Mario Kart: Double Dash Hints

Go in 2 player each of you on difrent carts and whoever is better will play like he normally dose and the other will stay in last and get things like blue turtal shells and when the good player isnt in first the bad one can use it

In this game you can race with two characters rather than one. You can have each of your characters hold an item. You can hold two items when you hit a double-item box. To switch the position of your characters, push the Z button. To use items push the X or Y button.

At the starting line, before you begin, you have a chance to boost your kart ahead of the rest. To do this, at the beggining it says, "3-2-1-GO!" When the 2 appears start pressing and releasing the A button as fast as possible.

After completing a Time Trial race (When it says Retry, Change Track, etc,), press L,R,L,R,X,Y,X,Y,Z. The code that pops up was for a Japanese contest. Totally useless, but it's interesting that they forgot to take that out.

When racing you bump into the other karts as you pass. When bumping into them, the character in the back of your kart will push them to the side. This will sometimes knock them off the track.

In the balloon battle mode on the Pipe Plaza map. if an enemy hits you into a pipe with their weapon, and you are thrown through the pipe then you will not lose a balloon. Instead, you will come out of the pipe with stars around you and it will appear as though you just drove through the pipe.

If the Goombas on Mario Circuit are hit with a turtle shell, they will be squished into the ground and a boost will fly off them. If a thunderbolt is used on the course, it will squish them all and there will be several boosts lying in that area. It doesn't work the same as the mushroom cars; if you hit a goomba they stay solid and you spin around a bit. Turtle shells are you're best bet.

When you go to turn, you can drift by hold L or R. But if you hold both L + R simontainiously, you get a double drift. A double drift gives you a bigger boost than just a normal drift. A triple drift, is doing the double drift, and using a mushroom at the same time. The Triple Drift is a REALLY big boost. =)

All you have To do is beat the All Cup tour in mirror mode and presto you unlocked that golden AWSome kart trust me i unlocked it to day.

To unlock special cup first - choose 1 player then select grand prix, then select 100cc then choose b.luigi then b.mario, then rattle buggy, if you have it then go to star cup beat it with gold trophy if you want to know why to choose the babies its because they get a red shell almost all the time same with mushrooms.

After completing a Time Trial race (When it says Retry, Change Track, etc,), press L,R,L,R,X,Y,X,Y,Z. The code that pops up was for a Japanese contest. Totally useless, but it's interesting that they forgot to take that out.

Mario Circuit Goomba Boosts

If the Goombas on Mario Circuit are hit with a turtle shell, they will be squished into the ground and a boost will fly off them. If a thunderbolt is used on the course, it will squish them all and there will be several boosts lying in that area. It doesn't work the same as the mushroom cars; if you hit a goomba they stay solid and you spin around a bit. Turtle shells are you're best bet.




Rainbow Road Falling Stars

You may have noticed there are a lot of stars on Rainbow Road. And many of them fall. And some of those that fall fall on the track. Where those stars fall, they turn into star items, just sitting there. Some of these are dangerously close to the edge, but if you can get one (especially when you're already near the front and there's no other way to get one) it's a nice bonus. Only problem is that they're the same color as banana peels, so be sure before you run over something yellow!

In the balloon battle mode on the Pipe Plaza map. if an enemy hits you into a pipe with their weapon, and you are thrown through the pipe then you will not lose a balloon. Instead, you will come out of the pipe with stars around you and it will appear as though you just drove through the pipe.

Sometimes when you're racing on Rainbow Road, you see shooting stars. If one hits the road you race on, a star appears. (The item of the star) If you bump into it, you get star power! If you want to get to first place or get a better lead, try to find them while on the course.

In Daisy Cruiser, there is a shortcut you are probally aware of. You fall down a hole and get blasted out of a tube. It is wierd why your opponents go in there. During the race, knock your opp. down into that hole. They will keep on spinning, being in an unfimiliar place. They will finnaly figure out where to be blasted just in time to be in last place.

Okay I won't list every shortcut in the game. The ones where you cut through places are "obvious". Here it goes...
Peach Beach: At the first part of the beach area with the cataquacks, go straight instead of right. You'll come across a ramp with a turbo. Only come here with a mushroom, because if the tide is high enough, you could get slowed down from this shortcut!
Mushroom Bridge: After you exit the 1st tunnel, go straight (Make sure you have a mushroom when you do it!) You will go up and down a ramp.
When you reach the bridge, go up the sides of it (IF you're good at holding your balance). This isn't really a shortcut but there are a lot of turbos on the sides of the bridge.
Mushroom CIty: In one part of the city, you can turn right to go on a path between buildings.
Later in the level, towards the end, you can use a mushroom to get across the right part of the area.
Yoshi Circuit: Before one of the big turns, you can use a mushroom to jump over the pond and skip the big turn.
Later in the level, you can use a starman to go left and to a tunnel shortcut. Be careful--it's really hard to reach and you may end up falling into the water!
Dino Dino jungle: At the part where you reach the bridge that splits in 2 paths, there's actually a 3rd one that takes you through it faster, but make sure you're good at holding your balance or you'll fall into the water.
Once you reach the cave after that, you can go right using a mushroom.
Bowser's castle: In the room with the firebreathing Bowser statue, you can jump over one of the holes. You can even do it without a mushroom, but don't take it if the Bowser statue is breathing fireballs or you'll fall into the lava!
That's it. I haven't played this game in a while, so my shortcuts probably weren't accurate, but DO NOT THUMB THIS DOWN!