Submission #8904: Technickle's SNES Top Gear 2 "all tracks" in 1:55:55.91

Top Gear 2 All Tracks Beaten in under 2 Hours!

Game Objectives:

• System: Super Nintendo Entertainment System
• Name: Bizhawk 2.9.1
• Core: BSNES V115+

• File Name: Top Gear 2 (U) [!]
• Region: NTSC
• Genre: Racing, Simulation

• Heavy Glitch Abuse
• Abuses Programming Errors
• Manipulates Luck
• Takes Damage to Save Time
• Goes for 100% (no real incentive) "All Upgrades."
• Uses a Game Restart Sequence
• Plays on Hardest Difficulty

• TAS Timing: - 1:55:55.91 (FPS = 60.0988)
• RTA Timing: - 1:55:42 (FPS = 60.0988) *RTA starts from Auckland upgrade menu*
• Frame Count: 418,042 (FPS = 60.0988)
• Re-record Count: 276,869
• SHA1: 8AC5DAB79B319DEB525DE73F9A51877DF7A7ED9F
• MD5: C9FC87528511770DB888B28A4C506F46

Game Description

RNG Manipulations:

• Change color of the car
• Start Press on the Upgrade Screen

• Hyper Reverse Super Speed
• Hyper Reverse Super Speed GIF

When getting the car in a speed state above the 238 MPH threshold, the game can't calculate fast enough to determine what speed you have if you end up going in reverse gear. By slamming into a stacked CPU car while going in reverse and then 1st gear you can stack their speed with your speed giving an upper bound of 400 MPH+ This is significantly faster and makes tracks that would normally take 5 seconds longer to finish 5 seconds sooner.

• Hyper Extended Super Speed
• Hyper Extended Super Speed GIF

Some tracks are straight enough to where you can keep the hyper speed active for much longer then possible. By perfectly timing the release of the X press I can go around somewhat sharper bends at speeds of 355 MPH, this extends the speed and allows for much different routing then playing the track normally.

• Object Displacement Clip
• Object Displacement Clip GIF

When an object and a wall are too close to each other the car can get wedged in between them. When the car is in this state, the track lap count will go to the maximum number such as 5/5. This finishes the track quickly and efficiently.

• Backwards Momentum Wall Glitch
• Backwards Momentum Wall Glitch GIF

By keeping the car in a state where the speed value is too high to calculate back down to the normal reverse speed, the speed kept over from the HRSS will allow the car to slam into the backend of a wall and finish the race. in most cases this is the fastest method.

• Wall Glitch
• Wall Glitch GIF

Like a backwards wall glitch, this glitch can also be used on the front end of the wall surface.

• Hydroplane Timer Refresh
• Hydroplane Timer Refresh GIF

Found by RallyFTW this trick is to keep the car from starting it's Hydroplane timer. By pressing Right or Left (depending on the turn) semi-quickly to very quickly, the timer tied to the Hydroplane event with start back at 0 and keep going to 0 each time you press and re-press right or left. This is used on Rainy and Snowy tracks.

• Turn Merger Skip
• Turn Merger Skip GIF

To make a track even quicker, the fastest way is to faze through a turn merger and then quickly get back on the track. This prevents any need to slow down.

• Off-Road Timer Manipulation
• Off-Road Timer Manipulation GIF

When you go off the road, sometimes the time you get will better which you would think would go against any logic. Some tracks such as Andalusia or Barcelona have this effect.

About the Movie Making:

Track by Track Comments:

• Brief information will be talked about here. I'll talk about each track and how it was done. For a more detailed description of a trick, please refer to the trick/glitch/techniques section of the submission text.

Track 1-1: Australasia: Auckland

• The most notable part of this track is getting pushed by the yellow car. This is manipulated at the upgrade menu. No upgrades are purchasable here, as there is no money to spend.

Track 1-2 Australasia: Ayers Rock

• Here I'll purchase the 2nd Gearbox upgrade to keep some speed from a nitro boost. I'll use the giant downhill to gain extra speed of 181 MPH.

Track 1-3 Australasia: Canterbury Plains

• It's faster to boost before the big uphill section near the finish line. On lap 3 I'll boost near the same spot I did for lap 1.

Track 1-4 Australasia: Sydney

• Rainy track without wet tires makes this track possible. Usual upgrade path would be wet tires here but since I need to keep the money, I won't upgrade. First track to have 2/2 laps.

Track 2-1 Britain: Loch Ness

• Here you'll see the first instance of the many RHS's. Since the best nitro can get past the 228 MPH threshold, I'll be able to take advantage of the glitch.

Track 2-2 Britain: London

• This track has 4/4 laps, but fortunately I can use the ODC and skip to the end of the track by slamming into the turn merger.

Track 2-3 Britain: Sheffield

• Using the RHS glitch I can slam into the wall behind me that's at the start to finish the race. In order to do so, I'll need speed and a lot of speed.

Track 2-4 Britain: Stonehenge

• I'll use RHS near the start and maintain some of the left-over speed to the speed bump location. I'll get bumped by a CPU player, to gain extra speed.

Track 3-1 Canada: Banff

• Like most tracks, Banff is one with a wall glitch. I'll take advantage of it to finish the race quickly. Some strange properties on the wall different speed variables. When I was testing it, it seemed as if the bush protecting the wall was changing positions, (unless my eyesight has become poor).

Track 3-2 Canada: Niagara (without the Falls part)

• Niagara did in fact become faster, I used RHS at the beginning and the end of the track, and the ost finished right at the end for a cool transition.

Track 3-3 Canada: Toronto

• So, the reason for the slower start is because I'm faster than the CPU cars. Without this slow start I wouldn't be able to use RHS to glitch to the wall. The cars need to be at 0303 on the timer as trying any other was not possible.

Track 3-4 Canada: Vancouver

• Taking advantage of the Speed Up Pick Up I'll boost so that the nitro barely hangs onto 228 MPH and grab the Speed Up to maintain extra speed. Using this method was the fastest. I'll use RHS on lap 3 and get bumped by a CPU car for extra speed.

Track 4-1 Egypt: Abu Sunbul

• In order to make this track less boring I'll use RHS to give it some flare. It's also an oval, so not much to talk about.

Track 4-2 Egypt: Aswan

• Known for the sharp turn. I'll need to time my nitro usage properly right after the turn to get the quickest time.

Track 4-3 Egypt: Cairo

• Not much to say here, just grab the money for upgrades later.

Track 4-4 Egypt: Hugh Sitton

• Not the actual name of the location but named after the Real-Life photographer. I'll use the wall glitch here.

Track 5-1 France: Bordeaux

• This track used to do the spin-out method, but thanks to new discoveries, the wall actually has a finish property tied to it.

Track 5-2 France: Monaco

• My favorite track in the game. This one has a new boost path, leave the first nitro pickup and grab the second one.

Track 5-3 France: Nice

• Pretty Nice. Faster BMWG here.

Track 5-4 France: Paris

• Rainy. I'll use HpTR trick to drive faster here.

Track 6-1 Germany: Bavaria

• Gross. There are puddles everywhere, mostly a filler track.

Track 6-2 Germany: Cologne

• Previous version uses the wall past the streetlights, this version uses the wall behind the finish line, and it's faster.

Track 6-3 Germany: Frankfurt

• Foggy. I'll blast my way through by carefully positioning the car around corners while going 355 MPH. I'll need to manage my nitros so that I can use them at the right spots.

Track 6-4 Germany: Munich

• 206 MPH after each lap is the appropriate boost part. This will make it so getting up that hill and back down is possible which is the overall goal. Using HpTR here to race quicker.

Track 7-1 Greece: Athens

• Time each nitro so that you make it down the small downhill before the lap increase.

Track 7-2 Greece: Meteora

• It's faster to drive on the strip, than it is to drive on the road and then do the glitch.

Track 7-3 Greece: Mykonos

• It's faster to drive on the strip, than it is to drive on the road and then do the glitch. (yes, you read that twice, because it's the same thing)

Track 7-4 Greece: Santorini

• Cars can do flips; did you know that?

Track 8-1 India: Amber Port

• 7 laps of one giant oval. It doesn't get much more exciting than that. I'll use RHS on the lap I don't boost to gain extra speed.

Track 8-2 India: Bombay

• Currently the wall here starts at a sharp angle, so opting for further out then Reverse backwards while avoiding the CPU cars.

Track 8-3 India: Delhi

• Instead of the reliable setup of waiting, I instead brute forced the RNG in my favor so that I can get into the area where the glitch occurs much faster

Track 8-4 India: Taj Mahal

• By carefully eyeing my speed value I can manipulate the position the car and the lap count to 3/3 to finish the race. This is very precise and for some reason works on a real-life day to day basis for me.

Track 9-1 Ireland: Dublin

• This track has an interesting property where you can keep your speed, but it's also faster to purposefully crash against the mergers to get a quicker time.

Track 9-2 Ireland: Galway

• By crashing into the light post which will be really close the wall, the car will get wedged in-between them.

Track 9-3 Ireland: Killarney

• I'll use HpTR and RHS to drive even faster.

Track 9-4 Ireland: Limerick

• I'll use RHS at the start to get a faster time

Track 10-1 Italy: Florence

• RNG played out a little differently here, so I had to settle for what was given. The previous method was 4/4 right before the finish line.

Track 10-2 Italy: Pisa

• Driving on the strip is faster ... Just like the other ones and nothing really changes.

Track 10-3 Italy: Rome

• Yellow car was chosen here for a faster start. I'll manage the nitro's to get a good time.

Track 10-4 Italy: Sicily

• Enough straight turns here to keep going 355 MPH around the track for the first half.

Track 11-1 Japan: Hiroshima

• Blue car was used here and instead the wall on the right side ended up being so much faster than the one on the left. It requires speeds above 262 to work currently.

Track 11-2 Japan: Kyoto

• The place of Nintendo. Nitro here and Nitro there, the track rewards fast play.

Track 11-3 Japan: Tokyo

• Driving on the ... I think you know.

Track 11-4 Japan: Yokohama

• 355 MPH is the name of the game.

Track: 12-1 Scandinavia: Copenhagen

• By timing the glitches, I can extend the speed gotten ever further by running into the speed up.

Track 12-2 Scandinavia: Helsinki

• Using the RHS here causes the CPU to catch up and bump me for extra speed not once but twice!

Track 12-3 Scandinavia: Reykjavik

• Really fun snowy track with precise boost spots.

Track 12-4 Scandinavia: Stockholm

• Slower start to manage the speed variable to reach the downhill. Reaching the downhill is very important to the start of the track.

Track 13-1: South America: Chile

• Known for its crazy sharp turn I have to manage my speed value of 171 to 179 MPH. I'll use RHS and extend it to the finish while also manipulating the timer.

Track 13-2: South America: Mexico?

• It's faster. Also, I put the question mark because this game is from 1993 yet still didn't follow the real-life thing.

Track 13-3: South America: Peru

• Okay I'll be honest, I kind of lost time for entertainment purposes, but only because it's funnier.

Track 13-4: South America: Rio De Janeiro

• It's faster to grab the nitro on the 3rd lap and leave it on the 1st and 2nd.

Track 14-1: Spain: (without the S) Andalusia

• Before you ask, yes, it's faster to drive off the road.

Track 14-2: Spain: (without the S) Barcelona

• Fun night-time track.

Track 14-3: Spain: (without the S) Madrid

• In order to make it up the hill on the first lap, I'll use RHS. This produces a faster finish. I'll also use HpTR to get around quicker.

Track 14-4: Spain: (without the S) Seville

• Currently the fastest way is to make to the wall near the end and get a finish.

Track 15-1: Switzerland: Geneva

• This wall glitch is faster than the old method of using the object displacement clip

Track 15-2: Switzerland: Grunwald

• Taking advantage of the second wall on this track lets me use the BMWG and allows the track to become not only faster, but easier in return.

Track 15-3: Switzerland: Lucerne

• 2 Speed Ups on this track, and also use RHS here to go even faster!

Track 15-4: Switzerland: Zurich

• This track rewards the player by understanding the core parts of not only the speed up but it's tight turns. I'll take advantage by weaving in and out of the track to tactfully go quicker while also maintaining the HpTR trick.

Track 16-1: The United States: Las Vegas

• This track has been tested, theorized, studied, and routed for many years. Las Vegas now uses the RHS glitch, to make the track even faster than previously thought possible.

Track 16-2: The United States: Los Angeles

• Under normal conditions the wall glitch is driving straight to the location go forwards, however I asked the question what if what I know from the RHS I can combat that idea! So I did just that, and it turns out to be significantly faster.

Track 16-3: The United States: New York

• Using both RHS and HpTR here made the track ever so slightly faster. On first watch it might not seem faster, but I tested it, and it was faster.

Track 16-4: The United States: San Francisco

• The final track in the game. San Francisco sends off with one final RHS to compliment. I'll use Inertia at the end to save time frames wise.

Special Thanks/Trick/Glitch Discoveries

• RallyFTW - Route Discoveries for The United States, Hydroplane Timer Refresh on New York
• Yoshimidstu - Discovering first instance of Los Angeles Wall Glitch (further improved)
• Dunkelgotik - Supportive mod role for Brazil players
• Leandrom90 - Supportive mod role for Brazil players
• MixmastaPJ - Supportive player role for USA players
• Oipo - Supportive deep-dive on the game's code/hacks
• Me (Technickle) - for making the Tool-Assisted Speedruns for USA% and All Tracks. I took up this role after Rally's first USA% TAS. I also was the first to ever to (without any other evidence being known) to do the first ever speedrun for this game

Possible Improvements: