Uploaded May 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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I collect the Lily Pad Ride secret Shine without pressing the A button, using only the Spray and Hover Nozzles, as well as Yoshi.

Getting Yoshi to the island the normal way without A seems impossible, but all known ways to get him underwater in Delfino Plaza involved pressing A and/or falling out of bounds, where all we can do is press A.

That is, until now. I haven’t seen a video explaining this yet (will probably make one myself), but people have definitely fallen victim to this glitch while attempting EYG. Basically, when you touch the ground at the same time that you mount Yoshi, he stays in place but moves to the height where Mario just landed. The difference in height is usually pretty small because you have to be so close to Yoshi to mount him, but we can still use it to clip through the ground in some places.

But how is that different from the other OoB glitches? Well, this one can be performed right next to the water, allowing us to clip back in bounds (but underwater) before we fall too low. Once this is done, we can simply run to the island, unlock the pipe, and enter the secret area.

Inside the secret area, there’s no need for A presses anyway… until the last two coins. The 7th coin can be obtained by simply hovering from the side of the river, but the 8th is way above the ground. Hovering from the pipe gets just below the coin, then we can ground pound to grab it.

This video is RTA, played on PAL Wii.