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Agreed, I watched the whole thing and I still don't understand what it was that I was looking at.

Glad I'm not the only one. I don't understand how that's cheating.

Me too...

Zero-K said...
Glad I'm not the only one. I don't understand how that's cheating.


Weelll, technically you don't ever finish the race. That's like declaring yourself world champion after you've won the very first match. It's a software exploit but cheating nonetheless since it's giving you an advantage over anyone else.

There apparently is a loophole in Mario Kart Wii in which you drive a single lap on a track and then turn around right after the finishing line so the cloud guy with the "wrong way" sign shows up. I don't know exactly how this works but I saw replays for 25s runs 3 laps in SNES Ghost Valley 2 and that's just impossible. The crazy times have been removed so far and it seems they are managing the rankings pretty well so far. There are some incredible times on their still but if you watch the replay you can see that they are real.

I can tell you Mario Kart Wii is worth the wait if you loved Mario Kart. To me it has some really frustrating choices Nintendo made to balance the game, but the online multiplayer options are a blast, ghost racing is really fun and challenging and I think the ranking boards will be tuned in the future.

There can be patches for the Wii, it's happening all the time. I get updates from game discs and announcements on the Wii message board. If they can reflash my software to a higher version than they can make game routines work differently too.

After reading else where, I get it.
Mario Kart Wii has a bug, where if you do 1 full lap, and go in reverse near the start/finish line, and quit, the game thinks you finished the race and saves the ghost time. So you finish an unbeatable score.

If I was Nintendo, I would stop producing Mario Kart Wii games, stop the ghosting service, fix the bug release a new version all by using a new address to connect for submitting/playing ghost data (or whatever how it works). And offer free replacement disk for those you has Mario Kart Wii old version.

This way:
- The problem will be solved.
- Old game edition won't be able to cheat as the ghosting service would be down, however they can exchange the game with a new one were the bug is fixed.

And of course hopefully make learn Nintendo about an online patch system.

Now that was stupid, I should have watched the video beforehand. I saw that on my Wii already in the real channel. Well nevermind, apparently you just let the counter sit there and run. Because all figures except the first lap will be 9:99:99 the program can't read it and extracts only the first lap (which has good data).

Ah you beat me :)

@ Good_Bytes

After reading your comment, I sorta had an idea of what this video was about. A good explanation should suffice, but oh well, I guess all of us here in the US will get to play it eventually [looks at watch].

I want my 80s back, what happened to "I ain't afraid of no ghost"?

Make that a "Luma"... >_

It has to be Rosalina

How would a Luma drive, anyway? Stubby arms are stubby

Look at Toad, Baby Peach, Baby Mario
:P

Has anyone unlocked it yet? People got all 35 characters in Brawl in 2-3 days.

You have proved me wrong!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yjv8AICYX0
*Character Spoilers*

@TheOverlord

You can unlock all characters in Brawl in only a few hours. Go to Special Brawl, turn Stamina and Flower on, then turn Stamina down to 1. The instant the match start both characters die from the flower effect and all you have to do is do that 449 more times and you'll have all of the characters.