These Mario Kart 64 Tracks STILL Don't Have Skips After 25 Years

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02:13 - What is a Skip
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10:39 - Banshee Boardwalk
14:01 - Moo Moo Farm
17:56 - Bowsers Castle
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[@narobii9815]

Love the sponsor, but little above my current budget I'd like to spend. need one of those remind me in a year things xd

[@ObservationofLimits]

Bro you need to learn how to say Sakura I thought you said fuckin soccer flavored gummies

[@ObservationofLimits]

Instead of pausing being widely unbanned, if it is the only viable skip on one specific track, then maybe make it an asterisk rule. *Doesn't apply to MMF skips

[@channelsusthe]

0:14 song name?

[@DavidWonn]

It takes a ton of failed ideas to find the hidden gems that became the skips we know today. Always try everything, no matter how insignificant it may seem initially.

[@JC4.80]

The legend himself! Seen previous vids mentioning u and ur a speedrunning legend

[@irrigamii]

The man himself. Absolute legend in the community.

[@Dmadness90]

The master has failed more times than most have tried. Try everything indeed.

[@SunshineSuperstar]

Ain't that the truth...its like a puzzle. In order to put the pieces together in the right order, first you have to actually find the pieces! When looking for skips it's good to have as much information as possible. All of these little glitches and nuances are just more tools at your disposal towards figuring out how to complete and replicate your skip!

[@tazzyhyena6369]

This reminds me of science in a way. All scientific discoveries are built on the back of failures, mistakes, and the work of others.

[@MayBeSomething]

Things I have learned from watching people try to break video games: Schrodinger's Polygon Parallel Universes Horizontal Walls HOME is the unofficial writer of the "Songs to play while discussing video games" playlist

[@intensellylit4100]

What's the horizontal walls thing about?

[@MayBeSomething]

@@intensellylit4100 Several ultra-shortcuts in Mario Kart Wii require you to hit a horizontal wall in order to pull them off. Not a floor, a horizontal wall. SummoningSalt explains it in the first of his Mario Kart Wii videos.

[@gab_v250]

If you like HOME, then you should check out Electronic Gems or New Retro Wave. Similar retro inspired music, same vibes.

[@jackclifton5434]

N64 Bowsers castle being broken in MKWii before it was broken in MK64 despite a 15 year head start and the fact that MK64 is on the N64 is hilarious to me

[@SlimShadid]

Lol the rails at the end of the track cant be driven on in mk64, they aren't tangible. :( still working on breaking this one wide open!

[@Mickey-id6rs]

@@SlimShadid there’s an ultra shortcut on it in wii, not just that

[@bmac4]

"Chatting on AIM" Oh just age me 15 years immediately, thanks Abyssoft "CPUs can drive through walls at will" because of course they can

[@k-leb4671]

The CPUs are absolute dogs in this game. They rubber-band like crazy, pull broken items, drive through walls, and overall break the rules you wish you could.

[@joaozin003]

My CPU doesn't drive, even less through walls

[@GeistInTheMachine]

@@joaozin003 You need to overclock it, man.

[@Donnerjkks]

If Austin Powers was released this year, he'd be from the 90's

[@HunnyDoo]

Wario doing a psycho crusher out of the wall is fucking amazing

[@TheLemonyBard]

Gotta admit, “Schrödinger’s Polygon” made me giggle

[@cynicalmoose19]

Same here haha

[@jgestenson]

"This game's quarter century history" Please don't say it like that

[@JoeJaJoeJoe]

Mario 64 was released in the late 1900s

[@TheWritersMind]

If I recall correctly on banshee boardwalk I've been clipped through the floor by a flying bat before. Take this with a grain of salt because this was way back in like 2005.

[@destructionman1]

One time a bat grabbed me and carried me over the middle of the level. Wasn't recording.

[@doozy3319]

The bat carried me to the finish line. Single lap time 5.51. I shifted into second gear at the start

[@wolfetteplays8894]

In the NDS version I know I somehow got respawned near that specific room when i was near the end of the track… it’s kind cursed ngl

[@wolfetteplays8894]

@@doozy3319 lmfao

[@ClodsireBeans]

A bat carried me to the end and dropped me in the water. Im thalassophobic. Fuck this asshole bat.

[@ecocodex4431]

Thank you for the Photosensitivity Warning from 16:26 to 16:46. I have photosensitivity and flashing lights cause me physical pain, so having these warnings is helpful. Sadly, not everyone includes warnings

[@mangolie21]

Love your profile profile pic!

[@Alcam211]

I was about to say that

[@purplegill10]

Epileptic here, I second the thanks because seizures are NOT fun.

[@wesgrubbs8437]

Since when did everyone become so soft?

[@emo-nordegraf]

@@wesgrubbs8437 "so soft" bro some people can literally die because of flashing lights

[@CesarTorres61296]

It feels strange how Bowser's Castle does not have a huge skip despite being a huge course itself.

[@Ultimaximus]

That flying Wario is great

[@irrigamii]

Abyssoft is criminally underrated. You should have 1M by now.

[@cougargray4031]

Agreed

[@tufab3494]

For real, but in a year he will have at least 150k

[@AbsolXGuardian]

6:40 Stuff like this really just strikes me how even when they're not working with even that different source material, language barriers can still divide fandoms.

[@StepBaum]

Your music being a lot more various and also your editing skills improved soo much! Great Video as per usual. Much appreciated :)

[@HHHero73]

Abyssoft: "Why Can't Speedrunners Break These Mario Kart 64 Tracks After 25 Years?" Me: "Because they're digital 5head"

[@ClodsireBeans]

I mean bowsers castle and banshit boardwalk have layers of water/lava underneath so it isnt practical at all

[@RobertMcKinnonMainChannel]

awesome video! you do a really good job of telling the story in a way that really pulls you into the history of what's going on :) keep it up!

[@NTSTS0]

This is a fun idea, and I really enjoyed the presentation. I also liked how the ad was chaptered so I could easily skip past it (I have no money so what am I gonna do with ads). Thank you for making this video.

[@Mekartur]

Amazing video as usual, man. I really like watching them. You put a whole lot of effort, and the quality is huge. Hope the channel keep growing!

[@aaplies8879]

My theory for why you can drive on the ground in ktb is that the developers originally wanted the cpus to sometimes take the tunnel, but then ended up scrapping it leaving the ground solid around it so the cpus wouldn't fall off if you weren't looking.

[@ShadowNeverDie]

20:50 As we know today, that Wario DID find a new skip. Well if only we could look into the future man.

[@MK64MR]

Very informative and well presented video, Abyssoft! Your editing skills have improved a lot since the last MK64 video I watched. Funny you put me into the KTB story as tunnel glitch player #1 :D, "luckily" I only lost that track during the tournament match but could turn it around and win the semifinal 2-1.

[@MrBroken030]

love the edititing and cool in game hacked camera perspectives of the tracks!

[@uranium54321]

Great video! I love the idea of making a video about the tracks that aren’t broken yet bc it seems like the sort of thing that would help members of the community come up with brilliant new ideas. Maybe you could make a similar kind of video on mkwii and the reasons each track without an ultra shortcut doesn’t have one yet

[@Pryexel]

Kirchinator: ... Wario: I'm gonna do what is called a pro gamer move. 20:19

[@TheWrightClanX5]

These vids are fascinating dude keep em coming 😊

[@scooterelway9191]

a masterpiece as usual !! thanks for the content !

[@ghostoflazlo]

Love the vids bro, thanks for always delivering

[@MayBeSomething]

20:22 Polish Winged Hussars attack the unsuspecting Ottoman forces at the Battle of Vienna, 1683, colorized.

[@Ichikue]

First time I've watched a video premiere and so happy it's Abyssoft!!!

[@Abyssoft]

@mario mash band You're now banned from my channel for posting this as a reply to every comment, congrats.

[@papabaddad]

Pausing should be banned because you time using the in-game timer. If you want to pause, you should be timing the run by IRL time

[@cubbycat4020]

It is timed by irl time

[@slipangle3027]

what I'm getting from this is that we need a "2 player GP fast lap" leaderboard for more wacky shenanigans.

[@johntrentmusic]

Awesome video, I learned a lot!

[@paradoxxikal7327]

When a game is so broken that something not broken is interesting

[@sagacious03]

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

[@zacharyjeffares8158]

The Bowser Castle shortcut is confirmed

[@masterleo4932]

wow cool, that was a really noice documentary, enjoyed it a lot

[@niplah61]

When I was a kid I went through the wall at the top of the stairs in Bowsers castle. Tried for hours on end to replicate it, but was never able to.

[@SalamiMommie]

was it because of lightning? I have similar memories falling through a ton of stuff after being hit by lightning

[@niplah61]

@@SalamiMommie pretty sure i was using a star at the time

[@cynicalmoose19]

Ah, so pause buffing = techno Mario Kart 🎵. I dig it.

[@alphqbet_soup9234]

that clip on mmf at 16:30 with the pausing is a bop beat drop

[@pluspiping]

I had no idea most of this existed before I watched this video, but I found it easy to understand and fun to watch! It was good to see the credits given to the players discovering /developing / demonstrating the gameplay, too. The only thing I'm sad about is I can't find novadrome's remixes anymore, like the one playing during the Moo Moo Farms section. All the music here was really stellar. :')

[@HateSonneillon]

The collision on the tunnel is probably to collide with the camera. Its common to put a collision sphere on a camera and when it collides it moves toward the player until its not colliding anymore.

[@Vocaloidfun]

these videos are amazing, its a mystery why you dont have more subs!!!

[@sevenpastmidnight9542]

Excellent vid Abyss

[@PatSpeedruns]

I personally believe that these tracks do have skips that's possible without a 2nd player. Part of me also believes that we're just not looking in the right spots. There's gotta be a skip SOMEWHERE in these tracks.

[@jarredallen3228]

Who is here after the Bowser's Castle skip was finally landed?

[@DavidLopez-rk6em]

The funny part is that very skip was shown in this video. But it was written off as being viable cuz cpus sometimes drive thru walls.

[@tamertamertamer4874]

I’m late but yeah wario cpu got it

[@Benobot99]

Before watching, I'm thinking of Moo Moo Farm, Sherbet Land, Koopa Troopa Beach, and Banshee Boardwalk.

[@matthewrease2376]

What's that music you played when you introduced Bowser's Castle? Talk about a bop.

[@Abyssoft]

That's my intro song from season 1!

[@flariz4824]

Amazing video

[@maccamachine]

great video man

[@ryanlane680]

Great video brother

[@SinjinOmega]

I'm not a glitch hunter or a speedrunner of the game, but I want to point something out. Technically jumping the walls on Wario Stadium is a developer intended shortcut because if you have the guide book for the game it walks you through that shortcut. It can be done by just about anyone who has a strong knowledge of the game, so in that sense, it is not a broken track as it is intended.

[@mimifurwalker]

there needs to be a speedrun category that allows pausing

[@large_hadron_colander8301]

Dude did a stellar ad read. Like cut open the cake thing.

[@OmniscientVoid]

Great vid! Very informative, as always! Top notch speed-running content!

[@MeesterTweester]

6:41 there's so much new stuff I've discovered just by searching a game in Japanese

[@FAVXX]

Summoning salt: finally a worthy opponent our battle will be legendary

[@AquaticNebula]

1:00 Nooo not Kirby

[@3possumsinatrenchcoat]

"collision is more of a suggestion" - every N64 game ever

[@Tacospaceman]

I think you should cover speedrunning history with glitch bounties. Sometimes there’s a glitch that wants to be found so bad that there’s a bounty on its head. I want to learn about more of them, but i don’t make videos in this stuff, so I’d like it a lot if you covered that topic

[@gkgeze]

Great video

[@kuribro443]

For banshee boardwalk, could runners do something similar to what they do on rainbow road? Having a heavy character in 2nd and then slamming into them at the start of the race?

[@junkonuy]

Sick intro man

[@TehAwesomer]

17:40 - The most honest request for comment engagement ever. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@julius4858]

Great content.

[@darkjapan]

5:27 裏技 - Urawaza means Hidden Technique! It's a cool name for a glitch hunter :)

[@karlboud88]

1:25 Oh my, 2 kinky buns sounds good alright

[@_lunartemis]

So, basically Mario Kart discovered its own glitch by having CPU Wario jump through the wall.

[@vampenga9277]

Since it's specific to Moo Moo Farm, I would say to lift the pause ban only for that track. Just so long as everyone posting their vids of it give a seizure warning ^^; But thanks for the video, Abyssoft! Always love hearing about speedrunners attempting to break stuff and I look forward to hearing some day that these tracks were indeed broken.

[@majinpikmin]

This was like the opposite of summoningsalt, but in a good way.

[@alterablebark54]

Man I forgot the video on when I walked out of the room and came back to "fast forward 7 years" and half thought this what about OoT for a second

[@Recentmairo]

@Abyssoft Great video loved seeing the other tracks get some love. Btw what is the name of the song during the Banshee Boardwalk section ? I couldn’t find it with the songs you listed in the description. Thanks! :)

[@Abyssoft]

Smoking in the 80s by Novadrome

[@SuperNickid]

@Abyssoft: It is truth that Cpu can go through wall, but it was not truth that the cpu did on puprose to skip that part of the track, Cpu did that by accident unintentionally either Wario toss a bannana peels in front of himself by accident, or another cpu did. Cpu do have interaction with the wall, when the wall are loaded, and also when the wall are unloaded, if the player camera gets close enough to the cpu the wall will load for the cpu and the wall lose their hitbox and only gain the hit box after the wall load, a player can do that too, if he is quick enought but only after going out of bounce and getting pick-up by lakitu. Edit: since it is not a big skip the lakitu way of unloading the wall would not work, so I watch the video and someone did found a way to clip the wall without lakitu help.

[@Gashnaw]

On banshee boardwalk you can clip through the wall behind the box during a spin out at the right angle. I have only ever done it on a banana peel, but I am aware you can spin out on our own when doing drifts (Done it too many times myself) so it may be possible to pull off in time trials. That said given that it is a spin out, not sure if it would save any time, and possibly even lose some.

[@SalamiMommie]

i remember clipping through a lot of things because of lightning, i wonder if the animation is universal

[@Merlinistisch]

Date: 12.6.2023 Tracks left to break RTA: 2 Tacks left to break TA: 1

[@JooBoo]

16:31 I want this to be my ringtone.

[@mkwpatsfan]

MKWii's remake of N64 Bowser's castle is more broken than MK64's version.

[@Yoshistar95]

Nobody ever mentions the KTB rock looks a lot like rotated Italy

[@PatK.]

Heck yeah this is cool

[@sheepofwater]

*whispers in ear* "For the algorithm"....*dagger in chest*

[@Abyssoft]

The Lannisters send their regards

[@sheepofwater]

@@Abyssoft I'm actually glad to get your message, even if it comes with death lol.

[@deadlyespresso6166]

20:21 dont you just hate it when Wario comes out of nowhere to bonk you on the head

[@michaelmayers3622]

I don't thin I ever fell into the void in kipper Beach as a kid

[@narobii9815]

The 4 heavenly kings of mario kart 64. (you can thank me for the wonderful title idea later)

[@ATLTraveler]

Why is this surprising

[@Pok3fan1995]

"You want skips? WARIO SHOW YOU SKIPS!!!"

[@paulisawesome10]

5:48 lmao

[@brodymuser2947]

3:23 hey it's my name but I didn't research 😁

[@ithinkmycatsdead]

Wario just doing Wario things, and I ain't even mad about it.

[@Abyssoft]

Wahhhhhhahahaha!

[@rtyuik7]

hmm, perhaps there should be a Category Split? you could call it "Ghost" vs "No-Ghost", based on whether or not the TimeTrial run allows for Ghost Data to save...so "Ghost" runs would be mostly Glitchless, No-OoB, No-Pause runs (so that the player could hypothetically save their ghost after the run) whereas "No-Ghost" has much fewer restrictions (since Pausing, getting bailed out by Lakitu, and probly a couple other factors that speedrunners would likely use means "Ghost Data Cannot Be Saved")...it would also open up the door for More Than One Driver strats, since "No Ghost" would also include GP modes (since it doesnt save Ghost Data by default)...but then again, i suppose an Extra category ("Multiplayer"?) could cover those runs... ...but thats just My two cents-- and i still struggle with the Door of Time Skip in Zelda:OoT, so i am by no means a "speedrunner" :-P

[@venabre]

Now I kinda want to know what strategies made them ban pausing

[@darkbriggs]

for a split second I thought Lakitu was Landorus in the thumbnail 🤣🤣

[@Duckarefun101]

Maybe some speed runner will see this comment. Idk how valuable it is, but on The first track of mushroom cup, my brother and I were playing on split screen. I got hit with a shell (think it’s was red or green) right before the tunnel, and I flew through the left entrance of the tunnel and into an invisible lake, where lakitu pulled me out as normal. No time save, but maybe a part of something ??

[@boomslang2968]

great video :)

[@Moonstrider]

More of MK64!🙌🏻

[@houraisheperd9721]

Poor Pitt. He's never going to live down that reset.

[@yourlocalraccoondealer8611]

Does anybody have a name for the outro music? it's a certified bop

[@cougargray4031]

Agreed

[@justarandomdood]

I paused the algorithm? ❌ I paused *for* the algorithm? ✅

[@lumpylumpyloo]

I pissed my knickers

[@JulioOrtegajr.]

Ah yes, CPU’s just flying through walls, normal mk64 stuff