Unsolved single-goal challenges
This page lists unsolved single-goal challenges that are not currently possible with current knowledge and strategies. None of these challenges has been completed or solved.
Unsolved
Coin Count
- Getting more coins than intended in Cool, Cool Mountain
- Getting more coins than intended in Hazy Maze Cave
- Getting more coins than intended in Big Boo's Haunt
- Getting more coins than intended in Jolly Roger Bay
- Getting more coins than intended in Lethal Lava Land
- Getting infinite coins in Bowser in the Fire Sea
- Getting infinite coins in Tick Tock Clock
- Getting infinite coins in Rainbow Ride
Cloning Related
- Transport cloning with Wiggler or a Skeeter
- Cloning in Lethal Lava Land
- Moving during time stop in Jolly Roger Bay (to get shell clones)
- Performing a transport clone with 4 simultaneous pushers
Collection Challenges
- Living after collecting the Impossible 1-up
- Collecting the key in Bowser in the Fire Sea from underneath the ground, causing you to collect the key on the death floor
- Collecting a star during a demo sequence
- Collecting Mystery of the Monkey Cage without changing the HOLP for an arbitrary HOLP
- Collecting the red coin in Bowser in the Dark World at the start without using the ! Switch and living
- Collecting the new Impossible Coin in Tiny Huge Island
- Killing the Mystery Goomba and collecting its coin
Misc
- Clipping from the bottom area of Wiggler's cave to the top area, or vice versa
- Grabbing Ukiki without pressing B (useful for the B Button Challenge)
- Vertical PU death in LLL
- Hyperspeed Wall Kick between towers in Tower of the Wing Cap
- Surviving in a vertical PU with a shell clone released in it
- Activating more than 4 stars at once anywhere
- Reversing the one-way teleport in THI
- Ground-pounding Chain Chomp's post without interacting with the red coin (e.g. collecting its two coin value)
- Escaping from one of the fish tanks in the Jolly Roger Bay room in the castle (starting with zero speed and damage counter)
- Grabbing the hangable ceiling on the bottom of the beginning cloud in Wing Mario over the Rainbow
- Causing a game crash by going out of bounds in the Cavern of the Metal Cap entry room or in Tall, Tall Mountain
- Accessing the upper floors of the castle without first collecting the key from Bowser in the Fire Sea
- Defeating Bowser in the Sky without spinning Bowser
- Performing an instant release on MIPS at an arbitrary HOLP
- Ground-pounding the Blue Coin block in SSL without pressing A
Solved In Theory
- Grab a Bob-omb fake during boiling (The video provided uses certain hacked values and is Wii VC only).
Solved Single-Goal Challenges
- Picking up the cannon Bob-omb on the same frame as leaving its radius
- Putting the Ukiki that steals your hat on the monkey cage
- Collecting Mystery of the Monkey Cage without changing the HOLP
- Collecting Li'l Penguin Lost without changing the HOLP
- Collecting Blast Away the Wall without using the cannon, ledge grabbing, or using time stop