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Tweaks
Strikers Charged was built around the Wii Remote pointer. The tweaks here make it play well with a controller and add community fixes and extras, several taken from the community's setup guide. Every one of them applies at once, while the game runs.
Built into the port ([mods] in Config.toml):
- Controller menu navigation (on): the D-pad and sticks move the game's hand cursor between buttons, row by row (on the main ring menu, the stick picks the icon in that direction). New screens start on their first option, B goes back (the on-screen BACK button is never reached by moving), and L/R flip pages such as stages on stage select.
- Selection badge (off): marks the selected button with a badge in the player's colour.
- Choose home/away kits on captain select (on): with both captains picked, X switches the home team between its home and away kit and Y the away team (Wii Remote: - and 2). Mario, Luigi, Waluigi and Wario have no away kit in the game, so they get generated ones (white with red trim, sky blue, orange, blue), recoloured at runtime from your own disc's textures: captain, sidekicks, goalie and team art.
- Captain-only teams (off): captains can be teammates, using a switch the developers left in the game. On the sidekick screen, pick a slot and captain select's grid comes up under the team boards: pick a captain. - and + (L/R on a controller) switch to the sidekicks, so a team can mix both (say Waluigi, Waluigi, Boo and Boo). Default makes every slot the team's captain and Random picks at random from whichever grid is showing. On captain select, - and + switch the grid to the sidekicks too, so a sidekick can lead a team: it wears a captain's colours, banners, logo and goalie (Mario at home and Luigi away to start; X/Y or L/R cycle them once both teams are picked), for a team of four Boos in Yoshi green. Teams are kept for next time. The match intro is skipped with this on.
The rest are the Strikers Tweaks pack, which the build installs: its options are under F10 > Mods. Being a Mods, the same tweaks work in Dolphin and on a Wii, where a change applies at the next launch. Tweaks you had on before they moved to the pack stay on.
- Skip intro (off): boots straight to the main menu: the notice screens, the intro movie and the title screen are skipped (the studio logo still shows for its few seconds). Takes effect from the next launch.
- Fast menus (off): skips menu transitions. Panels that slide in and out appear in place, and camera moves such as the zoom from the main menu are over in a frame or two. Idle animations, music and matches are unchanged.
- All stadiums fast-paced (off): every pitch plays like the fast, dry ones such as Bowser Stadium. When turned off, from the next match.
- No Mega Strikes with controllers (on): see below.
- Unlock everything (off): all characters, stadiums and cheats through the game's own unlock-all switch. Your save isn't changed.
- Win by 2 (off): in first-to-X goal matches, you have to win by at least 2 goals.
- Fix the NK bug (on): a deke or teleport through the goalie that gets cut short (Boo deking into his own Kritter, Dry Bones teleporting behind the goal) no longer leaves every shot passing through Kritter for the rest of the match.
- Blue Peach against red teams (off): Peach wears her blue kit against red captains.
- Shot counter on the results screen (off): the Mega Strike row shows white and yellow shots / red and orange shots instead.
Tweaks itself is the pack's code: the others work while it's on. Turning it off takes another build to take the code out, as with any pack's code.
Note
Mega Strikes are disabled when you play with a controller. Defending a Mega Strike means pointing the Wii Remote at each incoming ball, which a gamepad or keyboard can't do, so the shots would simply always go in. While a gamepad or keyboard is in use, every match has Mega Strikes off for both sides: a fully charged captain shot becomes a normal strong shot, for you and the CPU alike. Your saved game options aren't changed, and with real Wii Remotes Mega Strikes work as normal. Turn the tweak off under F10 > Mods > Strikers Tweaks if you want them back.