frame, and optimised the rest, getting sub 25 by a huge margin, and an exact 0.7 timecut. Im very happy to not let the work done by Campbell and Ancient 2 years ago go to waste, and think its kind of fitting that Campbells first TAS WR comes almost exactly 3 years after his first TAS (from Task 6, in April 2020).
Want to see more TASes and TAS projects? Visit https://mkwtas.com
or the MKWii TAS discord, at https://discord.gg/NCZghgy")
![[MKWii TAS] Making Some Pasta (Prerelease) - 1:12.595](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nRy-Ff5pygQ/hqdefault.jpg "[MKWii TAS] Making Some Pasta (Prerelease) - 1:12.595
TAS by @Kierio04 (myself)
Download the ghost here: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1066816888379809923/1096044642249748530/MMM_kiro_pls_1m12s595.rkg
Track info: N/A (As the title suggests, the track has not been released)
Original CT Jam showcase: https://youtu.be/_LhmRJut_UM
Music: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door - Cooking with Zess T. (https://youtu.be/INdh0DU3IY0)
In yet another partnership with Custom Track Jams, I will be making a lap 1 TAS of every winning track of Series 3! The second track, winning Season 1 Jam 2 (Pasta), is Making Some Pasta by tarsa.
I really struggled to stay motivated to complete this TAS. Obviously, I only ever promised to make a lap 1, but due to the nature of the track changing over time, I felt I needed to make a full 3lap TAS to do the track some justice.
There is so much going on in this TAS:
- Every single lap has a different route. This is what intrigued me the most and made me wish to pursue a full 3lap TAS. If you didnt know already, I really enjoy TASes that have odd routing quirks and different strats on each lap, so this was a perfect opportunity to enjoy that.
- There are many very precise parts to this run which were really annoying to have to do (or redo): the start slide and landing trick, the sticky road ejection before the lap 1/3 shroomspots, the tight turn right before the lap 3 shroomspot, and all 3 of the final ramp interactions (each of which are different, due to the different routes and lap transitions).
- I use a custom start slide to move myself left and a little backwards so I can exit the starting platform with full boost speed (without this I would not have enough room to accelerate and would spend multiple seconds in the air falling at less than maximum speed).
- Every single trick I perform in the lap is in a different place. On lap 1, I trick off the finish line and the mushroom pad. On lap 2, I double trick the road entering the water section and trick off the boost ramp afterwards. On lap 3, I trick off the boost ramp at the end of the right route and then the final boost ramp.
Want to see more TASes and TAS projects? Visit https://mkwtas.com
or the MKWii TAS discord, at https://discord.gg/NCZghgy")
