The Biggest Mystery in Mario Kart

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  • @Abyssoft
    @Abyssoft  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +299

    Huge thanks to Abel, Acid, and TB1 for help on this video, what a rabbit hole to go down.

    • @monkstandinglast
      @monkstandinglast 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

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

    • @ZODIACC-wn1qd
      @ZODIACC-wn1qd 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You smell different when your awake.

    • @videotape2959
      @videotape2959 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @monkstandinglast
      @monkstandinglast 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@videotape2959 Yeah I realised japanese later lol

    • @dylanshepherd6232
      @dylanshepherd6232 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @frijolitoazul4343
    @frijolitoazul4343 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1298

    What do you MEAN mario kart ds is 18 years old!?

    • @ar14237
      @ar14237 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

      Yep that is right dame I feel old

    • @SquirrelTheorist
      @SquirrelTheorist 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@ar14237 Same

    • @mt2r-music
      @mt2r-music 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

      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.

    • @SquirrelTheorist
      @SquirrelTheorist 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@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.

    • @NoraNoita
      @NoraNoita 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

      finally it's legal.

  • @NoraNoita
    @NoraNoita 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +886

    Nothing in particular related to mario kart, but it's quite common practice for Japanese Video makers, to use a mute background, usually lined in cloth and wearing gloves when showing of things, from gunpla to cooking or to creating other things, partially to hide their identity and partially to just take the focus away from anything distracting.

    • @Abyssoft
      @Abyssoft  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +289

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

    • @vgamedude12
      @vgamedude12 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      I like the practice

    • @Accrovideogames
      @Accrovideogames 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      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.

    • @vgamedude12
      @vgamedude12 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +80

      @@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

    • @FamilyTeamGaming
      @FamilyTeamGaming 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @lens_hunter
    @lens_hunter 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +559

    We have something like this is FF14. Recently a TH-camr named Pint broke the record for climbing Kugane Tower, taking the six year old record from someone named Em0_oticon. One day after he posted the video, Em0 came out of nowhere and shattered his record.
    Turns out Em0 was a speedrunner previously named Pydoyks who had some world records in other games but just disappeared. It caused quite the uproar for a time lmao.

    • @Abyssoft
      @Abyssoft  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +199

      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.

    • @lens_hunter
      @lens_hunter 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

      @@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.

    • @matty4351
      @matty4351 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

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

    • @jambott5520
      @jambott5520 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

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

    • @lens_hunter
      @lens_hunter 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      ​@@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.

  • @TR1Zai
    @TR1Zai 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +137

    I never knew competitive Mario Kart DS had so much lore

    • @Nathan-dt2tu
      @Nathan-dt2tu 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

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

    • @meowmix0008
      @meowmix0008 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

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

  • @mkdsabel
    @mkdsabel 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +282

    NTT's case has perplexed me and many others for almost two decades now. I never got to race him but I'm so glad it's being covered properly for TH-cam. Thank you so much!

    • @pitcat6577
      @pitcat6577 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Feels like I know you😊

  • @ddnava96
    @ddnava96 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Forget that the icon doesn't match. If you look at the first icon it's pretty clear that NTT cared about having a perfect icon and it's perfectly symmetrical, but the newer one seems like it was simply drawn by hand with no care about how it actually looks

  • @rc_neko
    @rc_neko 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +80

    It's so weird to see my employers company logo in a speedrun documentation.
    NTT is amongst the biggest telecommunications providers in Japan.
    Shit hits different

    • @Actionhank404
      @Actionhank404 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

    • @mathprodigy
      @mathprodigy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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.

    • @raykreiger4123
      @raykreiger4123 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

    • @BloodwyrmWildheart
      @BloodwyrmWildheart หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @Actionhank404
      @Actionhank404 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BloodwyrmWildheart NTT has employees outside of Japan dummy

  • @micahsmith2066
    @micahsmith2066 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +174

    Hey, I just wanted to talk about your sponsor Factor.
    They aren't the cheap meal source people talk about them to be. Their intro price is low to get people in, but after you first box, the price per meal jumps up to 10-12 dollars USD. That's fast food price around here.
    I get that they are convenient and quick, and their customer service is decent enough, but people shouldn't consider it a money-saver for more than their first box.

    • @NoraNoita
      @NoraNoita 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

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      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.

    • @agenticex
      @agenticex 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @TheKastellan
      @TheKastellan 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

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

    • @shawnruby7011
      @shawnruby7011 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@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.

    • @Nathan-dt2tu
      @Nathan-dt2tu 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@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.

  • @juanmanueletchebarnearias440
    @juanmanueletchebarnearias440 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +101

    Small correction at 16:25, Alaktorn is not Japanese, he does know the language quite fluently, but he is Italian. This was such a cool video, didn't know about this at all.

  • @clownymoosebean
    @clownymoosebean หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    The idea of an ordinary japanese business men who just so happens to be a god at mario kart is such a hilariously wholesome prospect to me.
    Like he only plays the game in what precious little free time he has, and his brain makes the most of it by gifting him with an expert understanding on the game's mechanics and improving his reflexes specifically for playing this game. It's just his instincts on efficiency kicking in.

  • @JimMilton-ej6zi
    @JimMilton-ej6zi 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +179

    One thing i find odd in a lot of these videos is how hard that tunnel vision is in those communities. They seem to think that just because they did something their way, that means that every mario kart player in the entire world did it exactly like their niche community did, and that wouldn't be a problem if they didn't then try to act like it's credible evidence that somehow disproves someone's legitimacy.
    Reminds me of that one wave race 64 guy who had the world record for 14 years but no one knew because he wasn't in the community. People tried to say his time was impossible because their community didn't find X trick until years later, so they tried to call him a fraud based on their own community despite it being a fraction of actual players. He found the tape of his record and it actually showed he was doing those extremely advanced tricks years before anyone else found them, and they were just so short sighted that they didn't believe someone could've discovered it outside of their personal community.
    Idk if what the guy did was cheating or not but if i was them i'd try to avoid using evidence under the guise of "our community doesn't do X personally therefore anyone else doesn't do it either" because that's just shortsighted at best and is a sign of an overinflated ego at worst.

    • @Padgriffin
      @Padgriffin 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      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

    • @MarioMastar
      @MarioMastar 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

      @@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.

    • @novathefallenstarwarrior
      @novathefallenstarwarrior 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

    • @JimMilton-ej6zi
      @JimMilton-ej6zi 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      @@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

    • @TheCynicalJedi
      @TheCynicalJedi 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@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

  • @lp6702sv
    @lp6702sv 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +70

    You're such a good story-teller. I never played MK ds and I've never been into speed running, but I watch all your videos because you tell the stories in such a compelling way. Can't wait for the next one!

    • @Abyssoft
      @Abyssoft  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      The next one is going to be insane

    • @XxguaxinimxX.
      @XxguaxinimxX. 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      indeed! I've never played this game too!

    • @antodouv
      @antodouv 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      mario maker 0% history?@@Abyssoft

    • @Abyssoft
      @Abyssoft  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@antodouv there's a non 0% chance

  • @obakeidoromaster
    @obakeidoromaster 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    As a Japanese person who was playing MKDS at the time, this video is truly amazing.
    I was surprised to see Japanese local chats and forums presented as reference material. I respect Abyssoft's excellent research.
    Now, personally, I had a very close friendship with NTT and Mander, and NTT was actually a player with top-notch skills.
    And after he left MKDS in 2007, I suspect Mander might have used NTT and Bjork's names for mischief.
    Mander is such an extraordinary gamer that he holds world records in games other than MK, so I don't think his skills are cheats.
    However, he is also an engineer with extraordinary cheating skills.
    I wouldn't be surprised if he created shortcut TAS on RR and used a flash cart to make it look like a legitimate run, just to prank the community.

    • @HiFisch94
      @HiFisch94 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

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

  • @Dragoonsoul7878
    @Dragoonsoul7878 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    As someone who is knowledgeable with deception, you don't have to apply 100% effort at a race at all times. In fact if you were a known player driving intentionally worse is the best way to hide yourself.
    But even casually practicing it isn't always worth applying 110% effort when doing non-practice stuff.
    Basically anything about a person being worse but doing well with tricks doesn't work as evidence for anything because there is so many other factors that it can't even be used as supporting for other evidence. It is icing that might make the cake taste better but it doesn't make the cake truthful.

    • @MarioMastar
      @MarioMastar 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

    • @abloogywoogywoo
      @abloogywoogywoo 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @LucianDevine
      @LucianDevine หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @kidcrow1393
    @kidcrow1393 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +185

    Few points of clarification:
    -At 8:44, the auto translate falsely translated "foreigner" into "gringo" lol
    -NTT east japan is one of the biggest telecommunication companies in japan, so it seems plausible this person was making frequent trips and dropped out (but not too plausible they had enough free time to be great at mariokart in the first place bc work culture)

    • @Abyssoft
      @Abyssoft  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +75

      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.

    • @kidcrow1393
      @kidcrow1393 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      @@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

    • @Greenleaf_
      @Greenleaf_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      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.

    • @Padgriffin
      @Padgriffin 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      @@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”

    • @_nwL
      @_nwL 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

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

  • @Zzslayr
    @Zzslayr 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    I peaked around 29th in the US and around 300-400 in the world back in that era in mkds. You said the name Thomas Bolton and you really brought me back.. Thank you for making this!!!

    • @Zzslayr
      @Zzslayr 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      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 😌

    • @shinygiveaways1920
      @shinygiveaways1920 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      come back to the game bro

  • @Poisonjam7
    @Poisonjam7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I would love it so much if NTT really did turn out to be a 40 something year old businessman who makes frequent trips to China but also just happens to be a god at MKDS. That would be so hilariously awesome.

  • @Alkaris
    @Alkaris 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I wouldn't say gloves and black cloth background is suspicious, that's pretty common for some Japanese folk to do, either for no distractions or to hide their anything that could identify them in videos. It can also be to not have finger print smudges and sweat greasing up the console controls which will mess up your button inputs if your hands and fingers are slipping on button inputs, because you sweat through your hands also.
    I would probably guess the two after 2007 were copycats trying to cheat a time, had extensive knowledge on how NTT plays and the tricks they pull off, as well as having extensive knowledge on AR Code manipulation on DS games.

  • @LLInnovA
    @LLInnovA 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    That video of Bjork inserting the MKDS cartridge looks like it came from a creepypasta

  • @Nac1xem
    @Nac1xem 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    8:40 - You could reset your W/L ratio whenever you wanted, so its possible he just reset it any got a better streak
    I did the same also when I played the game. I had thousands of games played, I remember my w/l ratio being only like 50-60% something like 600 wins/500 losses before I learned how to snake competitively. As I became more competitive, I reset my w/l a few times the more i got better. I ended up having something like 1000+wins with only like 100-200 losses.

    • @MKDSKairu763
      @MKDSKairu763 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @maskedsonja5722
    @maskedsonja5722 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    The sheer amount in these records vids of people pretending to be other people, totally ghosting out, subterfuge, mystery-its fascinating to see the lengths people will go to in order get a best time,y hook or crook! Thank you these videos, these are fascinating insights into a world which I had no idea people would do anything to raise the stakes! Awesome stuff!

    • @mathprodigy
      @mathprodigy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @Dante02d12
    @Dante02d12 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    From a reddit post about this same story:
    "NTT and TB1 met in a Japanese chat room that only few foreigners knew about. NTT spoke only Japanese, and requested the match to be "no items". [...] According to Thomas, NTT explicitly stated his reasoning for playing no items -- *he doesn't need them to win."*
    How friggin _badass_ NTT was, xD!

    • @haveagreatday6952
      @haveagreatday6952 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Sounds like ntt was scared.

    • @chipi4179
      @chipi4179 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "Final destination, only fox, no items"

  • @jabrowski_
    @jabrowski_ หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Would the real NT please stand up? We're gunna have a problem here

  • @EdmondDantes224
    @EdmondDantes224 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +82

    You know you're losing your mind when you're watching a video about Mario Kart but still instinctively read MK as "Mortal Kombat."

    • @George-fu9vu
      @George-fu9vu 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

    • @JosiahBradley
      @JosiahBradley 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

    • @mamba2242
      @mamba2242 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@JosiahBradleyThat comment was ultra clever

  • @danylachancequirion
    @danylachancequirion 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The "emblem" is literally NTT logo; Nippon Telegraph and Telephone.

  • @CaptainDog87
    @CaptainDog87 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I know this is a personal Anecdote, but one of the things I hated about playing Mario Kart DS online is that as of 2007 I never played a single game that didn't have a cheater.

  • @JesusIsAMoose
    @JesusIsAMoose 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    This guy is the Max Headroom of MKDS

  • @revenevan11
    @revenevan11 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This feels like a "Pepe Sylvia" moment 😅 I love me some good red-string stories, especially when they're nonfiction!

  • @MKDSKairu763
    @MKDSKairu763 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    1:59
    Sun Wolsi's wifi record might be the most impressive in the history of the game.

  • @vini64
    @vini64 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    What a fascinating mystery this is... Incredible how well documented this is despite being something that happened in the mid-to-late 2000s in a fairly niche community. I'd just like to offer a correction, when you bring up a player named ALAKTORN you say they're Japanese, but they're actually Italian. I used to be active in a records website called Cyberscore in the late 2000s, which was pretty popular around that time, and ALAKTORN was a moderator and one of the most prominent players there. I can confirm it's the same person you mentioned here because they were one of the top MKDS players in the website.

  • @marioisawesome8218
    @marioisawesome8218 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    16:55 you're able to transfer ghost data via wireless connections, or you can just cheat the time using AR codes. unless the described video clip actually shows the whole race or something

  • @jamespayne8252
    @jamespayne8252 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    This video makes me feel old, I still remember when the FIRST Mario Cart was released on SNES and renting it from the video store.

  • @StopChangingUsernamesYouTube
    @StopChangingUsernamesYouTube 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I don't have the skills in any game to do it, but just the idea that someone can get this level of confusion going by flexing hard and bouncing brings a smile to my face and I hope someone has that as a hobby.

  • @Valdraya
    @Valdraya 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    that wasnt caseyb. casey was terrible at japanese even during the mk7 days and was just a weeb. those posts shown by NTTWestJPN in this video were not machine translated and were far beyond his ability even years later. he definitely impersonated people a lot tho. he held grudges against people easily and even impersonated me for a while at one point. i also don't think he's good enough at mario kart to be NTT based on his mk7 ability.
    alaktorn is not japanese. it's been a looong time but if i recall he was italian. i seem to recall there was a skype chat for mario kart players that wanted to learn japanese and he was in that. his japanese wasn't great either but i could definitely believe if he got better at it since he seemed more proactive than most.
    makes me nostalgic hearing these old names again

  • @504ever4
    @504ever4 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    In my opinion, the biggest mystery in Mario Kart is WTF coins actually do. Played since it came out on SNES. Still don't know what coins are for.

    • @Abyssoft
      @Abyssoft  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

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

    • @FriskDrinksBrisk
      @FriskDrinksBrisk 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @504ever4
      @504ever4 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Abyssoft Wow thank you lol

    • @mathprodigy
      @mathprodigy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @TennisGvy
    @TennisGvy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Lol Casey B, that's a name I haven't heard of in a long long time

  • @thibaud1832
    @thibaud1832 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    1:24 nice Asuka PP

  • @Quantum_17
    @Quantum_17 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Amazing video :o Really cool to see this coverage of old MKDS lore as an MKDS player :)

  • @mariotaz
    @mariotaz 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    Hear me out, what if, what if he had a third screen on his Nintendo DS that allowed him to beat the times without us seeing it? On that third screen it had OBS and a list of Mario Kart items to spawn in like the mushroom? It could be.

    • @Bestsoft100
      @Bestsoft100 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Nintendo TS

    • @mathprodigy
      @mathprodigy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @GlyphicEnigma
    @GlyphicEnigma 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    *a thousand people standing in an open landscape:* "I'M NT!" XD

  • @LucianDevine
    @LucianDevine หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Maybe we're ALL NTT! In all seriousness, have you thought about all 3 being the imposter for the reasons you mentioned? Casey had the idea and the cheats, Mander had the technical knowledge and the fluent Japanese, and Bjork had the driving. Together they can make a passable NTT.

  • @maniac_q
    @maniac_q 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Bro mentioned Casey B this is freaking legendary

  • @MKDS1992
    @MKDS1992 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Great video, really brought me back to the old days :D Hopefully this mystery will be solved someday. Thanks for making a video about this beautiful game!

    • @mathprodigy
      @mathprodigy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Hey its you

  • @damiencouturee6240
    @damiencouturee6240 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Youre the man Abyssoft! I just love all these videos from you and everyone else in this same general genre, its all so interesting lol.

  • @dotcom137
    @dotcom137 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

    >Japanese
    >business travel to China
    Yeah, he was a cheater.

  • @valtteris8236
    @valtteris8236 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Great video but honestly I am more curious who is Thomas and why/how is he so good?

    • @Abyssoft
      @Abyssoft  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      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 TH-cam before streaming platforms were a thing.

    • @SushiElemental
      @SushiElemental 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

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

    • @mathprodigy
      @mathprodigy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @yvendous
    @yvendous 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The editing job on Mario's legs in the thumbnail is EXTREMELY cursed

  • @neleven
    @neleven 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    If we really wanna find NTT, we should see if anyone in real life japan drives like that. Or since my name is N11, everyone can just give me credit for his accomplishments. It's close enough, right?

  • @willar6066
    @willar6066 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Maybe the real NTT was the friends we made along the way

  • @mathgeniuszach
    @mathgeniuszach 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    15:23 ngl those hand motions definitely look like he's removing the cartridge he put in and adding a different one

  • @TheGaming100
    @TheGaming100 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    man this came at the perfect time, time to get my pizza and enjoy this freshly cooked video

  • @VicJang
    @VicJang 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I have never watched any videos of your channel but this popped up on my front page. I clicked it and enjoyed all 19.5 minutes of it. This is quality content. 🎉

  • @s1o
    @s1o 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thomas was all of them all along

  • @shambleslongplay3566
    @shambleslongplay3566 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Making a TAS is not dificult.
    Figuring out when the inputs should happen though.. thats a different thing.

  • @Ni1996Ki
    @Ni1996Ki 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    MKDS is allowed to drink hard liquor already? I'm old. 😢

  • @Gaelisk
    @Gaelisk 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Been really enjoying your content. Great video

  • @bailey7657
    @bailey7657 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Honestly, as someone who has spent most their life in the mk community (but not mkds tbf), I suspect it was several people most likely mander and a friend/multiple friends. Mander has the technical knowledge and had the communication, he was likely friends with a fairly higher level player and gave them cheats, and that was enough to make them good enough to beat Thomas. Thats the way these types of things usually go, theres a real crazy toxic weird side of the community thats on 10 different alts each and acts like complete degens. Its almost 4chan-esque.

  • @iyan.manbun
    @iyan.manbun 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is some serious death note psychology

  • @ali-kun7038
    @ali-kun7038 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    You can't make this vid without giving me a conclusion, THAT IS BRUTAL

  • @JosephShemelewski
    @JosephShemelewski หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Did 20 or so NTs reveal themselves yet?

  • @husky217
    @husky217 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm glad I mostly played before TAS.
    I heard there was another RR video with 3/3 rail shortcuts that was quickly taken down. Is that the same guy or different?

  • @SpectroliteDS
    @SpectroliteDS 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How did I know this was gonna be Mario Kart DS as soon as I saw the Thumbnail

  • @fsfx
    @fsfx 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    that ad transition made me laugh

  • @IdleCommentator
    @IdleCommentator หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fascinating story (though from the way this video was teased at end of the previous video I expected this to be more focused on Mander as a player, but his part of the story was more on the side).

  • @Theramanix
    @Theramanix 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    14:10 i think bjork is like a singer or something

  • @JeynickRuns
    @JeynickRuns 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Brilliant video! Love MKDS.

  • @autismandgaming4532
    @autismandgaming4532 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I still don't know why your kart gets a random speed boost sometimes

  • @bratkartoffeln123456
    @bratkartoffeln123456 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    at @1:58 NTT has better win percentage than 2 of the people u listed
    2nd screen he "irmpoved" by negative 6% winrate

  • @Aviertje
    @Aviertje 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I think Abyssoft is the 2024 NTT.

  • @jacquelineking5783
    @jacquelineking5783 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That Abyssoft Z hits differently now.
    Also cool video.

  • @classicforreal
    @classicforreal 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Some Edgelord very specifically freakishly talented at Mario Kart DS and absolutely nothing else seized an opportunity to be all Lelouch Le Edgy Mysterious back when being that kind of thing was still cool, film at 11

  • @videotape2959
    @videotape2959 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    12:52 Is that Windows 98?

  • @brofenix
    @brofenix 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Lol the ending reference of Dragon Ball Z :P haha

  • @Slothptimal
    @Slothptimal 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    With the interest in NT's account, possibly the newer NT hijacked the old NT account? Possibly Bjork?

  • @alejandrooo9495
    @alejandrooo9495 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    have no idea about mkds speedrun lore and never really cared about it, but damn this is interesting

  • @FalB27
    @FalB27 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    ALAKTORN is Italian 😭

  • @grandmastermario3695
    @grandmastermario3695 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Theris someone who has the WR in all 13 of the categories in mario kart super circuit and he also runs many other games.

  • @Yoshistar95
    @Yoshistar95 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    ALAKTORN more like ALAKTO-MOVE-IT-MOVE-IT

  • @soldirix2666
    @soldirix2666 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I see koeK in the url. Parallel universes confirmed.

  • @xanixmkdsarchives
    @xanixmkdsarchives 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very nice and well made video, thank you!

  • @RandyBurgertime
    @RandyBurgertime 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Are Japanese people using "gringos" interchangeably with "gaijin" or was that a quirk of that particular translator? Either way, neat.

    • @MKDSKairu763
      @MKDSKairu763 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @Fender178
    @Fender178 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That's funny that someone was cheating during an Mario Kart match and they still lost proving that cheats can only take you so far and you need to have skills at the game as well.

  • @--_--_--_--_
    @--_--_--_--_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Damn, really cool rabbit hole

  • @George-fu9vu
    @George-fu9vu 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    16:40 why does he cover the cartridge with his hands? Does it really take that much time to push it in? Or is he using the gloves to facilitate slight of hand? I've never owned a DS so don't know how easy it is to insert a cartridge. Then 16:48 after seeing the Nintendo loading screen it cuts to showing the game already booted. I also don't know if this was the original clip or if it has been edited.

    • @Abyssoft
      @Abyssoft  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I edited the clip to cut out the in between stuff

  • @Temmie_gaming
    @Temmie_gaming 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Damn we can smash the unsolved mystery!!!

  • @crazyvitod
    @crazyvitod 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Shaving down the DPAD on a gameboy advance is CRAZY

  • @sergrojGrayFace
    @sergrojGrayFace หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You're saying Mander used the same console as Bjork. So, this means Mander = Bjork for sure? Or does this mean that you're wrong that he'd have to be a double imposter?

  • @userunknown7267
    @userunknown7267 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Did they have it to where you could take record ghosts on the DS or was that just on the Wii because if it stores inputs, you figured you’d just be able to download the ghost and double check

  • @SammEater
    @SammEater 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    At this point, I believe this NT dude is probably someone that worked for Nintendo. Lol

  • @twitchplaysspeedruns913
    @twitchplaysspeedruns913 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great video as always

  • @Sizzyl
    @Sizzyl 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    good journalism

  • @stephaniet9875
    @stephaniet9875 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Is it really a mystery if the footage is that suspicious

    • @mkdsabel
      @mkdsabel 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      If there is no conclusoon, then yes it remains a mystery.

  • @StackOfPancakes2216
    @StackOfPancakes2216 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Is this the plot of Death Note?

  • @tabbris
    @tabbris 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Advanced AI that traveled back in time.

  • @TimDespairBear11
    @TimDespairBear11 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I used to play mkds online back in the day and tbh people cheated all the time. I’ve seen people win races by driving backwards or within 5 seconds of the race. So I would be extremely skeptical of this guy being legit.

    • @gabevsikura854
      @gabevsikura854 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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

  • @jakers428
    @jakers428 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I loooooved this video!

  • @illCMAC
    @illCMAC 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    He posted again he posted again he posted again he posted again he p

  • @ordinaryoreo8297
    @ordinaryoreo8297 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    this was so confusing lol

  • @overthegardenwall7143
    @overthegardenwall7143 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    im more interested in the fact that the ds had nline services, anyone know if there is an underground community or way to access online through a hacked ds?