Hey all, it's been a while and I kinda wanted to update on what I've been trying to accomplish and also what's going on in life to make it take so long.

On my to do list is trying to make a video walkthrough for the current any% route, hopefully with the goal that it clarifies stuff that the text based route glosses over and also covers things like movement and the decision making of the route itself. I'm taking this on to try and preserve what knowledge of speed tech we have and condense it so that it's easily digestible by people unfamiliar with the game. With the recent inclusion of emulator runs, I figured this would be a handy guide for people who up until recently had no accessible way to speedrun on Wii with the closure of the Wii Shop Channel.

As for what's happening in the real world, I'm sure the quarantine needs no introduction. For me personally it's been mind crushing and worry about the future has been a burden that has prevented me from advancing a lot of my personal projects despite having plenty of time to work on them. I work in technical theater and live events, which has been hit really hard the past year, however in my area we are finally bringing back safe and distanced outdoor events, along with my state of Virginia entering Phase 2 of vaccine rollout allowing the general public, along with myself, quick access to vaccination. So, my professional world is in quite a frenzy at the moment trying to reorient itself, however I hope it will give me new life to work on projects like this when I have the time again.

So far I have most of a script written up, with room to add and change where improvements can be made, and am working on getting enough gameplay footage, controller cam footage, and some graphics done before I do voice over. I probably won't get around to this again until later this month, so until then I thought I would open up the floor to suggestions for other possible things and ideas to include. Once I am comfortable that I've included everything I want in the script, I will post a Pastebin for review.

But that's what's going on. I get my second shot on the 26th, and I hope by then things will have calmed down enough that I can make this a priority. Then maybe my world will look a bit clearer and I'll have a better idea how to move forward with this idea too.

This game recently came out on Nintendo Switch, and although I doubt it, I was curious if there were any version differences between it and previous releases.

This is something I found a while ago, and figured I would share since I'm starting to want to get into speedrunning this game sometime soon.