Mario Kart 7 update kills shortcut exploits

That's a good thing.

this bodes well for the future, New smash will be patched, infinite exploits fixed ,op characters balanced, awww yeah.

Finally I can return to the game that I love, and challenge the world once again!

Nintendo are definately backward with alot of online capabilities, the video channel on 3DS is laughable with only 4 videos avaliable at any one time, demos have only just arrived for crying out loud and they are play limited...that went out in 2000!

i remember when they had that contest for mario circuit on the n64 (to win a gold controller), everyone used the shortcutt (although it wasnt easy to successfully hit the right jump three times in a row) ,  but sadly they randomly drew names for the controller.  I was p.o.ed

Nintendo embracing patches for their games? Excellent. They might just start to embrace this newfangled internets thing!

There still is one major unintended one in rainbow road, however this is probably going to be very hard to patch.

Finally, those "shortcuts" made the game impossible to play online. Everyone would vote for those levels just so they could easily beat everyone who didnt know how to do it or didnt want to.

Suck it, cheaters.

i just got a 3DS last week with mario kart 7 and man some of the best 200$ i have ever spent in a long time i feel this was a better buy then the WII i really thought handhelds where dead to me until i gave this a shot (i use to have a DS and well that did not fly with me)

im glad to see nintendo take a step forward and patch a glitch in a game. this will only make them more popular with there fan base. I have recently come across the 3ds and I have to say that it is a great handheld, itz wat i thought the original psp should have been like

SIGH, still haven't played this game because of money issues, but I'm sure I'll get to it eventually (check my avatar, i'm a fan) and when I do it's nice to know that everything will be above board :)

If I may quote WWE's Daniel Bryan: "YES! YES! YES!"

Now we have no more cheaters.

Awesome. Good work, Nintendo.

I played Mario Kart DS online years back and there were so many hackers who would overlap everyone a half a dozen times before the race ended with speed hacks. Has Nintendo gotten better at controlling the integrity of their online experiences? Based on this article I'm thinking yes, if it's true that shortcut exploits are the worst of the problems facing Mario Kart 7 online.

Finally the number one choice for picking a stage online won't be Maka Wuhu

If possible, I hope we can get more Battle Courses and tracks. If not, that's fine.

Just played Maka Wuhu. It feels so good to actually have a legit race again. The last time I had that was back in December.

I'll skip this for LBP kart racing

Better late than never.

Let's get another update that gets rid of the freakin Wiggler and replaces it with someone at least semi-cool.(Dry bones?)

Maka Wuhu is officially playable again.

Now that are some good news.

Yes! Time to play this game again. :D

I'm glad to see Nintendo do this.  Between this and the update channel that fixed the bug in Skyward Sword, I'm getting some hope that Nintendo finally gets using online updates to patch things.

Now, this makes me hopeful that SSB4 avoids the issues that plauged Brawl when it comes to character imbalance.   Nintendo can hopefully patch that game to buff or nerf characters and remove cheap tatcis that shut down certain characters(King Dedede's infinite on Donkey Kong for example).     

I hope Nintendo contintues to embrace this stance of using patches to fix games post-release.   Even more then Mario Kart, I would say Smash Bros would benefit nicely from post-release patches that change characters and the overall balance of the game.

Hopefully, this will stop another character like Meta Knight from dominating the metagame while a character like Ganondorf sits at the bottom with no hope of rising.  

Good stuff. And we'll have something to point and laugh at when players still try and use the shortcuts after the update. xD

now cheaters have to play fair

Where's Waluigi Nintendo?

Thank you, Nintendo. I'd like to see those smarty-pants drivers try taking that shortcut NOW >:D

So...now even the 3DS is joining the updates scheme. This feels bad. Like with PS3 and 360, even Nintendo is getting in on the "we control the game AFTER you've purchased it" scheme.

I think the 3DS is gonna slide to a lower position on my list of future purchases. My DS Lite (GBA compatibility, woohoo!) is gonna keep rocking for a very looooong time.

Good to hear, its a shame that people cant police themselves and simply not ruin the game for everyone by cheating.

Now they need to update The RE:Mercs so that you can actually delete a saved file.

The update is officially out in the eShop in North America as of right now 5-15-12  2pm

thank goodness.

Anyone else noticed that the article said it sold 4.54 million copies?

THis seems bad to me actually. Granted, I haven't played Mario Kart 7, but it reminds me of all the awesome unintended shortcuts that were in Mario Kart 64.

About time I say I am sick of those courses always getting picked the people who played on them must suck at the game.