Mario Kart: Hacker makes Snes classic prototype playable with sliced content

A prototype of the Super Nintendo classic Mario Kart play - velvet cut content and route editor? A hacker has fulfilled this dream and has taken a lot of work. MRL314 has restored a version of the game, which is nine months older than the one who came to the market in August 1992 in Japan. What was necessary and what sliced ​​content to see it is available, you will learn here.

The prototype version

It's about it: The prototype version of Super Mario Kart was treated with demo versions of some other SNES classics a year ago, but she was not playable in her condition. A hacker calling MRL314 has now repaired it in elaborate work and thus brought to functioning.

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Exciting feature - a route editor: MRL314 is also successful to restore the official route editor, which Nintendo has used to place things such as Speed ​​Boosts, as the hacker has revealed the magazine VGC . Thanks to the editor, the developers were able to work directly on the console according to MRL314.

Alternative route versions and more: The prototype of the game also includes alternative versions of well-known routes: The Ghostal, for example, did not have walls in this game version, on other routes there were more jumps. In addition, there were features that occurred in the finished game only in later titles, such as alternative camera modes reminiscent of Mario Kart DS. In addition, there have never been seen versions of the Battle Modes, in which playing projectiles fire.

In this video you can get an impression:

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A lot of work

The restoration of the prototype was a tedious and difficult task, as MRL314 betrayed VGC:

"There needed a lot of research, tests and the use of a lot of knowledge about the SNES to get things upstairs again. The greatest help was the documentation about the SNES, which made many hard-working people in recent years."

How exciting finds your this prototype? Would you like to try the route editor?