1SUPERTUXKART(6) Games Manual SUPERTUXKART(6)
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6 SuperTuxKart - 3D GoKart racing game
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9 supertuxkart
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12 supertuxkart is an arcade-style game where driving faster than your
13 opponents will do the trick. You're taking the role of Tux, the Linux
14 mascot, steering its go-kart around various courses, racing against
15 computer-controlled vehicles.
16 The main window that opens on startup provides a menu to select the
18 racemode, track to race on, the number of laps to go, etc. In the race,
19 you can either use a joystick, or the keyboard for steering.
20 During the race, several goodies can make your life easier while other
22 gadgets shall give you a really tough ride. Go for the arrow shaped red
23 and black zipper patches on the track, as they boost your cart onwards.
24 The question mark cubes hide some nice powerups. Beware of the big
25 spinning banana's though, they are yucky and slow you down. The herring
26 coins on the other hand make for a fine appetizer. Eat enough of them,
27 and the next question mark cube might yield not only one, but up to
28 five powerups at once. Note that bad things happen at once, while the
29 good things (well, good for you...) need to be activated. Here's the
30 list of available extras:
31 Goodies
33 Missiles
35 Unguided but fast. If they hit anything, they explode impres‐
36 sively. The effect on a cart is to stop it dead, so it has to
37 accelerate again.
38 Homing missiles
40 Slower than the regular kind, but they track the nearest kart
41 and are quite hard to shake off.
42 Fuzzy blobs
44 Even slower still - a kart can outrun them quite easily. They
45 ricochet off the sides of the track and only explode when they
46 hit a cart.
47 Magnets
49 If you activate a magnet then it hangs around for about 15 sec‐
50 onds. If anyone comes within about 20 meters, you'll be pulled
51 towards them and end up glued to their tail until the magnet
52 'expires'. Great for catching up with someone - hopeless for
53 passing them.
54 Portable Zippers
56 These are just like the zipper patches on the track itself. They
57 give you sudden acceleration and temporarily increase the top
58 speed of your cart.
59 Badies
61 Parachute
63 This pops out the back of your cart and slows you down a little
64 for a few seconds only. Enough to drop you back one place if
65 it's a close race though.
66 Anvil Gets dragged behind your cart on a rope for an even shorter
68 amount of time than the parachute, but the drag effect is much
69 stronger. Your cart hardly moves at all.
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72 Joystick Left/Right or Key Left/Right
73 Steer.
74 Joystick Button 1 or Key Up
76 Accelerate.
77 Joystick Button 2 or Key Down
79 Brake.
80 Joystick Button 3 or Key f
82 Use a special item (if you've collected one).
83 Joystick Button 4 or Key d
85 Ask to be rescued by Tinytux.
86 Joystick Button 5 or Key a
88 Pop a wheelie--makes you go really fast, but you'll be unable to
89 steer.
90 Key Esc
92 Pop up or hide the menu.
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95 No drive-with-the-mouse support.
96 Slow performance on CPUs less than ~450MHz.
98 If you (or one of the computer players) goes off the edge of the track,
100 or calls for rescue then Tinytux doesn't always manage to put you back
101 onto the track correctly. If this happens, you may need to goto the
102 menu to restart the race.
103 Sometimes you can be pushed through a solid object if you are hit by
105 another player when in contact with the surface.
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108 MESA_GLX_FX
109 If this environment variable is set, the game's resolution will
110 switch from the default 640x480 to 320x240. This is mostly of
111 interest if you have a Voodoo-1/2 graphics card and usually set
112 this variable to fullscreen.
113 TUXKART_DATADIR
115 Path to the location of game data. Usually you don't have to
116 mess with this variable.
117 TUXKART_TRACKLIST
119 Path to the location of track data. Usually you don't have to
120 mess with this variable.
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123 This manual page was written by Daniel Kobras <kobras@debian.org>, for
124 the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). It was updated
125 for supertuxkart by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl> for the Fedora
126 GNU/Linux distribution.
127 November 15, 2001 SUPERTUXKART(6)