This article is about thebattle course inMario Kart Wii. For its musical theme, seeChain Chomp Wheel (theme).

Chain Chomp Wheel Chain Chomp Roulette
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Appears in	Mario Kart Wii (2008)
Cup	Battle Mode
Music sample
Course map

Chain Chomp Wheel (known asChain Chomp Roulette in the British English version) is a battle course in the gameMario Kart Wii. It takes place inside a casino's roulette-style wheel, with aChain Chomp rolling around and squashing racers in its path. The arena is located underwater; anUnagi andBig Cheep Cheeps can be seen through the windows on the walls, swimming outside of the stage. As withFunky Stadium, the players start from off the map onDash Panels and make an entrance into the map. This is the first battle course in theMario Kart series to have a different name between the American and British English localizations.

InMario Kart World, the new battle courseChain Chomp Desert combines the behavior of Chain Chomp Wheel's Chain Chomp obstacles withThwomp Desert's layout and music.

Course layout[edit]

Mario competes in aBalloon Battle at Chain Chomp Wheel.

The layout of the Chain Chomp Wheel is similar toTart Top, a battle course fromMario Kart DS. The course is round with a small incline, with Dash Panels located on the outer section of the wheel and in the very center of the wheel. The wheel is constantly moving, and Item Boxes are located around every few sections of the wheel, as well as the middle of a large star (which appears to act as the wheel's spinner). The inside of the star is aTrick spot; it can be tricked off of by going off the ramp at a certain angle. The center Dash Panels can be used to getItem Boxes located in the wheel's spinner, which has a high chance of granting the player aStar, although they can also give aMushroom.

A large Chain Chomp rolls around the course in an opposite direction to the wheel. It starts at the northern edge of the arena before being launched onto the wheel via acannon after approximately five seconds into the match. Anyone caught in its path is flattened, causing them to lose a balloon (in Balloon Battle) or threecoins (in Coin Runners). They will also lose any items they have. Any racers who run into the Chain Chomp from midair (after using the ramp) get knocked over as if they ran into aBullet Bill.

Tournaments[edit]

The Chain Chomp Wheel tournament

May 2009's second tournament required players to collect 100 coins grouped near the center of the course. Item Boxes in the star in the middle only contain Stars, while Item Boxes on the wheel itself contain either a Mushroom or a Mega Mushroom. Controls were restricted to Wii Wheel users only. The tournament was repeated as the second tournament of May 2011, the first tournament of August 2012, and the second tournament of October 2013.

Profiles[edit]

• Website description:
  • English (United Kingdom):
    You'll need more than a little luck to survive in this game of roulette. With a giant Chain Chomp rolling around, you might want to head for the high edges and pull off some stunts until it has passed by!

Gallery[edit]

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  The course banner

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  A preview of the course

Naming[edit]

The British English name of this course, "Chain Chomp Roulette", is a direct translation of the original Japanese name.

Internal names[edit]

Names in other languages[edit]

Notes[edit]

• The two horns heard after the 20-second mark in Chain Chomp Wheel's music are sampled in the song "＃14 crush" fromSplatoon 2:Octo Expansion, which was also composed byRyo Nagamatsu,^[3] one of the composers forMario Kart Wii.

References[edit]

• Casinos
• Mario Kart Wii battle courses

• Articles with unsourced foreign names