DS Luigi's Mansion

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This article is about the race course from Mario Kart DS and retro course from Mario Kart 7 and Mario Kart Tour. For the battle course from Mario Kart: Double Dash!! and the retro course from Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, see GCN Luigi's Mansion. For other uses, see Luigi's Mansion (disambiguation).
Luigi's Mansion
Luigi's Mansion
Information
Appears in Mario Kart DS (2005)
Mario Kart 7 (2011)
Mario Kart Tour (2019)
Cup(s) Mushroom Cup (DS)
Shell Cup (7)
Tour(s)
Based on Luigi's Mansion
Online play No longer available (DS, 3DS)
Music sample
Mario Kart DS
Shinobu Tanaka
0:31
Mario Kart 7 / Mario Kart Tour
0:30
Mario Kart 7 (frontrunning)
0:31
Course map
Mario Kart DS
Luigi's Mansion mapMario Kart DS

Mario Kart 7
DS Luigi's Mansion bottom screen mapThe Mini Map for DS Luigi's Mansion
Mario Kart Tour
Map of DS Luigi's Mansion from Mario Kart Tour.

Staff ghost(s)
DS Ninten★しんご
1:59.357 LuigiStreamliner
7 Nin★Konno
2:09.982 LuigiZucchiniSlimSuper Glider
7 Expert Ret★Vince
1:58.539 LuigiEgg 1MonsterParafoil

Luigi's Mansion is the fourth and final course of the Mushroom Cup in Mario Kart DS. It is a dark course set inside Luigi's Mansion, as well as the mansion's exterior, where racers drive through Boo Woods. It reappears in Mario Kart 7 as the fourth and last course of the Shell Cup, and in Mario Kart Tour, debuting in the 2019 Halloween Tour.

Luigi's Mansion is the only Luigi-themed race course of his 5 courses in the series that is not a circuit-type course. It is also the only course in the series to share its name with a battle course. While it does not appear in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, a remix of its music is used for the GCN Luigi's Mansion battle course.

Mario Kart DS

Course layout

Racers start outside the mansion in a section of Boo Woods, and they will go through a curvy path to the entrance of the mansion, running along a narrow hall that leads the racers downwards to a room beneath the foyer. Various portraits of portrait ghosts from Luigi's Mansion can be seen hanging on the walls. The racers then go out of the mansion. Outside the mansion is Boo Woods which has a graveyard surrounding the mansion. After crossing a stone path tunnel, racers then reach the graveyard, leaving the mansion's grounds.

Beyond the mansion's grounds is a swamp of mud, resembling a quagmire, infested with sentient trees. When a character runs into one of these trees, instead of spinning out or rolling over, the character instead will just get stuck on the tree as if it were a wall. Finally, racers end up crossing the swamp to cross the checkered line.

Very few rooms from the original Luigi's Mansion game are actually explored in this course; in fact, the only notable rooms are the foyer, hallways, dining room and a hallway that resembles the one in the basement, just before the King Boo fight at the end of the game.

Missions

There are two missions that take place on Luigi's Mansion, and the player controls Luigi in both of them.

  • Mission 1-6: The player must drive in reverse through the mansion until they reach the graveyard within 45 seconds.
  • Mission 2-4: The player must hit 5 moving Item Boxes within 35 seconds. Each Item Box contains a Mushroom.

Glitches

In the original DS version, on the stairs right at the start of the race, if the player climbs up and starts turning (by holding down A and B), it will cause the game to crash. The reason why this happens is because there is a file in the game data called "no sound" (file number 4). Said sound file belongs to the stairs of Luigi's Mansion and, since there is no file in that place, it causes the game to crash. This was fixed in the Wii U Virtual Console version, and it is impossible to perform in the course's reappearances in Mario Kart 7 and Tour.

Mario Kart 7

Luigi's Mansion in Mario Kart 7

Luigi's Mansion makes its classic course debut in Mario Kart 7 as the fourth and final course of the Shell Cup, with various changes. The mansion's foyer has been redesigned to more closely resemble its original appearance. The carpet now continues onto the bottom floor, and the stone tunnel now has cobwebs. In the graveyard, a Glide Ramp has been added around a gravestone, allowing racers to glide over the gate wall leading to the swamp. Additionally, part of the wall is broken as a small shortcut to cross through with a Mushroom. At the first turn in the swamp, racers can take a new outer slope to reach another Glide Ramp. The portraits of various ghosts have all been replaced with various depictions of Boo, that now occasionally shake and pop outward. This behavior was originally going to appear in Mario Kart DS, but was cut before release. This is one of two Luigi courses that appear in the Shell Cup, the other being Template:Classic-link from Mario Kart 64.

Mario Kart Tour

DS Luigi's Mansion in Mario Kart Tour
The course in Mario Kart Tour

Luigi's Mansion reappears in Mario Kart Tour, starting with the 2019 Halloween Tour. The track mainly uses features from its 3DS appearance, with graphic improvements, and the area was given a tint of blue. Similar to Mario Kart 8, the Mario Kart logo uses a modern design instead of its classic design. The moon now has a bluish-white color, and the finish line banner has a new design. This version of Luigi's Mansion can also be seen in the background of GCN Baby Park.

The course also appears as Luigi's Mansion R (reversed), Luigi's Mansion T (with ramps), and Luigi's Mansion R/T (reversed with ramps). The former two debuted alongside the regular version in the 2019 Halloween Tour, while the latter debuted in the London Tour. In the R variant, there is a glide ramp at the mansion's entrance.

Appearances

For this course's tour appearances, see List of DS Luigi's Mansion tour appearances in Mario Kart Tour.

Top-tier and middle-tier items

Select "show" to reveal the drivers, karts, and gliders for which DS Luigi's Mansion and its variants are always favored or favorite courses. For instances in which additional drivers, karts, and gliders temporarily had this course and its variants as favored or favorite courses, see List of DS Luigi's Mansion tour appearances in Mario Kart Tour.

Bonus challenges

Profiles

Mario Kart DS

  • European website bio: "After rescuing Mario from the dark dungeons of this dreary old place, Luigi has decided to make some money from his mansion by turning it into a racetrack. Perpetual darkness means you'll need your headlights on for this one, especially since the trees have a tendency to walk around..."

Mario Kart Tour

  • Mario Kart Tour Twitter: "In the dead of night, the roar of engines breaks the eerie silence...and the race is on! In the next tour, the Luigi's Mansion course from the Mario Kart DS game rises from its grave! Haunted houses aren't so scary when you race right through them!"[2]

Gallery

Mario Kart DS

Mario Kart 7

Mario Kart Tour

Course icons

Screenshots

Mario Kart Tour Twitter
Other

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning Notes
Chinese (simplified) 路易吉的洋馆
Lùyìjí de Yángguǎn
路易吉洋馆 (Mario Kart Tour)
Lùyìjí Yángguǎn
[?]
Luigi's Mansion
Chinese (traditional) 路易吉洋樓[?]
Lùyìjí Yánglóu
Luigi Mansion
Dutch Luigi's Landgoed[?] Luigi's Estate
French Manoir de Luigi[?] Luigi's Mansion
German Luigi's Mansion[?] -
Italian Palazzo di Luigi[?] Luigi's Palace
Korean 루이지 맨션[?]
Ruiji Maensyeon
Luigi Mansion
Portuguese Mansão do Luigi[?] Luigi's Mansion
Russian Дворец Луиджи[?]
Dvorets Luidzhi
Luigi's Palace
Spanish Mansión de Luigi[?] Luigi's Mansion

See also

References

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b MetalEdu (November 4, 2019). MKT - Halloween Tour - King Boo Cup 150cc (Final). YouTube. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
  2. ^ mariokarttourEN (October 20, 2019). Twitter. Retrieved March 13, 2020.