The Luckiest Mario Kart Speedrun World Record Ever

[@DavidWonn]

I’m pleased to see that my fence fluke has finally been recreated in recent times. Back at the time I was about to lose Internet access in late 1997, I sent off an e-mail to the Karting community noting that this was one of 2 fluke shortcuts I couldn’t figure out how to recreate. (The other was the Wario Stadium full-lap skip, which I’d later unveil to Kevin Booth in 2000, Andrew Weatherton in 2007, and publicly in 2010.) When flukes happen such as these, and nobody recreates them for decades, I’d begin to wonder if my memory was getting fuzzy over the years. There is a great sense of vindication nowadays that I wasn’t just imagining things, especially now that I am physically unable to play anymore like I used to. Excellent job to the 2020s glitch hunters. The baton is passed on indefinitely.

[@thepimppresident653]

That was poetic

[@Leons-Online]

It probably shouldn't have but this comment really made me feel something. Cheers!

[@gasasmk]

You are a legend David

[@oscus1520]

We stand on the shoulders of Giants like you, ya absolute legend

[@ItConfuses]

David, I still visit your glitch hunting website for that sweet dose of nostalgia. Thank you for your service to the gaming community!

[@thehelper1164]

Jesus, that MrPitt video still hurts to this day - I feel SO BAD for him, dude.

[@commander_frog]

Unlikely is just another word for throw yourself at for thousands of hours until you brute force it

[@Maximum]

Good stuff abyss!

[@FalB27]

oh this is where you get your inspiration from

[@michaelsnodgrass2375]

Don't forget yourself

[@FinnbarrGoesFast]

yo its red ball guy

[@AdamsAppleseed]

Mario Kart 64 is really kept alive with speedrunning, but also with good videos like these. Keep it up Abyssoft.

[@Joshuathegreen]

Notify the Salt that was Summoned and the Absolute Legend

[@PatrickDavis28]

I think Karl Jobst made a video when the person reset after making the shortcut

[@blakena4907]

I love that a KZbin search for "Absolute Legend" actually brings Karl Jobst to the top of the results.

[@AvsJoe]

Your pronunciation of "vigor" caught me off-guard. In my accent, "vigor" rhymes with "bigger", I've never heard it pronounced in such a way that it would rhyme with "tiger".

[@internetuser8922]

yeah same here

[@InsatiableMonkey]

His pronunciation of vigor sounds like an off-brand pokemon.

[@icantthinkofanything798]

Same. I had to turn on subs to even know what he was saying hahaha

[@salvatore_slate]

pretty sure he just said it wrong

[@MrJund-gp3jh]

I’ve been following videos like this for a long time. A few months ago I joined the community and got to see this happen myself. It was absolutely incredible, and I can’t wait for more to unfold! Awesome video my man, really well done.

[@marjakarjalainen9547]

you’ve come such a long way from earthbound record history!! your content is so great to watch, it’s great to see the gem that is your style of presenting speedruns polished up so wonderfully :)

[@benial870]

My personal definition of "mario kart shortcuts" is if the TAS saves time with the shortcut over the nonshortcut, then its a shortcut If the shortcut time is slower in a real time run, its because of human error, not the validity of the shortcut

[@Asterra2]

When I was holding my spots for #1 scores in Pac-Man CE DX, the whole "muscle memory restart" killed a good 2 out of 3 runs that I manifestly did not want to kill.

[@thonkingkong8457]

Great video, haven't watched you for like 2 months didn't notice you hit 17k subs, congratulations!

[@RayAkuma]

I just calculated the possibility of this clip happening on every lap. Its 1 to 72.900.000.000.000.000.000, Or to put it in words 72 Quintillion and 900 Quadrillion to One. That's the Chance of a 1:90000 event happening 3 times in a row. Cant wait for all of Humanity trying this for 10.414.285.714 Attempts each

[@rafaelalexie2417]

Hold my beer!

[@yrrahyrrah]

A person banging himself full speed into a wall 30k times in a row seems to be a sign of insanity...

[@dossey5174]

This will be epic!

[@mrpittjr9436]

So true

[@JosephHk743]

Congrats on this achievement!

[@JC4.80]

Aussie Aussie Aussie oi oi oi Amazing job what a legend

[@prizm9515]

This is basically the equivalent of the speedrun lottery. haha

[@balleet210]

imo a "shortcut" would be any path taken that isn't intended by the developers, whether or not it's faster. Also, the positioning and trajectory of the 2 successful clips were in completely different spots and directions. Maybe it isn't nearly as precise as expected.

[@darthgamer9861]

It’s weird seeing myself in streamers chats

[@DannysDome]

In my opinion, a shortcut should be doing anything that involves a route not originally intented, like jumping over walls or fences, going through walls or objects etc etc. The Wario Land skip over the wall is a clear shortcut, same as the one on Royal Raceway with the big boost ramp. Basically, if you go outside the normal drive path, it's a shortcut, regardless if it saves time or not. There are of course some "legal" shortcuts, that are intented shortcuts, like the obvious shortcut on Koopa Troopa Beach, they should of course be allowed.

[@supereffective8]

Did anybody else notice how the fence looks a little different on every successful attempt? It looks slightly more see through and I wonder if it’s an indication on if it’ll work or not

[@RobertMcKinnonMainChannel]

amazing video! great coverage of the history of KD and the sc A1A :D it was so fun to watch

[@ubagutobr]

The quest to stop Abney!! Here is the Salt when we need him?

[@diamondyoshi6649]

poor guy! muscle memory sucks...

[@rgefseds]

i feel like i've seen another video before about the mario kart community coming together to try (and succeed) to stop one person from holding the wr on every course... what the heck am i thinking of??

[@Abyssoft]

Check out my documentary on MK64, it covers MR going for the sweep in non shortcut along with his live meet battles with Dan

[@Larszard]

There's also Summoning Salt's "The Quest For World Record Perfection" on the same thing

[@Techstrobe]

16:00 still thinking about what the one other shortcut to talk about was

[@engineerskalinera]

Nice to see that Kalamari Desert got its own Weathertenko.

[@KeyserTheRedBeard]

impressive video Abyssoft. I shattered the thumbs up on your video. Continue to keep up the exceptional work.

[@tripple-a6031]

If the non SC record is lower than the SC record it is ultimately also the record for SC. Just because you can use shortcuts in one category doesn't mean you have to use one for the record to count. It's like setting a 100% record which is also faster than the Any% record, you'll get both.

[@erik3371]

I thought he had to reset and end the run because he pressed start and that's not allowed, he thus didn't do the whole reset by muscle memory only pressing start.

[@sagacious03]

How did no one find a setup or visual cue for this trick? Anyway, neat video! Thanks for uploading!

[@Bladieblah]

I think they try to use a visual cue of some kind but it's too precise to really work. They try to match the cue but it's so precise that they can't tell if they were off or not. A guaranteed set up with a consistent set of inputs would likely be too slow since the trick only saves 5-10 seconds. It's not impossible of course

[@sagacious03]

@@Bladieblah Ah, okay. Thanks for the reply & the information!

[@miiks...5...3...9...]

what a dreadful existence this must be

[@hajilee4539]

Love the content! Keep it up!

[@Buglin_Burger7878]

The short-cut label is mislead, it is better called "wall hops" as often you'll hop over a wall. It is a glitch/exploit category.

[@BlockCheddar]

in normal gameplay, a shortcut might save time, but the same shortcut could waste time in a speedrun. I'd still call it a shortcut with relation to the game itself, but a "longcut" or detour for the sake of experimentation in relation to the speedrun it's used in.

[@sergrojGrayFace]

4:25 - Of course. The non-shortcut run would then take the 1st place in "shortcuts" category as well above the slower run that uses the shortcut, but the slower run with a shortcut shouldn't be allowed in non-shortcut leaderboard.

[@PatrickDavis28]

I think an Abney 24/24 is still possible, but EXTREMELY unlikely. It's amazing the shortcut even happened twice, with a 1/90,000 chance. With 30K attempts so far, the chances of it being pulled off by this point are 1/3... and it's happened twice. I don't think anyone's pulling this off again for a very long time.

[@kittencorp.3295]

I’m surprised you have so few subs

[@iwen634]

I was waiting for this since I saw the record great vid tho

[@SirLaurenceNZ_2]

That chicken lmao

[@spiggly_digg]

Bro how could people dislike this? This is just straight up facts, no bias or forced jokes or anything. Only reason I can think of is similarity to summoning salt, and that's not even a bad thing

[@kevinroylancephotography9437]

If you dislike a video you won't get recommendations based on it. Nothing personal

[@zacharyyoungblood7013]

@@kevinroylancephotography9437 Or, you could just say don't recommend this to me. It's probably dislike bots.

[@Buglin_Burger7878]

A lot of people have had bad experiences with speed running... and this video has a lot of padding to explain basics mostly unrelated for it. It gives the history of speed running... which isn't what people are here for. Who cares about the Flap or 3lap records and other methods? We are here to see the luckiest speed run... not 50 others.

[@tordek911]

Amazing as always

[@Scawtsauce]

Is it a shortcut if it makes the lap time longer? No, that's a longcut.

[@grandmastermario3695]

I speedrun this mario kart game along with 5 other mario kart games, and along with many many other games for fun.

[@Balthazar228]

Is it possible to use 1 shroom per lap just for triple fence clip, and get an unbeatable 3-lap record on KD?

[@Abyssoft]

Possible yes, but no one is grinding those odds

[@kkmac7247]

1/90000^3

[@yungzynofficial2055]

Why would lap 2 and 3 take longer when you’re crossing the line at full speed vs. starting from 0?

[@TheThing1012513398]

Hell yes thanks for the update! Someone got it woohoo!

[@while.coyote]

this stuff is great

[@eliasbrewn]

I really like your content it is so well made :)

[@SabirTheHuman]

I am looking forward to this video.

[@alexion3007]

In my opinion, longcuts (shortcuts that take longer) should still count as a shortcut just because if it gets optimized to become faster, what do you do with any run that did it while it was suboptimal? Disqualifying it would be bad because they were doing completely legal things at the time, allowing it would beg the question if slower runs using the route would still be allowed or else if people watch these runs and see these strats just to find out they are banned. No shortcuts is just the "go roughly intended route" and so slowcuts shouldn't be allowed in my (probably fairly uninformed) opinion.

[@AxeMain]

Can someone program a stepmania/ddr track to have someone get the perfect timing for inputs to do a speedrun? That'd be cool

[@thenewherooftime815]

Speed runs like this are always incredible to watch, incredible that it finally happened!

[@jetstreamjackie3437]

yo shoutouts to JCog

[@Gojeku]

BIG SHOUT OUTS TO DOSSEY+

[@eisesmit]

Good video man, have a sub! :)

[@dani0506]

I dont like speedrunning and despite that i dont mind others speedrunning but I still wonder why this thing is even a thing

[@SaltPyramids]

you are the only other person besides me who pronounces vigor "vEYEgor"

[@AvsJoe]

That pronunciation caught me off-guard. In my accent, "vigor" rhymes with "bigger", I've never heard it pronounced in such a way that it would rhyme with "tiger".

[@GdotWdot]

That vowel was historically always short, so it's technically as incorrect as it gets.

[@Scawtsauce]

rip MrPitt

[@MrTnbopp123]

Shortcut or "long"cut doesnt matter, its about playing the game as intended, its one of those thing people outside the speedrunning community find extremly easy to understand while those in it have kinda forgotten what it means to not cheat in a game.

[@raafmaat]

15:37 well it MIGHT be higher, sure who knows, but getting it after 30k attempts lies perfectly within the 1/90,000 odds

[@besser-nicht]

2 times in 30 k attempts

[@raafmaat]

@@besser-nicht well you can look at it like this: since the first fluke, it took 30k attempts to recreate it. wich lies perfectly within the odds

[@besser-nicht]

@@raafmaat okay i know what you mean

[@tonyhakston536]

9:52 _Vygir_

[@Livithen86]

NCB 101

[@amberhamilton7944]

Wait, did the record happen this time?!?!

[@dossey5174]

You'll have to wait and see

[@darkychao]

9:51 "vhygir"?

[@Abyssoft]

Behold the power of Veigar

[@borisbeloudus2691]

What ever happened to the term ultra short cuts?

[@Abyssoft]

That's mostly used for MK Wii, MK64 just use the term short cut or skips

[@BRUIN1821]

Yeessss love your speedrun docs & info

[@besser-nicht]

I do not like the premiere feature.

[@jasonbarry3301]

This video has so much prefacing that I think I might actually use it to help me fall asleep tonight -.-

[@electricmaster23]

WTF!

[@blakfloyd]

Good video. I specifically gave it a like for pronouncing it SHUR bit and not SHUR burt. Edit: Just heard you pronounce it VIGH gur instead of VIG ur. Unliked and will now watch the rest and probably give it a like based on the merit of the video, anyway. Edit 2: And now we're going with the SHUR burt pronunciation?

[@kieran8266]

vaigor

[@FilthyCasual268]

@Abyssoft say "vigorous".... now say "vigor"... I hate it when KZbin personalities make it completely obvious they don't write their own scripts or read them through and ask their writers how to pronounce words they clearly don't know how to pronounce beforehand...

[@morganlak4337]

??? Who do you think wrote this script then lol

[@officialnovadrome]

I can guarantee that Abyss writes all of his own scripts lol

[@megaman8038]

15th comment

[@MG-hn4sb]

The first 5 minutes were such a waste of time and completely unrelated to the video title. Maybe if you titled the video as History of Kalamari Desert records then I'd be okay with watching the first 5 minutes of gunk

[@rellikhcaor2575]

I'm just happy to see someone at the top that's not using a keyboard and emulator, unlike Mario 1 :(

[@rellikhcaor2575]

@zemeon2 Global rules Anything that you cannot do with an original and unmodified NES, brick controller and SMB1 cartridge is prohibited. Including but not limited to Turbo L + R Savestates Altering the game speed (FPS) Using a bad ROM (missing title screen, different graphics, etc.) Last i checked, the nes buttons do not operate the same as any keyboard ever made, nor are they spaced apart the same.

[@Zekses]

Too much exaggeration on the consonants makes it quite a bit annoying because at some point you're no longer listening to the content as much as waiting for when the next "nnnon shortcut" will come

[@Abyssoft]

Normally I don't respond to any criticism as a rule but I'll make an exception for this one. Due to ongoing construction on the water main for the last few months I've had to set the noise gate higher on my microphone or everything going on in the ambience gets picked up. This has led to some words getting cut off at the beginning and ends of sentences when I record audio. The fix for this was to draw words out that start with a low cadence so I don't have to come back and record them several times but it appears this may have been a pattern I've picked up for more words. It's something I'll be mindful for in future videos, thanks for calling it out.

[@Zekses]

@@Abyssoft It wouldn't be so much of a problem if it simply happened not as often. If anything it adds flavor, but not when the video is so full of it.

[@Abducky]

I was following some of these things, so I was anticipating your video! Thanks so much, it was awesome. Also shortcuts should be shorter.