Is there a step-by-step tutorial on how to do the shell grab and throw thingy? I wanna tie (or get close to) the il record.

I had plans of making a tutorial on it, but the lack of input display makes it kinda hard to explain even with vid. I’ll get into the specifics once I get home today, but for now I suggest studying the ILs by Mitch and me, along with Hartmann’s TAS. You’ll want to get the hang of the spacing between small hopping on flat ground and throwing the shell before landing on a slope. Those inputs aren’t as difficult as they look, and by timing them well enough you have several frames of leeway to do a hyperspeed jump.

↑ vid link so you don’t have to hop between tabs

I’ll skip the part about grabbing the shell since it’s really just about optimization. Nothing too important about it in regards to this trick unless you do it too slow. If you do it too slow, the goomba off screen will start climbing up the hill and you’ll have less room to work with, and likely mess up the initial “speed” throw

while still maintaining horizontal momentum from grabbing shell and turning right, do a small hop and throw it before landing on a slope. You don’t want to touch ➝ while you’re on the ground, since Mario will go into sliding animation and “drop” his shell

So the inputs after grabbing are:

1.) Dash+jump 2.) Holding right, quickly release dash to throw the shell in midair and hold dash again 3.) The most important part: as Mario finishes his throwing animation on the slope, release ➝ while still holding dash, and jump at the same time 4.) If done correctly, Mario will fly at an insane speed. All you need to do now is keep doing frame-perfect jumps to maintain the speed

Again, apologies for the poorly documented “tutorial” here. It’d be way easier if I had input display of some sort

Thanks so much Andre, hopefully i get a 270 or 271 soon enough lol