[MKWii TAS] Dry Dry Ruins (No Glitch) -

NOTE: This is a Tool-Assisted Speedrun. This time will not count on any real rankings. For more info, please visit tasvideos.org
This run was performed on Dolphin 5.0 Lua Core + Dolphin 0.0.3-4 Dirty PyCore with the use of Frame Advance, Savestates, TAS Input, TAS Toolkit, & Lua Scripts.
Authors: Thomas, Lamejoin, TASPlasma, Malleo, MKDestroyer, Monster, & Alego
This is easily my greatest accomplishment in any game I have worked on. I began work on starting this run in 2021, and actively working on it since my return to the community in early 2022 following some shroomstrat theory crafting with TASPlasma. I am so happy this run is finally complete after 2 years of work.
I cannot stress enough that this entire run was extremely difficult to optimise, with each section taking months at a time to complete. There is not a single turn or straight that is easy to manage. The mini turnskip on the lap 1 s-turn and the quintuple tricks on laps 2/3 were the biggest hurdles to get over.
I discovered that you can use "Earrape Strat" as the most optimal way of losing time for QM Manipulation. By pressing "A" and "B" on alternating frames, you can actually slow your rate of acceleration by merely a few units. This leaves you with no visible timeloss, while Chaos Theory takes its effect.
The main new strategy that you will undoubtedly pick up on is tricking on the side of the temple entrance. The lap 1 strategy was originally done by Ejay B by using a wallclip to touch the edge of the pillar, making it a NU strategy. I found you could spindrift at a certain angle on the slope next to the pillar, which allows you to clip the edge of the trickable surface without the use of a wallclip, making it a NG strategy. The double pillar trick (quintuple trick) on laps 2/3 was found by me. I got extremely lucky while experimenting with a lap 2 temple trick, and ended up getting a 2nd jammed trick into the temple which was much faster. Monster improved on this strategy by getting a Wheelie Trigger, saving even more time.
I also use an old strategy inside the temple called "pasta," in tribute to Estaloy. This makes use of the sand pile around the U-turn to take the turn much tighter than hopping and drifting around it. TASPlasma proved it to be faster on lap 1, and with that logic in mind, I proved it to be faster on lap 2 & 3 by cutting off more of the corner each lap. By clipping the sand on the end of my lap 3 "pasta," I am able to take the turn into the sand pit much wider while not falling behind. This sets me up to do a slip half-chain instead of Michi's rehop meaning I only have to accelerate from 93kmh instead of 85kmh.
On laps 1 and 3, you can see that I clip the bats exiting the temple. Getting Covid is faster because it converts into sideways momentum, which I can utilise to travel faster in the air. I also use vertical tricks instead of side tricks on the ramp before the ending cut. Tilting forward and drifting with an vertical trick causes your vehicle to point slightly in the opposite direction of the trick, thus allowing side-trick abuse properties from the sideways facing angle to generate extra speed.
Lap 3 presented me with an issue I never imagined. I got pacelocked by beating the lap 3 pillar after the bridge. I had to lose time by charging a miniturbo into the pillar trick, ultimately making up the time I lost by doing so. Thank you Kierio for that suggestion. You would need to be about .5 ahead of the run at this point in the race to make not tricking on the pillar faster.
I would like to thank the following people for their contributions:
Lamejoin (The best TASer of all time) for his very generous 1 input on the startslide.
TASPlasma, for theory crafting the optimal shroomstrat, pushing for further improvements and assistance with several optimisations on lap 1.
Malleo, for his help getting the low ultra cut.
Monster and Alego, for their combined help with the quintuple tricks (arguably the most appreciated contributions).
And, MKDestroyer for his help on the Lap 2 zipper trick.
See you all in TAS Awards 2023 when I win Best TAS of the Year.
60fps encode here: • 60fps ddr encode
Previous 3 Lap TAS BKT by MKGumba (01:39.711) - TAS BKT Cut: -1.044
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Previous Flap TAS BKS by Estaloy (30.339) - TAS BKS Cut: -0.096
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Music: Bravely Default - The Land of Sand and Its Great Clock (x1.15 speed)"
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[@Kierio04]

For all of you reading this, you just watched the newest entry in the list of greatest no glitch 3lap TASes of all time.

[@noammkw3770]

forest creek

[@jakenej]

Is it bc of the fact that it beat the old super grinding record or is it just the amount of time it saved?

[@JoeBidenIsMyDaddy]

Support Israel

[@jakenej]

@@JoeBidenIsMyDaddy is that an answer or something you are telling me to do?

[@JoeBidenIsMyDaddy]

@@jakenej Go vegan

[@noahcheng1895]

nahhh getting the flap bkt in a 3lap tas is absolutely diabolical 😭😭🔥

[@MKgumba]

Such an amazing tas, no idea how you got the patience for doing this quintuple trick properly (and pretty much everything else on this course lol) it's fking hard, congrats man, much deserved bkt!

[@EjayB]

Honestly didn't think you'd even finish this project. Hats off to you for being so fast that you got pacelocked

[@5higuy]

what is getting pacelocked? i don’t tas

[@EjayB]

@@5higuyIf you go to 1:11 on the in-game-timer (not the video timestamp), you can see that the trickable pillar falls on the ground right when he reaches it. If he was any faster, he would drive into the pillar during the falling stage, and doing that "stuns" you out, like driving into a truck on Moonview Highway.

[@Slipstream317]

This is already obscenely fast, but do you think there's a possibility the pacelock could be outsped or avoided?

[@EjayB]

@@Slipstream317 Nah not unless some new strategy happens to be found that saves like 0.5

[@SamFMK]

thomas you uploaded this two days late i've stopped caring

[@kaibutsu7]

Sometimes a TAS that doesnt use superhopping etc is more impressive to watch than those that do, this is the perfect example.

[@JWR56]

0:32 That’s trickable?! How have we not known about this for Over 15 years...

[@Psychomaniac14]

I remember seeing it in some TAFs

[@campbellblock3061]

It's been known for many years but hasn't been implemented because it needed a faster setup.

[@JWR56]

@@campbellblock3061 That makes a lot more sense then

[@Paul-hq7gf]

YOU have not known about this for over 15 years

[@MagikMKW]

Yeah we were talking about this on SKYPE haha

[@TASPlasma]

Phenomenal work dude! You and everyone else crushed it (especially l4m3join01 the GOAT). I wish I could contribute more in this day and age but alas I'm washed :'(

[@josephmyers2133]

Come back dude you're an OG

[@worldsboss]

I had no idea that tricking into the temple was even possible. What an insane run!

[@PyraminxstarsHD]

One of the most impressive runs out there, nice work!

[@tas_clem]

i love lamejoin's input

[@aadfg0]

Top 10 TASes and top 10 TAS thumbnails in one video.

[@TASSnoop]

Great work! Looks so satisfyingly smooth

[@KaiMK]

Absolutely insane strats, beauty of a run

[@JGB_iw]

so glad to finally see this up just excellent run, straight up peak mkw tas

[@KondorXT]

0:31 those walls are trickable???

[@colin7244]

They were for years

[@Ragemodepigeon]

Beautiful tas, haven't watched one of this quality in a while.

[@Wade474]

obligatory "wait you can trick there?" comment

[@spriterocks03]

One of the best non glitch TASes ever

[@zekmaster644]

That thumbnail, just like this run, is as good as gold

[@bodaciousdasani]

That run is crazy. Amazing Job!

[@saunaboi4910]

Crazy run, TASes never fail to surprise

[@EclipseMKWii]

Contender for top 3 TASes of the year honestly, fucking incredible

[@shadowMKW]

this is nuts congrats wine guy!

[@nitrobozo4464]

!!!CONGRATS id never expect this to be beaten

[@MKBUSINESS737]

Nice man, never knew you could trick off the statues at the entrance of the cave

[@Linda-]

how tf did u trick off the wall, amazing run

[@jakeconner7422]

I’m trying to figure that out as well

[@spriterocks03]

​@@jakeconner7422you see it in TAFs

[@snoopyfr2730]

Veterans always produce the best TASes !

[@SICW1970]

congrats on recording like rocky

[@DrMd-jr3xt]

beautiful!

[@dkscJulian]

Amazing work wow!

[@mkwLuke]

the gad tas

[@RobertMcKinnonMainChannel]

this is so awesome!!!

[@INFINITY_99]

Just wow, what else to say... 🔥🔥

[@teal7652]

This was so awesome

[@Firefanged]

Absolute persistence 🎉

[@berniespy]

Cleanest video on the internet 🧼

[@novabear0]

i never fucking thought i'd read "getting covid is faster" in ANY context

[@vincenzofranchelli2201]

i been tryna understand that part lol

[@117james]

Yesssssirrrrr long awaited

[@Saddler46]

Congratulation For This Amazing TAS ! 😸 🐙 🦑 👻 🙈

[@themorning9036]

goddamn that was beautiful

[@timberlin4075]

what is he tricking on ?? 🔥🔥🔥

[@iP0STcomments]

even the tricks off the pyramid entrance???

[@chouytheboy99]

this game is so cool

[@Fooeyy]

legendary

[@Vuxzlo]

0:33 didn’t know you could trick there

[@tylerlarsen1842]

Oh. My. God. You found a way to make tricking off the temple entrance viable for 3lap. AND you got pacelocked by the falling pillar on lap 3. This is an absolutely phenomenal run. Congrats to Thomas and everyone else involved!

[@yanispetit6167]

I only hae one word to describe this TAS : WOUAH

[@luke_ario1313]

Mythic thumbnail

[@brycemkw]

hot

[@nightlust]

A WHOLE second holy molly

[@MarvusMinglebert]

You can finally get some sleep now 😌

[@danielchillis7878]

Nice tas.

[@chubbss_1]

Bro what since when was there trickable platforms before entering the pyramid

[@ivycomb]

this new fortnite update is insane

[@WhyLonk]

once i was a mkwii

[@silverxks]

Since when were the sides of the temple entry were trickable wtf?

[@jakeisaverycommonname]

My favorite part was when he tricked of the damn wall

[@Kiroh]

Unreal

[@nil24nil23]

Wait, that was trickable!!??

[@doncapri]

in my top3 of 2023 and it's not the 3rd 👑

[@wiirambo7437]

Wasn't there a wallcilp possible on the pillar on the right seen at 0:25? Is that just slower?

[@bailey7657]

On lap 2, does getting that first tomb entry trick not lose momentum? 1:01

[@bailey7657]

Or is that what allows the trick to extend so far into the tomb?

[@skya6863]

@@bailey7657 both yes, looses a little bit of time when colliding with the wall but makes up for it and more with the added trick boost

[@justin3055]

gaming

[@KARRPEN]

What was 0:28 for

[@PeterKart4444]

why don't people go for the 2 shroom ultra rta?

[@aridwyer187]

just really really hard, I remember Logan workshopping it for a while and not getting far enough to make it hopeful for a run, just a matter of time before someone starts attempting it seriously tho imo

[@nitrobozo4464]

It doesnt save that much time

[@rryumi]

Holy shit

[@tizianaatzeni6853]

Dry Dry Ruins is so Tricky 😮😮😮

[@Saxofome]

Please how to get that custom xyz speedometer

[@brazuquinha14.]

How do i do this in dolphin?

[@Scythenn]

I don't follow mkwii, where can I view the 'glitch' run?

[@AndyLundeen]

Whaaaaaat

[@wizard101guy5]

0:30 excuse me where did that boost come from!?

[@Xris10BUL]

He tricked off the platform the statute is on ( yes you can trick on that )

[@vancouvers8737]

dill cheese

[@RADish-official]

How

[@spriterocks03]

Why is this TAS unrestricted on the mkwtas site

[@MKWiiTomas]

it’s the fastest run on any ddr category so until a sg/ultra run beats it, it will be the fastest UR run

[@spriterocks03]

@@MKWiiTomas oh but a non glitch tas flap on rsl beaten the no ultra flap and it's still no glitch on the site

[@liammcgrath7051]

TIL that the entrance to the temple is trickable...

[@TheInvertedSympathyProject]

Me: *in first in mk64* The CPU in second:

[@evbevbeats]

I'm going to bust

[@korben669]

this is OK i guess but we want rYF WORLD RECORD THOMAS

[@brazuquinha14.]

Please

[@ChromaDistortion]

egypt jumpscare

[@atlafan7364]

What in the fuck

[@christ5672]

What is QM Manipulation?

[@Elims.]

my daisy circuit 50cc run better smh.....

[@larryhall1772]

'promosm'

[@N3vermind]

goddamn

[@spriterocks03]

Awake welcome back

[@Mars_inmoo3112]

this feels like a Tas thing.

[@captainobvioustas]

slower