Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - How To Farm Coins

Wario in a Mercedes vehicle is so fitting.

Interesting, though, I'd rather just play the game myself.

Setting up games to play themselves so you don't have to be bothered with playing the game you purchased is actually a THING now?

You don´t get enough coins by just playing the game?

Wow. This is great. So much better than the Wii u version. You don't even need to play it to farm coins. This is definitely the definite version.

In all seriousness playing the game will be so much more fun

@Racthet916

It's been a thing for a long time now. Especially once controllers with turbo functionality came about.

Too bad...
I would have liked to have been able to pull a Super Smash Brothers Melee...
Set the game to play overnight and wake up and be able to face off against Mewtwo...
Only this time, set the game to play overnight and have "all" parts unlocked.
Then I'd only need t have to worry about all the characters.

I am lazy but this takes lazy to an all new level

@Grumblevolcano He's pretty much the only character that somehow makes sense in a Mercedes, within the context of the SMB world.

Is the mercedes DLC included? Or was it removed?

@PlywoodStick Bowser fits too if you consider 3D World.

@Gridatttack Yes, all parts from the Wii U version are included. Wii U DLC parts have just been added to the randomly selected rewards you get for collecting coins rather than straight away available.

Wow this sounds so fun!

@Grumblevolcano Luigi makes bank too! How many mansions does he have now?

II see Alex likes to pick his greens.

Would rather work for coins and stuff, but some people like to just complete it.

And there I was thinking, we play games to have fun primarily! But no, obviously we just want to get over with them in the fastet and most comfortable way possible.

When you buy MK I guess you do that because you like the game. So what's the problem to farm the coins all by yourself? I see no reason to do this. I have allready 600 coins now just by playing today around 8 hours.

@Kohaku Not everyone has that much time, especially for a game they already spent farming all those coins! If I just have 10 minutes or so for a game, I don't want all my kart options to be limited from what I'm used to ^_^

It has some merit. Even if you play through the cups, there are typically still a whole bunch of parts left to get, and not all of us regularly play online. This cuts down some work, particularly for those of us who already invested many hours getting all the stuff in the Wii U version.

Too bad I can't actually watch the video because of my limited data. I hate seeing articles like this that don't explain or summarize anything in text.

The top comment! It's pretty funny that you farm coins on the literal farm.

@ChibiNinja
Choose 2 player in multiplayer.
Use Luigi for player 1 and 2
Choose medium, fast, handling and weight karts.
Moo moo meadows as the course.
No cpu, no items, 48 races in race settings.
Set carts to automatic
Let them race, reselect the same track each time.

@EternalDragonX yeah right, I mean, I've always called myself lazy because I like to play videogames instead of doing other things.. actually playing for real I mean. Lol

@EternalDragonX
That's a new way to unlock all stuffs in Switch version. Call me lazy but once all stuffs unlocked, you don't have to do that anymore.

@UK-Nintendo
Hm, that means I can Dance or do something else while Coins was being collected.

@Racthet916 Meh, I did it on Mario Party 1's "Get 100 stars to unlock the Bowser board" thing. 4 player match 50 turns, change all the players to Hard CPUs, then last turn change them back to players. XD

And now sure enough there will likely be a patch that disables the ability to collect coins while using assist options.

@AlexOlney What would be the best character for this..?
Or test karts v bikes

Would never consider doing this.

I have never felt the need or had a desire to cheat in video games.

@freaksloan you have a strange definition of cheating.

has anyone tried this trick in four player mode? if so, does it work? i want to collect my coins faster. it is nice that we can be lazy about it....

@J_C

You don't have time to game but you do have time to check every 10 minutes your Switch for starting a race again?

This ruins the race stats though

Good, i played the original mk8 a LONG time and never got the 10,000 coins needed for the golden paraglider. This'll help a lot

@AlexOlney

i know that is true in one player mode. however, when playing this game in multiplayer mode on the Wii U you get 10 coins per player per race. did they change that in the Nintendo Switch version?

@Kohaku Obviously you wouldn't be sitting in front of the console the entire time. It's the difference between checking the mail and delivering it. In the little down time I have, I don't want to waste my time grinding. I would rather press a button every couple minutes while doing something else then sit for hours just to get the kart I want. So yes, for I game I care about, I have the small amount of time needed to press a button every 5 minutes since there has sadly been no way provided to transfer your progress.

@Gold_Ranger Thanks much.

My God, it works.

While it is a bit aggravating having to unlock all the carts I legitimately bought through DLC on the Wii U, it is a nice way to earn them for new players. Great trick, it really works!

Reporting back with results: it almost completely drained my Switch's battery to do this (in tabletop mode), but it gave me TWELVE unlocks at once when all was said and done. Well done @AlexOlney.

@Kohaku what does the coins do in this game?

Wow. This is even lamer than farming items and stickers in Smash Bros 4 by sicking 8 Amiibo against each other in a 99 stock battle.

Just play the game normally. I've played 22 cups so far and earned gold trophies with triple stars on 50cc and all but two cups 100cc. I've been playing with the auto steer / auto accelerate off and triple starred every cup so far, not lost a single CPU race, and even lapped opponents a handful of times.

I remember Double Dash being brutal on 100cc.