

for Wii U, and on any Mario Kart stage as well as on Battlefield, Big Battlefield, Small Battlefield, and Final Destination as of the version 8.1.0 update in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, on the Mario Circuit stage in Super Smash Bros. It plays on the Rainbow Road stage in Super Smash Bros. A portion of its music is used in the "Rainbow Road Medley" music track in the Super Smash Bros. It also has a unique low pitched "glistening" sound when the player falls off the course. This Rainbow Road, along with its subsequent iteration, has a unique "chiming" sound each time the player passes through the star rings found along the track. Additionally, the coloring pattern of this looks different from the previous Rainbow Roads: here, the color stripes on this track are horizontal and follow along it, instead of vertically across the track. Some multi-colored Warp Pipes and Stars appear in space around the track. On top of this, this Rainbow Road also has many sharp turns and a helix, not unlike the previous version in Mario Kart: Double Dash!!. If a player drifts and hits the rail or continues touching the rail, it can send them floating up, typically out of bounds (though in rare cases, the player may fall onto the corkscrew without being brought back to the correct part of the track). However, there are glitches on the corkscrew and the loop.



Those elements may have been added to ensure challenge players can place items so their opponents can fall off the corkscrew or the loop. Rails border the sides of both inversions to prevent racers from falling off sideways. Unlike previous incarnations, this Rainbow Road uniquely contains a vertical loop and a corkscrew, the only inversions in a Mario Kart course before Mario Kart 8 (excluding tricks). Rainbow Road is the fourth and last course of the Special Cup in Mario Kart DS.
