A mandatory update will remove three extreme shortcuts from Mario Kart 7 online matches, Nintendo said Tuesday.
A glitch in the popular Nintendo 3DS racing game that allowed players to leap from the track and respawn in advantageous positions in the Wuhu Island Loop, Wuhu Mountain Loop and Bowser's Castle 1 racetracks will no longer work once the patch is applied.
All players who connect their 3DS to play Mario Kart 7 online will be prompted to quit and download the "Ver 1.1" patch from the eShop. However, even with the patch in place, the glitches will remain in all offline modes, so players who view these as just the latest in a long line of unintended Mario Kart shortcuts can continue to exploit them.
The notion of downloading a patch is run-of-the-mill for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 owners, so much so that the process is practically automatic. But this is a first for Nintendo, having only last month added the ability to patch 3DS games with a system software update as part of its growing digital games initiative.
