Today’s game is Mario Kart Wii. Specifically Retro Rewind. After having my hard drive wiped on accident, I had a ton of my friends asking me to reinstall this. The download takes a while for me for some reason (downloads on GitHub take a while for me). Once it finished though I gave it a test to make sure everything works.

It’s nice to have an option that’s not bound to a Nintendo Console, though I don’t think I care for some of the interpretations of the retro courses. Like Wario Stadium got done dirty here I feel like. Legitimately I feel like the original was perfect. Something about every reimagining just feels off.

Same with Toad’s Turnpike. The Cars I think are going the wrong way and it feels more rural than what the original felt to me. And don’t even get me started on my opinion about MK8’s version. I am not a fan of the wall panels and the more open design.

That’s all Subjective opinions though. You know what I did like? N64 Rainbow road. I would have preferred 3 laps but 2 is a fine compromise. As long as it’s not the segmented race MK8 has. Graphically I felt it was decently faithful too.

Anyways. This was mainly for me to test it out to make sure everything works before playing with friends. Once i was sure it does I was content to let it be. I did a few Grand Prixs as well but I didn’t get any screenshots of those.
I will get into retro rewind when I want to grind crazy micro, I’ll still on my mkworld shiny new toy phase
hot take: i do not really like mario kart wii they motion controls are too different for me to enjoy it as other racing games
I usually play with GC controller. I find it makes it far more tolerable if an experience
There are good non-motion options available like Nunchuk (kinda), GameCube controller, and Wii Classic Controller. Or just play in Dolphin with any controller that connects to your computer
Was this on an actual Wii or an emulator?
Emulator! I have the stuff to do official hardware, but to be honest it doesn’t seem worth the work for something I’ll play every few weeks (maybe less)
the text is not too long to read and the info is in there
I’m guessing retro rewind is the emulator? Still not too sure what that is hence why I asked
I didn’t read the text, but if you zoom in it says “Dolphin” in a Window Bar, which is a Wii/GameCube emulator.



