The History Of Mario Kart 7’s Most Broken TAS 

Mario Kart 7 is way too underrated

“Despite the discovery of Spaghetti,” I laughed harder at this than the shortcut actually being called Spaghetti.

It's crazy how little time is actually spent on the track compared to how much is spent on the walls. Super cool run!

Mario Circuit 2: Made of scotch tape and broken wood Mario Circuit 3: Fucking indestructible

The ending of the video is so wholesome, i love that the community is not competing just to see who is better and who pulls the best time, but end up joining forces to achieve the unthinkable, and have a collaborative effort to get the absolute best and most optimized times on tracks.

It’s so cool that this guy not only covers the history of speedruns, but also IS a speedrunner himself!

You can’t believe how long I’ve waited for this, MK7 has truly had some of the most fascinating developments the past few years

This video made me emotional I’m not going to lie. Joining the community in 2015 immediately after the revival of the TT scene and seeing it evolve into what it is today has been one of the coolest things I have ever seen. Thank you for all your efforts in the RTA and TASing communities the past several years, we wouldn’t be here without you.

it's always cool when person narrating the speedrun documentary suddenly mentions themself as part of it

Fantastic video with such smooth editing. I love the different camera angles you use to illustrate your points throughout. You should definitely make more narrated content like this in the future. Very well done.

Amazing editing and storytelling, I'd really like to hear you talk about the mechanics within the game or talk about the kart parts and their (secret) stats and showing some of your favorite in-game builds.

I only've been in this community for a few months and when I first found out it existed I thought it would be almost dead, because "who still plays Mario Kart 7 10 years after it released ?". But during these last months I've been amazed by how active this community actually was and by everything that has been happening since I'm there : rKD being so close to sub 1:34, Endo becoming PPChamp, Jack getting his first WR... and now this amazing "Summoning Salt level" video. All of this make really makes me wanna push hard on this game and motivates me to interact more with this community (because I've been quite silent for now that's why you probably don't recognize my name). Thank you for this video MKWilliam you did an amazing job. I don't know if a freaking paragraph was necessary to express that, but now I'm more motivated than ever to play MK7.

As an MKW player, I saw this in my recommended and thought to myself “what does mk7 have that’s interesting?” Well done William, great documentary!

I was so surprised that the game I played the most had endless possibilities. I thought that only Japanese people played this game, but I was very excited to know that people all over the world are enjoying it. There is a high possibility that the English I wrote is wrong because of my lack of study.

beautiful video. i hope more TAS creators make videos like these for their games because TASing is such an underrated art form. i know i'm inspired to do something similar eventually

I was afraid you'd show a screenshot of me saying something along the lines of "I'm cutting off my balls if spaghetti ever saves time", great job there

This was so well put together! It feels so much like a Summoning Salt video (:

honestly incredible video, massive respect for putting so much effort into a video about a frankly under-appreciated mk game. big fan of mk7 tases, id love to see more videos of this nature

努力が集結した詰まった歴史ですね、なんだか感動

This is brilliant. Excellent editing and narration, coupled with an enthralling story. I hope the community goes on to hear much more about the history of it's favorite tracks 👍

only like 2 minutes in and i'm already pretty invested. this will DEF be one of the most high quality videos ive ever watched

I’ve been seeing a bunch of crazy mk7 tasses and I’m thankful to have found this beautifully made video

Absolutely floored by how good this video was, it's not often you see a TAS history but future ones should follow your example, incredible job and I can't wait to see what strats are found in the future and what you make next :)

Its impressive seeing TAS runs, especially on MK games with crazy precision and game knowledge coming together to make fast AND entertaining runs like this. Also the record holder making a video on this topic is amazing. Good stuff

Loved the video! Very nice editing, good job!

so good, amazing work william, you’re the glue that holds the community together 🥂💕

This video is very interesting. The way the records were improved really amazed me. The fact that a track this simple is this broken is amazing to look at. Good work!

Aweome video! Really enjoyed the journey and collaboration to break it so much haha, really great narration and editing. Thank you! :)

Great video! It's crazy how many strategies people can come up with in these games.

the video essay I didn't know I needed. great job!

Very well done in every aspect, from voice over, to music choice, and clip choice/presentation!

Absolutely sublime video for an otherwise overlooked track in an overlooked game. Job well done!

It’s interesting to see a speed run history by someone who was actually involved in the community and discovery

RU-vid next week: Welcome to the history of specifically a cheese danish that I ate 2 years ago at a 7/11 in the 7th district of south Boston on a taco Tuesday!

I’m so glad to see you posting again! Can’t wait to see your future videos!

Really nice video. Such a cool evolution of the shortcuts and teamwork, despite competing for the best times!

This is very well done, I hope to see more videos like this in the future! Like some people said in the comments, I hope that the TT / TASing community grows and more people contribute to exploit the game even further. I also hope that more coders become interested in TASing as well, the potential for tools to help TASers and analyzing runs is really high for MK7, in my opinion

Hearing SSMT mean literally anything other than stand-still mini-turbo is so weird to me and I don't know why lol

Great video! It’s absolutely insane what you and others can do in this game

Amazing video!! MK7 was a childhood fav of mine. Randomly stumbled upon ur vid on my recommendations and so glad I did

LETS GOO!! THIS WILL BE AMAZING TO WATCH!! I ALREDY KNOW

I never liked the glider physics. They always felt like how running feels like in a dream. Especially in MK8 where you can’t even control the gliders (or how long you’re in the air) for and the game just pushes you where it wants you to be!

I love these kind of videos. Seeing how the Mario Kart community has grown is really inspirational. Great video.

I found your video in your recommendation and I really love it. The documentation and the music make your video very cool. It feels like we are following your history. I didn't know a simple track can turned into an amazing video. I didn't know Mario Kart 7 have hidden shortcut like this.

変態的過ぎて草 面白い動画でした

MKWirtual

I would genuinely love seeing more long form videos like this from you again; it was genuinely epic

Super cool to learn about all the strategy that goes into these runs, thanks for the breakdown.

Nice

日本語字幕だ、ありがたい

Instantly subbed as I finished the video, really dope TAS

Love the dedication, you put into this video! amazing commentary and also didnt feel like 30 minutes :)

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I've never played this game or even watched a speedrun of it, but this was an amazing video. Thanks for sharing.

Very interesting and cool video MKWilliam ! Imagine doing this RTA, that would be crazy.

Dude this video was put together extremely well! The editing and narrating was fantastic, reminded me a lot of Summoning Salt. You should definitely make some more videos like this in the future.

Very very well-made video. It's funny because the RU-vid algorithm already suggested me some videos of your runs and seeing them, I was really intrigued on how all of theses strategies were made as I am unfamiliar with Mario Kart 7 And now seeing this video has really explained to me all of the differents aspects of this track/game. Thank you so much for your content.

I didn’t expect you to be part of this story! Very cool video

"Fairly unoptimized" *Some of the most insanely tight MK footage I have ever seen*

Ive played every single mario kart game and i can say that mk7 (with mods) is the most fun with mkwii being a close second. What i really like doing is being in the air (glider) on mushroom gorge, closing the glider and using a mushroom right before landing on a bouncy mushroom, tricking and then getting launched into space. Also, amazing video. Your commentary is very fun to listen to, the TASes are very impressive and the whole thing is very well edited. Great job!

GG! Nice cooperations and thanks to code maker that helped to make TAS.

You have a really solid editing style and pacing to your videos, can't wait for more MK content!

I have a similar speaking pattern to you and I’ve always been very self conscious about my Rs. I just wanted you to know the narration of this video really inspired me. Awesome video!!!

i used to be into the scene a couple years ago and this was prolly my fav track to tt. this vid has renewed my interest. imma start playing mk7 again babyy

Really cool to highlight the similarities between rta and tas. I get the vibe a lot of people think tas is a perfect run so seeing tasers race and cooperate on improving these runs is awesome!

Thats insane. I wish i was more in to Mario Kart in the beginning (i wad bit obly with friends and for fun and never tried shortcuts or something like this). This is a insane evolution of the speedrun!

Hell yea I love these vids, man you're one of my favorite tas creators because there just isn't mutch on mk7, one of the most underrated mariokart games.

I always love it when the "Ultimate" goal in a TAS is reached but there's 20 minutes in the video left

0:41 I remember doing that exact move to beat Mario Circuit 2’s hard ghost time, good times.

Great vid I'd love to see more people make vids like this on mk7

Great video! Explains everything really well. Good job :3

editing is insane on this, subbed :)

This video was very thrilling, although I don‘t watch TAS Runs Documentarys at all. MK7 is my childhood and this video was insanely well made. Much love ❤

Your narration voice is absolutely delightful on the ears! 🥰 Loved the video 😊

I really liked this video, I’d love to see more of these history speedruns for other tracks. but i know you mainly did this because you set the record yourself. This is one of my favorite games and I used to Time Trial Maka Wuhu on my 2DS growing up, so this video hit close to home.

"How to make spaghetti pasta in less than a minute" The ultimate Mario Kart 7 recipe

It's cool that you worked it together back and forth.

That was BEAUTIFUL! Great job!

this video kinda makes me wanna pick this game up again… stellar job.

I was amazed by the sub-minute 3 lap time! congrats to you two xx

Nice video, i always thought this track was kinda boring but this showed me a whole new site of it

somehow forgot to check this the other day lol, glad it showed up on my recs real cool vid, wish there was more TAS-related content like this for like any game tho rip 😔

This is a great video cant wait to see more of your videos

i knew this was gonna be wild when i heard “that could only mean it was the end of the story for mario circuit 2” and saw 21 minutes left on the video

I messed around with the frame-by-frame and savestate stuff in ZSNES back in the day before TAS was even a thing. Or, if it was, nobody had thought to document it. It was fun to figure out what was possible with the ability to essentially choose your inputs for each frame. Glad to see people are still enjoying messing around with emulators.

As a person from outside the Speedrunning community, I appreciate that you explain things and took care with your vid. You got a sub outta me g!

Just saw this video and thanks for featuring me! I didn't even know me goofing around finding glitches somehow contributed something to the Mario Kart TAS history

You know, i sometimes spend my time writing down the music of a video, because the creator didn't provide a music list (most of them don't) so I'm thankful that you did.

amazing video i remember you in the old mk7 speedrun discord keep up the good videos this is great👍

More summoningsalt style videos is never a bad thing. Great video.

smk represent. quite the strat names you guys have :DD remember getting a rmc2 tas recommended to me on youtube and while mk7 doesnt interest me i wanted to watch it as an smk time trialer and got a pleasant surprise

love the camera work when wario is first doing the pasta from freecam, thats so cool

I subscribed in hopes of you covering the history of other TASes from a variety of games (hopefully mosty nintendo :p). Really gives you appreciation for how its not a button you just click and it makes the fastest path possible, that these aren't being "computed" so much as they are imagined and theorized then proven. Its funny I chose math to compare it to because we are taught the computation aspect of math but I think that really downplays the artistic side of math. Tasses is in fact one possible expression of that artistic aspect. You could conceive of a way of breaking this down into a math equation and each section a more novel way to solve it and the creativity involved.

this video was so interesting. pls do more videos abt broken tracks! id love to watch them

Great video :) I loved this game as a kid and when I saw you could drive on the walls, I thought there was time save potential on it.

The music makes this seem like an incredibly serious documentary.

Very well done, I applaud the effort

Great vid! Mk7 is my fav cause I love the glitches and ultras

I have also tried speedruns in different games, so I understand how much effort it takes to get the time down. Sometimes I am at a loss to find a way to improve when I am so close to my goal. It's great to see the effort that has gone into overcoming that and getting us to this point. And I was impressed by the respect and cooperation among the community members for each other. Kudos for a great speedrun and an excellent community. （Deepl）

Lol, Summoning Salt needs to get a move on, you’re stealing from his zone! Great vid, it’s so funny to see gyro starting to be used in runs, and I can’t wait to see where is it capitalized on other tracks.