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Super Mario Galaxy (2007)

Duration: 5:21

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This SHOULD have been an easy mission for max coins, but nooooooo...
It turns out that you can escape the Bullet Bill on Your Back planet and return to the Sunbaked Sand Castle route in the level, meaning you can get the 3 coins from the bullet bill planet and collect a different star instead! The setup for this out of bounds trick is very precise though.

Activate the blue switch, then move over to the very left side of the second stone wall. Long jump straight at the camera into the quicksand. As soon as you land in the quicksand, hold up-right (pointing NE) and rapidly press jump so that the quicksand doesn't swallow you up. The goal is to reach a specific portion of the outer wall of this planet while also facing the correct direction. A bit after you can't see Mario anymore, spin to bonk into the wall, then immediately hold the opposite direction on the control stick. If you got lucky, then Mario will briefly be able to do a wall jump and you can easily escape the planet! More often than not though, the wall jump won't happen and you'll instantly lose. This took me a TON of practice, and even on my successful attempt, I was only getting the jump ~15% of the time. If you're gonna try to do this one, then good luck!

Shoutouts to preon (https://www.youtube.com/@preon791), Dendonodon (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1oif9Gkk3U7a-fNsXe93Q) and PurpleSun (https://www.youtube.com/@PurpleSunTAS) for their assistance with this new discovery!

*This run was done on Super Mario 3D All-Stars for the Nintendo Switch

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