Tech and glitches

Basic tech (game basics)

Piggyback

The piggyback mechanic allow you to team with your partner and use an action specific to that character. Marbles : Will throw checker, can be used as an attack to kill ennemies, to open breakable walls or to do a shell jump Checkers : Will throw marbles in the air, used mostly to gain a lot of vertical height.

Top Speed

When you attain top speed you will have a star trail (or music trail) following your character. To keep top speed you can dash and jump with a certain rythym. You can attain top speed instantly with Marbles via the charge and with Checkers via the groundpound air dash.

Canon autofire

When you enter a canon that autofire you (the one without arrows) you can hold the jump button to have the canon autofire you on the first frame. This save a lot of time over letting the canon fire you naturally.

Marbles charge speed

If you hold the attack button with marbles it will start charing and once you release you will instantly have top speed. This is used a lot for every stage that start with Marbles or during certain gap to help reach a bigger gap on a horizontal plane.

Checker groundpound air dash

If you press grounpound while in the air and then press attack + jump while holding a direction (left or right) you will instantly dash forward and gain top speed with checkers.

Marbles vs Checkers (differences)

Ground speed

Marbles is a little bit faster then Checkers on a horizontal plane without extra movement needed.

Swim speed

Checkers is faster then Marbles in the water by about 15%. So you will want to use checkers in water if you need to swim for more then a few seconds.

Combo tech

Quad Jump

With checkers in front, you can piggyback from the ground, jump then throw marbles. After that while in the air you can start a groundpound then cancel it with the attack button to dash with Checkers. You can then piggyback again, jump then throw marbles again. This is used to gain a huge amount of vertical movement. Note that you can also dash fail after all this combo. combo order : piggyback-->jump-->throw-->groundpound-->dash-->piggyback-->jump-->throw

Mid-air Shell jump

If you have top speed with Marbles you can piggyback and jump, if you then throw checkers close to the apex of your jump while holding the jump button you will automaticly shell jump. It's worth praticing in a stage like 1-1 to get the feel of the timing then it will be easy to get it all the time once you have the timing down.