I bought Shortcat's controller to prove him wrong, but now I can't stop winning 

To all new viewers, welcome! I’m Louis G (pronounced ‘Luigi’) and I hope you enjoy my slightly above average Mario Kart gameplay😂

Thanks for giving it a try! Also it was awesome watching you try to do motion glider on all the gliders. It's definitely not an instant level up to your skills, as you suddenly have to worry about falling out of the glider, and how to not shoot too far to the side. For anyone who has never tried motion glider, it's harder than it looks to control!

British Shortcat🔥🔥🔥

Smash players have sworn by it for over a decade, now it's Mario Kart's turn for the reign of the GC controller

i have to say i never used the shake-tricking and didn't even know it was a thing until a few months ago lmao even with motion controls turned off. i tried the gc controller out too and i cannot get used to the motion gliding bc of having to switch to the d-pad fast and precisely 😭 i'll stick with the pro, as it works perfectly fine for me

I loved the endless first places then at the end you showed the real struggle 😂 Always love your videos! Great energy and fun to watch, keep it up Louis G!

For those who don't like the gcc layout there's also the progcc which lets you convert any switch pro controller into a GameCube controller that still works as a pro controller if you need it to be one

I'm mainly a PC gamer, but I've played for almost 2 months straight MK8 online on a Switch Lite. I'm stuck around 10K, but when I connected my 8BitDo Ultimate Bluetooth last weekend I was raking in those fucking points and all those techniques seem to make sense! Conclusion: I'm buying a normal Switch this week and I'm gonna experiment with all the different controllers.

Hot take: Wii U Gamepad (with tilt controls)

the ultimate snipe at 6:28 is very impressive

Would you ever consider switching controller?

Brother that bit with the smart steering had me dying

I didn’t even know shaking to trick was a thing outside of Mario Kart Wii

Nintendo really made the best controller in 2000 and no one cares

All those wins you pulled out was very impressive!! Great job Louis G!! 🤩👏💚

Lol, I love the skill issue compilation at the end XD

Wow, this video was amazing!! Well done 😮

don't know if you noticed but there's a bit of vertical tearing on the recordings

Wow glider vectoring looks so fun!

I have a GameCube controller and an adapter I use on my switch, but for Mario Kart, the L and R triggers only register presses all the way in. (It doesn't recognize analog presses and only digital presses) It's very uncomfortable after awhile

Did you do the controller reset thing he said to?

yeah ive always gc controllers for mk8. trick timing needs to precise for certain trick spots as such the first set of stairs on Coconut Mall.

as someone who doesn’t use motion controls to trick, this might be a pure upgrade for me

This video tends to focus on 150cc's gameplay, but I feel that the GameCube's analog triggers would make 200cc worse because of the delay inherent to using them. You want as little hand movement as possible and the bigger the controller the worse it is

Hi, quick question, why dont you use the pond at the beginning of the road to trick?

If you wanna shake for tricks... may I suggest Doyoky GCN Joycons?

It’s a mii, Mario!😂

Thanks for the red shell tip man.

Why the hell does Nintendo not just let us do the motion control replacement thing with the Dpad on the Switch controllers?

this actually sounds like british shortcat but for some reason i hear thomas game docs just like how shortcat is definetely jperm

Can you not use the D-Pad to shake trick in a similar way to using it for motion drift?

Now I need a GameCube controller!

First smash bros now mariokart? The GameCube controller can’t keep getting away with this!

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Jonathan Permutation 😔

As far as I know, GCC is not considered a real alternative in high level mk8d.

I still got an official Nintendo game cube controller in the original packaging from GameCube times, you think it went up in value?

Oh my dayz at 1:10 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

You use the same £3 capture card, the tearing is so noticable, great video regardless though.

Still waiting for shortcats response.

just to put it out there, at a top level the gcn controller isnt optimal simply because of the notches: it's a lot harder to input a precise drift angle when the notch feels like it pulls your stick towards that 45 degree angle. mk8dx isnt like mkw where you wanna hold a perfect 45 degree soft drift, each turn in this game has its own perfect angle to perfectly take the turn, and the gcn controller making that extremely difficult heavily outweighs the benefit of doing motion glider (which only saves around .100 on most gliders lol) in theory if you modded a normal pro controller to not have a motion sensor, you could do motion glider in normal races with the dpad and have a more optimal control stick. (not getting to shake trick only really impacts bowsers castle, dolphin shoals and i guess sky garden). this would probably be the best method of control but the difference between it and a normal pro controller is negligible

13:52 horning the bowser was an option

which controller did you buy

i think you entirely missed the part where you can reset the controller to basically jailbreak it into hitting soft drifts by just hitting the notches, Ive been using gamecube controller for mario kart ever since i saw the shortcat video and i went from not being able to even soft drift, to being able to perfectly just with hitting the notches

Yeah motion is pretty good, from the looks of the gameplay it doesn't matter the most at your level because basically no one uses it.

What was the average?

Wow I never knew you could use Gambecube controller on Nintendo switch

I need to buy this, i suck at soft drifting and i really want to motion glider

i thought this was proven since mario kart wii, i was a demon on wii with it

green or red shells do the same damage as a blue btw

14:44 you don't get purple mini turbos with smart steering on

Do you normally play with joycons?? I would definitely recommend a pro controller

People shake trick still?

waaitt…………. THAT WAS THREE MONTHS AGO??????????

i mean you probably could've gotten a new one since the smash ones are still being made

The screen tearing

i already use gamecube cause i play a lot of ssbm so ost of the time i use it for other games to

0:11 wtf is that quality💀

I tried the GC controller. I went back to the Pro controller. Shake tricking is more useful imo. The buttons on the GC controller sucks, esp the shoulder buttons. They have such a long travel. Also, its wired which is annoying.

That's not even a real gamecube controller in the thumbnail

I stopped watching Shortcat when he said he was brave for playing an unpopular strategy in a kid's video game.

Underrated

U mean Jperm right?

@Louis G: If you abused this glitch you might fine yourself banned from the online services, you don't have to worries I will not report you since they are no report system in Mario kart 8 deluxe, it will be up to Nintendo to decided if it is breaking their code of conduct. If you only did this in one video and never do it again off the video, then you don't have to worried about getting banned from the online services. I heard that Nintendo banned someone from the online services that never used any hack, and also neither used DNS hajacking, so maybe he was abusing this, you get banned from the online services in Mario kart 8 deluxe your banned from all online feature and not just Mario kart 8 deluxe online.

i started playing with the hori mario kart steering wheel and pedals

Check out Tectone, trust me you’ll love him even though he doesn’t do Nintendo games

I play it with the nso super Nintendo controller

Perhaps some gliders were not meant to be vectored 18:20 😔

Ah I wish fzero99 allowed GC controllers.

14:44 you had smart steering on which doesn't allow purple mini turbos. I haven't finished the video yet so you probably found out later in the video. (Later) yup, I know that feeling.

I cannot believe you only have 1.98K I’m investing my sub now let’s go 📈📈📈📈

The GameCube controller is always superior

I never really got too much into playing mk8dx, only mkwii and gcn controller was always weird for me (you have to either claw or move fingers really quickly to trick), if I play this game maybe I'll try with this controller

@Shortcat123: You can't get two coins from item boxes Me: Got it! Item Lag: 😈 Fake shortcat with a red shell in 2nd place: I'm going to throw this even through shortcat says to let them keep first Red shell warning: BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP Me: bruh Yoshi Ciruit rules: This is why you bag!! Me: I'm at 4k VR NO one is going to ag with me!

I use an N64 controller

Great video but that screen tearing is atrocious.

So many tearing on the video. It gets me dizzy. Sad.

britcat?

What do you mean 3 controllers? Why not mention 8bitdo?

ShortG

I'm subscribed to shortcat

The GameCube controller is the best

RUBIK'S CUBES!!!

Gc controller is the best for all games

Now you become a cheater Too?? F*ck no

Mareyo kært 8 deluxe

i also got it an di love it too

Y'all on crack if you think shake tricking is anything other than cancerous

Short cat wins😊

MK8D is now pay to win

I'll stick with my pro controller. Even with the knowledge that gamecube can motion glide easier, I'm still of the belief that motion gliding is a lame tech. I believe it has its place in time trial and the highest level of play, but in the majority of online lobbies, i just get mildly annoyed when I see someone relying on it. Its just a blatantly arbitrary skill to develop thats an extension of the already unorthodox tech of glider vectoring. I'm just not a fan of tech that limits acessibility for basically no reason. Players shouldn't be forced to use a specific character, vehicle or controller just to have a higher chance of winning. To anyone who is considering switching, ask yourself "Do I regularly face opponents who use this tech?" "Do I really *need* to win more often than i already do?" And "Have I truly explored and mastered almost every other general purpose Mario Kart 8 tech?" And only if you answered "yes" to at least 2 of these should you really consider a switch. Because even in the most BRUTAL regional lobbies I end up in as a 50k VR player, I'd still say I place top 3 a good 75-90% of the time without it. And at the end of the day, I'd argue that *in the hands of 99% of Mario Kart players, the skill of motion gliding can only serve to act as a crutch.*

Gaeming

you talk like mumbo jumbo

its not the problem with the controller, its your skill issue

FOR THE LAST TIME, ITS JPERM, NOT SHORTCATTTTT also do a face reveal pls????