I just want to say that the game is very likely not going to patched any time soon
(also why though like how are we going to know that you even beat the dev record for one of those? plus they might keep at in and you can still play older versions)
I have the same thing happen to me, and I didn't have to do anything, I does played the main game and it just worked again.
Don't know what happen.
(To uninstall, you go to File Explorer (The download should only work on Windows), go to the zip files, and either right click and hit delete or left click on it and hit delete, go to the Recycle Bin and finally, right click anywhere and hit 'Empty Recycle Bin'.)
If you are on Windows 11, I can help! Download the game, then open 'File Explorer' and click download on the left hand side. find 'party win32 (version number).zip' and right click it and click 'Extract All' and click Extract (It would Extract to Download btw), and open the file of the same name, and make sure that it does not have a chain on the folder, open win32 and lastly, click to open 'nw.exe'.
Hope this helps :)
EDIT: I saw that some people have issues with files not extracting. I never saw it, so I can't help with it :(
As long as the game detects your controller, it would automaticly work, just press a button or two, then click 'Controller Config' and set your controls. If you are talking about same keyboard gameplay, go to 'Controller Config' anyways and you set the keybinds there as well. This is all about offline gameplay however, the game does not have online mutliplayer; you need to uses remote desktop apps like Parsec to do so.
That is the intro for Fruit Forecast in Super Mario Party, and if not, so what? It's can be just a intro for the minigame, like other Mario Party. (edit: The bomb rally thing might just make it easyer to code and might not care to remove it and I did saw the cpus stop in Iron Cannon though, might just be me or you, I don't really know. Might be bcs I play hard cpus.)