Mario Kart (Wii)

[VR46]

I just had a few tries and got 1.47.0 - apart from lighting and a POW it wasn't too bad, but there is way too much luck required to avoid encountering bad items so I don't think I'll put too much effort into bettering it.

A man on my wavelength, Time Trialling with random objects/enemies = not much fun in my book.

[Mayhem]

I've been informed that if you shoot the roaming Goombas they cough up mushrooms and other useful items during the race... something to test and try out?

As for the TT competition, I'd be coming in a bit late and I've not done any TTing so far, been too busy playing online. This tourny is the first attempt as such to do it and I haven't yet unlocked what appear to be the quickest vehicles...

[KIT786]

I've been able to get 1:54 but I can't seem to connect to the servers, keep getting an error (code:61010), I assume they are just too busy with everyone trying to send thier times

[MikeF]

I've been informed that if you shoot the roaming Goombas they cough up mushrooms and other useful items during the race... something to test and try out?

As for the TT competition, I'd be coming in a bit late and I've not done any TTing so far, been too busy playing online. This tourny is the first attempt as such to do it and I haven't yet unlocked what appear to be the quickest vehicles...

Don't worry about that, we usually pick the vehicles and characters that are available from the start. It's not a tourneyt as such, more a friendly time comparison thread

[Ouenben]

Videogamesplus want £18 postage for this! ****ers.
Will just order elsewhere

[Mayhem]

Curious... I got mine from VG+ and it cost me 15 quid to ship, but that's because it's the wheel and game in a big box AND it got shipped DHL (so I had it in three days).

[KIT786]

Been able to get it down to 1:46 but can't see myslef improving much more!

[thegreathopper]

Curious... I got mine from VG+ and it cost me 15 quid to ship, but that's because it's the wheel and game in a big box AND it got shipped DHL (so I had it in three days).

Mine arrived from dvd box office today I paid about ?35 shipped.

[Briareos]

This arrived last week but could only start playing it last night. Had a big seesion with the intention of earning the Gold Wii wheel but it hasn't changed just yet, I should probably do some more research into how to get it.

Swept through the 50cc cups and moved onto the 100cc bike adventure. Having a bit more trouble with these, but i think it's just me getting used to the Wheel. Another crack tonight methinks!

[SephirothFF]

Can anyone with an imported version (preferably JPN) confirm whether you play against Japanese players only in the regional online race? I'm wondering if you get IP blocked from joining JPN races if your IP doesn't originate from Japan (or the country which the software is region coded to)

Thanks.

[Mayhem]

I'm in the UK, have a US Wii and US copy of Mario Kart and when I do regional I just get people from the Americas (mostly the US, but also Canada, Brazil and Mexico so far I've seen).

[lurch996]

That's strange because I have a JP Wii, JP Mario Kart and I've never played against a Japanese player. It's mostly been people from the US and Europe.

[r3z]

Your region is based on your game region and location is set by what's recorded by your Wii console settings - so I am shown to be in Japan when online, and get Japanese rankings for the regional TT rankings on my JPN Wii/MK. Haven't tried regional race but you'd race JPN-only opponents as well (or other JPN-version importers).

Is there any reason to do regional rather than global races? I haven't played online very much but have just done global races and pretty much all my opponents have been European with a few from the US (although they could perhaps be US-version importers like Mayhem) and the connection has been great.

[Briareos]

Is there any reason to do regional rather than global races? I haven't played online very much but have just done global races and pretty much all my opponents have been European with a few from the US (although they could perhaps be US-version importers like Mayhem) and the connection has been great.

Same here, I've a US wii and it has me listed in New York. Whenever i race Globally it mostly matches in Europe, so I'm guessing it does it by ping. Which is nice

Playing for my second night tonight and i've now got gold on all 50cc and new 100cc cups. Now I just need to get golds on the retro 100ccs and it's onto the 150ccs.


I have 100% wii wheel usage and been on the postive end of 70 online races, does anyone know how much further i have to go to earn the coveted golden wheel?

[SephirothFF]

Fantastic. Thanks for all the help guys!