Just got a breath of life of this game today, online with my mate, on the Coconut Mall track.

Some idiot comes along on as we're all about to go up the escalators, and rams me and him onto the slow side, which puts us both nicely to 11^th and 12^th.

Anyways, It comes down to the last lap, and I've only pulled it back to 9^th, and the beauty of a game gives me invinsiblity for the car park section. I thrash my way through laughing manically to myself.

I'm now second, last corner, a blue shell comes shooting past and hits the girl with a rating of 8600-odd. Oh the luck, I shoot past her and straight into first =D

Joy, ladies and gentlemen. Joy.

I have it and it's gooooood.

Where the hell is the game in stock?

il need to buy it sounds good

Excellent, I'll have a go at that tonight then.

Got this on Tuesday, only got to play it today, fantastic! Havent gone online yet, will do on Wednesday on my day off

It is fine, i played loads of 12 people races. never had lag, i got disconnected and lost like 110 points, but im back up to 5700 with my gold wheel so its all good.

Just unlocked the Turbo Blooper kart as i aint done much one player and it seems to be pretty good.

I would recommend doing one player first (unlike me) just so u get used to it and dont lose points to start with, plus getting better karts will let you be better!

Has anybody played any 12 player Wi-Fi races yet? I'm wondering what the lag is like. I know with Smash Bros., as soon as you get one guy in the match with a bad connection it screws everything up. Since it happens in Smash with only 4 people, the chances of getting womeone with a bad connection when there are 12 seem pretty high.

I'm in Canada so I can't get Kart until April 27. You guys in the UK are lucky :)

I like bikes for handling, but then karts just seem to be the one i go with more (dont know why)

I always use Yoshi or Mario (yoshi my fav) and tend to use the normal kart at the mo. Just as i get used to it. tend to hit a wall here and there so need good acceleration and a decent top speed.

And to answer part of my own question - apparently the gold wheel is obtained when u only use the steering wheel (which i am) but i think it is for a duration of time. if you use anything else even for 1 race it goes back to white

thats what i heard so should get me a gold wheel soon i hope.

Been playing it since Friday - love it
but has anyone notice that there are certain players with a Gold steering wheel not a white one???
anyone know how you get that?

Gah! A 5300 score dropped to 4800 in a few races. I'm crap at this game!

GP, yto find the number, load up the MK channel and where the top option is "Friends", on that bar there is a number, that's it.

Had a go at this for a couple of hours. Played it safe and went with the Gamecube controller. Did the first 4 50cc Grand Prix and apart from a total brain blockage on Ghost Valley where I couldn't remember the track, I won every other race. I got 2 1 star rank, an A and a C (damn you Ghost Valley). The tracks, I think, have been widened, probably so you can drift comfortably.

I had a few minutes before dinner so I had a quick time trial. I picked Peach Beach since I had played that track to death on Double Dash. I thought I would be adventurous and race the ghost that was available. 1m34 something I think it was.

I pressed the accelerator too early and bogged down on the line. By the end of the first lap, I was 2 seconds behind. Despite my terrible first and 3rd laps, I beat the ghost with a 1m33.9. That is a Rank B time apparently. I had a look at the Worldwide times and I was definitely in the top 3rd of the field.

All going pretty well so far. I'll have to fix my wireless settings as it wasn't working (again) but I'll get it sorted. Where do you find out your code? I couldn't find it, although I didn't actually look. :)

picked up my copy this morning fromAsda - £32 not bad!
but im at work and got to wait until 5:00 until i can play it : (
that sux! just sitting her wanting to play it

I will put my FC up once i know it - if i leave the wii alone to get on here!

Sounds a plan. Does anyone edit the main post in the Wii codes list though, to keep it up to date?

Get it as soon as you can, it's great. The wheel really does work well. I haven't tried any other control method yet to be fair, but I don't feel the need to. Some may argue it's a gimmick, and maybe it is, but it's one that works very well once you've done a few races to get used to it.

I've figured out the powerslidey boost thing too. You have to select manual drifting, rather than automatic. Not sure of the best character for online play. You pick the character before the track is choosen, so it's a bit of a lottery. Not really used the bikes yet, want to finish the 50cc cups 100% first before moving up.

The MK channel initially is only available through the game, you have to install it if you want it as a standalone channel on the main screen. You can download ghost data to try and beat, and there will also be competitions in the future, though as of last night there were none available.

Online is very slick and quick to get into a game. Although I imagine that it will be even more busy this weekend than it was last night so it'll be interesting to see if that affects the play.

You can race or do the battle mode online. For each you start with 5000 points. If you do well, you gain points, if you don't, you lose points.

When looking for online games you can choose to search via all games worldwide, games just on your continent or games with people off your friends list. Unfortunately, it's not the friends who are already on your Wii list, but you get another number that you have to swap as well which is game specific.

All in all, it's the first game I've played online with Wii, and it works just as well and is just as lag free as anything I've played on Xbox Live, only without the voice chat. For me, that's not an issue, but it might be for others.

Just been playing this, great fun. Typing this on Wii so will be brief. Wheel works well, takes a little getting used to. Still can't powerslide.

Online slick and easy to use. Have to enter friend codes to play specific people. Mine is 3007-8201-1620. Feel free to add me.

how did u get hold of it early, im trying to spk to someone on ebay see if i can pick it up but they not responding, guess im guna have to wait : (

The brother in law of a mate of mine works for a distributor and has apparently had his since tuesday evening. The wheel works very well, or so he says, and only takes a couple of races to get used to. All in all it's a top game.

I trust my mate, but have never met the brother in law, so make of that what you will.

I still think sendit are your best bet.  I've used both sendit and shopto a lot, in fact I got a game delivered the other day from sendit.com.