The Part 2 of the "From Snail to Snake" tutorial series is finally out! It covers all the steps of getting ranked alongside other players and where to find the worldwide rankings for Mario Kart DS! Go check it out here! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TW_VS9Qrfxg.html
I remember reading somewhere years ago how snaking "completely ruined" the fun of Mario Kart DS for casual players because you had to do it online to win. But I never played online back then, and it looks so fun to try now. I love high skill ceilings - it makes me appreciate the skills of the highest-level players even more. Thanks for putting all this expertise together! :D
Same experience, the only multiplayer for this I had was local with my peers at daycare. I feel like they’d’ve been so mad if anyone tried doing this during a game.
Snaking was easy, but they were not wrong. Races would start and people would be snaking immediately. Dodging blueshells was also really simple if you just watch the mini map and boost out of the explosion range.
@@Venom3254 same here tbh. it relied on snaking skill and map knowledge. Most my races I would just be me looking at the minimap the whole race knowing when I had red sparks for mini boost.
never realized just how intricate a lil kids DS game from 2005 actually was! I played this back when I was a kid and now I’m in my late teens getting back into it for nostalgia. Reminds me of simpler times.
Amazing! So happy to have contributed to this project and finally see it released! Now everyone will know I am the voice of MKDS! attention noobs, snackin iz chestin!
Man... MKDS is one of the fairest and best Mario Kart games out there. It rewards you good if you practice and learn new techniques. Awesome video, kudos!
Knew about a lot of tech, but wasn't too familiar with some things like fast falling. Great to have every single commonly used tech in one comprehensive and easy-to-navigate guide.
Thank you so much for making this video, I started playing mkds 2 weeks ago and the first thing I did was look for a tutorial that could teach all those weird techniques that mkds players use, but I couldn't find anything on youtube. Now it is a great relief for beginners like me to have a guide to this very difficult game, wish me luck and sorry if my english is not good.
@@masterleo4932 Oh thank you so much! I like how you play the piano too. And yeah I'm sure I will improve and gonna be posting my times on the players page :)
@@sgonzalez_guitarra Will you also record and upload your mkds record on youtube? Make sure to join the discord group "Mario Kart DS Network", there are lots of karters who can help you, including me :)
@@masterleo4932 Yes I will, but first I'm gonna create a specific channel for that and I already joined the discord server btw my name there is Guitarra, maybe I'll use the same name for the channel
8:18 Even if I never end up playing MKDS, this video was worth it to learn that. For some reason as a kid I thought it meant how far you could throw an item.
Mario Kart DS was my first game ever played and I still beat my time-trials records on it ! However, I recently had way more struggle to go faster, but with this video, I discovered some techniques (like Fast-Falling) that will definitly help me and I can't wait to apply them, thanks ! (I knew about the PRB, but I think the most difficult part is not to keep it, but to control the kart once you got it, really hard to do !)
Very nostalgic video for me. I bought this game the day it was released as a kid, and played the heck out of it with my friends and on 'wifi connection'. It was the first game where I became really competitive (I had over 1k wins online). I think in '06, I once skipped a day of school to get a really satisfying time attack record in Sky Garden. My time was ~1:10 or so. Back then we didn't really have videos like this, and I wasn't in any community. I just played against other good players. As a hobby artist I also loved designing pixel icons for myself and my friends. If anyone remembers a Cloud Strife with a German flag - that was me. I vividly remember a guy having 'Italian God Racers' in his tag, and 4k wins, who I often got matched with and when I finally beat him once, I felt super achieved. Same for when I started consistently dodging blue shells with this drift and jump technique (don't ask me how that worked now though). You would learn about snaking easily by seeing other players, and there were tutorials online, but I didn't know terms for the other techniques you showed here, even though we figured out many by ourselves (you kinda got a feel for how to combine jumps and snakes over time). But if I had these resources back then, I'm sure it would have helped me a lot. I was just a 15 year old kid who loved winning races. Now I'm in my 30s with a career and barely any time to play games, and trying this today would break my fingers (I remember the snaking pain haha), but I'm really happy to see a community that still loves this game! I wish you all the best.
i wanted to try getting into the competitive scene because i liked playing this growing up, but after watching part 2 and joining the server i just got super overwhelmed. ig i'll just replay it and experience it the way i remember, but it was fun to imagine.
Thank you, you were right abt what I did wrong when drifting. I went back and forth fast cause I thought it was better. I improved a lot from that alone
Literally what i needed, im trying to get good and that was what i needed Please continue that series, this will help people (like me lol) who only know the basics techniques Im trying to progress but im not going anywere, so this will be perfect for me and other people who are trying to progress to be a good player
about the double hopping i started to do that naturally when doing my basic ass sneaking or even dritifing, didn't know it was legit a good technique to reposition, so seamless, btw ty for the video :) been playing this game for years on a casual side :)
Love it, wish i could find VHS tapes with tech tips like this on video games, this very much had the feeling of an instructional/informational tape. For context I collect those kinds of tapes in particular and if I found this video on a tape, it'd be one of the most prized tapes in my collection (and I have a copy of Dancing Grannies as well as all the N64 tapes with sleeves)
Thanks for the tips and great video! Mario Kart DS was my first Mario game at age 8 and since have played it on and off. I wanted to try and be good at it. Already started making some improvements from my last time playing.
thank you for this video! i recently got mariokart for my old ds, and i suck at it even though i have years of mariokart wii under my belt and am pretty good at mk8 on the switch. its definitely a learning curve!
Just randomly remembered those times as a kid trying to master snaking and somehow matching ppl who knew how to snake as well. Also remembered online being filled with cheaters lol. Also, saving that boost from the start I just called it perfect snaking for some reason, the one thing I was never able to do. Didn’t know there was more to it to this game
Masterpiece. Now I may try to shave off some time in off-road stages instead of tryharding 1:59 Rainbow Road (SC) all the time. I'm glad that despite being completely self-taught about this game's mechanics since 2009 till now, there's still a few things to learn. ( 8:18 my life is a lie aaaa ) I'd like to add tho, technically, is hopping out of a ramp that makes you drop down quite significantly like in Rainbow Road, faster, slower or equal to driving off the ramp normally? I'd say faster due to the engine pitching up but I cannot be certain... All I know for sure is that hoppin repeatedly in the first half of the first loop in RR will make you go a bit faster...
watched this a couple times now, been genuinely happy u made the quick joke about parallel universes during the neutral hop section.. iduno why but it makes me laugh n makes my day better. so random to say that hahah
This video is good but I’m kind of disappointed because I didn’t get the last (and most important) part which is Neutral MT. I wish you guys had added visual assistance like a DPAD. I’ve been watching a few BKT’s and stuff but I still can’t figure out how to pull it off. Other than that this video is a very solid initiative
i wish i knew this back in middle school especially when we'd lan party in planes/busses during school trips. back then no one knew how to dodge blue shells let alone snake. to think id dump on all of them with my skills today
Back then, my friends (scrubs) were super butthurt because I was excellent at doing this, and they weren't. In other words, they were whining because I had mastered an advance technique and they didn't, so that ruined the game for them. I could even do it on Rainbow Road without falling. Good times! Keep coping, whiner scrubs!
I was so fuckong good at this game in middle school and highschool. (Got into mkds late) but it was one of the best mariokarts in terms of skill expression. Also MKDD.
Nice video. Are you sure about the items stat? I really think it increases the chances to get a better items from the boxes, not only the 1-3 mushrooms in TT.
And all my friends made fun of me for always playing dry bones with his standard kart and always drifting on every track. Little did I know I was playing this game optimally.
Very good content:) It would be also cool if some japanese player could make a tutorial in their native language. I am very proud of this cummunity, lets keep snaking!
So uhhh, apparently i did know how to snake properly, even doing double hops. I was just using the wrong character/kart lmao... PRB and neutral MTs tho, those are a bit tricky, and hard to mantain on some tracks but i still need to practise (also, noticed that the respawn boost resemble a lot what happens with mkdd after lakitu "rescues" you, dunno if nintendo made that intentionally)
All of the footage was played on real hardware in Time Trials mode, then the Time Trials ghost was trasferred to an emulator, allowing us to record high quality footage. And yes, it's possible to play online! Both with real hardware and emulation :)
I just want to add an important detail that really bothered me in my races: when you perform an MT remember to direct your momentum in one direction and quickly or you will hit the wall or fly away from the road
Hey, does fast falling make you save time in any and all the falling situations? Because when I was on my way to beat all the staff ghost (and I did) I was watching a run of somebody in rainbow road, and they actually hop just before falling down at that one spot on that course. And it seems it makes you go faster. Idk how to really test it, but ive been using this technique playing online and from my point of view it does seems to go faster this way. Either way, thank you for this video!
