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Although the levels are almost identical to the Genesis and SNES versions, this game is pretty different. The AI is safer, but slower; the vehicles handle differently, bounce harder; collision is different; and so on. It also takes longer to play than the NES, SNES and Genesis versions, by at least 15 minutes.

This is a zero bonus level run. Bonus levels in the GB version are more time-consuming than on any other platform, so it made sense to try to exclude as many as possible.

In the NES version, the game counts how many times you get 1st place. As soon as this counter reaches 3, the next level is a bonus level.

In the GB version, the game counts how many times you get first place *in a row*. So as long as I don't get 1st place three times in a row, I'm good.

The lowest time I was able to get doing all possible bonus levels (1st place on every race) was 1:10:40. Cutting out 8 bonus levels saves more than 5 minutes.

==GAME STATS==

Racer: Dwayne

Dark Gray: Walter, Spider, Mike, Joel
Light Gray: Chen, Anne, Bonnie
White: Cherry, Emilio, Jethro

1st place on: Breakfast Bends (1), Desktop Dropoff (2), Oatmeal in Overdrive (5), Cueball Circuit (6), Bermuda Bathtub (8), Potted Passage (10), Fruit Juice Follies (11), Bedroom Battlefield (13), Pencil Plateaux (15), Shrubbery Twist (17), Wide Awake War Zone (19), Pencil Plateaux (20), Leafy Bends (21), Chalk Dust Chicane (22) = 14 total.

2nd place on everything else... 11 total. At first I thought the best strat would be to do only 8 2nd places... 1st place on everything else. But I discovered that some races (like 15 and 21) can take up to a minute or more to wait around for a sandbag. It takes about 1 minute to play a bonus level, so the trade off is risky...

This run is not on original hardware. I played this on Gambatte (OpenEMU 2.3.3 for Mac) My controller was a Buffalo iBuffalo Classic (a SNES controller), I hope to do this on Super Gameboy soon.

Here is a Twitch playlist with 12 full playthroughs:
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