Dinger Derby

Dinger Derby
Appears in	Mario Party 5 Mario Party: The Top 100 Mario Party Superstars
Type	4-Player minigame
Initial record	15 (Mario Party 5) 5 (Mario Party: The Top 100) 19 (Mario Party Superstars)
Music track	Everybody Party
Music sample Mario Party 5: Mario Party: The Top 100: Mario Party Superstars:

Dinger Derby is a 4-Player minigame in Mario Party 5, Mario Party: The Top 100, and Mario Party Superstars.

Overview

Gameplay from Mario Party Superstars

The minigame opens with each player doing a practice swing first before hitting a baseball, with only the latter animation appearing in the Mario Party: The Top 100 version.

A pitching machine throws 30 baseballs at players, who try to hit as many as they can. The machine winds up at normal speed for a standard pitch; slow speed for a fastball; vice versa for a slowball, and the slowest for a screwball. It is possible to hit someone in the audience with a ball, although this only shows them dazed briefly. Players who hit the most balls by the end win, but if all players have the same score, it is a draw.

Dinger Derby is the sixth minigame in the Decathlon mode of Mario Party 5 as well as the first of Half Decathlon in Mario Party: The Top 100. The player tries to hit as many as they can in both, earning 1,000 points if they hit all thirty baseballs. The default record in Mini-Game Decathlon in Mario Party 5 is 17 points, but for Mario Party: The Top 100 it is 10 points. Players earn ~47.368 points times the number of balls hit for the first 19 balls; after 19 balls, the player scores 900 points plus another ~9.091 points for each additional hit. Decimals are rounded down. The scoring in Mario Party: The Top 100 is much more lenient. A result of 20 gives the player 909 points; the same result in Mario Party 5 gives the player only 500 points.

In the ending, which is absent from Mario Party: The Top 100, the players do their respective winning and losing animations after their bats disappear, while confetti and balloons rain down. Furthermore, if at least one player hits all thirty balls, a hot-air balloon depicting a 30 appears.

It was also included as part of a Mario Party 5 demo found on a bonus disc bundled with preorder copies of Mario Kart: Double Dash!!

Controls

Mario Party 5

• – Swing

Mario Party: The Top 100

• : Swing

Mario Party Superstars

• – Swing

In-game text

Mario Party 5

• Rules – "Swing the baseball bat and hit the pitches from the pitching machine. Whoever hits the most pitches wins."
• Advice – "Try watching the speed of the arm to predict the speed of the pitch."

Mario Party: The Top 100

• Description – "Swing at just the right moment to hit the machine's pitches!"
• On-screen – "Swing at the right time to hit the pitches!"

Mario Party Superstars

• In-game description
  • English:
    Swing at just the right moment to hit the machine's pitches.

Gallery

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  Artwork based on the minigame, based on Hey, Batter, Batter!

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  Mini-Game Decathlon icon

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  Mario Party: The Top 100

Naming

The title is a play on Home Run Derby.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ハッスルバッティング[?] Hassuru Battingu	Hustle Batting
Chinese (simplified)	用力挥棒[?] Yònglì huī bàng	Swing Hard
Chinese (traditional)	用力揮棒[?] Yònglì huī bàng	Swing Hard
Dutch	Honkbalhectiek[?]	Hectic Baseball
French	Batte la Balle![?]	Beat the Ball!
German	Baseball-Ballerei[?]	Baseball Shoot
Italian	A tutto baseball[?]	Full baseball ahead
Korean	허슬 배팅[?] Heoseul Baeting	Hustle Batting
Portuguese	Batebol[?]	From bate ("beat") and -bol (a suffix for the names of sports, which is the loanword of English word "ball")
Russian	Отбивай-ка![?] Otbivaj-ka!	Beat it off!
Spanish	Dale al bate[?]	Swing the Bat

See also

• Swing Kings