NEW MEMBERS

    Two new members to the site!

    First from the U.K, Chris Clark sends in all of his PAL Time Trial records earning him a Pro D overall standard and a #94 ranking on the PAL World Rankings.

    Secondly we have a new NTSC member from U.S.A. Drew Blumfield sends in all of his records and enters the NTSC rankings at #64 with a Master D overall standard. Drew has also sent us his picture that has been added to the SMK photo gallery.

    Welcome to the site!

PR UPDATES

    Many new World Records were broken this week! NTSC World Champion Jamie White made a return with 7 new WRs using NBTs including 0'11"34 on MC1 lap, 0'13"99 on DP1 lap, 0'56"57 and 0'11"11 on CI1, 0'18"50 on MC4 lap, 0'15"29 on DP3 lap and a new improvement to his super fast VL2 lap to 0'09"06! On PAL, Dutch Champion Karel Van Duijvenboden set a new MC1 PAL 5-lap WR of 0'59"77 to defend his position there. He also destroyed his CI1 5-lap with a NBT time of 0'58"02! He also PAL WR-tied MC3 lap to 0'17"61*! German Champion, Armin Huber has also been making great records including the lap WR tie on MC3 of 0'17"61* with Karel. Armin also managed to set a new 5-lap WR on MC3 with 1'30"88! Well done to you all for the great new World Records!

    The rest of the NTSC activity also had some interesting PRs; In Japan, Toshi Miura cut a lot of points off some Star and Special Cup times and set a few other great PRs and has climbed to Legend A overall standard and #12 on NTSC. GOD standard is just up ahead, Toshi will get there very soon! Brazilian Champion, Oliver Segarra Gonzalez drove many new PRs, the best of which was his lap PR on BC2 which he drove on lap 1 of a race. Oliver has climbed to #14 on NTSC and is Legend C overall standard, very near to Legend B. In Canada, Chris Williams made some more fast times on KB2 and some other King and Elite PRs. He has climbed to King G overall standard on NTSC! Martin Morissette made a few PRs on DP1 and CI1 cutting a few points down. In U.S.A Nathan Stinson has been picking up the pace with his new PRs including some nice Legend times in his list. Nathan is now ranked #24 on NTSC! Ray Bergstrom made a small PR on KB2 lap.

    Over on PAL version, veteran British karter Matthew McCarthy has been working on some NBTs well with a U.K record tie on DP1 5-lap and an improvement on his lap U.K record. He made some other nice NBT GOD times including a U.K record on MC1 lap that helped cut some more points off his SR score. In Switzerland, Dominic Lenz has been making PRs, he has driven 9 this week cutting off some good points and climbing to King F standard overall and #51 on PAL. Champion of Switzerland, Raphael Braun improved his VL1 5-lap with a fast time not far from the WR. Gerard Roodhorst of the Netherlands also played with a small PR on MC1 5-lap. In France, Sébastien Holmière set some nice NBT and Non-NBT PRs that helped him cut a few more SR points off. Axel Descamps made some nice records, including a nice VL1 lap and has climbed to Elite C overall standard and #64 on PAL.

NEW VIDEO FILES

    This week Martin Morissette and Pierre L'Hoëst are updating us with new video files. Pierre's new MC2 lap vid is great, and Martin provides us with NBT DP1 and Non-NBT MC4. These can be seen on their video pages linked off the SMK Video Files page.

PR UPDATES

    A fantastic week! We have 22 active members setting PRs this week! New World Records were made this week; in NTSC, Champion Jamie White sets a BC3 5-lap WR to 1'28"27 and a great NBT DP3 lap of 0'15"08! Martin Morissette finally hit that DP1 5-lap NBT time he wanted with a great new NTSC WR of 1'10"88! Canadian Champion, Simon Laflamme set a very nice DP3 WR that is Non-NBT at 1'18"20! On PAL, Pierre L'Hoëst set 3 new PAL WRs! A great lap on MC2 with 0'13"67 and very strong records on MC4 of 1'36"35 and 0'18"78! Dutch Champion, Karel van Duijvenboden set a CI2 lap WR of 0'13"12 and a small PR on MC4 5-lap.

    NTSC activity in Japan was interesting with Toshi Miura destroying some of his Vanilla Lake times and setting some other strong Non-NBT PRs in courses like BC1. Toshi has reached #11 on NTSC and is now GOD standard overall!  In Brazil, Oliver Segarra Gonzalez has been attacking the high Legends with some strong PRs in each cup. His MC1 is getting faster and some of his Star Cup times and also looking much faster. Oliver is now Legend B overall standard and is #13 on NTSC. He is likely to reach the GOD standards pretty soon. In the U.S.A, Dean Barnhart made a return with PRs on most courses, and a climb to Elite E overall standard and #61 on NTSC. Shawn Stover also made a return to SMK after setting all 40 new PRs for himself and climbing to Pro E overall standard and #72 on NTSC. Michael Hart returned with BC1 records this week. In Canada, Chris Williams was also very active with many PRs, a climb to King F overall standard, #46 on NTSC and #13 in Canada.

    On PAL, British karters were makin good results, with Matthew McCarthy setting British records on DP1 and MC4 NBT and a few other PRs including a sub 1'01" on MC1 using NBT. Matthew has climbed to #7 on PAL this week with his new PRs. Chris Clark worked on his PRs with Bowser more this week and made some good improvements all round. He made it up to Pro A overall standard, #88 on PAL and #17 in the U.K. Paul Tanney was also very active destroying PRs on nearly all courses, landing in close competition with Chris as he also reaches Pro A overall standard. Paul has now climbed to #89 on PAL and #18 in the U.K. Paul and Chris will reach the Master standards with ease and will probably fly into the Elites pretty soon aswell! In France, Sébastien Holmière set 3 Non-NBT PRs that cut a few points down, getting him to -9 SR score. Matthias Boucher returned to keep up with his competition and he set some strong GOD times and other great Legend times that helped him cut a lot of SR points down. Antoine Olivier was making good progress again this week with many new records and a climb to King E overall standard, #44 on PAL and #17 in France. The Switzerland karters were all active this week with Swiss Champion, Raphael Braun setting some nice Non-NBT PRs on MC3. Serge Ludescher is starting to catch a little more on the Players' List with a long list of new PRs and a climb to Legend E overall standard and #17 on PAL. Paolo Galasso made some smaller improvements to a selection of courses on various cups and climbed to #39 on PAL. Dominic Lenz set 6 PRs and cut some points down. In Germany, Armin Huber made a great MC4 5-lap that reached a WR, but Pierre slightly improved on it after.

NEW MEMBERS

    Two new PAL members this week!

    First up we have David Bonne from France who sends us all of his records and starts at the PAL Rankings at King F overall standard and #50 on PAL.

    Next we have Leyla Hasso, who is the daughter of Karim and Ayla Hasso, and the niece of Sami Çetin, all current members of the site. Leyla has just managed to complete all 20 courses at SMK Fan standard, and she is the youngest player to the site. Leyla enters the PAL Rankings at #128.

    Welcome to the site!

NEW VIDEOS PAGE

    Paul Tanney has sent us a link to his SMK videos, that can be seen in the Super Mario Kart video files page, or via this link here:

http://www.oocities.org/paultanneymkdd/smkvids.html

NEW VIDEO FILES

    NTSC World Champion, Jamie White has continued playing NBTs and has delivered more NTSC World Records for us with MC3 lap being cut way down to 0'17"11! CI2 lap now stands at 0'12"87 and DP3 NBT lap WR has been cut down a little to 0'15"07! Chris Balch also worked on MC3 with a good lap result and a nice barrier broken on the 5-lap with 1'27"96! On PAL, Armin Huber and Pierre L'Hoëst had a battle over MC4 with some good results and a tie WR, but that was later taken by Dutch Champion, Karel van Duijvenboden with some fantastic times of 1'35"46 and 0'18"75!

    The rest of NTSC included some nice records from Toshi Miura including a consistent race on BC2 and some other GOD times. Toshi has climbed to #10 on NTSC this week! Not far behind, Brazilian Champion, Oliver Segarra Gonzalez has been setting Legend and GOD times and has now climbed to Legend A overall standard! Oliver is getting closer to the Champion of South America, Juan Sebastián Arévalo. Chris Williams made some good times including a pair of GOD times on CI2 and climbed to King D overall standard and #79 on NTSC. Martin Morissette made a few improvements and regained #3 back from Japanese Champion, Masakazu Goto. Dean Barnhart set more PRs and moved up some more to Elite D overall standard and #59 on NTSC. Michael Hart set 4 PRs and reached Semi-Pro B overall standard and #79 on NTSC.

    On PAL, Axel Descamps of France continued making good improvements and has now reached Elite B overall standard and #61 on PAL. He reached Legend times on Rainbow Road. Matthias Boucher set some strong GOD times, his DP1 records are really great! In the U.K, Chris Clark improved more of his weaker times and is working his way up to the Elite standards. He is now Master E overall standard and #84 on PAL. In Switzerland, Dominic Lenz set 10 PRs and climbed to King D overall standard and #44 on PAL.

TINY ALTERATIONS TO SITE RULES

    After thinking carefully and discussing with karters about the situation regarding members joining both rankings (NTSC and PAL), i decided to allow karters to join both rankings is they wish to do so. Of course this means them owning both a PAL and NTSC snes.

    The other issue brought up was with Japanese karters. Many of them as you know use nicknames as their handles on Toshi's site, and some of them wish to keep their real names private. I felt that what was important is to preserve the good connections we have between us and the Japanese karters. It will be great in future to have more of them join, but sad to see some of them not interested in joining because of the names situation. So for now I will allow them to use other nicknames when they join as their name if they wish to do so. Although for all members please note that it is still highly recommended that we use our real names because it does make the site look much more formal.

NEW MEMBERS

    Four new members this week!

    From Brazil, Oliver has recruited a new karter, Carlos André Salles who has entered the NTSC rankings at #64 in the World, #3 in Brazil and has a Master A overall standard.

    On PAL, German Champion Armin Huber has recruited his sister Tanja Huber who is also 5 years old, a few months older than Leyla Hasso who recently joined. Tanja is at SMK Fan standard on PAL and #129 on the PAL World Rankings.

    On NTSC we have a recruit from Toshi Miura's site who goes by the name 3.14sy that he uses on Toshi Miura's site. Some of you may have seen his records recently. He has driven a strong set of times that have brought him up to King D overall standard, #40 in the World on NTSC and #3 in Japan on our site.

    Also on NTSC and from Japan, Robin Usher makes his entry at #90 with an Apprentice G overall standard. Some of you may know Robin from the MK64 site. Robin has only really had a chance to make first tries on his courses this week, so expect some good improvements from him soon!

    Welcome to the site!

PR UPDATES

    Jamie White has again been very active with NBT WRs after hitting DP1 lap way down to 0'13"80! He also took BC1 NTSC WRs to 1'26"76 and 0'17"19 and GV3 flap to 0'14"47! Japanese Champion, Masakazu Goto made a little return this week and has been working on the CI1 fastlap strategy really well and has pushed the lap WR down to 0'10"74! He has also taken back MC1 lap WR to 0'11"30! Masakazu Goto has passed Martin Morissette again for #3 in the World on NTSC. On PAL, Sébastien Holmière has been hitting some great PAL WRs including a 0'13"09 lap on CI2 and a pair of PAL WRs for VL1 with 0'53"55 and 0'09"87! Karel van Duijvenboden improved his crazy MC1 times further to keep them from being beaten, they now stand at 0'59"47 and 0'11"58! His MC4 lap has gone down even further to 0'18"70 aswell.

    Back on PAL, there was a U.K karters meeting with Sami Çetin, Matthew McCarthy, Tom Gaffikin and John Barber. John was able to improve his Ghost Valley 1 times during the meeting after a long time of inactivity and he has climbed to Expert E overall standard. Matthew made several PRs in the days before the meeting with a few more British Record improvements on MC4 and a few other records. Also in the U.K, the day after the meeting, our youngest member Leyla Hasso who recently joined the site was hitting PRs on almost every course and cutting large amounts of time off. She hasn't reached a Newbie standard yet but should get there in time. She has already started competing with our new member this week, Tanja Huber and has managed a matchup win, putting Leyla slightly ahead at #128 on PAL this week. We will see where the battle goes next week! In Switzerland, Dominic Lenz cut off a lot of points from 8 PRs and made it to King C, #39 on PAL and #3 in Switzerland after passing Paolo Galasso. In France, Antoine Olivier made several PRs and climbed to King D overall standard. Matthias Boucher cut a lot of points off his CI2 lap and made a few other nice PRs. In the Netherlands, Gerard Roodhorst set a new MC1 5-lap PR and a fantastic lap record that cut a few points off his SR score.

    Back on NTSC, Oliver Segarra Gonzalez of Brazil has been improving some of his records using a few NBTs and some Non-NBT driving and has climbed to GOD standard overall this week! Oliver is now only a few points off reaching South America's champion, Juan Sebastián Arévalo. Toshi Miura in Japan returned from vacation this week and made a quick pair of PRs on GV3 including a GOD lap which took a few points down moving him closer to Louis-Philippe Sabbagh who is the next above on the list. Canadian Champion, Simon Laflamme made a nice pair of DP2 PRs this week. Chris Williams worked on many courses to bring his overall standard up to a higher level and succeeded by climbing to King C overall standard and #34 on NTSC this week! Chris Balch hit 7 new PRs this week and is fast catching Martin Morissette and Masakazu Goto on the NTSC rankings. In U.S.A, Dean Barnhart made a couple of DP improvements and a KB2 flap PR.

KARTERS POPULARITY CONTEST

    This week, Michael Liem and Paul Tanney have been working on a little contest to regularly display the most popular karter in terms of their activity. This includes all karters from SMK, MK64 and MKDD combined. At the moment, the link to the page is at http://www.mariokart64.com/karterscontest/ where you can read for some information on the contest. As the contest becomes active, we will post an image or link to an image which can be seen from the link, that displays the regular results of the competition. The aim of this competition is to increase activity in all kart games and to find out who some of the top players are overall.

PR UPDATES

    Many active karters and new WRs once again this week! On NTSC, Japanese Champion Masakazu Goto worked on MC3 and MC4. He set a new record for MC3 5-lap with 1'27"83, and then worked on MC4 and broke the 1'34" barrier and made 1'33"88 and a 0'18"46 lap! On PAL, Karel van Duijvenboden set 3 WRs with 0'57"92 on CI1 5-lap, 0'20"12 on BC2 lap and 1'07"66 on CI2 5-lap! PAL Champion, Pierre L'Hoëst took CI1 lap to 0'11"07.

    The rest of the PAL activity had Toshi Miura of Japan continuing to work hard through the GOD standards making some fast records on BC3 and GV3! Toshi has passed Louis-Philippe Sabbagh and is now #9 in the World on NTSC! In Brazil, Carlos André Salles made 6 fast improvements and climbed to Elite F overall standard and passed a few karters to be #63 on NTSC. Former Canadian Champion, Antonio Abdo made a quick return to send some old PRs and climbed to Legend F overall standard. Also in Canada, Chris Williams made a few PRs and made it to King B overall standard. Simon Laflamme set a fast PR on GV1 5-lap.

    In PAL in France, David Bonne who recently joined the site has been setting a lot of strong PRs and has made a climb to King C, #39 in the World on PAL and #17 in France. Sebastien Holmière has made a few good PRs including a good SR cut. Julien Holmière also karted a little to give the new fastlap strategy a go on CI1 lap. Matthias Boucher worked on NBT and Non-NBT driving and set some very strong PRs, KB2 5-lap is really great. Armin Huber drove 5 new GOD times and will be catching Kalle Videkull very soon. Tanja Huber has continued her battle with Leyla Hasso and has made a good set of new records this week, they were enough for a clear matchup win against Leyla, so now Tanja takes the lead at #128 on PAL. In the U.K, Matthew McCarthy slightly improved his weaker MC2 and got some good results with Choco Island 1 and 2. Matthew has now climbed to #6 on PAL after passing Julien. In the Netherlands, Gerard Roodhorst improves his MC1 5-lap time.