Mario DS: Help thread

[GameMaster]

Oh my goodness! How I do get the star on Boo's Balcony in his stupid mansion! Geez!

[Crash]

go in the mansion, up the stairs to the second floor... go in door on right.... go to back of room jump on ledge... do backflip or wall jump to get to top, go in door on right, kill boo... (use backflip, buttstomp)

[Crash]

ok, so I got 102 stars.... couple questions i may be forgetting how to do... the most recent one that is strange to me is:

pluck the pirana plant in tiny big world... btw... i thought you unlocked the courtyard cannon when you beat the game... guess not until you get 150 stars... plus, i'm not collecting "glowing" rabbits, I have 5 more to go... i wonder what I get when i collect all those.

[Canyarion]

The cannon used to open when you had all 120 stars.

I thought rabbits gave mini-games.

[Crash]

Originally Posted by Canyarion

The cannon used to open when you had all 120 stars.

I thought rabbits gave mini-games.

naw, the glowing rabbits are different.... once you have all the regular rabits, you collect the glowing rabbits, and it gives you a key to that "silent" door.... dunno what's inside though

luigi's last rabbit cannot be gotten until you get on the castle top.

[GameMaster]

I don't know what to do for 'Pluck the Pirahna' either. Someone help us!

Also, some Mario 64 DS easter eggs I discovered:

- Matrix Spoof: To access the Matrix spoof, play as Luigi and enter the room with the mirror that reflects the entire room. Grab the invisible flower and enter the mirror to the reflection side. Go into the door that's a reflection of the door that leads to you this room. Inside the door you will be taken to a completley white room with no floors walls or anything. A secret star is your reward for finding the Matrix all-white room.

Freeze Time:

Having trouble clearing the courses in the Clock Themed world? To make things easier and essentially freeze everything in the clock world except for bad guys, just jump into the face of the clock when the big hand reaches the 12.

[thatmariolover]

Originally Posted by GameMaster

I don't know what to do for 'Pluck the Piranha' either. Someone help us!

To get the "Pluck the Piranha" star enter the small portrait so your character is large. Then jump over to the middle island, then over to the next island. Jump through the pipe so that you become small. Then kill all of the Piranha Plants on that island. You might have to go all the way around the level a couple times to get back if you fall off. After you've killed them all you'll get the star.

Collecting Glowing Rabbits
Alright. I caught them all and devised a fool-proof way to get them in 30 minutes or less. Warning: All you get is a star for this. So if you're hoping for a secret character like I was, you're going to be sadly disappointed. Now to the technique:

#1: Become Yoshi.

#2: Yoshi's rabbits are almost always outside. So go out there. If none of the three rabbits right in front of you are white, go back inside and then back out again. Repeat until you catch a white rabbit.

#3: Go upstairs, check the door and switch characters to somebody else and then right back to Yoshi after every rabbit. This helps reset the random factor. After catching a glowing rabbit with a character it becomes more difficult until you switch characters. Switching and switching back works though. Then go back outside and repeat step #2.

I've got 71 stars right now, I just started yesterday. I had forgotten how incredibly groundbreaking this game was. I didn't realize I could consider a 3-D game nostalgic.