Mario Kart DS - GCN Yoshi Circuit

bgm: Nino - The Gun

former bkt: 1:20.649 by Ufle    • Yoshi Circuit: 1'20'649 (Tool Assiste...   (2.175s timecut)

almost 2 months of procrastinating and occasionally working on this i finally finished this :D optimising the strategies at display here was a horror that genuinely rivaled the desert hills TAS (i need to revisit that i think)

firstly, the jump at the start was completely impossible to keep PRB with poltergust, until i came up with the strategic wallhit here that cuts my airtime just enough to charge the following miniturbo and keep going there

the left hairpin wallhit further up the track is without a doubt the single worst trick i've ever tased in this game and that title does not come in lightly, the wallhit there is a single frame wall contact that cuts my speed but gives me an amazing line to continue off of and easily saves .2 over not hitting the wall at all, the caveat is that the kart goes airborne 2-3 frames before said wallhit and in order to keep it as a single frame wall contact you have to hit only the very edge of the wall, any earlier and you will hit the wall again for several frames after landing again resulting in immediate huge timeloss

setting said wallhit up above then basically requires extremely specific line and kart alignment and it took me an ungodly amount of trial and error to get enough understanding on it to actually get it on all 3 laps, that combined with my lowered interest to tas the last 2 months also delayed the completion of this tas so much

mushroom saves essentially no time because i cant drop PRB before the last turn in any way that would save time so it just ends up being a very small timesave by going max tight instead of going for a lap transition