LogFAQs > #883839114

I know about holding an item behind, jeez. Sometimes you don't get one though and only the horn helps with a blue shell.

GanonsSpirit posted...

I found it easier than earlier Mario Karts, because you just have to get first on every track, rather than it having some weird algorithm that decides how many stars you get.

So... all you have to do is do the very best you possibly can do? To be fair, I'm not really sure what you're talking about with the other games though. 64 is the only other one I really played extensively and in that there aren't star values. There's just one level of gold, and you only have to have the most points, not necessarily winning every race.