This is an acceptable category in the DKR speedrunning community due to the fact that the unlocked characters are part of the cart's saves, and not the individual files' saves. unlocked, which is handy because they're the fastest racers in the game. As it requires a completed file to do, it's also acceptable to have Drumstick and T.T. It's the only way to do this kind of run, which could be considered "newgame+" or "glitched" or a combination of both. Once the race starts, another out-of-bounds glitch is used to beat the level really quickly, at which point the game is over and the credits roll.ĭrumstick is chosen over T.T.
The race itself has a long cutscene at the start because the game is in 2P mode, which looks like a softlock but isn't. The reason I grind very slightly against the right side of the door is because the loading zone for the race can be touched quicker from there. Since you're never meant to have a plane in here, the top of the door wasn't programmed in, meaning we can simply fly over it. Inside the FFL lobby, player 1 is in a better spot. Once OoB, it's just a matter of locating the small loading zone.Īt this point in the run, it's actually faster to play as player 2 to get to Future Fun Land, because he spawns closer to it than player 1 does. The out-of-bounds glitch is done by doing a barrel roll with a speed boost at certain parts of the lava. It's done by creating the new file, exiting it, starting up 2P mode, and going to Hot Top Volcano, where an out-of-bounds glitch can be used to reach a small loading zone by the finishing line which warps the player to the main arena, which normally is never accessible in 2P mode. The glitch happens because the game draws certain things from the tracks mode section of the game, such as the fact that Future Fun Land is open (and this is the case because a file on the cart has already been to FFL once), and using the wrong warp, transfers them over to the fresh file that's created at the start of the run. 1.0 and the Japanese version both crash when trying to do this.
The desired effect is only possible on the 1.1 release of the USA version of the game. It finishes the game in 2-player mode, after creating the file which will be finished in 1-player mode. This run beats Diddy Kong Racing by abusing a "wrong warp" glitch.