20 Random Mario Kart DS Facts You NEVER Cared For!

20 Random Mario Kart DS Facts You NEVER Cared For! -
I recently repurchased this game and I got addicted, so to compensate the time wasted on it, I decided to make a video discussing all about it LOL.
A lot of these facts are things I didn't really notice when I was like 8 years old (which was when I first owned it), and this is me noticing them now since I'm older and with a different perspective.
AND
It's because I can compare it now to the newer Mario Kart titles lol...
Hope you enjoy this Mario Kart DS Facts and Secrets video that actually took me roughly 1-2 days to write, and 3-4 days to produce!
*If you guys have any Mario Kart DS Obscure Facts, feel free to leave them in the comments section!*
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[@JigsawFlex]

Hey guys! If you enjoyed this video then you may enjoy these 20 Random Facts on Mario Party that I made 2 years later ▶ kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHbdhKyff9xqhdU

[@bowenwangs]

Since I've gotten used to Mario kart Wii, I need to remind myself not to forcefully shake my DS every time I'm launched into the air.

[@spacedoode6534]

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

[@michaelhedges4634]

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

[@JTread2003]

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.

[@reniculous1559]

What good does that do?

[@zacvee7255]

Omg I do that lol

[@sarcasticluigi]

That bottom screen was a godsend lol, whenever I had a blooper attack I'd just start using it and I'd forget I could look back up again

[@JigsawFlex]

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

[@Not_Claptrap]

JigsawFlex not on rainbow road

[@iss2075]

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.

[@lightbulb129]

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

[@catguy4996]

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

[@isabel9394]

I lost the game card for years, and my dad found it this year and I was so freaking happy.

[@JigsawFlex]

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

[@santicheeks1106]

I wad just playing it yesterday

[@abraham6923]

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

[@catguy4996]

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

[@Alyssa-it5ej]

WOOHOO

[@vL_General]

The “Items” stat is for time trials. Depending on what the meter length was, you would get a certain amount of mushrooms. (Short=1 Mush, Med.=2 Mush, etc.)

[@jimartwork9391]

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.

[@whiskeyandchoke]

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

[@masterleo4932]

@@jimartwork9391 yes but in reverse

[@masterleo4932]

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

[@jimartwork9391]

@@masterleo4932 Sori :D It's true

[@NotCitraEmu]

My first DS game, I loved it.

[@NotCitraEmu]

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

[@warmakerplays]

Me too good ol days

[@flamespro6428]

Same man

[@awbie]

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

[@mg-lb3tm]

Me too

[@StageCraftBeast]

Don't forget that this is the only game that let's you have other characters standard karts with different characters. Also, the items stat is for Time Trial mode and says how much mushrooms you start out with. Also, we need R.O.B back.

[@JigsawFlex]

YES. Gimme those LGS.

[@garfieldandfriends1]

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)

[@michelleschrock9141]

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

[@trickygamer555]

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

[@DootNootem]

One thing regarding the lack of animation for CPUs, their karts also have blocky tires. I used to notice such things myself when I was into it!

[@JigsawFlex]

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

[@SethCocker05]

I also recently noticed, the AI karts don’t have wheel animations. It’s got nothing to do with what kart they have, just the fact that they are AI.

[@JigsawFlex]

Seth Cocker Trueee, good eye!

[@DanuProductions]

Seriously, was I the only person who new about the pressing the button on balloon battle??

[@squeakyelbows]

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

[@Jacob-mu3dj]

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.

[@rh88841]

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

[@Awesoman66]

I knew too. Someone told it to me.

[@smolenbyy]

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

[@tsguyoldchannel2691]

I always preferred Balloon Battles to coin battle things

[@youngdolo8]

Most people do, myself included

[@EveryweekRandoms]

Me too

[@seraphidol]

same, i sucked at the coin ones

[@rororev7]

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

[@tek8304]

There wasnt coins in this game, only suns.

[@hanschristianskov1547]

I have spent too many hours of my life on this game. Was it worth it? *yes*

[@JigsawFlex]

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

[@Andres.Floress]

5:36 epic fail but you still kept it in the video lol

[@JigsawFlex]

And I don't regret it one bit!

[@cherryb0ng]

6:15 Enemies being slow and catching up when you are in front of them is a mechanic called rubberbanding

[@theflashguy1254]

well i acctually care

[@JigsawFlex]

Theflashguy 125 Good, I secretly wanted you to care.

[@theflashguy1254]

JigsawFlex 😏

[@joe3258]

yeah i acctually care too

[@BlizzyP039]

I care and I want some of these concepts back

[@Kohchu]

"Mario Kart DS was the first game to include Retro Tracks." Super Circuit: "Am I a joke to you?" Holds up entire collection of SNES Courses.

[@goldengrat1066]

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

[@Kohchu]

@@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.

[@nofuntag9582]

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

[@Kohchu]

​@@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.

[@nofuntag9582]

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

[@Rinusoide]

You can avoid blue shells in this game by performing a drift right when you hear a blue shell approaching you. When your vehicle has red flames behind it and the blue shell is going down to hit you, release the drift button and immediately perform another drift in the same direction. Note: This only works with light vehicles which have a longer drift boost time.

[@SimonZellox]

I loved the BAM shock dodge!

[@zenvoltage4046]

its twd98

[@kunalb2390]

twd98 got popular because of this one line

[@General12th]

He also makes good, consistent content.

[@FalB27]

BEAM SHOCK DODGE

[@Quisurai]

b a m s h o c k d o d g e

[@thekingdedede]

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

[@jensonchetwood7878]

5:34 *1 2 7 3 Down the rockefeller street* If you don't understand, bowser's dance looks like the rockefeller street dance

[@cluelessmeg]

Nice use of Troy’s “BAM! Shock dodge!”

[@tenoks]

7:24 DID THE BOO JUST STEAL HIS BULLET BILL?

[@JigsawFlex]

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

[@randomname9949]

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

[@michaelhedges4634]

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

[@plazasta]

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

[@tyche1863]

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

[@konoha_z6300]

mario kart ds is better than 7

[@JigsawFlex]

Straight up, facts.

[@luigiluigi8086]

JigsawFlex nope

[@ManuelHernandez-hj2xo]

Mario kart wii was hella fun too

[@CSharp__]

so tru

[@dr.doofenward1192]

Finally someone get its

[@luiginumber1549]

As a small child I played this game so much that I practically know it like the back of my hand. Something no one ever talks about is the secret item box on the hill in DK Summit that gives either a star, triple mushroom, or single red shell.

[@ashketchumdestroysthelawso6995]

*Fact 21: Mario Kart DS is a game only available on the DS(I)*

[@JigsawFlex]

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

[@oneup117gaming4]

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

[@nofuntag9582]

*you meant the ds series*

[@henryrichard7619]

It’s also on the Wii U.

[@obeserob5027]

Happy to see more people talk about (in my opinion) the best Mario kart in existence. Also my LGS are hot

[@Crash-Titan]

This and double dash

[@jwil4286]

Mario Kart DS, Mario 64 DS, New Super Mario Bros., and Mario Party DS: a quartet of games that every DS owner probably owned

[@JigsawFlex]

Facts.

[@jwil4286]

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.

[@JigsawFlex]

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.

[@Number_27]

5:37 TWD98!

[@myowncomputerstuff]

I discovered a pretty funny glitch in Balloon Battle last year. It works best on the hard setting, since CPU's are more aggressive. Select the Twilight House stage and station yourself at one of the four protruding ledges found at the four corners of the stage. Position your kart as close as you can to one of the two corners of this ledge, to the point where you're almost about to fall off. This doesn't work for the third center-corner of this ledge (that's furthest from the center of the stage). Once there, watch as the CPU AI glitches out and sends the other players driving off the edge of the stage as they charge at you with shells and stars, not realizing that there's a bottomless pit in their way.

[@superexecuter630]

Something I realized was that the karts with small wheels had low points on the item stat and ones with big wheels had the opposite

[@JigsawFlex]

That's a good catch, thanks for sharing!

[@lowercaseletters_]

Wait, CPUs rubberband in this game? I never noticed because I snaked.

[@JigsawFlex]

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.

[@lowercaseletters_]

JigsawFlex Oh ok. Thanks for explaining.

[@stardark9mc]

lowercaseletters omfg heyyy

[@lowercaseletters_]

Stardark9 Omg, the Wolftamer X himself????

[@marioaguilar3343]

:0

[@JigsawFlex]

Feel free to check out these other Mario Kart related uploads down below! ⬇️ • Mario Kart Tour is PERFECT on iPhone SE: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWXGo2eQiNapaq8 • "What If MARIO KART TOUR Looked Like THIS?!" - Mario Kart Arcade GP DX Gameplay: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oH6uaIiebNVqjas •"SONIC FINALLY PLAYABLE IN MARIO KART" - Mario Kart DS DELUXE Gameplay Beta (MOD HACK): kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKizZ6tnhK6irMk •MARIO KART DOUBLE DASH GOT HACKED!! (300cc Class, Purely Random Items, Unrestricted Kart Selection): kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZoGaiYBjZairqdE

[@SuperDuperJamer]

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

[@JigsawFlex]

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

[@JigsawFlex]

@Lucid _2_Win Glad it brought back great memories!

[@luthiamoonlightfrqc2905]

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 ^^

[@RAIN-rs2ue]

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

[@stranfedtl]

i got light headed playing balloon battle at least twice :I

[@JigsawFlex]

Really? How come??

[@stranfedtl]

blowing into the mic

[@JigsawFlex]

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

[@Andrewo.]

Well, press select then

[@silentkaze483]

For the 20th fact I actually have a theory. The item stat is directly related to the kart's tires size, sooo does the items someway are saved in the tires and the items you might get depends on how much items fit in the tire itself??? I found it logical when I was young....

[@MisterNameGame]

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

[@silentkaze483]

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.

[@mobkiller0415]

This was my childhood. When I was bored I got my DS and booted it up. I didn’t play multiplayer since I didn’t know anyone around me so the missions and all the maps would give me nonstop fun. I broke the DS which it was a very special DS but I still have that game to this day.

[@gavinparish8871]

This content actually was better than I expected, which actually says a lot because I tend to have high hopes for basically everything...

[@JigsawFlex]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@jonesbecker3238]

I found this game in my uncle's car for free wasn't even his

[@woofle1554]

Where tf did that even come from then?

[@uwuningkai]

I'm suing you and your uncle

[@kevinsiu3769]

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

[@justmetal227]

the321 sweet lucky dude hahaha

[@sakam0t071]

Zvorak Zekrom holy shit

[@Umbra_J]

I really love how every character dances when you equip the superstar :D I want to see it in Mario kart 9

[@rhubarb5297]

i hope it will come out soon lol

[@arontangen5391]

MarioKart DS and New Super Mario Bros. Was my childhood

[@Neevkl_7]

In my family Mariokart DS was the origin of us yelling Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba- Blue Shell! When we were about to fire one

[@MayroSMM]

b a m

[@KirbyMaster]

s h o c k d o d g e

[@Louis_Miles]

lol xD

[@chainswordcs]

wow im on fire

[@hydr8ion858]

TOTAL SKILL

[@samtheyoutubeman]

T W D 9 8

[@linexi]

This game is my childhood

[@JigsawFlex]

It's crazy how old this game is now.

[@argonianvideo4439]

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

[@quentinarchpomple-bigginsw352]

All (main series) Mario Kart games have featured either the fake item box, or SNES rainbow road, but never both.

[@GEcontent]

people use small wheel im mario kart 8 and deluxe because they have a high mini turbo stat, which is a hidden stat but is very important as theres no wheelies or snaking

[@TheMadCroctor]

When I was a kid, me and all of my friends only knew the select method for balloon battle, the blowing method was actually the one no-one knew about 😂

[@________77777]

Lmao, same!

[@stupidmariobros5014]

Unfortunately for me I only knew the blowing method.

[@TheMadCroctor]

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

[@stupidmariobros5014]

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.

[@teenageapple3788]

StupidMarioBros501 I knew both :)

[@ChaddingAroundYT]

All 8 player/cpu colors are identical to the colors used in 8-player smash 👌👌👌...

[@JigsawFlex]

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

[@ChaddingAroundYT]

JigsawFlex I GREW TF UP WITH THIS GAME🤣

[@marioisawesome8218]

There's no gray.

[@maple201]

Blue shells strike a kart-length or so in front of you--the expectation being that you will drive into the explosion. But if you fly through the air facing sideways, the blue shell will miss you completely. The traditional technique to dodge them (charge an MT, then at the right moment, release it and hop the same direction) works because you're facing sideways at just the right moment. Knowing this, you can dodge blue shells in many more situations than you might otherwise think, such as any minor bump in the track or jumps. The four karts you mention are simply the fastest relative to their cornering and offroad ability. Slower kart -> better cornering and offroad. Mushmellow is almost viable but just barely outclassed by Egg1. It's good enough to troll with. The items stat gives you more triples (bananas, shells, mushrooms), but you can't get triples in wi-fi so high items karts are a waste there. This is probably why people think they're useless. CPUs on mirror mode travel at MT speeds for the first 2 laps then suddenly slow down on the third. I guess the developers wanted you to crawl your way from last to first in one lap to prove your skill, but you can keep up with them anyway if you know what you're doing. PS. Snackin' iz chestin'

[@jbritain]

I remember my friend explaining to me the boost at the start, and I was amazed.

[@JigsawFlex]

It was pretty revolutionary at the time!

[@JigsawFlex]

**SINCE MANY PEOPLE ARE COMMENTING ABOUT THE SAME STUFF HERE'S THE ANSWERS TO THEM** About the retro tracks, I didn't credit super circuit because I didn't consider it as a whole collection of the old tracks, if you catch my drift. And I wasn't fond of the idea of it not using the same art/background from the original SNES. Just overall didn't seem to be true "retro" I was thinking of. Putting this out there in case you guys are wondering what I mean. I will say though, I think I shoulda said “revolutionized retro tracks” more than anything. 😅 #whoops For all of you that say it wasn’t the first game to include vs and battle mode, there is a reason why I had text displayed saying for “single player mode”. I've played every Mario Kart game to know when the modes FIRST APPEARED in general. I'm aware of what rubber banding is... I've went through the same annoying experience with CPU's in Mario Kart 64. My point was to show that the CPU seemed to have scripted pin points to speed up or slow down at certain parts of every course. Regardless, of how ahead or behind you were compared to them, it did not matter. I could easily win without snaking if I really wanted to do and wouldn't affect them, because rubber banding actually almost seems to be nonexistent in this game, especially on VS mode, hard difficulty. While SNES Mario Kart had a weird way of doing the starting boost, MKDS was the first introduce the strategy in holding down "A" at around the number 2 countdown. Every other game previous, again besides the first since, it's kinda an exception (and confusing to many anyway), you had to just time before "Go" or "Start". Check it out yourself by googling "rocket start mario kart", and on the mario wiki, there's a chart that explains them with some icons. AND I hope you know that the last fact isn’t real, it’s just a theory that I always had when I was younger. 😂 Kinda figured it dealt with the mushrooms in time trials, but it was always weird to display the stat for every mode you’re on because it’s really useless to show. People need to read pin messages more. I keep getting the same comments “correcting me”. **IF YOU READ THIS BEFORE THINKING ABOUT COMMENTING, THANK YOU. YOU'RE SMART AND I LOVE YOU.** ❤️❤️

[@mariajimenafigueroa8311]

0:48 YOSHI

[@SuperGameCube]

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.

[@JigsawFlex]

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!

[@cosmicdunsparce]

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

[@yt_MLM3]

Yes sorry

[@adamjones6473]

The poltergeist 4000 is the Kart 🤣

[@AbsolutelyAlpha]

The items stat determines how many mushrooms you get in Time Trials

[@neoskyline2879]

The item stat was used for time trials. If you got a full item stat, you get 3 mushrooms. If you have a weak item stat, you only get two or one mushroom

[@unmeltabledjdkrnrjdjsnd9317]

Okay so I know this video is old and all but Mario will either say "Woohoo!" or "Here we go!" on the Nintendo logo depending on what version of the game your playing on.

[@JigsawFlex]

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

[@Mmmeeee4]

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

[@bombytetoo]

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

[@justmetal227]

The GBA version (Super Circuit)is the one I recall with retro tracks having the snes lineup in it as a secret. You had to finish a Grand Prix with a total score of 100 coins exactly. I remember when I discovered this by accident cause I played the game without a guide , when I finally got to read a guide a whole lot years later I had more shortcuts than what the guide had Edit: Saw your comments about retro tracks, still Super circuit was only the third game and it was so cool that it included all those additional tracks to mess around with!

[@JigsawFlex]

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.

[@justmetal227]

I played that games 5 years straight from 2001 to 06

[@argonianvideo4439]

20 facts about me and my cousins childhood COMPLETELY?!?!! No.......IM NOT CRYING GO AWAY

[@StarAiden]

I know this is late but if you hop (R) after you lauched in the air you can jump higher. Also if you hop when you land you fly half the height then you did before.

[@JigsawFlex]

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

[@chuckcheese7747]

You watch Troy cuz BAM SHOCK DODGE

[@JigsawFlex]

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

[@chuckcheese7747]

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

[@lilshrimp3104]

My friend and I would always play this it was sooooo fun. I remember when we were playing mirror and after we beat it we got rob and we went crazy. Ahhh good times....

[@JigsawFlex]

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

[@brightwolf123]

I remember bring this game onto the bus and playing with 3 of my friends, and just obliterating them in any way i could, using the slowest kart, fastest kart, same kart as them, using my own personal "shortcuts". Thats was great.

[@jamiecarr6024]

0:35 Perfect gameplay😂😂

[@JigsawFlex]

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

[@zememerr2329]

Item also determines how many mushrooms you get in Time Trials, so stuff like Egg 1 gets 1, but R.O.B LGS gets 3.

[@Not_Claptrap]

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

[@breneditz8829]

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.

[@sluigi]

Wow you can just PRESS A SINGAL BUTTON TO INFLATE BALLONS AND I HATE BLOWING IN THAT STUPID MIC Thank you for saving my life...

[@gutsfur]

How did you just know about this right now

[@ramyoutubechannel7440]

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!

[@CanalAleblasco77]

I don't know If someone said this already but Wario is the only character who stops his winning animation on the battle modes and I think this is random because sometimes the game stops the animation and other times, It doesn't stop

[@BigBlueandWhite]

Aah, such a memories when this game was first released. It was so fun to play.

[@JigsawFlex]

Btchcrank Still is!!

[@BigBlueandWhite]

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

[@itz_muffintime362]

5:52 Nitendo DS: Turn Off Your Engine Switch! Nitendo Switch: Me? Nitendo DS: No, No, No, No,

[@xX_cumtech_Xx]

So If i didn’t care before why would I care now?

[@JigsawFlex]

Dangerson006 Because you care about not caring duh.

[@xX_cumtech_Xx]

Oh shet

[@cookiecutter1245]

Cus you watched the video

[@mr.eazilymctriggered9369]

ONE thing I noticed was that all the race courses in the Shell Cup were the first courses of their respective Mario Kart titles overall (Except for Moo Moo Farm. The first course in that one was Luigi Raceway).

[@worst-buy7073]

The reason people us roller wheels in MK8 is because the benefits of high handling and and extremely fast mini-turbo buildup (known as traction) make up for the slow speed. It also allows you to use a trick called "Reverse wall-bonking" which is where you hit a wall in a way that allows you to pivot in place while not losing that much speed or any mini-turbo that you have built up. If you watch the world record for Yoshi's Valley you can see this trick used in the straightaway right before the large U-turn, they use it to pivot and reposition for a second and third mini-turbo.

[@JigsawFlex]

Forry20XX Thanks for the info! Did not know that!

[@lowercaseletters_]

Cool video dude! MKDS was my first MK and roller wheels are used for Mini Turbo stat.

[@marioaguilar3343]

O lol hi

[@lowercaseletters_]

Mario Aguilar Hey

[@lowercaseletters_]

Mario Aguilar Who are you again?

[@rahulbala7]

You don't understand how much respect I have for you for not going over 10:00 when you had the chance :)

[@JigsawFlex]

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

[@michaeldavis812]

One interesting thing I noticed on this game when I was a kid is that there was/is always a CPU that would dominate a race, and so every time I saw a bowser on the plane cart, I would push them off the side of Delfino square and then just watch Bowser catch up with everyone after having him collisioned with the side rails on that course. How I even noticed this as an 8 year old kid was by the main screen watching the cpus race and Mario was always the one to be the dominating CPU, so I correlated that with the cpus that would do the best during my races and decided to mess with the cpus, just to watch them catch up.

[@spleakerphone]

I had this GAME (still do) , and I could always, ALWAYS REMEMBER DAISY. I must've reset it somehow, as I was super young and stupid, so it's really reassuring to find out im not insane.

[@NeedlessThebest]

“The lightning theme” ~JigsawFlex 2018

[@JigsawFlex]

I didn't know what to call it LOL

[@retiredaccount323]

5:32 D A N C I N G W I T H T H E S T A R S

[@JigsawFlex]

It's a good show. At least when I used to watch it lol.

[@Alexhimself1337]

D A N C I N G A S T H E S T A R

[@mariajimenafigueroa8311]

5:36 I like how he cut off right before Yoshi falls

[@koutetsushimobe]

Concerning the blowing for the balloon, the secret was not to blow in the microphone like you were trying to blow out a bonfire. A soft blow that can be felt on the hand but barely heard was the way to do it. It was significantly faster than holding the select button. Same goes for that infuriating balloon flight minigame with Yoshi in New Super Mario Bros.

[@Howureadis]

Did anyone else know that ALL Mario kart mission bosses are from super Mario 64 DS?

[@kobold192]

Now that you say it True

[@jean-paullitolff8897]

7:50 the item bar shows how many mushrooms you will have in time trials mode, if the bar is high, you will have 3 mushrooms etc...

[@PUZZLEVISION_TV]

I have Mario kartDS Still.. 👍👏Thx to me! I play it nearly all day.

[@JigsawFlex]

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!

[@musicmachine2395]

Dude, I can relate to the 1st one so much. This is exactly what happened to me when I first played Mario Kart Wii. I was so annoyed that the CPUs kept getting "out of nowhere" boosts, so I just had to look it up online XD

[@billlllllllllllll]

The item stat actually affects something! It changes the amount of mushrooms you start off with in Time Trials!

[@PolishKuba459]

thank you for acknowledging the truth :)

[@T_Bagz193]

This is definitely correct and in no way wrong whatsoever.

[@billlllllllllllll]

@@T_Bagz193 im right tho

[@triPixel]

0:20 *i spot luigi's mansion. you are DEFINITELY my least favorite human now.*

[@JigsawFlex]

When you're 8 years old sometimes you had to make sacrifices to get new games. Don't worry though, I eventually rebought the game! Just had to sell it at the time because I wasn't playing it anymore and so I can experience new games!

[@ninpgmer8959]

@@JigsawFlex new super Mario bros 1 vs 1 is the funniest gaming experience I ever had. This game was as good as Mario kart ds.

[@christopheredwards788]

Wicked Facts!!

[@jeremyABC123]

4:49 i see what you’re saying. usually the last course in the last ever cup of mariokart is scary and eerie (somewhat) but instead yoshi circuit is a happy, wholesome course.

[@joeyh.9387]

I actually notice the difference of item stats. When I would use one with a high item stat, I could get red shells in second or even first place, but with a lower item stat I could never get that

[@PolishKuba459]

That might've been luck from your side, as the pros in the mkds community and the modders have already proven that the item stat doesn't increase your chances of getting a better item. The item stat only demonstrates the amount of mushrooms you get at the start of a Time Trials run

[@YoshiIsHitokiri]

i remember when i was little i played the sh't out of mario kart wii and ds. i remember when i finally completed it on the ds i went to my cousins house and he deleted all my data

[@ramyoutubechannel7440]

My friend's little sister did that once

[@omarpikm2101]

your cousin is a little dipshit

[@mariajimenafigueroa8311]

0:48 Y O S H I

[@chrisbeach423]

The GBA game was the first to include “Retro Tracks”

[@ibilesfighter3.16]

In races, the CPU has a " rubber band" effect where if your very far into the race, the CPU will get a speed increase to make the race a challenge & when the CPU is in the lead, they slow down so it's fair.

[@supresmeshbras2003]

Jigsaw: Nintendo, what drugs were you on when you made the ROB LGS? Nintendo: Yes

[@WhateverWhenever888]

Great video, what a great game Mariokart DS is

[@JigsawFlex]

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

[@ImThePerson0]

Actually the start boost can be performed more than one way. Since Mario Kart Wii, I always held down the gas until it says 1, in which I then do a quick double tap and hold the button again before GO. It still works in Deluxe if you want to try it.

[@lucashernandez7861]

When I was younger I always wondered why the robot from my dads Nintendo collection was in my Mario kart

[@wf_retro]

Hey, This was a good video. You're a good creator.

[@JigsawFlex]

Appreciate it!

[@bimper2213]

Loved it

[@matildasmith9908]

The best way to avoid being hit by the blue shell is to let your other opponent go past, once they get hit on the Rainbow Road track, nudge them off the track (Make sure you're Bowser and knock Yoshi off}

[@ImperialDrylander]

0:30 You have recognized him. You have earned my respect, Fellow Dry bones Fan.

[@Bretaigne]

3:57 NO. WAY.

[@JigsawFlex]

Bretaigne WAY.

[@LilRy21]

You know MKDS wasn’t the first game to include battle mode.

[@JigsawFlex]

Ry Ry YT It was for a single player mode.

[@LilRy21]

JigsawFlex oh. Well nvm then.

[@LilRy21]

JigsawFlex also the reason why CPUs don’t have hit animations is so it will save a lot of memory. In fact it was also a fact in Mario kart 7 too. The CPUs didn’t have hit animations. No trick animations (even though they still get speed boost on ramps) no throwing item animation no animation. Just a still low poly character in a single pose in a tiny kart.

[@AwesomeKirito]

Great video. Half of these I never really peeped out in middle school and you earned yourself another sub

[@prowthegamer]

I remember MarioKart DS. When I was little, I used to play all the time with my cousins. (1/30/19)