Daisy Circuit
Daisy Circuit is the first course of the Star Cup in Mario Kart Wii.
Overview
| Type | Unrestricted | No Ultra | No Glitch |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3lap | 1:04.184 | 1:26.619 | |
| Flap | 11.556 | 23.264 | 27.447 |
Daisy Circuit has a 3lap viable ultra shortcut, and currently benefits from supersliding, superhopping, and wallclips in both 3lap and flap categories. Hence, it has three 3lap and three flap categories. However, no TAS exists for a No Ultra 3lap that implements glitches, so the No Glitch 3lap record is the No Ultra 3lap record for the time being.
Unrestricted 3lap
The current strategy for UR 3lap is to perform the ultra shortcut, and then superslide for the entire remainder of the race. To begin, a mushroom is used to perform a wallclip off of the low sidewalk wall at the beginning of lap 1 to get onto the finish line banner. Here, a floor clip is done on the banner with one mushroom to clear an invisible wall, leave CP0 without crossing back through the finish line, and land on the other side of the course. The wallclip distance by itself isn't sufficient to do this, so an OOB hop is used to cover the remaining distance. Superhopping is briefly done from here until the fountain wall, as it both increases speed and rotates the vehicle's facing direction to the right, allowing for a quicker fountain wallclip setup. Yet another wallclip is performed on the fountain to get over an invisible wall with the intention of skipping directly to the last turn of the track. Once again, however, the required distance is a problem, so the strategy is to land on the top of the tree. This converts your falling speed into horizontal speed, allowing you to bounce across and land at the very edge of the road below. Here you can enter a Wario Bike superslide (WBSS). After driving backwards shortly to hit the last KCP box and then turning around, superslide acceleration and the building of EV can begin. ~120 XZ can be reached just after lap 2 starts, and this max speed is maintained for almost the entirety of laps 2 and 3. Hitting cones on the road in a precise way can boost XZ speed for one frame. On lap 2, speed from the two cone hits reaches 202.1 XZ and 132.7 XZ respectively, and for lap 3's hit, speed reaches 130.1 XZ. At the end of lap 3, it is faster to go onto the sidewalk to take the last turn tighter. This isn't done on lap 2 because leaving the sidewalk to do the following turn would eject you from the superslide state.
Unrestricted Flap
TO DO: Write this.
No Ultra Flap
The current NU flap BKT is just the lap 3 of the UR 3lap run.
No Glitch 3lap
TO DO: Write this.
No Glitch Flap
TO DO: Write this.
History
TO DO: History of all strat developements. Section devoted to the ultra shortcut and its variations over time, as well as the wall ride and those variations over time, and finally mushroom abuse and its variations and gradual usefulness over time.
TAS Competitions
Daisy Circuit has featured in two tasks of the MKWii TAS Competition (Task 2 2021, and Special Task I).
Future
Known timesaves
UR Flap
- It is faster by about 0.15 to use Waluigi on the Wario Bike so that supersliding can be done on the section after the tree bounce. Waluigi is used for his acceleration stat.
NU Flap
- It is faster to use King Boo for his handling stat.
- It is faster to skip the lighthouse turn by performing a two-mushroom wallclip initiated by slamming into the invisible wall with large amounts of EV. The third mushroom is to be used for acceleration after landing and hopping onto the sidewalk. To use all three mushrooms for this cut, a shroomless WBSS entry is required, which can be obtained by doing a shroomless wallclip up to the banner and then wall squeezing onto the seam below.
NG 3lap
- Full input range was not available throughout most of the time this TAS was created, so wheel inputs can save time in most places in the air.
- It is faster to do a double miniturbo on the last turn of laps 1 and 2. This loses ~0.06 before the finish line, but gains about 0.09 before the first turn due to not needing to charge another miniturbo for alignment purposes, which otherwise sends you wide and puts you at drift speed for a while.
Potential timesaves
UR 3lap
- The startslide used is quite outdated, and the fastest current slide may allow for the first wallclip to be done one frame earlier.
NG 3lap
- A faster start slide exists than the one used in the current TAS. This isn't a certain timesave however, because of QM on the first turn.
References