Edit: For a hack of the Kiosk Demo Beta Courses (with textures) see the second post after this one.

So I'll do this quick for people who want to try out the beta courses and aren't interested in the process. Simply download the ips patch at the following location and patch it to your Mario Kart DS rom (US version) as you normally would:
hack mario kart ds - beta course mod.ips - 11.41MB
rapidshare: http://rapidshare.com/files/24233606/_Hack...se_Mod.ips.html

I have replaced the following courses with beta courses:
Figure 8 Circuit - dokan_course (an awesome couse with a trail that goes up into the air)
Yoshi Falls - old_mario_gc (Gamecube Mario Circuit)
Cheep Cheep Beach - test_circle (a small, one-lap circle)
Waluigi Pinball - nokonoko_course (Some kind of beach course)

(Keep in mind all the beta courses lack textures of any kind for the moment.)

In addition, I replaced some of the battle mode course with beta battle levels as well. Only the first beta level is new. The subsequent two are just beta versions of the existing battle courses and appear to be exactly the same, save for the missing textures.
Nintendo DS - mini_block_course (Block City [Gamecube])
Twilight House - mini_block_64 (Block Fort Beta)
Palm Shore - mini_dokan_gc (Pipe Plaza Beta)

The above levels have all beeen tested and work. I have only tested them in single player time trial/battle mode with default settings, but they should work under different configurations as well. It semi-works in wifi.

There were several beta courses which caused the game to crash as well. To see the videos of what these courses look like, simply follow the youtube links:
test1_course
donkey_course: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iDeo7W-Whw
luigi_course
wario_course

Waluigi Pinball (Beta): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juW-Fy4Cg8g
Dokan Course (Beta, with texture): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEZNRovXHWo
Gamecube Mario Circuit (Beta, with texture): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu2N5iSdVB8

You might notice that the courses in the videos are fully functional and fully textured. This is because the files required to accomplish this came from an earlier build of the game. Apparently, the Kiok Demo cart has these files, so if anyone is able to get a hold of this rom, let me know and I should be able to texturize the beta levels and possibly include the lost ones. However, as far as I can tell, the Kiosk Demo rom has not been dumped, so we will have to wait...

I used the following links to create this rom. It is not too difficult if you are patient:
http://m3wiki.com/index.php?title=Mario_Ka...n_Tracks_Online
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7cthhTLiHQ

You can also try patching your rom with Yoshi Jr.'s patch, but I couldn't get it to work, so you're on your own there:
http://dl.emu-zone.org/emu_down/handheld/n..._beta_patch.rar

EDIT: A newer (working) version of Yoshi Jr's patch can be found here:
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/1/27/698...ta_Patch_v2.rar

Finally, I simply compiled this information and created this particular file in the space of an afternoon. Everything else here has been the hard work of others. I take no credit ;-)
If someone wants to rehost this, go for it.

 

Hey, thanks for your efforts.

 

srry, ChaosBoi, wasn't trying to step on any toes. Believe me, I had a hell of a time trying to make your earlier version work, but now I can give this one a go.

As for the kiosk demo rom... it's out there. ;-)

 

Thanks for putting this together. I patched the kiosk nds and played the pinball level. Pretty cool.

 

I tried this version, and it seems to work good. But I find it interesting that some of the beta courses are launched from regular courses that have to be unlocked in order to play. So I could only try the Waluigi one, and the one under the Koopa course gave me a black screen. But this is really cool anyways!

I have no idea how this was done, but I used dslazy to unpack the mkds and I saw some of the different courses. Would it not be possible just to swap names with the course files, or even take the textures from the kiosk and put them into the regular? Beats me.

 

Hmmmm....I think the one with the black screen, I probably forgot to replace that course with the actual one when it didn't work. Oh well, it was actually meant for testing, not actually playing (Though you can but it's mainly for testing).

 

Well, the black screen must just be my cart, because i just no$gba'ed it and the course worked fine. I also got some cool n wierd pics of that course, you can see random Waluigi pinball bouncer things all over.

 

I checked my rom and its untrimmed, unhacked, and clean. Although I've tried many different mkds roms with this, after the patch, i turn it on, it just comes up with white screens. Can someone help me because i really want to try this? XD

btw, im using r4 and 1 gig kingston japanese version

Note: noticed after i patched it, sometimes it will come up as 13 mb and wont have a game icon, but the other times it did have the game icon it still didnt work, so i dunno.

 

Most of these tracks can't be finished because of errors im sure a lot of people know about this, but don't have it since it's plagued with bugs.

 

I was able to finish the retro cup (On the count that the CPU didn't use so much items and I didn't use any). It freezes if items are used constantly or if you fall off. I got half way through nitro cup but then I fell off the track while drifting >.< .