Mario Kart Super Circuit, Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance entry in the long-running Mario Kart series of racing games, has been hacked to run at 60 FPS, rather than its native 30 FPS.
According to the hacker behind the patch, who goes by the name of antimattur, the patch has no impact on performance as “the map scaling parameters were already being updated at 60fps, but were only being read at 30fps.”
antimattur also notes that his Mario Kart Super Circuit patch is “so small that the .zip is about 100 bytes larger than the patch it contains.” Imprssive work!
Mario Kart Super Circuit was originally released for Game Boy Advance back in 2001. It was the first Mario Kart game to be released for a handheld console, and was third game in the series overall, following the 1992 SNES original and 1996’s Mario Kart 64 for Nintendo 64.
If you’d like to play the Game Boy Advance entry in the Mario Kart series at a higher frame rate than ever before, you can find antimattur’s Mario Kart Super Circuit 60 FPS patch at RomHack.Ing. The Mario Kart Super Circuit 60 FPS patch is intended for ide with a ROM of the US version of the game.
