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Message started by Rhodechill on 06/27/13 at 16:55:09

Title: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart Wii
Post by Rhodechill on 06/27/13 at 16:55:09

Since most of us have played this game for hours upon hours, surely we have noticed some small details that others might not know about.  I'd certainly be interested in hearing about these kinds of things from other players, and maybe as a community we can compile a large list of some of the small quirks of this game.  Even if you're unsure of how obvious something is, post it anyway.  Can't hurt.


I'll begin with just a few things, but I'm sure a lot more will come to mind later.

-DS Desert Hills textured finish line is the farthest back from the actual finish line.
-If you spam button inputs very rapidly during a time trial, you can make the "Unable to create a ghost" message pop up much earlier than 6 minutes into the trial due to an overflow of ghost information.
-There's a 5th type of trick.  Jammed tricks.  It's when you perform a trick and get the boost, but the animation does not activate.  Common when multiple tricks are performed rapidly, or when contact with the ground is made very shortly after tricking.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by .Hahaae on 06/27/13 at 18:18:02

Didn't you make a similar topic a while back?

The Japanese ISO for this game has a built-in TAS feature that can only be used if your thumbprints match the requirements.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Cole on 06/27/13 at 18:20:20

The lowest valid MKWii FC is 0000-0000-0142.

You can confirm this by trying to register all FCs from 0000-0000-0000 to 0000-0000-0142, but I used a much faster method to find this number.

The lowest FC that someone actually has is probably 0001-3xxx-xxxx.

Anything over 54xx-xxxx-xxxx is impossible.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by inviso87 on 06/27/13 at 18:28:28

-You can get stuck on a branch of the right tree at the end of Maple Treeway if you go high enough
-I believe you can get stuck behind one of the hanging poster boards at the 2nd set of up escalators on Coconut Mall
-There's no invisible walls over the sc house on Daisy Circuit and you can fall through the house (from the top of it) under the stage


That's all I can think of right now.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by PigeonIYI on 06/27/13 at 18:49:13

If you perform the ubercut from the bridge near the start line to the shroomspot u-turn on N64 Bowser's Castle, drive back up the stairs and then circle Bowser's statue clockwise three times, you unlock Marty.  ::)

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by inviso87 on 06/27/13 at 18:55:14


677760646176716C666E050 wrote:
If you perform the ubercut from the bridge near the start line to the shroomspot u-turn on N64 Bowser's Castle, drive back up the stairs and then circle Bowser's statue clockwise three times, you unlock Marty.  ::)


I did it and unlocked Farty.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by MH on 06/27/13 at 21:00:33


527E7D7456787D73746365110 wrote:
Anything over 54xx-xxxx-xxxx is impossible.

Mind blown :o

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by ALAKTORN on 06/28/13 at 01:40:08


416D6E67456B6E60677076020 wrote:
The lowest valid MKWii FC is 0000-0000-0142.

You can confirm this by trying to register all FCs from 0000-0000-0000 to 0000-0000-0142, but I used a much faster method to find this number.

The lowest FC that someone actually has is probably 0001-3xxx-xxxx.

Anything over 54xx-xxxx-xxxx is impossible.

that’s interesting

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by ThomasXIII on 06/28/13 at 03:16:07


Quote:
The lowest FC that someone actually has is probably 0001-3xxx-xxxx.


That's funny because on my old wii my fc was 0001-4xxx-xxxx :O

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Brett on 06/28/13 at 04:15:16

I knew someone that had 0001-3734-4729 I think, it was definitely 0001-3xxx-xxxx tho. Still I kinda wish I knew the logic behind why this is the lowest practical FC but no one can have the lowest valid FC. Is there something in particular that the FC is based off of, or is it just randomly assigned?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Blackyboi on 06/28/13 at 04:26:30

my main fc is a 5458 fc :P

btw do you think they might have reservered the other fcs for the moment all others are given away?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 06/28/13 at 12:28:19


3F3F3F570 wrote:
Didn't you make a similar topic a while back?

The Japanese ISO for this game has a built-in TAS feature that can only be used if your thumbprints match the requirements.


I made a topic about the rDH finish line, but this one is a bit different.

And Cole, what was your much faster method?  And do you know what that lowest valid FC is/was used for?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Timothy on 06/28/13 at 15:38:52

Did this ever happen to anyone else?

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yRwTpM59EY[/media]

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by PigeonIYI on 06/28/13 at 16:22:14

If I hadn't been for the ghost I'd have sworn that was a rewind lol gutted

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by .Hahaae on 06/28/13 at 16:25:47

You can do that on BCWii too. Wheelie right before you go off the final ramp and pull back all the way. Hop when you land and it does the same thing. Really weird.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by blahpy on 06/28/13 at 16:57:47

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HOG2o2rrKE[/media]

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by PigeonIYI on 06/28/13 at 17:22:16

I just remembered, there is that odd effect on mushroom gorge where you can use the zippers to make your bike/kart immune to offroad. I can't remember exactly how it was reproduced, but remember thinking "amg prb" when I got it  ;D

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by .Hahaae on 06/28/13 at 17:35:43

Didn't it have something to do with going backwards? I remember that from 2008 lol.


@ That last clip, on the rPB vid, would it be possible to go on the left and cross the line, then respawn behind the line and hit the last CP, getting 2 laps to work?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by blahpy on 06/28/13 at 17:45:54

The MG PRB was very simple: It's activated whenever you go over one of the ramps before the mushroom sections, and deactivated whenever you hit a red mushroom.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by .Hahaae on 06/28/13 at 18:09:31

So, say you used a shroom on the ramp before the cave and avoided the reds. Could you then race in the offroad part of the cave?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by MrL1193 on 06/28/13 at 18:26:05


7575751D0 wrote:
So, say you used a shroom on the ramp before the cave and avoided the reds. Could you then race in the offroad part of the cave?

Yes, but it's not worth doing. If I remember correctly, the effect also reduces your mini-turbo power to zero (the boosts charge and release normally but don't actually increase your speed), so even if it weren't inconvenient to activate, it still wouldn't be worthwhile.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Mr.Nosey on 06/30/13 at 02:49:19

Wtf at that PB TAS... yeah Tim, that dkm trick is very well known, I and many others have uploaded videos of it over the years.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 06/30/13 at 23:34:45

-You can trick on the umbrella/canopy thing on rYF.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by F@nt0m@s on 07/22/13 at 05:25:10


704F710C0C040E3D0 wrote:
[quote author=7575751D0 link=1372380909/0#19 date=1372471771]So, say you used a shroom on the ramp before the cave and avoided the reds. Could you then race in the offroad part of the cave?

Yes, but it's not worth doing. If I remember correctly, the effect also reduces your mini-turbo power to zero (the boosts charge and release normally but don't actually increase your speed), so even if it weren't inconvenient to activate, it still wouldn't be worthwhile.[/quote]
I think it even reduces your speed (while drifting and while wheeling)... To be confirmed.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by inviso87 on 07/22/13 at 14:02:29


202A292A342A530 wrote:
Did this ever happen to anyone else?

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yRwTpM59EY[/media]

Ahahahahaha, yeaaaaa, has happened to me too  :-/






More:
You can hear Blue Shells being thrown.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by RRD on 08/02/13 at 06:04:12

I am not sure (as I have never seen anybody talking about it so far I think), but I believe BCWii background theme's main melody is the exact same as Maple Treeway, just much slower.

Bowser's Castle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR-77VLWDCU
Maple Treeway http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mow-yJraw64

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by EpicX on 08/02/13 at 07:23:39


646472360 wrote:
I am not sure (as I have never seen anybody talking about it so far I think), but I believe BCWii background theme's main melody is the exact same as Maple Treeway, just much slower.

Bowser's Castle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR-77VLWDCU
Maple Treeway http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mow-yJraw64

Hmm,sounds like it but I can't tell :-/

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by ★rusoX on 08/02/13 at 14:05:39

Y you dont try to spped it up? :?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by EpicX on 08/02/13 at 19:50:16


2621273B0C540 wrote:
Y you dont try to spped it up? :?

That would show results

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 08/03/13 at 01:01:09

mindscarp, they're pretty close in some parts, but I don't think they are the same.  Probably coincidental.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by blahpy on 08/03/13 at 02:41:48


101006420 wrote:
I am not sure (as I have never seen anybody talking about it so far I think), but I believe BCWii background theme's main melody is the exact same as Maple Treeway, just much slower.

Bowser's Castle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR-77VLWDCU
Maple Treeway http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mow-yJraw64


This actually seems pretty plausible.  I can definitely see where you're coming from here

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by RRD on 08/03/13 at 11:24:34


7842454E4F49424346462A0 wrote:
mindscarp, they're pretty close in some parts, but I don't think they are the same.  Probably coincidental.

There is a long succession of identical notes, I think it is not coincidental but on purpose. I made a small video with BC accelerated:

MT = BC music? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgcMYmq1Xx4)

Until 0:13 it is the same thing. Even during 0:14-0:25, though the melody is different you can notice the same structure and the first notes correspond. Then after Maple Treeway repeats the first part twice. Did some research, I'm apparently not the only one thinking so:

What is your favorite VG music? (GameFAQs) (http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/576130-mask-two/54466978#8)

Quote:
it's the Maple Treeway theme played in a minor key and it's played slower

http://www.mariokartwii.com/f7/has-anyone-ever-noticed-116713.html

If it is indeed a remix, then I just love how subtle it is, since pretty much nobody notices it and both songs are excellent imo.  :P

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by xNicK♪ on 08/03/13 at 20:07:51


727264200 wrote:
[quote author=7842454E4F49424346462A0 link=1372380909/25#29 date=1375520469]mindscarp, they're pretty close in some parts, but I don't think they are the same.  Probably coincidental.

There is a long succession of identical notes, I think it is not coincidental but on purpose. I made a small video with BC accelerated:

MT = BC music? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgcMYmq1Xx4)

Until 0:13 it is the same thing. Even during 0:14-0:25, though the melody is different you can notice the same structure and the first notes correspond. Then after Maple Treeway repeats the first part twice. Did some research, I'm apparently not the only one thinking so:

What is your favorite VG music? (GameFAQs) (http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/576130-mask-two/54466978#8)

Quote:
it's the Maple Treeway theme played in a minor key and it's played slower

http://www.mariokartwii.com/f7/has-anyone-ever-noticed-116713.html

If it is indeed a remix, then I just love how subtle it is, since pretty much nobody notices it and both songs are excellent imo.  :P[/quote]
Great until you fail a TT :-/

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 08/08/13 at 00:16:42


08081E5A0 wrote:
[quote author=7842454E4F49424346462A0 link=1372380909/25#29 date=1375520469]mindscarp, they're pretty close in some parts, but I don't think they are the same.  Probably coincidental.

There is a long succession of identical notes, I think it is not coincidental but on purpose. I made a small video with BC accelerated:

MT = BC music? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgcMYmq1Xx4)

Until 0:13 it is the same thing. Even during 0:14-0:25, though the melody is different you can notice the same structure and the first notes correspond. Then after Maple Treeway repeats the first part twice. Did some research, I'm apparently not the only one thinking so:

What is your favorite VG music? (GameFAQs) (http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/576130-mask-two/54466978#8)

Quote:
it's the Maple Treeway theme played in a minor key and it's played slower

http://www.mariokartwii.com/f7/has-anyone-ever-noticed-116713.html

If it is indeed a remix, then I just love how subtle it is, since pretty much nobody notices it and both songs are excellent imo.  :P[/quote]


Wow, great vid. That's actually very interesting.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 08/19/13 at 21:23:49

In 5 years and 4 months, the entire MKWii community, with millions of hours of combined playtime as a whole, has only managed to shave off just over a minute and 14 seconds on the total time trial times.  That's about a .038 second cut per day.

It's sort of like we just eliminated the time it takes to complete GCN Peach Beach in this game.


Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by blahpy on 08/19/13 at 23:49:46


4A70777C7D7B70717474180 wrote:
In 5 years and 4 months, the entire MKWii community, with millions of hours of combined playtime as a whole, has only managed to shave off just over a minute and 14 seconds on the total time trial times.


More than that was shaved off Coconut Mall alone [smiley=roll.gif]

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Luke B on 08/20/13 at 03:40:16


162E37383E3C142C3A31590 wrote:
[quote author=4A70777C7D7B70717474180 link=1372380909/25#34 date=1376976229]In 5 years and 4 months, the entire MKWii community, with millions of hours of combined playtime as a whole, has only managed to shave off just over a minute and 14 seconds on the total time trial times.


More than that was shaved off Coconut Mall alone [smiley=roll.gif][/quote]

He probably means Non-sc, the bit that actually takes skill  ::)

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Silver on 08/20/13 at 11:07:53


59607E703B57150 wrote:
[quote author=162E37383E3C142C3A31590 link=1372380909/25#35 date=1376984986][quote author=4A70777C7D7B70717474180 link=1372380909/25#34 date=1376976229]In 5 years and 4 months, the entire MKWii community, with millions of hours of combined playtime as a whole, has only managed to shave off just over a minute and 14 seconds on the total time trial times.


More than that was shaved off Coconut Mall alone [smiley=roll.gif][/quote]

He probably means Non-sc, the bit that actually takes skill  ::)[/quote]

Shortcuts/glitches do take skill, merely a different kind (not pure driving skill). However, I do think he was referring to nonSC times.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by blahpy on 08/20/13 at 13:25:07


1C120C580 wrote:
[quote author=59607E703B57150 link=1372380909/25#36 date=1376998816][quote author=162E37383E3C142C3A31590 link=1372380909/25#35 date=1376984986][quote author=4A70777C7D7B70717474180 link=1372380909/25#34 date=1376976229]In 5 years and 4 months, the entire MKWii community, with millions of hours of combined playtime as a whole, has only managed to shave off just over a minute and 14 seconds on the total time trial times.


More than that was shaved off Coconut Mall alone [smiley=roll.gif][/quote]

He probably means Non-sc, the bit that actually takes skill  ::)[/quote]

Shortcuts/glitches do take skill, merely a different kind (not pure driving skill). However, I do think he was referring to nonSC times.[/quote]

>rofl gif
>i know he meant non sc

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by inviso87 on 08/20/13 at 17:34:59

Only 3 names can be displayed at once on WiFi during a race.

Peach Beach not only has the dick looking rock, but if you notice at the left when you start on one of the signs, only the 2 P's on the Peach Gran Prix sign are different colors. PP. Penis rock.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Sam F on 08/21/13 at 04:28:26

If you go up the hill before cannon DKM, stop right before it and look up the slope, you can see the sun through the cannon.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by xNicK♪ on 08/21/13 at 05:09:56

iirc you can trick off the first ramp on BCWii to the right and you'll be stuck in some OOB area inbetween the Bowser head and the wall.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by .Hahaae on 08/21/13 at 13:46:02

Same can be done on the left.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by xNicK♪ on 08/22/13 at 18:27:40

Ah,never tried that

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 01/14/14 at 21:36:32

You actually travel faster by driving backwards through the thick snow on DKS than by driving forwards through it with FunkyFlame.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by XolifreX on 01/15/14 at 03:42:38

In Moonview Highway, there are no bomb cars in Time Trail mode  [smiley=happy.gif]

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Firestone on 01/15/14 at 12:03:33

SNES Mario Circuit 3 reminds me of cherry pi. Pun intended.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by J-Cop on 01/15/14 at 12:45:59

There's a billboard on Moonview Highway advertising a musical starring Mario, Peach, and Yoshi.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by pf Paul on 01/15/14 at 12:59:49

You have to pay fees on Moonview Highway before going into the boost section (I think 800 yen for trucks and there were 2 other categories, 500 and 300) I don't want to know my depts atm  ;D

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 01/15/14 at 13:31:36


705F44534542595853360 wrote:
SNES Mario Circuit 3 reminds me of cherry pi. Pun intended.



How?

Also, I think I was actually the first person to make Brett aware of the lack of bomb cars on MH TT mode :P

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Firestone on 01/15/14 at 13:42:57


073D3A3130363D3C3939550 wrote:
[quote author=705F44534542595853360 link=1372380909/25#46 date=1389816213]SNES Mario Circuit 3 reminds me of cherry pi. Pun intended.



How?

Also, I think I was actually the first person to make Brett aware of the lack of bomb cars on MH TT mode :P[/quote]

http://www.mariowiki.com/images/thumb/a/ab/SNES_Mario_Circuit_3_map.png/200px-SNES_Mario_Circuit_3_map.png

Turn your head so the right side of the map is the bottom. It kind of looks like the symbol for pi.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Danny G on 01/15/14 at 20:17:13


1A352E392F283332395C0 wrote:
http://www.mariowiki.com/images/thumb/a/ab/SNES_Mario_Circuit_3_map.png/200px-SNES_Mario_Circuit_3_map.png

Turn your head so the right side of the map is the bottom. It kind of looks like the symbol for pi.


My attention was immediately caught when I saw "pi" so I had to look.

...and it kinda does  :o

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 01/15/14 at 20:34:01

But why cherry?  :-?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by jascol55 on 01/15/14 at 21:25:55

because cherries are goat

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 01/15/14 at 21:49:24


15393F3B34025A0 wrote:
because cherries are goat



"I'm sorry - what?"
     \
http://i.imgur.com/1BygZZA.png

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by J-Cop on 01/15/14 at 23:18:09


103C3A3E31075F0 wrote:
because cherries are goat

[smiley=dead.gif] [smiley=dead.gif] [smiley=dead.gif]



Another fun fact (it may be common knowledge but I've never seen anyone talk about it) is that the music on Toad's Factory starts over when you leave the factory just before the shortcut.  If I had to guess, I'd say they were probably planning on having different themes for the indoor and outdoor sections and forgot to remove one of the music checkpoints.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Mr.Nosey on 01/16/14 at 06:19:13

Interesting... to me though, that 'da-daa da-daaaaaa' jingle at the start of the music fitted in really well with flying out of the factory into the air, it just makes sense. So maybe was a happy accident that they left in?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by ★rusoX on 01/16/14 at 06:22:42


7773717F636D726F6E1A0 wrote:
Interesting... to me though, that 'da-daa da-daaaaaa' jingle at the start of the music fitted in really well with flying out of the factory into the air, it just makes sense. So maybe was a happy accident that they left in?

It also happens with the custom music you put in the track. It resets at that point

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Firestone on 01/16/14 at 12:09:53


64036D415E2E0 wrote:
Another fun fact (it may be common knowledge but I've never seen anyone talk about it) is that the music on Toad's Factory starts over when you leave the factory just before the shortcut.  If I had to guess, I'd say they were probably planning on having different themes for the indoor and outdoor sections and forgot to remove one of the music checkpoints.


The music can also be disabled legitimately when exiting the factory by hitting the fence on the side of the ramp and bouncing back in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW1gL3fbHWI

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 01/16/14 at 15:12:12

There's a Wifi glitch where sometimes, if someone is using the Mii, their arms will be held out, like the letter T.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by MrL1193 on 01/16/14 at 17:02:51


7A7E7C726E607F6263170 wrote:
Interesting... to me though, that 'da-daa da-daaaaaa' jingle at the start of the music fitted in really well with flying out of the factory into the air, it just makes sense. So maybe was a happy accident that they left in?

Actually, I'd take that as an indication that the music change was intentional. That extended intro isn't played at all at the start of the race or any other time, so what else would it be for?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 01/16/14 at 21:00:13

Mindscarp's most viewed MKWii video has 223k views (and it's KT Mario's (aka TAS))

Mandermka's most viewed has 140k views (and it's an April Fool's prank; his second most viewed, oddly enough, is his run on RR (also aka TAS) which has 106k views)

Sword's most viewed has 116k views (and his most viewed non-MKWii-comedy video has 50k views)

TWD98's most viewed has 428k views.

But then, as I found out today, Shaun Tanney decimates the competition with a MKWii TT video with over 1.2 million views! o_O

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am-R2Q9Rw3E

Very surprising to me to see how popular that video got!  :o

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by J-Cop on 01/16/14 at 22:20:23

The Moo Moo Meadows expert staff ghost is the only one that uses automatic drift.  Even the creators hate auto [smiley=lolk.gif]

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by blahpy on 01/16/14 at 22:43:01


645E595253555E5F5A5A360 wrote:
Shaun Tanney decimates the competition with a MKWii TT video with over 1.2 million views! o_O


He botted them; this is well known

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 01/16/14 at 22:50:55


1D253C3335371F27313A520 wrote:
[quote author=645E595253555E5F5A5A360 link=1372380909/50#61 date=1389934813]Shaun Tanney decimates the competition with a MKWii TT video with over 1.2 million views! o_O


He botted them; this is well known[/quote]

Well, I've been playing this game for 5 years and 4,000+ hours, and watched thousands of MKWii vids on YT, but never even knew about this video.

Also, what do you mean by he botted them?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Fant0m on 01/16/14 at 23:53:45

Pretty sure it was ironic, but he meant that he used a software to rise the number of views on this video. Basically, that would be a program that would refresh the page every x seconds.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by MrL1193 on 01/17/14 at 00:54:00


764C4B4041474C4D4848240 wrote:
Mindscarp's most viewed MKWii video has 223k views (and it's KT Mario's (aka TAS))

Actually, Jorge's Rainbow Road WR's are still listed on Cole's site (in other words, are considered legit even though Jorge himself was later caught cheating). I believe it was one of the last records set before the "TAS" codes became widely available.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 01/17/14 at 03:02:38

So Jorge already had WR-grabbing abilities but then resorted to cheating anyway?  :-?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by TasPlasma on 01/17/14 at 09:55:53

I've noticed a general pattern with low tricking on slow ramps.  That if you are drifting left into the trick, it is fastest to do a right trick, and vice versa. I think the explanation I was satisfied with why this is, is because when you are drifting left, the bike is getting tilted that way. A right trick +a left angle would be to force the nose of the bike downwards, so basically, the nose hits the ground much sooner, reducing airtime. One might argue that if you do a left trick instead, the back of the bike would also get shoved to the ground, and would equally reduce airtime. That might be true, but for some reason in my tests, the opposite direction trick was still generally faster, so there must be a reason. A great example is the MMM blue ramp, the way the TAS does it.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by jascol55 on 01/17/14 at 11:02:52


6B546A17171F15260 wrote:
[quote author=764C4B4041474C4D4848240 link=1372380909/50#61 date=1389934813]Mindscarp's most viewed MKWii video has 223k views (and it's KT Mario's (aka TAS))

Actually, Jorge's Rainbow Road WR's are still listed on Cole's site (in other words, are considered legit even though Jorge himself was later caught cheating). I believe it was one of the last records set before the "TAS" codes became widely available.[/quote]
If I recall he started using cheats in June or July of 2010, which was after he set the RR WR.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Sam F on 01/17/14 at 11:12:36

On DKSC, if you use moonjump at the start and look to the left, there are 2 mountains which look like boobs.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Marc. on 01/17/14 at 20:59:23


417B7C7776707B7A7F7F130 wrote:
There's a Wifi glitch where sometimes, if someone is using the Mii, their arms will be held out, like the letter T.

what i saw is not mkw related, but in MK7 there was a glitch once where the Mii just didnt have a head, i dont even know.... (the mii on the kart)

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by XolifreX on 01/20/14 at 02:47:41

On wifi there is a glitch that whenever you face someone who's using a Mii character, there's a veeerrrryyyyy smal chance that you won't hear the Mii's voice or any sounds that he would make when doing tricks and stuff. The only sound you'll hear from the Mii is Rosalina's "Yeah" cry when the Mii is preforming a trick.

What I find weird is that I haven't encounterd that glitch since late 2009... :? :?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 01/29/14 at 02:17:41

Okay, so I'm sure this is very, very. very obvious to you all.

It literally took me until now to discover this.

The Pianta on Coconut mall points to which escalator that is moving in the way that will benefit you.


I just found it hilarious that I just discovered this.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by XolifreX on 01/29/14 at 03:15:23


645E595253555E5F5A5A360 wrote:
I just found it hilarious that I just discovered this.


Don't worry, I also found out about that a year ago lol :p
I just never look to the pianta that is at the escalator x)

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by MH on 01/29/14 at 03:22:15

Nope, I did not know that yet, too  :o

I will pay attention to it when I play CM the next time.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Fant0m on 01/29/14 at 04:43:10

Didn't know that either. lol
Thx for the information

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Dahrra on 03/03/14 at 14:56:13

http://mkboards.com/forums/index.php/topic,4633.0.html

Noticed this while lurking the mkboards earlier, does anyone know what purpose this 'special ghost' was intended to serve?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 03/03/14 at 16:27:32


6B4E475D5D4E4B4E474E444E2F0 wrote:
http://mkboards.com/forums/index.php/topic,4633.0.html

Noticed this while lurking the mkboards earlier, does anyone know what purpose this 'special ghost' was intended to serve?


http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/942008-mario-kart-wii?search=special+ghost

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 10/20/15 at 08:10:23


476B6861436D6866617670040 wrote:
The lowest valid MKWii FC is 0000-0000-0142.

You can confirm this by trying to register all FCs from 0000-0000-0000 to 0000-0000-0142, but I used a much faster method to find this number.


Super interesting.  What was your faster method?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by BlazeMKW on 10/21/15 at 13:50:53


575D5E5D435D240 wrote:
Did this ever happen to anyone else?

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yRwTpM59EY[/media]


I'm going to guess that this thing happens because of the game constantly wanting the character to be placed upright, with the tires firm on the ground. If you wheelie off of a slanted road and pull up, you end up pulling back far enough to where you hit an area on your character's hitbox that is designed to automatically place you back in an upright position. If you hop the exact frame you touch the ground, you end up hopping right when the game is trying to put your character back in its proper form, making you bounce backwards.

The different animation shapes created when a character tricks off of a ramp can also have really strange effects on the game (side tricking while moving in the opposite direction of the trick's movement will give you a much lower trick, and down tricks cause your character to get really low tricks when done up against a wall because of the animation going against the collision.)

tl;dr mkwii is fucking broken

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Samuel on 10/22/15 at 06:46:30

I don't know if this has happened to anyone else or not (probably has) but one time on rDKM, I got a TC before the cannon and when I went through it seemed to delete the TC as normal, but when I landed on the ground I got the TC glitch! I didn't know that this existed at the time and I was pretty in awe. It deleted at the next lap cannon though.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by ヨッシーファン978 on 10/22/15 at 07:14:46


7A56505A5640585B51370 wrote:
I don't know if this has happened to anyone else or not (probably has) but one time on rDKM, I got a TC before the cannon and when I went through it seemed to delete the TC as normal, but when I landed on the ground I got the TC glitch! I didn't know that this existed at the time and I was pretty in awe. It deleted at the next lap cannon though.


Do you think this could occur on DKSC?  ;D

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Michael Lyga on 07/07/16 at 14:43:41

i officially have the slowest timesheet on the entire players page.
i sent in a 6'44 on N64 BC and hopefully they update it  :)

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by ZedR on 07/08/16 at 05:34:11

I have 8:61.199 on rBC , what do you do now [smiley=bath.gif]

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 07/08/16 at 09:14:51

We need to make a rule that you must have a ghost saved to submit a PR  ::)

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by ZedR on 07/08/16 at 15:52:28

We have everything after Bean's update :P

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Michael Lyga on 07/09/16 at 13:49:21


5473796F7C4F7C6D69726F1D0 wrote:
I have 8:61.199 on rBC , what do you do now [smiley=bath.gif]


i will get slow times on all the other tracks on a new licence  

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Michael Lyga on 07/09/16 at 13:50:27


310B0C0706000B0A0F0F630 wrote:
We need to make a rule that you must have a ghost saved to submit a PR  ::)


all times will be less than 6'00"000 now  >:(

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 07/09/16 at 21:38:00


2E28342A2A222F2F33312C430 wrote:
[quote author=310B0C0706000B0A0F0F630 link=1372380909/75#85 date=1467998091]We need to make a rule that you must have a ghost saved to submit a PR  ::)


all times will be less than 6'00"000 now  >:(
[/quote]


should be fine for the default 32 tracks

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Sam F on 07/09/16 at 23:04:45

Then theres PAL where you can get the message at 1:40 ::)

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Michael Lyga on 10/21/16 at 17:03:15

Really stupid but fun  ;)
If none of us get a 3lap WR in the next ten days, October 2016 will be the first month since June 2014 without any MKW 3lap WRs  :o
get cracking everyone (except me, I'm a lazy fuck)  :D

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Sam F on 10/21/16 at 21:18:06


46405C42424A47475B59442B0 wrote:
Really stupid but fun  ;)
If none of us get a 3lap WR in the next ten days, October 2016 will be the first month since June 2014 without any MKW 3lap WRs  :o
get cracking everyone (except me, I'm a lazy fuck)  :D

Then Kirisagi tied Demon on MT an hpur later  ;D

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Chef on 12/05/16 at 20:36:15

dry bowser has a .25 speed boost on rmc3

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 12/05/16 at 21:20:20

Glitch?  That doesn't make him tt viable on the track right?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Olifré on 12/06/16 at 02:51:56


4B62666172070 wrote:
dry bowser has a .25 speed boost on rmc3


Lol what, how is that possible? rMC3 is not an offroad track like rSL where he indeed gets a small speedboost.
So how and where can he get a speedboost there? :p

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 12/06/16 at 06:25:27

Cole and Sword are the only two people to have gotten a WR on every year of MKWii's existence from 2008-2015

Neither have gotten a WR in 2016

Get TTing already

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Cole on 12/07/16 at 20:26:58


5A76646372655C525C170 wrote:
Cole and Sword are the only two people to have gotten a WR on every year of MKWii's existence from 2008-2015

Neither have gotten a WR in 2016

Get TTing already

I'm not interested in playing now and haven't had a Wii with me for 5 months.

Instead of TTing, I'll add some things to this thread, from early 2008, that newer players might not know about:

First Chance to Play MKW
In the UK they had a tournament before the game came out, with the winner getting a car: http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/consoles/mario-kart-vw-convertible-first-pic-275657
30 different stores had qualifying rounds then there were finals.
Here's a thread with some impressions from UK karters, including PTanney who made the finals: http://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1206804282/0

The Timer Glitch Myth
When the game came out hacking wasn't widespread for the first few months, however there were still a few cheated ghost times. One method was to use Powersaves to edit the save file with an impossibly fast time then upload it to the charts.

Since the cheated ghosts didn't move for long amounts of time, a rumour spread that these ghosts were caused by a "Timer Glitch" where you wait until 99'59"999 and then the timer rolls over back to 0 allowing you to finish with a very low time.

The rumour was pretty widespread,  here are some posts and false articles about it:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/942008-mario-kart-wii/42908845
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/942008-mario-kart-wii/42906208
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/942008-mario-kart-wii/42568279
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080820112053AARDMnU

http://nukoda.com/gaming/wii/snaking-is-replaced-with-the-ghost-glitch/
https://gamingreinvented.com/nintendoarticles/the-five-most-game-breaking-glitches-in-nintendo-history/ (https://gamingreinvented.com/nintendoarticles/the-five-most-game-breaking-glitches-in-nintendo-history/)
http://n4g.com/news/134491/the-mario-kart-wii-ghost-glitch-in-action

Hidden Stats
MKW has hidden stats like offroad handling and turning speed: http://wiki.tockdom.com/wiki/Mario_Kart_Wii

This was actually discovered within days of the game coming out, in the Japanese community, since the stats appeared in
[ch65378][ch38651][ch25731]DS&Wii Style[ch65379]Vol.6[ch21029][ch20874][ch20184][ch37682][ch65378][ch12510][ch12522][ch12458][ch12459][ch12540][ch12488]Wii [ch12470][ch65381][ch12497][ch12540][ch12501][ch12455][ch12463][ch12488]BOOK[ch65379][ch12424][ch12426][ch24341][ch29992] (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61aBoArgqgL._SX402_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg) (Source: http://mariokartwiki.com/mariokartwii/46.html).

I found this post about them, which is probably when I originally heard about these stats:


2D09030801050C3F2612090504600 wrote:
Look what I found: http://www9.atwiki.jp/mcwii/pages/19.html
English version: http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww9.atwiki.jp%2Fmcwii%2Fpages%2F19.html&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=ja&tl=en

According to this page, there are 9 different stats! :o  The first 7 stats are the stats we see in the game, but where did they get the last 2 from?  Is it real, or is someone trying to play a joke on us?  Could it possibly be from the Player's Guide?  Does anyone here have the Player's Guide, and if so, can you check to see if it lists the character stats?


I kind of got the sense that these stats were never widely known about. Looking at GameFAQs it seems like it took until 2012 for these stats to be included in any guides. Maybe the Japanese community were skeptical of these stats as well. But now that this game has been hacked so much, these stats have been verified. Personally I always leaned towards believing these stats, since Funky's offroad handling bonus is kind of noticeable on rSL.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 12/08/16 at 06:46:33

lel @ the MK themed VW Beetle  ;D

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 12/09/16 at 16:55:32


Quote:
First Chance to Play MKW
In the UK they had a tournament before the game came out, with the winner getting a car: http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/consoles/mario-kart-vw-convertible-first-pic-275657
30 different stores had qualifying rounds then there were finals.
Here's a thread with some impressions from UK karters, including PTanney who made the finals: http://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1206804282/0


To save y'all several minutes, it's the 12th post down on page 4.






53575753515151610 wrote:
Then theres PAL where you can get the message at 1:40 ::)


wut?


you can't save ghosts on rBC on pal?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Sam F on 12/10/16 at 16:55:40


1F252229282E252421214D0 wrote:

Quote:
First Chance to Play MKW
In the UK they had a tournament before the game came out, with the winner getting a car: http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/consoles/mario-kart-vw-convertible-first-pic-275657
30 different stores had qualifying rounds then there were finals.
Here's a thread with some impressions from UK karters, including PTanney who made the finals: http://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1206804282/0


To save y'all several minutes, it's the 12th post down on page 4.






53575753515151610 wrote:
Then theres PAL where you can get the message at 1:40 ::)


wut?


you can't save ghosts on rBC on pal?

As long as you hop enough times, the message can pop up at 1:40 on DKS. its all to do with the amount of inputs, so on PAL the message always shows up befoee 6 mins

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 12/11/16 at 20:21:54

We already have established that we can make the message pop up earlier by spamming inputs.  But do you have to spam less on PAL to get the message to appear compared to NTSC?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 12/28/16 at 13:37:18

There's apparently a split calculation bug

http://i.imgur.com/tFiQHZP.png

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Cole on 12/28/16 at 17:37:38

^ Seems like a CTGP bug, Braixen's CM time has it as well:
http://www.chadsoft.co.uk/time-trials/rkgd/31/33/3590A95FAF562BB9B3F3356F6496DFC5A76C.html

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Sam F on 12/30/16 at 09:42:19

Happens on normal MKWii as well. Me, Guy and Hunter found out that if you get the lap count between the finish line and the first checkpoint, the lap counter rounds to a frame. That's why you tie a lot of lap times on MC, rPB or CM.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by DiamondMaster on 12/31/16 at 18:22:25


12161612101010200 wrote:
Happens on normal MKWii as well. Me, Guy and Hunter found out that if you get the lap count between the finish line and the first checkpoint, the lap counter rounds to a frame. That's why you tie a lot of lap times on MC, rPB or CM.

Interesting.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 01/01/17 at 02:04:52

If you do a certain trick into the finish line of Bowser's Castle in time trial mode, it disables the finish sound effect. Don't know which trick or if it works in other modes/tracks.


If you pause right after releasing the drift button the SFX continues obnoxiously (yet briefly) into the pause menu.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by DiamondMaster on 01/22/17 at 10:47:04

As of the date of this post, there are 2471 known world records by 391 players in this game, giving an average of ~6.3 records per player

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 01/23/17 at 10:32:30

The staff ghosts were set in February 2008

The staff ghosts that don't use the Wheel used Wiimote+Nunchuk

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 01/23/17 at 11:36:37


15392B2C3D2A131D13580 wrote:
The staff ghosts were set in February 2008

The staff ghosts that don't use the Wheel used Wiimote+Nunchuk


now that is interesting

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Sam F on 01/23/17 at 15:10:58


5874666170675E505E150 wrote:
The staff ghosts were set in February 2008

The staff ghosts that don't use the Wheel used Wiimote+Nunchuk

That's actually pretty cool

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by DiamondMaster on 01/23/17 at 15:58:30


163A282F3E29101E105B0 wrote:
The staff ghosts were set in February 2008

The staff ghosts that don't use the Wheel used Wiimote+Nunchuk

That's very interesting. How did you find that out?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 01/23/17 at 16:07:20


416C64686A6B61486476716077050 wrote:
[quote author=163A282F3E29101E105B0 link=1372380909/100#108 date=1485196350]The staff ghosts were set in February 2008

The staff ghosts that don't use the Wheel used Wiimote+Nunchuk

That's very interesting. How did you find that out?[/quote]

I extracted some of the staff ghosts and loaded them in the RKG viewer

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by DiamondMaster on 01/27/17 at 20:46:30

In the mkwii filesystem: Birdo is called Catherine, Dry Bones is called Karon, King Boo is called Teresa, and Koopa Troopa is called Nokonoko.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 01/28/17 at 06:39:05


5C71797577767C55796B6C7D6A180 wrote:
In the mkwii filesystem: Birdo is called Catherine, Dry Bones is called Karon, King Boo is called Teresa, and Koopa Troopa is called Nokonoko.


Those are their Japanese names. Nothing special

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by DiamondMaster on 01/28/17 at 10:10:44


715D4F48594E7779773C0 wrote:
[quote author=5C71797577767C55796B6C7D6A180 link=1372380909/100#113 date=1485578790]In the mkwii filesystem: Birdo is called Catherine, Dry Bones is called Karon, King Boo is called Teresa, and Koopa Troopa is called Nokonoko.


Those are their Japanese names. Nothing special[/quote]
Those are the English translations of their Japanese names, but that's probably what you meant. :D

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by L          e           o on 01/28/17 at 10:55:31

In the french version of Mario Kart Wii, GCN Waluigi Stadium (which is Stade Waluigi in french) is written Stage Waluigi on the friend room chat (surely a typo)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E6nAMWzQa6Y
(at 1:08 of the video)

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by ALAKTORN on 01/28/17 at 16:33:23


1B363E3230313B123E2C2B3A2D5F0 wrote:
[quote author=715D4F48594E7779773C0 link=1372380909/100#114 date=1485614345][quote author=5C71797577767C55796B6C7D6A180 link=1372380909/100#113 date=1485578790]In the mkwii filesystem: Birdo is called Catherine, Dry Bones is called Karon, King Boo is called Teresa, and Koopa Troopa is called Nokonoko.


Those are their Japanese names. Nothing special[/quote]
Those are the English translations of their Japanese names, but that's probably what you meant. :D[/quote]
Those are not translations, they’re transliterations.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by BlazeMKW on 01/30/17 at 16:43:46


0A26343322350C020C470 wrote:
The staff ghosts were set in February 2008

The staff ghosts that don't use the Wheel used Wiimote+Nunchuk


To add some more information:
The earliest-set staff ghost was on the 19th of February, while the latest was on the 29th of the same month.

The Toad's Factory and DS Delfino Square expert staff times were set on a Taiwanese Wii, making them the only staff ghosts to be set on a Wii with its country marked as something different to that of Japan. SNES Ghost Valley 2, N64 Mario Raceway, and N64 Bowser Castle's expert staff ghosts have no region information, though they were overwhelmingly likely set in Japan; this might indicate they were set on different consoles, however.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 01/30/17 at 17:07:44


19373A213E16100C5B0 wrote:
[quote author=0A26343322350C020C470 link=1372380909/100#108 date=1485196350]The staff ghosts were set in February 2008

The staff ghosts that don't use the Wheel used Wiimote+Nunchuk


To add some more information:
The earliest-set staff ghost was on the 19th of February, while the latest was on the 29th of the same month.

The Toad's Factory and DS Delfino Square expert staff times were set on a Taiwanese Wii, making them the only staff ghosts to be set on a Wii with its country marked as something different to that of Japan. SNES Ghost Valley 2, N64 Mario Raceway, and N64 Bowser Castle's expert staff ghosts have no region information, though they were overwhelmingly likely set in Japan; this might indicate they were set on different consoles, however. [/quote]

Isn't the Taiwanese ISO just a modified Japanese ISO?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by DiamondMaster on 01/30/17 at 19:09:24


557B766D725A5C40170 wrote:
[quote author=0A26343322350C020C470 link=1372380909/100#108 date=1485196350]The staff ghosts were set in February 2008

The staff ghosts that don't use the Wheel used Wiimote+Nunchuk


To add some more information:
The earliest-set staff ghost was on the 19th of February, while the latest was on the 29th of the same month.

The Toad's Factory and DS Delfino Square expert staff times were set on a Taiwanese Wii, making them the only staff ghosts to be set on a Wii with its country marked as something different to that of Japan. SNES Ghost Valley 2, N64 Mario Raceway, and N64 Bowser Castle's expert staff ghosts have no region information, though they were overwhelmingly likely set in Japan; this might indicate they were set on different consoles, however. [/quote]
The staff ghosts set on the 19th of February were the DKSC & MH normal staff ghosts, and the MG, DKSC, & rYF expert staff ghosts.
The staff ghosts set on the 29th of February were the MT & rWS normal staff ghosts, and the rPB expert staff ghost.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 01/31/17 at 07:36:19

You can get two tricks off the ramp in rMR

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by DiamondMaster on 02/04/17 at 12:25:58

The cars on Moonview Highway have blinkers that actually blink when they make lane changes.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 02/04/17 at 15:30:37


715C54585A5B51785446415047350 wrote:
The cars on Moonview Highway have blinkers that actually blink when they make lane changes.


When I first played MH, I got mad because the cars didn't use their turn signals

I looked closer and saw they actually did...

...About 5 frames before changing lanes

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by DiamondMaster on 02/04/17 at 15:41:27


466A787F6E79404E400B0 wrote:
[quote author=715C54585A5B51785446415047350 link=1372380909/100#122 date=1486239958]The cars on Moonview Highway have blinkers that actually blink when they make lane changes.


When I first played MH, I got mad because the cars didn't use their turn signals

I looked closer and saw they actually did...

...About 5 frames before changing lanes[/quote]
Yeah. I don't know how they got their license with their terrible driving skills. They also cross the lines that indicate opposing traffic lol

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 02/06/17 at 03:44:15


1739342F30181E02550 wrote:
[quote author=0A26343322350C020C470 link=1372380909/100#108 date=1485196350]The staff ghosts were set in February 2008

The staff ghosts that don't use the Wheel used Wiimote+Nunchuk


To add some more information:
The earliest-set staff ghost was on the 19th of February, while the latest was on the 29th of the same month.

The Toad's Factory and DS Delfino Square expert staff times were set on a Taiwanese Wii, making them the only staff ghosts to be set on a Wii with its country marked as something different to that of Japan. SNES Ghost Valley 2, N64 Mario Raceway, and N64 Bowser Castle's expert staff ghosts have no region information, though they were overwhelmingly likely set in Japan; this might indicate they were set on different consoles, however. [/quote]


Those are some of the strongest staff ghosts, so I wouldn't be surprised if some kart staff fanatics went out of their way and thru a distance to get a run into the game

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Skitty on 02/13/17 at 15:38:04

Delfino Square is the only track where there have been no WRs lasting a year.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by DiamondMaster on 02/13/17 at 15:42:48


6951534E4E433A0 wrote:
Delfino Square is the only track where there have been no WRs lasting a year.

Didn't know that.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by RRD on 03/08/17 at 02:55:28

This is more about MKSC, but anyway the Shy Guy Beach / Cheep Cheep Island melody is inspired from a theme in 1959 movie "A Summer Place" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a10aowRXWA0&t=5s).

Shy Guy Beach & Cheep Cheep Island - Mario Kart: Super Circuit Music Extended (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cZgDCRDRfo)
GBA Shy Guy Beach - Mario Kart Wii Music Extended (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPmp98_6ans)

Theme from A Summer Place - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_from_A_Summer_Place)

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Shock on 03/08/17 at 07:06:13

I just listened to Theme from a Summer Place, and wow they are similar. Thanks for sharing, I find that rather amusing.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond. on 03/08/17 at 13:43:16

I wonder if there are any other original songs that an mk track's song is based off of

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by ZedR on 03/09/17 at 09:22:25

There are 98 WRs that lasted at least a year.

MK8 has 0 WRs that lasted 365 days.  [smiley=lurk.gif]


Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 03/10/17 at 13:14:22

In the character sound files, the noises your character makes when you align yourself at the beginning are titled "VO_{abbreviation of character name}_WLE_FAIL"

I'm guessing Nintendo didn't intend this

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond. on 03/10/17 at 16:10:55


775B494E5F48717F713A0 wrote:
In the character sound files, the noises your character makes when you align yourself at the beginning are titled "VO_{abbreviation of character name}_WLE_FAIL"

I'm guessing Nintendo didn't intend this

Nintendo probably thought people would burn out if they aligned themselves.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond. on 03/22/17 at 13:16:57

If I did this correctly, there are currently 1126 non banned members on the pp

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Colvin on 03/22/17 at 13:26:47


0C21292527262C05293B3C2D3A480 wrote:
If I did this correctly, there are currently 1126 non banned members and 100 banned members on the mkwpp

That means 8.16% of people that have ever been on the mkwpp are cheaters. That's sad. I wish that rate was much lower.  :-/

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond. on 03/22/17 at 13:41:31


1E3F343433291935362C33346D6C5A0 wrote:
[quote author=0C21292527262C05293B3C2D3A480 link=1372380909/125#134 date=1490217417]If I did this correctly, there are currently 1126 non banned members and 100 banned members on the mkwpp

That means 8.16% of people that have ever been on the mkwpp are cheaters. That's sad. I wish that rate was much lower.  :-/[/quote]
Here are some comparisons:
MKDD has 1666 members
MKSC has 294 members
SMK has 924 members

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Colvin on 03/22/17 at 13:47:03


48656D61636268416D7F78697E0C0 wrote:
MKDD has 1666 members, of which 406 are banned

Damn! That means 19.59% of all MKDD PP players cheated. wtf...  [smiley=chairshot.gif]

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond. on 03/22/17 at 13:57:45


634249494E5464484B514E491011270 wrote:
[quote author=48656D61636268416D7F78697E0C0 link=1372380909/125#136 date=1490218891]
MKDD has 1666 members, of which 406 are banned

Damn! That means 19.59% of all MKDD PP players cheated. wtf...  [smiley=chairshot.gif][/quote]
That's actually not true

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Colvin on 03/22/17 at 14:04:51


7558505C5E5F557C5042455443310 wrote:
And lied about their times

MKDD isn't like MKWii were there are a million ways to cheat. The only ways to cheat in MKDD is lying about times and faking pictures. There's Dolphin too, but only one or two people have access the TAS codes iirc.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond. on 03/22/17 at 14:06:04


51707B7B7C66567A79637C7B2223150 wrote:
[quote author=7558505C5E5F557C5042455443310 link=1372380909/125#138 date=1490219865]
And lied about their times

MKDD isn't like MKWii were there are a million ways to cheat. The only ways to cheat in MKDD is lying about times and faking pictures.[/quote]
It's possible to tas MKDD

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Colvin on 03/22/17 at 14:08:07


4B666E6260616B426E7C7B6A7D0F0 wrote:
It's possible to tas MKDD

I know. Barely anyone uses TAS codes in MKDD. One guy did Mirror mode TASes and one guy TASed some flaps (for fun).

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Vinnie927 on 03/22/17 at 14:31:18


002D25292B2A20092537302136440 wrote:
If I did this correctly, there are currently 1126 non banned members and 100 banned members on the mkwpp

How did you arrive at this number?
Taking the id of the last person to join and subtracting the amount of players is only going to get the amount of potential id numbers that no one has, because they were either skipped over, banned, or wanted to be removed.

I know MKDD had a lot of numbers skipped, with a few cheaters in the very early days, but definitely no where near 400.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond. on 03/22/17 at 14:51:53


1A25222225294C0 wrote:
[quote author=002D25292B2A20092537302136440 link=1372380909/125#134 date=1490217417]If I did this correctly, there are currently 1126 non banned members and 100 banned members on the mkwpp

How did you arrive at this number?
Taking the id of the last person to join and subtracting the amount of players is only going to get the amount of potential id numbers that no one has, because they were either skipped over, banned, or wanted to be removed.

I know MKDD had a lot of numbers skipped, with a few cheaters in the very early days, but definitely no where near 400.[/quote]
Yeah. That is correct

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Aruba on 03/24/17 at 10:52:32

Rhodechill is a Jaws alt.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 03/24/17 at 10:58:52


596A6D7A79180 wrote:
Rhodechill is a Jaws alt.

lmao

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Colvin on 03/24/17 at 11:01:43

Nah pretty sure it's Zack. His personal text: "RIP Jaws" Kappa  [smiley=lolk.gif]

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 03/28/17 at 11:57:13

The Piranha Prowler and the Mach Bike have the same speed stat

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond. on 03/28/17 at 12:34:46


0D21333425320B050B400 wrote:
The Piranha Prowler and the Mach Bike have the same speed stat

I assume that's without wheeling

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Zack_McNell on 03/28/17 at 13:27:13

Item Probability (Wifi)

https://goo.gl/photos/YiVUqjufsH4uSp7J7

Sorry for it being out of order, too lazy to fix.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 03/29/17 at 04:55:33


4A71737B7562695D735E757C7C100 wrote:
Item Probability (Wifi)

https://goo.gl/photos/YiVUqjufsH4uSp7J7

Sorry for it being out of order, too lazy to fix.


Noice. Makes it easier to catch cheaters online

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Zack_McNell on 03/29/17 at 05:15:41

The 'Mushroom Bug' online (where you only get shrooms once you pick up 13 items) is actually a feature done on purpose by Nintendo

All staff ghosts were made over a month before the game was released, all on Japanese Wiis. I cba to get the exact dates.
EDIT: As Kek pointed out Blaze's quote, two ghosts were made with the country set to Taiwan

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 03/29/17 at 05:27:33


5E707D667951574B1C0 wrote:
[quote author=0A26343322350C020C470 link=1372380909/100#108 date=1485196350]The staff ghosts were set in February 2008

The staff ghosts that don't use the Wheel used Wiimote+Nunchuk


To add some more information:
The earliest-set staff ghost was on the 19th of February, while the latest was on the 29th of the same month.

The Toad's Factory and DS Delfino Square expert staff times were set on a Taiwanese Wii, making them the only staff ghosts to be set on a Wii with its country marked as something different to that of Japan. SNES Ghost Valley 2, N64 Mario Raceway, and N64 Bowser Castle's expert staff ghosts have no region information, though they were overwhelmingly likely set in Japan; this might indicate they were set on different consoles, however. [/quote]

did you ever read this? lel

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Zack_McNell on 03/29/17 at 09:08:07

EDIT: ^My bad, those two ghosts were set with a Taiwan country code. Makes me wonder why did Nin take so long to first release the Taiwan Wii to the public? (July 2008). The Taiwan Wii is the exact same thing as a Japan Wii except the country in the settings.txt of the NAND is set to Taiwan's country code instead of Japan (which is why you need a Japan ISO to reach Taiwan without a Region ID changer code)

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond. on 05/10/17 at 17:04:57

Let's bump this. In the japanese version of mkwii, there are 2 exclamation marks for Go!! at the startup countdown, while in the ntsc-u/pal version, there's only one.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 06/26/17 at 05:57:04


546F6D656B7C77436D406B62620E0 wrote:
The 'Mushroom Bug' online (where you only get shrooms once you pick up 13 items) is actually a feature done on purpose by Nintendo

All staff ghosts were made over a month before the game was released, all on Japanese Wiis. I cba to get the exact dates.
EDIT: As Kek pointed out Blaze's quote, two ghosts were made with the country set to Taiwan


why was it done on purpose

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 06/27/17 at 13:07:12

Mander's IRL name is Shota Hirano

Vayu's is Hinara Higurashi

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond. on 06/27/17 at 14:01:52


173B292E3F28111F115A0 wrote:
Mander's IRL name is Shota Hirano

Vayu's is Hinara Higurashi

How did you figure out Vayu's

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by ALAKTORN on 06/27/17 at 18:30:03


113D2F28392E1719175C0 wrote:
Vayu's is Hinara Higurashi

That doesn’t sound like a real name.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 06/28/17 at 07:47:45


577A727E7C7D775E7260677661130 wrote:
[quote author=173B292E3F28111F115A0 link=1372380909/150#156 date=1498597632]Mander's IRL name is Shota Hirano

Vayu's is Hinara Higurashi

How did you figure out Vayu's[/quote]

According to old news articles, Vayu was on the PP in late 2008. Why he was removed, I don't know why

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by m8 on 06/29/17 at 03:03:33

Vayu's name is too cool to be real.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by ALAKTORN on 06/29/17 at 06:27:44


7550555C5C49390 wrote:
Vayu's name is really fucking cool.

How would you know? That’s not his real name.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by m8 on 06/29/17 at 07:56:11


7E737E746B706D713F0 wrote:
[quote author=7550555C5C49390 link=1372380909/150#160 date=1498734213]Vayu's name is really fucking cool.

How would you know? That’s not his real name.[/quote]
Fixed.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by JawsTheShark on 06/29/17 at 08:37:48


6346434A4A5F2F0 wrote:
Vayu's name is too cool to be real.


Asian names are never cool.

And like dude said above, it's clearly a troll attempt at being funny, not his real name.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by m8 on 06/29/17 at 13:11:36


5E756367407C71477C75667F140 wrote:
[quote author=6346434A4A5F2F0 link=1372380909/150#160 date=1498734213]Vayu's name is too cool to be real.


Asian names are never cool.

And like dude said above, it's clearly a troll attempt at being funny, not his real name.[/quote]
Come on it's a little cool.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 06/29/17 at 14:44:48

lol why would vayu  be removed from the pp

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond. on 07/02/17 at 11:22:48


4C4A564848101312210 wrote:
June 2014 was the only month so far where there were no WRs set

lol that's been said at least twice before

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Firestone on 07/05/17 at 14:56:37

The USA has had at least 1 3lap WR on every track except DS Yoshi Falls.

Europe has had at least 1 3lap WR on every track except Rainbow Road.

Currently the American region has more 3lap WRs than Europe (21 vs 20).

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 07/08/17 at 16:43:25

Omega hasn't been kicked off rYF tips since 12/4/2008

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond. on 07/08/17 at 17:19:16


6A46545342556C626C270 wrote:
Omega hasn't been kicked off rYF tips since 12/4/2008

Wow! I wonder what other players have kept tops on certain tracks since day 1.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Vinnie927 on 07/09/17 at 19:38:47

I know that Sword has been on the CM top 10 at least since his first WR.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond. on 07/09/17 at 19:41:01


4D727575727E1B0 wrote:
I know that Sword has been on the CM top 10 at least since his first WR.

He lost it for a couple days this year when the new strats were discovered

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Batman5112 on 07/09/17 at 23:07:03


1834262130271E101E550 wrote:
Omega hasn't been kicked off rYF tips since 12/4/2008


And he won't be kicked off in our lifetime. That's crazy to think, isn't it?

All current record holders won't get knocked off the top 10 either. Perhaps only the newer glitched tracks are the exception

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond. on 07/10/17 at 06:40:35


66455049454A240 wrote:
All current record holders won't get knocked off the top 10 either. Perhaps only the newer glitched tracks are the exception

It's crazy how this most likely wouldn't have been true if it was said just a few months ago when Suiryu had wr on CM NG

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 07/21/17 at 13:47:50


64485A5D4C5B626C62290 wrote:
The staff ghosts that don't use the Wheel used Wiimote+Nunchuk


I was wrong actually...

DC easy staff ghost used GCN

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond. on 07/21/17 at 13:48:25


14382A2D3C2B121C12590 wrote:
[quote author=64485A5D4C5B626C62290 link=1372380909/100#108 date=1485196350]The staff ghosts that don't use the Wheel used Wiimote+Nunchuk


I was wrong actually...

DC easy staff ghost used GCN[/quote]
Is that the only one that doesn't use wheel / WN

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 07/22/17 at 06:16:10


6B464E4240414B624E5C5B4A5D2F0 wrote:
[quote author=14382A2D3C2B121C12590 link=1372380909/150#174 date=1500673670][quote author=64485A5D4C5B626C62290 link=1372380909/100#108 date=1485196350]The staff ghosts that don't use the Wheel used Wiimote+Nunchuk


I was wrong actually...

DC easy staff ghost used GCN[/quote]
Is that the only one that doesn't use wheel / WN[/quote]

BCWii easy staff uses GCN too but I'm not gonna check all of them rn

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 07/26/17 at 02:26:37

I found a pretty cool general trend :O
Of course it's not a perfect trend but

the longer a glitch has existed, the shorter the WR time seems to be


http://www.chadsoft.co.uk/time-trials/original-track-leaderboards.html#sort-by-fastest-time

ie the newest glitches seems to have the longest 3laps in general




http://www.chadsoft.co.uk/time-trials/original-track-leaderboards.html#sort-by-last-changed

chadsoft shows the dates runs were set for categories

so for example you can see maple treeway glitch hasnt been done in several days in a pr


ctgp also says

"CTGP Revolution also calculates the finish time of ghosts much more accurately than Mario Kart Wii, allowing rankings ties to be broken."
ties can still happen  ;D

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond. on 07/26/17 at 06:34:43


5A60676C6D6B60616464080 wrote:
"CTGP Revolution also calculates the finish time of ghosts much more accurately than Mario Kart Wii, allowing rankings ties to be broken."
ties can still happen  ;D

Yeah, but the chance of ties happening now is one in a trillion ;D

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 07/30/17 at 10:57:57

   
705F44534542595853360 wrote:
Europe has had at least 1 3lap WR on every track except Rainbow Road..


The UK has it on 30/32. What's the other track besides RR that the UK hasn't had one on?


1427203734550 wrote:
Rhodechill is a Jaws alt.


How did this even come about


2102170E020D630 wrote:
[quote author=1834262130271E101E550 link=1372380909/150#168 date=1499561005]Omega hasn't been kicked off rYF tips since 12/4/2008
All current record holders won't get knocked off the top 10 either. Perhaps only the newer glitched tracks are the exception[/quote]

What? What do you mean? Surely some WR's will get beaten by 10+ diff people soon.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond. on 07/30/17 at 11:11:57


1C26212A2B2D262722224E0 wrote:
    [quote author=705F44534542595853360 link=1372380909/150#167 date=1499295397] Europe has had at least 1 3lap WR on every track except Rainbow Road..


The UK has it on 30/32. What's the other track besides RR that the UK hasn't had one on?[/quote]
rWS

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by BlazeMSX on 07/31/17 at 00:48:22


4A70777C7D7B70717474180 wrote:
I found a pretty cool general trend :O
Of course it's not a perfect trend but

the longer a glitch has existed, the shorter the WR time seems to be


http://www.chadsoft.co.uk/time-trials/original-track-leaderboards.html#sort-by-fastest-time

ie the newest glitches seems to have the longest 3laps in general


This really doesn't show anything special, in my opinion. The trend stops at the 3rd glitch, and it doesn't really hold constant at all (DKJP, the second newest glitch to have a WR time, is way up in the front as the 5th fastest category). Either way, since there are only 8 examples demonstrating it, it can be pretty well explained by just sheer coincidence, especially considering that it isn't a perfect trend.

One could also argue that, since the most gamebreaking and simple glitches are the easiest to figure out, and in turn the fastest to complete a run with, it's no surprise they were found earlier on. As the obvious ultra shortcuts were all found within a few months of the game being out (GV and MG), the glitches that were subsequently found required more complicated maneuvers to pull off (think CM and MC), leading to them taking more time to finish a run with.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 09/29/17 at 23:02:30


6449414D4F4E446D4153544552200 wrote:
[quote author=1C26212A2B2D262722224E0 link=1372380909/175#179 date=1501441077]     [quote author=705F44534542595853360 link=1372380909/150#167 date=1499295397] Europe has had at least 1 3lap WR on every track except Rainbow Road..


The UK has it on 30/32. What's the other track besides RR that the UK hasn't had one on?[/quote]
rWS[/quote]

How'd you know? Did it require a long process of elimination?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 09/29/17 at 23:05:48


48666B706F47415D0A0 wrote:
[quote author=4A70777C7D7B70717474180 link=1372380909/175#177 date=1501064797]I found a pretty cool general trend :O
Of course it's not a perfect trend but

the longer a glitch has existed, the shorter the WR time seems to be


http://www.chadsoft.co.uk/time-trials/original-track-leaderboards.html#sort-by-fastest-time

ie the newest glitches seems to have the longest 3laps in general


This really doesn't show anything special, in my opinion. The trend stops at the 3rd glitch, and it doesn't really hold constant at all (DKJP, the second newest glitch to have a WR time, is way up in the front as the 5th fastest category). Either way, since there are only 8 examples demonstrating it, it can be pretty well explained by just sheer coincidence, especially considering that it isn't a perfect trend.

One could also argue that, since the most gamebreaking and simple glitches are the easiest to figure out, and in turn the fastest to complete a run with, it's no surprise they were found earlier on. As the obvious ultra shortcuts were all found within a few months of the game being out (GV and MG), the glitches that were subsequently found required more complicated maneuvers to pull off (think CM and MC), leading to them taking more time to finish a run with.
[/quote]

I wonder if anyone did the MC tree clip but didn't know to drive backwards in 2008 or some shit xd

I mean, some of the tracks toward the end that take the longest were discovered almost the latest, too.  I'd say it's a pretty weak trend, but still a trend nonetheless.  You could probably see some sort of semi obvious pattern if thsi was graphed, but it wouldnt be pretty.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond. on 09/30/17 at 04:51:07


5D67606B6A6C676663630F0 wrote:
[quote author=6449414D4F4E446D4153544552200 link=1372380909/175#180 date=1501441917][quote author=1C26212A2B2D262722224E0 link=1372380909/175#179 date=1501441077]     [quote author=705F44534542595853360 link=1372380909/150#167 date=1499295397] Europe has had at least 1 3lap WR on every track except Rainbow Road..


The UK has it on 30/32. What's the other track besides RR that the UK hasn't had one on?[/quote]
rWS[/quote]

How'd you know? Did it require a long process of elimination? [/quote]
Yeah. It only took about 5 minutes

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond. on 10/15/17 at 14:38:39

Combining 3laps and flaps, Alvin has set 130 wrs in this game

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 12/09/17 at 01:08:22

^Who has the most?


sword has hit a penguin lap 3 on rSL and still got 2:05.xxx.  He'd make top 100 on the players page even hitting the penguin.  incredible

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond on 12/09/17 at 07:17:17


4F757279787E757471711D0 wrote:
^Who has the most?

Alvin by far. Only person that comes close is Unreal with 102 combined wrs

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by RVZ on 12/11/17 at 22:56:05

Diamond sucks not only the cock but the balls too. Give us some more false stats.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 12/12/17 at 03:58:00


7B5C4C575158584A390 wrote:
Diamond sucks not only the cock but the balls too. Give us some more false stats.


[smiley=lolk.gif]

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond on 12/12/17 at 15:37:14


082F3F24222B2B394A0 wrote:
Diamond sucks not only the cock but the balls too. Give us some more false stats.

Forgive me, Alvin actually has 128 wrs, not 130

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by RVZ on 12/15/17 at 02:46:39


6548404C4E4F456C4052554453210 wrote:
[quote author=082F3F24222B2B394A0 link=1372380909/175#188 date=1513061765]Diamond sucks not only the cock but the balls too. Give us some more false stats.

Forgive me, Alvin actually has 128 wrs, not 130[/quote]
I wasnt even talking about Alvin but this shows how inaccurate ur posts are for real

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond on 12/15/17 at 04:55:59


4D6A7A61676E6E7C0F0 wrote:
[quote author=6548404C4E4F456C4052554453210 link=1372380909/175#190 date=1513121834][quote author=082F3F24222B2B394A0 link=1372380909/175#188 date=1513061765]Diamond sucks not only the cock but the balls too. Give us some more false stats.

Forgive me, Alvin actually has 128 wrs, not 130[/quote]
I wasnt even talking about Alvin but this shows how inaccurate ur posts are for real[/quote]
Then explain to ne which of my posts are inaccurate. I have no idea what else you could be talking about

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by RosscoXz on 12/15/17 at 07:09:23


6F4351564750696769220 wrote:
I am hoarding 32/32 non-sc WRs


everyone knows this, why are you posting that here?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by RVZ on 12/15/17 at 07:18:29


062B232F2D2C260F2331362730420 wrote:
[quote author=4D6A7A61676E6E7C0F0 link=1372380909/175#191 date=1513334799][quote author=6548404C4E4F456C4052554453210 link=1372380909/175#190 date=1513121834][quote author=082F3F24222B2B394A0 link=1372380909/175#188 date=1513061765]Diamond sucks not only the cock but the balls too. Give us some more false stats.

Forgive me, Alvin actually has 128 wrs, not 130[/quote]
I wasnt even talking about Alvin but this shows how inaccurate ur posts are for real[/quote]
Then explain to ne which of my posts are inaccurate. I have no idea what else you could be talking about[/quote]
Theres also a country named Japan. Do you have all their score sheets?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Spec on 12/15/17 at 10:52:16

I do not think you can combine flap WRs like that. They were valued much less by the community and therefore were not tracked as hard. I can not speak for japan but I imagine they were not that involved with flaps either.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond on 12/15/17 at 15:14:30


6C58717B47647177140 wrote:
I do not think you can combine flap WRs like that. They were valued much less by the community and therefore were not tracked as hard. I can not speak for japan but I imagine they were not that involved with flaps either.

So should we not combine non-sc wrs? They used to be valued about just as less as flap wrs

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Vinnie927 on 12/15/17 at 15:18:00

"Used to", which means that they are valued nearly as much as normal WRs today. Flaps have never been highly valued

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond on 12/15/17 at 15:31:37


714E49494E42270 wrote:
"Used to", which means that they are valued nearly as much as normal WRs today. Flaps have never been highly valued

That still doesn't nullify the fact that non-sc wrs "were" valued much less by the community and "were" not tracked as hard, which is what was initially said regarding flap wrs. Point is, neither flap wrs nor non-sc wrs have as complete of a history as glitches

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 04/27/18 at 01:59:30

If you finish a race on Coconut mall and your Funky somehow gets stuck on a backwards escalator, the game will give him this completely random, very unique boost to get up the backwards escalator.

The thing is, the boost looks fucking strange.  No visual affects but looks fucked.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by ZedR on 04/28/18 at 11:38:47

You can actually touch/hit LAKITU with your Bike in this game, what the fuck  ;D ;D ;D

https://youtu.be/fJICzwKCNrw?t=2m3s

2:03

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 04/30/18 at 10:20:39

At one point in time, somoene (probbaly unknowinly) set a world record for fast time into the MT cannon. Imagine how tight that shroomspot was. legit was probbaly nmeade btw or demon ofc

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 04/30/18 at 12:24:41

Yavieron's IRL name is Javier de Cea

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 05/18/18 at 23:12:39

At one point, everyone in the world couldn't beat someone going purposely super wide staying on the middle of the road on TF turn 1

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Zack_McNell on 05/19/18 at 15:29:44

This is an alt to Jaw's main account - http://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?action=viewprofile&username=43687E7A43687E6C7A66646C090

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 05/20/18 at 01:04:40

You can very easily get a small bump on the edge of the turn you cut off with shroom 1 on rPB.  Insanely easy.  You can get soo much air.   Doing so cuts off way more offroad.  Hopping not required.  Could save like .040-.075 depending on how creative people get.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Royy on 05/20/18 at 05:24:53


7C5B514754675445415A47350 wrote:
You can actually touch/hit LAKITU with your Bike in this game, what the fuck  ;D ;D ;D

https://youtu.be/fJICzwKCNrw?t=2m3s

2:03



You can push lakitu away with objectives from the map
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reSGDbLWcRM

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 05/21/18 at 18:44:45

^Thats happened to me like 5 times but I never was paying attention and just wondered why he warped.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by RosscoXz on 05/23/18 at 04:05:48

KingAlex becomes the 4th player to have been involved in more than one WR tie, he joins Sword and Brendan (2 each) and Cole (3)

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by BananaMK on 06/10/18 at 11:26:24

Funky Kong gets impaled whenever he wheelies with the flame runner.

http://https://i.imgur.com/gJGo8ba.pnghttp://https://i.imgur.com/laNzjIc.png

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Spec on 06/11/18 at 03:31:49

I was led to believe he gets impaired while sitting down

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 06/12/18 at 05:14:14


694A454A454A66602B0 wrote:
Funky Kong gets impaled whenever he wheelies with the flame runner.

http://https://i.imgur.com/gJGo8ba.pnghttp://https://i.imgur.com/laNzjIc.png


impaled into getting WRs

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by isaak on 06/17/18 at 00:36:50

Birdo and Diddy Kong are the only 2 characters without recorded wrs. The only way I see it happening is on DKJP

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by hahaae on 06/18/18 at 10:59:23


4D5745454F42240 wrote:
Birdo and Diddy Kong are the only 2 characters without recorded wrs. The only way I see it happening is on DKJP



There were several BCWii WRs set by SNK with Birdo.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 06/18/18 at 11:24:48


2626264E0 wrote:
[quote author=4D5745454F42240 link=1372380909/200#212 date=1529224610]Birdo and Diddy Kong are the only 2 characters without recorded wrs. The only way I see it happening is on DKJP



There were several BCWii WRs set by SNK with Birdo.[/quote]

When?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Mr.Nosey on 06/18/18 at 12:38:35


404040280 wrote:
[quote author=4D5745454F42240 link=1372380909/200#212 date=1529224610]Birdo and Diddy Kong are the only 2 characters without recorded wrs. The only way I see it happening is on DKJP



There were several BCWii WRs set by SNK with Birdo.[/quote]
Yeah, I thought I remembered this too, in fact I went straight onto mkwrs to look at bcwii glitch wr history, bu found nothing there. And SNK is Sneak from Australia right? I also checked mindscarp's channel because that's where I thought I saw the videos, but apparently not.

And now I just searched for sneak, I found these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oowXfWRP0IE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBUXW5NtCaI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB65hMeUG_Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQVP2DNH_zY

so they're all CRs, not WRs, we both made the same mistake :( nice memory on who it was though

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Dos Santos on 06/18/18 at 12:49:18

im the half-blood prince of mario kart

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 06/19/18 at 03:38:13

Only the two first cups of the game now have 2018 WRs on all their tracks at about the halfway point of the year.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 06/21/18 at 10:20:11

No one has ever set a WR with the Mii name "Boss".

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond on 06/21/18 at 10:47:19


407A7D7677717A7B7E7E120 wrote:
No one has ever set a WR with the Mii name "Boss".

No one has ever set a wr with the mii name "Rhodechill"

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 06/22/18 at 00:37:06


4A676F6361606A436F7D7A6B7C0E0 wrote:
[quote author=407A7D7677717A7B7E7E120 link=1372380909/200#218 date=1529605211]No one has ever set a WR with the Mii name "Boss".

No one has ever set a wr with the mii name "Rhodechill"[/quote]

[smiley=roll.gif]

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 06/22/18 at 09:49:29


7C51575F57380 wrote:
im the half-blood prince of mario kart



No you're not

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by hahaae on 06/22/18 at 12:46:58


2F2B29273B352A3736420 wrote:
[quote author=404040280 link=1372380909/200#213 date=1529348363][quote author=4D5745454F42240 link=1372380909/200#212 date=1529224610]Birdo and Diddy Kong are the only 2 characters without recorded wrs. The only way I see it happening is on DKJP



There were several BCWii WRs set by SNK with Birdo.[/quote]
Yeah, I thought I remembered this too, in fact I went straight onto mkwrs to look at bcwii glitch wr history, bu found nothing there. And SNK is Sneak from Australia right? I also checked mindscarp's channel because that's where I thought I saw the videos, but apparently not.

And now I just searched for sneak, I found these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oowXfWRP0IE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBUXW5NtCaI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB65hMeUG_Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQVP2DNH_zY

so they're all CRs, not WRs, we both made the same mistake :( nice memory on who it was though[/quote]

The fuck? I had a replay downloaded in 2009 and it had fuckin Birdo. I used to race it a lot. Where did that replay come from then?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by isaak on 06/24/18 at 05:22:44


0B0B0B630 wrote:
[quote author=2F2B29273B352A3736420 link=1372380909/200#215 date=1529354315][quote author=404040280 link=1372380909/200#213 date=1529348363][quote author=4D5745454F42240 link=1372380909/200#212 date=1529224610]Birdo and Diddy Kong are the only 2 characters without recorded wrs. The only way I see it happening is on DKJP



There were several BCWii WRs set by SNK with Birdo.[/quote]
Yeah, I thought I remembered this too, in fact I went straight onto mkwrs to look at bcwii glitch wr history, bu found nothing there. And SNK is Sneak from Australia right? I also checked mindscarp's channel because that's where I thought I saw the videos, but apparently not.

And now I just searched for sneak, I found these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oowXfWRP0IE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBUXW5NtCaI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB65hMeUG_Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQVP2DNH_zY

so they're all CRs, not WRs, we both made the same mistake :( nice memory on who it was though[/quote]

The fuck? I had a replay downloaded in 2009 and it had fuckin Birdo. I used to race it a lot. Where did that replay come from then?
[/quote]

he has three WRs but they were all with daisy. maybe it was a top 10 time?

edit: mindscarp says in the description of this video that he has the oceanic record with "dry bowser or even birdo"
https://youtu.be/5vBGJwSF8vM


Mandela effect?  :-?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by WillD on 06/25/18 at 14:34:06


5A777F7371707A537F6D6A7B6C1E0 wrote:
[quote author=407A7D7677717A7B7E7E120 link=1372380909/200#218 date=1529605211]No one has ever set a WR with the Mii name "Boss".

No one has ever set a wr with the mii name "Rhodechill"[/quote]
;D ;D ;D [smiley=zark.gif]

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 06/26/18 at 08:39:07

lol, omega still has the most combined days with wr on rYF  
and unless cole returns, it would be impossible for any person to beat him for about 5 years on this chart, even if they monopolize the world record without losing it or skipping a single day

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by hahaae on 06/26/18 at 15:23:01


445E4C4C464B2D0 wrote:
[quote author=0B0B0B630 link=1372380909/200#222 date=1529700418][quote author=2F2B29273B352A3736420 link=1372380909/200#215 date=1529354315][quote author=404040280 link=1372380909/200#213 date=1529348363][quote author=4D5745454F42240 link=1372380909/200#212 date=1529224610]Birdo and Diddy Kong are the only 2 characters without recorded wrs. The only way I see it happening is on DKJP



There were several BCWii WRs set by SNK with Birdo.[/quote]
Yeah, I thought I remembered this too, in fact I went straight onto mkwrs to look at bcwii glitch wr history, bu found nothing there. And SNK is Sneak from Australia right? I also checked mindscarp's channel because that's where I thought I saw the videos, but apparently not.

And now I just searched for sneak, I found these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oowXfWRP0IE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBUXW5NtCaI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB65hMeUG_Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQVP2DNH_zY

so they're all CRs, not WRs, we both made the same mistake :( nice memory on who it was though[/quote]

The fuck? I had a replay downloaded in 2009 and it had fuckin Birdo. I used to race it a lot. Where did that replay come from then?
[/quote]

he has three WRs but they were all with daisy. maybe it was a top 10 time?

edit: mindscarp says in the description of this video that he has the oceanic record with "dry bowser or even birdo"
https://youtu.be/5vBGJwSF8vM


Mandela effect?  :-?[/quote]

Weird, I must have gotten it from like a rival ghost or something. Definitely remember racing a Birdo at one point

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Shock on 06/30/18 at 07:49:31

This is a spreadsheet made by Brett where he tracked the last 3 digits of WRs. (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qMrPGSV4ebD4cGrEW7euy1VQokI79h4BOOrdRMR9ZFY/edit#gid=0)

(You may need to quote this post and copy/paste the link directly if you want to view it.)

922 of the possible endings have been achieved at some point or another - I personally expect this number to continue to grow logarithmicly with time. The thing that I personally found most interesting about this data is that I think it shows a general aversion to scoring "4xx-"7xx range WR times:

http://i.imgur.com/dk3JXeY.png

On the x-axis is the leading digit (tenths place) and on the y-axis is the number of WRs not achieved with that leading digit. Unsurprisingly, people seem to really like "9xx and "8xx WRs.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 06/30/18 at 09:08:06


2E212B3625233A212B2A2A214F0 wrote:
This is a spreadsheet made by Brett where he tracked the last 3 digits of WRs. (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qMrPGSV4ebD4cGrEW7euy1VQokI79h4BOOrdRMR9ZFY/edit#gid=0)

(You may need to quote this post and copy/paste the link directly if you want to view it.)

922 of the possible endings have been achieved at some point or another - I personally expect this number to continue to grow logarithmicly with time. The thing that I personally found most interesting about this data is that I think it shows a general aversion to scoring "4xx-"7xx range WR times:

http://i.imgur.com/dk3JXeY.png

On the x-axis is the leading digit (tenths place) and on the y-axis is the number of WRs not achieved with that leading digit. Unsurprisingly, people seem to really like "9xx and "8xx WRs.


wao

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond on 07/01/18 at 20:57:00


616E64796A6C756E6465656E000 wrote:
This is a spreadsheet made by Brett where he tracked the last 3 digits of WRs. (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qMrPGSV4ebD4cGrEW7euy1VQokI79h4BOOrdRMR9ZFY/edit#gid=0)

(You may need to quote this post and copy/paste the link directly if you want to view it.)

922 of the possible endings have been achieved at some point or another - I personally expect this number to continue to grow logarithmicly with time. The thing that I personally found most interesting about this data is that I think it shows a general aversion to scoring "4xx-"7xx range WR times:

http://i.imgur.com/dk3JXeY.png

On the x-axis is the leading digit (tenths place) and on the y-axis is the number of WRs not achieved with that leading digit. Unsurprisingly, people seem to really like "9xx and "8xx WRs.

Interesting. I wonder how long it took him to collect that data lol

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 07/01/18 at 23:19:23


7E535B5755545E775B494E5F483A0 wrote:
[quote author=616E64796A6C756E6465656E000 link=1372380909/225#227 date=1530373771]This is a spreadsheet made by Brett where he tracked the last 3 digits of WRs. (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qMrPGSV4ebD4cGrEW7euy1VQokI79h4BOOrdRMR9ZFY/edit#gid=0)

(You may need to quote this post and copy/paste the link directly if you want to view it.)

922 of the possible endings have been achieved at some point or another - I personally expect this number to continue to grow logarithmicly with time. The thing that I personally found most interesting about this data is that I think it shows a general aversion to scoring "4xx-"7xx range WR times:

http://i.imgur.com/dk3JXeY.png

On the x-axis is the leading digit (tenths place) and on the y-axis is the number of WRs not achieved with that leading digit. Unsurprisingly, people seem to really like "9xx and "8xx WRs.

Interesting. I wonder how long it took him to collect that data lol[/quote]


Rhodechill - Last Friday at 11:46 PM
How long did it take to complete this spreadsheet, hours-wise
Brett - Last Friday at 11:46 PM
883 is interesting, some Japanese guy got it with the bullet bike on rBC3 which remained WR for about 15 minutes. It's the only 883 ever.
About 6-7.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Mgat on 07/20/18 at 15:37:00

There are 8 current TAS BKTs from before the wifi was shut down.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by WL95★Jaxon on 07/20/18 at 16:20:53


547E786D54524E5050190 wrote:
There are 8 current TAS BKTs from before the wifi was shut down.

There are 0 current WRs from before the wifi was shut down.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond on 07/20/18 at 18:12:15


546A6A4F6C71673A36030 wrote:
[quote author=547E786D54524E5050190 link=1372380909/225#231 date=1532129820]There are 8 current TAS BKTs from before the wifi was shut down.

There are 0 current WRs from before the wifi was shut down.[/quote]
There are 0 current wrs that Rhodechill has set

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 07/20/18 at 21:36:02


49646C60626369406C7E79687F0D0 wrote:
[quote author=546A6A4F6C71673A36030 link=1372380909/225#232 date=1532132453][quote author=547E786D54524E5050190 link=1372380909/225#231 date=1532129820]There are 8 current TAS BKTs from before the wifi was shut down.

There are 0 current WRs from before the wifi was shut down.[/quote]
There are 0 current wrs that Rhodechill has set[/quote]

There are 0 former WRs that Rhodechill has set

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by WL95★Jaxon on 07/20/18 at 22:25:25


4965777061764F414F040 wrote:
[quote author=49646C60626369406C7E79687F0D0 link=1372380909/225#233 date=1532139135][quote author=546A6A4F6C71673A36030 link=1372380909/225#232 date=1532132453][quote author=547E786D54524E5050190 link=1372380909/225#231 date=1532129820]There are 8 current TAS BKTs from before the wifi was shut down.

There are 0 current WRs from before the wifi was shut down.[/quote]
There are 0 current wrs that Rhodechill has set[/quote]

There are 0 former WRs that Rhodechill has set[/quote]
There are 0 former WRs that Hibiki has set

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond on 07/20/18 at 23:05:32


5C70626574635A545A110 wrote:
[quote author=49646C60626369406C7E79687F0D0 link=1372380909/225#233 date=1532139135][quote author=546A6A4F6C71673A36030 link=1372380909/225#232 date=1532132453][quote author=547E786D54524E5050190 link=1372380909/225#231 date=1532129820]There are 8 current TAS BKTs from before the wifi was shut down.

There are 0 current WRs from before the wifi was shut down.[/quote]
There are 0 current wrs that Rhodechill has set[/quote]

There are 0 former WRs that Rhodechill has set[/quote]
You're forgetting flaps :P

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Count on 07/24/18 at 11:21:19

Here's how many 3lap WRs were set with what controller in what year.

https://i.imgur.com/gFUPhTU.jpg

excluding 2008:
https://i.imgur.com/nA48GrI.jpg?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Spec on 07/24/18 at 11:33:22


0B273D263C480 wrote:
Here's how many 3lap WRs were set with what controller in what year.

https://i.imgur.com/gFUPhTU.jpg

excluding 2008:
https://i.imgur.com/nA48GrI.jpg?


It would be interesting to include some datapoints such as the 2015 spike in WRs being mainly due to Fox and other things of that manor

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 07/31/18 at 11:46:23

1. is classic better than wiichuck
2. is classic better than wiichuck for someone wanting to be good at flame runner flat tracks

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by WL95★Jaxon on 07/31/18 at 12:04:19


7E444348494F444540402C0 wrote:
1. is classic better than wiichuck
2. is classic better than wiichuck for someone wanting to be good at flame runner flat tracks

No and no

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond on 07/31/18 at 12:58:30


0F353239383E353431315D0 wrote:
1. is classic better than wiichuck
2. is classic better than wiichuck for someone wanting to be good at flame runner flat tracks

yes and yes

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 08/01/18 at 09:33:02

I only just now noticed this after ~8 years of playing this game

There's a heart symbol on the back of Daisy's bike suit (And I imagine Peach's and Rosalina's as well)

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Count on 08/20/18 at 15:27:14

The courses that have had WRs set using all 4 controllers are

MG g
MC g
WGM g
KC
GV ng (?)
RR
rDKJP g


Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by WL95★Jaxon on 08/20/18 at 16:43:25

Alvin, MARIO, Sword, Liam, Mick, and Bubbles are the only people out of 265 total MKWii WR holders to have set a WR with all four main vehicles (Magi, Mach, Bowser Bike, and Spear)

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Bryce729 on 08/20/18 at 17:04:15

since when was magi a main vehicle

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by WL95★Jaxon on 08/20/18 at 17:21:21


685853494F1D18132A0 wrote:
since when was magi a main vehicle

I don't think that there are any other relevant vehicles that have had a WR on more that 1 track. Maybe flame flyer but then it would be nobody. Also if you don't include Magi it's too many people to be special. It just seemed like the right fit

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Count on 08/21/18 at 13:56:01

Fox, NOBUO, Yavieron and Cole are the only people to have set crs WRs across all 8 cups.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 09/02/18 at 08:39:33

Where is this funky kong model/image from?  i got it from the banner on mkboards but where is it from? (all 3 links are to the same image; just have 3 links in case one expires)

https://image.ibb.co/kyddhz/Screenshot_218.png

http://prntscr.com/kpqmsx

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-yYYx2W5ah_5XdFllN8yX9NEYkyN4Fb_/view?usp=sharing

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond on 09/02/18 at 10:57:40

photoshop  

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by hahaae on 09/02/18 at 12:23:14

Looks like someone captured an image from the 3rd person view camera when Funky was driving, like at an endscreen or something, and photoshopped it on there, ya

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Rhodechill on 09/05/18 at 21:41:39

What game is the funky model taken from

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by hahaae on 09/05/18 at 22:35:46


73494E45444249484D4D210 wrote:
What game is the funky model taken from


looks like mkw, that's what i was saying lol

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 03/09/19 at 12:02:39

On the back of the manual, there's a number for receiving help from Nintendo themselves

Only after that does it say you can use the internet [smiley=lolk.gif]

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by KingAlex on 04/09/19 at 05:49:43

Didn't know where to post this but very random fun fact... Cole (known for grinding and optimizing spear tracks) is now 5th worldwide in 4 of the 5 spears tracks he last held WR on. Shows how much standards have changed over the years.

LC - 1st
MC/rYF/rPB/rDH - All 5th worldwide


Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 04/09/19 at 08:34:39


6E434A577C2F0 wrote:
rDH


You heard it here guys. rDH is a Spear track

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by JawsTheShark on 04/09/19 at 09:20:24

How is it not?

The straights far outweigh the turns.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by RosscoXz on 04/09/19 at 12:06:28

I’m pretty sure he just means the tracks that cole had WR with spear on

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by PaulM78 on 04/09/19 at 17:10:21

I'm pretty damn sure that spear can't be competitive here at a high level sadly. Obviously Cole hasn't optimized his best splits with it, but me Liam and Sosis can consistently beat even his very best with it. Not to mention lucky cuts are supposedly more difficult to get with it, and that's only going to damage it in the long run when shit like 2/3 is going to be required.

BB just gains too much on the regular cuts when it gets them right, and things like pyramid turn, turn before shroom and last turn just slaughter spear.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 08/08/19 at 11:21:18

When your character is squashed (from a Thwomp, mega, etc.) you can't see the sparks from charging an mt

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Diamond on 08/08/19 at 12:24:00


406C7E79687F4648460D0 wrote:
When your character is squashed (from a Thwomp, mega, etc.) you can't see the sparks from charging an mt

wow youre the first person to notice

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 09/10/19 at 09:57:36

The top 10 most popular regular tracks (on CTGP by unique player count) are:

1: Luigi Circuit - 4539
2: Mushroom Gorge nonsc - 3442
3: SNES Ghost Valley 2 nonsc - 3362
4: Moo Moo Meadows - 3060
5: DK's Snowboard Cross - 2935
6: Toad's Factory - 2914
7: DS Delfino Square - 2785
8: Mario Circuit nonsc - 2561
9: SNES Mario Circuit 3 - 2549
10: Coconut Mall nonsc - 2416



The top 10 most popular CTs (by unique player count) are:

1: ASDF_Course - 6304
2: Wuhu Mountain - 4844
3: GCN Baby Park - 4566
4: Toad Raceway - 4517
5: Kinoko Cave nonsc - 3862
6: DS Figure 8 Circuit - 3855
7: Abyssal Ruins - 3608
8: Crystal Dungeon - 3606
9: Concord Town - 3346
10: Dawn Township - 3277

The least popular nonsc regular track is GV with 952 players (rockhop has 1178. glitch has 1903). The least popular nonsc CT is the new N64 Kalimari Desert with 283 players (for older tracks, it's Star Slope with 414)

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by A-a-ronBurrSir on 09/11/19 at 13:06:14

I love how Wuhu mountain is 2nd. The troy staff ghost definitely helped.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 09/18/19 at 09:41:10

I only just now noticed this

IT HAS BEEN DONE (http://www.chadsoft.co.uk/reports/2019-09-cheater-incident.html)

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 11/15/19 at 10:58:44

Are there any ghosts anywhere where all 3 laps are the exact same?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by A-a-ronBurrSir on 11/15/19 at 16:58:27

This isn't exactly the same but almost

https://twitter.com/Handy863/status/1142899788087734273

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Arvo57 on 11/16/19 at 14:56:42

My old rDKJP time also had 2 splits the same and the third one 1 ms off.
Liam said there has been a few times with the same split for all 3 laps but I never found any. Would be cool to see one though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kTKDGLjnXY

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 03/29/20 at 10:12:01

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NjcVtrfTnKHQ-XUEOSHB6o-muM8IiCrOhgFDTYqghcM/edit?usp=sharing

Using ghost data and a hex editor, you can easily figure out exactly where in a certain country a player is from (provided they've set their Wii region)

I gathered data from 82 Japanese WR holders (Including Mander and Nagisa) just to see what I could find

I also hope this clears up the Zenel dying in the tsunami myth

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Arvo57 on 03/29/20 at 14:05:58


4F6371766770494749020 wrote:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NjcVtrfTnKHQ-XUEOSHB6o-muM8IiCrOhgFDTYqghcM/edit?usp=sharing

Using ghost data and a hex editor, you can easily figure out exactly where in a certain country a player is from (provided they've set their Wii region)

I gathered data from 82 Japanese WR holders (Including Mander and Nagisa) just to see what I could find

I also hope this clears up the Zenel dying in the tsunami myth


Huh? You can choose your city on Japanese wiis?

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Olifré on 03/30/20 at 02:01:07


5447435A0002350 wrote:
Huh? You can choose your city on Japanese wiis?


They're the same as the regions settings on the Wii System Settings for countries. Japan has many different regions and Nintendo decided to put them all in the game for better accuracy. Not all of them are based on cities, but some are. ;) In my case, Belgium has three regions to chose from: Flanders, Walloon and Brussels. Technically a fourth one which is called Belgium and is used when you didn't specify a region on your Wii system settings. Belgium has a lot more than those three, but they're too small to add, so they're left out.  :-/

http://wiki.tockdom.com/wiki/MKWii_Network_Protocol/USER/State_codes

Like Master Kek said, in a .rkg file you can find that information. If you go to offset 0x35 and read that byte it will tell you what region the player is from. Go one byte back and that byte describes the country the player is from. Remember it's in hex format, so a proper conversion is needed for the decimal value. :) http://wiki.tockdom.com/wiki/RKG_(File_Format)

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Mango Man on 03/30/20 at 03:17:18


6E597A7F7064732F20160 wrote:
[quote author=5447435A0002350 link=1372380909/250#268 date=1585519558]

Huh? You can choose your city on Japanese wiis?


They're the same as the regions settings on the Wii System Settings for countries. Japan has many different regions and Nintendo decided to put them all in the game for better accuracy. Not all of them are based on cities, but some are. ;) In my case, Belgium has three regions to chose from: Flanders, Walloon and Brussels. Technically a fourth one which is called Belgium and is used when you didn't specify a region on your Wii system settings. Belgium has a lot more than those three, but they're too small to add, so they're left out.  :-/

http://wiki.tockdom.com/wiki/MKWii_Network_Protocol/USER/State_codes

Like Master Kek said, in a .rkg file you can find that information. If you go to offset 0x35 and read that byte it will tell you what region the player is from. Go one byte back and that byte describes the country the player is from. Remember it's in hex format, so a proper conversion is needed for the decimal value. :) http://wiki.tockdom.com/wiki/RKG_(File_Format)[/quote]
Did you just link an empty wikipage smh my head

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by hahaae on 03/30/20 at 03:20:26

^Doesn't seem empty for me. Weird
e: oh that one lol

dammit olifre

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Olifré on 03/30/20 at 05:54:55


5F5A55504E483B0 wrote:
Did you just link an empty wikipage smh my head


6464640C0 wrote:
^Doesn't seem empty for me. Weird
e: oh that one lol

dammit olifre


Haha ok that's strange ;D For some reason YaBB didn't recognize the last ')' as part of the url. It's fixed now by placing the link between [url] blocks. [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 03/30/20 at 10:47:12

I'll work on doing every country now 8-)

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by WillD on 03/31/20 at 21:11:26


0A26343322350C020C470 wrote:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NjcVtrfTnKHQ-XUEOSHB6o-muM8IiCrOhgFDTYqghcM/edit?usp=sharing

Using ghost data and a hex editor, you can easily figure out exactly where in a certain country a player is from (provided they've set their Wii region)

I gathered data from 82 Japanese WR holders (Including Mander and Nagisa) just to see what I could find

I also hope this clears up the Zenel dying in the tsunami myth

This is awesome, Kek  [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Arvo57 on 03/31/20 at 22:31:30

The CM glitch was actually first found back in 2010 in this Japanese worldwide video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Sorozone on 04/01/20 at 08:27:14

I know that's a joke, but it actually was known about a lot earlier. No video evidence or anything, but a poster at mkw.com at the time made a detailed post that explained it. At the time no one believed him(including me).

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by ZedR on 04/02/20 at 01:57:43

I found dkm glitch already on Double dash

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by flanders on 04/15/20 at 13:50:18

At the beginning of Bowser's Castle, after the first ramp and before the wavy road section, there's a Bowser emblem and "SPECIAL CUP" text in dark red. Normally you don't see it because it blends in pretty well. I didn't even know about this until I'd owned the game for 7 years.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Ketchup on 06/20/20 at 11:22:51


50717A7A7D67577B78627D7A2322140 wrote:
[quote author=0C21292527262C05293B3C2D3A480 link=1372380909/125#134 date=1490217417]If I did this correctly, there are currently 1126 non banned members and 100 banned members on the mkwpp

That means 8.16% of people that have ever been on the mkwpp are cheaters. That's sad. I wish that rate was much lower.  :-/[/quote]
well maybe it would be if you weren't alive

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 07/29/20 at 12:32:12


6C49405A5A494C4940494349280 wrote:
http://mkboards.com/forums/index.php/topic,4633.0.html

Noticed this while lurking the mkboards earlier, does anyone know what purpose this 'special ghost' was intended to serve?


My guess is that Nintendo planned to have game devs and celebrities (at least in Japan) make ghosts for anyone to download but never got around to doing it. They did something similar in Pokémon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire https://serebii.net/omegarubyalphasapphire/specialbases.shtml

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by ßęn2Łęgįt on 09/02/20 at 10:02:01

Everyone probably knows this but there’s an ultra longcut  on DKS kinda. Turn around after the cannon and go off the halfpipe and go oob. Youll respawn in front of the finish line. Drive backwards until you reach the hill section, turn around, and it’ll count the lap.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by WL95★Jaxon on 10/17/20 at 01:09:45

According to mkwrs.com, there are only 11 players that have held both the glitch and no glitch world records on a single track at the same time

Luke: TF, rBC3
Guy: MC
Braixen: CM
Sro: WGM
Totom: MT
Demon: MT
Axel: rGV2
Sword: rSL
Havoc: rBC3
Jascha: rDKJP
Logan: rDKM

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by WL95★Jaxon on 10/17/20 at 01:25:07

According to mkwrs.com, there are only 6 players that have at some point held a WR with each of the “four main vehicles” (Bowser Bike, Torpedo, Mach Bike, Magikruiser)

Alvin
Bubbles
Jorge
Liam
Mick
Sword

I chose these four because I figured they were the most common at high level no glitch play. I didn’t include Flame Flyer too obviously because then there would be 0 players and that would be a boring fact haha

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Tubiek on 10/19/20 at 08:46:55

According to mkwrs.com, there are 8 WR Holders who have set multiple WRs with different controllers:
Tim: Originally used GCN, switched to classic
Unreal: Originally used GCN, switched to Wiichuck
Sword: Originally used GCN, switched to classic
Jazz Ahmed: Originally used Wiichuck, switched to GCN
Marco: Originally used Wiichuck, switched to GCN
Danny G: Used Wheel for one WR and Wiichuck for the rest, still a wheel main
Bryce: Wheel and Classic in between WRs
key: Originally used GCN, switched to classic

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Mgat on 01/28/21 at 15:23:13

1. as of this writing, rYF is the only track in the regular 32 tracks that has never had a wiichuck world record. 2. only 4 categories have never had a wr using the Classic controller to date: SNES Mario Circuit 3, N64 Bowser's Castle NG, GCN Peach Beach NG, and Maple Treeway NG.

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 01/28/21 at 16:16:49


6B4147526B6D716F6F260 wrote:
1. as of this writing, rYF is the only track in the regular 32 tracks that has never had a wiichuck world record. 2. only 4 categories have never had a wr using the Classic controller to date: SNES Mario Circuit 3, N64 Bowser's Castle NG, GCN Peach Beach NG, and Maple Treeway NG.



Classic Controller record on MT is Marvin's 2:17.743, which is only good enough for 8th American

oof

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by Master Kek on 03/28/21 at 08:18:12

This is where the game's font comes from https://en.fontworks.co.jp/fontsearch/rodinntlgpro-b/?word=

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by ArthurOww on 04/28/21 at 05:44:00

At the bottom right of certain pages of the PP, like the standards sheet, the Past Champions or the FAQ, you can read some text indicating when and by who the page was last modified. On the Proof page, we find this:

file modified 20080416 01:12 alexpenev

The last modification of the Proof page was done before the release of MKW in America. That's pretty old if you ask me.

And I was wondering why Penev talked about how the "Easiest way to capture a video is with a webcam or dvd-recorder" when I joined :D

Title: Re: Things you may have not known about Mario Kart
Post by InnovΔ on 09/09/21 at 06:39:12


022E3C3B2A3D040A044F0 wrote:
[quote author=6C49405A5A494C4940494349280 link=1372380909/75#77 date=1393887373]http://mkboards.com/forums/index.php/topic,4633.0.html

Noticed this while lurking the mkboards earlier, does anyone know what purpose this 'special ghost' was intended to serve?


My guess is that Nintendo planned to have game devs and celebrities (at least in Japan) make ghosts for anyone to download but never got around to doing it. They did something similar in Pokémon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire https://serebii.net/omegarubyalphasapphire/specialbases.shtml[/quote]

It seems like the special ghosts did exist after all (at least in Japan). On April 16, 2008, an LC ghost was distributed that was driven by Japanese actor/comedian Medaka Ikeno (https://blogimg.goo.ne.jp/user_image/28/65/a3772e64401f72d31a26720f660db24e.jpg).

This is the only one that's surfaced so far. The ghost is unavailable unfortunately.




Edit: I found another one, distributed in Korea of all places, driven by actor/singer Kim Bum. (http://img2.ruliweb.com/img/img_link7/248/247857_1.jpg) I find it funny that this ghost is faster than the Japanese one (http://img2.ruliweb.com/img/img_link7/248/247857_3.jpg)

This ghost is available here (https://ninrankings.org/ghostdatabase/ghostviewer.php?id=66265) (though it's useless without the ability to change drift)

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