GCN Rainbow Road - Mariokart 8 Deluxe custom track [WIP] (READ DESCRIPTION)

GCN Rainbow Road- Id (No Purpose): • GCN Rainbow Road - Mar...
I ported Rainbow Road from Mariokart Double Dash into Mariokart 8. If you see any frame rate problems, it’s because either I used Microsoft Game Bar to record or im playing on an old crappy PC. I did test on my switch as well and it runs flawlessly.
I eventually plan to make mod packs for each Mario Kart game, each basically remastering the older Mario kart games. I’ve already done work on some other courses but ultimately this is the first course I’m happy enough with to show off. It is obviously a work in progress but at the moment it’s serviceable and I was just excited to show it off. I am new to custom track creation so if anyone else is experienced in it please feel free to leave me some advice on what I can do and if possible how to do it. I’m a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to this stuff so I’m always looking to improve

[@gammaxana]

This is by far one of my favorite rainbow roads.

[@BeefyMcWhatnow0]

This was my childhood rainbow road. It will always have a special place in my heart

[@JetLagRecords]

Ryan Chetwynd, This video is fantastic! I liked it a lot!

[@BeefyMcWhatnow0]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@SinisterPixel]

I really wish people recreating retro tracks on MK8 wouldn't just do a straight port of the map data. Especially with rainbow roads. There are so many sections that could be tweaked on this one for glider sections, or antigrav sections. And there are already a bunch of 1:1 recreations of GC rainbow road that have been around for ages.

[@BeefyMcWhatnow0]

As much as I would love to recreate courses from scratch, I just don’t have the skill to do so. Also, personally I prefer the retro courses to be as faithful as possible to the original. I don’t mind the new features being added when it makes sense like the glider section on N64 Royal Raceway, underwater sections like GCN Sherbet Land, or Antigravity like N64 Rainbow Road. But when they cut out whole sections of track just to make it a glider section where it wouldn’t have made sense as one in the original like N64 Choco Mountain. Another example was how Wii Koopa Cape was more fun in the Wii version cuz you had the current that speeds you up while trying to dodge the electricity. When it came back in Mario Kart 7, it removed the fun of that part because they wanted to make it an underwater section. However on this course, most people make that first jump into a glider section which personally doesn’t make sense to me. And I did this mostly because it’s fun but also a lot of people change the visuals of this course in a way that I’m not a fan of

[@Notyouraveragegal69]

agreed, I'm currently working on a *remake* of the track in case you're interested, (I can come back here and update when I'm done or have made a lot of progress if you want) if you see this and there's anything in particular you think could be added to the remake I'm open to some ideas

[@SinisterPixel]

​@@Notyouraveragegal69 a few ideas I've had are the first and second big jumps could be glider ramps. The second of which could keep the road underneath or have those floating star boosters (like in section 3 of 3DS RR). The canon section instead of flattening you out at the top could be an antigrav section, and the spiral at the end could be replaced with an antigrav corkscrew which is tight enough that you can see other players above you on different parts of the corkscrew. The latter half would need some large map geometry changes but I definitely think it would be fun to play

[@Notyouraveragegal69]

@@SinisterPixel I'll see what I can do, could you maybe elaborate what you mean with the cannon section, I don't really get it :/

[@SinisterPixel]

@@Notyouraveragegal69 you know that section after all the speed boosts that shoots you up? That