Super Mario World Hidden level: Complete (and save) all the 96 levels on each one of the three memory files. The number "96" will be blue if you have an European version, otherwise three stars should appear beside them. Power off the SNES and turn it on again. Do not press any buttons and wait for the demo to play. It should be different. Mario dies and you will be able to play the title screen level. This is a shorter version of "Groovy", with no exit gate. Strange Mario walk: Quickly hold L + R + X + Y + Up when the Princess is freed in the final level. Mario will walk strangely during the ending credits. Strange Mario jump: Duck, then jump to have Mario jump while crouching. High jumps: Jump with Yoshi, then spin jump off Yoshi. To get extra height on Yoshi jumps while wearing the Cape, run and jump to do a high jump, but at the peak of that jump, jump again. Climb and carry item: Stand next to a vine with an item. Hold Up and release Y to throw the object into the air, and quickly climb the vine while holding Y. Mario will automatically catch the item as it falls, and may continue to climb the vine. Uphill Yoshi slide: Face toward a slope and press Down and Left or Right to slide upward. Break blocks with Yoshi: When you press A on a block (not the "?" or the "!" block), you can break it. If you are on Yoshi, and he is on top of the breakable block, press A. You should be flying off Yoshi. As you go down, try to go on Yoshi again. If accomplished, you should be on Yoshi breaking blocks. With a Yoshi and a Feather, stand on some blocks that you can break. Hold A and you will spin off Yoshi. Then, land on Yoshi and you will start to break blocks. In the air, press A and you will spin very high. Red Yoshi: Red Yoshi always spits out fireballs, whatever the color shell in its mouth. You need to be big Yoshi first before you can do this. Blue Yoshi: Blue Yoshi can fly for a fixed length of time, whatever the color of the shells in its mouth. You need to be big Yoshi first before you can do this. Yellow Yoshi: Yellow Yoshi throws out sand clouds for a fixed length of time when he jumps, whatever the color shell in its mouth. You need to be big Yoshi first before you can do this. Large Yoshi: Eat every fruit in one level while riding Yoshi. Instant large Yoshi: In the Star Road levels, grab and hold a baby Yoshi then immediately feed it a Star (the item that makes Mario invincible for a brief period of time). It will instantly grow into a big Yoshi. This is especially useful when you need to act fast and you do not have time to feed it six enemies. Instant large Mario: Go to Star World 3 and have a Yoshi. Run toward the egg, and it should hatch into a 1-Up mushroom. Run at it before it reaches the goal. When you run into the goal, it should go above your head and become a mushroom. It should touch you when points are added for time. You will instantly become big. Fly further: When you get a Cape and have taken flight, wait until Mario slowly drops. Then, press Back to make him go into the air a little bit higher while advancing forward. He will then start to fall, but you can repeat this as many times as needed to get past difficult parts or to get secret items in the sky. If you have good timing and accuracy, you can actually fly past an entire level. Enter a castle again: To enter a castle that has already been completed (except for the Valley Fortress and bonus rounds), go to the castle and press L + R. All exits marked as complete: There are a total of 96 exit points throughout the game. After you find all of these exits, save the game, reset, then go to the area that lists the three files. You will then see a number 96 with a star by it, next to the file you completed the game with. Note: Make sure you have completed the Star Worlds by using the secret and non-secret exits. Also do this with the other worlds that have secret exits. Reuse P: Use Yoshi in any level with a P. Immediately after stepping on the P, turn around and eat it again. Yoshi will gulp it, you can then spit it out. When it comes out, the P will be full again. Boss skip: After completing Soda Lake, go to the Star and warp. Then, complete the road until you reach the Star in the bottom right corner. This will takes you directly to Bowser. You can skip a maximum of six Bosses with this trick. Switch lives: When at the map in two player mode, press L or R to exchange the number of lives with the other player. The other player will die. You can also bring back a player with no remaining lives this way. Hint: Secret pathways: There are different level colors (yellow and red) in the game. Red indicates that it leads to a secret pathway. Yellow indicates that it leads to a regular pathway. Hint: Maximum lives: Find Yoshi and place a power-up that is not already in use in the item box. Enter a previously completed course and find a berry that is positioned just above Yoshi's mouth. Press Select to drop the power-up from the item box. Have Yoshi jump so that he eats the berry and the power-up at the same time. The game will freeze and the coin total will increase rapidly. Press Start + Select to exit the level after accumulating ninety-nine lives. Go to the Forest of Illusion 1 with a cape, Locate the section with the caterpillars on the logs. Instead of killing the caterpillars, jump up and hold Y + B and try to land the first caterpillar on the head so it's hat falls off. Repeat this for the second and third caterpillars. After hitting the third caterpillar, return to the first caterpillar (his hat will be back on). Repeat this procedure until symbols begin appearing above the caterpillar's heads. Use this trick to collect coins, lives and points, but make sure you do not run out of time. Go to Vanilla Doom Secret Area 3. Move past the middle of the area to find a location where if Mario pushes a yellow block, a P will appear. Use this P at the middle of the area, then return to the beginning of the area. All the turtles should have been changed into gray coins. Collect all the coins to gain more than sixty lives. Go to Yoshi's Island 2. At the beginning of the level, pick up the shell and throw it at all the Koopas on the platform. Hit all the question blocks and a few will result in extra lives. Then, get to the midpoint of the level and go down the first blue pipe after this point. Take the blue blocks and throw them at the flying question blocks, or if you have Yoshi, make him jump, then jump off him at the blocks. After getting the extra life, go out and backtrack -- the extra life will still be there. Return as many times as needed to collect it again. Complete the Forest of Illusion 1. Reach the midpoint and hit the flashing block when it becomes a feather. Wait for it to become a Starman, and then collect it. Then, continue on through the level and kill everything that appears. After the Starman expires, press Start and press Select to exit out the stage. Then, return to start at the midpoint. Get the Starman again, kill everything, and repeat until 99 lives are obtained. Go to the Forest Of Illusion 4. When first starting, jump on the green turtle shell and take it to the pipe to the right. Jump and take the extra kufe from the Laiktu. Kick it at the pipe and it will bounce back and forth. The Laiktu in the pipe and in the cloud will throw Spikeys in the pit. Stand there and jump over an occasional Spikey until 99 lives are collected. Note: Make sure that time does not run out during the trick. Go to either the first Koopa Castle, Iggy, or the fourth, Ludwig Von Koopa. Get to the area where you climb on the fences. As long as you do not touch the ground, you should jump on (not punch) the climbing turtles. After jumping on several, you will get extra lives. The fourth castle is a better place for this trick because it is bigger and have some turtles that regenerate. Once you have unlocked secret area above the Donut Ghost House #1, get Yoshi, then go to the secret area. Keep going in the area again and go to the "?" where you get Yoshi. You will see a extra life appear. Repeat as many times as needed. Complete all of the Special levels in Star Road. Also, it is preferred that you have already completed the level involved in this trick. The level is right after the Ghost House in Vanilla Dome. Enter the level and make your way to the half-way marker, making sure to break the tape between the posts. This will make the trick much easier to perform. Now, continue through the level a bit further. You will see a yellow masked Koopa on a platform. Bounce on it to knock it out of its shell, but make sure that it does not fall off of the platform. Allow it to get back into the shell so it starts spinning wildly. Jump onto the tall, narrow platform to the right of the platform that the yellow masked Koopa is on and remain there. The yellow masked Koopa will spin off of the platform it was originally on and will fall onto the ground to the left of the tall, narrow platform and will continuously smash against it. Since the Bullet Bills in the level have pre-set paths, they will not hit you from the position that you are in. Instead, most of them will hit the spinning shell. After the shell hits several Bullet Bills, you will begin gaining two extra lives at a time. If you have already completed the level, wait until the timer has about five to ten seconds remaining. Then, press Start to pause game play, and then press Select to exit the level. If you have not accumulated the desired amount of lives, re-enter the level. You will start at the half-way marker. Repeat the trick until you have the maximum number of lives. Go to the Forest Of Illusion 1 and get the star out of the box near the half way point. Run and kill all the enemies on the way to the end of the level. Repeat this to get up to 99 lives. Hint: Power-up mushrooms: When a red mushroom appears, remember that it always goes to the right. Hint: Berries: Red Berry: Get Yoshi to eat ten of these. Yoshi will lay an egg; a red mushroom lies inside. Pink Berry: Get Yoshi to eat two of these. Yoshi will lay an egg; a cloud appears and throws smiley coins at you. Collect all the ones it throws out to get a green mushroom. Green Berry: you Only need to eat one of these for its effect. These will add some extra seconds to your timer. You can find Green Berries in the last level, Funky, of special world. Hint: Secret keys: Donut Plains 1: Take a Yoshi (unless you complete the green switch palace) and a Cape Feather. Go near the end of course and fly up the row of green blocks. Donut Plains 2: Proceed until you see a short pipe. Go up the pipe (as big Mario) and break the blocks. Get the shell, throw it at the highest block, and climb the vine. Vanilla Dome 1: Take a Yoshi (unless you hit the red switch) and Cape. Get to the red blocks and jump. While in the air, jump off Yoshi and aim for the yellow block. (Repeat aiming for the top of the block.) Climb the vine. Vanilla Dome 2: Go on top of the second block that normally has a flower. Jump onto the high platform. Grab and carry the P-switch to the block barrier. Stomp on it and go down the hole that now has coins on the roof. Fall onto the platform, get the key, and swim to the keyhole. Hint: Defeating Football Players: When the Football Players charge you, hit them in the head. As soon as they finish being dizzy, hit them in the head again. This will either slow them down if you do not have Yoshi, or knock them out if you do. Never try to get rid of two football players at the same time. Get Mario a cape from any level. When you get close to a Football Player, on land or in air, press Y. This will quickly defeat the football player. You can do this with any of the sports players. Hint: Defeating Bowser: Wait until Bowser tosses a pair of MechaKoopas at you. Knock one out, then grab it and toss it up at Bowser. To do this, press X to pick it up, hold X and press Up, then release X. If timed correctly, it will hit Bowser in the head. After hitting Bowser twice, he will fly away. Small fireballs will fall from the top of the screen -- avoid them. When Bowser returns, the Princess will appear and toss either a mushroom or a flower at you. Bowser's floating thing will flip upside down, and a ball of blue will fall out and roll at you. Jump over it -- you cannot stand on it. He will eventually toss more MechaKoopas at you. Use the same method done earlier. After hitting him twice, Bowser will fly away again. More fireballs will fall from the top, the Princess will toss something at you, and Bowser will return again. This time, he will bounce around madly on the floor with his flying clown propeller. Do not touch the propeller. Eventually, he will stop and either flip upside down and drop a ball at you, or toss more MechaKoopas at you. Toss the MechaKoopas back at him. After hitting him three times, he will fly away and the Princess will fall out of the sky. When facing Bowser, press A instead of B to jump over the blue ball. You can bounce off of it instead of dying. Hint: Moon star: On the map that features that various levels that can be selected, enter the cave. To the right is a level where you ride on skeleton heads on lava the entire time. In the middle there is a piece of land with two yellow tunnels. Inside is a turtle and a cape. Get the cape and run on the left side of the tunnels until you have enough power to fly to the ceiling. Go all the way to the left to find a compartment area with a moon item. Get it and you will have three or four lives. Hint: Star Worlds: 1. Go to Donut Plains. Hit the green switch, then just go right and up the "!"s at the end. Otherwise, you have to fly. Put the key in the hole. You can now go underwater to a red dot on the map . In this level, go to the P switch and carry it to the next "?". Hit it and then the "?". Put the key in the nearby keyhole. A secret ghost house will appear. Enter it, and locate the room with the door with no platform underneath of it. Get the P switch (to the left) and bring it there. Hop on it. Do not go through any door. Stand directly in front of it and jump. A vine will appear. Quickly climb the vine to reach a platform with a secret blue door. Enter and defeat the Big Boo three times with the blue bricks to open the Star Road. 2. Go to Vanilla Dome 1. You need the red switch; it appears later on in Vanilla Dome. Go to Dome 1 and keep going right up the red "!"s and to the key. Go to Vanilla Secret 1 (which just appeared) and have Yoshi. Find the pipe coming out of the left wall near the top. Use a spring to go up. Jump off Yoshi's back and into the pipe. 3. Finish Soda Lake. 4. Complete Forest Of Illusion 4 the secret way. You must go down a blue pipe near a P switch and complete the Fortress. 5. Use Yoshi to get the key at the end of Valley of Bowser 4. Hint: Red exit: Fly over the blue exit with Yoshi's Wings or Caped Mario and walk forward to get to the red exit. Hint: Castle 2: Bonus area: Enter castle number 2 with a cape, avoid the Thwimps, and fly up through the small opening in the ceiling on the left. This will take you to a bonus area. Hint: Cheese Bridge: Second exit: On the Cheese Bridge level, get Yoshi though the entire stage but do not exit. Jump below it and jump off Yoshi so that you are behind the exit. Then, fly a bit to find another exit. This will give you the ability to go to Soda Lake and also allows you use the Star in the middle of the world. Hint: Cheese Bridge: Skip first part: Get all the way back and run with Yoshi and a cape. At the end of the platform, jump and keep Jump held. You will fly off screen then come down and hit a saw. You will hit another, then you will miss one. However, at the last second a saw will appear and you will automatically jump off of it. Hint: Cheese Bridge: Purple Yoshi: Without raising one up, go to Cheese Bridge and get Yoshi's wings. When you are at the bonus stage, just drop and you will have a Purple Yoshi. Hint: Cheese Bridge: Get a soda: Go to Cheese Bridge area with Yoshi. Get to the end by hopping on the saws, but do not use Yoshi wings. At the last platform before the exit, run from left to right and run off the platform. When you get past the Exit Tape, press A to jump off Yoshi as he falls to his doom. Keep running to reach a moon and another exit. Now climb down the vine to the soda. Hint: Chocolate Island 2: Special secret: Spend under 50 seconds in the first two sections combined to reach the flat land with the secret key. Hint: Chocolate Island 3: Fortress: With Yoshi, eat the blue turtle at the end and fly under the win. Hint: Donut Ghost House: Secret area: Enter the Donut Ghost House in Donut Plains with flying power. After entering, fly directly above where the door is located to reach a walkway. Move all the way across the walkway and fall at the end to reach four yellow blocks and a door. Enter the door to reach a ending goal. Walk into it to get to a top secret area which Mario can enter at any time to get Yoshi, fire power, and flying power. Hint: Donut Plains 1: Get rid of baseballs and spores: You can get rid of the baseballs that the football players throw and the little spores that the plants eject by spinning your cape around. The spores and baseballs will make a tiny cloud, then disappear. Hint: Donut Plains 1: Get to secret without finding the Green Switch Palace: Near the end, when four caped enemies fly at you at different heights, knock out the bottom one to get his cape. Go back a bit, then hit the top one (not with your cape, they are too short). Go back to the end of that "runway" and fly up until you go past the top of the screen. You should see: a green tunnel protruding from the top of the level, then a key along with a keyhole next to it. Land here. Pick up the key the same way as you would pick up a shell. March over to the keyhole with key in hand. (If you have Yoshi, make him eat the key, then walk up to the keyhole. It will open and take you inside.) Hint: Donut Plains 1: Get Caped Mario or Luigi fast: Jump on the first red caped Troopa. Once you get the Feather, do not step on the shell-less Troopa. Return to where you saw the caped Troopa. It will be there again. Step on it to get another Feather. Hint: Donut Plains 2: Faster way to Bowser: Get to Donut Plains 2. Go to the area with the pipes, jump up, and go though the last pipe in the line. Put the key in the hole and go and push the green button. Go back to Donut Plains 1 and get a feather. Keep going until reaching the green wall. Run up the wall with the feather and put the key in the hole. Go to the level that is now open. Get to the P button, pick it up, and carry it to blocks. Set it down and push it. Go through the coins and get the key. Put it in the hole and go to the Ghost House. G to the area where you get the P button. Go to the brown door, push the button, and get on boxes. Jump and climb the vine, then go though the silver door. Defeat the big Boo, go to the star, and get the key in Everyone Down. When you get to the bottom right level, go though the Star transporter and go to the Castle. Jump down from the edge after you complete the Haunted House that you came to from the water. Go to the tube and enter it to get to a cliff by Bowser's Castle. Press A + B + X + Y + R + L to jump off to Bowser's Castle. Hint: Donut Plains 4: Easy coins and extra lives: You can earn coins and extra lives at a fast rate if your timing is perfect. Enter the level with Yoshi and a item in the box that is different than what you are wearing. Go past the save point to the berry in the bush -- do not eat the berry yet. Once the item is down to or close to the berry, jump at the exact moment. They should freeze. Press Select and you will have a maximum of 99 extra lives and 100 coins. Get a spare Feather and be caped. Go to the place with Goombas. Jump on one twice, jump to the next, and repeat the process to get easy lives. Hint: Donut Secret 1: Extra lives: Reach the part where Mario inflates like a balloon. Inflate him, then fly to the part where he hits a turtle with his feet. Hit the turtle and let Mario fall. Hit it again and keep the shell. Then, go through the tube and reach to the part where there are two blocks and some sleeping fish. Get them out of there and put the shell between the two blocks. Have Mario touch the shell and it will start rolling. Get Mario on it and it will start giving points and then lives. Hint: Forest Fortress: Extra lives: Get a cape and go to Forest Fortress. At the end of the level, do not go through the big red Boss doors. Instead walk a little to the left and jump up onto the little ledge. Go to the right, and there will be a platform just big enough to fly from. You will notice a pool of lava there. Use your cape to fly over it, keeping balance. Be careful of the fireballs. At the end of the lava, you will find a compartment with 10 to 15 extra life mushrooms and a Boss door to take you to the same place as the original door. Hint: Forest Of Illusions 1: Go to the power-up box. Get a Star and run forward very quickly to get extra lives. Press Start + Select to go back to that level and repeat the process as many times as needed. Hint: Forest Of Illusions 2: Finding the blue blocks: The Blue Switch Palace is found in the Forest Of Illusions 2. Play the water maze as far up and to the right as you can go. There are some diversions that lead you to pick up a life in the mid-level of the maze, but eventually you have to go up in order to find your way down. Work your way towards the bottom of the maze. If you are in the correct section, you will see a wall to the left that is rectangular and marked off by a line from the larger wall that sits on it. You can walk right through that wall, going left rather than right. The key to the blue switch Hint: Forest Of Illusion 4: Fortress: On Forest of Illusion 4, you should get to a place with a P switch and a Lakuti in a pipe in the air. Fly up with the cape to get in the tube, or use Lakuti's cloud. Hint: Iggy's Castle 1: No map music: Go to Iggy's Castle 1. Defeat Iggy, but jump into the lava as he is dying. The music will be gone when you return to the map screen. Hint: Larry's Castle: Fortress: On the part where the moving thing is going down and there is a door to the right, follow the moving thing down. Hint: Lenny's Castle: Secret mushroom and half-way point: Enter Lenny's Castle and ride the brown blocks until it gets to the end. When it goes down the hole, stand on the tip of the last brown block. You should go down a bit more and you should see two dinosaur tokens, the half-way point, and a red mushroom. Hint: Soda Lake: In Cheese Bridge area, get Yoshi then hop on the saws at the end of the stage. Then, get to the end point. Use Yoshi to go back a platform, then fly under the end post and you will end up on another platform. Keep going forward. You should find a 3-Up Moon and another end point. Touch this point to end the stage. After you end it, you will find a vine growing into the water. Climb down this vine to reach a stage point called "Soda Lake". After you have completed the stage, press Down to climb down the waterfall to reach the lonely rock with a star point. Hint: Special Zone: To get to the sixth star on the Star Road levels, you must get all of the switches(red, green, blue, yellow). After this, go to the fifth Star Road level. You must have the Feather. Go to the part where you get the "P" and hit the question mark where the coins will go across the screen. Hit the "P" then get on top of where the coins (now blocks) are located. Next, go back towards the beginning just enough to have enough room to fly. Turn back the other way and fly. After his cape goes to a parachute, press Back so you can keep flying. You will see some blocks, then a gap with some yellow blocks. Go in between the two (in the gap). Follow it to where the key is located. This will lead you to eight new levels in a special world. After completing these, it will change all of the Koopas to Marios and the flowers to funny looking flowers. Hint: Special Zone: Classic Mario music: Wait for approximately two minutes in the Special Zone to hear the classic Mario theme from the NES. Hint: Special Zone: Blue Yoshi: On Tubular in Special, it is much easier to get a Blue Yoshi and jump from the question marks rather than getting the "P" that makes Mario float. Simply look for the "?" and jump on them. When you get to the Koopas, swallow one, and Yoshi will be able to fly. Fly over the first football player, under the second, and under the two flowers shooting red. You will have enough power to fly to the end. Hint: Star Road levels: Polka-dot egg: In each level in Star Road, there will be a polka-dot egg. When Mario gets close to it, the egg will hatch, and out will pop a baby Yoshi. Note: It will never be green. Feed this baby Yoshi by picking him up and walking towards enemies, Yoshi first. After eating five enemies, the baby Yoshi will grow into an adult Yoshi. You will be able to ride around on a Yoshi that is not green. Hint: Star World 2: Extra lives: On Star World 2 (the underwater level with the blue Yoshi), obtain the Yoshi, then go back onto the level. Collect the tar and proceed right, killing enemies as you go. You will eventually get extra lives. Make sure you reach the "?" block before the invincibility runs out. Collect the star from it, then continue through the level. Each enemy you kill will give you an extra life. Repeat the level several times for 99 lives. Hint: Star World 2: Adult Yoshi: In Star World 2, the underwater level, instead of feeding enemies to the blue Yoshi, feed him the invincibility star to automatically turn him into an adult. Hint: Sunken Ghost Ship level: Extra lives: On the final part of level, when you are falling with all the Koopa Troopas, after you hit the water watch out for the spiked things. Then, float down in the water and three 1-Up Mushrooms will appear. Grab them, then swim up and hit the Green "?" to finish the level with three extra lives. During one part of the Sunken Ghost Ship there will be a bullet cannon just one space below a piece of wood. Go underneath the wood and keep touching the top. You will keep jumping bullets and get extra lives. Note: You must be Super Mario to do this. Hint: Super Special Area: Complete Star World 5 with a key (need all switches pushed) and go to the Super Special Area. Beat all the boards in the Super Special Area to get a super ending. At the end of the last special world, the message "YOU ARE A SUPER PLAYER" will be spelled with coins. A teleporter will take Mario to Yoshi's House, with a map in different colors. Hint: Top Secret Area: In Donut Plains, there is a Ghost House -- not the one with the Big Boo, but the one to the north. Make sure that Mario has a Cape and use it. At the beginning of the level, run and fly up. You will get on a platform. When you do, proceed until you find a different way down. There will be invisible Ghosts waiting. Ignore them and hit the blocks to get extra lives. Then, get to the goal and you will unlock a hidden level. This small area has no enemies, just refills: Yoshi, extra lives, Capes, Mushrooms, and Flowers. Go here to recover after you are hurt badly. Hint: Top Secret Area: Quick Mario jumps: Note: The following trick requires a controller a auto-fire feature. Get Yoshi and Super Mario. Go to a set of two blocks, turn on the auto-fire, and hold the jump and dismount buttons. Mario will jump up and down extremely fast. Hint: Top Secret Area: Unlimited lives: Go to the Top Secret Area and get a Yoshi. Go back and jump under the Yoshi block to get a 1-Up. Repeat this as many times as desired. Hint: Twin Bridges: Ever wondered where the other bridge is in the "Twin Bridges" section? This area may look small but consists of many levels. Vanilla Secret 2 and 3, Cheese Bridge area, Soda Lake, Star Road, Cookie Mountain, Butter Bridge 1 and 2, Vanilla Fortress (underwater), and the Castle (#4). To get to the ones with Vanilla in their name, go into Vanilla Dome 1 with the red switch pushed and you will find the key. Then, complete Vanilla Secret 1 and go through the pipe. The Fortress is in the middle of a waterfall and is completely underwater except for the Boss. Once you have finished Vanilla Fortress another bridge appears, showing Butter Bridge 1 and 2, Soda Lake, and the Star Road (can be found in the Cheese Bridge area (see the "Get A Soda" hint.) Hint: Valley Of Bowser: Secret key: In the ghost house, hit the first P switch, and run as fast as you can to the right until you reach the last door (and a free extra life). Go in, but do not hit the P switch yet. Carry it over the tempting coin pyramid, and jump into what appears to be a dead-end (except the door that goes back to the beginning). Hit the question mark box and create a staircase of coins by directing them with the D-pad. You do not have to hold it down -- they will keep going in the last given direction until they hit a wall or coins. After you have made a staircase with them, hit the P switch, and climb up quickly to find a secret key. It also helps if you are small, but it is possible to get in there when you are big -- just duck and jump. On the first ghost house (not the secret one), get a feather and run to the right. Then run back to the left where you began and fly up. Run to the right to the secret key, and you will be taken to the Top Secret Area. Hint: Valley Of Bowser 2: Warp to Valley Fortress: After the second room in the third room, run to the right with a feather, when the ceiling goes away. Jump to the left and you will never come down. Keep running to the left and you will fall into a room with a keyhole. The secret takes you to Valley Fortress (probably the hardest level in the game). After that, you will be led to the back door (you skip the first part). Hint: Vanilla Dome 1: Fortress: You need Yohsi, or the Red Switch Palace. Eat the blue shell with Yoshi, but first eat all of the other Koopas at the bottom. Run with the shell in your mouth. You should have just enough power to fly up on of the Red Switch Palace dotted lines. Hint: Vanilla Dome 3. Unlimited Mushrooms or Feathers: Go down the first gold pipe to enter an area of ice and water. You will receive a Mushroom or Feather if you get past the shell-creatures when you exit the pipe at the end. You will appear from a green pipe. Next, go back and go down the gold pipe again to receive another Mushroom or Feather. Repeat this as many times as needed. Hint: Vanilla Dome 3: Extra points: Go to near the end of Vanilla Dome #3, where you can see the exit. Use a cape, fly up, and find the little :"chompers". Jump over them and jump on the "P". A small staircase of "?"s going down will appear, and the finish bar will be at the bottom. Jump over and hit the bar when it is up and get a high score. Hint: Yoshi's Island 1: Hidden platform: About mid-way through the level, fly high into the air to discover a platform with a moon on it. Hint: Yoshi's Island 1: 3-Up: With a cape, break the midway tape and kill all the Rexes. Run back to the pipe before the midway tape, and run right. Jump and begin flying when you get to the ledges with the Yoshi Coin on top. Stay as high as you can, and you will reach a ledge of clouds. On top of the ledge will be a 3-Up. Hint: Star Warp 4: To get to the fourth Star Road warp point, go into the Fortress just outside the Haunted Forest (after Forest Secret Area). Get a Cape, then proceed towards the end of the stage. Jump over the stone walkway that leads to the first Reznor, and you will see a giant lava pit. Get some momentum, go into a flying run, but hold A (spin jump) instead. Doing this will cause you to spin jump off the lava balls, and you will make it to the other side without any problems. Then, defeat the Reznor. Hint: Red spaces: Donut Plains 1: Kill the four super Koopas near the end, run on the top, and fly up with or without Yoshi. Donut Secret 1: With Yoshi, hit the P switch and eat the green fish. Go to the key. Donut Secret House: On the last room hit the P switch, you will notice three "?" blocks. Go on the second block and hit it. Climb up the vine and run right to a blue door. Donut Plains 2: Go until you see a rectangle block moving upwards and a pipe up. Go in the pipe and either fly up to the key, get the shell and hit the fourth block. With Yoshi, eat the shell and fly up with your wings. Star Road 1: Go to the extreme right and break the blocks to the right to reach the key. Star Road 2: Go through the level and go under the tube instead of going into it. Star Road 3: Kill Lakuti with a blue block and get in his cloud to go up. Star Road 4: Get to the part where there is a green shell, a Koopa without his shell, and some grey blocks. Get the green and red switches and go under the blocks. Star Road 5: After Yellow Yoshi and there is a Koopa with two Spinies. Eat the Koopa and have Yoshi wing up, or fly up. Donut Ghost House: With a cape, go to the first hole and run left to fly. Vanilla Secret 1: When there is a trampoline and a group of Koopas, with a cape go down and run to jump. Vanilla Dome 2: Jump out of the water to the right, then left. Carry the switch, get the coins, hit it, and go down. Cheese Bridge Area: Have Yoshi and jump under the win. Jump off Yoshi when you are past it. Continue on as if the goal was not even there. Forest of Illusion 1: Get the P and go left. Forest Ghost House: When you are on top of the first room do not go in the first door. Forest of Illusion 2: When you see a Yellow Mushroom Palace go left through the wall. Forest of lIlusion 3: Go in one of the green pipes. Chocolate Island 2: Complete the level in less than 50 seconds Valley Ghost house: Go left in the second room and fly up until you see a key and keyhole. Hold Down/Right, and when you duck, start jumping right. Valley of Bowser 4: Eat the key with Yoshi. Hint: See different costumes: When you have an invincibility star, you obviously flash different colors. But, when you pause game play, you can see the different costumes, including Luigi's. Hint: Easy save: Since the game automatically saves the game each time a castle is completed, just finish an easy ghost house to save the game as needed. Hint: Easy level completion: On Star Road. get a Blue Yoshi. Go to any outdoor level and eat a Koopa. Fly towards the end of the level. Once you run out of shell power, eat another Koopa and repeat until you complete the level. Note: This only works on levels without a roof, such as Yoshi island 1. This is very useful in water levels. Hint: Extra points: Get a fire flower and a feather. Move away from your enemies and keep pressing Select. Get the flower and then the feather. You will get 1000 extra points each time you get the feather. Glitch: Jump up repeatedly: When you are in the dungeon levels and have a column of bricks going up with a space to the left, walk forward until there is little space left. You can jump up and will not come back down. Keep going up all the way to the top. Glitch: Maintaining flight with a turtle shell: You must be an experienced flyer to do this trick. First, get a Feather to turn into Cape Mario. Choose a good level where you have plenty of room to fly. Find an empty turtle shell. Hold Y to pick up the turtle shell. While holding Y, run in one direction until you are ready to fly. Fly into the air by holding B, and keep holding the shell . Try to fly as high as you can. Just before you reach maximum height, quickly release Y while holding Up. This will kick the shell up into the air. Immediately after you do this, simultaneously release B and hold Y then turn in the opposite direction. Press Back to extend your cape and you should now be flying in the opposite direction. If timed correctly, you will catch the turtle shell that you kicked up in mid-flight, and you will be flying with a turtle shell. The controls are the exactly same for flying without a turtle shell, however Mario will appear differently. He will not be holding out his cape, but instead will look as if he were just holding a turtle shell. Push Back every once in a while to keep flying. This trick must be done very quickly, and requires a bit of practice. Glitch: Waste a Special Key: Get Yoshi to eat the key, then spit it back out so it is next to the keyhole. Jump over the key and the keyhole, so you are on the opposite side of the keyhole from the key. Get Yoshi to eat the key again from across the keyhole. The key will be dragged into the keyhole. The hole will open and close without taking Mario and Yoshi inside. Glitch: More coins: Get Yoshi to dash at a berry. When you are very close to it, eat it when you dash into it. You will hear the coin sound twice, but you only ate one berry. You will get two coins per berry this way. Glitch: Double prizes: Get two holdable items (except for shells) and throw it so it is exactly in back/front of the other item. Dash at it and you will notice you are holding both. Clear the course to get double items. Glitch: Three player game: Go to an empty file, select a one player game, reset the SNES, then go to the same file that now says "0". Complete Yoshi's Island 1. Make it so you have a Flower in Luigi's reserve box and a Flower Suit. Die by falling into a hole so Luigi is now small and there is a Flower in the reserve box. Die with Mario and do not do anything to him or go to Yoshi's Island 1. Press Start, Select, then with Luigi, get Yoshi and press Select. Eat the Flower that falls, then complete the level. You will notice that Luigi goes to Yoshi's Island 3 and Yoshi stays at Yoshi's Island 2. There are now three players, Mario, Luigi, and Plain Yoshi. Glitch: Luigi in Mario's clothes: Get an invincibility star and pause game play as Luigi. He will either be wearing his own clothes, Fire Flower Luigi clothes, Fire Flower Mario's clothes or Mario's clothes. Glitch: Fire Cape: Eat a Cape and a Flower at the same time with Yoshi and you will have a Cape and a Fire Suit. Glitch: Small Mario with a Flower or Cape: Get a Feather or Fire Flower at the same time Super Mario gets injured. Glitch: Red star: Go near a yellow invincibility star, pause game play, then see the different colors it changes. Glitch: Die in Larry's Castle: In Larry's Castle, go the end of the first room. If you get there before the moving thing does and drop down the secret hole very fast, you will die. Glitch: Switch Forest Of Illusion 2 and 3: Complete the Forest Of Illusion 2 level with Mario the normal way, then complete Forest Of Illusion 3 with Luigi the secret way. Then, go back to Forest Of Illusion 2 and complete it with Mario the secret way. Complete Forest Of Illusion 3 with Luigi the normal way, then reset the game without saving it. Go to the same file, and Forest Of Illusion 2 will have no water -- sometimes you will get stuck, then Forest Of Illusion 3 will have water, and is "easier". Glitch: Switch stuck in Yellow Switch Palace: Complete Yoshi's Island 1 then go north to Yellow Switch Place. Once inside, pick up the "P" switch (it is blue with a white P on it). Do not put it down. Keep it in your hands and go through the pipe without releasing Y. Then, face the pipe where you just entered. Release Y repeatedly. Soon, the switch will be stuck inside the pipe. You will see it shaking on the pipe.