Mario Kart DS 8 Player Splitscreen Multiplayer [4K 60FPS]

0:00 Character Select
0:57 Luigi’s Mansion
4:02 Waluigi Pinball
8:17 Balloon Battle - Pipe Plaza
13:02 Shine Runners - Block Fort
16:52 Moo Moo Farm
19:00 Shroom Ridge
23:16 Baby Park
24:58 Rainbow Road
Note: Due to a technical oversight, in-game audio was not captured. A replacement soundtrack has been dubbed back in.

[@5fdpRetroGamer215]

I'm lucky enough to have five younger siblings to play it with, so there was six of us total playing Mario Kart DS in the car.

[@TotallyNotNiall]

That’s basically a grand prix. Lucky you 🔥

[@cynni_]

being able to see this is...unreal

[@ShadowFeline]

You're lucky to have seven more players for this, and the fact that this doesn't lag.

[@SebastianGMSFB]

In a round/curved monitor with a 5760×1080 screen resolution (for an aspect-ratio of 16:3, or 48:9, or 144:27), an 8-Player Split-Screen for Nintendo DS would be completely perfect, since those ultrawide monitors are 4× wider than 4:3 (which is the DS's exact aspect-ratio) screens, while having 2 screens (per system) doubles it to supporting 8×2 sub-screens and still no stretching nor leaving any blank bars on that screen! Truly mind-blowing if you ask me.

[@MarioManTV]

That's actually a really exciting prospect to me. After finding that 12 Mario Kart Wii instances at a 4:3 ratio fit perfectly into a 16:9 presentation, I've been interested in creating optimal layouts for a given screen (and finding screens best-suited to the challenge as well).
My setup for this video actually uses a custom program I wrote to automatically find and use an optimal tiling to maximize screen real estate usage while keeping all instances the same size. The script should support a 16:3 display (really any display, arbitrarily) right out of the box, automatically finding and using that perfect layout.
If interested, you can find the program here: github.com/SMarioMan/ArrangeInstances

[@insidiousy]

This looks so fun!!! I've only ever gotten 2 others total to play MKDS with in the past, but this is the dream right here.

[@destroyermcw626]

Dang you’re PC is strong and I do know all about this local wireless but the fact you got 8 without slowdowns is amazing my stuff is a low end😭 and yet I play Mario kart Wii and 8 Cemu and Deluxe multiplayer JUST fine.

[@thechume4683]

a dream come true

[@DrRobotnikPingas]

6 was the maximum I played with my small neighborhood

[@ImExistent405]

It's beautiful, however I only have 1 other DS and only 1 MKDS cartridge so :(

[@No_Sleepee]

How did you manage to record 8 players' worth of gameplay?

[@TayahTaylor-ty7lv]

Crazy, half brain dead and half envy

[@MarioManTV]

I ran this on MelonDS, which implemented proper local wireless emulation last year.

[@No_Sleepee]

@@MarioManTV this was all local? Nice job getting 7 other people! 😅

[@MarioManTV]

@@No_SleepeeIndeed. All local on one screen and one machine. I’ve managed 12 people in years past for Mario Kart Wii, and I’m hoping to run with 24 people some day for the Mario Kart Wii CTGP-R 24-player beta mod.

[@user-ei8cw3ry2q]

I guess Player 4 was not familiar to this game

[@gdmrhotshot3731]

when u realize theyre all playing together

[@CopoZ]

How

[@MarioManTV]

At its core, I used melondDS local multiplayer emulation.

[@MrJpmaulicino]

quien gana

[@smooth99me]

I have one sibling (3 died)