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Well, a cape will do as well!

Yes, it definitely looks like an automated event schedule. What is less known is that Super Mario Run still generates revenue: $260k last month. I doubt that maintaining the servers up costs as much. In this sense I’m under the impression that they severely underestimated the revenue that...

Mario Kart Tour has 200 million downloads though: https://sensortower.com/blog/mario-kart-tour-200-million-downloads Last month’s revenue was $4 million, that of Dr. Mario World was $300 thousands, less than one tenth. With that being said, I advise against spending in free2play games as you...

So far, we had Pokémon Shuffle Mobile that made all its content available through events in automated rotation and was kept up, and the gacha Sonic Runners that was indeed resold as the premium Sonic Runners Adventure with most of the event content removed but still the core game and soundtrack...

Considering the past results, this is absolutely deliberate: Team Mario last time won by a huge margin, and with him being the main character and the first choice, there would be a repeat of the same situation, even with Team Peach as the opposing team. The doubling of the points of the losing...

Easy choice, my favorites are all in the same team. Did Luigi choose the wrong team, by the way? Was he tricked by King Boo? Or did he notice that Daisy is in the other team?

Considering how Red Yoshi has triple items, it’s Wii Maple Treeway R. They remade the environment fully in 3D, without using “cardboard trees and mountains”, and they reviewed the coloring - though it should be noted that Mario Kart Wii in general used an inexplicable shading that often washed...

Speaking of teasers, here are the other released badges hinting at new content: Mount Wario (already in the 2019 Winter Tour) N64 Luigi Raceway (Berlin Tour) Battle Mode (2021 Los Angeles Tour) Sunshine Airport (2021 Los Angeles Tour) So far, the internal data only confirmed the work on...

Well, you pretty much beat me in every other aspect, I guess I could have a little “consolation victory” ;-)

I’m still wondering about the signs, though: Mario with a 64 is pretty obviously Super Mario 64 But Bowser with a 98? Are they really referencing Wrecking Crew ‘98 (of which he was admittedly a boss)?

Well, yes. Super Mario Run costed more than the usual premium mobile game, so they could have added more content without even falling into the red. Funnily enough, last month it made $270k in revenue, so it’s still grossing them something. Admittedly, with console games there’s also the issue...

Just one thing I’d add: Super Mario Run’s pricing model (just one payment) is adequate for Super Mario Run, which is not exactly a continuous development game. Continuous additions of content would require continuous income to be profitable, historically this was done by paying DLCs (and it...

What’s even more telling is that for months the game has had a stable monthly revenue of $5 millions, pointing out how the majority of the revenue is coming from the Gold Pass, this being also the conclusion of Sensor Tower. I can understand trying a continuous development model that thus...

And that isn’t even the worst part: microtransaction might be an annoyance, even more annoying are pay2win mechanics, but gacha is absolutely the worst. Paying for a chance of getting what you want just feels wrong to me on so many levels, even considering how widespread gashapon machines are in...

It’s odd because Super Smash Bros. Melee had auto saving, but for some reason Super Mario Sunshine was stuck with the old concept of “ask the player if they want to save or not after getting a key collectible”. I might have understood that for the Shine Sprites if you wanted for example to keep...

New Paris Promenade incoming! Also, looks like Painter Luigi first seen in Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit will be featured.

Funnily, the game notification explicitly stated that Tuxedo Mario is from Super Mario Odyssey, nice that at least now they are acknowledging the source of so many Mario alts…

Daily reminder that there was a time in which Wanda was considered almost a major character in the Mario universe. Also that Super Mario Kart picture finally explains how we got Lemmy in the roster. And Ludwig. And Wendy. And Monty Mole. And Hammer Bro. And Pauline. And the referee Lakitu. And...

We got a new power-up variant: Builder Toadette

What they oddly didn’t show there is that at least N64 Choco Mountain R/T will be added: also, according to the Italian news message, we’ll get both the special daily login bonuses and Today’s Challenge.

Well, since they at least publish the numbers, you can immediately see that you can’t impact the results at all by playing more all alone. Those are in the hundreds of millions, and one can grind for tens of thousand at best, less than 1% of the total of their team. A coordinated effort isn’t...

APNG is always smaller than GIF, as it supports all the palettized modes of GIF but uses more advanced compression techniques, some of them being similar to inter frame techniques. In fact, programs such as APNG Optimizer detect if there are less than 256 colors in the picture and immediately...

Recently ImageMagick started supporting APNG in full, as a result, the wiki now fully supports APNG resizing while still keeping the animations. I've noticed that the APNG files with the .png extension are easier to maintain as clicking on the image immediately opens the full size image, while...

Well, one game did have a key artwork with all its bosses, and little birds too!

Basically, they’re combining the removed Daily Challenges with the Daily Login bonuses of the standard tours, with random rewards except for the rubies. Since those bonuses aren’t particularly worthy - 100 Coins, points boost tickets, 3 item tickets - I don’t expect the new random bonuses to be...

Well, with no new drivers and courses, this is clearly a tour for the developers to space things out while they work on other content. I wonder why they had two tours with completely new courses back to back, is the next tour going to be another high-profile one? By the way, we have plenty of...

At this point I’m more and more inclined to believe that since DK’s design originated within Rareware, no DK family driver will have alts. Probably Nintendo bought the rights to use the designs with some additional conditions we are unaware of.

Quite possible if they go on with Tezuka’s “Yoshis are turtles” rendition, they already added a Yoshi badge obtainable by using a driver with a shell.

Insane pull! What could there be more insane than that? Maybe what you did with that pull? Props by the way, you might start competing for the All Cups Ranking with these scores!

Finally, the city from which the Ferry of the glider challenge came is here, and we already got the artwork! We’re getting a Koala Baby Mario alt!

I wouldn’t really use generic when it comes to Los Angeles Laps, Berlin Byways and Ninja Hideaway, while Merry Mountain has a style close to the Super Mario Galaxy games. Usually, games like Mario Kart Tour are “lower risk”: you can go out of the way more because most people didn’t pay a dime...

Considering how the ninja Shy Guys were already added as course obstacles I guess they couldn’t finish the driver they wanted to add in time and resorted to using the blue ninja Shy Guy, making the Wario references quite puzzling without a Wario alt.

So we have 3 enemies from DKC 2 (including the worst enemy ever, Rattly) the two smol Kongs and Fulgore who is about to kill everyone likely because he just played the last Rattly level. Makes sense, I too would likely have a killer instinct after playing a Rattly level.

If you get it to level 7 and get Baby Luigi, the Pipe Buggy and the Piranha Plant Parafoil (or even just one of these 3) to level 7 as well you’ll find level-boost tickets of all types in the Daily Selects in place of the Normals you maxed, you’re almost there!

Woah Didn’t expect them to add two Yoshis like in the last Yoshi Tour and a new Super one at that - months had passed since the addition of the last Super driver. Thankfully, in my ranked cup I can actually get him in 6th place, so I don’t need to sell a kidney to add him to my roster - odd...

Very nice to see that at least this game takes out the duplicates from the possible pulls when maxed out! Lol at the communication error when you try looking at the probability tables, at least they put a message when you try staffing again...

Actually, according to this official character book, the Donkey Kong we saw in Super Mario Odyssey is the current Donkey Kong. Nintendo retcon #5863378? And what about Cranky? Was another character Koopaling’d? EDIT: here is the scan in case you want to scratch your head at this possible nonsense:

Well, in this case the PAL name was a direct translation of the Japanese name, so they likely thought that it would have said more about the kart - it’s intended to be the successor of the B Dasher after all.

If you use manual drift (which is actually just a swap between what the main screen and the little button on the bottom do when it comes to steering and drifting), you don’t get the arrow, it is used only when you steer. It takes some time to learn how to drift, but Ultra Mini-Turbos are...

Not fully sure about the emulators, in any case the game requires two swipe in separate directions - horizontal for turning, vertical to throw items when turning/drifting, so I fear it wouldn’t work very well on emulators. Yeah, it makes sense to have a Mario Tour now, also because the...

The game stores the tracks as 4-bit GameCube DSP ADPCM, a lossy format compared to the Red Book Audio of the soundtrack CD. FLAC would prevent further generational degradation.

So people went out to PM me so that I voted Draq, then I go here and everyone + dog is voting Super Arrow, you know what? My vote is for generic anime character #78453... I mean Clank Hughes.

That fat Yoshi reminds me of Star Yoshi. So cute!

Actually, when a power-up form isn’t intended to eventually get a cup, they choose a generic emblem, so that’s what they did here. I’m more surprised at this point that they didn’t do that for Builder Toad.

I’m still of the opinion that gacha should be banned altogether - replace it with stupidly high prices if you still want pay2win to have free2play, but at least keep it away. Gambling is people- and family-ruining, and nobody should be exposed to gambling-like mechanics, even though gachapon is...

Heh, in this sense having snowboarding DK in DK Summit makes more sense, basically the barrel cannon was the main DK aspect of that course... in any case, there is some wondering on whether there’s still some issue with Rare as far as the current appearance of DK is concerned. Said appearance...

Well, the wiki now fully supports FLAC files, in both FLAC and Ogg containers, as you can see in my test page here User:Mister_Wu/FLAC_test my question now is what should we do with them: accepting them or not? If yes, with which container and extension?

Well, DK Summit was unexpected. Plus Penguin Toad. Where is the DK alt tho?

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