Honestly, I didn't even react with Wave 3 announcement like the additional tracks should be for next Mario Kart game, not for 8 Deluxe.
I already lost the enthusiast about this game.
This is one of Nintendo's strategy that I do not like honestly, brought back the attention of the game that already 5 years old since Switch release and add something unnecessary that can be done for next installment.
@Fizza Oh I agree for sure, I love Christmas-themed levels as well. Makes me feel all festive and everything, lol! I also love listening to snow music from various Mario games while I decorate for Christmas. I wouldn't be surprised if Merry Mountain turns out to be my favorite course from wave 3... it probably will be! <3
I only recently starting playing Mario Kart Tour again and haven't played Merry Mountain, but if I loved the Christmas-themed snowy tracks in Diddy Kong Racing back on Nintendo 64, I should love this. It was a given that this track would be coming this holiday season or the next, so I'm glad it's this one!
It's coming, as it appears in a datamined banner for the pass featuring more tracks than the one they currently use; this banner also leaked Sky-High Sundae in advance, as well as Amsterdam Drift and Bangkok Rush before those tracks debuted in Tour. DK Summit was my favorite in Wii, so I'm stoked now that we have confirmation of halfpipes being brought into 8 Deluxe since that means they probably won't butcher it
Peach Gardens is an odd one, it's a good track but given the gradual difficulty increase for the Booster Course Pass it suggests the only possible remaining DS track that could be added is Airship Fortress given Bowser Castles have been avoided so far for MK8 (like the base game got Grumble Volcano and Wii U DLC got Koopa City instead) and Rainbow Road seems to be picked in such a way that the GCN and DS ones stand no chance of appearing. Hopefully a 2nd Booster Course Pass happens which adds tracks like DK Pass and Luigi's Mansion.
Merry Mountain is cool and it's fantastic to see half-pipes return given a bunch of Wii tracks used them (DK's Snowboard Cross, Koopa Cape, Maple Treeway, Dry Dry Ruins, Bowser's Castle, Rainbow Road).
@Anti-Matter To each their own. Feel free to sit back and wait for MK 9, but you're going to be waiting for a long time. The rest of us will enjoy the 48 new tracks. Which BTW costs me nothing anyway since I have the NSO Expansion Pack. I personally could care less about MK 9(or 10 if tour is 9) right now. 8 is old yes, but is still a beast and has aged very well.
To all you Mario Kart fans out there, are you aware of the Mario Kart leaks? Like the datamine for Mario Kart Tour, the prefix and music leak for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Booster Course Pass
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To all you Mario Kart fans out there, are you aware of the Mario Kart leaks? Like the datamine for Mario Kart Tour, the prefix and music leak for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Booster Course Pass
Not at all as I already lost my hype to follow the next tracks added.
My hype is on other games currently.
Here are the leaked courses that were found through music files via datamine:
Wave 3:
Tour London Loop
DS Peach Gardens
GBA Boo Lake/Broken Pier
3DS Rock Rock Mountain
Tour Berlin Byways
GCN Waluigi Stadium
Tour Merry Mountain
3DS Rainbow Road
Wave 4:
Tour Amsterdam Drift
Tour Singapore Speedway
Tour Los Angeles Laps
Here are the leaked courses that were found through datamine:
N64 Luigi Raceway (Officially announced and returned in Mario Kart Tour)
GBA Luigi Circuit
GBA Yoshi Desert
GCN Mushroom Bridge
GCN Daisy Cruiser (Returned in Mario Kart Tour)
GCN Waluigi Stadium
GCN DK Mountain
Wii Toad Factory
FlowerRingMobYI (Yoshi's Island Course)
Bathroom-themed Course
And others
That is all for the Mario Kart Leaks
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Apparently Tour dataminers have been able to determine a few more tracks headed to that game based on the way course IDs are organized within the files, which is apparently alphabetical. So we have evidence of GBA Boo Lake coming over GBA Broken Pier because the way the tracks are ordered in the files only offers room for the latter and not the former. The course IDs aren't static - for instance, SNES Ghost Valley 3 was previously datamined but currently lacks an ID slot - but it's a good signal of what to expect in Wave 3.
Oh, and to elaborate on Tour's datamines:
* GBA Bowser Castle 4 still seems likely, as a file originally titled PortalPropellerAgbbc was not used for Bowser Castle 3. Granted, it could be for an RMX Bowser's Castle instead
* GCN Mushroom Bridge's objects could also be for GCN Mushroom City - or we might be getting both[/spoiler] * DS Mario Circuit's Fire Piranha Plants were datamined * Wii Toad's Factory was not datamined. Conveyors are in the game, but its remaining track objects, like the crushers and tractors, are nowhere to be found. * Wii Dry Dry Ruins was datamined. * The 2 Wuhu island tracks were datamined. * SNES Ghost Valley 3, as previously mentioned, was datamined - it had an environmental file added to the game briefly during the Wario vs. Waluigi Tour * The ordering of course IDs indicates SNES Koopa Beach 1 is coming * Mob tracks are Tour's original courses. We need 3 more cities in 8 Deluxe to fill out the Booster Course Pass slots. and Mobat (Athens), Mobmd (Madrid), and Mobor (Orlando?) have the corresponding objects, while Cairo has been teased since launch based on the presence of the pyramids but remains absent * Additionally, there are several other Mob tracks like Mobdk and Mobnu, though it's unclear if these slots are possibly battle courses, and some might not have unique objects - Sky-High Sundae didn't have any and is Mobib in the files, which wasn't previously discovered as far as I know * Several courses already in 8 Deluxe have been confirmed through ID order or datamining, namely SNES Donut Plains 3, Wii Grumble Volcano, 3DS Music Park, and 3DS DK Jungle. * There are also a handful of additional tracks that wouldn't require unique course objects from Tour to be included, and so far, GBA Snow Land and DS Peach Gardens have been added to 8 Deluxe while falling into this camp. There's a chance we could see other tracks like N64 Wario Stadium, GBA Riverside Park or DS Desert Hills (its corresponding objects will be in the game for Grumble Volcano and Dry Dry Ruins) as a result.
[spoiler]* Lastly, in addition to Tour having all of 7's retros, it seems like it is set to receive every DS retro as well. It already has 10, with GBA Luigi Circuit being datamined, GCN Mushroom Bridge seemingly being datamined, and GBA Peach Circuit and GCN Luigi Circuit not requiring any unique objects. N64 Moo Moo Farm and N64 Banshee Boardwalk are the only exceptions to this, but I'm not sure if background cows would need to be programmed in as a unique object for the former, and for the latter, I think it'd just take scripting for the Cheep Cheep/Chomp and the removal of the weird cooler/coffin thing the bats flew out of for it to be a sensible inclusion. I can definitely see both being added.
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