Choco Mountain

Burning Rubber:Basic Tips to Gain Speed

1. Start your turbo powerslides as early as possible and hold them for as long as possible. It is often possible to navigate your way through 2 or 3 of the close together turns on one turboslide, and although it would be a little faster to just do a number of smaller powerslides, the turns are so close together that multiple powerslides are often difficult to get off, especially in traffic. Therefore, do multiple powerslides on the long, sweeping turns, and single turbo-powerslides through the close-packed turns.

2. If playing on 150cc, be very aware of the absence of the fence at the end of the long U-turn. If you overcompensate and hug the mountain, you may bounce off the wall and skid off the upper track onto the lower track below. It is actually better to approach this turn in the outside lane, so you have room to turn inwards when required.

3. Save bananas and fake item boxes for the 2nd last turn (ie the right turn that can be jumped up onto as shown below.) Hitting a banana and skidding out here can cause you to fall back onto the lower track.

Confirmed Tricks: How to Jump, Slide, and Skid Your Way to Victory

• There is a stone wall right before the long u-turn that can be jumped over onto the track above. Since the stone wall gets a little shorter the farther down you go, it is easier to jump it if you try farther down, but you also gain less time than if you had jumped sooner. To jump the wall, just powerslide left, and attempt to turn your kart so that it is almost perpendicular to the wall, then jump as you make contact. This is quite easy to do with a mushroom, and especially with a star, but it is fairly easy to do without an item as well.

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• Discovered by David Wonn. There is another way of bypassing the long u-turn that is much more difficult to pull off, but is much more spectacular. First, proceed to the area in between the second set of item boxes and the first hill (ie. the stretch before the stone wall that you jump over in the trick above.) What you first want to do is start a wall jump (on the wall to your left) about 1/4 of the way between these item boxes and the hill, so you should probably begin your turn left just after you cross the item boxes. Continue your wall jump until you reach the crest of the mountain (ie. where the mountain becomes relatively flat), and with one final jump, get up on top. Ideally, you want your final jump to leave you as close as possible to the seam that connects the two polygons below you (you can see a line where the two polygons come together, and this is where you want to aim your kart.) Reaching the crest is easy, but getting up on top at the right place is not. If you are going fast enough before you start your wall jump, your momentum should carry you over, but you can also boost your odds of making it by using a mushroom right when you get to the crest, which should pop you onto the top. Now, depending on what part of the mountain top you touch first, one of a number of things could happen:
  1. You could fall through the top into a pool of water. If you are doing this a lot, you are not performing the trick in the right place.

  2. You could start spinning in place (the camera will rotate around you), and eventually Lakitu will put you back down on the same side of the mountain. Obviously, this is no good either.

  3. You could start rolling left (all the while staying on top of the mountain, though), and eventually start spinning in place. This means that you almost got it right, but you started your wall jump a little too early, or your final jump placed you too far to the left of the polygon seam.

  4. You could start rolling forward (into the screen.) This is the result that you want, as Lakitu will not interfere. Eventually, the texture below you will turn white, then brown again, before you finally fall off the mountain, but on the other side! You usually will end up in the area right before the three small hills that lead to the finish line.

  Obviously, this shortcut will not save you much time unless you get good enough to perform it at will, and even then, it saves about as much time as the trick above, but it is REALLY fun to do once you master it, and if you fluke out, you can land on top of another kart as you leave the mountain, which can really disorient them.

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• Discovered by David Wonn. The third, and best, way to bypass the u-turn is to use the big hill before the u-turn as a ramp. As you approach the hill, begin steering left, and drive directly into the wall. As you hit the wall, jump, and, if angled correctly, your kart will clear the wall and land on the other side (in the area just before the small bumps near the finish line.) This is the same landing place as the trick above, but using this method is much, much quicker.

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Unconfirmed Tricks:Ie. Rumours Floating About on the Web

• Some of you may have discovered that it is possible, by using the wall jump technique, to jump behind the billboards at the finish line and fall onto the track below, just outside the tunnel exit. Unfortunately, if you finish the lap, your lap counter will not increase, so this is not a usable trick. But, what if you could climb back up from the tunnel to the billboards? You can get quite high on the surrounding mountains, and it might be possible.

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