Wii Kart ONLINE!!

Oh how I've missed you, wi-fi

2008-07-23T14:29:45Z

Okay so I just played a worldwide wi-fi game for the first time in a few weeks and I'm up against a guest and a player with a rank of ~4000, so I think, okay, this will be easy. I get in the game and find that the guest player follows me around for the whole game pelting me with whatever offensive items he picks up while (what I assume is) his friend with the low ranks yoinks first place and steals many ranks off me. i.e.: He'd pick up three red shells, hit me with one, wait next to me, hit me with another, etc.

Any of you had this happen to you before?

The Dreaded Blue Shell

2008-07-21T17:52:31Z

Is it wrong that in a close race where I'm in first and I see the blue shell...I slow down to take as many people with me as possible?

icons by 3kame

2008-07-19T21:45:01Z

SIX ICONS

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And four more Mario Kart icons here: http://community.livejournal.com/so_turtley/34993.html

LOTS MORE ICONS @ so_turtley

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Stupid question? :$

2008-07-19T13:25:00Z

OK, so I just got a time in competition 6 which would get me to about #6 in Europe but I wanted to know, if I just clicked restart, and played again, then clicked send record later on, would it send the best time or just the time I got that race around? I assume it would send the fastest time but not sure whether to risk it :P

Answered now ty

I may try for that #1 spot tomorrow o_O

Controller ?

2008-07-18T19:30:38Z

Has anyone tried playing mario kart without the Wii wheel or a nunchuk? Instead you'd hold the Wii remote horizontally.

Odd question I know.

wii_kartonline @ 2008-07-15T18:44:00

2008-07-15T17:45:12Z

I think all Mario Kart Wii has done for me, is teach me that I actually have very servere anger issues.

XD

The funniest thing just happened...

2008-07-13T22:16:09Z

So I'm playing online, and someone picks Delfino Square. At least, I think that's what it's called. Anyway, I started in 1st (rare) and right after we went up the hill, I and the 10 others out of 12 crashed right into the fountain. Why?

Because it was on mirror mode! Argh! Anyone else absolutely hate this?

Which brings me to my real question:
How do you select mirror mode tracks online?

Playing onlie just got that much more fun to me. I get really excited when I'm in a good race. I mean, really, really excited. For the first time last night, I broke 7000 points, and today I was thrown into a group of 11 others with 7000-9000 points and it was extremely fun. I started with 7300 two hours ago, now I'm on... 7300! Brilliant.

Manual drift

2008-07-08T19:39:27Z

Okay, so this may be a dumb question but..
Is it me, or do you go like *really* slow on straights when using manual?

I usually use automatic, but lately been trying manual drift, and I find whenever I get a boost from a drift then go straight into a wheelie, I suddenly slow down immensely, so my automatic ghost wizzes past me until I go into another corner. My controllers are fully charged and I don't take my thumb off the 2 on my wii wheel so I don't understand why it does it..

Can anyone explain this? Or am I doing something stupid? Thanks! ^^

PS: Has that community tournament been cancelled or something? Everyone's forgotten about it, it seems :P

Fast Staff Ghost Help?

2008-07-08T10:31:26Z

I am having a bitch of a time getting the fast staff ghost on SNES Mario Circuit 3 in the Lightning Cup. It's one of the last tracks I need before I have all 32 fast staff ghosts! I have come close, with a time of 1.35.775, but I can't seem to do any better than that. I have used several different characters, bikes, and shortcuts...with no luck.
Any tips? Or is it basically to just keep trying it until I get it.

EDIT: Finally got it. Now I just have the 3 Bowser Castles left to beat and that's it! Any tips on those?

Peach Kart Wii!!

2008-07-07T02:37:37Z

Hi hi!!

I just got this game a few weeks ago and I'm looking for ppl to play with!! My code is 5284-2169-0519 and I usually use a Osaka Mii.. @.@ If you add me I'll add you back!! Thanks!!

A Question from a Newcomer

2008-07-03T03:47:54Z

So, I've finally been playing my first few games of MarioKart online at the moment and I'm pretty confused by something that was happening in one of my first races. There were people playing that had really low VRs and they'd get so far ahead of the pack and then all of a sudden stop and wait for people to catch up and then slam them with bullets, stars, or fire blue shells and then that would happen all throughout the match.

What's that all about?

pet peeves

2008-07-02T18:09:39Z

Now, I really do love Mario Kart, but I bet, like me, you have a few things about Mario Kart that annoy the hell out of you. For me:

-when voting for a track in a WFC VS race and you're waiting hella long for just one last person to submit their track vote and of course, they send in a big fat "?". If you dont care which track we race, do you have to waste the other 11 peoples time??

-Being in a really great race with some one where you have the lead for most of the race or you guys keep switching 1st and 2nd place throughout the race and then about %75 of the way through the last lap, you get hit with the blue shell and that gives your opponent the now very easy win.

-And honestly, as much as I love riding the motorcycles, and it seems most people agree they are better than karts, I wish they didnt have as big an advantage as they do. I wish I was more compelled to select a kart once in a while. Whenever I race really high ranked racers they ALL use bikes. Anyone out there got a 7500+ VR using a kart exclusively? Should they have called this game Mario Bikes??

You got any to add?

I've Been Lurking.

2008-06-30T21:54:14Z

So, I decided that instead of lurking around any longer that I would come and make an intro post!

I'm 20 and living in the midwest in IN and on EST. I'm a bit of an insomniac, so I'm up at all hours until I'm ready to sleep. I've never actually played MK online yet since I'm still working on slowly unlocking things, but I decided what the heck.

I randomly will play MK throughout the day (I'm on summer vacation for the time being), so if you ever want to play a friendly game let me know through a message or something and I'll figure out how to make it happen since it'll be a first for me, ha. Also, feel free to add me as a friend on LJ as well.

My MK # is: 3866-9132-0252.

New Member!

2008-06-30T18:11:41Z

Hey everyone! My name's Ashley and I'm 24... I just got my Mario Kart to connect with my router, so now I can finally play with you guys!!!

My MK number is 1934-2162-8278.

So you can add me if you want, and I'm going to go back through the entries and add some of the numbers I find there as well.

Hope to see ya in the games!

Cars

2008-06-30T03:42:50Z

So..... I was playing today against someone driving a car shaped like a duck. How do you get special cars like that?

How to beat Grumble Volcano in under a minute.

2008-06-30T01:25:04Z

Browsing the tubes like normal and I find this gem.

One of Those Days..

2008-06-28T20:43:47Z

Hello guys~

Have you ever had one of those days playing online or even offline where everything seems to go wrong for you? Always get the worst items, always mere points away from getting that star ranking for a GP, getting hit with a blue shell right when you're about to win and end up close to last place EVERY track you play?

Well that definitely happened to me today online. Every single race I played, no matter if I was good at it or not, I somehow always managed to screw up somewhere along the line and I ended up in seventh or eighth place, causing me to lose TONS of points. I literally went from 9000 points to nearly 8000. u_u; I can tell you, I as very frusterated and I don't think I want to play the game for a few days now.

TL;DR Share your worst-luck moments in Mario Kart Wii.

Expert Staff Ghosts

2008-06-28T12:23:23Z

Is there a way to see how many expert staff ghosts you have unlocked? We have checked the Records section and the Time Trials rankings with no luck. Are we missing something?

falll away

2008-06-26T18:26:30Z

I'm a bit stuck in the game...i've unlocked a few characters but how many are their to unlock?

Mario Kart Wiiiiiiiiiii - I'm new

2008-06-24T21:57:38Z

I just joined this awesome community *Squee*

Name: Veronica
Age: 29
Location: San Diego, CA

I love Mario Kart. Silent Hill series, Fatal Frame series, and Katamari Damacy series, all faves. I love video games in general.

Anywho, right now, I only have one other friend who has the game and is able to go online, but she will be starting summer school soon and well, I need some others to race against when she is busy with homework. =D

I'm usually racing between 9pm - 2am (Pacific - Mon-Fri). The weekends are up in the air, but for the most part i would say late, late night.

Friend code (just look at my icon)...ya like? 1977-1364-1011

I'm posting this here and I see there is a Friend Codes post, so i will post it there as well.

Thanks and happy racing everyone. XD

5 Icons

2008-06-19T15:50:24Z

Shortly after Mario Kart Wii came out, I decided to make some icons to use for my journal. So now I'm sharing the icons here with you guys. :)

If you'd like me to make an icon of one of the other characters, just let me know and I'll make it. ;)

The post includes:
[05] Mario Kart Wii Icons
-[01] Koopa Troopa
-[01] Mario
-[01] Peach
-[01] Wario
-[01] Yoshi

Since there's only 5, there's no teasers, sorry!

( Follow the fake cut to my icon journal for the icons! )

I finally got it!

2008-06-18T20:19:10Z

I got my Mario Kart Wii a few days ago, and it's seriously the best game ever! I got it online and everything! My VR is about 5200-5500. I'm still working on getting the hang of it. I'm so used to the gamecube one!

Here's my friend code, add me, and I'll add you back. I'm up to race anyone! 2750-2427-1353

I'm from the USA, and I'll probably be playing anytime of the day, since I'm on summer vacation! :)

Refer to this for a little bit more info on myself!

Just comment here and we'll definatly race together!

help anyone?

2008-06-18T19:04:02Z

i've been trying to race a dutch friend of mine online in mariokart. Yet every time we try to join a room the other one has made we get disconnected, and cant join them in races either. DOes anyone know what we are doing wrong? We have both friended and mariokart friended each other :S

Blogcrews, anyone?

2008-06-17T18:45:50Z

I have started a Mario Kart Wii blogcrew over at my journal.

Come over and claim anything ~~besides your Mii~~ from the latest in the Mario Kart saga!

A friendly challenge?

2008-06-17T03:55:55Z

Cuz thats exactly what I want. If you're good, like star ranking and you have a VR of 7600 or better and you'd like to race me online, I'd love to exchange friend codes with you. I only have a few friends that have MK and I destroy all of them, so I'm looking for some more challenging opponents that I can race semi-regularly and can push me to be better/teach me new techniques. I'm in Pacific Standard Time and will race any time of day but I'm most often on very late at night.

My MK code is 5198-2980-5637.