Played for about 10 hours total over the weekend, broke a controller in anger, set 2 PRs and wept with joy, and I'm sore everywhere now. My hands, my back, and my neck all hurt. I don't remember this happening back when I was in middle school playing for hours every day. Is this what happens when you get old?

Anyways, just wanted to write a quick note and say that I'm incredibly happy this community still exists and that people are still playing MKDD in 2013. This game provided me with untold hours of entertainment, rage, and joy back in the day, and it was really nice to experience that whole range of emotions once again. Hope everyone is doing well!

I don't know who you are (a bit before my time ^^), but great to see a bit activity here! MKDD sadly is a bit dead... it was active for a while again, but now it's like dead again...

Will you keep up playing or was this more like a one time return?

^Yeah, A-Tech really has changed the WR strats, and around 2009 - middle of 2012 mainly the WRs were improved like shit. There were 3 new World Champs only in that time, and the old World Champ is now only 4th! 25 of the old WRs got improved in the last 5 3 years, which is... pretty incredible.

As for SMK and MK64: I think SMK just became interesting due to more and more players experiencing the New Boosting Technique (a modification of the controller is (almost always) needed to use them), and MK64 is the game with the highest new player rate (apart from MK7, but that doesn't really count as it's pretty new ), so it seems to be really active. Well, MK64 got a huge load of new WRs in the last 2 years aswell. The big MJ (I hope you know who this is ) got dethroned after an almost 10 year reign of the crown, and is now (probably?) inactive.

Also, it's normal that you get blisters from a long time tourno after a long break. And I know how you feel with your back.. got that aswell sometimes, but that's only because of the gaming position xD

First of all, sorry for hijacking your thread!

Really awesome that you went back to this game after 5 years! I´m on the same road here. Picked up this game after maybe 6-7 years, and now i can´t stop playing it. Have made some new PRs,
and I feel it start to go my way.

also, happy to be on this forum!

Go for top 30. Shouldn't be too hard once you get into the swing of things. Breaks make you better, after all.

53rd place according to the rankings on the players page.

No PR yet, but I'm still having fun. It feels like a trip down memory lane. I'm reliving the emotions: the exhilaration of hearing the "ping ping ping ping ping!", the unsuspected laptimes, the annoying half-a-second delay between selecting "restart" and it actually responding... But most of all the frustration, of course.

For instance, I've been trying to sub 3 minutes on RR (for the first time in seven years). I get in a flow, I get 3'00"050. So close! Come on, almost there...
In the next two hours, in the midst of countless messed-up runs, I tie it, I get 3'00"012 (ffs!), I get 3'00"043...
But then that magical moment, when you say to yourself that you're giving it one last try. You get a good first lap, a decent second lap, and you know that you can make it with a good last lap. Your hands are sweating, you heart is pounding, but you have to go all out. And it goes well. You cross the finish line, you hear the music and you see...
http://home.online.nl/tbeuman/RR-records.jpg

Oh man, you got me too, that was great

I'm surprised the half-second delay from pressing restart annoys you though, considering how I loved the the mkdd restart for being so ridiculously quick compared to all other MKs

Wow didn't see that until now. Sad and at the same time epic moment xD

^Big congrats on that sub, breaking any minute barrier is always an awesome feeling. Especially if it's means you'll never have another 3'xx"xxx PR

This really makes me want to begin my second MKDD life; I never finished destroying my initial 1-try timeset in 2012 because my controller broke and then my Wii's disk drive broke by the time I got the controller working. I never got around to 6 of the courses, but the ARR of the other 10 courses is 10.9 Hero A...

A little update: I now (virtually) have 3 TC's, 17 TD's, 9 HA's, 1 HB and 2 HC's (guess where). That gives an ARR of 10.43, which is Titan D!

No PRs yet, but just now I got frightfully close. While trying to sub 1'29"8 on MCR (for Titan), I suddenly got 1'29"564, which is just 0"021 above my PR! Even though the first lap could've been better, I'm not going to get a PR here anytime soon, because those other two laps were simply ""