armand66

Just thought i'd put together a topic so that those looking to unlock the characters they want can do so with a bit of ease. Some of this is taken from other sites including gamefaqs. There are other ways of unlocking some of these karts, characters and bikes, once gotten confirmation from multiple sources will add them to the list. The Rosalina one, isn't 100%, i went and made a Galaxy save, but this was after i had completed all the games cups, when i went back into the game, she was there. So she is linked to the Galaxy save file, just not 100% sure if you unlock her through 50cc.

I have yet to get 1 star on 150cc All retro Grand Prix Cups (2 cups to go) and don't have 1 star on all cups for mirror grand or retro. Chances are, some of those, not sure which, unlock the missing two karts. Or, it's possible, getting 32 expert time trial ghosts unlocked might do something as well.

Starting Characters
Baby Mario
Baby Peach
Toad
Koopa
Mario
Luigi
Yoshi
Peach
Wario
Waluigi
Donkey Kong
Bowser

Unlockable Characters:
King Boo - Win 50cc Star Cup
Diddy Kong - Win all 50cc Cups
Baby Daisy - Attain at least 1 Star Rank for all 50cc Wii Grand Prix Cups
Mii (Outfit A) - Win 100cc Special Cup
Mii (Outfit B) - Unlock 32 Expert Staff Ghost Data in Time Trials
Dry Bones - Win 100cc Leaf Cup
Bowser Jr. - Attain at least 1 Star Rank for all 100cc Retro Grand Prix Cups
Daisy - Win 150cc Special Cup
Dry Bowser - Attain at least 1 Star Rank for all 150cc Wii Grand Prix Cups
Funky Kong - Unlock 4 Expert Staff Ghost Data in Time Trials
Baby Luigi - Unlock 8 Expert Staff Ghost Data in Time Trials
Birdo - Play Time Trials on 16 different courses/Get 250 wins online
Toadette - Play Time Trials on all 32 different courses
Rosalina - With a Super Mario Galaxy save, win a series of Grand Prix cups/Without Galaxy save, Attain at least 1 Star Rank for all Mirror Grand Prix Cups

Unlockable Karts:
Cheep Charger (small kart) - Attain at least 1 Star Rank for all 50cc Retro Grand Prix Cups
Blue Falcon (small kart) - Win Mirror Lightning Cup
Rally Romper (small kart) - Unlock 1 Expert Staff Ghost Data in Time Trials

Turbo Blooper (medium kart) - Win 50cc Leaf Cup
Royal Racer (medium kart) - Win 150cc Leaf Cup
B-dasher mk2 - Unlock 24 Expert Staff Ghost Data in Time Trials

Piranha Prowler (large kart) - Win 50cc Special Cup
Dragonetti (large kart) - Win 150cc Lightning Cup
Aero Glider (large kart) - Attain at least 1 Star Rank for all Retro Grand Prix Cups

Unlockable Bikes:
Quacker (small bike) - Win 150cc Star Cup
Bubble Bike (small bike) - Win Mirror Leaf Cup
Magikruiser (small bike) - Play Time Trials on 8 different courses

Rapide (medium bike) - Win 100cc Lightning Cup
Nitrocycle (medium bike) - Attain at least 1 Star Rank for all 100cc Wii Grand Prix Cups
Dolphin Dasher (medium bike) - Win Mirror Star Cup

Twinkle Star (large bike) - Win 100cc Star Cup
Phantom (large bike) - Win Mirror Special Cup
Torpedo (large bike) - Unlock 12 Expert Staff Ghost Data in Time Trials

Misc Unlockables:
Picture option to send to Wii Message Board - Complete all 8 Cups in a class
Karts & Bikes (50cc) - Earn trophies in all 50cc Grand Prix Cups
Karts & Bikes (100cc) - Earn trophies in all 100cc Grand Prix Cups
Mirror Class - Win all 150cc Cups
Alternate Title Screen - Win all Cups


I recommend anyone new to the game, go into time trials, and unlock Funky, Baby Luigi and Birdo early on, the regular Nintendo Ghosts are easy to beat, the expert ghosts you unlock, are pretty nuts though.

Heya guys,

The current place to find and swap Aussie Mario Kart Wii friend Codes, and sign up for an ALL AUSSIE Mario Kart League.

A-League Finalized: 16 Players confirmed.
B-League Awaiting sign ups: B-League will start in season 2, atm, we have merged some players into A-League due to a few drop outs.
A-LEAGUE FIXTURE, SEASON 1 and LADDER can be found HERE!!!!!!!

• LEAGUE CONTACTS: Armand66, Vertabray, Dan.
• 16 Players for A-League.
• 2 opponents Per Week, One in Classic round, One in Original Round.
• 3 Races Per opponent, tracks to be chosen in fixture.
• 1 Point per win, 0 for loss for a total of 3 points total per opponent
• 3 Classic tracks in Classic Round, 3 Original Tracks in Original Round
• 4 week season, bringing a total of 8 opponents, 24 races for A-League.

A-LEAGUE: At seasons end, top 8 players make finals. Best of 3 series will continue, all elimination races. Bottom 4 players will be relegated to B-League for season 2.
Finals structure will be
A-League
Elim 1: 1st vs 8th
Elim 2: 2nd vs 7th
Elim 3: 3rd vs 6th
Elim 4: 4th vs 5th
Semi 1: Winner Elim 1 vs Winner Elim 4
Semi 2: Winner Elim 2 vs Winner Elim 3
Grand Final: Winner Semi 1 vs Winner Semi 2
Third Place Final: Loser Semi 1 vs Loser Semi
LEAGUE START DATE: Week 28th April 08.

Players cannot enter multiple racers, If you have a brother, sister, girlfriend or Boyfriend with their own account thats fine, just remember that teams are set up so you cannot have the same player playing multiple accounts. People will be banned if caught doing this.

TEAMS

Just wondering peoples thoughts on this.

I'm a PAL user, aussie one at that, and Mario Kart Wii isn't officially released here till the 24th April. It's released 11th April in the UK, and not till the 27th April in the US.


Just finished getting the game then, but i'm wondering, it seems a huge amount of NTSC USA gamers are downloading it, and how many of them are actually going to go online with a game 3 weeks early on their console, that will be as obvious a sign as a dodgy console as you can get...

UK users no worries, the game is nearly out there, but i reckon the potential here, for Nintendo to look at why they have thousands playing from the US might be a bad thing in the long run.

Anyone agree?

(I was one of the few who didn't get banned for going online over a week and a bit early with Halo 3, but many others i know did, Mario Kart Wii is 3 weeks early and surely Nintendo will know any NTSC USA player is using a dodgy game.)

Hey all,

just thought i'd make a topic to gauge the interest in possibly setting up some region based leagues for Mario Kart Wii.

I'm a huge fan of online gaming leagues, and obviously the Wii's online doesn't allow for a great deal of freedom or choices, so i thought that people would like to come together and make some solid, honest leagues together.

I'm not sure how we'd sort it yet, but if someone in the graphic design field would be interested in making a solid website for it, i'd be more than willing to pay for the hosting and domain name costs, most likely if the leagues get enough interest to warrant such a thing.

For the time being, we could run the league from the forums, either here or at blackcats.

The way i see it, you'd need the following regions covered:

USA League
Japan League
Europe League
Aussie/NZ League

There'd need to be a leader or 2 for each region, to run things, organize the setup, put down the official race results etc etc.

Now, i'm not sure if you'll be able to race 1v1 online in this game, like the ds version, but hopefully you can, as it would make setting things up for such a league way easier, although 4-6 player racers per "round" might be the go. Until the game is released next week (PAL) we won't know the full options we could play with, but once we do we'd be able to start setting up each leagues structure etc.

Some possibilities:

1. 1v1 RACING: Each League has a Limit on Players, say, 32 racers per league, on a first in scenario. Each League could be divided into 2 conferences, and the top 8 racers from each conference make it to the finals/playoffs, in a traditional, 1v8, 2v7, 3v6, 4v5 style of format. This style of season would be all 1v1 races if possible.

2. 4-6 Player RACING: If its possible to set up 4 player racing (no cpus involved, hmm) this style of season could see more games played, with more strategy involved, whether the best racer or most conniving racer wins. (Imagine 3 players against the top player working against that racer hehe) I'd much rather organize this with 4-6 players, than try to get 12 players to all turn up for a race at a certain time, be too hard to do, so the smaller the numbers the better chances it can work.

3. TEAM RACING: If its possible, for say, me and 2 mates, to race 3 other people in a team, that'd make for a very fun, and strategic league. This style of league Could work in a number of ways, if Team racing is possible.

a. Formula 1 Style: Racing for Points, and also for Team Points, and 1st placed at end of season wins, 2 things to win, Racer or team award.

b. Offshoot of F1 Style, with each race splitting teams points up, and a finals/playoffs system based on this. So, Team 1 has a racer in 1st (9 points) and 4th (1 point), while Team 2 has 2nd (9 points) and 3rd (3 points), Team 1 would leave that race having won 10-9, and would be sitting higher on the ladder after that round. Top 6-8 teams make the finals etc etc.

4. Premier League Style System: In case those in the UK/Europe wanted, they could have that league set up in a Premier League style set up, based on finishing 1st overall after each season.



These are just some ideas, and depending on interest, some regions would need to be smaller than others. Season lengths would need to be discussed and everything else of course. Reason i think it needs to be regions, is simply lag, although, maybe the top racers from each region could race in an "All-star race" at the end of each season.

I'll post this exact thing at blackcats as well, i'd love it if people wanted to get involved, although until of course we get the game in our hands, we wont know exactly what format/formats we could race in.


Cheers,

Ken.