Ring Racers' Item Roulette System

Ring Racers' Item Roulette System

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Ring Racers' Item Roulette System - how to become astronight 101

About the Roulette
(this is mostly for 8+ players and 1-2p grand prix mode)
  • The manual says that the roulette spins faster during the race and slows down if you’re behind for catch-up items, but it doesn’t say that some items become inactive during the start, and end of, a race.
    • The start of the race is simply before the 30-second mark, but the end of the race, however, is based on if your distance to the finish line is less than ENDDIST, a value of 14 ✕ DISTVAR...

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This can be helpful in certain cases, but the item system suffers from bugs that causes some rules with the item system to be violated.
1. A bug with player positions can result in no one being in 1st place. In such case, all players get items only intended for 1st place.
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2. Unless SPB cooldown is active, the conditions for forcing an SPB disregards rules that stop the SPB from appearing naturally; this also includes the first 30 seconds of a race, and 1st place having finished with 2nd place being very far behind.
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3. Same as #1, but with no one in 2nd with exactly one player in 1st. This stops the SPB from ever appearing in the roulette.

For #1 and #3, these are as a result of this bug:
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