You know, like McDowells. I don’t actually care what color my shells are. There are principals involved. Principalities!
The Mario part. You can copy the Kart part all day. They’ve been doing so since at least the 64. See:
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Diddy Kong Racing
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Crash Team Racing
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Burger King Pocketbike Racer
Let’s not forget SuperTuxKart!
I love tuxcart but I can never find anyone else playing? Is the player base just that small?
Most of people are self-hosting the server. You can go to the official Discord or Any STK commmunity to find friends to play together :)
Tbh I have no idea. I’ve only ever played single-player!
I’ll never fucking forgive y’all for leaving out Dr Robotnik’s Ring Racers (FOSS sonic fangame)
Skunny Kart was my favourite, mostly because it was by a group called “CopySoft”
The crash racing games are actually amazing, their boost system is the best
No love for Street Racer? I don’t blame you.
Also Burger King Pocket Bike Racer
Wacky Wheels!
People who have never played Wacky Weels or Road Rash (PC edition) from the nineties are missing out! Legends of my childhood.
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piracy makes for the easiest boycotts ever.
just saying.
Excuse me, it’s not piracy if it’s Nintendo.
nintendo is one of those companies where ill take pride in STEALING from, even if piracy isn’t stealing.
I’m still busy enjoying their older consoles. They probably hate that.
judging by how hard/expensive it is to obtain their older games on their newer consoles, yeah you bet they hate it.
luckily those are both easy to emulate and buy second hand.
Yep, I like to play their older games on a mix of original hardware, modding, and emulation.
If the emulators work. I mean, didn’t Nintendo just shut down two of the best recently?
they tried to shut down two of the best recently.
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled: A remaster of the classic
PlayStation kart racer, featuring Crash Bandicoot and his friends.
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed: Characters from SEGA franchises race in vehicles that transform into boats and planes.
Diddy Kong Racing: Race with Diddy Kong and his friends in karts, planes and hovercraft.
Team Sonic Racing: A kart racer where you work together in teams, using team moves and ultimate abilities.
Nickelodeon Kart Racers Series: Features characters from various Nickelodeon shows.
Disney Speedstorm: A kart racer featuring characters from Disney and Pixar franchises.
KartRider: Drift: A free-to-play kart racer with a focus on drifting.
Lego Racers: Build and race Lego vehicles on various tracks.
Garfield Kart Furious Racing: Race as Garfield and his friends on themed tracks.
Konami Krazy Racers: Race as characters from Konami’s popular franchises.
Blur: Combines arcade racing with vehicular combat and power-ups.
ModNation Racers: Features track creation and customization.
LittleBigPlanet Karting: Brings the creativity of LittleBigPlanet into a kart racing experience.
F1 Race Stars: A more arcade-style take on Formula 1 racing.
SuperTuxKart: An open-source kart racing game.
Starlit Kart Racing: A free-to-play kart racer with a variety of game modes.
Konami Krazy Racers
I wonder why they didn’t got for something like “Konami Krazy Karting”
Too similar to Kuru Kuru Kururin.
They could stack the type then allign it to the left!
You have the best list here, but you forgot Wipeout series. Futuristic racing with weapons, set to electronic music.
Crash Team Racing PS1 was IMHO better than Mario Kart N64. The wumpa fruit added a neat dimension, and the ability to select weapons for battle mode was great.
It still is. Mario Kart is third best behind CTR and Sonic Transformed.
Out of curiosity: did you partly use AI to make this list? Some of the short descriptions read very oddly for a forum post, e.g. the “various tracks” part on Lego Racers.
The “And his friends” seems like ai to me too. Not a huge deal since its just a quick aggregated list, but still fun to try and spot
Yes, those two and the LBP one are what got my sensor to go off.
I’m not trying to make a drama out of it (although some people might), I was really just curious if my intuition was correct. I also don’t think it’s all AI because they used a , instead of a : on the second item, and LLMs tend to be way better than that at consistent formatting.
honestly if I was op I wouldn’t respond to that question regardless if AI was(or wasn’t) used, the “did you use AI question” very easily falls into a slippery slope where others hop on and harrass people over it, so it’s easier to just ignore the question.
I would. And then I would use AI to argue with em lol.
Make sure you put two line breaks between every new line. Otherwise it kinda comes out as a blob. You can also use a dash and a space before each entry to get a bullet point.
Played a copy of Crash Team Racing a bit ago. Had a real good time with it.
There’s a third Sonic racing game called Sonic and SEGA All Stars Racing.
Party animals has an almost 1:1 in terms of gameplay ripoff of Mario kart
Not quite a clone, but Crash Tag Team Racing was a staple of my childhood
Garfield Kart is the shiiiiiiiit
You forgot Forza Horizon, which is the only other racing game series with Open World.
If I’m not mistaken, a large component of Nintendo’s power comes from Japanese copyright laws being far more pro-copyright holder and Nintendo uses it to its full potential. In Japan, this sometimes results in prison sentences and often big fines. it’s also applied outside the country against a consortium of universal copyright recognizing countries and so it can affect you regardless of your location although I forget how exactly.
To @AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 's point, perhaps it is the weak qualifications for Japanese patents which have allowed Nintendo to bully everyone.
Japan’s copyright laws are basically the same as everyone else.
Except since in japan you can patent basically everything, the application is much stricter. See how nintendo has patents for “capturing a monster using a ball” and other general stuff.
IIRC, there was a japanese company (capcom, maybe?) that had a patent on showing shadows of the characters when they weren’t visible on screen due to a wall or tree covering them.
How were they able to sue Palworld, then?
Basically every kind of game needs a “MUGEN” for that genre. Then we just put in the content we want and theme it appropriately.
Does SuperTuxKart fit the bill?
It does; you can add karts, racers, and maps
It’s crazy this hasn’t happened yet. Kart racers are conceptually very simple games and are all very similar. CTGP kinda does this but is limited by Mario Kart’s engine.
There is one: SuperTuxKart
It’s free and open source. There are plenty of community content, like custom karts and maps. It’s even adding game mode from popular game. The last one is from Rocket League.
Right? A series of adjustable physics inputs, a way to import levels and tag areas with terrain info that’s defined in a file somewhere… Typing it out? I think it’s wild that it happened to fighting games BEFORE it happened to a lot of other genres.
The Wii is still a good platform
Wii U also. You can download pirated games directly from Nintendo official servers.
Th Wii U didn’t sell that many consoles compared to the Wii.
Also there isn’t much need for piracy for the Wii as there are tons of games that can be had for cheap.
Modded Wii U playing online on Pretendo Network 😚👌
The world needs wacky wheels again
Instantly got the main menu theme in my head.
It was an awesome game, but now I get headache from the fast moving low pixel graphics. I would definitely play it again with a few pixels more.
Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed is oddly slept on. Great kart racer.
Just the Mario part, I think you could make a clone with just different scenarios and characters (even the same track shapes) and be 100% legal.
Haven’t seen Dr Robotnik’s Ring Racers mentioned yet. Open source game based on the Freedoom engine.
Do yourself a favour and play Aero GPX instead
I was going to buy a switch 2 (or attempt to), but at that cost… hell no. Not without dinner first.
If you haven’t tried modded Mario Kart Wii before, you’re missing out.
