Talk:Mario Kart 8

Rivals
FRIENDLY REMINDER: FOR WHAT RIVALS MEAN, IT JUST MEANS THAT THEY ARE IN THE GAME, THE ORDER THEY PLACE DO NOT MATTER, UNLIKE MARIO KART 7. FOR EXAMPLE, MARIO HAS BOWSER AND PEACH AS HIS RIVALS, THIS DOES NOT GUARANTEE THAT THEY WILL BE SECOND OR THIRD IN ANY RACE, THIS JUST MEANS THAT THEY ARE RACING. I HOPE THIS CLEARS IT UP FOR MANY OF YOU AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION :). - Michaelmarill

I know this was touched on before and was left unresolved, but after some extensive play time i can confirm there isn't any rival order or rivals as a matter of fact as the information on the page doesn't match and none of the characters positions in a cup stay the same for 2 or more races. Also most of the time the rival listed doesn't appear, mainly meaning there aren't select characters that'll always appear. Unless someone can provide definite evidence rivals exist, could we get rid of the false information on the page. Cubeguy(talk)
 * Try checking in VS mode teams if there are set opponents 16:48, 3 June 2014 (EDT)

I have seen races where a certain character's rivals aren't always consistent. For example, in one race, Rosalina had Baby Peach and Metal Mario as her rivals, while in another, Larry and Donkey Kong were her rivals. Shy Guy's rivals were also quite random, if I recall correctly. 22:00, 3 June 2014 (EDT)

In my opinion there aren't always the same rivals: if you play more Versus round with the same characters (like Lakitu), you can see how the rivals changes: sometimes Waluigi was the rival, sometimes it was Rosalina, sometimes Pink Gold Peach... we should remove that section, it's false! In Mario Kart 8 the CPUs works like in Mario Kart DS: at random.

I still can't see any match ups, i went and played mario kart 7 to see if they have rivals and there actually seem to be rivals in mario kart 7, several specific characters were present in each race and mainly stayed up in the top 3 ranks, i then went back to mario kart 8 and as i said, i couldn't find any match ups. Cubeguy(talk)

I raced exclusively as Koopa through the Grand Prix mode, and in every cup (including Mirror Mode, so 32 cups total), the first two characters in the starting lineup of the opening race were Toad and Yoshi, in that order. They weren't locks to get 2nd and 3rd in the cups, but they rarely finished outside the top 5. That being said, whenever I play versus mode with Koopa, Toad and Yoshi aren't guaranteed opponents. I'm guessing that these "rivals" only apply to Grand Prix. Any thoughts or similar experiences to that? (Also, I'm suggesting that Toad is also a rival of Koopa, which isn't currently listed, if any moderators get their eyes on this post.) 14:08, 4 June 2014 (EDT)
 * I have noticed that Toad and Donkey Kong were prone to be Yoshi's rivals, but for characters like Rosalina and Shy Guy, their rivals actually change per GP. This may mean that only certain characters have set rivals, while others do not. 17:17, 4 June 2014 (EDT)

I think Toad is a rival for Koopa Troopa, I've played Koopa 4 times in grand prix, and Toad and Yoshi were always maintaining 6th place or above. I don't think Toadette has Wario though... - Michaelmarill

Rosalina does not have Iggy as her rival... try watching this video and see if Iggy is a rival. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRPTCvEDSAc If there are rivals, then it seems like Toadette and Peach are the rivals.

Seems like rivals are shown in grand prix in the MKTV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js7rKKotFj0 Baby Rosalina has Koopa Troopa and Toadette.

Wario is not one of Toadette's rivals, but Yoshi is.

OK, I play 150cc Mushroom and Shell Cup, 1st place with 60 points and 3 stars with Lakitu. I keep an eye on the rivals: Waluigi and Toadette (Mushroom), Pink Gold Peach and Rosalina (Shell). Only two of these four characters appears every cup. Baby Rosalina appears on both cups instead but was out from the top 3 (placed 5th I remember). But the spotlight character of today is Roy: in Mushroom Cup he was overally last with 7 points but in Shell Cup was overally 4th with 36 points. Seriously, what happens Roy? I think I'll play again tomorrowP.S. Someone just leaves 3 comments without a sign. Whoever you are, do you know how to sign in?

SO after some more time i now can see rivals kinda but they still don't match up with the information on the page, they all seem to be completely random, now if im correct theres actually a guide book some stores sell for the gameif any one has it can they check to see if rivals are actually listed in there? - Cubeguy(talk)

In the Banana Cup Lakitu have Wario and Donkey Kong as rivals... OK, or it's random or Lakitu has dozens of rivals. World  of   Tsunami!
 * Right down all the characters you vs in Grand Prix, then again for every other Grand Prix, and see if there are any characters that appear in all of them. That way, we can settle this. Do about 4 Grand Prix at least. - 05:49, 10 June 2014 (EDT)


 * I do 3, today I'll do the fourth :) World   of   Tsunami!


 * In Flower and Star Cups the rival was Peach, Daisy, Baby Daisy and Koopa... How many rivals has Lakitu? O_O World   of   Tsunami!

Okay, played a lot today and here's how things are going, used them 4 times in GP
 * Koopa Troopa - Yoshi and Toad
 * Ludwig - Daisy and Waluigi
 * Lemmy - Rosalina and Bowser
 * Donkey Kong - Bowser and Wario
 * Toadette - Yoshi and Wario
 * Baby Rosalina - Baby Peach and Roy
 * Larry - Shy Guy and Iggy
 * Baby Luigi - Boswer
 * Wario - Mario and Daisy
 * Pink Gold Peach - Shy Guy and Baby Mario
 * Metal Mario - Toadette
 * Toad however, seems to have 3 rivals, I've tried this 10 times now. Waluigi, Daisy, and Koopa Troopa. o_o

- Michaelmarill


 * So, is it likely that all characters have three rivals...? There isn't a definite conclusion on these rivals yet, as seen by those earlier comments. 15:57, 12 June 2014 (EDT)
 * I've played as Baby Luigi most of the time. I haven't noticed a single patter with any characters at all. 15:58, 12 June 2014 (EDT)

Yeah, Baby Luigi has an inconsistency of rivals, so does Rosalina, but she has Pink Gold Peach. And yeah, Toad seems to have 3. - Michaelmarill

Seems we caused this, http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/700050-mario-kart-8/69356223, they have discussed/mentioned other things i have mentioned here, also i still can't find any consistency with the NPC's, they keep changing each cup. So i must ask where did our information for rivals originally come from. - Cubeguy(talk)


 * OK but Lakitu? Try playing all 8 cups with different motors (50cc, 100cc, 150cc...) and watch if there are set rivals, because I can't see them. And Toad has rival of Lakitu? I stop playing Tropical Freeze and do Time Trial (because I want to put it in my page after three days and I have only 11/32) for trying this. I'm starting thinking that Lakitu is a jolly. OR... the same rivals are in the same cup on the same engine size? P.S. Yay we make a discussion on GameFaq ^_^ World   of   Tsunami!
 * We do have one or more wiki members on GameFaq, so it's happened before. If there isn't a consistent order, delete it off the page and move it here, so we can work on it will not supplying false information. - 07:27, 13 June 2014 (EDT)

Quickplay of 150cc Star Cup - I play it TWO times (I stop at Dolphin Soals because the CPUs turn into devils). First time = Wendy, Koopa, Ludwig. Second time= Ludwig, Bowser, Peach. And Koopa was 10th. Because of this, I move it there so me can work on it. But I think that won't last for more than two weeks (in my opinion, no offense stupid table) World   of   Tsunami!

Actually, I think you're missing the point. It's not "the hard racers that come second every time", it's what opponents appear on very cup, no matter how hard they are. - 08:37, 13 June 2014 (EDT)


 * I think if they don't end always as fourth in the CPUs a character isn't rival, so the table should be named "list of character that appears in every cup with a specific character" of whatsoever. At least this is my opinion. I'll start trying it with Lakitu. Now I'm not 100% sure of who appear everytime. World   of   Tsunami!

Ninelevendo is right, they just appear on the course, that's all. That applied to Mario with Peach and Bowser. Also, removing Baby Rosalina's "rivals" because she doesn't have Roy or Baby Peach appearing in each cup. Also, I tried out Waluigi 5 times, and Luigi and Toadette appear everytime, with Toadette always getting 3rd, and Luigi always 2nd.- 08:55, 14 June 2014 (EDT)

OK, I start tracking rivals (?) according to Ninelevendo by doing this: doing the first course of acup, exit, doing the first of another cup and so for 4 cups. Keep track of all the player. I try with 4 characters and those are the results...

Lakitu Appears 4/4 times: Appears 3/4 times: (I do know its rivals are more random than other characters)
 * Koopa Troopa
 * Ludwig
 * Iggy
 * Roy
 * Mario

Koopa Troopa Appears 4/4 times: Appears 3/4 times:
 * Toad
 * Yoshi
 * Rosalina
 * Waluigi

Toad Appears 4/4 times: Appears 3/4 times:
 * Koopa Troopa
 * Waluigi
 * Lakitu

Waluigi Appears 4/4 times: Appears 3/4 times:
 * Luigi
 * Koopa Troopa
 * Toadette
 * Rosalina
 * Wendy

As you can see, Koopa appears nearly every time. I don't know if it's more common because I start playing with it. If we can found the right rivals for 15~20 or more characters, we can keep this, but if we found different data for about 20 characters, we should delete the table... how about this? World  of   Tsunami!

That's good, that's how I played for some. Baby Rosalina ended up having none in all after playing her for the 5th time. -.- I guess I'll add Koopa to Lakitu? - Michaelmarill

I'm thinking to mark who appear 4 times with MAJOR or (M) or *, while the others have nothing. World  of   Tsunami!

I played Shy Guy, and here's how it turns out.

Morton 5/5 Koopa 4/5 Yoshi 4/5 Daisy 3/5 Ludwig 3/5

Baby Mario has Shy Guy and Rosalina.

I'm going to put in just Morton. - Michaelmarill
 * Used Baby Luigi again today. Bowser is in neither of the two races I did. He's not Baby Luigi's rival. 16:12, 13 June 2014 (EDT)

Alright, I took him out, can you test Baby Peach and check her rivals? I'm going to try Wario again to see which of the 3 rivals to take out. - Michaelmarill

OK, today I'll try the babies in 5 races. Should I keep track of who appears 3/5 times? World  of   Tsunami!

I'll track the babies as well. I feel that having more than one person check the same character(s) will give us a clearer idea of rivals. Also, the title for this section is "There aren't rivals." Shouldn't this be changed to avoid misleading browsers of the discussion page? Finally, the rivals table was removed. Was this intentional? I cannot find any evidence that this was planned. Yoshimo (talk) 03:02, 14 June 2014 (EDT)

Title: changed at "Rivals". Table: removed personally after seeing that 2nd 3rd and 4th (with Lakitu 1st) change every time. And I think that "rivals" isn't the appropriate title for this, because Koopa Troopa (my starter that yesterday appears 16/16 time) sometimes ended 10th... rival? True rivals are Toad and Yoshi for Waluigi, that (with Waluigi first) ended always in the top 5. Tomorrow I'm going to verify females (Peach, Daisy, Rosalina, PGPeach and Toadette) World   of   Tsunami!

I start making the babies in my new method. I'm too tired to make Baby Daisy and Baby Rosalina now, I'll make them later. Rivals are only x4 and x5. Don't worry of x1 x2 and x3 as they are completely random (I think). And the results are: The sum of every column should be 60, let me know if there's something wrong (I don't check, making this table took me an hour) World   of   Tsunami!

SO i chose 6 characters at random being in order of choosing, Daisy, MArio, Waluigi, Lemmy, Shyguy and Pink Gold Peach, went and did every cup with them doing the cup 3 times before moving on and marked down the top 3 characters per-race, excluding self, i excluding characters who appear in general as they are selected at random and as they dont seem to act like rivals excluded them before i started righting this.

Daisy Mushroom Cup Round 1 Toad, Wario, Iggy---2 Iggy, Lakitu, Shyguy---Round 3 Morton, Luigi, Donkey Kong

Flower cup Round 1 Mario, Bowser, Roy---Round 2 Baby Daisy, Toad, Ludwig---Round 3 Bowser, Waluigi, Luigi

Star cup Round 1 Metal Mario, Shyguy, Baby Daisy---round 2 Ludwig, Peach, Pink Gold Peach---round 3 Roy, Baby Mario, Yoshi

Special Cup Round 1 Bowser, Luigi, Wario---Round 2 Baby Daisy, Rosalina, Wendy---Round 3, Donkey Kong, Toadette, Yoshi

Shell Cup Round 1 Mario, Shyguy, Baby Mario---Round 2 Rosalina, Yoshi, PGP---Round 3 Baby Daisy, Roy, Luigi

Banana Cup Round 1 Wendy, Iggy, Waluigi---Round 2 Metal Mario, Baby Luigi, Iggy---Round 3 Peach, Larry, Rosalina

Leaf Cup Round 1 Iggy, Baby Daisy, Toad---round 2 Shyguy, Wario, Morton--- round 3 Koopa, Bowser, Luigi

Lightning Cup Round 1 Roy, Lakitu, Yoshi---Round 2 Lakitu, Toadette, Lemmy---round 3 Baby Mario, PGP, Iggy

Mario Mushroom Cup Round 1 Luigi, Lakitu, Baby Luigi---2 Rosalina, Luigi, Wario---Round 3 Wendy, Baby rosalina, Bowser

Flower cup Round 1 Waluigi, Koopa, Toad---Round 2 Wario, Peach, Baby Daisy---Round 3 Rosalina, Iggy, Roy

Star cup Round 1 Larry, Waluigi, Rosalina---round 2 Shyguy, Daisy, Ludwig---round 3 Koopa, Luigi, Lakitu

Special Cup Round 1 Yoshi, Baby Mario, Waluigi---Round 2 Morton, Baby Peach, Metal Mario---Round 3, PGP, Morton, Bowser

Shell Cup Round 1 Toad, Baby Peach, Peach---Round 2 Larry, Iggy, Donkey Kong---Round 3 Donkey Kong, Lemmy, Yoshi

Banana Cup Round 1 Luigi, Wario, Lakitu---Round 2 Daisy, Peach, Ludwig---Round 3 Bowser, DK, Wario

Leaf Cup Round 1 Toad, Koopa, Rosalina---round 2 Metal Mario, Shyguy, Roy--- round 3 Bowser, Waluigi, PGP

Lightning Cup Round 1 Baby MArio, Luigi, Iggy---Round 2 Koopa, Luigi, Baby Luigi---round 3 Waluigi, Lemmy, Lakitu

Waluigi Mushroom Cup Round 1 DK, Baby Rosalina, Baby Peach---2 Wendy, Baby Peach, Mario---Round 3 Wario, DK, Koopa

Flower cup Round 1 Roy, Luigi, Shyguy---Round 2 Rosalina, Baby Roslaina, Iggy---Round 3 Ludwig, Roy, Baby Luigi

Star cup Round 1 PGP, Baby Peach, Daisy---round 2 Metal MArio, Lemmy, Bowser---round 3 Wario, Metal Mario, Iggy

Special Cup Round 1 Wario, DK, Lakitu---Round 2 Koopa, Mario, Luigi---Round 3, Wendy, Yoshi, Toad

Shell Cup Round 1 Luigi, Toadette, Baby Daisy---Round 2 Shyguy, Bowser, Morton---Round 3 Mario, PGP, Metal MArio

Banana Cup Round 1 Ludwig, Roy, Iggy---Round 2 Baby Rosalina, Rosalina, Baby Peach---Round 3 Wario, Luigi, Koopa

Leaf Cup Round 1 Bowser, Yoshi, Roy---round 2 Baby luigi, Toadette, Shyguy--- round 3 Lemmy, Daisy, Mario

Lightning Cup Round 1 Yoshi, DK, Baby Luigi---Round 2 DK, Bowser, Baby Peach---round 3 Luigi, Baby Daisy, Peach

Lemmy Mushroom Cup Round 1 Roy, Waluigi, Bowser---2 Peach, Mario, Metal Mario---Round 3 Bowser, Baby Peach, Baby Luigi

Flower cup Round 1 DK, PGP, Lakitu---Round 2 Wario, Lakitu, Roy---Round 3 Rosalina, Koopa, Waluigi

Star cup Round 1 Shyguy, Bowser, Iggy---round 2 Morton, Baby Mario, Baby Luigi---round 3 Ludwig, Roy, Toad

Special Cup Round 1 Yoshi, Bowser, Mario---Round 2 Baby MArio, Luigi, Bowser---Round 3, Baby Rosalina, Roy, DK

Shell Cup Round 1 Toadette, Daisy, Baby Daisy---Round 2 Shyguy, Wario, Mario---Round 3 PGP, Iggy, Larry

Banana Cup Round 1 Waluigi, Morton, Rosalina---Round 2 Peach, Wendy, Lakitu---Round 3 Luigi, Bowser, DK

Leaf Cup Round 1 Koopa, Toadette, Baby Luigi---round 2 Mario, Ludwig, Roy--- round 3 PGP, Morton, Baby Luigi

Lightning Cup Round 1 Lakitu, Rosalina, Baby Rosalina---Round 2 Yoshi, Toad, Iggy---round 3 Larry, Wario, Shyguy

Shyguy Mushroom Cup Round 1 Lakitu, Baby MArio, Toad---2 Bowser, Baby Rosalina, Larry---Round 3 Iggy, Waluigi, Lakitu

Flower cup Round 1 Toad, DK, Luigi---Round 2 Mario, Baby Peach, Koopa---Round 3 Wario, Bowser, Morton

Star cup Round 1 Baby Peach, Waluigi, Yoshi---round 2 Daisy, Metal Mario, DK---round 3 Toad, Luigi, Bowser

Special Cup Round 1 Mario, Roy, Lemmy---Round 2 Larry, Iggy, Toadette---Round 3, Yoshi, Lakitu, Koopa

Shell Cup Round 1 Wario, Koopa, Waluigi---Round 2 Baby Mario, Rosalina, Daisy---Round 3 PGP, Baby Luigi, Mario

Banana Cup Round 1 Morton, mario, iggy---Round 2 Toad, Lakitu, Dk---Round 3 Koopa, Wendy, Baby Luigi

Leaf Cup Round 1 Baby mario, Larry, mario---round 2 luigi, waluigi, roy--- round 3 lakitu, iggy, yoshi

Lightning Cup Round 1 rosalina, baby daisy, wario---Round 2 toad, larry, bowser---round 3 waluigi, mario, baby rosalina

Pink gold peach Mushroom Cup Round 1 Morton, waluigi, Shyguy---2 wario, dk, lakitu---Round 3 baby rosalina, metal mario, bowser

Flower cup Round 1 lemmy, wario, baby luigi---Round 2 luigi, yoshi, iggy---Round 3 toad, rosalina, toadette

Star cup Round 1 daisy, bowser, koopa---round 2 metal mario, luigi, shyguy---round 3 yoshi, wario, bowser

Special Cup Round 1 rosalina, dk, baby luigi---Round 2 shyguy, ludwig, morton---Round 3, roy, mario, waluigi

Shell Cup Round 1 luigi, lakitu, koopa---Round 2 bowser, metal mario, toad---Round 3 iggy, shyguy, dk

Banana Cup Round 1 baby mario, wario, luigi---Round 2 roy, lemmy, toadette---Round 3 bowser, yoshi, baby rosalina

Leaf Cup Round 1 larry, lakitu, baby peach---round 2 waluigi, koopa, daisy--- round 3 mario, metal mario, dk

Lightning Cup Round 1 toad, shyguy, roy---Round 2 peach, baby daisy, rosalina---round 3 wario, yoshi, larry

The game seems to select them at random but there are higher chances of certain characters being picked. - Cubeguy(talk)
 * I played battle mode. As Baby Luigi of course. One thing I noticed was that Luigi and Morton Koopa Jr. had yellow and blue balloons two matches in a row (matches meaning two playthroughs of the rounds). But the third time I battled, they're absent. I haven't noticed anything else. 23:28, 14 June 2014 (EDT)
 * I'm still not sure if some of you guys get that the positioning doesn't matter AT ALL when it comes to this, it's simply if they are actually are IN the game. - 00:51, 15 June 2014 (EDT)
 * @BabyLuigi Characters disappears in the same round? Do you remember if in the first two round there was some changes? Anyway... I'm gonna playing that for the first time (in easy, I don't want a GreenShellFest). @Cubeguy I think that, with few exceptions (Waluigi), tracking only the first 3 CPUs don't help us as keeping track of all (even if it's moooore tiring). A CPU that places 11th/11th in a Cup in the next can place 3rd/11th (it happens to me. I never forget this). For the first four characters I track all characters of the first Cup and I delete them if they don't appear after. I decide to change after thinking that a rival can NOT appear the first time but can in all other times... Anyway, I think that 8 times (8? It's the most tiring thing ever) are too much. Today I'll return to 4 races (not 5) but with 4 characters insted of 3. Things should get faster... @Ninelevendo Thanks to your first reminder I start thinking like I do yesterday (table above), but I don't think that putting a comment like Michelmarill does at the top of the discussion is right...
 * I mean, I played 2 16 round matches. Those two were there. Third time I played, they were gone. There weren't any characters that were still there so "OH POSITION DOESN'T MATTER" doesn't count here. I haven't noticed a permanent opponent probably because there is none. 18:27, 15 June 2014 (EDT)

I did some math and found that the ratio on average for ANY character showing (if every character had an equal chance of appearing) is a bit greater than 40%. In order to determine a true rival, I'd suggest that out of 100 races that a character should appear in about 70 or more. This result comes from that 40 is 60 less than 100 (100 - 40 = 60), so divide 60 in half to get 30 (60 / 2 = 30), and 30 less than 100 is 70 (100 - 30 = 70). What do you mates think? Yoshimo (talk) 02:53, 15 June 2014 (EDT)


 * I think that we can do this: 100 : 5 = 20. Way faster to do 100 races (OMG). If a character appears 4 times it is 80 (20 x 4 = 80) and means that is a rival. It's better semplify, but for accurate data we should do 10 races intead of 5 (100 : 10 = 10, 10 x 7 = 70), but that means for me a character per day! It will took a month! Anyway, I'm sure that doing 4 races will be OK (100 : 4 = 25, 25 x 3 = 75)

The main problem im seeing in this, is the unknown variable of how CPU's are chosen and the amount of characters the game has to choose from being 29, minus the mii, this easily results in characters re-appearing multiple times as less than half the characters are chosen. Also are they really rivals if they just appear in a race with 29 characters choosen at random by an unknown variable system. I know Yoshimo has done math towards it but the unknown nature of the random selection could mean one charcater has could have a 2% higher chance of appearing in a race than another. From the freaking 576 race's i did before i can clearly state that there are rivals but there assigned at random. - Cubeguy(talk)
 * If they're chosen at random, then they're hardly rivals at all. I say myth busted. - 04:27, 15 June 2014 (EDT)

This means that 4 races aren't enough? Oh my... Then I should REALLY do 10/15 races per character, tooking 1/2 month/s? Or finally we know that there aren't stupid rivals?

I'm not sure if the rivals are assigned randomly. I keep playing as Baby Daisy and I do see Luigi frequently, as well as Metal Mario, and this is from two separate play sessions, but I'm still testing. After I'm done doing several races with her, I'll do several separate races in different sessions. Also, to people mentioning that we can round down the races, we need to remember that the more we round down, the more off the experimental ratio will be from the theoretical ratio. *a bit later from initial post* Oh, and I think what Cubeguy is saying is that their positions are random, not the characters assigned. Yoshimo (talk) 04:55, 15 June 2014 (EDT)

I know that positions are random... but (like I say before) Waluigi's rivals (2 out of 3) are in the top 5 when I play with them (a time)... try yourself and let me know. Waluigi's rivals are listed before this post

I've made a couple of observations about possible rivals. First, the definitive rivals seem to be limited to Grand Prix, not VS Mode. For example, most of my GP races as Bowser featured Mario and Luigi as the two biggest opponents, while in VS races this wasn't the case at all. Second, the designated rivals seem to be always shown last on the "Featured Driver" options (from left to right starting with your playable) on Highlight Edit screen. Again, as Bowser, the Mario Bros. were last on that list. This didn't seem to apply to Baby Daisy though. SmokedChili (Talk) (Thoughts) 15:50, 20 June 2014 (EDT)

Okay, I just went through all the characters to see who are their rivals. I used the Highlight Reel to help me with this, checking who are the last two racers from left to right. I checked all characters at least two times, three if I needed to check something. Here's the list:


 * Mario: Peach & Bowser
 * Luigi: Daisy & Mario
 * Peach: Toad & DK
 * Daisy: Waluigi & Peach
 * Yoshi: DK & Toad
 * Toad: Waluigi & Koopa Troopa
 * Koopa Troopa: Yoshi & Toad
 * Toadette: Wario & Yoshi
 * Bowser: Luigi & Mario
 * DK: Bowser & Wario
 * Wario: Daisy & Mario
 * Waluigi: Toadette & Luigi
 * Everyone else: Randomized

There were also no definitive third rivals, even though Daisy had Koopa Troopa as a close contestant two times in a row. Toadette was the only unlockable racer with set rivals, while Babies Mario, Luigi, Peach and Daisy as well as Shy Guy are starters without racers. SmokedChili (Talk) (Thoughts) 13:18, 25 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Rivals. I mean rivals. SmokedChili (Talk) (Thoughts) 13:27, 25 June 2014 (EDT)

Okay, I figures it all out, only those revealed at E3 2013 have set rivals, and they actually place high, and always start off at 1st and 2nd respectively. Also, they only rival each other, no one else. New chart in case you guys want to keep the old one.

Michaelmarill (talk) 010:35, 24 July 2014 (EDT)

Hidden Stat Table
A user designed a stat calculator for Mario Kart 8, and was able to implement the hidden stats. Whether or not the following is completely accurate remains to be seen though. The source can be found here. 09:01, 3 June 2014 (EDT)
 * I think they should be listed like boxer weights are though. Despyria (talk) 04:48, 16 June 2014 (EDT)
 * To Baby Luigi if what we're doing is completely "Official" then the stats have to go too. I will rework to a sub category but the revision is good and better explains why they are separated. BTW talk pages help us communicate and make things better... think about using one to converse instead of just doing a revision. To This page just looks like tables he used from observation and where he put the baseline. Despyria (talk) 12:14, 17 June 2014 (EDT)

Proposed Character Table Revision
Despyria (talk) 13:03, 17 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Statistics and Sub-Classes are 'Unofficial'.
 * If someone could force a line break here, that would be fantastic. First order of business would be to make the character icons' organization less ugly. Second would probably be to remove "weight" from the class names. Perhaps change it to "Light," "Bantam," "Medium," "Welter," "Cruiser," "Heavy," and "Superheavy."Yoshimo (talk) 03:20, 18 June 2014 (EDT)
 * The character thing is rather odd. I didn't make it so I'm not sure why it's rendering differently. Another issue is that their is a glut of Light characters in only 2 classes. Conversely there are 8 Medium in 2 classes and 10 heavy in 3 classes. If you see a better way by all means make the change and let's have a look.Despyria (talk) 10:20, 18 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Actually how does that look?Despyria (talk) 11:16, 18 June 2014 (EDT)

Vehicle Parts
This section might be better served dividing the vehicles, tires and gliders into types and then giving type stats or vica versa. I understand this is the order that they appear but that has little bearing on much of anything. A Wikis object is to be informative not maintain a particular style. Despyria (talk) 04:16, 16 June 2014 (EDT)

New information: Unlockables
I have a bit of information I just discovered. But, seeing as I'm not "experienced" enough on SMWiki, I can't add to the article. Whoever can, please feel free to add this in my stead.

In the article, it says something along the lines of "Mii is always unlocked by getting gold in every cup in a class, like in Mario Kart 7." I've discovered that in addition to this, s/he can be unlocked by random like each of the other characters, in addition to the "every cup" method.

SuperSaiyanSonic (talk) 17:23, 3 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Added it. Thanks. 17:30, 3 June 2014 (EDT)

Why is Mario Kart 8's page protected?
I was going to add a beta element and some glitches, but I find out that the page is protected so I cann't edit. Can someone remove the protection or edit for me?
 * It's because the game was recently released.UhHuhAlrightDaisy (talk) 03:36, 4 June 2014 (EDT)
 * OK, I hope that I can edit soon... until the protection expires, I'll wait.
 * It was mainly protected like other unreleased games to prevent loads of speculation going in. Wait until you're autoconfirmed which should be in a few days.
 * I had some stuff to add too, but I'll wait I guess. I do want to note that someone added that all tracks are available in Battle Mode, without a source. Something that's so obviously false if you have the game.
 * OK, someone adds the beta elements page, now can someone add the glitch page? Thanks! :)

Unlockable Parts
The Unlockable Parts section says there are 48 unlockable parts (excluding golden), going regularly up to 3800 coins, but there are in fact only 38 (again, excluding golden), going up to 2800 coins. To verify, just count the list of parts for yourself.
 * That's true, there are 38 parts and 2800 Coins (I've reached that number of Coins in the game, I'm sure about that)! P.S. Whoever you are, remember to sign your username!

Star Cup trophy
I'm not sure if anyone else has seen this, but on the back of the star cup there is a faded picture of Luma. Should this be trvia?--Poponana2 (talk) 15:52, 4 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Nah. It's just an obvious fact that anyone can see and isn't important enough to count as trivia. - 17:21, 4 June 2014 (EDT)

Unlocking characters
The part on unlocking characters says you can't unlock a character by completing the same GP at the same level twice, but this is inaccurate; if you win with more stars than you ever have before, you can unlock a character, even if you've unlocked a character at the same level before. So if you win the 100CC Mushroom cup with no stars, then win it again with 1 star, you'll unlock a character both times.--107.223.169.124 22:06, 4 June 2014 (EDT)
 * I don't know if it's true (I won all 50cc and 100cc throphies with 3 stars from the start), someone should prove it. Another question: if you get 3 stars in a trophy, completing it again with 3 stars means unlocking two cahracters? If everyone have unlocked at least 13 characters someone shall delete its data and try this. Or maybe buy the game again. ^_^


 * To answer your question no completing a 3 star twice wont unlock a character also a video from the youtube channel Gamexplain actually stated that only 1 character can be unlocked per completion of each cup. If i got this wrong its mainly because i havnt rewatched the video in its entirety because its a long video. - Cubeguy2ver.pnguy(talk)

Mario Kart Stadium Cover
In regards to the trivia point where it is stated that Mario Circuit is a cover of Mario Kart Stadium, where does this conclusion come from? Is it because Mario Kart Stadium is the first course that makes it the "original" theme? I would argue that it's the other way around, in which Mario Kart Stadium is a cover to Mario Circuit, for two reasons: One, this course is created first, as mentioned by the developers themselves. Two, this is the first course that is revealed (back in E3 2013), way before Mario Kart Stadium was revealed, so its theme is known first. This also applies to the point mentioned in Mario Circuit (Wii U), which stated the same thing.

This point is not necessarily relevant to what I am saying, but it reminded me of the point of Miyamoto's mentioning on making the first level last. Winstein (talk) 22:34, 4 June 2014 (EDT)


 * If anything, Mario Kart Stadium's theme is a cover of Mario Circuit since we heard that theme first.

Glitch
I was playing in Toad Harbor and then in the anti-gravity section, I made the second jump and fell and landing on the second anti-gravity pad, I went right through it. I was playing with Daisy in Mirror mode, I don't know if that glitch works on any other character or if you play without mirror. Rosapuff (talk) 05:47, 6 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Thanks for the info, but you cann't edit the page... I have glitches to add, too, but until you become an autoconfirmed user (wait three days and apply five edits)/the page won't be protected anymore we cann't add this. I'll try it today.
 * No luck in Time Trial. Can you upload a video proof on it when you be an autoconfirmed user?

I can't reproduce this glitch in the game, it might have been a one-off, like in Mario kart 7 when i started mirror mode the game thought i was going off the map, really annoying...anyway video proof would be nice and maby some more specifics like the conditions you where in such as getting hit by an item, using a boost, getting rammed that kind of thing. - Cubeguy(talk)

This...
https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAACAAAYUKlXXHX00g Should we mentioned it on the article or just a trivia? 23:06, 7 June 2014 (EDT)
 * I don't know.
 * Maybe a page called Mario Kart 8 Sponsors? 06:09, 8 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Should we make it or just leave it here? 05:48, 9 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Leave it there World   of   Tsunami!

Blue shell gets confused
Don't know how people have missed this, when the blue shell reaches a multiple path section, like rainbow roads split or dolphin shoals pipe section the blue shell is capable of taking the wrong path and missing the player in first requiring to do a full lap, this also applys to red shells. This mainly happens if you switch directions or in the case of the new rainbow road jump to another part of the course. So this is a rare glitch. - Cubeguy(talk)
 * That's true, I'll add it.
 * NOTE:This happens alot in Yoshi Valley
 * It don't happens only here (even if is way more commn, it's a maze), but in other races too. Sometimes a Red Shell don't notice me and go straight... P.S. When Red Shells are throwed during a battle in Yoshi Valley and the target is over the wall what happens? The shell goes to the wall and destroys itself?

Fake Item Box
I was playing online, I noticed that the player in front of me drove trough an item box got an item but the Item Box wasn't gone. So I picked it but I couldn't get my item faster if you know what I mean 06:12, 8 June 2014 (EDT)
 * So, you see an Item Box that you can't found in offline at you get an item by passing through it, but you cann't press the item button in order to receive the item faster. I got it right? If yes, ill add it to the glitches.
 * Almost, They're on the same place as usual, offline or online but when you see someone taking that item bow and it isn't gone, then you can't get it faster 11:06, 8 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Then in online Item Boxes don't disapper as usual? I think that's technical limitation, not a glitch... World   of   Tsunami!

Something similar occurs in Mario Kart 7 where the Item Boxes don't break if your opponents graze them. From what I'm reading, he is saying that if they don't break but the opponent still obtained the Item Box then if you get an item from that same Item Box, you are not able to press the item button to stop the roulette. Yoshimo (talk) 03:29, 18 June 2014 (EDT)

Videos of the Staff Ghosts
So, I decided to record and upload all the staff ghosts, IDK what you want to do with them, if anything, but I'll be adding them all to this playlist as I get them converted and uploaded, shouldn't be that long. Tell me if there's anything that can be changed, I tried to make it as concise as possible. NWPlayer123 5:38PM, 8 June 2014 (MST)
 * A bit difficult I think... however, good work + luck! World   of   Tsunami!

That glitch, again...
https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAACAADMUKlx9bn-uA 05:54, 9 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Do you know how this happens?

Pass the finish line right before ten minutes have passed. 06:25, 9 June 2014 (EDT)
 * We're getting back with glitches this don't happens neither in Super Mario Kart O_O I wonder if this happens at the total time too like in Mario Kart Wii but I hope Nintendo fix this World   of   Tsunami!

More DLC Materials?
A Smash Boards user came across some images that suggest some additional DLC materials, but the only reported source seems to be from n1ntendo.nl; a Dutch Nintendo site. The first image suggests that Shine Thief and Bob-omb Blast would appear as additional Battle Mode options, while the second image shows E. Gadd, Birdo, Plessie, Diddy Kong, and a Magikoopa (presumably Kamek) being extra racing participants. More proof will be needed though, as the user failed to post a direct link to the source. 08:15, 9 June 2014 (EDT)

http://static.n1ntendo.nl/file/misc/NieuwsImages/230.png

http://static.n1ntendo.nl/file/misc/NieuwsImages/229.png


 * Wait, I'm Dutch Maybe I can translate it? 08:18, 9 June 2014 (EDT)
 * And It's fake by the way now I look closely, these Images were used:

But I can't find the one of Birdo and E.Gadd is fanmade 08:26, 9 June 2014 (EDT)
 * How could Plessie fit in? 08:47, 9 June 2014 (EDT)

For a fake, that image does seem well-made though. It apparently has some users fooled into thinking that it's real. 09:04, 9 June 2014 (EDT)

Maybe someone hacks it... but the photos aren't from a recording card so it's difficult to know. But I think Plessie? In a kart? It will be shrunked again like Rosalina does? And I think that everyone can simply custom the rules in Baloon Battle so they can use Bob-Ombs only. It'll be a dream, and only Nintendo knows the true. I hope it will be true, but until that, none shall add this World   of   Tsunami!
 * To the comment on which old artworks were used, many of the icons were, and some are still, from artwork pieces. For example, Koopa Troopa's is his NSMB artwork. MarioComix (talk) 19:44, 9 June 2014 (EDT)
 * I think what could discredit it is that the colour of E. Gadd's nose isn't different enough from the rest of his skin. MarioComix (talk) 20:12, 9 June 2014 (EDT)
 * The image is of low quality, though. 20:23, 9 June 2014 (EDT)
 * |en&tbb=1&ie=UTF-8 That site now says
 * "23:10:00 Updated June 9, 2014. It has now been proven that the picture below is fake and made with Photoshop. The top photo, with the characters, is still unknown if it is fake."
 * 20:26, 9 June 2014 (EDT)
 * It looks fake to me; Diddy Kong's colors are a tad too saturated; the cursors around Donkey Kong are a tad out of proportion,, and how will this layout work in multiplayer? Oh, and just because artwork is reused doesn't make it fake. Many real characters' heads are reused from existing artwork, such as Koopa Troopa. Still, I'm skeptical. Plus, scaling of Plessie shouldn't be an issue because we had Queen Bee as a racer. 20:32, 9 June 2014 (EDT)

Look at E. Gadd's head. It doesn't match the others, nor E. Gadd's typical design, and overall looks extremely odd. Peanutjon (talk) 21:40, 9 June 2014 (EDT)

I could probably believe the top one cause the wiiU gamepad has the same image, either that or someones great at photoshop, but this is fake, unless the images actual source can be found or nintendo come out from there DLC phobia state and announce it, its unreliable and fake, also plessie as a character is pretty strange, but we can dream for that day a Mario kart game features everyones favourites. Also id like topoint out nintendo do re-use their images for characters, besides that its fake. - Cubeguy(talk)

5 minutes later im back, tested positive for fake, http://mynintendonews.com/2014/06/09/diddy-kong-kamek-and-more-spotted-in-rumoured-mario-kart-8-dlc-image/ - Cubeguy(talk)

Well, I hope it will be true, at least the characters. Here's another pic of the pic. except the reflection on the border of the TV screen has been zoomed in. http://boards.deniableplausibility.net/i/v/image/1402/31/1402310956041.jpg

You can see it says "Mario Kart DLC Pack" That an outrageous amount of effort to make a fake. My belief on it being true went for 50% to 80%

Also, about Plessie, I'm sure Nintendo may shrink him down into the right size. They did it before with Petey Piranha, King Boo, Wiggler and Queen Bee (and, in my opinion, with Bowser and Dry Bowser).--BlooP-OW (talk) 14:53, 10 June 2014 (EDT)

If these characters are coming, I think they would be used from Amiibos, which would give you the character and kart parts with it? I don't know, just what I think may happen. - Michaelmarill (talk)

OK, maybe that's true as Amiibo figures. None knows, but probabily Amiibos idea works. If released, I'm running to get Kamek + Plessie :) World   of   Tsunami!

AAAAAAAAANNNDD it's not fake if you watch the IGN video at the amiibo section below at the end it says that amibbos will be released for MARIO KART 8. Now who's right? :D But I still don't know how to unlock Shine Thief and Bom-Omb Blast :/ And Plessie will be shrunked, making it the 5th shrunked character in the Mario Kart series (I don't think that Bowser is shrunked. Actually is giant in SO many games that I actually don't know its real size xD) World   of   Tsunami!
 * Just because amiibos are confirmed for Mario Kart 8, doesn't mean these characters are automatically confirmed as well. We only know MK8 amiibos will exist. The ones for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U are of characters that are already playable in-game. Who knows what will happen?
 * Plus, why would it say "DLC Pack" if amiibos were used for these characters?
 * Still surprised that BJ isn't there. Even though Queen Bee was resized she flew over the kart not actually sitting in it, like King Boo. That E. Gadd just looks seriously fake or very under-developed. And please don't say shrunked. Say shrank or something. - 17:23, 12 June 2014 (EDT)

Found where the photoshopper got the base for his images, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVkjQ8WAtsQ, they match up pretty well also, http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/06/rumour_mario_kart_8_dlc_to_feature_expanded_roster_and_new_battle_modes , - Cubeguy(talk)


 * Maybe amiboos DO NOT expand roster or battles but just store EXP like in SSB for WiiU. Mmmh... I don't know. P.S. The background of the bottom photo! In the right it seems that it turned into Mario Circuit from this game. So it's fake? I don't think that Nintendo wants to change the background P.P.S. Even if the images are reused Nintendo does the same. Check Baby Peach's gallery, artworks for Super Mario Sluggers (reused from Mario Kart Wii and Mario Tennis Open are the same World   of   Tsunami!

It's possibble that the Battle mode images are fake, but the new character list can be real. --BlooP-OW (talk) 13:02, 13 June 2014 (EDT)

I think the same World   of   Tsunami!

Some of you guys are just speculating on whether this image is real or fake but I believe it's 100% fake. 1. If it's not truly confirmed, then there isn't any actual need to worry about it at least for now. Like the case for Diddy Kong on that magazine showing that he's in the game but turned out to be a lie, we can't truly believe every leak for any new game no matter HOW legit it may look until it's been confirmed.

2. A lot of people haven't seen very many Dlc packs for their games from Nintendo so how can we tell what they would look like most times?

3. You guys know if there's been any links leading to where these images originated from or sites that tell where these images or certain other possibly faked dlc images came from then you'd know if they were fake because of the original site from the original craftsmakers' page.

User:Nintendoplayerawesome

-Have been supplying links to show its fake, wish your explanation came sooner to end this. - Cubeguy(talk)

Better late than never.

But I have a feeling it could be real. I think amiibos would work' or there could be DLC.

Question
I would know if the Gold Standard can be also unlocked by collecting 20 000 coins like in Mario Kart 7 ? Because Gold Glider and Gold Tires are added, but not for Gold Standard. 109.213.182.148 09:31, 9 June 2014 (EDT) Maybe none makes it to 20000 Coins and unlocks the Gols Standard in the other way... maybe I can try, but it'll take much time World   of   Tsunami!

Actually, I have 1700 coins, I will try as I don't want to play as 150cc or mirror. I means if its not already say somewhere on Internet (and I cannot edit the page if I found). 109.213.182.148 11:08, 9 June 2014 (EDT)
 * The page is protected, means you must be registered and autoconfirmed (registered 4 days and 5 edits) to edit it. If you find out that it's true, ket me know, I'll add that for you :) P.S. I try but I'm going to play 150ccs World   of   Tsunami!

Maps
Hey, I noticed that since some of the retro courses like Wario Stadium have completely different layouts, the MK8 map should be uploaded to those pages. Yoshilover76 (talk) 22:45, 9 June 2014 (EDT)


 * Yeah I'd think so too, for all maps, not just some of the retro tracks.
 * Would it be somewhere in the page? Because we've never included Retro Track maps in the infobox before.
 * I think we should put the MK8 map in for all the retro tracks that have anti-gravity, and also keep the old maps, like on the Sky Garden page. Siwel619 (talk) 10:26, 10 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Doesn't this always happens? World   of   Tsunami!

Glitch?
More of an aesthetic glitch... In SNES Donut Plains 3, on the first bridge, if you drive over the left most part of the hole where it is smallest, you will fall underwater for a second and then make it back up on the bridge somehow.
 * Sounds like a physics thing, not really a glitch. 16:49, 11 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Sounds like a glitch in the physics engine to me. --Steve470 (talk) 02:10, 12 June 2014 (EDT)
 * I know, it's not a glitch. It's neither a shortcut I think. Probabily the wheels touch water but can still make it to the bridge. Because of this, they do so and I found this before you :P World   of   Tsunami!
 * But then why is the whole vehicle and character wet afterwards?
 * The game recognizes as the character being underwater even though the character doesn't appear to be, I'm guessing. 15:20, 12 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Maybe the game is programmed making that exiting from water make the character wet. The kart must first touch water though and here it happens for some frames (I think about 7 frames). But today in Time Trial I get on the spotted bridge and I pass on the gap without touching water. I DO NOT press B (I play with Wii Remote + Nunchuk) for jumping that time... World   of   Tsunami!
 * That can happen on the higher engine classes (Time Trial is 150cc). Try it on 50cc or something.
 * (Tried with my favourite combination, check user talk) 50cc: I fall in water, 100cc: I was about falling in water (half of the kart was in water) but still makes it to the bridge. World   of   Tsunami!

The way the game figures out whether to make the vehicle and character wet is by how far in the vehicle is into the water; strangely, this is not very far, and you can test this by looking for a tiny splash moving slowly towards water. The result is that the bridge has some coding on it to allow you to be on its edges and not fall off, resulting in the ability to go over that hole and come back up while going the minimum distance required to make the character and vehicle wet. Yoshimo (talk) 03:26, 18 June 2014 (EDT)

A/amiibo
From the recent revision history, it appears there's some disagreement on whether to capitalize the name of Nintendo's upcoming line of character figurines. Nintendo's official E3 site (http://e3.nintendo.com/amiibo/) consistently spells it "amiibo" (well, or "amiibo™"), all lowercase. Is there a precedent for how the wiki should treat this, or do we need a Talk Page Proposal? --Steve470 (talk) 02:31, 12 June 2014 (EDT)


 * And if there is a TPP, it'll probably need three options: capitalize always, capitalize only when starting a sentence/section title, or always use all lowercase. --Steve470 (talk) 02:35, 12 June 2014 (EDT)
 * I think it should be capitalized when starting a sentence/section only; the webpage also never uses "amiibo" at the beginning of a sentence. After all, for "article section headers, only the first word and proper nouns should be capitalized", so I think the same should apply to "amiibo". MarioComix (talk) 03:45, 12 June 2014 (EDT)
 * None uses the capital A because none knows. There is a precedent, the eReader, and in the title the e is NOT capital, so in my opinion (until more informations) the a of amiibo must be NOT capital World   of   Tsunami!

DS Wario Stadium image is Twisted Mansion?
It used to be the right image but today it changed to the Twisted Mansion image and not DS Wario Stadium. There is nothing wrong with the table, but the image is the wrong one. I tried reuploading it but it's still Twisted Mansion. If someone knows how to fix this please do. Siwel619 (talk) 14:01, 12 June 2014 (EDT)
 * I just looked now, there isn't a Twisted Mansion photo in the table.
 * Seems fine to me! Try pressing F5 or refreshing the page; most often, that's a fix for reuploading images. 15:18, 12 June 2014 (EDT)
 * That happens to me too. Don't worry, just a small error in the website. - 01:44, 13 June 2014 (EDT)

Important Editing Issues
This page is being over edited and done in mass to make the article worse not better. I've worked on this wiki for years now and I haven't seen the extent of ticky tack things that you're doing with this one. To address a couple of issues; wholesale reversions is a bad thing. I understand that a lot of that was capitalization, but not all. There was some really bad headers, titles, syntax, and uniformity edits I did. Yoshi876 you undid all of them. To that reversion Titles aren't sentences. Titles are Headers and in Headers all words are capitalized except articles (of, the, an, et. al.) and articles inside of titles/headers should be avoided as much as possible, i.e. "The Hounds of Baskerville" is acceptable because of the necessity of needing to know where the Hounds are from. But the idea that you write titles/headers as a sentence flies in the face of 99.9% of all titles headers everywhere. All office programs will even suggest that you capitalize everything that is given the text weight of a header. Books, Magazines, Articles, Chapters, Albums, Songs, Businesses, Organizations, Plays, Acts, Job Titles, Professions, even Video Games, and areas within video games all tiles and all Capitalized except articles within titles. You don't write Shy guy falls like this you write it Shy Guy Falls... because it's a title.

To address the 'Official' notion. This is not given the Nintendo seal. It's all unofficial. Much of this is observational, but still unofficial. The stats are very unofficial. If it's source code as one person has suggested it's hacking, which is in violation of the ToS and EULA for the software so it'd be very unofficial... and slightly illegal.

In short when someone puts in effort to make things better don't stifle it and stop being heavy handed. This article isn't good. I made it a little better, TWICE. Both times I have been stymied and I have helped make good articles here in the past. I would hope you would value longtime contributors and good editors. Because I'm not feeling it. Despyria (talk) 11:08, 18 June 2014 (EDT)
 * The reason I undid those edits is the sitenotice, at the top of every page which clearly states "In article section headers, only the first word and proper nouns should be capitalized. Help out by removing unnecessary capitalizations while you edit." This was something decided upon by admins for the better of the wiki.
 * It's not his fault that you don't like wiki rules. This is likely an issue that if you had a problem with, you could just ask why he reverted it instead of writing a giant complaint, when you could of simply just asked and reasoned with someone about the matter. And about "The Hounds of Bakersville", most of the things you make caps weren't proper nouns. Sorry if I'm coming off as mean or angry. -  11:21, 18 June 2014 (EDT)
 * It's incorrect capitalization. It makes the site look amateurish and improper. The capitalization is proper English Usage. The bigger issue is why are you more concerned with this wikis weird capitalization than good edits? At least half of what you reverted back to was seriously bad writing... from overly descriptive titles, bad syntax, and conflicting ideas, wrong information, and more. Let us ignore that your "unnecessary capitalization" breaks the rules of English Usage, you reverted real editing to get back to something that was worse. You could have spent less than a minute on the capitalization in a quick edit. But you went lazy when I was skimming and doing real edits that took time and some actual thought.


 * Ninelevendo I understand that you might be angry, which is fine, a bit odd but fine, but what you were trying to do is be cleaver. You didn't quite make it. The Hounds was to show use of article and that was clearly stated. However you want examples better suited to your every situation? Music; Back in Black, Same Old Song and Dance, She Came in Through the Bathroom Window, Love's a Loaded Gun... onto literature; Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Leaves of Grass, The Sound and the Fury, Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, Light in August, Return of the King, Comedy of Errors, Measure for Measure (that's right I just dropped the Bard Bomb)... I could go on and on, like Director of Communication. If you weren't trying to come off as mean or angry... and flame you, would have recognized that. Despyria (talk) 12:12, 18 June 2014 (EDT)
 * I take offence to you accusing me of laziness, what I did was comply with wiki policy which is not that lazy actually. As for the other, I went for consistency which is greatly encouraged. So what I'm doing is not lazy, I am complying with wiki policy. If you don't like it, create a proposal on it rather than accuse people who are following wiki standards of being lazy.
 * You're going to take it however you like. Fact? The Capitalization is the smallest of the edits that I did. If you looked at what was actually done and you'd of known this. If you looked at the notes you'd also know this. Ironically you looked at neither. You missed the consistency edits the revising clumsy titles, better wording, and correction of syntax errors. Instead you pushed the button and didn't really read anything. Call that what you want... every time I've done something like that, it was laziness. Despyria (talk) 22:33, 18 June 2014 (EDT)
 * I did read through them actually, hence why I hit rollback instead of going through each and every single one of them. In my opinion they had been better worded beforehand, your change that made "Gaming References" is inconsistent with the rest of the wiki, hence the change. I'll admit I was wrong on the stats thing, and so for that i apologize, but everything else reverted was just your capitalization which is against wiki policy, wording that as I stated I felt was better beforehand, and you changing "References to other games" to something inconsistent with the rest of the wiki. So call it whatever you like, but I did read through the entire thing, and whilst I made one mistake in the reversion, the rest was entirely correct. Also, with the mistake I did make, you could've simply gone and changed it, as long as you cited it being more consistent then everything would've fine, instead you chose to come here and argue.
 * So Characters in one part and Drivers in another in a single section is a good thing? Ok. References to other games is a hideous header. Short simple and descriptive. several minor errors that I don't remember and going through line by line I really don't have the time for... but I know that I could go through and change the capitalization on the headers of the last 3 MK games and back in less than 5 minutes. It takes a lot mor time than that to do other edits. Be lazy I don't care. You lose someone willing to put in some time to do trivial stuff. Whatever. You scream louder and in wiki/net, that wins. Congrats. Despyria (talk) 02:27, 20 June 2014 (EDT)

I hope I'm not being irrelevant but I believe part of the reason we've decided for header titles to only capitalize proper nouns is because Wikipedia does that too, so I suppose we're following the "grandfather of Wikis" procedure. MarioComix (talk) 17:13, 18 June 2014 (EDT)
 * This was likely done because the system of the music name titles you mentioned doesn't cut it for titles or sub titles on an article. That naming still applies to the games name, however, such as Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time. - 17:46, 18 June 2014 (EDT)
 * MarioComix I don't find it irrelevant at all. However I think it's a bit misguided. Coders and usage rules have never tended to go hand in hand. Partly because of the shear volume of code people would write and then they got lazy/tired when not coding and did all sorts of short cuts. In the early days of Wikis, before Wikipedia was becoming a standard, It was really the Wild Wild West. I remember being a sheriff of a couple of wikis (Largely because I would ignore things in email rings and wouldn't scream "NOT ME!" until it was too late) and our biggest issues would be just getting people to sign their stuff and maintain some uniformity of style. There was a lot of short cuts that were used then that aren't use now... like 1337 speak. But as for the Wikipedia it's hardly the model of consistancy... it usually goes to the person that spends all their time watching wiki pages and not to what is correct. Despyria (talk) 22:33, 18 June 2014 (EDT)


 * Ninelevendo you seriously get attached to the oddest things and only see that. I gave you almost twice the amount of book examples as song (7 to 4) half as many plays, and a job title and you fixate on 4 songs. I did 2 Faulkner, 2 Shakespeare even, and broke out Uncle Walt.... yet all you see is songs. Amazing. Resumes, job titles, chapters, acts, Slide presentations. I have given you dozens of examples from different areas that show usage without actually sitting through a Basic English Usage Course with you. You're going to keep toeing the line and that's cool. You won the turf war but are no wiser for it. Despyria (talk) 22:33, 18 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Okay, the purpose of a talk page is to help the article. This seems to be helping nothing and going nowhere. May I ask kindly? Please stop.
 * I think I provoked that. Sorry. - 06:57, 19 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Despyria thinks that their edits are improving the page, it is alright for them to dispute them if they do not feel that they should have been undone.
 * For my part I could have just as easily ignored Ninelevendo. My apologies.Despyria (talk) 02:36, 20 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Apologies accepted. This section was already huge; I just didn't want it to become a big chunk of the talk page.

Promotion
Hey, for promotion, is it alright if I can add that McDonalds is planning to sell Happy Meal toys from Mario Kart 8? The toys that will be distributed are Mario, Luigi, Peach, Bowser, Toad, Donkey Kong, Yoshi, and a Mario hat. - Michaelmarill {talk} 17:44, 18 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Better wait till is official
 * As of June in Italy give Om Nom (Cut the Rope) (as seen in TV). At least in Italy.

Horn
Does the horn actually do anything in the game, other than make the opponents hilariously turn around and stare at the person honking?
 * I heard that it hinders the other racers from getting a Rocket Boost, but I'm not 100% sure if that actually happened or not when I used it. MarioComix (talk) 16:24, 19 June 2014 (EDT)
 * As far as I know, no.

No, the horn only makes other characters stare at the player for a brief second. It doesn't do anything else that I know of. However the Super Horn is more useful. User:Nintendoplayerawesome

Item Box Colors
Under the item boxes the lighting cycles between red yellow and green. They are synchronized until an item box is used. Has anyone seen if there is a difference in the items depending on the light color cast by the box?Despyria (talk) 02:36, 20 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Not sure about that, especially because place is also a huge part in what item comes out of the box. I'll test soon and see what happens, though.
 * I just tried it. I tried it with the same set of item boxes, same timing, in 12th place. I got 2 different items (Bullet Bill and Golden Mushroom if you need to know) so I don't think that's true.
 * Yeah same here. I wonder if they were trying to do something and didn't or if it indicates something else. I'll keep checking if there is anything that seems to happen by color... just odd that they'd code something like that without a purpose.Despyria (talk) 16:41, 22 June 2014 (EDT)

Bonus Game
The Promotion is not a Bonus Game, a bonus game is like Luigi at the start of Super Mario 3D World. It's a FREE game with purchase and registration to a Club Nintendo account. I'm going to make the change AGAIN to the official promotion and that fixes and blatant error.Despyria (talk) 02:36, 20 June 2014 (EDT)

Please, whoever is changing it on the site, please notify the community by posting here before adding it, some information may be false. Thank you. - Michaelmarill {talk} 10:20, 20 June 2014 (EDT)


 * http://club2.nintendo.com/mario-kart8-promo/ See Free. Not Bonus.Despyria (talk) 16:54, 22 June 2014 (EDT)

The word bonus just means you get something extra for free, so using the word bonus isn't incorrect. A bonus game also doesn't have to be a small game like Luigi Bros. to be a bonus. Nintendo's Mario Kart 8 promotion gives you a free game as a bonus, so that's why people call it a Bonus Game Promotion. The promotion is indeed called Free Game Promotion on Nintendo's US site, but it's called a Bonus Game Promotion on Nintendo's UK site. This may have made the situation a bit confusing. Arend (talk)
 * Ah separated by a common language. Thanks for the clarificationDespyria (talk) 02:07, 24 June 2014 (EDT)

Weights
Inhave the prima guide of this game and here are the official weights of the characters 03:45, 27 June 2014 (EDT)
 * These are the weights:

Babies and Lemmy: Feather. Toad, toadette, lakitu, shy guy, larry, wendy, yoshi, peach, daisy: Light. Mario, Luigi, Ludwig andy Iggy are medium. Waluigi, DK, Roy, Rosalina and metalic versions are Heavy and Wario, Bowser and Morton are Cruiser 05:22, 27 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Does this make it official though? I'm asking because the Prima guide was the first if not only source that made the name of Bouncing Notes official.Also you missed the three Mii variants and Koopa.
 * I guess this makes it official. 05:51, 27 June 2014 (EDT)
 * I feel a more official source is more reliable than the Prima guide, in this case the official website.
 * It's the same guide that called Toadette a "spunky sister" to Toad and the same guide that has a bullcrap item distribution list. 16:11, 27 June 2014 (EDT)
 * It's also made by the same people that gave out the hidden stats for things like MK7. - 16:41, 27 June 2014 (EDT)
 * But also it's made by the same people who mistakenly marked the Beast Glider as a random unlock. I'm not so sure about using it when we have another source. I'd assume we used it as a source for Bouncing Notes because nothing else gave it a name.
 * Proving my point that they're most of time unreliable 20:49, 27 June 2014 (EDT)
 * They're not official and not more so than any other source. They troll around looking for info as much as anyone. They're weighs, speeds, and handling characteristics are wrong, on the very least Peach, Daisy, and Yoshi. Yes they are lighter than Mario Luigi et. al. but far heavier than the light weights of Toad Shy Guy etc. It also flies directly in opposition with the MK8 official website. There are subclasses as other ppl/sites have pointed out, but Prima got it wrong.Despyria (talk) 02:41, 29 June 2014 (EDT)

(resetting indent) Keep in mind that Prima Games is Nintendo's official guide company, and has been for a while. 12:05, 5 July 2014 (EDT)

Trivia?
That trivia about DK copying a soccer players pose, isn't that just a generic pose that multiple sports athletes do? Such as Usian Bolt? - 04:50, 27 June 2014 (EDT)
 * No. As said in exact wording, "While Donkey Kong drives a kart, one of his tricks is very similar to the signature pose of Cuauhtémoc Blanco, a renowned Mexican soccer player."
 * Oh right. Did you research that or are you going off wording? Maybe I'll just look it up myself. - 06:18, 27 June 2014 (EDT)

Vehicle Part
The sprites of the vehicles look a bit darker than the one I had uploaded a long time ago in my wiki. Does this have any particular reason or was it just a mistake? (the article of my wiki of mario kart 8: http://de.mario.wikia.com/wiki/Mario_Kart_8) N-liker 08:15, 28 June 2014 (EDT)
 * You're right, and I swear there were brighter images on our page as well. The ones used in your article are closer to the in-game images in terms of brightness.

Okay, thanks :D N-liker 06:53, 29 June 2014 (EDT)

Gif?
A gif uploaded by. Should it be in the article gameplay?
 * Well, I don't know about including it in the article, but definitely put it in the gallery under "Screenshots".
 * That is, look for the Gameplay subsection.

Demo Animations?
Hi, so i've notice one of Rosalina's trick animations was slightly changed like in here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvWfvVzIU6U (0:40) and it was changed to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNDwJCR8i44 (0:24). IDK If other characters had their animations slightly changed as well. Swiftie Luma (talk)
 * I think that would go as a minor beta element.

Happy Meal
Watch the first video: they are MK8 Happy Meal! Now are official!
 * I think that would be good for the Promotion and Advertising section. Should it go in?
 * Yep.

NOA Portuguese (Brazilian Portuguese) vs NOE Portuguese (European Portuguese) for this game.
Is there a NOA Portuguese (i.e. Brazilian) translation for this game? I ask because there have been a few edits related to vehicles/parts in Mario Kart 8 that seem to be direct translations of their English names, and yet the NOE Portuguese version of the game, which I own, provides completely different names for said vehicles/parts, which have entirely different meanings.

Take the Circuit Special for example, one of the kart bodies in Mario Kart 8. As I said, I am in possession of the NOE Portuguese translation, which calls it "Flash", yet the current revision (at the time this was written) calls it "Circuito Especial". If someone could clarify this for me, I would greatly appreciate it.

Relevant pages: this and this (see Arend's edit - European Portuguese is the only Portuguese translation at this point, so the not-European name is incorrect. Also, since European Portuguese is the only Portuguese, NOE is not needed.)

--2.81.199.68 19:17, 18 July 2014 (EDT)
 * for what it's worth, I typed in "Mario Kart 8 brasil" on youtube search and all the videos I got from Brazillian players were in English. We've always had idiots "translating" names by running the Englisn name through Google translate, so until someone can show proof a Brazillian portuguese translation exist, I'm ok with deleting the literal translations. --Glowsquid (talk) 19:30, 18 July 2014 (EDT)


 * Glowsquid Indeed, I feel the same way as well. I am tempted to revert these "incorrect" (well, they ARE incorrect if there's no Brazilian Portuguese translation, right?) edits myself. However, I'm wondering... What if the same user who made these changes in the first place ends up reverting them back? Basically, what would be the best way to deal with this, in order to comply with the Wiki's rules? --2.81.199.68 19:43, 18 July 2014 (EDT)

if a concensus (ie: more than the two of us) emerges than a Brazillian NOA translation Don Exits, you can get to the task of deleting the bogus translation and messaging the IP that originally added them. If they have a dynamic IP, there's a chance they won't see the message, but if any reverting happen, you can just leave a message on their talk or direct them toward here. As long as you don't engage in edit warring, you'll be fine.

that being said, there' some Brazilian users around here so I messaged one of them for input on this matter. --Glowsquid (talk) 20:00, 18 July 2014 (EDT)


 * Understood. Thank you for your attention. --2.81.199.68 20:23, 18 July 2014 (EDT)

so I got a reply from the brazilian user in question and it was:

''I haven't seen a translated version of the game here, only the original english version. I have seen some of the Portuguese names for Mario Kart 8 things in the wiki, and, if the Mario Kart 7 Portuguese translation is anything to go by, the translations wouldn't be so literal. Pink Gold Peach's supposed portuguese name as seen in her page definitely doesn't make grammatical sense, though, and sounds like something Google Translate would give you.''

so yeah, I'd say you (or anyone else) can go ahead and delete them. --Glowsquid (talk) 19:58, 23 July 2014 (EDT)

Uuh.
Why 15000 coins for gold tires gets removed ? The Gold Tires's article say always it and the way is same that Mario Kart 7. Should I gets 15000 coins for prove it (I have actually 7000) ?

109.213.190.196 13:58, 26 July 2014 (EDT)


 * I suppose, no one has proven it yet. Make sure you don't beat all staff ghosts. And, if you can, play multiplayer, as both player add Coins to total. Good luck, I have about the half of your coins, I didn't play it much :/

I removed it because there's no actual proof. See history: Revision as of 11:02, July 12, 2014

The source that was previously given for the 15,000 coins criteria (a photo of a page of the Mario Kart 8 Prima Guide - paper version) in fact did not mention it at all, and someone kindly provided a screenshot of the exact same page in the digital version of the guide: i.imgur.com/94yzJY0.png where it doesn't appear either.

So, unless someone has a video proof of the 15,000 coins unclock message, there's no reason to keep it. Thanks, I updated the Gold Tires article accordingly.

WARNING: there's a small bug in the game, you don't have to beat the N64 Rainbow Road staff ghost to unlock the Gold Tires, as mentioned here Gold Tires do not require N64 Rainbow Road time trial staff ghost and checked myself. So if you'd like to do the 15,000 coin test, do not beat all ghosts but the N64 Rainbow Road one thinking it won't unlock the Gold Tires, because it will. Skip at least one staff ghost on some other track too. If you do not have a video capture device, take a picture of the 15,000 coin unlock message if it is real, but a video would be better to prevent montages. --Oxygen


 * Well, 15000 Coins are an utopia for me. Until August 10th I cann't play with my Wii U (vacation) but then I'll try. Mainly because I cann't accept that CPUs kick my ass repeately in 150cc, forcing me to retry for 3 stars. MKDS and MK7 was MUCH easier. Even MKWii seems a breeze confronted to MK8, because there I got a One-Star Rank (Dry Bones FTW) in some way. But I don't think I can do it. I hit myself with my Green Shell four/five times in multiplayer. But if I will ever get to 15000 Coins, teach me where and how to upload a video. They will be surely of low-quality, proving that I don't modify it. Oh, and anyway, I don't have Photoshop. I nearly don't know what's it... my combo: Lakitu/Landship/Rollers/MKTV Parafoil. But I'm planning on using the Slick. Until then, let's just hope that the wheather don't is cloudly with Blue Shell precipitations. Sometimes, in other games happened (MK7, get hitted by 10 Blue Shell in a cup once). And it's not good.

I have not try Time Trials yet, I will wait to have the 3 gold parts by coins before, I don't play in 150cc and mirror also for the prove about the 20000 coins for the gold kart. ;) Anyway... I cannot send photos for prove as I have never try to puts photo from SD card or camera in the computer. :/ Change for 50cc Tsunami, its what I do because CPU are less fast (but still can combo thunder and blue shell).

109.213.71.138 06:34, 1 August 2014 (EDT)

@109.213.71.138 I could. In fact, I found MK8 50cc slightly faster than 50cc from other games. But when you have 3-starred MKDS and MK7 and 1-starred MKWii (that is hard) being unable to 3-star MK8 make you felt like a noob. I am still a seminoob though. I suck at RPGs and playing with keyboard. That's why I like to play with my mom, that sucks completely :D. A thing that I don't liked from this game are the overly hard CPUs (that let you win in some tracks, in others like Dolphin Soals it's like they want your head) and the stupid star method (you have to win always to get 3 stars. CPUs want your head. UGH). In fact, if I remember correctly (I haven't played MK8 solo for a while), I played 100cc with my friend Lakitu to unlock all the ordinary things. Strangely, in 100cc CPUs don't want your head, everything was easy. And yes, I suck with heavyweights. I took less time with an almost perfect light run than with a messy heavy run. I got a very good run with a very slow kart in Mario Kart Stadium (a sub 1.50 if I remember right). This is why I prefer lights all the way. In MKWii I prefer Dry Bones over Funky Kong. And so on.

I have 3-star in all cups in 50 and 100cc. 109.213.71.138 07:52, 1 August 2014 (EDT)