For me, HAS Lap is the biggest challenge for a CTR player. And one of the most enjoyable piece of gaming in my entire gaming career. Your video is a masterpiece, I hope more of that will come in the future, from you or somebody else. And congrats again for your achievement, but who knows what will happen next...
Thanks for the kind comments, means especially lot coming from you. And also, yeah as a lap just finishing one is hard, even GOD is hard. That's why I made the video about this lap. 2005-2008 when I was watching CTR videos on RU-vid for the first time, HAS mega shortcut was something mystical to me.
Some updates! (Spoilers) Since the making of this video, Crash68 and Captain Armstice both achieved the long elusive sub 32 lap without BTF or USF start. Additionally, we now know that an unknown Japanese player had achieved a course time of 2:08 as early as year 2000, meaning the lap record likely was also faster than the first known western records. 4.7.2022, Maraenji got the world record back with a 22:71 November 2023, Pepi beat the world record with a 22:66
Its really amazing how much history this game holds, and sharing that history is really important to understand and appreciate all the hard work the community did to reach what it is today, great video nik, fun story telling :3
I was watching CTR gameplay videos to reminisce about my childhood, and this video came up in my recommendations. I saw my favorite map and decided to click just to see the current record, but I ended up watching the entire video. Great job ! !
Honestly it's such a joy to play in this track, also CTR community needs more videos with this quality. I'd love to see more stuff like this in the future. Keep the good work mate.
Oh... wow. Never would I have imagined that such a long track could be lapped so quickly... even after watching videos on it. Oddly, the ramp -> finish line skip is something I always liked doing... though with the Super Turbo Pads cheat
Great video on the CTR world! Reminds me of the videos of Wirtual on Trackmania indeed (another game I liked to watch and play!). Your video must have taken a huge amount of work, congrats! By the way, I don’t recall having taken USF on the right path of the track back then, it looks quite impossible to pull 🤔
I like wirtual too! I also play trackmania sometimes. The video took maybe 40-60 hours but I learned a lot and now it would take less. I don't know the origin story of this right path claim, maybe justin does not either, but who knows who put those words in your mouth, then.
Really liked the editing and music choice in this video. Would love to see more like these, for example 3-lap TA would be fun to see! Edit: just checked your channel and there it already is! haha
Great video. Why was CTR4ever not used after 2019, is it no longer reliable? I noticed you didn't cut the last corner before the mega shortcut, does it not actually save much time?
1. 2019 there was a bug that broke the database storage system, which means that we don't have old times stored after 2019 2. It saves less than it seems, and it makes the last jump so much harder. Current world record by Maraenji does it.
How is this video not even mentioning Arsene Lupin‘s mythical right path usf drop, a short he claims to have done which hasn’t been reproduced to this day
Wow, that's a cool tidbit. I will pin this comment to bring awareness to this shortcut👀. I tried to contact Arsene and Kang but unfortunately they did not reply.
And yet if you watch the video to the end you will find that the world record uses the north American version. Btw it's not just PAL that has fast penta, but also NTSC-J
@@niikasd That's out the gate! So in other words if that speed runner did it on a PAL copy he'd of done even better? That'd of been the first thing I checked lol !
@@Blockah no, I hate to reiterate the video but I'll make it very clear and short: Spin out takes too long on PAL for the pad skip to be possible. USF speed is the same for all classes. Hot Air Skyway (HAS) lap is (since the discoveries by AJB) entirely driven with USF. The startline glitch in HAS only works on USF. As a result of above, PAL is about 7.5 seconds slower than NTSC-U (North American release) here. Due to lacking the start line glitch, NTSC-J (Japanese) loses 0.10. PAL record rn is 29.70 NTSC-U is now 22:66 NTSC-J is 22:89 (though nobody plays it since U is faster)
Since then WR has improved twice: 2022-07-03, Maraenji got 22:71 2023-11-05, Pepi got 22:66 We now think 22:5X is possible Rankings are on ctr4ever.joora.fr. Some ISPs and browsers don't like the website because it's so old.
