XeR

Note: Due to personnal issues, the project is frozen. I'll necro this thread when I'll be ablee to work back.
Hey,
First of all, let me talk you about Call of Duty, especially Call of Duty 4.
Most of the competitive matches in Call of Duty 4 are played in a special gametype made by player called "promod".
This gametype involves a bunch of changes like faster characters, less gravity and so on.
Suddenly, a great idea came to my mind, why not making a Mario Kart Wii Promod for competitives matches?
Just like the Custom Track Grand Prix Revolution by MrBean35000VR and Chadderz, it would work with Riivolution. The only things you require is a Wii, and the retail disc. Problem pirates? ;D

Here is a list of the functionnality we may put for the promod.



Tell us if you think it is a good idea, what you think of the current features and if you would like us to add anything.
Keep in mind that it is still a project. We will start working on it if peoples are interested.

Updates:
03/26: Removed "No music".

Acid

[No bloopers]
Replace bloopers with mushrooms.

[No thunderclouds]
Replace thunderclourds with mushrooms.

[Faster green shells]
Green shells go faster for long-range snipes.

[Scoreboard]
Pressing the pause button will add an overlay with players and their positions.

[Greater FOV]
Greater Field of View. Basically, the camera is slightly further from your character.

[Text Edit]
Replacing room messages with taunting messages.

[Gravity Modifier]
Modifying the gravity to make jumps higher.

[No shell alarm]
This was not present in the other Mario Kart.

[Something for the FIBs]
Maybe making them fall faster to snipe more.

[Always 150cc]
Removing 100c... Because it sucks.

[Green shells do not break when hit a character]
Kill 2 birds with 1 rock ;D

[Cheat protection]
A bunch of cheat protection to prevent anyone from cheating in competition.

[Remove glitches from tracks]
Self explanatory.

[ESP glitch from battle]
ESP glitch a glitch where you get everyone's name on your screen, even through the walls.
This glitch can be made this way: 1) go in battle 2) play in a WW.

[Pow affects everyone]
Everyone will lose their item except the pow holder.

[Everything unlocked]
Self explanatory.

[Everyone guest]


[Change guests' text]
See above.

[Infinite wheelies]
No lucky wheelies = less luck.

[Faster canons]
Less top4-dodges.

[Faster slipstream]
More teamplay.

[Remove Lakitu]
Because I hate that guy.

[Bomb explode faster]
Bombs are haxx'd. They explode if someone is in the bomb area and last at least 5 seconds.

[Speed-o-meter]
See MrBean's video -->

[No characters boost]
Every boosts are maximized in every stats.

[Speed modifier]
Everyone will go slightly faster. (Some kind of 160cc)

[Screenshots Tool]
Make screenshot at the end of each GP, and save them to the SD card.

[Remove Thwompers]
Thwomps won't crush you.

[Unban]
Bypass EC 20102 for those who made mistakes in their youth.

HOW TO CONTACT US:
#Forgotten_Legends @ irc.epiknet.org

SuperMario64DS

How exactly will you manage to accomplish most of the Stuff on that list?

You'd need pretty extensive knowledge of the main.dol. Things like Thwomp Removal would require KMP Editing, and removing items all together...

XeR

Most of the things on the list will be executed with a custom assembly code. Chadderz found how to inject such code with Riivolution. I will use this trick to patch the current game routine on-the-fly and prevent thwomps from being loaded for example.

SuperMario64DS

Assembly is a rather easy. I learned how to from Sonic hacking.

Do you actually know (At the time) how to do all of this stuff? Chadderz uses Riivolution & a Modified Main.dol (As well as Text files) for extended options.

If you could write an Article on what does what, then great. It could help with extending the game even further. Some people say ripping assembly code is a waste of time, but it certainly is not.

I'm a bit skeptical with the possibility of all of this, but If you say it's possible than let's hope so, it sounds awesome and I'd certainly use it myself. Perhaps you can prove that this game can become even better than it was before, and help us to learn more about it.

Good Luck!

Nutmeg

Nice! I'm down.

XeR

Yup. Assembly is fun and has no limits once you know what syscalls to call.

Not everything unfortunately. Things like screenshot implentations will be really hard, but according to Megazig (one of the Riivolution dev), it is possible.
mars 19 22:32:03 <megazig> hell, using riivolution you can write to nand with save forwarding on and it'll do it

I may write such an article tomorrow. I'm about to go to bed today :p

Burn them. BURN THEM ALL!!! HA HA HA.

Some great hackers like Y.S. proved me everything is possible. It's only a matter of time...

I really hope it will give a second youth to this game.

Thanks :D

NeozSky71

Nice idea.

BigOto

I totally disagree with the "No Music" part of it - would this be optional? Otherwise, great ideas!

Ben。

Same here ^