Mario Kart Wii TAS Shortcuts in 2023

A compilation of Mario Kart Wii's shortcuts with the help of tools such as savestates, slowdown, and frame advance.
Enjoy!!!
I made every clip on my own, but I used many reference videos of already existing TASes as assistance for this compilation. Many clips shown in this video wouldn't have been as clean as they were without these videos: • sc vid
I'd like to give a special mention to this video • 【マリオカートWii】 TAS ショートカッ... for inspiration. As a result of how much this video impressed me along with the discoveries of many new shortcuts and strategies after the video was posted, I felt motivated to create my own compilation. Whenever I struggled with creating a certain clip for the compilation, I would always refer to the video I linked above to remind me of how worthwhile the result would be.
Music credit: Sonic Frontiers Original Soundtrack Stillness & Motion
- Cyber Space 1-5: Dropaholic
Composer: Kanon Oguni
- Cyber Space 2-6: Transparent Highway
Composer: Kanon Oguni
- Cyber Space 2-7: Floating in the Blue
Composer: Rintaro Soma
- Cyber Space 3-6: Enjoy this World
Composer: Kenji Mizuno

[@LaverusOSRS]

To me, videos like these are what really keeps Mario Kart Wii alive, the culmination of how far the community has come with such a timeless game. For most if not all players, it's things like this that either got us to fall in love with or keep us in love with this game. Massive thank you to the TAS community for being the backbone of our community, pushing the game to its limits and keeping the flow of new ideas, strategies and shortcuts incoming, without you we could have seen a dramatic drop in activity years ago. Much love to everyone involved in this video being created, both directly and indirectly ♥♥♥

[@justin3055]

Thanks man, there will be more to come

[@Eturnes]

I love how the editing makes this look exactly like the average TAS compilation video from 2013

[@justin3055]

Main thing that’s missing is the 3d spinning text intro with my username

[@mau2172]

The sonic frontier OST fits perfectly. That game as a whole feels like it should've come out in 2013.

[@outlyings]

hello everynyan

[@LetsplayAori]

​@@justin3055that truly would have made the video a timeless classic.

[@chouytheboy99]

15 years later and mkw still has new sc vids I love it

[@louiswolfe5012]

What even is this game anymore

[@mkwiicore]

Out of all the TAS shortcut compilations I've seen, this might be the first one where some of the shortcuts actually blew me away. I want to see what can be done with that mushroom gorge glitch method. Absolutely awesome

[@justin3055]

That strat is definitely one of the coolest for sure, Vabold came up with the idea of hopping backwards on the mushroom years ago, Malleo proved it was possible, and Jellopuff proved it was faster years later. Saves around a second I think

[@worldsboss]

The sheer amount of creativity on display with these runs is incredible. Can’t believe how far this game has come.

[@wanderingtyphlosion7332]

I don't know why, but seeing Baby Daisy just comically slide around at high speeds is a bit funny to me

[@almightyshoe02]

As someone who hasnt checked in on the tas scene for around 2 years, the improvement is mind blowing

[@RobertMcKinnonMainChannel]

wow that's awesome!!! the TASers in this game are truly something else :) keep it up yall!!!

[@EjayB]

Love it! Well done on making every clip look so clean, good job

[@jameskelly-smith1279]

Remember when all TAS records were just Funky and Daisy? In this compilation there was also Waluigi, Dry Bowser, Baby Daisy, Baby Mario, Baby Luigi, Toadette and Yoshi!

[@hola-gy8te]

and featuring vehicles such as shooting star, zip zip, phantom, quacker, and fucking wario bike

[@Psychomaniac14]

that mushroom gorge one was so surprising to see the peach gardens one was also unexpected but didn't blow me away I didn't expect to see the bowser's castle shortcut done with a trick, nor did I expect to see the turn cut done with one mushroom

[@fooforthewin6758]

that ghost valley one was so perfect lol

[@Jellopuff_TAS]

Very well done! We haven't seen something this crazy in quite a while.

[@RxEmpex]

I have never seen physics on the Wario bike do that before, to see that last clip for the first time is mindblowing

[@Wileherbal]

Imagine showing this to someone in 2008 lmao

[@jasperbosma9689]

I played this game as a kid and I still do sometimes today. It’s crazy to see how far the boundaries have been pushed. It was unthinkable this would be possible back in the day. Amazing work 👏🏻🙏🏼

[@HS-mn6jc]

Imagine showing someone this video in like 2010 lmao great work, reminds me a lot of Troy’s old MKWii montages from back in the day

[@Poof.ho0]

This was such a nice good video! It makes me so happy seein mkwii tas stuff in 2023, and reminds me of when i was much more invested in it years ago. Glad to see things are still cookin!

[@monion05]

i love all the small intricacies of this video and the small music sync ups. really shows how much effort you put into this awesome video and well dont on making all those clips yourself!

[@beanzard64]

You know a compilation is gonna be crazy when it starts on the Wario Bike. Great work, super cool to see how far this game has come over the years.

[@imburrnin4495]

BEAN?

[@RadialGH]

Been following this community since 2010, great to see the community still alive and well. Awesome vid!

[@Paul-hq7gf]

Incredible compilation and superb music choice

[@INFINITY_99]

Phenomenal! This is the best montage I've seen in year!😍🔥

[@danielchillis7878]

Me too.

[@EnderCrome]

I used to watch a ton of MKWii videos like 5 years ago and seeing all these new strategies and discoveries is absolutely mind-boggling!!

[@barrybenbart]

"Tas" means bag in the Netherlands. This compilation surely was bagged with lots of strats. inspiring.

[@chajas5529]

So a lot of bagging was used in this video.

[@adcgdsin9320]

Absolutely amazing.

[@arjunmkw8834]

A bit late, but very epic nostalgia! Nicely done and the editing is great too. It also takes me back to that time where I was not that great at inventing my own original strats, but I was able to think strategically about how one might drive a lap or run in the least mistakes possible given better positioned obstacles. Lots of understanding of the games mechanics helped me get to this point and the easier ways of doing things without much pressure involved - even despite starting, for instance, a flap at about 2.5 mins for better cycles in regards to low risk and high return (not much with bigger time save even if it’s minimal but more with better patterns and having the patience to do these things).

[@mathwizard296]

2:08-2:19 just made me so shocked and excited that was so insanely hype how you mushroom no stop to get to the other side then insane low trick into clipping the blocks and bouncing off all of them and hitting the boost panel getting another low trick that was so sick

[@Kacchannnnnn]

this is so amazing

[@GaelLazerYT]

Amazing! This is incredible!

[@xnikmkw]

such a stacked video, great job

[@rubdascrub3706]

That ghost valley one was absolutely insane

[@fuupu]

amazing work on this

[@Ascension721]

this is amazing. The fact you made your own clips too.

[@imaginoryx5674]

Oh, we’re getting another video of MKWii Ultra Shortcuts with Summoning Salt aren’t we? These just keep getting more insane! Great compilation!

[@sahijpal4172]

Bro this is godlike

[@urnot_trusty]

The ghost valley shortcut was actually insane

[@xTombou]

yeah wtf

[@RazorXSonic]

and the frontiers bangers to boot, what an absolute gem this is

[@CoolerStar-lz1jr]

That Daisy's Circuit was nuts.

[@maximumsonic]

Insane. Didnt realize how great the frontiers cyberspace OST was for montages too, love it

[@TheOscarGamer_]

Completely agree

[@definitelynotgabe4290]

that ghost valley 2 shit was unreal... XD

[@MitchAUS_]

THIS IS SO GOOD!

[@Soul_King77]

This is up there with Troy's levels shortcuts video as the best shortcut collections for MkWii

[@EPIK95]

Legend

[@Starstrike21]

that mg glitch strat is so cool

[@captaincozmo8529]

"Sometimes you move so fast reality itself cant keep up" -funky kong

[@Recarsonated]

this deserves WAY MORE than 1.8k views

[@El_pouleto]

I've seen these in summoning salt video LUL, thx for the TAS

[@kitsunaigoober64]

This got recomended at the perfect time for me I just got back into TAS so

[@shrekisbae21]

mariokart wii shortcuts will never get old

[@lucas-gk9yt]

Great video

[@narwhalll7301]

this game will never die 💯🔥🔥

[@anon_acc]

great video

[@MKWiiExploder]

Insane

[@lukeasselin9126]

That daisy circuit TAS was vile, half in the ground just sideways for an entire lap

[@thisishere3071]

very cool

[@netako]

The whole video is pure entertainment.

[@sebastian11037]

Bro what part of the shortcut revolution are we on now?!

[@zumamk8]

Crazy Shorcuts

[@SebTheNoob314]

This will never fail to make me laugh

[@Kierio04]

I can’t believe you actually got rDH tree clip

[@YoukTube]

It's insane to see in how many ways this game can be broken. The future of MKW is looking bright!

[@shrekisbae21]

Good Stuff

[@thenotnoob]

When you give the controller to your older brother:

[@lexsworld666]

They look very precise. I can’t do shortcuts like that.

[@FuelFire]

"Funky Flamerunner isn't overpowered!" Funky Flamerunner:

[@axb_zero8457]

these low tricks are crazy

[@Kiroh]

That probably took a while to make. Great display

[@SWBPro]

When u look away for 5 minutes and when u look back there is a funky kong phantom sliding in the ground

[@jungleparkway]

NEW DKJP STRAT I LOVE YOU JUSTIN

[@JGB_iw]

cool ass compilation, extremely based

[@farleighpog]

I remember some of these clips from sgdq 2019

[@flamixdev5371]

I fucking love this game

[@VitaEmerald324]

I recognize some of these from the summoning salt vids but some others seem new/improved/overlooked

[@johan7876]

The Sonic song 👌

[@XlubTeam_eyad22738]

Bit of tas swag

[@arthur4023]

Thus game is perfectly finw and has no glitches whatsoever

[@ForevrrFury]

your did it. really cool u recorded all these urself tho

[@tjmatteini7195]

bcwii is the craziest thing ive ever seen

[@KidCoyle]

dope

[@sol3019]

what the hell i never expected to see an ultra shortcut on daisys circuit

[@justin3055]

Monster recently uploaded a highly optimized, full run on Daisy Circuit using the shortcut. The shortcut has existed for a while now, but Monster found the method that’s shown in the video a few months ago. I recommend checking it out: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y3-9YoKclrdlps0

[@Mizai]

"this is the run"

[@funkykongspeaksthetruth4871]

I'm surprised by all the outside drift bikes being used, we saw the shooting star, phantom and zip zip 😭

[@gk_arukuma_mk7]

TASで出来るということは人力でも出来るってことですよね (狂気)

[@danielchillis7878]

I really love those outside drifting bike superhopping, supersliding, glitch, and shortcut strats. And I really love the inside drifting bike strats a lot and really enjoy watching it.

[@nintenzard3192]

2:20 insane

[@lixurymatau2021]

The daisy circuit one guys....

[@spriterocks03]

Just as good as the 2021 version

[@RSw_Why]

low key making me wanna switch the game I TAS fr

[@thatcactus.]

“Alright guys today we’ll learn how to do this simple and easy shortcut to use in all your races!” The shortcut in question:

[@taylorburton1215]

Although all of these are very precise, unless they contain impossible combos like rapid fire hop abuse, many of these are possible to do in rta runs

[@JWR56]

Glad to see that the Supergrind on rMR is doable with One Mushroom. Wonder how much time it saves?

[@Learn_The_Cube]

Hype

[@Yoshifan152]

Justin the GOAT

[@RyanPalaeologus]

Bro wtf was the boo track man holy shit

[@darkspine6710]

the fact that some of these are now in non tas wr baffles me

[@user-ki1hk2tw5s]

新作だ、ありがたい

[@derpyman3716]

TIL that you can can trick off of the non booster part of the last ramp on bowser’s castle

[@Pig1111q]

None That one friend: yeah I could do this

[@Yt-Cam]

Where can I find that mushroom gorge one that one was sick

[@justin3055]

There’s no public video of the strat yet but Jellopuff posted an unlisted video of it a few months ago which I used as a reference kzbin.info/www/bejne/mafVmGyndq-cpZI