...but the bots in this game are the most annoying of any Mario Kart game so I still find it funny

And you can’t even see it because of the camera angle. Fix your 18 year old game Nintendo. /j

and sheer bounce timing 😂

This is a question I didn't think much about until I started playing more Mario Kart Wii. For those who don't know, Red Shells in that game are a little more stupid compared to the modern entries. They're stuck to the ground unlike future games, and once they get somewhat close, they'll ignore all track hazards and beeline straight for you- meaning, depending on the area around you, you can sometimes bait it into walls or pits. And.... I personally really like that! Gives you more to think about in terms of avoidance, while still making red shells quite dangerous. You're not going to dodge every one, but knowing that it's always possible makes it genuinely interesting.

Growing my appreciation for the older system did make me really despite modern red shells, though. The newer games overhauled them so they're more common, and simultaneously also far, far smarter. There really is no way to dodge or bait them, unless you happen to have a block item. They even fly through the air to hit you now, which I find supremely annoying, and I just generally think the new system is far less interesting to engage with.

But, I can also see people preferring that for game balance. It's far more rigid of a system, but that also makes it more consistent- for better, or for worse. If you don't have a block item, you aren't blocking the red shell. Plain, simple. It's not my preference, but I can understand why someone would hypothetically like that.

Since I thought this was an interesting question, I figured I'd quickly ask here! Do you like the modern, smart, flying red shells? Or do you prefer the ground-bound ones from days past?

Moo Moo Meadows core. Got really lucky and that send me to the front and getting even luckier to seal my victory.

With Mario Kart Tour's online services terminated, Piranha Plant Pipeline is no longer playable officially. To honor it's legacy, I tried to make the track in an open-world style of some sort.

Alongside the course itself are several VS intermissions leading to this course as well as being the starting point of Knockout Tour rallies. Also shown is a version of the track as a checkpoint so there's at least a way to drive this course backwards (mostly). SNES Battle Course 1 and GCN Pipe Plaza are located near here.

Mario Kart Tour will be dearly missed. Thanks for everything!

This was made using Paint.net.

Sooo I was wondering if anyone with an emulator or Mario kart DS could add this code I want too see if Nintendo WFC works with the emulator

Follow this and you’ll be just as good as me!

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I wouldn't have expected them to make online functionality in the base game the same again, at least not with the ACTUAL in-game methods, but they could have at least...idk, had a custom access point for mario kart ds specifically, like how melonds does it.

They could have AT THE VERY LEAST made it possible for two wii u's to connect via LAN or local multiplayer, I would have been happy with that.

It was 2016, so the chances of someone having a ds around to already play mkds were still very high, idk why the wii u port even existed. i assume any adult that somehow doesn't have an actual ds but also wants to play mkds could just...emulate? its not hard.

Not sure if everyone realized, but after the 4.0.0 update, people who used to play online together lost the ability to track the second player's points. More details are in my original post here.

The good news is that we found a way to play it like befor again 🎉🎉 Here are the instructions:

1 - Without the cartridge in Switch 2, go to the Mario Kart 8 card in the Home menu and press + button, go to Data Management, and then erase the application

2 - Put your cartridge back in and launch the game. Now it comes the important part: Switch will prompt you 2 ways of downloading the game: download the base game only and download everything (expansion pack-related content). Choose only the base game. There you go; when the game starts, everything will be like used to.

Remarks:

1 - My Switch 2 system is not in English, so maybe my translation here does not match the wording entirely, but this is the idea.

2 - You will not be able to choose the expansion pack characters, but the expansion-exclusive courses will be playable normally in online mode.

3 - You will be able to play as many hours as you wish without sleeping your console, but when you do this, there is a big chance that it will update automatically, download the expansion pack, and you gonna need to do the process again.

4 - I think this only works for the physical version of the game, since you cannot download only the base game on the digital version, but I did not test it.

I thought I'd share the last of my achievements for this game. I got an all time brand new record by a few hundred points on the Rome Avanti 3 course and I managed to level up for the last time the day before. I'm sort of bummed out that I never hit level 300, but it was quite the fun experience nonetheless.

1: SNES Koopa Beach 1

2: SNES Koopa Beach 2

3: N64 Koopa Troopa Beach

4: GBA Shy Guy Beach

5: GBA Cheep Cheep Island

6: GCN Peach Beach

7: DS Cheep Cheep Beach

8: 3DS Cheep Cheep Lagoon

9: 8/8 Deluxe Dolphin Shoals

10: Tour Los Angeles Laps Lap 1

11: World Peach Beach

Hopefully Sanei will make at least a couple...