hello all! I discussed on MSN a lot of these straightboosts and i saw, that some people have WR's on BC 1 for example, and haven't submitted it yet, cuz they are against straightboosts, cuz it should destroy the gaming.
What is your opinion about that?

The time trial competition on the Players' Site is just going through the track the fastest way possible, other than glitchs and tricks and stuff like that. When doing straightboosts, you're going through the "normal" track.
My opinion on this is that it'd be okay. Karters who'd do it would probably make a lot of active karters unhappy and frustrated, probably because their previous WRs or PRs will lose all their meaning for other people and/or upcoming karters. They probably won't get the respect or recognition they would deserve. The Non-NBT site is a sort of solution to that.

I don't think saying that straightboosts are going to destroy the gaming is right. It's gonna be a new whole thing of course but wasn't it the same thing with NBTs? But straightboosts are really hard to get and I'm not sure a lot of people are gonna get successfull results before a long time.

All that aside, you're on PAL so I don't really care if you post times with straightboosts. But if a was a Palie, now knowing that some of my times would get beat by others but they don't post them, I'd feel bad and less proud of my accomplishment. So I'd say that those who have accomplished WRs with straightboosts should send them without waiting.

I totally agree with Karel ! We told about that on MSN, and I was afraid to envisage a Parkinson's competition !

somebody has a video of one of these boosts?
??? ??? ???

If I remember right, then the BC 1 f-lap WR would be 17,44!!!!!  

I have the same opinion like Martin and Chris by the way! It is unbelievable for me to have a WR and you dont send it! well, but it is not my decision so...

Lg, Armin

OK from looking at that video, straighboosts look fine to me. But all that cutting the corner crap and not losing time through the sand has to be a glitch in the game and shouldn't be allowed.

Alimo   wrote on 09/21/04 at 01:23:43:


those sand boosts were revealed on a nintendo sponsored tv show in japan in 1992.  if anyone can understand the asm code, he can tell us if they're glitches.  but maybe they're glitches that the programmers knew were there but couldn't prevent against.

That's why the the Non-NBT site exists
While boosting through sand/grass/etc. may seem "forbidden", I hope you'll give it a try one day because it's a whole new experience of driving through a race

Fair play. I've nothing against other people doing it. I have tried (and failed) to do it out of interest but don't think I'd want to use it for any competetive advantage.

Is this a big contentious issue between karters? I.E. do some non- NBT people ignore the NBT? or is it just an accepted difference of opinion? Interested to know.

Cheers

P.S. I should probably stop going on about it as I'm sure this has been discussed many times before!

Karel, whats your GV1 time without boosts and platform jump?

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Well, the main conflict for me back before the Non-NBT site existed was the fact that the Non-NBT times were holding no more real meaning. Giving them the recognition that I thought they deserved was what I was in favour of and fighting for, and now that this is achieved, there's pretty much nothing I can complain about. I don't want to convince anyone that they should be playing in a particular way, and I'm just very glad that most players seem to give both of the competitions a similar importance. As far as I'm concerned, however, it is true that I remain mostly uninterested into competing with the NBT techniques, but that's because it is simply not what I'm looking for in the game, and that's just me.

Karel   wrote on 09/21/04 at 09:36:17:


Cool, that gives me something to aim for. I'm currently at 1'07'85 and 13'47

SeB   wrote on 09/24/04 at 11:26:16:


Exactly