I do full-game runs and generally play this game a lot, but I've recently been turning to ILs and seeing what I can do there (mainly to improve my full-game runs). Considering the times I've seen even for the simplest race, AL Car (low 54 on SRC but I've seen a 53 on Cyberscore), I'm curious as to how these were even attained as I've only managed a high 56 myself. Naturally it's a huge pain to record DS gameplay (and nobody even plays this game so this won't be seen) but it'd be so useful to just... see what I'm doing wrong. If any of the top IL time holders are reading this, is there anything in particular you did for your runs?

Nowadays, I'm one of the lucky ones to have a DS capture card. Someday, I'd love to actually get a bit more involved and get some good times.

Hi,

Been a while since I've played this game, but for car times, there's a trick called the ABR trick. If you hold A + B while drifting (in a certain angle I believe) you go alot faster than regular drifting.

So I went ahead and made a video where you can see this trick in action and actually tied my PB while recording

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvbof9scZvU

You need to watch closely when the lights on the back of the car turn on, thats when B is added to the drift.

Time Trials

Jumpyluff

DivisionX

Leah

Diddy Kong Racing DS

Everfrost Peak

Meandering Mount

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Brandino

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With the recent discovery of new shortcuts (shoutout to Mykel), it has become clear that non-shortcut runs should have their own formal leaderboards, as none previously existed. These have now been created - due to limitations on SRC, every Plane track has a non-shortcut leaderboard, but please igno