Baby Rosalina in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Race Condition: “No Red Shells” | Baby Rosalina Month (2024)

An offline VS Race gameplay session, played as Baby Rosalina - while racing with additional “challenge” restrictions. She is driving in the Gold Kart vehicle, with Cushion wheels and the Paraglider.


During each course, Baby Rosalina is driving under a specific racing condition. In this video, the racing condition is titled, “No Red Shells.”
This is one of 15 conditions that Dani had created for offline VS Race sessions, like this one; more information can be seen further below. For the “No Red Shells” condition, Red Shells could not be used.
This means that no other items could be used when a Red Shell was in the first item slot (this refers to the larger of two the circles for items, which appear by the top-left of the screen). The original document with the conditions provided some detail about what classifies as “using an item,” but the rules may need to be reviewed further.
For this play session, the most relevant information is that the rules prevented Baby Rosalina from throwing any Red Shells in any direction, or allowing any Red Shells in her possession to hit another racer. She was still able to hold a Red Shell behind her (by holding the item button); this allowed her to dispose of the item by entering an explosion while holding it behind her.


Video no. 817
9th Century of Videos
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Offline, Race Condition)
Game Mode: Single-Player, VS Race
Character: Baby Rosalina
Vehicle Combination: Gold Kart, Cushion, Paraglider
Engine Size: 150cc
Number of Races: 4
Race Condition: “No Red Shells”
Notes: Since these conditions were created as an offline alternative for the “13,530 project,” the vehicle combination used in this video was selected using randomly generated numbers (generated via www.random.org). This process was also used to select between the 15 conditions.
The Gold Glider is the 12th glider in the order seen within the game. Since this glider was not yet unlocked for this Save Data, the Paraglider appeared as the 13th glider in the order (instead of the 14th glider).
A scoring or ranking system was also proposed to assess a player’s overall performance, instead of considering the race condition as “failed” for using one Red Shell. However, the system had not been developed before this play session, so it was dismissed for this video.
This concept would work similarly to the ranking system proposed for this channel’s Project 4; an example of this system can be seen here (each time Rosalina uses a Kick-Bomb in the linked video):    • Super Mario 3D World (Rosalina) | Wor...  

Additional sounds and soundtrack were used in this video. They were from Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and Mario Kart Wii respectively - sourced either from a video recording by Dani, The Sounds Resource, or KHInsider.

Baby Rosalina’s first appearance in a video game was in Mario Kart 8, for the Nintendo Wii U. In Japan, this game was released on the 29th of May 2014, and it was released in Europe on the 30th of May 2014. Baby Rosalina Month is a concept that was created to celebrate Baby Rosalina’s existence, throughout the month of May. This video references the number of days remaining until the 30th of May 2024. The text for “Baby Rosalina Month 2024” uses a fanmade font named “Delfino.”

“13,530 project” playlist:    • Baby Rosalina and the 13,530 combinat...  
Baby Rosalina Month (2020):    • Baby Rosalina Month (2020)  
Baby Rosalina Month (2022):    • Baby Rosalina Month (2022)  
“No Items Back” race condition:    • Baby Rosalina in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe ...  
(The above video link may be replaced with a playlist for Baby Rosalina Month (2024) in the future).