If the player has the Japanese-exclusive F-Zero X Expansion Kit, a heavy metal remix of Mario Kart 64's Rainbow Road theme will play instead of the normal music.Įvery game in the Mario Kart series has a different version of Rainbow Road, usually serving as the Grand Prix finale. The well-known shortcut from Mario Kart 64 is blocked in F-Zero X, and results in death even if aimed properly due to the different control point system used to create the F-Zero X courses. Rainbow tracks can also show up in some X Cup courses. It can accommodate both the fact that the tracks are similar, but different, and that the vehicles can roll the map in the same times in both games while being hyper-speed hover modules able to reach well over 1000Km/h on F-Zero X and simple go-karts on Mario Kart 64. The lore idea that the original track was infamously long in Mario Kart 64, taking about 2 minutes for each lap, making it perfect for F-Zero's much faster speeds. The course also isn't completely rainbow-colored, with many dark gray areas, due to the graphical limitations of the game. At the track's bottom isn't outer space but an ocean.

Star-shaped barriers and Mario character neon lights around the track have been removed, and road bumps have been put in place of the Super Mario universe's Chain Chomps. It is actually the same course taken from Mario Kart 64, though the track itself was altered to fit in with the F-Zero theme. Rainbow Road is the first course of the Joker Cup in F-Zero X.

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