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Message started by Harvey Kartel on 12/20/20 at 22:16:58

Title: Old PR videos
Post by Harvey Kartel on 12/20/20 at 22:16:58

I don't see a thread for PR videos here so I decided to post this in a new thread.

For those who don't know me, I'm Nicholas Harvey, currently active only in SMK but I have tried my hand at time-trialing all of the Mario Kart series, as you can see in my signature at the bottom of this post. This includes Mario Kart Wii, which I haven't been active in since 2011 (and I currently don't even own the game). Naturally, my timeset (https://mariokart64.com/mkw/profile.php?pid=504) hasn't aged well, and is clearly a product of its time-- certainly many new strats and shortcuts have been found in the last 9 years. It's hard to believe but at one time, I had many 3laps in the top 200, and flaps in the top 100! The MKW community has grown so much and has really left me behind.

Which brings me to the reason why I make this post. I was going through old VHS tapes this evening, looking for a Christmas movie to watch next week, and I happened upon a tape that had several of my old MKW replays on it. Most of the runs recorded on this tape were since improved (I checked the times against my timesheet), but three of them remain my current PRs, nearly a decade later. So I decided to use my 3DS camera to record the replays off my TV, and then upload the videos to YouTube.

So here is video proof of three of my 11-year-old PRs! (all of these runs are from late 2009)

RPB 1'15"005 https://youtu.be/hhI7KgjtLBs
RGV2 55"176 https://youtu.be/c_366wXXHtc
RBC3 2'13"564 https://youtu.be/1TzJ3ew2uiU

This tape had more videos on it-- videos of every 3lap PR I had at the time-- but unfortunately, I didn't have the foresight to preserve the videos for posterity, and taped a TV show over the first half of the compilation (the remaining videos start in the middle of Rainbow Road, leaving just the Retro tracks)

I know my times probably aren't considered very good today, but I think they'd make good benchmarks for newcomers to MKW.

Earlier this year, at a SMK event, I gave the user Joe Reinreb a memory card that contained my MKDD save data and most of my ghosts, so maybe get with him if you are interested in seeing some form of proof of my MKDD runs from the summer of 2009.

Title: Re: Old PR videos
Post by Mango Man on 12/21/20 at 00:33:12

The shroom strat on rPB is quite something

Title: Re: Old PR videos
Post by Arvo57 on 12/21/20 at 03:21:24

I attached the videos to your timesheet page :)

Title: Re: Old PR videos
Post by Harvey Kartel on 12/21/20 at 11:29:22

Cool, I didn't know the other Mario Kart sites were implementing this feature as well, thought it was just SMK.

Around 2012 I mailed the user Detective Spril (April Thompson) a VHS that contained replays from MKSC plus a few more from MKW. I should try to contact her to see if she can digitize those for us, if so then I'll upload them to my channel.