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Hey! I just bought a PS2 and I plan on speedrunning this game when I get everything set up. It was one of my favorites growing up. I have some questions:

1. When does timing start? Is it when the light turns green? I am confused because I just watched your monumental motoplex 3 lap run and to me it seems more like a 3:55 than a 3:49. Maybe I don't know how the splits work (this is my first time using this site or getting involved with speedrunning) or maybe you timed it wrong? Just curious. (EDIT: I just saw that after the race it displays an in game time so disregard this question)

2. Do you know of any disadvantage that comes from playing on a PS2 as opposed to a Game Cube?

3. What do you think the limit is for the "All Race Tracks" category?

Thank you :)

• WUB

Hello, so to answer you're two questions:

1. I do not know, I only played this on gamecube, and i do want to see if there was any differences.

2. Honestly there isn't a limit I can see yet, because in the current world record, the time was set before two major skips were found, those are the Kaz skip, and the loop skip. Kaz skip was found a by a streamer who found that if you are in freekout mode on burn it up, and are at the 3 turn section near the end, you can just go straight up a rock wall and save some time doing that. The loop skip was found by me on Gnome Sweet Gnome, at the beginning after the start, you can jump to the left, either missing or going around the billboard to land on the other side then going backwards to jump out of bounds and getting spawned back on the tack you just jumped off. In total I think the skip saves about 2-3 minutes, and I still have some cleaning up on the other 4 tracks so I think I can get it close to 34 minutes.

The loop skip: https://www.twitch.tv/myohmypancakes/video/531110962

The Kaz skip: https://www.twitch.tv/kazwach0wsk1/video/486772654

Awesome thanks for the info! This game really gave me hours of joy when I was a kid. I was hoping there would be a bigger speedrunning community for this game considering it is a game designed for going fast. Looks like there is a lot of room for discovery and improvement though which should be fun.