The player then must choose which one of three themed tracks (Toad, Mario, Don-chan) they want to play.

The player can choose to play in 50cc, 100cc and 150cc, with the latter two being unlockable.

The arcade operator can set whether the camera should be used or not. On some cases, the camera cannot be used, in which the player's photography is their selected character's portrait. Before starting a race, the player can take their photography and decorate it with twelve included features, such as a samurai helmet and a pirate suit. Then the player can choose between seven karts, five of them being unlockable. Unlike the other two Arcade GP releases, Time Trial is not present in the game. Grand Prix, National Battle, and multi-player modes are featured in the game. In earlier games, 'Time Up!' was used instead. Players who do not finish receive this message and the race results screen as usual, but the process here is one second faster than the normal process. This doesn’t affect gameplay because the gas pedal button is used normally for game menu selections.The time limit for a race is 250 seconds, if the player takes too long or 15 seconds pass after the leader finishes, this screen is displayed. Now when a player selects GP1 from my frontend and presses start they are actually loading the savestate without even realizing it. Then I loaded up 315 and changed the hotkey for load savestate 1 from the default of F1 to my mapped player 1 start button (this happens to be 1 on my arcade cab). (NOTE- your savestate could be labeled something else in this statesave folder, ie. I then copied the savestate 'MK-GP1.s01' located in the user/statesave folder in Dolphin 309 and pasted it into the same folder in Dolphin 315. Then I exited the game and closed dolphin. I ran the game on dolphin TF 309 and created a savestate (shift/F1 by default) IMMEDIATELY after adding credits. I followed the instructions posted on for installing and setting up GP1. I don’t leave a keyboard out, and I feel this completely breaks the “arcade experience”.įirst of all I recommend adding a portable.txt file into ALL of your dolphin installation folders so that each version has its own save files. The reason I did this was because I wanted players to be able to start this game on my cabinet without having to press F1 on a keyboard. If you are not playing on a cab or sim rig with a mapped start button this probably won’t help you. I thought I would post about a few extra steps that I took while setting up Dolphin Triforce which have helped with running MK GP1 on my arcade cab and sim rig.

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