I've been wondering, how are shortcuts defined on this game? I realize it mostly has to do with mushrooms and jumps. But sometimes it's not very obvious whether a certain way was meant in the game or not. Is there a map over the courses and shortcuts somewhere?

Also, are the Mario Kart Super Circuit record pages still updated?

Ok, will look for them on the site. Thanks.

tom, there are lap skip glitches, lakitu glitches, and track-cutting shortcuts.  you can't use a shortcut and a glitch in the same race.

I agree that that would be the best way to define SC and non-SC. However the way it seems to be working out is:

*SC is defined as the quickest possible method of completing the level. This can change from time to time as new SCs are found (see Ghost Valley 3, the newest version of that is fairly recent).

*Any other means of completing the level falls into the other category, commonly termed non-SC while in reality it should be Alternate SC in some cases (Ribbon Road, GV3, et al).

There's a vid of it at www2.loops.jp/~neka - it's done in a crazy 26"5x!

Basically there's a means of tricking the lap counter to register an extra lap, triggered by a Spin Turn at the start of the race. Unfortunately this doesn't appear to work on the other Ghost Valley themed tracks.

shut up

http://homepage3.nifty.com/neka/movie/07_cheese.mpg

My record is almost a second better than that

since when did you hate my guts asshole

You know what

My times are better than most of the site records ok
i dont give a shit if you dont believe it

you still have to tolerate what  i say because its true

Im not going to because im not interested in this game yet

so how does that mean im lying!

My definition of shortcut:

Lakitu Glitch (on all the water tracks I believe) - fall thru glitch (GV3 I guess) - Koopa beach 1 (jump over piece a water and finish)

No shortcuts: like Bowser Castle 3 SC tracks (I guess) where you can jump over the wall. or Broken Pier (or the other one not sure (sorry))jumping over with a shroom, ain't shortcut to me, these are like meant to be in there (only the real glitches are shortcuts in my oppinion) the rest is just plain cuts while you follow the track.