Super Mario Kart Super Circuit Double Dash 64 7 Wii DS 8

[Mr.Faq2014]

Would you like to add me? I often play CTs with friends

[GameAndWatcher]

Would you like to add me? I often play CTs with friends

Sure, later.

[Geno]

So apparently Mario Kart 8 will have an update soon.

It adds a minimap to the TV screen, swaps the "Highlight Reel" and "Next Race Buttons", adds a "Records" section that's like the one in MKWii, and saves the last Kart combination used.

All stuff that I want.

*me crosses fingers that it will work like Wii U system updates

Or else I won't be able to get it. My Wii U only ever successfully connects in order to get system updates.
(Alternatively, I could try and fix it, but I already spent way too much time trying)

[GameAndWatcher]

My Wii U only ever successfully connects in order to get system updates.
(Alternatively, I could try and fix it, but I already spent way too much time trying)

If I could help, I would, but I can't. I feel very sorry for you.  

[Geno]

Although considering how there's four phone cables in my house, three of them are for phones, and the router's in the last one.
And one of said phones doesn't quite work very well.
It's not like I couldn't move the router and that one phone.

That'd make the router basically right next to the NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, Wii, and Wii U.

So I guess that could be done, so no worries....?

Dunno if I'll actually ever get around to doing it though, depends on how fed up I get with waiting (for my dad to do it)


Still, (more on topic) I'm surprised that on-screen minimaps weren't in MK8 to begin with.

Sure, touch screen ones worked in MKDS and MK7, but that was ONLY because the bottom screen was right next to the top one.
With the Wii U, I have to LOOK DOWN to see it, which means I'm taking my eyes off of the road, which usually leads to a kart crash.

[Galactan]

OR
or
You could utilize your arms to put the controller at such an angle that you only have to glance down to see the map.

[Geno]

Yeah, well I already tried that.
Several times.
Didn't feel comfortable at all.
(I'd have to be an idiot to not try doing that, I guess I should have mentioned it)

Also, with the gamepad screen being way closer to me than the TV was, it either made it harder to focus on the TV, or it just made there be a big blurry thing in my vision when I WAS focusing on the TV.

The point is, minimaps are useful, and I am more used to consoles where you DON'T have to look at a screen on the controller at the same time as one on the screen (like, well, consoles from back when Nintendo ones had names that were longer than four letters), so this update is a good thing for me.

[Geno]

WHAT IS THIS
MORE CUP ICONS IN MK8?

MORE RETRO CUPS AS DLC????????????????

ALTHOUGH I DON'T LIKE MK8'S RETRO REMIXES THAT MUCH, I'D LOVE TO HAVE MORE OF THEM TO GET ANGRY ABOUT PLAY.
(Because maybe my opinions may change if I get an entire game's worth of those kinds of remakes)

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[Mr.Faq2014]

With the Wii U, I have to LOOK DOWN to see it, which means I'm taking my eyes off of the road, which usually leads to a kart crash.

I've got a question about that, can you alternate between viewing the the character icon while you run across the circuit (MKDS and MK7 default view) and full view of the minimap (the entire track, like MKW, MKDS pressing X and MK7 tapping the touch screen)? You must know, I don't have MK8, neither a Wii U someway I could get enough money to get a 3DS and MK7 so the point is that I don't know how is MK8 like (I mean, you know, it's not the same to play a game yourself that seeing other people playing it on a video).
Anyway, I get a bit surprised just by thinking that there are DLCs for this game, I mean, is there a mario game that has had DLCs you would download after purchasing the game? I don't know, I find it a bit strange, even after knowing it's for solving some issues in the game and it's for free. However, I'm not opposed to it, neither thinking about complaining. Thinking about that, it becomes nearly impossible to ask every MK8 original copy owner to return the game to developement so they can return them with the issues fixed xP, that's insane. So... what do you think?

[Geno]

MK8's Touch Screen display defaults to a screen where the characters (without names, but it still shows what items they have and places they're in) are displayed on the left, the other 2 options and control configurations on the right, and a round button with the current character's emblem on it that acts as a rather inconvenient way to honk the Kart's horn in the middle.
(The reason why it' inconvenient, is that you can just honk the horn using the L or ZL buttons when you do not have an item)
Here's an example of what it looks like
yes, I could have chosen a screen for any other character, but whatever

Choosing the option that displays what the TV is displaying (top-right) makes the touch screen display what the TV is displaying.

Choosing the option that shows a map of the course (middle-right) brings you to a minimap, very similar to the ones in MKDS and MK7.
Also, unlike the minimaps in past games, it also shows Bullet Bills and Spiny Shells that are travelling on the course.

Tapping the option that displays the Game Pad (bottom-right) toggles between normal controls and gyro controls.
You can also do this on the Pause screen.

Tapping anywhere else on the default screen will honk the horn (no matter if you actually tap the horn or not)
Tapping anywhere in the two subscreens will take you back to the default screen

Currently, there is no overhead view like in MKDS and MK7, nor can you stick the minimap on the TV screen
However, an update will be released on August 27th that adds the TV screen minimap (among other things, but not the overhead view)

I hope my describing is understandable! I'm TERRIBLE at describing things!

[Mr.Faq2014]

I hope my describing is understandable! I'm TERRIBLE at describing things!

I got it perfectly. Thank you. So (yet) it has no overview mode... Well, now I get it, yup, it must be pretty awkward

[Geno]

guys GUYS

NEW STUFF FOR MK8

NEW COURSES
CHARACTERS
wow
LINK! DRY BOWSER! SOME ANIMAL CROSSING THINGS! Tanooki Mario and Cat Peach.
COLOURED YOSHIS AND COLOURED SHY GUYS

ZELDA COURSES
F-ZERO COURSES
WARIO'S GOLD MINE
OTHER THINGS

WOW

They are two "sets" of stuff, one that's coming out in November, and the other next May.

...
I gotta fix my Wii U's internet, holy crap

[Rozark]

All of its pretty neat but

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BLUE FALCON KART?
BLUE FALCON KART

BLUE FALCON KART!
NEED MONEY
BLUE
FALCON
KART

[Hallan Parva]

my body

[Yuri Sakazaki]

Well this was certainly the best thing I've woken up to!

RIP Diddy Kong though ;~;