The Shell Mario Glitch is a glitch wherein Mario moves forward at the speed of riding a Koopa shell while retaining his usual moveset. It is activated by jumping onto a shell on the same frame as Mario touches water. The glitch ends if Mario tries to walk, or if he breaks the shell as he could while riding it normally.
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- If Mario crawls while the glitch is active, his body will be inside the shell, with his head and feet poking out. This looks similar to the Shell Mario power-up from New Super Mario Bros..
- Peerforming the glitch with a shell clone will activate all but the momentum aspect of the glitch. The only real indication of "riding" a shell clone as Shell Mario is the background music. In addition, the clone will become intangible until it is broken.
- Teleporting as Shell Mario would force him into that state and turn off the background music.