########### # ##### ##### ### ############# ### ## ## ####### ## ## ## ### ## ## ## ###### # ## ## ## ### ## ####### ## ## ####### ## ## # # # ## ## # ## ##### ### # ## # ##### ###### ###### #### ### ### ## ## ## ## ## ## # ## ## ## ###### ## ## ## ### ### ####### ## ## ## ## ## # ## # ## ## ## # ## ## ###### #### #### # ###### ###### ## #### ## ## ### ## ## ## ## #### ## ## ## ## ## ### ## ## ####### ## ## ## ## #### ## ## ## ## ###### #### _______________________________________________________________________________ Mario Kart DS Battle Mode Guide ^horrible^ASCII^art^by^me^=P^ _______________________________________________________________________________ This guide is copywrited by me. Use CTRL+F to find the section you're looking for. Must be in brackets when searching or it won't work very well. Table of Contents 1.Introduction [INTR] 2.Stuff... [STUF] 3.The basics [BASI] a.Controls [CONT] b.Weapons [WPN1] C.Characters [CHAR] 4.A brief explaination of Battle Mode. [BEOB] 5.The Guides [GUID] a.Balloon Battle [BLNB] b.Shine Runners [SHRN] 6.The maps and special techniques [MAST] 7.Good advice [GDAV] 8.FAQ's [FAQS] 9.Multiplayer [MTPR] 10.Closing thingy [CLSE] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction [INTR] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello, and welcome to my guide. This is my first one. This guide is about Battle Mode. All the advice here comes from me. Its all good. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Stuff... [STUF] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 5/7/2006 Started guide. got the basics section halfway done. 5/8/2006 Got the Basics Section finished. 5/22/2006 Finished the guide.... 5/26/2006 small update Added sites to permission list. Corrected capitalization. Fixed some things. Corrected Grammer and Spelling up to Balloon Battle guide. 5/27/2006-5/28/2006 Big Update, now my neck hurts! Added my horrible ASCII... Corrected all grammar possible. added small pointless ending. Made example for Balloon Battle. Added stuff to multi- player section, Added Droppable Item Box to item list 6/14/2006 Fixed name for bob-omb, I spelled it wrong. took away stupid ending. Added bob-omb to the multiplayer lists(forgot to) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The basics -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Controls [CONT] Wow, if anyone ever looks at these, its the newcomers or the people who are Bored out of their mind. In Game (a) Go (b) Reverse/Brake (x) Toggle Map Modes [select] Inflate a Balloon(Battle Mode) [start] Pause,Duh R\ Hop, Drift /L or (y) Use Item (/L is alot easier, believe me) Now onto the good part..... WEAPONS!!!!!!!!!! [WPN1] Heres the lowdown on all the weapons. Green Shell The green shell is one of the most important parts of the game, PROTECTION. You can drag it behind you to deflect red shells. You can launch it forward and backwards and it will bounce off walls up to 5 times and break, hoping to hit someone. Makes characters flip in place, slows them down. Triple Green Shell. Same as a Green Shell but you can deploy it and 3 shells will spin around you and protect you from enemies. You can use it like a Green Shell. mostly for defense. Running into an enemy is like hurling a Green Shell at them. Blocks Red Shells often. Red Shell the red shell is like the Green Shell...BUT has the capability to seek any enemy in front of you. It will follow them until they hit them. It will break on contact with walls but it pays off in the long run because they rarely miss. It will travel along raceways. The only way to avoid a Red Shell is to make it hit a Shell or Bananna. Triple red shell This is my personal favorite. Its like Triple Green Shells, but they are Red Shells. DO NOT launch them all at once, it is a waste, for the last 2 will bounce off the enemy doing nothing. Wait until they are done flipping. Bananna peel Its basically a bananna peel. You can lay it down or throw it. Its like a landmine. When the enemy hits it BOOM! But instead of exploding they just spin out, unfortunately. Dragging these can deflect Red Shells. Triple Bananna Peel You deploy it and it makes a chain of 3 Banannas. You can release them one by one until you're out. Again, these deflect Red Shells. Fake Item Box A fake Item Box. You drop it near other ones to fool the enemy(even though they are easy to spot). It doesnt spin and doesn't have a ? in it. Enemies who are stupid enough to hit it will flip out,stalling them. It won't protect you from Red Shells. Bob-omb Litte living bombs that you can use like a Bananna Peel, but it will detonate in 8 seconds or if someone travels too close. Sends enemies flying up. Mushroom Use it to give you a burst of speed. Terrain won't affect you while boosting. One use. Triple Mushroom Like a mushroom but it has 3 uses. Star Woo.. The Star makes you flash colors and making you faster and invincible and unaffected by terrain for a short amount of time. Hitting someone while invincible will cause them to flip out. Boo Boo basically makes you invisible, invincible, unaffected by terrain, and it lets you go through your enemies; then boo will steal someones item; giving it to you. Lasts for a short amount of time. Bullet Bill A Bullet Bill is a giant living bullet. You can turn into it and travel along the track at high speeds, sending anyone in your path flipping away. Lasts for a brief moment. Blue Shell Ooh man, these things are awesome. Think of it as a blue shell with spikes combined with a heat-seeking missle. Yeah. It goes for the person in first place and blows up in their face. It makes a big blue explosion. Lightning This makes lightning bolts hit all the other players, slowing them down and shrinking them. Their speed halves for a short period of time. Eventually they grow back. Golden Mushroom This is the king of Mushrooms. Use it and you will boost. The catch is, after you use it, you can keep using it for 10 more seconds. So, if you keep tapping L you will use it over and over and over and over. Blooper A pain in the neck. You send it out and it sprays ink on everyone elses screens.If you are bad at using the Map as a guide, this will most likely drive you insane. Droppable Item Box SPECIAL MULTIPLAYER MODE ONLY ITEM If you lose a game, and there are more than one player left and at least 1 is a human player, you become permanent Boo effect until the end of the battle. You can drive around and stuff. Also every now and then you automatically get a Droppable Item Box that you can set or throw or drag. Other players can get it from you. You can use it to help teammates, or Utterly distract foes(see below) What you do is drag it behind you, and when an enemy goes for it, throw it far away, if you can, throw it to a teammate or off a cliff or out of bounds. That covers the weapons. On to the characters. Characters [CHAR] NOTE that the stats of the characters are for THEIR carts. Mario The main character of the game. SPEED---Medium ACC-----Medium CONTROL-Medium WEIGHT--Medium DRIFT---Medium A good character for newcomers. Luigi Marios brother. SPEED---High ACC-----High CONTROL-High WEIGHT--Medium DRIFT---Low A good character for moderate players. Wario Marios rival SPEED---high ACC-----Low CONTROL-Low WEIGHT--High DRIFT---Medium I don't reccomend him. Also he's ugly =P. Waluigi Luigi's rival and wario's brother (I think) SPEED---Medium-High ACC-----Medium-High CONTROL-Low WEIGHT--Medium-High DRIFT---Medium-High He's a hidden character. I don't reccomend him much. Peach The princess of the mushroom kingdom. shes a sissy girl. SPEED---Low ACC-----Medium CONTROL-Low WEIGHT--High DRIFT---Very high Not very good, but she has the only kart with 100% drift. Daisy Peaches sister(i think). shes a tomboy unlike sissy wissy peach.heh.. SPEED---Medium ACC-----High CONTROL-Medium WEIGHT--Low DRIFT---Medium Secret character. Not the best though. DK Yep, that crazy demented ape is back. SPEED---High ACC-----Low CONTROL-Low WEIGHT--High DRIFT---High Hes crazy to me so I never use him. Bowser King of the koopas. SPEED---Very High ACC-----Very Low CONTROL-Very Low WEIGHT--Very High DRIFT---Very High He's bad, because if hes hit, he won't get to full speed before everyone passes him. Also he has the worst handling in the game; but he has 100% Weight. R.O.B. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.O.B. explains his origin SPEED---Very High ACC-----Medium CONTROL-Medium WEIGHT--Medium-High DRIFT---Lowest He has the only kart with 100% Speed. Good for speed freaks. Secret Character. Toad In my opinion, a science expiriment gone wrong. He's half man, half mushroom. SPEED---Low ACC-----High CONTROL-Very High WEIGHT--Very Low DRIFT---Medium I don't like him much. A good newbie character though. Now for the best two in the game... Yoshi A green dinosaur like thing. SPEED---Low-medium ACC-----High CONTROL-High WEIGHT--Low DRIFT---High If you play online, almost all the pros use him. I reccomend him for masters. (like me) Dry Bones A Koopa Skeleton. He appears in Super Mario Bros 3. SPEED---Low ACC-----Very high CONTROL-Very high WEIGHT--Low DRIFT---Medium He has the best Acceleration and Control in the game. He can do some shortcuts without a mushroom because of his acceleration. Look for these at Sky garden, Yoshi Circuit, and Delfino Square. My Favorite, and basically the best. (other than Yoshi) Thats all of them. Moving to our next section... ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( A Brief Explaination of battle mode [BEOB] ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) Battle mode consists of two games: Balloon Battle, and Shine runners. You can play multiplayer with 1-7 more friends/siblings/rivals. Balloon Battle is played by using items against enemies to destroy all their balloons. Shine Runners requires you to have the most shines, while time disqualifies enemies every 30 seconds. Unfortunately battle games cannot be played over nintendo wifi. It would be cool, though. [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[ The guides.... [GUID] ]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] Balloon battle [BLNB] Balloon Battle... Well, you start with 1 balloon and 4 extras. You need to inflate some more or you will die quickly. Holding [select] will inflate them. But you can do it faster if you blow into the hole on your DS labeled MIC. You can use weapons to attack your opponents. When you hit your enemy, they will lose a balloon. When they are out of balloons, they will be disqualified. Last player left wins. EX. 4 players. Theres Yoshi(you), Mario, DK, and Toad. Mario inflates 2 balloons, toad inflates 1, DK is too forgetful to inflate his. You do it on purpose. Everyone gets an item box. You get a Mushroom, Mario gets a Bananna, DK gets a Green Shell, and Toad gets a Red shell. You inflate 2 balloons now. DK launches his shell off the course like an idiot, then you Mushroom Boost into him and he flies off the track. He loses. Toad launches a Red shell at Mario, and he uses his Bananna to deflect it. then mario hits you with a Green Shell he gets. You lose 1 balloon, then get a Mushroom and boost into Toad, taking a balloon and knocking him off the edge. He loses 2 balloons from the combo and loses badly. You then hit mario with a Red Shell, Then he hurts himself with his own Fake Item Box on accident. Left with one balloon, Mario gets a Star and hits you twice. You lose 2 balloons. You pick up a Triple Bananna and deploy it, then you inflate your last 2 balloons. Mario gets a Triple Red Shell and tries to get you. The first one hit a wall, the second and third one hit 2 of your Banannas. Then he gets a Mushroom and tries to boost into you. He hits your last Bananna and Loses. YOU WIN!!!! Here's a list of the weapons used in the game: G Shell G Shell X3 R Shell R Shell X3 Banana Banana X3 Fake item box Mushroom Bob-omb Mushroom X3 Golden Mushroom Star Boo Blooper Theres 2 ways to win... Offense You mainly go all out trying to eliminate everyone. Defensive You do your best to defend yourself, you stay away from enemies, and strike when 1 player is left. Here are my tactics OFFENSIVE The Striker You start by getting away from everyone and wait to get a good weapon. When you do, you charge into battle and wipe out as many people as you can. A good beginners technique. Stealth Bomber You go to the highest part of the map (if there is one), and lob items off like Bananas, Fake Item Boxes, Bom-ombs, Green Shells, occasionally Red Shells, and use Bloopers. Or you can get a boo and while you are invisible, launch out a Bom-omb or a Red Shell. It will make your friends freak out. Maybe even wet themselves. (or leave a bit of luggage in the trunk :P) Good for people who have trouble in the midst of a battle. Kemakazee You waltz into battle with 1 balloon. This sounds stupid, but you can get all the best weapons this way. You get Golden Mushrooms, Bloopers, Triple Red shells(these can instantly eliminate a player. you launch a shell, and once they lose their 1st balloon and recover, you launch the second one, leaving them with one balloon, then you finish them off with the 3rd shell. its so mean but its fun... Heheheheee....). You get good defense from Triple Green Shells, Stars, and Boos. for pros like me, and people who are good at leading Red Shells into walls or deflect them. The Sitting Duck (idea by Thomas Smyth) I have made my own method of Battling, i call it 'the sitting duck' the only place i have known this to work is block fort. Start off by reversing to the box behind you, then blow up a balloon and make your way to the top of the fortress's and sit and wait until you see a player going to the top of 1 of the fortress's attached to the 1 your sitting on, then fire a red shell at them along the bridge, Then drive off the fortress and onto another 1. This is a great mode of both offense and defense. TIP: keep a weapon in stock and keep your map set so you can see other players sneaking up on you. DEFENSE Evade, then Obliterate You stay away from enemies, then when everyone has one balloon left, you beat the pulp out of them with red shells. Good for newbies. One at a time You find hostile enemies (enemies that have no one else around them), and take them out one by one. It takes a while, but a good hunter wont mind. I like this one. Happy Camper Camping is similar to Stealth Bomber, but instead you find a good corner or high area, and plant alot of bananas and fake item boxes around it. Smart enemies will not bug you, but AI (artificial intelligence) don't even see the barricade and charge right into it(making them Artificial Idiots :P). You need to make sure there is an item box in your 'Campsite' or it will be hard. If you jump, then throw your items, you can do it with the Bananas and stuff to make your campsite harder to penetrate, or lob Bob-ombs out to take people out while you comfortably stand in 1 spot. A good trick to use to aim is to hold (a) and (b) at the same time. It allows you to spin in place fast like if you were on a turret. This is my most effective and favorite technique. Here are more tricks. Balloon Theif You wonder why there are Mushrooms in battle? Hmm, to go faster? NO! Instead, boosting into an enemy knocks them to the side (like REALLY FAR) and... You STEAL one of their balloons. If you have no more spare balloons, this can save your life. Also its fun to have an assortment of different colored balloons, Because having green balloons all the time will get boring. You have green balloons if you play against AI in first player, or if you are the host of a multiplayer game. PEEKABOO! This is so mean. You get a Boo and become invisible and get a Star(you can use a Bob-omb, Banana, or fake item box, but a star is more fun.). Now you get near an enemy and while you are still invisible, you activate the star and BAM! Its so much fun. Mugger When someone has 2 balloons left, wait for them to get close to the edge of a cliff. Then Boost into them!(making sure you don't fall off.) They will be robbed of their 1st balloon, Then they fly off the cliff. When latiku drops them back onto the playing area, they will lose their last balloon and be disqualified. Will make other players angry, and is a useful technique for someone smart enough to re-inflate more balloons, because they can't re-inflate any. Smuggler In the beginning, instead of inflating any balloons, get far away from your enemies and get item boxes until you get a star or a triple red shell. If you get the triple red shell first, get a second item after they are deployed. THEN, inflate your balloons. You will have a really good weapon, without being on the virge of elimination. I do this ALL the time, so you should try it too. _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Shine runners [SHRN] Shine runners is played by racing to shines and collecting the most, before someone else gets more than you. Over time the people with low amounts of them will be disqualified. The last man standing wins. Hitting an enemy with an item makes them drop a shine if they have one, then you can take it for yourself. When there are 2 people left, its a 30 second battle to have 5 shines. EX. There are five contestants. You are Yoshi. You start and pick up 2 shines. Everyone else does the same, but DK was unfortunate(haha) to get the 9th one. Since he had 1, he got eliminated(heh, i hate DK). Leaving you and 3 others. Bowser gets the one DK lost, and you hit Peach with a Red Shell and take a shine from her. Then Luigi runs into her with a Star and grabs her last one. Peach is eliminated. You throw a Fake Item Box and it hits Bowser directly. (this is so hard to do)You take a shine from him. Then Luigi got him with a green shell since Bowser's acceleration makes it hard for him to speed up. Luigi takes another shine from Bowser. After Bowser is eliminated, you and Luigi have to battle for the last shine. Luigi grabs it, then you get him with a Bananna Peel. You grab the shine, then you get a Red Shell. Luigi uses Boo to turn invisible and steal your shell. He uses it on you, and takes your shine. Then you run into him with a star. You grab the shine, and Luigi loses. YOU WIN! So basically you need the most shines. There are 9 per match, so if you grab five, no one can stop you unless they get one from you. If you are able to get all 9, everyone else will be eliminated at the same time after at a max of 30 seconds. Here are the weapons involved: G Shell G Shell X3 R Shell R Shell X3 Banana Banana X3 Fake Item Box Mushroom Mushroom X3 Bob-omb Golden Mushroom Star Boo Blooper Lightning You can only get lightning if you have the least amount of shines. I have no good strategies right now. I would like some though. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ the maps and special techniques [MAST] \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Here are brief descriptions of all the maps, and techniques that work on them. NOTE: the Balloon Thief, Mugger*, Smuggler and the PEEKABOO! technique work on all maps. *Has to have out of bounds area(DS, Palm Shore, Twilight House) Nintendo DS This is a giant model of a Platinum Nintendo DS. It has the Exact features of the DS, all the lines, you can read the letters or words on the buttons, you can see the power light and the recharging light(I haven't seen it on yet). You can go on top of the screen. Theres a slanted top part of a DS. You can see the holes that you hear the sound effects from. If you look at the screens, you can see Pictures. BB techniques that work here: The Striker Kemakazee Happy Camper (one of the top screen corners) Evade, then Obliterate One at a time The Power light on the DS stage DOES NOT change to red when your power is low. (confirmed by me) Twilight House A big house with 9 chambers, and an outside path with a drop-off point. A very fun level. I reccomend NOT to use red shells unless you can see your enemy. Use green shells inside. BB techniques that work here: The Striker Kemakazee Happy Camper (in corner of level) Evade, then Obliterate One at a time Palm Shore A big Island with an oasis with another island in it. The water level will rise and fall from the tide. The water slows you down. A great technique is to wait for someone to be in the water, then since they are moving slow, you can lob a green shell at them and will most likely hit them if you aim right. BB techniques that work here The Striker Kemakazee Happy Camper (middle island) Evade, then Obliterate One at a time Tart Top A big Tart thing that you can drive on. Its a round dome with a rounded launch ramp in the middle. The item boxes are in midair, and the launch ramp leads to them. BB techniques that work here The Striker Kemakazee Evade, then Obliterate Block Fort A big area with 4 colored fortresses. Each fortress has 2 levels, and they all are connected by bridges. This is a great level. BB techniques The Striker Stealth Bomber (3rd level) Kemakazee Happy Camper (3rd level) Evade, then Obliterate One at a time The Sitting Duck Pipe Plaza A plaza with an upper section and(you guessed it) 4 pipes. Entering the pipe will warp you to another. A good and mean trick is to go in the pipe and put a Banana where you land. Anyone who takes the pipe up will be forced to hit it. Entering a pipe can also save you from Red Shells. BB techniques The Striker Stealth Bomber (top part) Kemakazee Happy Camper (top part) Evade, then Obliterate One at a time /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// good advice [GDAV] \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ here are some good tips for the game. You want a quick, high accelerated character if you want to be the best. I Reccomend Yoshi, Toad, luigi, or Dry Bones. But luigi is the best all around character in my opinion, because his top speed and acceleration are both about 60. (for these, you have one or the other, unless you are luigi) If you have high acceleration, you can dodge incoming items with ease. Pros:You can maneuver well, and speed up fast if you get hit. Cons:People with higher top speed than you will beat you to shines sometimes. If you have High top speed, you will be the first to shines. Pros:Very fast. Cons:If you get hit by something, you will take a while to get back to high speed. Makes you a big target for balloon stealing in battle mode So High ACC is good for battle, while high SPD is good for shine runners. More later ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: FAQ's [FAQS] ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Here are some FAQs. Some are made up by me. If you want to ask me a question, refer to the bottom section for the email stuff. Q: How do I play Battle Mode online? A: Unfortunately there isn't Online battle, only single player and multiplayer. Q: Who is the best character for battle mode? A: There is no Absolute Best Character, but I use Yoshi or Dry Bones because they are fast and agile. ############################################################################### Multiplayer [MTPR] ############################################################################### This is the deal on multiplayer. You can play with up to 8 people at a time wirelessly, but the thing that separates multiplayer from WIFI, is that you don't need internet connection, but you all need to be within 30 feet of each other. yet for some reason, pictochat reaches over 100 feet. Well you can have a host and 7 other players. you have the host set up the game. After that you duke it out against each other. This is the only time you can have balloons in Balloon Battle that aren't green. the host gets green. If you lose a game, and there are more than one player left, you become permanent Boo effect until the end of the battle. You can drive around and stuff. Also every now and then you automatically get a Droppable Item Box that you can set or throw or drag. Other players can get it. You can use it to help teammates. ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Closing Thingy [CLSE] ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Well have fun playing battle mode, I wish you good luck. Now if you have any Questions, or you have any strategies you would like to share, you can email me at < [email protected] >.(minus the <>s) Now I don't want any pictures, no spam, and no attatchments. (there are too many viruses out there) If you send me any attatchments, I will delete your letter completely after I read stuff, Ignoring Attatchments. If you have more than one, I will delete it without reading it. I will add you to ignore if you spam. This guide is copyright by Nick Ashby. These websites have permission to use this guide: www.Gamefaqs.com www.supercheats.com www.neoseeker.com Thanks to Thomas Smyth, Mario Kart DS, Nintendo for such a great game, and me, for writing this guide Do not make copies of this and give them off as your own. This guide is for personal use only and i will be ENRAGED if you claim this guide as your own. if you would like to have this guide on your website, please contact me Via email. I would be happy to accept as long as you ask.