User:Lovelifeandtpose024

Lovelifeandtpose024

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My name is Lovelifeandtpose024, better known as my Discord username "emanresU". I was a custom track (CT) creator who began modding in November 2018 until retiring in April 2022 after releasing Northern Heights v2.0.

A brief memoir on my modding phase

My desire to make CTs began in 2013, when I watched Pksparkxx Dathotness's CTGP playthrough series and TWD98's Rate That Custom Track series. I didn't start modding my Wii until 2016 (when I installed CTGP) because I thought Nintendo would find me and get me into legal trouble. I had no luck with CT creation at first due to impatience and inexperience, but I made my first successful track in 2018 after revisiting the game. Then, one day in 2019, in a CT Discord server I was in, Bear was having problems remaking Seasonal Circuit. I offered to help, and then that turned into a collaboration with him. We released this on the Wiiki - this was my first public CT - and the rest is history!

I was also an active Custom Track Jam member, as the server provided something to do during the lockdowns in 2020. It also provided motivation I needed to continue making CTs, as I was starting to burn out on my personal projects. When I improved at placing down objects and manipulating them, I pioneered making very unusual gimmicks for my tracks. These included rarely used objects, the manipulation of object properties like their KCL files and movement, and even the GBA Shy Guy Beach view glitch with Prison Maze Escape. It was very exciting to take advantage of a nearly unexplored concept, and I became infamous for that.

I left Mario Kart Wii and its community in 2022 for several reasons like life and university becoming more demanding, but the main two were the effort of making CTs and the community. There is much more to track creation than what meets the eye - every part of a track must carefully be made and repeatedly tested to see if it is fun while staying within the limits of the Wii's capabilities. There are also at least five files you must create and manage - the course model, skybox, collision file, minimap, and KMP file - with buggy, unreliable tools¹. This process to make one track took me months at a time, and I suffered a lot of burnout. I wanted to pursue 3D modelling without so many exhausting factors². I also believe that CT making was not worth it in the end - the community is very toxic and the chances that your track will be torn to shreds with destructive criticism is nigh on inevitable³. The dehumanization and disrespect of creators who make free content for fun - and the fact that this is normal³ - drove me and many other creators away from either the community or Mario Kart Wii entirely. I was in the latter group. If you want to look into this further, check out AltairYoshi's page and Justin's YouTube channel.

I hope you enjoy all 52 mods I have to offer. With that, I will be closing this. Farewell!

¹ Some of the tools may have improved since I left, though they are still clunky.

² Ironically, it was only through this continued pursuit of 3D modelling that I realized how much I hate 3D modelling and quit.

³ This was normal at the time - I don't know the state of the community now but hope it has improved.

Please credit me for any models/objects you take from my tracks.

For anything you want to take from tracks I worked on with someone else, please ask both me and the person in question.

Please ask me for permission before editing or updating my tracks.

Feel free to port anything I make to other games, though I suggest adapting them to suit the target game.

Cancelled Projects

I used to have a table detailing all my tracks I never finished and offered to send them anyone who was willing to finish them, but no one came forth after a year of the table being up. Thus there is no point to hold on to projects I stopped caring about.

The rest of these are projects that either never got past an idea in my head or whose files are long gone. Feel free to make any of these a reality.

- Super Smash Bros. Brawl Mario Circuit

• This was an attempt to make Mario Circuit from Super Smash Bros. Brawl a fun, lively custom track. I only made the road layout before deleting the project forever due to lack of interest.

-Alpine Mountain Remake

• I was halfway through modeling this track way back in early 2020 when I realized that this track is basically Rock Rock Mountain from Mario Kart 7.

-Traditional style Mario Circuit-esque Custom Track

• I fully modeled this before realizing that it was essentially a re-arranged GCN Mario Circuit. It was situated on a cliff overlooking a lake, and the lake would be surrounded by houses and roads.

-Castle of Hope v2.0

• I only got through modelling about 30% of the track. It would have featured less spirals, more open areas, a ceiling that wasn't miles above you, and a lot of texture and model changes.

-The Chompworks

• Not to be confused with Chomplabs. This was a factory that would have included a lot of Chomps rolling on conveyor belts like the Toad's Factory crates. It had an outside area as well with cranes. This was made a fully playable course, but due to issues with a custom casino roulette object, I gave up on it. I could go back and fix this now, but I have no motivation to ever finish that track (which was scrapped 3 years ago anyway).

-Beanstalk Castle alternate version

• A hypothetical version of Beanstalk Castle that would have included going inside the background castle, like Suzuka Circuit's regular and east course versions.

-Seasonal Arena

• A battle track based on Bear and me's v2.0 (the old 2019 remake) of Seasonal Circuit. I never released it due to my inability to make good enemy battle routes (and some material issues).

-Jungle track

• This was merely a vague idea in my head based on Torrential Treetops.

-Autumn themed track

• An old, unfinished Custom Track Jam entry. I became sick on the last two days of the Jam and thus couldn't finish it. It would have had a drive through ruins and was inspired by Azshara (before the Cataclysm expansion) in World of Warcraft.

-Luigi's Cave remake

• A remake of AlphaMarioX's Luigi's Cave based on a concept he posted. The road and its surroundings were fully modeled, but I lost motivation to continue.

-Chomplabs remake

• A remake that would have included better gameplay and less grainy visuals. It never got past being a concept in my head.

-Mario Circuit 2 Remake

• A remake of this track which originally is made by MRbuttCHINSx11T7 and was planned after I made Beagle Plains. Due to the awkward layout of the original, I never got around to it. My philosophy on remakes of old tracks also changed, and now I believe that those types of remakes disrespect the original creator(s).

-Beagle Plains v3.0

• Would have featured actual dogs running around, a secret easter egg inside of the huge hill in the background, a halfpipe on the side of the road after the greenhouse, and a ton of fixes and visual changes from the original.

-Eastern Plaguelands-styled track

• An idea that tried to stand out from generic haunted/ghost tracks. Would have had orange fog, dead trees and a barren atmosphere. I couldn't think of anything interesting to include.

-Volcanic Skyway Remake

• A remake of one of the Volcanic Skyway tracks, except the volcano would have been erupting, with a smoldering sky, burning plants and lava obstacles. I didn't know how to make going inside an erupting volcano work nor have any ideas for the section in the sky.

-Backwards Mario Kart Wii tracks

• A whole 32 track pack of backwards courses from Mario Kart Wii. The twist is that shortcuts, course model elements, and item positions would be altered to be reversed as well. New shortcuts and alternate routes would have been added and some regular shortcuts would have been removed so it would be more than just playing the tracks backwards. It doesn't take a genius to realize how much effort this would have been, especially since I was the only author. I only finished Luigi Circuit. The nail on the (already sealed) coffin was the release of Mario Kart Wii R (ZPL).

-Paint Kart Wii

• An April Fool's texture hack where all the textures in every Nintendo track would have been poorly remade in Paint. I got through a few tracks before giving up due to how much of a slog it was. Once again, this was way too much work.

-Obstacle Kart Wii

• An April Fool's joke where I spam firebars, pipes, goombas etc. in every Nintendo track.

- A concept based on the winding, elevated road in the Isle of Kezan from World of Warcraft.

- Southern Lows

• A parody of Northern Heights where it takes place in a Mediterranean-style lagoon with the same ruins, though with less drastic elevation changes and a different ending. Originally my plan for April Fool's 2023, though I lost motivation and was much more motivated to do a Custom Track Russian Roulette sequel: CTRR 2: Capital at Risk.

"Brain Rot" (April Fool's 2024)

The only progress I made on this track - one of the "modular" chunks. The train wagon is static and I intended to add a ramp to go on it.

This was intended to be a satire of "stimulating" videos that are overlaid onto TikTok content to retain the viewer's attention span, and of laziness and social media consumption in society. The track would have been based on Subway Surfers, where I would make "modular" chunks of track and fit them together multiple times, and make trains based on the Moonview Highway car objects. I would have used projected textures on a skybox¹ to create black bars on either side of the screen as well as overlaid PAT0 textures of Family Guy clips and Minecraft parkour. I did not make this for two reasons:

• Making this track would continue the expectation that I do something every year for April Fool's. If I ever make another track, I wish to be free from deadlines.
• Games should be an escape from reality. This would have merely been a reminder of the problems plaguing us now rather than something funny.

I don't recommend that you make this - I am adding it here to state that I can't keep doing this every year.

¹ See AtlasOmegaAlpha's April Fool's 2023 track for an example of an overlay.

By the same author: Lovelifeandtpose024

Original Tracks:
Castle of Hope – Torrential Treetops – Grubhub Ad but it's in Mario Kart Wii – 1-1 but it's in Mario Kart Wii – Boulder Crossing – POV: Yro'ue Fighting Japan in WWII – Northern Heights – CTRR 2: Capital at Risk

Remade Tracks:
Seasonal Circuit – Beagle Plains – Hunted Wods – Yoshi Falls 4K Ultra HD

CTSS Tracks:
Mushroom Grove – Beanstalk Castle

Track Edits:
Mario Circuit but the Floor is Lava – Luigi's Platform

Track Distributions:
Shortcut Practice Pack

Publicly Available Custom Track Jams Entries:
Violin Route – Chomplabs – Land's End Festival – Under the Dreadnought – Sherbet Ice Shelf – Mario Circuit - RTX On – Desert Bus 2: The Bus is Sus – Dizzy City – End Time
Disney World Mayhem – Interstellar War – Verdant Wilds – Godzilla's Assault – Driving is so 2008 – N64 Bowser's Castle (Lovelifeandtpose024) – Publix Parking Lot – Sheet Cake Quarry
Space Jam Stadium – Citrus's Overgrown Lemon Garden – Uncanny Mr. Incredible CTs – Custom Track Russian Roulette

Publicly Available Turbo Jams Entries:
Speedrun Grove – Warfare Way – Nuclear Winter Delfino Plaza – 5 P.M. Los Angeles Traffic – Prison Maze Escape – Banana Slips on Man – DS David Square – Donkey Kong - Drum Conquest
Northern Heights Demake

Custom Characters:
Flonched

Custom Vehicles:
The Swagmobile – Amogus Car

Ports:
SSBM Yoshi's Island – The Backrooms