Characters

Character Select Screen

Performance Charts

The characters can be split into three groups, which are Light, Medium and Heavy. Below is a table (taken from the instruction booklet); the more stars that they have, the better! Depending on your feel of the kart and/or character it’s up to you who you choose.

Acceleration Speed Handling
Light xxx x xxx
Medium xx xx xx
Heavy x xxx x

If you are very competitive, I advise you to choose a character that can easily snake, such as Yoshi for instance. Snaking is the execution of multiple powerslide boosts consecutively. In Mario Kart DS, doing this allows you to gain a significant advantage against other non-snaking opponents.

Standard Characters

Shyguy

Shy GuyUnfortunately, this dude is only available in Single Card DS Download Play. By this, I mean that users without Mario Kart DS can play as him, as long as another Mario Kart DS owner/host allows them to.

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Unlockable Characters

Daisy Daisy

(Medium) Daisy controls similarly to Princess Peach.
- Unlock Daisy by winning all Retro Cups in 50cc.

Drybones Drybones

(Light) Drybones controls similarly to Koopa and Toad.
- Unlock Drybones by winning all Nitro Cups in 50cc.

Waluigi Waluigi

(Medium) Waluigi controls similarly to Luigi.
- Unlock Waluigi by winning all cups in 100cc.

ROB ROB

(Heavy) A weird addition to the Mario Kart series.
- Unlock ROB by getting all gold in Nitro Cup’s Mirror Mode.