Mario Kart 64 Restored Beta Level - TOWN

[@triclon]

Words cannot describe how incredibly awesome it is to see this track in action. To think it sat for 25 years gathering dust on some harddrive with no one ever getting the chance to see it.

[@protocetid]

Wack0 (the hacker who got us the gigaleak files) is a total hero

[@mariofan2562]

@@protocetid the one we needed

[@shirohimayumikira234]

Wonder when we'll get custom MK64 tracks....?

[@triclon]

@@shirohimayumikira234 Check out the other videos from this channel!

[@protocetid]

@@shirohimayumikira234 I think it's being decompiled, really cool shit will happen after they're done

[@KazeN64]

It's easy to see why this was cut - navigating this without memorizing the entire track looks like absolute hell and those turns are incredibly small. And this is already at a scale were the houses are unrealistically large compared to the racing characters

[@OverKart64]

Definitely Agreed! The beta footage we have appears to show the Karts moving at a much slower pace, I believe that this would make it much easier to deal with compared to the speed we see in final.

[@doctordothraki4378]

Though normally, Mario Kart tracks have arrows or something similar which tells you where to go. This track appears to have unused signs that would have those arrows

[@rawr51919]

@@doctordothraki4378 would be a good idea to add them in here to make the course a bit easier to navigate, might also be a good idea to tweak the corners and the scale of the buildings to make this map a bit more playable I'm sure DeadHamster'd agree too

[@TheCoolEevee]

I mean, you do you have a good point Kaze. Love your hacks, by the way. But yeah, it does seem a little confusing on where to go. I think the best way it would work is if various parts of the mini map that weren’t meant to be driven on were darkened.

[@spikerthedragonbear]

Then again, this is the same game that brought us Rainbow Road 64

[@metalsp064]

Now imagine this track without all the barriers as a battle mode track

[@romeo_alpha0176]

Lol it would be absolute pandemonium

[@firestrikeriii5043]

No

[@firestrikeriii5043]

@@romeo_alpha0176 mo

[@tj_m00r3]

It'll be a very confusing track for any player lol

[@UltimateFunBilly]

@@romeo_alpha0176 As if the Mario Kart 8 Wii U battle courses weren’t huge already.

[@TheGreenPig321]

I like how one of the reasons for cutting this is: “it was too long”

[@sanglish18]

Pretty weird considering Rainbow Road (5 min) is still logner than this unused track (3 min.)

[@TheGreenPig321]

@@sanglish18 on 100/50cc it’s 6 too

[@josephlucas7083]

@@sanglish18 you speak the truth

[@Ajk8628.Reviews.]

@@sanglish18 longest rainbow road, and this could’ve been the longest city track. (Possibly)

[@ThatGuy-te9wh]

Which is interesting, because it's more apparent that it's a nightmare to play. It's confusing in its layout and you can't drift anywhere, but those are somehow second to length.

[@Litronom]

Town. You're a madman for playing this on 150cc

[@Gigidag77]

Town.

[@olds86307]

@@Gigidag77 TOWN

[@DaggerMan-ov1vf]

_Town._

[@spongeness]

nwoT

[@TheMovieCave]

so this was likely a test map that was never intended for use in the full game. It looks like it's based on kyoto around the kamo river, there's even the Kyoto orthodox church

[@OverKart64]

Interesting input! I'll have to look into Kyoto now to see the resemblance! From developer interviews it's suggested they intended it to be a playable level as it was tested, and from the source code it appears they tried to keep it in the game through several buiilds, and I believe it's referenced in the final source code via a commented out command.

[@Reoko77]

The developers weren't kidding when they said this track was a bit of a mess. It seems too cramped, to much tight turns and good God that map! Would've been better scaled down and used as a battle map. I'll give them credit, at their first city type stage, it's not bad as a blueprint.

[@Rubick471]

Imagine racing this track, remade in HD for the switch, on 200cc in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

[@josephlucas7083]

Yes bro there could be parts where your racing in anti-gravity on the walls of houses and maybe driving on top of them.

[@mariosion]

Still cool to see stuff from the gigaleak restored into their respective games. I’m honestly hoping for another breach (I know that sounds terrible, but still). Anyway, I wouldn’t be surprised if they looked at this town again when they were designing N64 Rainbow Road for Mario Kart 8 and were inspired by this town since the MK8 version has a large town that looks somewhat like it.

[@callumhadley4963]

Ah one of my favorite tracks. I remember playing on this track growing up. So chaotic! So much fun with my friends!

[@SomeRobloxDudeWasTaken]

_every copy of mario kart 64 is personalized joke here_

[@ninja_raven256]

This level is pretty interesting to be honest!

[@blueshellracing8078]

Awesome... Glad to see this Track finally has a life!!! Mario Kart 64 has such a great community.

[@Theoed1tzofficial]

It’s my child hood rival

[@CaptainRillaboomArmenia]

Mario Kart has a great community in general 😄

[@claudesnotrael]

This is a good track, but they should have cut out all the extra unaccessible roads on the mini map

[@OverKart64]

This was the original beta minimap file, but I assume it would have been edited before releasing if the map was included in the original game. A new version will be coming out with the extra beta maps we recently found for Banshee Boardwalk and Yoshi Valley. In this updated version I've darkened the extra roads on the minimap to make it more obvious the actual route., while still maintaining the heritage of the original beta file.

[@mulvi747]

This is seriously awesome. This track looks like it would drive people crazy in time trials with all those sharp 90 degree turns. Great work bringing this track to life DH!

[@shirohimayumikira234]

In Battle Mode, if there were no barriers, this would be absolute pandaemonium..... Also, yes, this is a complete nightmare to avigate in Time Trial.

[@mario493]

You know, they should've made this track in battle mode.

[@OverKart64]

Taking down some of the guard-rails would make for a great Battle Course!

[@SomeRobloxDudeWasTaken]

Imagine your day do be fine then seeing a cpu just runs near you

[@Snooplax]

No way! This is so impressive!

[@Cupdev]

imagine being a kid and trying to beat this, yeah i can see why this was cut now-

[@OverKart64]

While I love the theme there's no way it could be salvaged especially with the newer and faster physics the final game brought compared to beta footage. There's another level mentioned, the Parking Garage, that was cut for the same reasons. People got "sick" going around in circles up and down.

[@SomeRobloxDudeWasTaken]

@@OverKart64 id be sick trying to go up and down in circles for most of the course, barely any engagement

[@SuperTrooper]

So awesome that this finally sees the light of day! I love the music too!

[@albertcamus319]

Congratulations for your work. Very interesting other vision of Mario Kart

[@TheHylianJuggalo]

Looks at track: Oh, this looks cool Looks at map: Sweet Jesus

[@HammMann]

I'm surprised that nobody's noticed the fact that the music for the track is based off the theme for Wacky Races.... well, outside of two other comments that were so vague that you'd think they're having a stroke.

[@OverKart64]

Wow, while it's not a direct match it's definitely extremely similar in theme and instrument usage. Good catch!

[@Doctor_Bamias]

Even if not on the N64,it would be amazing to see this coming as a track to mario kart game up until 8 deluxe. Especially after the leaks where we learned about the history of this track,it would be nice to know that "one man trash is another man's treasure" as in it was cut on the N64 but it returned to another game.Maybe like mario kart wii or maybe 8.These two feel like the true candidates to really make this track real

[@spongerav7452]

Finally there’s gameplay footage of this beta map

[@TheFrogChannel]

Someone’s going to recreate or port this to Mario Kart Wii, I guarantee it...

[@OverKart64]

Somebody is already in the process!

[@CMac64JayCee123]

@@OverKart64it’s been 2 years, has it been completed yet?

[@yoshsus6786]

Now I see where the tour city track layouts where inspired by

[@Funky_Mode]

Thank you. This was a treat to watch. I would've loved for this track to be in the final game. They should've scrapped Frappe Snowland.

[@ISwearChris]

Imagine the alternate universe where we get this track instead of Yoshi Valley :p

[@shirohimayumikira234]

This stage is just madness for those who never practiced this stage. ESPECIALLY on 150cc..... I didn't know this stage existed!

[@OverKart64]

It was only heard of from an interview, before the beta files were discovered there was no Video or Images or renders of any kind.

[@shirohimayumikira234]

@@OverKart64 I see... It's still incredible it was restored!

[@Malueion]

I can't believe Nintendo updated this game with a new map after twenty-five years. I wonder if it'll come to Mario Kart Tour as well.

[@josephlucas7083]

People restored this map Nintendo did nothing, and it won't come to a future Mario kart game.

[@memyselfandi1939]

@@josephlucas7083how many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?

[@eduardomagana3858]

There’s something about the name “TOWN” that just sounds scary.

[@ian09dbz]

never heard of this before but i can see why it was cut

[@KnuxMaster368]

Love the music it’s a total bop

[@chillvibed]

I can see why it was cut. Too chaotic. That's a 7th place finish just waiting for most.

[@killeranime3591]

This track was ahead of its time

[@CaptainStage]

I don't know if it's just me, but this song *sounds* unused. Like, it just sounds like you'd find it on The Cutting Room Floor.

[@JamezP]

level where you drove around a small town and this map looking like this suits a battle map more than a race track

[@Adamatixx]

think of it... no data lasts forever so that means some of the stuff HAS to have rotted away on someone's hard drive after 25+ Years..... so we got there just in time (kudos to you slipstream)

[@phaibertguzman810]

Amazing and beautiful track

[@SubwaySandwichBossIngo]

Aw man this is awesome, I can see why it was cut but I'm still digging it

[@ThatKidBobo]

The rubber band is insane though

[@ianmallet5346]

Honestly, with some changes here and there (Like making some turns less sharp), I think it would work well.

[@ChiroTheSkunk]

looks like they were thinking of 50cc rather than 100cc or 150cc on this map as the devs said, it is a bit long if you are on 50cc

[@spongebobmusicuhg3420]

"What's your favorite Mario Kart track" "t o w n"

[@Francis.Thornton.2]

This would have ruined more friendships than Yoshi’s Valley

[@OverKart64]

A very tough level to navigate, seems to be made for a slower game then we ended up getting.

[@highoctanegames]

if they did add this into the game all those years ago, they would definitely need a lot more spacing, a few tight turns are okay but its almost unplayable looking at high speeds

[@OverKart64]

Definitely Agree! Especially at the higher CC speeds it's pretty rough. Some of the earlier footage and programming leaks seems to suggest at earlier points in the game there was much tighter turning and much much slower speeds, which might have made it easier to navigate.

[@highoctanegames]

@@OverKart64 that makes sense because otherwise it seems barely playable lol

[@mariomaniac581]

Ah, TOWN, founded by the great FOUNDER MC FOUNDRSSON

[@Brondycoolbro]

If they find the parking garage course I swear that would be an amazing day

[@OverKart64]

We've looked high and low, but have only found some textures that would have been used on the level. No geometry was left in the data we've currently got out hands on, but we can always hope for the future.

[@comical4609]

This track is giving me a headache just from looking at it.

[@WickedFireBird69]

Man...and here I used to complain about Bowsers Castle having a lot of twists and turns! Thank God they cut this, I would have broken so many more controllers...more than i already did playing against my cousins.

[@TalonKOfficial]

Town? More like Compact Town!

[@Alexs23743]

Ewwwww... It's easier to navigate than the mini-map would have you believe. Still, all that banging around can't be good even for whatever weapons-grade reinforced metal those Karts are made out of.

[@spsaofficalchannel]

This track would’ve been longer than the game’s own rainbow road

[@minefreund]

This is my favourite mk64 map

[@Tiquono]

The original city track 😂 Where was this is Mario Kart Tour?

[@Claydood]

while a neat idea, I'm kind of glad this didn't make it out of beta. Looks frustrating to navigate. You'd have to 100% of this memorized to navigate without hitting a wall.

[@OverKart64]

Definitely! The earlier physics that we see in pre-release video footage shows much slower karts that have a much tighter turning radius. It seems the original plans were for a game more like 50cc mode. The changes to speed and turning, while probably making the game considerably more fun, also made several of the tracks "unplayable". Banshee Boardwalk had a pretty major change made with an entire wall getting removed. A course like this, while probably fun on the earlier controls, is no longer playable.

[@AleZ-zn9ui]

The theme can be used in a castle :) Also: for what i can see its so chaotic >:>

[@JRS06]

I oddly wish they kept this in, quite a cool precursor to Tour's city tracks. The music is glorious too. Any footage of the shortucts in action?

[@hakai1014]

It’ll be cool if this track got a remake and Nintendo gets to fixed all the tight turns

[@SilentRealm6677]

The track is more fitting for multiplayer VS mode

[@lethiagames9208]

the track is very tight

[@dinkindane]

This should be called Toad Town

[@HikikomoriDev]

This probably would had worked so well. Don't know why they scrapped it.

[@asra-5180]

Nice sarcasm.

[@OverKart64]

"We also made a big city track, with a castle, and a nice pond, where you got to race around all these different houses and buildings. Unfortunately, it was a very large map, and it took too much time to race through. So we cut it." - Tadashi Sugiyama (1996)

[@jameor8500]

@@OverKart64 yeah but its shorter than rainbow road and wario stadium

[@weatherton]

@@OverKart64 Thank goodness they scrapped this and gave us Rainbow Road. ;)

[@OverKart64]

@@jameor8500 Agreed, I have to disagree with the developers. I don't think minute lap times are obscene, however the harsh layout of the course's sharp 90 degree turns do not make for a highly enjoyable race. The roads are thin too, at 100 units. Scaling the level up would make the roads wider and turns easier while still keeping lap times within the sub 2 minute range, I think the level was too SMALL, not too big!

[@dejesusramirezjavier5834]

The effort tho it Clears Rainbow Road solos

[@Sanker1]

that's awesome dude

[@THEMIMIK]

I wonder if the music for the town track was simply just a place holder, similar to that SEQ track in MKDS that plays when a course has no assigned song. Considering it’s a remixed version of the SMKR theme, i wonder if in the earlier versions of MK64, courses that were still beung assigned a song, just used the remix of the SMKR theme as a place holder. Hell, its even possible that all of the tracks just shared the same song before the devs worried about music. Idk, thats just my guess, because this song sounds so unfitting for a town track

[@malakai9738]

This track would've been well suited for a better controlling game like Mario Kart DS, on the N64 it looks way too twisty

[@MarcoAGJ]

Pretty interesting.

[@JVeg199X]

I guess those black boxes are supposed to be arrow signs?

[@chucke.cheese2212]

This track was too big to put into the game, yet Yoshi’s Valley could make it in?! 🤨

[@tinyfetz]

The moment you see the mini map

[@3Dspoders]

Music sounds straight out of Penny Racers

[@Eurovision_Time]

JUST LOOK AT THE MAP AT RIGHT DOWN CORNER, I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING!

[@oscarvillatoro750]

New music!!!

[@OverKart64]

From Litronom! Based off a sample sequence from SGI that was used in a Mario Kart 64 Beta title menu.

[@azurewarrior2000]

@@OverKart64 Do you know which sample was used? I would like to hear it for myself.

[@OverKart64]

@@azurewarrior2000 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqq3dXSaoNVgetk Bass Drive

[@randomcapybara1]

​@@OverKart64 video is gone

[@chromxrobinandcorrinxcamil9031]

Best course.

[@marella-yoplaitlimited7745]

This beta should have released in January 1996

[@samirmalo]

Mario is Missing 3D

[@jlewwis1995]

Town

[@maxfi878]

Is the music from the leak as well?

[@OverKart64]

It's a tech demo from SGI that Nintendo used in a beta title screen for Mario Kart 64

[@maxfi878]

@@OverKart64 It actually fits the track quite well.

[@ajc12386]

Kinda reminds me of mushroom city from the game cube

[@dark0ssx]

were the yellow barrier walls added by you?

[@OverKart64]

Nope, all the level geometry is as defined by the file data

[@alexistramirez]

I just heard Wacky Races

[@Gigidag77]

looks like scaling is a bit too low here. those empty signs probably are supposed to have arrows on them.

[@OverKart64]

The original beta gameplay was much slower which would better match these tight corners. A remastered version in the future may be released with increased scaling.

[@Gigidag77]

@@OverKart64 interesting. would it be possible to slow down gameplay to match the beta instead ? of course the other tracks would need some testing if they could still be completed. (my main concern would be the final jumps on koopa castle and the one on frappe snowland)

[@rawr51919]

@@Gigidag77 Wario Stadium coming into the final jump might need a look into as well

[@JPiXeL]

Delfino Square did the whole town theming _so_ much better than this

[@wiiviewsnumba1fan]

Is the music original to this track or was that modded in?

[@thereisaway4632]

How quick do they recover from an attack 😮... You hit DK with that green shell and 3 seconds later he is in 2 place ... Total BS ai

[@contentdeleted9616]

That's a long course.

[@andrewisjesus]

South Park Rally

[@mistamontiel00]

Would love to check this in my 64drive!

[@BeauSheridan-cs4ov]

What was this track called?

[@OverKart64]

TOWN

[@zs9652]

Is this track on Overkart 64?

[@OverKart64]

No, I won't be including it as part of the OverKart collection due to it's origin.

[@josephlucas7083]

@@OverKart64 I just want you to see what I am saying please rate if you see. I think this map would've not been called just town maybe something like shroom town, town labyrinth, town traversal or something on the lines like that.

[@SuperAllison20]

how do we get access to this track to play it?

[@linkspokemon4114]

Pls give me a link to the song used

[@OverKart64]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqq3dXSaoNVgetk I converted the video above to an MP3 with some website I found off Google.

[@gembai]

there is a MIDI of this somewhere?

[@Gumojammbo]

average supertuxkart track

[@luigimaster56]

Can someone help me put this on Mugen64 emulator pls overkart64 if ur watching this I need help

[@asra-5180]

This map is so bad. I can see the problem.

[@OverKart64]

Still better than Banshee Boardwalk!

[@thedarkbanshee]

@@OverKart64 why does everyone hate that track? I love it. Just curious

[@vontavius01]

@@thedarkbanshee I don't think it's the track itself, but more so how it's laid out on the minimap. This overly complex design with like 50 different routes and shortcuts doesn't do a good job at guiding the player. It's too confusing and really, kind of unnecessary since a good majority of what the minimap shows is blocked off by barriers. But since the level doesn't have guide arrows, it's all you got.

[@CaptainRillaboomArmenia]

@@thedarkbansheeIdk, Banshee Boardwalk is a banger🤷🏻‍♂️

[@MARIO-de9ew]

why use this music? ik that its beta, but it doesnt fit

[@SeaPix]

wow that map is a mess :0

[@Jonjooooo]

Terrible track design, beautiful level design.

[@YourAppleSalesman]

That toy so much!