My guess: they made MTs weaker, or they changed how it aims. In MKDS, it aims at about 2 feet in front of your kart, in the hopes that you'll drive into the explosion. (The explosion is also larger than 2 feet in radius, so this was thought a safe assumption.) This is why flying through the air facing sideways causes the shell to miss.

If they so much as used your velocity instead of your facing, that alone would make dodging them much more difficult. Maybe they're possible to dodge by ticking. (just nicking the edge of a wall so that you bounce off without losing speed)

Here's the real clincher: blue shell dodging in MKDS on 100cc (used for all wi-fi battles) was extremely difficult, and required either frame-perfect timing, assistance from a bump, or a slippery road. It was balanced. I don't get why they removed it.

I like MK7's low-flying blue shell. It's more like the one on MK64 and increases the chance of other players being hit.

Why do i always think of Mortal Kombat when people use MK as shortcut for Mario Kart :-/

Something that is always weird for me^^
How do find people all those glitches and such. They must be really bored ^^

Btw I hope that Toads Turnpike from Mario Kart 64 is in the next Mario Kart . That track was awesome in Mirror Mode

Eww, I HATED that track... If anything, I hope they bring back Royal Raceway with the glitches fixed.

lol MK64's Lakitu manip was epic. Skip the entire Frappe Snowland track

mm201 wrote: 25v2b

lol MK64's Lakitu manip was epic. Skip the entire Frappe Snowland track

Or Wario Stadium where you can finish the track in 16 seconds with 3 mushrooms

Royal Raceway and Turnpike NEED to return.

mm201 wrote: 25v2b

lol MK64's Lakitu manip was epic. Skip the entire Frappe Snowland track

Great, yet another thing I'll have to look up...

...

Was MK64 THAT glitchy?

Lakitu manip?

Manipulation. Intentionally falling off the course at a specific spot which causes Lakitu to put you back on the track at a much further position. MK7 has one of them on Maka Wuhu. I think every 3d Mario Kart has at least one.

Ohhh that's right.

Blazevoir wrote: 6ij51

mm201 wrote: 25v2b

lol MK64's Lakitu manip was epic. Skip the entire Frappe Snowland track

Great, yet another thing I'll have to look up...

...

Was MK64 THAT glitchy?

oh boy, it was!
Rainbow Road
Toads Turnpike
Frappy Snowland
Royal Raceway
DK Jungle
Marios raceway
Luigis Raceway
Kalimari Desert
Wario Stadium

i guess there are more trick/glitch tracks. I could do all tricks on them ^^

What's the glitch in Kalimari Desert?
The only DKJ glitch I know is a wall which doesn't clip in the cave near the end. It's only useful to save .5 or something on lap3 since you fall off the course when you do it.

mm201 wrote: 25v2b

What's the glitch in Kalimari Desert?

Using a Star in the tunnel, which makes it count as a lap and possibly putting you in first. If you try this without a Star, it won't work, forcing you to do the WHOLE lap all over again, pretty much guaranteeing you being in last.

Anyway, so I'm not always on osu! and I don't like leaving my 3DS on (not even on my charger UNLESS it needs to be charged)... How will I know if you guys have a community race?

Be lucky.

I found CDFA and he ed in for one race on Kalimari Desert, then left. =/
I got triple shrooms near the end, cut off the long turn alongside the tracks, and won 1st. I think he must've gotten item pwnt because he should have been second.

Unless there's a way for us to tell you there's a kartparty going on, then the only way for you to know is to be lucky, as mm201 said.

You say you don't keep osu! turned on but is there another way to you? Like AIM or MSN or something? I'd happily take a few seconds to message you whenever it's going down if it's an option.

Also, knowing what times people are around may help. I'm generally around most of the evening after I get home from work, which tends to be between 6-8pm (GMT-5). Often I'm around at random on weekends too.

And if there isn't a game in progress, why not try starting one? A number of us have kartparty on our highlights now for exactly this purpose.

Blazevoir wrote: 6ij51

I'm up for a race anytime within 12 PM - 12 AM CST (GMT -6) assuming I don't have anything else to do.

I do have YM/MSN. PM me for info.

And I didn't wanna try starting one since... well... I didn't know when everyone usually gets on. I'd leave my 3DS on, even in Sleep Mode, but... a battery that only lasts about 7 hours at max isn't long enough, especially if you wanna play your 3DS nearly every day. I'm reluctant to play because of that ._. (I'm also more reluctant to charge it/leave it on the charger because I don't want the battery life to go down sooner.)

I live in so i have CET (GMT + 1 or UTC + 1 / UTC + 2 while summertime) i hope this is right xD

On weekend i have no problems staying the whole night awake ^^ so if the time differences are to big i can do something against it

I have Fridays/weekends off, so I can afford to stay up all night on Thursdays. GMT-5. -4 during Summer. I don't notice highlights on irssi, so try to catch me on osu! or I can stalk you in my 3ds friends list.

Kinda voting for a weekly community race, but I'll try to catch you guys.

I'm not much of a presence here on the osu forums but I couldn't this up when I saw it. I have ed the osu community!
Also my FC is 2707-1623-9659. If anyone adds me let me know so I can add back.

I'm adding anyone that's posting here and here (post your FC there, too), though I don't always have my 3DS on to check to see who's on, but I added you

Added

mm201 wrote: 25v2b

Be lucky.

I found CDFA and he ed in for one race on Kalimari Desert, then left. =/
I got triple shrooms near the end, cut off the long turn alongside the tracks, and won 1st. I think he must've gotten item pwnt because he should have been second.

I disconnected immediatley after the race began :<.

Racing with mm201 and Blazevoir

Race 1: Mushrooom Gorge - Well I was in first for a while but man some people took OVER.
Race 2: Coconut Mall - 3. JJ 5. mm201 6. Blazevoir
Race 3: Maka Wuhu 1. mm201 4. JJ
SWITCH TO COMMUNITY
Race 4: Waluigi Pinball 1. MM201 2. Blaze 3. JJ 4. Remmy
Race 5: Rock Rock Mountain 1. Blaze 2. JJ 3. mm201 4. Remmy
Race 6: Luigi's Mansion 1. mm201 2. Blaze 3. Remmy 4. JJ
Race 7 Rainbow Road 1. mm201 2. Blaze 3. JJ 4. Remmy
Winner: mm201

Nintendo won't let me D:

Good games, everybody! My hands are still shaking...
That first RR was like a perfect run. Besides falling off the ripply road with holes too early.

General observations:
Blazevoir is cool dude
When Soaprman is around, things get messy.
Remmy is mediocre at everything.
I am the undisputed banana/green shell champion
SNES Rainbow Road is a road that you go to die.

CNM501 wrote: 3h452f

I'm not much of a presence here on the osu forums but I couldn't this up when I saw it. I have ed the osu community!
Also my FC is 2707-1623-9659. If anyone adds me let me know so I can add back.

Added to the 3DS codes thread.

mm201 wrote: 25v2b

Every track is a road that you go to die.

I couldn't agree more.

mm201 wrote: 25v2b

I am the undisputed banana/green shell champion

Poot you and your bananas/green shells

too bad i couldn't because of the time ; -7

mm201 wrote: 25v2b

When Soaprman is around, things get messy.

Take chances, make mistakes, and get messy! It's what I was taught growing up.

Soaprman wrote: 3v724a

Take chances, make mistakes, and get messy! It's what I was taught growing up.

You deserve an internetz

Soaprman wrote: 3v724a

Take chances, make mistakes, and get messy! It's what I was taught growing up.

B-but... I don't even get how it's possible to induce the level of chaos you manage to!

mm201 wrote: 25v2b

Remmy is mediocre at everything.

fuck you

I would like to say:

- Poot jj for lolstarhaxing
- Poot mm for making us feel lonely

That is all.

It's okay Blaze, come here and I'll make you feel less lonely.

Get MK7 first >_>

Deal.

Been playing Mario Kart 7 for the past few days and I think my Ghost Data is appearing on the Ghost Data that Nintendo sends through the Mario Kart Channel via Spot. I've even beaten the all of the regular Staff Ghosts and gotten close to beating some of the expert ones as well.
As a side note, that turn after the mushroom jump on Rainbow Road is just sinister. Especially since you can't see it until you make the jump.

It's totally unsightreadable. I fell off the first bunch of times I played the track because I took it right in the middle instead of staying to the left. You also need to time your tricks carefully or you'll bounce too far.

The worst part is probably the turn with the 4 drops around the small moon. When I land them, I begin drifting the wrong way for some reason unless I press R twice. The huge corner cut at the end also takes a lot of luck.

It would be nice if Mario Kart Channel would always send the world records, and also if you could watch replays of ghosts.

mm201, CDFA and I are karting it up RIGHT NOW.

!

Jeez... 8 people races are just insane... Half the time I ended up placing 4th or worse...

BLUE SHELL 2 SECONDS FROM THE FINISH LINE

1ST TO 5TH

WHYYYYYYY

tl;dr - my wireless is really stupid and waits to D/C me until 2 seconds after the race has started

I have come to the conclusion that the only course I can do well on is Maple Treeway ;~;

Screw that track... I keep getting hit by items RIGHT when I enter the cannon ;~;

0_o wrote: 252u4j

mm201, CDFA and I are karting it up RIGHT NOW.

!

FUUUUU. you play while i must sit in school :'(
Damn you time difference ^^.

Or while I'm in bed sick for that matter! Why couldn't you guys highlight me IRL?

Give me your phone number and I will send you erotic text messages telling you to get out of bed and play a rousing game of mario kart :3~.

my phone number is 127.0.0.1 img-trollface-are-you-mad-do-you-have-a-problem.gif.jpg

^ +1

Anyway, so I was thinking we should have a banner... *points to my fail one in my sig*

Poot you, Soap XD

"Alright, who wants to wreck 1st place's chances of staying in first, especially right before the finish line?!" is the image I'm getting

This one is too tall to use as a sig image. I'm sorry.

Quick, make one of me constantly Star Ramming mm201

Soaprman wrote: 3v724a

This one is too tall to use as a sig image. I'm sorry.

I HATE YOU DX

pfffffffffahahahahahahahahaaha

You're next, Derekku -.-

Currently racing in community mode with Derek and Blaze if you want to ~

jjrocks wrote: o5b4w

Currently racing in community mode with Derek and Blaze if you want to ~

I would but this router hates my 3DS's guts.

Also, Soapr: I love you.

Soap, stop ramming us >_>

Also, grats to Remmy for getting his first first

Alright, I'll stop ramming you. You can tell I'm not lying because if you go to the "list of people" page on wikipedia and sort by trustworthiness I'm right there on top. I'm that incapable of lying.

^ Total lies

Anyway, we seriously need to have an 8-person community race. (I'd also love it if we could, say, get on Vent so we can hear each other rage XD)

EDIT: So I did Worldwide afterwards... Ended up doing Maka Wuhu 3x in a row ._. UGH! (Seems like Metal Mario players pick that a lot...)

Omg i hate those stupid time differences D:
Sunday 11:30 pm ... jj asks for kartparty people
and i have to wake up 6 a.m.

But hey. I will play with you again xD
and about the Vent thing. Would be nice but it is not possible for me .

Of all the times to get capped.

I'm all over the prospect of voice chat... sure, I'll Ventrilo. I see the thread with the server information too (as well as details of all the... hijinks that transpire in the main chat). I guess we can try that next time we gather!

And I hoped they would fix it.
http://sticktwiddlers.com/2012/01/16/news-nintendo-refuses-to-budge-on-mario-kart-7-glitch/

They seem to be blocking glitched ghosts from appearing through Spot. I hope they can still figure out something serverside, like preventing the track from being chosen, or making glitchers explode in a giant fireball forever.

The reasoning in that article is not to put out a revised cartridge, since people with the first version would still be able to do the glitch. This doesn't rule out the forced-update-to-play-online possibility.

Well but they could do it like with Zelda Skyword sword.
But even then ... You have to dwl it the patch channel . I guess there would be still people who wouldn't do that because they are idiots.
But you have to connect with Nintendo before racing online so it should be possible to force people to dwl the patch "channel".

I hope they will fix this sometime ... or i just play with communities who don't like choosing this Wuhu track.

Whoa, wait, Skyward Sword has a patch? For what? *looks up*

*a moment later* Interesting... /off-topic

Dah! I'd like to race in the community one time but no one is ever on and timezones annoy me. :/

CNM501 wrote: 3h452f

Dah! I'd like to race in the community one time but no one is ever on and timezones annoy me. :/

well how about this :3
You tell me your timezone and I try finding a good time spot :3
GMT + 1

But i say that it will happen on weekends :3

Time Zones suck ass sometimes, don't they?

If anything (and this is unintentional), we usually have them on the weekends.

Just stalk players in your friends list and try to drop in on their games.
If more than 2 gather, they'll probably call for a kartparty so stay in #videogames.

I recently heard of this glitched shortcut on Wuhu Mountain Loop and I checked one of the ghosts I got from Street doing this shortcut. I tried it myself in Time Trial and here's the time I got:
Guess that makes me the cheapest bastard in the world right now now. While this may be big news, Mario Kart Wii isn't that much different either, especially when they have some of the same sort of thing. Linking to YouTube since embedding the video doesn't work properly for some reason: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRjhUduI53s

I am GMT + 10 but I randomly go on Mario Kart when I can. I don't exactly have a scheduke per se. However maybe knowing what times you guys are usually on would help

Wait, even Wuhu Loop has a glitch?

...

Now I'm wondering if Rainbow Road has one...

Dieathan wrote: 71d3h

I recently heard of this glitched shortcut on Wuhu Mountain Loop

Star Cup. The course is Maka Wuhu in the North American Release. It's the same glitch we already know and loathe.

I wouldn't do the glitch on my time trials. It would prevent the game from ever storing a legitimate record there for me ever again, and Nintendo filters out glitched runs for Spot.

Yeah, Maka Wuhu was called "Wuhu Mountain Loop" in other versions, and our Wuhu Loop is "Wuhu Island Loop"

Derekku wrote: 5h5e

Yeah, Maka Wuhu was called "Wuhu Mountain Loop" in other versions, and our Wuhu Loop is "Wuhu Island Loop"

Can someone explain me why they change the names all the times?
It is just confusing ^^
If they would only translate it for the different languages ok but no, that would be toooo easy.

Because cocks.

So... I've seriously been wanting to have an 8-player kartparty for a while now (over Community, of course)... If possible, can we try to get everyone together tonight or tomorrow night around... I dunno... 10 PM - 12 AM CST (GMT -6)? (Not saying that's how long I'd want us to play; you can play as long as you want/drop out whenever.)

My internet reset \:D/

I'll try to be on or something.

Blazevoir wrote: 6ij51

So... I've seriously been wanting to have an 8-player kartparty for a while now (over Community, of course)... If possible, can we try to get everyone together tonight or tomorrow night around... I dunno... 10 PM - 12 AM CST (GMT -6)? (Not saying that's how long I'd want us to play; you can play as long as you want/drop out whenever.)

I expect I'll be able to make it!

10 PM (GMT - 6) ....
10 PM + 7h = 5 AM .... (GMT + 1)

That should say it all

Ack... Well, I'm gonna be up past that timeframe (the latest being 3 AM CST [GMT -6]), so... yeah.

I should be around!

bomber34 wrote: o1q2a

10 PM (GMT - 6) ....
10 PM + 7h = 5 AM .... (GMT + 1)

That should say it all

Did I read that right? Normal time when you guys are on is 5AM my time? o-o No can do. I LIKE SLEEP.

I have other stuff to tend to, so I can't play any earlier ._. I could try playing way later than that, but I have to be in bed by 5 AM CST (GMT -6).

CNM501 wrote: 3h452f

Did I read that right? Normal time when you guys are on is 5AM my time? o-o No can do. I LIKE SLEEP.

I calculated it to be 2pm Aest. Maybe I got it completely wrong....

Okay, free now. Just gonna be waiting till the others get on.

shoot me a highlight, ill probably forget. or even email me. whatever

Starting a kartparty now. in whenever!

I


hate


everything


:IIII

Even me? Do you hate me?

1) Poot you guys for item spamming then ramming me off-course.
2) Poot you guys for item camping during (our new) battle community

P.S. TAILS ARE HAX

Anyway, was fun you guys Having 6 people was rage-inducingly fun, but we still need 8!

So apparently I do better in large battle courses with lots of rooms. And it's okay when Soaprman is a dick in races, but not me in battles? ._.

15:10 < Soaprman> items rule

^ Soapr in a nutshell.

That was a really fun Kartparty, my first one too o-o. And Agreed with Blazevoir TAILS ARE HAX.
Also added mm201 and Remmy to friend list

And thanks those who added me.

mm201 wrote: 25v2b

So apparently I do better in large battle courses with lots of rooms. And it's okay when Soaprman is a dick in races, but not me in battles? ._.

Because you were camping :/

I camp but it's in a mobile tent.

Kartparty in about 30 mins. BE THERE!

Kartparty starting!