So a couple of days ago we took a look at
my failed attempt to route super mario 3D land without collecting a single coin. While we were able to find a way to avoid
almost all coins in the game, there were two coins that we were forced to collect. Two coins of shame. So I was ready to accept my defeat and to
move on, but then, then I once again got some help. I got tons and tons of comments filled with
different ideas, and cool game knowledge on how it may be possible to skip those final
two evil coins. So I gave a couple of those ideas a try, and
as it turns out, there is definitely room for improvement. So today we are going to reinvestigate the
spots that gave us trouble last time and we will find out if it may actually be possible,
to beat Super Mario 3D Land without touching a single coin. So are you ready? Let’s do this! So before we reinvestigate the two coins that
we weren’t able to remove last time, let’s first take a look at the one super troublesome
coin we actually found a way to remove. The sneaky corridor blocking coins in 7-4. The problem here are those five shiny troublemakers
that settled down in this narrow hallway. So the way we dodged them, was by doing an
insane amount of wall jumps to make it past this section without getting paid. This strategy is pretty slow, difficult, a
bit ridiculous and as a lot of you ladies and gentleman pointed out to me: not required. So what is the other way to skip all those
coins? Well, as it turns out the answer to this little
riddle was hidden in the speedrun of the game, all along. Speedrunners actually skip this section by
using a neat little trick. While wearing a tanooki leaf mario is able
to reach this spot from here. All that we have to do is to jump off the
platform the moment it starts to move, because then we get a tiny speed boost that, together
with a wall jump gives us just enough speed and height to land on the platform. Skipping the nasty coins this way, is way
faster and easier, though we don’t use enough awesome wall jumps this way if you ask me. Anyway, let’s take a closer look at the
doorway coins in 5-2. The problem here is this coin in this hallway. The dumb coins hitbox just completely fills
the entryway, and makes it impossible to proceed into the second part of the stage. Jumping over the coin is not possible here,
because the doorway is way too low, and waddling past the coin is also impossible because,
well because of the coin. There is just no way to make it through here
without picking up this dumb coin. Ooor, at least I was convinced that there
is no way for us to make it past this section coinless, but as it turns out there is a small
glimmer of hope. Youtube user Nathaniel Strub left me a comment
with a picture of him after dodging the evil hallway coin, alongside a description of how
he did it. He managed to dodge all three coins, by aligning
mario perfectly, and by doing a roll long jump. So in his comment he called this trick extremely
precise, and after about six hours of trying to replicate the trick I’d like to add an
over the top, ultra, super, desperately and very in front of the extremely precise. Holy fuzzy, seriously how? I tried replicating this trick over and over
again. For hours. I literally hit mario's head into this corner
thousands of times, and it pains me to say that, but I’m completely unable to reproduce
the skip. I didn’t make any progress over the hours
I tried this. Nothing, either I painfully rammed mario into
the corner, or I even more painfully rolled directly into the coin and was forced to eat
it. Out of the hundreds of tries to dodge this
worst coin of the year contender, I only ended up dodging it once, and I still have no idea
why or how. There isn’t enough room to roll past this
coin, but for some strange reason, our favorite plumber still rolled past this coin during
this attempt. This wouldn't have been a coinless hallway,
since we definitely would have picked up the second coin here, if I hadn’t picked it
up earlier, but nonetheless we dodged the coin here. This happened after about half an hour of
coin avoiding, and even though I grinded this spot for many many more hours, I wasn’t
able to replicate whatever happened here either. It pains me to say it, but there is a chance
that there is an over the top, ultra, super, desperately and very extremely precise trick
possible to skip the coin, that I simply can’t replicate. If anyone of you wonderful ladies and gentleman
somehow manages to record a way to dodge this coin, please please please let me know about
it, for now, I sadly can’t say with absolute certainty that dodging the coin is possible. However it doesn’t really matter, because
as it turns out there is something else in the game which I missed, that definitely allows
us to dodge mr super douchebag coin. It’s the p-wing. If Mario dies ten times in a stage we haven’t
beaten yet, then a magical p-wing item appears, that, well that just simply teleports mario
directly in front of the flagpole. Yup. The p-wing allows us to end 5-2 without a
single coin. It’s not pretty, and it’s kind of cheating,
but to be honest, call me a cheater, that’s fine, as long as I don’t have to pick up
this dumb coin, I’m happy! This removes one of the two evil coins we
previously had no way to skip, and it means that if we find a way to avoid the stupid
beetle coin at the end of 5-5, then the game is officially beatable coinless. This coin is where stuff becomes interesting. So the problem here is the following. Each enemy punishes us with shiny, yet dumb
coins when we jump onto it, ground pound it into the ground, or defeat it with a tail
swipe. The only way to safely kill an enemy is by
throwing a fire flower fire ball towards it, because then the enemy drops it’s inner
coin somewhere into the world. We need to defeat this beetle thingy at the
end of the stage here, because if we don’t, it transforms into an evil coin as soon as
we end the level, and we also have to hit the top of the flagpole, because if we touch
this famous flagged pole at any other spot we get coined as well. Since the problem is at the very end of the
level, using another p-wing to teleport to the end of the stage doesn’t help here. What this means is that we have to find a
way to get rid of this enemy, while still hitting the top of the flagpole. We actually found a way to get rid of all
enemies but the final one, by positioning ourselves at the edge of this platform, and
by sniping the evil beetle like creatures, that are actually called biddybuds. The final biddybud is sadly so far away from
the platform that the fireballs always despawn before we hit it. Last time we sadly weren’t able to find
a way to solve this problem, that’s the second forced coin, and this is where this
becomes interesting. So I got literally hundreds of comments with
really cool ideas on how it may actually be possible to remove the final evil coin in
the game, and a lot of these ideas were really really good and definitely worth trying. So over the last days I tried tons of different
strategies. I tried to damage boost while up their, to
switch to the acorn suit mid air, to jump off the platform a bit so that the fireball
doesn’t despawn and lots of other different strategies. And after tons of testing I sadly have to
say that there wasn’t a single solution among your ideas. There also weren’t two solutions, because
as it turns out, there are actually three completely different strategies to get rid
of this stupid final coin. Ladies and gentleman, as it turns out, it
is possible to beat super mario 3D land without touching a single coin! Hooray. Here’s how. So huge thanks to youtube user EpicProdigy99. He not only found a way to skip this coin,
and managed to record how he did it. But his solution is also the one out of the
three ways to avoid the coin that has by far the most swag. So here’s the clip of him ending the stage
coinless. He basically did an incredible precise long
jump from the beginning of this section towards the flagpole, and managed not only to shoot
the sneaky coin carrying beetle, but actually hit the top of the flagpole as well. Hooray! So before someone asks me how I was able to
miss such an obvious solution like long jumping from here towards the end. I didn’t, I actually tried this, and here
is what happens when I try to do this long jump. Mario dies. So, check this out, here we have two clips
of mario about to long jump into his doom. In the right clip we are going to long jump
straight off the platform. In the left clip we long jump off the platforms
side instead of it’s front. Just check out what happens. Yup. As it turns out the horizontal acceleration
of long jumps isn’t capped in the game. If mario moves into a direction that isn’t
in front of him while long jumping, then he never stops to accelerate. If he jumps straight forward however, then
there is a cap on how much speed he is able to build up. EpicProdigy99 used this little quirk in order
to just build up enough speed to perfectly land on top of the pole after shooting the
beetle. It took me a couple of tries, but I was able
to replicate the trick, and in my opinion this is the best way to dodge the final coin. It’s the fastest, and most importantly the
by far best looking coin skip! But this is only the first out of three different
solutions to this problem. So previously we took a look at whether it
is possible to first long jump, and then to switch into a tanooki leaf mid jump, which
is impossible. But as it turns out, that was a pretty good
line of thought, we just happened to do it the wrong way around. Huge thanks to youtube user LP Mx. He managed to think a bit outside of the box,
and to turn the fireflower into tanooki idea onto it’s head, which gives us the third
and final way to avoid the nasty coin. Here’s the clip of how he did it. He jumped off the platform as tanooki mario,
flew close to the pole, released the fire flower mid air, then switched outfit close
to the beetle, killed it and managed to land on the top of the flag. Hooray! But we are still not done on our journey to
completely embarrass this final coin. Because there is one final way to dodge it. This one was discovered by kosmic. For those not familiar with kosmic. He is a speedrunner of the game, and currently
placed second in the any% category of the game, though he probably is better known for
being the first human to ever record a run of the original super mario bros with a time
below 4 minutes and 56 seconds. He’s a legendary mario speedrunner. So what did kosmic do to dodge this coin? Did he use some insane speed running techniques? Had he some secret knowledge to get rid of
coin carrying beetles, did he wrong warp past the level? Well let’s take a look at the clip he sent
me! He just long jumped towards the beetle and
killed it. Woops, as it turns out that’s possible,
it’s not even that precise. To be completely honest here that I missed
this solution for this beetle still kinda bugs me. Anyway, ladies and gentlemen here we have
it. Super Mario 3D land is officially routed coinless,
hooray! Huge and gigantic thanks to everyone who helped
removing those final two nasty coins. You guys actually managed to find four solutions
on how to dodge two coins. Huge thanks to the awesome 3D land speedrunning
community, especially kosmic for taking the time to look into our little coin problem,
and KingBoo who was kind enough to send me a summary of a couple of neat speedrunning
tricks in the game. You guys are all seriously amazing! There are a couple of links down in the description
for anyone who wants to see some insane Mario gameplay, including Kosmics legendary WR run
and the link to the current world record of 3D land. For anyone who hasn’t seen this run, I highlestly
recommend checking it out, 3D land is an amazing speed game. Also, as it turns out I wasn’t the only
one working on 3D land coinless over the last couple of weeks. Our brother in spirit NicoBBQ also looked
in all the shiny yet deadly coins in the game and made an excellent video about his journey
to beat 3D with as little coins as possible. It’s really interesting to see which coins
gave him the most trouble and what strategies he came up with. The link to his video is in the description! Alright, now we finally know the true answer,
so the next time someone asks you why it is not possible to beat super mario 3D land without
touching a single coin, tell them ceave is spreading lies. With that being said I hope you enjoyed this
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and to see you soon. Goodbye!
Hu-ray!
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