Really_Tall | Super Mario 64 DS - Phantom Key Glitch @Really_Tall | Uploaded 8 years ago | Updated 9 minutes ago
To set up this glitch, you need to do moat door skip to get into the castle, and then go back out as Mario. Run up to the front door and talk to Lakitu, and then the rabbit with the key to the castle will appear.
You're supposed to only be able to catch the rabbit as Yoshi, so catching it as Mario has an odd effect: you can walk around freely while the key is coming towards you. You can do lots of silly things, such as drowning and then collecting the key while dead.
What I show here is that by triggering text just before you collect the key, you don't collect it properly, and it floats above you. Talking to a previously caught rabbit will result in a soft-lock. The game counts you as having collected the key, so you can open the front door.
This probably also works with Luigi & Wario, but I didn't check. Additionally, reading a sign just before you get the key will also trigger the glitch.
I doubt this glitch is useful for anything, but I thought it was quite interesting.
To set up this glitch, you need to do moat door skip to get into the castle, and then go back out as Mario. Run up to the front door and talk to Lakitu, and then the rabbit with the key to the castle will appear.
You're supposed to only be able to catch the rabbit as Yoshi, so catching it as Mario has an odd effect: you can walk around freely while the key is coming towards you. You can do lots of silly things, such as drowning and then collecting the key while dead.
What I show here is that by triggering text just before you collect the key, you don't collect it properly, and it floats above you. Talking to a previously caught rabbit will result in a soft-lock. The game counts you as having collected the key, so you can open the front door.
This probably also works with Luigi & Wario, but I didn't check. Additionally, reading a sign just before you get the key will also trigger the glitch.
I doubt this glitch is useful for anything, but I thought it was quite interesting.
![[TAS] Super Mario 64 DS - The Secret of Battle Fort - 145 Coins](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZbZS6GMv9Sw/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Super Mario 64 DS - The Secret of Battle Fort - 145 Coins
In this video I collect 145 coins in The Secret of Battle Fort. This is the maximum amount of coins possible.
Previously, 97 coins was the thought to be the maximum possible, and had stood as the record since 2009 (http://cyberscore.me.uk/chart/54441). That chart was only added in 2009 though, and 97 will have been the record since the games release as there are no tricks or anything. Then on 27/08/16, I discovered red block coin duplication (https://twitter.com/Really_Tall/status/769525511240478720, https://twitter.com/Really_Tall/status/769531823420473344). This works by destroying a block with a punch, kick, ground pound, etc, on the same frame its blown up by a bob-omb. The trick also works if two bob-ombs blow up a block on the same frame, but that isnt useful in Battle Fort. There are 19 blocks each containing 3 coins in Battle Fort, and the glitch gets you an extra 3 coins from each of them. However 3 of the blocks are too far away for bob-ombs to reach them. So thats 16 blocks, so 48 extra coins, bringing the total from 97 to 145.
Most of the video should be self-explanatory: I collect the coins and use the duplication glitch on the 16 blocks its possible on. There are 3 bob-ombs in the course and they each respawn infinitely.
If the bob-ombs fuses lasted longer an additional 9 coins would be obtainable, bringing the total up to 154. Being able to enter Battle Fort as Yoshi would previously have increased the coin total by turning the goombas into eggs and doing some combos, but now with the duplication glitch Yoshi wouldnt even be close to improving it, since he cant be used for the glitch.
This glitch can be done on any version, so 145 is the max on all versions.
Getting 145 coins will probably never be done in real-time, as each duplication is frame-prefect (at 30fps) and there are 16 of them. However the trick is possible, and with only 1 attempt at the stage I managed to get 100 coins on console. Ill try to improve this more and see what I can get.")
