"you see has extensive knowledge of track" and you show some chinese text probably 95% viewers can't understand🤣🤣🤣

You smell different when your awake.

@@monkstandinglast That was probably Japanese, and you're going to have to take his word for it.

@@videotape2959 Yeah I realised japanese later lol

Yo what's the song in the end of this video? Been watching your videos for a while and I'm hooked lol

Yep that is right dame I feel old

@@ar14237 Same

I don’t even get how that’s possible. I always thought I was playing it at release but apparently it was already quite old at the point I got my hands on a DS. Pretty much the Mario Kart 8 situation for many many others.

@@mt2r-music Well put! It was a gift to me well after it was created yet I still feel like I owned it from the moment it came from the factory.

finally it's legal.

This is an interesting piece of info, thanks for it.

I like the practice

Stalkers murdering online personalities is a huge problem in Japan, so many people take extreme measures to hide their identities in order to protect themselves. It can go as far as looking at the reflection in someone's iris to locate them. Loneliness is a systemic issue in that country, which explains why crazy stalkers going after their online crushes is so common.

@@Accrovideogames I think that is quite an exaggerated sensationalized view of the reason people do these things. It's mainly just cultural and how they prefer to do things. Japan in general is very big on the personification and creation of images, or some would say, de personification of person. It is why things like v tubers start there or so many artists have aliases etc. I think your given reason is hyperbole. Japan is a very safe country with low crime

Oh hey, I love the avatar. Nikki Yakata is a really cute character.

There's a suspected similar story in Fzero and SMK where a few players that were specialists on a track would set a record and post it, then set a record in secret and only post it when their time was beaten.

@@Abyssoft Wouldn't have been possible in this case, as Em0 set his record when two of the jobs used in the newest speedrun were not in the game. In his new video, those jobs were used.

Wait *the* Pydoyks? Like Shaeden/nedeahS from OOT 10 years ago? I haven't heard that name in an insanely long time.

​@@matty4351dude seems to just drop insane speedruns every now and then, most of the time being radio silent.

​@@matty4351Yep, same dude. I recommend watching Pint's video about the speedrun, he goes into Pydoyks's history a bit towards the end. Very good video.

Feels like I know you😊

to be fair, there's hidden lore to many games. even ones you'd think nobody played

Tons. I was on the japanese forums by invite and racing them back in the day. Good times

yeah. and you could easily place pixels down precisely and deliberately using the D-pad (I made a perfect 16-bit pixel art Eevee for my icon) so its not like it'd be due to shaky hands or something.

Thanks for correcting the video I was about to post this myself. xD

Lmao same here, first time I ever seen NTT out in the wild like that

Your boy out here doing wild things in Mario Kart bruh. Well, maybe not anymore but. If you can find this man, you will be handsomely rewarded. How, I don't know. But I presume it to be so.

@@Actionhank404 NTT is also the primary sponsor of indycar, so to motorsport fans they're well known

"Shit hits different"? ...Shame that stupid gaijin slang already made its way to Japan.

@@BloodwyrmWildheart NTT has employees outside of Japan dummy

Yeah, buying and cooking for yourself will ALWAYS be the cheapest means to come to food, these are convenience services, that provide to you what they offer. Usually a recipe book is all you need, get something with a lot of variety and you usually have portion sizes for 4 people, that means if you eat for two (if you're that burly man who demands lots of food) that is still a serving for two days. And much cheaper. And most recipes can be found online for free on a ton of sites.

99% of youtube sponsorships are scams. All of them. Always have been.

To be frank, dont buy sponsors, pretty much ever.

​@@NoraNoitain most countries yeah but restaurants have good sourcing and logistics for food and they are experts or stand ins for experts at cooking food. There are lots lf countries it's just much cheaper to eat out either because I can't cook well enough to make up the difference or i just don't have access to their prices they get supplies for.

@@shawnruby7011 Yeah, but in countries where it's cheaper to eat out than to buy groceries, there's usually other risks associated to eating restaurant food. Gutter oil comes to mind.

The next one is going to be insane

indeed! I've never played this game too!

mario maker 0% history?@@Abyssoft

@@antodouv there's a non 0% chance

Do you still have a way to connect ntt? That could be a super cool resolve for this mystery

One counterpoint is that it would be quite hard to believe that a single person just happened to come up with the same strats that they found over a decade

@@Padgriffin Well that DID happen to two notable runners who were accused of cheating but it turned out the cheating allegations were mostly due to community frustration and reputation than actual evidence. There's a goldeneye64 player who infamously found the way to reduce lag in levels by "looking down". People weren't aware of lag render frames at the time and many people were so angry about this working that they simply wanted to "Ban looking down" as a strategy by any means necessary cause they couldn't understand why it cut time down. In the end, as I clearly pointed out with "Reduce lag frames", the run was legit and eventually a respected member realized this by testing it himself and noticing that with less objects on the screen to draw, the game moved notably faster than when he looked at where he was going. This was a case of the community distrusting a guy due to lack of knowledge and since then, many games have players attempt to look away from laggy areas and shift the camera to cut down lag where possible/feasible. The second was this Super Mario bros lost levels player Legushi I think it was... who did cheat before and had a reputation for it that would follow him for years. What was wrong with this case was he submitted a video where he filmed himself physically turning on the game showing his controller the whole time and even filmed the TV to show all the cords were in (though he tripped so it looked like he may have been jump cutting) The moderators still harassed him for it, claiming they don't believe him and he'd have to make a cleaner video, but ONE person stepped up and said "Hold on.... I submitted a time JUST showing my keyboard on emulator and you accepted it without question, but this guy despite his past literally went out of his way to show EVERYTHING and you STILL don't believe him? Why would he go this far to film himself and his TV and everything just to cheat? What would he have to prove?" Upon reinspecting the video, they realized that indeed there was no problem and he did answer everything they asked for without complaint. They wanted to believe he was cheating so badly that they kept inventing reasons to believe he was cheating and forced him to do the run twice with video proof, which he complied, but still wouldn't accept it at first. But when the mods were called out enough, they calmed down and accepted the fact that he wasn't cheating anymore and finally put his record on the leaderboards. and since then, there've been no issues, he got his respect, made a few PBs. he wasn't even a top runner, just like top 10 or 15 or so. Just a couple of cases where yes sometimes the community or bias can be the reason a runner is accused of cheating and they tunnel in on the "Guilty until proven innocent" mentality, but if the Mods themselves are showing unfair bias or the community is annoyed by a trick because it means they have to learn something legitimate that they want to ban the trick political campaign style, it's more a reflection of the community than a single cheater. Course we never know. Maybe the two did cheat and just got away with it, but then...maybe the top runners we respect so much and are the main moderators cheated as so many minecrafters were exposed to. It'll always seem odd if a person is accused of cheating without proof and vehemently insisted that he did only for the best proof to be "speculation" on what possibilities are. It's so easy to fake this stuff and pretend to be someone else online.

By any chance is there videos covering all of these stories? I want to go deeper down the rabbit hole

@@novathefallenstarwarrior goose's gamer folklore has a good video on the wave race one, it's a really interesting watch, and it's interesting to see how the community tried to disprove it just because it took them years to get to that time, but the guy ended up having a vhs tape that proved the actual time, he even had his time featured in a magazine if i remember right

@@Padgriffin You realize the irony in your counterpoint right? The fact that a single person happened to find the strat a decade after the other single person randomly discovered it? The only difference being one posted about it online informing others, sure it's a community looking for strats/glitches/exploits, but you can't call it a group discovery when they weren't hunting that specific thing because nobody (Except that one guy I suppose) knew it existed, it's not like they knew it could be done but weren't sure how or were hunting a consistent setup The reality is probably a mix of healthy skepticism and a dose of ego. Nobody wants cheaters in the community, especially if it's seemingly so egregious, but in the same breath the ego of the community won't allow them to accept someone found something nobody within the community had, especially when it may have been right under their noses the whole time

No auto translate was used actually, everything that was translated in the video was done by a member of the MKDS community that speaks Japanese.

@@Abyssoft thanks for responding! I was wrong about the auto translate, but the translation itself was slightly off so I felt the need to correct it to make the original comment less racist haha

There's a group of people who really want gringo to become a loan word in english for some reason, I'm guessing that's why.

@@Greenleaf_​imo it’s more likely that the translator was a Japanese speaker who had been introduced to the word via latino slang in media and took it as another term for “foreigner”

I’m assuming “foreigner” was a slightly too formal translation for “gaijin” for them

Yeah that's what I was thinking. the only proof that "Rainbow road guy is probably not NT" is his "driving was ALLEGEDLY worse..." That's quite a stretch, like saying "This guy is NT because he plays the NTSC version of the game and both have NT". I don't think anyone ever wants to take some comments' word on the content of a video where the quality of the racing as serious evidence. Really the bigger hint is him casually dropping the name "Bjork" when asked about NT. but the most concrete evidence of anything fishy would come from the gameplay and the hard numbers. Or maybe the whole thing is a ruse since we don't have footage of the first set of runs. Hehe, it's fun to solve these mysteries, but gotta avoid tunnel vision or grasping at straws for clues. Any one of us could just say "I'm NT!" and lead people down a rabbit hole simply cause everyone's looking for an alter ego.

Would agree. Risky, cause being bad on purpose yet still winning where it counts, draws more attention to yourself.

@@MarioMastar Unless multiple people are the NTT imposter, one for the cheats, one for the driving, and one for the Japanese?

Looks like my current ranking for AF in PBR in the US is 139, and 518 in the world! Not bad for not submitting a time since december 2008. Proud of my middle school self 😌

come back to the game bro

out of curiosity what year did you play/name did you go by?

Because it's online video gaming communities, the easiest thing to peace-out of ever. Just don't post anymore. Lol

Yep same! And I was actually not even a MK player but a Street Fighter player🤣.

It gets worse if you're watching a CIA video lol.

@@JosiahBradleyThat comment was ultra clever

Sounds like ntt was scared.

"Final destination, only fox, no items"

They increase your speed the more you have to a max of 10

And from 7 until 8 deluxe they unlock kart pieces.​@@Abyssoft

@@Abyssoft Wow thank you lol

​@@504ever4bro you was driving fast and slow all these years and never knew why XD

Nintendo TS

​@@Bestsoft100hey whoa whoa let's not give Nintendo any blasphemous ideas

Former champ than played the game a ton and was one of the first to post his online matches via webcam pointed at the DS to KZfaq before streaming platforms were a thing.

If you are a tank engine, might as well do races, right?

​@@SushiElemental😂 man that show used to be my shit back in the day

Hey its you

yeah he def swapped it

Lmfaooo this comment got me good

that part was actually machine translated because it was just way too long :)

I edited the clip to cut out the in between stuff

Cheaters who used subtle methods of cheating to gain fame in the competitive community are frowned upon even more than the typical Davidevgen wannabe who spams items or uses speedhack