Mario Kart 8

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This page contains information about the Wii U version of Mario Kart 8.

• Ranking
  • Score
  • Category ids
• Peer to peer

Ranking

This section describes how Mario Kart 8 uses the ranking protocol.

Score

The score that is uploaded on the leaderboards is simply the number of milliseconds that were taken by the run.

Category IDs

Cup	Track	ID (decimal)
Mushroom	Mario Kart Stadium	27
Mushroom	Water Park	28
Mushroom	Sweet Sweet Canyon	19
Mushroom	Thwomp Ruins	17
Flower	Mario Circuit	16
Flower	Toad Harbor	18
Flower	Twisted Mansion	20
Flower	Shy Guy Falls	21
Star	Sunshine Airport	26
Star	Dolphin Shoals	29
Star	Electrodrome	25
Star	Mount Wario	24
Special	Cloudtop Cruise	23
Special	Bone-Dry Dunes	22
Special	Bowser's Castle	30
Special	Rainbow Road	31
Shell	Wii Moo Moo Meadows	33
Shell	GBA Mario Circuit	38
Shell	DS Cheep Cheep Beach	36
Shell	N64 Toad's Turnpike	35
Banana	GCN Dry Dry Desert	42
Banana	SNES Donut Plains 3	41
Banana	N64 Royal Raceway	34
Banana	3DS DK Jungle	32
Leaf	DS Wario Stadium	46
Leaf	GCN Sherbet Land	37
Leaf	3DS Music Park	39
Leaf	N64 Yoshi Valley	45
Lightning	DS Tick-Tock Clock	44
Lightning	3DS Piranha Plant Slide	43
Lightning	Wii Grumble Volcano	40
Lightning	N64 Rainbow Road	47
Egg	GCN Yoshi Circuit	56
Egg	Excitebike Arena	53
Egg	Dragon Driftway	50
Egg	Mute City	49
Triforce	Wii Wario's Gold Mine	57
Triforce	SNES Rainbow Road	58
Triforce	Ice Ice Outpost	55
Triforce	Hyrule Circuit	51
Crossing	GCN Baby Park	61
Crossing	GBA Cheese Land	62
Crossing	Wild Woods	54
Crossing	Animal Crossing	52
Bell	3DS Neo Bowser City	60
Bell	GBA Ribbon Road	59
Bell	Super Bell Subway	48
Bell	Big Blue	63

Peer to Peer

Mario Kart 8 uses the ENL framework for peer to peer communication.

Record type	Description
0	Menu
1	Player info
2	All player info
3	Race
4	Drive
6	Item event
7	Battle event
9	Flags
10	Chat

Menu Record

This is record type 0.

Offset	Size	Description
0x0	12*12	Player votes
0x90	12	Vote chosen by roulette
0x9C	---	End of record

Player Info Record

This is record type 1.

Offset	Size	Description
0x0	8	Unknown
0x8	256	Player info
0x108	4	Unknown
0x10C	---	End of record

All Player Info Record

This is record type 2.

Offset	Size	Description
0x0	8*12	Unknown
0x60	4*4	Track options
0x70	4	Unknown
0x74	4	Unknown
0x78	12*12	Votes
0x108	8*10	Unknown
0x158	2	Unknown
0x15A	2	Unknown
0x15C	4	Unknown
0x160	---	End of record

Flags Record

This is record type 9.

Offset	Size	Description
0x0	1	Flags
0x1	---	End of record

Vote

Offset	Size	Description
0x0	8	Unique id
0x8	1	0xFE: course id 0x01: unknown
0x9	3	Padding

sys::PlayerInfo

Offset	Size	Description
0x0	212	Core
0xD4	2*21	Null-terminated name (UTF-16)
0xFE	2	Padding

sys::PlayerInfo::Core

Offset	Size	Description
0x0	4	Unknown
0x4	4	Unknown
0x8	4	Unknown
0xC	4	Rate 1
0x10	4	Rate 2
0x14	96	Mii data
0x74	16	Unknown
0x84	64	Open flag pack
0xC4	16	Account UUID

sys::Rate

Offset	Size	Description
0x0	4	Value (float)

sys::OpenFlagPack

Offset	Size	Description
0x0	0x40	Unknown