#Booster Course Pass

[midnightmoonbeams]

Got a cute THANK YOU! screen for having cleared EVERYTHING up to 150cc! But there's still mirror mode and 200cc left to 3-star!

From November 22nd, 2023

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Ninja Hideaway // Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Booster Course Pass)

[akfamilyhome]

Put this in Booster Course Pass Wave 6

[charmingradiobelle]

I unironically love playing as Peachette in mario kart now. She tries to be like Peach but you can absolutely tell it’s just Toadette trying way too hard and I love her for that

[tj99er]

New Video out now!

The final part of my Mario Kart 8DX Tierlist Series is out!

At long last, I breakdown the designs of every single track from the Booster Course Pass Waves 3-6.

Link in the replies!

[obligatebureaucrat]

It’s okay girl. I’m happy you’re here, even if nobody else is

[oktaviaslabyrinth]

GCN Daisy Circuit // Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Booster Course Pass: Wave 6 (2023)

[raindingrandom]

So the final wave of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Booster Course Pass is releasing on November 9th!

I thought they were gonna release this in December, but I'm happy to be wrong. Super looking forward to racing across these tracks as Diddy and Funky next week!

[kaasiand]

[pokerninja2]

The homies have been reunited on the track!

I wanted to make this the minute Petey was announced to return in MK8 and wanted to wait until wave 5 dropped. As you can tell, I gave up waiting lol

Excited that my favorite Mario character is back!

[dailynintendoimages]

Still don't have that much motivation to post but I'll make an exception today

The myth, the legend, Funky Kong!

[clanker-66]

If Merry Mountain has a thousand fans, i am one of them,

If Merry Mountain has 1 fan, i am that fan,

If Merry Mountain has no fans, i am dead.

Praise be to Merry Mountain!

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Mario Circuit 3 // Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

[oakdll]

mk8d track tier list imo (ranked)

[dragons-hoard-of-fandoms]

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 11/12/2023

Initial Deluxe (I've Just Raced on this Course Before)

Season 7 Featured on: Now That's What I Call Quality! 3

Ripped by Madinstance

Tentative rip name: Initial Deluxe - I've just raced on this Course before

This is another recent one - as recent as just the beginning of this month, to be precise. And if you're keeping up with the channel, I don't really blame you for missing it: it was uploaded right after the conclusion of a day-long mini event in Fisher-Price Day on the 29th, and just a few hours before the way-too-big Goomba Got Back Day event - squeezed in the middle alongside just a half dozen other rips. Frankly I was almost about to skip this one to focus more on catching up with the prior events, yet...people in the SiIvaGunner Discord server were absolutely enamored with this rip in particular. And after giving it a shot, its immensely easy to see why - Initial Deluxe (I've Just Raced on this Course Before) was an absolute delight of a surprise that I can't believe wasn't given more fanfare.

Honestly, before the rip's creator was revealed, I was partially convinced this was another collaboration project in disguise, similar to Patched Plains Fusion Collab - yet if it were to be any one ripper to take on this wide variety of different musical styles to rearrange, I suppose it WOULD indeed be Madinstance. The guy's not a new face around here at all, and his skills in arranging are damn near unrivalled: Fell From a High Place (Reprise), M​-​O​-​O​-​G City, Every Mob Wants to Rule My World, and so many more...you'll notice, though, that all three examples I used here are all made in reverence of the same game: Minecraft. Having talked with Madinstance myself before, he strikes me as someone who's most willing to go all-in if it means being able to pay respects to something he truly adores and cherishes - like Minecraft, like Plok and other Follin-composed games. What Initial Deluxe (I've Just Raced on this Course Before) signals to me, is that this feeling of respect also extends to the Mario Kart series.

Released earlier in November, the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass has brought Mario Kart back into discussion for a lot of Nintendo fans - both in the valid criticism against its graphical quality, but also in reverence and celebration of just how well done several of the track remasters were done. Since Mario Kart DS, part of Mario Kart's identity has become to celebrate the race tracks that built the series' legacy to what it is today - which the Booster Course Pass amplifies a hundredfold. Initial Deluxe (I've Just Raced on this Course Before) thus feels like a celebration of a celebration - a lovely, heartfelt medley of musical styles from all the different Mario Kart games represented within Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. All the sections are primarily based on one notable track featured in each game - Neo Bowser City from Mario Kart 7, Cheese Land from Mario Kart Super Circuit, and so on, and all the picks feel like they were chosen with utmost care to truly represent the vibe each game's soundscape holds. As a Mario Kart Wii-kid myself I certainly feel very represented with the choice made!

All of that isn't even touching on the joke being adapted onto these various Mario Kart soundscapes - the iconic Eurobeat song Deja Vu from the anime series Initial D. A song long associated with the love of driving and racing at high speeds, it now takes on a new meaning when associated with all of these games, that together raised generations of kids into becoming fans of high-octane driving - its a meeting that felt destined to happen, and each style renders the song in such refreshingly high quality. The styles feel like so much more than just setdressing, as tons of flavor is injected from each one: from the lighthearted whistles of Mario Kart Double Dash!!, to the rawness of Mario Kart Super Circuit's compressed instrumentation, to the elements the Mario Kart Wii segment takes from tracks like its Options menu music... Initial Deluxe (I've Just Raced on this Course Before) is such a whollistic, dense and wonderful celebration of all that Mario Kart is and has become, all to the tune of one of the internet's most beloved pieces of racing music.