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Winning the Gold Cup on Mario Kart 64 as Yoshi
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Bigger characters had a lower top speed, but could maintain speed while turning better. They could also bump lighter characters and spin them out.
My recollection was big characters had a higher top speed, but slow acceleration. Small characters were the opposite. Medium characters didn't excel or suck at either.
Yeah, Bowser would hit the highest speeds, but if you hit a wall or a shell, it would take forever to get going again.
This isn't correct for N64 Mario Kart. They actually did give the lightweights the best acceleration and top speed. I found a video that did some analysis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6AxbNL2ET0
That was not my recollection of how it was supposed to work or how it worked in practice, but I found an archive of the original guidebook, and it says exactly what you said. Interesting. I got passed up by Donkey Kong and Bowser on straightaways all the time, but maybe that's more of a mirror mode challenge thing than a size of the karts things.
Oh yeah, that's probably just the rubber band effect, which was pretty strong at 150cc.
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That's roughly what is was for the SNES game. Probably N64 too but I don't recall.