i'm autistic and i WILL get 3 stars on every single cuptips and tricks itt
Tfw still unbeaten /o/ champion of the time trial mode.
>i'm autisticStopped reading there
>>12374785Hit too close to home?
Didn't we already have this thread?>i'm autisticOh, that explains everything.
>>12374771>>12374779Any HRT doctor recommendations gbasisters?
>>12374837it died before i managed to get all the 3 stars so this is the continuationanyway, i found https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/gba/371318-mario-kart-super-circuit/faqs/67255which explains EVERYTHING about the rank and how it's calculated. sadly i can't see the ram where i play (not to cheat but at least to check the points after each race, or to see how many off-track frames were deducted, etc) but if my math is correct:>rocket start>wario+>not using any itemsget you more or less the 300 points you need for 3 stars. if you include passing throw item boxes with items and miniturbos, that can cancel hitting walls and other playerthe more interesting noticing is that finishing the track FAST AF give you a LOT of points (like on the first track if you finish under 1 minute you get something like 300 additional points), so if you prioritize SPEED alone and ignore coins you should get 3 stars easily every timewhat unironically KILLS the run on extra cups is the fucking offroad penalty. the dude says:>mario circuit: you can spend as much time as you want outside the track because the game will not count it. Beware of hitting the walls though, since the game behaves as if this was a Bowser Castle track, and will count twice, once as a wall bump and once as if you have spent 1 frame outside the track>koopa beach: touched the water? Then you are totally outside of the track. It does not matter if the puddle is right in the middle of the track. Hopping over it also does not help. At all! Although not really a glitch here, since this seems to be applied for all beach tracks.>choco island: same rules applied on RMC2 are also applied here, but with a VERY IMPORTANT twist - the big mud pool in the middle of the track is counted as if you were out of the track!
>>12374973I never bother using the heavier drivers, I always use Toad and still get 3 stars. It's only something like 20 points difference anyway. So one more power slide and item box, wow.
>>12374973point is, assuming you know how to drift and never brake, and you balance each bump with an items box/mini turbo/coins, the ONLY thing that can tank the score is offroad driving:>1. If the track does not have an "outside", like the Bowser Castle levels, this value increments each time you hit a wall.> 2. Some tracks, specially the SNES' ones, are glitched when the game calculates this value. and the formula is SkillPoints -= FramesOutsideTrack / 4, so every second is -15 points, which for example on the koopa beach track means your score will always be super low, maybe even 0, regardless of everything else, only because of the time you spent on water (or in the puddle on choco island)...tl;dr: minimize the offroad time at all costs = priority #1. don't bump into walls on koopa castle/mario circuit = priority #2also grok said to do miniturbo on straight by wiggling but i'm not sure this applies to super circuit
>>12374991Braking absolutely rapes your final score, I tested it out the other day for shits and giggles in SC Special Cup 150cc, where I know I will always get 3 stars when I drive normally, but this time I braked/reversed for 3 seconds at the end of each race before crossing the finish line and boom; B rank.
>>12374998>core tenant of racing is objectively badnever liked this aspect of kart games, the 100% focus on drifting every turn, be nice if there were little optimizations you could do outside of that.
bumperino
ok i actually beat the lightning cup! minimizing the time in the puddles/water was the trickas for the special, i did like 10 2 stars in a row....
>>12377785update: WE DID IT REDDIT though it's only 50ccon my 3 stars run, the rainbow road was DOGSHIT (i fell like 5 times) and i had bad times on all the other maps. the trick was on the ice road level: i kept going through snow on the last corner instead of hopping on ice to the left. with that offroad penalty alone gone = ez 3 starsi heard that 100cc is actually, but now that i understood the rank calculation weight i think i'll make it
>>12377880>i heard that 100cc is actually,actually easier because you can do more miniturbos and faster times
can't take this thread seriously since OP is obviously using save states
>>12377902holy projectioni wouldn't have bitched so much without this if i used savestates
>>123747711p mario kart isn't mario kart
>>12378338>without thisABOUT this ffsi know people won't beliebe if they don't want to but for reference:>SMKtook me 40 hours in total to beat special150cc (with featherskips)>mk6420h, a lot of which were spent to beat time trial ghosts (with skips)>mk sci'm 30h in, still need 100c and 150cc 3 stars and time trials. i spend 5h yesterday just to get the lightning and special extra 3 stars. i think it will be the longest game until the wii one
>>12377880kudos, i don't have that kind of patiencei'm happy enough if i'm in first
>>12377880>i heard that 100cc is actuallyACTUALLY EASIER FFS
>>12374771This is the only Mario Kart I played and I just don’t understand how it got so popular Nintendo managed to force it as a Switch 2 seller
>>12375026tenet
are time trials 150cc?
>>12378391Yes.
normal cups are piss easy after the extra ones lol (except for the special one, gonna need to learn shortcuts there)another tip: if you pass between 2 items (while holding an item) to get both you get double the skin points. that makes a lot of difference. on the extra tracks they are usually further apart but if you jump and powerslide you can grab 2 at the same time with some luck
>>123788683 out 4 tracks in Special cup have shortcuts. + In Bowser's castle 4 it's easy to slide to those speed pads that are close to the walls.
>>12378892*out of
as expected, i got all 3 stars on 100c cups, and 1/2 stars on the extra one but yeah i have to grind thoseat this point my only doubt is whether offroad sections on donut country count as offroad for the skill points calculation (the guide says it doesn't on mario circuit and on choco island and i'm pretty sure that's correct)besides that it's just grind now i guess
We're missing that turbofaggot who posted their sunset title screen. Maybe the two of you can fuck each other as it's been more than 2 weeks and you still haven't 100% the game.
>>12380965nta but if the night screen is unlocked with 3 stars on non-extra cups only then i could rush it easily i think.
>spend hours trying to relearn all the driftlines on 100c with wario>1/2 stars at best on extra>pick yoshi on a whim>it's literally baby mode>3 stars on first attempt of extra lightningwtf, why has nobody told me this
>>12379925ok i think i can confirm this nowthe wiki says>Some courses are marked as containing no off-road sections, such as the Bowser Castle courses and, strangely, Mario Circuit 2 and Choco Island 2. These courses instead increment this value each time a character hits a wall. (In Choco Island 2, the mud pool in the middle of the course still counts as an off-road section.)so on every other map the offroad points deduction works normally except mc2 and most importantly ci2. this is important because ci2 is the last map in extra lightning, which is one of the hardest cups to get 3 stars. so funnily enough, in ci2, if you drive AROUND the giant pool of shit you get no penalty for offroad, so i guess a lot of runs get killed by cutting straight there instead. i confirmed this myself
>>12382971Wait, so driving off the track in Choco island 2 is fine but the mud lake is not? Well that's shit.
>>12383357yeah, that's why it's the hardest cup to get 3 stars (having the hardest bowser castle and koopa beach with forced water sections doesn't help)the special cup comes close because of the water on koopa beach and the snow on the vanilla lake (assuming you don't fuck up ghost valley and rainbow road), but it doesn't have plain "broken" maps like extra lightning
>>12374771Worst game in the series if I’m being desu
>>12383665i think it's the best of the first 3 hardcore arcade racers
GBA SOUL
>>123747713 Star all tracks in all cups, in all modes with all characters to unlock Waluigi!
>>12374771I find drift hopping with yoshi works for most of the tracks. Real problem is getting enough coins to get the maximum score, the cpus are very aggressive when bumping you.
>>12383665the presentation leaves me a bit cold but it's more polished than super and it's easily better than 64, 64 is legitimately not a very good game removed from nostalgia and its legacy.
>>12386437Yoshi's the worst one to pick though.
>>12386647works on my machine
>>12383357also i can 100% confirm this now, i drove around on the left of the mudpool for all 5 laps here >>12387569 kek
>>12387569Play as Bowser: +45Play as DK or Wario: +40 Play as Mario or Luigi: +30Play as Peach or Toad: +10Play as Yoshi: +0
I got gold cups on every course on the 1st try....EXCEPT for the last cup before unlocking the extra courses. I can't seem to manage to get gold on those. halp!
>>12387734i did 50cc with wario but i can't get a single driftline with him on 100c, that's why i switched.i dunno about 150cc yet, i think i'll switch to mario/luigi
>>12387783You mean the special cup? That's probably the easiest for me, plenty of shortcuts you can take. Gold + 3 stars every time.
>>12387836>>12387783>non extra cupsheh, cute
>>12387840The fun one, yes.
>>12387857the easy ones, yes.
>>12387870Yeah, no shit.
>>12387734i switched to wario and yeah, those +40 are like having +10 coins on each map, very useful on special extra (finally finished 100c)only 150cc left
update: beat 150cc extra mushroomall very easy maps but it still took me some tries. i'm not a fan of donut planes 1
>>12390439for beat i mean 3 stars so i will NEVER play this cup EVER again in mksc
>>12390439It's easy to do a lot of turbo drifts on all of the Donut plains maps, though. That's like 200-300 extra points right there.
same with flower, but i had to use luigi. mario circuit keeps being the hardest map of the cupi also tried doing lightning extra 150cc and yeah, it's gonna take a while...
