"New" Super Mario Kart [WILL BE UPDATING AFTER IM DONE WITH OTHER STUFF]

[Baegal]

Shy Guy, Waluigi, and Birdo would be neat additions if Wario and Koopa can get in.

[Iceman404]

Star thinks he's so sneaky editing the first post all the time

The Bowser fix turned out great, anyhow.

EDIT: Little nitpicks but, you should remove the dark green pixel on the lower half in between Yoshi's pupils. Bowser's upper "fangs" should be 2 pixels tall so he looks less, hippopotamus-y. And Luigi has a darker shade on the lower part of his nose that makes it look flat from a far, unlike Mario who uses the 2nd shade of skin for the bottom of his nose instead (most likely just a mistake).

[Blitz n' Barrage]

With suggestions coming in for characters, I am going to take Iceman's approach and try to even out the weight classes.

Bowser - Donkey Kong - Wario
Mario - Luigi - Waluigi
Toad - Koopa Troopa - Shy Guy
Peach - Yoshi - Daisy

[Jdaster64]

Add baby Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy

^ Exactly what he said. Pretty much Mario Kart DS + skin on Koopa - R.O.B.

[Star]

It seems alot of people are going for Waluigi and Shyguy. I knew Waluigi was gonna be one of the top picked characters though lol Everybody loves Waluigi.

Except Nintendo.

Whatever project we may work on..it's always nice to have some support right? Well, I made these two things you can put in your signature to show your support for this project. Your support, as well as the support of the hacking staff, is what helps keep me motivated for this huge project. After all, I am re-vamping the WHOLE game pretty much for this huge commission. It can be tiresome sometimes, but the support, comments, critique, and advice is what helps me push onward~

So I sincerely thank you all!


OR

Whichever you prefer!

[Cyrus Annihilator]

Oh no. Koopa Troopa hasn't been replaced. Wario is just part of an experiment that the hackers are working on. I assure you Koopa Troopa will be back. (..)

He's the Mushroom Kingdom's Vettel!!! Can't be out!

SUPERB project!

[Garamonde]

Click my spoiler to see which button I chose.

[alexmach1]

another button to place with the masses. i need to start placing more.

[Koopaul]

Heh guess no one likes Daisy. There's a severe lack of females on that list! AND Birdo doesn't count! Maybe... I guess...

Ahem: This list probably seems best.

Toad, Koopa, Shy Guy

Peach, Yoshi, Dasiy

Mario, Luigi, Waluigi

Bowser, Donkey Kong, Wario


I don't really like Shy Guy but everyone seems to want him.

[Star]

Well..seems like Shy Guy and Waluigi are the winners!(I also took in account from votes off other sites, etc.)
SO CONGRATS, SHY GUY AND WALUIGI. YOU HAVE BEEN SPRITED.
I need to work on Waluigi though..eh, I don't really like spriting him.


The original goal of the hack was to add in Koopa Troopa as well as 3 third party characters: Pac-Man(light), Sonic(medium), and Banjo-Kazooie(heavy/requested by yours truly)

Sonic..in a Mario game? heh..that wouldn't have been tolerated in the era Super Mario Kart was made.
BUT..as I stated before..sadly this couldn't be possible since the coding to add in more characters was screwing up the whole game. Thus, it would've taken forever for it to be possible. I didn't push the hackers any further about the issue.

Thus, I present to you the characters that got canned, as well as the top 2 character suggestions(Waluigi and ShyGuy):


Also something to add:
Pacman would've gone "wakka waka" as he was on the track. Reason why his mouth is sprited like it is
When playing as Banjo, Kazooie would randomly pop out and mock players as you passed them.
Sonic had a special code where he would give Mario the finger when they passed up eachother. Sonic would have had rings come out of him when hit.
Runnerup character suggestions included: Daisy, Bowser Jr., Geno


Does that mean an end to these canned characters?
WHOA WHOA WHOA. YOU JUST HANG ON A SEC. These canned characters will have their own sheets(probably not Waluigi though)and will be submitted to TSR whenever done. You may use these characters to hack into New Super Mario Kart yourself. : ) And don't worry, they're fully functional. B-K and Sonic share Mario's palette. Pac-Man shares Yoshi's palette.

[Gaia]

Very good job with the use of palletes as always star!

[Star]

Limited palletes are crazy man lol

But I do enjoy the challenge.

[Previous]

Shy Guy's mask is all blurry.

[Chris2Balls [:B]]

As Previous has pointed out, you're creating a lot of unnecessary AA that's destroying form. I recommend avoiding clusters that have single pixel edges, especially if you buffer around them, because it creates banding:
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Solutions (not an exhaustive list):
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Sticking to even numbers usually makes things easier.

However, for your Shy Guy it was hard to make its eyes 2px or 4px wide because of the way the sprite is shaped and of course in terms of proportion.
Here is an edit:

[Garamonde]

I VOTE GENO.