Mario Kart 8 gets its first paid DLC courses with the first 8 tracks in the Booster Course Pass. The pass contains 48 tracks total, released in waves of 8 at a time – a total of 6 waves of tracks by the end of 2023. You can see the first 8 tracks in action here:
The first wave includes the Golden Dash Cup and the Lucky Cat Cup, where players will be able to zoom up escalators and through storefronts in Wii Coconut Mall, dodge falling boulders in N64 Choco Mountain, rush by the roaring crowds in 3DS Toad Circuit, careen over the clouds in GBA Sky Garden and traverse through tight traffic in DS Shroom Ridge. And for the first time, you’ll even be able to choose your own path in Tokyo Blur, Paris Promenade and Ninja Hideaway from the mobile game Mario Kart Tour.
The Mario Kart 8 Booster Course Pass is free with a paid Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription. If you don’t have an online subscription, then you can buy the Booster Course Pass on it’s own at $24.99.
Of course, fans are wondering which other courses might be coming down the road for the DLC, and that has led some to datamine the first pack for answers. Before the trailer was released, some fans found a banner in the game files that showed thumbnails of unannounced tracks. Posted to Twitter, fans have been trying to identify the tracks ever since, and have identified quite a few of them:
So far they have identified Sydney Sprint (Tour), LA Laps (Tour), Mario Circuit (SNES), Koopa Cape (Wii), Rainbow Road (3DS), Vanilla Lake (SNES), New York Minute (Tour), and Maple Treeway (Wii). There are more tracks on the banner yet to be identified.
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