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/          \ /_\ \| |/  |   |/       \
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Super Mario 64 (PAL)
FAQ/Walkthrough
for Nintendo 64
by Christian Wall
Version 1.3 (Nov 8, 2005)
cwall_85 [at] hotmail.com
http://home.swipnet.se/cpg
Copyright (c) 2003-2005 Christian Wall
This FAQ is or will be available in Spanish
at GameFAQs.com and my homepage. It was
translated by J. Pablo Quezada
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Table of Contents
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1.0 Introduction
2.0 Basics, etc.
2.1 Brief game information
2.2 Brief overview
2.3 Story
2.4 Basics
2.5 Controls
2.6 Items
2.7 Subjective review
3.0 Quick Walkthrough
(Only the positions of
the stars in courses)
3.1  Bob-omb Battlefield
3.2  Whomp's Fortress
3.3  Jolly Roger Bay
3.4  Cool, Cool Mountain
3.5  Big Boo's Haunt
3.6  Hazy Maze Cave
3.7  Lethal Lava Land
3.8  Shifting Sand Land
3.9  Dire Dire Docks
3.10 Snowman's Land
3.11 Wet Dry World
3.12 Tall Tall Mountain
3.13 Tiny Huge Island
3.14 Tick Tock Clock
3.15 Rainbow Ride
3.16 The Castle's Secret Star
4.0 Full Walkthrough
(Detailed descriptions of
how to collect all of the
stars in the courses)
4.1  Bob-omb Battlefield
4.2  Whomp's Fortress
4.3  Jolly Roger Bay
4.4  Cool, Cool Mountain
4.5  Big Boo's Haunt
4.6  Hazy Maze Cave
4.7  Lethal Lava Land
4.8  Shifting Sand Land
4.9  Dire Dire Docks
4.10 Snowman's Land
4.11 Wet Dry World
4.12 Tall Tall Mountain
4.13 Tiny Huge Island
4.14 Tick Tock Clock
4.15 Rainbow Ride
4.16 The Castle's Secret Stars
5.0 Coin Walkthrough
(Detailed descriptions of
how to collect (nearly?) all
of the coins in the courses)
5.1  Bob-omb Battlefield
5.2  Whomp's Fortress
5.3  Jolly Roger Bay
5.4  Cool, Cool Mountain
5.5  Big Boo's Haunt
5.6  Hazy Maze Cave
5.7  Lethal Lava Land
5.8  Shifting Sand Land
5.9  Dire Dire Docks
5.10 Snowman's Land
5.11 Wet Dry World
5.12 Tall Tall Mountain
5.13 Tiny Huge Island
5.14 Tick Tock Clock
5.15 Rainbow Ride
5.16 Coin Statistics
6.0 The Switches
7.0 Character List
7.1 Friendly Characters
7.2 Enemies
7.3 Special Characters
7.4 Bosses
7.5 Bowser and his courses
7.6 Harmless Animals
8.0 Extra Lives Positions
9.0 Warps
10.0 120 Stars? Secrets, etc.
including the glitch that enables
you to finish the game with 31 stars
11.0 Star names in Swedish
including help with pronunciation
12.0 Final Section
12.1 Version History
12.2 Credits
12.3 Contacting
12.4 About the Author
12.5 Copyright Notice
12.6 Final Words
Search string
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If you want to get to a section fast, bring up the search function of your
browser/word editor. To activate the search function, press Ctrl F in most
programs, including Internet Explorer. Then type the number of the part which
you wish to reach. For example if you need to get to Tall Tall Mountain's stars
in the Full Walkthrough type 4.12.
But there's more to it. If you want to check a special star fast, type like
this: S-[number of course]-[number of star] For example, if you wish to check
out Bob-omb Battlefield's second star type: S-1-2. This will bring you to the
Quick Walkthrough's description, search again to get to the Full Walkthorugh's
guide.
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1.0 Introduction
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Super Mario 64 is my favourite game and I've finished it many times. I've also
wanted to write a FAQ for it for a long time. This FAQ is complete, but I'm not
sure, so if you know anything I've missed or done incorrectly, feel free to
send me an e-mail.
The biggest difference between this FAQ and the others at GameFAQs.com is that
this one has a large, in-depth Coin Walkthrough, which guides you in the
process of taking every coin in the game.
In this FAQ you can also find the glitch that enables you to beat the final
Bowser with only 31 stars.
I wish to apologise for any bad spelling and/or grammar you may encounter when
reading my FAQ. Since I have not English as my first language I have trouble
mastering the language to full extent.
I also wish to apologise if my way to write is slightly superior. I don't think
I'm better than anyone else; my ambition is just to make everyone understand,
even the younger members of our society.
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2.0 Basics, etc.
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Here, you can find some nice information before starting with the actual game.
This section is mostly for beginners of video gaming, but also for advanced
players who want to know more about Super Mario 64.
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2.1 Brief game information
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System:                      Nintendo 64
Television System:           PAL
Publisher:                   Nintendo
Developer:                   Nintendo
Origin:                      Japan
Players:                     1
Genre:                       Platform
Save Files:                  4
Accesories:                  Nothing
Released
Japan:                       June 23, 1996
USA:                         September 29, 1996
Europe:                      March 3, 1997
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2.2 Brief overview
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The goal of Super Mario 64's is to save the princess from the evil king
of Koopas: Bowser, and restore as many of the stars as possible. You shall
as Mario, complete certain tasks; like defeating bosses, climbing mountains,
collecting coins, helping people; to collect the stars which enables you to
gain further progress in the game.
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2.3 Story
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It's not very complicated actually. Princess Peach has written a letter to
Mario and asks him to come to her castle because she has baked a cake for him.
But as Mario comes into the castle he hears a fishy voice threatening him.
Could it be Bowser? Hmmm... A Toad boy tells him that everyone has been trapped
inside the castle and the princess too and that Bowser has stolen all of the
castle's stars. Mario must now visit worlds inside paintings to collect the
stars, find the princess and give Bowser the boot.
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2.4 Basics
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These are the basics and controls in Super Mario 64. These are the contents:
- Getting started
- About the castle
- About playing with Mario's face
- About the courses
- About the bonus courses
- About the stars
- About the coins
- About the energy meter and the extra lives
- About the enemies
- About falls
- About lava
- About being crushed
- About the caps
- About Toad
- About the notice boards and singpost
- About the Pink Bob-ombs and the cannons
- About losing your cap
- About Luigi
Getting started
---------------
When you begin playing you will first see the title, then Mario's face.
Here you should press start or play with his face, you can use most of
the buttons on the controller to play with his face. Leave the controller
and you can also watch a demo of the real gameplay.
After pressing start you will come to the file selection menu. Here
you can choose whichever of the files to begin a new game. If you are
new to the world of videogaming I can tell you that it doesn't matter
which file you choose. The game will be the same. Press Erase and you
choose to erase the progress of a file. Note that if you want to Erase,
that gaming progress is lost and can not be obtained again. Press Copy
and you can copy and existing game file to another. Press Score and
you can see how many stars and coins you've grabbed on each course.
Go to the yellow screen and choose a file to get started.
About the castle
----------------
After you've chosen a file you will appear on the field outside of
the castle, from a pipe if it's your first time playing. The castle
garden consist a field, some trees, a lake, a beach, a waterfall a
moat and of course a castle. Get into the castle to continue the
game.
Inside the castle there are many doors and paintings. Some doors
cannot be opened. Then you must collect a certain amount of stars
and/or get a key from Bowser. Inside some of the paintings there
are courses. Entrances to courses can also be find in walls, pits
and in ghosts(!). Except the fifteen regular courses there are
bonus courses which are much smaller than the regular ones. All
of the regular courses are accessible from inside the castle and
it's courtyard and all of the bonus courses are accessible from the
castle accept two of them. One of these are accessible from course
six and the other from the moat outside of the castle.
The first course doesn't require any stars our keys. It's directly
to the left from the entrance.
About playing with Mario's face
-------------------------------
As explained above, the first you can do is to play with Mario's
face in the title screen. Press A to make a hand appear which you
move around the screen with the control stick. Mario's eyes will
follow the hand. These are the other controls.
A:                  Grip a part of Mario's face. Move the face part
around with the control stick.
B:                  Make Mario's head smaller. There are three sizes,
if you press B when Mario's head is smallest,
it will return to it former size.
C up:               Rotate Mario's head upwards.
C down:             Rotate Mario's head downwards.
C left:             Rotate Mario's head to the left.
C right:            Rotate Mario's head to the right.
Start:              Go to the file selection menu.
The facial parts which you can grab are.          The point with this
the cap                                           exercise is probably
both ears                                         just to show off, that
both cheeks                                       Mario is now in full
the nose                                          3D.
the mouth
About the courses
-----------------
The courses, all reached from the castle are magical worlds created
by Bowser. In each course you shall collect six stars which are
located at different positions through out the course. The courses
contain enemies as well as more friendly characters and coins, lots
of coins. There are a total of fifteen courses and their environments
vary heavily. Beautiful fields, calm bays, cold mountains, spooky
mansion, hot lava lands, dry deserts and even strange clocks.
About the bonus courses
-----------------------
The courses mentioned above are the regular fifteen courses. But
there are also eight bonus courses which are small and contain
only one star. Three of these courses are guarded by Bowser and
three of these hold each a coloured switch (read further below).
About the stars
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The castle's stars are very important to the castle and mushroom
kingdom. Bowser has stolen all 120 of them and spread them through
out fifteen courses created by him. He has put them in various
locations and given them to his loyal underlings. You must collect
them by fulfilling different tasks, like mentioned above. This and
confronting Bowser is the only way to gain progress in Super Mario 64.
After each star you've grabbed you have the option to either "Save
and Continue", "Save and Quit" or "Continue without Saving". Choose
the top most option and the game will be saved to the backup-battery
inside the cartridge and you can turn off at any time and begin
with your current statistics. Choose the middle one if you wish to
quit for now to continue later. Choose the last one if you want to
see how long you can last without getting "Game Over", read further
below.
About the coins
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In every course there's a certain amount of coins. The coins appear
in three different colours: yellow, worth one coin; red, worth two
coins and blue, worth five coins. The coins fulfil certain tasks.
The courses contain a different number of coins, stretching between
104 coins up to 191 coins. The coins primary task is to replenish lost
energy on your energy meter (read further below). A yellow coin
replenish one lost unit, a red coin two and a blue coin five. Collect
100 coins in a course without exiting and you will get a star. When
you take a star you will leave the course. The current amount of coins
you have when you leave the course will be recorded as your high score.
If you exit the course by choosing "Exit Course" you will not have a
high score, neither if you lose a life. When you leave a course after
taken a star you will get one extra life for every 50 coins you've
collected. If you've collect 113 coin you'll get two extra lives.
Try to get every coin in every course. It's kind of tough but very fun.
About the Energy Meter and the Extra Lives
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If you fall off a cliff, get hit by an enemy or hurt yourself on
an obstacle you'll lose energy from your energy meter. The energy
meter, displayed in the top middle of the screen has eight energy units.
If you get hurt you lose energy units. Depending on the level of damage
you lose a different amount of units. A hit by a Goomba takes only one
energy unit while being crushed blows away three energy units. If you
lose all of your units you'll lose a life. When you begin you have four
extra lives plus the one you're using right now. Extra lives can be
found in form of small mushrooms. Loss of lives also appear when you
fall of an edge of a course. Always when you lose a life you are being
thrown out of your current course. If you lose all of your lives you'll
have a "Game Over" and you will return to the title screen. You will
then begin with the same statistics you had before you saved the last
time.
About the enemies
-----------------
The enemies are the loyal minions of Bowser which tries to stop you
in your search for the stars. They often damage you or in other ways
tries to make life sour for you. Most of them can be defeated, other
must only be avoided. Some also leaves coins behind. Check the enemy
list near the bottom of this document for info about specific enemies.
About falls
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If you fall high enough you will lose energy. You can either lose two
energy units or four. To lose four: half of your energy meter you
must fall a long way. If you fall down the edge of a course you'll lose
a life directly.
About lava
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If you fall into lava or really cold water you will lose three energy
units, Mario will be thrown into the air screaming. You can control him
slightly so you reach safe land again.
About being crushed
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If something heavy crushes our dear plumber, you will lose three
energy units and be flat for a second. Isn't that too lenient?
About the caps
--------------
In Super Mario 64, Mario can collect three different caps with special
abilities. There's the wing cap, the metal cap and the vanish cap.
These can be collected in coloured block. A red block, a green block
and a blue block. These blocks will be transparent until you've pressed
the switch which corresponds with the colour of the blocks. These switches
are hidden in the bonus courses reached from the castle and one of the
regular courses. With the wing cap you can fly by doing a triple jump,
with the metal cap you are invincible and can walk on the sea bottom and
with the vanish cap you are also invincible, but also transparent.
Read more below.
About Toad
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The Toads are boys with big mushrooms heads. They are positioned on
different locations in the castle. Be sure to talk to these because
they give you useful information and sometimes even stars.
About the notice boards and signposts
-------------------------------------
Found everywhere. Here you can find useful information. Be sure to read.
About the Pink Bob-ombs and the cannons
---------------------------------------
A nice new feature is the ability to use cannons. In some of the
courses you can find a Pink Bob-omb. Talk to it and it will prepare
the cannon(s) in the course. Cannons are seen as holes in the ground.
Jump down it and you can aim. Press A and you'll blast off. This does
not damage you.
About losing your cap
---------------------
In the eighth, tenth and twelfth courses you can lose your regular
cap by being attack by a Vulture, blown off an ice floe or down a
mountain. When you're without the cap and you'll lose one more
energy unit than usual do and it doesn't look very good. You must
get the cap back in the same course which you've lost it. In the
eighth course you must knock it from the Vulture, in the tenth
it's beyond the ice cube, in the twelfth you must catch the
Monkey.
About Luigi
-----------
It doesn't matter how detailed your searching is, Luigi is
not included in this game.
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2.5 Controls
============
These controls are also visible in the manual, but maybe you want to read my
comments.
A:             Jump
B:             Punch
Z:             Crouch
C:             Camera controls
R:             Camera controls
L:             Not used.
Control stick: Move Mario
Control pad:   Not used.
Start:         Pause
Regular jump
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Press once on the A button while running, walking or standing on place and
Mario will perform a regular jump. This is used to climb low ledges and
defeating simple enemies. You can grab ledges with your fingers.
Continuous jump
---------------
Do a regular jump and press the A button again when you've landed and Mario
will make the second jump a bit further up in the air. There are many ledges
which aren't accessible with a regular jump, so do a continuous jump. This
jump can also be done while running, walking or standing on place and you can
grab ledges with your fingers. In this FAQ I will call this jump the double
jump mostly.
Triple jump
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Do a continuous jump and then jump again to do a really high jump with a
somersault on it's peak. This must be done while running and must be well
timed or it won't work. You can't grab ledges with your fingers while doing
this jump but continuing the jump into a wall kick is OK. This jump is tough
to completely master and seldom necessary.
Side somersault
---------------
Press the control stick in either the right or left direction, then quickly to
the opposite direction and the press A. Like this:
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