An Obscure Fact About Each Mario Kart Wii Track 

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The fact that Bowsers Castle and Maple Treeway have the same melody literally blew my mind

By obscure I expected something like "Coconut Mall was designed after a mall in which a shooting that killed 125 people took place"

“We’re now at the iconic rainbow road.” **shows gameplay of GCN rainbow road*

Some of mine: The last official Nintendo WFC race was on Luigi Circuit. Mario Circuit is featured in Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games in Dream Ski Cross with a similar layout to the original. Coconut Mall features an out-of-bounds lower level, which became flooded in Mario Kart 7, and straight-up buried in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. In Mario Kart 8's remake of Wario's Gold Mine, the minecarts give you a boost, rather than hurting you. Daisy Circuit is the only track in the game with traffic cones. The Goombas on Koopa Cape walk faster than every other Goomba in the game. This was changed in Mario Kart 7's rendition of the track. Maple Treeway's music is referenced in Paper Mario: The Origami King. Rainbow Road is the only track in the game with a forced halfpipe. The blocks in SNES Ghost Valley 2 fall when collided with when played locally, but when played online or in Time Trials, they fall automatically in groups. SNES Mario Circuit 3 is the only Grand Prix track in the game with no trickable ramps. N64 Bowser's Castle features 1 more Thwomp than the original rendition.

uhh… you may not have noticed but Rainbow road actually does have an ultra shortcut, and you showed gameplay of the GCN rainbow road custom track, rather than the actual Mario Kart Wii rainbow road.

The reason toad's factory's music is split up and you need to stay still to listen to it all is because of the red room near the end that resets the music. It actually happens on a few different tracks like inside the goldmine of Wario's Goldmine, inside the castle of Bowser's Castle or in the pipe of Koopa Cape. This is because the audio files (brtsm files) are split into two separate files that start and stop when you reach these certain sections of the track the difference with toad's factory is that the music used for the track is pretty long so because it resets every time you never get to hear the full thing

The fact that there's apparently Mario Kart Wii lore is what surprised me the most out of this.

The Bowser's Castle/Maple Treeway one actually goes a little deeper; there's a common leitmotif used in several of the game's original racing tracks to create a sense of coherence between them, it's just Maple Treeway and Bowser Castle are really close in how they implement it. Some of the other tracks where it can be clearly heard are Koopa Cape, Grumble Volcano and Rainbow Road.

I think another reason why someone could argue that Daisy Circuit is in Sarasaland is because... well, it's Daisy circuit, and Sarasaland is her kingdom. It'd be fitting.

9:10 According to the manual, coconut mall also takes place on isle delfino.

Here's another fact about Maple Treeway. (First of all, the pun on Treeway instead of Freeway is genius). In Paper Mario: The Origami King, take a visit to Tranquil Pipe's Teahouse, located in the bottom right area of Shogun Studios. The melody of said song is the same as Maple Treeway, just slowed down and is played with more Japanese-styled instruments. It's by far my favorite video game song ever, so it's really cool how it's a reference to a game I grew up with.

An early version of Bowser's Castle was discovered in the files of Bowser's Castle and has since been pieced back together. You can find gameplay of the track if you look up course.0.

Dang it, I should be sleeping but...I need random trivia injected into my brain

One thing I noticed about Koopa Cape is that the music that plays in the flowing river portion contains a banjo (removed in MK7). Toad's Factory and SNES Ghost Valley 2 are the only tracks where Lap 3's music starts at the same point as where Lap 1's does. Another fact about Maple Treeway: Its Lap 3 music is faster in the MK7 version. And last but not least (I'd do a video, but I don’t want what happened to GilvaSunner to happen to me), the music to Bowser’s Castle and Rainbow Road is referenced in Sonic Mania

Fun fact:DK Summit is actually called DK Snowboard Cross in PAL regions.

In Daisy Circuit, you can spot Daisy Cruiser in the background. Same with Peach Beach

I have two fun facts. 1. It’s not that much more, but Mario Circuit is also home to the losing-results screen. Players and teams who lose the match are seen sitting on a ledge overlooking the track from afar. 2. Playing as a Mii gives a number of in-course character images and statues Mii heads as saved to the console. This includes the statues in DK Summit and Daisy Circuit, the sign near the beginning of Koopa Cape, and various signs in Coconut Mall. If little or no non-user Miis are saved to the console, the heads on these objects are random.

Another thing about Maple Treeway's theme, It appears in the 2cd part of the credits music, along with Moo Moo Meadows's theme

Man, the Dream Equestrian event in London 2012 is awesome. I dare to say that this is Moo Moo Meadows at its best, you have to make big jumps, get boosts, dodge Kamek's attacks and even the camera shifts from behind the characters to the front at one moment.

2:09 A slightly more obscure fact for Mario circuit is that it’s actually the location of the masterpiece of a video titled “Mario says SpongeBob”

Mario Circuit was used in Mario and Sonic and the Olympic Winter Games (2010) for the Dream Ski Cross event. The track itself is very similar to the Wii version, but it was transformed into a DK Mountain-style track with a cannon.

a fact for Mario Circuit could be that in the game’s files there’s an unused track featuring a lot of crazy textures called “drawtest” or something like that to test the game’s rendering capabilities or something, and it’s literally a reskinned Mario Circuit with some missing features like the chain chomp

Awesome video! That fact about Maple Treeway's music shocked me!

Excellent video and that maple threeway share music with bowser castle blew my mind

The fact about Toads Factory's music blew me away

I thought for DK Summit you'd mention that the foggy effect goes away during the course of the race, which is a fact that I only very recently learned

When you lose a battle and you are on the mountain. That also is on Mario circuit

Maple Treeway's theme appeared slown down in Paper Mario: The Origami King as the Tranquil's Teahouse theme and Bowser's Castle in the same game references MKWii's Bowser's Castle theme a bit.

0:42, I'd say a coincidence, as Monza doesn't have bankings like the last corner

Thank you for this! I knew everything except for the maple treeway and Bowser Castle music thing :O

Awesome video idea! Would definetly love to see a part 2.

Mario Circuit, much like Moo Moo Meadows, is the setting of another Dream Event: the Dream Ski Cross event in Mario and Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games.

Here’s something weird about Coconut Mall: In the Tour and 8 Deluxe version of the course, there are some posters in the lower exit to the mall advertising “Racer’s Lemonade” featuring different Mariokart characters’ emblems on the bottles. What’s interesting is that one of them has Honey Queen’s emblem on it, presumably as a holdover from the MK7 version of the course, where the posters originated, despite her otherwise complete absence from either 8 Deluxe or Tour, at least when the course was added to each game. Believe Tour even based one of the badges you can display by your username on that particular poster. And speaking of Mario Kart 8 referencing a character’s status as playable in other Mariokart games besides it, in its Royal Raceway remake, Birdo appears on some billboards for the “Women of Racing Organization”, which is the only place in the whole game where Birdo or any member of her species appears. (Ironically, in Tour, where Birdo is playable, the billboards are completely absent in Royal Raceway.) Rainbow Road is also the only track in the game where the current TT WR was done with a kart, IIRC. 7:07 Another excellent piece of MKWii lore, this time from the manual, is that Funky Kong spends his free time “surfing, drumming, and learning the craziest kart shortcuts around!”, meaning the Ultra Shortcut Revolution is, in fact, canon. Other than the “kart” part, I guess. On the Ghost Valley theme, I think the melody part might be a slowed, minor key rendition of Super Mario Kart’s title theme, but I could just be hearing things there. 11:23 This one actually isn’t completely true; Tour Paris Promenade theme is also in 3/4 time.

Coconut Mall has an oddity where the boost panels have more colors than just red and orange

Great video mate, real variety of stuff here! Can’t believe I never noticed that about Toad Circuit, and mind blowing to think the Desert Hills ultra was a week old when you made this

Nice video about obscure facts from each Mario kart Wii track

I can confirm I atleast knew about Waluigi Stadium in MKAGP2. Huge Waluigi fan, so I knew that. The Waluigi Cup also appears in MKT, for anyone interested. It lacks this track obivously though. (I also knew about SNES Mario Circuit 3, funnily enough despite it being by far the most obscure.) I never knew about Shy Guy Beach, fascinating how they sample songs, or use pre-made paid assets in video games. I know Nintendo did it alot in the N64 era, even having issues and having to remove a song in Zelda OOT.

Yo what that was such a well done video!

5:13 well now we've got the mktour version of airship fortress which takes place above lava

Talks about Wii Rainbow Road... Shows us Double Dash Rainbow Road...

So you're partially right about DS Peach Gardens. It is actually the only track to have music in 3/4 time. Wild Woods is actually in 5/4.

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The Shy Guy Beach music sounding like A Summer Place blew my mind. I can’t believe I never noticed that!

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Fun fact, 8:52 Coconut Mall, as well as MK8's Sunshine Airport, also both take place on Isle Delfino. Pretty cool

10:11 Also I'm pretty sure this is the first track to have an ultra shortcut in two games

For Wii Mario Circuit a Fact about it is very similar to the Moo Moo Meadows one being this course was used as the place for Dream Ski Cross in Mario & Sonic Olympic Winter Games 2010. Its more or less just an expanded version of the course used in Ski Cross but as a race.

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2:41 I like how the background music changes from the soundtrack of my least favorite track to my most favorite track. Toad's Factory: I love tormenting this person. Koopa Cape: Not if I have anything to say about it.

For Mario Circuit you could've said that it was where Dream Ski Cross took place in Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games.

Everybody Gangsta till you fall down DK Summit and get a Blue Shell

This video was awesome! Major props to gathering a fact for each track in the game! 🤩😁😁🤩

6:38 wrong track that's rainbow road gc

did you know that the lakitu who waves the checkered flag at the end of the race can be squashed by thwomps?

1:44 Rip Toad's Factory, you will be missed (It will never get added to future mario karts)

Mario And Sonic At The London 2012 Olympic Games was actually my first ever Wii game along with Mario Galaxy

When i recently found out about the Maple Treeway fact, i was blown away. That fact is absolutely crazy, partially because of how long it took to find out about it!!

Maple Treeway and Bowser's castle with the same music. i literally shocked from that

I thought he was going to talk about the funny rock that you drive under at peach Beach that's looking kinda weird..

nice video! only thing is that coconut mall probably takes place on isle delfino due to it being mostly piantas but that's the only evidence so it's disputable

4:18 Can we just take a second to appreciate how well that trick syncs up with the background music?

For MKWii's Mario Circuit, it appeared as the setting for the Dream Ski Cross in Mario & Sonic @ The Olympic Winter Games on Wii.

That was very interesting!

Very well made video

Something I find interesting, which nobody else seems to acknowledge, is that the green hills in the background of Mushroom Gorge are the same ones from world 7 from New Super Mario Bros DS.

Great Video! My theory as to why Petey Piranha plays King Kong is because there actually was a lawsuit between Nintendo and Universal over Donkey Kong/King Kong in the 1980s.

Heres another obscure fun fact about DK summit: the sky changes as you pass the finish line lap 1 starts as cloudy and lap 3 you start to see sun

the DKSC one oh my god that unlocked some memories i remember swordofseals' video on those item boxes lmaoo

On DK’s Jungle Parkway, if a heavy racer rams someone in the Quacker at a certain place, they wind up at the island in the middle, dubbed “Quacker Island”

I have always considered wii bowser castle a distorted version of the gc one And then, in mkwii rainbow road soundtrack you can hear the good egg galaxy theme for a while

6:06 "I do have to question why Petey Piranha took the role of King Kong instead of Donkey Kong." Oh- dude, trust me, there's a _very_ good reason for that. Long story short: there was a lawsuit involving the two, and I don't think Nintendo wanted to poke that hornet's nest again.

Love this kinda stuff

Coconut Mall also takes place on Isle Delfino according to the Mario Wiki

One of my favorites is that the 2D trees in DS Yoshi Falls have the old starting line textures from DS attached to them underground, as a carryover from DS

Nintendo had some legal battles w universal over donkey kong/king kong. Putting him on that poster would have been a little on the nose and probably would have given them even more trouble. I'm sure Universal would have seen it as an acknowledgement from Nintendo that DK is an infringement of their King Kong trademark.

Obscure fact about mario circuit (wii): there is a unused bugged stage in the game that is a compeletely texture-corrupted version of mario circuit.

these facts are cool but the gameplay in the background is completely insane

The maple treeway one actually just blew my mind 😂

6:05 I think the reason why Petey Piranha appears in the Mushroom Moon movie poster is because he was originally supposed to be added as a driver in the game, but was scrapped.

Maple Treeway out of bounds glitch

Mario Circuit also appeared outside of Mario Kart for a bonus fact, it was in the Mario and Sonic Winter Olympic games

I’ve always imagined that grumble volcano is based off of the 8th world in New Super Mario Bros… I mean the trees, lava, it all fits the picture.

Wild Woods is actually in 5/4, not 3/4, although I'm guessing you just meant that it wasn't 4/4 rather than saying it was also 3/4.

2:20 the screen that comes up when you lose in battle mode also takes place in this area, but on a nearby cliff

Interesting! I knew none of these except the N64 Bowser Castle one

Mario circuit is a dream event in Mario and sonic at the Olympic winter games with a slight rendition having teleportation pipes

"Chances are you've played this game at least once". At least once, at most... probably 1000.

This might be a more obvious one, but another music fact is that the beginning of Bowser’s Castle begins with a slowed down rendition of the original SMB Castle theme

I've always sort of headcanoned that the green trampoline mushrooms are just orange ones that have shifted color and stiffened up (or just straight up died) due to like temperature or dehydration or something

The fact they aren’t called “trampoline toadstools” will bother me until the end of time

Toad’s factory is the only track to have the music reset at a place, instead of a time

You should've showed off the invisible cactus. JUSTICE FOR THE INVISIBLE CACTUS!

Mario Circuit was the base track used for the dream skiing event in Mario & sonic at the olympic games!!

A pretty unimportant fact but Mario Circuit's layout sort of resembles Toad's Turnpike.

Wii Mario circuit and Luigi circuit both share the same song, every other track in the game has a unique theme.

another thing about GBA Shy Guy Beach is that the texture of the sand is very similar if not identical to the Sand Texture used in Minecraft, though Minecraft likely used the texture

10:21 same with dk summit having a Mario statue and not a dk one

A way more obscure fact about N64 bowsers castle is the green thwomp behind in the jail. Many believed it could be opened and you could access the thwomp

A little less obscure but Peach Beach's appearnace in MKWii is the last time Cataquacks have ever appeared in the series if i remember right