Hello forums...
I got this game in 2004 and it came with the gamecube so it was my first video game. I never really thought I'd use time trials, so I just played until I had all golds on GP and battled my friends. So one day I got bored and went on youtube for Mario kart wii. Eventually I made it back to this game and I was amazed at how fast they could go! So I time trialed on every course trying out pretty much every kart. I wasn't good enough to use the Train, even thought I could tell it was the best. Even without all of the strats I still had many of the same shroomspots as the wrs.
Then lately I had an urge to put down the Wii remote and play gamecube again (probably due to grounding) and I crushed all my old prs cause I was surprisingly good at snaking. Then I discovered this site by searching for the game. I read the strats and lurked for about a month. Then I submitted my times when I had mostly all Adv. D's. And I've improved every week with all 32 prs, and now I'm Exp C with no Advanced times. (I'm sort of in a rivalry with Timur) My final goal is all Hero times and Hero C rank. Then I'll move on to Mario Kart Wii, N64 (virtual console), and DS (which I hate!)
Here is somethings I noticed:
Why is the train better than the bullet? the bullet has higher accel so Maybe it would work better on tracks like DDD and DKM.
On SL I found you can do the Shroomspot with one mushroom, so 0-1-1 works better for me.
On MuC I think left-right works better to avoid the barrier in the middle.
Now being to many forums before, since this is my first post, I get to spam Smilies!!!!!11!!1one

(hopefully I won't get a warning)
Edit: for that matter, I hope it was okay to make my own topic at all...
Thanks,
-Jordan Haack, #260 Overall MKDD Exp C