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 CTGP Nitro

# Getting the ROM
To be able to play CTGP Nitro, 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 CTGP Nitro 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 CTGP Nitro.

# Downloading CTGP Nitro
Now that you have the ROM, you need to download the contents of CTGP Nitro. 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 CTGP Nitro).
You can get the files here:
- For USA ROMs: https://mega.nz/file/qxYW3bRa#HnO1ffGf-UWWgEf9E4FY6FF3elfhYSTVKgX6MtiB7MI
- For EUR ROMs: https://mega.nz/file/q5RVBQCB#mQbUzP5kZZgwwJzLKa8NIY4SLT3IzQazpEx8wrwR4fo

# Getting CTGP Nitro
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 CTGP Nitro into your ROM.
What to do here is quite self-explanatory: select the original fresh ROM you have, select the CTGP Nitro patch and let the patcher do its work to lastly get your cool copy of CTGP Nitro.

That's it!

Pikalex04

CTGP Nitro

Alonso Park

Nintendo DS

Lee MKDS

USA / NTSC

0.0.1

1.0.0 1.0.0 / 1.1.0

0.0.1 / 1.0.0

1.1.0 Next Version

New Version

Sky-High Road Version

Note: this cup was removed in version 1.1.0.

1-UP Cup Version

Note: this cup was removed in version 1.0.0.

Ice Flower Cup Version

Moon Cup Version

Red Shell Cup Version

Boo Cup Version

Chomp Cup Version

Egg Cup Version

POW Cup Version

Spiny Cup Version

Note: this cup is playable only in version 1.0.0.

Feather Cup Version

Note: in version 1.1.0 the tracks in the cup stayed the same, just the order was changed.

Acorn Cup Version

Freezie Cup Version

Shine Cup Version

Turnip Cup Version

Coin Cup Version

Bob-omb Cup Version

All Nitro Custom Tracks Version

All Retro Custom Tracks Version

All Custom Tracks Version

Tour New York Minute Version

Color Circuit Version

All Placeholder Tracks Version

Snowflake Canyon Version

Crystal Village Version

Goomba Lake Version

Mars Colony 2150 Version

N64 Mario Raceway Version

SNES Bowser Castle 3 Version

Snowman Village Version

Toy Time Galaxy Version

Wii Moo Moo Meadows Version

Wii Mushroom Gorge Version

Mushroom Garden Version

Motorcat's Dirt Derby Version

Life Cup Version

Bell Cup Version

Bee Cup Version

SNES Cup Version

N64 Cup Version

Hammer Cup Version

Pro Vanilla Lake 2 Version

BETA Pinball Course Version

Today I have finished to update all the charts to the current version of CTGP Nitro.

Here are all the changes:

# Full Game Leaderboards - Track Speedruns / Grand Prix Runs
## All Custom Tracks and new speedrunning rule
A new category, "All the Custom Tracks" has been added. It was not added 

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ALL THE IMPORTANT TIME-SAVING TECHNIQUES PRESENT IN MARIO KART DS!	Pikalex04 2 years ago
How to Get CTGP Nitro	Pikalex04 2 years ago