I'm not talking about what the effects would be in terms of processing...My question is just in regards to what differs between the two games besides the items (in terms of actual gameplay, not in terms of characters, etc.)

Well I can see the AI needed for CPU players getting and using items becoming a pretty menacing task...

Not the original Mario Kart for SNES.

on the snes the graphics were wierd

and 1200 post!

Well, Mario Kart has a significantly higher amount of objects to render (pipes on the track, items, probably twice as many racers) and I'm not sure if the tracks will work as well with the 32-tile limit I enforce.

Does that 32 tiles limit includes 2D sprites? If not, then maybe it should be fine. On top of that since in mario Kart you move much slower than in F-Zero, the tracks are much shorter and smaller.

Quote from: calc84maniac on January 08, 2012, 11:59:06 pm

Well, Mario Kart has a significantly higher amount of objects to render (pipes on the track, items, probably twice as many racers) and I'm not sure if the tracks will work as well with the 32-tile limit I enforce.

Does that 32 tiles limit includes 2D sprites? If not, then maybe it should be fine. On top of that since in mario Kart you move much slower than in F-Zero, the tracks are much shorter and smaller.

Yeah, I mean the mode7 tiles. I guess 32 tiles might be enough, but it depends on how many different terrains and rotations there are. Mario Kart has stuff like the main track, grass which is slower to drive on, water/lava/holes to fall into, and walls that you can't pass through.

And even then, they could be reduced greatly IMHO. For example for Bowser dungeon you could easily reduce the terrain to just the gray brick floor, the road sides and the lava. Then you just add the item blocks, the dashes and other random stuff. For mario circuit you don't need roads to be exactly rounded, you could just have horizontal, vertical and diagonal sides. On such low resolution we will barely notice the quality drop from amount of tiles reduction.