150cc Ultra Shortcut on Warp Pipe Island

Here's another one of those ideas I've had for months that I finally got the motivation to figure out. I actually got a successful ultra shortcut on this track months ago, but it only involved skipping KCP1 and the first spiral, driving the rest of the track relatively normally, and then cutting through the Easter Egg which normally would not count the lap, hence the reason this run is using spear despite the fact that it's blatantly unoptimal for the respawn method. I tried for a while to get a respawn ultra instead, but could not because the wallride would just not go my way. Yesterday, I instead tried to work with a hop trick off the mushroom instead, and this ended up working, though it was still extremely annoying to work with for multiple reasons.

I start by driving backwards through the Easter Egg to skip KCP7 backwards. After reaching a mushroom pad, I use it to wallride along the top of the track all the way back to KCP8 (thus loading KCP0 for the ultra), hop off of the solid out of bounds on top, and turn around to wallride unassisted all the way back down to where I was.

To set up the actual ultra, I go to a different mushroom pad and begin another wallride towards the end of the track. This time, I decided to go with a hop trick, because it just tends to really help with turning and quick redirections for reasons I'm not entirely sure of. After reaching the finish line, I delay my lap entry by about 0.5% to ensure that I have enough room checkpoints-wise to respawn without being 95% ruled, and turn around to go back towards the cave. I enter checkpoints and satisfy 95% rule right before respawning back in the cave, and after the respawn I go back to touch the last KCP before finishing out the lap with a time of 15 seconds.

This run is largely unoptimal, and could likely benefit not only from a different vehicle but also potentially better respawn strats entirely. However, since I don't even know where to begin with optimizing something like this, and I don't really want to work with this wallride at all anymore, I just opted to upload it as a showcase rather than a full-on flap TAS.

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