{"id":122835,"date":"2021-01-05T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2021\/01\/random_this_mario_kart_and_lego_mario_fusion_is_a_work_of_genius"},"modified":"2021-01-05T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T20:30:00","slug":"random-this-mario-kart-and-lego-mario-fusion-is-a-work-of-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/05\/random-this-mario-kart-and-lego-mario-fusion-is-a-work-of-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: This Mario Kart And LEGO Mario Fusion Is A Work Of Genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a0b4f55733ed0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a0b4f55733ed0\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a0b4f55733ed0\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\"><\/aside>\n<p>We&#8217;re starting to get a bit scared of Mario. The behatted, bemoustached plumber has has been slowly leaking into real life, with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_live_home_circuit\">Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit<\/a><\/strong> using AI to turn our messy living room into a go-kart course, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/08\/review_lego_super_mario_-_a_strong_translation_to_the_real_world\">LEGO Super Mario<\/a><\/strong> letting us scan barcodes to create platforming levels made entirely out of bricks. Last night, we woke up long before dawn, and we <em>swear<\/em> we heard &#8220;it&#8217;s-a-me&#8221; whispered in the darkness.<\/p>\n<p>But enough about that! Enterprising game-hackers Playfool have created the Mario Kart course to end all courses, by combining the LEGO Mario with the Mario Kart Mario. It&#8217;s a confusing multiverse twist worthy of a Christopher Nolan movie, but it&#8217;s also a <em>very<\/em> interesting watch that might inspire some of your own creations.<\/p>\n<p>By using their own proprietary paper creation, the SADDLE (<strong>S<\/strong>nug <strong>A<\/strong>nd <strong>D<\/strong>apper hol<strong>D<\/strong>er (for) <strong>LE<\/strong>GO Mario), Playfool has managed to suspend Mario ever-so-slightly above the ground. That means he can effectively read barcodes taped to the track as <em>other<\/em> Mario drives around. Neat!<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>Using the barcodes provided with LEGO Mario, Playfool has added item blocks, Goombas, and checkpoints to the track, which turn the course into a level as you drive over them. They&#8217;ve even created LEGO versions of the Mario Kart AR markers, which the kart is able to read perfectly. That means that Mario can drive Mario around Mario&#8217;s LEGO Mario-style Mario Kart course, while Mario reads the Mario Kart-style LEGO Mario barcodes.<\/p>\n<p>Confused yet? We are, too. It&#8217;s all Mario&#8217;s fault. Or is it Marios, plural? Marioes? Marii??? <em>We don&#8217;t know any more.<\/em><em><br \/><\/em><br \/>Playfool has kindly made the SADDLE and the other course elements <a href=\"https:\/\/app.box.com\/s\/pwo361y2waekgupz851a9w8v5mdmfnuw\">available for download here<\/a>, so now we can all make our own Mario\/Mario course! &#8230;We might need to have a little lie down, first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re starting to get a bit scared of Mario. The behatted, bemoustached plumber has has been slowly leaking into real life, with Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit using AI to turn our messy living room into a go-kart course, and LEGO Super Mario letting us scan barcodes to create platforming levels made entirely out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}