File:Mario Kart 8 - Icy Thwomp Ruins (Texture Hack) by MrBean35000vr and Chadderz

Description
Thwomp Ruins with a cool twist.

There is no music in this video anymore. The original song that was here was protected by the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0, but an organisation "Believe Music" filed an erroneous copyright claim, then upheld when disputed. This company is notorious for false claims across many videos over YouTube for music. I don't have time to fight them off, and I'm certainly not giving them money for the hard work that was put into this by me, nor letting them take advantage of those that composed the song as legitimately free music, so they get the middle finger and the soundtrack is removed, and I will reupload this video with an alternate song in due course. I apologise!

So, for those of you who don't track the weather of the area in which I live, recently there have been a series of irritating heat waves. (Now, I am in England, so bear in mind a heat wave over here is kinda normal temperature to the rest of the world, but still, I can't handle it). So, I decided to practice in order to become an ice mage, and freeze the world and bask in the glory of the cool until I become too irritated of being cold as well. Unfortunately, my amazing spell that I attempted did nothing to cool the world around me. But the spell was not futile, for evidently Thwomp Ruins felt its chilling effects. I believe this is a sound demonstration of my abilities, and next time I WILL be able to change the world around me with my enchanted words. Just you wait!

In reality, this is a texture hack of Thwomp Ruins to give it a snow/ice/night theme. It also had nothing at all to do with the heat waves, although they were real and very annoying. This work was conducted by me and Chadderz, I handled the main part of the retexturing, and Chadderz provided the means to actually play the retextured track, as well as sorting out some of the objects (note the lack of flowers and the addition of snowmen, among other things). The textures used are either recolours of the originals, or imported from different tracks (mostly from GCN Sherbet Land). I am exceptionally pleased with the way it turned out; it does a convincing job of looking like it's night, and it certainly looks much colder than before in there. The races shown in this video are of an offline VS race, followed by the MKTV highlight of the same race.

This video comes from another leap of progress in the Mario Kart 8 modding department. In terms of the ultimate goal of making custom tracks, we're almost done working things out! Those who have followed my live stream in particular will know that we've almost got everything useful at this point. So, the next major step is editing the models! Once we have those, there really is nothing stopping us from making our own homemade tracks, like before in the days of Mario Kart Wii. This step might take a while, though, so you might see some other videos from me in the meantime to fill the space; maybe more textures, or more object modding demonstrations, or similar. But if we can keep up our current rate of progress... well, who knows!

Currently, this texture hack is not released. We don't have a good, copyright-free way to release it, and right now nobody could use it anyway even if we did. It will see a release if ever a way to play it back gets published, and we find a way to do it without transmitting any copyrighted data.

With that, please enjoy the video, and I will see you all next time!