All Mario Kart 8 DLC Tracks Can Be Played Online Without Purchasing Them
While there’s still no sign of the long-rumored Mario Kart 9, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s new Booster Course Pass is definitely the next best thing, containing enough racetracks to act as an entirely new game basically. Announced during the most recent Nintendo Direct, the additional courses aren’t original, but are remastered variants from previous games, including the Mario Kart Tour mobile game.
Since the Booster Course Pass is paid DLC, the Nintendo Direct announcement never specified whether anyone who doesn’t purchase the pass would be able to try out these tracks on online multiplayer. It has since been discovered that, yes, that will be the case.
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On Nintendo’s own website, the small print mentions that courses from the first wave of new Mario Kart 8 Deluxe courses can be played in either local or online multiplayer with friends as long as one person has access to the DLC. From March 22nd, four days after the first wave releases, those courses will start appearing in the Random selection when playing online with anyone.
The small print doesn’t say anything about subsequent waves, but it’s safe to assume that the same will apply to those too. After all, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate never prevented those who didn’t purchase its DLC from playing against those with DLC characters or fighting on the DLC stages, so it wouldn’t make sense for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe to not do the same.
As a reminder, the Booster Course Pass will consist of 48 tracks split across six waves of eight, which will be released throughout the rest of the year and 2023. The first wave arrives on March 18th and includes Paris Promenade, Tokyo Blur, and Ninja Hideaway from Mario Kart Tour, Toad
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