Well someone beat me to it but I'll re-add you to my list. BTW what happen that you have to replace your Wii?
Yeah, it's the most retarted thing ever... but if you have the Wii version of Zelda: Twilight Princess, a TP savegame hack, and Wii Savegame Extractor you could had "backup" your MKWii savegame (and/or any other "protected" savegame) and then "install" it to your new Wii... >_>

Thank goodness for homebrew apps.

Kairyu and I plan on playing MKWii online later tonight if anybody is interested. We may do a GFF Grand Prix in a friends room if enough people want to!

Fun times online! Luckily the night was not a negative result for my WFC ranking, despite the countless number of red shells that seemed to be heading my way. I'm looking at you Identity Crisis! >_>

But seriously, we need to do more GFF Mario Kart action...summer is almost here!

Me and my friend were on earlier! Except both Kai and Icy were both in Worldwide VS. Races. :(

I still need to add everyone... Haven't had the opportunity to yet.

OK, that was the most fun I've had in a Mario Kart game in a long time. You guys are near impossible to beat now. Especially you, BigCN!
I gotta start improving my game! Or at least find a way to avoid Icy's army of red shells.

Good times, good times =D

LIES! You and ID (and my brother and my brother's friend) keep screwing me up and made my VR jump down from ~9400 to ~8500. :gonk:
Now I'm average like you guys. :tpg:

But yeah, it was fun! I never play MKWii all the way to 4 AM! Now I need to pwn some n00bs so I can get my VR back to OVER 9000! :D

A freakish string of faulty Wii's. From disc drive problems to systems crashing upon boot-up. I'm very lucky. =)

Ooooh that homebrew dealy sounds pretty rad!

So, I would like to thank Kairyu and Icy for a great worldwide race tonight and raising my VR to OVER 9000 again! I mean, I couldn't gain it for the past couple of days and tonight you guys help me. :tpg:

BTW, was that Turbo? Because I never seen him on since the game launch and I had to delete his FC to make room for other. >_>

You just had to jump in when me and Icy was tired from constant racing :tpg:.
Luckily I decided to cut my loses as I kept doing worse every race. I still came out with more than I started!
Congrats on the "over 9000" though, enjoy it! At least until me and Icy recover and pull you back down to 8500VR.

I have no idea if that was really Turbo, too. I'd like to say it was him, considering he stuck through nearly all the hardcore racing we did :3

So I played this game for 40 minutes at Best Buy during my lunch break. A tear rolled down my cheek and I realized what a fool I was to pass on buying this game. It was fun. ;___________;

So I immediately ask someone if I can buy a copy. They didn't have any. Ok, that's fine. I'll try another store. Next place I go to, nope... NONE! I figure I'll try back in Sacramento when I get off work. Surely the city would have plenty of copies. I make it back after work and try three different stores here. ALL SOLD OUT!. The Gamestop manager explained to me that the last time they received a shipment of the game was two weeks ago and it was only two copies. What the fuck is this shit? Honestly, two copies for an area with over a half a million population? Yeah! That's really great, Nintendo. Now you purposely gotta create shortages of your first party games too?

So apparently I have to play the call game considering that none of these places have no idea when they'll get more copies in. They said they get a few in randomly randomly, and even then none have been coming in the last few weeks. The game has already been out for what, a month now?

:psyduck:

Yeah, weird how the console is easier to find than Mario Kart Wii nowadays. Well Amazon.com still seems to be keeping them in stock so you could get it from there. If you're tired of making shipment calls.

I'll take amazon.com and shove it down your throat. =p

I don't wanna wait for the shipping. Tomorrow during my work hours I will track down a copy of this game. Stores should be getting shipments in the next few days I'd expect.

*watches Miles waste 20 dollars in gasoline over one game*

Surprisingly, amazon's been pretty good with their shipping. I usually get their stuff within the same work week and I live in Hawaii. Only problem is buying a bunch of items from different sellers. Then shipping costs tend to go way up.

Good point. I already wasted enough today and here in my area of California gas is going for 4.35 on the lowest grade. Funny thing is the website is out of stock too unless I buy from a random merchant who charges like 8 bucks for shipping.

I'll call around at work tomorrow and if no one has it I'll order it. As long as I get it by this weekend I'll be happy since I'll have a chance to throw many red shells at Kairyu.

Do you guys use the wheel? Using it as a controller was actually better than I expected to be. :33:

Jesus, the gas here is still $4.17 when I drove home today.

As for the Wheel. It's strangely more responsive than I thought it would be. It will take some practice but it's possible to use it just as well as the other controller configurations. But I don't want to put in more time than I have to when I can already race well with a wavebird controller.

Yeah, throwing red shells at him is pretty fun. Even more fun is pushing him into a pit of boiling lava right before the finish line! =]

I don't use the wheel mostly because I (still somehow) don't have rechargeable batteries to go with my Wiimote. Also, my Gamecube controllers still have yet to be broken, so I'd like to use them as much as possible.

Christ, cheapest in our area has to be about $3.79. o_o

The wheel? Nice peripheral, but way too hard to control. I'm more of a Classic Controller user since I don't actually keep my sensor bar hooked up to my Wii. I use the Classic Controller to move around the Wii Menu and crap anyway.

Hey, picked it up the other day. my FC is 0173-2367-6137. had to go to wal-mart since gamestop was sold out.

So I managed to track down a copy of the game at Blockbuster of all places. They said they are getting 3 copies of the game this afternoon. I have read up on the online portion and rating system. Seems like it can bounce a lot and to have a higher ranking you gotta avoid getting hit or falling while maintaining first place most of the race. Seems kind of hard when other players get lucky with the items. =p

Once you get the golden wheel icon for using the wheel enough, does it ever go away? I ask because I've used nothing but the wheel so far so I could obtain that, but now that I have it, I'd like to give the other control schemes a shot (and quite possibly could prefer them for online play).

After seeing ways of dodging super items like the blue shell getting a good rating isn't impossible. Just insane =D

That's the downside of having the Golden Wheel. From what I've been told, once your Wii Wheel usage dips below 50% it disappears.

Yeah, you lose the gold if dip back down. Not a problem for me though, I love the Wii Wheel. It's that "way-the-game-was-meant-to-be-played" feeling of eliteness as you thwomp the players using the traditional control schemes. :3:

Anyway, I tried the Wheel first, and couldn't get used to it right away. I used the Wii-mote+Nunchuk combo for a while before trying the Wheel again, and realized that it pretty much dominates once you get it. For whatever reason, getting 2/3-star ratings with the Wheel was a breeze. And now with 4 Wii Wheels, it's mad fun multiplayer plus boxing out madness. I was surprised my friends who don't own Wiis were able to pick up using the Wheel pretty quickly.

I love the wheel, don't get me wrong, it just seems like those who do really well aren't using it.

I usually get 1st or 2nd in online races and all I use is the wheel. It's just as good as a regular controller once you get used to it, and a lot more fun to play with.
Naz, which character/kart combo do you like to use for getting stars on grand prix?

I love this game. I wish I bought it on launch today. So far i'm completing all of the 50cc cups with no problems at all. Since they're so easy for me I've been playing them with the wheel. I think the wheel actually makes driving more fun. I'll probably switch to the gamecube controller as soon as I finish the last cup. It makes the kart a lot easier to control.

I get so far ahead in 50cc that I spend most of the time getting hit by random bullshit. Ink to the screen, red shell, lightning bolt, and then a blue shell all at once. Yay! I need to figure out if there are ways to avoid these.