Castle: Secret Star
Stand on the sun platform in the middle of the main
room in the castle as Mario. Gaze up at the sun above the final
Boss door. You must perform this trick with Mario because he is
the only person that can fly. Inside, you must collect eight red
coins and a Star will appear on the center platform. Note: You
can only receive this star after you reach a certain point in
the game. You will know you have reached this point when the sun
shines through onto the platform.
Hazy Mazy Cave: Secret Star
Go to the Hazy Mazy Cave course. Go to the left and
follow the path to the underground lake. Jump on the dinosaur
and grab the Wario Cap. Point in the direction of the metal doors
and he will take you there. When you get inside, jump in the metal
pool. Collect eight Red Coins to get a Star. Note: Use Wario's
Power Flower to help you get the underwater coins.
Peach's Castle: Secret
Enter the room where you can change into different
characters (Before the room with the Toad and pastel colors).
Jump into the glass window of Peach next to Yoshi's door (on the
right). You will enter a Castle Secret. You can get three Stars
here. Make it to the bottom of the slide to get the first. Make
it to the end of the slide in under twenty seconds for the second.
Get every coin in the level (including blue ones) for the third.
Ship: Secret
Got to the room on the first floor with the entrance
to the level with the sunken ship picture. There all small square
holes on the walls. Jump in the one on the left to get a 1-Up.
Jump into the one on the right to enter the Castle Secret. To
earn a Star you must swim through the tank and get all eight red
coins. To get air, you must grab the other coins -- their is no
way to get out of the water.
Whomp's Fortress: Star
Use the following steps to get the sixth Star in course
2. Go into the cannon by the water. Aim the cannon by the far,
thin wall. Hit the corner and the wall will break. Soon after
that, a Star appears.
Secret Underwater level:
When you enter the castle, go to your right. There
will be a door with a "3" on it. Enter it. There will
be a painting with bubbles inside. Go to your right. There will
be a raised box up in the wall. Jump inside and it will take you
to an underwater level. Collect all the red coins and a Star will
appear in the center, on the bottom.
Fight Bowser without using Mario
When you collect the numbers of Stars to open the Star
Door with Mario, switch with Luigi, Wario, or Yoshi. Note: Yoshi
will not grab him, but Bowser will spit out a Luigi cap.
Fun with Goomboss
Go back to the place behind the Princess's Drawers
to the door with an 8 on it with Mario. Enter the fight with Goomboss,
and eventually he will throw a mushroom. Touch the mushroom and
Mario will grow tall, just like in the classic Mario games.
Defeating Koopa the Quick
After you challenge Koopa the Quick, run up the bridge
as usual. However, when you get past the bridge, run over to the
flower patch near the red block. If you go to around the middle
of it, you should teleport directly in front of the mountain.
From there, instead of going to where the rolling bowling balls
are found, go up the steep hill. This may not seem it is faster,
but it is. Continue running up the mountain until you reach the
first hole where the bowling balls are coming from. Jump into
the hole. You should be teleported to the second bowling ball
hole. Then, run up to the flag. If done correctly, this should
be an unbeatable strategy for defeating Koopa the Quick.
Getting Luigi
Go to the courtyard with the fountain and the ghosts.
Look for one ghost that larger than the others. Use Mario to stomp
him. Enter the small object that it drops to reach Boo's mansion.
Get the first Star. On the second one, go up to the second floor.
Continue on to defeat Big Boo and get Luigi's key.
Getting Mario
To rescue Mario, you need at least 8 Stars. Go into
the castle version of the rec room, where Toad is worried about
losing Peach's rec room keys. Open the 8 Star door. Go forward,
jump across the platforms, climb the pole, and reach the top of
the huge tree. Jump down the hole on top of it. To defeat the
following Boss, Goomboss as Yoshi, just run behind him, swallow
a minion, and throw it back at him. After each hit, he will grow
and redden. After three hits, he will be defeated and you will
get the key to Mario's room. Then, just unlock the door and go
inside.
Getting Wario
Play as Luigi in the Mirror Room. Jump into Wario's
painting and defeat the Giant Ice Bully to get Wario's key.
Glowing rabbits
There are eight glowing rabbits that randomly replace
each of the character's mini-game rabbits. Once you catch all
eight, you will receive a key that unlocks the white door to the
right of Wario's. You will receive a Star.
After you catch all glowing rabbits you will get a key that unlocks
the door in the character changing room.
Note: In order to find the glowing rabbits, you must find all
the regular rabbits for each character. Also, the glowing rabbits
can be caught in any order.
To unlock to glowing rabbits, you must find all seven rabbits
for each character. Note: Luigi only has six, as his seventh one
is on the roof of the castle which cannot be accessed until all
150 Power Stars are recovered. After this, eight white rabbits
will appear at random. For the most part, each character has about
two rabbits, but at the very least one. Generally, the glowing
rabbit for each character can be found by going to all the rabbits,
then the last one is the glowing rabbit. Once a rabbit is found
that is glowing, you do not have to go to that one to make the
last one glowing. There is no order on the characters; just start
with Luigi and go to all rabbits until a glowing rabbit or all
have been checked. Then, switch to Mario, Yoshi, and Wario. Continue
until the final rabbit is found. The eighth glowing rabbit will
give you a key that will open the door next to Wario's refereed
to as "The Empty Room." This room contains a Power Star
and nothing else.
Some locations of the rabbits are as follows.
Rabbit 1: Caught with Luigi. It is found in the underground hallway
near the Lethal Lava Land course.
Rabbit 2: Caught with Yoshi. It is found in the garden on the
outside of the castle near the bushes.
Rabbit 3: Caught with Wario. It is found in the hall of the Tiny-Huge
Island course.
Rabbit 4: Caught with Mario. It is found on the staircase leading
up to the Tick-Tock Clock course and the Rainbow Ride course.
Rabbit 5: Caught with Luigi. Found in the Bob-Omb Battlefield
hall.
Rabbit 6: Caught with Wario. Found in the same place you found
it with Wario. It is found in the hall of the Tiny-Huge Island
Course.
Rabbit 7: Caught with Mario. Found in the Jolly Roger Bay hall.
There is no particular order to the glowing rabbits. The fastest
way to catch all eight glowing rabbits is to use Yoshi and go
outside (not the Boo courtyard). Yoshi has five rabbits outside
alone. Go outside, catch all the glowing rabbits, re-enter the
castle, then exit again. Keep repeating this until you catch all eight glowing rabbits.
Secret Stars
When you go up the stairs and have one Star, you can
go through a door with a number one on it. When you go in, go
through one of the pictures of Peach. One of them contains a level
with a secret Star.
As Luigi, from the main hallway go into the door at the top of
the first staircase. Go up the stairs and into the door at the
top of this staircase. Then, go into the door with red carpet
around it. There will be a room with a huge mirror in it. Get
a flower on one of the pedestals and go through the mirror. Enter
the door in the reflection. You will be in a room that is all
yellow, with a lone Star.
Go to the rec room where you play mini-games. Jump into the painting
in that room. Collect the five Blue Stars to get the real Star
to appear. This is also a level that appears when you play in multi-player mode.
Finish the secret level in the character selection room in less
than 21 seconds to get another Star.
Go into the basement with Wario. Go to the entrance to Hazy Maze
Cave but do not jump in. Go all the way around and down the steps.
You should see a Toad in the left hand corner. Speak to him for a Star.
Go to the second floor with Luigi. There is a Toad across from
the Tall Tall Mountain entrance, located directly behind the steps
that go to the third floor. Speak to the Toad and he will tell
you about the mirror room. Before he finishes, he also gives you a Star.
In all the levels leading up to a Bowser fight (the levels that
bring you to a transport pipe), there are a possible of two secret
Stars. One is to find all eight red coins. The other is to find
a switch Star by stepping on a Star button.
On every course in this game, you are able to get a Star if you collect 100 Coins.
When you go into Luigi's picture frame (located in the ghost place),
get Luigi's cap. Find a "?" box after killing everything
in there (because you will need to go very fast). When you use
a Power Flower and you are invisible, in the final room where
you enter the hole to face King Boo, there will be a Star on the
map. Because you can go through walls, go through the ghost picture
and there will be a Star.
There are secret Stars in the hole in wall across from rainbow
place. You can get one by collecting red coins and one in a black
brick. First, fly to the place with Wario's cap then use the canon.
Aim it to the tree and put it slightly higher. Break the black
brick and a Star will appear.
Drain water under bridge and Star
After getting Wario, go to the basement type place.
Go though one of the doors with no star on it. You will reach
a sign that says something about the two pillars in front of you.
Ground Pound both of them, and the water will sink. After that,
go outside close to under the bridge. There will be a one of those
black brink type things -- make sure you have Wario. Then, ground
pound it. You must collect all the red coins to get the Star in
that secret spot.
More mini-games
To unlock more mini games in the rec room, catch a
rabbit with the character you want more mini games with. For example,
catch a rabbit with Luigi to get another Luigi mini game.
After you have been in Princess Toadstool's (Peach's) room with
the big dresser and all the drawers, go outside in the front yard
of the castle. You will need to be playing as Yoshi. You will
see three rabbits grouped up together. If you go near them, they
will run away very fast. Run after them and catch them with your
tongue. The rabbit will plead to let it out. You will automatically
spit it out. After it complains about you about almost swallowing
it, it will give you a key to the drawers, which will unlock more
mini games in the rec room for Yoshi. You will get three keys,
because there are three rabbits.
Psyche Out! mini-game
The mini game tests your psychic abilities. There is
a trick to beating this game. If you look carefully at the waving
card, you should see a faint outline of the image that is on the
back of the card. If you can not see the image immediately, wait
a few seconds and you should get a glimpse. This will happen more
frequently on the harder levels.