DraStic

It's possible that your sequence of inputs are being repeated really deterministically, although it'd be weird if the game had such coarse resolution for this. Could you try waiting very different amounts of time between button presses and see if you still get the same stage? Also, can you confirm ...

There's no random number generator in DS, so nowhere to put an srand. Games may use the RTC as a random seed. RTC is pulled from system time, so it should work the same as the system time does.

Thanks for the info.

No I'm not too scared by "wasting luck" on other games, but I still wonder why ...

Lordus wrote:It's a different course for me every time.
If you're loading from a savestate, you shouldn't.

I'm not loading from a savestate. I'm doing exactly what I described.

PS.:
I'm using the latest Pandora version (2.2.1.0p).

Start Mario Kart DS
Select Single Player
Select VS
Default options for everything but Course
Select Rnadom for option Course
Wario Stadium is "randomly" selected
Close the emulator and repeat the process

Besides random, wario stadium is drawn every time.

Not sure if this is a bug on the ...