Gaming, at its best, brings people together and will continue to be a source for inspiration - and argument - for the foreseeable future. Gaming, in the end, is about the experience and the competition we share with our fellows, the times we spend doing all we can to better ourselves and encourage our fellows to do likewise. Mario Kart succeeded among such gems and all-time great games by being such a joy to share with others and this, the way it brought people together and used its native hardware to great advantage, made it a lasting favorite to throw on with a group of friends. We can’t give those kind of answers here but we can tell you, any character you enjoy playing with is good enough. You don’t have to be the fastest player on earth to enjoy games, that’s not the whole point of gaming. Speedrunning is a type of madness that manifests in people who have a weird mixture of obsession and neuroticism. With the same basic stats as Luigi, except slightly better, Nintendo’s mascot is in the middle of the pack.Ī good representative for the new system, Mario is a decent racer but rarely used by “world class speedrunners”, but that (nor anything else in this list) should make you feel bad about the racer you most prefer. He’s an average racer, and if you’re talented enough you could rise to the heights of mediocrity with this lil guy. If there was evil all about, and a monster stole our head of state, it was our duty to smash the shit out of blocks and throw hammers like a mad man until we saved the world. Mario is the little Stalin looking working man we all admired growing up. Maybe they got a discount for buying in bulk. Note: Donkey Kong’s turning speed is among the best in the game, which offsets his size and same lame racing rig that Wario and Bowser use. These numbers are a fancy way of saying we can calculate the exact reasons why he sucks, but why he also sucks slightly less than the previous degenerates on this list.
Donkey Kong is somehow smaller than a shouty Italian man, rated at a 5, though he’s slightly heavier, designated at a 2 in this category. Since each character has the same stats over each of the three gaming modes as well as battle, the three vary in weight and size.īowser and Wario are each a 6. As a developer, reusing resources is a great way to save space and work around the limitations of the N64’s cartridge.
The reason Bowser, Wario, and Donkey Kong are so similar comes down to efficient coding. Turn speed reduction is the time it takes for a player’s speed to slow down as they begin to edge a curb, which becomes essential when you’re racing for a world record and a 500th of a second is all that stands between you and eternal glory. With the same constant speed as Bowser and Wario, he also shares the same speed and turn speed reduction - our fourth category of estimation that together make up the numbers we’ve used to make this new, scientific list. This is a good time to bring up is that of turn speed reduction. Now to that damn dirty ape and his absurd tie. So with all due credit to these tireless and dedicated nerds, we give you the definitive guide to the best Mario Kart 64 characters, based on math.
Examples throughout this article will refer to the PAL version, since it allows for complex inputs to be executed in slow-mo. At 25 frames per second and 55 hertz, the racer’s mobility and maneuverability is improved despite running at a lower transmission rate. Note 2: World record competitors and dedicated speed runners more often compete on the PAL version of the game, which is a touch slower than the NTSC version.
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Using this and in-game data pulled from the ROM, which works with emulator software, players sifted through lines and lines of code to bring to light actual data that proves mathematically which MK64 characters are better than others. Note: TAS programs are tool-assisted speedrunning applications made to find strategies to improve a player’s speed. Speedrunners and programmers worked with TAS-software to figure out (mathematically) which characters in MK64 are the best. For years passionate fans and casual trolls alike have argued the question: which character is in fact the best racer on Mario Kart 64?