I suggest keeping one or two bars of speedburst handy for quick recovery in case you are hit by an opponent's weapon or run over slime. (If you get the cardboard box, aim it carefully, as when it lands on certain surfaces it does absolutely nothing.) For extra speed, you'll need to pick up the blue and pink gems (called speedburst) along the track or drive over boost pads. The gift boxes on the tracks will give you mostly offensive items. Almost all of them contain shortcuts, but there is no drivable terrain that can slow your character, so there is nothing stopping you from taking these shortcuts at any time. They are pleasing to look at and mostly well designed, though you may find yourself getting caught on pieces of geometry at times. The race tracks are themed after the shows the playable characters come from. You get a good variety of characters to choose from, but they all seem to handle identically, so just pick your favorites. Relays are just single races where you compete against one opponent and switch characters each lap. You can also do single races, relay races, and time trials. After you get the gold trophy on each cup, you will unlock a higher difficulty. As far as I can tell, the controller only works for player 1, so if you find someone to play with you'll DEFINITELY need JoyToKey running.Īs for the game itself, you're looking at 3 cups of four tracks to race through, plus 2 bonus maps that are not for racing. XInput controllers are supported, too, though you'll want to run JoyToKey in the background as some functions cannot be bound to the controller.

I was VERY excited to see the display is not stretched improperly in 16:9 resolutions. The game runs just fine under Windows 7, and even supports high resolution display, though you'll have to do a quick hex edit to the config file for that. However, I recently installed Pac-Man: Adventures in Time, and many visual artifacts have disappeared (though a couple new minor ones have shown up). Mario Kart Wii) it's still good fun.įor many years after we got rid of the old Win2K machine I ran this on, I found the game never looked quite right. While it doesn't hold up as well as I remember (at least vs.

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