Mach Rider Strategy Guide

Design Mode

Objective of Design Mode

Design your own course, then race on it with the rules from your choice of any of the main game modes. You can only design one course at a time, and your course can only have one route on it.

Design Mode Menu

Screenshot of the Design Mode menu

The Design Mode Menu has two sections.

Game Modes

After you have designed a custom course, you can select which of the three main game mode rules you want to play it with:

  • Fighting Course: Survive to the goal on your custom course. Invaders and road obstacles appear.
  • Endurance Course: Reach the target distance within the time limit. Invaders and road obstacles appear.
  • Solo Course: Reach the target distance within the time limit. Only road obstacles appear.

You will be unable to select any game modes until you have created a course and pressed SELECT. If you return to this menu, this means the course can be played.

Course Creation

These options are used for creating and saving your course.

  • Save: Save your design to a tape deck.
  • Load: Load your design to a tape deck.
  • Design: Go to the course design screen.
  • Reset: Delete any custom course data.

About Save/Load

In the original Japanese Famicom release, you could save your designs and load them again using the Famicom Data Recorder. This was a tape deck that could write data to and read data from a cassette tape.

Outside of Japan, the Data Recorder was planned but never released. The Save and Load features still appear on the game's menu, but they do not work as intended.

When the game was re-released on the Wii Virtual Console, the save and load features were programmed back into the game.

Course Design Screen

Screenshot of the Design Mode menu Screenshot of the Design Mode menu

The top half of the screen is the Design Area, and the bottom half shows the Course Parts.

Controls

  • Use the D-Pad to move the Course Cursor around in the Design Area to decide where you would like to place a course part.
  • Hold the B Button and use the D-Pad to to highlight the course part you would like to place.
  • Press the A Button to place the highlighted course part into the Course Cursor in the Design Area.
  • Press A, B, START and SELECT at the same time to delete all the course parts from the Design Area.
  • Press SELECT when you have finished.
    • If your course is complete and can be played, you will return to the Design Mode Menu.
    • If your course is incomplete, the Course Cursor will highlight a problem area.

Design Advice

  • There are 37 course parts to choose from.
  • If a course part cannot be placed in a particular area, it will be blanked out.
  • The course must run from the left side to the right side of the Design Area.
  • To replace a part, move the Course Cursor over the part you do not want, then highlight and select another part.
  • To remove a part, move the Course Cursor over the part you do not want, then highlight and select a blank part.