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Yoshis House Difficulty 0/10 The starting point in Super Mario World and Yoshis home as well. Yoshi is not home. There is nothing you can do here yet. If you bring Yoshi back and have him eat all of the fruit, an item will come out of an egg depended on what color Yoshi you have (If you have not unlocked any special Yoshis, then the item is random). Yoshis Island 1 Difficulty 1/10 The first Yoshi coin is located on the other side of the first slanted hill. Then a Bonsai Bill comes toward you and should be able to walk under it. The second Yoshi coin is located right after the three slanted hills. After the piranha plant there is a blue pipe with two blocks on them. Break them upon to go down it. Down the pipe are a mushroom and the third Yoshi coin and exit through the green pipe. After being blasted out of the giant green pipe, you pass through the halfway point. The forth coin is on top of the hill with Rex. Then you have to duck in the hole to let the Bonsai Bill pass through. After it, there is a shell which could get you a 1-UP. You have to duck under the Bonsai Bill and move quickly to get to the 1-UP on the other side. Further along, another Bonsai Bill will come at you. Just jump on the platform and it will pass under you. The last coin is located past the Piranha Plant. The goal is right passed the Chargin Chuck. Yellow Switch Palace Difficulty 0/10 The Yellow Switch Palace has no enemies. There is a P-Switch which can cause the whole room to be filled with coins. After collecting the coins, move to the right and through the pipe. Hit the switch and save the game. Yoshis Island 2 Difficulty 1/10 To get a 1-UP, pick up the shell and throw it at the first koopa. However, to get multiple 1-UPs, chase the shell. You can rescue Yoshi from the second ? block. The first and second Yoshi coins can be easily found along the path with the koopas. The third Yoshi coin is right passed the Chargin Chuck going up the hill. The halfway point is right pass him. In the middle ? block is another Yoshi if you lost him. However, if you still have him, it will become a 1-UP. Pass the two Monty moles are two wooden blocks. The second one has a vine which leads to the forth Yoshi coin. The fifth Yoshi coin is located at the next Monty mole. It is possible to go down the blue pipe right after the Monty mole that comes out of the ground. Down there are a bunch of blue blocks, and flying ? blocks. One of them has a 1-UP and the rest are coins. After exiting the pipe, to the right is a P-Switch. Hit it to get higher up for the goal. Yoshis Island 3 Difficulty 1/10 Work your way to the top of the mountain and across the wooden blocks. After it is a swinging platform. Let the platform slide to get to the next platform which has a Yoshi in the second ? block. Go along the moving platforms until you reach another swinging platform. Let the platform fall to the bottom to see a yellow pipe. Go down the pipe and hit the P-Switch and then get across to get the second Yoshi coin. After exiting, go to the right and there is the halfway point along with the third Yoshi Coin. Move across the moving and swinging platforms toward the wooden blocks. These move horizontal and vertical so be careful. At the top of these platforms is the forth Yoshi coin. After the Yoshi coin, there is a series of swinging platforms and at the last one is the fifth Yoshi coin. Follow the path to the goal. Yoshis Island 4 Difficulty 2/10 NO HALFWAY POINT The first Yoshi coin is on the platform that sinks when you step on it, so be quick. The second Yoshi coin is directly on the other side. Move across the floating platforms and watch out for the spike ball. Go down the blue pipe if you still have Yoshi In the pipe there are pokeys, which Yoshi can eat. If you did not go down the pipe, move along the floating platforms to the third Yoshi coin. The blue shell on the ground should be thrown at the wooden box to cause the P-Switch to fall. Hit the P-Switch and grab the star in the ? block. Move along the path to grab the forth Yoshi coin. Once across, move along the floating platforms dodging the spike balls to get to a platform which has the last Yoshi coin. Continue to move across but be careful of the bouncing blurp and go through the pipe to the goal. Castle #1: Iggys Castle Difficulty 2/10 Once inside the castle, jump on to the wall and move across. It is possible to get multiple 1-Ups in this level because you can hit the koopas by being above their heads. It is also possible to hit the koopas behind the wall by punching them however, it will not add to the 1-UP streak. Move across the wall until you see five ? blocks in a row. Beyond that is the first Yoshi coin. Move across the lava pit and punch the part of the wall that looks like a square. It will bring you on to the other side. Backtrack to collect the second Yoshi coin near the edge of the lava pit. Jump across to the other wall and go to the right to find another square in the wall. Go back and grab the third Yoshi coin. Move across the wall and to the end is the halfway point and a door. Go through the door. There will be falling beams that will try to crush you. It is recommended that you stay to the left of the scrolling screen. After the first beam, is the forth Yoshi coin in the air. Duck in the hole to dodge the second falling beam. Wait for the third beam to fall in order to jump over the pit. Wait for the forth beam to fall and then grab the last Yoshi coin. Be careful near the boss door because a beam will fall if you are too slow. Just wait for it to go back up and then enter. Iggy: To get rid of Iggy, you must knock him into the lava. To accomplish that, you have to hit him on the head. The direction he will move is based upon the slope of the platform. Iggys only attack is that he occasionally throws a fireball at you, which can easily be avoided. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6.2 Donut Plains ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Donut Plains 1 Difficulty 3/10 TWO POSSIBLE EXITS This is the first possible level that you can get the feather which enables you to fly. Move along and hit the Super Koopa with the red cape to get the feather. Continue and you will see the first Yoshi coin. Continue along and you will see a Chargin Chuck with baseballs. To kill him easily, hit him on the head and then hit him with your cape. Then you will come along a Volcano Lotus, which can only be killed with your cape. Take the upper path to grab the second Yoshi coin. Move along and there is a blue pipe above the ground. In there is a bonus game (see Bonus Section). To the right are a Piranha Plant and a Chargin Chuck with baseballs. Move further along and go through the halfway point. In the second blue pipe there is an area with 600 coins which can help you learn how to fly and walk up walls. To get over the wall you need to abandon Yoshi (if you have him) and run up it. Work your way to the end of the area and go down the pipe. Hit the Lotus Flower and get the Yoshi in the ? block. Then kill the Chargin Chuck with the baseballs and then hit the forth in wooden block to cause vine to appear. Climb the vine to get the third Yoshi coin. Yoshi can eat the Volcano Lotus and the forth Yoshi coin is above it. Move along and there will be a bunch of super koopas flying at you. Go under them and grab the last Yoshi coin. There is mysterious green wall with clear squares. Secret Exit to Donut Secret 1: Once the Green Switch is hit, run up the wall and grab the key and insert it into the keyhole. It is also possible to fly up to the platform with the key, however it is very difficult. Normal Exit to Donut Plains 2: Pass through the wall and hit the yellow blocks to kill the Lotus Flowers. Then kill the Chargin Chuck and reach the goal. An alternative is when the Green Switch has been hit. Run up and around and fall down and go to the goal. Donut Secret 1 Difficulty 3/10 TWO POSSIBLE EXITS The first underwater level. In the beginning of the level is a Rip Van Fish, which will wake up if you come close to it. Weave your way through the fishes toward two Rip Van Fish. The first Yoshi coin is located above the four ? blocks. Move along and go up the blue pipe. There is a ? box which has a P Balloon, which can allow you to float for a small amount of time. Get to the left side and move your way up dodging the parakoopas. On a platform is another ? block which has another P-Balloon. Move further up and to the left is the second Yoshi coin. On the far right side on the top is the third Yoshi coin. In the middle are two wooden blocks. The one on the right has a 1-UP. Exit the pipe to the right when you touch the ground again. Grab the forth Yoshi coin that is in the pit after exiting the pipe. Move along dodging the fish until you come to the halfway point. Above the halfway point is the fifth Yoshi coin sandwiched between two blue blocks. Move along until you see a P-Switch. You can hit and try to race the time but I recommend picking it up and bringing it along. There is a sixth Yoshi coin right before a Rip Van Fish. If you have not hit the P-Switch, drop it and hit it. Secret Exit to Donut Secret House: The brown blocks turn into coins and hit the ? block which releases a key. Insert the key into the keyhole on the right. Normal Exit to Donut Ghost House: Pass the keyhole and continue to dodge the blurps and pass the Rip Van Fish to the goal. Donut Secret House Difficulty 2/10 TWO POSSIBLE EXITS NO HALFWAY POINT Move to the right and jump over the circle of boos. When the opening comes around enter in. To the right of the circle of boos on the bottom level is the first Yoshi coin. Go to the right but watch out for eeries. Then hit the P-Switch and grab it. Move it close to the Big Boo and jump over it. Go to the right and you should see an unattainable Yoshi coin right now. Go through the door. Move to the left and enter the circle of boos. Exit the circle and maneuver your way to the far left of the room passing an unreachable door. Jump up to the platform with the P-Switch but do not hit. Climb up the platforms on the left wall to reach the second Yoshi coin. Grab the P-Switch and bring it toward the wooden blocks near the unreachable door and hit it. Go through the door. In this room there is a ? block which creates a coin chain. To the far left is the third Yoshi coin. Go through the door on the left. The coin you passed in the beginning of the level is attainable and becomes the forth Yoshi coin. In the wooden block is a 1-UP. Go through the door again. Once again, work your way to the far left. Make sure you grab the five coins before the wooden blocks if you are taking the normal exit. Go to the left and grab the P-Switch and bring it back to the wooden blocks and hit the P-Switch. Secret Exit to Star Road 1: Move into the path of the door in the wooden blocks but do not go in. Instead hit the wooden block to create a vine. Quickly climb it and run and slide under the platform to get the last Yoshi coin. Then go into the blue door to face Big Boo. Big Boo: A little boss that is inside the ghost house. It can be killed by the blue blocks, which make up the floor. Be mindful of the normal Boos in the room as well. To hit Big Boo, grab a blue block and throw it up at him. If you hit him, he will flash and then become invisible for a short time. You cannot hit him while he is invisible. Three hits and the Big Boo is dead. Normal Exit to Donut Secret 2: Go over the wooden blocks and into the blue door, which leads to the goal. Donut Plains 2 Difficulty 2/10 TWO/THREE POSSIBLE EXITS NO HALFWAY POINT The first side-scrolling level. Move along the level and come across a buzzy beetle. Be careful of the swoopers in this level. Then you will see a yellow platform which has another buzzy beetle and the first Yoshi coin. Hurry across before the second yellow platform goes down. Move along the yellow platforms going up and down. Secret Exit to Green Switch Palace/Faster route to normal exit: Go into the second green pipe on the flat yellow platform. Move to the right and kill the Chargin Chuck that is kicking footballs. The footballs can be jumped on. Break open the wooden blocks on the far right to grab the blue shell. Carry the shell over to the highest wooden block and throw it and the block. It should reveal a vine. Climb the blocks to the vine and climb up the vine to put the key into the keyhole. If you have Yoshi, you can eat the shell and fly up to get the key. You can also go into the pipe at the far right to take the faster normal exit. If you choose to skip the secret exit/faster route, the second Yoshi coin is right just beyond the flat platform. The third Yoshi coin is beyond the last yellow platform group. Be cautious along the area with the jagged floor because of the yellow ceiling, and buzzy beetles. After that, quickly jump to grab the forth Yoshi coin by jumping onto the yellow platform and jumping off before getting crushed. Wait for the yellow platform to come back down and jump onto it again. Move to the right and jump to get the fifth Yoshi coin. Watch out for the two Spike tops at the end. Go through the pipe and to the goal. Green Switch Palace Difficulty 1/10 There is a shell and a P-Switch before the koopas. Grab the shell and hit the P-Switch. Throw the shell and chase after it to get a 1-UP. Go through the pipe and hit the Green Switch. Donut Ghost House Difficulty 2/10 TWO POSSIBLE EXITS Secret Exit to Top Secret Area: To get to the Secret Exit, you need a feather. Go to the right slightly and run toward the left, fly up and go through the hole. Run across to get four 1-UPs. Go through the door and to the secret goal. Watch out for the ghosts that come down from above. Only the opaque ghosts can harm you. Move to the right and you should run into the first Yoshi coin. Continue to the right and go through the door. Go up the stair, passing the second Yoshi coin and through the door. Collect the second Yoshi coin and hit the wooden block to reveal a P-Switch. Hit the P-Switch and go to the left and through the blue door. The room has a ? block which has coin chain, a green star block and the third Yoshi coin at the top of the room. Exit the room and go through the door twice. Grab the forth Yoshi coin and hit wooden block to reveal a vine. Climb the vine to get the fifth Yoshi coin and go through the door to the goal. It is also possible to fly up to the platform to get through the door instead of the vine. Top Secret Area Difficulty 0/10 This is a special place that can refill your item box. There is a Yoshi/1-Up (if you already have Yoshi) in the middle ? block. If you are normal Mario, the ? blocks to the outside are mushrooms. If you are not normal Mario, the ? blocks to the left have fire flowers and the ? blocks to the right have feathers. Donut Secret 2 Difficulty 3/10 NO HALFWAY POINT Be careful in your step in this level for everything is covered in ice. The ? block on the ground has a coin chain. The first Yoshi coin is on top of the hill where the yellow-koopa comes from. Move to the right and jump on the spring to hit the wooden block, which shows a vine. Climb the vine and hit the wooden block to get a star. While falling to the right, grab the second Yoshi coin. Move to the right and watch out for the Spike tops and grab the third Yoshi coin near the wall. The forth Yoshi coin is in between two hills and near a red parakoopa. Move to the right and go down the slope. Cautiously jump from pipe to pipe to get to the end. There is a pipe that you can go up. In the ? block is a P-Balloon. Collect the coins and go through the blue pipe at the end. Right beyond the pipe below and between the two platforms is the fifth Yoshi coin. Move to the right and hit the yellow-koopa to kill all the Spike tops. Climb the slopes and arrive at a bunch of red parakoopas. Hit all of them and get a 1-UP and get the goal. Donut Plains 3 Difficulty 2/10 Move to the right and get around the moving platforms to the mushrooms. The first Yoshi coin is beyond the next two moving platforms. Move the right and drop down below the wooden blocks. The last wooden block has a vine. Move across the clouds to get to the second Yoshi coin. Move to the right till you notice a platform and an ON switch. Jump on to the platform and hit the switch to turn it to OFF. Move along the path till another ON switch appears. Hit so it turns to OFF or you will die. Continue along the path and watch out for the critter. Grab the third Yoshi coin and pass through the halfway point. The next platform can be difficult without Yoshi because of the fuzzy. Jump from the spinning platform to the next moving platform. Move along that and after the third jump is the forth Yoshi coin. In the yellow pipe is a bonus game (see bonus section). The last Yoshi coin is on the second spinning platform after the yellow pipe. Move to other spinning platform carefully because there is a fuzzy spinning around it as well. Jump to the moving platform, hit the green star box and go through the goal. Donut Plains 4 Difficulty 3/10 Run immediately to the right to grab the yellow shell and kill the koopa. If you do not, then the koopa will get in the shell and start homing on you from the ground. The first Yoshi coin is on top of the hill after the green pipe. There is a green pipe after the yellow pipe that moves up and down so time your jumping. The blue pipe after the moving green pipe leads you to an area with more moving green pipes which is useless because the exit is right after the next moving green pipe. Be careful in the next part because there is a Amazing Flyin Hammer Brother. Hit the platform he is on to kill him or just run up the wall. Hit the first blue-koopa to get a 1-UP from the other enemies. The second Yoshi coin is right after that. Go into the blue pipe and move your way to the right dodging or killing the red-parakoopas. Grab the third Yoshi coin by jumping on the parakoopas and exit through the pipe. You will come flying out going over an Amazing Flyin Hammer Brother and through the halfway point. Move to the right and there will be a bunch of goombas with wings. Hit them and grab the forth Yoshi coin on the other side. There is a rotating item block after the goombas with wings. I suggest you take the star because there is a possibility for multiple 1-Ups because of the amount of goombas with wings and the paragoombas. Kill the Amazing Flyin Hammer Brother and run and get the fifth Yoshi coin. Get to the end and see another Amazing Flyin Hammer Brother, kill him and pass through the goal. Castle #2: Mortons Castle Difficulty 2/10 Watch out for the thwimps that drop right away. Weave in and out to get to the moving staircase, which has ball n chains on it. The first Yoshi coin is after the third ball n chain. Get to the top and go through the door. All of the gray blocks have thwomps above them so wait for them to drop in order to pass by them. There is a lava pit after the second thwomp. After the lava pit there is another thwomp and where it is at its peak, is the second Yoshi coin. Right before the door is a dry bones. You can kill him by hitting him with your tail. Right when you enter the door is the halfway point. Climb up the moving staircase on the right and jump when the platform sticks out. The middle ? block is an item, while the others are coins. Jump up to the left and there is the third Yoshi coin. Continue up to the dry bones and the spring. The area to the right is a dead-end, which only has coins. On the left side there is a staircase which goes in and out of the wall. The second wooden block from the right has a vine which leads to a dry bones, a 1-UP and the forth Yoshi coin, which goes in and out of the wall. The part to the right is when the wall tries to squish you. There are blocks along the way that will help you. Continue the climb up to two dry bones and three ? blocks, which have coins. Jump onto the gray block and climb the staircase on the right. Then there is a floor with spikes on it that can harm you if you miss jump. The fifth Yoshi coin can be found when everything moves to the right. Climb up and kill the dry bones and go through the Boss Door. Morton: The layout of the level is as follows. Walls will fall and Morton will start to come toward you. Hit him on the head. Each time you hit him, he speeds up. He will eventually start to climb the wall and onto the ceiling. He will then try to fall onto you. When he falls, the floor will stun you so jump when he lands. Three hits on the head and Morton is dead. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6.3 Vanilla Dome ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vanilla Dome 1 Difficulty 3/10 TWO POSSIBLE EXITS Be careful at the steps because there is a spike top climbing up them and watch for swoopers throughout the whole level. There is a flying ? block which has a fire flower. There are two possible ways to go here. You could grab a shell and kill the buzzy beetles on the ground or you can go above and spin attack to go through. Near the red pipe is the first Yoshi coin. The wooden block right after the red pipe has a 1-UP in it. Secret Exit to Vanilla Secret 1: After the wooden blocks, there is a red staircase (after hitting red switch). Climb up the staircase and hit the wooden block to reveal a vine. Climb up and put the key in the keyhole. Continue along and go through the pipe at the end. In the next room, there is a ? block which has a star. Grab it and quickly run across the yellow platform because it is sinking into the lava. You can get a 1-UP if you kill all the enemies and at the end of the yellow platform is the second Yoshi coin. In the next room on a platform is the halfway point. Go through the two wooden blocks. To get to third Yoshi coin, you have to be small. Grab the blue block, and run along with it to grab the coin and kill the buzzy beetle. The forth Yoshi coin is after the piranha plant. Go up the slope and down to the bottom. The last Yoshi coin is on the bottom level. Head toward the goal and watch out for the Chargin Chuck with the footballs at the end. Vanilla Secret 1 Difficulty 2/10 TWO POSSSIBLE EXITS NO HALFWAY POINT This level is basically a climbing level. Climb up the left side of the level and jump up on the green springs. Drop down below the green pipe to grab the first Yoshi coin. The wooden blocks reveal vines to climb up. However, you have Yoshi eat the blue koopa and fly up. To the right of the first vine is the second Yoshi coin. If you do not have Yoshi, hit the wooden block to climb the second vine. Head to the far left of the screen and fall down to grab the third Yoshi coin. Use the green springs to get back up. Secret Exit to Star Road 2: To get to the secret Exit you need a feather. Run on the platform to the left of the second vine to fly up to the pipe in the top left. Watch for the Chargin Chuck with footballs and pass through the goal. Time your jumping at the parakoopas to get through the hole. Grab the spring to the right and bring it up to the right. Place it down on the highest platform and jump to grab the forth Yoshi coin. Jump on it again and go to the right to grab the fifth Yoshi coin. Get to the top and go through the pipe. Watch out for the Chargin Chuck with the footballs at the top and go through the goal. Vanilla Dome 2 Difficulty 3/10 TWO POSSIBLE EXITS Immediately, you are falling into the water. Move to the right and go up the hill. Watch out for the blurps in the water, they do move in a pattern though. Go to the right, hit the wooden block and climb up the vine. Move over the sloped terrain and follow the arrow down to collect the first Yoshi coin. Move toward the right dodging all of the blurps. There is a hole with a ? block. Jump onto it and then jump to the right. Jump up the slope and then let the Chargin Chuck pass you. Then jump up and to the left, grabbing the second Yoshi coin. Move to the left and grab the P-Switch and bring it to the brown block wall. Hit the P-Switch and jump over the first pit and fall to the far left of the second pit. In the hole is the third Yoshi coin. Secret Exit to Red Switch Palace: key on the platform and bring it into the water. Insert the key into the keyhole. Grab the spring near the keyhole and bring to the platform edge. It is very difficult to get out without the red block, so be patient. Backtrack back to where the Chargin Chuck was and continue left through the halfway point. Watch out for the Chargin Chuck. There is a rotating item box after the Chargin Chuck. Run down the slope, grabbing the forth Yoshi coin and hit the P-Switch to brake the brown block wall. There will be another Chargin Chuck at the bottom. Grab the fifth Yoshi coin on top of the platform after the green pipe. A series of bats and buzzy beetles follow. Be careful at the end for the Chargin Chuck on the platform splits into three. Jump over the spike top to the goal. Red Switch Palace Difficulty 2/10 Hit the P-Switch and watch for the rainbow shell. Run along the path above the rainbow shell. Have it hit all the enemies to get a 1-UP. Go through the pipe and hit the Red Switch. Vanilla Ghost House Difficulty 4/10 Watch out for the eeries that come at you. Move to the right and there is a circle of boos. On the bottom level is the first Yoshi coin. After the circle of boos are several small platforms on different levels. Jump along them avoiding the boos and on of the platforms is the second Yoshi coin. After the platforms are a Big Boo and several wooden blocks. Go on the bottom and get to the end. The wooden block underneath the last hole of the top row has a vine. Climb the vine and grab the third Yoshi coin on the platform. Fall down the hole and watch out for the Big Boo. Get through the halfway point beyond him. After the halfway point there is a slope which leads to a circle of boos. On top of the circle of boos is the forth Yoshi coin. Go through the door and pass the circle of boos. In this room there are a bunch of green bubbles that move around. Carefully jump from the platforms and dodge the green bubbles. When you arrive at three wooden blocks hit the middle one and grab the P-Switch, but do not hit it. Pass the door and grab the fifth Yoshi coin and collect the five regular coins. Hit the P-Switch and go through the blue door to the goal. Vanilla Dome 3 Difficulty 2/10 Walk down the staircase and jump onto the skeleton boat. Watch for the Blargg that pop out of the lava. All of the ? blocks with wings are coins. Climb over the pipes and go down the steep slope to the first Yoshi coin. Hop onto another skeleton train and continue to watch out for Blargg. Let the skeleton bridge fall from the steep drop and then jump off it. There is an invisible ? block right near the red pipe. Hop on another skeleton train. Jump up onto the brown blocks to the second Yoshi coin before you die. There is a series of piranha plants followed by even another skeleton train. I recommend you go onto the platform after the skeleton train, get the ? block with 10 coins and grab the buzzy beetle and kill the piranha plant before moving the skeleton train. Go into the yellow pipe after getting off the skeleton train. This is an icy section filled with buzzy beetles. Near the red parakoopa is the third Yoshi coin and exit through the blue pipe. Run at the pipe to get over the pipe and watch out for the wild blue shell. In the ? block, there is a Yoshi, which is above the halfway point. Go to the right and hop onto even another skeleton train. When the skeleton train finishes climbing the steep incline, jump onto the platform. On the other side is the forth Yoshi coin, but time your jump. Work your way through a bunch of spike tops and pipes that need to be maneuvered after that is a series of platforms. The last one has the fifth Yoshi coin. Move to the right to find the last skeleton train. I recommend (if you have a fire flower, feather, or Yoshi) that you hop onto the platform and kill all of the piranha plants before getting on the skeleton train. Then ride the train to the top of the hill and hop off to the goal. Vanilla Dome 4 Difficulty 4/10 There are several Bullet Bills flying at you from the right side of the screen. The Yoshi coin is at the bottom of the screen before the first spring. Move along the mushrooms dodging all of the Bullet Bills. The second Yoshi coin is in the middle of the second set of double springs. Be careful at the next section because two parakoopas block you from using the two springs, so you need to time your jumps. The halfway point is on the other side of the parakoopa high in the air. Now Bullet Bills will come from all direction so you have to be extra careful. Continue on until you see a blue pipe in between two springs. Go in that pipe and hop on the skeleton train. It can be difficult to get through here with Yoshi so it is best to abandon because of the brown blocks. At the end is the third Yoshi coin and go through the pipe. The forth Yoshi coin is down below a spring attached to a mushroom right after exiting the pipe. The fifth coin is near a red parakoopa and between two springs. The goal is right on the other side of the fifth Yoshi coin. Vanilla Secret 2 Difficulty 4/10 This level is filled with a bunch of bouncing parakoopa is it is necessary to be cautious of them. You are going to need a feather and/or blue Yoshi to get to the first coin. There is a Yoshi in the ? block beyond the first two parakoopas. Get a running start from the beginning and fly up to the clouds. On the second platform is the first Yoshi coin. Jump off of the cloud carefully and continue to the right to find the second Yoshi coin. There is a possibility to get multiple 1-UPs from jumping on the parakoopas. In between two piranha plants is the third Yoshi coin. Right after the third Yoshi coin is the halfway point. After going over the hill and down the slope, there is a lakitu in a pipe throwing spinys at you. Just jump on him to kill him. Be watchful of the parabombs falling as well. After the two spinys, the forth Yoshi coin I in between a ? block which has ten coins, and a brown block. The second wooden block has a gray P-Switch, which makes most of the enemies gray coins. Hit the gray P-Switch and grab the gray coins along the path for multiple 1-UPs. After the slanted pipe is another lakitu in a pipe throwing spineys (or gray coins if the switch is still activated). Kill the lakitu and go into the pipe. Hit the P-Switch and run across to the end, grab the fifth Yoshi coin, and go through the pipe. You will come flying out of the giant pipe over the Chargin Chuck (which becomes 3) and over the red parakoopas to the goal. Vanilla Secret 3 Difficulty 2/10 In this level, there are several dolphins coming from all directions. The dolphins in the beginning of the level move in a pattern. Jump onto the dolphins and jump up to the top mushroom. Jump off and grab the first Yoshi coin. The dolphins are trying to bring you back in the wrong direction so keep moving along to the next mushroom, which has the second Yoshi coin. Now a Porchu-Puffer appears, which will home onto you from the water. There is a vertical dolphin which can help you. On the next mushroom is a green star block, but you do not have enough coins for the 1-UP. After that is the halfway point. Jump along the dolphins to another mushroom and on the other side is the third Yoshi coin. Now the dolphins are moving in a group toward the right of the screen, marked by the coin arrows. In the third arrow is the forth Yoshi coin. At the end near the pipe is the fifth Yoshi coin. After exiting the pipe, above it is a sixth Yoshi coin near the goal. Vanilla Fortress Difficulty 5/10 NOTE: A tough level because it is an underwater fortress. Time can also play a large factor because you have to backtrack to collect all of the Yoshi coins. Dodge the first ball n chain and be careful of the two fishbones. After the second ball n chain is a shortcut to second part of the level. It is easier because then you do not have to backtrack to collect the Yoshi coins. However, you have to be normal Mario to get through it. Above the shortcut is another ball n chain. The next part has a spiked floor and a fishbone so you have to wait for it to pass. The next section has a spiked ceiling with brown spikes (which fall), dry bones that throw bones at you, fishbones and bony beetles. The first Yoshi coin is right after the two brown spikes fall. Get to the right and go through the pipe. Now you have to back to get the rest of the coins. The second Yoshi coin is to the left where a thwomp is. Continue to the left and pass another thwomp, bony beetles, and fishbones. After another thwomp is a pipe where the shortcut comes out and to the left of that is the third Yoshi coin. Continue back to the right and go up the hole after the thwomp to the halfway point. Watch out for the ball n chains and the fishbones. Under the forth ball n chain is the forth Yoshi coin. Continue to the right and fall down the hole slowly because of the fishbone and the ball n chain. To the right are two ball n chains with a drybone who throws bones, and there is the fifth Yoshi coin. Move to the right passing the fishbones and bony beetles to the boss door to meet Reznor. Castle #3: Lemmys Castle Difficulty 4/10 Be careful of the magikoopa right away. He turns the wooden blocks into yellow koopas with his wand. Run to the right and have magikoopa hit one of the wooden blocks with his wand and fall through the hole. Kill him and then move to the right. There are several wooden blocks randomly scattered. Jump from each one to the P-Switch and hit it. Move quickly toward the right and jump onto the brown block platform and go through the door. Through the door is the halfway point and a 1-UP. It can be difficult to get to the door and you only have one chance to do it, so patience is needed. If you miss just continue to left dodging the magikoopas wand and the fire in the lava till the door at the end. The next long section has a bunch of platforms that rise and fall out of the lava. The first Yoshi coin is on the first platform but wait until it goes up again or else you will die. Get to the top of the platform and then wait till it goes all the way down before jumping to the next platform. Be careful of the drybones though. The second platform will try to crush so move quickly through. The next platform sinks into the lava. To reach the second Yoshi coin wait till the platform is at its highest point to drop down and grab the Yoshi coin. There is a safe spot above the Yoshi coin, but it is not that necessary. The next platform has two sides along with the third Yoshi coin. Jump across to next platform. This platform will try to crush you, but there is a safe haven along with a mushroom or feather (depending what you have already) in the bottom right. Then get out of the safe haven and go up to the right and onto the next platform which is a series of steps. The steps slowly appear out of the lava and the last step has the forth Yoshi coin. Continue to the right and there is now a bunch of platforms with drybones and elevating platforms. After the one with the block stopping your path is the last moving platform. This is a hard Yoshi coin to get. On the bottom side of the platform is the fifth Yoshi coin, when the platform reaches its peak. To get back up, jump into the hole and back to the main platform. Jump off the platform and go down the stairs to the boss door. Lemmy: The layout of this boss is that there are six pipes all at different levels and there is a fire ball bouncing around the room. There are three enemies that pop out of the pipes. Two of the enemies are dummies (which look similar) and the other is Lemmy. Hitting a dummy does nothing. Hit Lemmy three times and he will fall into the lava and die. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6.4 Twin Bridges ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cheese Bridge Area Difficulty 6/10 (2/10 with Yoshi) TWO/THREE POSSIBLE EXITS NOTE: You will need Yoshi for two out of the three possible exits. Yoshi also makes this level a lot easier because he can bounce on the saws and he cannot be harmed by them either. Having Yoshi will also make it easier to get the Yoshi coins in the first part of the level. I recommend that you only use the first two platforms. Eventually, you will travel along and see the first Yoshi coin. Jump down onto the bottom platform to get it and then back up to get the second one. The second Yoshi coin is right after a hump on the second platform. Then go down to the bottom one again and go through the humps to the third Yoshi coin. Jump back up to the first platform and hop onto solid ground. The halfway point is above the ground. Short Exit: To take this exit, you need Yoshi. Hit the ? block and grab Yoshis wings to fly into the sky. It is still possible to get all the Yoshi coins by taking this route. The forth Yoshi coin is near the first fuzzy. The fifth Yoshi coin is to the bottom-right of the forth Yoshi coin. There are a sixth, seventh, and eighth Yoshi coins that are randomly scattered throughout the fuzzies. Continue to maneuver through the critters and follow the brown block arrow down to the exit. To take the normal route or to the secret exit, pass the ? block and move along the zip-line (you cannot use it if you have Yoshi). Grab the forth Yoshi coin near the blue pipe. Although it is not necessary to go down the pipe, down there is a bunch of moving platforms and Bullet Bills coming at you from all directions. It is best to not go down there. After the blue pipe is another zip-line. The last zip-line is long and travels through a bunch of saws. Yoshi can jump on the saws so it is not a challenge for him. The fifth Yoshi coin is about halfway across the zip-line before a long saw. Once you reach the mushroom go to the goal. Secret Exit to Soda Lake: once you reach the end, right before the goal is a mushroom. Go onto the bottom platform and jump off toward the right. Once you jump off, jump off Yoshi to land behind the goal. Follow the arrows to collect the moon and to the secret goal. Soda Lake (To Star Road 3) Difficulty 5/10 NO HALFWAY POINT NOTE: This is the only level in the game that features the dreadful Torpedo Ted. One key fact to know about the Torpedo Ted is that they shoot in BOTH directions so be extra careful. Also in this level is several green blurps coming from the right. After the first Torpedo Ted is a fire flower in the ? block, which I suggest getting because the green blurps can be very annoying. After the next two Torpedo Bills is the first Yoshi coin. Continue along passing the blurps and right after the second Torpedo Bill in the series of three. The third Yoshi coin is right after the second Yoshi coin in a hole. Be extremely careful right after the third Yoshi coin because there are four Torpedo Teds. I recommend going around the bottom. After them, the forth Yoshi coin is by a single Torpedo Ted. The fifth Yoshi coin is in between three Torpedo Teds. Do not go right away after because three green blurps come at you so let them pass by. After that, there are three more Torpedo Teds that get closer to the ground. The last one in that series you have to duck under and then move quickly to get by them. Finally, go through the pipe and get to the goal. Cookie Mountain Difficulty 5/10 Go past the first slanted hill and watch out for Sumo Brother. Also watch out for Monty moles that pop out through out the entire level. The first Yoshi coin is located on top of the first slanted hill in a set of three. Then there is a zig-zag going down that has Monty Moles popping out. Continue along and watch out for Monty moles. Underneath the row of music blocks and the Sumo Brothers is the second Yoshi coin. After the pipe with the piranha plant is the halfway point. After the halfway point is a high up platform with a 1-UP on it. Use the vine in the third wooden block to the right and climb up to get the 1-UP and the third Yoshi coin. There is a blue pipe that backtracks in the level. I do not recommend taking it because it only leads to a 1-UP, which is not worth the time it takes. After the blue pipe is a Yoshi in between two music blocks. After that, on the high middle platform is the forth Yoshi coin. After that on the ground, there is a rotating item block (Yoshi needs to eat the item you want). After the fire spitting piranha plant is the fifth Yoshi coin. Then there are two Sumo Brothers on two different platforms. After that is a Chargin Chuck that splits into three. The goal is over the blue pipe. Butter Bridge 1 Difficulty 4/10 NO HALFWAY POINT A side scrolling level. The two small mushrooms act as a balance. If you are on one side, your side will go down while the other will go up. Work your way across the first two balances and the first Yoshi coin is on the falling platform. After the next balance is a red parakoopa and next to it is the second Yoshi coin. The third Yoshi coin is in between the next two parts of the balance. It is possible to get a 1-UP from jumping all of the green parakoopas heads. Climb up the next three balances and ride down the last mushroom with the screen. While riding it down, grab the forth Yoshi coin. The next section has a bunch of wooden blocks. There are a bunch of 10 coin blocks hidden within the bunch of wooden blocks. Climb to the top and jump onto the next balance. After the balance is a falling platform with the fifth Yoshi coin. After the platform are a bunch of red parakoopas hovering around two wooden platforms. Right before the blue pipe is a Green Star block. Exit the pipe and grab the goal. Butter Bridge 2 Difficulty 5/10 This level is filled with super koopas and koopas without shells. To grab the first Yoshi coin, you will need to have a cape. Fly up off the first platform to the right and land on the clouds to grab the first Yoshi coin. The second Yoshi coin is high up after a bunch of ascending super koopas. In the next area, there are a bunch of koopas kicking their shells at you from above. Be careful passing them. The third Yoshi coin is right after the platforms with two koopas on them. After the third Yoshi coin is the halfway point. After the halfway point is two blue pipes, go into the second one. In this area are a moving platform and a zip-line. About halfway through is a platform that has the forth Yoshi coin. Exit through the pipe at the right. The next part, you have to weave in between pairs of super koopas coming from both directions. After that is the fifth Yoshi coin that can only be reached by jumping on the passing super koopa or jumping off Yoshi without dying. After that is a bunch of super koopas flying at you. Jump over them to the goal. Castle #4: Ludwigs Castle Difficulty 5/10 Move along the path and fall down to find a bony beetle and a ball n chain. Jump up and over to find another bony beetle but five ball n chains this time. Timing is especially careful to get through the last two ball n chains. At the end is the door and beyond the door is a mushroom. Alternative Route: There is a secret pathway right before the door on the end. Jump up through the invisible wall and climb the steps to go down the pipe to the bonus game. Move to the left extremely quickly because the ceiling in the room is trying to crush you. On the platform after the first lava pit is the first Yoshi coin. After the second lava pit is the second Yoshi coin along with an ON switch. Hit the ON switch and it becomes OFF and the ceiling starts to rise. I recommend letting the ceiling drop to right above the ON switch before hitting to allow the maximum amount of time for the next part. Pass two bony beetles and jump across five lava pits as fast as you can. Then run as fast as you can to the door at left. To the right after entering the door is the halfway point. It is possible to get several 1-UPs from hitting all of the koopas on the walls. Watch out for the spikes. Continue to climb up the level and hit the square in the wall to get to the third Yoshi coin. After getting the third Yoshi coin work your way to the right. Start to descend by the wall on the right side. Continue down till you see the forth Yoshi coin. You can fall onto it because there is one spike missing. Backtrack to third Yoshi coin and continue to climb up. You will get to a U-Shaped wall and in between is the fifth Yoshi coin. Climb up to the top platform and go through the Boss Door. Ludwig Von Koopa: This boss shoots five fire balls at you. While he his shooting the fire balls, hit him on the head. Then he will start homing you for a short period of time. Then he will make a long jump. Make sure you are in the middle of the area or he might jump outside of the screen. Then the cycle continues. Three hits on the head and Ludwig will be dead. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6.5 Forest of Illusion ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Forest of Illusion 1 Difficulty 4/10 TWO POSSIBLE EXITS Watch out for wigglers in this level. Move pass the two wigglers and move along the small platforms with the red koopas. After them is a Yoshi in the ? block. Move along and pass the goombas, and the wiggler and grab the spring. Bring the spring to the right and drop it below the first Yoshi coin. In the wooden block is a 1-UP. The next platform has a bunch of wigglers and in between two of the trees is the second Yoshi coin. Move to the right and pass through the halfway point. After the halfway point is a rotating item block. Grab the star for over 10 1-UPs from the enemies because the wigglers give you 2-UPs. On the large platform, with the wooden blocks that have enemies, the third and forth Yoshi coins are hidden behind the large trees. While passing over the keyhole, the fifth Yoshi coin is above a wiggler on the upper platform. Secret Exit to Forest Ghost House: There are two possible ways to get to the keyhole. One way is with a blue Yoshi and a shell. The other way is to hit the ? block and get a P-Balloon and fly to the keyhole. When the upper platform ends, there is an Amazing Flyin Hammer Brother and wiggler. Kill the Amazing Flyin Hammer Brother and grab a sixth Yoshi coin and jump over the hill to the goal. Forest of Illusion 2 Difficulty 5/10 TWO POSSIBLE EXITS Time plays a big factor because you will be short on it when you get to the goal so move quickly. There are also a bunch of green blurps swimming at you as well throughout the level. Move to the right dodging the blurps till you come to an urchin. These cannot be destroyed so you have to dodge them. Continue on until you reach the third urchin. Grab the blue block and kill the urchin and grab the first Yoshi coin. Go up and all the way to the right and drop down to the bottom, dodging the urchins. Go up and to the right past the white blurps. Fall down the hole to the bottom and work your way to the right dodging the blurps and the urchins to get to the second Yoshi coin. You will see the hole but you cannot go up it because there are hidden coins and a 1-UP in the second block from the right. Backtrack up go all the way to the right to get the third Yoshi coin. After the two urchins, there is the halfway point. Continue to the right weaving through the urchins till you see one that goes up and down. On the bottom is the forth Yoshi coin. Move to the right and drop down the hole. Secret Exit to Blue Switch Palace: Drop all the way down to the bottom till you see a yellow block. Move to the right pass the Rip Van Fish and grab the key and put it into the keyhole. Normal Exit to Forest of Illusion 3: Move to the right and in the last hole on the top with the Rip Van Fish is the fifth Yoshi coin. After that is the goal. Blue Switch Palace Difficulty 1/10 This is the last switch palace in the game. Hit both the blue P-Switch and the gray P-Switch to turn the enemies into coins. Grab the coins to get a few 1-UPs and go through the pipe. Move to the right to hit the blue switch. Forest of Illusion 3 Difficulty 3/10 TWO POSSIBLE EXITS This level involves a lot of enemies in bubbles so beware when they pop, especially the ones with bob-ombs. The first Yoshi coin is just beyond the first green pipe. Continue moving to the right dodging the bubbles and jump on the spring over the blue pipe. After the pipe in the ? block is a Yoshi. Continue on to the right dodging the bob-ombs until you come to two wooden blocks with a shell and a spring. Grab the spring and use it to jump over the yellow pipe and grab the second Yoshi coin. Continue dodging the bubbles and go through the halfway point. In between two yellow pipes after the halfway point is the third Yoshi coin. Fall down over the green pipe and continue to move to the right until you come to a bunch of ? blocks. Jump along those and grab the forth Yoshi coin. At the end of the group there is a Chargin Chuck that transforms into three so be careful. After the large green pipe is the fifth Yoshi coin. After the giant green pipe is the goal. Secret Exit to Castle #5: Go down the giant green pipe. The key and the keyhole are located beneath some wooden blocks that can be broken. Forest Ghost House Difficulty 4/10 TWO POSSIBLE EXITS You start in a very narrow passageway, so be cautious. Move past the Big Boo and the two small boos. An eerie will pass by so watch out. You see a Yoshi coin that you cannot obtain yet so just ignore it. Another Big Boo appears so move around it. Continue moving through the narrow passageway dodging the boos. Eventually, the room will fill up the screen but watch out for eeries. In between the two ? blocks is the first Yoshi coin. Just past the door is the halfway point. Go through the door. In the next room, a bunch of boos slowly descend from the ceiling. Continue to move toward the right and directly after the second ? block is the second Yoshi coin. The third Yoshi coin is in between two elevated platforms. The forth Yoshi coin is directly after the third Yoshi coin. The wooden block below the platform contains a 1-UP. Grab the P-Switch but do not hit it yet. Instead, collect all the coins and then hit the P-Switch. Go to the far right and go through the blue door. Now you will be back in the room you started in but above the narrow passageway this time. Continue to the right and pass over the door. Grab the fifth Yoshi coin. Both exits lead directly to the goal. Normal Exit to Forest of Illusion 1: First door to the left. Secret Exit to Forest of Illusion 4: Second door to the left and a 3-UP. Forest of Illusion 4 Difficulty 6/10 TWO POSSIBLE EXITS Throughout the level there are Lakitu in pipes throwing spinys at you. The level immediately starts off with a Fishin Lakitu. You could kill it with the koopa (I recommend) or grab the 1-UP and have it chase you. Past another parakoopa, there is a group of wooden blocks and on top of them is the first Yoshi coin. Pass two pipes with Lakitus and under a wooden block is the second Yoshi coin. At this point, the Fishin Lakitu would probably return. Continue to move to the right and eventually you will come across an elevating pipe. At the top of the pipe is the third Yoshi coin. One past the pipe, the Lakitu will disappear for a short amount of time. Up on a high platform is the halfway point. Secret Exit to Forest Secret: Directly past the halfway point is a blue pipe with a Lakitu in it. To get to the secret exit you need to get into the pipe. I recommend using a Yoshi or Luigi. Once you reach the three green pipes, Lakitu will return. To reach the forth Yoshi coin between the two sets of wooden blocks, you will need to jump into the Lakitu cloud. To get into it easily, there are two large stacks of blue blocks that you can throw up at it too get it out. Past the two sets of blue blocks, there a pipe with a piranha flower and after it is a Chargin Chuck. Above the pipe is the fifth Yoshi coin. After the fifth Yoshi coin is another pipe with a piranha plant and then there is the goal. Forest Secret Area Difficulty 3/10 NO HALFWAY POINT In this level, there are basically two, distinct, moving platforms that carry you throughout the entire level. If you have a blue Yoshi, this level allows for much easier maneuverability between the platforms. If you do not have a blue Yoshi, this level becomes difficult to collect all the Yoshi coins. Jump onto the first platform (closest to you) and ride it up and then down. On the bottom is the first Yoshi coin. Continue to ride the first platform up to grab the second Yoshi coin. Ride the first platform down and up again to reach the third Yoshi coin. When the platform is going down again, switch to the second platform to ride it up and grab the forth Yoshi coin. Then switch back to the first platform again and ride it up to grab the fifth Yoshi coin. There is a green switch that yields a 1-UP if you got thirty coins in the level. After that is the goal. Forest Fortress (To Star Road 4) Difficulty 5/10 First thing, I recommend using Luigi with a feather for this level because there is a secret worth a lot toward the end. As soon as the level begins, jump to the right to grab the first Yoshi coin. The falling beams will try to crush you once again so be careful. After the second falling beam, there will be two buzz-saws. On top of the second one there will be the second Yoshi coin. There will be two more buzz-saws and then another falling beam. There will be another set of a falling beam but with three buzz-saws this time. On the second buzz-saw there is the third Yoshi coin. Move quickly into the door because there is a falling beam above it. Once through the door there is the halfway point. Watch out for the buzz-saws that fall from platforms. Continue to the right and over the lava pit. There will be a pit with two buzz-saws going back and forth. Above in an alcove there is the forth Yoshi coin. After that, there will be a giant lava pit. Across that, there are stepping stones that you can use to avoid the fireballs and the buzz-saws. Once across, there will be a bunch of buzz-saws coming from all levels so be quick and jump over them. Maneuver your way through the maze of buzz-saws and go toward the top right. Move your way down to the right and grab the fifth Yoshi coin. Then backtrack to the middle and go through the boss door to Reznor. Alternative Route to Reznor: If you have Luigi and the feather you can do this secret. Get a running start from the platform where the fifth Yoshi coin was. The reason why I recommend Luigi over Mario is that Mario cannot fly as far as Luigi, but it is still possible to make it with Mario just much more difficult. Start to run and begin to fly and continue to fly over the fireballs until you see a bunch of wooden blocks. In each one of these wooden blocks is a 1-UP, totaling nine. To the right of the 1-UPs is the boss door. Castle #5: Roys Castle Difficulty 5/10 A very short and some what difficult castle. You start on a narrow pathway which drops off into an area with lava and a brown moving platform. Right when you jump onto the platform, it starts to move so grab the first Yoshi coin quickly. The platform will start to move in all directions so try to keep up with it. Watch out for the moving fireballs that bounce around the room. After that room, it moves into a room full of spikes. The second, third, and forth Yoshi coins can be reached when the platform dips. Beware on the third and forth Yoshi coins because there is a falling spike. Jump off the moving platform before it goes down the hole. To the right of the hole is the halfway point. One past the halfway point, there is a P-Switch, but right above it is a falling spike. You can grab the P-Switch and hit it. It allows you to grab some coins and a 1-UP but a statue falls as well that spits fire at you. There is another statue after the first one. Once past the statues, there a few moving wooden platforms. Watch out for the moving fireballs. On the second one, is the fifth Yoshi coin. Once past the third moving wooden platform is another statue. Past the statue is the boss door, which leads to Roy. Roy: Roys stage is the same as Mortons (see boss section for further details). The idea is basically the same except for a few modifications. Roy is much faster than Morton, so catching him on the third try may be difficult. Also, the walls move in closer each time so you have less time to hit him as well. Still, three hits and Roy is long gone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6.6 Chocolate Island ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTE: By now you should have hit ALL the switches in the game. If you have not, I suggest you go back and get them because without them, this game becomes a lot harder. Chocolate Island 1 Difficulty 4/10 This level begins with a Dino-Rhino. Continue over the slope, past the Dino Torch. If you run past the first bush, a mushroom will come out. Move to right and past more Dino-Rhinos and Dino-Torches until you reach a pipe and beyond that is the first Yoshi coin. Then go into the yellow pipe and you are launched out of the giant green slanted pipe. Move down the slope and jump on the spring to the right to go through the halfway point. After the halfway point there is a P-Switch. Hit the P-Switch and you will be able to cross but be aware of the Chargin Chuck. Climb up the two sloped hills to get the second Yoshi coin. Continue to the right through the bowl and on the other side over a pit is the third Yoshi coin. In the ? block is a Yoshi. Watch out for the piranha plants that spit fire in the pipes. To the right past the two yellow pipes and above the yellow block is the forth Yoshi coin. Then go into the second blue pipe. You will be in an area that has a Porchu Puffer below and dolphins swimming to the left. Move all the way to the right and avoid the second Porchu Puffer that appears. Once you go up the pipe, you will be shot out of another green slanted pipe. It is very difficult to survive the cannon shot if you do not have a Yoshi or a feather. Right above the switch at the end is the fifth Yoshi coin. Directly after the fifth Yoshi coin is the goal. Choco-Ghost House Difficulty 5/10 NOTE: You need a feather in order to escape this ghost house. The key to staying alive in this ghost house is to carefully jump. Move past the moving floor and over the two eeries. Once you jump over the platform, a set of five eeries will appear, which can be very difficult to dodge because there is a moving floor underneath them. Then another set of three will come above yet another moving platform. Then jump through the two eeries that are coming at you. Once you reach the next moving platform a fishin boo appears. Continue to move up and down the steps, dodging the eeries that come and the fishin boo. The first Yoshi coin is underneath a platform that you have to jump down to get. After the first Yoshi coin, there is even another moving platform and above it is two eeries that move up and down. Then two staggered eeries come at you above another moving platform. Under the next moving platform is the halfway point. Continue to the right, past the door and jump over the moving platform to grab the second Yoshi coin. Then carefully go through the door. In the next room, there is a cement floor that when you turn away from it, becomes boos. The next two rooms have each have a row of Boo buddies. In the first one, high in the center is the third Yoshi coin. In the second room, above is the exit door but continue to the right to grab the last two Yoshi coins. The next room has two rows of Boo buddies, and above the middle platform in the room is the forth Yoshi coin. In the last room, there are three rows of Boo buddies and four cement boos. Continue to right and on the highest platform is the fifth Yoshi coin. To the far bottom right there is a wooden block that has a 1-UP. Now backtrack to the third room. Get a running start and fly up the right and then to the left. Go through the door and exit to the goal. Chocolate Island 2 TWO/THREE POSSIBLE EXITS NO HALFWAY POINT ***I am going to rate the difficulty of each room instead of the level as a whole.*** NOTE: To write a walkthrough for this is harder than beating Special as normal Mario/Luigi. The creators must of have had a field day with this level. After several times of playing this level, I believe I have finally figured it out. The reason there are three possible exits is that there are two secret exits (they count as one though); one for collecting all the Yoshi coins and one for time (250 seconds by the time you exit the Room 2). This level is divided up into several rooms. Here is a list of the possible routes to take in this level and how to get to a certain goal. Normal Exit: Room 1 -> Room 2 -> Room 3 -> Room 8 Secret Exit (Key/Time): Room 1 -> Room 2 -> Room 7 Secret Exit (Yoshi coin w/Yoshi): Room 1 -> Room 5 -> Room 6 -> Room 9 Secret Exit (Yoshi coin w/o Yoshi): Room 1 -> Room 4 -> Room 3 -> Room 9 Room 1 Difficulty 3/10 NOTE: The path you choose is determined in this starting room. Start by climbing up past all the Dino-Rhinos and all the Mini-Rhinos. Above the starting point is a spring. The spring is useless because to the right of the ? block is an invisible ? block. This will make hitting the ? block a lot easier. At the top of the room are the first two Yoshi coins and in the ? block is a Yoshi. Head down to the right past some more Dino-Rhinos and Mini-Rhinos and go through the pipe at the bottom-right. Time: Just rush through the entire and exit through the pipe at the right. Yoshi Coin: Get both Yoshi coins AND obtain 20 coins in this room and exit through the pipe at the right. Room 2 Difficulty 2/10 This room is full of slopes and red parakoopas (be careful of the pit bellow). At first the slopes go with the way you are jumping but eventually will go against you. If you have a feather it is possible to get multiple 1-UPs by jumping on the parakoopas heads. If you exit this room with more than 250 seconds on the timer, than you go onto Room 7. If you have less than 250 seconds on the timer, than you go to Room 3. Room 3 Difficulty 1/10 There are only two real threats in this room; one is drowning in the water and the other is losing a good item in your item reserve box because there is a bunch of bubbles with mushrooms in them. There is a Yoshi coin halfway through this room. Once again, exit through the pipe on the right. Room 4 Difficulty 5/10 This room is full of Rexes. Move to the right and come across steps full of Rexes. Just go over them and the pit to the platform. Jump down onto the spring on the gray block and to the right. You come across more steps with Rexes on them. To the right are two pipes that have piranha plants. Above the second one is a Yoshi coin. To the right is another Rex. Then there are three ? blocks and more steps with Rexes. The middle ? block has multiple coins and the last one has an item. Exit through the pipe on the right. Room 5 Difficulty 6/10 This room is all about flying. First of all, you need to abandon Yoshi. Then run up the wall and begin to fly. A little of the way through the room, you come across a platform with a Yoshi coin. You need to land on it to grab it. Now here comes the tricky part. You need to jump off this platform and slowly descend to the right. The landing will be tight but if you hold the slow descent and pass through ALL of the coins in the second set than you should just land on the platform and exit through the pipe. Room 6 Difficulty 4/10 This room is full of Dino-Rhinos and Mini-Rhinos. This room is full of slopes, however they are not like Room 2 because there is no pit in this one. About halfway through the room is a Yoshi coin. It possible to get a 1-UP in this room by jumping on the enemies but I do not suggest it because after the Dino-Rhinos shrink, they spit fire up at you. Exit through the pipe at the right. Room 7 Difficulty 3/10 If you made it through Room 2 with over 250 seconds on the timer, than you end up in this room. This room has three Chargin Chucks that throw baseballs at you. There are a bunch of blue blocks in this level that can easily kill the Chargin Chucks. To the right of the third Chargin Chuck and the pit are the key and the keyhole next to each other. Room 8 Difficulty 4/10 This is the normal exit room. To the right is a giant pit and on a gray block is a spring. Jump onto the spring to the right and you end up on a giant pyramid full of Rexes. Simply climb to the top of it and go over it to the goal. Room 9 Difficulty 0/10 NOTE: You need to have hit ALL the switches in order to grab the last Yoshi coin. If you have four Yoshi coins right now, then the coin secret exit is in your hands. There are no enemies in this room. There are two P-Switches in this room; one in the first wooden block and one right in front of you. Simply go to the right and grab the last Yoshi coin in front of the goal and you should hear a strange noise. If you do, than you got the secret exit. Then go to the goal. Chocolate Secret Difficulty 7/10 By far the most difficult level yet, but a very nice shortcut to Castle #6. Once the level begins, immediately fall to the left to avoid an instantaneous death. Watch out for the Blargg and jump up onto the spring and onto the other side. Continue up the slope past the two buzzy beetles. I recommend grabbing one of them and carry it along so you can easily kill the Chargin Chuck with footballs and the buzzy beetles below him. Right past the Chargin Chuck with footballs is another one so be careful. Go through the bowl with a pit and come across yet another Chargin Chuck with footballs. Once past him go up the green pipe. This will take you above ground to a short yet difficult room. Jump across the falling platforms to reach the first Yoshi coin but be careful of the Amazing Flyin Hammer Brother. Go to the right and down the pipe. You will exit out the pipe and be sandwiched by two Chargin Chucks with footballs. Go under the one to the right to grab the second Yoshi coin. Past the second Chargin Chuck with footballs is the halfway point above a pit. Go through it and into the pipe on the right. Go down the staircase and to the far right. Start to slide down the slope. If you slide correctly you should be able to get two 1-UPs before reaching the piranha pit. Jump over the piranha pit and continue to slide down the slope. It is possible to get even another 1-UP on this slide. Once you reach the bottom, go through the pipe on the right. In the next room, a bunch of spike tops will be descending a staircase. Weave in between them until you reach a yellow platform. Jump quickly across because it sinks quickly. More spike tops and staircases to climb. In the second hole is the third Yoshi coin. Continue to the edge of the staircase until you reach another sinking, yellow platform. You will need to jump very quickly across them. Above the last yellow platform is the forth Yoshi coin. In the next section, you will encounter several normal Chargin Chucks. Continue to move all the way to the right until you reach the last set of sinking, yellow platforms. These yellow platforms are sloped to the right, so you need to be extra careful. In between the last yellow platform and the normal platform is the fifth Yoshi coin. Exit through the pipe on the right to reach the goal. Chocolate Island 3 Difficulty 5/10 TWO POSSIBLE EXITS Jump onto the first rotating platform and continue to the second rotating platform. After the second rotating platform is the first Yoshi coin. Continue to move across three more rotating platforms until you reach a solid platform. Keep going to the right and when the second rotating platform reaches the bottom, grab the second Yoshi coin. Jump onto the next rotating platform and go up the blue pipe. In this room there is a giant, rotating, wooden platform surrounded by coins. It is very likely that you will get one or maybe two 1-UPs in this room. Use the giant rotating platform to also grab the third Yoshi coin in the top right. The exit is through the pipe in the bottom right. If you choose to backtrack, you can go through the halfway point, but there is not much need because you are already three-forth of the way through the level. After exiting the pipe, instead of a koopa on the rotating platform, there is a fuzzy revolving around it making it much more difficult to maneuver, especially when the platform goes under. In between the third and the forth rotating platforms, there is the forth Yoshi coin. Right after the forth Yoshi coin are two more rotating platforms. Right where the red parakoopa is located is the fifth Yoshi coin. There is a green star block that yields a 1-UP. Hit the wooden block to climb up the vine and reach the goal. Secret Exit to Chocolate Island 3: Not much of a secret because the arrows want you to go that way. You will need a blue Yoshi and/or a feather to get this secret exit. Fly up past the goal and continue to the right. Continue to fly over the large gap until you reach a platform. Right before the goal there are three wooden blocks that each contains a 1-UP. Chocolate Fortress Difficulty 6/10 Move to the right and jump in between the wooden spikes. Crush the drybones and continue on through the other wooden spikes. Jump over the pit and pass through the other wooden spike when it goes up. Wait for the next wooden spike in the ceiling to go up before jumping across the pit. The next part becomes difficult (The memories of childhood return.) Remember the original Super Mario Brothers... in the castles... fire from Bowser?! Crush the drybones. Wait for the wooden spike to go up before trying to cross the pit and be careful of the fire balls. The first Yoshi coin is located right above the next wooden spike coming up from the bottom. Once again, time your jump so the wooden spike is going up and watch out for the fire balls. Jump over the next pit. Then time your jump so that the first wooden spike is down and the second wooden spike is up. Jump through the next two sets of wooden spikes and in between the third set of wooden spikes is the second Yoshi coin. Jump through the forth set of wooden spikes and then run through the halfway point and go through the door. Once you enter the next room, there will be a thwomp. Below the thwomp are spikes so you have to time your fall when the thwomp is rising up. Then go by another thwomp. The next thwomp also has a thwimp that jumps around the platform that it falls on so do not get to close to the edge of the platform and then cross over it. The next section has two thwomps, three ? blocks and the third Yoshi coin above the ? blocks. The first ? block has an item (feather or mushroom). Wait for the second thwomp to fall before trying to cross over the pit. The next section has a lonely thwimp but a thwomp waits for you close by. Let the next thwomp fall and cross over it. Lure the next thwomp out by jumping close to it, and then jump over the pit of spikes. The next section has four thwimps so carefully weave in between them. Where the four thwimps are, is the forth Yoshi coin. The next part has a smaller spike pit with a thwomp on the other side of it. So once again lure it out to jump over it. The next thwomp has a platform surrounded by two small spike pits. Lure it out again and then jump up and over it while grabbing the fifth Yoshi coin. Then jump across the larger spike pits. The last thwomp is surrounded by two small spike pits again but this time there is a thwimp as well. Since the thwomp cannot move so the thwimp is the only real enemy. Continue to the right through the boss door to Reznor (see boss section). Chocolate Island 4 Difficulty 5/10 You start the level on a slope. Slide down the slope. Use the moving platform to cross the pit to the higher platform. Then use the moving platforms to move toward the top-right If you happen to miss a platform, you plummet into the Chocolate lava. Once on the next platform, go around and down to collect the first Yoshi coin. The next pit area is larger. If you take all the upper moving platforms, it will take you to a platform with a mushroom. Take the middle platforms until you reach a falling platform. Jump across it to reach the next area. Move up the slope and to the right to grab the second Yoshi coin. Continue up and over and down the slope. If you have hit all the switches, this next section is easy. Below the slope you just climbed is the halfway point, a mushroom and three 1-UPs. Continue moving to the right and go above the wooden blocks to grab the third Yoshi coin. You will see two sets of brown blocks below the wooden blocks. Stand on the lower one with the three brown blocks on top of each other and jump up to hit the wooden block to reveal a P-Switch. Hit the P-Switch and go into the first hole to grab the forth Yoshi coin and then quickly go into the second hole which has a pipe that leads to an area which I like to call The Pit. When you enter The Pit there is an arrow made up of wooden blocks pointing down. To the left is a P-Switch. Below the arrow are several rows of brown blocks that turn to coins. Here is a list of what is on each level going down. All pipes to the right lead to the same exit. The Pit: 1st level - 13 coins 2nd level - feather 3rd level - 10 coins and fifth Yoshi coin 4th level - 1-UP 5th level - star 6th level - mushroom 7th level - 5 1-UPs 8th level - feather 9th level - fire flower 10th level - 5 coins 11th level - 3 1-UPs 12th level - spring After exiting The Pit, fall down toward the left on the wooden blocks. Then continue to the right past the mega mole, up and down the slopes and over the pit. At the end right before the goal, there is a Chargin Chuck that is jumping on a pipe. Jump over it to reach the goal. Chocolate Island 5 Difficulty 4/10 In the first part of this level, there are a bunch of enemies encased in brown blocks. A little to the right there is a box of wooden blocks and in the top center is a ? block that has a Yoshi. Grab the P-Switch and bring it off the brown block floor near the yellow pipe. A lot of the enemies will be set free when you hit so watch out. If you want to, there is a tall, yellow pipe that holds the bonus game. However, I suggest you skip it because you will miss the first Yoshi coin. Continue to the right past the mushroom and the rotating item block to grab the first Yoshi coin. At the end of all the boxes is another yellow pipe, do not go down it just yet. Go a little further into the water and grab the second Yoshi coin. Then go into the pipe. Right when you get out you see the third Yoshi coin. In this area there are a bunch of blurps in bubbles floating around and some mushrooms in bubbles as well. Toward the end of this section is the forth Yoshi coin and exit through the pipe. Right past the pipe is the halfway point. In the next section, there are a bunch of elevating pipes that go up and down. Above the second pipe is the fifth Yoshi coin. Continue along the elevating pipes until you reach a red pipe. The next part has rotating platforms. These go both horizontal and vertical so I suggest you stay on the middle wooden block to be safe. After the rotating platforms, there is another elevating pipe. The next pipe has a Chargin Chuck that is jumping and beneath him is a sixth Yoshi coin. Jump off the pipe onto solid ground. The next part has three Chargin Chucks that are jumping. Get past them to reach the goal. Castle #6: Wendys Castle Difficulty 8/10 NOTE: There will not be a lot of time left on the timer when you reach the boss door. So, quick accuracy is needed in order get through the level with enough time to beat Wendy and rescue another Yoshi. Right when you enter the castle, there will be a dry bones throwing bones at you. Then there will be two spiked falling beams. Jump over the pit when the first one is going up and use the springs on the second one to get up and over to the right. Continue to the right but watch out for the spikes against the wall. Fall down to the right and quickly crouch into the hole to avoid the two grinders. The next hole has the first Yoshi coin, but you need to stay in that area because another grinder is coming at you. Move to the right and jump up onto the platform but watch out for the flames and the grinders from the left. Continue to the other side of the lava pit and go into the hole to avoid the grinder. When the spiked falling beam goes up, move to the right and crouch in between the first and the second spiked falling beams to avoid the grinder. Once past, there are three more spike falling beams that are close together along with another grinder. Jump over it when it comes around towards you. Move three spiked falling beams to the right and now there are two grinders chasing you however, they are easy to avoid. Once the spiked falling beams go up, run to the right to enter the next part of the level. Jump up onto the stone block and crouch to avoid the grinder. Then jump to the blue block carefully and crouch to avoid the grinder. Then jump to the block in between the second and the third grinders. Finally, jump over to the next platform to go to the next section. The next section has spike falling beams that rise and fall at very quick pace but it still easy to maneuver, all you need to do is figure out how long it takes for each one to rise and fall. Weave through the spiked falling beams. Under a platform right after the last spiked, falling beam is the second Yoshi coin. To the right of the spike falling beams is the halfway point. Go through the door. The next part has a bunch of Lil Sparkys and hotheads that revolve around the platforms. The first platform has a Lil Sparky. The next rising and falling platform has the third Yoshi coin. Then jump to the next platform that has a hothead. You need to stay on this platform until the ceiling for the next platform rises back up. Work your way through the two pyramids and onto the next platform with a Lil Sparky before the ceiling falls again. Do not go for the forth Yoshi coin because you need to stay on this platform because the ceiling is falling again. When the ceiling goes back up, jump and grab the forth Yoshi coin and move to the platform with the hothead. Then quickly jump to another rising and falling platform and onto a sliding platform. The sliding platform takes you over to a small platform with a Lil Sparky. Wait for the ceiling to rise back up to jump to sliding platform below. Then jump from the sliding platform to the platform with a hothead. Then jump from that platform to the left to grab the fifth Yoshi coin. Then jump to another rising and falling platform on the right. To the right of that is three blocks. The top and the bottom boxes have Lil Sparkys rotating them while the middle one has a hothead. Time your jump through the boxes. To the right of the boxes is the boss door finally. Wendy O.: Wendys stage is very similar to Lemmys. There are some slight modifications to the level. Instead of having all the pipes be different levels, they are all the same in height. There are also two fireballs bouncing around the room instead of one this time. Remember that Wendy is the pink one that pops out of the pipe. Three hits on the head (or butt) and Wendy falls into the lava. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6.7 Valley of Bowser ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sunken Ghost Ship Difficulty 7/10 NO HALFWAY POINT NOTE: This level is best summed up as an underwater ghost house. Also, I highly recommend a blue Yoshi if you are trying to get the Yoshi coins because it can be very difficult to do so without one. There is 400 seconds on the timer (they have that much time for a reason) so use it. You begin the level by dropping through a pipe and into the water onto a sunken ship. Swim up and toward the right dodging the Bullet Bills and go down to the right through the pipe. Now you enter the hull of the ship which at first seems innocent with two eeries passing you. Then another eerie will pass you by until you get to two wooden boxes. Here is where the trouble begins. Boos appear and disappear randomly along the screen and you have to maneuver through them to the right. If you have a Yoshi, this part will not be that hard because if you get hit, then you can get Yoshi back (the boos sometimes will appear where you are sometimes, so always be moving to avoid getting hit). Notice that there will always be some sort of pathway that the boos make so you can easily get through. Eventually, you will reach a part where there passage gets narrow. Take your time going through here. Right when you leave the narrow passage, a moving eerie comes your way so be very careful where you move. Once past the moving eerie, the boos stop appearing all together. The next part has a boo and Boo Buddies. This part would be easier if you had a Yoshi because Yoshi can step on the spikes below. Right above the circle of Boos is another boo so be careful of the second one. Make your way up and to the right to encounter another circle of boos. Work your way down through the circle of boos and go through the pipe. I consider this to be the halfway point in the level, although there is no halfway goal. Upon exiting the pipe, you begin a freefall toward the bottom and the goal. Right after you exit the pipe there is a star. If you got a blue Yoshi like I said you should, then it will be very easy to get the Yoshi coins in this part. The first Yoshi coin is on the left side of the level. The second Yoshi coin is on the right side past the row of six red parakoopas and to the right of three red parakoopas. The third Yoshi coin is a ways down in the center of the level. The forth Yoshi coin is in the center left of the level. At this point, spiked balls begin to fall toward the bottom with you making it more difficult to maneuver. The fifth Yoshi coin is in the center right of the level. At this point, the level fills up with coins galore in three parts. The first two have no base to them while the third group does with a hole in the center Once you got all the coins you can, fall through the hole. More spiked balls fall toward you so be careful. Off to both the left and right sides are 1-UPs falling as well. However, I do not suggest getting them because you are most likely to hit a spiked ball. In the middle of the level is a green orb with a ? on a platform surrounded by water. The green orb with the ? is the goal. Valley of Bowser 1 Difficulty 6/10 NOTE: This level is basically a giant maze so follow this guide closely to avoid getting lost. Although they give you 400 seconds on the timer, do not go too slow or it will be hard to get all of the Yoshi coins in time. Go up the red blocks and past the Chargin Chuck. Go down below and work your way through the blue blocks. When the Chargin Chuck charges at you, grab a blue block and kill him. Then go up and grab the first Yoshi coin where the Mega Mole is. Backtrack now and go up this time. Let the Mega Mole fall into the hole and then crossover. Go up again and jump over the Mega Mole to get the second Yoshi coin. Backtrack once again and this time, go down. If you have a Yoshi I recommend you take the upper path. If not then take the lower path. Lower Path: The lower path is shorter but you miss the 3-UP. So I suggest that you take the upper path. The next part has a giant wooden block wall. The Chargin Chuck will create a pathway through the wooden blocks and run into the water. Then a second Chargin Chuck will come from below you. Then a third Chargin Chuck will below that one. Once through the wooden wall, go up and over, but watch out for the Mega Mole. Here there are two paths you can take. Continue to the right and let the Mega Mole fall into the hole. Continue to the right to until you meet up with the upper path. Upper Path: Go up and to the right and continue to the right. Jump up and over the Mega Mole and go up again. The lower path leads to the halfway point. Grab it and continue above. At this point there is a piranha pit. It is possible to ride the Mega Mole but one bad jump and it will cost you. If you have Yoshi, just simply walk across it to the other side. Jump over the pit and on the other side is a 3-UP. Then fall down the pit to meet up with the lower path. Take the second highest pathway and go to the right to grab the third Yoshi coin. Backtrack and take the path below that one. Fall down the hole and then jump back up to form a brown block bridge. Continue to the right to grab the forth Yoshi coin. Backtrack once again and take the same path and cross over. At the bottom, there is a vine that leads to a pipe that has the bonus game. I highly do not recommend getting it because of the place it returns you to is far back in the level and it will cost you some to make it up. Take the highest path and pass through the blue blocks. Continue to the right and fall down to grab the fifth Yoshi coin. Backtrack once again, and take the lower path. Here is a blue block wall and a Chargin Chuck. Pass him and go through the pipe, which leads to the goal. Valley of Bowser 2 Difficulty 6/10 TWO POSSIBLE EXITS NOTE: There are Yoshi wings after the halfway point which is required to get all of the Yoshi coins. Go to the right and jump up onto the yellow moving platform. Watch out for swoopers fly down from above in the first part of this level. The first pit has a yellow koopa in it so watch out. Continue through the second pit and enter the third pit. I recommend grabbing the yellow koopas shell because a yellow koopa in a shell is coming towards you or you could jump on top of the ? block for safety. Continue to move in and out of pits until you reach the last one. The next part has two yellow moving platforms. The first has the first Yoshi coin and the second takes you up to the halfway point and the pipe. Another maze to endure, except this time its moving. If necessary, there is a staircase to the left and on top of it is a ? block with an item. Enter the maze at the bottom and let it rise up. Quickly run across it until you hit a wall. Let it descend and stay still. When the yellow platform rises up, run up to the right into the alcove for safety. When it goes down, run out of it to the right and fall down. Grab the second Yoshi coin on the left. Move to the right and wait for it to rise up. When the yellow platform is descending, go down into the alcove on the right. Then get out of it when the yellow platform starts to rise up and run to the right. Quickly grab the third Yoshi coin on the left before the platform starts to descend. Stay in that same spot and let the platform fall and rise again so you can continue on. When the yellow platform rises to the top, run to the right. When the platform descends, go to the right and fall into the pit with the platform. Then run to the right and up into the alcove. Stay in place and let the platform descend. While the platform is rising run to the right into the second alcove. At this point it is a long run once the platform descends, run very quickly to the right until you reach the point where there is a lower path. Rise up with the platform into the tiny alcove above. Then stay in place and take the platform down. Run to the right and up with the platform. Once the platform reaches the top, go into the pipe on the right. Upon exiting the pipe, there is yet another yellow platform. This one rises quickly so jump and run up and to the right. Secret Exit to Valley Fortress: Upon reaching the end of the yellow platform, wait on the very edge for it to rise all the way to the top. Then jump over the yellow platform and go to the left. Continue over the wall and you will fall down. There will be the key and the keyhole right there. Normal Exit to Valley Ghost House: Once past the yellow platform, there are two pits, each with a Mega Mole. After the second pit, there is yet another rising yellow platform. Continue to the right and there is another pit with a Mega Mole. After that is the goal. Valley Fortress Difficulty 8/10 NOTE: A difficult fortress but the reward is worth it (Back Door). I recommend a feather for easier jumping. First off in the beginning, there is a staircase going down with spiked pillars falling together. Wait for them to fall and then go to the center where there is a green block. Wait for the other spiked pillars to fall to go up the staircase on the right. Right after the spiked pillars there is a wall and a pit with spikes so watch your jump. After that is a room with a spiked ceiling. You can see the first Yoshi coin but do not grab it yet. Let the spike where the Yoshi coin is fall and let the dry bones throw his bone at you. Stomp on the dry bones and then grab the Yoshi coin. Then you come across two falling spikes, a bony beetle, and a dry bones. First let the dry bones throw his bone, and then let one spike fall. Next, step or use your cape to kill the two enemies and then let the second spike fall. Then continue to the right and let the spike pillar fall. Jump across it and wait for the next spiked pillar to fall. If you have a feather it will be easy to float and grab the second Yoshi coin. While the spiked pillar is going up, jump across to the next platform. The next part is quite tricky. First let the spiked pillars fall and then jump across and up to grab the third Yoshi coin. Then jump back to the previous safe platform. Wait for the spiked pillars to fall again and then quickly and then quickly jump across the three platforms to the halfway point. Jump up to the platform with the dry bones and the yellow block after the fireball goes down. Make your way to the next platform with another dry bones. Then jump over the two fireballs to the platform with a bony beetle. Finally, jump over the fireball to next platform, but be careful of the spiked wall. This part is tricky because the spiked pillars are falling and rising fast and you have to make almost perfect jumps to avoid getting hit and not to mention the Yoshi coins put in difficult spots. Jump to the next platform after the spiked pillar goes up. Then time your next jump so that the fire ball is just going down and the spiked pillar is just going up. The forth Yoshi coin is on the other side of that platform, sandwiched between two spiked pillars and floating above the lava. Jump up to grab the Yoshi coin and quickly land on the next platform and move to safety. The fifth Yoshi coin is tricky to get. Do not try to jump and grab it for it is very risky and you might under-jump it. I recommend you wait for the fireball to go down and the spiked pillar to just about go up to jump across. Once across and safe, run quickly to the edge and grab the Yoshi coin and run back to safety. Then jump over the last spiked pillar and go to the boss door to meet Reznor (see boss section) for one last time. Valley Ghost House Difficulty 7/10 TWO POSSIBLE EXITS NO HALFWAY POINT This level starts off with a bunch of green bubbles moving around. Arrive at the first pit and jump over the green bubble, grabbing the first Yoshi coin. Cross over two more pits with two more green bubbles and go to the door. Hit the wooden block above you to drop down a P-Switch. Wait for the wooden block to reform and jump onto it to grab the second Yoshi coin. Hit the P-Switch and go to the left. Run to the left and jump up but be careful of the Boo buddies. Grab the third Yoshi coin and exit through the door on the left. To the left in this room is the forth Yoshi coin. DO NOT hit the ? block in this room. Instead, go through the door. This brings you back to the platform in the second room. Grab the P-Switch again and hit it and this time, go to the right. Above the second platform is the fifth Yoshi coin. To the right is a series of doors. 1st door back to the entrance 2nd door the room with the forth Yoshi coin 3rd door Normal Exit to Valley of Bowser 3 4th door Normal Exit to Valley of Bowser 3 5th door Normal Exit to Valley of Bowser 3 6th door other side of room with forth Yoshi coin (Secret Exit to Castle #7) Beyond the last door is a 1-UP. If you plan on going to the secret exit, then you need to go into the last door. Grab the P-Switch, but dont hit it yet. There is a sixth Yoshi coin below the brown bridge but I do not suggest that you get it. Grab the P-Switch and bring over to the right side of the room. The ? block I told you not to hit has a coin chain inside it. Hit the ? block to start the coin chain. Bring the coin chain up to the left and then hit the P-Switch. Now start the coin chain up and to the right. Eventually you will see a small hole with a key in it. Slide through it (It is easier if you are normal Mario/Luigi). Then simply put the key into the keyhole on the right. Valley of Bowser 3 Difficulty 6/10 NOTE: My favorite level in the entire game. Why? Timed platforms! =) Right off the back, three parakoopas are coming your way, two of them jumping really high. Once past them, there is a ? block. Now time to explain Timed Platforms. Each of them have a number (1 or 4). The number represents how many seconds the platform will move to the right. Once the time is up, the platform will fall, so watch the time on the platform. Now to carry on with the level. It is possible to take the timed platforms over the two parakoopas but there is no point because there is a platform below. Jump onto the timed platform and grab the first Yoshi coin. Avoid the parakoopas in the air as well. Then jump onto the second timed platform and continue to jump to them until you reach timed platform with a 4. Take that timed platform to another timed platform with a 4. Jump off it onto a timed platform with a 1 right before the second Yoshi coin so you can grab it. Then jump on one more timed platform to reach a safe platform. Take the timed platform over to the third Yoshi coin and jump in between the yellow pipes and kill the koopa. Then jump to the next timed platform but watch out for the parakoopa. Jump along the timed platforms until you reach a safe platform. Use the spring to reach the halfway point. Climb the platforms to reach a bowl with green parakoopas in it. It is possible to get multiple 1-UPs in the bowl by jumping on their heads. Past the bowl is a sliding platform that leads to a timed platform with a 4 on it. Take that timed platform to a few others and then continue till you reach two timed platforms with a 1 on it. Take the upper one. When it starts to fall jump off it, grabbing the forth Yoshi coin and land on the moving platform so you avoid the Bonzai Bill. From the moving platform, jump onto the timed platform with a 4 on it. Continue along and then jump to the next timed platform. After the third timed platform, a Bonzai Bill will come so you have to jump on it to get by it to the timed platform with a 4. Once the time is about to run out on the platform, the fifth Yoshi coin can be grabbed, but you have to watch out for another Bonzai Bill. If you can jump off him and land on a timed platform above him, you can grab a 1-UP. After that is the goal. Valley of Bowser 4 Difficulty 8/10 TWO POSSIBLE EXITS NOTE: The only level to feature the Chargin Chuck miner. You will need Yoshi (Do not enter with one because you are forced to abandon it. There is one in the level that you can grab.) to get to the Secret Exit. Continue to the right and down the slope under the Chargin Chuck miner. Jump onto the sinking platform over the pit. Continue up the slope past another Chargin Chuck miner. Go over the pit with the sinking platforms and the parakoopas and enter the green pipe at the right. Go into the pipe and work your way to the left avoiding the spike tops and blurps in the water. In the beginning of the second water is the first Yoshi coin. Continue to the left and go into the pipe. Now you are back before the pit. Cross over it again and hit the wooden block to reveal a vine. Climb the vine and at the top of it is a ? block with a Yoshi. Go down the right side and exit to the right before the last wooden block. There is the second Yoshi coin and in the wooden block above it is a 1-UP. Be careful where you fall because there is a lava pit below you. Continue to the right and above a Chargin Chuck miner is the third Yoshi coin. In the middle of the lava pit to the right is the halfway point. Continue to the right and there is another Chargin Chuck miner and past him is another lava pit. To the right is a Chargin Chuck miner above you and to the right above a sinking platform is the forth Yoshi coin. Climb up to the right and land on the yellow block. Go under the Chargin Chuck miner and to the right. Go up and down and cross over the pit to come to another Chargin Chuck miner. If you do not have a feather, you will need to jump onto the parakoopa to reach the sinking platform. From there jump carefully onto the blue platform but watch out for the Chargin Chuck miners above you. To the right of the useless spring is the fifth Yoshi coin. Jump to the right onto the sinking platforms and onto solid ground. Secret Exit to Star World 5: If you still have Yoshi, have him eat the key that is in closed and walk into the keyhole. Normal Exit to Castle #7: Climb up to the right and to the goal. Castle #7: Larrys Castle Difficulty 7/10 NOTE: Time will be short once again on this castle. I recommend having a feather when entering because it will allow you to move through the wooden block walls with ease and will save you time. This castle starts off very similar to Roys castle with the fact that there is a brown moving platform. Jump onto it and ride it along past the lava and up the staircase. Dodge in between the six ball n chains and go out to the right. Then, the brown moving platform makes a staircase going down now toward another lava pit with two more ball n chains. After that, climb up the two brown blocks or ride the moving platform up vertically (can be tricky though). After it gets to the top grab the first Yoshi coin. The platform starts to head back to the left and now there is another ball n chain to add to the other two (making three of that) that are in your way. Jump up to the upper platform and walk above it to the left with the moving platform. When you reach the end, jump back on the brown moving platform because it now is making an upward staircase to the right. Above the staircase is the second Yoshi coin. The moving platform continues along high above the other platform. Eventually, you will reach yet another ball n chain and the moving platform will make dip down and descend like a spiral. Watch out for another ball n chain when the moving platform reaches the bottom. Then it will make a steps going up again taking you to the second part of the room. This part has a spiked floor so watch your jumps. When the moving platform reaches the top, watch out for the ball n chain and grab the third Yoshi coin. Continue along and stay on the moving platform when it starts to descend down the hole. Eventually, you will see the halfway point, the forth and fifth Yoshi coins, and a mushroom (a nuisance if you have something better in your item box). Exit through the door on your right. The next part begins with a dry bones that can be easily killed. Take the escalator down to another dry bones. Then move through the two wooden spikes (ceiling) to come across a magikoopa and another dry bones. There is a wooden block wall to the right. If you have a feather you can just spin the blocks to get through, or you have to wait for the magikoopas to turn them into koopas. Then continue past the wall and over the pit to come across two more wooden spikes (floor). Beyond that is yet another dry bones. On the other side is a lava pit and yet another wooden wall. Make your way through it and then you come across four wooden spikes (ceiling and floor). Then you come across another lava pit. This part becomes tricky now. The floor is wooden blocks and then there is the magikoopa. Also there will be wooden spikes falling from the ceiling, along with fireballs from the lava pit below. Once across that area, you come across a dry bones and then an escalator. Finally, you reach a dry bones, a green block and the boss door to rescue the last Yoshi egg from Larry. Larry: Even though time is short, this boss is easy. The stage is set up very similar to Iggys except this time there are three fireballs (left, center and right) that come up from the lava. Just remember that when you jump on him, he moves in the direction of the slope. A couple of easy hits in the right direction and he will be burning in lava. ::::::::::::::::: :Bowsers Castle: ::::::::::::::::: NOTE: This walkthrough begins with the Front Door entrance. The walkthrough is going to be divided up into rooms like the castle is. You only take one room from Part 1 and one room from Part 2 to get the back door entrance. Also, if you take the back door, I will note where you begin. The difficulty rating will be based on the individual rooms not the level as a whole. However, I will give a separate rating for the back door entrance. There are no Yoshi coins in Bowsers Castle. 800 seconds is on the clock for the ENTIRE LEVEL (meaning the level and the showdown with Bowser). Front Door PART I The first part of Bowsers Castle is divided up into four rooms (1-4) numbered respectively. I recommend taking Room 2 because it is the easiest of the first four rooms. Room 1 Difficulty 6/10 A side scrolling room that can be quite treacherous if not careful jumping. In the beginning of the level, there are two lava pits with fireballs and then a falling pillar so stay to the left and wait for the pillar to fall before moving across. Then there is two more lava pits with fireballs and another falling pillar. Once again stay to the left until the pillar falls. The next part is tricky because the two lava pits are larger and now there are two fireballs per pit. You will need to jump through the fireballs and stay on the next platform and wait for the falling pillar. Then move quickly to the door. Room 2 Difficulty 4/10 This room is basically a climbing wall except horizontal. There is a spiked floor so watch your jump. Also, there are fireballs floating around the room so be careful of them as well. Watch out for koopas as well. It is possible to get a 1-UP with the koopas here. I suggest going around the back of the wall because the fireballs cannot touch you there. Make your way to the right and go through the door. Room 3 Difficulty 5/10 This room is basically a vertical maze so remember that. Also there are several mechakoopas hiding behind tapestries so remember that as well. Go over to the left and jump up through the second tapestry. Then move quickly to the left because a mechakoopa is about to fall. Jump on it and then jump up through the tapestry. Then move and jump up through the third tapestry on that floor passing the mechakoopa behind the second tapestry. Then run across to the other side of the maze. There is a mechakoopa behind the second tapestry. Fall down thorugh the tapestry and then immediately fall down through the tapestry on the right. There are two mechakoopas to the right of you when you fall down. Past by them and then fall through the second tapestry. Watch out for two more mechakoopas and exit through the door on the right. Room 4 Difficulty 5/10 This room is moving up and down, but it does not matter that it does that. This room is full of Lil Sparkys so watch out. Jump onto the moving gray platform and ride it under the platform to the other side. Jump up quickly because the platform moves under another platform that you have to jump on. Then jump up onto the upper moving platform and ride it to the right. When the platform moves back to the left, jump onto the lower moving platform. Then ride that moving platform to the right and jump onto the platform with a Lil Sparky. Then jump onto the platform with a gray block and another Lil Sparky. Jump to the next platform with two large gray blocks, two Lil Sparkys and a Hothead. Then jump to the next platform and finally to the one with the door on it. PART II The Second part of Bowsers Castle is divided up into four rooms as well (5-8) number respectively once again. I recommend Room 7 because it is the easiest of these four rooms. Room 5 Difficulty 6/10 This room is full of thwomps and spiked pillars so be careful. Let the spiked pillars fall first. Then make a mad dash to the right side of the room (this reminds me of the Desert fortress in Super Mario Brothers 3) and then go through the door. Room 6 Difficulty 8/10 This room is entirely in water. Continue up and to the right until you come across a spiked wall and a dry bones. Kill the dry bones and wait for the wall to move (do not go back because there is a wall below that closes you). Continue upward into the next part which has a bunch of fishbones going to the left. Go up through the spiked walls and pas through to next area as the spiked wall moves back to the left. You could make a quick brake to go through to the next area but I suggest you follow the wall back because there is another spiked wall coming from the right. Once you can go up through the spiked wall, you come across another spiked wall and a dry bone. This part is the hard part of the room. There are two ball n chains stopping you from moving up. Wait until it is safe to go up. Work your way up to the top of the room, weaving through the ball n chains. You cannot get to the top because you have to wait for the spiked wall to move back into place. I recommend swimming right above the top ball n chain where the gray block is. When the spiked wall moves back into place, get in (watch out for the spiked ceiling and follow it to the left. Do not forget about the ball n chain below. Swim up and to the right and go through the pipe. Room 7 Difficulty 5/10 This room is full of koopa statues that spit fire at you. The first does not spit anything but the second one does. Jump on top of the second one and go down behind it. Then there is a jumping statue which cannot be killed. Past the jumping statue and then jump on top of another spitting statue. Then pass over another jumping statue. Next is a lava pit with a fireball and on the other side are two spitting statues (one above and one to the right on the ground). Jump onto the gray block for safety. Watch out for the jumping statue going down the stairs. Climb the stairs to the door. Room 8 Difficulty 6/10 First in this room is a Chargin Chuck that jumps extremely high. After that is a Chargin Chuck that runs. Jump onto the blue block above the spike pit and if it is necessary grab the feather out of the green block above. Then there are three more Chargin Chucks that jump high (one low, then on an elevated platform and then on the same level as the first beyond the second one). Cross over the spike to meet three more Chargin Chucks that jump high on the same level. Pass them and go through the door on the right. Back Door Difficulty 5/10 After the two sets of rooms, this is where the Back Door begins if you took the shortcut through the Valley Fortress. The room is pitched black (or so it seems?) Move to the right until you come across a staircase. Hit the red ? block to activate the light switch (I like to call it the disco ball) above. Move slowly because the light moves back and forth. Climb the staircase but watch out for the ninji at the top of it. Then jump over the large lava pit to come across another ninji and a mechakoopa. Continue to the right to come across two more ninji. Then you come to two gray blocks with a mechakoopa in between them. The next part has two more ninji. Jump over the lava pit, cross the bridge and climb the stair case, go through the halfway point and you arrive at Bowsers Door. ,,,,,, Bowser The big finale of Super Mario World. Bowser has the princess and is not going down without a fight. I will break up the battle into three phases like it is. Phase I In the first part of the showdown, Bowser is flying back and forth on the screen. Avoid the propeller below or else it will cause. Right now just sit tight until he stops moving. Then he will drop two mechakoopas. The way to hit Bowser is to grab one of the mechakoopas and throw it vertical so it hits him on the head. It will take some time to learn when to throw just do not hold on to the mechakoopa too long because they start to move after a while. If you miss or collide the two mechakoopas together, you will have to repeat the process. Two hits on the head and Phase I is over. Intermission I After the first phase, stand slightly to the right of the second to last brick on the right on the screen. Flames will start to fall from the sky. When the flames are about to hit where you are standing the second time around, there will be a slight pause in the falling of the flames, jump to the left when that happens. The princess will drop a mushroom, (do not grab it if you have something better) ending the first intermission. Phase II The second part of the showdown is a little harder, but once again it takes some time to learn. Now Bowser will try to hover right above you so you cannot really jump that high. Eventually, Bowser will stop and flip upside down. He will drop a giant cannonball. Jump over it to the opposite side before Bowser starts to move again. He will continue to move again and then will drop another giant cannonball. After the second one, he will throw out two mechakoopas once again. It is slightly harder to hit him on the head this time because he is hovering right above you and the propeller kills the mechakoopa. If you miss, the phase will repeat itself. Continue till you get two hits on the head and Phase II is over. Intermission II Stand slightly to the left of the third brick on the left. When the flames start to disappear, follow them to the right that will end the second intermission and the Princess will once again throw a mushroom. Phase III The clown car is clearly pissed off because the eyes are now beaming orange. This time around, the clown car will bounce around trying to crush you with the propeller. It is not hard to avoid the clown car. You just need to know how far apart his drops are. Eventually he will once again drop two mechakoopas. It is even harder to hit Bowser on the head this because he is moving up and down. Also, Bowser can crush the mechakoopas with his propeller as well making the process longer. Two more hits on the head and Bowser gives up and hands over the Princess. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6.7 Star World ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTE: I recommend you do the Star World as soon as you get the entrance in Donut Plains. This area although contains five levels, proves to be very useful. Enter each level without a Yoshi as well (see Yoshi section). There are NO HALFWAY POINTS in these levels and each level has TWO POSSIBLE EXITS. Star World 1 (Donut Plains) Difficulty 3/10 NOTE: Time will be short on this level because of all the block smashing you have to do. This level is filled with wooden blocks. Right in front of you is a mushroom (I do not think you will need it). Fall down the hole and spin attack on the right side. Eventually you will come across the first Yoshi coin. Secret Exit to Star World 2: Stay on the far right side of the level and spin attack your way down. Eventually, you will come across the key and a keyhole sitting together. Move over to the left side of the level and spin attack your way down. You will come across the second Yoshi coin and a feather. Fall through the hole and stay on the left side. Spin attack downward and you will pass through the third Yoshi coin. If you go to the right and jump up, you can make a 1-UP fall through the wooden blocks. Then there is a small section of wooden blocks. On each end encased are stars. On the platform below are a bunch of koopas. Stay on the left side once again and spin attack your way down. You will pass through the forth and fifth Yoshi coins. Below you are a bunch of rows filled with koopas. On the second row is the red Yoshi. Continue your way down through the rows of wooden blocks with koopas and exit through the pipe on the right to the goal. Star World 2 (Vanilla Dome) Difficulty 4/10 This is the underwater level in the Star World (Im confused by this. Why would there be an underwater level in the sky is beyond me). Well back to the walkthrough. The first Yoshi coin is located right near the pipe at the very beginning of the level. Now here is a trick. You can have Yoshi eat the star falling and he will automatically grow to full size. Pass the blurps and continue to the Rip Van fish. Beneath them is the second Yoshi coin. Then pass the blurps that form the shape of a goldfish. Continue to the right and then you come across a ? block. Swim up and over the Rip Van fish to collect the third and forth Yoshi coins. Continue to swim past more blurps. Eventually you come across a bunch of Rip Van fish. Swim under them and up the right is the fifth Yoshi coin. Secret Exit to Star World 3: You will see a pathway under where there is a pipe. Swim under it and to the far right is a key and a keyhole. Normal Exit to Star Road 2: Go through the pipe at the right and to the goal. Star World 3 (Twin Bridges) Difficulty 3/10 The shortest level in the entire game. The key to this level is the Lakitu. The first Yoshi coin is directly above where you start. Hit the P-Switches to turn the spinys into coins (NOTE: Baby Yoshi can eat the gray coins). Grab a blue block (be careful not to fall through) and throw it up and the Lakitu. Climb up the stairs to grab the second Yoshi coin and onto the Lakitus cloud. Secret Exit to Star World 4: Ride up on Lakitus cloud to the top and through a hole. On the left side is a key and on the right is the keyhole. Normal Exit: to Star World 3: Ride up and through the hole in the top and go around to the right. Fall down and you will be on the other side of the goal. Grab the three Yoshi Coins and the goal. NOTE: At this point in the Star World, you should have obtained all of the Yoshis. If not, then go back and do so before proceeding. Star World 4 (Forest of Illusion) Difficulty 5/10 NOTE: I recommend you grab the red Yoshi this time. You need to have hit the red and green switches to reach the secret exit. Go to the right and jump onto the spinning platform. Continue onto the next one and grab the first Yoshi coin. Jump onto the next platform with the two koopas on it. Then fall down toward the right and land on the bottom platform to grab the second Yoshi coin. Climb your way to the top and eat a koopa and blow the fire at the row of parakoopas so you can get by. Continue to the right and jump onto another spinning platform to grab the third Yoshi coin. Then there is yet another spinning platform. After that is another row of parakoopas. Make a hole once again to get through. Climb up the platforms to the right to arrive at another spinning platform. Secret Exit to Star World 5: Get off Yoshi and grab the blue shell. Go down slightly off the left side of the platform and land on a green platform. Continue to the right and there will be a ? block. Hit it and grab the key and put it in the keyhole. Ride the spinning platform to the top and jump on top of the pipe to grab the forth Yoshi coin. Pass the parakoopas and continue to the right. Pass the koopas and come to another spinning platform. Jump off of it and work your way to the right once again to come to another spinning platform (only with one this time). Jump to the next one (with three) and then another one (with one) which has the fifth Yoshi coin. After that, jump off of it to the goal. Star World 5 (Valley of Bowser) Difficulty 6/10 NOTE: You need a feather and/or Yoshi and have hit ALL the switches in order to get to the secret exit. This level is quite long but you can get through it. There is a bunch of falling platforms so once you step on the first one, there is no going back. Cross the first three and jump up to grab the first Yoshi coin. Then cross three more falling platforms but take the last one down to grab the second Yoshi coin. Then cross over five more falling platforms to get onto solid ground. Secret Exit to Special: This part is quite tricky. Grab the P-Switch and bring onto the ground and hit it. Then hit the ? block to start a coin chain. Bring the coin chain up and to the right and then fly high and to the right with Yoshi. The reason I recommend a Yoshi because it makes a much more stable ride to get into the hole. Enter the hole and move your way down and abandon Yoshi. Squeeze through the hole and then slide through the other hole. Continue to the right and eventually you will come across the key and the keyhole. Grab the P-Switch and hit it. Then hit the ? block to get a coin chain going. Walk with it to the right. Eventually it will run out and you will stop on a group of brown blocks. Jump across the parakoopas to get onto a set of wooden blocks. To the right of the wooden blocks is the third Yoshi coin. Drop down below and cross over on the falling platforms to get onto solid ground. Here is the yellow Yoshi egg. Work your way across the pits of spinys and piranha plants to the other side. Climb up the falling platform staircase and at the top one is the forth Yoshi coin. Ride it down to grab the fifth Yoshi coin and jump off the platform onto solid ground. Pass the koopa and the two spinys and jump up to come across a koopa on a pipe and three spinys below. Past them is the goal. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6.8 Special ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTE: People have got this far in this game but few have got through these ridiculously hard levels. It will take several attempts to beat these levels because there are NO HALFWAY POINTS in any of them. There is a special reward or two if you can beat these insane levels. Yoshi (especially the blue one) will prove to be very useful throughout these levels so I suggest that you bring him into every level. Gnarly Difficulty 5/10 Climb up the two springs and hit all four wooden blocks to reveal vines. You can either take the zip-line up. The wooden block to the right has a 1-UP. Once at the top there is a spring and a wooden block which releases a vine. The forth vine from the left releases another vine, which takes you to the top to the left side of the level. Off to the left are two springs. To the right is the first Yoshi coin and to the left is a P-Switch. Grab the P-Switch and bring up to the top by jumping on the music blocks. Once toward the top, jump onto the brown block to the left. Continue up and place the P-Switch on top of gray blocks and hit it. From this point there are two ways to exit the level. The first way is to fall to the bottom the level and exit through the pipe. The third Yoshi Coin is located past a set of vertical music blocks and next to another one on the right. The forth Yoshi Coin is located to the left down the stairs of music blocks to the left. The fifth Yoshi coin is located to the right of the forth Yoshi coin. The second way through this level, is to fall to the far right and land on the ? block and go through the pipe. Once through the pipe, run to the left to collect the last three Yoshi coins and then run to the right to collect three 1-UPs and then jump up toward the P-Switches. Hit all three of the P-Switches and run to the newly created pathway. There will be an Amazing Flyin Hammer Brother to the right. Kill it quickly and ride it up to the next platform. Then a Lakitu will come flying at you. Just run quickly to the right and through the goal. Tubular Difficulty 10/10 (NO JOKE!!!) NOTE: You will need to muster all your skills right here for this level because it is one big race to the goal. One hit and you are finished and if you go too slow you are also finished. You first come across a jumping Chargin Chuck. Pass over him to come across a spitting piranha plant. Past it is another jumping Chargin Chuck with the first Yoshi Coin over his head. Now the fun begins. Hit the P-Switch and jump down below to hit the ? block. A P-Balloon pops out. Grab and float to the right of the level. To the right is the second Yoshi coin. Continue up and past the Chargin Chucks throwing baseballs and grab the third Yoshi coin. The ? block to the right of the third Yoshi coin has another P-Balloon. Continue to the right past the two parakoopas to come across two volcano lotuses (one on top of the other on ? blocks). In between the two is the forth Yoshi coin. Continue to the right past the piranha plant to come across a Chargin Chuck kicking footballs and under him is another P-Balloon. Pass by another Chargin Chuck kicking footballs and come across a volcano lotus. Below the volcano lotus is the fifth Yoshi coin. To the right is another volcano lotus and directly above it is a sixth Yoshi Coin (I highly discourage you from getting it because it is way too risky). Right past the volcano lotus is the goal. Way Cool Difficulty 6/10 (3/10 with Yoshi) NOTE: There are Yoshi wings halfway through the level. You need the Yoshi wings to get all the Yoshi coins. This level begins with a moving platform with a bunch of ON and OFF switches. Jump onto the platform and turn it OFF. Ride it down, past the fuzzies to the first Yoshi coin. Watch out for the saw coming. Then hit the switch ON to ride it up. Watch out for the circle of fuzzies and continue. Keep the switch ON and ride it up past the saw to grab the second Yoshi coin. Keep it on and ride it up to the top. Pass the fuzzies and grab the third Yoshi coin as the platform ends. Continue to the right and if you have a Yoshi, hit the ? block to grab the Yoshi wings. In the sky it possible to grab four more Yoshi coins totaling seven and ending the level. I will call this the halfway point. Jump up the falling platforms to meet several zip-lines. Jump onto the first one and ride over the fuzzy to the second one with a fuzzy. Then quickly jump onto a rotating platform with yet another fuzzy. Then take the next zip-line to encounter three more fuzzies. Below the middle one is the forth Yoshi coin. Past them is another rotating platform with another fuzzy and then a safe platform. The next zip-line has two fuzzies to start with. The next part is basically all skill with fuzzies moving in a circle. Just jump and move quickly avoid them until the zip-line brings you to the goal. Awesome Difficulty 8/10 (4/10 with blue Yoshi) NOTE: This levels surfaces are covered in ice so watch how and where you jump and run. This level is much easier if you enter it with a blue Yoshi because then you can eat a shell and fly threw most of the level, but you will miss the Yoshi coins (unless you dare try to grab them). The level immediately begins with a koopa in a yellow shell. Jump over it and run to the right and jump onto the yellow platform. To the right is a bowl with a Rex and a kicking koopa will kick a blue shell into the pit. Avoid the shell and kill the koopa on the other side. In the next bowl, there are two Rexes this time and once again a kicking koopa will kick a blue shell again. Suspended above the bowl is the first Yoshi coin. In the third bowl, there is nothing, but a yellow koopa shell will come after you in the bowl. Jump onto the ? block and continue to the other side. On the other side is some water and above it is the second Yoshi coin. Beyond that, a kicking koopa will kick a yellow shell at you so jump over it or run back to avoid it. There is a P-Switch beyond that but it does not prove to be of good use. After another water pit, there is another kicking koopa with another shell. There is another kicking koopa. Continue on past a bunch of koopas and Rexes and watch out for the kicking koopa at the end. Upon arriving at the pipe, I consider this to be the halfway point of the level. Do you remember the original Super Mario Brothers? Well prepare yourself for a flashback! The levels with the fish chasing you, well theyre back (and more hostile than ever)! Continue onto the platform and be prepared to run your tail off. Run to the right and jump straight up onto the Bonzai Bill. Then land and to the right is the third Yoshi coin. Continue onto the next platform and grab the forth Yoshi coin and duck while another Bonzai Bill passes under you. Continue onto the next platform. This part can be tricky. Jump up onto the Bonzai Bill and then jump onto the pipe behind it. Continue down the set of pipes. Jump very carefully along the wooden blocks to next platform. Then be prepared to jump over another Bonzai Bill. Jump onto the red parakoopa to grab the fifth Yoshi coin and then land on the wooden block and jump up to last platform and run down to the goal. Groovy Difficulty 7/10 NOTE: Remember the intro to the game? Well here is the level the goes along With it. If you watched the intro then you already know some of the level. In case you did not watch it, I will explain it. The first koopa proves to be useful because if you hit the shell to the right, a Yoshi will pop out of the ? block. Right above the ? block is the first Yoshi coin. Continue to the right and you will come across a slope, just go under it. Beyond that is a row of koopas, just once again pass them. To the right of them is a pokey and right after it a piranha plant will jump out from behind the bush. After that is a pit and above the pit on a block is a volcano lotus. After that is a rotating item box. I not only strongly recommend grabbing the star but require it because it makes this level a hell of a lot easier and possible for multiple 1-UPs. Run like the wind through this part of the level if you got the star. To the right of the rotating item box is a piranha plant behind the bush. ontinue past it and you will run into three pokeys. Then there is a volcano lotus on a block suspended and under it are the second Yoshi coin and a pokey. Past that is another pokey and then two volcano lotuses (one above and on below). Then there are two more pokeys past that. Then there is a pit and in the middle of it is a pipe that has a piranha plant. To the right is the third Yoshi coin. I consider this to be the halfway point of the level. After the pipe there is a tower of pokeys (four to be exact) on leveled platforms. About this point, if you got the star, it should have run out by now. After climbing the platforms, there should be a pipe with a piranha plant in it. Jump onto the slope on the other side. This part of the level becomes very tricky so read closely. To the right on a suspended platform is a Chragin Chuck with baseballs and above him is the forth Yoshi coin. Jump onto him and fall down to the ground below. Pass the pokey on the ground and above a volcano lotus is the fifth Yoshi coin. Pass the volcano lotus is another pokey. Then there are two Chargin Chucks on raised pipes throwing baseballs at you. It will take some luck to pass them so just try to pass them as quick as you can. Once past them of course is the goal. Mondo Difficulty 6/10 NOTE: The only water level in the Special World. However, the water rises and falls and pushes you to the left, so be careful of that while playing through the level. Yoshi can walk on the piranha pits so I highly suggest you have him in this level. Start off by moving to the right. You eventually come across two blurps in the water. To the right of them above a pit is an Amazing Flyin Hammer Brother. Pass him and continue over the pipe with the piranha plant. Then you come across two more pits with two blurps and another Amazing Flyin Hammer Brother. Go over the large green pipe and then you come across a staircase of ? blocks (top one has a Yoshi). Just past it and continue to get the second Yoshi coin above a koopa. Then to the right are two blue pipes, go down the first one. Run down the slope collecting the coins and grab the third Yoshi coin. I would call this the halfway point of the level. Exit the pipe and continue over the piranha pit. Continue to the right and you will come across a bunch of small piranha pits with little platforms in between. Once past them there are three rows of ? blocks. It is not necessary to hit every one because time will probably run out. Take the bottom row because it contains the forth Yoshi coin. Continue to the right and there is a large piranha pit with two brown blocks above it and Amazing Flyin Hammer Brother. Above the second brown block is the fifth Yoshi coin. Jump up high to the platform and exit through the pipe to reach the goal. Outrageous Difficulty 9/10 NOTE: The name itself describes the difficulty of this level. Also, it is in the woods (not that it is important). It will once again require you to pull all your skills together to beat this level. Yoshi and a feather are a MUST in this level if you want to survive (because Yoshi can eat the flames). To the right of where you start is a wiggler. Jump over the pit and you come across two flames (read overworld enemy section for details). Past them is the first Yoshi coin, a wiggler and another flame. Continue to the right and you come across a cannon and a spring. I suggest you try to stay on top of the cannons for safety. It is not necessary for you to carry the spring. Jump to the second cannon and then jump over the flame to go the third cannon. After the third cannon are the second Yoshi coin and a wiggler. Continue onto the forth cannon, and jump and over the fifth cannon to land on the sixth cannon. Then you come across a pipe with a piranha plant and beyond that is the third Yoshi coin. I am going to reset the cannon count because I consider it to be a new series. Past the first cannon are a flame and another spring. Grab the spring but watch out, because the second cannon has two holes (top and bottom). This part becomes tricky. You will need to do some timely jumping in order to get over the second cannon. Wait till the first cannon shoots and then jump on the Bullet Bill to get over the second cannon and onto the third one. Pass the wiggler and continue onto the forth cannon. Then you come across another wiggler and use him to jump over the fifth cannon. Cross over the pit and use the spring to jump over the red pipe. I consider this to be the halfway point of the level. After the pipe, you come across another two wigglers. Past them is an Amazing Flyin Hammer Brother. Kill him and use his platform to get over the yellow pipe. Past the pipe are wooden blocks that contain blurps and goombas. Below them are two flames. In the middle of all of this is the forth Yoshi coin. In between the two pipes with piranha plants is a wiggler and a Yoshi in the ? block. Pass over the green pipe with a piranha plant and up onto the platform. Past the pit are another Amazing Flyin Hammer Brother and another cannon. Jump onto the platform and get onto the blue pipe. Past the pipe are another flame and a pipe with a piranha plant. Then you come across a wiggler and a flame and another pipe with a piranha plant. Follow the arrow and go over the pit with a cannon in the middle. To the right of it is the fifth Yoshi coin. This part is tricky. There is a wiggler below an Amazing Flyin Hammer Brother and on the other side is another cannon. Try to take out the Amazing Flyin Hammer Brother as quick as possible. Jump onto his platform and ride it up so you can jump over the pit and reach the goal. Funky Difficulty 7/10 NOTE: If you do not have Yoshi you will not beat this level. There is only 200 seconds on the clock. See the Yoshi guide for details about this level. I also recommend a feather, because there is a lot of jumping in this level. Immediately run to the right because there is a Sumo Brother above you. Jump over the pit and the pipe with the piranha plant and eat the green berry. Pass under another Sumo Brother. In between the two platforms with koopas is the first Yoshi coin. Past the platforms with the koopas and right below the block with a Yoshi in it is another green berry. Continue to the right and there is another Sumo Brother that can be killed by the ? blocks. Beyond him is another green berry. Pass the two koopas and jump over the pit. There are two Sumo Brothers here. Kill one with the music blocks (above you) and then go down through the wooden blocks and to the left to grab the second Yoshi coin. Fly up and land on top of the music blocks above you and in the last music block to the right is a star. Grab it and jump off to the right. Go over the pit, kill the Chargin Chuck with baseballs, eat the green berry, kill another Chargin Chuck and grab the third Yoshi coin. Continue over the blue block platforms and pass under a Sumo Brother. Continue to the right and grab a green berry.\ Continue to the right and pass the koopa to grab yet another green berry. Kill the Chargin Chuck guarding the pipe. Once past the pipe, Super Koopas start to fly all around. I consider this to be the halfway point. Make your way up the platforms and pass under a Sumo Brother once again. Pass the paragoombas and eat the green berry. Jump over some platforms, and on the last one is the forth Yoshi coin and a Chargin Chuck with baseballs. Go down and to the right to grab another green berry and continue onto a blue platform. You can try and grab the 1-UPs above you but I do not recommend it because time is too important. To the right are three Chargin Chucks throwing baseballs on leveled platforms. Climb up and over them. Past the top one is the fifth Yoshi coin. To the right is a message (in coins) created by the developers of the game. YOU ARE A SUPER PLAYER!! Past the special message is the goal. ******************** 7 Bonuses/Extras ******************** ::::::: Bonuses ::::::: Goal: At the end of each of level (except Castles, Fortresses, Switch Palaces and Sunken Ghost Ship) there is a goal. Each goal has a moving bar on it. If you hit the moving bar upon the goal you get Goal Stars. The amount of Goal Stars you receive is based upon how high the bar is (1 at the lowest point and 50 at the highest point). If you collect 100 Goal Stars, you get to play the Bonus Game. Bonus Game: Upon collection 100 Goal Stars, you get to play a Bonus Game. Basically, it is a game of Tic-Tac-Toe. There is the center square (mushroom, fire flower, or star) and eight revolving item boxes around it. The goal is to make as many Tic-Tac-Toes as you can. Upon hitting all the revolving item boxes, the amount of Tic-Tac-Toes made reflects how many 1-UPs you receive from the pipe (0-8). Bonus: In certain levels, there is a bonus section upon entering a pipe. Upon entering the pipe, there will be three ? blocks. At random, there is a sequence to hit these blocks. If you hit them in the right sequence, a 1-UP will come out of the last one. If you do not hit them in the right sequence, then the ? blocks will turn into brown blocks. There are a total of five rows making it possible to get five 1-UPs. :::::: Extras :::::: New background: Upon completing all 96 goals in the game, the backgrounds change color and several of the enemies change shape (i.e. the koopas put on masks). I personally do not like this that much, but once you complete all the levels, you cannot change it back ;(. Peach Coin: Upon collecting all the Yoshi coins for each level and beating the game, the coins will now have Peach on them instead of Yoshi. I consider this to be a good thing because after you collect the Yoshi coins for one level, you cannot collect them again. High Score: Upon completing Special, you will be able to save your high scores (per level) in that area. I wish they did this for the rest of the levels as well. Special Music: If you wait long enough while in Special, eventually a remix of the original Super Mario Brothers theme will come on. Level Select: Upon completing all 96 goals, you can use the status screen as a way to travel around Dinosaur Island :::::::: Tid Bits :::::::: Leave Level: Upon completing a level you can reenter it and leave the level by simply entering the pause menu and selecting Back. This proves to be very useful especially when you get into some sticky situation (such as falling to your death). Halfway Point: There is something special about the halfway point. If you leave a level or die after passing through the halfway point, you start there. However, you have to recollect all the Yoshi coins if you die or quit the level. ******************* 8 Credit/Thanks ******************* First and foremost, I would like to thank Nintendo for remaking a fantastic and perhaps one of the best Super Nintendo games. Then I would like to thank my friend Dave for helping me edit this FAQ. At this point, I am only allowing GameFAQs to post this FAQ. I might decide to let other websites to post in the future. **************** 9 Conclusion **************** It took such a long time to complete this FAQ. Chocolate Island 2 is by far the most complicated level I have ever come across in my lifetime. However, I stuck with several attempts of playing through the level but eventually gave up on figuring out all the possibilities for the level. After being rejected once for not completing all of the FAQ, I finished everything in the Table of Contents and may be I will add more to it in the future.