[MKWii TAS] Aura Metropolis (Ultra) -

TAS by @Kierio04 (myself).

-2.420 from Prelim WIP TAS (1:51.703 by myself):    • (LOTAD) Aura Metropolis (Glitch) - 1:...  
-31.175 from Previous and Current No Glitch BKT (2:20.458 by TheFuesch):    • [MKW] TAS Aura Metropolis 2:20.458 [o...  
-31.660 from Current RTA WR (2:20.943 by @SawyerMKW):    • 【CTGP WR】Aura Metropolis - 2:20.943 -...  

-0.981 from Prelim WIP Flap TAS (17.438 by myself):    • (LOTAD) Aura Metropolis (Glitch) - 1:...  
-1.193 from Previous Flap BKT (17.650 by @Wade474):    • [MKW TAS] Aura Metropolis Flap (Glitc...  
-29.699 from Current RTA Flap WR (46.156 by @DASE1A): No video
Music: gebaseer - Gran Turismo 4 Light Velocity Remix (   • [Remaster] Gran Turismo 4 - Light Vel...  )

Back in May 2021, Wade474 found a way to perform the ultra shortcut on this track without 200cc, and made a flap TAS. I had been wanting to TAS this track since 2019, but that pushed me to start work on a lap 1 in August. By October, I was ready to mess around with the ultra, and managed to get it both with Flame Runner and with only 2 mushrooms, making a pretty awful lap 3 to demonstrate what a finished 3lap would look like.

I was worried that there might even be a way to do it with 1 mushroom, so I spent a whole livestream with Jellopuff making sure there wasn't (   • TASing Aura Metropolis Glitch ft. Jel...  ), but managed to get a cool ejection (   • Big Supergrind Ejection on Aura Metro...  ). Around this time, I became more interested in work on CTGP Backwards, but I came back to it in January 2022 to work on lap 2. I lost motivation at the ultra lap 3, and never worked any further.

When superhopping was discovered in May 2022, I (and many others) thought that CT TASes would essentially be forced to use it whenever applicable. This killed my motivation for TASing for several months, and I never planned to finish this. Over time, this belief about superhopping being required has turned out to be false, since the fun of CT TASes are that there are basically no rules. CTs are already unofficial so you can put an arbitrary set of restrictions on your TAS and people will still enjoy it (in fact, it's considered rude to outright state that a CT TAS is suboptimal if it's missing superhopping).

That being said, I considered TASing this again last year, but was never motivated enough to work on the daunting task that was performing the ultra. It wasn't until a few days ago that I finally faced the challenge that's been haunting me for almost 3 years, and got this done.

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