Mario Kart DS CTGP Nitro - N64 Bowser's Castle

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Date set: 26th of May, 2024
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This custom track was created by ‪@SuperGameCube‬ and features in version 1.1.0 of CTGP Nitro (https://dshack.org/ctgp-n/). Extract from their website:

"CTGP Nitro is the biggest, most ambitious Mario Kart DS Rom Hack to date. Instead of replacing the existing tracks, it preserves the whole vanilla experience and adds new tracks, speedrunning quality of life improvements, online mode adjustments, new skins for characters and much more!"

Having played it on the N64 and Wii for years, it's pretty cool to now be able to do it in Mario Kart DS and develop a strat. Decent enough run although it can obviously be brought down to a 2'07 - maybe even further. For now it's obviously quite unoptimized. I was originally going for a flap hence why I shroomed on the first lap after those awkward stairs (only big downside about this port I think). It's almost certainly better to use the Mushroom in the grass area in laps 2 or 3, so I'll be doing that in future attempts. I also find it very difficult to fit in a second mini turbo on the bridge before the stairs jump due to a combination of the surface not allowing me to execute the blue and red sparks quickly enough and how narrow this section is in general. But it's possible - just difficult to do it every lap. The ROB-BLS is probably faster to use overall at some stage and I don't think it's any different nor harder compared to DS Bowser Castle.

Played on real Nintendo DS hardware - as verified by staff and community members from the Mario Kart DS community. There is no use of cheat codes, or external hardware such as an Action Replay.

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