The Hidden Shortcuts of Mario Kart Double Dash 

Thank you

Jesus Christ RPG When?

Nifty

Awesome!

Everyone helped out a ton! It's been a blast seeing this come together :)

Big fan of all the achivements that you were able to accomplish in this game and incredibile effort from all the MKDD community!

@@creepyghost2001 thank you!! i hope you enjoyed this video :)

ive never seen a commen with a scroll bar before lol

From where I am standing, it looks like Goomba was a technically better racer, but you basically executed all the theory that made all the shortcuts possible. I think you should take extra pride knowing that you laid the foundations for most of the course records even if you dont hold them yourself.

The true hero of this video.

But that was made by a random person, as he says! He can't contradict himself, can he?

His original Mario Kart 64 video is probably what inspired it, since that was released the year before the first new shortcut was found. People watched that one, and probably decided to try and see if there was a way to make some huge, previously unknown cuts in Double Dash.

@@bowserjjumetroid3645 noooooo... He would never lie, right?

@@litigioussociety4249 It was the mkwii one that inspired me :p

@@Jakewebmaster8 Exactly! He shant.... Heaven help if he ever did....

@Ptao Tom i don't think you meant to reply to me

@@jaspervermeer659 I don't think they meant to either.

I agree, that was such a wholesome detail. Also such mad props to iMathII for not just finding the skips and setting the first records, but managing to keep up with and trade and even hold records against the world class driving Goomba. Normally it you’re not the top and you find a way to break the game, your records are short lived. But he not only kept up with a ton of practice, but also kept being the one to find skips on new courses and trade records, even with a bunch of absolutely optimal classic driving required. Absolutely insane. What a dynamic duo. Love that they collaborated.

@@jaspervermeer659 its a bot

Yes! I don't know if ALL speedrunning communities are like this, but I've been part of a small speedrunning community for a smallish game and all of us are very encouraging of one another, offering tips and advice freely when asked. I hope all of the communities have this same level of comaraderie!

Speedrunning only grows when it’s a community

Unlike the hoarder burbank

Competition, both in wartime and in peacetime, is usually how the greatest achievements are made, and speedrunning is clearly no different.

@@Daniel_HuffmanThey were literally COLLABORATING to bring the record down.

@@somewhatfunnyguyy That's what I was saying: While they were working together towards a common goal, each of them brought a level of competitiveness that motivated both to lower the record faster than if they did it on their own.

I read this in his voice.

I can see the music kick in as the commuter stops in their tracks as they realise the lawn would be faster, then optimising the run in the following days 😅

lmfao bro this is gold

So THAT'S who left tire tracks on my lawn!

Hey! You can’t be Absent! I’m Absent! /lh

The legend himself

incredible work my guy

Lets make this the most liked comment

Leeedge

Amazing

just wanted to say that goomba has like every other record in the game still

@@StalinkTz which makes mathii having any more impressive

@@nottachance8554 yea, kinda

Seems like while goomba was the better driver, mathii was the brains. All the inovations came from him. Goomba just did them better. Except for mushroom bridge and wario colloseum

@@ianomalley6100 Not true at all. They both innovated equally and both have immense skill. Goomba was just in the game longer.

Well, this is ONLY SC runs. No-SC runs are a whole different story

Matt Turk moment

@@shagarumedic fr, MathII even has the trademark of Matt being in his name, so many legendary runners with that name, its weird

@@samt3412 didn’t he say that goomba had most of the no-shortcut runs?

Only just saw this!! ty so much c: it feels amazing to me too

7/16 not 7/32

@@CowMaam aye but it's still not a lot, still took forever to crack and the checkpoint system was real precise

Tbh, wii is so good BECAUSE it's broken. Many ways to play it.

@@Skelterbane69 oh yh wii is fun as fuck it's just amazing how it's more broken than the game before it

Wii also has a much larger player base. Double dash sold 7 million units to MKWii’s *37 million* . More players = higher chance of finding glitches

Depends on the Monitor/TV I guess and/or recording tools

I agree, it has a pretty timeless artstyle

Yeah. *Aesthetics* can be timeless, even if the underlying technology becomes dated. Okami is another great example. 6th Gen game, but its graphics are so perfectly implemented that it's hard to imagine how they could be improved, besides resolution bumps.

Agreed. It's my personal favourite game in the series, as well, because I really like the duo drivers gimmick.

Amen

I can agree!

facts

He’s the only youtuber where i tweet every time a new video is dropped

I literally stopped watching a video about 80s rappers and malt liquor.

100%

the cycle continues

He was already part of it. I believe he holds/held the record for the fastest Tyson fight in mike Tyson punch out.

He also holds records in a number of more obscure games

As Karl Jobst would say, he's an absolute legend.

He also has a giant dong

Simp. Lol

And this scales with the complexity of the project, the number of programmers contributing, time pressure etc. Actually it's kind of amazing that this game was able to "hold" for so long.

I think it adds variety if it isn’t too bad

I'm confused why they wouldn't just use there already existing systems to put you in the last box you completed rather then a boxes individual respawn location. Strange decision.

@@Invalourrr-vb3xo programming decisions are a mix of ease, emotion and knowledge. Sometimes one option is easier or just more appealing for some reason.

@@illford no for sure, there's probably a reason why they did it the way they did it. It could have been a temporary solution that they thought they would fix but thought "nah it's good enough" or any of the things you already suggested. Cus it held up for 15 years and even then it requires hard tricks to exploit, so it served its function.

I'll reply to you to give you more interaction

Love ur work guys

Thank you for helping make this a story to reach all of us!

thanks for your contribution!

No1 cares lol

Can we also shoutout to the fact he went from not even top material to one of the best purely through learning these shortcuts?

"Worker smarter, not harder" energy

E

@@tripplordofinconvenience9953 ...uh...

I hope I can do this through rainbow road on mkwii with the glitch.

This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!

@@FreightmareFTW 😐

@@FreightmareFTW what

sammee mathhii is a legend

In some ways pioneering your chosen field can be even more difficult then honing existing skills. Honing your skill and innovating new ones are equally important!

Him and Karl Jobst will do almost anything not to highlight their own greatness

Love how his Matt Turk vid ends with him unceremoniously showing he holds the record for Mike Tyson fight

@@ScorpioIsland Carl can brag a little in his white power discord but still a humble man

bro's holding back his bragging rights till his death

I'm still not over his punch out one, where he introduced himself as the final runner

@@dogmascj9570 Look at these Dislikes XD

You're not alone. And any time it is Turk, it's a moment for fanfare.

@@johncameron1935 even better was that time it was summoning salt

SS had a world record himself?

@@2DRichochet yeah check the punch out video.

Yeah i do the same, regardless of the context of the video it just always fits lol.

Hello otamatone man 👋

Otamatone man plays Mario kart?

I didn't think you could respect you even more but now that you watch summoning salt damn

The what?

Please explain

*intense snoring*

Same! so epic i don't know anything about these runners but something about the music, his narration, and general asthetic makes 40 minutes feel like nothing. Sad when they're over.

Summoning salt is one of the best story tellers on youtube. I genuinely hope he never stops.

​​@@jacketswae *snoring intensifies*

he didnt even have to grind a record to get into his own video this time

That happened with my brother with the original Punch Out. He was stuck on Super Macho Man for days, then he showed a friend the fight to be like "look how impossible this is!" and he beat it on that attempt.

Task failed successfully!?

@@solsystem1342 no, it would be more like task failure failed

@@Purriah The task fails to fail and if it fixes the problem, the task fails to fail permanently lol

We call that the "IT effect" at work. When someone from IT shows up to see the problem, invariably it starts working. Even for those of us in IT calling each other over to help.

You're giving streaming too much credit.

These videos are way too good to belong on netflix

I wanna see Salt on Netflix or something one day making episodes about mariokart

Does Twitch count? It's on there.

I'd say they're Pretty Good

this should be pinned

yeah the new ending with where are they now is super cool

I was half expecting to see Matt Turk's name there too...

Reminds me of the James Web Space telescope. Nasa had to literally invent other technologies for decades in order for the final product to be created years later.

Lol this reads like the difference between forward and backward genetics. Forward genetics are concerned with finding the gene from the function, while backwards are the function from the gene. The genes are the mechanics, and the functions are the glitches, i swear 😂

@@Cherrynasb nonsense. It's trendy and fashionable to talk about the JWST today. The craze will fade out in a year from now.

@@YounesLayachi bro I've literally been reading about the thing since I was born it's all I've been waiting for

@@Cherrynasb still invalid comparison

That's Exactly How I feel and I always take a look at when he posted he last video and remember what has happening in my life back then, it is always cool, his videos make me stop and look how much stuff has happened since last time and his videos come to me as a Happy Surprise, it's amazing!

He should cover a initial d game sometime since it’s a perfect series for this show.

Double Dash has always been my favorite mariokart for non-speedruning reasons. But the knowledge that its programming is so airtight that it took until 2018 to find the second viable shortcut and that didn't even open the floodgates just adds to my love of the game. (I think mariokart wii had the rumble volcano shortcut exposed and then a flood of shortcuts opened up.)

I like your bean

Uh duh

I wouldn't even know it existed without him

Right

@@Jakewebmaster8lol

25:54 I mean, he managed to have this pop-off too.

Well, well, well. If it isn’t one of my favorite Fallout RU-vidrs. Glad to see you’re also enjoying this amazing content!

I love the Mario kart ones but I think my favorite is still the quest to best Matt Turk and the one with matias going for complete domination in the Mario kart game and the entire community fighting to stop him. Still makes me sad he never achieved it

someone forgot to read the title

@@FrankCapybara 🤓🤓

🫤

I was also born in 2001 and grew up with most of the these games. Different upbringings I suppose

Similar story here, not nostalgic for those games but it somehow gives off that vibe. I'm honestly not even really invested in speedrunning, the only speedruns I even watch are Minecraft CTM runs, yet these videos are so unbelievably satisfying. That strange false nostalgia is just too good to pass up.

It's because he prioritizes quality over quantity, and it (rightfully) brings in a wide variety of viewers

@@triethylborane49 well said!

Salt is one of the few accounts I get push notifications for. When he puts out a vid, I know it's going to be perfect.

... there's no koopa city in this game, what do you mean ?

@@YounesLayachi mb meant mushroom city

All I pictured: (trying to fall asleep) "And then this happened..." EXTREMELY LOUD yell of "LETS GO" in reaction to a WR.

Well my recent PTSD has to do with getting denied access in the middle of night to my hotel because the check in guy didn't know what a real service dog or US ADA law was, leaving me homeless in a unknown town with one of my chronic migraine pounding away and SD signaling "dude sit down you going to faint." TDLR Best Western needs better employees training and Hyatt saved my trip. But to your point I do wonder about Moe's South Western Gril employees and waking up in a cold sweats yelling WELCOME TO MOES!

Yesir DBGsus

It's a fundamental duty for summoning salt subscribers to do this

and gotta quickly make that unoriginal comment to get to the top of the comments!

He already is. He has over a million subscribers and he started an entire subgenre on RU-vid

True, but we should appreciate him now, too. While he’s in his golden era

Speedrunning SoftDrink appearing in a Summoning Salt video would be elite

This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!

@@FreightmareFTW wtf

@@four-en-tee Im not a Protestant, I don’t belong to any church. Why do u think I am a Protestant? I doubt a rapture anyway. Someone has to stay here and get their head cut off, I will do that happily

@@FreightmareFTW That was bait 🤦

maybe don’t shorten his name to “SS”

@@dappitydingdong1219 he likes to live dangerously

Bruh relax it's a video about Mario Kart 😂😂 go call ur mom

@@Blernster It's probably a joke. He calls him SS

it was "His name... was John Cena" for me, sadly...

This is my favorite Mario Kart by a lot!

i wouldnt say underrated, most people ive met regarded it as the best, for good reason

The movement freedom of the character in the back of the kart helps make it much more alive. Other games feel like controlling just an inanimate and rigid kart instead of the actual characters. Especially the games that can jump without use of tricks, since it's unnatural for a kart to jump, so it feels like the player is controlling the kart directly telling to jump.

why did you put liquid smooth and stiff in quotations

@@DoctorBones1 I suppose because they're subjective descriptors. But what OP is trying to say is DD has more fluid control

@@YounesLayachi Unnatural as in artificial or supernatural? If it's the former, everything a kart does is artificial. If it's the latter, I'm sure karts could be made to jump within the laws of physics.

dd is for sure the best mario kart hands down ...

rusty i was incredibly excited when i saw you were mentioned in this... i was running around the house! lol even if most of your community impact is outside of MKDD, it made me so happy to see you getting recognition in a salt vid c: you've done so much for the mario kart community, and you really deserve to be recognised for it

LETS FCKINCUCYOXITXITDOTGGG GOOOOO RUSTYYYYYYYYYYGTTXKYKZTIDTUTZLULTSRLUSLU5DLUTDLUTDLUTS ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

thank you so much!! hearing this makes me so happy c: it's awesome talking to you as well, some day you'll get some sick MKDS WRs :O

@@RobertMcKinnonMainChannel youre incredible man, hope you can break double dash further

Very True i feel like it’s a treat yk

or grid lines in the background could help

Legends Arceus has no useful glitches, as does Sprit Tracks.

Nice advice bro

Upvoting so that Mr. Salt can see this, cuz I agree. :) Good content as per usual tho.

ouch

gargmorn

hang in there, man. I promise, it gets better.

@@alan-daniel I appreciate the encouragement. I am trying to spin my situation as positively as I can, and take things day by day until things stabilize.

Ain’t that the truth

damn, wonder if we should look into that.

cant wait for the rainbow road shortcut to be in the update vid 3yrs from now

Of I were them I would probably just do what I always do: eat a bowl of good chilli and watch the dogs at the park

@@googleuser3163 wut

IGN actually has a developers react to speed runs series

Mario Kart 8 is pretty strict about trying to go out of bounds as Lakitu zones are everywhere. The closest then to an ultra shortcut is flying to a lower section of the track in Big Blue Section 2 on 200cc. The game does have many non-item shortcuts that were definitely intended to be item-only though.

@@jameslars7391 That is awesome. I'll have to check that out. Thanks man