Okay, so I hacked a copy of the Kiosk Demo rom using the same method as described above. Doing this, I was able to get five beta courses to work... with textures ! ;-)

You can download the ips patch here (run as usual):
hack kiosk mario kart ds - kiosk beta course mod.ips - 12.82MB
rapidshare: http://rapidshare.com/files/24233172/_Hack...se_Mod.ips.html

Because the Kiosk rom doesn't let you select courses individually, you have to play through the courses in sets of four.
The courses replaced are as follows:
Nitro Cup
Figure 8 Circuit -> Not changed. Play through it.
Yoshi Falls -> Waluigi Pinball (Beta) - This is pretty cool, there's a whole section of the beta course that runs over the main pinball area.
Cheep Cheep Beach -> DK Pass (Beta) - Pretty much completely different from the version of this course in the final game.
Luigi's Mansion -> Not changed. Play through it.

Retro Cup
Mario Circuit (SNES) -> Dokan Course
Moo Moo Farm (N64) -> Mario Circuit (Gamecube Beta) - This is actually a pretty complete course. Too bad it didn't make it in the final game.
Peach Circuit (GBA) -> Test Circle - Small one-lap circle
Luigi Circuit (GCN) -> Not changed. Play through it.

Also, the levels are somewhat glitchy, and various things can cause the game to freeze (excessively using items, falling off the course, etc.)

Let me know if you have any problems.
(Also, be sure to apply the patch to a clean, untrimmed/unhacked version of the rom, else it's liable to fail)
Anyway, enjoy!

 

Yoshi Jr.'s patch is actually mine (Well I'm both . I go by Yoshi Jr. on wifi and ChaosBoi on the DS scenes). The only reason why the patch didn't work is because I wasn't able to make a proper patch out of it (Used ips XP though).

Here's the link to the topic with the patch that retrohead made out of the hacked rom I sent him:

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/1/27/698...ta_Patch_v2.rar

Be sure to read the readme file on how to patch it though. If anyone wants to know, I only created this hack because I couldn't find the kiosk rom of it >.< .

EDIT: Oh and btw, I haven't tested out the new patch yet but retrohead said he tried it on an EZV flashcart and it worked.

EDIT 2: Changed the link to the one on my webspace.

 

No problem, you didn't really give me any trouble at all . Just making sure places that have my patch gets the working one (At first, I didn't think it would spread outside DS-Scene but I'm glad that I didn't make it for nothing ). And yeah, I know the kiosk demo is out there. Just couldn't find it only.

 

is there a way we could get shy-guy to work in single player.. don't characters use the same files as tracks?

 

If you use cracker's trainer for MKDS, you can play as shyguy in single player mode.

 

A (further) explanation:

If you look at the file structure, the location of the of the textures is within the course carc itself on the kiosk rom (ex. just dokan_course.carc), whereas the textures are in seperate files on the final rom (ex. dokan_course.carc AND dokan_courseTex.carc).

You'll also notice that the carc courses in the kiosk version are about twice the size (in KB) as the final version rom, which would support this assumption. That also explains why the *Tex.carc files for finished courses are quite large in filesize while the *Tex.carc files for textureless/unfinished courses have very small filesizes.

If you just throw the kiok version .carcs into the final version, it may work, but my guess is the code that tells the game where to find the textures is not within the individual .carc files themselves. I think there could be ways around this, but I need to think on it more. Optimally, I'd like the make textured courses from the kiosk version work on the final version.


ChaosBoi is currently investigating this possibility, and I'll give it a look as well.

Also, I completely forgot about Shy-Guy! He's my favorite racer! I'll see if I can include him in the next version of the patch.

 

Ughhh....Still no luck . I haven't found anything that could be the texture inside the file but I'll check it a lil longer.

 

it does not work every time i pacth it the rom's header is damaged

 

GcRayden and blader600, check you pms for some ideas to fix your problems...

 

You are my bestest friend in the world thank you a million but I have one question When is the full version of this game going to come out my best friend?