User:Rex

Hi! I'm Rex. I kinda just exist, I find myself to be a little bit of an uninteresting person on the surface. The main types of mods I create are Custom Tracks, which I will release very occasionally. For most if not all of them, I tend to make them for my own enjoyment rather than any serious reasons. My tracks will not be for everybody and they have flaws with them, so I recommend you probably check out other people's work instead if you're looking for something more polished and pretty. I don't strive to be perfect with my tracks and mainly try to aim for what I'm personally happy with, so they may have inconsistent quality. I hope that you can at least respect that I do this more for a random hobby and not for any sort of occupation or trying to be the best at :)

If you want to see more information and my thoughts about the new mods I release, check out my mod blog page!
I also plan to have a link to a folder on this page in the future, containing most of my other mods (BRSTMs I've made, BRRES modifications outside of CTs, etc.) that are too small-scale to upload to this wiki. I will put the link for it here when I've uploaded most of what I want to upload to it!

Random info about myself

• I am 20 years old and male, you can use he/they pronouns.
• I first learned about Mario Kart Wii custom tracks some time in late 2012 or early 2013, mainly from watching various YouTube videos featuring them. I played the game for a few years, but never played online until that same time period. I wanted to install CTGP for a while, though I never got to until Summer 2017, when I ended up having my own Wii. The first custom track I played was Super Sky Courtyard (due to it being the first track in the default cup layout at the time), and the first custom track I played online was Psyduck Cliffs. Since then, I would only play every so often, though starting in 2019, I got more involved with Discord and Twitch communities revolving around Mario Kart Wii, and started playing more actively. At the end of 2020, I started to let myself have less of a presence in the general communities, as I started to prefer being someone who is lesser known. Since then, I have mainly stuck to interacting with friends and people who do modding for the game, primarily in CT creation. When it comes to playing the game nowadays, I tend to just play worldwide races every so often, mostly CTWWs on custom track distributions I enjoy playing. In the past, I would enjoy doing Time Trials too, though in mid-late 2020, I stopped doing them regularly, as I didn't really enjoy the pressure of trying to set a "good" run, and I was bad at utilizing some of the more advanced driving tech. I would consider myself a casual player, because I don't like to play super seriously (which goes for pretty much all multiplayer games I play), and I like to use whatever characters and vehicles I like instead of what may be most optimal. I think my outlook on playing the game and also my experience in creating tracks myself has helped me enjoy the CTs people make more overall, recently I feel it is very rare for me to actually dislike a track, and there are quite a few tracks out there I find at least some appreciation in that I feel like a majority of players would just brush off without thought. I enjoy finding out about and playing tracks I've never seen before, and playing custom tracks in general is probably the main thing that keeps me playing this game regularly!
• My favorite game series are Pokémon (especially the spinoff series Pokémon Mystery Dungeon), and various Mario spinoffs such as Mario Kart (duh), Paper Mario (primarily the first three games, I don't like SS, and I haven't tried CS and TOK but have interest in playing the latter eventually), and Mario Party. I hope to branch out and play more non Nintendo franchises and games a bit more in the future, my favorites I've played in the past few years being Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling, and Fall Guys. The first video game I played was Mario Kart Double Dash.
• The name "Rex" mainly comes from the Super Mario World enemy with the same name. I first used the name in a weekly Mario Kart 8 tournament in 2015, where I planned on changing my name each time I played in it, but I started getting known there by the name Rex after I had used it. For a while it was the only place I had used the alias, until 2017, in which I started using it in more places I existed across the internet. Despite my name, I'm actually not very interested in dinosaurs, there's many other animals that I like more than them, though I wouldn't say that I dislike them. To me, they're an animal that I definitely like more in cartoonish styles rather than realistic styles (Yoshi being a good example)

Questions and permission to update stuff

If you want to ask me questions that are related to any of the mods I've published on here, you're free to ask them on my user talk page. Once I see it, I will respond to it if I feel it is needed. I do have a Discord account, but I'm not confident in talking with people I haven't talked with much before more directly. If you do already know what my Discord account is, feel free to ping me in a server I'm in (such as the public Tockdom one from the main page), or DM me if you have me added, instead of using the talk page.

If you want to do an update for any of my Custom Tracks:

• If it is a pretty minor update, you don't have to ask me for permission. Whether you do or not, I'll likely be fine with it as long as it doesn't go against the point(s) and visions I have with the track and there's no harm behind it. If it's an at least somewhat major update, I would like if you asked me about it before doing anything regarding it.
• If you want to release a texture hack or track edit for one of my Custom Tracks, ask me for permission before releasing it.
• If asking for permission to update/texture/edit a track I've made with other creators, I would appreciate you asking them for permission too if possible, especially if I wasn't behind most of the modeling/creation of the track.
• If an update is something more for yourself or a distribution, I would appreciate you making it an alternate or distribution specific version. (ex. v1.0-alt, v1.0.mkw)
• Fixing something that is very clearly a bug or unintended effect (such as a crash) is appreciated, though I may end up fixing that myself if brought to my attention and I can do so. If it is something more ambiguous on if it could be a bug or not, please ask me for my thoughts before doing anything with it.
• Please respect my wishes for aspects of the track I do not want altered. There's not many specific things I can think of regarding this, but just let me know ahead of time what you're adding or changing, and I'll let you know if I'm fine with it.

If you want to port one of my custom tracks to another game, please ask me for permission before doing so!

User Link

Some mods I've released are exempt from my user link. Usually if it's something I made on my own efforts, it's because I don't care about it all too much currently, or it is something more specifically made and might not be ideal for races. (Though, I might make a separate category for that in the future) I may add or remove stuff depending on how I feel about them each time I edit the user link. The mods listed are sorted by when they were first released.

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By the same author: Rex

Custom Tracks:
Sherbet Circuit – Dim District – Tech Tube Town – Dalisdis Alley – Paralyzed Cliffs – Paratroopa Pass – Hazy Lazy Desert – Yoshi's Summer Safari – Cove Crossing
Monty Marsh – Toxi City – Crawlspiral Castle – Craft's the Limit – Heavenly Road – Quil Island – Crumble Rock – Wispy Caverns – Sleepytime – Veer from Fear
Log Breeze – OK Raceway – Bark Bark Woods

Contributions:
Mossy Tower Ruins – Delightfully Daring – Pyroclastic Gymnastics – The Great Apple War

Ports & Remakes:
SBSPLCP Floor It 1 & Floor It 3 – Telamon Heights – Stunny City – N64 Koopa Troopa Beach – N64 Banshee Boardwalk – SBB Shedletsky's Castle

Track Edits:
Daisy Circuit R – Daisy Circuit R/T

Custom Characters & Textures:
Cyan Koopa Troopa