So what’s different in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe? The three DLC packs added 11 bodies, three sets of wheels, and two gliders. Collecting 10,000 coins would unlock the gold glider. The gold tires were unlocked by beating the staff ghosts in every time trial. You’d unlock the gold standard body by getting a star in every Grand Prix cup in every engine class. There were three more parts - the gold standard body, gold tires and gold glider - that were unlocked while playing.
These were unlocked as you collected coins during races - one would unlock every 50 coins until you reached a total of 1,000 coins, at which point one would unlock every 100 coins. You could unlock 18 more bodies, 17 more sets of wheels and 10 additional gliders. Mario Kart 8 started you off with seven bodies - four karts, two bikes and one ATV - four sets of wheels and one glider.
How to unlock karts and parts Unlockable karts and parts Once you pull that off, Gold Mario will replace Metal Mario on the character select screen. Then, you’ll have to take first place in all of those Grand Prix cups as well. To unlock Gold Mario, first you’ll have to progress through the 50cc, 100cc and 150cc Grand Prix cups normally to unlock the 200cc races. How to unlock Gold Mario From YouTube user ShadowMario3 Additionally, the Inklings from Splatoon are making their debut for the first time in the Mario Kart series. have been added to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe as playable characters. That’s not to say that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe doesn’t have any changes to the lineup (racing pun). Every character is available at the start except for one: Gold Mario (and his gold kart). Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has done away with that. Gone are the days of randomly unlocking characters.
Purchasing both of these DLC packs would also unlock eight color variants each for both Yoshi and Shy Guy. The boy and girl villagers and Isabelle from Animal Crossing and Dry Bowser were added with Animal Crossing x Mario Kart 8. Tanooki Mario, Cat Peach and Link were part of Legend of Zelda x Mario Kart 8. Mario Kart 8’s DLC added seven playable characters. If you’d like to begin Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with the previously locked characters, you can choose from Baby Rosalina and grown-up Rosalina from Super Mario Galaxy, the Koopalings Iggy, Roy, Larry, Lemmy, Wendy, Ludwig and Morton (who doesn’t get a link), Toadette, Laikitu from the general Super Mario universe, Pink Gold Peach and Metal Mario - metallic versions of the classic characters, and Mii. (Technically, it wasn’t completely random since the eighth character to unlock was always the Mii.) On Wii U, Mario Kart 8 had 14 characters that unlocked in a random order as you completed cups. From YouTube user ShadowMario3 Unlockable characters Mario Kart 8 locked characters in two ways: 14 of which were baked into the game and several more arrived with DLC. Mario Kart 8 unlockable and DLC characters We’ll also talk about the things we know have been added in the Switch version of the game, like new characters and karts. In this guide, we’ll review what used to be locked or part of a DLC and show you what’s different now.
You’re still going to have to collect coins to unlock the various karts and parts, though. When you start playing Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, all of the characters (except one) are available, as are all of the tracks - and this includes tracks from all three downloadable content packs for the Wii U’s Mario Kart 8.