One more Mario Kart Wii question:
And what happened to the jump-skidding-turning thing that everyone did in the N64 version? How do I do that? Or has it been removed?
The “jump-skidding-turning” is there when you select the manual mode and they have added some cool stuff. When ever you turn and use the skidding (which I recommend), if you do it for long enough, you will see that a “blue” trail will appear. That means that you have a boost as soon as you stop skidding. There is also a difference between vehicles, some of them have a “yellow” trail that starts after the “blue” one, that means that you have a more powerful boost at the end of the turn.
Note that you actually only get two levels of powersliding (blue & yellow) when you are driving a kart. If you switch to the bikes, you’ll only ever get the blue sparks. This is to compensate for the fact that on the bikes you can pop wheelies on straightaways to go faster by pulling the wiimote up or hitting up on the D-pad (plus pad).
As an added bonus, you can shake the wiimote in any direction (or hit any direction on the D-pad) to do tricks if you go off a jump. That works in both karts and bikes.
