Mario Kart DS

**Revoltor** · 04 Nov 2005, 12:05 PM

Originally Posted by Josh

NES > SNES.

NES>SNES>FECES>GENESIS

PARTY LIKE IT'S 1991!

**Jeremy** · 04 Nov 2005, 12:40 PM

Online battle mode being in is great, and this can't help but be better than Double Dash, which played more like a Mario Kart clone than an actual Mario Kart.

**Geen** · 04 Nov 2005, 10:27 PM

Originally Posted by Jeremy

Online battle mode being in is great, and this can't help but be better than Double Dash, which played more like a Mario Kart clone than an actual Mario Kart.

It's funny -- Mario Kart Double Dash, which I thought was terrible when it was first released, has really grown on me as I gave it more of my time. Still not as good as the N64 build, but it's a damn fine racer in it's own right.

I still need to watch the wi-fi portion of the Mario Kart presentation, but I'm excited as all hell for Mario Kart online. Not being able to hold the bananna behind your kart is pretty asstactular, although thanks to Double Dash!! I already know how to deal with it so, whatever.
When change comes around you change or get crushed. Make your choice.

**1CCOSA** · 04 Nov 2005, 10:33 PM

^^^^

Enlighten me, what did you do to compensate for the peel in DD?

**1CCOSA** · 04 Nov 2005, 11:39 PM

Uh ok, the iGN preview says no baloon battle but in the Mario Kart/wifi preview on 1up.com there is a sidebar where Parish says baloon battle is online. Probably a typo but i can dream:

Bottom of second page:

http://1up.com/do/previewPage?pager....=1&cId=3145379

Go Online, Young Man
Mario Kart's multiplayer modes offer three different forms of action: the old fashioned race, the standard pop-the-balloons battle arena, and a special survival mode in which players race to collect Shine sprites, as players with the least sprites are steadily removed from the race. These can be played both locally with the standard DS connectivity or online.
Getting online is pleasantly simple; the first time you use your copy of Mario Kart online, you're guided through a brief wizard to establish your settings (name, kart emblem). When this is complete, you're given a friend code to swap with other players for online competition. However, online action isn't strictly limited to your friends group only. You can also compete with rivals, or any available player (sorted both by region and globally).

Unfortunately, Nintendo's wi-fi setup was seriously overloaded by eager journalists clamoring to go online at the event where we tested it out. Those who did manage to connect were able to compete against hand picked players from Nintendo's New York, European, and Japanese branches -- the latter earning the distinction of being personally humbled by members of the game's development team. Still, under more reasonable circumstances (less than 100 people trying to log on to a single access point) the design should be fairly transparent.

Readers can look forward to mopping the track with Dr. Toasty (a toad who's emblem is an angry frog flipping the finger) in just a few short weeks.

**Geen** · 05 Nov 2005, 11:13 AM

Originally Posted by Dylan1CC

^^^^

Enlighten me, what did you do to compensate for the peel in DD?

In DD I would just hang on to the bananna (Or the green shell, fake block, or any other item you could throw behind you) and as soon as I heard or saw something coming up from the rear I'd drop it behind me. Most the time you are going to deflect whatever is about to hit you. This was pretty much the same way I'd deal with crap about to hit me in Super Mario Kart too.

As for if Battle Mode is going to be online, I think it is. Both IGN and 1up seem to be saying it is now, from what I see. I hope it's true. ^_^