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Kart Krew Dev is not affiliated with SEGA. Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers is a work of fan art made available for free, without intent to profit or harm the intellectual property rights of the original works it is based on. Dr. Robotnik and related characters are property of SEGA.

Ring Racers is a Kart Racing video game that builds upon the successes of its predecessor SRB2Kart, with features including:

• A ludicrously long list of courses and playable characters
• A complete Grand Prix mode with CPU opponents and multiple difficulty levels
• New and revamped items
• Unique game systems and mechanics
• Local split-screen multiplayer up to 4 players, and online play up to 16
• A comprehensive Time Attack mode with replay support
• A wealth of secrets to find

We hope that you will enjoy the game for many years to come.

Download:

https://www.kartkrew.org/

 

[Toots]

Great work !!

 

[Mistake]

Seems super cool. Can't wait to give it a shot

 

[Unknown?]

Love SRB2 and the best thing about Sonic is it is not Nintendo.

 

[Holammer]

Love SRB2 and the best thing about Sonic is it is not Nintendo.

Nintendo lawyers would be serving DMCA left and right. Sega deserves a lot of credit for its relaxed attitude towards fan works.
They should make a Sonic label specifically for publishing fan games. Allowing teams to sell them and release on consoles too.

 

[Unknown?]

Nintendo lawyers would be serving DMCA left and right. Sega deserves a lot of credit for its relaxed attitude towards fan works.
They should make a Sonic label specifically for publishing fan games. Allowing teams to sell them and release on consoles too.

That would be a great idea and get some of the cut.

 

[Deft Beck]

That would be a great idea and get some of the cut.

You could even call it "Sonic Fan Club" or something.

 

[Holammer]

That would be a great idea and get some of the cut.

Games Workshop enjoyed great success by giving away licenses to everyone and their dog.
Growing the 40k IP from a niche product to the next battleground for identity politics. Sega already got a fan base churning out games, so why not give it a go.

You could even call it "Sonic Fan Club" or something.

That sounds like something from the 80-90's, perfect!

 

[DiddyKongRacing69]

That tutorial is ridiculous in length. No joke, it took me an hour to complete it. And locking mods and online being unlockables is even dumber.

 

[00_Zer0]

Love SRB2 and the best thing about Sonic is it is not Nintendo.

Let's hope Sega keeps it this way. At this rate Nintendo is shutting down mods in Gary's Mod, shutting down emulators. Taking down certain rom hacks, and even new creations with Nintendo IP. I fear it's only a matter of time until Nintendo Ninja's invade romhacking.net and have them delete every first party rom hack on there. That would be a sad day. Those rom hacks have been around since the 90's without a peep from Nintendo.

 

[Holammer]

That tutorial is ridiculous in length. No joke, it took me an hour to complete it. And locking mods and online being unlockables is even dumber.

No kidding, I think it took me bit over an hour to finish it too.
The presentation would be cute if it was over in 5 minutes, but no... They keep pilling on new mechanics and dialogue, not to mention the unintuitive controls. Why use a Sega 3D Control pad to illustrate the controller?

This is the reason why Mario Kart reigns supreme, they know how to keep it simple.

 

[Spukc]

Sonic fans are insane

 

[Dacvak]

So is the original a fan project too? I’m assuming this is a PC game and not a rom hack, right?

 

[Saber]

Didn't catch me in any interest, but its cool that they pull such cool concepts.
Reminds me that Sega could do something like this based on Mania Special Stages and with some tunings it would totally work.

 

[Deft Beck]

If you don't want to play the tutorial and want to get to the main game, then there are some passwords to help you with that.

Normally, the passwords are encrypted, and the game asks you to figure them out yourself.

I found a patcher on 4chan from an anonymous poster that makes the passwords human-readable.

Here is the pre-patched .EXE.

Spoiler: Here are the passwords:

bighead
4thgear
shittysigns
tastelesstaunts
gaster (skips the tutorial)
devmode (unlocks everything permanently)
Wifi_Warrior (unlocks online mode)
Mcdonalds/mustard gas (unlock add-ons [SRB2K mods aren't compatible right now])

 

[DiddyKongRacing69]

That is great. where can you imput the password

 

[Deft Beck]

That is great. where can you imput the password

Once you set your video and sound settings, boot up the game again and you have a few seconds to enter an "administrative password" before Tails and Robotnik start talking again.

 

[DiddyKongRacing69]

A twitter post that i found interesting as it explains why the Rival Ai seems like he cheats. He does.

 

[64bitmodels]

Fantastic game that quite a few people seem to dislike because of the absurdly long tutorial and locked modes (which to be fair, kind of sucks at first, but eventually when you play the game more you understand why such stuff is locked to begin with. Plus it's a great progression system and incentive to make you play more.)

this game's got some attention to detail. And by attention to detail

Spoiler

I mean falling into fucking Hidden Palace Zone after falling into a seemingly bottomless hole in Mystic Cave Zone level of detail. They replicated that in a Kart Racer somehow, I stumbled upon it, it was glorious.
Also, you're awarded a character (Jack Frost, if you're wondering TintoConCasera ) for restarting the game upon a crash. Yes. It's that deep.

It's probably the most ambitious kart racer ever made- and it's out there for FREE! Please play this one.

 

[64bitmodels]

Sonic fans are insane

there's the "deviantart inflation art" level of insane and then there's the "spend 6 years working on an incredibly made kart racer for FREE" level of insane. In the Sonic fandom you get both whether you like it or not.

 

[DiddyKongRacing69]

https://www.kartkrew.org/news/2024-05-06_dr-robotniks-ring-racers-version-22.html

So the game got an update just recently to 2.2