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Posted on 12-26-05 02:45 AM Link | Quote
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No, because it's perscription, not cure.
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Posted on 12-26-05 03:53 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Alastor the Stylish
But that argument fails because it assumes that I, being secretive, would wish to keep this a secret, even though there is no longer a purpose in doing so.


Unless you signed a NDA and it wasn't lifted. In which case you'd have just shot yourself in the foot.
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Since: 11-18-05
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Posted on 12-26-05 11:39 AM Link | Quote
Reading is good.
Originally posted by SantaDavis
It's not my fault that you're just no good with him.

Why do I do fine with the other characters then? If Toad is that drastically different that your skills with other players don't even apply, then yeah, there's something wrong.

Originally posted by Alastor the Stylish
What the hell, HyperHacker. How is periodically glancing at the map and who has what items any more difficult than periodically glancing at the rear-view mirror and speedometer in an actual car? You're not going to be staring at them the entire time, and you don't have to (nor should you); just as long as you make a few quick glances every few seconds you'll be fine.

Anyone who compares driving in real life to Mario Kart fails, plain and simple. Real-life driving generally doesn't involve dodging banana peels and incoming shells while making a 120° turn at 80 km/h with someone ramming you from the side and a pit of lava with no guardrail at the edge of the track.

Originally posted by cpubasic13
Well, your gripe about the Spiked Shell is stupid. To effectively play out those first-place homing devices, just keep an eye on the bottom screen from time to time if you are really close to the person behind you. If you see a Spiked Shell, pull off the accelerator, and wait for it to fire. Then just stay away.

However, if the shell is heading towards you and the second place contender is near you, STAY NEAR HIM! Then he will get the full blast just like you did. Duh!

Sure, works great when they're right next to you. What do you do when they're further back? Slam on the brakes and let them pass you, losing just as much time as if you'd been hit?

And if you think someone controls poorly, that is because you can't use him. I may not be able to use Rob, Toad, or Peach, but that doesn't mean that they suck. I can only control Dry Bones, Bowser in the Dry Bomber, Mario, and Luigi. Other than that, I am not that good with the other characters. I don't lose all the time, but I just can't win real well. I tend to stick with Dry Bones, though...

See above. Being good with heavier characters and not light ones is understandable, but being good with all the light characters except one just makes no sense.

Well... if you think there are too many bottomless pits, then practice being good. It isn't that hard to navigate the tracks, the hardest being the twists and turns of Rainbow Road, which aren't even that bad.
Me not falling in them doesn't mean there isn't too many.


For your battle woes, I don't see how it messes up team battle for you, since I can get rid of all the other team and it would say I won.

What kind of 'team' battle has you kill your teammates, though? It kinda defeats the point of teams.

Besides, you aren't supposed to blow hard into the mic. Just blow lightly into the mic and it would work. Blowing too hard will NOT fill the balloons faster, despite what real life would have you believe.
I tried everything from whispering to practically blowing the DS away. Even whistling.


Originally posted by Squash Monster
...am I the only one who finds it amusing that it seems like everyone has taken personal offense at complaints about a game they have had no part in making?

Nope.
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Posted on 12-26-05 01:58 PM Link | Quote
From your first response it just sounds like you're being stupid here. Oh, snap, each character has different stats and they're not conveniently put into stupid categories! SOMETHING IS WRONG

And anyways, I'm just going to make a blanket statement and say that you're not very good at the game if you're unable to pay attention to two things at once. Again, you don't have to focus on the second screen the entire time

On the subject of the blue shell, if they're a ways back from you, the decision is obvious; take the blue shell and don't bother with a risky maneuver.

As for you being good with everyone but Toad, I horridly doubt that, but until you get that wireless router I can't prove it to you. But just take my word on this.

You are the ONLY one who thinks there are too many pits, and you are the ONLY one who's having that much trouble with the mic, and yeah team battle sucks, WE KNOW.
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Posted on 12-27-05 12:20 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Alastor the Stylish
Oh, snap, each character has different stats and they're not conveniently put into stupid categories! SOMETHING IS WRONG

Where did I say that?

And anyways, I'm just going to make a blanket statement and say that you're not very good at the game if you're unable to pay attention to two things at once. Again, you don't have to focus on the second screen the entire time

I do peek at the map fairly often, and it does help to dodge green shells and bananas. However it's not much use knowing where an incoming shell is when it heads straight for you anyway. And spiny shells don't even show up on it half the time.

On the subject of the blue shell, if they're a ways back from you, the decision is obvious; take the blue shell and don't bother with a risky maneuver.

This does nothing to address the fact that there's too damn many of them.

As for you being good with everyone but Toad, I horridly doubt that, but until you get that wireless router I can't prove it to you. But just take my word on this.

I can totally smoke the AI with every other character I have, and can barely stay on the track with Toad. I can't see how that doesn't indicate some problem with him.

You are the ONLY one who thinks there are too many pits, and you are the ONLY one who's having that much trouble with the mic, and yeah team battle sucks, WE KNOW.

My brother and a friend of his have both been playing the game even more than I have, and agree with me on nearly all of these points. They each have their own DS, so it's not that my mic is broken.

I've actually found the physics problems to vary between levels, and not in ways that make sense. Some levels are fine, others are just wrong... I can handle fine on solid ice, but slide around like crazy on a beach.

(edited by HyperHacker on 12-29-05 09:53 AM)
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Posted on 12-28-05 08:38 AM Link | Quote
You're right about the balloons. safdsfada. I nearly passed out before I blew just one up. Is there an alternative to this? Like saying "shhhhh" real loud or putting a nebulizer connector on the mic? (It's old, and I grew out of asthma...)
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Posted on 12-28-05 01:42 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Shyguy
You're right about the balloons. safdsfada. I nearly passed out before I blew just one up. Is there an alternative to this? Like saying "shhhhh" real loud or putting a nebulizer connector on the mic? (It's old, and I grew out of asthma...)


Did you know you can hold the select button to make balloons but that's a lot slower. Another way is to steal your opponent's balloons is with a mushroom.
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Posted on 12-28-05 01:44 PM Link | Quote
Incidentally, in battle, all I ever do is blow up one balloon then run around dodging the stuff thrown at me until I pick up a mushroom, then steal a third balloon and run around like a berserker, and repeating once I finally get hit.
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Posted on 12-28-05 01:49 PM Link | Quote
Only blow gently into the microphone or it won't detect it. I figured that out after a while.
I'm able to dodge red shells on certain tracks only. Blue Shells seem to fire randomly ,for me in 150cc grand prix, at a double shot; two hits in five seconds.

Each character seems to add a modifier to the cart of choice. When I figure out the exact modifiers, I'll say. (I think Bowser = 1.0 weight point while Wario = 0.8. DK = 0.9)
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Posted on 12-28-05 02:02 PM Link | Quote
Taken from the GameFAQs' Game Mechanics FAQ:

Mario: None
Luigi: None
Peach: Weight - 11
Yoshi: Weight - 14
Toad: Weight - 17
DK: Weight + 8
Wario: Weight + 10
Bowser: Weight + 17
Daisy: Weight - 8
Dry Bones: Weight - 20
Waluigi: Weight + 2
ROB: Weight + 17
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Posted on 12-28-05 10:17 PM Link | Quote
I've completed a 150cc Grandprix finishing forst while only looking at the map, and still managed to get an A. It's not that hard
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Posted on 12-28-05 11:56 PM Link | Quote
Try the retro cup. The tracks are so small, that the CPU's are practically SADISTIC! Makes me want to get a grip on Power Slide Mini Turboing...

Plus, you spoiled rob for me.

But, I never knew DB was that light!

I'm going to take that in consideration.

(edited by Shyguy on 12-28-05 10:58 PM)
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Posted on 12-29-05 10:55 AM Link | Quote
Yeah, SMK had way too little track space.

Also, I found it's much easier to blow up balloons if you aren't moving when you do it. This of course isn't explained anywhere.
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Posted on 12-29-05 11:43 AM Link | Quote
fabio was right, though. I think it picks up air AND sound. But can't pick up both. Therefore, you saying "FFFFFFfff!" isn't going to help your balloon.
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Posted on 12-29-05 09:05 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by HyperHacker
Also, I found it's much easier to blow up balloons if you aren't moving when you do it. This of course isn't explained anywhere.

Oh yeah, it says in the manual that you can only blow up balloons while you're not holding "A." I figured that since you had read the manual so carefully I didn't need to mention it. ;D
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Posted on 12-29-05 09:11 PM Link | Quote
ABOUT THE MANUAL.

What the heck is "release R to perfprm a mini-turbo"? Nintendo is normally really good at this kind of stuff. Spelling and revision and all.
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Posted on 12-29-05 09:40 PM Link | Quote
I don't know how you managed to even DO special cup looking only at the map, because inevitably, at the last lap on bowser's caslte, I get nuked by a blue shell and get tossed into lava.

SERIOUSLY. THREE TIMES IN A ROW. HERAJZRQwyhwereryhea

Then, once, I made it into rainbow road, and got hit by a blue shell one foot away from the finish line. One foot! Then my competition came from behind and I got fourth

Seriously.. I don't accept less then first.... Not against a computer... so I have to reset the cup and do the easy tracks again, only to inevitably get bombed in the worst possible spot.

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Posted on 12-29-05 10:25 PM Link | Quote
According to the timetrial path recorder thing, hopping speeds you up a little. So when you get hit by a trap, just hop a few times to get a better recovery.
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Posted on 12-29-05 10:30 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Tatrion
Then, once, I made it into rainbow road, and got hit by a blue shell one foot away from the finish line. One foot! Then my competition came from behind and I got fourth


At least it's not bad as getting hit by the blue shell while you are in the loop in Rainbow Road because you'll more likely fall off the track when you are sent flying by the blue shell. That will put you in a place worse than 4th place.
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