10 years after its last patch, Mario Kart 7 just got a new update

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Mario Kart 7 has just recei𓃲ved a new patch, its first in jus💜t over 10 years. 

As spotted by , Nintendo recently rolled out the Version 1.2 update for Mario Kart 7. Prior to this, the last time the game was updated was way back in May 2012 - a little over 10 years ago. Unfortunately, this update didn't give us much to get excited about. The patch note for this update simply reads: "Several issu💛es have been addressed to improve the gameplay experience." 

For comparison, the last update (Ver. 1.1) implemented a number of fixes including changes to courses such as Wuhu Loop, Maka Wuhu, and Bowser's Castle 1. We shouldn't be too surprised though considering most players have moved onto Mario Kart 8 for Nintendo Switch these days. Speaking of which, we recently got a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new set of Mario Kart 8 booster courses which included Peach Gardens, Maple Treeway, and another Rainbow Road.&nb﷽𝕴sp;

A few weeks ago, a few other older Nintendo titles also received random updates that didn't really do much to the games. Animal Crossing: New Horizons, ARMS, Splatoon 2, and Super Mario Maker 2 all received patches that mostly went under the radar. The only patch note gi💮ven here was: "Adjustments have been made to make the game more comfortable to play," which isn't too dissimilar from the Mario Kart 7 patch mentioned above. 

Nintendo dataminer @ on Twitter - who was the one to dissect all of the updates featured above - has a theory though. Replying to their own tweet about the Mario Kart 7 patch, the dataminer said: "There is even a possibility that this patch fixes ⛎the same security bugs as the other games since Mario Kart 7 is a first-par💞ty Nintendo game and could use a lot of the same common netcode that was found to be vulnerable."

This minor update doesn't really affect players much thes🅘e days but if you are still playing Mario Kart 7 on your Nintendo 3DS, the racing game m♍ight play a little better now. 

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