Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s Wave 1 DLC is in the online rotation, so mooch away

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It’s worth stressing again, just in case you missed hearing it, that you don’t strictly need to cough up $25 to play the Booster Course Pass levels in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe‘s online multiplayer. If you’re facing random online players in Worldwide, Regional, or Tournaments and someone’s got the DLC, the just-released Wave 1 levels can show up in the rotation.

Assuming the folks in the lobby vote accordingly, you’re good to go. And this only-one-owner rule also goes for Friends, Wireless Play, and LAN Play if any of those are more your speed. Nintendo confirmed this in the Ver. 2.0.0 patch notes, if you’re curious.

That said, as demonstrated in this wonderfully painful clip from Reddit user IceBre4th, it’s tough to reach a consensus with other Mario Kart-loving strangers. No matter the odds, the course selection RNG is going to do its wacky thing. If you’ve got any superstitions about its sentience or intentions, well, they’re probably true. Ninja Hideaway is a blast!

Me: Finally, i’m going to play the DLC on Global! That one guy: from mariokart

Hey, maybe someone is just really into Yoshi Circuit. They can’t be swayed.

Yoshi Circuit best track from mariokart

Or maybe they’ve already had their fill of these (mostly) basic tracks after going all-in.

The Booster Course Pass levels can appear in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s multiplayer rotation as long as “at least one of the players you are matched with online has access to the [DLC],” as Nintendo puts it. Basically, they aren’t splitting us up. That said — and this will likely go for future Booster Course waves as well — the timing isn’t day-and-date.

In the case of the Wave 1 tracks (Toad Circuit, Choco Mountain, Sky Garden, Tokyo Blur, Shroom Ridge, Paris Promenade, Coconut