This is my first thread so please be nice.

So I've been playing online Mario Kart DS now for just over a year.......not all in one sitting obviously. Since Halo 3 came out it's really hard to get connected to anyone. When I do get connected there's usually a cheater and I have to disconnect. I mean it's really not fun to race around being zapped by a lightning bolt constantly (and I mean constantly). It's also not fun to race against people who have infinite stars or mushroom boosts. I've had 2 hackers this evening and 1 yesterday. Tonight I have only completed 2 out of 6 tournaments due to hackers and disconnectors. I guess it gives some 10 year olds kids some fun for a few minutes. I guess I'll just have to keep a list of cheaters and disconnect on them before the race starts.

Have all Mario Kart fans defected to Halo 3?

 Oh well. Win some lose some.

I lost Mario Kart DS last winter...perhaps that's a good thing after all?

No...because I generally only played with my friends in person...and that was a lot of fun.

Welcome to the wonderful world of online gaming.

If they recorded drops as a loss...

Then again, who competes online?

Moral: Play with friends.

I have no friends ......at least in the Mario Kart world. Nearly all of my losses are now coming from pulling the plug on hackers. I don't mind accumulating losses if it denies them a win and annoys them for a minute.

I have mario kart, and the cheaters tend to be the japanese.

Hmm, I didn't know cheating was that bad in Mario Kart. I haven't encountered any cheaters in that game but I haven't played many random online matches. The only time I've encountered a cheater on a DS game was once in Tetris. The guy did something to make himself get only line pieces and the funny thing was that I almost beat him. :-p

Cheat back?

I have a love/hate relationship with online games. Love the interaction, hate the people I'm interacting with. Double edge sword I suppose. You're hard pressed to find any successful online game that doesn't get a least a few hackers here and there, if not completely plagued by hackers. I hear Metroid Prime Hunters is just as bad. Nothing but cheaters.

I lost my copy Summer 2006. Then I took my friend's copy because he doesn't play it anymore. The first time I played online, I got OWNED by a Japanese player with a Triple Star rank.

Just don't play the early DS Wi-Fi games online because they are full of hackers.