While Sonic may have had his own karting games in the shape of the rather lovely Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing and Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, that hasn't stopped lovers of the blue blur from wishing that he could be a playable character in Mario Kart 8 also.
As you can see from the video above the modding community has managed to make this dream happen. As far as we understand it this is achieved by modding the Wii U version of the kart and inserting a Sonic model in place of Metal Mario.
The giveaway of course is the metallic sound effects uttered by this rogue Sonic, and of course Metal Mario's name at the end of the race! Aside from that, it's actually a pretty flawless mod. We've also seen a mod featuring Captain Olimar racing on Rainbow Road too, which is about as strange as it sounds.
Which non-Nintendo characters would you like to see make it over to the official Mario Kart roster one day in the future? Would Sonic be one of your top choices?
[source youtube.com]
Comments (30)
I say just let Sonic run instead of driving a Kart. I've never understood the appeal to Sonic racers considering he is supposed to be faster than a vehicle.
That's cool. As for non Nintendo characters I'd like to see included, I'm not sure. Maybe Megaman.
@Bruh apparently the reason Sonic uses a kart all the time is to make it a fair race according to SEGA
This would be a nice feature to have with the amiibo figurines, but they won't do anything that fun.
@FullbringIchigo Data in your icon finds that very hilarious.
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Better than having Metal Mario in the select screen lol
Would be one character I'd love to see in MK.
I'm surprised they haven't put Pac man in the game after he made the arcade version.
@FullbringIchigo @Bruh Yeah lol In the amount of time it takes any of the other characters to drive one lap, he would have already done it 100x over XD
I'm kinda surprised they haven't added Sonic as a dlc racer yet...
I know he has his own racing games but I don't think that should stop them from adding him. It's more money for them right?
@Bruh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ2UYnj8zjw
Kirby and Pikachu would be kind of cool.
This is old news, it was on Nintendo Today, yesterday.
I would love to have Sonic as a DLC character! Hopefully someday...
And poor Luigi at 1:06... he was doing so good! XD
@Bruh
Its about the challenge of driving duh. It's like saying "Why should I challenge this guy to a fighting game when I can just kick his ass in real life".
How do I do this? Is there a wii u homebrew?
neat
I did like Sonic All-star Racing Transformed on Wii U and did wonder why they included Wreck it Ralph but not Mario...? Similarly, I thought Sega would have been more involved with Mario Kart 8 since F-Zero GX was the first joint Sega + Nintendo game. And they have F-Zero levels in MK8/DX.
All that aside, this is pretty cool to see Sonic modded in, and makes me imagine MK9 will be encompassing more franchises. I hope. I wanna race as Kirby in his Air Ride warpstar and relive those lovely GC days. <3
@ZurapiiYohane I don't see anything wrong with Mario Kart becoming an All-star game like Smash Bros, personally. It will get more fans interested!
@MadameSpuki You talk like F-Zero belongs to Sega, the F-Zero tracks being DLC in Mario Kart 8 are the same reason the Animal Crossing and Legend of Zelda tracks were in there, to entice gamers with their other IPs to see if the idea works. Maybe someday they'll make a Nintendo Superstar Kart game out of Mario Kart. Maybe they won't, it depends. Only thing is if they do make a Nintendo Kart, there will be no point in making another F-Zero anymore since Captain Falcon will be riding his slow as heck Blue Falcon kart instead of you know the actual lightning fast pace vehicle from his own game.
@retro_player_22 I know F-Zero is a Nintendo owned franchise, I just thought Sega would have liked to be more involved with future racing games by Nintendo, that's all. Since they did a great job on GX.
F-Zero can still stand well on its own alongside Mario Kart, it's fast pace style is still very fun contrast from MK. I don't know why you say there is no point.
Piss everyone off by making Geno a character. ha.
Piss even more people off by making Ness a character.
@Niinbendo
Shovel knight in mariokart would be nice, but he would totally rock in smash! He could even have his armors and black knight as palette swaps!
Cool!
Jill from Drill Dozer is kinda sitting around twiddling her thumbs. Why not her?
Oh, and Samus says "Hi".
Nice.
The Tracks Map uses Metal Mario's Icon as Sonic instead of using a Sonic icon.
Which Sonic was a playable character without hacking
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