Thanks to the Mario Kart Wii community for having an incredible scene. Absolutely could not have done it without them. The following people should be particularly credited for helping greatly with research: Blaze: ukposts.info/the/QNKPAUvVZvvtpEJBrMsqXg.html Braixen: www.twitch.tv/bbraixen cf: ukposts.info Ejay: ukposts.info Jellopuff: ukposts.info/the/UjE8oTqClAchc9Ojkkx4LQ.html Malleo: ukposts.info Additionally, I had a small group of people help me with my first Mario Kart Wii video a couple years ago. The following two people helped me immensely: MrBean35000vr: www.twitch.tv/mrbean35000vr SwordofSeals I’ve loved covering the community in the two videos I’ve made so far, and hope to make more down the road as these players break the game even more!

Imagine you went to heaven, but god said *”The lap didn’t count”*

I’m convinced Summoning Salt could make a 50 minute narration of his breakfast work. “But in the span of less than ten minutes, not one, but THREE new condiments were consumed. Welcome... to Triple-Berry Jam City.”

15:27 "And he chose to spend his three-minute wait by eating an entire pack of Oreo cookies." Madlad

15.25 "and he chose to spend his 3 minute wait eating an entire pack of Oreo Cookies. A couple of weeks later this method was improved in a TAS" Didnt know there is TAS optimization when it comes to eating cookies.

Ok can we just take a moment to appreciate how Salt called the Rainbow Road ultra shortcut the “holy grail”, and Arthur was the one to claim it? That’s perfect wordplay

>eats a bag of Oreos in 3 min >Gets 20 second record >"Over time, this method would be improved" >me thinking the TAS eats two bags of Oreos in 3 min

44:09 the delight in his voice when he says "hello SummoningSalt!" so wholesome

Me: Please can I have the good chemicals My brain: No Summoning Salt: *Plays some cool music for a few seconds after saying the name of a track from Mario Kart Wii* My brain: Now you may have the good chemicals

“He chose to spend that 3 minutes by eating an entire pack of Oreo cookies.” Weird flex but ok.

“Justin became the first player to set a world record with a 20 second lap. He spent his 3 minutes eating an entire pack of Oreo cookies” What an absolute mad lad.

For those wondering, both DS Peach Gardens and Daisy Circuit have Ultra Shortcuts now. Peach Gardens was broken not long after this video was published, and Daisy Circuit was broken 2-3 weeks ago. I’d recommend checking them out, they’re both insane!

One of the best parts about mariokart wii is that compared to 8 deluxe, lakitu doesn’t care if you break time and space just as long as you’re aware you’re not going the intended path

"So what is an ultra shortcut? Well, imagine a bus that skips most of its route and still makes it to its stop."

"Who was crazy enough to try and get all of that" Me: "Logan?" "The answer, of course, was Logan"

knowing that there's a discord of all the ultra shortcut gods popping off together is so cute

I believe this is why Funky Kong hasn't made a return to the series, his presence is disasterous to the fabric of reality

The most impressive thing about all this is that the guy managed to eat an entire pack of Oreos in 3 minutes

My favorite thing about Summoning Salt is how he talks like a professor describing historical figures but all the names were made up by teenagers on the internet.

"And then came 2020" sounds like something I'm gonna say to my grandchildren a lot.

For those too lazy to open the doc: Episode 35: Mario Kart Wii: The Ultra Shortcut Revolution (0:00) HOME - We’re Finally Landing (1:32) Stevia Sphere - Polar bears (2:39) Chris Doerksen - Night Running (3:32) HOME - Resonance (5:39) Stevia Sphere - Misplaced My Keys (7:38) Prism Age - Plural (9:17) TheOfficialLobst - Interdimensional (11:13) Patricia Taxxon - Wavetable (13:12) HOME - Flood (16:07) TheOfficialLobst - Andromeda (17:59) HOME - Forget (19:43) HOME - Headcase (21:01) HOME - Receiver (22:07) HOME - 4 (23:28) Prism Age - Ivresse (26:19) Mini - Night Cruise (28:43) HOME - Carrier Wave (30:13) Henrik Jonsson - As Darkness Falls (32:15) HOME - Teacher (34:33) HOME - Mainframe (36:10) Patricia Taxxon - Soaring (39:15) Foewi 2 - Descriptor (41:42) Color Index - Intervals (43:07) TheOfficialLobst - Cosmos (45:05) Patricia Taxxon - Retrograde (48:02) Kevin Macleod - Man Down (50:33) HOME - We’re Finally Landing

TAS is just such an unreal speedrunner. It's funny how everyone jokes that he's a machine cuz of how good he is.

“Who’s going to be the author? Turns out, I was pretty close” Gave me chills man

Salt, from the bottom of my heart, thank you. When I was a kid, my dad and I would play this game every Saturday morning together. Mario Kart is a part of my childhood. This video opened my eyes to a community that has an even bigger attachment to this wonderful game than I do. I wish I could’ve been there to see this when it happened. Thank you, I tip my hat to you, sir

Update: Rainbow Road is now sub-2 minutes with a WR by Justin using the shooting star. Perhaps the last minute barrier in MKWii ever - but you never know.

Imagine you went to Heaven but God said: "You missed the 0 Region"

Summoning Salt is like a solar eclipse: Doesn't happen often, but when it does, you knows it's gonna be special.

15:32 "I'm eating with no milk by the way." Absolute menace.

0:00 Intro 1:29 What is an Ultra Shortcut? 6:05 N64 Sherbet Land 7:51 95% Rule 11:15 N64 Bowser’s Castle 13:44 GBA Shy Guy Beach 16:21 Koopa Cape 18:07 N64 Mario Raceway 21:17 Dry Dry Ruins 23:38 GBA Bowser Castle 3 28:18 GCN Waluigi Stadium 32:16 SNES Ghost Valley 2 34:00 N64 Bowser’s Castle RTA 38:36 Koopa Cape RTA 39:13 Rainbow Road 45:06 Rainbow Road RTA

I swear to god this man turns mario kart into the pinnacle of human ingenuity

Here we go again!

29:40 is THE most insane thing I’ve seen in Mario Kart

"its not a lap count, dont get too excited" that single sentence is so heartbreaking.

Me who has literally never attempted a speed run: "wow look at what we've accomplished :')"

Arthur after hitting the Rainbow Road ultra shortcut probably: "I'm using tilt controls!"

You have such a way with storytelling that I can freaking tear up over a video about Mario Kart Wii, of all things. Please never stop making these.

Petition to force Summoning Salt to make a part three to ultra shortcuts

I love it when "HOME - We're finally landing" starts playing and I feel the chills on my back knowing something awesome is about to happen

this is like a nat geo vid about the fall of the soviet union but with people with names like happysugar who have funky kong profile pics and i love it its so beautiful.

I genuinely suck at video games but I love learning about their communities, it's so inspiring, It feels so epic

The Justin & Benny flip was insane. If someone ever manages to pull it off, I’m gonna be ecstatic.

Dad: "Son please can we just play normally"

i love that summoning salt is popular enough now that people reference him when they make world records

i still remember someone telling me about the 0:20 vulcano map shortcut, where you drive around the rock. im amazed how old this one is and that someone told me about it when i was like 10. insane how old this one is

By the end of this video, I was just smiling like an idiot. You are a great story teller, and clearly very passionate about everything you make videos about. I love learning about the speed running community, keep up the good work!

If anyone asks me what happened in 2020, I'm saying "Ah yes, the year of the Ultra Shortcut" and nothing else

I cannot describe how good this is. All the emotions it brings... Being part of it makes it even better. Just, thank you.

Imagine this guy recalling and analyzing your life explaining how your decisions led to this very moment over that intro music

The fact that there is now a newer, way easier way to make the Rainbow Road Ultra Shortcut is just insane

3am: "I should go to bed" *Summoning Salt video drops* "I'll do what needs to be done"

*2008* "Hey, just so you know, there's a missing wall on Koopa Cape." "Oh shoot, where?" "Nah, it's okay. The players won't find it."

Watching these is like watching history being made right in front of you. It's so hype when he stops the music and stops talking, you know a record is about to be made!!

Coming back to this video always makes me happy

I love how speedruners when they see "humanly impossible" they basically say "no" and discover an insane way to turn it possible

Koopa Cape has finally been done humanly through a new method discovered 2 days ago, so this video was just a tiny bit too early. Oof.

39:16 Haven't played mariokart in like 10 years and this is the first mario kart speedrun content I've ever watched. Yet I still somehow knew he was talking about Rainbow Road 😂

This video was great. Growing up I was fortunate enough to have family focused parents, who made "game night" a priority every week/every other week. After we got our wii (which came with MK) we only picked Mario Kart to play for months. We played it so much and made so many memories. It got to the point that my mom and dad would practice together in DUOs on weekends when my sister and I were out with our friends. I used these ultra shortcuts on only a few maps to frequently ensure I would always come out on top. Such good times. Thanks for the video, it brought back a lot of great memories.

“we can’t go through the wall” “we can’t go under it” “we have to go over it!”

Justin by far has the most gamer energy in the whole video. A full pack of Oreos, no milk? Absolute champion

Summoningsalt being so straight-faced in his joke delivery makes things like the Author/Arthur thing so much funnier. Most of the time there aren't jokes, but when delivering one, he really goes for it. Love this channel!

since this video was posted 3 more tracks have an ultra for them and koopa cape has a humanly possible method. Just waiting for the inevitable summoning salt video on it

2019: Jump out in this general direction then die 2020: That invisible wall cant stop me!

mario kart wheel

happy anniversary! this was my first ever summoning salt video and ever since i’ve been hooked and watched them all :) keep up the amazing work 💙

I have never been interested in speedrunning games before, but after watching almost every video that you have, I've been intrigued by it. The quality of your videos is also just astounding.

"Doing the Waluigi Stadium shortcut three laps in a row is extremely unlikely." Me: *remembers the triple weathertenko*

Dude performed speedruns on Mario Kart Wii's Shy Guy Beach single lap and Oreo Cookies pack No Milk% at once. He's a beast

The transition at @50.50 where you sum up this masterpiece with arthur completing the ultra might be the most satisfied I've ever been with a video this long on youtube. Just awesome. Thank you

(0:00) HOME - We’re Finally Landing (1:32) Stevia Sphere - Polar bears (2:39) Chris Doerksen - Night Running (3:32) HOME - Resonance (5:39) Stevia Sphere - Misplaced My Keys (7:38) Prism Age - Plural (9:17) TheOfficialLobst - Interdimensional (11:13) Patricia Taxxon - Wavetable (13:12) HOME - Flood (16:07) TheOfficialLobst - Andromeda (17:59) HOME - Forget (19:43) HOME - Headcase (21:01) HOME - Receiver (22:07) HOME - 4 (23:28) Prism Age - Ivresse (26:19) Mini - Night Cruise (28:43) HOME - Carrier Wave (30:13) Henrik Jonsson - As Darkness Falls (32:15) HOME - Teacher (34:33) HOME - Mainframe (36:10) Patricia Taxxon - Soaring (39:15) Foewi 2 - Descriptor (41:42) Color Index - Intervals (43:07) TheOfficialLobst - Cosmos (45:05) Patricia Taxxon - Retrograde (48:02) Kevin Macleod - Man Down (50:33) HOME - We’re Finally Landing

I hope he knows that he was one of the biggest factors to the boom. Without your videos interest wouldn’t have come up for these. Thank you Mr. Salt.

Found your docs, and have been binge watching them all. You definitely have a talent for documentary style videos. I’ve never really been into speed running, though I’ve watched a few over the years. However, these videos I found totally intriguing, and interesting. Keep doing what you’re doing. You could do docs on just about anything, and I believe it’d be successful. Great content, and the passion behind these videos definitely shines through. Take care!

Yo dude- grats on a million!! Very well deserved- your channel is amazing. Content is really top notch!!

"Note what I said - *was* impossible" Top 10 anime plot twists

Well, I arrived at this late but I am the Jaden mentioned in the video. Finding the OOB spot was a very surreal experience for me. I almost did not bother sharing my discovery at all, figuring it was already known and debunked, so I am very grateful that I did. If you want to see a piece of MKW history I still have the old rMR theory video up on my channel. I have mostly moved on from theorizing glitches and focus on making custom tracks now, a whole other side of the Mario Kart Wii community I highly recommend checking out. It is insane to think it has been over two years since the original ultra shortcut video (which inspired me to look into rMR in the first place), and how much has happened since then. I can't wait to see what else this community does next!

Need a part 3 immediately. Justin is nuts

There are 2 feelings you get at the end of summoning salt videos. Extreme satisfaction or extreme emptiness when its so close but isnt there. Best channel on YT

Alternate title: people bullying a videogame for 50 minutes straight

broke: “floor” woke: “horizontal wall”

Summoning Salt, I have fallen in love with each and every one of your videos since you put the first one out. Keep up the good work, and continue to make excellent Content for everyone to enjoy and learn from. Maybe even shed a tear or two off of some of the stories that you tell. Thank you so much for what you do.

What a fucking roller-coaster of emotions! The ending was so perfect! With only 2 minutes left, I thought the video was over until that amazing Arthur moment!! Great video!

"Logan about to be the star if summoningsalt makes ultra shortcut part 2" They're learning.

Not ONLY is it a new Summoning Salt masterpiece, but on the speedrunning of Mario Kart Wii?! I need to set some low lighting, candles and a warm bath for this one.

I’m ngl lately I’ve been getting absolutely fried out of my god damn mind and watching all of these speedrunning history vids. Safe to say I have been having a blast, cheers!

wow i seriously choked up watching those last two minutes. the outburst of support from all corners of the community is so inspiring.

I love the way he doesn't talk after showing the Rainbow Road glitch. Shows how legendary of an achievement it is.

"But remember what i said earlier?" Proceeds to show his own clip and still put credits in for his own youtube on his own video

I think ive rewatched this video close to 5-10 times now, and it still doesnt get old.

These videos have such a great vibe. They keep me grinding and feeling good about it :)

Hearing Arthur say “I did it” repeatedly filled me with soo much dopamine

It’s the little things, like Salt going out of his way to reference himself in the same video and time stamp it. His subtle humor is always appreciated

i still remember the excitement around the internet as the news about rainbow road broke out. i think this is one of those videos ill always come back to, it fills me with SUCH joy.

I found this channel by pure accident, and now I'm hooked, the music is calming, the narration is top-notch, and the topics are really cool.

Everyone: “2020 sucked.” Mario Kart Wii Speedrunners: “Well yes, but actually no.”

Man this is gonna be good

The last 2 minutes are fantastic. The motion graphics and video quality don't even need to be spectacular, the storytelling and music bring out the emotion and you feel what Arthur feels.

I love these kinds of videos. When they deep dig into how the game works and behind the scenes of the actual purpose, without actually explaining how the literal code works.

my favourite things about these videos are always the names, “Brian P held the record, but Marshmallow Man, ZTFX and FurryFox233 were breathing down his neck for the new world record”

Imagine nascar with ultra shortcuts.

This is such an inspiring documentary that really pulls you in making you feel like you were there to witness these incredible feats

This is one of the best channels on youtube ive watched every documentary-style video at least 5 times each i have no clue why but i just love this channel