The Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Booster Course Pass, often abbreviated as the Booster Course Pass or BCP, is a set of paid DLC for the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe game, initially announced on February 9th, 2022 in a Nintendo Direct. 48 Tracks were to be added to the game across 6 waves, with the final wave releasing on November 9th, 2023. Most of the tracks included in the DLC are remastered versions of race courses from past installments in the series. Along with this, a decent portion of the courses included are newcomers from the Mario Kart Tour spin-off game. However, a select few of the tracks in the DLC have been advertised as being new tracks. Each wave consists of two cups with four tracks each, adding up to eight tracks per wave. From the fourth wave onward, eight Characters returning from older Mario Kart titles were added to the DLC. Additionally, in the sixth and final wave, seventeen new Mii Racing Suits for the Mii characters were also added and are only able to be accessed and used by people who possess the DLC.
Owners of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe game can purchase the Booster Course Pass DLC through the Nintendo eShop at a price of $24.99. Alternatively, players can purchase a Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pass membership which will grant the DLC for free. All waves of courses and characters will be unlocked upon purchase of the DLC.
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Wave 1[]
The first wave was revealed on February 9th, 2022, and later released on March 18th, 2022. The included cups were the Golden Dash Cup and the Lucky Cat Cup. The tracks included were: Tour Paris Promenade, 3DS Toad Circuit, N64 Choco Mountain, Wii Coconut Mall, Tour Tokyo Blur, DS Shroom Ridge, GBA Sky Garden, and Ninja Hideaway.
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The second wave was announced on July 28th, 2022. It released on August 4th, 2022. It contained the Turnip Cup and the Propeller Cup. The tracks included were: Tour New York Minute, SNES Mario Circuit 3, N64 Kalimari Desert, DS Waluigi Pinball, Tour Sydney Sprint, GBA Snow Land, Wii Mushroom Gorge, and Sky-High Sundae.
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On September 13th, 2022, two of the eight tracks in the third wave were previewed in a Nintendo Direct. Later, on November 21st 2022, the full wave was shown off. The third wave was released on December 7th, 2022. The included cups were the Rock Cup and the Moon Cup. The included courses were: Tour London Loop, GBA Boo Lake, 3DS Rock Rock Mountain, Wii Maple Treeway, Tour Berlin Byways, DS Peach Gardens, Merry Mountain, and 3DS Rainbow Road.
Wave 4[]
During the February 8th, 2023 Nintendo Direct, a new course for the DLC was announced to be coming in the fourth wave, along with the addition of Birdo as a playable character, who, like Yoshi, has nine colored variants. Around a month later, on March 2nd, 2023, everything the wave had to offer was announced. The fourth wave was released on March 9th, 2023. It included the Fruit Cup and the Boomerang Cup. The courses included are: Tour Amsterdam Drift, GBA Riverside Park, Wii DK Summit, Yoshi's Island, Tour Bangkok Rush, DS Mario Circuit, GCN Waluigi Stadium, and Tour Singapore Speedway.
Wave 5[]
In a Nintendo Direct on June 21st, 2023, a brand new course to the Mario Kart series was announced for the fifth wave, and, alongside this, three more characters were presented, of which being Petey Piranha, Wiggler, and Kamek. A few weeks later, on July 6th, 2023, the wave was announced in full. The fifth wave released on July 12th, 2023. It included the Feather Cup and Cherry Cup. The courses included are: Tour Athens Dash, GCN Daisy Cruiser, Wii Moonview Highway, Squeaky Clean Sprint, Tour Los Angeles Laps, GBA Sunset Wilds, Wii Koopa Cape, and Tour Vancouver Velocity.
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In the Nintendo Direct on September 14th, 2023, one of the courses in the sixth and final wave was previewed. Along with that, the final four characters were also announced, being Diddy Kong, Funky Kong, Pauline, and Peachette. A few weeks later, on November 1st, 2023, the wave was announced in full. The sixth wave was released on November 9th, 2023. It included the Acorn Cup and Spiny Cup. The courses included are: Tour Rome Avanti, GCN DK Mountain, Wii Daisy Circuit, Piranha Plant Cove, Tour Madrid Drive, 3DS Rosalina's Ice World, SNES Bowser Castle 3, and Wii Rainbow Road. As well as this, eighteen additional Mii Racing Suits for the Mii characters were added in the Wave 6 update, with seventeen of them being available only with the DLC. These are the seventeen Mii Racing Suits listed as following: ? Block Suit, Castle Suit, Toadette Suit, Dry Bowser Suit, Chain Chomp Suit, Cheep Cheep Suit, Dolphin Suit, Pokey Suit, Blooper Suit, Koopa Clown Car Suit, Para-Biddybud Suit, Ice Cream Suit, Birdo Suit, Petey Piranha Suit, Wiggler Suit, Goomba Suit, and the Moo Moo Suit.
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With the announcement of the fourth wave, eight Characters from previous Mario Kart games were added across the next three waves, starting with Birdo being included as part of the Wave 4 lineup of courses. Birdo also came along with 9 colored variants, akin to Yoshi and Shy Guy from the base game. In Wave 5, Petey Piranha, Wiggler, and Kamek were then added to the roster of characters. Finally, in Wave 6, Diddy Kong, Funky Kong, Pauline, and Peachette were added as the final characters.
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Upon the release of the sixth wave of the Booster Course Pass DLC, eighteen new Mii Racing Suits for the Mii characters were added to the game, and seventeen of them are only able to be accessed by owners of the DLC.
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- Wave 1 is the only wave in the DLC where none of the tracks included feature the Anti-gravity mechanic.
- Waves 1, 3, and 6 are technically the only waves that don't include "new" tracks (Ninja Hideaway, Merry Mountain, and Piranha Plant Cove appeared in Mario Kart Tour before their debut in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, despite being unlabeled).
- According to datamines, it seems plausible that Wii Moonview Highway or 3DS Rosalina's Ice World may have completely scrapped a new, prefix-less course, due to how both of their filenames indicate their original placements, of which, were on spots once thought to be held by a new courses thanks to the prefix leak.
- Besides the RMX courses, Piranha Plant Pipeline is the only new course from Mario Kart Tour to not be included as part of the DLC.
- Despite this, Piranha Plant Pipeline may very well have been originally planned for the DLC as evidenced by datamines, suggesting that there was another prefix-less course in Wave 6 along with two others, both these two being Piranha Plant Cove and the presumably scrapped new course. This prefix-less course might have been Piranha Plant Pipeline, either way however, it has evidently since been replaced with another course bearing a prefix for as of yet unknown reasons.
- DS Shroom Ridge was incorrectly labelled as a 3DS course instead of a DS one for a brief period on the official website for the DLC.
- Concurrently, on the desktop version of the official website, the icon for Wii Rainbow Road is mistakenly using an image of 3DS Rainbow Road. This issue has since been fixed on the mobile version of the site, though still persists on desktop versions.
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