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Finally created my first custom machine!!
Post by Kirby Sim on Jul 28th, 2003, 08:28am

Well, I've finally went and purchased parts for customisation. Somehow, I ended up with Bright Sparrow Z. At 1480KG, this bird sports a C body, A boost, and D grip.

While playing around with the low-ranked grip drivers, I noticed that while drifting, your speed actually increases, if only by a little.
Re: Finally created my first custom machine!!
Post by crAsh on Jul 28th, 2003, 08:47am

I've always wondered... When you create your own custom machine, does it belong to any "official" character, or do you have a "special custom driver" guy ?
Re: Finally created my first custom machine!!
Post by ErwanSciaud on Jul 28th, 2003, 09:41am

What kind of tag can you create?
Re: Finally created my first custom machine!!
Post by FluddyFlea on Jul 28th, 2003, 3:02pm

Haha when selecting this thread it says "Dec 31st, 1969, 6:00pm" LOL
Re: Finally created my first custom machine!!
Post by Kirby Sim on Jul 28th, 2003, 6:23pm

on Jul 28th, 2003, 08:47am, crAsh wrote:
I've always wondered... When you create your own custom machine, does it belong to any "official" character, or do you have a "special custom driver" guy ?


No, it doesn't really belong to any 'official' character, neither is there a 'special custom driver' guy. What happens is that you get to choose one driver from your bank of unlocked drivers to pilot it. For instance, I invitied Mr EAD to pilot my Bright Sparrow Z, but if I wanted to, I could change it to Captain Falcon or Blood Falcon anytime.
Re: Finally created my first custom machine!!
Post by Kirby Sim on Jul 28th, 2003, 6:27pm

on Jul 28th, 2003, 09:41am, ErwanSciaud wrote:
What kind of tag can you create?


What do you mean what kind of tag can I create? I don't really understand.. Technically, you can create anything as long as it fits in the boundary. It could be a name, a picture, some random polka dots - anything.

Anyway, don't expect too much from the emblem creator. The paintbrush is far too big to create anything intricate. In those earlier screenshots, you could see the Mario, Starfox, and Kirby emblems which, in my opinion, are still possible, but extremely difficult to create.

If I have time, maybe I'll take a picture of the emblem creator mode interface later.
Re: Finally created my first custom machine!!
Post by Dominic on Jul 28th, 2003, 7:49pm

You can't name your vehicle? oh well, at least they come up with cool names

I'll just make a decal to put on it so that it'll unofficially have a name! Yeah!

The emblem creator tool will give me even more hours to this game, hooray!
Re: Finally created my first custom machine!!
Post by ~SPLASH~ on Jul 29th, 2003, 05:46am

on Jul 28th, 2003, 6:27pm, Kirby Sim wrote:
What do you mean what kind of tag can I create? I don't really understand.. Technically, you can create anything as long as it fits in the boundary. It could be a name, a picture, some random polka dots - anything.

Anyway, don't expect too much from the emblem creator. The paintbrush is far too big to create anything intricate. In those earlier screenshots, you could see the Mario, Starfox, and Kirby emblems which, in my opinion, are still possible, but extremely difficult to create.

If I have time, maybe I'll take a picture of the emblem creator mode interface later.

www.cube-europe.com posted some videos, including one of the custimize function. Looks pretty cool to me..just hope nobody will abuse the emblem function to create stuff like Nazi crosses and stuff...-_-

I can't wait to put Tingle and my personal Emblem onto a car!
Re: Finally created my first custom machine!!
Post by Kirby Sim on Jul 29th, 2003, 10:35am

on Jul 29th, 2003, 05:46am, ~SPLASH~ wrote:
www.cube-europe.com posted some videos, including one of the custimize function. Looks pretty cool to me..just hope nobody will abuse the emblem function to create stuff like Nazi crosses and stuff...-_-

I can't wait to put Tingle and my personal Emblem onto a car!


Here are some pictures on the customisation mode that I created myself.

TAKE NOTE: COPY THE URL AND PASTE IT IN ANOTHER INTERNET EXPLORER WINDOW. Somehow the links bring you back here.... -___- I have no idea why. When I used IMG SRC tags, the pics didn't show either. WEIRD.

http://www.freewebs.com/winde/fz1.jpg - the emblem editor mode, featuring my custom Kirby emblem!!

http://www.freewebs.com/winde/fz2.jpg - stamped emblems onto my Bright Sparrow Z

http://www.freewebs.com/winde/fz3.jpg - buying machine parts at the shop. Note that they're colour-coded. There's even an English, telling you if a part is a body, cockpit, or boost.

http://www.freewebs.com/winde/fz4.jpg - More customisation. The 4 menus on top, from left to right, are: select body, select cockpit, select boost(er), select pilot. The body and boost parts affect their similarly named stats, while cockpit affects grip.

http://www.freewebs.com/winde/fz5.jpg - Even more customisation. From left to right: edit parts, edit colours, stamp on emblems, delete data.

By the way, I know no Japanese characters. : )
Re: Finally created my first custom machine!!
Post by ~SPLASH~ on Jul 29th, 2003, 11:04am

Your machine looks cool, Kirb! And the emblems (especially the Kirby one) look great!
Re: Finally created my first custom machine!!
Post by Dominic on Jul 29th, 2003, 11:13am

cool stuff... so can you expand on the Custom Mode?

I mean really tell us all there is to it

from the looks of things, it seems very deep
Re: Finally created my first custom machine!!
Post by ErwanSciaud on Jul 30th, 2003, 06:41am

Your car looks great!
Thanks for the explanations Kirby sim.
Re: Finally created my first custom machine!!
Post by Rodster on Jul 30th, 2003, 06:51am

I just finished building my own custom machine and it ended up with the name "Alexander"! Pretty cool!%208-%29

I guess specific combinations trigger special names...%20
Re: Finally created my first custom machine!!
Post by GreggRichardson on Jul 30th, 2003, 11:48am

cool picture...
Re: Finally created my first custom machine!!
Post by ErwanSciaud on Jul 30th, 2003, 12:04pm

can t name your car?
Re: Finally created my first custom machine!!
Post by Kirby Sim on Jul 31st, 2003, 06:44am

on Jul 29th, 2003, 11:13am, Dominic wrote:
cool stuff... so can you expand on the Custom Mode?

I mean really tell us all there is to it

from the looks of things, it seems very deep


Well, I would if I could. The problem is, I don't exacly know what else there is to explain. The menus and options are really pretty straight forward.

I tell you what, why don't you shoot me some specific questions?

Maybe if I'm free tomorrow, I'll look into what else I can elaborate deeper.
Re: Finally created my first custom machine!!
Post by Kirby Sim on Jul 31st, 2003, 06:47am

on Jul 30th, 2003, 12:04pm, ErwanSciaud wrote:
can t name your car?


That's right, Erwan. The name of the car depends on which parts you choose. For example, if I were to change my Bright Sparrow Z's boost part to something called '88', it'll be named as Bright Sparrow 88. There is no way to customise the name.
Re: Finally created my first custom machine!!
Post by Dominic on Jul 31st, 2003, 06:48am

nope, so I guess the only way you can name it (even if it's unofficial) is through the emblem editor, put on anything, may take hours to come up with a good looking one though
Re: Finally created my first custom machine!!
Post by Dominic on Jul 31st, 2003, 06:50am

I've got a question!!!

how many custom cars can you have per memory card and can you race them in the multiplayer?

If so, how many custom cars can compete?

thanks
Re: Finally created my first custom machine!!
Post by Kirby Sim on Jul 31st, 2003, 08:43am

on Jul 31st, 2003, 06:50am, Dominic wrote:
I've got a question!!!

how many custom cars can you have per memory card and can you race them in the multiplayer?

If so, how many custom cars can compete?

thanks


You can have up to 4 custom cars per memory card.

I've never tried multiplayer, so I wouldn't know. But my guess is that you can use them in it. Up to 4 cars can compete, may all 4 of them be the same custom car, or different individual custom cars. I'm guessing, though.
Re: Finally created my first custom machine!!
Post by Dominic on Jul 31st, 2003, 08:52am

Thanks, I also read your post at gamefaqs

You can't begin to imagine how so very happy this makes me, me and my buds are going to play the hell out of multiplayer thanks to this

I wonder if I should clear out my 16mb memory card?
Re: Finally created my first custom machine!!
Post by Indeed on Jul 31st, 2003, 09:17am

Reason for not being able to name your vehicle is that you could name it something offensive, upload it to the arcade and produce some outstanding times. The arcade would then have to display this offensive name in the high score table/attract mode.
Re: Finally created my first custom machine!!
Post by Greg Lane on Aug 5th, 2003, 6:05pm

Well, I went and bought every part I could in the custom mode...fiddled around with it for hours... Seems that certain combinations of parts yield a unique name- here are some I've found so far:

Gargoyle
Don Quixote
Paper Craft
Beat the Beast
Master Work
Carbuncle
King Neptune
Fantasista
Sockdolager
Dragoon

I'm sure there are more...it's a tedious process to find these combinations, and I'm sure I haven't unlocked all the parts yet.

-GL
Re: Finally created my first custom machine!!
Post by Dominic on Aug 5th, 2003, 11:51pm



cool stuff, I have the feeling that the "Don Quixote" one may be shaped like a windmill... or something, I just have a feeling

I like the names for some reason
Re: Finally created my first custom machine!!
Post by al64inthedark on Aug 8th, 2003, 10:52am

Cool for the names Greg Lane !

By the way, I've created the "Energy Barrell Z" a car (if I can say...) which is very good for playing "classical", not the dackou.

Re: Finally created my first custom machine!!
Post by ErwanSciaud on Aug 21st, 2003, 03:34am

Hi i ve got F Zero since a few days and i ve already created my car.
It s a 1860 kg ship CAC very good for all kind of races called Shining Mustang Y8, (i put a kirby tag too, i like KIRBY^^ )and flame on the nose . Looks great^^

The name are sometimes strange i got a "Muscle Pigeon 88"...