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{{Header Nav|game=Super Mario 64}}
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{{sidebar|width=250px|title=Super Mario 64 DS|contents=This stage was renamed The Secret Under the Moat, and can be accessed after freeing Wario and draining the moat. Use Wario to smash the black bricks in the empty moat.}}
{{sidebar|width=250px|title=Super Mario 64 DS|contents=This stage was renamed The Secret Under the Moat, the blue ! Switch was removed, and can only be accessed after freeing Wario and draining the moat. Use Wario to smash the black bricks in the empty moat.}}


Location: This course can be found in the moat. You must drain it first. After defeating Bowser in The Dark World, you can open the key to the door of the basement. Go in to the basement of the castle. Follow the circular hall, and go through the door. Follow the wall on the right until you hit a wooden door. Go through the underwater hall, and you will find a room with two pillars. Ground-pound the pillars and the water will drain. Go out the newly exposed door, outside the castle, go right, and you will find a hole in the ground by the waterfall. The course lies through there. That's the blue switch!
Location: This course can be found in the moat. You must drain it first. After defeating Bowser in the Dark World, you can open the key to the door of the basement. Go in to the basement of the castle. Follow the circular hall, and go through the door. Follow the wall on the right until you hit a wooden door. Go through the underwater hall, and you will find a room with two pillars. Ground-pound the pillars and the water will drain. Go out the newly exposed door, outside the castle, go right, and you will find a hole in the ground by the waterfall. The course lies through there. That's the blue switch!


Description: a short course with a long hill and a bunch of rotating lifts over a bottomless pit.
Description: A short course with a long hill and a bunch of rotating lifts over a bottomless pit.


==Finding the Switch==
==Finding the Switch==
Once you enter the course, you will be given a Vanish Cap, however, it is useless on the slope. Go down the slope, ride the platforms, and there's the blue switch. Now you can become Vanish Mario, and slip through cages and ice without even having to try!
Once you enter the course, you will be given a Vanish Cap, however, it is useless on the slide slope. Go down the slope, ride the platforms, and there's the blue switch. Now you can become Vanish Mario, and slip through cages and ice without even having to try!
 
==Red Coins==
{{sidebar|width=250px|title=Super Mario 64 DS|contents=The other second star requires Mario, so you have to put on his cap which is after the teeter totter ramp. Once you get Mario go back toward the slide at the bottom of the slide is a red ? box. Use the flower power to float to the new area, where the platform is just across the slide. There you'll find a switch for a star and another red ? box. Hit the switch then either use the ? box to float up between the walls or wall kick. Follow the coins and 1-up to the top and there is the star.}}
 
The first four red coins are found on the slope, along with 1-ups , so try to slide carefully onto the platforms. If this is too difficult, you can crawl on the slope without falling off. If you fall off, you will exit from a hole near the moat without losing a life. The other three coins are found on or near the rotating elevators, so jump carefully. The last one is at the end use the vanish cap get the coin and go through the cage to get the star. In the DS version, Wario can use Luigi's Cap and use the power flower to turn invisible and go through the cage to get the star.


==8 Red Coins==
{{sidebar|width=250px|title=Super Mario 64 DS|contents=The other second power star requires Mario to get, so you will have to put on his cap which is after the teeter totter ramp. Once you get Mario, go back toward the slide at the bottom of the slide is a red ? box. Use the power flower to float to the new area, where the platform is just across the slide slope. There you'll find a switch for a star and another red ? box. Hit the switch then either use the ? box to float up between the walls or wall-kick. Follow the coins and 1-up to the top and there is the other star.}}


The first four red coins are found on the slope, along with the 1-ups, so try to slide carefully onto the platforms. If this is too difficult, you can crawl on the slope without falling off. If you fall off, you will exit from a gaping hole near the waterfall without losing a life. The other three coins are found on or near the rotating elevators, so jump carefully. The last one is at the end, next to the blue ! Switch box which you can press to activate the Vanish Caps. Use the Vanish Cap get the coin and go through the cage to get the star. In the DS version, you can use either Mario or Wario to jump on the rotating elevators, though it is generally easier to control Mario than Wario. Wario can use Luigi's Cap and use the power flower to turn invisible and go through the cage to get the star.


<gallery>
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File:SM64_Vanish_Cap_Under_the_Moat_Red_Coins_Map.png|A map of Vanish Cap Under the Moat, with all the red coin locations marked out.
File:SM64 Vanish Cap Under the Moat Red Coins Map.png|A map of Vanish Cap Under the Moat, with all the red coin locations marked out.
File:SM64DS_Vanish_Cap_Under_the_Moat_Red_Coins_Map.png|A map of The Secret Under the Moat, with all the red coin locations marked out.
File:SM64DS Vanish Cap Under the Moat Red Coins Map.png|A map of The Secret Under the Moat, with all the red coin locations marked out.
</gallery>
</gallery>


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Latest revision as of 03:18, 17 March 2019

Table of Contents

Gameplay
Appendices
Walkthrough
Castle ground floor
  1. Bob-omb Battlefield — 0 stars required
  2. Whomp's Fortress — 1 star required
  3. Jolly Roger Bay — 3 stars required
  4. Cool, Cool Mountain — 3 stars required
  5. Big Boo's Haunt — 12/15 stars required
  7. Bowser in the Dark World — 8/12 stars required
Castle basement floor
  2. Hazy Maze Cave — 8/12 stars required
  3. Lethal Lava Land — 8/12 stars required
  4. Shifting Sand Land — 8/12 stars required
  5. Dire, Dire Docks — 30 stars required
  7. Bowser in the Fire Sea — 31 stars required
Castle upper floors
  2. Snowman's Land — 31 stars required
  3. Wet-Dry World — 31 stars required
  4. Tall, Tall Mountain — 31 stars required
  5. Tiny-Huge Island — 31 stars required
  6. Tick Tock Clock — 50 stars required
  7. Rainbow Ride — 50 stars required
  9. Bowser in the Sky — 70/80 stars required
Secret Levels

Super Mario 64 logo

Super Mario 64 DS
New features

Super Mario 64 DS logo

Secret courses and stars
Character courses
Mini-games
Super Mario 64 DS
This stage was renamed The Secret Under the Moat, the blue ! Switch was removed, and can only be accessed after freeing Wario and draining the moat. Use Wario to smash the black bricks in the empty moat.

Location: This course can be found in the moat. You must drain it first. After defeating Bowser in the Dark World, you can open the key to the door of the basement. Go in to the basement of the castle. Follow the circular hall, and go through the door. Follow the wall on the right until you hit a wooden door. Go through the underwater hall, and you will find a room with two pillars. Ground-pound the pillars and the water will drain. Go out the newly exposed door, outside the castle, go right, and you will find a hole in the ground by the waterfall. The course lies through there. That's the blue switch!

Description: A short course with a long hill and a bunch of rotating lifts over a bottomless pit.

Finding the Switch[edit]

Once you enter the course, you will be given a Vanish Cap, however, it is useless on the slide slope. Go down the slope, ride the platforms, and there's the blue switch. Now you can become Vanish Mario, and slip through cages and ice without even having to try!

8 Red Coins[edit]

Super Mario 64 DS
The other second power star requires Mario to get, so you will have to put on his cap which is after the teeter totter ramp. Once you get Mario, go back toward the slide at the bottom of the slide is a red ? box. Use the power flower to float to the new area, where the platform is just across the slide slope. There you'll find a switch for a star and another red ? box. Hit the switch then either use the ? box to float up between the walls or wall-kick. Follow the coins and 1-up to the top and there is the other star.

The first four red coins are found on the slope, along with the 1-ups, so try to slide carefully onto the platforms. If this is too difficult, you can crawl on the slope without falling off. If you fall off, you will exit from a gaping hole near the waterfall without losing a life. The other three coins are found on or near the rotating elevators, so jump carefully. The last one is at the end, next to the blue ! Switch box which you can press to activate the Vanish Caps. Use the Vanish Cap get the coin and go through the cage to get the star. In the DS version, you can use either Mario or Wario to jump on the rotating elevators, though it is generally easier to control Mario than Wario. Wario can use Luigi's Cap and use the power flower to turn invisible and go through the cage to get the star.

  • A map of Vanish Cap Under the Moat, with all the red coin locations marked out.

    A map of Vanish Cap Under the Moat, with all the red coin locations marked out.

  • A map of The Secret Under the Moat, with all the red coin locations marked out.

    A map of The Secret Under the Moat, with all the red coin locations marked out.

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