Gamers who continue to pursue shortcuts in that Mario Kart 64 have created a marvelous technique of 2.5% success rate and about 3 seconds per lap time

"Mario Kart 64"Is also the second mario kart series that Nintendo released for NINTENDO 64 in 1996 and has also challenged time attacks to compete how fast many gamers can clear the course. Speaking of Mario Kart 64, shortcuts (shortcuts) that can reduce the time on various courses such as Wario Stadium and Peach Circuit have been found, but "Chocolate Mountain" which is one of the courses can significantly shorten the time Technical techniques were found in 2014, and on June 1, 2018, a staggering record of 3 seconds of lap time (the time it takes to go around the course) was launched. I'm uploading the game of Speedrun capture movie of how this gamer has captured this chocolate mountainSummoning SaltHas compiled the following movies.

Choco Mountain: The History of Mario Kart 64's Most Infamous Track - YouTube


In "Mario Kart 64" released in 1996, Chocolate Mountain, which is the third course of the flower cup, has a reputation for being difficult to run, such as meanders, curved roads, falling rocks and unevenness in front of the goal. A typical driving time is 3 minutes and 1 minute 40 seconds to 2 minutes.


The whole image of the course looks like this


In order to shorten the running time of the course, various ideas were requested, such as using the drifting all the time and using mushrooms that can decide the explosion speed dash.


With Mario Kart 64, you can jump a little by pressing the R button, but within 2 months from the release of the game, the player David Wonn deliberately collides with the wall deliberately to get over the wall, so that part of the course I found a way to shortcut. As a result, two divisions, "no shortcut" and "with shortcuts", will be set up in the running time record of Mario Kart 64.


In Choco Mountain, I found that a substantial shortcut is possible by jumping into the Ishigaki in the image below, which jumped to just about half of the course while jumping. By taking advantage of this shortcut, we can reduce the running time of Choco Mountain by about 30 seconds.





From this, research on "Mario Kart 64 including Choco Mountain" will be advanced in the direction "How can you find the shortcut?" In Choco Mountain, research is proceeding such as finding a shortcut to climb the mountain further closer than Ishigaki, jumping repeatedly while repeating the jump, so that the time of less than 2 minutes can be shortened to about 1 minute if originally became.


Also, as research progressed, I found amazing facts. There are three types of software for Mario Kart 64: Japanese version, American version, European version. Actually, due to differences in the standards of television broadcasting in each country, the signal of video output is different only in Europe version. Compared to the Japanese and American versions using the signal NTSC, the European version that uses the signal PAL will slow down the time a little. As a result, players who aim for updating the running time of Mario Kart 64 will be playing using the Japanese version or the American version.


In 2014, a shortcut technique that sharply reduces this time was discovered. In this technique,TASIt was discovered by Mr. Drew Weatherton who is er (Tool-Assisted Speedrunner), so it is called "Weathertenko". Weathertenko is a technique that can do 99% of the map in a way to do a dash from the front of the start / goal line towards the wall and go beyond the line while climbing a steep slope. Choco Mountain, which took about 20 seconds to make a lap, can be cleared in 5 to 6 seconds.


Weathertenko was thought to be almost impossible for human beings to reproduce with the real machine, because it was a technique discovered using program tools. However, although the probability of success was 2.5%, which was considerably low, players who reproduced with actual machines began to appear. Many game players challenged because we made Weathertenko succeed at only one lap in 3 laps, the running time will be reduced by 15 seconds.

On October 29, 2017, Beck Abney took a challenge to rework Choco Mountain time greatly by using Weathertenko on all three laps. The probability of updating time using Weathertenko for all 3 laps will be 1/40 × 1/40/1 = 64 thousandths.


Repeated challenge for 26,461 times, Abney clearly finished 3 laps with Weathertenko. I started out a phenomenal running time record of how much 16 seconds 38. You can see how Abney achieved in the following movie. At the moment that it finally passed the wall with a probability of 1 in 64000 and finally achieved the world record, Abney stands up and shouts and shows a gesture like a grieving wail.

Choco Mountain SC 3 lap World Record - 16.38 (NTSC) - YouTube


And on June 1, 2018, ToughStache used this Weathertenko to launch a lap time of 2 seconds 98. In addition to this, Abney also recorded the same lap time of 2 seconds 98 on June 2, 2018.

Choco Mountain Shortcut fast lap World Record - 2 "98 - YouTube


Choco Mountain SC lap World Record - 2.98 (NTSC) - YouTube


Mr. Abney owns the world record of all cup running time both "without shortcut" and "with shortcut" at the time of article creation. You can see how Abney runs a flower cup including Choco Mountain with shortcuts from the following movie.

Mario Kart 64 150cc All Cups (Skips) Shortcut Speedrun 25: 49 (Former WR) - YouTube