Good to hear you finished the job Dirtbag,   Awesome Work (And I know what I'm talking about)  
Back in 2009, your work at that time motivated me to do my own hack (Super Parigo Kart).
Maybe seeing me finishing my hack motivated you back to finish yours  

This hack looks very interesting and surely you must have put a lot of effort into it. I've just looked for Super Parigo Kart for the first time and could patch the PAL ROM for the zsnes emulator I have ( @ ScouB), but unfortunately the same method didn't work for Super Baldy Kart.

@ dirtbag: Can you help me in this case? I've tried to use BSNES instead, tried to use that 'purify' tool to change extensions from .smc to .sfc and went through US/Japanese/European ROMs as well although I began with your recommended 'Super Mario Kart (U) [!]' which should be the USA NTSC version of the game. Both emulators failed to load the modified ROM file then. I'd like to play this hack though .

Matthias

Mmh, can you tell me which emulator you used? Did you open the patch file with Lunar IPS and modify a Super Mario Kart (U) [!] ROM? If yes, I don't know why SPK works for me but SBK doesn't .

Played it a bit on my snes. I'm particularly impressed by the player sprites/animations. Found a few of the tracks hard on my eyes to tell what was going on (I guess some of the colour choices don't sit well with my colourblindness). Is there a guide anywhere for how the players handle? the first one I chose seemed a bit like yoshi in handling, so I did a quick reset and chose someone else

wxyz wrote on 06/23/15 at 13:02:32:


Hmm now that's an idea, maybe you guys can help me with a strategy guide?  I've got top down images of all the track we could use.

I don't have a guide as such but I do have the this that I used to work things out including the driver stats: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FumskSQaEAZZQDaDNKsIPb0TlmZuYFNAPYhsq... There are about 5 tabs.

Nice work there, I'd be very happy to give it a try soon!

Spoiler alarm (for those who haven't tried it yet and don't want to know anything in detail before)

DirtbagD wrote on 06/23/15 at 12:53:12:

I'm no SMK expert and played both SPK and your SBK for the first time this week, nevertheless I'd like to give you some feedback here and also a few questions which came up for me:

First of all, congratulations on successfully creating such a nice hack which is a lot of fun to play .
I've never played the NTSC version of SMK before, so I don't know if it's me or the game which causes some spinouts (not touching oil/obstacles of course). I remember this phenomenon from SMK, but it only happened after a very long slide there. I could recover well though because the CPU difficulty isn't as brutal as in SPK (I really feel that ScouB created this for the pro players ), more like for casual gamers. I chose Shelly/Nisha by the way because I always remember the handling of Mario/Luigi and beside their engine sound the rest felt similar as well. Only based on engine sound, the equivalents are as follows:

Shelly (upper left) = Mario/Luigi
Tylor* (left in top row) = Princess/Yoshi
George (right in top row) = Bowser/Donkey Kong jr.
James (upper right) = Koopa/Toad
Nisha (lower right) = Mario/Luigi
Dan (right in bottom row) = Princess/Yoshi
Baldy (left in bottom row) = Bowser/ Donkey Kong jr.
Dirtbag (lower left) = Koopa/Toad

*wheel chair instead of a kart, creative indeed

I saw your link to the character stats and assume you also put a lot of effort into balancing their abilities in terms of acceleration, top speed, etc. This is simply my memory of sound and brings me an image of e.g. Mario when I pick Shelly .

Other things I noticed and still remember:
- Antarctica tracks remind us of Vanilla Lake, but whoever created the music here was inspired by the MK64 Frappe Snowland (= Sherbet Land) soundtrack
- suprising warp zone on the 1st moon track, didn't think of such a feature in this game
- Asteroid Belt tracks are a bit too dark, grey road surrounded by a dark blue lines and black space is not only difficult to drive on for Moll, at least it's hard to built up speed and anticipate the next turns well
- the first Tropics track seem to lack off-road mechanics, unfortunately I don't slow down although leaving the asphalt road; was this effect intended?
- Abandoned Rig music sounds like one of those from Tetris if I'm not mistaken?
- Africa B is a worthy start for the final cup, very challenging track layout with tricky obstacles!
- Egypt C has a crazy lap counter system and maybe the narrowest paths I've ever driven on !
- Raceway C also includes some sharp turns I'd like to see the SMK elite going through without gas release; is it possible at all?
- start boost timing is different, is the mentioned 'hint' an acoustic signal when you got it wrong?
- I had a lightning (rather magical potion here) in 1st place, was it possible in SMK or did you change the item probabilities in my favour?

Summary: Thank you for Super Baldy Kart! I wish the hardest difficulty would have been more challenging, nevertheless I don't regret spending some time until I got it to work on my emulator, definitely worth it .

Matthias

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Thank you that means a lot.
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You got it - it's a music port of Sherbert land  

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I'm glad you appreciate the gimmick of this track, I looked to adding a warp in to other tracks but the feedback I got from my testers was it slowed down game play.  What's a little secret here is that depending on where you enter the warp you you end up in different areas of the landing/ boost zone.  (Far left is best)

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I got this feedback in testing a few times - that's why there is now markers around the edge.  If there is ever enough desire from players of the hack I'll bring out a version 1.1 and change this.

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Not something I considered to be honest - as other tracks have less asphalt and force you to drive on the sand.  Again if I ever do a 1.1 version I should make a small speed difference between the sand and the track?  What do you think?
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You are good at your music, that's 2 out of 2.  Yes it's the GB Tetris type B music.
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Good stuff, the rocks I added were quite late in to the hack, I'm glad you think it works.
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Another unique feature to SBK - it's was quite hard to fit it all in - that's why some parts where quote narrow and there is only one track with that "check point" system.

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I'm not that good a player - anyone up for the challenge?

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A horn sound is made at the exact point you need to press and hold the accelerate button.

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The probability sets have been changed.  There are 7 different probability sets.  Each track has one of the 7 probability sets that can be set against it.

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I could made a harder GP mode for the players of this forum if there is enough interest?  I made it for the masses.  I loved SMK myself but only ever managed at best Silver at 150cc  

But I'm very happy that you enjoyed playing the hack.  Thank you for taking the time to play it, and to give me your feedback.

If anyone else has any feedback or suggestions please let me know.

Can someone post some videos of each track as I won't have time to dl and play this

Seems like a very nice hack !
I'll give it a go myself soon !