Uploaded January 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Messing around with the new infinite hover cheat code, I found two new skips that allow Tanker 2 to be beaten without opening any valves.
The first one (0:30) is a bit tricky to get at first but definitely worth going for, as it saves about 20 seconds over the current route. Jumping off the top part of the pipe is required to get over an invisible wall that normally blocks access to the gap in the floor. Once out of bounds, it’s also possible (but a bit slower) to jump into the side of the crate that can be seen at 0:42, and run to the right to find another gap to fall through and hover to the trampoline more easily.
The second skip (1:08) isn’t really worth it imo, it’s easy to fall into the poison and respawn pretty far back, either by sliding off the pipe or by falling too close to the door. Also the time save is very small so any mistake ruins it even if you don’t die.
Messing around with the new infinite hover cheat code, I found two new skips that allow Tanker 2 to be beaten without opening any valves.
The first one (0:30) is a bit tricky to get at first but definitely worth going for, as it saves about 20 seconds over the current route. Jumping off the top part of the pipe is required to get over an invisible wall that normally blocks access to the gap in the floor. Once out of bounds, it’s also possible (but a bit slower) to jump into the side of the crate that can be seen at 0:42, and run to the right to find another gap to fall through and hover to the trampoline more easily.
The second skip (1:08) isn’t really worth it imo, it’s easy to fall into the poison and respawn pretty far back, either by sliding off the pipe or by falling too close to the door. Also the time save is very small so any mistake ruins it even if you don’t die.
![Red Coins of the Hillside Cave – 0x A Presses [H]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_jzOmG7IPI8/mqdefault.jpg "Red Coins of the Hillside Cave – 0x A Presses [H]
I collect the Bianco 9 Shine without pressing the A button, using only the Hover Nozzle.
Since I need the Hover Nozzle to save A presses inside the secret area anyway, I can also use it outside to navigate the stage faster than in my hoverless videos. Inside the secret area, the biggest challenge (besides pressing the red switch) is to get the coins on time, as the platforms at the beginning each require hovering for a few seconds and slowly getting up the ledge.
This video is RTA, played on PAL Wii.")
![Delfino Plaza 100 coins – 0x A Presses [Ø]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/amyfykKG1dg/mqdefault.jpg "Delfino Plaza 100 coins – 0x A Presses [Ø]
I collect the 100 coin Shine for Delfino Plaza without using the A button, F.L.U.D.D., or Yoshi.
Thanks to Grégoire P. for finding a way to get the second coin: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr1VFbZf2u3GBWKworiibRw
Collecting the actual Shine was always the main issue, since it’s always possible to collect any number of coins, enter a secret stage, exit area, and repeat until the Shine spawns.
As it turns out, the flooded plaza has a different spawn location for the 100 coin Shine than any other version of the plaza: instead of spawning on a remote platform in the middle of the sea, it spawns above the Pianta statue.
Not a whole lot better, unless you know about framewalking: by holding the stick in a direction and releasing it the next frame, Mario can walk up slopes that he would normally slide off of. We can use that to walk up the statue’s cape and reach the Shine.
But there’s another catch: during the flood, the statue’s cape doesn’t actually reach under water, so we can’t swim onto it or ledgegrab it. The only other way is to triple bounce-dive off of Piantas sitting on the nearest roof, but that puts you in a sliding state where you can’t framewalk.
This is where I stopped a few months ago, but I recently realized that all it took was sliding off and back onto the cape to cancel the dive. Derp. Anyway, since most of the coins in the flooded plaza require water to spawn, our options are pretty limited and we were only able to get two coins, meaning the full version of this would take 50 trips in and out of the plaza, and about an hour and a half.
This video is TAS, recorded on Dolphin 5.0-6022 with the PAL version of the game.
Rerecords: 621")
![Blue coin RH22 – 0x A Presses [Y]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/d95C-wLioCU/mqdefault.jpg "Blue coin RH22 – 0x A Presses [Y]
I collect the 22nd blue coin in Ricco Harbor without pressing the A button, using only Yoshi. This relies on the beginning of the Ricco 8 strat to get to Yoshi 0x and FLUDDless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjHvF_v8O2Q
This blue coin was listed as requiring the Rocket Nozzle on the ABC spreadsheet, until today, when Grégoire pointed out that we could just infinite ground pound to it. On its own, this doesn’t save an A press since we still need the rocket in Ricco 4 reds, but there might be something to do about that too.
The infinite ground pound is pretty bad for horizontal movement, since each repetition only lets Yoshi move for one frame, between the two L presses needed to make Mario ground pound back onto Yoshi and Yoshi ground pound in turn. The best option during that frame is to move sideways, since the stick directly affects sideways speed, whereas it only controls forward/backward acceleration. But we still don’t get very far.
This video is TAS, played on Dolphin 5.0-6022 with the PAL version of the game.
Rerecords: 85")
![Gelato Beach 100 coins – 0x A Presses [Ø]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eHAjPJz_nfI/mqdefault.jpg "Gelato Beach 100 coins – 0x A Presses [Ø]
I collect the 100 coin Shine for Gelato Beach without pressing the A button or using F.L.U.D.D. at all.
Getting the coins in the trees at the beginning without the Hover Nozzle was pretty hard. The only thing that could go wrong in the Sand Cabana was to get the blue coin (which would have required a save, thus an A press). Then it was just about getting coins from the watermelons and Cataquacks.
This video is RTA, played on PAL Wii.")
![The Wilted Sunflowers – 0x A Presses [S]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eLaYtbbAPH8/mqdefault.jpg "The Wilted Sunflowers – 0x A Presses [S]
I collect the Pinna 4 Shine without pressing the A button, using only the Spray Nozzle.
Jumping isn’t really necessary for this Shine, as you can kill the Snooze-A-Koopas by ground pounding next to them. However, not being able to spam-spray really slows down the process of waking them, and makes it hard to get several of them at once.
This video is RTA, played on PAL Wii.")
![Fluff Festival Coin Hunt – 0x A Presses [S/H]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/f7sRkqebMbk/mqdefault.jpg "Fluff Festival Coin Hunt – 0x A Presses [S/H]
I collect the Pianta 8 Shine without pressing the A button, using only the Spray and Hover Nozzles. This is an improvement over my previous strat, which took 40 seconds longer and only worked on the Japanese version of the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18mVO8MnZPc
That previous strat involved a glitch discovered by Frog7ribbit, that allows Mario to reset his state by attempting to grab a floating fruit. This meant that the strat could only work on the Japanese version, since the floating fruit glitch was fixed in international releases. However, the fruit doesn’t have to be floating for this glitch to work; it simply has to be in mid-air. In fact, you can even trigger this effect with any fruit hanging in a tree!
So I put a banana on a giant leaf over the void, drop into the underside to grab the coin, hover under the leaf as the banana slides off of it, dive into the banana to reset my state, and hover up onto the bridge. It’s important to pick a banana there, as any other fruit would just roll off the leaf instantly, and I couldn’t just put it onto the bridge because the bridge becomes intangible when Mario’s too far away. The rest is roughly the same, I only swapped the order of the coin inside the crates and the one under the fruit tree to save a few seconds.
This video is TAS, played on Dolphin 5.0 with the PAL version of the game.
Rerecords: 536")
