The Part 2 of the "From Snail to Snake" tutorial series is finally out! It covers all the steps of getting ranked alongside other players and where to find the worldwide rankings for Mario Kart DS! Go check it out here! th-cam.com/video/TW_VS9Qrfxg/w-d-xo.html
I remember reading somewhere years ago how snaking "completely ruined" the fun of Mario Kart DS for casual players because you had to do it online to win. But I never played online back then, and it looks so fun to try now. I love high skill ceilings - it makes me appreciate the skills of the highest-level players even more. Thanks for putting all this expertise together! :D
Same experience, the only multiplayer for this I had was local with my peers at daycare. I feel like they’d’ve been so mad if anyone tried doing this during a game.
Snaking was easy, but they were not wrong. Races would start and people would be snaking immediately. Dodging blueshells was also really simple if you just watch the mini map and boost out of the explosion range.
@@Venom3254 same here tbh. it relied on snaking skill and map knowledge. Most my races I would just be me looking at the minimap the whole race knowing when I had red sparks for mini boost.
never realized just how intricate a lil kids DS game from 2005 actually was! I played this back when I was a kid and now I’m in my late teens getting back into it for nostalgia. Reminds me of simpler times.
Knew about a lot of tech, but wasn't too familiar with some things like fast falling. Great to have every single commonly used tech in one comprehensive and easy-to-navigate guide.
Amazing! So happy to have contributed to this project and finally see it released! Now everyone will know I am the voice of MKDS! attention noobs, snackin iz chestin!
Man... MKDS is one of the fairest and best Mario Kart games out there. It rewards you good if you practice and learn new techniques. Awesome video, kudos!
Thank you so much for making this video, I started playing mkds 2 weeks ago and the first thing I did was look for a tutorial that could teach all those weird techniques that mkds players use, but I couldn't find anything on youtube. Now it is a great relief for beginners like me to have a guide to this very difficult game, wish me luck and sorry if my english is not good.
@@masterleo4932 Oh thank you so much! I like how you play the piano too. And yeah I'm sure I will improve and gonna be posting my times on the players page :)
@@sgonzalez_guitarra Will you also record and upload your mkds record on youtube? Make sure to join the discord group "Mario Kart DS Network", there are lots of karters who can help you, including me :)
@@masterleo4932 Yes I will, but first I'm gonna create a specific channel for that and I already joined the discord server btw my name there is Guitarra, maybe I'll use the same name for the channel
Very nostalgic video for me. I bought this game the day it was released as a kid, and played the heck out of it with my friends and on 'wifi connection'. It was the first game where I became really competitive (I had over 1k wins online). I think in '06, I once skipped a day of school to get a really satisfying time attack record in Sky Garden. My time was ~1:10 or so. Back then we didn't really have videos like this, and I wasn't in any community. I just played against other good players. As a hobby artist I also loved designing pixel icons for myself and my friends. If anyone remembers a Cloud Strife with a German flag - that was me. I vividly remember a guy having 'Italian God Racers' in his tag, and 4k wins, who I often got matched with and when I finally beat him once, I felt super achieved. Same for when I started consistently dodging blue shells with this drift and jump technique (don't ask me how that worked now though). You would learn about snaking easily by seeing other players, and there were tutorials online, but I didn't know terms for the other techniques you showed here, even though we figured out many by ourselves (you kinda got a feel for how to combine jumps and snakes over time). But if I had these resources back then, I'm sure it would have helped me a lot. I was just a 15 year old kid who loved winning races. Now I'm in my 30s with a career and barely any time to play games, and trying this today would break my fingers (I remember the snaking pain haha), but I'm really happy to see a community that still loves this game! I wish you all the best.
Mario Kart DS was my first game ever played and I still beat my time-trials records on it ! However, I recently had way more struggle to go faster, but with this video, I discovered some techniques (like Fast-Falling) that will definitly help me and I can't wait to apply them, thanks ! (I knew about the PRB, but I think the most difficult part is not to keep it, but to control the kart once you got it, really hard to do !)
8:18 Even if I never end up playing MKDS, this video was worth it to learn that. For some reason as a kid I thought it meant how far you could throw an item.
I gotta say... I really appreciate this video! I don't plan on mastering it completely or anything, but I want to learn it enough to get better chances of winning and unlocking everything!
I hope this helps out I absolutely love Mario kart Ds it’s my favorite Mario kart, and I’m already an absolute unit on the game but seething tips like these make it seem way more funner!
Thank you, you were right abt what I did wrong when drifting. I went back and forth fast cause I thought it was better. I improved a lot from that alone
i wanted to try getting into the competitive scene because i liked playing this growing up, but after watching part 2 and joining the server i just got super overwhelmed. ig i'll just replay it and experience it the way i remember, but it was fun to imagine.
Holy sh- you can pitch your kart while in the air? I played like +150 hours of this shit when I was a child and NEVER realised this lmaooo. Amazing video man, thanks!
about the double hopping i started to do that naturally when doing my basic ass sneaking or even dritifing, didn't know it was legit a good technique to reposition, so seamless, btw ty for the video :) been playing this game for years on a casual side :)
Literally what i needed, im trying to get good and that was what i needed Please continue that series, this will help people (like me lol) who only know the basics techniques Im trying to progress but im not going anywere, so this will be perfect for me and other people who are trying to progress to be a good player
Love it, wish i could find VHS tapes with tech tips like this on video games, this very much had the feeling of an instructional/informational tape. For context I collect those kinds of tapes in particular and if I found this video on a tape, it'd be one of the most prized tapes in my collection (and I have a copy of Dancing Grannies as well as all the N64 tapes with sleeves)
Thanks for the tips and great video! Mario Kart DS was my first Mario game at age 8 and since have played it on and off. I wanted to try and be good at it. Already started making some improvements from my last time playing.
Just randomly remembered those times as a kid trying to master snaking and somehow matching ppl who knew how to snake as well. Also remembered online being filled with cheaters lol. Also, saving that boost from the start I just called it perfect snaking for some reason, the one thing I was never able to do. Didn’t know there was more to it to this game
thank you for this video! i recently got mariokart for my old ds, and i suck at it even though i have years of mariokart wii under my belt and am pretty good at mk8 on the switch. its definitely a learning curve!
watched this a couple times now, been genuinely happy u made the quick joke about parallel universes during the neutral hop section.. iduno why but it makes me laugh n makes my day better. so random to say that hahah
Masterpiece. Now I may try to shave off some time in off-road stages instead of tryharding 1:59 Rainbow Road (SC) all the time. I'm glad that despite being completely self-taught about this game's mechanics since 2009 till now, there's still a few things to learn. ( 8:18 my life is a lie aaaa ) I'd like to add tho, technically, is hopping out of a ramp that makes you drop down quite significantly like in Rainbow Road, faster, slower or equal to driving off the ramp normally? I'd say faster due to the engine pitching up but I cannot be certain... All I know for sure is that hoppin repeatedly in the first half of the first loop in RR will make you go a bit faster...
I was so fuckong good at this game in middle school and highschool. (Got into mkds late) but it was one of the best mariokarts in terms of skill expression. Also MKDD.
This video is good but I’m kind of disappointed because I didn’t get the last (and most important) part which is Neutral MT. I wish you guys had added visual assistance like a DPAD. I’ve been watching a few BKT’s and stuff but I still can’t figure out how to pull it off. Other than that this video is a very solid initiative
i wish i knew this back in middle school especially when we'd lan party in planes/busses during school trips. back then no one knew how to dodge blue shells let alone snake. to think id dump on all of them with my skills today
All of the footage was played on real hardware in Time Trials mode, then the Time Trials ghost was trasferred to an emulator, allowing us to record high quality footage. And yes, it's possible to play online! Both with real hardware and emulation :)
And all my friends made fun of me for always playing dry bones with his standard kart and always drifting on every track. Little did I know I was playing this game optimally.
Nice video. Are you sure about the items stat? I really think it increases the chances to get a better items from the boxes, not only the 1-3 mushrooms in TT.
I just want to add an important detail that really bothered me in my races: when you perform an MT remember to direct your momentum in one direction and quickly or you will hit the wall or fly away from the road
Very good content:) It would be also cool if some japanese player could make a tutorial in their native language. I am very proud of this cummunity, lets keep snaking!
I keep having my mini turbo _not_ charge, seemingly from pressing the opposite direction too soon _and_ too late! Is there a minimum and maximum number of frames that the D-pad must be held neutral for in order to charge an MT?
step 1: have a good dpad this ones important cuz when im practising time trials i always notice that my drifts arent consistent, more like 50/50. russian roulette mini turbos basically. sometimes i have to rock my dpad 3 or more times to actaully get it out, its not like im spamming it or anything. i just got into the game but idk how far im willing to at this rate.
Hey, does fast falling make you save time in any and all the falling situations? Because when I was on my way to beat all the staff ghost (and I did) I was watching a run of somebody in rainbow road, and they actually hop just before falling down at that one spot on that course. And it seems it makes you go faster. Idk how to really test it, but ive been using this technique playing online and from my point of view it does seems to go faster this way. Either way, thank you for this video!
The Part 2 of the "From Snail to Snake" tutorial series is finally out!
It covers all the steps of getting ranked alongside other players and where to find the worldwide rankings for Mario Kart DS!
Go check it out here! th-cam.com/video/TW_VS9Qrfxg/w-d-xo.html
D pad or joystick for snaking?
I remember reading somewhere years ago how snaking "completely ruined" the fun of Mario Kart DS for casual players because you had to do it online to win. But I never played online back then, and it looks so fun to try now. I love high skill ceilings - it makes me appreciate the skills of the highest-level players even more. Thanks for putting all this expertise together! :D
Same experience, the only multiplayer for this I had was local with my peers at daycare. I feel like they’d’ve been so mad if anyone tried doing this during a game.
Snaking was easy, but they were not wrong. Races would start and people would be snaking immediately. Dodging blueshells was also really simple if you just watch the mini map and boost out of the explosion range.
@@KiskaeGG Kinda surprised none of the kids from daycare ever dodged a shell, in my experience anyway, considering how much we played this.
Idk about them, but I had more fun snaking than overly relying on items. That mission where you had to powerslide was what got me to snaking.
@@Venom3254 same here tbh. it relied on snaking skill and map knowledge. Most my races I would just be me looking at the minimap the whole race knowing when I had red sparks for mini boost.
mk8: hopping
mkw: ultra shortcuts and wheelies
mkds: snake drifting
Mk8dx motion glider
MK7: Glider
MKDD:Also Snaking
never realized just how intricate a lil kids DS game from 2005 actually was! I played this back when I was a kid and now I’m in my late teens getting back into it for nostalgia. Reminds me of simpler times.
literally sameee
Why are you so ashamed of liking one of the best games of all time? Its ok to like nintendo games, theyre not just for "little kids" lmao
No doubt this will be a good entry level gateway into our fantastic scene. Well put together video, guys!
i fully agree with that.
Hey I was just watching your WR run before watching this xp
@@diamondrhino64 Thank you for watching! :)
What a legend! The number 1 runner! Just watched the all missions run from a couple days ago. Congrats!
Yeah now I just need to find other beginners to play with, so I can actually get a fighting chance...
Mkds looks weirdly good in a higher quality
It does tho
Knew about a lot of tech, but wasn't too familiar with some things like fast falling. Great to have every single commonly used tech in one comprehensive and easy-to-navigate guide.
Amazing! So happy to have contributed to this project and finally see it released! Now everyone will know I am the voice of MKDS!
attention noobs, snackin iz chestin!
Completely true and factual statement
Man, we need a mod to make the MKDS Online better, it would be amazing, the time trials is already amazing, nice video bro!
Such as online time trials!
I would totally join a group like that! The more Mario Kart communities, the better.
Man... MKDS is one of the fairest and best Mario Kart games out there. It rewards you good if you practice and learn new techniques. Awesome video, kudos!
Was because if you're a beginner now, it's impossible to find anyone who isn't a god at the game to play with, making it impossible to compete.
@@costelinha1867shallower learning curve imo for MKDS it's my preferred MK above all else
Thank you so much for making this video, I started playing mkds 2 weeks ago and the first thing I did was look for a tutorial that could teach all those weird techniques that mkds players use, but I couldn't find anything on youtube. Now it is a great relief for beginners like me to have a guide to this very difficult game, wish me luck and sorry if my english is not good.
Great you join MKDS! Wish you all the best!
May the MTs be with you :)
PS: You are such a great guitarist wow! :O
@@masterleo4932 Oh thank you so much! I like how you play the piano too. And yeah I'm sure I will improve and gonna be posting my times on the players page :)
@@sgonzalez_guitarra Will you also record and upload your mkds record on youtube?
Make sure to join the discord group "Mario Kart DS Network", there are lots of karters who can help you, including me :)
@@masterleo4932 Yes I will, but first I'm gonna create a specific channel for that and I already joined the discord server btw my name there is Guitarra, maybe I'll use the same name for the channel
Brilliant video, cant wait to do none of the tech
pessimistic smh
Based
Very nostalgic video for me. I bought this game the day it was released as a kid, and played the heck out of it with my friends and on 'wifi connection'. It was the first game where I became really competitive (I had over 1k wins online). I think in '06, I once skipped a day of school to get a really satisfying time attack record in Sky Garden. My time was ~1:10 or so. Back then we didn't really have videos like this, and I wasn't in any community. I just played against other good players. As a hobby artist I also loved designing pixel icons for myself and my friends. If anyone remembers a Cloud Strife with a German flag - that was me. I vividly remember a guy having 'Italian God Racers' in his tag, and 4k wins, who I often got matched with and when I finally beat him once, I felt super achieved. Same for when I started consistently dodging blue shells with this drift and jump technique (don't ask me how that worked now though). You would learn about snaking easily by seeing other players, and there were tutorials online, but I didn't know terms for the other techniques you showed here, even though we figured out many by ourselves (you kinda got a feel for how to combine jumps and snakes over time). But if I had these resources back then, I'm sure it would have helped me a lot. I was just a 15 year old kid who loved winning races.
Now I'm in my 30s with a career and barely any time to play games, and trying this today would break my fingers (I remember the snaking pain haha), but I'm really happy to see a community that still loves this game! I wish you all the best.
Mario Kart DS was my first game ever played and I still beat my time-trials records on it !
However, I recently had way more struggle to go faster, but with this video, I discovered some techniques (like Fast-Falling) that will definitly help me and I can't wait to apply them, thanks !
(I knew about the PRB, but I think the most difficult part is not to keep it, but to control the kart once you got it, really hard to do !)
8:18 Even if I never end up playing MKDS, this video was worth it to learn that. For some reason as a kid I thought it meant how far you could throw an item.
you can play it on a free emulator rn for free
its finally here omg
I gotta say... I really appreciate this video! I don't plan on mastering it completely or anything, but I want to learn it enough to get better chances of winning and unlocking everything!
i always thought mario kart wii would be the most complex in the series.. but this is crazy
mario kart wii is a cakewalk compared to this. getting down the miniturbos, let alone snaking is superhard imo.
@@claudiakoning Mario Kart Double Dash has a lot of advanced tech that might be just as complex as this
Thankyou for this, I doubt ill ever master these techs but understanding them has brought a lot more fun to an already very enjoyable game
Literally the best Mario Kart DS guide
12:38 I KNEW You would go there lmao i just had a feeling from that voice tone
In all seriousness this was a good video
Yooooo
Hold on, nice job on the background footage!!!!
I hope this helps out I absolutely love Mario kart Ds it’s my favorite Mario kart, and I’m already an absolute unit on the game but seething tips like these make it seem way more funner!
Thank you, you were right abt what I did wrong when drifting. I went back and forth fast cause I thought it was better. I improved a lot from that alone
I just got a dsi and I never played a mario kart game before so this is quite helpful
i wanted to try getting into the competitive scene because i liked playing this growing up, but after watching part 2 and joining the server i just got super overwhelmed.
ig i'll just replay it and experience it the way i remember, but it was fun to imagine.
Just watch part 1 and only apply that to your personal runs?
Holy sh- you can pitch your kart while in the air? I played like +150 hours of this shit when I was a child and NEVER realised this lmaooo. Amazing video man, thanks!
about the double hopping i started to do that naturally when doing my basic ass sneaking or even dritifing, didn't know it was legit a good technique to reposition, so seamless, btw ty for the video :) been playing this game for years on a casual side :)
Literally what i needed, im trying to get good and that was what i needed
Please continue that series, this will help people (like me lol) who only know the basics techniques
Im trying to progress but im not going anywere, so this will be perfect for me and other people who are trying to progress to be a good player
I hope this helps a lot of people to improve at this game!
Like yourself
@@masterleo4932 xD
Yay! Now I can be sweaty when playing my friends!
8:19 That's what I was trying to tell everyone!
insanely good video, now im gonna start prb'ing in mario circuit. as long as i'm capable and my 3ds doesn't unplug the battery by itself lol
Love it, wish i could find VHS tapes with tech tips like this on video games, this very much had the feeling of an instructional/informational tape. For context I collect those kinds of tapes in particular and if I found this video on a tape, it'd be one of the most prized tapes in my collection (and I have a copy of Dancing Grannies as well as all the N64 tapes with sleeves)
Finally a tutorial about advanced tech on mkds
I feel like other mkds players don’t wanna make views
Thanks for the tips and great video! Mario Kart DS was my first Mario game at age 8 and since have played it on and off. I wanted to try and be good at it. Already started making some improvements from my last time playing.
Mario Kart DS is by far the toughest Mario Kart I have ever played. Getting level 1 down is already so hard.
Just randomly remembered those times as a kid trying to master snaking and somehow matching ppl who knew how to snake as well.
Also remembered online being filled with cheaters lol. Also, saving that boost from the start I just called it perfect snaking for some reason, the one thing I was never able to do. Didn’t know there was more to it to this game
thank you for this video! i recently got mariokart for my old ds, and i suck at it even though i have years of mariokart wii under my belt and am pretty good at mk8 on the switch. its definitely a learning curve!
bro, I accidentally found out snaking in baby park. best time of my life.
PRBs remind me a lot of how boosting works in Crash Team Racing, which has a system called "reserves"
Your voice is so soothing!
Wish the r button worked on my ds
Solution buy a 3ds
@@burgiridkyeahEven DS DSI is hard to get nowadays.
@@tommyscott9085yeah I typed that comment not knowing the cheapest 3ds I could find was 300 dollars
Open your ds and use isopropyl alcohol to clean the buttons, retro revolution has a good video on it
I practice till yesterday and get slowly better, thank you so much for your turtorial 🙃
watched this a couple times now, been genuinely happy u made the quick joke about parallel universes during the neutral hop section.. iduno why but it makes me laugh n makes my day better. so random to say that hahah
Masterpiece. Now I may try to shave off some time in off-road stages instead of tryharding 1:59 Rainbow Road (SC) all the time.
I'm glad that despite being completely self-taught about this game's mechanics since 2009 till now, there's still a few things to learn. ( 8:18 my life is a lie aaaa )
I'd like to add tho, technically, is hopping out of a ramp that makes you drop down quite significantly like in Rainbow Road, faster, slower or equal to driving off the ramp normally?
I'd say faster due to the engine pitching up but I cannot be certain...
All I know for sure is that hoppin repeatedly in the first half of the first loop in RR will make you go a bit faster...
Lol I always hop on any jump just because it’s more fun
Snaking is soooo satisfying in this game.
11:55 "Come rompere il tuo Nintendo DS nel 2021"
Apparte gli scherzi gran video!
Who remembers playing this game so long that you got calases on your left thumb from snaking.
Great video!
i never even knew you could angle your kart up/down when falling, that's pretty cool
Very informative video, thanks! I struggle to maintain PRB and I haven’t mastered it at all, so this video really cleared some things up.👌
wow pikalex you sound just like puddings!!!
great video btw:)
Cheeky quibble :3
im using original hard ware my hand keeps crampin and stuff im not sure if im holden the ds right at this point
Best tech tutorial
I beat the game in 30 minutes using the snake mini turbo 💀
Thank you so much!
Beautiful vid, beautiful narrative, high quality footage, I don't know what to say
Congrats
(What microphone are you guys using ..?)
Finally here yooooo
I was so fuckong good at this game in middle school and highschool. (Got into mkds late) but it was one of the best mariokarts in terms of skill expression. Also MKDD.
Short and in-depth. Great video
I didn't know Mario kart d's was that more fun
wish i had this when starting out lol this is very good and in depth
Well done video.
i maybe late but.. This make me want to play again thanks
It's alarming how many of these I already knew
Thanks
found my old nintendo DS and I have to watch these vids to beat my younger self's time trials 😭
This video is good but I’m kind of disappointed because I didn’t get the last (and most important) part which is Neutral MT. I wish you guys had added visual assistance like a DPAD. I’ve been watching a few BKT’s and stuff but I still can’t figure out how to pull it off.
Other than that this video is a very solid initiative
OMG I just found this, thank you so much for making this video :3
this really helped me thanks
12:38 was funny.
Sensei Ty for teaching me
Maybe I should try learning a few of these
I've had this game since it came out and never new about fast falling.
i wish i knew this back in middle school especially when we'd lan party in planes/busses during school trips. back then no one knew how to dodge blue shells let alone snake. to think id dump on all of them with my skills today
where did you play MKDS for this video? this upscale looks amazing! is it possible to play online matches with friends via emulators?
All of the footage was played on real hardware in Time Trials mode, then the Time Trials ghost was trasferred to an emulator, allowing us to record high quality footage.
And yes, it's possible to play online! Both with real hardware and emulation :)
This is exactly the reason why Mario Kart DS is the most speedrunned Mario Kart game
I never expected MKDS to be that obscure
This is Great!
thx for the video
And all my friends made fun of me for always playing dry bones with his standard kart and always drifting on every track. Little did I know I was playing this game optimally.
Bro why am I even watching
I been playing like this ever since the game was released.
I used dry bone and the tank.
Nice video. Are you sure about the items stat? I really think it increases the chances to get a better items from the boxes, not only the 1-3 mushrooms in TT.
Nah its rlly just only for tt. If u didnt know that some karts have higher item stat that others u woudnt even think that
I need this because my childhood game is mkds, and i still to this day have not been able to get three stars in 150cc
Thank you
epic vid, will prob be useful for new players, already knew everything in here but i just have awful lines
May the lines be with you.
mono mt ? nice I didn't know there was a name for it xD
I just want to add an important detail that really bothered me in my races: when you perform an MT remember to direct your momentum in one direction and quickly or you will hit the wall or fly away from the road
Wdym?
Finally
I need a full version of that credits music lol
nvm
bro ima have to watch that last part like 10 times my brain hurts
Very good content:) It would be also cool if some japanese player could make a tutorial in their native language. I am very proud of this cummunity, lets keep snaking!
BOOM BOOM BADA BING BADA BOOM!!!
I was a top player online for this game when you could play long ago lol
I keep having my mini turbo _not_ charge, seemingly from pressing the opposite direction too soon _and_ too late! Is there a minimum and maximum number of frames that the D-pad must be held neutral for in order to charge an MT?
step 1: have a good dpad
this ones important cuz when im practising time trials i always notice that my drifts arent consistent, more like 50/50. russian roulette mini turbos basically. sometimes i have to rock my dpad 3 or more times to actaully get it out, its not like im spamming it or anything. i just got into the game but idk how far im willing to at this rate.
Hey, does fast falling make you save time in any and all the falling situations? Because when I was on my way to beat all the staff ghost (and I did) I was watching a run of somebody in rainbow road, and they actually hop just before falling down at that one spot on that course. And it seems it makes you go faster. Idk how to really test it, but ive been using this technique playing online and from my point of view it does seems to go faster this way. Either way, thank you for this video!
if this came out in 2007, it would have millions of views
Genial ahora tengo que practicar mucho
I broke like 3 R buttons from snaking back in the day lmao