Is abusing techniques cheating??

[Kane49]

Assuming we are not talking N64 rainbow road style glitches surely half the point of a lot of the tracks is the shortcuts and what they can do for you.

No i pretty much mean the normal shortcuts, its a self imposed handicap.
Thats just what i do though, its not like i expect anyone to do the same

 

[jonthedit]

same for people who have an icky dpad. on my first ds lite, the dpad would only accept the left input if hit with a bit of force, which was just bearable to race, but two slideboosts in succession were pretty much impossible with that. i also know of people who broke their dpad through snaking or trying to do it. i see it as a bad omen when that happens.

What the hell.
How can you break the d-pad!?
That... its not possible!???
Snaking doesn't require mashing of the dpad...
Just gentle left right in fast succession...

 

[Psycho]

i say it's fine, as long as it's not a glitch
i figure if you're mlgpro enough then you can totally whoop someone's ass even if they're being cheap
if it turns out to be a glitch though then that's something that the devs should look into and patch
specially since glitches are usually undesirable-- well, for devs anyway.

 

[Clydefrosch]

What the hell.
How can you break the d-pad!?
That... its not possible!???
Snaking doesn't require mashing of the dpad...
Just gentle left right in fast succession...

break as in it gets unresponsive. like some games seem to be prone of killing the l and r shoulder buttons cause they're used a whole lot, people into snaking seem to have a higher chance of messing up their dpad (at least in one direction). or so it seemed in random mario kart boards