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StarTopic Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass |ST| Doubled Dash!! [WAVE 6 AVAILABLE NOW]

What is your favorite course in Wave 6?

  • Rome Avanti

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • DK Mountain

    Votes: 7 14.6%

  • Daisy Circuit

    Votes: 1 2.1%

  • Piranha Plant Cove

    Votes: 3 6.3%

  • Madrid Drive

    Votes: 1 2.1%

  • Rosalina's Ice World

    Votes: 7 14.6%

  • SNES Bowser Castle 3

    Votes: 11 22.9%

  • Wii Rainbow Road

    Votes: 18 37.5%
  • Total voters
    48
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SirShorse said:
There's still another DK Tour track coming? Doesn't that make DK Mountain more likely than DDJ?
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No. He means a DK Nitro track from Tour. Not DK Mountain. And there’s no guarentee it’s a DK track, either, the initials are “MobDK”, but it could stand for something else other than Donkey Kong.

Magic-Man said:
Daisy Cruiser is a given. Dino Dino Jungle is probably more likely than DK Mountain (we just got DK Summit and there's a leaked DK Tour track coming to the BCP). Wario Colosseum isn't happening, we got Waluigi Stadium instead. The last GCN track for the BCP is completely unknown. I'm thinking it's Bowser Castle.
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It’s probably not Bowser’s Castle. It has no objects datamined for it, and the GCN track for Wave 6 is datamined to be the second course of the cup, and probably will not move (as a Tour Nitro takes place right after, in the same spot as Merry Mountain was in Wave 3)

Much more likely we’re getting Mushroom Bridge or City somewhere in there. The cars have been datamined for a long time in Tour.
 
Sunshinemario said:
No. He means a DK Nitro track from Tour. Not DK Mountain. And there’s no guarentee it’s a DK track, either, the initials are “MobDK”, but it could stand for something else other than Donkey Kong.



It’s probably not Bowser’s Castle. It has no objects datamined for it, and the GCN track for Wave 6 is datamined to be the second course of the cup, and probably will not move (as a Tour Nitro takes place right after, in the same spot as Merry Mountain was in Wave 3)

Much more likely we’re getting Mushroom Bridge or City somewhere in there. The cars have been datamined for a long time in Tour.
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The GCN track in the Spiny Cup is the second one, I’m predicting Dino Dino Jungle as that was the second track in DD’s special cup
 
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Leo said:
Well, yeah, since we only use one Switch, it's only one account actually playing online. For me that works well, since it means I can play online with him without him needing to be subscribed to NSO.

I think an easy way to solve the problem in your case was to have a "bring a friend" function when playing online so you could always be together on the same lobby. But I think that's only possible playing split screen on one Switch currently.
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But what I’m saying is that there are games that allow you to play with both profiles at the same time, on the same system. Games like Fitness Boxing, Mario Party Superstars, Nintendo Switch Sports, and, of course, Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Like, yeah, we both have our own Switch systems, but that doesn’t mean we always want to be playing on separate systems, especially when we may only have one copy of a game that we share between the two of us. That’s how we play Nintendo Switch Sports, for example; we play against random players online together on the same system, using both profiles at the same time, so it not only uses both players’ save data but also has both profiles actively online at the same time and logs their play time (which is important to me).

Of course, you’re right in that the way MK8D handles it is preferable if only one of you has an active NSO membership, I guess, since the second player save data functionality is limited to online play in MK8D anyway, but it’s a bummer for people like us who both have NSO memberships (via the same family plan) and would appreciate the same features that other games can utilize to play with two profiles at the same time.
 
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Sunshinemario said:
No. He means a DK Nitro track from Tour. Not DK Mountain. And there’s no guarentee it’s a DK track, either, the initials are “MobDK”, but it could stand for something else other than Donkey Kong.
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No chance it's not Donkey Kong. I'd be willing to put down cash on that.


Sunshinemario said:
It’s probably not Bowser’s Castle. It has no objects datamined for it, and the GCN track for Wave 6 is datamined to be the second course of the cup, and probably will not move (as a Tour Nitro takes place right after, in the same spot as Merry Mountain was in Wave 3)

Much more likely we’re getting Mushroom Bridge or City somewhere in there. The cars have been datamined for a long time in Tour.
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Mushroom Bridge probably would have been in Wave 4 due to the easy nature of the course, and Mushroom City would be another generic city track in a pass with 14 others. I'd be shocked if we didn't get a Bowser Castle in Wave 6.
 
Maybe we could get some kind of Tour original Bowser Castle track? There's four more Tour Nitro tracks coming. Piranha Plant Cove, a DK track, a bathroom track, and one mystery track. Who knows what it could be?
 
I could see a classic arcade Donkey Kong track that becomes New Donk City. Plus it's an excuse for yet more Jump Up Superstar and New Donk City theme remixes.

Sidenote: Who at Nintendo really loves Singapore? That Tour track is just so incredible.
 
Regarding “mobdk”—while it’s assumed to be a Donkey Kong course, since we already have a Donkey Kong Country themed course in MK8D with DK Jungle, could this one end up being a Donkey Kong arcade themed course instead, I wonder? Would make sense if Pauline is being added alongside it… I’d expect that over New Donk City (even though they’re supposed to be the same location), because NDC would specifically be a Super Mario Odyssey course instead of a Donkey Kong course, so the “mobdk” name wouldn’t make much sense.

Also, why do people still use “nitro” for new courses? Wasn’t that term only ever used in Mario Kart DS, and only because Nitro was the code name of the DS? So effectively it specifically refers to new DS courses, not any new course.
 
Magic-Man said:
No chance it's not Donkey Kong. I'd be willing to put down cash on that.



Mushroom Bridge probably would have been in Wave 4 due to the easy nature of the course, and Mushroom City would be another generic city track in a pass with 14 others. I'd be shocked if we didn't get a Bowser Castle in Wave 6.
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So is the course’s name just going to be “Donkey Kong?”
That doesn’t sound right at all.
Remember
MobIB = Ice Building
MobHC = Hill Climb
MobYI = Yoshi’s Island
MobDK = …Donkey Kong?

Also, we know a GCN track was moved out of Wave 4 to make space for Waluigi Stadium (which was supposed to be in Wave 3).
The GCN course in Wave 6 is probably Dino Dino Jungle, not Bowser’s Castle.

SirShorse said:
What is a DK Nitro track? Sorry I'm not really into Tour so I don't really know anything about it.
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Think of courses like Sky High Sundae or Merry Mountain. Something like that, but themed to Donkey Kong.
 
Jahranimo said:
I could see a classic arcade Donkey Kong track that becomes New Donk City. Plus it's an excuse for yet more Jump Up Superstar and New Donk City theme remixes.

Sidenote: Who at Nintendo really loves Singapore? That Tour track is just so incredible.
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Tye said:
Regarding “mobdk”—while it’s assumed to be a Donkey Kong course, since we already have a Donkey Kong Country themed course in MK8D with DK Jungle, could this one end up being a Donkey Kong arcade themed course instead, I wonder? Would make sense if Pauline is being added alongside it… I’d expect that over New Donk City (even though they’re supposed to be the same location), because NDC would specifically be a Super Mario Odyssey course instead of a Donkey Kong course, so the “mobdk” name wouldn’t make much sense.

Also, why do people still use “nitro” for new courses? Wasn’t that term only ever used in Mario Kart DS, and only because Nitro was the code name of the DS? So effectively it specifically refers to new DS courses, not any new course.
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New Donk City would probably be separate from the DK track. It might be our mystery track instead (I'm surprised it hasn't happened already tbh).

Sunshinemario said:
So is the course’s name just going to be “Donkey Kong?”
That doesn’t sound right at all.
Remember
MobIB = Ice Building
MobHC = Hill Climb
MobYI = Yoshi’s Island
MobDK = …Donkey Kong?
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No? The code names are never the final name, they just revolve around ideas. DK normally stands for Donkey Kong, so it's probably a track based around that character and series.
 
I will say that it's amusing that the term "Nitro track" kinda stuck as the term fans use for "new track." Nintendo makes one clever reference to the DS code name in Mario Kart DS to differentiate the new and old courses, and it somehow stuck.

Imagine if "Wii courses" stuck instead, for some reason?
 
Sunshinemario said:
So is the course’s name just going to be “Donkey Kong?”
That doesn’t sound right at all.
Remember
MobIB = Ice Building
MobHC = Hill Climb
MobYI = Yoshi’s Island
MobDK = …Donkey Kong?

Also, we know a GCN track was moved out of Wave 4 to make space for Waluigi Stadium (which was supposed to be in Wave 3).
The GCN course in Wave 6 is probably Dino Dino Jungle, not Bowser’s Castle.


Think of courses like Sky High Sundae or Merry Mountain. Something like that, but themed to Donkey Kong.
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If I get Daisy Cruiser, Dino Dino Jungle and something like Mushroom City/Bridge I think I might actually just pass away and ascend to heaven
 
Magic-Man said:
New Donk City would probably be separate from the DK track. It might be our mystery track instead (I'm surprised it hasn't happened already tbh).


No? The code names are never the final name, they just revolve around ideas. DK normally stands for Donkey Kong, so it's probably a track based around that character and series.
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Maybe I'm confused, but I wasn't trying to refute a new DK track. Just giving some ideas of what they could do.
 
VolcanicDynamo said:
I will say that it's amusing that the term "Nitro track" kinda stuck as the term fans use for "new track." Nintendo makes one clever reference to the DS code name in Mario Kart DS to differentiate the new and old courses, and it somehow stuck.

Imagine if "Wii courses" stuck instead, for some reason?
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It’s so weird; I dunno why people don’t just say “new course” instead of “nitro course”—it’s less characters and syllables, after all, and more correct! I don’t understand why fan terms that are actually longer than the official terms are ever popularized by the community. Kinda like how many people insist on calling Wii “the Nintendo Wii” even though “Nintendo” isn’t and has never been part of the official name, nor has Nintendo ever referred to it as such. It’s just making the name longer and sound worse! Yet people continue to call it that, while simultaneously using shorter, unofficial terms like “Wiimote” in place of Wii Remote… It doesn’t make any sense!! lol
 
Mushroom Bridge was a flower cup course, and in Wave 2, there were some mushroom cup tracks remade (Mushroom Gorge and Kalimari Desert)
Wave 2 was in the middle like Wave 5 is

Not entirely unreasonable to think Mushroom Bridge could’ve been the Wave 4 GCN track (cnsw 46) but was replaced with Waluigi Stadium (cnsw 36) and moved to Wave 5

I really would prefer Mushroom City, as that track is a lot better and has never been remade before, but I think if we get either of the two it’s going to be Bridge.

It’s worth it, just to get a remix of the music
 
By the way, as quiet as the music is in 8DX, it's nowhere near as bad as in Mario Kart Wii. My friend and I have been playing it recently, and we've actually gotten irritated over how loud the SFX are compared to anything else. They are obnoxiously loud, and you can barely hear the music at all. It could be worse.
 
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Sunshinemario said:
Mushroom Bridge was a flower cup course, and in Wave 2, there were some mushroom cup tracks remade (Mushroom Gorge and Kalimari Desert)
Wave 2 was in the middle like Wave 5 is

Not entirely unreasonable to think Mushroom Bridge could’ve been the Wave 4 GCN track (cnsw 46) but was replaced with Waluigi Stadium (cnsw 36) and moved to Wave 5

I really would prefer Mushroom City, as that track is a lot better and has never been remade before, but I think if we get either of the two it’s going to be Bridge.

It’s worth it, just to get a remix of the music
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I think we get Bridge and Daisy Cruiser in Wave 5. Wasn't one Wave supposed to have two GCN courses? Also, as they've shown, they're not afraid to shift things around.
 
BlueSpirit20 said:
I think we get Bridge and Daisy Cruiser in Wave 5. Wasn't one Wave supposed to have two GCN courses? Also, as they've shown, they're not afraid to shift things around.
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Prefix datamine did not have a wave with more than one gcn track but due to the shuffling, we have 3 gcn tracks left across 2 waves so one wave  needs to double up on gcn
 
BlueSpirit20 said:
I think we get Bridge and Daisy Cruiser in Wave 5. Wasn't one Wave supposed to have two GCN courses? Also, as they've shown, they're not afraid to shift things around.
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One wave was supposed to have two Wii courses, actually. But then Maple Treeway got moved to Wave 3. So now one wave is going to need to have two GCN courses if the prefix slots still hold up.
 
Sunshinemario said:
One wave was supposed to have two Wii courses, actually. But then Maple Treeway got moved to Wave 3. So now one wave is going to need to have two GCN courses if the prefix slots still hold up.
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Thank you. Two Wii tracks in one wave, was that Wave 6 that I'm guessing was supposed to have Maple Treeway and Wii Rainbow Road?
 
Sunshinemario said:
So is the course’s name just going to be “Donkey Kong?”
That doesn’t sound right at all.
Remember
MobIB = Ice Building
MobHC = Hill Climb
MobYI = Yoshi’s Island
MobDK = …Donkey Kong?
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Hill Climb isn't the final name for Merry Mountain anywhere (in Japanaese it's Merry Merry Mountain); these internal names don't need to be the final name, and so far haven't been for all but Sky-High Sundae (Japanese name) and Yoshi's Island, including the two not mentioned:

MobNM = Ninja Mansion (retained as the in-universe name for the location of the course in marketing, but Ninja Hideaway / Nin Nin Dojo is the name of the course itself).
MobOR = Ocean Ruins (not even close to Piranha Plant Cove or Piranha Temple; doesn't seem like the Petey theming was part of the initial concept).

I'm not 100% confident in the course being Donkey Kong themed either, but it's at least a more reasonable theory than one of the others I see floating around (DK = Dokan = Pipe).

Tye said:
Regarding “mobdk”—while it’s assumed to be a Donkey Kong course, since we already have a Donkey Kong Country themed course in MK8D with DK Jungle, could this one end up being a Donkey Kong arcade themed course instead, I wonder? Would make sense if Pauline is being added alongside it… I’d expect that over New Donk City (even though they’re supposed to be the same location), because NDC would specifically be a Super Mario Odyssey course instead of a Donkey Kong course, so the “mobdk” name wouldn’t make much sense.
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All we know about MobDK is that it has a unique glide object (not sure what the effect would be), and it has halfpipes that are attached to a seperate object rather than be part of the course model (perhaps halfpipes that are enabled between lap? glider ramps have done it so why not).

Can't really gather much of a course theme from that, besides that DK tracks are decently well associated with half-pipes thanks to Summit and Mountain in Wii. Hopefully the version update that should be arriving during the next Tour (as Tour is currently lacking some of the objects for Yoshi's Island that 8DX has) can shine a bit more of a light on it.
 
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Reviewing over the Tour tracks I'm even more bummed that the DS and 3DS tracks are what they are. Obviously I love Waluigi Pinball (even if they haven't fixed the sound effects in it yet...), but Airship Fortress and Luigi's Mansion out for Mario Circuit and Shroom Ridge (I mean I like both on their own merits, but aesthetically, Airship and Mansion are super unique) is rough. Meanwhile I love Rainbow Road 3DS at least, but then Toad Circuit and Rock Rock Mountain are both once again very plain aesthetically tracks when we had like Rosalina's Ice World, Wario's Shipyard, and Shy Guy Bazar there to fill out the roster of maps. Like there's a lot of choosing the very basic green color palette tracks in favor of more complicated ones. There's so many just more interesting and varied tracks being left behind for more simple ones and it just bums me out.

3DS in particular I'm kind of shocked we're getting so few of considering how many were in Tour and in decent shape...
 
Is there any possible chance that the datamine prefixes changed and swapped with other courses

I mean I know they’ve all been pretty accurate. But with each wave, we get further from the initial datamine and higher chances plans changed
 
Phendrift said:
Is there any possible chance that the datamine prefixes changed and swapped with other courses

I mean I know they’ve all been pretty accurate. But with each wave, we get further from the initial datamine and higher chances plans changed
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The only thing that has changed from the prefix datamine is the ordering. The filenames of the bcp tracks directly prove the prefix datamine which shows that nintendo have decided every track to be in the pass before wave 1 released so it's very unlikely that anything is actually getting swapped out for another course
 
Phendrift said:
Is there any possible chance that the datamine prefixes changed and swapped with other courses

I mean I know they’ve all been pretty accurate. But with each wave, we get further from the initial datamine and higher chances plans changed
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It might be possible if we get more waves, but I imagine that the current courses are locked down otherwise. It would be too time consuming to change plans this late.
 
Skipper93653 said:
The only thing that has changed from the prefix datamine is the ordering. The filenames of the bcp tracks directly prove the prefix datamine which shows that nintendo have decided every track to be in the pass before wave 1 released so it's very unlikely that anything is actually getting swapped out for another course
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Magic-Man said:
It might be possible if we get more waves, but I imagine that the current courses are locked down otherwise. It would be too time consuming to change plans this late.
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Ahhh so the prefixes are still there? I would’ve thought Nintendo would remove them after the initial datamine
 
Phendrift said:
Ahhh so the prefixes are still there? I would’ve thought Nintendo would remove them after the initial datamine
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The prefixes are removed but they are still proven by the filenames of the tracks released. Such as DS Mario Circuit being Cnsw_43, but as we know, it isn't the 3rd track of the 4th wave but actually the 6th track of the 4th wave so why isn't it Cnsw_46? Well, that's how we know it was shuffled from it's original position... and guess what? Back when the prefixes were datamined when wave 1 released, there was a DS prefix for the 3rd track of the 4th wave and now we know it was for DS Mario Circuit. It was all planned from before the very beginning.
 
I really don't think we're gonna be done with Mario Kart 8 DLC after Wave 6 releases. There's so much stuff already in or datamined to come to Tour that won't make it into this Pass for some reason, including some big fan favorites. Luigi's Mansion, Airship Fortress, DK Pass, DK Mountain (or Dino Dino Jungle, depends on which gets in), Wario Shipyard, the Wuhu Island tracks, Shy Guy Bazaar, Bowser Castle from ANY game, Rosalinas Ice World, Frappe Snowland, Daisy Hills, Ghost Valley, the list goes on and on. It doesn't make sense to stop now. Why continue to make courses for Tour that won't make their way over? I don't get it.
 
I really can’t see us getting more DLC for additional race courses. They’re already doubling the amount of those with the Booster Course Pass. Now, DLC for more battle courses and characters? Possibly, but I’m certainly not expecting it. Unfortunately a lot of Tour’s content isn’t going to leave Tour and will just disappear when the game inevitably shuts down. Such is the way of mobile games, sadly… (I’m still not over Miitomo shutting down…)
 
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Magic-Man said:
I really don't think we're gonna be done with Mario Kart 8 DLC after Wave 6 releases. There's so much stuff already in or datamined to come to Tour that won't make it into this Pass for some reason, including some big fan favorites. Luigi's Mansion, Airship Fortress, DK Pass, DK Mountain (or Dino Dino Jungle, depends on which gets in), Wario Shipyard, the Wuhu Island tracks, Shy Guy Bazaar, Bowser Castle from ANY game, Rosalinas Ice World, Frappe Snowland, Daisy Hills, Ghost Valley, the list goes on and on. It doesn't make sense to stop now. Why continue to make courses for Tour that won't make their way over? I don't get it.
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Because Tour will likely stop getting new, original courses after the BCP ends which was likely a reason why the BCP even exists: to preserve all of Tour's original courses. It's why the pass is filled to the brim with them and even why it's called the Booster Course Pass as 'Booster' is the internal codename for Mario Kart Tour. Once it has every original Tour course, there's no need to continue anymore as there is now a permanent place to play those tracks.
 
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Apopheniac said:
They don't need to cram everything from Tour into 8DX when they're cooking up the next game that can also inherit that shit
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Yeah that’s what’s surprising me most about this discussion

I’ve already filed away stuff like Moonview Highway, Airship Fortress, Rosalina’s Ice World etc. as retro tracks for MK10 (I consider it 9 but I know y’all will be annoying about that lol)

Like… the series isn’t ending here lol
 
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Skipper93653 said:
I doubt they will bring back any of the city courses and from datamines, it is pretty clear they are cramming every original Tour track into 8DX.
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I don't see why tracks from 8DX or Tour wouldn't make it into the next game, the MK games with retros all have stuff from their immediate predecessors.

BCP will probably get all of the Tour courses through this year but there'll be still be shit like character alts and kart parts that most people are betting on getting reused in MK9
 
Yoshi's Island has got to already be one of my favourite tracks in the entire series. What an incredible love letter to one of my favourite games.
 
To go back a bit in the discussion (got caught up for a bit and couldn't finish this reply 😅); I don't mind the DS choices on their own personally:
  • Shroom Ridge has been a personal want of mine from back when I thought "Mario Kart NX" would happen; very happy with this one.
  • Waluigi Pinball is an unquestionable fan favourite, I know nobody is wondering why this one is included.
  • I have a personal preference for Delfino Square, if they had to bring back one DS retro from Wii, but Peach Gardens is fine too.
  • Mario Circuit is one of the better circuit tracks in the series (being a Star Cup tier course and all) so I don't mind it seeing it remade for the first time.
I just wish they found a way to slip Airship Fortress in there in addition to the others. Would give DS an equal number of tracks to GBA and GCN. Luigi's Mansion is a relatively simple Mushroom Cup track so I don't mind it missing out too much; especially since we have GCN Luigi's Mansion as a battle course, with an arrangement of the DS track's music.

For 3DS I can't help but admit i'm not a huge fan of the choices, yeah; considering Tour has every track from Mario Kart 7 (the remaining four datamined) available to pick from, Toad Circuit and Rock Rock Mountain don't really stand out too much (except in their visuals, standing out as the worst looking tracks in their waves). Can't say I wouldn't have preferred to see Shy Guy Bazaar (supposedly cut from the base game DLC too), Wario Shipyard (though Piranha Plant Cove lessens the blow on this one a lot), one of the Wuhu tracks (they aren't in Tour yet but they do have some objects datamined), Rosalina's Ice World (not a personal fan but I know others are) or Bowser's Castle (if we aren't getting a 3D Bowser's Castle from another game like N64 or GCN).


It'll admittedly be a bit disappointing to see Tour go down with certain retro tracks that haven't been remade elsewhere before; a Vanilla Lake, Cheep-Cheep Island, Yoshi Desert, Bowser Castle 4, Daisy Circuit, Dry Dry Ruins, (potentially) Moonview Highway and the 3DS tracks listed above; but I think they're striking a good balance between remade before and never remade overall.
 
SirShorse said:
Is there actually a chance we get more waves? No right?
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as part of this pass, probably not

but no, there's probably a good chance they do more later given what the reception for this is like. unless they've been sitting on MK9 for the next system, they seem wary to make an actual successor
 
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