ALL THE IMPORTANT TIME-SAVING TECHNIQUES PRESENT IN MARIO KART DS!

This tutorial covers a detailed explanation about the following techniques:
- Rocket Boost
- Drift
- Mini-Turbo (MT)
- Snaking
- Double Hop
- Mono-Mini-Turbo (Mono-MT)
- Respawn Boost
- Fast Falling
- PRB, PRB Reset and PRB Double Hop
- Spin Landing
- Neutral Hop, Neutral Drift and Neutral Mini-Turbo (Neutral MT)

It also includes details about the "Kart Meta" and explains why some karts are better than others and which ones you should use in your runs.
The tutorial is also available in the following languages through captions:
- Italian
- German
- Polish
- Spanish (soon)

It mainly is for Time Trials since this is the perfect mode to practise new techniques and strategies, but the results are good for every mode!
I hope it will help you on getting better at this game!

Link to it: https://youtu.be/lxsLwWh5_ZQ

2021/08/04 Update:
- Added Polish subtitles.

How to Get Ermii Kart DS

# Getting the ROM
To be able to play Ermii Kart DS, you need a fresh Mario Kart DS ROM first, which you need to get by your own self.
This is a good guide to dump the ROM of the game from your own cartridge: https://wiki.no-intro.org/index.php?title=Nintendo_DS(i)_Dumping_Guide
Doing this is completely legal, so you don't have to worry about doing it.
What isn't legal is downloading the ROM from the internet. We don't recommend doing that, but if you don't  care about being a pirate, go for it, but don't ask any help to us about that.

## Optional: Checking the Integrity of your ROM
Sometimes it might happen that your ROM could be, for whatever reason, corrupted or modified.
This might interfere with the Ermii Kart DS experience, as it could show unknown bugs, issues or problems of any sort, including the game not even booting.
To check if your ROM is completely fresh and fine, go to this site: https://emn178.github.io/online-tools/sha1_checksum.html
Then, drop your ROM into the box. In the output box you will receive a code.

Now you need to check if the code matches with these ones:
For USA / NTSC-U: 691e00d9a5dd80b04f80cc7559503e8b06848785
For JPN / NTSC-J: a4c790b6cd1e45a9728001081845c17f06985a17
For EUR / PAL: ce97d9b43f0d3ca0d48b781983e8a16f6393378f

If the code you got from the output matches the code of your version of the ROM given above then your ROM is fine. If it doesn't match, your ROM received some kind of modification, noticable or unnoticable. We highly recommend you to get another ROM if you don't want to experience unwanted problems with Ermii Kart DS.

# Downloading CTGP Nitro
Now that you have the ROM, you need to download the contents of Ermii Kart DS. They all come in a single file, but you need the specific file for the region of your ROM (note that the Korean (KOR / NTSC-K) version of the game isn't supported by Ermii Kart DS).

You can get the files for Ermii Kart DS: Legacy Edition here:
- Any Region: https://mega.nz/file/03BxhYpJ#ji5mlda5jIoI7taOQLhdAAItr0PmC3GS2S9UoXIJYik

If you want the files for the "Ghosts Enabled" patch for Ermii Kart DS: Legacy Edition, check these links:
- For USA ROMs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tLggnOCqVKp6jt27-uKCFlYlrfNdKk2Z/view?usp=sharing
- For EUR ROMs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SAet-QTTCfKJXMCmwvbzlMznxaSLnANM/view?usp=sharing
- For JPN ROMs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PWqw-Qkb4lzgJ4rcTARaI4ecMaLn9E5I/view?usp=sharing

Now, if you need the files for the "Alpha 2014" version of Ermii Kart DS, check these links:
- For USA ROMs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kklIMeVEdDaSXO8bSa9-qC25m6oHSd_k/view?usp=sharing
- For EUR ROMs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19MXVhWwGHpJLnEe3PF6mLrAo7yjf1Z5F/view?usp=sharing
- For JPN ROMs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WE40A8eD_H32DC_CC-B2P8FXb4bnxm8E/view?usp=sharing

Or, if you need the files for the "Beta 1-R" version of Ermii Kart DS, check these links:
- For USA ROMs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HLlk5hl7_aGBjP3RUuL51ciWs_Qhks67/view?usp=sharing
- For EUR ROMs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zb9u6jY3DRgSTiAWW4qKm5NH38l7neg_/view?usp=sharing
- For JPN ROMs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IVxhmN7JNvZFBBjboPmmY5g_oyZU16pm/view?usp=sharing

Lastly, if you need the files for the "Beta 1-S" version of Ermii Kart DS, check these links:
- For USA ROMs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BEzzpFi5TjcTK8_MsJhUgtXfkg1VZXVa/view?usp=sharing
- For EUR ROMs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CH8AuTay-bWuCDTygfczf2FdKZMgoxt8/view?usp=sharing
- For JPN ROMs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13cUPCBMRirh3n2mLxMq9sJAbNbvWqpKF/view?usp=sharing

# Getting Ermii Kart DS
Now you can either use the xDelta program which comes with the bundle of files you downloaded or you can go here: https://hack64.net/tools/patcher.php
With any of those two you will be able to patch Ermii Kart DS into your ROM.
What to do here is quite self-explanatory: select the original fresh ROM you have, select the Ermii Kart DS patch and let the patcher do its work to lastly get your cool copy of Ermii Kart DS.

That's it!

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Hello karters, Pika here.
I just wanted to say that now you do not have to wonder "where do I have to put my time?". Why? Well, I simply removed the In-game Timer field, meaning that there is only 1 Timer field to fill.
Pretty nice, right?
That's really it though, nothing else new.
So yeah, from

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