Diddy Kong Racing ROM Hacks

All patches for an NTSC-U v1.0 ROM. Patches can be applied to a base ROM here.

Practice ROM

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The practice ROM supports a variety of features for ease of practicing, available through an added menu. Menu navigation:

• L: Toggle practice menu.
• Z/R: Move between menus.
• D pad: Move within menu.
• A/Start: Apply changes.

Practice features include:

• Instant race warps for:
  • All tracks, minigames, and bosses
  • All vehicles
  • Time trials, balloon races, and silver coins
• Savestates
  • Start to save state, C left to load state
  • Four unique save slots. Use D pad to change save/load slots
  • Disabled for time trials
  • Requires expansion pak
• Endless races
• View position, speed, checkpoint, framerate, etc. live
• In-game sound menu
• Ability to freeze timer on specific in-game actions
• View invisible geometry
• Input display
• Toggleability for all magic codes
• Toggleability of golden balloon cutscenes (allows for cutscene skips)

All Versions

Version 1.2 (download)

• Added menu for specific Show State options.
• Show State options now include max speed, max height, and throttle.
• Added menu to control music/sfx.
• Added menu to control timer freezes on specific in-game actions.
• There are now 4 unique savestate slots.
• Savestates now work for bananas and silver coins.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes.

Version 1.1 (download)

• Added option to allow for cutscene skips.
• Added global watermark.
• Triangle count being rendered per frame can also be printed.
• You have to try slightly harder to crash the game.
• Fixed endless races sometimes not working.

Version 1.0 (download)

• Supports warps to any race, minigame, or boss in any vehicle, for time trials, balloon races, or silver coins.
• Supports stavestates.
• Supports endless races.
• Game data such as position, speed, checkpoint, framerate, etc. can be printed.
• Input display can be printed.
• Invisible geometry can be rendered.
• All magic codes can be easily toggleable.

Randomizer

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Randomization options include:

• Races
• Vehicle
• Race lap couns
• Balloon powerups
• Magic codes
• Rerandomizing silver coin races

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Version 1.4 (download)

• Silver coin races can be rerandomized.
• Specific magic codes can be banned.
• Boss races and minigames are now affected by randomized vehicles.
• Added a GUI for creating randomized ROMs.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes.

Version 1.3 (download)

• Magic codes can be randomized.
• FFL 1 races are no longer silver coin challenges.
• Randomizer now fails if an invalid parameter is given.
• Loading tracks with randomized balloons no longer occasionally crashes.
• Expansion pak is no longer required.
• The intro cutscenes of trophy race races 2-4 can be skipped by default.

Version 1.2 (download)

• Silver coin challenges are no longer broken.
• Trophy race points aren't corrupted when tracks have > 3 laps.
• Race intro cutscenes are not skippable on first enter in adventure mode.
• The audio of TT introducing tracks is now synced with the randomized tracks.
• Vehicle randomization is more configurable.

Version 1.1 (download)

• The base ROM no longer needs to be supplied via command line arguments.
• Balloons powerups can be randomized.

Version 1.0 (download)

• Races can be randomized.
• Vehicles can be randomized.
• Lap counts can be randomized.

Miscellaneous

All hacks with an available gameshark can be stacked. If stacking patches, be sure to enable "skip checksums" when patching. The resulting ROM checksum will no longer be valid, and some emulators may not play the ROM.