Dinger Derby

Template:Minigame-infobox Dinger Derby is a 4-Player minigame in Mario Party 5, Mario Party: The Top 100, and Mario Party Superstars. 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!! The minigame's name is a variation of the name of the real-life Home Run Derby.

Introduction

Artwork of Princess Daisy swinging a bat from the minigame

The camera is zoomed in on one of the players, and zooms out as each of them takes a practice swing, then hits a baseball. In The Top 100, only the animation of players hitting a baseball is shown.

Gameplay

The players have 30 baseballs thrown at them by a pitching machine and must hit as many of them as possible. There are four types of pitches: a standard pitch, a fastball, a slowball, and a screwball that wobbles furiously. Which pitch is thrown depends on how long the machine winds up to throw. A fast wind-up indicates a slowball, a normal wind-up is the standard pitch, a slow wind-up is the fastball, and an even slower wind-up is the screwball. If two balls come toward the character, it counts as one ball, since the player can hit only one of those two. If the player manages to hit a ball at one of the spectators, the spectator will be dazed for a moment. The player who hits the most balls wins.

Decathlon

This minigame appears in the "Decathlon" modes in both Mario Party 5 and The Top 100. It is the sixth minigame in Mario Party 5, and the first minigame in Mario Party: The Top 100's Half Decathlon. Here, the player's objective is to hit as many balls as possible to earn as many points as possible, up to 1,000. In both games, a player can get 1,000 if they can hit all 30 balls. The default record for this minigame in Mini-Game Decathlon is 17 points in Mario Party 5 and 10 points in The Top 100.

Mario Party: The Top 100's scoring system

Players earn ~47.368 points times the number of balls hit for the first 19 balls; after 19 balls, the player will score 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.

Ending

In Mario Party 5 and Mario Party Superstars, the camera changes angle and the bats disappear. The winner(s) then strike their victory pose(s) while the loser(s) sulk, as the crowd cheers and confetti and balloons appear to commend the winner's/winners' success. In Mario Party 5, if any player manages to hit all 30 balls, a hot air balloon with a big number 30 on it will appear.

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

• "Swing at just the right moment to hit the machine's pitches."

Gallery

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  Mario Party: The Top 100

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  Mario Party Superstars

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ハッスルバッティング[?] Hassuru Battingu	Hustle Batting
Dutch	Honkbalhectiek[?]	Hectic Baseball
German	Baseball-Ballerei[?]	Baseball Shoot
Italian	A tutto baseball[?]	Full baseball ahead
Korean	허슬 배팅[?] Heoseul Baeting	Hustle Batting
Portuguese	Batebol[?]	Pun on bate (beat) and the suffix bol (forms the names of sports, which is a loanword of English compounds ending in ball).
Russian	Отбивай-ка![?] Otbivay-ka!	?
Spanish	Dale al bate[?]	Swing the Bat

Trivia

• Daisy's artwork for this minigame in Mario Party 5 is similar to that of Hey, Batter, Batter!, another baseball-based minigame from Mario Party 3.