Comment on Winning the Gold Cup on Mario Kart 64 as Yoshi
ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world 2 months agoIt isn’t about the character you choose to use for the race. I’d be more concerned about the 50cc part. Although, now that you mention it, it seems like using bigger characters (Bowser, etc) made the car move slower.
Albbi@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Bigger characters had a lower top speed, but could maintain speed while turning better. They could also bump lighter characters and spin them out.
ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My recollection was big characters had a higher top speed, but slow acceleration. Small characters were the opposite. Medium characters didn’t excel or suck at either.
Albbi@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
This isn’t correct for N64 Mario Kart. They actually did give the lightweights the best acceleration and top speed. I found a video that did some analysis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6AxbNL2ET0
ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That was not my recollection of how it was supposed to work or how it worked in practice, but I found an archive of the original guidebook, and it says exactly what you said. Interesting. I got passed up by Donkey Kong and Bowser on straightaways all the time, but maybe that’s more of a mirror mode challenge thing than a size of the karts things.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, Bowser would hit the highest speeds, but if you hit a wall or a shell, it would take forever to get going again.
Ithi@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
That’s roughly what is was for the SNES game. Probably N64 too but I don’t recall.