http://protipoftheday.com/taxonomy/term/80/0 en http://protipoftheday.com/node/63 <p>Diddy Kong Racing is just all kinds of weird. You have anthropomorphic animals racing go-karts around an island to get magic balloons from a blue elephant-genie to liberate said island from a maniacal wizard pig. Standard stuff.</p> <p>One of your choices to help liberate the island is a diminutive mouse named Pipsy. Pipsy is a little slow, and kind of light, so she's hard to control. But if you can control her, oh man, you've got something here. </p> <p>One thing you have to know is the controls. Your basic controls are A to go forward, B to brake, and R to do a sliding turny-thing. </p> <p>Two things to remember, then, is: the slower you go, the tighter you can turn; and pressing R to turn means you can take a slide around a curve and turn without losing much speed. </p> <p>The thing we want to do is combine them into one super-technique. Let's take a course, any course at all. How about... Star City?</p> <p>The thing about Star City is that it has these brutal right-angle turns right in the middle of the track. Lame!</p> <div align="center"><img src="http://protipoftheday.com/sites/default/files/drk_pipsy1.jpg" /></div> <p>But if you combine the gas, the brakes, and the slide-turn-thing, you can totally take the turns without even touching the walls. She hugs that track like it's velcro. </p> <div align="center"><img src="http://protipoftheday.com/sites/default/files/drk_pipsy2.jpg" /></div> <p>Which is kind of tough to see in these shots, so I've prepared a (4MB) animated .gif file to show it in action <a href="http://protipoftheday.com/sites/default/files/dkr_pipsy_animated.gif">here</a>. I almost botch it because her control is just so tight. Pretty awesome, really.</p> diddy kong racing n64 pro tip technique Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:00:00 +0000 Will 63 at http://protipoftheday.com