yeah, it was incredibly tough for me as well. I ended up changing the framebuffer to one that rendered everything correctly, but with no textures or lighting. Made it up the tower and switched back just fine, but until I figured that out I wasted like 15 lives just trying to get on the damn steps!
I always thought that those stairs were a lot further than it looked so my niece and I always ended up hugging the wall to the north and sort of get squished underneath. Lol!
I just had to search for a playthrough for that level in YouTube to find where the bottom step is but we still had to blindly find it.
Does 1.5.4 still have those shadow issues in which the shadows for the bottom-side of some objects seem like it's on top? Like those on the grey brick blocks where the giant bunny is on World 1 - 1?
Anyone have tried multiplayer ? Here is a lot slow because was the first round and until load the cache you know...
Unfortunely , i forget to record the second try , the game get 45 -57 fps
I can say , multiplayer on MK8 is playable , at last for 2 players.
3 Players run as smooth as single player in my case. But I'm still on 1.5.3 though. I heard that 1.5.4 made the games run slightly slower?
I'm using an SSD 500mb/s and it is not loading near the load times i get with a wud/wux format Takes like 2-3 minutes.. Are you using the latest version or one without updates?
I tried extracting Mario Kart 8's RPX from the WUD file just to see how fast the load time differences are....
The result was weird for me;
Using the WUD file, loading the Grand Prix/1st Race takes around 2 - 3 minutes while it only takes a couple of seconds to load subsequent races.
With the RPX file, loading the Grand Prix/1st Race only takes a couple of seconds but it sure was a lot annoying to wait for a minute or so for the following races to load.
I'd rather wait for 2 - 3 minutes only once than to wait that long every after race.
I immediately deleted the entire RPX folder and tried compressing the WUD to WUX instead.
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Using RPX's here. In MK8, first map takes several minutes, after that it's just about 10 seconds.
That's odd. I'm using WUD (now compressed to WUX, but there's no noticeable difference) and that's how the loading times are in my case. I tried extracting the RPX and ended up having to wait minutes every after race. The first map only took seconds to load though.