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

[@Abyssoft]

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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

[@irridesu]

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.

[@myrojyn]

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

[@TheLemonyBard]

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

[@cynicalmoose19]

Same here haha

[@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

[@Da_Sire]

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

[@HunnyDoo]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@jgestenson]

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

[@JoeJaJoeJoe]

Mario 64 was released in the late 1900s

[@irridesu]

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

[@StepBaum]

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

[@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.

[@ShadowNeverDie]

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

[@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

[@CesarTorres61296]

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

[@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!

[@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

[@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.

[@MayBeSomething]

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

[@Ultimaximus]

That flying Wario is great

[@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.

[@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.

[@slipangle3027]

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

[@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.

[@HHHero73]

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

[@Da_Sire]

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

[@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!

[@Pryexel]

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

[@mkwpatsfan]

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

[@Merlinistic]

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

[@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.

[@Benobot99]

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

[@zacharyjeffares8158]

The Bowser Castle shortcut is confirmed

[@cynicalmoose19]

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

[@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.

[@alphqbet_soup9234]

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

[@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!

[@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

[@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. :')

[@MrBroken030]

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

[@MeesterTweester]

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

[@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

[@paradoxxikal7327]

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

[@karlboud88]

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

[@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.

[@amimirmimir512]

there needs to be a speedrun category that allows pausing

[@FAVXX]

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

[@masterleo4932]

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

[@darkjapan]

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

[@TehAwesomer]

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

[@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 ??

[@large_hadron_colander8301]

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

[@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

[@majinpikmin]

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

[@scooterelway9191]

a masterpiece as usual !! thanks for the content !

[@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

[@TheDelahunt]

My thoughts on the pausing rule and how it pertains to the pausing oob skip is that to move the speed run meta forward an exception in the pausing rule should be made so that you can pause exclusively for the purpose of performing the skip, and never any other way. The moderators should be able to tell when a runner uses pauses for the skip vs not

[@AbsolXGuardian]

Yeah just use a timer other than the in-game one. I think the green one most speed runners use keep running even when the game it's overlaying is paused

[@Yoshistar95]

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

[@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

[@flariz4824]

Amazing video

[@TheWrightClanX5]

These vids are fascinating dude keep em coming 😊

[@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

[@AquaticNebula]

1:00 Nooo not Kirby

[@_lunartemis]

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

[@deadlyespresso6166]

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

[@narobii9815]

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

[@cheezeebutter452]

I think pausing in Mario 64 works because the timer isn’t in game and therefor doesn’t pause when you pause, so the only way to save any time is to use pausing to speed up rather than slow down. This is the difference between pausing for the BLJ and pausing in Golden Eye. Unfortunately Mario Kart 64 uses the in game timer so it’s subject to Golden Eye pausing every frame.

[@johntrentmusic]

Awesome video, I learned a lot!

[@azentiazadia7323]

The part where Wario appears from the walls... Can I know what happens ?why it Wario just... not in the race anymore right after that ?He's in 4th place and right after he goes through the walls and bumps in Yoshi, his face and model switches back to Luigi (Writing this out I also noticed that at the start it was a Luigi, and it just decided to randomly switch into Wario to get through the wall...Oh well)

[@Bayesic]

Seems a bit silly to still consider Bowser's Castle "unbroken" if we know that there is a skip present that someone has actually executed on a console, and it just hasn't been executed in a way that saves time yet

[@chunkemonke777]

I clipped through the right side of the KTB tunnel, I don't know how, but I did, as Wario.

[@Vocaloidfun]

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

[@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?

[@brodymuser2947]

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

[@3possumsinatrenchcoat]

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

[@masongroendal3411]

Bowser's castle has a skip now.

[@Abyssoft]

Check my latest video :)

[@michaelmayers3622]

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

[@sevenpastmidnight9542]

Excellent vid Abyss

[@sagacious03]

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

[@JooBoo]

16:31 I want this to be my ringtone.

[@ryanlane680]

Great video brother

[@darkbriggs]

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

[@childishbeat]

Pausing should be unbanned. I don't want it to be like "If you disagree with the current rules and want fame and fortune, tough. You'll have to comply with the rules of this monopolistic community.", and comply with my temptation to believe communities can be vulnerable to making bad rules.

[@JamesBCrazy]

Timer glitches ≠ actual gameplay.

[@starvalkyrie]

There are MK64 tracks without skips.... that's the craziest thing I've heard about the game.

[@professoryorick5676]

bowsers recently just got rta skipped! someone clipped through the wall!!!

[@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.

[@julius4858]

Great content.

[@HereticYoshi]

had to stop when i heard the name marty. i remember trying a few methods to open it back in the day (obviously, to no avail) takes me back.

[@maccamachine]

great video man

[@junkonuy]

Sick intro man

[@gkgeze]

Great video

[@joshuasmith6909]

All praise the holy algorithm, may it become one with KZbinrs.

[@lazermcdanger1370]

Just leaving this comment because I appreciate that you were transparent about it just being for the algorithm lol

[@ghostoflazlo]

Love the vids bro, thanks for always delivering

[@davidduenas2699]

This video is almost as long as a full mario kart 64 speedrun

[@Abyssoft]

Wait until I explain the TAS

[@joshernsteen2066]

I would have to assume that the Koopa Troppa tunnel skip had to possible since it's apparently possible to fully complete Marii Tennis N64 completely legally without hacking the console as we apparently found try. The technology to TAS was probably not mabe available for the game yet, if it did infact exist already. Also the GameShark device might not have even made created yet as well. I would also theorize that the devs purposely intended for these tracks to be unbroken unless they read the specific notes that they specifically wrote expecting this kind of speed running to be done on those tracks.

[@joshernsteen2066]

Maybe some the skips have been done by other smaller KZbinrs. People always tend to forget there is other people speed running the game, they probably do not have any film equipment to film what they are doing. If they do, they are not uploading them or they are filmed on someone else's phone.

[@joshernsteen2066]

I would probably assume that the technology did infsct exist, like the GBA back device now that everyone is aware of it. The pin entry for credit card systems apparently was already created, despite my initial disbelief at first. Perhaps TAS was made around the similar time period? We even talking about it back then as well saying something like even it does already exist, it is going to sometime to actually get it to be added to the technology considering how unbelievable it is at first. The Pokémon Battle Revolution powersave file that we acquired directly from the game has the trophy side of the game basically displayed in PBR format, so maybe it is fully completed by now? Maybe better proof that it is already fully finished is the powersave that we acquired directly from Mario Party 8. It displays completely everything that the game has available in its disposal, as well the only way that I am currently aware of to wipe our the save data on the files on as well. They must have future proofed somehow, but it must be through a button combination or something like that. Cross Stitchong was definitely made before it noticed by the large majority of the public. That hardware even has restrictions on how it can initially get used in the first place. There is also flip cameras that apparently get more functionality from additional add-ons, maybe the TAS technology does to considering that similar technology has more levels to its than initially meets the eye.

[@houraisheperd9721]

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

[@Pok3fan1995]

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