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Prototype Info
Prerelease Info
Unused GraphicsFor the teams that didn't win in the Tours...
Unused Karts and GlidersDozens of karts and gliders that never got used.Unused Textures#
Tires#
StdR_Red#
A red variation of the Gray Cat Cruiser's tires, added on the New Year's 2022 Tour alongside said kart.
Objects#
Unused Team Token team emblems#
The texture sheet for the icon on the center of Team Tokens depicts emblems of characters who haven't been featured in Team Rallies. The emblems for Yoshi, Pauline, Rosalina, Shy Guy, Koopa Troopa and Metal Mario are unused, and will likely stay that way as Tour is recycling past tours, starting with the 2023 Battle Tour.
Unused Audio#
Voice Clips#
Race Losing#
All characters featured in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe have their "losing a race" voice clips when present in the game's files. They go unused since no characters have any reactions to finishing a race in 5th place and under, unlike recent Mario Kart entries.
Voice clips for Peachette when losing a race.
Voice clips for Pauline when losing a race.
It's worth noting that Pauline reuses various voice clips from Mario Kart Tour in Mario Strikers: Battle League, including the above clips. Both sets of voice clips are used for their intended purpose in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which include Pauline and Peachette are playable characters.
Sound Effects#
Mario Kart 7 Multiplayer Leftovers#
A few leftover sound effects from the multiplayer menus of Mario Kart 7.
DS Waluigi Pinball Second Lap Jingle#
The Lap 2 sound effect that plays in DS Waluigi Pinball from Mario Kart DS and Mario Kart 7. Since every track on the game has only 2 laps, thus triggering the final lap sound effect on lap 2, this sound effect goes unused.
It's worth noting that if the game is modified into making this track have more than 2 laps, this sound effect will play.
Unused Music#
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Unheard Wii Koopa Cape Underwater Intro#
The intro of the underwater version of Wii Koopa Cape's music. Even though the Glider Challenge on this course starts underwater, this portion of the underwater version of the song is never heard.
Unknown Jingle#
An unused short jingle.
Mario Kart 7 Leftovers#
This game has a lot of reused assets from Mario Kart 7, including a few leftover music tracks that are left in the files. These can be found in the folder named BgmResult.
The trophy presentation music. It might have been repurposed for when finishing a cup, which in the final game simply shows a congratulatory message accompanied with an original jingle.
The music for getting a tie in Battle Mode.
The music for when the player finishes a cup in a low position.
Unused Animations#
Animated Character Artwork#
An unused video of Toadette's character artwork with animation using Live2D was left in the game's files after the release of v2.4.0. It is unknown if it was used for testing or the character artworks were supposed to be animated at some point in development.
Unused Text#
dummy.txt#
An empty text file called dummy.txt is present in base.apk\assets.
(Source: DogToon64)
desc.text#
There is another text file in the same directory as the aformentioned dummy text file called desc.text, and it contains the following text:
AK: Do not delete the folder (StreamingAssets) of this file. The folder is required in the Wwise Unity Integration to avoid DirectoryNotFoundException on Unity Editor for Windows when there is no such a folder in the active Unity project.(Source: DogToon64)
Unused Pipes#
Data exists for two unused pipes, named "Toad Pipe 1" and "Toad Pipe 2", with the following descriptions:
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Captain Toad, Toadette (Explorer), |
Revisional Differences#
Sunshine Tour Splash Screen#
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The splash screen for Sunshine Tour was changed to fix the layering error with Toadette's braids.
Oddities#
Duplicate Character Emblems#
The variants of drivers that use the emblem of the driver they're based on are actually using a duplicate of the base character's emblem.
Duplicate Badges#
When Team Rallies reuse previous teams, the teams' respective winning and losing badges are duplicated in the files, resulting in the following badges having multiple identical copies in the game's memory:
- The badge for winning in Team Mario from the 2020 Mario vs. Luigi Tour was duplicated for the Mario vs. Peach Tour and the 2022 and 2023 Mario vs. Luigi Tours. The second badge went unused since Team Mario lost that Team Rally.
- The badge for winning in Team Peach from the Peach vs. Daisy Tour was duplicated for the Mario vs. Peach Tour as well as the May 2022 and November-December 2022 Peach vs. Bowser Tours. The third badge went unused since Team Peach lost that Team Rally.
- The badge for losing in Team Peach from the Mario vs. Peach Tour was duplicated for the May 2022 and November-December 2022 Peach vs. Bowser Tours. The first and third badges went unused since Team Peach won those Team Rallies.
- The badges for winning and losing in Team Bowser from the Bowser vs. DK Tour was duplicated for the May 2022 and November-December 2022 Peach vs. Bowser Tours. Since Team Bowser won the first two Team Rallies and lost the third one, the first two losing badges and third winning badge went unused.
- The badge for losing in Team Mario from the Mario vs. Peach Tour was duplicated for the 2022 and 2023 Mario vs. Luigi Tours. The latter two badges went unused since Team Mario won those Team Rallies.
- The badge for winning in Team Luigi from the 2020 Mario vs. Luigi Tour was duplicated for the 2022 and 2023 Mario vs. Luigi Tours. All three badges went unused since Team Luigi lost those Team Rallies.
Unreleased Courses#
Note that due to the discontinuation of new content for the game, the following courses will never be released.
Unknown New Courses#
Suffixes of objects used in unknown new courses have been found in the game's memory, these being Mobmu and Mobnu. "Mob" refers to the internal course prefix that indicates that the track comes from Mario Kart Tour, while the rest refer to the course's internal acronym.
OctoPot#
Data for a mysterious scrapped new course exist during the 2025 rerun of the Peach vs. Bowser Tour. Labelled as New_Gmob_OctoPot.
Paris Promenade 4/Paris Promenade 5#
Data for a scrapped fourth and fifth route for Paris Promenade exist during the 2025 rerun of the Peach vs. Bowser Tour. Paris Promenade 4 also has data for an R variant. Labelled as New_Gmob_Paris4, New_Gmob_Paris4R and New_Gmob_Paris5.
RMX Mario Circuit 2#
Data for a scrapped RMX Mario Circuit 2 exist during the 2025 rerun of the Peach vs. Bowser Tour. Labelled as Remix_Grsfc_MarioCircuit2.
SNES Koopa Troopa Beach 1#
Data exists for Koopa Troopa Beach 1 from Super Mario Kart exist during the 2025 rerun of the Peach vs. Bowser Tour. Also has a R variant. Labeled as Classic_Gsfc_KoopaTroopaBeach1 and Classic_Gsfc_KoopaTroopaBeach1R.
N64 Moo Moo Farm#
Data exists for Moo Moo Farm from Mario Kart 64 exist during the 2025 rerun of the Peach vs. Bowser Tour. Also has a R variant. Labeled as Classic_Gn64_MooMooFarm and Classic_Gn64_MooMooFarmR.
GCN Bowser's Castle#
Data exists for Bowser's Castle from Mario Kart: Double Dash!! exist during the 2025 rerun of the Peach vs. Bowser Tour. Also has a R variant. Labeled as Classic_Ggc_BowserCastle and Classic_Ggc_BowserCastleR.
DS Figure-8 Circuit#
Data exists for Figure-8 Circuit from Mario Kart DS exist during the 2025 rerun of the Peach vs. Bowser Tour. Also has a R variant. Labeled as Classic_Gds_Figure8Circuit and Classic_Gds_Figure8CircuitR.
SNES Ghost Valley 3#
Lighting maps of Ghost Valley 3 from Super Mario Kart were found in the Wario vs. Waluigi Tour. The maps were removed in the following tour but are temporarily re-added every time RMX Ghost Valley 1 reappears.
Wii Grumble Volcano#
There's an object that corresponds to Grumble Volcano from Mario Kart Wii, that being RoadGuraGuraTest.
3DS Wuhu Loop#
There's an object that corresponds to Wuhu Loop from Mario Kart 7, that being ClownWuhu.
3DS Maka Wuhu#
There's an object that corresponds to Maka Wuhu from Mario Kart 7, that being RockWuhu.
3DS DK Jungle#
There are objects that correspond to DK Jungle from Mario Kart 7, those being StonePillar, GoldenBanana, AirShipDK and BarrelDK.
Unused variants#
Data for a R/T variant for 3DS Rock Rock Mountain and a T and R/T variant for GBA Bowser's Castle 4 exist during the 2025 rerun of the Peach vs. Bowser Tour but never got used. Labelled as Classic_G3ds_RockRockMountainRX, Classic_Gagb_BowserCastle4X and Classic_Gagb_BowserCastle4RX, respectfully.
Unused Event Token Obtaining Methods#
When v2.10.0 was released, an in-game new announcement from Nintendo showed that new ways of obtaining Event Tokens were going to be added in upcoming tours by taking out other drivers, performing drifts, and keeping combo bonuses.
Only the first and second obtaining methods have been used in tours so far, leaving the graphics for the other methods unused.
Hidden Emblems in Gliders#
Gliders that do not have a visible emblem position on them actually have the emblem spread all over and hidden behind the glider's textures.
Mirror Mode#
The remains of an unused Mirror Mode from past traditional Mario Kart games can be found in the game's data.
Boo Driver Effect#
The remains of an unused functionality that makes drivers translucent, similar to how they become upon using the Boo item in past Mario Kart games, can be found in the game's data.
Unused Cups#
There are 2 unused cup IDs, those being 38 & 44 those being the Dr. Mario Cup and Tanooki Rosalina Cup, respectively. Weirdly enough, Tanooki Rosalina does not have a unique emblem in Tour, as she reuses Rosalina's emblem.
Internal Project Name#
Mario Kart Tour is internally referred as Booster.
It's also known by its Google Play packaging as com.nintendo.zaka.
(Source: DogToon64)
Anti Emulator/Rooted Device#
If the game detects it is being played on an emulator (such as BlueStacks) or a rooted device (it checks for a TWRP folder in the system's internal memory to activate the measures), the game will either crash or get stuck at the "an error has occurred" message. A similar function is used to detect modified APKs, such as patching the APK of Mario Kart Tour using Lucky Patcher. Even if you hack the game, you will probably get banned.
(Source: Mario Kart Tour Reddit)