Mario Kart DS Glitches
Because other websites have wrong and misleading information for cheats, my pages are different. This page is also no exception. Note that it will probably not have over 250 glitches on it like the Super Mario 64 DS one, or have elaborate stories like the articles (Malfunction error etc).
Rainbow Road, the 3 known shortcuts
Shortcut 1- It is rumoured that you can boost and jump from the first spiral area to the downhill stretch of road just afterwards. I have not managed this.
Shortcut 2- The pipe trick is where you jump off near a red pipe and get put back about 2 turns or so along the track. I've only done this once.
Shortcut 3- You can jump to cut a bend just after the drop. A photo is below.
Bowser Castle, three glitches in the level
Finish line glitch- To cut some time off, jump through the gap in the last one to cross the finish line in the air before you land in the lava. A picture:
Over a wall- In the second area, with the steps, boost up them. At the top of a set of steps, press R to jump. If done correctly, you will fly over the wall, landing in the lava. This is a newly discovered major glitch. For shortcuts, the possibilities are endless in the future!
Fly in the air- Go backwards to the spinning room after crossing it, and on entry, you will shoot in the air quite a bit.
Bowser Castle 2, the two glitches exposed
Over the wall- Boost and jump at the first jump pads. You will fly over the low boundary wall.
Land on the wall- jump onto the boundary wall in the area with the jump pads from one bit of track to the next. You will be invincible to red and green shells, star using players and bullet bills. Sadly, not bloopers, lightning, blue shells or boos.
Delfino Square
Hop the bridge wall- If you boost and jump off the ramped areas to the left of the first bridge, you can fly over the left wall or even land on it!
Avoid red shells in Luigi's Mansion- Go into the deepest part of the graveyard when someone uses a red shell. it will just continue down the path and miss!
Fake bullet bills- In Airship fortress, go to the end of the first part and wait. Turn around and boost at a bullet bill from the back. You go partially into it before hitting the front and somersaulting!
Frappe Snowland trick- Boost and jump at the second bend and you can skip the large bend. This can also be done with a mini-turbo!
Sky Garden shortcut- At the large bend with the two ramps, you can see another part of the track. Mushroom boost and jump to soar through the air and land on the other side. You can also do this with a Mini-turbo if you are really, really good!
Sky Garden shortcut 2- You can supposedly jump from the part after shortcut 1 to the next vine bridge with a mushroom or mini-turbo.
Shortcut 3- later in the level, there is a final vine bridge. Jump from the bridge with a mushroom to the left in a certain way and you can go round the barrier and cut the corner.
The best glitch in the game! The final Rainbow Road glitch! Could this lead to the best Rainbow Road players in the world getting thrashed!
I have gone from the corkscrew back to the loop! For this, go to the corkscrew. Either at the very end or beginning, you can float off and land on the loop without being put back on the corkscrew! If this was reversed, you could skip half a lap in Rainbow Road! Below 2:00:00 times would be possible! And best of all, you could keep the world record forever! I have been very close to this outcome!
Uses for the current glitch- Annoy disconnectors by going back half a lap to be annoying!
New Tick Tock Clock Glitch (this may be a shortcut in 50cc)
At the bed before the final straight, jump off the edge with a mushroom. Aim at the side of the nearby cogs. If done correctly, as you are out of bounds and falling, you will appear to go through the cogs! But better, you will be put back after the spinning cogs, cutting a decent corner! These are the cogs on the last part of the lap by the way, the ones you ride for a speed boost.
Over the fence:In DK pass, you can fly over another fence later on, where there is a single tree enclosed by a fence. This requires three mushrooms and a well timed jump.
Over the fence 2
Earlier on in DK pass, there is an area where you go round a red fence to an area with a snowball. Go forward, and turn around. Now, aim for where the fence slopes downwards and boost. Jump as you go off the nearby minor slope. You will fly over the fence and land on an earlier part of the track. This could be a mission mode shortcut.
Strange trick in Shroom Ridge
At the start, there is a block with a post holding up the start banner. You can drive on the block, and even around the post to the area where you are practically hanging off the cliff. This is only possible in karts like the Dry Bomber. You may be invincible.
Ride other walls in Bowser Castle 2
Where there is a jump, go towards it at an angle. You will repeatedly jump. Slower move towards the end while facing the wall. You can ride it or jump the wall with ease. This may lead to shortcuts in future, or it may not.
Lakitu tricks
You can also do these in Sky Garden near the intentional shortcut and in Bowser Castle near the end where the track turns. These two are only for show.
Non-existant support beam
(or why Banshee Boardwalk should collapse and sink)
At the area with the drop, fall down and turn around. You will see a support beam holding up the pier. Boost and jump at this beam to go through it! What is holding up the actual level?
Non-existant fence
You can also drop through the fence in Banshee Boardwalk in the same way.
possible trick, fall through DK pass?
It might be possible to fall through the level if you try to land exactly on the fence, as it isn't solid. At one angle, you can land and see through the level into the darkness before you are put back on the track!
Battle Mode tip
While this isn't a glitch, you can actually wait in the pipe in pipe plaza. This may help, as you are likely to be ignored by computer opponents and human foes!
Rumour- There may be a glitch shortcut on Wario Stadium
New shortcut for showing off:
In Tick Tock Clock, there is an area with a pendulum. If you boost and jump at the straight path nearby, you will be placed on the straight path! I do this to annoy opponents in multiplayer mode! This bit is actually true, as my poor opponents should know by now!
p.S. About the glitches mentioned:
They are minor glitches and may or may not ever actually help you. Jumping fences in DK pass is helful in exactly one mission.
A new discovery has been made by myself...
There is a major bug in the course! Not the stairs glitch, but here you jump through a fence and over a wall! Try it:
Have one mushroom
Go to the 'lip' of the grassy kerb.
Boost and jump at the wall
If you go high enough you will go straight over the wall and through the steel fence! There is also another version where you go through a nearby tree, or maybe soon a near headstone in that way!
I have just found two new shortcuts on Rainbow Road, and a new glitch on Mario Circuit! I also watched a great glitch video showing a new glitch someone else (and now myself) has done on Donut plains 1. To prove this glitch works I have now also got a movie of it.
The new Rainbow Road shortcuts
New glitches have been found (don't flame me for finding new exploits to unbalance good players)! I jumped off while trying to do
Rainbow Road shortcut 2 (jump off and get put down just before the corkscrew) and I managed to get put down in two other helpful spots!
One of them was
after the gap, which cut a decent corner and straight and the other was brilliant. Just before the bend that shortcut 3 is at! So in future, I could be seeing myself
jumping off the side, getting put down just before that bend and jumping it with shortcut 3, all in one lap!
New glitch on Mario Circuit
On Mario Circuit, you can jump right through princess peach's Castle! To do so, go to the first bend that is near the castle and have one mushroom. Boost at it and jump. If your aim was right, you'll go straight through the base of the wall!
Airship Fortress Float glitch
The trick is to clip the edge of the wall at high speed, for some reason your car will float mid air because it thinks you are still driving into the wall. Found by Astr0 from the DS Ultimate forums.Bullet Bill Train Glitch
Use a Bullet Bill as the game freezes on the Luigi's Mansion steps, and you will hear a constant train like sound until you turn off the game.
Cannon Fire at Airship Fortress
On the deck of Airship Fortress airship, boost with a mushroom and then suddenly press B as you are boosting. A loud 'Boom!' sound can be heard.
Luigi's Mansion glitch
Hold A and B to turn while on the stairs to freeze the game.
Get put behind the finish line in Bowser Castle
With the ROB BLS, use the trick to jump the wall into the lava and aim at the start line. Sometimes you will then be placed before the start line.
Wrong placement
In Bowser Castle, race in vs against the computer. You will start in seventh, and immediately go to eighth as the race starts.
Constant jump
Go to Bowser Castle 2, and on the jump. Go sideways until you are facing the wall, and you should bounce up and down until you fly over into the lava.Confuse Lakitu (doesn't help, but's cool)
In Sky Garden, there is an area with a fence near a vine bridge and the cloud hopping shortcut. Here, go into the area so you are between two diagonals of the fence. Face backwards into the fence, and Lakitu should appear telling you to turn around! Now, turn around and go forward to the vine bridge. As you are going forward, Lakitu should suddenly appear saying that you are going the wrong way!
Dodge a blue shell
If you get hid by another obstacle, just as it is about to hit, the effect of the blue shell will be cancelled out.
Dodge a red shell
In certain places, like the shortcut alleyway in Delfino Square and behind the coffin in Banshee Boardwalk, you are immune to red shells. Same if you are riding a wall.Ride walls
In Bowser Castle 2, use the jump pad accurately and you can land on the wall. You are then immune to ground based shells and items. In Delfino Square, you can use the small ramp to the left of the stone bridge to launch up and land on the wall with the same benefits.To dodge a blue shell 3
Go into the cannon at Airship Fortress or Waluigi pinball as the blue shell is about to hit and the blue shell should miss. Also, if lightning is used as you are being launched in that scenario, you are not affected.
Faster on loop
Hop at the start and end of the loop in Rainbow Road to go faster through it.
Block red shells another way
Go to the part near a pendulum and go past it just when it swings back past your kart and the swinging pendulum will block the red shell.
Bounce up high
Boost before the hills at the end of Choco Mountain and you bounce along the tops of the hills, sometimes over the finish line or side of the course.
Gunshots
Supposedly, you can hear this if you power-slide down the steps at peach Gardens.
Supposed glitches
So I was playing 150cc Grand prix, then I played Delphino Square/plaza/whatever, and I was in 1st place on the last lap. I noticed that a blue shell was coming toward me, so I decided to hit a fake item box. So I hit the fake item box at the same time the blue shell hit me. I looked on the bottom screen AND I SAW A FAKE ITEM BOX MOVING SIDEWAYS! By Conisonic5, DS Ultimate forums
Bowser Castle 2 Shortcut
I have no advice for this, but Cole Gilbert made a video of this right here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOpEUcfeeiQ Found by Cole Gilb of DS Ultimate forums
The Latest Rainbow Road shortcut
Do the shroom spot like Husky does in this vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIUl59uIAto Instead of going in the middle head to the right. If done right you will land on the very edge of the loop, pretty much inside the rail. If you keep on the edge you will shoot out off the loop on the area after the loop. Glitch is by Husky from the Nsider forums and the video is by Husky from Nsider forums and the strategy from Cole Gilbert. Tested to be faster than normal driving in this part of the track.
Desert Hills Uber Lakitu Glitch
Video Here: See a video of this glitch
It especially important that you use a fast kart for this glitch, the BLS is best. Build up speed by constantly MT'ing around the first corner of the track, in the near distance you will see a sign and underneath it will be two purple legs holding it up, aim for the one furthest away from you. Shroom as you touch the sand and hop, holding up for maximum distance obtainable.
Found by Linda of the Mario Kart Players Page.
Other glitch notes
I originally found the Bullet Bill going through glitch, but didn't publish it on all forums, and some others then found it independantly. Just saying as I never get credit for this nowadays.
My cousin Joe found the glitch where karts stand on their front, or back, or hop repeatedly in the Bowser Castle spinning room. It was NOT an Nsider, or a Gamefaqer, or myself.
Any non labelled glitches generally found by me, cheat-master30