/vr/ - Retro Games

VEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
It was a pretty big deal, actually.
Now the power slide on Mario Kart 1, that was truly overlooked.

>>3261161
OP here. I actually beat the game and got all gold trophies without paying too much mind to it. I did try to learn about it in the manual but then just said "fuck it" and went with my gut and felt it out.

I have to confess that I played this game to death as a kid without knowing about power slide boosts.

CTR is better

>>3261156
Yes
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I played Mario Kart 64 for the first time ever just a few days ago and man the physics are weird. Didn't get the powerslide at all.

>>3261161
It had one?

>>3261216

What is it about Crash fanboys that they always need to post in Mario threads to make up for their inferiority Poochie complex?

>>3261156
yes, how else are you supposed to go fast? Its like a free half mushroom. As soon as you get orange let go and get another one going.

But playing with friends it ended up getting banned because no one else bothered to learn how.

>>3261156
It's very important in speedrunning, but I was never able to use it. It was nowhere near as refined as the Mario Kart Double Dash system (or maybe I just think that since I'm so used to the MK:DD physics nowadays).

Man, I loved Mario Kart 64 when it came out.

The thing is now I can't stand how it controls. It just feels awful to me.

I'd say it's the worst controlling Mario Kart to date (though I haven't played any after the DS game but that is definitely my favourite up until that point by a long stretch)

Even the SNES Mario Kart feels better.

Was a great way to break your controller.

>>3261156
it's essential what are you talking about? mostly because of how easy it was to exploit it for miniboosts

>>3261405
64 really isn't that good. I revisited it, too, and wasn't impressed. My 64 remains a largely F-Zero X box.

Super Mario Kart is legit good, though. More interesting courses and better music, too.

>>3261405
stop using lightweights. dk/peach masterrace

>>3261497
This. I run with a crew of ascended Mario Kart 64 players, and all of our controllers are loose like wizard sleeve in the left right direction.

>>3261156
You don't win if you don't drift with my group. Powerslides make the game x10 better. You honestly should be trying to powerslide almost every single curve.

It's very hard to win on some courses without it. But I liked the way there were 2 levels of slides in MK DS better.

>>3261524
peach is considered a lightweight in MK64. There's a video somewhere on YouTube that explores Mario Kart 64 mechanics and it basically comes down to three weight classes: Medium, Heavy, Light. All characters within a class have identical stats (top speed, accel, turning, off road, etc.) except for weight, interestingly enough. Which means the heaviest character in a class is the best in that class.

LIGHTWEIGHT
Yoshi is heavier than Peach is much heavier than Toad

MIDDLEWEIGHT
Mario is heavier than Luigi

HEAVYWEIGHT
Bowser is much heavier than DK is heavier than Wario

>>3261735
Here it is.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P6AxbNL2ET0

>>3261372
The Crash games were overrated as fuck. I played them all, and it's no contest to the Mario games. Galaxy itself is a million times anything Crash

>>3261156
>Did anyone
Of course, lots of people.

>>3261393
>how else
Follow the racing line.

>>3261156
I didn't do it until I ran across someone doing it on a Youtube video many years later because I just didn't know how. I knew that you could jump but I didn't think anything of it and thought it was merely a utility move that slowed you down. Looking back, it was rather obvious, but I didn't have a huge amount of experience with these types of racing games yet.

>toad's turnpike mirror cup

>>3261873
My favorite (on mirror) course in the series. Having literally every vehicle come at you was nuts.

Probably the toughest too. Too bad all the traffic levels that came after it were piss easy.

I ignored it in Mario Kart 64, and still do.

I did it in DKR too, until I became an adult, and realized how broken drifting is in that game.

Also just taking break can send you around corners perfectly in DKR and if you're playing a fast acceleration character it doesn't affect your speed.

I did because drifting made the letter E come out of the wheels and at 7 I thought that was the greatest thing I'd ever seen.

>>3261735
interesting..always thought peach felt medium

>>3261216
It's not. MK drifting is so easy and enjoyable, in CTR you have to press another button to actually boost.

>tfw MK saves 1 A press

>>3261161
SNES Mario Kart had a power slide?
I don't believe you. Me and my brother had a few hundred hours in that.

>>3261156
I always drifted into corners.
Drift a right hand turn, move joystick left then right quickly turning the text yellow, move the joystick left then right quickly again to turn the text red.
Boost away.

>>3261156
Drifting is mandatory if you want to be anywhere close to competitive in time trials.

http://www.mariokart64.com/

>>3261764
>Yoshi player was seen as gay
>Yoshi is now proven to be objectively the best

>>3262829

Special cup 150cc is impossible without it

>>3262887
Yeah, they really did not balance that game well between the racers. The three lightweights dominate pretty much every important stat.

>>3261405

>Even the SNES Mario Kart feels better.

you say that like it's not the best one gameplay-wise

>>3261156
As a kid, I sucked at it so I didn't bother. It's not so important as it became in later series.

>>3261161
Now I know you could power slide in Super Mario Kart, but there was no boost attained from it, was there? It was just to help you corner better, I think.

>>3261516
>>3261590
I did powerslide, and at corners even. I just didn't bother to learn what the letters and the colors meant.

>>3262854
So that's how it's done? Still managed to get all gold without learning how to do it like that. At least I don't think I really bothered to learn it that well. It's been a long time since I played it.