#ARCADE GRAND PRIX

[retrocgads]

UK 1982

[ourladyofomega]

Lights, spinners, and rubbers from Williams' Grand Prix pinball table.

📷 source: Pinside

[princepiastri]

so uhhh... how's everyone feeling? 😀

[stripedstarsblueflags]

so nice to see people still inventing new sports even in 2024 (freeze tag in really fast cars and also you can’t see)

[obscurevideogames]

Kingdom Grandprix (Raizing - arcade - 1994)

[theolivetree123]

Rev up your engines, it’s time to…

🏁 Race for the Cookie Cup! 🏁

(More below the cut)

🫐Event Summary🍒

You, Grim, Ace, and Deuce decide to visit a new arcade that recently opened up in the town not far from NRC. There, you meet up with Ruggie, Epel, Silver, and Idia, who have all taken interest in a specific game in the corner of the arcade. The game is called Sugar Rush! Since there's two arcade machines, Ace challenges Deuce to one round of the game, and whoever loses must pay for the other's lunch. Deuce unsurprisingly accepts, and they begin their match. Midway through their match, however, the game suddenly glitches! You and the gang all think the game is broken until a flash of light comes from the arcade machines. Next thing you know, all 8 of you are somehow inside of the racing game, Sugar Rush!

To escape this sweet nightmare, you must win the next grand prix and obtain the Cookie Cup! But, uh oh. Ace and Deuce are having a bit of a squabble. It seems like you guys are going to have to split into two separate teams!

For this grand prix, Deuce will be accompanied by Silver and Idia as...

Team Bluepuff!

And Ace will be accompanied by Ruggie and Epel as...

Team Redpop!

Which team will you choose?

🏁Rules🏁

Everyone is allowed to race! Whether it's your OCs, yuusonas, or, heck, even rope your favorite canon NRC/RSA student into this mess! Everyone is welcome to participate in the mess that Ace and Deuce started.

You can participate in this event by making custom cards, general fanart, fanfics, whatever! Just no NSFW, please. This is a PG racing game!

If you decide to make anything for this event, please tag me and use #🍪rftcc. I'd love to see what you make!

And finally, this event has no deadline, so feel free to participate whenever!

🏁Outfits and Carts🏁

Since you will be racing, make sure your outfit is fit for the job! Make sure your character has a jersey, gloves, and a sweet theme!

For your character's theme, make sure it is based off of some sort of candy or sweet treat! The character must also have a matching cart, as well (if you're drawing them with one, that is). Try to stay away from actual candy brands, though! We wouldn't want a lawsuit on our hands!

The characters listed in the summary have their own cards and outfits! I listed them below so you don't accidentally copy their theme.

SSR Deuce (Blueberry Pie)

SSR Ace (Cherry Pie)

SR Ruggie and Epel (Donuts and bubblegum)

SR/R Idia and Silver (Slushies and marshmallows)

Also! If you're making a card, you may use the blank cards below!

🏁Racers🏁

Team Bluepuff

🍋Yuya Florence by @cheerleaderman

🍪Dias Feathenfool by @beezonia

🍓Robyn Starling by @pinkskytwst

💝Reese Kingbit by @kickasscentral

🍋Flori Mohn-Prinz by @bunniehunn

Team Redpop

💍Ryuuni by @rini-rambles

🎂Narcissa Viperoné by @beezonia

🍍Saya Starling (ART) by @pinkskytwst made by @dilatory-replies

🧸Cerise Fanfare by @0kiwisalad0

🎄Humm by @xxoomiii

⚫️ Leon Lynch by @readsrandomstuff67

🏁Fanart🏁

A little comic from @mello-bee

Art of the crew by @spade-12

Ruggie doing donuts by @mirioho

Ruggie fanart by @cheshanoneko-draws

🏁Fanfics🏁

Bet on the Teleportation by @spadecentral

🏁I look forward to seeing what you create!🏁

[thevoiceofoddie]

THE SIXFOUR KART WORLD TOUR MEGAPOST

Oddie here, bringing you a pretty big post about Sixfour Kart: World Tour, a massive total modification of Dr. Robotnik’s Ring Racers with new tracks, characters, and a lot more under the hood changes. If you have already played Ring Racers most of this will be stuff you know.

= General Changes =

= Items =

First off, every single item in Ring Racers has been reskinned to fit the general aesthetic of SKWT. The list is below:

Rings - Coins

Orbinaut - Squirtle Shell

Jawz - Chewtle Shell

SPB - Turtonator Shell

Banana - Nanab Berry

Sneaker - Oran Berry

Rocket Sneaker - X-Speed

Super Ring - Stack ‘o Coins

Pogo Spring - Air Balloon

Hyudoro - Haunter

Eggmark - Fake Item Box

Ballhog - Bullet Seed

Proximity Mine - Blast Seed

Land Mine - Blast Trap

Drop Target - Bumper

Gardentop - Spinning Top

Flame Shield - Flame Charge

Bubble Shield - Bubble

Thunder Shield - Zenith Shield

Gachabom - Gyro Orb

Invincibility - Awakening Emera

Grow - Wishing Star

Shrink - Minimize Ray

Additionally, SKWT contains three items not seen in Ring Racers. These include...

= TORKOAL SHELL =

Meet the volatile cousin of the Squirtle Shell, the Torkoal Shell! This item which is based on the Black Shell from the Mario Kart Arcade games is a very hard but very rewarding item to use. When used, it functions similarly to a Squirtle Shell, though instead of causing normal damage, it explodes on contact!

= CRACKED WISHING STAR =

A returning item from the original Sixfour Kart that was axed for Ring Racers, the Cracked Wishing Star makes its return as a powerful last resort item! Upon usage, all drivers in front of the user will be stunned, shrunk, and prone to being wiped out when rammed into! It appears extremely rarely in the roulette, only when you’re very far behind.

= ICE SHARDS =

Ice Shards are used similarly to Blast Traps, they pop right out of your kart and land on the floor, and cannot be thrown forward. When someone runs over it, they freeze and start sliding along the course with zero control! In order to regain control, you have to mash the drift button to break free.

= Physics =

Not too much to see here, aside from adjustments to how slopes and water work. Slopes are much easier to climb now, and turning underwater feels a lot more loose.

= Characters =

SKWT’s character list is giant. So much so, that we can’t disclose how many characters are in the game yet. However, we do have tons of new and returning characters from the original Sixfour Kart, so be on the look out for that!

Also, shields will now properly scale with your character’s size. Previously, it would look awkward with how tiny a shield would look on a large character, so this change should hopefully bring some visual consistency!

= Race Mode =

SKWT contains three main race difficulties, and two unlockable ones.

Breezy - 50cc racing. Kick back and enjoy the sights!

Normal - Fast paced fun for everyone at 100cc. Are you up to it?

Brutal - Kick things up to 150cc with harder CPUs!

Nightmare (UNLOCK) - CPUs are at their best and will do anything to win!

Godhand (UNLOCK) - 200cc. This isn’t even remotely fair.

Grand Prix races have been significantly altered for Normal mode. CPU players will start to get better midway through the GP, keeping things challenging but still fair for newcomers. Your rival will also have the same item odds as you on Normal, but from Brutal onward, they’ll put up a fight!

= Closing Words =

Before I close off this post, I would like to showcase a few maps.

= Sixfour Raceway =

= Starlight Bridge =

= Sapphire Lake =

That’s about all I have for now, I will continue to showcase more gifs and screenshots as time goes on! Thanks for reading this, this is Oddie, out.

[retrocgads]

UK 1982

[mirukiamauri]

Princess Tsumugi will make her arcade debut in the next update starting on December 5th! She gets a new Buzzlume coord as well, the Flower March Princess Buzzlume and, of course, the Aurora Snow Grand Prix coord.

[dimalink]

DX2 Formula – Summer Retro

Three dimensional scene for today based on videogame F1 Grand Prix 2 for computer system PC MS DOS. Three dimensional graphics for DOS. It is always cool! Real dynamical scene. Excellent racing game for serious virtual racers. Beautiful graphics and dynamical process. Real simulation. All of these for MS DOS!

And this is my three dimensional scene based one. Formula 1. Asphalt. Summer. Speed cars are moving by asphalt. Summer weather – it is best time for racing games. Good asphalt. Trees are growing all around!

I remember how I sit at the country house and was doing really nothing and half of the day I watched Formula 1. Weather was fine at the street.

Three dimensional race game style of MS DOS 486 or PC WINDOWS 95. Full retro! It is stretched textures, take a look! It is my goal for today! And if to make such a game – then it will be more arcade. Something like Sega Saturn Sega Rally! But Formula 1. It can be cool, even, to make it with C to write a program. But this is only a three dimensional render pictures.

Dima Link is making retro videogames, apps, a little of music, write stories, and some retro more.

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[luigiblood]

F-Zero 99 - 1 Year Anniversary and the Future

F-Zero 99 is the best thing that happened to Nintendo Switch Online.

I'm not gonna say it any other way, it's been a bit more than a year, and I have 153 hours. This game is top 2 of my most played games (just under Splatoon 3 which has 253 hours).

I was one of the people who was down for this idea since the moment Pyoro teased it and when Nintendo announced it in the September 2023 Nintendo Direct.

This game received 6 content updates since its debut, and most of them are major updates, and as of October 2024, the latest update was 1.5.0, with the addition of the Ace League, making it the first time that Nintendo has ever rereleased Satellaview content in any way, worldwide.

I gotta be honest here, this game keeps on giving, Nintendo Software Technology, the team behind this game, not Arika anymore, is doing a great job.

I'm gonna talk about how I felt about this game, but also a bit of an history of datamining, about the game's future, but spoiler: I don't think this game will die anytime soon.

Happy One Year Anniversary to F-Zero 99!

Oh, and, to everyone saying this game is pissing on F-Zero's legacy as I've definitely seen a few: Go f**k yourself.

Online Quality

To anyone who loves to mock the online quality of Nintendo, you cannot do it to this game, or even any of the games of the "99" series. If you have online problems, the problem is on your side. 100%.

Either your connection's terrible in which case I cannot do anything for you, but most of the problems that I had with the game, it was all solved with either a fix of my internet connection setup (cables, Wi-Fi setup, etc), or by rebooting the Switch system entirely, this is most likely what you need to do the most.

It's not entirely perfect of course, but for the entire year of its existence, I have legit no serious complaints to make to the game.

Datamining The Future

Now... let's go over what we originally datamined at first.

I'm not gonna go over what was clearly experimental content such as a 3D Mute City I map or other things like that.

Extra Modes

We found code and references to 2 modes that have yet to be added to the game since launch:

Arcade Mode It is believed to work similar to old arcade racing games, where you have a limited time, and you go through Time Gates (also datamined) to add more time to your counter to let you either finish the course, or run out of time and rank out.

Survival Mode We found some references to it for the schedule file, but also what is feeling like to be a circle plane. I speculate it to maybe work like a battle royale where the playable place reduces in size, but it's hard to fully understand how it works at this point in time.

I have no idea when these modes would be added, if ever, actually, it's still subject to interpretation.

Extra Courses

We also found references to 4 placeholder course files:

Sulfur Swamp

Volcania

Fungus Swamp

Forest

Three of them uses recolored Mute City I and a custom but clearly placeholder background. But the inclusion of Forest placeholder was definitely an odd one.

It was actually hard to say what it could have been, but Forest is actually the name of a course in BS F-Zero Grand Prix 2 on Satellaview, and more to that, it's the name of a course that we never actually had recovered until the recent BS F-Zero Deluxe hack that used tons of tools in an attempt to reproduce them. We still don't have the original data yet, though. The bounty for that is still up, by the way.

I did definitely get my chances to suspect that maybe, NST was looking into Satellaview tracks, alongside brand new tracks, but maybe that Forest was just also a placeholder name.

But considering the inclusion of Ace League now, I doubt it is a coincidence. Especially when they bothered to have pretty creative names for the others, Forest just sticks out from the rest for being a pretty generic word, an argument that I had already used back then.

But I also noticed something odd, though, on this one I will DEFINITELY give an update if they ever fix this, but the Ace League's best machine ranks are not saved in the stats. This is odd, I don't know if it's a bug, or if it's actually voluntary... because IF it is, then I think the Ace League will change in the future to include the rest of the Satellaview tracks alongside a new Joker (?) League.

UPDATE from October 16th: F-Zero 99 1.5.1 update just released, and they did fix this so I was just doing copium. Not that I didn't expect it, it was a very shaky thing.

In one of the updates, before the inclusion of Secret Tracks, we had seen what was named Death Wind I Remix, which was the Death Wind I + White Land fusion. It's not unlikely that in the future, we will receive what would be called Remix tracks, for possibly entire leagues, but we might need to wait a while before we get those.

Incoming Event?

As NST is definitely aware of datamining attempts, they have been actually pretty busy scrubbing every unused files related to future content especially.

But then they missed a file in the latest 1.5.0 update that added Ace League:

It seems they are looking into doing a Mario VS Donkey Kong Festival Event in the future, including a Mini Mario League, and 4 Star Rivals called Mario, Mini Mario, Donkey Kong and Toad.

There's not much else to it, as it is just text. This text was not localized in most languages from English.

If I had to guess though, I don't rule out that this event might happen for the anniversary of the Mario VS Donkey Kong remake in February 2025. Mario VS Donkey Kong was also the baby of NST, ever since the first of the series on GBA, so it might just be meant to be a fun thing they wanted to do.

I would expect the Mini Mario League to contain either brand new or modified existing tracks to a newer style related to Mario VS Donkey Kong, new music, possibly new machines, and, definitely to me, new emotes to unlock. I expect that to be a limited time event like the others, though what you unlock will definitely stay to your workshop, like previous events, and possibly Training mode if there's indeed new courses to play that they care enough to let us play after the event.

I wouldn't be surprised if we have to collect Mini Marios or something like that, but either way, it seems NST is trying to be a little more daring to F-Zero 99 and possibly follow the footsteps of Tetris 99's themes.

Depending on the situation of the Ace League machine stats, I might have to update this post if I really somehow went too far with my suspicions. (UPDATE: Yes I went too far, they fixed the bug with 1.5.1.)

I do expect more updates related to Ace League for sure, as I do think we'll get Classic versions of the Ace League tracks, and possibly Mirror versions too.

...but oh my god though there's freaking Satellaview tracks in F-Zero 99 omg omg omg we just need the 5 left now

[happyheartstar-blog]

Idol Land News

Entries for the Dream Grand Prix is next week!!!

This new update hasn’t given us much but the game has announced entries for the first Grand Prix to be next week!

There is no details on how it works exactly? The app says that you can enter the Grand Prix from November 27th to December 4th. Then the Grand Prix will begin after December 4th update. I wonder how this will turn out? Do we get to pick our teams or do we have a set team to use? In regular arcade I think you can choose who and you just need to get a high score? But in the anime the system chooses you (unless your Hibik)

But if I get to choose who do I choose? I met so many idol while on Tumblpara!

There’s @virgoidolland @86stagram @xryuseiix @millepara @lunawings @moonlit-angel-serenity @yumemionmarron @idolbutterfly @mirukiamauri @curespectra

But this could also be a good chance for some original Tumblpara Idols to come back to the game? Like @idollandhero @kiracchu @brilliantprince @sigynidolland @endless-locomotive @peachyoshi64

And this is just for the first team I enter in! It also doesn’t help not knowing the full rules. Hopefully next week we get more information on the Prix! Just wanted to make this post about all the Idol Friends I made this year! And look how much we grew! I sadly couldn’t name other idols in Tumblpara as I don’t have them as friends in the game. But maybe soon!

[nepobabyeurydice-moved]

tagged by @clousi

last song: FINA - Bad Bunny. I am a committed fan.

favorite color: lavender. i’m wearing purple shirt and shoes right now.

last book: Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë. They aren’t kidding Heathcliffe is Black.

last movie: the martian (2015) i teared up and also i want to write like that

last tv show: house md. yeah i’m doing THAT to myself. Also Frieren Beyond Journey’s End. It made me feel very sad but very hopeful

sweet, spicy or savory: SWEEEEETTTT. i love sweet. spicy is okay and savoury just makes me hungrier.

last thing i googled: duck donuts close time. the children (cousins) desired a sugar fix.

current obsession: f1 is mostly contained on @motorsport-jesus but also—house md. I could write a cuddy/house fic sooooo detailed and insightful but i won’t.

looking forward to: going to the F1 Arcade again in DC and watching the Miami Grand Prix there. Exams being over, andddddd torturing my readers more.

tagging: @the-one-and-only-aroace, @hellwurld, @bugwolfsstuff , @joanna-lannister and anyone else who wants to do it!

[vantapandemonium]

Making a post about him because I thought hey why not show Tumblr my silly little boy, meet Turbo! Or well Prix as he calls himself. He's a a Turbo from a remastered version of Turbo-Time called Turbo-Time: Grand Prix which was made due to the original's success. He isn't well happy with the history his classic self made for himself in the arcade and is trying to prove himself as better than him but that might just lead to him to his very undoing... Or not! Who knows!