Mario Kart Wii – Cheating, Hacks, and Disappointment
Posted on October 6, 2008 by Jared
I’ve been a huge Nintendo fan for nearly 20 years. I’ve owned every Nintendo console and countless games. So, you shouldn’t be surprised that I (finally) picked up Mario Kart Wii. I even picked up an extra wheel for my wife and the occasional friend to play along.
I played for most of the night of my purchase. The next day, a friend came over and we ended up playing for a solid two hours. It wasn’t until we gave the online play a go that we started to see something funny going on with the game.
The first thing I noticed was that some racers where able to use items before anyone could have possibly gotten an item to use. Straight from the starting line, one racers was tossing fake item boxes left and right.
I also noticed that some racers where absolutely untouchable. The icing on the cake was the most recent Tournament I participated in. In an event that would take a good gamer 90 seconds to complete, the “Top 10″ scores where under 30 seconds. Upon seeing this, I decided some web searches were in order.
After some quick research, I discovered that Mario Kart Wii was all too commonly subject to being hacked. The most common hack being unlimited items which quickly end races and spawn unrealistic time trial times.
Am I surprised that people are hacking a video game to cheat others out of a win? Certainly not. Am I surprised that Nintendo allows this to continue to happen? Yes! Nintendo needs to show that they care about maintaining the integrity of their products and, most of all, show that they care about their customers. Doing anything else shows a weakness that I find disgusting.
I can’t speak for PS3 games, but anyone with a Xbox Live subscription would never see such obvious cheating and hacking persist for very long. Honest gamers, who each paid hundreds of dollars for a console and games, aren’t able to enjoy their games as they were intended. Not only are gamers getting cheated out of a satisfying gaming experience, they are getting cheated out of their hard-earned money.
Nintendo needs to take action against the cheaters and hackers who play online (Ban Hammer, anyone?). If hackers want to monkey around with their games at home, fine, but keep it local and let those who just want to have a good time do just that.
So, I guess I’ll start to get more Xbox games from Gamefly, which you should check out ( ).
Wow, talking about ruining a game. So many people are using hacks in these games it’s no wonder anyone even plays them anymore. This is just the reason why I stick to MMO’s as they are generally really hard to hack.
http://www.hackerforums.org/index.php/topic,45.0.html
Well, they finally did what you wanted effective yesterday, they banned all hackers and will have a 3 month ban for anyone who hacks online. cleaned that up pretty fast. You should hear the hackers whine about it :)
Wow! That’s great news. I need to dig around to see what I can read about it. Thanks for update, son of Levi.
Ah yea HACKERS GOT WHAT THEY DESERVE
Last night I played online and a guy named Liam had infinite star power right from the starting line, so the hackers are not finished yet.
i don’t think all the hackers are finished…my husband and i played online last night and it was on. people would disappear and reappear infront of you, infinite items galore. i even had 3 green shells circling me, and someone was trying to knock me off – think the shells got him? nope! i still had them when i crossed the finish line! it sucks that you can’t even play a game without the crummy hackers ruining it for everyone! nintendo needs to step up more!
I play battle very much, I currently have played 3000+ matches since I have owned the game. My peak rank is 8453 and has been ruined numerous times by cheaters. I even wrote Nintendo but they gave me the run around, lets hope this banning is actually the case.
I just played today with a loser who had a continuous star. They best one yet was someone in battle mode who added +99 to their teams score right when the game started. I doubt Nintendo is doing anything.
i was not familiar with hacking, mario kart is the first game i’ve played on-line. a friend of mine, a pc gamer, was over playing with me and he told me about these hackers. i don’t like it but all i can do is quit and reload hoping not to have a hacker in the next group. it pisses me off and takes the fun out of playing online for my wife and i.
I’ve come across to many hackers. The worst part of all is when a hacker targets a victim and keeps him behind while everyone else is racing. It happened to me about 3 times I shold say. I mean a race with 11 people will cost massive point drop. It really sux when people hack they’re way online. It means that they don’t have the potential skills to gain the points and star ranks on their own. I hope Nintendo does something about this. Hackers ruin the fun.
I just encountered my first cheats today after almost 8 months of owning MK Wii. The dudes has unlimited star power with the giant mode at the same time. Also has instant red shells from the start line..its so stupid i wish there was a way to know their friend code of have a software update where you can report players.
Lol. I have to say I agree with ya’ll that hackers suck! I was recently playing online and I had finally reached 9999 vr, when in the next race a hacker joined! I lost enough points in the next couple of races to bring me back down to the 7900’s! They saw that I was a triple star rank and backed me into a corner and constantly ran over me while used stars nonstop… T-T I swear i’m gonna do something to Nintendo if they don’t do anything about this.
Nintendo’s policy, if & when enforced, is nothing more than a hiatus for the guilty party to refine their “skills” and learn to be more cautious & devious.
I could really care less about the cheaters. If I lose my score because someone cheats, I quit the game and go into another race and just race like I normally do. If you’re a good enough racer, you’ll get your score back. It’s not like someone is stealing your money or anything.
I had a player with unlimited stars who couldn’t hit me cheating just yesterday. He’d slow down, then try to speed up and hit me. So I’d throw shells or bananas back at him so he knew I saw him coming, dodge out of the way and let him hunt some other poor soul down. He never hit me once.
Consider it a challenge to see if you can beat the cheater…worse thing that happens is you get second place and become a better racer.
The guy who wrote this is 100% right. I’ve literally lost more than 1000 BR to hackers in battle mode online. They seem to be in every match I play in. And the really bad part is there’s no way out. Once you’re in a game, you either win or lose points. With a hacker, if you are in a game with 8+ people, be prepared to lose at LEAST 100 points.
Banning them didn’t work either. There seems to be more now. :-(
Hackers have NOT gotten what they deserve. I just spent an hour dealing with two of them on Mario Kart Wii. The more I tried to beat them, the more they ran me over with their “star power.” They don’t even just head to the finish line…they will wait in the shadows for you to pass and then run you over, back up, and run you over again. It’s RIDICULOUS. I’m sitting here cussing, while I’m sure they’re at home laughing hysterically as my hard earned points drop. NINTENDO…FIND A WAY TO STOP THIS!!!
Well, it appears Leviticus’ comment from March 19th is true, as in the past couple days I’ve been cheated by several different players, for the first time ever. I finished first, counted as second. About to win the race, I get disconnected. I finished second, counted as third. It’s enough to make me quit playing online.
I just played mario kart online and had my first experience with these hackers. I carried on playing for a 2nd race where everyone else had left except 3 others which were all hackers. One of them was called “ihack@you” i think. And yes i agree that nintendo need to put this to a stop because it does ruin the online play but i did manage to come first against them lol :p
These online cheaters really pissed me off today. I was yelling at the TV and my wife thought I was crazy. I don’t play video games much and it sucks you play and people ruin it………..
AARRGH! me and my lil bro were playing and this person always had blue shells and was killing EVERYONE! she had 10 balloons and!!! Always had a star and in the end got 256 points (that’s impossible, right?) she was on my TEAM but she killed ME with a blue shell and I had one point.
She always had them (right now I’m doing research on how to DODGE blue shells).
It really makes me sick to think that people are too rubbish to play normally so muck up the game instead!
Come on, Nintendo, fix it!!!!!!
(Although, the blue shell person WAS on my team so we did win (more brackets in brackets! She had a STAR rank and got 406 points for her ‘win’).
Yeah i think hackers have no life thats why they just hack into every body’s game and ruin it…. But lucky me just beat a girl that used daisy because she fell off.ThAts WaT ShE gETs…..
I’m with ya brother. These cheaters suck. I’m pretty good at racing games, and it’s tough to stomach someone camping out in front of you with infinite stars and bombs etc. I’m a gamer, and it boggles my mind how anyone can feel good about cheating to win.
I hate hackers once i was playing with someone called “hacker” who had infinite bullet and i was on 7900 down to 6000 and i think hackers should be banned.
It would be a good challenge to defeat them. Or do what my friend said “fight fire with fire” i think we should hack to annoy hackers.
Also i got told you only can use 4 infinite weapons so if I hacked i would choose single bananas , green shells one mushroom boost and fake boxes,
that way its fair.
Oh how I loathe those loser hackers. Seriously, you go online for a challenge and have fun. Hackers take any fun right out of the game. I’ve have blue shells thrown at me when I wasn’t in 1st place, hit with stars, ran over, it just gets ridiculous. Especially on battle mode when they are star the entire time, take all your ballons, throw blue shells at you. It’s not about the points for me, its about the pure lack of balls these hackers have. Nintendo should have been proactive, before allowing online play. Bastards!
i have friend whose a hacker.hes always telling me to play online with him just so he could run me over with infinite bullet bills. its just so frustrating when i have to deal with that.
well I actually enjoy it.
lol I think it really brings more chaos and excitement to the race when a hacker is throwing bombs and shells every where. I think the only hackers that should be hated are the ones who hack to win. But from what I’ve seen, Most are just there to mess with people and usually just get last place.
They make the race a lot funner.
The cheaters are still there. It was the first I had run into(noticed) but the guy had star power the whole time. I hear you NCGATOR, my wife keeps saying it is just a game but I still yell at the TV;) Makes me feel better. We were racing Peach Gardens and this guy drops out of thin air in front of me and takes 1st. Was this a hack or a gilch?
i ujust started playing like 3 days ago online and got really good at battle but then i saw a hacker. my rating was 5800 or somethin and i thought i was doing good until my rating went way down from 1 race so it needs a stop. i think people should message it straght to nintendo tho this wont do much good cause as hackers read this they think its funny and will keep doing it…
I have owned Mario Kart Wii for a few months and today was my first encounter with a cheater.
It was around noon or whatever and I started playing online with people in my region (USA) and there was this player, Hackingiui (or something like that), and when I saw him throw a “blue spike shell” at me when no on had even reached an item box and I was so pissed because I ended up from 1st place to almost dead last! I also lost almost 100 points! It really pissed me off especially because I was finally reaching 7000 VR points and ended up losing over 1000 points before I finally quit. Though a couple races later, I knew I could recover those points. So what I did was be smart and when he got close to me, because he was targeting me A LOT, was to follow him so he knew. I wasn’t right behind him because I knew he would run me over, so I eventually quit because he kept doing his cheating over and over again.
It really gets me mad that Nintendo isn’t doing crap about this. They should have these things inside hackers’s wii systems so they track them down and punish them for the hacking that they do.
It’s unbelievable how many people are so pathetic that they spend their time hacking online games and preventing others from having fun. I have to say, it was pretty funny one day when some ‘Kid Buu’ hacker was big and a star for the whole race, whilst constantly throwing bombs and shells. Not aiming for anyone in particular, just doing it at random times, and they lost every race (and were noticed and banned after a few races, I have to add). However, when people are falling off the edge and reappearing, missing the item boxes and still throwing things at anyone who beats them, making the races finish when everybody else is halfway around their 2nd lap because 30 seconds have passed – this is when it gets REALLY annoying – it drives me half insane! And I usually play as a guest with brother and don’t even lose points, and it still bugs me! How is it so hard for Nintendo to spot these lowlifes?
Doesn’t Nintendo ban hacking?
HI,
I am also seriously tired of hackers after spending lots of dollars and time.. I try to enjoy time online playing with my siblings and all to often are hackers ruining our fun!!!
I have an idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! since nintendo will not do anything, lets go after the retail stores… I worked for nike for 5 years and I know what hurts a manufacturer. If we can get enough people together and stop the retail stores from selling the wii’s then nintendo will have to take notice. The media definately will and bad press is bad press, Nintendo definately does not want that. email me if you are interested in setting up a retail wii mario kart ban in your area.. my email is pixiepal@ymail.com
Since I got Mario Kart for xmas I’ve been lucky I guess. I’ve only came across two hackers both made it more fun. The first time was in sherbert land and he or she would have a line of mushrooms, big mushrooms shells, starpowers laying everywhere. I didn’t win but it was different and fun. The second Hackers name was NINDemon. He really made it fun by shooting blue shells a lot and shoot red shells, but I was only connected with him for about four races. One of them was in maple tree way and Nindemon sat right after the bridge with a starpower and was throwing bombs, awesome I wish I could do that .
I was playing Mario Kart Wii today and there was this hacker that fell off the side and just appeared on the track again going FULL speed! Also, yesterday I wanted to go to Rainbow Road, and after a while i get there and a HACKER shows up and has an infinite star on AND he would throw Blue Shells at himself so there’s always a big explosion around him, he always won! BUT ONE time I almost beat him! Right before i got to the finish line… DISCONNECTED! I got back on and saw 300 POINTS(VR) GONE! I HATE HACKERS! I HATE YELLING AT MY TV SCREEN! US GAMERS NEED HELP!!!
There are many many hackers ive seen on online play. It isnt that fair that you cannot properly win a game because they maintain first place constantly, as they are untouchable and if they fall off the course they are right back on it in less than a second. if you try and hit them it doesnt affect them, and they can have unlimited items. just yesterday i was playing and there was this one person with an online ranking of 34000 they had so many items as they wanted when they couldnt possibly they would shoot blue shells constantly and leave fake boxes all in a row so you couldnt get past. the game was undoubtably entertaining but your right in saying that nintendo should do something about it. i suggest that they should add an online category for hacker play, because it is an interesting concept, but it should be regulated so they cannot play with the people who play without cheating. it should not be accepted for time trial races or rankings but just for fun. if they could add that to wii shopping for free somehow for all mario kart owners to have or have their mario kart online updated to prevent this from happening.
It’s easy to feel sorry for these lonely souls…they have to resort to cheating to get places. That is really sad. They probably have no life and that is why they do what they do. Poor, poor lonely souls…living at home with Mom…identity issues…low self-esteem…
I absolutely hate when hackers join wifi. MKWii is the only game I really enjoy playing online. It’s so unfair when you are playing an honest game and these morons come on to ruin it for everyone. I’ve had so many experiences of this. Ones that bug me the most are the ones that lurk round corners then squash you with a big mush or star. I’ve even seen ones waiting and when they see you approaching the take all the boxes. I was in a race and we were all struck by lightening before the 3,2,1 had finished, then it was constant bombs being dropped and blue shells.
Really puts a damper on the game. Hope Nintendo can find some way to block their little hacks. They may well be laughing at home but they’ll soon stop once their wii gets bricked! :L
It’s just a sad state of affairs. Even if these hackers get banned or if Nintendo finds a way to stop it, there will always be some hacker douche bag out there who will find a way to hack and cheat. When I encounter a cheater I just get out ASAP. It’s all we can really do as gamers. It’s sad that there are people in the world who’s only source of accomplishment is to make other people miserable. Thankfully the true and honest gamers out number the hack jerk offs! And karma is a boomerrang, throw bad karma and bad karma comes back ten fold.!
well not to burst anyones bubble but hackers have easy access to a “no-ban” hack on the online play…..
I’m fed up with it. After working my rating up to over 8400 I’ve continually gone down to about 7600 now. When it was just one person doing it in a game finishing 2nd didn’t hurt too bad and I could still pull the occasional win.
What’s happening now is teams. The guest account uses the infinite star trick and hovers behind hitting everyone over and over. The last race I did was me and these 2 others and I never even finished the first lap before the race was over. If Nintendo only had a decent online presence it wouldn’t be an issue, but instead they make this crap online system where you can’t even chat or make friends. All I want is the opportunity for a block list, if Nintendo won’t take care of them let us weed them out.
Is there a way to report hackers and get them baned from cheating? You can in grand theath auto
u guys are saying that the hackers were banned but in like the last 2 days ive seen like 5 hackers 1 being {maste r} if theres a way to to wii people to ban people plz reply fast
C’mon. It’s OK. Especially the ones who always lose (most of them). They (we) have an insane amount of VR (in my case, 35000), always take last so EVERYBODY gets LOADS of VR points. Got a problem with that? Anyway, we do get banned. But don’t think being banned will stop us! LOL
Listen Guys, I’m a hacker myself (I don’t really hack wifi anymore) And nintendo has done a horrible job stopping hackers.
First bans. FC ban
Bypassed in 1 day
Second ban, Mac address ban
Bypassed in 4 days
Last Ban, Serial number ban
Bypassed in 3 days.
I’m sorry guys, but due to the way the wii was made, nothing can stop the WiFi hacker, more on this here: http://hackmii.com/2009/02/why-the-wii-will-never-get-any-better/#more-463
I’ve been playing MKW for six months now, and if not for the hackers I’d probably be in the high 7K’s to low 8K’s in VR. My biggest problem is knowing when to call it quits because I’m so stubborn in thinking I’ll get them in the next reace.
But last night…
Last night after about six or seven races, three of the SOB’s jumped into out group. I somehow managed to beat out, not one, but TWO of them! I came in 2nd out of 12 on N64 Mario Raceway (I hate that track) – don’t ask me how I did it, it was all just dumb luck.
I happened to hit the item blocks with perfect timing and managed to get lots of gold shrooms and bullets. I have to say, it was THE greatest experience. I only got 120 VR points out of it but who cares. I quit after that race so as not to give them the satisfaction of getting another crack at me.
Today, I experienced my first online mario kart hackers. Three players going by the names ****420. Each had infinite start power, and would just run over everyone and send blue shells at anyone that got past them…
I then quit the game, jumped online and found this article.
I was hoping to find a refuge from the time-sink of MMOs, but looks like that’s the best way to enjoy a hack-free online game these days.
i won’t be playing online with that game again.
well i must say that this is extremely disappointing… i just began playing this game the other day and i’ve been really focusing on trying to get some good time trial records for a future friend that will be getting this game (or maybe not after i’ve seen all this). i was searching mainly for time trial hacks because i’ve noticed a few world records on some tracks being set in just a few milliseconds… but when watching them they blast into a wall or something and stay there.
and now i find this page…
is anything recently being done about this? i haven’t played much on-line play, and i haven’t noticed anything suspicious yet, but i won’t be playing on-line if this still goes on… just a waste of your time to get all those points to have some idiots blow them away for fun in a matter of minutes, in my opinion.
nintendo fails if nothing is being done.
“Nothing can be done” is a cop out! If Nintendo gave a crap about the integrity of their game, they could fix this. Online forums are capable of automatically booting/editing posts and posters and websites can tell a ton of information about your operating system just by people visiting their site. The whole argument that Nintendo can’t afford to monitor online play is ridiculous…Monitoring is not what people want. Nintendo could easily find a way to write code that can tell if users are getting items outside of the game and then ban them. Might take a tiny amount of money to program that in, but probably a good solution considering they are pissing off a lot of their customer base who now feels duped by an online feature that is now basically worthless.
i was playing online and i met this hacker, his name was jeff . and he was way ahead of us when around the third lap, i realised that when i was going up that ramp he was already finished. after that you go to be kidding! then i ended up losing almost 50vr and when i quit it was about twice as much damage to my vr EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
When i play mario kart after the race me and my mom think that the hackers are the ones that don’t have wheels next to their names. Is there a way to tell?
Man, we got a Wii for early Christmas to ourselves (me and the wife) and couldn’t wait to play online.
We thought we just were too new and didnt know how to do stuff, like get unlimited mushroom boosts or get back on the track at full speed as you just fall off.
Then I got outraged at the hacks. I notice the small boost and dropping off a track-then back on hacks mostly, they aren’t outrageous and obvious unless you are right behind a person. The whole FUN of a Wii is now fading fast, I was talking my coworkers into buying one and we’d all meet up, but now I advised everybody against it and they agreed with my opinion, they too would get so frustrated they wouldn’t play.
well you people that hate hacks r haters hacks r funner and you could turn a ds into a cellphone or a ipod instead of byin dsi i hack my wii i also have mario kart and brawl for wii but hacking is fun if you people try to ban hackers screw u hackers are doing better than nintendo texture hacks stage hacks if you people have problems with it foret this
I feel the rage just like you do about these sissy ass hackers that do it only to piss someone off.
If there was a way to find out who they are I’d like to show them what kind of hacking we do with an axe, on their fingers!!!!!!!!
i love hacking its the best i get bullets from start to finish
i have to say that hackers really bug me, esp since i was winning on rainbow road, on second lap then i got disconnected and that’s three times in two days now, makes me wanna get an xbox or ps3 instead.
A few weeks ago, I spotted the first hacker I have saw. He had that hack when you keep the same item. Guess what it was? Blue shells. And to make it worse it was on Rainbow Road, Mirror mode. I forgot the name of this hacker, but he used the blue shells REPETEDLY. Everyone ended up flying in the air, including me. But there were TWO hackers with the SAME hack. Well, to tell ya the truth, I can hack, but I don’t use them online, like those other noobs.
Last time my friends were playing with me
then boom… the hacker kept hitting everyboy with blue shells and red shells
the hacker was going to use a star until he used a mega mushroom,s and bullet bill,s and stars every time I got in 1st or any place
nintendo please do not let hackers stand by and ruin our games!
kick any hacker you see or hear about and NOW
Hey guys! If you wanna’ annoy hackers, follow these instructions to download the homebrew channel at
http://www.instructables.com/id/Run-Homebrew-on-any-Wii-v40/ (not mine)
Then go to the homebrew channel>homebrew browser>utilities>gecko 1.9.3>download (to sd) (also download cheatcode manager from utilities)
Once done, get codes from geckocodes.org (search mario kart, then right click ‘Save Target As’. Then choose your sd>txtcodes[What ever you do, DON'T change the name!]) After you get the codes, go to homebrew channel> Cheatcode Manager choose the text (there should be only one), then enable cheats with the + button. After you checkoff you desired cheats, press 1. After a few seconds, press any key and then press home. then go to Gecko. Click launch game. Insert SD and mario kart. Make sure you have written down the key commands if you haven’t already.press A and wait for your game to load. Test them on Single Player VS. It Should work. USE ONLINE AT YOUR OWN RISK. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU GET BANNED!!!! My friend has this and told me how to do it.
Just got done playing Mario Kart Wii online with my wife and noticing how folk have been starting off the race with items way before you could possibly get one. I know that there are cheats that folk figure out but I am suprised to hear that this might be the work of malicious hackers. I’m not too hung up on my rank falling but I just hope it doesn’t get in the way of honest racing, As was said before, I guess I can always drop out and find a race without any cheaters in it.
Thanks for everyone’s comments.
i’ve worked really hard to earn the 8000 points i won by playing online, but after playing for just 30 minutes in a group of hackers (Erika, Ban Hammer), my points dropped to 4317!!!! Does anyone know a way I can report these players so I can have them banned from playing online? If so, please comment on this website. I will check for comments as often as I can.
SEND THE HACKERS Mii NAME EXCATLY AS IT APPEARS ON SCREEN to
NintendoServiceCentre@codestorm.co.uk
and they will send this info to Germany and ban them immediately. If everyone does this, then it will help to stop the rot. if they hack again, send it again. This is all we can do.
I don’t understand why Nintendo doesn’t solve the issue in full. How are kids creating hacks that Nintendo can’t disable or fight back against? If I were Nintendo, and I was able to pin point when someone was hacking, their Wii system would deactivate and not turn back on for a long time…
Until I read this, I thought I was getting smashed by some who worked out the shortcuts and practiced for a long time perfecting them. Some things that happened to me included getting timed out with the 30 second thing just after I finished my second lap on Rainbow Road. I usually do all right on Rainbow Road when I don’t fall off and I didn’t fall off on that race. I still pulled a second place. Another time I was in first with the finish line in front of me then showed up as finishing in 4th place. I had no idea how that happened. I haven’t had anyone throw bombs and the blue shell the entire race yet. Some seemed to have permanent turbos. Even when I drafted them and got the turbo boosts (mushrooms?) I still couldn’t get past them. This all happened about two weekends ago. I haven’t played online since but that’s because I haven’t turned on the Wii (doing other things).
I actually crack up laughing when I see the hacks on Youtube where they’re just launching blue shells (with Mario constantly saying, “I got you.”) and bombs all the time. I saw someone get blown up consecutively 4 times with a bomb. Before they’d hit the ground another one would go off. I couldn’t stop laughing. I know it’d annoy me if I wanted to race properly but if I did the hacks, I wouldn’t be racing for first place. I’d be playing for amusement (like some of them obviously do).
If you get caught in a race against hackers then quit at the end of it if you’re looking to build up your points. If you’re looking for a laugh (and if they don’t target just the one player) then stay.
For those playing for real, hackers suck. If you want some fun then hack away yourself and play a game against them. Bombs and blue shells…. nothing else!
Well perhaps we should setup a site for legit gamers to post their lisc # on so we can play with them. Actually I am goin to start a forum on my Starcraft 2 clan website for this so that we can connect with legit gamers. Anyone found cheating will be posted as such.
I am sick of getting hit with blue shells and lightning before 3,2,1 and when I take 2nd and end up 6th Seriously wtf.
I don’t think I have a side for this hacker buisness. However, it is wrong to hack, because it just takes the fun out of things when it’s suppose to be luck of the box; not automatic stars, missles and bombs all the time. I think it’s more fun to not know what your going to get and work with what you do get from the boxes.
Just recently, (today) I was playing against multiple hackers in one race (lucky me, right?) and I somehow managed to beat all of them. When we got to the points page, it said one of the hackers lost about -2000 points, but they still had 9999vp. Interesting, right? I think Nintendo should just try to make things “fair” by no more hacking; if you do hack there should be a consequence towards it. What Nintendo needs to understand is how this is happening and how to put an end towards this.
seriously guys..get over it. no-one cares about your VR, sure if it constantly stays up around 7k or 8k you’re a prety good player. but as it changes by less than a hundred each time. no-one can really tell if you’re staying around 7k or 8k. maybe you just got lucky in the last few races…
the only game i know where the rating system acctually shows youre skill is a james bonid one,…theres absolutely no luck involved in that. theres no mushrooms and bullet to help you along. so if you come up against someone with a rating of 8500. you know that your acctually going to have a challenging game.
but in mk, no-one cares!!
anyway, all the hackers i’ve ever met have like a always stay at 9999vr thingo. so even if they lose and it says -2500 they still stay at 9999, but everyone else goes up likw 250 points. its fricking awesome!!
besides it makes the game really fun, bombs blue shells and clouds <–awesome!!
but anyway seriously..get over the fact that your poor VR is going down….no-one gives a ff
Now that I’ve had more experience with hackers, I’ve had enough of most of them. Some win sometimes and also finish further back at times. However, it seems that the majority of them in the last couple of weeks are doing it to finish first and by a long margin as well. There’s been quite a few races where I’ve only just started the second lap and the 30 second time out has happened.
There’s also been times where I’ve done well enough to finish second but been robbed of that position every single time. I don’t know how they did it but even though I saw them behind me when I crossed the line (every time they were behind either by a little bit and sometimes by a lot) it showed me as third on the screen. Incidentally, those two hackers finished 1 and 2 every single time and the one who was always finishing first by a big margin piled on 1,000 points in no time.
Every time I see that someone is from Japan then there’s a very good chance that they are hacking as well. Every player I came across tonight who had more than 7,000 points was a hacker as well.
When I raced against those who weren’t hackers, it was rare that I finished worse than third. Whenever I come up against hackers then 2nd is the very best I could manage and most times it was 4th or 5th. I’ve seen my points go from 6,900 to 5,800. Sure, you can take it as a challenge against hackers but when there’s 4 or 6 of them in a race then you go crazy because nothing you fire at them (I fired 3 red turtle shells at one and they were all just swallowed up. The hacker wasn’t trailing any bananas either.) With another, I had my three green turtle shells orbiting around me and I bumped one player 4 times and nothing happened to them.
I had 3 races with a friend of mine and he got fed up by the second race. It is impossible to get anywhere because if you get close to the front then the hackers hit you then you’re in the pack and they hit you then before you know it, you’re stuck in 8th to 10th and no matter what you do, you just can’t improve your position.
The hackers who hack only to keep finishing first have ruined Mario Kart and I’ll no longer be playing it online because it was impossible for me tonight to find more than 2 races (and I raced for 3 hours) that didn’t have at least one hacker. More often than not there were 2 and in the race where there were 6, it was impossible. They all finished in a group at the front and the rest of us (4 of us) finished a long way back and only just made the 30 second time out.
Hackers like Mr Bean were funny. The rest are just too useless to get anywhere without cheating.
Now that I’ve had more experience with hackers, I’ve had enough of most of them. Some win sometimes and also finish further back at times. However, it seems that the majority of them in the last couple of weeks are doing it to finish first and by a long margin as well. There’s been quite a few races where I’ve only just started the second lap and the 30 second time out has happened.
There’s also been times where I’ve done well enough to finish second but been robbed of that position every single time. I don’t know how they did it but even though I saw them behind me when I crossed the line (every time they were behind either by a little bit and sometimes by a lot) it showed me as third on the screen. Incidentally, those two hackers finished 1 and 2 every single time and the one who was always finishing first by a big margin piled on 1,000 points in no time.
Every time I see that someone is from Japan then there’s a very good chance that they are hacking as well. Every player I came across tonight who had more than 7,000 points was a hacker as well.
When I raced against those who weren’t hackers, it was rare that I finished worse than third. Whenever I come up against hackers then 2nd is the very best I could manage and most times it was 4th or 5th. I’ve seen my points go from 6,900 to 5,800. Sure, you can take it as a challenge against hackers but when there’s 4 or 6 of them in a race then you go crazy because nothing you fire at them (I fired 3 red turtle shells at one and they were all just swallowed up. The hacker wasn’t trailing any bananas either.) With another, I had my three green turtle shells orbiting around me and I bumped one player 4 times and nothing happened to them.
I had 3 races with a friend of mine and he got fed up by the second race. It is impossible to get anywhere because if you get close to the front then the hackers hit you then you’re in the pack and they hit you then before you know it, you’re stuck in 8th to 10th and no matter what you do, you just can’t improve your position.
The hackers who hack only to keep finishing first have ruined Mario Kart and I’ll no longer be playing it online because it was impossible for me tonight to find more than 2 races (and I raced for 3 hours) that didn’t have at least one hacker. More often than not there were 2 and in the race where there were 6, it was impossible. They all finished in a group at the front and the rest of us (4 of us) finished a long way back and only just made the 30 second time out.
Hackers like Mr Bean were funny. The majority of others I’ve come across are too useless to get anywhere without cheating.
yep, they do suck, i am very good naturally and enjoy a good real challenge, its a bummer when a hack (cause thats what they are) takes your glory
It’s not that I’d cry about lost points (even though it took many time-consuming and hard-fought races to earn them), and I hear what some of you are saying about the hackers making the game more “interesting” in some ways, but that’s not the issue here…
There are many younger kids and older parents that want to try playing MarioKart online, and maybe they’re not very good at it, but they have every right to play like anyone else. And when they see a hacker they get confused and discouraged and so they give up and we lose an entire demographic of decent players.
There are still MANY hackers out there. Most are vicious and seem to have the same mentality as a school shooter, suffering from some superiority complex. They think they’re God.
When you have this kind of person in the game it’s really hard to have any fun. Nobody enjoys having the snot kicked out of them over and over. It’s almost similar to a form of anonymous bullying or online harassment.
Even without the hackers present, the races aren’t even setup to group similarly-skilled players together (my first race I was put up against 11 players, none of them having any less than 7000 points), there doesn’t appear to be any way to have a 50CC race, nor do they bother to have the occasional “no items” race. So apparently there’s zero effort from Nintendo to make the game fair for everyone, and all we can do is just accept it as a barely-adequate alternative to racing against friends.
But life isn’t fair. There will always be those ignorant and deprived cockroaches that have to ruined it for everyone.
I’ve always been a big Nintendo fan but I’ve been a bit leery about getting a Wii. I finally got one and I was playing online when every other race we played we had to unplug the Wii so we could drop out.
And now that I think about it we had been playing against hackers all night and we didn’t even know it. One bout of them was one that would use a blue shell every time my boyfriend got in first he would get hit with a blue shell. I played for 3 hours and I only got a handful of blue shells.
Another bout was a player that was far enough ahead that we thought we could catch up but there really was no chance.
But the worst one was very blatant. He started with 3 red shells, hit everyone with them, jumped ahead with a star and then bombed us over and over until I decided to unplug my Wii.
I’m a Nintendo fan… but…
I feel so abandoned.
Hi!
i do hack mariokart wii
i agree to all comments saying HACK2WIN Hackers **** But, i have 333333vr.
i get into races with 7k 8k 9k people.
i do hack, but usually i tease other hackers.
i never target anyone personally, i just fire random. email me to get my fc.
camtully_99@hotmail.com
Nintendo has completely failed in preventing cheaters. They have made no efforts in stopping the blatant hacking, which gets worse everyday. I won’t purchase the next installment of this game unless it addresses cheating.
It’s only a matter of time before these hackers are able to get into your credit information on the wii online shop. Enjoy that law suit fellas.
i hate hackers…my first encounter was at DK jungleparkway.he just teleports where he likes,blows up anyone,i actually beat him by a split second[hooza!!].
next up is rainbow road,oh hell this asshole pissin his way through with bullet bills,lightnin and more!
by the way i can prevent hackers on…. as im part nintendo,i cant ban them[unfortunatly]because my boss says theres no hackers.
anyhow, destroy all hackers!!!
GOOD LUCKK!
Yesterday, I played MK for about two hours. I had 7,000 points. Today, I have 4,500 points. What happened to my points? Hackers were racing with us, you know, the bombs, first place heat seeker, the whole thing. But they had less than 3,000 points. Can somebody tell me how my points are gone? I wasn’t disconnected from the other players.
i think hacking should be banned because what if liitle kid is obsessed with mario kart wii and then got wifi and would all those other people cheat HACKING MUST BE BANNED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!