Other leftovers not present in any builds of the final game includes mentions of the eight courses on the July 5th, 2004 debug build's course selection screen, with each selection corresponding to a file titled Reverse#.arc or Reverse#L.arc (# corresponding from numbers 1 to 8). Finally, strings for the eight Reverse Cup courses are mentioned in the game's executable, titled Reverse1 to Reverse8. The All Cup Tour also took the spot of the second Reverse Cup, as many of the cups' filenames end with ' Reverse2'.

While not confirmed, possible candidates for the second Reverse Cup include Dry Dry Desert, Mario Circuit and Sherbet Land, as these are not only beatable, but also make the most sense. These can be found in SceneData/#/LANPlay.arc/timg/ (# corresponding to a language, such as English or Japanese, note that the Japanese kanji here is smaller compared to its used variants, as the game's kiosk demos had smaller fonts for the LAN course names). The LAN setup screen has unused Japanese text graphics referencing four of the eight possible playable tracks by the end of its filenames, with ' r' referencing reverse. Along with these cups are two unused functions that return the strings ' /AwardReverseCup.bmd' and ' /AwardReverseCup.btp', which are the filenames of the model and textures within its. The final game has a full model with gold, silver and bronze textures for the cup to be displayed during the Award Ceremony (note that the bronze here is of a different brown color compared to the other cups), found in AwardData/Award_Reverse.arc. The idea would be revised once again in Mario Kart Tour.Įvidence of this cup's existence exists in various forms.

The idea would become a reality in Mario Kart Wii's competition mode, where the player was tasked to drive backwards in Mushroom Gorge, Toad's Factory and Grumble Volcano as fast as possible. While the idea was planned and seemingly developed and implemented, everything was scrapped. In these two cups, the player was tasked to drive backwards in a selected few tracks that supported this without any major modifications to the course's layout. Two entire cups were stripped from the game known as the 'Reverse Cup'.

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