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CTGP-7 is a romhack for Mario Kart 7 adding new features to the game. 5 years after the first version was released, the CTGP-7 dev team is proud to present what we consider the biggest update to the mod ever made, the v1.0 update.

In this update, many new features have been added to the mod, of which the following are the most notable:

• Custom Tracks Worldwide (CTWW): With CTWW enabled, selecting worldwide in the online multiplayer menu will put you in an unused region. In this region CTGP-7 players can play custom tracks without interfering vanilla Mario Kart 7 users.

• Countdown Mode: While using CTWW, you can select between VS race and Countdown mode. In this new game mode there are infinite laps and the timer counts backwards from a certain value (about 2 minutes). After it reaches 0 you won't be able to move anymore. In order to gain some time, hit other players with items. The full game mode rules can be found here.

• 32+ New Custom Tracks: Thanks to the cup extension feature added in 0.21, we are finally able to add tons of new custom tracks to the game. The custom track count has increased from 30 in v0.21.4, to 56 in v1.0.

• Anti Cheat: The Anti cheat will help mitigate cheaters in the worldwide mode. If you play a lot in normal worldwide, then this feature is for you!

• Custom Character Manager & Others: Other smaller features were added to the mod as well. With the custom character manager, you can place character packs (which may include model, voice and UI modifications) in the MyStuff folder. They can be individually enabled from the custom ingame menu later (press Select). There are also some other new small features, they are listed in the changelog below.

v1.0 CHANGELOG

• New Custom Track List:
  • Bell Cup: Concord Town || N64 Mario Raceway || Galvarny Falls || GBA Sky Garden
  • Acorn Cup: Autumn Forest || GBA Riverside Park || SNES Mario Circuit 1 || GBA Bowser Castle 3
  • Cloud Cup: Evergreen Crossing || N64 Moo Moo Farm || Bayside Boulevard || N64 Frappe Snowland
  • Boo Cup: Banshee Boardwalk 2 || Elemental Cave || SNES Ghost Valley 2 || DS Cheep Cheep Beach
  • Spring Cup: DS Tick Tock Clock || Melody Sanctum || DS Desert Hills || Castle Of Time
  • Egg Cup: DS Yoshi Falls || N64 Choco Mountain || DS Shroom Ridge || CTR Crash Cove
  • Bullet Cup: CTR Cortex Castle || DS Dokan Course || SNES Choco Island 2 || Star Slope
  • Blooper Cup: Sandcastle Park || DS Mario Circuit || GCN Luigi Circuit || Volcano Beach Ruins
  • Feather Cup: GCN Yoshi Circuit || GBA Peach Circuit || Metro Madness || GBA Luigi Circuit
  • Fireball Cup: SMO RC Challenge || GBA Bowser Castle 4 || SNES Donut Plains 1 || Secret Slide
  • Bob-omb Cup: DS Wario Stadium || Ermii Circuit || GCN Baby Park || Revo Circuit
  • Cherry Cup: SNES Mario Circuit 3 || Big Blue || GBA Shy Guy Beach || Bingo Party
  • Coin Cup: Doge Desert || N64 Banshee Boardwalk || GCN Mario Circuit || Miku's Birthday Spectacular
  • Rainbow Cup: N64 Rainbow Road || GBA Rainbow Road || Space Road || Rainbow Road DX

• Custom Tracks Worldwide: Play custom tracks online with other CTGP-7 players.
• Countdown Mode: New game mode with special rules.

• Improved MyStuff folder:
  • Custom Character Manager: Indivudually enable custom characters placed here.
  • Custom Karts: Place your custom kart models and they will be loaded ingame.
  • Tutorials explaining how to use the MyStuff folder will be posted in the custom MK7 wiki.
• R.O.B. Custom Character: Bzzt! Bzzt!
• Increased security: Anti cheat and other anti hack features have been added.
• Course Intro Rotation Animation: A small camera rotation animation has been added when the course starts.
• Alphabetical Track Order: Choose if you want tracks to be ordered alphabetically online.
• Improved CTRPF library: Removed all features that could cause lag online.
• General improvements: Almost every single feature of CTGP-7 has been fixed or improved, so take a look at the ingame menu!

DISCLAIMER: The beta test group (about 12 different people) have been play testing on the CTWW unused region for 9 months already, and so far, we didn't encounter any issues. We have no idea if Nintendo can detect the usage of this unused region, but if they did, we are pretty confident no action will be taken (due to the game being old and the mod not affecting vanilla users). If we however find issues, we will be forced to switch to the used region and find a way to prevent matching with other vanilla players. CTGP-7 will not send data to the unused region until you press the Worldwide button in the online menu with CTWW enabled. All the other features are 100% undetectable as they are client sided.

CTGP-7 Thread

 

[Tac 21]

It's weird how they had to release v1.0.1 like an hour later due to an error, then release v1.0.2 so they could disable the Rosalina menu online

well to be fair 1.0 is ALWAYS gonna have a shit ton of bugs testers can't always find

1.0.2 works much better but there will still be some bugs

 

[Deleted User]

This looks very damn cool... ahh too bad I don’t have Mario Kart 7 ;w;

 

[James_]

well to be fair 1.0 is ALWAYS gonna have a shit ton of bugs testers can't always find

1.0.2 works much better but there will still be some bugs

Yeah, that is true.

This looks very damn cool... ahh too bad I don’t have Mario Kart 7 ;w;

Then get it

 

[legoinventeor]

i am pissing my pants I cannot wait

 

[PrincessLillie]

i am pissing my pants I cannot wait

You don't have to. It's out now.

 

[legoinventeor]

You don't have to. It's out now.

I cannot believe I just confused November with December...

 

[ChibiMofo]

Aye, and let's not forget on an online mode that doesn't depend on Nintendo since is going down for everything next year, Pokemon GTS just goes down first.

...and...

3ds game sales went terrible this year and Pokemon is the only thing still making money for the 3DS. With the GTS being down Nintendo won't have any reason to keep the Wii U and 3DS online services alive for much longer, since Wii U game sales are even worse.

Not to mention it will free money and resources to give mone online benefits to the Switch and Switch Lite. The only online thing left for the 3DS will be transfer some of your 3DS Pokemon to the Switch Pokemon games and that will be using the paid Pokemon bank service.

So your report that Nintendo is going to shut down their servers next year was not based on a single fact or statement from Nintendo themselves and is just wild speculation on your part that is not in any way supported by anything from anyone who would actually know? Nice. We all really appreciate statements that make it sound like something is definitely going to happen based on absolutely nothing. Didn't you learn from junior high that this is how damaging rumors gets started? (Ooops. That question answered itself!)

By the way, according to the most recent sales figures that Nintendo has released, they sold 13 million 3DS titles in the fiscal year ending March of 2019. Yes, that's down significantly from 2015. But they are still making tens of millions off 3DS games. Nintendo reported selling 1.2 MILLION copies of Mario Kart for 3DS alone between June of 2018 and June 2019! And you think they're not still making money on sales of new games for the 3DS when the eShop was still getting new titles as of last month?

Wii U is a different case entirely. Even the Wii just got a physical release - Just Dance 2020 that accounted for 21% of all Just Dance 2020 sales in Europe during the first two weeks of November 2019 proving that the Wii is still a viable platform for the right kind of release long after the last Wii U release. And yes, Nintendo gets paid for every copy of JD 2020 Wii sold. The Wii U has been dead for a while now and only sold 13 million to begin with. There's 75 million 3DS/2DS units out there and Nintendo is still selling them (I just bought mine directly from Nintendo last month). There is absolutely no legitimate reason for Nintendo to shut down the 3DS servers any time soon. They might, but there's zero evidence that they will. And doing so would not in any way "help" the Switch any more than shutting down the Wii servers in 2014 "helped" the Wii U. These are stable, easy to maintain servers that are serving a vast userbase that is still buying software. It's a no brainer to keep them around. Doesn't mean they will, but it makes sense that they will.

Please warn people in the future when you are starting baseless rumors.

 

[raxadian]

baseless rumors

https://gbatemp.net/threads/the-pokemon-global-link-service-will-be-ending-in-february-2020.553056/

https://gbatemp.net/threads/alphadr...i-rpg-series-has-filed-for-bankruptcy.549387/

You do notice Mario Kart 7 is not a new 3DS game, right? And that Nintendo is no longer making games for the 3DS?

 

[Deleted-236924]

https://gbatemp.net/threads/the-pokemon-global-link-service-will-be-ending-in-february-2020.553056/

Pokémon Global Link does not do what you think it does. It handles rated battles and battle competitions, nothing more.