VG Myths - Can You Beat New Super Mario Bros. 2 Without Collecting Any Coins?

good morning everybody and welcome to VG myths the online internet video game TV show that actively avoids turning a profit and new super mario brothers to the mushroom kingdoms economy has gone bonkers coins are flooding the streets and Mari when Luigi are rushing out to gather riches and maybe accidentally rescue a princess along the way but success in life can't be boiled down to something as simple as a number in your bank account and that's why tonight we're tackling a challenge with a more intrinsic reward can you beat New Super Mario Brothers - without collecting any coins since the game is so focused on coin collecting the devs were polite enough to give us a couple dozen separate coin counters in addition to the standard and level counts the run is officially complete when we reach the game's end screen with every one of these counters at zero the most important of these is the global coin count it tracks every coin ever collected regardless of mode or save file coins are added to the counter after death or upon finishing a level so if you collect a coin and die or somehow accidentally be good at the game you'll need to home button your way out of there before your entire career is permanently tainted thankfully coins are rarely actually spaced in ways that make them impossible to avoid most are suspended in the air and let you duck under or jump over the run progresses without incident through level 1 - fortress where we take the secret exit leading towards the game's first cannon potentially allowing us to skip worlds and just as importantly we're now capable of saving our progress before beating the game you can only save after clearing a fortress castle or cannon but there's absolutely nothing stopping you from replaying the same fortress over and over to get free cheesy saves get real use to playing one - fortress you're gonna be replaying it after every single level 1 - cannon is an auto running coin collection extravaganza but thankfully all coins are in midair the raccoon leaf lets us fly under all of it and enter world mushroom we beat level 2-1 twice once for the main exit and once for the secret exit will be taking the main path but the secret exit leads into a toad house giving us our first mini mushroom this is the most valuable powerup in the entire run and each toad house will only let you grab one before poofing out of existence don't grab it unless you know you can make it count this coin gap is normally an impasse wall but mini-mario has no trouble swimming past it likewise the ghost house has a hallway with an ultra wide line of coins that just so happens to be exactly thin enough but mini-mario can make a darned near pixel perfect leap over thanks to the Mini mushroom we've made it to mushroom - Canon but unfortunately it's time to part ways and swap back to the super leaf this is the first major road block level boomerang grows underneath the coins prevent us from just walking under and we don't quite have enough space to fly over everything without getting hit it took over an hour to nail it but after jumping over boomerang bro one stall yourself on the ledges before boomerang bro - popping up from underneath his second mu meringue doing this sets the upcoming crows in position to keep you bouncing above the screen long enough to reach the exit towards world flower flower - one's main exit is a breeze but it's secret exit takes some master coin dodging with most of your movement happening off screen use the raccoon leaf and hold your breath to ride the question block long enough to shoot for the sky it leads us to flower - a but unfortunately the path loops through this coin littered tunnel with no room to dodge making the only path forward inaccessible the only other level available to us in world flower is the ghost house whoops turns out the entirety of world flower is a totally pointless distraction and the hours we just spent getting there were absolutely wasted it's not all the way back to the start thankfully I wasn't quite ready to permanently give up my Mini mushroom way back when so I kept the backup save handy we may not be able to skip straight to the end of the game but we've still got a fighting chance the beginning of mushroom - castle has this ultra hazardous section requiring super pinpoint bouncing and just before the boss tour you'll have to pass through a hallway with rotating platforms coins above you and death following right behind it may take a few dozen tries but once you finally get the perfect run you'll clear world mushroom and move into world 3 minor issue with three - fortress my strategy here requires two power-ups the mini mushroom to swim through an extremely tight coin gap and the fire flower to kill the resin ores at the end you can store power-ups and reserve on the bottom screen by collecting one will already power it up but I was an idiot to never plan things out when I originally grabbed the mini mushroom the current reserve item is a totally useless super leaf with no way to replace it without exiting many status however super coincidentally luckily at the same time you will knock the fortress you also gain access to a second toad house in which we can sacrifice our mini mushroom for the fire flower and then immediately turn back into mini and Bank the fire flower in our inventory this mistake permanently costs us our mini mushroom abilities after the fortress though so we're gonna need a lot of finesse to fit our giant hitbox through the upcoming levels and no we can't just grab another one from level 3 - V I tried to beat it but I hope you can forgive me for giving up thankfully while he's no mini-mario small Mario's hitbox is still low enough to make it through the upcoming stages it's a long and arduous journey but we can get past everything the game throws at us up into world 4 there's a shortcut after the ghost house that takes us directly to the world--for castle but in order to head through we need to beat 4 - a at the end of which is this vortex of economic do if I were good at video games I might be able to squeeze through legit but I'm not so instead we're gonna have to cheese it in a warp pipe halfway through the level is a rotating powerup block one of its power-ups being a star grab the star and rush to the vortex and you'll have just enough time to kill off a couple of the previously invincible the gap will now be big enough for you to make it through the other side to arrive at and complete for - castle now that we're at world five I've got some real good news we now have access to level 5 - 3 the beginning looks less than promising normally you're supposed to get into this pipe and cannon launch into a ton of coins but there's actually just enough space on the left to get super leaf flight started by abusing the level boundary from there you can fly into the level proper in which there exists a secret block with the ultimate prize a mini mushroom from now on we can replay this level and grab the mini mushroom as many times as we want meaning we have unlimited permanent access to every powerup and can enter every level in whatever form we deem most useful there's not much left the game can throw to keep us back now we mini mush and super leaf our way through the ghost house secret exit golden coin chip and 5 - castle making it to the finale world 6 the ghost house near the beginning does have a secret exit you could use to skip to the castle but it's a little bit impossible so you'll be going the long way around though your patience will absolutely be tested the main path doesn't feature anything explicitly impossible especially with every powerup in the game at your disposal the end of 6 - 4 is the highlight featuring several daren't near totally full screens worth of coins luckily the super Leafs flight timer instantly resets to full whenever you land while moving allowing you to make pit stops on the moving platform and fly over the entire golden onslaught clearing the only stage that stands a chance at stopping our frugal quest towards Bowser's Castle I recommend going through the entire gauntlet as mini Mario this section with rows of coins protected by flame geysers looks intimidating but there's actually plenty of time to jump between each gap just don't take too long to get your bearings three coins try to stop you just before the door to the Koopaling room but they're actually aligned in just the right way such that tapping the jump button while standing still gives you the perfect jump height to squeeze between walk down the final hallway and prepare yourself for a showdown with Bowser who thankfully forgot to bring his wallets there are only three sets of coins during the battle all of which are sectioned off at the left and right edges of the screen making them easily avoidable with the last switch pressed and Princess Peach rescued the new Super Mario Brothers to coinless run isn't over yet what did you seriously think Bowser was the final boss who do you think put all those coins in our way in the first place the true villain and final boss of New Super Mario Brothers 2 scoreless run is the new Super Mario Brothers 2 dev team these absolutely bloodthirsty monsters don't know when they've been beat and are catapulting a bonanza of coins at us on our trip back to Peach's castle and to make matters worse this is still technically part of the final level you touch a single coin and you're heading all the way back to the beginning of Bowser's Castle it's gonna take a lot of memorization and a little luck but I assure you every individual coin in this onslaught is 100% dodge Abel the exact order and tightening of the coins getting launched is consistent so before you actually go in I recommend studying a video of the end credits being played most of the time you'll be hugging the right edge of the screen but when bonanzas rain up from below you'll want to be hugging the left edge when the UI designers show themselves move to the center of the screen and get ready for coins to rain on you from above they never fall from the center so that's your safe zone when the special thanks are almost over run to the left edge of the screen and pray to the almighty rng gods with the final coin finanza behind you Princess Peach safely delivered home and shigeru miyamoto stopping his hat in frustration the new super mario brothers to coinless run is mission completes before I go shout out to Nintendo unity who did their own coinless run a while back I honestly brushed off the ideas impossible until somebody pointed out their run already existed so this video wouldn't exist without theirs plus if you liked this run you might also be interested in Steve gaming's video on the coinless new super mario brothers new run he reminded me I need to get off my lazy butt and make this video without him it wouldn't have been possible and finally if you want to see my own run in its entirety I edited together a demonstration of every exit I managed to clear even the ones that led absolutely nowhere because I'm an idiot link in the description special thanks to all patreon backers including Andrew Seibert mrs. 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Id: 7hyftA7vRp4

Length: 10min 45sec (645 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 13 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/jairo_uy]

Impressive run! Also, he's got some Nikki love on his homescreen.

But man, blowing up a 3DS game to a video size does not do it any favors.