MKW Vita 1.4.2

Closer to the Wii: laps and Lakitu, the end of a race, course objects, item boxes and menus. Only the VPK changes: your 1.4.0 game files keep working.

What's new

Racing

• Lap counter and Lakitu. Backing over the finish line no longer lowers your lap or brings Lakitu down with the lap sign.
• Finish. Lakitu flies in with the flag and follows your kart, like on the Wii.
• End of race. Racers who have finished lose their items. The out-of-bounds fade now draws under the HUD and results instead of over them.
• Place number. The black drop shadow behind your position is back.
• Blue Shell. It keeps facing forward instead of spinning like a Green Shell.

Courses

• Koopa Cape. The tunnel glass draws over karts and items instead of under them. The same goes for every course's see-through parts.
• Lava. N64 Bowser's Castle lava columns and Grumble Volcano lava poles only show while erupting. Grumble Volcano's falling rocks vanish when they land.
• Toad's Factory. The falling crates show only while they're live, and they turn into iron boxes in Time Trials.
• Cannons. DK Summit, GCN DK Mountain and Maple Treeway cannons play their animation once per launch instead of looping.
• Delfino Square. The drawbridge animation follows how far the bridge is tilted.
• SNES Ghost Valley 2. The blocks rest, tumble and disappear like on the Wii.
• Item boxes. On Grumble Volcano, boxes on the falling rocks ride them down. On Wario's Gold Mine, the boxes along the cart line trail the carts.

Menus

• Main menu. The frames no longer flash when selected (the Wii never selects them), and the titles have their glow back.
• Drift page. The flag no longer shows through the button movies, and the unselected movie is dimmed like on the Wii.
• Sounds. Pressing buttons during a page transition no longer plays button sounds.
• Character on the kart. Seated drivers blink and look ahead instead of staring at the camera.

Everything above is in the Retro Rewind edition too.

Install

1. Install mkw.vpk (or mkw-retro-rewind.vpk), attached below, with VitaShell.
2. That's it if you're on 1.4.x. From an older release, rebuild your game files first (see the 1.4.0 release).
3. Make sure ur0:data/libshacccg.suprx exists (run ShaRKF00D once).

Your licenses, times and ghosts stay.

The VPK contains no Nintendo game files. Please don't share your built game files.

Building it yourself

• Build MKW Vita.bat builds the game files and the VPK (needs VitaSDK).
• Build Game Files.bat builds only the game files.
• See BUILDING.md for details.