{"id":130516,"date":"2022-12-14T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-142556"},"modified":"2022-12-14T03:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T03:05:00","slug":"mario-kart-7-gets-its-first-update-in-over-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/12\/14\/mario-kart-7-gets-its-first-update-in-over-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Kart 7 Gets Its First Update In Over A Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/50405ba66e6ec\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/50405ba66e6ec\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Mario Kart 7\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/50405ba66e6ec\/mario-kart-7.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNDYwIj48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"460\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/50405ba66e6ec\/mario-kart-7.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Mario Kart 7\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In surprise news, the excellent 3DS title <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/mario_kart_7\">Mario Kart 7<\/a> has today been updated for the second time ever. Yes, despite being released in 2011, Nintendo has randomly issued a new patch for the game bumping it up to Version 1.2.<\/p>\n<p>According to the official patch notes, several issues have been addressed to improve the overall experience. This follows a previous update (Version 1.1) in May 2012. Here&#8217;s the full patch note history for this game, featuring updates a decade apart:<\/p>\n<h3>Ver. 1.2 (Released December 13, 2022)<\/h3>\n<h6>General<\/h6>\n<p>Several issues have been addressed to improve the gameplay experience.<\/p>\n<h3>Ver. 1.1 (Released May 15, 2012)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>An update has been made available to eliminate shortcut exploits in the <em>Wuhu Loop<\/em>, <em>Maka Wuhu<\/em>, and <em>Bowser Castle 1<\/em> tracks when they are played in the Online Multiplayer Mode.<\/li>\n<li>The update is required to play the game&#8217;s Online Multiplayer Modes. However, the tracks in Single-Player and Local Multiplayer Modes will not be affected by this update. Players can continue to play in these modes without installing the update.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p>In typical fashion, Nintendo doesn&#8217;t actually reveal what&#8217;s going on behind the scenes with this update, but it could easily have something to do with the online services or 3DS eShop closure &#8211; with the shutdown taking place on 27th March 2023. Dataminer OatmealDome has suggested this patch may fix certain security exploits. Nintendo issued similar patches for a number of older Switch games in recent times.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/oatmealdome\/statuses\/1602869308991979527 @ 2022-12-14T08:44:12+00:00 --><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There is even a possibility that this patch fixes the same security bugs as the other games, since Mario Kart 7 is a first-party Nintendo game and could use a lot of the same common netcode that was found to be vulnerable.<\/span>\u2014 SantamealDome \ud83c\udf81 (@OatmealDome) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OatmealDome\/status\/1602869308991979527?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>In somewhat related news, Nintendo last week updated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\">Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/a> with the Wave 3 DLC. It adds another two cups and eight more courses to the game. You can learn more about it in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/mario-kart-8-deluxe-booster-course-pass-wave-3\">our recent Nintendo Life coverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/3ds\/related-articles:127547,142241,141104 @ 2022-12-14T08:44:12+00:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Have you downloaded this update yet for Mario Kart 7? <em>Comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo In surprise news, the excellent 3DS title Mario Kart 7 has today been updated for the second time ever. Yes, despite being released in 2011, Nintendo has randomly issued a new patch for the game bumping it up to Version 1.2. According to the official patch notes, several issues have been addressed to [&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-130516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130516","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=130516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}