20 Random Mario Kart DS Facts You NEVER Cared For! 

So true ! The upper screen would click back and you had to pause to bend it back !

also I did that a lot and mine broke like it latterly stopped working and broke

That happened to me when MK7 came out I was so used to playing with Wii note and nunchuck. Now when I play MKWii I just use the GameCube controller, same with MK8 Deluxe.

What good does that do?

Omg I do that lol

Sarah Houle I did the same thing haha. Bottom screen saves people’s lives.

JigsawFlex not on rainbow road

When I was a kid my mother smashed my DS because I was playing it too much. But the DS still worked, it was only the top screen which was smashed (all the buttons and the bottom screen worked perfectly still), but Mario Kart DS was one of the only games I could still play without the top screen. I actually managed to win all the tournaments only using the bottom screen, it's not as difficult as you might think.

Sarah Houle ikr it helps me shoot green shells to cpus And target someone behind me with a banana or a fake item box

@@iss2075 Your Mother is a monster... how could she do that.

That's awesome to hear! Now you can replay this game authentically!

I wad just playing it yesterday

Same but I found it in my backpack and it was for a year

Wel remember, you can always find a pre-owned copy somewhere online

WOOHOO

YES. Gimme those LGS.

In Mario Kart Tour, you actually can pair any drivers with any kart you want as long it is inside your inventory. (But you mostly cannot anyhow choose because different tracks has different assigned "best" drivers/karts/gliders to get more scores)

The lgs cart is one of my favorite carts even if it looked hilarious. The tank is a good cart too.

@@michelleschrock9141 Tank on its way to drive through water and grass like it's nothing:

Wow, I got a heart, but really 1st and best game ever! ^^

Me too good ol days

Same man

me too, im a beast at it and im still playing it to this day

Me too

I knew :p After Crash Boom Bang I was never gonna use the mic ever again.

no, when I was like 7 I was playing balloon battle, and I meant to press start so I could pause, but I accidentally pressed select, so from then on I never blew into my mic.

Jukub The select button is so damn slow though...

I knew too. Someone told it to me.

I remember struggling so much with the mic lol and when it finally stopped working and I found out the select thing I was so happy

Every Chara has a big wheeled kart, a small wheeled one and a standard. I think there's a pattern between wheels size and items stats, like small -> 3 msh ; std always 2 msh etc.

it also determines the frequency of high level items in VS or Grand Prix modes.

@@jimartwork9391 yes but in reverse

@@whiskeyandchoke no. item stat no influence on high level item probability

@@masterleo4932 Sori :D It's true

Gosh imagine people driving blocky tires in real life lol. Good eye!

Most people do, myself included

Me too

same, i sucked at the coin ones

The funniest thing in the balloon battles was to put bananas or fake item boxes IN actual item boxes

There wasnt coins in this game, only suns.

Seth Cocker Trueee, good eye!

MrFurZer 2nd Glad we’re in a mutual understand here!

And I don't regret it one bit!

its twd98

twd98 got popular because of this one line

He also makes good, consistent content.

BEAM SHOCK DODGE

Theflashguy 125 Good, I secretly wanted you to care.

JigsawFlex 😏

yeah i acctually care too

I care and I want some of these concepts back

those were absolute dogshit though, they removed all the hazards and gave them super circuit backgrounds. thank god for the music...

@@goldengrat1066 It still counts; the fact they decided to give you all the SNES courses as a bonus was still a nice bit of extra; especially since you had to work to unlock them. I will admit that Super Circuit is not the best game in the franchise; but it is still the first game in the series to include retro/classic courses.

@@Kohchu you said first to add CLASSIC,and the ds added the retro tracks...so your shooting your leg now,nice

​@@nofuntag9582 Uh huh. Classic and Retro tracks are the exact same thing. Levels that existed in previous games that were brought back as an extra. Just because you change the word, doesn't change what they are. Please try again.

@@Kohchu *unfortunately for you,history wont see it that way*

TENOX Yes I was quite confused because that has never happened to me before until I recorded that footage lmao.

InstaKarma you hit Waluigi with de FIB and then you lose the bullet lol

I love bullets and boos there hasn't been one Mario kart game YET with the boos in it

That's actually how I got a bullet bill while being in like third or fourth place once. Was epic

JigsawFlex Dude,Boo is an item that you use and he steals an item from a random person

Facts.

JigsawFlex I’m guessing you did? Sadly, I misplaced my copy of MKDS, but I’m thinking of getting a pre-owned copy. OoC, how well did it sell? It must have sold like hot cakes.

JWil42 Yeah, I did. Sold pretty much most of them but eventually got them back as I got older. Some were super cheap and others I got for free from friends lol.

Wow guys I'm on fire, t o t a l s k I l l

Straight up, facts.

JigsawFlex nope

Mario kart wii was hella fun too

so tru

Finally someone get its

s h o c k d o d g e

lol xD

wow im on fire

TOTAL SKILL

T W D 9 8

This and double dash

Glad you enjoyed it!

i hope it will come out soon lol

Creativity at it’s finest i mean you’re not wrong!

No, I played it on my 3ds, backwards compatibility FTW!

*you meant the ds series*

It’s also on the Wii U.

lowercaseletters It’s weird, they don’t really rubber band. They kinda speed up at random parts of the track. Like I can certainly out run them easily too, even without snaking, but I’ve played the game so much in a span of 2 weeks straight, that i figured that out at certain corners or straight ways, their top speed over powers.

JigsawFlex Oh ok. Thanks for explaining.

lowercaseletters omfg heyyy

Stardark9 Omg, the Wolftamer X himself????

:0

That's a good catch, thanks for sharing!

Really? How come??

blowing into the mic

@@stranfedtl Ahh. Yeah I remember blowing as hard as you can until realizing it was better to do it softer lol.

Well, press select then

It's crazy how old this game is now.

Ikr it’s my childhood as well as my cousins too...........

Fan 215 Thank you!! Glad you enjoyed. :)

O lol hi

Mario Aguilar Hey

Mario Aguilar Who are you again?

It was pretty revolutionary at the time!

Lmao, same!

Unfortunately for me I only knew the blowing method.

StupidMarioBros501 I think it isn't that unfortunate, the select method is very slow. Ever since I discovered the blowing method I haven't touched select during any balloon battle anymore. I don't mind blowing at all, and it the balloons get filled extremely fast

Dave Van Tol I kinda have to use the select button though because for some reason the blowing method doesn't work well with my 3DS. Funny thing is, my mic works fine with every other game except MKDS. Maybe I'm not blowing into the mic the right way for MKDS or something lol.

StupidMarioBros501 I knew both :)

I discovered that Item mean that how many Mushroom(s) you will get in Time Trial, Low = 1 Mushy, Full = 3 Mushies

NintendaMovies and Games That's right, because as they are in the tires, they need to fit in them. Another theory, ITEMS CAN BE SLICED. AND THEN REFORMED. I'll put it with an example, let's suppose that you're in a time trial with a small tire kart, you'll actually have half of the mushroom on each back tire. With normal tires, you have exactly one mushroom in each back tire. And with big tires you'll get one and a half mushrooms in each one. Why the back tires? Basically because of the Wavidson, since it only have 3 tires. Same as the R.O.B.L.E.G.S., but this time they are in a huge single tire.

Where tf did that even come from then?

I'm suing you and your uncle

I found a copy of this lying around near a train station

the321 sweet lucky dude hahaha

Zvorak Zekrom holy shit

Kevintendo DUDE AWESOME. Thanks haha. Wish I had the time right now to produce more content like this. Hopefully I can soon! But yeah thanks for stopping by LOL.

@@JigsawFlex I know man.. someday we'll be able to have a team of people putting in the work and editing our videos so we can put out content like this every week!! Always glad to support :) I honestly loved the boss battles so much and custom emblems! Probs my 2 favorite things about DS other than having the minimap which helped whenever you got inked! So convenient!!

The CHAD That’s hella observant for you to say omg.

JigsawFlex I GREW TF UP WITH THIS GAME🤣

There's no gray.

Adityax26 Never heard of him till now! Thanks for watching, and thanks for the support!

Jensen Hayes No problem haha. Glad I helped!

Very cool that you're checking back with your older videos! Keep it up!

@@SuperDuperJamer Appreciate it! Thanks for watching and checking this out, dude!

@Lucid _2_Win Glad it brought back great memories!

Oh the nostalgia ^^ i use to play Mario kart DS so much with my friend at school .... Daisy was my main and Wario my boyfriend main ^^

@@JigsawFlex So if you're at balloon battle and Blow in the mic. the balloons blow up too

Nathan Mee Thank you so much!!

Star Aiden I’ve actually noticed this! But I surprisingly didn’t ever think about covering it for this video... great observation sir!

That’s nuts! Yeah when I got ROB tbh, I was like WHO’S THAT?!

Leader 748282918 you can tell that I just did that mission just to get b roll lmao.

Unmeltable Dude I did not know that, thanks for letting me know!

That's not true, it only depends if you play on the original phat DS or the later models.

No it’s based on if you unlocked all the characters or not

Btchcrank Still is!!

@@JigsawFlex Sure but when it was released it was easier play it with anyone and online services was still on.

Solely made this video for fun! Didn't ever expect this to blow up LOL.

Ze Memerr who dafug is rob? I only know of the secret character called... Dry bones

Not Claptrap I'm pretty sure you're meant to win every cup. I unlocked him years and years ago so I'm not sure.

justmetal227 Definitely! I do really wish it had the actual SNES assets tho! I just unlocked all the courses last year on 150cc, took a while haha.

I played that games 5 years straight from 2001 to 06

Dangerson006 Because you care about not caring duh.

Oh shet

Cus you watched the video

x Shockr x Yeah I’ve been so addicted to Mario Kart lately, so of course Troy is one of the top RU-vidrs I watch right now haha.

JigsawFlex yeah he’s a preety cool guy I’ve been watching him for years

0:48 YOSHI

Well here's a few corrections, and trivia that you may find interesting. The items that you use are in fact not sprites, they are flat models with textures on them, and use a technique that make the front side of the models face the game's camera at all times, this same technique is used on King Bob-Omb, and Wiggler's body in mission mode, as well as most trees in the game, and things like the houses in Mushroom Bridge, you would be surprised that more things use the 3D engine then you would think like the countdown at the start of races, for example. Only the HUD, and most menu elements, and bottom screen map use the DS's 2D engine. The fake item box also looks the same as the regular item box, because they both actually share the exact same model, there is no different model in the game's file for an actual fake item box, so if you were to mod the color on one, both real, and fake item boxes would be effected by it. The question mark is also it's own model. The fire effect also doesn't come out of the kart's tail pipes in this installment since they needed to save on RAM because as you know they were working with the DS, a system that's not even as powerful as the N64 was. So a lot of what may seem like lazy choices is actually the complete opposite, as they had to put in the effort, and make sacrifices to ensure the game would run smoothly on release. CPUs also speed up, since they can only really do things that a course's parameter file would allow them to do, essentially the CPUs, and items are just following a series of dots, and check points stored in this file, and the settings dictate weather a CPU will drift on a turn, or at all, as well as how spread out they can be on the road, and the game measures the CPU plays distance from each other, and their distance from the player by checking the distance between checkpoints in a course, and they may speed up, or slow down depending on the circumstance, in order to make them an actual challenge for the player due to their AI that's pretty basic in reality. Not to mention item stats are the same for both players, and CPUs, there they share the same stat files with actual players. Did you also notice that the wheels on the karts the CPUs use don't turn. and they look a bit more jagged then the wheels on a player's kart? This is because for a player the game uses separate models for the wheels, and the CPU wheels which are part of the Kart model, are just culled out when a player uses said kart. CPU players use no animations at all, and they are merely posed to look like they are holding the steering wheel at all times, not to mention the models used by CPU players have a lower polygon count then the player models, and the textures on the CPU models use more compression. Not that I'm trying to correct you, it's just that not everything in this video is actually fact, and that's the reality of it. But I also think you might find some of this info both educational on the game's inner workings, and interesting at the same time.

SGC Nah, I definitely appreciate everything you said. I took that as additional knowledge to know about Mario Kart DS, as I love the game. I can also tell you know your stuff since you upload a good amount of GCGP and other MKDS related vids on your channel haha. Means a lot!

JigsawFlex i think you mean R.O.B. Legs for that kart name

Yes sorry

This version of Mario Kart really is magical. I always come back to play this game. It’s just so fun!

Good to hear! Played a lot before making this video and played more after but I haven’t recently... maybe I’ll pay a visit again soon!

Brandon x22 Thanks man, I appreciate it! And yeah the games definitely one of my favorites among the series.

Forry20XX Thanks for the info! Did not know that!

How did you just know about this right now

Simple Adjustment, all you do is press/hold select, so easy a 3 year old could do it, I know this 3 year old found out about it til he was 11, but all you do is hold the damn button & the balloons will blow, NO MICROPHONE!