Koopa Kart Wii



Koopa Kart Wii is the sixth installment in the Koopa Kart series and the third installment to be made by HammerBro101 Incorporated. It was released on June 10, 2010 for Japan, June 11, 2010 for Europe, June 24, 2010 for Australia, and June 27, 2010 for America. As with Koopa Kart DS, it previously used Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, but as of May 19, 2014, it now uses HammerBro101 Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. This is the second Koopa Kart game to have online play, the first being Koopa Kart DS. Unlike the previous Koopa Kart games, Koopa Kart Wii has sixteen racers on each course instead of twelve.

Items
Koopa Kart Wii introduces three new items: the POW Block, Mega Mushroom, and Lightning Cloud, which are replaced by the Gold POW Block, Super Mega Mushroom, and Lakithunder Cloud as of Koopa Kart 7.

Vehicles
There are thirty-six vehicles to choose from in Koopa Kart Wii. The vehicles are divided between three size classes, making twelve available to each character, six of which are available from the start for each size class (making the other eighteen vehicles unlockable). Each vehicle has eight stats: Speed, Weight, Acceleration, Handling, Drift, Off-Road, Mini-Turbo, and Items.
 * Speed: How fast the vehicle is at its top speed. With a higher speed stat, the vehicle will go faster. Directly correlated with the Items stat and negatively correlated with acceleration.
 * Weight: How heavy the vehicle is. With a high weight stat, heavy vehicles can push around light vehicles by ramming them. This stat also affects the angle at which vehicles jump, with heavier vehicles jumping at a lower angle. Finally, heavier vehicles bounce less upon landing.
 * Acceleration: How quickly the vehicle reaches its top speed from a non-moving position. Negatively correlated with speed.
 * Handling: How tight the vehicle is normally able to turn. Usually opposes drift and/or speed.
 * Drift: How tight the vehicle is able to turn while drifting. Usually opposes handling and opposes off-road.
 * Off-Road: How much speed the vehicle retains when it goes off-road. A low off-road stat will cause a near standstill for the vehicle. Similarly, a high off-road stat will cause the vehicle to slide less on ice. Opposes the drift stat. Vehicles with an off-road stat of 40 or higher can drift off-road.
 * Mini-Turbo: How long a mini-turbo will last.
 * Items: The likelihood of getting powerful items. A higher items stat makes the vehicle more likely to get powerful items. Directly correlated with the speed stat.

Unused Racers

 * Chargin' Chuck and Cheep Cheep were going to return in this game, but were scrapped for unknown reasons.
 * Similarly, Princess Peach was going to make her Koopa Kart debut in this game, but she was scrapped to make room for Shadow Queen.

Trivia

 * Chargin' Chuck and Cheep Cheep are the only Koopa Kart characters up to this point to be absent from this game, though they were both going to return.
 * Dimentio and Lakithunder are the only new drivers from this game to return in Koopa Kart 7. The remaining four newcomers (Dread Kong, Dry Bowser, Blue Spiny Koopa, and Shadow Queen) make their next appearance in Koopa Kart 8.
 * Starting from this game, Shy Guy, Spiny, and Buzzy Beetle are lightweights. Also, Fawful and Doopliss are now middleweights.