^^ beautiful run - but where does it come from?

edit: stupid me; MJ of course .

finn

finn wrote on 01/09/10 at 15:48:49:


Yeah thats Mighty Mike allright  , and a a beatiful run indeed. Too bad about the first lap being .10 behind his normal openers. But that second lap made up for it , being the fastest second lap of all time ( in theory it equals a 59.01 flap ) and third lap is a pr split tie as well i think.

I think hes done for the 3lap , but i wanna see that flap go sub 59 as well  

Å ja , Finn , husker at du skreve en mail til meg for noen måneder siden , men husker ikke om jeg svarte på den :\ Håper nå jeg gjorde det. Mk64 for meg er ikke umulig faktisk , har flyttet og er snart etablert igjen , og da frister det alltids med litt kart. Bruker for tid nærmest all fritid på Street Fighter 4 , trener for å delta i Norges"mesterskap" i mars . Waste of time kan man si , siden det ikke hjelper på MK64 tidene mine Men jeg ser at det er flere norsker som melder seg på. Var faktisk to stykker som ringte meg en dag for de hadde sett navnet mitt på lista. De var meget gira , og hadde forsøkt litt TT ( 2.04 LR ) men skjønte ikke hvordan de beste tidene var mulig , og spurte etter tips ( forståelig ).
Håper de kommer og joiner rankingene en dag også.

here are some vids from me... here is the proof robert^^

CM flap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2ZvDYNXJbw
DKJP flap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn35NPjyPCg&feature=channel
BC 3lap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hM8R1JbyYY&feature=channel
SL 3lap (6th Legend time): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDvKUB5AWPk&feature=channel
KTB flap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AXWwXWWsLs&feature=channel
MMF flap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N07gUVQSLAo&feature=channel (bad run )
TT 3lap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kk6ruwWxwQ&feature=channel
YV flap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-hYFFOnDRY&feature=channel

i need tips for my CM flap, i thought the run is clean but it isn't. and i can't find my mistakes...

SL 3 lap 4th in the world (missed 3rd by 0.01 ):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znLxiZWgSk8

1st lap is great, 2nd and 3rd not bad but with mistakes. Going to play FS next to get that last GOD and end great non-sc progress over last 2.5 months. All SCs after that  .

Zoran

I never doubted your times Christian  . I fail so bad at BC; i just cant drive their at all  

robman60 wrote on 01/11/10 at 08:16:20:


Ok good to know

to BC: i also can't drive BC, but this time i got a lucky run especially the first lap was with just one mushroom just 0"18 away from my flap PR

This is a very useful resource: http://speedrunwiki.com/Mario_Kart_64 It gives you the terminolgy of the game which is used among karters here on the site, and it gives you a thorough introduction to driving technique (see "tactics").

Here you'll find very good desriptions of how to do the different tracks. Not all the strats are up to date, so check new vids, too. but I find that reading written strats are rewarding: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~shadow/mkstrat.html

That's actually a pretty nice time, considering the way you go about it.
If you compare what you do to a good run, you'll see what you do differently - for instance you start your shroom on the road, and so you lose some there.
   The main difference is that the experts do mt's (ssmt's) on the straight stretches, and that they do their mt's quicker. Also they drive a lot closer to the border between the track and the sand on the turns, thus cutting a lot of distance. But your mt's on the turns don't look bad at all, and I think you should be able to progress pretty quickly here.

finn

I'm not sure what the gain is compared to driving straight. If you go for one and miss it, it will cost you about 0"2 compared to making it.

I think you gain about half a second per lap doing good ssmt's, but that's a fairly lose estimate. Tim Everett experimented doing non-ssmt runs, and I think he got them under 2'20. And Tim's PR is 1'58"75 (#17). Maybe someone still has the vid he made of that run?

finn

nice !

btw.; who are you ? you might perhaps use the "New players" topic to introduce yourself?

finn

CM 32"20 Non Shortcut, NTSC

LR SC flap: 29''93 (5th GOD)

cutz22 wrote on 01/15/10 at 16:56:59:


you do some nice long turns, and if you'd only do what you do close to the white line instead on a bit from it, you'd go much faster.

When you do the 1- and 2-shroomers, you must release your mt's before you go into the sand/grass, i.e. you must set them off on the track.  And you must get a clide into the sand/grass area. What you do is you slide into the sand/grass, and then you release the mt and start a new slide directly, without straightening out and getting a glide. You have no idea what incredible ammounts of time you lose doing it that way. You could take a nap during that time!!

Take a look at a good vid, and you'll see what I mean. (Here's a good vid : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjR3ZrTC9s8 )

Note that you enter earlier, and have a shorter glide, on the 2-shroomer. It may be that you need more mt-speed than you have yet, to get it right, but then you just enter later. You'll get it in the end.

I'm not sure about 0-3-0. I think it's maybe a good idea to learn the one- and twoshroomers from the start. just do them right.

finn