[WR] DKCRHD 5-5 Longshot Launch in 49.56

I learned this stage today for fun and was quite bad at it. Then I began looking into the famous glitch where the camera freezes and you can skip a part of a level which brought me to a 53. I honestly didn't like the stage enough to push it further but still out of curiosity looked into the "TAS" strat done on Wii. I didn't expect anything and just tried it from the checkpoint. As it turned out though, a delayed jump with a 2 frame window could actually bring me behind the barrel which is obviously massive and made me excited. As it turned out, doing this strat from the checkpoint via Death Abuse is slower than the other method simply because a Death Abuse means an extra bounce from the flower, normally unnecessary on Wii. I still clutched out a small WR though and wanted to turn this stage down but I wanted to try it without the Death Abuse just to make sure. 10 minutes later and I actually made the jump. The jump requires alternative controls with a run being initiated and held after the turnaround. Then you do a double bounce and do a roll jump as late as possible. Then you need to get a frame perfect delayed full jump which leads to some precise but relatively trivial final piece of movement. It's actually so surreal that I found this out of nowhere after not really playing that actively and that this is safe to use RTA (although quite unlikely to hit due to the tight window of one frame).
The run wasn't the best but my cannon timings were above average for my standards (They made this stage a bit of a pain for me). I think that this stage can at least be pushed down to a .3X. This is also my first uploaded run that uses alternative controls (and button remapping to make it original controls in terms of button layout for me) because the run button allows for way faster Diddy boosts and some more. It's honestly really cool and hilarious to see this strat being relatively trivial compared to the Wii version.

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