Super Mario Kart - Horizons | SNES | Romhack with new circuits, battle tracks and enhancements

[jawa_]

Title Super Mario Kart - Horizons
Platform SNES
Release 26-May-2024
Developer gridattack
Publisher ROMhacks
Official game website (ROMhacks)

Welcome to Super Mario Kart - Horizons!

Race across new courses in brand new custom locations! Drive along serene grassy plains, treacherous abandoned mines, forgotten jungle ruins, against the sunrise from a mountaintop and more! These beautiful themes and tracks have been crafted with an emphasis on aesthetics and ambience along a custom soundtrack to set the mood just right.

Source: ROMhacks

- 8 custom themes. These breathtaking locations take place across the mushroom kingdom and neighboring lands!
- 20 well designed race tracks. Tracks have been made to be unique as possible, as well as being completely drive-able with any character at 150cc!
- 4 battle tracks. Enjoy a friendly competition in new battle maps that take advantage of new themes and new ideas!
- Unique Ambience. All tracks each have their own color in their respective themes, meaning no tracks look entirely the same!
- Brand new soundtrack. Enjoy catchy compositions for the main course themes, menu themes, credits, character victory tunes & more!
- Modified Menu Screens. Featuring a new Title Screen, Cup Selection, Driver Select, Results, Podium & Credits sequence.
- Revamped Sprites. Drivers, items, obstacles and more have been updated with a more modern look.
- Unlock new content. Mirror Mode is available to be unlocked for all difficulties, Time Trials and Vs Mode. Think the game is too easy? Try out the unlockable hard mode to enhance your experience!
- Modified Mechanics. Advance to the next round by placing 7th or higher! Points distribution have been updated as well.
- Works on original hardware.
- Extra Assets Available. Main Artwork created to represent the hack. Enjoy an official release of the new soundtrack to listen on your platform of choice, check out the custom instruction booklet, or print and build out a custom box & cart label

[Herdanos]

Looks sweet.

I doubt I'll ever play this but watching that video gave me a bit more appreciation for just how great a technical achievement the original SMK was on SNES. It's basically a 3D environment rendered in 2D.

[jawa_]

Looks sweet...

It does, doesn't it? I don't play roms myself (no PC) but this looks like it has had a ton of effort put into it; and I particularly like that you can even print a manual and a box (in NTSC and PAL formats!).

[Ironhide]

Looks sweet...

It does, doesn't it? I don't play roms myself (no PC) but this looks like it has had a ton of effort put into it; and I particularly like that you can even print a manual and a box (in NTSC and PAL formats!).

Your Android tablet should be able to handle SNES emulation.

[kerr9000]

I will try this at some point, I quiet enjoyed a Mario Kart hack before Mario Kart R

[jawa_]

It does, doesn't it? I don't play roms myself (no PC) but this looks like it has had a ton of effort put into it; and I particularly like that you can even print a manual and a box (in NTSC and PAL formats!).

Your Android tablet should be able to handle SNES emulation.

Thanks for the heads-up, Ironhide. I've never got into tablet/mobile gaming but it's cool that it's possible to run SNES stuff on it!

[Qikz]

Might put this onto my 3DS to give it a go while I'm on my flight tomorrow.

[Johnny Ryall]

Might put this onto my 3DS to give it a go while I'm on my flight tomorrow.

Get a load of the 3DS hacking jetsetter over here

[Qikz]

Might put this onto my 3DS to give it a go while I'm on my flight tomorrow.

Get a load of the 3DS hacking jetsetter over here

I couldn't get it to work lmao

[Poser]

Might put this onto my 3DS to give it a go while I'm on my flight tomorrow.

Get a load of the 3DS hacking jetsetter over here

I couldn't get it to work lmao

The ROM or the aeroplane?

[Johnny Ryall]

Might put this onto my 3DS to give it a go while I'm on my flight tomorrow.

Get a load of the 3DS hacking jetsetter over here

I couldn't get it to work lmao

Hacking the 3DS or the ROM itself? I imagine it would need an IPS patch on top of an original SMK ROM.

Looks like there's a web based patcher you can use now https://www.marcrobledo.com/RomPatcher.js/

[Qikz]

Might put this onto my 3DS to give it a go while I'm on my flight tomorrow.

Get a load of the 3DS hacking jetsetter over here

I couldn't get it to work lmao

Hacking the 3DS or the ROM itself? I imagine it would need an IPS patch on top of an original SMK ROM.

Looks like there's a web based patcher you can use now https://www.marcrobledo.com/RomPatcher.js/

I patched the rom ok but if I boot it to my 3ds my 3ds crashes. I'll sort it out when I get home in a few weeks.

[kerr9000]

I got the Rom ready and had a quick go on PC, seems good, I will probably try and add it to one of my handhelds or something to play it more.

[Miguel007]

The trailer for this looks fantastic, I'd tried a ROM hack called Mario Kart R many years ago, some of these are really clever but it's all about the track design. If the tracks have some interesting mechanics or have something about them it might be worthwhile otherwise they feel like a soulless Mario Maker level.

The BS F-Zero compilation that was recently released was a ROM hack done superbly well and felt like a legitimate release.