How Many Courses Can You Drift Infinitely On In Mario Kart 8 Deluxe? 

Join the discord server: discord.gg/ktVe52ue2Z

When I first saw the title I thought you were going to try infinitely drifting around the ENTIRETY of every track and was thinking “What?!💀🗿”. This on the other hand is still very cool and creative, but also makes way more sense. Lol nice video!👍

It's actually possible to drift infinitely on any course if you're using joy con!

Tracks I found were possible after all: Shy Fuy Falls Grumble Volcano Super Bell Subway Shroom Ridge Mario‘s Raceway 3 The infinite drift on shy guy falls is possible where you tried it. I picked lemmy, scooter and small wheels. Start by driving up the waterfall and drifting along the wodden bridge edge and top of the waterfall, then go to the right edge as far as possible (the waterfall is wider near the top), and bank left HARD. You have enough speed for two small breaks to make the turn back up the waterfall, then bank right to gain height and repeat. Grumble Volcano is fairly simple. Same char combo as previously, and then just drift circles in the starting area. It’s wide enough to work if you break in short bursts around 9 times per loop. Super Bell Subway, once again, same combo. At the first right curve in the subway tunnel, drift circles at the mouth of the passage leading overhead to the right, across the tracks and back to the mouth. Only works with no trains present at that time, so not technically infinite, but you can get 3 loops in easily if you break occasionally. Shroom Ridge, same combo, fairly straightforward. Second curve of the track, the hard right, there’s a striped section of road to the left that almost doubles the width of the track. Drift circles here, you don’t even need to break, or at least I didn’t. Mario‘s Raceway 3, same combo. On the east side of the track there‘s a steep left curve. Drift at the very edge of it, then, once at the highest point of the curve, bank inwards and keep holding inwards. Break occasionally, similar to grumble volcano, and you‘ll barely make it.

I love these kind of challenges, it's like a puzzle, except you don't know if a solution to it even exists at all

0:28 casually calls dry dry desert "the bad one"

It’s possible on Super Bell Subway with very precise brake drifting. It can be done right at the beginning of the underground section (it might also be possible near the end but I don’t want to ruin my thumb from brake drifting).

Suggestion: Even if there is nothing to talk about for a certain course, at least mention it with half a second of gameplay footage so we know where to do it if we want to do it.

Mario Circuit 3 is possible - with a high handling combo, 200cc, and a _lot_ of brake-drifting, you can just barely loop around on the sharp U-turn roughly halfway around the track. The main reason for 200cc was so that you had a little more leeway with hitting the little patch of off-road on the inside of that turn. (If anyone’s curious about the combo, I used Lakitu/Mr. Scooty/Off-Road Tires.) Edit: Dragon Driftway is also possible. You can just _barely_ loop around on the area just before the end of the lap. It’s really tight though - took me around an hour and a half to get the 3 loops. (The Switch capture function chose specifically then to bug out, but I am _not_ doing that sh*t again.)

I tried to do this for my self (on the WII U version without DLC) and you can actually do it in Grumble Volcano: Before the split paths right near the end there is an area large enough to brake drift in, I even managed to do it with the fire spirits in my way, if there is any way I can show you footage

Thanks for allowing me to help on this challenge! Means a lot, and I'm glad that I was able to help in general.

My joycons can infinitely drift on all tracks

Infinite Drift 👀

I subbed a couple years ago after seeing the yoshi’s valley vid. It’s funny going back through your vids bc you’ve perfectly documented your voice getting deeper and deeper each video haha 😅 keep up the good work!

It's always a joy when you upload man! Have a fantastic new year!

I’ve never really felt the anti-gravity being that game changing of a mechanic, but seeing you drift off the split paths and doing the loops I actually felt so disorientated!

I'm always really happy to see a new video from you ! Not only for the great content, but, also, because I feel happy to see you growing from the beggining of your channel. I admire your dedication to test your theories ! The patience of trying for hours some solutions is really impressive !! Thanks for the great content and happy new year !

Very interesting video idea, tho a handful of the tracks you marked as impossible are actually pretty straightforward with a more efficient combo. Any road slightly wider than average is possible with max handling and perfect brake drifting Some examples I found: SNESbow - The 2nd U-Turn after the 2nd item set Riverside - The starting platform Shroom Ridge - The hairpin (Where the first batch of 5 coins are on the hard shoulder) Havent tried all of them yet and honestly I cba to do em all. I can imagine MC3 Kalamari Choco Grumble and MAYBE Sky Garden also having some spots?

The 3d shots of the map you are using are super creative! Your editing skills are increasing with every video you make

this is a good video however I wish it was three times as long and had you cover courses that were obvious/impossible

yo glad that youre back to uploading!! also love your use of 3D models to visualize stuff!!

These are the niche topics I’m looking for! Great video! Love it!

Oh my god I got recommended your optimal yoshi valley path way back when you uploaded it and just saw this now. so happy you’re still doing stuff and you’ve grown so much! keep it up

Love these videos, keep em coming! Always interested to see what’s possible

Fantastic visual examples here. Great video overall!

"After just a few hours of trying" 💀 Legend

This is unironically my favorite Mario kart channel. Keep up the amazing work

This guy only releases one video every 6 months but I literally can't NOT click on it when he does

I don’t see the point of this video, my joycons already do this well enough

Love your channel bro, found it with the yoshi valley video and found your style very relaxing and enjoyable to watch, keep it up💪 Also your voice… wow

mental how far you've come mate, have a good year!

Wow your voice has gotten deeper since I first discovered this channel

OMG finally you're back! I really like your content and the effort you put on the videos. I hope you become a big channel one day!

“The bad one”… I appreciate the bluntness.

I never expected it could be possible on so many tracks!! This is awesome

this is amazing! the fact that you didn't make this video an hour or 40 mins long is crazy! no wasted time! thank you good sir :)

This was a fun video, thank you! Can’t wait to do some infinite drifting next time I play MK8!

Wow man your growing on RU-vid I’ve been subscribed since you had 7k subs and now you have like 70k subs I’m a long time fan I’ll continue to watch your content it’s great

Thanks for using the booster pass ones! You put so much effort into these!

I drifted all the way to this incredible content

Really creative idea, looking froward to more videos like this

Great video and happy new year man!

i didnt even know you could hold your drift for more than 8 seconds on any track

this is really creative and i don’t see much of this stuff anymore. thank you for curing my boredom for 8 minutes :)

This was really interesting dude!

amazingly edited man!

I went back and played some of the older Mario Karts recently, like double dash, and Wii. One thing that stood out to me is how much I missed the Mario Kart 8 drifting. Drifting in this game is so perfect.

Your voice has really Leveld up over time, great video my man

Its been a while since Ive seen a video and the voice jump scare was crazy. Great video 👍

The editing is amazing!

Nice video bud, you earned yourself a sub

Thanks for giving me nausea in every mario kart background

Starting the new year off with everybody's favorite Mario Kart scientist

I love your channel, keep up the great work

Mario Kart's darn checkpoint system will get you every time! I had no idea the game had a feature to make sure you don't accidentally double back on the course, although it makes sense that it would. Happy new year!

0:29 « the bad one » track lmfao

Woah! New Jopes video dropped! (by the way i compared your voice from 1 year ago and now, its insane)

Your voice got deeper!! 😁Good for you man!! I understand being young on RU-vid

I have done riverside park! If you go on the starting boards, use baby daisy, clouds, mini wheels and biddy buggy and break drift a bunch you can make it

Me: "I have to do my homework." *See a random video about Mario Kart, I don't even play it* "A true man has his own priorities."

Cool video idea, like it

great video -- earned a sub

New Year, new Jopes content!

Oh, hey, its you again! Keeping up the good work I see, good job! Keep it up!

Bro’s voice change hit him like a truck. I remember watching your Mario odyssey incorrectly video last year and the contrast between the two is crazyyyy.

I'll admit that I was surprised with the sheer amount of courses it was possible to do this on, and it would've been cool to be able to see all of the possible ones, even with something as short as a clip, but I do ultimately understand that that many would prove to be a little much. Overall, fun concept!

I found another way to do mushroom gorge (imo more fun as well), after you land from the mushroom after the little wooden bridge, you can drift onto the left side of the mushroom if drifting right (and vice versa) and bounce back onto the bridge, do a sharp drift to turn around and drift onto the mushroom and bounce back to where you started.

great vids lol i found you from nicholas streams almost 2y ago

6:50 That demostration o-O

great informative video! :)

This would actually be useful on the battle mode in 8 regular, not deluxe, but stupid now, and that’s what I’m here for! Keep up the amazing work

Very creative challenge i could definitely see people finding new ways to do this on the impossible tracks

0:12 THE CASUAL CUT BEFORE HE GETS HIT BREU

Yes! Jopes upload! You sound so old now. Happy new year!

This is such a weird premise for a video, but it ended up actually being very good and interesting!

*insert stick drift joke here*

Happy New year Jopes 🎉

damn your voice is so much deeper then i remembered, keep up the good work man you always but work into these vids

Great video!

Finally, my recomendations have been saved!

Yooo I didn't recognize you at first- you voice has gotten so much deeper since last time I watched you

Great video! Where did you get the 3d models of the tracks?

i am so happy that jopes is uploading again!

Awesome video!

its a good day when jopes uploads!

This video was amazing it’s like the last video but better

BRO I SAW YOUR VIDEO ABOUT THE WORST KART AND I WAS LIKE "IS THIS THE WORST KART GUY" AND THEN I CHECKED AND IT WAS AND I WAS LIKE "OMG GOOD ON YA YOURE STILL MAKING PEAK VIDEOS" AND OMG YOUR VOICE DROPPED???? INSANE JOB

bro i was literally thinking about this last week

Now that was interesting, I’m gonna try and do the impossible tracks!!!

Haven’t seen this guys videos in a while but I saw one from a year ago and his voice is so much deeper now it’s actually insane

Voice glow up holy moly, nice to see content again

Thank you for showing us all the spots we can stop and wait for people who are new to the game so they don't feel as bad (:

Damn Jopes, you really like analyzing tracks uh? I wonder if in the next Mario kart you'll actually find out some new Speedrun strategy or some new techniques!

I think you should’ve gone through each course- I know there’s so many now, but seeing where each one of the easy ones and where you tried and failed on the impossible ones are just as interesting as the ones that were a struggle, but possible. That way we can get a better idea of what you did.

This is the most random shit I've seen so far this year, and it's great

Drifting into 2024 with another great video!

Cool video idea!

I never noticed until this video how often MK8 tracks did the "split thin paths" thing,. Like in Sweet Sweet Canyon, Rainbow Road, and Ice Ice Outpost

I'd love to see a compilation of all the possible ones

I was able to get a few that others seemed to not be able to get: Neo Bowser City: You can barely get the loop at the very start of the final turn with some good angles and precise drifting. (This took me 20 minutes to pull off) Dragon Driftway: At the end of the major turn towards the start of the race you have enough room with break drifting. Riverside Park: You have enough room on the turning bridge Grumble Volcano: even after all the rocks fall, you can get it on the split paths area by falling from the top path to the bottom one.