Unsolved single-goal challenges
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This page lists unsolved single-goal challenges that are not currently possible with current knowledge and strategies. None of these challenges have been completed or solved.
Unsolved
Coin Count
- Getting more coins than intended in:
- Jolly Roger Bay (depending on the strat this could also save a Z press)
- Cool, Cool Mountain
- Big Boo's Haunt
- Hazy Maze Cave
- Lethal Lava Land
- Getting infinite coins in:
Cloning Related
- Transport cloning with Wiggler or a Skeeter
- Cloning in Lethal Lava Land (could also potentially solve the getting more coins than intended)
- Moving during time stop in Jolly Roger Bay (to get shell clones)
Collection Challenges
- 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 new Impossible Coin in Tiny Huge Island
- Killing the Mystery Goomba and collecting its coin
Parallel Universes
- Dying in a vertical PU in LLL
- Surviving in a vertical PU with a shell clone released in it
- Reaching a PU without using joystick
- Reaching a PU in any of the following:
- Jolly Roger Bay unreached areas
- Ship Subarea
- Cool, Cool Mountain
- Main level
- Slide
- Lethal Lava Land unreached areas
- Main level
- Shifting Sand Land unreached areas
- Eyerok area (note that this is a different area than the rest of the pyramid)
- Dire Dire Docks unreached areas
- Starting area
- Snowman's Land unreached areas
- Igloo
- Tall, Tall Mountain
- Main level
- Slide (top subarea)
- Slide (medium subarea)
- Slide (bottom subarea)
- Tiny Huge Island
- Tiny island
- Huge island
- Cave
- Tick Tock Clock
- Tower of the Wing Cap
- Cavern of the Metal Cap
- The Princess's Secret Slide
- Secret Aquarium
- Wing Mario over the Rainbow
- Bowser in the Dark World
- Main area
- Bowser fight
- Bowser in the Fire Sea unreached areas
- Bowser fight
- Bowser in the Sky
- Main area
- Bowser fight
- Castle unreached areas
- Jolly Roger Bay unreached areas
Misc
- Clipping from the top area of Wiggler's cave to the bottom area.
- 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)
- Grabbing the hangable ceiling on the bottom of the beginning cloud in Wing Mario over the Rainbow
- Hanging below the entrance's bridge in the castle grounds with the water raised
- Accessing the upper floors of the castle without first collecting the key from Bowser in the Fire Sea
- Grabbing the wrong penguin without pressing B (it looks easy, but that penguin doesn't walk off the roof to go to the wind, the wind is a bit too far from the roof, and the cannons don't point at him (the cannon next to him doesn't let you shoot at the right angle (you cannot rotate the cannon 360°), and cannons both from the wall kicks will work area, and above it, are a little behind the walls)
- Defeating Bowser in the Sky without spinning Bowser
- Performing an instant release on MIPS at an arbitrary HOLP
- Spawning a "8" orange number from a red coin, secret, treasure chest or water ring
- Spawning a "9" orange number from a red coin, secret, treasure chest or water ring
- Spawning a "0" orange number from a red coin, secret, treasure chest or water ring
- Getting hurt (squished) by the penguin in CCM
- Taking fall damage during the FLYING_TRIPLE_JUMP action
- Causing Mario to walk in a way that the camera focus stays constant
- Entering WDW on the medium or high water level without pressing A
- Entering the large THI painting without pressing A
Solved In Theory
- Grabbing a Bob-omb fake during boiling (The video provided uses certain hacked values and is Wii VC only).
- Escaping from a PU starting from speed 0 (The video provided was done on an emulator and likely crashes on console).
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
- Grabbing Ukiki without pressing B (useful for the B Button Challenge)
- Performing a transport clone with 4 simultaneous pushers
- Collecting the red coin in Bowser in the Dark World at the start without using the ! Switch and living
- Collecting the Impossible 1-up in Cool, Cool Mountain without dying
- Ground-pounding Wiggler's cave and then going to the huge island before the water finishes draining (this preserves the lower water level and allows a second ground-pound to trigger it again)
- Escaping from one of the fish tanks in the Jolly Roger Bay room in the castle (starting with zero speed and damage counter)
- Crashing the game by going out of bounds in Tall, Tall Mountain
- Clipping from the bottom area of Wiggler's cave to the top area.
- Reaching PU inside of the pyramid in Shifting Sand Land
- Hyperspeed Wall Kick between towers in Tower of the Wing Cap
- Leaving the Eyerok boss room after defeating Eyerok
- Causing a game crash by going out of bounds in the Cavern of the Metal Cap entry room
- Grabbing the hat stealing Ukiki without pressing B
Impossible Challenges
- Having Mario stand on a rotating platform, facing inwards, such that the camera focus doesn't move
- Impossible since the focus always moves in an ellipse (/straight line): WDW_Rotating_Platform.mp4
References
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