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This is probably obscure old and/or currently unrelated news, but it’s MKT related enough for me. So I was watching Wario Land videos, and a specific one from The Lonely Goomba about Wario Land 1 caught my eye. Keep in mind I haven’t spent as much time in WL1 compared to 2, 3, and 4 since I didn’t get WL1 until the 3DS VC got it. And even then I hardly spent time playing it. Anyways moving on… Depending on how many coins a treasures you get at the end of the game, you get different endings. These endings are Wario getting various houses, castles, and the moon if you get the best ending. However one of these castles is a Japanese styled castle according to the video. When I saw that, I immediately thought if Mario Kart Tour’s Ninja Hideaway track is a call-back reference to one of Wario Land’s endings. I know when Ninja Hideaway was released in Tour, it was mainly Shy Guy themed since Ninja Shy Guy was one of the high tier characters introduced during the tour the track debuted in. But if you pay some attention to the track’s decorations, you’ll notice that some of the decorations are of Wario’s W emblem, his nose and mustache, and garlic in gold. I was always curious to why Ninja Hideaway has some references to Wario when there’s so many ninja Shy Guys around the place? After watching that video though, it makes more sense to me. I wouldn’t have guessed to what I thought was a random track idea for MkT to be a reference to one of WL1’s endings. That’s pretty cool. If it wasn’t the intention, then that’s a heck of a coincidence. tl:dr Just possibly found out why there’s Wario stuff in Ninja Hideaway, all because of a Wario Land video I watched on YouTube.
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Okay thanks for the clarification guys.- 2619 replies
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Is there a different tournament lobby for this week?- 2619 replies
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They could be saving the Koopalings and/or Bowser Jr. for the next movie. They’ll bust Bowser out of his cage somehow. Heck maybe if they introduce the Koopalings in the sequel, that can probably work into a Super Mario World focused “plot”. Especially since they already teased Yoshi in the post post credits scene. One problem I can see for the Koopalings is that’s another seven voice actors, eight if you want to include Bowser Jr. with them. It’s not really a big problem, unless they try and get big names celebrities to voice each Koopaling. After seeing the whole movie, I’m a bit puzzled why the Luma was even in the film without Rosalina. My guess is they’re planning to put her in a future movie? The inclusion of the Luma and Peach mentioning galaxies have to be intentional teases for that idea. More spoiler discussion in this spoiler drop bar since it seems this post might be getting too long on my end.
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Saw the Super Mario Bros. Movie last night with family. I think everyone I saw it with liked it. I’d definitely recommend the movie to anyone who is a fan of Mario games. Heck if you’re a general Nintendo fan, you’ll probably enjoy the references littered in the movie. I’m actually impressed on how Illumination handled the movie, given some of their other movies. Might be because Nintendo has their say in the movie? Either way try and go see the movie when you can.
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Would Tanooki Mario count as well? The Tanooki suit was in the movie and technically isn’t a spoiler since it’s shown in one of the trailers/commercials for the movie. I’d also pitch some of Bowser’s troops that appeared in movie trailers such as Koopa Troopa, Dry Bones, and Shy Guy. But I’m perfectly fine if we just want to stick to the main cast for the theme.- 2619 replies
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Hey guys, sorry to show up last minute again and ask to join for tonight. Is there going to be a race night for tonight? And is there a theme or anything else to know?- 2619 replies
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Glad to see GB/GBC and GBA games come to the NSO service. Wish there were a few more options for GBA at launch. I played some Mario Kart Super Circuit and remembered how awful I am at it. I hope G&W Gallery 4 comes to the GBA NSO even though the GB/C NSO already has G&W Gallery 3. Also can’t wait to try Kirby and the Amazing Mirror with actual people.
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What one Pokémon needs to be dex’d for you to complete the Pokédex?
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Official Pokemon Sword/Shield Gen 8 Shiny Thread
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Got my first shiny in Violet last week. Found it in a Tera raid den. I didn’t even notice until I saw the shiny icon while browsing through my boxes. I evolved it too. -
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Not really. The router and modem aren’t really much farther away from where they used to be.- 2619 replies
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So I don’t remember if I said it here or in another topic, but I finally decided to get NSO Expansion to get N64 games and MK8 DLX tracks. However I don’t think I’ll have as much of a stable connection on my Switch since I moved my router and modem closer to my PC in the other room; my Switch is no longer hard wired. Plus judging from how MK8 nights are EST and I’m on PST, Im thinking that wouldn’t be ideal for connections.- 2619 replies
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@DLurksterYeah I really should have pumped the breaks on this game. I haven’t done too much end game things as far as I’m aware, but now I feel a bit burned out completing the main story. I should have known this would happen.
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So I no-life beat the story and got to the credits and I’m in post game. I won’t post any spoilers since the games not even a week old yet. I know the internet is in an uproar about the game’s graphics and performance, but it didn’t heavily impact my gameplay or really upset me enough to make me stop playing. There was only one area I could recall where the game slowed down really bad. However the game never crashed. I have no idea how playing with others locally or online will affect the game’s performance since I haven’t tried connecting to any friends yet. For reference I have played this in docked mode on a Switch that I’ve had since Mario Kart 8 Deluxe came out. I could try and go on about more of the graphical issues, but its most likely already covered better in other sources.
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Even though I’m not getting it yet, probably Sonic Frontiers. Though God of War Ragnarok is looking pretty hype, and I’ve never been big on GoW or have a PS5. Also back to Pokémon S/V… the starter evolutions have been leaked along with some other Pokémon. That’s all I’m going to say on that here.
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Not yet from what I’m aware of. One of the starter’s middle evos did get leaked though. Also seems the there’ll be a new Scarlet and Violet trailer tomorrow. I wouldn’t be surprised if they at least showed all the starters middle evos at least.
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Just a heads up, there are gameplay pictures of Pokémon S/V already leaked on the internet. The game got into people’s hands early somehow. I’m just letting people here know.
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I know the 3D/Switch mainline Pokémon titles aren’t technical feats, but man were there some choppy frame rate issues in that video. I get Wiglett is supposed to be a worm or eel, but Game Freak or the Pokémon Company knew that the internet is going to make duck jokes out of this. I hope the shiny colors for Wiglett isn’t just the normal Diglett colors for the sake of avoiding more controversy.
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Mario Party Superstars Friday September 16th?
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Crap, I had a feeling I should have kept an eye here. Sorry I missed another night. Then again I still don’t have my Switch dock hardwired to the internet. So I might have saved you guys from some bad connection problems.- 58 replies
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Well I realized I might not be able to make it to this Saturday night Smash, unless I play using WiFi. I was trying to move my internet set up to where I have my pc to see if plugging an ethernet cable into the pc would help with game download speeds, which it doesn’t for some reason? That’s a different problem though. So I think I’ll skip out to prevent having even worse match connections for Smash. Sorry about that.
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Okay thanks for the heads up @purple_beardand @DLurkster.