Mario Kart Wii – Cheating, Hacks, and Disappointment
Posted on October 6, 2008
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.[ad name=”250×250”]
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nintendo have stoped banning hackers
I have a few words to say…. 10 SPINY SHELLS IN A ROW! I WAS TRAUMATIZED! I WILL NOT PLAY MK WIFI EVER AGAIN! *cry* >_<
Hackers have ruined this game for me. I think the online play is the best aspect of the game with the potential to play agains up to 12 actual people. I stopped playing this game months ago because of the hackers and just picked up again this week because I played it at a friends house. Now I am frustrated again because I was playing today and just losing because everyone was cheating. This totally ruins the game and the people who do it are the most pathetic people ever, who cheats at mario kart???? Its a rediculous concept but its crazy every time I play at least one person is doing it. This is the dumbest thing ever, these people have super extra tiny penises.
Ive felt the wrath of these hackers who apparently lack the skills to play fair. Just today I had one of the best races ever. The racers name was jayjay ( called him vajayjay when I lost) gave me a run for my money. Jayjay if you read this Id like to add you. my email is bobby.mckinney76@yahoo.com.
Most of the hacking that you think is happening, ISNT. They’re just good riders.
Hackers are t0ssers and should be banned. If you get one, then just quit. Don’t lose those points. If you care about them. Why the big deal. You’re up one day down the next anyway.
I get as high as 9400 and been as low as 6300 in the last 3 months. the fun is just playing
hmmmmm……to many hackers i suggest that these people GET A LIFE i mean hacking how childish i have got 9999 so what i hate”£$$% hackers they suck i still wanna know some more hacks but i can never do them , why dont you guys just hack back?
i play mkwii on wifi all the tie and isee hcker alot too!!like:ithrow a red shell at the person i front of me…then the red shell gets reflected!!!!!!!madding right?!?!
played for 3 hours tonight, nothing but hackers, sometimes there would be 4 or 5 in one room. stupid really, not like theres a big payoff for cheating. I did notice tonight that the hackers were targeting ppl with lower points, ppl in the 5000 or less. most nights the hackers just play to win but tonight it was an all out bloodbath lol. some of them were actually just sitting on the track, waiting for ppl to go by b4 they’d hit them with starpower or blueshells, sucks really.
i knew right away i was in a room full of hackers, soon as I see ppl with 9999 pts or names like f><hacker i usually play one then leave lol. some guy named. wish nintendo would put mods in rooms to make it a funner place to play
I just quit. Plain and simple. Press the power button on your remote when you see it happening & join a new race. Soon the Hackerazzi will have no one to play with.
anyone who has to hack just to get ahead in a game is absolutely, without a shadow of a doubt, scum of the earth…worthless….pathetic….should be hung up….have their system confiscated for being such pansies…and not allowed to play games EVER again
ok, just blowing steam there, but people that cheats to win, especially online, is truly pathetic, they should make a channel just for the hackers so they can cheat each other and not those of us who try to play the game honestly (for example, me)
but, nintendo has clearly shown that they don’t give two monkey poos about the problem, so we are doomed to either put up with it, or play offline, which gets tiresome once you’ve unlocked everything
and just to add on to what i said, i noticed people saying to just start hacking to annoy them, you just become as douche-like as them, don’t do it
a for real suggestion could be to ban the IP address (if you’re connected to the web, you have one), but with DHCP, that would be pretty well fruitless unless the person happened to be using a static IP address
or, hurry and create wii menu 5 ( name probably wrong there, but you get what im saying), and take special care to code it to where homebrew doesn’t install and can’t be activated, if you take the homebrew channel program thingy out, that takes their ability to cheat, effectively cutting it off right at the knees, crippling them to actually race *gasps* fair
Yes, hackers are frustrating if you want to race normally and stuff. But personally…. I welcome the challenge. The hackers I have faced in the past tend to hack for fun: one example being the fact that on N64 Bowser’s Castle, a hacker fired millions of green shells on the long straight of the start/finish line, on the final lap. It caused absolute mayhem, I think I finished around 3rd :D
Hackers make some races more fun, and others frustrating.
BUT the most rewarding thing, HAS to be when you hit a hacker with a red shell…. and a star, in the same race.. it was amazing! Most certainly a, “TAKE THAT!!” moment. Also, I usually seem to beat hackers nowadays; I cruise around the first few races, learning their hacking style, then I use an appropriate racing strategy to beat them. Earning 9999vr may also have helped, but still. :)
Overall though, I agree that hackers should be banned. Then it would make Mario Kart Wii much more appealing to many more people.
My advice if you face a hacker: Stay back a little, get a very good weapon like a star and use it/ them when the time is right. Or, just quit and find another group of racers! :) There is only a small amount of hackers also, compared to normal racers.
It is very easy to cheat on Mario kart wii however nintendo are aware of it, and do try to ban hackers however they always worm theyre way back in. They are ruining it for everyone else!
I think hacking should be stopped my 10 year old Ben has asked me how to hack into Mario kart wii for cheats, I personally have no idea, but it is ridiculous that a 10 year old feels he has to cheat to win a game. He is a real whiz-kid at this game but obviously feels cheated, Nintendo need to get their act together as my child is becoming bored with the games now as he has no chance of beating these cheaters, no more games will be purchased as there is no point. Starting to play PS3 more and more now although he always preferred the Nintendo games.
Sad !!!!!!!!!!
I concur, allow me to extend my deepest and most sincere apologies and sympathy to all affected by cheaters/hackers it indeed does somewhat make the game wretchedly un-enjoyable. For the most part, the majority of these hackers are between 12-19 and as such they are like unruly children and pay no mind to good sportsmanship or gaming prowess, so when you see them cheat and win consider their cheating as a form of their handicap and do not take offence when they attack your character because technically speaking there are no Hit Point (HP) on your character so you can not really die. Before, during and after the assault your character remains the same. like a cartoon character; if you get frustrated you will only make their attack all the more enjoyable; they get their sadistic pleasure from your frustration.
The next time you see a player really up ahead in the race or they race on the grass unaffected or you were first place but the score says your second or they have Light Weight characters that can budge of the track Heavy Weight characters or they have a lot of good items, Stars, Bullet Bills etcetera or they have either Daisy, Boulder Balls (Funky Kong) or Bowser JR, they’re probably cheating so if they win it should not come as a surprise and you should not take it out on yourselves and should leave the room because when no one is around, they behave themselves.
I once was in a room of 4 cheaters and they Bullet Billed through the entire track, but they had regular speed Bullet Bills, so when I brought my modified version out I left them in the distance and won every round, they all got scared and fled because most of them just want to assault regular unsuspecting victims and when faced with a better hacker than themselves they feel intimidated and leave. I’m an ethical cheater I do not abuse regular people, I look for cheaters only and attack, irritate and deter them. After seeing someone better than them they leave and after winning every time they usually give up and go, they’re like bullies always picking on the weak and running from the strong. I also come last place to give my cheated points to the regular people and leave when the cheaters leave. Most of the time when someone has 9999 points and 3 stars, a funny name, bug eyed Mii, and belong to a clan, they are also cheating.
@kyle: as long as it doesnt affect online ranks, mkw hacking is ok.
if it does its freaking annoying thats true, but cheats and hacks are pretty funn and make the gameplay more funny sometimes. there are pretty fun cheats and haccks that make you enjoy your game much more. I am with you all saying 1. you shouldnt cheat online and 2. you shouldnt cheat until you played trough the game at least once the legal way
@Nancy: it is impossible with wii cheats to touch the points of other people
and they cant do anything to your records only to theyres.
@Hackardes: Nintendo will never be able to stop hacking on wii with nothing so why dont stop trying to kill the hacks and instead of that making the games searching for such hacks and shutting off if they find such? that would be easier and loading times wouldnt be THIS longer then.
and YES I HACK WII GAMES AND PLAY WITH CHEATS HACKS ECT.
if anyone has questions to wiihacking or how to make games on wii more fun ask me. I DONT CHEAT ONLINE (with the exception of animal crossing, because there noone hates you for it and its awesome^^) AND I WONT GIVE YOU ONLINE CHEATS but for everything else you are allways allowed to call me
I was just playing… and it was RIDICULOUS! This person was obviously aiding someone else, because I was the biggest competition… this person sat and waited for me to come around the second lap and started shooting red shells, and then after the 3 shells they turned on star power and just went crazy on me. I tried to keep going, but I couldn’t. They kept at it on star power, and I started driving around in circles and this loser couldn’t get me with star power anymore so they did the red shell, hit me, then star powered my ass some more! This was in Dry Dry Ruins. The only stage I can out do the cheaters on is Rainbow Road, because they aren’t skilled and can’t keep on the track. Even when I come across star power on Rainbow Road I am cautious to use it.
I just want to remind all of you that NINTENDO is at fault here. If they would have put the money and time needed to correctly protect the games security, we wouldn’t be talking about HACKERS… If you spend 15 minutes researching on line hackers, you will see that people have been hacking games for many years now. Nintendo should have known that there game was going to get hacked. So they should of spent the money needed to secure this game, and other games for that matter. I understand hackers are going to do there thing, but companies need to stop them, buy spending some money to stop them. Companies won’t do this, because that might cut into there profits. So therefore, were never going to have a good online game to play with each other without hackers. I cant believe how many ignorant people there that would hack a game, and destroy others fun. I also cant believe companies that are so smart to create awesome fun games for all of us, are so ignorant that they cant stop these hackers.
Still being hacked as of today 3/23/10 Nowhere on Nintendo website how to report abuse.
the hakers may be baned but there times are not, the unfair world records are still there
I hack on mario kart, and I do think Nintendo should take more action. It’s a bit silly and VERY easy to do. But, I change my Race Rating to 35000 and then hack and deliberately come in last. That way people get rewarded for the pain that they have suffered by me and my item hacks:) ALSO, the banning is POINTLESS, I have been banned 3 times and i have got passed it EVERY TIME. Nintendo should learn to make proper games.
Had my first experience with this today, so they are definitely still out there. One guy had a continuous star and before the race even started he sat at the starting line tossing bomb after bomb behind him. This went on for about a minute. Bombs were EVERYWHERE the entire race and at the end, he parked in front of the finsh line and literally wouldn’t let anyone pass.
Absolutely ridiculous.
I really like the Wii, especially Mario Kart, and I was thinking of buying the system. Then I played online. Half the games had hackers. And Nintendo took care of this problem? Pfft. I’ll be looking into getting an Xbox.
Most cheaters seem to be Japanese. Note that Nintendo is also Japanese.
Maybe cheating (and encouraging it) lies in their nature?
Along with the often breaking hardware I will never buy a Nintendo game again. (I’ll play them other ways) That’s what they accomplished with doing nothing about this problem.
Heres a little insight into this whole thing.
This is a very “big” thing going on. Look above and you will see Hamster35000vr.
He is one of the “best” hackers. He has written some amazing codes. Too bad he didnt use his talent for good.
There are literally hundreds of videos on you tube teaching kids how to hack MK.
Videos with names addresses, web site addresses etc. You can follow the links to forums that cater to hackers. There are many!!
Although Hamster claims what he does is good… what he doesnt tell you is when he changes to another license/Mii/profile he hacks MK for the win. He isnt alone in this. Go watch a few you tube videos on this. Its funny because they all claim to be 12,13,14 yrs old.
On the other side: there are ways to get 2,3,4 bullet bills, 2 blue shells etc in a race thats legit.
There are many shortcuts to take that make you just disappear and then reappear in front. Learn to use them. It helps.
The farther back you are in the race can be good to start. Hit as many boxes as you can the good items appear more often to the slower player.
If you see a player with 1vr or 35000 disconnect right away. This will disconnect everyone. Look for the names Hamster 35000vr, Mr.Bean 35000, Mr Mean Wii and many others you can find them on you tube or Wiihacks.com or Volderbeeks forums (Google it 4 the exact site.) They have found a way to unban Nintendos bans. And many other hacks that would surprise you.
You can report them all you want. Nothing happens. Nintendo will only ban those that they witness first hand hacking. lol What a joke.
Better yet get everyones FC here and play with them. I refuse to buy any more games if this isnt dealt with.
U might find most of the hackers have skill and are bored with noob gamers like yourselves, The fun wear’s thin winning all the time :) For me hacking mario online is a bit of fun, Dont Diss it till u have tried it !!!
If only there was a chat box so you guys could vent in game , Hahahaha :P
i was in 1st when a hacker had a big mushroom when i had 40 coins and they ended up to all the players by the hacker bann hackers plz!?
OK! look if they have the cheats who cares let them use it
if i had them i would use it alll the time im guessing you would too!
also um its a hacking and cheating website. so you guys are hypocritical
Hackers really p*ss me off, they spoil the game for everyone. Why can’t everyone just play fairly I don’t understand it. I’ve just came off about a 2 hour session online where someone would fall down a hole and then re-appear just after you have past them. But the worst I’ve came across was on Bowser’s castle about 30 seconds in I got hit by about 3 blue shells numerous bombs and bullet bills. And the sad thing is Nintendo just turn a blind eye to it all.
I play games for the challenge, I would never hack into anything that would kill the challenge. What’s the point of playing if you know you are going to win? Last time a check hacking was illegal. Nintendo needs to do something extreme to these hackers. A 3month bann is weak. Don’t allow them back period(Pete Rose).
Online mario cart is now basically unplayable or should i say unwinable due to the use of the DS cheat codes,which are used to HACK mario online! Nintendo need to pull thier fingers out their arse and sort it out, my kids dont bother playing it on line anymore,,Wonder if Nintendo will refund my money for a faulty unplayable product?
I’ve wanted to play online, but always had a feeling that something like this would happen, so I haven’t, I would like to though since sometimes I play myself and get bored with the usual cups, I come from a technical background, but not a hacker, Mario Kart is supposed to be a game, but by the sound of it, the online feature has become just a window into the environment as a hacker, not a real game, I believe in playing fair, but being technical, I think that Nintendo has to insert code somewhere to prevent these hacks from happening, quite possibly into the online channel, where the code executes as the gamer enters the channel, a game is a game, it should be played as it’s meant to be played, a hack is abuse and abusers get banned, I really want to play this online, but of course there are a few sick twisted puppies out there, and another thing hackers hack the game because they know without the hacks they can’t win, meaning the real winner is the gamer who played fair and proper, sure hackers may have super powers like going invisible etc. and it tricks the actual code in the game to thinking they win, but the real gamers are still playing, and if a real gamer wins they win, the hacker hasn’t even completed a lap. lol :), I think I will play see how many hackers loose to the real players lol :)
There was this one time wherein I was playing mario kart wii online (battle) I was roaming around to get an item and I got a bomb (the black thing) and decided to throw this to some kind of player (I forgot her username) but watever anyways I didn’t know that the player that was hit by a bomb was a hacker so I was like following her around so that I can hit her more… after a while THAT player throws me a hecka infinite blue shells/red shells etc. well not only me but also including my team WITHOUT even going to the item box (can you believe that?!?) until me and my team lost the game and after that I was yelling at the tv saying, “Ur a cheater!u shoudn’t be proud of that!” and it’s so sad that I lost 100vr and yeah just to say that I was like the leading in our team and I only got TWO points :( they got 20+ and we only got around five or four :(
Disappointing, I know!!! :P and yeah I like encountered A LOT of them so far AND until now :P
NINTENDO, please DO BANNED them for they are ruining the fun ;P
I bet i have the worst hacking experience. One time with my
friend, we were doing an online vs against 6 other people.
Know what happened? All of them were hackers. They
had infinite blue shells and infinite star. The best hackers
name was poopy pants. He blew up somebody with a blueshell
before the race even started! From now on, I am only going to
do a reganol race.
Ugh I hate those hackers more than anything I was just having friendly competition with the other people then this Hacker using Baby Peach was using infinite Bob-ombs and Stars One time I came out of Maple Treeway’s Cannon Then whaddya know?Endless explosions!And this guy named “Pain” was somehow unnafected by my items(Just glad he/she didn’t use infinite items Except maybe the Gold Mushroom)Anyway I tried following him/her arround the courses And whaddaya know he/she was cheating!
I just feel sorry for those Hackers/Cheaters they should learn to win with some real Skill not relying on cheat codes to win They may Win 1st and all but In my book they just proven that they r just a bunch of Ameteurs that need to cheat to get their way through.
It’s just sad really…They just can’t play by the rules which shows that they’re just little rascals that cry over losing
We gamers must show them how to win the Skillfully way and but a stop to them.
Yeah, I found someone cheating just now so I decided to do a search on it, and found this. This bastard was shooting shells and using lightning before the start of the race, then using bullets and invincibility throughout the course of the race. I just had to quit. I’ve played the wifi several times in the past week or so, and this is the first cheater I’ve encountered. :/
I’M so mad that hackers ruin my races (online)
the only thing you can do about it is , Play your online races with friends !!!
ok you don’t get points , but huge amounts of fun
we need a website to register ALL NON CHEATER Numbers
then we can all be satisfied
Jack
My 9-year-old daughter and I encountered this for the first time today. We play occasionally when we have time between school work and sports and piano and whatnot. It’s a lot of fun and we have a blast. Today, we played the race that has the bridge in the middle (Jungle Parkway?) and some ahole named “Clueless” (aptly named) parked on the bridge and just launched bombs. Game was called because five minutes had passed. How could that have been fun for that jerk? Did he/she just join a game to make other people’s time miserable? Unbelievable. Glad I found this post so I could find out what was going on.
I was playing mario kart online yesterday and quit playing totally unsatisfied, because some idiot spent 3 or 4 entire battle invincible, which basically meant nobody else could collect coins, that cant have been fun for that person and certainly wasn’t enjoyable for me
I’m absolutely sick of hackers. Why they must hack just to win is beyond me. I mean, I’m perfectly fine if someone wins without hacking, and they are along with everyone. I’ve had someone (forgot name) throw 7 red shells at me at once, I’ve also seen someone in 1st get a star, then a bullet. When I first started, hackers weren’t an issue, but playing Mario Kart for over a year, and its impossible to go over 2 races without a hacker joining in. I mean, I know I’m not the best with a typically constant score of 5500-7500, but I shouldn’t have to lose 127 because a hacker hit me 5,000 times.
i♥hacks if you hate them your ┌∩┐☻
plz plz!!!!give me a code multi hacke items for wimote and nunchuk
I think you should all just grow up and stop playing video games you bunch of retarded nerds
Yo EVERYONE OUT THERE
MY NAMES JEFF AND I AM A TOP HEAD ADVISER OF WII DISTRIBUTION, SALES AND SOFTWARE DESIGN AND HANDLER.
I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT I AM WORKING VERY HARD TO STOP THIS HACKING AND HAVE ALREADY MADE AN IP VERIFIER THAT CANT BE BYPASSED!! AS SOON AS THE WII IS TURNED ON, BEFORE IT IS CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET IT WILL FIND AND VERIFY THE MAC, AND IP ADDRESS FRIEND CODES AND MORE. IT WILL BE COMING IN THE NEW WII UPDATE AND WITH THE NEW WIIS. PREPARE HACKERS!
THIS IS INSIDE INFORMATION.
KEEP ON POSTING YOUR COMMENTS AS SELECTED ONES WILL BE PRINTED IN THE SUNDAY MORNING AND SYDNEY HERALD.
THANKS ALL FOR YOUR FEEDBACK!
Jeff Lightman
“Geekinspired/ nintendo rumors/ nintendo fan club/ etc.”
I am pleased to inform you that “LISTENUPPEOPLES” is right and although he has no right to spread inside information, an update for the wii is infact coming out.
All hackers will be caught and many wii points will be refunded for many wii store games that are now turning free.
The update is a strict update and wii owners will have to update or all wifi games will not work with there old version. The new update will be able to notify us of all hackers including anyone who uses “homebrew channel” or any other unauthorised channel.
The homebrew site/gecko.org/ocarina.com/ and any other sites pertaining to hacks of the wii are being sewed and shut-down.
Nintendo corporation is taking a stand and if you hold illegal software on your wii, we will be notified and take action. We recognise the need for this and will be publishing some of your comments in the Sunday morning/ telegraph and Sydney Mrning Herald.
We apologise to those who have been abused online and we are taking a stand against it.
NINTENDO CORPORATION.
forward us on N.WIIcorp@ninte.co.net
I just played and when the countdown started loads of bombs and blue shells went stopping everyone, then all except two were electrocuted and people were disapearing then appearing directly in front and leaving bananas and bombs. Just ruins the game.
I can remember the first time, at Luigi Circuit, we were all zapped by lightning, and had Bob-Ombs and blue shells hitting us. I didn’t know that, once I quit, I’d lose points. I realized that much later on while racing at the SNES Ghost Circuit, and managed to come out 3rd. Other than that, I was very close to the finish line and, before completing my 2nd/3rd.lap, I got knocked off my Funky Kong (who was driving in the opposite direction). And finally, while I’d started to race, or about to reach the finish line, I got disconnected. I’m not sure if these were connection problems but, today, the positions of the characters didn’t get altered. (Hence, I thought the connection seemed fine.) Regardless, I lost a lot of points till date, and the annoying part is to get them back. Let’s face it. Mario Kart Wii sucks… and I hope the MK 3DS is an answer to this.
ok, im sorry to give you ppl the laydown, but im am an anti-hacker by learning how to hack, and hackers re smart ok, they have created codes that make it possible to trick the servers, theese codes are nicknamed MAC Spoofers, they simply cchange a few things like your ip address so you cant get banned, so im sorry, the hackers will always exist
I Hate hackers even know I used to be one, but its no fair to anyone else I know because I learned my lesson. Anyways I can tell you how to hack its that Homebrew channel. Just go on http://WWW.HomebrewChannel.com to get directions kk. Oh ps you can find me on wifi only for america on 9:00pm-1:00am im on. Oh and one more thing the name is my actual mario kart name so the (star) is actuatally suppose to be one ok by.
STOP WHINING YES HACKERS ARE ANNOYING BUT ITS FUN BECAUSE WE LOSE ON PURPOSE ( IF ANY HACKERS DONT THEY ARE SAD) BUT WE KILL PEOPLE YOU ARE ALL SAD GROW UP UR ADULTS IM 12 I PLAY HACKERS ITS FUNNY.
I like playing MK but these hackers who cant win a race without cheating are ruining it for everyone. Ive just recently looked into it and I see alot of complaints. What people should do is everyone who hates cheaters should all become friends online and play it like that. Anyone cheats kick them out of the game.
If anyone agrees and wants to race without cheaters email me at mkwol@hotmail.com and I’ll send you my friend code.
I myself usually like hack races. They usually like to torment people while hiding in the back of the pack. Most hackers tend to choose Bowser Castle 64 or Mario Raceway 64. I like the chaos of trying 2 avoid them. The only hackers that I really hate r the ones that hunt specific people during races, hack 2 win a race, and the ones that hack battles.
I’ve faced one hacker where when everyone else left( leaving only the 2 of us in the party) he barely hacked at all. He raced w/ on honor on a mach bike w/ a mii, but I still beat beat him on a sneakster w/ a mii.
hackers are retarded, why do they have to ruin such a perfect game, i have sesn the infinite star and people that dodge blue shells and red shells with no items, they pretty much went through everything that flew at them, its very disturbing
I know a hacker when I see one and I always look out for one. Like if they are very ahead of the gang I stop (even though I know I will lose points) and check it out sometimes if they are and I found them out they try to intimidate me by running me over with big mushroom or use star on me. After the game I quickly quit and go to a more fair race!! The only thing you can do is stop playing with them even though you know it’s extremely annoying and NOT fair.
I was playing with someone called The Hacker and he used EVERY Hack possible to ruin it for me… But I beat him! LOL.
also those hacker screwed my time trail record up D=. I had the best in the world DX D=
and hackers usually only usE the respon cheat for falling off
wow hackerz dont take away the fun they put the fun playing with normal people is sort of boring hackers sure they hit u with their items but its fun trying to escape hackes and they r cool they give u a lot of points :)
hahahaa….
well…
i was looking for some new cheats for mariokart… but this is not the right place haahahahaa
but…. actually… it is better without cheaters… so your right! but everyt time I race on WFC, there is every time at least one cheater,,, so you can never win… I HATE THAT TOO!
but i want to have some cheats… for kickking those cheaters!!!
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I was playing today on online battle and i was shure my team would win cause it was five against two but all off a sudden i got git with like 10 blushells and one person was always a star. How hard can it be to fix this problem nintendo! I dont think ill be playing on wi-fi anymore until they fix this problem.
One time i was on WFC and on 2 before the race started every race someone used lightning
the hackers are stupid people they hack they game and use cheats for angry players :-( i play with imyouritem he is a best hacker he has gor an interminable star and a lots of blue spinny shells =-( HE WINS BUT A HACKER CALL MISusaNO wins in rainbow road in 0.00.001 IMPOSIBLEIMPOSIBLEI PLAYED VERSUS MISUSANO I LOSE HE WINS IN0.00.000.0000.00000 OHDEAR
I play wifi in versus mode.5 of the players are hackers.My team:silvermudkip, nazarette, fandclip, deanne and millonario(do you see his video?)Hackers:speedie eddie, jay, mr bean, ugothacked and the best hacker, misusanohacked.First circuit:koopa cape.Speedie eddie and his team are the 1rst.Second circuit:snes ghost vall.Jay uses 10 spiny blue shells.And last circuit:rainbow road.Me and my team are the first.The vr:me: 5746 nazarette:2938 fandclip:6000 deanne:9229 millonario:4736 speedie eddie:50000 jay:35083 mr bean:6437(uf!!) ugothacked:64378 and the most vr misusanohacked:100000000000000000(nintendo does it?????)
dont play with misusanohacked:in rainbow road 50 spiny blue shells, 50 stars, hacked character(a pokemon.what is it?)hacked kart(a bus.stupid)hypervelocity and HACKED TIME she and his team finish in 0.00.001 and me and my friends in 9.99.999(stupidhacker and stupid shaymin)
THIS IS THE END. JEJE
I played the Wii and just about every night I do, a cheater comes online. But I think the reson why they download the cheating program is because they are sore losers. They can’t win without cheating. My points online are about 8000 and I have done it without cheating. So next time a cheater comes on, don’t let it bother you too much because they are just LOSERS who can’t win otherwise. They know it too.
At first i thought cheaters were pretty funny untill i met a cheater on dk jungle parkway when i was at the bridge he was there big and starpower blocking the bridge and nobody made it past the first lap then the cheater turned into bullet bill and was done in like 10 seconds NINTENDO STOP THIS CHEATING ISSUE RIGHT NOW!
yea true. ive dealt with heaps of cheaters and lots of them were the cheaters tht hack 2 win. just noobs cause there couch patatoes tht sit at home disrupting others peaceful, fun online play just 2 get a laugh out of it. they do it caus
1. they cant play mk wii 4 sht.
2. they are small minded beeps!
and last they probs retarded little shts tht got overweight from sitting in house just hacking games all day so they can win caus theyre pathetic players who cant achieve sht all!
hopefully nintendo deals with theses losing bastards!!
peace out all you non-hacker mk fans =D.
yeah i go on the wii every night but every time i go online in mario kart i see a guy that is yoshi and he uses a lighting strike before the race begins and then he uses a giant mushroom and a star at the same time
i was using my Mii and the dolphin dasher and i came 1st with this hacker behind me
then the next night there was 7 hackers using the same cheat
so the hackers need to stop ruining peoples fun
I’m a hacker, big deal.
I never hack to win, I think FTW hackers (those that only do it to win) are annoying and also stupid, and I target them. Personally I use hacks to make the game a little more interesting. Under my normal account i’ve already reached 9,999 and the game isn’t fun anymore. It’s just the same old beating people and it’s not interesting. I would go so far to call myself a “responsible” hacker, hehe.
At first I looked around to find these cheats to be competitive on the online version of this game. I decided not to because I will not stoop to their pathetic level. It is up to nintendo to figure out how to stop these idiots. STEP IT UP MARIO!!! fix this!!!
My husband and I just got the Mario Kart game for our wii, and we as well are very disappointed at these cheats and hacks. We can not even enjoy our time online playing, because they cheat right from the start and there is no chance in winning no matter what you do. I know it sounds bad, but we wished we could find the hacks they were using to even up the score some, we are so sick of not even haveing a chance. We paid 60 dollars for the game, we would like to play it. I am angry with the game due to this you would think that nintendo would stop this from happening.
I was playing online when two hackers came online. Infinite star and mega mush power! They shrunk everyone during the count down! Unlimited bombs! Unlimited everything! But luckily they were both on my team… This is my first encounter with hackers and I hope I never see them again. There names were “lol->fishy” and “lol-> com on” The names were slightly differant but my keyboard doesn’t have those symbols.
-WII Racer -Tommy
I am a computer scientist and programmer and know that it would be very very easy for Nintendo to detect the cheats. If they refuse to ban them outright they could at the very least only allow them to race others that are using the cheats.
How long would they keep cheating if they could only play other cheaters!!
Those little pests are so annoying!! But even with the cheats they had a hard time beating my 9 year old granddaughter tonight.
Come on Nintendo this would be so very easy for any of your code monkeys to set up in an afternoon and would gain back your image with the majority who want to have fun playing your games without cheaters and there would be no way that the cheaters could complain as you are allowing them to play.
can you get cheats for mario katr wii or is it just hackers all the time ??
Played for awhile last night and noticed some strange actions from opponents. One guy clearly fell off a chasm into the water in front of me, but suddenly appeared around the corner in front of me. Another guy was untouched by three red shells hammering his back. Besides the obvious cheater here and there I had a complete blast playing online. I still can’t decide on what driver-car-bike suits me the best. When I’m set to race with Koopa Troopa and his regular kart and see the skeleton version of Bowzer ready with his venus fly trap car I know I’m screwed. ; )
Tried getting through the game on single version but found 150 cc really, really cheap. I cringe when the chime for the final lap comes knowing I’m about to get assaulted by every offensive weapon in the game, especially if I have a lead built. The worst is usually around the final turn, when you get hit multiple times.
im only 11 and now every time i play there is a haker
i Know how to get teh codes that those hackers been using go to http://www.parlay.ning.com and go into teh group called Mario and look at Ihack@u commments there are codes there to get back at those hackers
Link again is http://www.parlay.ning.com
not sure if nintendo are watching these sites or care but it seems to me that obviously they show all us honest people who paid our hard earned pound/dollars and even euros no respect at all!!! im no expert but have to say i believe they employ the top experts in their field to make such a great game as mario kart and as so could get the same experts to work on a way to block the cheats from going online and spoiling the fun of everyone else but i can not express my extreme frustration enough as having played the game now for 6 months, think im doing well getting to over 6500 points racing online to find almost everyone other racer at this level is a cheat using some form of hack/? call it what you will…………… really pushing me in the direction of another console were they take this abit more serious!!!!!!
come on nintendo sort it out and bring back some enjoyment and faith to the people who have purchased this game and made it one of your top sellers.
to all the hackers or cheats as a would rather call them …..GET A LIFE!!!!!!….. and let the rest of us enjoy the game as it was meant to be played………………
i hate hackers they ruin all the fun but i think i know how to beat them all you have to do is get a friend play online and try to drift behind your friend and do it until you cross the finish line.
Ok first of all why do people have to cheat at mario kart! I mean really Mario Kart, a family fun game and you have to try and cheat your way to 9999 points! Lame! You really have no life if your going to mod your wii so that you can cheat at mario kart. I think nintendo should do something about it because its going to make people not want to play their games anymore.
theres a person named BlackPOWER hes a cheater! hes not on the voting screen and then he appears in your game and cheats the whole time. Nintendo needs to do something soon!
Maybe it’s my timezone (UK), but in the evenings when I jump on after the kids have been put to bed, in 50% of the races there are hackers present. Perhaps it’s because I’m around the 7000 mark that I seem to meet them, but they invariably have names with unpronouncable characters and three stars, screaming “look at me I need attention please”. Their typical actions
– blow up or shrink people in the countdown
– use items before the first opp to get them
– stand by the sidelines and take people out
– wait by the finish line then get the win
– bullet bills continuously
– block bridges sideways with invincibility so everyone falls off
What’s surprising about it is that I used to run an online game (wotmud) which wasn’t commercial and our standards preventing cheating were way higher than Nintendo! You’d think that they could create an algorithm that detects impossible actions like items at the start or impossible movements, I know we did in our game. How does the policing work, can you volunteer for it?
Just reading some of the comments above, we had problems with IP verifiers because of dynamic IPs and Ip masking. If the ban is against the online ID/character presumably they can just delete them from their console? Maybe what would work would be some algo that looks at 100% impossibilities (ie items at start) then lifts the player up and freezes them, in a way that doesn’t interfere with bullet biills. Then put a flag against that online ID so they can *only* play against other hackers. That way they don’t delete and cause the issue again.
Add me officially to the list of victims. I actually confronted a hacker not too long ago this morning, and he was using spiny shells all over the place (including at the very start), red shells, green shells, and unlimited star power throughout the race. And the worst part is, he actually used those items repeatedly on me at Mushroom Gorge! I had absolutely no choice but to run away from him, and fortunately I was disconnected from the other players. I don’t think I’ve ever been more pissed off at what happened in a video game than this. Grrr… I’m about to lose it just now, too. (Stay calm, Eric. Stay calm. You don’t want to do anything you’ll regret.) By the way, the hacker’s name was “PASTA” if anyone’s curious. I totally agree that something must be done, and I hope that sometime down the line, this issue will no longer be a factor and we can all enjoy playing Mario Kart Wii (or any other game) without any worries about this, whatsoever.
P.S.: I saw a few comments about why we shouldn’t be bothered about this. All I can say is everyone’s entitled to their own opinion, even if we don’t agree with that.
I dont completely understand your view, but I get the point.
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Plaine and simple,,,I have asked Grintendo 5 times for my money back after trying mario cart online,,, Nowwhere on the shiny new box does it say, the Nintendo game site has been HACKED, Or even, you will be lucky to get off the start line unless you have bought a cheat card (NOT FROM NINTENDO) What the F*** !! has nintendo got there heads up thier arses so far that they cant or dont want to know whats going on,, Or is it going to cost them too much £$Y to put the shit thing right, i give up with Nintendo.. :O(
i cant hack names on mario kart wii
have you see the previous put up about this? Check out last weeks submit on this blog
Okay i’m in a tournament right, and i’m trying so hard to be at the top, but i can’t because there’s no way, i can beat…..And i’m not kidding…..0:001. One Seconds are you kidding?!!
My husband and our girls are playing now and this cheating is unreal. A game that we have all loved since we were kids and its now turned to this? Go figure….sure sucks spending all that money for a nintendo to be cheated! Nintendo you have really got to get this under control…or you are going to lose lots of long time customers!
Its a shame…
uh well i am a FTW hacker it is fun but i hate 4TB hackers
So… i just got off the phone with nintendo and all they had to say is “im sorry to hear that but even playing board games and card games your going to have cheaters”, in all my years of playing nintendo i never thought that they could stoop so low. Yes people cheat, but infinite star power? come on now do you people really suck that bad that you have to stoop this low. Nintendo needs to find this crack fix it and just update there servers and walaa problem solved not that hard people and if nintendo cant figure it out thats sad!
*sigh*……
Most of you are freaking out over nothing. Please, seriously, remember! IT’S PIXELS FFS! Plus, the hack2win hackers have thinned down. If you all stopped freaking out over rating, you may realize that most of the hackers are just making the game more interesting! Plus, any 32000VR hackers are practically giving you FREE RATING! I danced with a hacker in battle for about an hour and lowered my rating from 8200 to 6200! I didn`t care! I got it all back easy.
Therefore, I see no problem with hackers.
I was playing mario kart online last week and even before the starting countdown one player from Germany was blowing everyone with blue shells and kept doing it so I didn’t even get 30 seconds into the game and I had been blown up 5 times so I just quit that race -.-
this seems to be a usa problem,since i have had no problems in the uk
anyone encountered someone playing as baby mario in the tiny titan and somehow it seems like the have 200cc?im not the fastest but i can hold my own and this guy just pulls away with out drifting or short cuts
I’ve read more than a few of these post, and I find GREAT comfort knowing I’m not the only one pissed off!! These CHEATING bastards need to be caught!! Unfortunately they’re having problems caching them because “it’s hard for them to find players from just a nicknames”. This is what I was told when I complained to a Nintendo call center. Also I was told to collect info for them by giving names of the cheats I see. I suggest everyone do the same.
Hackers and Cheaters ruin the game for everyone. I am not a hacker nor a cheater. I refuse to play with them. I would rather lose than play with hackers and cheaters. I have a two star rating and have gotten very good at the game. Now what annoys me is people thinking I am a hacker or cheater just because I have gotten so good.
On line race name= \/iinster
I notice on the web that there are lists of cheaters and hackers.
Anyone know of any lists for non hackers and non cheaters to be added to friends lists?
Hackers drive me crazy!!!! they ruin the game for everyone, like how is it fun for them to be invincible and win….i mean like whats the point of even playing if you cant lose….the way i see it is if you cant lose, then you arnt really winning either. i was getting so frustrated i was just playing and this guy “russell” was kicking eveyones ass everytime!!!in coin battles he was getting like 50 coins…. there was like 5 battles where he just chased me around the ring and totally anihilated me….he had a star the whole time it was retarded.
hi,
I’m currently typing this from the internet channel. now, i have read all the comments and i think y’all are just pussys!! Now I don’t hack, and i want to learn how to hack offline to unlock mii outfit B… In my first online race I was coming first for the first 5 races, and Yoshi (some asian named mii) sat at the startingline every win i got, i ended coming 2nd, being beaten by yoshi, do i care? NO!!! why? because theres more to life than wii! (ps3 and xbox) kids need to get a girlfriend >.>
I just raced a bunch of hackers and almost beat them! They had the infinite spiney shells, mega mush and star powers and were cornering people and just attacking them. So I stayed in last place until the last lap, got a bullet bill and almost timed it perfectly but I ran out of power just before the finish line and they MORPHED to where I was! cornerd me and refused to let me cross the line even when I was the only racer left. How can they morph across the track? Can hackers create their own power ups?
i’ve gotta say… i actually like it! because it brings more excitement to the game. and i makes me laugh, lol. but that’s only when a person is only focusing on throwing shells at people, running over people. but it’s unexceptable for someone to hack in a game, JUST FOR THE GLORY OF WINNING. to me, that shows that they are desparate to win, and their puny skills. i real MK wii player would just try their very best to win, FAIRLY. I (as in me) practice this game 24/7 and to see someone ruin my chance of getting first place breaks my heart. im like wtf??
ok these hackers need to go i cant take it any more the stupid hackers or taking over me IF YOU CANT BEAT SOME ONE GO WITH IT!!!! any way im pretty good at racing and battle. ok i was racing and them some one named mr bean or who ever had a lot of stars and ketp hitting me with blue shells! girls have the right to win without the hackers and guys dont they. then it was this other time in battle me and my dad was playing 2 aginst one and onther hacker came on whats up with mario kart you dont have to be a hacker if you cant win just work on it :) ill give you my code but i forgot it so ill have to later any way some one needs to show these hackers whos boss >:(
and eric i now what you mean
Oh please not all hackers are mean I purposely use a 35555vr/br hack to help people gain points,then I finish in last!!
I bought mario kart when it first came out. I ran into hackers right away. I stopped playing, figuring that with the game being so new, of course there were bugs to look at. Come back, the hackers are still there. I stop, give it more time, come back, yadda yadda.
The cheating never stopped. Ever. And yes, there is an easy fix for this. But nintendo doesn’t really care. they already have our money. And the hackers? To hell with all of them. Whats that you say? Your little hacks makes the game more exciting? Hey, good for you, tool. I don’t want to bomb the stage with blue shells. I dont want to fly around in permanent bullet mode. I WANT TO PLAY MARIO KART, NOT DEAL WITH YOUR SADISM. HOW MUCH FUN CAN IT ACTUALLY BE TO PUSH ONE BUTTON AND THEN WIN? Secondary question: HOW CONCAVE IS YOUR PENIS?
yea now hackers have a hack that lets them get past the bans…
so that idea is screwed
this person hacked across the map
Simple solution…don’t play online. The original Mario karts like SNES & N64 did not have online.
Simple solution..don’t play online. the original mario karts like SNES and N64 versions did not have online. No matter what game or system that has an online capability….someone will already be looking for a way to hack in to it..no matter what system or game :/
Just don’t play online. The originals like N64 & SNES didn’t have online capability. If it make you that mad then I suggest you stop playing online. No matter what game or system they come out with that has online capability, someone will already be looking for a way to hack.]
I’m also a victim to hacking. Maple treeway: An ass turns on constant star, starts before everyone else does, and wins the race in 30 seconds. What an idiot. If I was in charge for Nintendo, I’d ban that f***in wii they are playing on.
i think hackers are fun if you get a tc glitch. but one time i entered a group and i saw a guy named player and his rating is 9999. i see him using a mega mushroom and a star all the time 0.o.i say what the heck? then when i joined and at the begining he kept spamming bombs it was NOT fun
GOOD HEAVENS! I see a lot of whiners on here. Let me start my story. I agree partially with that 12 yr old. You people complain about something you can overcome. On the other hand I do not agree that its always funny when hackers knock you down just for the sake of seeing how much they can do it. It is extremely repetitive. As for these whiners. Not one person I have seen on here solved a solution. If you get that frustrated, I suggest you unplug your Wii and calm down an hour before even touching that system again. Once again if you don’t enjoy the Cheaters then do us all a favor. Quite complaining and stop playing online. FYI Nintendo will do absolutely nothing to try and stop this. Its YOU who has to put an end to this by not playing online. Once the cheaters see no one is available to toy with then …hmm… maybe just maybe they’ll quite.
Oh I almost forgot. The so called HACKLERS are not hackers. They are using action-replay.
i hate cheaters i saw someone with infinity stars. Sometimes when i hit players it does not effect them which get me so mad!! Miamoto!
please do something about it im losing my points
i dont mine hackers because when you win you get like + 200 vrs. one day i was online and there was a hacker on the 3rd lap he went for me. once he got me traped he just threw 100 bombs at me. by the time he stopped , the race ended
i hate didi the hacker. has anyone raced him before
I told them and Nintendo said this: Hello Mike,
I’m glad you contacted us about this issue. I want to assure you that our online gaming services are monitored and that any players identified as cheating are banned from playing online in all games. I also want to let you know that your comments have been added to the feedback record regarding our online services.
I can appreciate how frustrating it must be to encounter cheaters online; it’s why we work so hard to root out those who do so. Despite our best efforts, however, new cheaters appear to take the place of those we’ve banned. Why? As long as the cheater can remain anonymous and not see how what he does affects others, the temptation to cheat will be strong. You may be playing , but the cheater is playing an entirely different game, one where ruining your online experience counts as a victory.
Again, we will continue monitoring for cheaters, but our continuing recommendation is to play against friends using Friend Codes whenever possible.
Sincerely,
Mike Chandler
Nintendo of America Inc.
Hacks are related to Codemii, and the Homebrew channel.
Eh…I love the hackers. I even hacked once and used an unlimited star. I called myself HackerCop and stalked down all the cheaters…tormenting them and letting the regular people win the games.
That got boring though and I’m back to just racing. I understand the hackers a bit ….after playing this game for a while it gets too easy and you win every race against opponents. If I’m not playing against hackers I always win….that gets old fast. I play cheat free know and just outsmart the hackers….they lose their minds and we usually end up running them off embarrassed. Just be a good racer and out smart them….they always leave when they can’t win.
Nin should create two different rooms to choose from…hackers and hacker free. The bans don’t work and you can even “unbrick” your system now. It’s here to stay…they just need to make adjustments for it.
Read above (or search the page) for “Tink”. FYI, Tink, I DON’T hack for the win. If you used your eyes on my YouTube channel, it says “Hamster the FTL Hacker”. Duh? If you need more proof, just watch one of my hacking episodes on the channel too.
Guys, calm down. Sure, You want fun and hackers are trying to ruin your fun, but remember, ITS JUST A GAME!!! Besides, Not all hackers are bad, there are two types of hackers:
1) FTW hacker (For The Win Hacker)
An FTW hacker is a hacker that hacks to win.(The ones everyone hates…I hate them too, they are just sad people with No lives)
2) 4TL Hacker (4 Teh Lulz Hacker)
I agree, hackers are a big problem in Nintendo’s online play. Nintendo really should moniter their servers more.
Also, just because hackers hack a game, doesn’t mean they have no soul or low self estem OR just bad at the game. A lot actually do it because they have played the game so much and have done everything there’s. So they basicaly find a new way to have fun, even if it annoys a lot of you.
It’s best to moniter the servers more now than ever! It’s so easy to hack MKW these days, hackers are freely giving out the codes for it.
@ Minas Tirith
That kind of logic falls flat on its face when applied to the real world. For example, there are lots of criminals walking the streets and always will be. You are relatively safe to go about your day-to-day life because there are serious consequences to breaking the law. If I looked at the world through your logic, I should never go outside my home because there will always be criminals looking for new ways to take advantage of/harm me.
If I’m playing and someone is a hacker, I just quit at the end of the game and start over. I play with only the basic novice 50 cc carts newbe, it’s fun and mostly skill and luck of the draw don’t hurt! Played one game and all I received were those lightning bolt clouds!! so I quit driving into the cubes and luckily scored a 2nd! I always pick random, cause I can’t choose from much and I don’t care which race but I love to race and with no cheaters it’s a lot more more fun; win, loose or draw!!!
Hope to meet you on NWC sometime ,I don’t cheat and most times I don’t win, but it sure is fun!!
the people are so hard in the time trials
The cheaters are still out there. Just yesterday, I ran across someone who kept dropping bombs right at the starting line at the beginning of the race (which took almost 6 minutes to complete Delfino Square), then someone else with over 20,000 VR points! Cheaters cheat because they haven’t got the skills to race fairly. I really wish that Nintendo would do something about it for good and all.
The point is how poorly designed Mario Kart is. You have companies that games like Black Ops: that can download updates and some of those updates are new pieces of code to close loop holes for cheaters. It just goes to show you how poorly thought out Mario kart is. All you have to do is play it for a few hours and see the many many code problems in the game.
Come on, the online part of mario kart is a second thought, it is easy to see this by all the limitations that occurs during online mode. There is no way to quit without playing one match. So you have to lose points to get out. Almost impossible to but people in your friend because there is no way to locate people unless you know then personally. Just look at all the options other games have online and you can quickly see that they didn’t put any real thought into the online part of the game.
First online game for Nintendo on the WII and it probably was thrown in there to get it out there to increase sales. Many companies do cheap hacks in software to get it out the door.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Mario Kart. Just have to wonder about Nintendo and there programming limitations. Not the best programs on the planet by far.
When you quickly add something without real thought this is what you end up. You can tell that the Nintendo servers really don’t do anything for Mario Kart other then send and receive data. Your local WII machine sends what is happening and Nintendo takes it and sends it to your WII. If only they thought things through they could have had Nintendo servers do more than a data pusher and made it harder for hackers to cheat, but that requires thought. The way they did it has very little demand on Nintendo and puts it all on your WII machine. That is why people seem to appear in front of you, or appear to fall of and the next second they are not. Your WII machine is guessing where people are at until it gets the next update from Nintendo. That is why sometime you think you are first but you end up second. Not cheating, just poor throughput on the internet connection with WII. Most people probably us a WIFI connection which is not the fastest (I do) in the first place. That is why Nintendo can’t stop the hackers and only try to watch and kick them off. Of course there is no way they are watching 24/7. Think about the cost and man power because of the poor code in Mario. They make it impossible to solve the solution, they just can’t say that and piss off the real customers they care about.
i kinda think hackers are fun. you gain a lot or VR
Well l experienced hacking before on mario kart wii and I thought it was fun, but the hacker who starts it takes the fun out of playing the game! So yeah l think they should get banned.
What bothers me the most are hackers in disguise. They pretend to be playing fair, but you realize something is not right when they seem to get nothing but Mega Mushrooms and Stars – not least to mention the way they’re always prepared to block your attack when you finally get hold the good stuff yourself. I’m specifically referring to online battles here…
I’m sure they’re having great fun with this. Of course they do. I just wish the egocentric babies would grow up and learn to play fair with the rest of us. They really have nothing to prove. Fair play is a fine balance between skill and luck.
It’s sad to see Nintendo shows no concern. Way to treat its customers…
I can really care less about hackers . I play really good on mario kart wii and I beat most of the hackers . Most of you should just stop going online if you seriously hate hackers . If you think that all the hackers will be banned than ur really dumb .. Once one hacker gets banned don’t you think he/she would inform most of the people on youtube or such . They’re already doing it . They even made codes to un-ban themselves .. I know this because I use to be a hacker , even though I never used it .. My brother on the other hand did and Mr. Bean had informed him about it and gave him some codes to prevent it . And I bet every day someone has hacked that game because of youtube . I’m sorry but I believe there is no way . We are talking worldwide here . You can’t seriously think that you can ban all of them .. you should just live with it , get the hack yourself , or not play at all . That is all there is … Its really to late to make changes now … thats all I have to say
Proof: I emailed them
The only way that they will enforce anything is for it to cost them… everyone should send their website as many e-mails as possible and look for individual e-mail addresses and phone numbers. Kind of like political actions… when I find some addresses or phone numbers I’ll post them.
down with hackers.
I completely hate those damn hackers…..you know why, last night there were a couple and they were throwing bombs left and right, no one moved a bit and the worse part is you can’t quit unless you shut down your internet connection. They don’t let you play.
Really I think we should give hackers a break.I’m really good at Mario Kart and I’m always in groups that I’m the only one that finished because of 30 seconds.So when I play hackers I like it because it adds a little twist to the game and whether hackers make me win points or lose points I don’t care because I’ll always stay in the 9000.But if hackers just hack to make people lose points especially the person who has the highest VR points(ME) then I would quit
I’m sure some of you have faced me before because I’ve done more than 4500 races.And for some people who have Mario Kart and have not faced me than you should know that MKR<3starTeAM has a star where the word star is.I think hackers shouldn't be banned becase (for me in my opinion) they give you a bunch of VR points.
Are you serious? Give hackers a break? Either you’re dumb or a hacker yoursel. I can’t stand these lame hackers. Twenty minutes ago i played against a hacker named Mr.Hack. He had unlimited everything but stars. He was a total noob and ended up in last place( i came in first XD ) Hacking just proves you have no skill. Something has to be done.
I don’t think hackers should be banned because.
1)They give you VR points.
2)They mess around with everybody (but some hackers pick on one person)(ME)
3)And the last one is they give you T.C. glitches to help you win:).
To me there are 2 types. Cheaters, the ones who come in first through cheating, and hackers, the ones who make the game exciting and give points by coming in last.
That’s my opinion and I’m sticking to it :)
It sucks that Nintendo is doing nothing about this. The Mario franchise is one of their most successful and they are even bundling Mario Kart with the Wii now. Nice that they care about their customers.
DONT BAN HACKERS!
DONT BAN HACKERS!
FIRST OF ALL YOU CAN MAKE HACKERS YOUR FRIENDS BY SIMPLY BACKING UP AT THE BEGINNING AND WHILE YOUR NOT GOING ANYWHERE LIFT YOUR BIKE UP AS IF YOUR DOING A WHEELIE AND THEY GIVE YOU THE T.C. ( THUNDER CLOUD) GLITCH AND THEY DONT EVEN TOUCH YOU I’VE DONE THAT AND I’VE HAD HUGE LEADS.
i played two hackers names minime and nina
hey fix all the cheaters this is bullshit. i was playing today it him twice he keep going . sucks. thanks if you do anything to get reed of them.
Hackers suck. I am quitting MK. YOU BLEW IT NINTENDO!
sum hackers are mean…but i have a friend who is a hacker and hes nice he helped me get to 9999 for my vs and battle rating.and i have come across alot of nice hackers.but others,omg i seriously hate them thts why i nvr play a game with out my friends cuz i dont ever go down alone i try to go down with them :)so just wanted to say plz only ban those mean 1s they hate me n like other players dont alrdy lol
well i do agree but hacking is fun as a matter of fact i stayed the night at my friends while played we ran into numerous hackers it was fun
Hackers are sometimes fun. They do pose a challenge and I like that, but I find it ridiculous that people would hack in the first place. Like, sure you could hack on single player all alone, but even that is ridiculous. It just sucks the fun out of everything. All that the hackers would do is sit there depriving people of their hard earned vr or br. I say Nintendo needs to step it up a notch and create a way to rid hackers. Some people think it is fun, but the majority probably agree that it is annoying.
I’m sick of hackers too everyone but one can only disconnect reconnect so many times… If you want a legit racer in your friends, email me and we can exchange fc’s- daweefolk (at) gmail (dot) com
When i went online won day there was a guy who deserves to be world champ his name was something razor he played fair and was really good about 2 weeks later there was a guy named mr black ops who cheated and took all champiinships for every course exept mushroom gourge
You wouldn’t think that you’d be able to hack a game like that! The exact same scenario happened to me not five minutes ago.. From the starting line, one girl was shooting spiny shells, green shells, and red shells in all directions. I decided to search on the internet to see if there may be a glitch, or if this really was a hacker. Apparently it was a hacker.. and other people have been exposed to this situation too..
same thing happened to me yesterday but a guy named eddie had endless rockets and always came 1st
I had not played mario kart wii in a long time. I was playing with my kids today and we were only 4 in the race and you guess it it was a cheater against us.
All he or she did during the race was stomp us and bomb us. Nothing more. It was really sad.
those hackers are up to no good today i was playing mario kart when a hacker named eat my dust came thew 3 flying shells at me i just hate those hackers
i hate hackers
Hi, I’ve encountered the player who uses the star invisiblity and bombs a lot without go to the item box. I’m trying to get bypass but he/she still have his invisibity. The name is \HUG/ ? * or something like goes with the guy’s name. And the guy also uses the blue shells without having any circumstances. Is there anything I can do to resolve this matter? It happened to me today.
Now, I don’t play this game much (life’s not all wii) but every time i try to play someone uses infinite mushrooms. It’s also impossible to actually hit that player. but even still, i always get the most vr. And I usually finish around 7th XD
Hackers are !@*#. they are still hacking in 2011. STUPID.
i know!! i just played 7 hackers at one time and they made it so NO ONE could even finish the dang race! even though no one passed the finish line i got +265 BR so i was happy but STILL! its wrong. and at one race they made a circle around me and were all invinceable so there was absolutely NO way out! when hackers play its just insanity!
You now we need to fight FIRE with FIRE we should all do something ( or hack ) them back so then maybe will have a chance…. ( in the year 2015 it wont be mario kart it will be hack kart lol. soon there be more hackers battle hackers then normal ppl! )
my eight year old son doesn’t want to play any wii gamesanymore because the cheaters have taken the fun out of mariokart. i sent nintendo an email explaining my son’s disappointment. they sent back a generic polite form letter telling me to not go online or create a friend network. i understand its the hackers who are the problem and im not angry at nintendo(annoyed) but they are unveiling the new wii console soon and maybe their marketing department doesn’t understand branding or they dont care?
i added a hacker it was annoying he went giantmushroom and star to be invinceable
Due to the rapid rise of hackers, I just don’t bother playing anything online related to nintendo unless I have several FC and they all available to play. More sadly there are hacks on the internet that can alter their Wii to do what their desire like unban, or even unbrick their wii. (brick = block online completely )
Homebrew, an important channel for hackers to hack with, has already proven very troubling from the very start. There haven’t been an efficient way to stop hackers using this channel and other hack related programs. Despite multiple updates, hackers always to develop new hacks to void every attempt by nintendo…though most hackers doesn’t update the Wii to begin with.
On brawl, over 85% percent of taunt parities and hackers dominate basic brawl.
On MKWii, I often encounter a hacker around 3 times per week assuming I play a wifi race per day. There have also been several WiiWare online games that has been hacked.
Even if Nintendo did ban them, there are hacks for the hackers to lift the ban themselves. Bah! even hackers can hack other honest players and maybe have them banned as a result (they almost banned my 7 year old cousin at one point) . Its too dangerous to go online anymore.
Nintendo need to do something extreme to stop them. The only thing is to have an infected type Wii update. It can download into the wii of honest people. Then online where the hackers are, copy the update from the honest user to the wii of the hacker while they hack online. Their wii will surely be bricked (no longer to play online unless they uninstall their homebrew channel or any thing hacking related completely). To make sure the code is efficient, the anti hack code must be updated from the nintendo site every week or month at least with different encryption codes.
but that just my opinion on this.
The bad news: I used to be a 8000 pointer, until I ran into a bunch of hackers! I’m now down to 6500… but I played a little to get to 7700. The good news: I can tell you a hacker name! Her name is NKplayer, She is from Hawaii, she has a balloon icon and a few letters in “player” have rank letters. If you come across her, be warned. :<
I have encountered hackers pretty much anytime I race on Mario Kart Wii. It is so hard to find a race with people who race without any hacks. I have seen the most well known hackers playing: ‘Bin Laden’ and ‘Mr Bean’ Not only do they hack items but they also fall off of tracks and then come back a second later, another are these hacks where they kind of lock on to you and ram you. Of course you can ram people without hacks, but its different. I just quit and find other people if it happens.
If you see someone with 9999 VR, get out of there!
Unbelievable! The original post is from more than 3 years ago, and this hacking persists. Nintendo should do something to protect their product and customers. Sadly, if they haven’t manage to curtail this problem yet, they won’t unless and until they lose money. It’s baffling to me that anyone is that pathetic of a loser that he/she spends time cheating at a video game. Wow…I’m now picturing a bunch of sweaty, chubby losers sitting in their mom’s basement hacking into a game to cheat 8 year old kids out of a Mario Kart win. If you’re reading this, hackers, this does mean you. You can’t beat small children at a game if left to your own LEGAL methods? Wow. Mom must be very proud of you. Put down that bag of Cheetos and give yourselves a round of applause.
I’m not gonna lie.. All of you sound like 10 year olds crying over losing 200 rating. IMO, rating means nothing. I look at somebody with a 9000 rating the same as someone with a 6000 rating. Heck, I’ve intentionally brought my rating down to 4000 before.
Overall, it’s pixels.
The people that go through the trouble of modding their wii systems to hack Mario kart clearly have a lot of time on their hands;time that could only be available to someone who doesn’t have a large social circle.It just shows how desperate people can become.
Ok, so today was my first encounter with a hacker. It was the middle of the day when there was this Asian looking geekazoid, and he threw 2 blue shells BEFORE the race even started. I’m like what the heck? And then we take off, and this guy is throwing bomb ombs, throwing 2 blue shells at one time, and finishing a lap in 10 seconds. I thought it was annoying at first, but then I thought, hey it would be fun to hack Mario kart wii! And then after reading this, it seems like it pisses off everyone and now I don’t want to do it because all I want to do is have fun.
I’m pretty good at Mario kart Wii and i go onto the time trial records to see if I’m in the top ten guess what i see i see a guy who has a .157 second record and I’m like wtf i work hard to get a time and I’m ripped off by a hacker gosh.
i think someone hacked mk7 now3 too i was racing onlione one on one and the race was over in 30 seconds
Yeah These Hackers are awful sometimes. All depends on the type of person they are but seriously 2secs on a time trial and also in the tournament thats freaking annoying and very rude. Really i believe Nintendo doesnt care they just want the money and thats it. You can call them up and they will say oh we are working on it but are they really??? No not really. They really dont care. All they want is money and the heck with you. Sorry but companies dont give a dang these days. If they did they would put there time and effort to fix it. -_- I was playing a Vs game and i kept on geting the red shells at me and geting stomped by them with giant mushrooms. I mean i can out match blue koopa shells by going of ramps that make you go off in the air and it misses you other then that i get hit when i am riding on the track which angers me. They say cant beat them join them heck no. Im just going to wack into them and say get ur hacking ass out of my way. -_- Im sorry for all who goes against these hackers and cheaters. In my opinion those who dont hack or cheat they know how to play and have skills. I am a MKR that uses yoshi and uses the regular M bike. Ive practice and practice and nothing works. So idk heck with hackers and cheaters us people who dont hack or cheat know the game and know how to race and know how to win properly. Just dont give up. Push and shove them give them the taste of pain and show them a true gamer.^^ Wish everyone luck out there.^^
-YoshiLover
Today i play mario kart wii and i saw the ranking for ghost and i saw the world champion just with one sec. WHat the hell
I get tired of ramming people off the edge of a track just to have them reappear in front of me almost instantly and with their items still around them if they had any,along with all the stars,mega mushrooms etc.It’s been almost four years now,why would I trust Nintendo to fix this on their new system?I have bought every home console Nintendo has put out along with every Playstation system.I don,t have time to play often because I have a family and things to do and this is the only game I play online on wii along with 4 ps games and the only problem ive had is on the wii.When I decide to get a new system I know I’ll buy the ps4,but I will buy my first x box before i buy another nintendo system.
i am a hacker but i try to not hack online im a friendly hacker but take revenge on the over 5643217845438695 other hackers i got hacked by in the past i try not to anoy people but its quite tempting (sorry) i hack people i know for a joke some times
I just played a game I went down a whole 1000BR due to the hackers. I am online at the moment spending all my time trying to get it back. what bothers me is that I am a target for the hacker because I have the highest battle ranking on my team. Whoopie.
I just finished playing, and I don’t know if this is a hack or what, but when people would fall off the edge or get hit by a red shell, blue shell, fake block, etc, they would appear further in front of me, still driving along as if nothing happened. Also the hacks are not over, since in the last game I was in this girl had unlimited items and was shrinking us with lightening bolts and continuously hitting the person in first with blue shells before the timer was done counting down so we could start. It’s ridiculous.
It’s not the FTL hacker’s btw (Brother hack’s .-. FTL) It’s the FTW hacker’s i speak from expeirance. I mean i know why my bro wanted to hack and that was the cause was because he was to lazy to keep his BR/VR up unlike me. Trust me he does not hack to win but to lose ‘lol’ So yes there not suppose to hack but 355555 BR now who could just throw that down the toliet? But i agree people who do hack spoil the game for others and when given the BR the people who aint really that good gets them and lose them all. Just like throwing them down the toliet stool XD. any way some times when those hackers come in they given you points and keep doing that not knowing that your hurting the player by doing that. So there are goods to it and there are bads i guess. i wouldnt recommond people to hack just because they cant play though pratice makes perfect :) good luck nonhackers
i played game with 5 hackers not fun
well i gust lost 1000vr thanks to them
Honestly..this is just dumb. These hacker people have got to be the bigest losers ever…no life, probably still living with their mom. And so they choose to screw with some kids (including my 7 year old son) playing MARIO KART. Of all games to hack. They chose Mario Kart. If I could personally beat these stupid people..I would.
My little brother in law came over and first race was fine and he was doing good the next race FROM THE START he got hit with 5 Freakin BLUE shells, when he got to moving again red shells, star, mega people, and lightening would hit him, he didn’t even get to finish the race he was still half way on the first lap when the cheaters finished! It is so stupid to do something like this where there are young children trying to enjoy themselves and have fun get trampled on by a@@holes!!! He was so mad and crying- we turned it off and play online on xbox and had no problems there……sick and tired of this crap! If it doesn’t stop or get better soon we are probably getting rid of our system not worth it when you can’t enjoy it…..
Mario kart is one of the best games to play, but thanks to hackers,its difficult and annoying, some hackers are fun to play against and some arnt, i think that it can make you a better racer,at first i thought hackers were the game producers making a challange for all us who earned there multiple star ranks and skills, but was wrong lol, the real part that ticks me is the world time trials, that you know you put in a top time but you look and its full of times in the double digits! Thays bull crap! Hopefully the wii u and the the mario kart will be moded so it wont be hacked, ps, nintendo, delete the bogus time trial records from the hackees so tge real talwnted can
Sorry, so the real talented can shine! I go by the name *Alex* and im a goodracer, dont hack or cheat
I”ve been playing mariokart for two and half years. The first year I only did time trials , then I started playing on line.I play every day . I’m addicted and Iove it.
The hackers are jerks but I’ve learned to recognize most of them.I have a score of 9999 for myself , my son (Bumblebee) and my daughter (Ava) . I am now working on my wifes(Mom) and am at 9380 . Don’t give up when they get you for alot of points. Leave that game and get into another one. Good Luck!
It occurred in a very limited selection of consoles.
There are a quantity of emulators out there for consoles like the Sega Genesis, SNES, PS1
and N64. When the Wii was to begin with released you experienced to
dismantle your console to install a modchip.
u people are crying over nothing. sure i understand paying 100 dollars for a system and like 50 for a game to get cheated out of it but just create a friend room where you can play with your friends without being annoying by hackers. plus not all hackers are losers most of them just hack for fun(FTL (for the lolz) because they got good at it and was bored so they decided to hack it to make it more fun. the REAL losers are FTW (for the win) hackers who have to have a bullet bill speeding 900 mph to win because they cant take the time to learn how to play the game right. u people need to research.
oh and also for u ftl hackers out there do you know any other place to get codes that the volderbeek website had cause i checked but the volderbeek site is closed thanks :)
even the top world ranked player on mario raceway has done it in 0:00.000 and i thought to my self no bl**dy way
as for me i play fairly, no unlimited anything, this lad plays for fun and to get to wi-fi game with other players, 1.05 something is my fastest on snes ghost valley or just under 65 seconds, definitely more plausible innit fellow wi-fi’ers :)
on the subject of time trial records on rainbow road one on the wii a realistic 3-lap time if ya use the turbo mushrooms correctly one per lap easy do it in about 2:40something, but even on the rankings the world champ is under a second which to put politely is a load of male cattle’s no.2
am with you 100% alex m’laddo, i play by the wifi rules too fella no cheats or hacking or ought to get my time trial or competition records or any of my golds and minimum 2star level on grand-prix mode, just play everyday and get good at it innit
my record for wii rainbow road is 2:52.498 so a realistic time for 3 laps would be around 2:50 maybe the late 2:40something point summat else seconds if you use your turbo boost mushrooms responsibly on each lap innit, like this young lad here i.e. me, and i play just for fun on all games, whatever the outcome tha can still enjoy the experience mkay :)
my time trial record for grumble volcano using the turbo boost mushrooms responsibly is about 2:10.something so that would be realistic innit
hello fellow nintendo-ers :) including mike chandler, head of nintendo incorporated eh my good man, cool
now for ds bowsers castle my best 3 lap time record is about 2:42.summat so another realistic time
gba bowsers castle i mean
2:40.033 to be exact for my gba bowsers castle 3 time trial record so so an average of about 53.344 to 53.345 seconds per lap :)
the players with nin* for their first bit of their username’s have do-able realistic time records too if ya use your 3 turboshrooms responsibly on each lap so thumbs up to em
Are you listening, Nintendo? This crap has been going on for YEARS!! It cannot be that hard to detect when a player is doing things that are impossible if playing within the algorithms you programmed into the game! When they do it, kick them from the game, strip all their points, and ban them! It isn’t rocket surgery! (rocket surgery intentional, not a stupid mistake; I just love the expression)
i agree benny my good man, all my mario kart time trial and competition rankings are legitimate with a capital L, same with my wi-fi battle & race points
and nintendo when the 1st original nes came out in 1985 was invented to be fun for everyone, same with sega, playstation, x-box and other platforms alike innit fellas
even getting into the top-10 ranked on time trial and competition is hard with legitimately realistic time records by trying your best and using your given items responsibly hands up if you agree fellow nintendo-ers :)
(sings each mariokart track theme tune in order) heheh, nice and legit thats the way to play and get good records innit lads/lasses, take it from this northern english lad here
also other games are getting hacked too. super mario galaxy, mario strikers charged, DS kart, the list goes on and on…..
BTW, for those of you people who think you’ll annoy hackers by hacking too, you’re wrong. they’ll probably just think you’re another FTL hacker (for the lolz) and want to be your friend. Just sayin….. so soo on the news everyone that owns a mario game by 2013 WILL HACK EVERY MARIO GAME THEY OWN!!!!
i myself would never hack a game, i play to enjoy the experience, best way innit candy
i definitely won’t, not even new super mario bros. 2 on the 3ds, buy a copy at my nearest gameshop and play it honestly & fairly and practice till i’m good enough to master the gold flower that turns all mario’s surroundings into coins, seen the trailer for it on the tv :)
beaten nin*miki on one track but only by about a couple of seconds and like all you nin* staff out there my records in the words of ned flanders are legita-diddily-itimate, i guarantee you worldwide wi-fi friends of mine
good honest practise, thats all ya need to get good rankings on a computer game, who’s with me :)
Okay. So after posting on this thread last week, I went to Nintendo USA and hunted down their “Contact Us” section. NOT an easy task! I posted the following:
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I want to know what Nintendo is doing to stop the cheaters and hackers on Mario Kart online!! They are ruining the game for everybody, and have been for YEARS!! It really shouldn’t be that tough for you to write a program on the server that looks for users doing things that they should not be able to do when playing within the algorithms programmed into your game. When detected, strip all points, kick the user from the game immediately, ban the user for life. What sort of indicators are you to look for?
1. Does the user have something normally collected from running over a box, when they have not run over a box?
2. Does the user have an endless supply of something, like stars or red shells?
3. Is the user riding a rocket for longer than the programming says they should?
4. Is the user FLYING?!?!?
5. Does the user magically jump from one spot on the race course to another without traveling the intervening distance?
I’m serious! We’re dealing with cheaters doing these and many other things every day, and I *know* it would not be that difficult for your server software to watch for these things and deal with the cheaters! The game is fantastic, and we enjoy playing it against other non-cheating people, but when you continue to allow cheaters to flourish for years without dealing with it, you are telling your customers what you think of them and of their choice to spend their disposable income buying your products.
Please reply, and take some time reading this site with similar complaints from all the way back as far as 2009.
https://www.geekinspired.com/geek-inspired/gaming/mario-kart-wii-cheating-hacks-disappointment/
Benny Helms / Xitron
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…and this was their reply, for what it’s worth:
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Hello Benny,
I’m glad you contacted us about this issue. I want to assure you that our online gaming services are monitored and that any players identified as cheating are banned from playing online in all games. I also want to let you know that your comments and suggestions have been forwarded to the appropriate departments.
I can appreciate how frustrating it must be to encounter cheaters online; it’s why we work so hard to root out those who do so. Despite our best efforts, however, new cheaters appear to take the place of those we’ve banned. Why? As long as the cheater can remain anonymous and not see how what he does affects others, the temptation to cheat will be strong. You may be playing a racing game, but the cheater is playing an entirely different game, one where ruining your online experience counts as a victory.
We will continue monitoring for cheaters, but our continuing recommendation is to play against friends using Friend Codes whenever possible. We appreciate your taking the time to share your thoughts with us and thank you for your understanding.
Sincerely,
Ben Weekly
Nintendo of America, Inc.
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I went online last night, and in a group of 9 racers, 7 had mostly symbols for their names and scores in the high 9000’s. And all were cheating. I powered off my console in order to quit.
The email above came from the following email address:
nintendo@noa.nintendo.com
Perhaps if every poster in this thread were to send an email to this address complaining about the cheaters, the sheer volume of email would get their attention. Worth considering.
Benny
by ‘eckers ben lad, my battle wi-fi points is only about 63hundred and summat at t’moment, it altars +- between games
the top 10 players in both competition and time trial ranking are obviously a load of male cattle dung as they’re mostly between under 1second and under 1minute to complete a 3 lap course or do some hard task that realistically should take longer like in comp mode, nin*miki and the other nin* staff team are all legitimate, and me too with mine, good honest gameplay, thats the best especially in wi-fi mode eh ladies and gents :)
and i guarantee you i play fairly, win, lose or draw, still enjoyable innit. sincerely michael thomas, got new super mario bros.2 for the 3ds today so played that a bit, am up to world 3, some of those starcoins’re hard to get to though but i’ll keep trying, the gold flower is brill, turns breakable blocks, koopas, goombas, etc into gold coins, megabrill
or the gold ring that turns bowser’s cronies a goldeny colour, ab fan, or absolutely fantastic to me and you :) /sings each mariokart battle mode theme song to self\ heheh, anybody been watching brand new simpsons on sky1, 500th episode were on last nite at 6pm uk summertime, i watched it on playback later on that evening, proper funny stuff i tells thee
starships were meant to fly-y-y, hands up and touch the sky-y-y, can’t stop ‘cos we’re so hi-i-igh, lets do this 1 more time, starships were meant to fly-y-y, hands up an touch the sky-y-y, lets do this 1 last ti-i-ime, can’t stop, we’re higher than’m than’m ‘er, heheh, clean radio edited version of nicki minaj’s starships there, from her 2012 hit :)
(in style of katie perry) last friday night, yeah we danced on tabletops, and we took too many shots, think we kissed but i forgot last friday night, yeah we max’d our credit cards, and got kicked out of the bar, so we hit the boulevard last friday night, we went streaking in the park, skinny dipping in the dark, then had a menage-a-trois last friday night, yeah i think we broke the law, always say we’re gonna stop oh o-o-oh this friday night, do it all again. tgif tgif tgif tgif, (repeat chorus) woohoooooo, lol nother one of my favourite songs she’s good is katie perry ai’ ‘er (in’t she)
back on the subject of mario kart, i love the competitions and wi-fi, and always play an honest game, no unlimited items or ought, has anyone played new super mario bros2 yet on the 3ds, i bought it on monday, played almost solidly and got to world 6 bowser’s castle, and opened mushroom world thru the warp cannon on world1, can’t get to the warp cannon in world3 yet though to see what other secret world there is but nehmind, and after going back on the levels i’d already done on super pokemon rumble, befriended nearly all the different types apart from some still in axel world b2f, my most powerful pokemon is dialga at 3119power, and at the top of axel world you can increase the world rank, on mine it’s already at 8star, just need about another 1,264,556 more pokemon-world pennies to make 10million then i can raise it to 9star which’ll mean powerful-er pokemon world creatures, cool
anyone found all the starcoins yet on new super mario bros.2, i’ve found some of them, but theres loads hidden gkw and i aven’t spotted em, in world1 fortress and a lot of t’other levels, btw gkw in text talk means god/goodness knows where or sometimes the w could stand for what, i bet bowser’s castle on there’s hard
wonder if the mariokart rankings are up for september 2012 competition 1 yet
been on the rankings table, i got just over 53seconds, but every1 in the top 10 is under 20seconds, world champion is just over 1 second, bl**dy hell, even i wouldn’t ave thought it be possible in less than 45 seconds with star power, the world champion and top10 scores are all unrealistic times, gotta be a load of male cattle turd those short spaces of time i tell thee
hopefully by this time a week tomorrow they should get rid of the unrealistically low less than 20seconds times for this month’s competition 1 including the world champ’s 1.something seconds, jabronis that they are stealing the top spots, leaving us practise to get better players falling be-smegging-hind
i dont think there might be a way to stop hackers, as of codes are still coming out.
If you don’t like hackers DON”T PLAY WORLDWIDE/REGIONAL. Simply just create a room and wait for some friends and baboom- you have a nice race. stop whining nintendo probably isnt going to do anything even though in comments above say an email that nintendo will ban hackers. they can’t watch ALL DAY! and they have a code called unbannable license. Yup, in my opinion i love hackers. enjoy!
also for you hackers please tell me a website where i can get the volderbeek codes the site is closed for good and i heard volderbeek had all the codes you could think of. so please repply to me with a comment with the website thanks! :)
eyup candy, i always enjoy playing whatever the outcome, good honest play and practise to get better especially on the mariokart comps, & posting more realistic times like my 53seconds for defeating all 30 claw-daddies in the shy-guy beach, just 7 seconds under the magical minute :) mkay
at the least anyway, to just under 50seconds would be realistically doable too with the right tools, mostly star-power, and a couple of those green koopa shells innit
now the top 10 players are all between 0:02.067 and 0:17.930, thats as ned flanders’d say bon-diddily-doodily-donkers, not possible, 30 clawdaddies, even using a star i only managed 50seconds, but still not too bad, for a more realistic time record, michael thomas over and out, see ya later fellow wi-fiers :)
the cheats may not be defeated but hey the game is fun and just enjoy the games you join with no cheats they do exist and stop worrying about your points my lovelies if u meet me on track gran f1 im no cheat just good aged 61 born 1951
from what i read on this forum nobody is sharing friends codes maybe thats the way forward dont no at least you will get a fair race can you delete friends anyway my code is 4425 2045 4938 give it a try maybe a way forward ???
cool, cheers granf, might see if it comes up to add you to my friend roster :)
there we go gran, mine’s 1291-6901-5817 :)
wa-hoo, it’sa me mario, lol
evening fellow wi-fiers :)
yo, eyup everyone :)
hidilly-ho online friend-arinos, wonder what mariokart competition 2 for september 2012’ll be, we shall find out saturday probably :)
well, got down to about 47seconds for killing 30 clawdaddies in shyguy beach so not bad but still not enuff to be in the top 10, lets see what saturday’s competition is :)
@ micheal your friends code is now registered on my console u need to register mine luv gran f1
cool, got yer friend code in the other day so hopefully should show ya on me friends roster
hmm, gone into friends roster and it in’t showing you on it just a question-mark with your code underneath
hmm now we’ve both reg’d each others friends code your mii character should come up on my roster, can’t see it though
ah there we go gran, you’re in my friend roster now under ☆granf1☆™ :) says yer not online at t’moment though, you fancy a friends battle/race
wonder when they’ll put mario kart wii september competition 2 up
eyup everyone, gran, ya fancy an online race/battle, you choose, don’t mind :)
bowsers castle this time with thwomps, crates, rising lava falls, bats flying around and the crazy firestick sweepers slightly faster than normal, top 10 is all under 2:20, fastest i’ve just managed to do now, bout a couple of points of a second off 2minutes47seconds :) welldun granf1, 3:01, not bad with those extra obstacles about, thumbs up to ya our kid
world champ on this competition is just ova 2:14, unrealistic i would say, a more realistic time i’d say about 2:40something, but under 2:15, quite possibly a load of male cattle turd, more polite way of saying the b-s word which means the same thing, this is michael thomas saying best of luck and ta-ra for now to all fellow wi-fiers, (as runner-up rosalina) ah not bad
lol, anyway take care every1, see ya l8r m8’s :)
ah sez 3:10.340 for your time on that competition, still not bad going though gran, now world champ is 2:13something, definitely not possible even normal bowser’s castle at least 2:40 odd would be more gen-diddily-doodily-genuine, as flanders’d say heheh
@ micheal will have another bash at bowser comp first attempt lol im generally on mk wii between 1300hrs and 1700hrs
oakily dokily, best o luck gran
ah 2:52 welldun gran☆, looks like 2:46.824’s gonna be my best, still not bad though
well, bathtime for me now so will see ya l8r m8’s :)
awesome racing micheal very enjoyable u cant win em all lol gran
cheers gran, gr8 game of worldwide vs racing, well played
must’ve mist ya online today cost i went on mario wi-fi just after 2pm
evening all, must have been on after/before i went on again earlier gran, cos went on bout 3:00ish and said you wasn’t online, maybe catch you for a game l8r in t’week :)
hidilly-ho everyone :)
ok….ill probably need to put this in caps for everyone to understand.
DONT YOU PEOPLE REALIZE THAT THE MORE ANDM ORE YOU COMPLAIN THE MORE AND MORE CODES THEY’LL CREATE!!?? banning wont help, because ive seen the code unbannable license. so if hackers have that code, (which all of them do) whats the point in banning anyways? just make a friend room and quit playin worldwide. thats it.
(P.S i love hackers)
no wait. i re put that NOT all hackers have unbannable license code.
What can i say, I puichased this for my grandson who’s 7 years old, set it up for him after reading how the players can have hours of fun it lasted 10 minutes, I heard my grandson call me went to see what was wrong and found that one player had trapped him in a corner holding him there with non stop bombing, this happened a few time in this one race, in the second race, the hacking player never moved off the start line yet just as the race was going to end he went over the finish line and it said that he had won, not happy with this i contacted Nintendo who where rude to me, I stated that no where on the packaging does it state that at times you would not be able to play the game because of hackers, I asked for a refund, he said “well we dont do refunds if you dont like it take it back to where you purchased it which i did, they said that the game works and they where not responsible for the “shit mess” Nintendo let their servers get into, A sad mess indeed :(
sorry to hear of ur plight micheal but dont let the cheaters get u down thats what they want on another note be warned that if u play this game with a gamecube controller it wont work on the wii u have fun my lovellies