General:
Oh boy, the spinning goal. I remember when I first reached this stage
on
Normal Mode. Trust
me, I wasted MANY continues on it, at first it seemed impossible to me.
How
times change. This
is one of the easiest stages of all on Normal Mode. Most people came up
independently with the
old WR strat, which SnapDragon already used (that is, long long ago).
Basically, you�d go back
and right, turn around in the corner, head for the goal and hope to get
a
banana after the goal.
My best with this strat was a beautiful 5540, which was a 26.70 finish
with
TWO bananas after
the goal. You will understand how surprised I was when I saw that
Packattack
had 5570 on the
same stage. Well, he told me the strat, it�s cool, it�s easy, any you
don�t
know it...yet.
I want a consistent finish!
Cake alert! Do absolutely nothing at the beginning. Pause around
mid-23. If
you are anywhere
from 23.75 to 23.18 (I tested those, one frame up or down will not
work),
which is nearly
impossible to fail, close your eyes. Use your left thumb to press
forward on
the control stick and
hold forward. Move your right thumb onto the Start button. Press Start.
Wait
about 2 seconds.
Open your eyes and be proud of yourself, you have just beaten AX2.
I want a good score!
It turns out the WR strat is easy, so you will have to follow that.
It�s ok
if you finish slightly
slower and miss the post-goal banana, so 5460 or so is your minimum
goal.
I want the record!
Or as Packattack said, "I assumed people were using that strat anyway."
Check for yourself if
you did. The idea is to get 3 bananas before finishing, and another one
after the goal. For
notational purposes, you face north at the beginning.
Boost right, then go left again and head toward the north-east corner.
Reduce your speed a bit,
swirl to the right (directly to the east edge), turn left sharply (this
sharp turn should be about
6-8 tiles away from the NE corner), get the first banana, hold up-left,
get
the second banana
centrally and the third banana on the very left. If you have reduced
your
speed correctly (it�s
not much, but if I do it full speed, I�m always too fast), you will
make it
into the goal nicely. As
you do get into the goal, pull over to the right a bit. You should
bounce a
bit to the right from the
left corner of the goal after breaking the ribbon. That way you should
get
hit through another
banana, the eastern one of the two remaining ones.
Current Record: 5592
Finish: 25.96
Bananas: 4
Difficulty rating for 5460:
2/5
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