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As much as I loved the Booster Course Pass we got, I think your own take on the BCP is quite interesting. I definitely agree with the removals of Toad Circuit and Mario Circuit 3. Interesting that you swapped the two Rainbow Roads. But, hey, I'm not complaining. And adding in Airship Fortress and Yoshi Desert in your version was a VERY smart choice cause, for the former, it was a crime that it weren't in the released version. And for the former, I definitely agree that it should've been in the BCP instead of Sunset Wilds (since the MK8 engine dosen't support the sunset gimmick for some reason). And whilst I like Kalimari Desert and Peach Gardens, I fully understand their removals due to their re-routes. Same goes with Mushroom Gorge and Daisy Circuit. Whilst I don’t mind Wii's overrepresntation in the released version, I can understand you removing them.

YOU DID NOT SAVE THE BEST CITY FOR LAST!!!!!

I'll be making edits on this comment bare with me 9:43 you do realize ninja hideaway isn't a nitro course, it was a tour course 11:20 same with Merry mountain. It was also a tour course The only Nitro courses in booster are sky high sundae, squeaky clean sprint and Yoshi's island. Even though Yoshi's island came to tour after the wave but I'm letting it slide cause the music really slaps I'm not feeling it with boomerang cup choices, the middle feels too bland the end will just make me sleep. Not saying I hate the track but it's not a great order I was sorta on the fence of another Bowser castle being added and piranha plant pipeline, but I've seen it in videos on tour few minutes after this video ended, I'm just it letting it slide. But I'm offended by removing peach gardens, mushroom gorge and Rosalinas ice world. Daisy's circuit fine, I guess. DK mountain, ok sure. The rest yeah I agree those weren't my real favorites But other than that, not too bad choices

I haven’t seen anyone mention this yet in the comments but the golden dash cup has toad circuit before choco mountain usually, and not the other way around like shown in the video.

The only real improvement here is wave 5 for removing sunset wilds and adding airship fortress. Otherwise there were way too many good tracks removed in favor of much more boring alternatives. Kind of an overall downgrade ngl

An easy fix is to add some kart parts from Tour cause frankly I'm so tired of the same decade old selection.

Why swap the 2 Rainbow Roads? Wii’s Rainbow Road is too special and difficult to be placed in wave 3.

I'd say your changes to the BCP are my favourites out of everyone's so far, a lot of interesting changes that fit the new placements. I find it funny how the only changes I'd make to your list, is swap the order of Moonview and Airship, and then Vanilla and Maple around

...yeah, I don't honestly know if I want for Snow Land and Vanilla Lake 2 to be in the same game again (at least not one that doesn't have most all MK courses)

Will we still have flat textors?

Tour is main series it’s mk9 <3 also hi!! Your vid is in my recommended! 🙂

The fuck are you talking about? The pass isn't broken

I don’t really understand the reasoning behind removing both kalimari desert and peach gardens as they’re the only retro tracks that received different routes

I don’t understand removing 3DS Rainbow Road from the Moon Cup. It makes a lot of sense being there as a large portion of it takes place on the moon… Wii Rainbow Road just feels like a better BCP ender anyways

Nah all i’m doing is removing the tour courses and forcing them to put effort in by fixing courses like Koopa Cape, Coconut Mall, and Sky Garden, and replacing the tour content with Toad Factory, Airship Fortress, Wuhu Loop, Maka Wuhu, DS Rainbow Road, GBA Rainbow Road, Piranha Plant Pipeline, Yoshi Falls, DM Jungle Parkway, Koopa Troopa Beach, DS Bowser Castle, Mushroom City, N64 Bowser Castle, then replace Ninja Hideaway, with DK Pass because getting rid of a trash course and replacing it with a mid one is the only way i’m gonna justify putting in my guilty pleasure DS track

I have to say right of the bat I grew up with Mario Kart Wii, like many others. So the only tracks I'm a bit disappointed you left out are SNES Mario Circuit 3, DS Peach Gardens, GCN DK Mountain and Wii Daisy Circuit, because all these 4 tracks are one of my favorites from Wii. Even tho I like 3DS Rosalina's Ice World, the only thing that bothers me is the fact that it's bassicly impossible to drive on the ice again in the 2nd and 3rd lap. All the other tracks that you've kicked out I'm totally fine with. Of the new tracks you selected I completely agree over all with 3DS Shy Guy Bazaar, Piranha Plant Pipeline, DS Airship Fortress (even though I personally don't really care, but I still think it's a little bit of a shame that it didn't make the cut ), N64 Koopa Troopa Beach (the Tour version) and GBA Bowser's Castle 4 because I like the music. I don't really care about SNES Vanilla Lake because we already have 5 snow tracks in the BCP. Of the new tracks you've selected (I'm going to follow your rules) I would replace 3DS Rock Rock Mountain with 3DS Wario Shipyard and GBA Yoshi Desert with GBA Cheep Cheep Island.

18:05 I was preparing to scream: 'Don't remove my favorite Wii track Moonview Highway.' I'm glad that that didn't happen.

I wish we got Delfino Square

idk... maybe it is emg

great vid! love seeing how people would have made the booster course themselves if they could change things about it

Nice fix. Although, I would replace Waluigi Pinball with Kalimari Desert.

talks of removing Rosalina’s Ice World is borderline sacrilege

I would actually like Los Angeles Laps in Wave 6.

If I had to critique, I would say it is less about the courses themselves but moreso about the absolutes you speak in. A lot of your opinions you present as factual, and I don't think that it is fair to present them that way. Everyone has their own opinions, but the way I look at this, the approach should be from a developer standpoint. For instance, I agree with you that Dino Dino Jungle is better than DK Mountain. For me though, I left in DK Mountain because both courses were in the same position as returning retro courses, and DKM was the more popular option due to common consensus, and my own poll. For you to say DDJ is the better course is not just not factual and rather opinionated, it actually is not even the public opinion either. I think it would be fair for you to say you put it in because *you* simply like it more, but you don't present it that way. Another thing you could've done to justify this was point out how many mountain courses were in the DLC already - for me, I removed Rock Rock Mountain instead, but you had not. I think this can be offputting at times. There is nothing wrong with you disliking Ninja Hideaway, but it is not a fact that the course is bad, and actually, it's incredibly popular at that. I find it to be really fun. Ironically, you had justification to remove it if you really wanted. Yes it's weird to cut one Tour nitro, but it is also weird to have an extra one in only one wave, let alone Wave 2 of all things.

the Mushroom Gorge removal was painful, why not Moonview Highway? that one was a city and we have a lot of those

remove mushroom gorge, why?

I actually like Ninja Hideaway, from the theme to the different paths you can take to the kick-ass music, to the design, I think it’s wave 1’s best course

You kept Rock Rock Mountain in the Rock Cup, yet you moved the 1 Rainbow Road WITH A MOON out of the Moon Cup (yes I know you had a 1 track from each game cap per wave, but at least mention it) Why remove Peach Gardens and Kalamari? You said because the backwards lap was too controversial 1) no it wasn't (ask Schaffrillas) 2) just remove the backwards lap then There's now 3 traffic courses in the BCP + Berlin Byways, which is too many Airship should be a 3rd track I agree with you about Yoshi Desert Daisy Circuit being removed doesn't work because now there's 3 Wii circuits out of 7 tracks left. You picked the 2 wrong Wii courses to remove. Remove Moonview and Summit instead of Gorge and Daisy Circuit That's my two cents (since you told me to leave a comment lol)

WORST FIXING EVER Removed Mushroom Gorge Removed Kalamari Desert Removed Peach Gardens Removed DK Mountain Added in obligatory SNES and GBA courses Added in Shy Guy Bazaar instead of Wario Shipyard Added in a lame Koopa Troopa Beach Forgot Toad’s Factory WHAT WAS THIS VIDEO ABOUT, RUINING THE BOOSTER COURSE PASS

You removed mushroom gorge, which got a good glow up and is an improvement over the Wii version, but kept Koopa Cape which is a severe downgrade from the original. I tried to convince you 💀

Gonna say it, wave 4 is extremely overrated. Not saying its bad, but waves 5 and 6 and imo even 2 beat it out. 2 of wave 4's city tracks are disappointing, 1 is just good, and while the retros are amazing they're not the best we've seen. Oh and Birdo is a fine character nothing special.

I have a theory tho, in most of the cups in the dlc there are 2 tour (nitro) tracks and 2 non-tour (retro) tracks. This last track, I don’t think it’s a nitro at all, how would anyone figure out if it is anyway? Edit: A slightly dumb theory here, I think that (6,3) was originally planned to be moonview highway, like, before wave 5, but they eventually decided to use it for wave 5 and scrapped moonview for wave 6, and they used daisy circuit (another Wii track) instead Maybe this is because they wanted to make mushroom city for wave 5 and then didn’t have anything to go off of when the tour version was scrapped, or the engine couldn’t handle it or something, or they already had moonview ready and didn’t have mushroom city ready so they used moonview instead to avoid delaying wave 5 Then mushroom city was ready for (6,6) so they used it in wave 6, before scrapping it and using whatever they used (I’m too lazy to check) Edit v2: I also don’t think that piranha plant pipeline was even meant to be in (6,7) Because every single game since the MK64 had a penultimate course as a bowsers castle I think that it was meant to be some kinda bowsers castle nitro in that spot Or GCN/GBA bowsers castle retro?

No it's not worth it that's all I'm saying

Wave 6 complains: - As much as I despise DK Mountain (same applies to DK Summit), having it at the same level as boring aaaah Daisy Circuit isnt right. Its still so fun and challenging to drive that it deserves Rome level - Daisy Circuit might be gorgeous and everything, but it has to be a bit lower (reasons: bumped out Dry Dry Ruins + boring aaaah track + it makes me remember Sunset Wilds main issue + etc reasons) - Piranha Plant Cove should be on BC3 level, its so fun, so amazing visually and an absolute joy to drive on. Also one of the tracks with the most amount of tecnicque required due to being mainly underwater. An absolute masterpiece

Wave 5 complains: - As much as I love Shy Guys, Sunset Wilds doest deserve more than a 4 out of 10. They just got rid of the main gimmick (the sun setting each lap) and its even more unpleasant to drive than Bone-Dry Dunes or Snow Land - Koopa Cape might be a 10 on Wii, but not in 8 Deluxe. It doesnt feel the same by any meanings: it looks as bland as Rock Rock Mountain visually, the lasers weren't introduced back... Still good, but not a 10 - LA Laps should be where Sunset Wilds is, because it doesnt have anything that makes it different than other cities (unlike Athens Dash, for example) + some parts (specially the beach and the petrol station areas) have the same issue as Sunset Wilds - Athens Dash should be a bit higher (bathroom level) because its the most unique city track on the DLC, focusing more on the things that mostly describe Greece - Daisy Cruiser should also be a bit higher (Moonview level), cause its a short yet fast-paced and challenging track; alongside an absolute joy to drive on

Wave 4 complains: - There's no complain here, best wave of the DLC (but not gonna lie, it was carried so hard by Waluigi Stadium and Yoshi's Island (not including DKS because it isnt as fun/challenging as on Wii)) - The only real complain: Bangkok Rush should be a bit higher, because its a phenomenal city track (definitely better than DS Mario Circuit or Riverside Park)

Wave 3 complains: - Merry Mountain isnt as good as u say, its just straight a Sky-High Sundae layout that has been bashed on one side and just unfun to drive on - Rock Rock Mountain is a pile of garbage fused with sewer water. It looks like Toad Circuit, its unfun to play and doesnt have anything interesting. Its "fake Ninja Hideaway" level (aka ur Ninja Hideaway perception (srry, its just that it doesnt make sense)) - Ah, yeah, and screw London Poop. Second worst city track in the DLC

Wave 2 complains: - Sky-High Sundae is just an extended Baby Park (aka a fkin oval) and u say its on the same level as Mushroom Gorge? Such a bad joke... - New York is like the Tokyo Blur of Wave 2, a track that is uninteresting and plays like ass. Should be near the level of Mario Circuit 3 - Waluigi Pinball, despite not having any new music (I mean, it has a retro with the same theme, it was kinda doomed on music department), still should be higher than Snow Land because its more enjoyable to drive and has more action (I do like bagging in Snow Land, but its as unpleasant to drive on as Bone-Dry Dunes) + the antigravity cant be possible because the pinballs would be falling (its Mario Kart, but still has to have a bit of logic :p)

Wave 1 complains: -U say Ninja Hideaway sucks = Skill issue (its better than some nitros, many retros and some dlc tracks, definitely top 48 at least) -And Sky Garden sucks, it doesn't have the magic it had in previous games - Both Choco Mountain and Paris are so boring, but I do like Choco Mountain (screw Paris, third worst city track on the DLC)

10:38 Hello! Small correction. Counting the different variations as one track there are actually 18 Tour nitros. Other than that, great video.

Good video. I had some hard disagrees on some of your takes but I did just watch a 27 minute video in full, so I was entertained. Good job

I personally was EXTREMELY disappointed with moonview highway. I won't give it anything higher than a 5/10 because of how badly they nerfed it. Now that I'm thinking about it, I feel that way about every single wii retro in the game, not just the dlc, except for maybe maple treeway. The one saving grace for moonview is that they kept the bob-omb cars. If those were gone it'd be no higher than a 1/10. Also, as someone who enjoys mariokart custom tracks, ninja hideaway is a great course. It's an official nintendo course that plays exactly like a CT and you have no idea how long I had been waiting for something like that to exist.

Hi, Ninja Hideaway is not the worst course in this Wave, Toad Circuit, Tokyo Blur and Sky Garden exist. Sky High Sundae is AN OVAL! it doesn't even make sense like Excitebike, since there, the game it comes from has no turns. The beginning shortcut on Mushroom Gorge was in Wii/removed in 7 because of an ultra shortcut. Also, Nintendo has never and will never use Smash music in Mario Kart. London Loop is not that bad. Moonview Highway is not that good. Rock Rock Mountain is not that good

The last blank I felt like that Tour scrapped a Dessert city location theme track since there was a pyramid in one of the loading screens.

When it comes to PvP games buying the DLC needs to be done early or midway through. If you haven't bought it by now you're probably not going to benefit from getting it now. Issues that crop up like map bloat makes it hard to play the maps you like and more so if they aren't popular while you likely use the same kart and character as before. All with the catch a new console could be announced this year, one that is likely to have a new Mario Kart with new stats and new maps. You might be better off treating yourself and someone else to a nice dinner or watch a movie or two. As time passes the value of this pack only drops down more and more.

I have a similar idea about what went on in the Booster Course Pass, but with the characters. You see, there were originally supposed to be 6 or 8 characters coming to the Booster Course Pass. Here the ones that were chosen: Birdo Petey Piranha Wiggler Kamek Diddy Kong Funky Kong Pauline Peachette However, I think the BCP roster was originally supposed to look like this: Birdo Pauline Petey Piranha Nabbit Diddy Kong Hammer Bro. (and his alts) I don’t think there were supposed to be 7 characters added after Birdo’s addition and here’s why. After adding Birdo alongside “Yoshi’s Island,” I think Nintendo originally planned for a pattern to alongside the characters in the game. Pauline and Petey Piranha for “Squeaky Clean Sprint,” and Diddy Kong and Hammer Bro., for GCN Dino Dino Jungle, and not “Wii Daisy Circuit,” and not even Piranha Plant Pipeline, but MobMU. Many fans think MobMU was supposed to be a city course, but I think MobMU was supposed to be a Tour non-city nitro for a museum course. Think of the pyramid on the original boxart for Mario Kart Tour, and then, think of the Tour version of Wii Dry Dry Ruins (which for the Booster Course Pass, I believe was scrapped in order to have N64 Kalimari Desert be the last Mario Kart 64 course in the Booster Course Pass), and how it has the Hammer Bros statue at the entrance of the cave. That was one of the entrances/features of the course. To see two Hammer Bro. statues at the front, and then go inside of a pyramid and race in there. Unfortunately, this course was scrapped long before the Booster Course Pass was a thing. So, like MobNU, the devs decided to treat MobMU like a test course with features you’ll see if you happen to look at the game’s files. Because of this, Hammer Bro was scrapped, and so was MobMU, by “3DS Rosalina’s Ice World,” instead. Who replaced Hammer Bro? Kamek. Kamek’s appearance made more sense since Nintendo was going to add either “SNES Vanilla Lake 2,” or “SNES Bowser Castle 3.” They chose the latter because BC3 was the more interesting course.

I'm fine with Piranha Plant Pipeline being cut because its name and theming is too similar to Piranha Plant Slide. In wave 5, I would've preferred Mushroom Bridge over Moonview Highway, the only Wii remake I'm not too happy with. Delfino Square must be saved for the next Mario Kart, otherwise there'd be no point in leaving this one.

lemme tell ya something about Pipeline, while it may SEEM like a Wave 1 track, its layout is actually really interesting and difficult with many obstacles and a lot going on, and Nintendo planning both Jungle tracks makes sense if they're separate waves, its kind of like having Mario Circuit and Mario Circuit, but they're not in the same wave, but since Waluigi Stadium fucked up the GCN roster DK Mountain was moved to Wave 6 and they then scrapped Dino Dino Jungle since it would be too much thematic overlap for one wave, there's no evidence for Mushroom City nor Bowser's Castle or any other GCN tracks so this makes the most sense Although the funniest scenario is if they just planned Mushroom Bridge but then the higher ups called them out for how stupid that would be, and they then HAD to replace it with Daisy Circuit lmao