Uploaded August 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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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: 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.
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