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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

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New features

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Secret courses and stars
Character courses
Mini-games
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This stage was renamed The Secret Under the Moat, 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, you will find a room with two pillars, butt-slam and ground-pound, the pillars and the water will drain. Go out to the newly exposed door, which i outside the front of 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

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!

Red Coins

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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, of which along with the 1-ups , so try to slide carefully onto the platforms. If this is too difficult, you can crawl on the slope slide without falling off. If you fall off, you will exit from a gaping 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, the player has to collect all 8 red coins over the obstacles with all three plumbers. 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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