Hey!
This is Jascha. The real one. Not Jascha Robertson (some of you might remember that from a while back
) or some of the other fakes I’ve encountered. If you want proof, I can message you via my youtube account jascha55, once I find the password to that.
Anyways with that out of the way, I just wanted to say some things.
I’ve been lurking this board since mid-2008 (when I was still 10 years old
), all the way to early 2014. Back when this game had high activity (2008-2011) I used to check this forum (and mariokartwii.com) multiple times a week. Then I slowly started to check less often, where I was checking only once every 2 months by early 2014. I wanted to make an account here and join the PP right after I took the WR from Brett on rPG, but a lot of stuff came up in real life and I forgot to.
After subbing 2:12 on rDKJP, I decided that I would be finally done with this game. I would like to think that I made a name for myself with CM, rDKJP, first 2:00 sub with manual on rPG, etc. Nintendo was also shutting down off the wifi for the Wii during that year, so even more reason to leave this behind and focus on other stuff.
So I did that. I stopped checking the board, and didn’t touch MKW since mid-2014. That is, until last weekend, where I had an urge to check the current state of affairs of the game.
On Friday night and Saturday, I was binge-reading through all the posts and threads that I missed. It was nice to see old names still setting WRs like Cole, Alex, Niyake, Sword, Chouy, Ruso. There were a LOT of surprises to me as well, most notably Fox with the double-digit WR count (wow!
) and Liam being one of the current top time trialers (I remember when you used to go by LAsh09 on youtube, and commented on a lot of the early MKW videos).
I checked all the current WR runs and holders too, there are a lot of unfamiliar names to me. Of course, I also saw that suiryu was the WR holder of CM (I thought that if he would be a WR holder today, it would be on rGV2). I saw his run and I was very envious of his insane escalators. Back when I was battling Chaos I never managed to string together a clean run like suiryu’s.
I wanted to get back CM. Part of me said to just not try at all. I mean, I haven’t touched the game in 3 years, and CM in 6 years, since I got 1:56.821 after beating Chaos. Not to mention suiryu’s run is incredibly strong for a track like CM. I still gave it a shot, at least maybe I could get #2 WW since I was #5 WW already.
I downloaded CTGP on Monday and practiced some strats for a bit. Surprisingly, I was hitting 38.7xx first laps already by the end of my time trial session. The next day (Tuesday) I got the WR back lol. I was thinking that maybe I would be grinding it for at least a week before I saw any real progress. I guess rust doesn’t really affect me
Originally, I was going to make this post as a “help” topic because when I tried to upload my ghost to CTGP it wouldn’t work. Maybe the servers were having problems? Anyways I wanted this to come as a surprise but eventually it uploaded and people found out, so there goes that
For my latest CM run, as MattL said in the WR topic, the lap 3 transition (perfect chain and low bannister trick) literally made the run. I still have no idea how it was a .7 but whatever. Lap 2 was weak but it doesn’t matter too much because if you go too fast you need to dodge the car at the end of lap 2. Back when I was still battling Chaos I managed to fail multiple 38.7xx, 38.8xx runs where I had to double hop like in the lap 1 ending of old 2008 CM WRs. You need to wheelie ASAP after the turn too or else you won’t get the chain (it will end in the air after the stairs right before the first escalator) making all the time gained meaningless and the last lap being terrible. I’ll try for more, hopefully a low .5 or high .4, but the escalators are a massive pain in the ass.
Also super super late congrats to:
1. Thomas, for beating my spiral cut DKJP. I could never seem to get the perfect entry consistently, and if I did, I failed the shroomspot lol. It sucks that the new glitch was discovered
2. Shaun, for beating my 1000+ day old 1:56.821 on CM. I always seemed to have terrible lap 3s (I think it was because of the double miniturbo strat), not anymore though
3. Darragh, for getting rPG. Your run is very strong even with the wide turns lap 1 and 3. I’m most likely not going to get it back even if I learn the proper lap transitions. It’s yours for a longggg time, I don’t think I have the patience or motivation anymore to grind that track.
I’ll provide a timesheet and join the PP. Should’ve done this years ago. I’m so sorry. Give me a few weeks though since I have to study for exams; maybe around mid-May I’ll have everything ready.
You can use this thread to ask me any MKW-related questions too. I barely interacted with the community after I quit warring with AE7 following our win against FV in the WCL first division in 2009 (?). There’s probably a lot of stuff you guys want to know.
I apologize if this post came off as arrogant, it was not my intention.
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