Crash Team Racing

How do I configure the options?

Install ctr.apworld, then open the Archipelago Launcher and choose Generate Template Options. Select Crash Team Racing to create a YAML file with every available setting and value documented inside it. The defaults provide the full randomizer experience. For a gentler first seed, use vanilla warp-pad unlock requirements or reduce the two-stage gate and trap settings.

What does randomization do to this game?

CTR Archipelago turns Adventure mode into a multiworld. A seed can randomize warp-pad requirements and destinations, boss garages, hub doors, Gem Cups, and the items awarded by your events. Your available locations can include Trophy Races, CTR Token Challenges, relic Time Trials, boss races, Gem Cups, Crystal Bonus Rounds, Oxide races, and additional finishing-position checks.

Progression comes from items received through Archipelago rather than the local reward for the event you just completed. The server can send Trophies, Keys, CTR Tokens, relics, Gems, and other seed-specific items. Warp pads show the unclaimed rewards at their destination, including an Archipelago marker for items belonging to another player.

What do the AP item box colours mean?

With Item Box Locations on, AP item boxes stand on the tracks. By default each box shows the Archipelago colour of the item inside: purple for progression, blue for useful, cyan for filler and salmon for a trap. A box is pink until the game has looked up what is inside, a moment after connecting.

The YAML option Item Box Colours (color_boxes_by_item) turns this off for the whole slot, which is useful for races. Players can also turn the colours off for themselves in the game under OPTIONS → Archipelago → Item Box Colours. When the YAML turned them off, that row shows OFF (SEED) and cannot be turned on.

Options in detail

The help text for each option in the YAML is kept short. This section holds the extra detail for the options that need it.

Progressive Boost and Progressive Stats

With per_character, Progressive Boost adds 2 items per racer (3 with Blue Fire), so 32 to 48 items, and Progressive Stats adds 3 stats x 4 steps per racer, so 192 items. Both together can add up to 240 items. In a solo game every item comes back to you, so most of your checks will give you a progressive item. If the seed does not have enough locations for them, generation stops with an error that suggests which options to change.

Logic Difficulty

Boss races always need your first boost, and more if their track needs it. Oxide Station needs Ultimate Sacred Fire to finish unless Shortcut Knowledge is hard. Cortex Vortex always needs Ultimate Sacred Fire.

Platinum Time Trials need two boosts on easy and medium, and three on easy with Progressive Boost: Blue Fire on. hard keeps each track's own Platinum requirement.

Hit Character Checks

Ripper Roo, Papu Papu, Komodo Joe, Pinstripe and N. Oxide join your opponents when you win their boss race. Fake Crash joins after Crash Cove or Sewer Speedway, Penta Penguin after Blizzard Bluff or Polar Pass, and N. Tropy after Slide Coliseum or Turbo Track. When that race is not in your seed, Keys unlock the racer instead: Fake Crash at 1 Key, Penta Penguin at 2, N. Tropy at 3 and N. Oxide at 4. Up to three unlocked racers join a race, and racers you have not hit yet get a seat first.

Relic Race Perfect Checks

Each Relic Race gets one check, paid when the race ends with every time crate broken (the crate counter reads full). It needs the same access as that track's Sapphire Time Trial. With Progressive Boost on, every perfect check also needs Ultimate Sacred Fire at every Logic Difficulty, because some time crates sit on routes that need boost. If Cortex Vortex Track takes a track's pad, that track has no Relic Race and no perfect check.

Wumpa Check

With per_track, Slide Coliseum and Turbo Track only have a Wumpa check when their Trophy Race is in the seed. If Cortex Vortex Track takes the pad of a boss track, that track keeps its Wumpa check, paid from the boss race. The old true and false values still work and mean global and off.

Cortex Vortex Track

Destination shuffle can move Cortex Vortex like any other destination, and it can be a Gem Cup leg when Randomize Gem Cup Tracks is on. With Progressive Boost on, its finish checks need two Progressive Boosts.

Racer-Locked Warp Pads

A pad can only take a lock if the seed randomized its requirement, so the always-open N. Sanity Beach starter pads are never locked. When you return to the hub, the game gives you back the racer you chose.

Remove Playable Oxide

Oxide stays in the racer select screen as a locked racer you can never unlock. He still races against you in his boss races, and in ordinary races once Hit Character adds him to the field.

Trap Weights

The keys are icy_road, low_gravity, forced_usf, forced_boost, first_person, wumpa_wipeout, flatten, item_reroll, forced_use, empty_crates, weakened_kart, boost_blocker, wireframe, nitro, reverse_steering, red_potion, upside_down, mirror_mode, warpball_ambush and demo_camera. Each weight is a whole number from 0 to 100. For example, this never picks First Person and picks Icy Road twice as often as its default:

trap_weights:
  first_person: 0
  icy_road: 10

Requirement Weights

For example, to ask for Keys and Sapphire Relics more often than Trophies:

requirement_variety: custom
requirement_weights:
  Trophy: 30
  Key: 40
  Sapphire Relic: 40

Custom Tracks

The entry must match a track package this version of the apworld knows, field for field, so copy it rather than writing it. The game checks the track's files against the entry when you connect. If they do not match, it does not load the custom track and the Purple Gem Cup runs its four normal tracks instead.

Which items can be in another player's world?

Progression, useful items, filler, and traps may all be placed in another player's world. Likewise, some of your locations will contain items for other players. The exact mix depends on the generated multiworld.

When the player receives an item, what happens?

Received progression updates the gates in Adventure mode. New items appear in the feed when you return to the hub. Traps arm silently and trigger during a later race rather than firing the moment they arrive.

Download the paired client and apworld from the CTR Archipelago releases page, then follow the setup guide to play. Report bugs and stuck seeds on the project issue tracker.