Whoever is the hot potato when the counter reaches zero will briefly flash and lose 1 HP. This means if you are the hot potato, you need to hit someone else before the countdown timer reaches zero, leading to some fun frantic chases. If another player gets hit before the countdown timer reaches zero, that player becomes the “hot potato” instead and will start smoking. When the battle starts, the first person hit becomes the “hot potato” and they start smoking and the timer starts counting down to zero. This hack replaces the balloons with hit points (HP) and a countdown timer. Previously you had three balloons that you had to pop on each player and be the last player standing to win. This rom hack fundamentally changes how battle mode works in Mario Kart 64 into a frantic game of hot potato. New quality of life options include the ability to enable widescreen, disable anti-aliasing, enable music in 3 and 4 player modes, and an option to allow players to select the same characters. Update April 14, 2020: New version 1.1! New gameplay options include infinite green shells, flat courses, and auto-items.

Please go to to download the latest version of Battle Kart 64. Update December 24, 2020: This Hot Potato Battle hack is now obsolete and has been superseded by Battle Kart 64 which includes everything from Hot Potato Battle, plus much much more.

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