These Custom Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Tracks Have Us Dreaming Of A Future Track Creator

If Mario Kart 9 have Track Maker, Bye bye Mod Nation, say Hello Tons of money for Nintendo Switch.

It has to be the next step. I’d love that. With track share. Would be amazing. Some classic tracks without the flying bits would be most welcome.

No 'Pepe Plaza'?

Seriously though, nice work!

I’d love to see Mario Kart get the Ultimate treatment with a track editor thrown in for good measure. And if they allowed you to customize your Mii similar to the way you were able to create your driver in Modnation Racers, we’ll have Mario & the gang racing against Iron Man, Freddy Kruger, Batman and Spider-Man in no time

All I want is coconut mall HD to happen in an official nintendo mario kart game, or at lease a mod that looks great. This is the stuff I'd pay 5$ for!

I’d say a level editor is a welcome feature but not a necessary one for me. I like the range of courses in MK8, but my favorite stages are usually some of the simpler ones like Donut Plains and Yoshi’s Circuit.

It would certainly add even more to the longevity of the game though.

@NotTelevision this is why I would welcome it though. Some simpler pure racing kart tracks would be wonderful. Like in the first couple of games. I’ll agree there are plenty of tracks and I’m far from bored with it.... just would love to see some simple tracks and I know people would recreate real life racing tracks and that could be fun too

This would be amazing. I never knew how much I was missing this untill I saw this article!

What about Mario Kart 9? Certainly Nintendo had enough time to make it, right? I think the success of MK8Deluxe is working against a new one. I might be in the minority, but I want MK9, not new things for the Wii U one (That I played to exhaustion) .

The did it for Excite Bike decades ago.

Just do Mario Kart Ultimate. Every racer, every track, every vehicle from previous releases, all in HD. Plus a few new ones. Smash has set the bar.

@JHDK getting blue shell'd on the tip on the last lap will likely stop me from coming first...

@JHDK I hope you cum in first place

That's awesome. I'd like to have the old SNES tracks remade in MK8. People could probably create crazy puzzle tracks too.

With all the small updates they've given Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, I kind of hope they'll reveal a DLC expansion exclusively for that game. I already went on a tangent last time we got MK8-related news over what I'd like to see specifically, so I'll spare you all another lengthy paragraph.

You guys realize how much time you spend wishing for stuff? You're all so unhappy with the Switch and it's library as it is.

Is Mario kart worth getting, not played it?

Oh my gosh a track creator would be SOOOOO amazing. NEEEED.

@Solomon18 That would be one long, hard race.

I don’t want a Track Editor for Mariokart. The Tracks from Nintendo are delicious. I don’t want thousands of do-it-yourself trash. Go an Play Minecraft.Too much crap, no more racing game. A few more first class tracks and a handful of the old tracks would be the right choice. Maybe with the Release of MK Tour there will be a big DLC update.

I think Nintendo said something about not working on Mario Kart 9 at the moment. I hope we at least get (more) DLC for Mario Kart 8.

@USWITCH64 I assume you mean 8 deluxe. In that case if you often have company or people to play with, or online (not my cup of tea). It’s worth it, I’ve easily put 50 hours in multiplayer alone. If you don’t like online or have company it’s a bit of a harder sell it doesn’t really excel in single player. Although if you have the money it’s a great game nonetheless.

@JohnnyC I'd be all for this. I'd be happy if they added a few tracks/characters/karts every few months as DLC to MK8D

@Riderkicker I'd pay Call of Duty season pass prices (ie the price of a full game) to get a regular supply of new tracks and characters. The mechanics are fine, just add more.

This would be crazy cool. So would a Mario 3d World

That shortcut on the vanilla lake was silly. How did they use a custom track online, anyway?

I have to admit, I'm surprised on the quality of these tracks. Seems like people really know how to make some good tracks. (I just remember the lots of empty, dull MKW custom tracks)

Now... I'll be down to port my SMK custom tracks and remake them on MK8DX 👀

@USWITCH64 it’s the best game on the switch by a country mile

@Jayofmaya Everyone in the room has to have the track loaded, here are some of the races from my POV if you're interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ikf3MUqL4o

Let's shed a tear for future F-Zero and the F-Zero X Expansion Kit

@wal - I agree, I think it would be a bad move for Nintendo to release a track editor for Mario Kart.
It cheapens the brand and floods it with garbage. Online play would suck because you'd all have to have the same track downloaded, and they'd have to be approved by Nintendo in case they're unfinished, offensive, etc. It would be a nightmare.
Some fan-made tracks will definitely be amazing gems but I think overall a track maker would harm the series.

Mario Maker has already cheapened 2D Mario games, and it's killed any chance of a new official 2D game for a long time. Now if Nintendo wanted to do another 2D Mario, it would have to be years down the road and it would have to look completely different in order to distinguish it from fan-made courses.

MK8 DX is not the end of the line. Nintendo can always think up a new concept or ideas for MK9 if they wanted to. Or they can simply focus on DLC tracks.

@USWITCH64 Are you kidding? You must be kidding?

If you are serious, then, yes, it is very much worth getting. It is the best Kart racer. It is the go-to game for family night or when a friend visits.

And I think Mario Kart maker would be great, but I would actually prefer a Mario Kart 9.

If they are going to make a track creator, I'd hope it'd be something between Labo Motorcycle Track Creator and the N64 DD version of F-Zero X's creator. The Labo creator had a unique idea with using the Joy-Con, and F-Zero X DD was really robust for a track creator (if I'm remembering correctly).

How come these people that custom make these thing make them better than the original lol

I would love a Splatoon themed track where there are ink based short cuts and one of the items you can get is the ability to turn into a squid for like 5 seconds to utilize those short cuts.

If this was on deluxe id actually have a reason to get it.

@USWITCH64 No, it's the worst game in the world. Never buy it. Nintendo is doomed if they continue the series.

I think an adventure/story mode for the next MK would be good

A bit meta,and it's kind of a rant, but I have to say it:

I love this community, but it does seem to have a short term memory when it comes to the hacking scene. We pan the idea of hacking the switch and it's games, but absolutely love this stuff? I love these mods as much as the next guy, (and a few of us here) understand that not all hackers have nafarious intentions. In fact, few do. The overlap of pirates and hackers is actually few, and some hackers even go out of their way to make it DIFFICULT to pirate games.

Many hackers work with or are modders themselves. They love Nintendo games, and they only want to make the experience better for everyone. Let's just not jump on everyone who knows how to run unsigned code.

I've seen other Mario Kart 8 custom tracks--a remaster of MKDS's Rainbow Road is among the best--but that Vanilla Lake remake is top-notch. Very well done.

After Smash Bros., I'm in desperate need of "Mario Kart Ultimate," with every single race track and character from previous installments.

@wal to be honest a track editor doesn’t appeal hugely to me either. Moving forward I’d like to see them ship the base game with a good number of tracks (as they did with 8) but to then really ramp up the post release support with say a new track every month or new cup quarterly which could be made up of either remasters of old tracks or new ones. Maybe also add a character each 3 months or so and maintain that support for 2 or 3 years which would give you an absolutely terrific amount of content.

Also feel like every single Mario Kart ever releases has had maybe 1/3 of the number of battle arenas as I’d actually like to see. Given how simple many of those are I’d really love to see a release that had a high number of those arenas in it.

@MattFox Agreed. That is what they should be focusing on. It has been too long since a brand new entry in the series. I want to see what is next in terms of innovation, for this franchise. I don't want consistent updates to a game I have already played way too much on Wii U.

I like the custom track but why would they make the hub so bad and the sound effects too

Would be great...

@dugan ok thanks, never heard of mario kart before

@DeathByLasagna thanks for the info,will stay clear of it then as I don't want to contribute to Nintendo's downfall

I read many comments about having ALL the characters in the next big Mario Kart. Do we really need them ALL?

The Koopalings could stay, but the babies? There are too many filler characters, like Tanooki Mario and Cat Peach. Could care less for Metal Mario and Pink Gold Peach. Bring the likes of ROB and Funky Kong.

Yes I would very much love a Super Mario Kart Maker thank you very much.

I've never really played with custom Mario Kart tracks because I simply prefer things to be official, and you need to hack your consoles for it which I'd rather not do, but I do like the idea of being able to build your own Mario Kart tracks. I'd personally get a ton more fun out of it than I ever would in Mario Maker to be honest.

Also @Mew2Senshi Characters like Tanooki/Metal Mario and Cat/Pink Gold Peach can become palette/costume swaps (possibly with stat changes). The babies, I feel, have enough fans to warrant a spot; at least Babies Mario, Luigi and Peach, anyway. Babies Daisy and Rosalina can maybe become a Baby Peach alternate.

That said, I don't really care if those characters you mentioned (aside from the Baby Bros and possibly Baby Peach) would stay away either. Especially those invented specifically for Mario Kart; Pink Gold Peach, Baby Daisy and Baby Rosalina.

@JohnnyC With snaking included? We need that to be real!

@Yosher, pallete swapping, like what they do with Link and the Inklings? Not a bad idea. It can even be done with Bowser, Jr. and the Koopalings like it's been done in Smash.

Great idea, since I like the idea of a roster full of veterans, but it would be oversaturated, even by Mario Kart standards.

I would LOVE a Mario Kart Maker. And a Pokemon World Maker too

@Incarta
For your own Pokémon game you could use GB Studio. It’s free on pc and Mac and you can make real Gameboy Roms or play it online.

@MattFox I think they are doing a super smash ultimate thing on MK9 which is why we haven't heard anything from it yet. I'm pretty sure in MK9 we will have all the drivers and tracks from previous games including a few new ones.

@UnbreakableAlex Looks good. I might give it a go to see if it's as easy as they say. I'd still be interested to see if Nintendo could create an interface as simple as the Mario Maker one.

@Incarta

It could be as easy as easy as flying around while the track builds up behind you. Afterwards you could tweak the track a little.

@TAndvig I`d be okay with that, but they are taking their sweet time with it. I just hope we get it soon, cause I want a Mario Kart, but not the same I played countless hours on the Wii U lol.