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@MiniBandit MiniBandit released this 19 Oct 18:33
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v0.6.0: two-screen menus and Epic's race overhaul

Builder updated (Windows fix): the first Windows builder stopped at the last step ("Cook both original item shadows before packaging"). Download the builder again and run it in the same folder: it only redoes the end. Same game version, no other change for Mac/Linux.

⚠️ Everyone has to build again

v0.6.0 needs a new build. The converted game files changed, so there is no quick update (no update CIA, no QR code) for this version. The QR codes and Universal-Updater find nothing to install for v0.6.0, on purpose: a v0.6.0 update on a v0.5.x game can't start races.

You are… What to do
Played v0.5.x or older Download the builder below, build again from your disc, install the new mkw-3ds.cia and copy the new build/release/sd-card/3ds folder to your SD card (replace the old one).
Never built the game Same: download the builder and build it from your own USA Mario Kart Wii disc (RMCE01).

After v0.6.0, later code updates are quick updates again (for games built with v0.6.0 or newer).

Please don't share built CIAs or update CIAs for this version: built CIAs contain Nintendo's game files, and an update CIA can't run on an older build.

What's new

Two-screen menus (MiniBandit)

  • The Wii menu buttons and art are on the lower screen, with touch: tap a button to choose it
  • The highlighted choice is shown large on the top screen (characters, vehicles, cups and courses)
  • The same striped background, title bar and Back button as the Wii menus
  • Course tour: during the fly-over before a race, the lower screen shows the whole course with the camera moving along it
  • The pause and end-of-race menus' buttons on the lower screen (touch), with the frozen race shown behind the pause menu
  • The main menu's group frames no longer flash constantly

Race overhaul (Epic0522)

  • Course materials, texture filtering and mipmaps closer to the Wii; Mario Circuit's rainbow; scrolling water
  • Driver and vehicle animation, look targets and attachments; normal falling animation (not the cannon one)
  • Rosalina's Luma
  • Bike scrape sparks, standstill A+B smoke and charge sparks, cannon streaks, surface, water and creature effects
  • Course objects: traffic, penguins, bats, Piranha Plants, falling rocks, crates, Chain Chomp, Lakitu
  • Items: collision, lifetime, guidance; held items through cannons; item boxes on moving road
  • CPU drivers: steering, drifting, avoiding obstacles, recovering when stuck; Wii roster rules
  • Save data with four licenses, checksums and backups; unlocks and best times carried over
  • Race, object, item and voice sound fixes; faster drawing of opponents and course objects
  • Mii statue portraits on five courses

Fixes

  • Circle Pad up/down now tilts the kart in the air (#56)
  • The lightning-hit pose no longer plays for the whole time you're shrunk (#64)
  • Cannon launch pose no longer plays on every jump (#39); Toad's Factory conveyor boxes are drawn (#44); the driver's wheelie voice plays again
  • Menu cadence (DarthMDev, #41); Balloon Battle and builder fixes (#47, #53)
  • Old 3DS: course objects switch to low detail sooner and fewer particles are drawn, after Codiak540's Old 3DS tests

Builder

  • Converts the credits movies now, so the credits can come later as a quick update without another rebuild
  • Fixed building from an exFAT/FAT drive on macOS (hidden ._ files were read as game files)
  • Fixed fresh builds stopping at step 8 or 9 (missing Mii portrait files #80, and a Moo Moo Meadows cow export error)
  • The launchers reinstall the Python packages whenever the build environment can't import them (#79)

Tested: a full build from the macOS zip on a Mac (including from an exFAT drive), and races in the Azahar emulator. The Windows builder has the same fixes but wasn't test-built on Windows for this release, so please report how it goes.

Downloads

  • MKW-3DS-Builder-v0.6.0-macOS.zip / -Windows.zip: the builder, for everyone

How to build

  1. Download the builder for your computer and extract it to a new, empty folder. Don't reuse your old builder folder: files left from an older version can end up in the new build.
  2. Run it with your USA Mario Kart Wii disc (RMCE01): macOS Build MKW CIA.command, Windows Build MKW CIA.bat.
  3. Install build/release/mkw-3ds.cia with FBI and copy build/release/sd-card/3ds to the root of your SD card.

Thanks

  • Epic0522 for the race overhaul and save data
  • DarthMDev for the menu cadence and sound fixes
  • Codiak540 and janedoemk3ds for the Old 3DS performance testing and research (#40; their larger Old 3DS work is still under review)
  • Everyone who reported bugs on GitHub and Discord
  • Full credit to dudewhat for the original port
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