Ghost Valley 3
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| Appears in | Super Mario Kart (1992) Mario Kart: Super Circuit (2001) Mario Kart World (2025) | ||
| Cup(s) | Special Cup (Super Mario Kart) Extra Special Cup (Super Circuit) Mission (World) | ||
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Ghost Valley 3 is the third course of the Special Cup in Super Mario Kart. It was subsequently reused in Mario Kart: Super Circuit as the second track of the Extra Special Cup. The road for this course has numerous holes and has very few side rails.
Ghost Valley 3 appears alongside the other two Ghost Valley courses in Mario Kart World, where it is traversed during routes to or from Boo Cinema.
Super Mario Kart
Course layout
This Ghost Valley has the most sharp turns and most narrow roadway compared to the others. The course begins with a 90° turn to the right followed by a straightaway; the straightaway has the only set of ? Panels as well as a jump pad and two large holes in the road. There is then a sharp right turn and the track briefly zigzags before racers take a slight right turn and U-turn to the left. There is then a brief straight with another large hole in the middle of the road. Afterwards there is two more 90° right turns followed by a brief straight. This straight has several large holes as well as a zipper which leads into a jump pad. After two right turns and one more brief straight, racers reach the finish line.
Some of the course is surrounded by tiles which act as guard rails, but bumping into a tile will destroy it, allowing racers to go through the subsequent gap and fall off the course.
Shortcuts
A notable shortcut can be found at the end of the first straightaway. The player can preemptively turn right and use a Feather or well-timed hop to jump over a gap and cut off the following U-turn.
Mario Kart: Super Circuit
The course reappears in Mario Kart: Super Circuit, and is the second track of the Extra Special Cup. It uses the background from Broken Pier. The zipper and the legs holding up the track are removed and an extra item box can be found after the second jump pad.
Mario Kart World
Ghost Valley 3 reappears in Mario Kart World, marking the course's 3D debut, and its first appearance in a Mario Kart title since Mario Kart: Super Circuit. It is driven through in both routes between Starview Peak and Boo Cinema.
It can be found on the in-game world map alongside Ghost Valley 1 and Ghost Valley 2 outside Boo Cinema; all three courses take place over a poison lake, surrounded by dead trees. Being located on the right of the three (when facing the cinema) towards the route to Starview Peak, Ghost Valley 3 (like its predecessors, Koopa Beach 1, Choco Islands 1 and 2, and Vanilla Lake 1) is not actually involved in any Grand Prix and cannot be freely selected in VS Race; instead, it is delegated to the Spiny Rally in Knockout Tour and Free Roam mode, particularly the mission "Race around a tribute to Ghost Valley 3!". The holes at the start are replaced by their straight dipping into the lake, the original shortcut is removed, and the holes near the Dash Panel are filled in.
Like the other Ghost Valley courses, the mission uses its original music from Super Mario Kart.
Gallery
The course in Super Mario Kart
Naming
Internal names
| Game | File | Name | Meaning
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| Super Mario Kart | OBAKE-02 | Ghost 2 |
Names in other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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| Japanese | おばけぬまコース ３[?] Obake Numa Kōsu 3 |
Ghost Swamp Course 3 | Super Mario Kart |
| おばけぬま３[?] Obake Numa 3 |
Ghost Swamp 3 | ||
| Chinese (simplified) | 幽灵沼泽3[1] Yōulíng Zhǎozé 3 |
Ghost Swamp 3 | |
| 幽灵谷3[2] Yōulíng Gǔ 3 |
Ghost Valley 3 | Mario Kart: Super Circuit | |
| Chinese (traditional) | 幽靈沼澤3[3] Yōulíng Zhǎozé 3 |
Ghost Swamp 3 | |
| Dutch | Spookvallei 3[?] | Ghost Valley 3 | Mario Kart World |
| French | Vallée fantôme 3[4] | Ghost Valley 3 | |
| Portuguese | Vale Fantasma 3[5] | Ghost Valley 3 |
References
- ^ "纪念赛！幽灵沼泽3" – Mario Kart World. Nintendo (Hong Kong) (Simplified Chinese).
- ^ From the unreleased iQue Mario Kart: Super Circuit
- ^ 「紀念賽！幽靈沼澤3」– Mario Kart World. Nintendo (Hong Kong) (Traditional Chinese).
- ^ Mario Kart World in-game mission from French localization "Faites la course en hommage à la Vallée fantôme 3 !". (Archived 6 Jun. 2025 via YouTube by JOSPLAY 2. Imgur version.)
- ^ Mario Kart World in-game mission from Portuguese localization "Corra em homenagem ao Vale Fantasma 3!".
