[MKWii TAS] Big Express City (No Ultra Shortcut) - 1:44.892

Decided to TAS this after messing around with some new and old cuts on the track and seeing just what I could manage with only three shrooms. This is a surprisingly fun track to TAS, but also a surprisingly annoying one, with some of the tricks taking me way too long to get right and still probably being improvable. This is also my first time attempting a supergrind, so while it probably doesn't look very good to those who know what they're doing, I'm just happy I finally got to try something like this out, and on a supergrind that lasts as long as this one, at that. I'm fairly happy with how this one turned out, and while I do think it's improvable, I don't think too much can get cut off without strat changes. Here's a supergrind comparison, because I think it's funny:    • my planet needs me   Some notes about this run: For those of you who don't know, the cut at 0:40 was intended to only be taken small, for players who pulled a thundercloud early in the race. However, by drifting as hard as you can with a good alignment and praying to the gods, you can make it under on some bikes normally. Unfortunately, it seems that you also need to be in some form of boost to make it under (as it appears to shorten your hitbox slightly more), which means I had to get much more air than is ideal off the ramp before. The second cut was first found by Lawrence a few months ago, but wasn't posted anywhere because he didn't find it interesting enough to dedicate a video to. I then performed it no-stop and he gave me permission to publish it myself if I ended up TASing it. You can get a clip without the bonk, but I wasn't able to get nearly enough air doing so. The clip out of the last cut also really sucks, as the bridge is at just the right height so that shrooming any earlier for the clip means that I get an awful exit, and trying to go any further right ends in either the same way or with me just falling right through the bridge. I believe the last cut has already been published with three shrooms, however I do think I'm the first person to perform the two-shroom method. Stopping and taking the ramp loses 2-ish seconds over a shroom entry, while the cut before saves a little over 7 seconds raw, making the clip shortcut well worth it, especially with the shroomless ending strat. The two-shroom ending cut itself saves roughly 10 seconds. For some reason my normal rapid-fire hop code doesn't reflect in my input viewer. This is a persistent issue and I'm not quite sure why it happens, but it's not important enough for me to want to fix it :P ♪ Mario Super Sluggers - Wario City ♪    • Video