Key Highlights :
1. Skips and speedruns are basically like magic to me.
2. The tenacity it takes to find ways to break a game and circumvent entire sections is a skill and patience I don’t have.
3. For the Mario Kart 64 speedrunning community, Bowser’s Castle has presented a white whale in the form of a skip that requires you to drive through a specific wall.
4. The technical breakdown is pretty complex and boils down to some walls in the game being built in such a way that there’s a tiny gap for players to squeeze through.
5. Luckily, YouTube user Abyssoft has an entire video breaking down the skip, the tech behind it, and how multiple speedrunners have suddenly been able to utilise it after all these years.
6. The first time the skip was first introduced in 2021 was by speedrunner Forest64, which sparked a fire in the community to attempt to recreate it.
7. However, it wouldn’t be until almost two years later that it was recreated and used in a speedrun, resulting in some shifts in the track’s speedrunning records.
8. Forest64 himself managed to implement the skip in a run after over 200 hours of grinding and thousands of attempts on March 11, 2023 beating the previous non-shortcut time by just four-tenths of a second.
9. However, that reign would be short lived, as speedrunner Christian C. hit the skip and shaved off a second of his time just two days later on March 13.
10. The following day, speedrunner Aaron Jablonski also managed to hit the skip but wasn’t quite able to overtake Christian’s time.
11. Abyssoft’s video breaks down some of the ways this run can still be improved by using the skip, but given just how difficult it’s proven for the pros to pull off, it may be some time before anyone manages to improve the run through this method.
12. Ironically enough, after all the hubbub the world record for Bowser’s Castle was overtaken again by Beck Abney on April 4 without using the skip.
13. As of this writing, Abney’s record of 1’49″38 sits on the top spot, but there’s still room for the speedrunners to cut down the already impressive time if the skip is implemented.
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Mario Kart players have landed a groundbreaking trick after 27 years of trying.\
The trick, which was first discovered by Reddit user _Noah-_-, is called a “skips” and it allows players to bypass certain sections of a track without having to finish the race.\
To perform a skip, players need to know the location of the hidden “ghost” tracks that are only accessible after beating a race in a certain way. Once they know the location of the ghost track, they can start the race on the regular track, but instead of finishing it, they can simply jump to the ghost track and keep going.\
This trick has been used by professional Mario Kart players to bypass difficult sections of tracks, but it was only recently discovered that it was also possible to use it to skip entire races. _Noah-_- was playing a race on his local track when he decided to try the skip out. He finished the race on the regular track, but then jumped to the ghost track and kept going.\
This trick is a big deal because it allows players to skip entire races without having to finish them. This means that players can easily get ahead of the competition and take the lead in the race. It also allows players to get through difficult sections of a track that they would otherwise not be able to get through.\
This trick is a big deal because it allows players to bypass difficult sections of tracks.
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