Mario Kart DS: All Cup Tour

This video was originally meant to be uploaded before the Mario Kart 7 videos. But I did 2 recordings the same week MK 7 was out and each one had separate issues.

The first AVI raw recording is 10 GB and if you don't know AVI dislikes playing files greater than 4GB. Apparently you can use AVI 2.0 recordings via Virtualdub screen capture but I haven't found a way to keep it fully synched with the sound.
The second AVI raw recording was split into 4 (after 8 races) and combine them into 1 MP4 video, it works but I forgot to sort out the sound recording which means the 1 hour video had no sound whatsoever.

So basically this is my third AVI raw recording and the first time playing through Mario Kart DS 2 weeks after playing Mario Kart 7. Boy the mechanics do feel a lot different, the drifting mechanics especially, I screwed up Rainbow Road (2nd Race) so easily but I still managed to get first place. The rest of the races (3 to 32) were much better.

So here is some questions for those who don't know:

What is All Cup Tour?
All Cup Tour was originally a cup exclusive to Mario Kart Double Dash where you clear all of the courses in a single sitting. This cup hasn't returned since but there is a way to play this by sorting out the options on VS Mode. To make it feel like Double Dash's All Cup Tour I set the number of courses to 32 with random choices (the same track never gets played twice).

Mario Kart Wii also has a way of doing an All Cup Tour similar to DS that SDA even has a published run on the site:
http://speeddemosarchive.com/MarioKartWii.html

Sadly you CANNOT do this on Mario Kart 7 because solo VS mode does not exist... which is just dumb. To make things more bizarre during Grand Prix there isn't an In-game timer. The touch screen map is missing a few features seen on Mario Kart DS including:

Item Boxes, Bullet Bills (Airship Fortress) Coloured arrows when racing against a ghost (Time Trial), and you can change the touch screen map not only by touching the screen but also by pressing Y which you can't do on MK 7.

Recorded on a real DS, for more info:
http://greenalink.blogspot.com/2011/11/ds-capture-device.html

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[Pabloillusion]

you will summit this to SDA

[Greenalink]

@Pabloillusion

Na, too many execution related errors. Luck is not a huge issue unlike Mario Kart Wii.

[iHavezMyBirdo]

"...and you can change the touch screen map not only by touching the screen but also by pressing X which you can't do on MK 7."

It's actually Y. X is also used for items.

[Greenalink]

@iHavezMyBirdo

You are right, I got mixed up as the Xbox 360 button layout is slightly different.

[Greenalink]

The GBA freebies are out tomorrow, 5 of them I have already played, the other 5 I have not.

[Greenalink]

@Greenalink

Go to humblebundle website. You can buy 5 (7 if you pay more) top quality Indie games at any price. The bundle includes Super Meat Boy and if you pay more than the average $5.31 you can get Gratuitous Space Battles (worth £17.99 on Steam) and CAVE STORY PLUS (worth £6.99) as well. Totally worth it.

[tw91wss]

t'as fait 50cc c'est pour ça que t'es premier :)

[pokemarioish]

i remember this game

[rprb1957]

how do u snake so fast

[UchihaSDA]

this is the kind of run i wanted to do when i was doing MKDS time attack but that was 2 years ago. right now i'm probably worse than you hehe :p

[iHavezMyBirdo]

@Greenalink Ah, okay I understand :P

[CloudMNintendo]

Ahh... good times.. I loved the mini turbo on nds since you got a full turbo almost instantly, which allowed you to constantly charge up a new one.