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50CC and 100CC of the All-Cup Tour are the only Grand Prix’s in Mario Kart Double Dash that do not unlock something upon acquiring a Gold Trophy for them.

Let’s say that beating the All Cup Tour on 50CC unlocked a new pair of characters and the personal kart of one of those two characters.

Who would those characters be, what would be the special item they share, what would be the personal kart for one of the characters that you unlock when you unlock the characters themselves, and what would be the personal kart for the other character that you unlock from beating the All Cup Tour on 100CC?

Leave your ideas in the comments.

A new 2D Ninja Gaiden

A remake of the 3D Ninja Gaiden 2

And a 3D Ninja Gaiden 4 developed by Platinum

Ninja Gaiden fans are feasting well.

For some reason I was remembering the date for the Switch 2 direct as being April Fool’s Day but I had a tough time believing that was accurate, so I double checked.

It is in fact not April Fool’s Day. It’s the day right after that =P

Coin's being one of the items you can get from an item box is one of the more infamous parts of Mario Kart 8. And a long time ago I saw someone who is indeed not a fan of coins as an item bring up the idea of them being used to pay a toll for a shortcut as a potential solution to the problem.

Any thoughts on this idea being included in a Mario Kart game at some point? Personally, I feel like I'd be against it. Maybe I'm off base but I feel like since you lose coins when getting hit by other items, which can happen a lot in Mario Kart, that you'd be unable to afford the toll enough times to where it would just add an unnecessary annoyance in trying to get the Gold Trophy and 3 Stars in a cup. Especially on higher CC's.

As I’m sure many of us know, google has had an AI Overview for its search engine results for a while now. And unsurprisingly it’s prone to errors due to its use of AI.

You can collect coins in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe by robbing banks? Yeah…….pretty sure you can’t.

I've said this before, but I've been slacking off for a good while on actually playing a number of the Mario games available on the Switch.

Which is something I feel like I might need to rectify with the new Mario Kart on the way. I doubt Mario & Luigi Brothership or the Thousand Year Door remake will really be a part of what I'm about to describe, but games like Mario Bros. Wonder? I think it's a pretty safe bet that there will be a course or 2 from that game, and it might feel a little weird for me to not experience the source game before racing on those courses.

Mario Odyssey is a game I would say is in that same category, but I've long since beaten that game. Any other Mario games on Switch you think I should be aware of for this kind of thing?

Casual Reminder that even with the Booster Course Pass in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, there are still plenty of tracks from past Mario Kart games that are not in Mario Kart 8 in any way that the upcoming Mario Kart could use for Retro Rebuild Tracks.

1 - Moo Moo Farm (N64)
2 - Koopa Troopa Beach (N64)
3 - Frappe Snowland (N64)
4 - Bowser's Castle (N64)
5 - DK's Jungle Parkway (N64)
6 - Mushroom City (GCN)
7 - Wario Colosseum (GCN)
8 - Dino Dino Jungle (GCN)
9 - Rainbow Road (GCN)
10 - Delfino Square (DS)
11 - Airship Fortress (DS)
12 - Toad's Factory (Wii)
13 - Daisy Hills (3DS)
14 - Shy Guy Bazaar (3DS)
15 - Wario Shipyard (3DS)
16 - Maka Wuhu (3DS)

That's 16, which is the amount of base game retro rebuild courses that Mario Kart games have always had, and there are more courses to choose from beyond that. Including, but not limited to, the brand new courses introduced in Mario Kart 8.

So yeah, still plenty of Retro Rebuilds to work with.

Since Smash Ultimate is an unfortunate victim on occasion of the parts of the Smash fanbase that don't let things that are awesome stay awesome, here's a reminder of 4 things Ultimate did really well.

1 - Everyone is Here

- Let's be real, the only reason this isn't an ideal thing for every Smash game is because it takes a lot of dev time away from making things like brand new characters and other modes. If perfection existed, this would be a great idea as it means no one's favorite characters gets the axe. People got excited when this was first revealed for a reason.

2 - The New Characters

- For both base game and DLC, the line-up of newcomers was top notch in Ultimate. Characters that have been desired for a long time like Ridley, Simon, and K. Rool, the devs getting a chance to throw their own desires into the ring with unique ideas like Piranha Plant and personal picks like Joker, characters that are a blast to play as like the Aegis Duo and Kazuya, and Steve depending on who you ask, and really hype additions like Banjo-Kazooie and Sora. Ultimate has a great roster.

3 - The Music Remixes

- A standard thing of Smash games since Brawl, but man there are a lot of great remixes in Ultimate's Soundtrack

4 - Classic Mode

- The idea they had for classic mode in Ultimate was brilliant. Each character getting their own specialized route that ties into themes for their source material. It's a lot less tedious than classic mode in Smash Wii U as well and the tweaks they made to the difficulty meter added a nice way to take on the challenge of clearing the mode at the 9.9 level. I do wish Master Hand was used as a boss less often, but they really knocked it out of the park with classic mode in Ultimate. It's going to be tough for the next game to top it.

Prediction:

One of the Retro Rebuild Courses in the newly revealed Mario Kart will be Cheese Land, but this time it will stick with the original theme of being a moon made of cheese in outer space instead of being a desert.

I left a profile post some time back posing the thought of the next Mario Kart having content from Mario and Luigi Brothership.

I’m not gonna lie, at initial glance the way Mario looks in the next Mario Kart from the Switch 2 reveal reminded me a lot of how he looked in Brothership. Going back to take a more detailed look, he admittedly doesn’t quite look as similar to Brothership as I initially thought though.

So the way he looks in the game doesn’t mean anything in the realm of evidence that Brothership content will be in the game. There still could be such content, but Mario’s appearance doesn’t lean into hinting at that the way I initially thought it might.

Remember that massive disdain a lot of people started developing for Konami because of all the things they were doing that people really didn't like? Like the Pachinko Machines and the pretty bad treatment of employees?

That kind of thing feels a bit weird for me to look back on since it's been a good few years since I saw anyone talk about them. From my perspective, which may very well be uninformed, people just kinda......stopped paying any form of attention to Konami.

Part of me wonders if the Smash Devs are against the idea of a Rhythm Game character because they feel like too many players would not like having to fight to a specific rhythm in order to use the character effectively.

I can tell you now that I myself would not like playing as a character such as that.

Posts on twitter were called tweets because Twitter had a bird motif.

Does Bluesky have an equivalent to that? Or do bluesky users just keep things simple and call them posts or something?

It really sucks when YouTube tries to play an ad only for the ad to buffer.

You know, since Eggman created Sage, doesn’t that make him an AI Artist?

While I acknowledge that the whole “Everyone is here” thing cannot really happen again, and in some ways that’s probably for the best, I still respect the Ultimate devs for going through with it even if it was a one time thing.

As they made clear, they did it out of a belief that it is what their players would want, and it was a pretty hype reveal at the time for a reason.

It won’t happen again and I understand why, but I respect the Ultimate devs for doing it for that particular game.

I don’t know how much people debate nowadays if Link will talk in the Zelda movie, but I know that was a topic of discussion when the movie was first announced.

As for me, lately I’ve been wondering how the movie could even work if Link doesn’t talk.

Mario Party Superstars, and I'm pretty sure Super Mario Party Jamboree as well, have my least favorite Bonus Star in the entire franchise.

It's the bonus star you get for using the most reaction stickers. As far as I'm concerned those reactions stickers should be used solely for having fun reacting to the other players and any crazy shenanigans that happen. Adding an aspect of competition to where you are potentially put at as disadvantage for not being the one who uses the most of those just rubs me the wrong way.

One of the first content creators I ever got into was asked once what his favorite candy way. He said it was a tie between Starburst and Lollipops.

Which gives me a very minor curiosity of what he'd think of the fact that Starburst Lollipops have existed for a couple years now.

Man. What is with Youtube lately?

You've seen the grievances that MartianSnake has been sharing I'm sure, and now for me it's doing this thing where after an ad is done, be it by actually finishing the ad or by skipping it, it will just show a black screen on the video. Moving the mouse cursor over it doesn't even bring the Youtube bar to try to pause and unpause it, it just gets totally frozen. This doesn't happen every time, thankfully, but it really shouldn't happen at all.

And the weirdest part of all, this isn't even an issue with the Mobile App. This is in an issue I'm getting on Desktop.

For anyone who has seen either Moana 2 or Zootopia 2, question for ya.

Do those movies fall into the category of Disney Sequels that are somehow not a disaster like The Lion King 2? Or are they in the category of Disney Sequels that very much are a disaster like Mulan 2?

What do you think would be the most effective way to make a crossover game between The Legend of Zelda and Pac-Man?

YouTube has a feature to where uploaders are able to delete comments that are left on their videos.

I’m not going to lie, I wish more people made use of this feature. I’ve seen more cases of trolls and haters deliberately leaving hate comments to try and hurt people on purpose that do not end up getting deleted then I like to admit.

Uploaders should really be making more of an effort to display that this sort of thing is not ok.

The game awards had Statler and Waldorf join the festivities this year and I know that in years past they had Pepe, Bunsen and Beaker, and The Swedish Chef.

Are there any other cases of Muppets at the game awards or is that it?

Also a personal take on this trend, Gonzo and Rizzo > Statler and Waldorf

I cannot decide if SNK releasing a new Fatal Fury and/or King of Fighters game that gives Mai a new outfit that's more appropriate for Smash Bros is something I can see happening or not.

New 2D Ninja Gaiden

I must admit I’m surprised it took this long. As far as I’m aware this is the first 2D Ninja Gaiden since Ninja Gaiden 3 on the NES. I would have thought one would release much sooner after that Retro Revival craze sparked up in 2008, but it took 17 years after said spark up for this to happen.

Well at least it’s here now.

What I typically refer to as a cycle for a Smash Bros. game is the first official reveal of the game as a starting point and the time where the game has finished running its course, so to speak, as the ending point. Aka about a year or two after the last big DLC pack drops.

Using that description as an example, do you think you’d still frequent Smashboards when the cycle for the next Smash Bros. game is going on?

Top 10 Crowns in Video Games according to Blockfort.com

#10 - King Slime’s Crown from Dragon Quest

#9 - Charlotta’s Crown from Granblue Fantasy

#8 - Camilla’s Crown from the Fire Emblem Games

#7 - The Master Crown from Kirby’s Return to Dreamland

#6 - Aurora’s Crown from Child of Light

#5 - King Hippo’s Crown from Punch-Out

#4 - King K. Rool’s Crown

#3 - High Lord Wolnir’s Crown from Dark Souls 3

#2 - Corobo’s Crown from Little Kings Story

#1 - The Super Crown from New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe

Anyone remember that meme of Bang, Marry, Kill?

For this who don’t It’s one of those memes that’s meant to be played as a game. Kind of like that One Gotta Go challenge.

The idea is to take a group of 3 characters that have some sort of similarity to each other and say which of the 3 you would marry, which one you would kill, and which of them you would have sex with.

For example:

Bang, Marry, Kill

Dr. Eggman, Dr. Wily, Dr. Neo Cortex

If I’m not mistaken, now that Blue Sky is a thing a number of the people who have a lot of issues with Twitter are hoping that twitter will eventually cease to exist because Blue Sky made it obsolete.

Assuming that is indeed correct, do you think such a thing would ever actually happen? And if so, how long do you think it would take?

Christmas is my favorite time of the year but I’ve never really liked the Christmas chocolates that stores sell during that holiday season.

They taste too bland to me. I like Easter Chocolates better.

Idea:

The next big main series Sonic Game introduces a new character that while overall being on the side of the hero's, he's pretty mean spirited towards Eggman.

For example, there would be a cutscene where this new character seasons his chili dog with a crazy amount of Sage, and then violently devours it right in front of Eggman. Sonic sees this happen and just goes "Dude. Not Cool."

What is the weirdest idea for a Smash character you’ve ever had in a dream? And I do mean a dream specifically, not something you thought of while consciously awake.

In my case, back when I was about 17 or so, which is the time where Brawl was out but Smash Wii U was very far away from even being announced, I had a dream of Rosalina becoming a smash character…..only she was a Dark Magic Sorceress with a Giant Scythe and a Purple Outfit that was rather, I’m not gonna beat around the bush, Slutty.

If Jigglypuff’s Final Smash gets changed, should it be changed to Max Starfall? Or to something else since Gen 8 isn’t what’s “hot and new” anymore?

I don’t think Pokémon needs any more types. At least not yet. But I think the 3 most logical types to be next are Sound, Magic, and Light.

Magic would be super effective against Normal types, Light would be super effective against Dark types, but Dark in turn would also be super effective against Light types, and Sound……I have no idea what it would be super effective against.

I would also like one of these 3 to be super effective against Electric types but I don’t know if any of them reasonably could be.

Would it be accurate to say that the divide between fans of Warioware and Wario Land would be a lot less severe, and possibly even not exist, if Wario never got into Smash?

I did not come up with this one myself, but I had to share it here because it’s really good.

Joke Time!

What does Eevee become if you evolve it with an Amulet Coin?

Remember the TMNT cartoon from 2012?

I myself never watched it, but I did see a few trailers here and there alongside this guy I used to know and he would always comment about he thought the animation looked so stupid because it was CGI instead of 2d animation. Or more specifically, instead of anime styled animation. Yeah the guy had a big problem with thinking Anime was superior to every other form of media.

Delzethin has been shown some solid support here on Smashboards. But as I've stated before, cool as Delzethin's videos are, it would be nice to see this site show that kind of support for some other Smashtubers as well.

So I'm going to go ahead and share the latest moveset video of another good Smashtuber, FeliciaFan. Said video was just posted today.

It's Alucard

Lucario is a character I would personally like to see some changes to in regards to how he plays in Smash. Something about that Aura mechanic, and in some ways the moveset that comes with it, just doesn’t click with me.

That reasoning makes it a me problem, which is why I’m not up in arms about it or anything, but if I had to pick a preference then I would choose for there to be some changes.