Sonic, Crash and more in Mario Kart 64

[Roareye Black]

So I've been floating around a few different forums and places for a while now, and came across a French message board called X-Community with a man called zouzzz. Zouzzz had built a few ROM editors (No ROMs for download, so it's all above board) that allow anyone to easily swap out characters from Mario Kart 64 with new ones.

The character roster currently includes;
Sonic the Hedgehog
Crash Bandicoot
Waluigi
Samus Aran
Koopa Troopa
Banjo (Banjo Kazooie)
Skull Kid (Zelda)
Link (Zelda, unfinished)
Shovel Knight

But the re-skins are only part of the improvements. Originally, any character you swap in uses the same voice clips etc of the original character you replaced. Working on a few elements I've managed to swap in voice samples for each character into the game, so now when you play as Sonic you get Sonic's voice etc.

Here's a video proving it, running on an actual N64 via an Everdrive cartridge (It will also work on emulators, but I haven't tested that myself).

Are there any particular characters you'd want to see added? Personally I'm looking forward to working more on this and possibly creating a Deluxe edition, however that would require more work as currently we can only swap out characters not add more.

 

[Tornado]

That's really cool.

[Tara]

I presume Shovel Knight doesn't have any voice clips and that's why you didn't show him off in action?

[Roareye Black]

Thanks Tornado

And yes Tara, Shovel Knight has no voice so I replaced Yoshi with him because we still haven't found Yoshi's voice clip in the soundbank. As soon as we find it we can swap Yoshi's voice out however its likely Yoshi only has one voice sample that is pitch-shifted and looped to make the variety of noises.

[Roger_van_der_weide]

Awesome.
Impressed you even got new 2d sprites in-game. Animation looks smooth.

[KHCast]

I think Cloud would be a neat addition actually.

[Roareye Black]

I found both of Yoshi's voice samples so when I'm free I'll be able to give Shovel Knight his own voice (likely sound effects from his game)

Cloud would make an interesting addition, certainly would fill a speaking character (such as Toad or Luigi). I was thinking Pac-Man would be cool, or Zool for a mascot race lol

I'm also developing a dialogue version of Banjo, taking voice samples from Diddy Kong Racing. Should be great