Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: Booster Course Pass Wave 1 Update Now Available, Trailer Released

Nintendo announced last month that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe will have 48 new tracks by 2023, the tracks will be released in six waves, with each wave adding eight new tracks.

Now, a little over a month later, Wave 1 of Booster Course Pass comes with the new 2.0.0 update. As expected, this update brings new courses to the game for paying users and prepares new courses for online play (starting March 21st) with a few minor fixes. Nintendo also released a new launch trailer today highlighting the eight new courses added to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

As you can see in the trailer above, these courses are Paris Promenade, Toad Circuit, Choco Mountain, Coconut Mall, Tokyo Blur, Shroom Ridge, Sky Garden, and Ninja Hideout. Some of these Wave 1 courses are again favorites and others are new after the Mario Kart Tour, the mobile Mario Kart game.

New Features regarding how the 2.0.0 update will affect Mario Kart 8 Deluxe:

DLC support

• Now supports Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass (Wave 1: 8 courses).

• If someone in the lobby has a ‘Booster Course Pass’, any player can choose one of the pass courses.

• Supports “Friends”, “Wireless Play” and “LAN Play”.

• From March 21st, you can select courses from the booster course pass in online play.

• Supports “Worldwide”, “Region” and “Tournament”.

• Even players who do not have the ‘Booster Course Pass’ can play the course at random from the pass.

Normally

• When an item box is stolen by someone else, the regeneration time has been reduced.

Fixed issue

• The phenomenon that a communication error occurs when 12 players are matched during online play will be fixed.

• You must download the latest update data for online play.

• If you download the latest update data, you cannot ‘wireless play’ or ‘lan play’ with other players who are using the previous update data.

• The update data contains fixes for issues that improve the gameplay experience and other content not listed here.

• Sufficient space is required in system memory or microSD card to download update data.