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 do their victory/winning pose(s) while the loser(s) do their regular losing pose, 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 5

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  Mario Party: The Top 100

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  Mario Party Superstars

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
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.