The friend then needs to accept that friend invite.

(As of the time of this writing, you actually do need to write down or photograph the other local player profile's friend code the Switch won't 'look it up' for you!)

Then, from the Switch's main system menu, one player can add the other local player via their Friend Code.

(Mario Kart 8 Deluxe will prompt to you do this if you haven't done it already when you try to upload a ghost after finishing a time trial.)

Both players need to have their Switch player profiles linked to My Nintendo accounts.

You need to add the other local player as a friend on the Switch's main menu.It IS possible to race against other 'local ghosts' (ghosts from other player profiles on your Switch), but the procedure is a bit convoluted: Update: I've purchased the game and my experience is in an answer below. Is sharing local ghosts something that can be done more easily on the switch, or is it using the same system as the Wii U?īonus question: when downloading 'Online Ghosts', do you have different options besides the top 10 of all time and a few other people within milliseconds of you? This was a very simple task on the Wii, you could just access all the local ghosts. We tried everything, but in the end we only had access to a fraction of each other's ghosts, sporadically. We'd all friend/follow each other, change our private/public settings, post to miiverse and wait, ext, ext and it just wouldn't work consistently. However accessing each other's ghosts was very problematic.

On the Wii U, my friends and I would all run time trials on the same machine, under different profiles. I'm trying to assess whether the deluxe version has some functionality I've been really wanting. I don't currently have Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, only the Wii U version.

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