[MKW TAS] N64 Mario Raceway Flap - 30.665 (No Glitch, No SG) by ThatsSlick, Ancient, Kierio and Ejay @thatsslick1669

ThatsSlick TAS BKT Cut: -0.075
Previous BKT by Lolo: 30.740 (youtu.be/TF_PENZRags)
This is a tool-assisted speedrun. This time will not count on any real rankings.

I started working on this run in mid-March as my first serious TAS. By mid-April, I completed a preliminary TAS with a time of 30.716. Kierio improved the run, getting a time of 30.688, but we had to discard the progress because I realized that the miniturbo into the start of the lap was released a frame too late. I restarted the run on my own, though I did copy some inputs for turns 3 and 4 from Ejay's rMR lap 1. After struggling with the first shroomspot for a while, I reached out to Ancient, who got a much better and tighter bounce off of the spindrift into the first shroom. I made a prelim of the second and third shrooms, which we improved over the course of a week. Ancient got a 0.004 cut on the first pipe trick using STA but couldn't get a good second pipe trick to follow it. I reused the inputs from the second pipe trick in Kierio's 30.688 and redid the last turn to squeeze out a final 0.001, yielding our final run.

Fun Fact: This run was made in part on a beta build of Hibyehello’s Lua Core for macOS and is the first run to do so!

Apologies for the somewhat fuzzy video quality, I'm still learning the recording workflow. I may rerecord and reupload this run at a later date.

This run was done using savestates, slowmotion, frame advance, TAS input, RAM watch, Lua scripts, and LuigiM's TASToolkit 1.4 in SwareJonge's Dolphin 5.0 LUA Core 3.5 and Hibyehello's macOS port of the same software.

Collaborators:
Ancient: youtube.com/channel/UCN6dimIzsys2RNrpXR4cBPQ
Kierio: youtube.com/c/kierio04
Ejay: youtube.com/c/EjayB

updated 3 years ago

[MKW TAS] N64 Mario Raceway Flap - 30.665 (No Glitch, No SG) by ThatsSlick, Ancient, Kierio and Ejay

ThatsSlick 2021-06-23 | TAS BKT Cut: -0.075
Previous BKT by Lolo: 30.740 (youtu.be/TF_PENZRags)
This is a tool-assisted speedrun. This time will not count on any real rankings.

I started working on this run in mid-March as my first serious TAS. By mid-April, I completed a preliminary TAS with a time of 30.716. Kierio improved the run, getting a time of 30.688, but we had to discard the progress because I realized that the miniturbo into the start of the lap was released a frame too late. I restarted the run on my own, though I did copy some inputs for turns 3 and 4 from Ejay's rMR lap 1. After struggling with the first shroomspot for a while, I reached out to Ancient, who got a much better and tighter bounce off of the spindrift into the first shroom. I made a prelim of the second and third shrooms, which we improved over the course of a week. Ancient got a 0.004 cut on the first pipe trick using STA but couldn't get a good second pipe trick to follow it. I reused the inputs from the second pipe trick in Kierio's 30.688 and redid the last turn to squeeze out a final 0.001, yielding our final run.

Fun Fact: This run was made in part on a beta build of Hibyehello’s Lua Core for macOS and is the first run to do so!

Apologies for the somewhat fuzzy video quality, I'm still learning the recording workflow. I may rerecord and reupload this run at a later date.

This run was done using savestates, slowmotion, frame advance, TAS input, RAM watch, Lua scripts, and LuigiM's TASToolkit 1.4 in SwareJonge's Dolphin 5.0 LUA Core 3.5 and Hibyehello's macOS port of the same software.

Collaborators:
Ancient: youtube.com/channel/UCN6dimIzsys2RNrpXR4cBPQ
Kierio: youtube.com/c/kierio04
Ejay: youtube.com/c/EjayB

[MKW TAS] Coconut Mall Flap (No Ultra Shortcut) - 19.697

ThatsSlick 2021-12-03 | TAS BKT Cut: -5.778
Previous BKT by Ancient and Kierio: 25.475 (youtu.be/7fuDP6rX_pc)
This is a tool-assisted speedrun. This time will not count on any real rankings.

Ancient, Aaron, and I started this run near the end of July with a setup that we got from Kierio. Ancient further improved the setup and got an air pocket during the first shroom in order to start a slipdrift. Aaron made a prelim of this drift and I improved it. I got a small improvement on the second shroom by using Campbell's new boost distribution tech, getting good QM on the invisible wall bypass as well. Aaron improved the bypass further by eliminating the bounces after the bypass. All three of us worked on the turn around the pillar into key checkpoint 2.

After a stagnant month of struggling to optimize this turn by getting a chaindrift through the arrow wall, Aaron found that with proper QM, we could get no airtime on the bypass and wheelie the frame after the bonk, yielding a tighter alignment and reaching max wheelie speed sooner. I performed and optimized the new fountain shortcut that Ancient and dm248 found earlier this year. In preliminary runs, when landing from the fountain shortcut, we charged a miniturbo in the trick boost. Ejay eventually proved that getting a bounce to realign and wheelie instantly was significantly faster. Aaron discovered that charging a miniturbo after the wall bonk entering the parking lot was another major timesave. The parking lot section features some fun wheelie turning tech and the last turn is cool too I guess.

At the beginning of November, our best ghost was a 19.724. The three of us agreed that we were unlikely to make further improvements on the run without something big happening. As such, we sent it to Ejay, who agreed to take a look at it and see if he could find any improvements. Shortly thereafter, he found the fountain shortcut landing strat mentioned above and finished a 19.709. With the 19.6xx in sight, I improved the run to a 19.705, then a 19.700. I spent roughly an hour trying to improve the 19.700 before giving up and going to bed. Upon waking up the next morning, I had a moment of clarity, messed with some inputs near the fountain shortcut landing, and got a 19.699 run in a matter of minutes. Over the next few days, I improved this further to the final time of 19.697.

Thanks to Kierio for the flap setup, to Ancient for asking me to work on this project and providing constant encouragement and enthusiasm, to Aaron for finding multiple strats that I had overlooked and for nagging me to work on this run, and to Ejay for helping me learn how to record and edit videos and making the 19.6xx possible.

This run was created using savestates, slowmotion, frame advance, TAS input, RAM watch, Lua scripts, and LuigiM's TASToolkit 2.0 in SwareJonge's Dolphin 5.0 LUA Core 3.5 and the macOS port of the same software created by Hibyehello and myself.

Collaborators:
Ancient: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN6d...
Aaron: youtube.com/channel/UCT1sm2TSo5EsLINGq3v8X9w
Ejay: youtube.com/c/EjayB