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155,600 All right here's a bar

This is gonna be interesting I havent played this since I picked it up in my noob days and it wasnt that good a deal either

That was a great time! This is just a solid game all around. Nice win RH

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I'm like halfway through a run as we speak so I should be able to beat it, but probably not gonna be too impressive

Man I cant wait to play this. It's been like a decade by now. This was one of the mega-popular games along with Paper Mario and Conker's that I never actually played as a kid - difference being that it was an earlier release and I still missed it somehow. I used to play the SNES one at my cousins but no one was ever good at that

Congrats to everyone and to Pii for winning, see you all at Starfox!

I don't think it's in the cards for me to improve, I just tried on all 4 a few times with various drivers, nothing. This is not a bluff

Another lead snatch I see. Big improvement there @PII

Hehe @PII I just improved all of mine but then checked yours and you still got a 24 millisecond lead. Tight race!!!! Update: I have taken back the lead

Maybe its a misguided tip; are you playing on Switch? It was more pertaining to keeping tight control of the stick through turns so your wheels dont fly off the centrifugal axis. I push hard downwardly for lots of Mario Party minigames too - its because the way its designed with the little chalky bowl on the bottom of the stick and the gears you want to be able to grip it the whole mechanism from above. Even as a 64 fan I think the controller is really flawed especially the joystick so it's part of how I adapt to it

My advice is be firmer with the joystick in general and try to apply more straight downward pressure. So directly "into" the stick. You still need to know when to let off though. You can also rotate to drift instead of just back and forth, sometimes this can be handy on a tighter turn and so you dont turn outwards so much (I realize with the sensitivity and cost of 64 controllers this is annoying advice but ruining controllers and your thumb is just part of the 64 experience )

The Nightstalker!

Yeah the next level is to compare them within classes, it's hard to tell but ultimately I'm just interested in what gets the fastest time for only these tracks, so it narrows the search and can be tested empirically with enough time put in. For heavies, my intuition right now is telling me it's DK > Bowser > Wario (for fastest times on these tracks). I couldn't put much together with Wario but maybe I was just burning out. If the optimal racer changes for each map I would be happy, cause that's balanced and thats good. Among some guys I used to play with BITD we heard online that Peach has the most optimized stats of all (it included handling somehow I assume). I can kinda believe it... the non-glitch previous lugi's raceway WR on YT is with Peach, and that's the most pure track in the game. Maybe it's not all about top speed since you need better acceleration when boosting while drifting? Well we're gonna get to the bottom of it this week

I see you creepin up on my score @PII hahahaha

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Yeah gloves is right, its all about drifting so yeah it's R and then you move the joystick back and forth till the sparks on your tires change from yellow to orange, let go and you get a boost. It's not a mega huge boost but you can pop em pretty quick. The rest of the time is mushroom usage, I got a favoured per-lap spot here but thats another story (it's not a glitch or anything special, I'm not even sure where to use em on the other 3). I was using Bowser to get the top speed but I have a hunch DK is actually better for putting up good times

I gotta tell ya I'm glad it's not the DK level now that you mention it. Mostly its the coconuts that mess with me. Warios Stadium is a programming mess but yeah its pretty great. I am mostly super down with all these choices these were always some of my better levels except Luigis Raceway not so much. Got a decent improvement on Frappe just now

Just use gixen bud!!! Hahaha I suppose the all-rounder characters excel in multiplayer cause youre gonna get hit and yada yada. Thats bad for the heavies, with their poor acceleration. In time trials though, top speed is king and theres no impediments

Damn I always played as Mario with friends back in the day but hes pretty terrible, I just trounced all my opening scores with DK and Bowser

Is it legal to mix and match characters @Red? As in play different characters on different courses?

Hahaha im pretty bad at adding time too so im gonna be quintuple-checking each update. Just got a small improvement on Sherbet Land

Sorry bout the friggin sideways pics it appears that its because I downgraded the size of the OG files. So I assume we can upgrade our course times separately ie we dont need to do them all in a row? EDIT: Oh yeah also.... FIRST

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YES! You are a legend Red!