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Super Mario Kart

Driving while losing
Shaking Thwomps

Driving while losing
Discovered by: Wilma and Connie at CGS
Exciting-ness scale: 7.5 out of 10
Does it work? --> Confirmed. It works.

Go into battle mode. Now, lose two of your balloons and get an item such as a mushroom (that lets you speed forward) or an invincibility star. Let your opponent get rid of your last balloon and as you get hit, use your item and hold the driving button. If the timing is done correctly, you will be able to drive around while "dead". You can even see your opponent celebrating their win and get items. If you shoot red shells at your opponent, they will get stuck with them but not affect them. Also, as a "dead" person, you can go through your opponent or any shells or bananas. However, if you let go of or hit any extra buttons, you may stop or bring up the selection screen. You can drive while the selection screen is up, but it's difficult. It gives you a sort of first-person view.

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Shaking Thwomps
Discovered by: Wilma and Connie at CGS
Exciting-ness scale: 2 out of 10
Does it work? --> Confirmed. It works.

When in a level with thwomps, you can make them shake strangely, like in Bowser's castle or on the Rainbow Road. It's easiest to do in two-player match mode because then you have no time limit. Make one person go forwards all the way to the second lap. This makes the thwomps start stomping up and down. Then, go backwards through the level and go back past the goal tape a little ways. (In Bowser's castles, to go backwards, use the R button to hop over areas of lava.) The thwomps will now be shaking in the air erratically. This is probably because when you're on the first lap, the thwomps stay up while on the second, they go up and down. So, they don't expect you to go backwards and the game gets confused.

Another interesting thing to note is that when you go backwards for a long time, you have to go forwards and make up for all the area you went backwards and then go through the normal race. So, if you go backwards 3 laps, you have to go forwards 8 laps to complete the race. I don't know if this was intended by the programmers or really a glitch.
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