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The tongue glitch is comprised of two parts: the mouth glitch and the retracting tongue glitch. The mouth glitch is a glitched state in which Yoshi simultaneously does and does not have something in his mouth. While in this state, Yoshi can stick his tongue out but is unable to tongue enemies or any other sprite. It can be achieved by spitting out an enemy just before it changes form via big egg, middle ring, POW, or cloud item. Getting hit in this state while his tongue is retracting causes the tongue to not reset properly and infinitely travel backwards, causing the game to write too many sprite graphic entries, eventually corrupting sprite values and crashing the game (usually).

Mouth glitch

The glitch can be resolved in one of two ways:

If the enemy could normally be swallowed, pressing down will "eat" it, but will not give an egg. (Note: Does not work on uneatable things like koopa shells).
Leaving the room or entering the goal ring will return Yoshi's mouth to a normal state.

This glitch is used in 2 different ways for Yoshi Speedrunning:

Can be used to rearrange the map and skip obstacles, used in Any% Warps
Arbitrary Code Execution in Any% Credits Warp

Ways to get Tongue Glitch

Spit out enemy while transformation effect happens (Save Ring/POW/Cloud Item/Big Egg hit)
Tonguing a Toadie while jumping on them
Tonguing a Big Egg as it lands on ground
Tonguing a Fly Guy and Star at the same time (letting star despawn)

Tongue Glitch Cancel

-more info soon-

If you collect 4 coins while the screen is corrupting and tonguing up, 0F04 will always be 10 (which works for TGC).

More Info
0F04/05 values tonguing UP: Nothing - C2 33/73 1 coin - B1 3A 2 coins - 8A B1/F1 3 coins - 51 4 coins - 10 5 coins - F0 6 coins - 90 7 coins - 01 8 coins - 36 1 red coin - 28 BA/EA, 8A BA/FA 1 red coin + 1 yellow coin - 00 BD/FD 1 red coin + 2 yellow coins - 1A 3A/7A 2 red coins (with sparks) - 3F FF 2 red coins (with 1 set of very small sparks) - 10 22/62 2 red coins (no sparks) - 01 BF/FF 2 red coins + 1 yellow coin - 3F FF 2 red coins + 2 yellow coins - 56 39/79 2 red coins + 3 yellow coins - 01 3E/7E 1 stilt guy - 14 B2/F2 2 stilt guys - 56 79 1 stilt guy + 1 coin - D4 A0/E0 1 stilt guy + 1 red coin (small sparks) - 51 B4 1 stilt guy + 1 red coin (x sparks) - 10 00 1 stilt guy + 1 red coin (no sparks) - 8A B1 1 stilt guy + 1 red coin + 1 yellow coin - F0 F6, 10 00 1 stilt guy + 2 red coins - B6 21 1 stilt guy + 1 shyguy - 3F BF 1 stilt guy + 1 shyguy (with sparks) - 56 39/79 1 shy guy - 6B 29/69 1 shy guy (with sparks) - 14 B2/F2 flower sparks - 8A B1/F1 bomb sprite - 6B 29/69 bomb sprite + 1 yellow coin - 14 B2/F2 bomb sprite + 2 yellow coins - D4 A0/E0 bomb explosion - 8A B1/F1 flower sparks + bomb sprite - D4 E0 flower sparks + bomb explosion - 10 00 egg dispenser - 6B 29/69 egg dispenser (with dust) - B1 3A/7A 1 egg - 8A BA/FA 2 eggs - 01 BF/FF 3 eggs - 6B 29/69 4 eggs - B1 3A/7A 5 eggs - 28 AA/EA swim left/right - 8A BA/FA Dive in water - 01 BF/FF 1 cloud - 28 AA/EA 2 clouds - 3F BF/FF 2 clouds + swim - D4 A0 2 clouds + dive (early) - 51 F4 2 clouds + dive (late) - 1A 7A 0F04/05 values tonguing left/right: nothing - 31 A1 flower sparks - 5B 25/65 bomb sprite - 5B 25/65 bomb explosion - 5B 25/65 flower sparks + bombs sprite - FB B0

Explanation

The 3-3 map corruption trick uses the tongue glitch to rearrange the objects in the level to allow you to reach the second middle-ring from the second screen, to skip the submarine section. You need either a POW block or a big egg to do it. Big eggs are recommended, as there is no known way to consistently get a POW block.

This trick saves around 20 seconds in the Any% Warps category and is banned in Any% Warpless.

How To Do It

You'll need to Baxter a big egg in 2-7 [1] and then again in 3-1 [2] and 3-2 [3].
There are 3 methods you can use to do so:

The safe method as seen in the gif on the right.
1 up-tongue.
2 up-tongues.
Variation of 2 up-tongues.

For 2-8: Simply be aiming the big egg before the boss falls off. To be safe, aim the egg when you give the boss the final push off of the edge. [4]

Once you reach 3-3 with the big egg, go to the 2nd screen:

Grab any enemy, throw the big egg into the air and spit out the enemy right before the big egg lands. This will activate the first phase of the tongue glitch where Yoshi both has and does not have something in his mouth.
Next, go to where the Shy Guys are on the red bridge, tongue and get hit when Yoshi's tongue is fully extended. This will activate the second phase of the tongue glitch and turn Yoshi and Baby Mario invisible as a result.

3-3 Submarine Skip Tutorial

Reclaim Baby Mario and do a full jump followed by 3 flutters to enter the helicopter bubble.
Once you transform into the helicopter, the map should be rearranged, allowing you to fly to the right and enter the middle-ring.
After you get the middle-ring, hold down to die and then respawn. You have now successfully skipped the submarine room. [5] [6]

The following images will show you what good and bad positioning of the big egg looks like.
Remember, that if the big egg is too far off-screen, it will despawn.

Big Egg Baxter Visual Cues

Map Corruption In Other Levels

6-7 Info
You need at least 13 stars before the second screen, so you have to go through the middle ring on the first screen. Activate the green platform, eat the first cloud drop and get TG like shown in the video. Stand on the edge of the platform while facing left. Tongue up and get hit by the cloud drop while tongue is retracting. Immediately after you get hit, hold DOWN so you don't fall off the platform. When you're safe, release down. When the green platform is about to fall (and the camera is panning to the right), go right for a little, then tap left to lock the camera. You're looking to have a gap between the right side of the screen and the rock. Hold nothing. You'll get hit by the cloud drop, resetting the TG. AS SOON as you see the wall on the right despawn, flutter to the right. Take the middle ring, then flutter left to die on the spikes.

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+The tongue glitch is comprised of two parts: the mouth glitch and the retracting tongue glitch. The mouth glitch is a glitched state in which Yoshi simultaneously ''does'' and ''does not'' have something in his mouth. While in this state, Yoshi can stick his tongue out but is unable to tongue enemies or any other sprite. It can be achieved by spitting out an enemy just before it changes form via big egg, middle ring, POW, or cloud item. Getting hit in this state while his tongue is retracting causes the tongue to not reset properly and infinitely travel backwards, causing the game to write too many sprite graphic entries, eventually corrupting sprite values and crashing the game (usually).
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-! Tongue glitch
+! Mouth glitch
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-Tongue Glitch is a glitch where the game still thinks Yoshi has a sprite in mouth but doesn't. Most common way is spitting out an enemy as you enter save ring (turning it into a star),
-this leads to Yoshi being able to stick out their tongue but can't grab enemies or any other sprite. Getting hit in this state while tongue retracts causes the tongue to not properly reset back and will infinitely travel backwards causing the game to write too many sprite graphic entries, eventually corrupting sprite values and crashing the game (usually).
 The glitch can be resolved in one of two ways: