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Super Mario Galaxy Cheats, Hints & Hidden Stuff

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Hint: Extra Lives

Because you start each game with only four lives (after shutting the game off and turning it back on), you might be in need of some extra lives upon rebooting the game. You can usually get five right off the bat from Toad (he’ll run around with a letter above his head, symbolizing a letter from either Luigi, or more likely Peach). There are four more strewn around the Observatory that you can acquire, however:

  1. On the moving green platform below the core.
  2. Under the stairs leading to the kitchen.
  3. Right at the top of the observatory. (Once the Red Star is unlocked)
  4. Underneath the entrance to the gateway to the stars. (Once the Red Star is unlocked)

Hint: Second Player

If you have a second Wii controller, you can have a friend play along with you. While there won’t be a second player on-screen, you will have a second cursor to use. This means that Coins, Star Bits, and the like can be collected by the second player. There’s also some functionality in controlling Mario’s jumps.

Unlockable: 121st Star

There’s actually 121 Stars in the game, not 120. To get it, you must first have all 120 Stars. This unlocks Luigi. Beat the entire game with Luigi, defeating Bowser at the end. After this, a new galaxy will be unlocked. Finish this final galaxy to get the 121st Star.

Unlockable: Death Count

The Grand Finale Galaxy, which is the secret galaxy that can be unlocked after 120 Stars are gathered with both Mario and Luigi, holds another secret. Once the final Star is acquired with both characters in this galaxy, you will be able to see your death count on your save file. This will allow you to see how many times you died while playing the game with both Mario and Luigi.

Unlockable: Luigi

Here’s how to get Luigi. First, get all 120 Stars in the game. Then, return to Rosalina (on the Comet Observatory) and request to fight Bowser one last time. Defeat him and let the credits roll. Thereafter, a message will appear telling you Luigi is a playable character.

Grand Finale Galaxy

Collect all 120 Stars with Luigi, and defeat Bowser to unlock the Grand Finale Galaxy, which is the Star Festival seen in the beginning of the game.

Homing attack

Spin in mid-air, then immediately press Z to hit the nearest target.

Buoy Base Galaxy: Pokemon reference

Above the tower where you collect the Blue Star Pieces in Buoy Base Galaxy is a little planetoid that is a sphere with two red panels on top and a lighter bottom with a screw in the middle. It looks exactly like a Pokeball.

Pikmin reference in Space Junk Galaxy

One of the planets is shaped like Captain Olimar’s rocket ship that appeared in Pikmin and Pikmin 2.

Bonus levels (demo version)

At the main menu, hold 1 + 2 and press A + B to access two hidden stages.

Super Mario Game Walkthrough Video

Easter Eggs

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Various Nintendo Wii games have their own Easter Eggs.  Easter eggs are tricks, cheats and hidden areas or functions within a program.

The following are some interesting “Easter Eggs” that are part of the Wii, WiiSports and the Wii Channel:

  • Catch an evil cat in the Fun option (by pressing A and B) in Photo Channel that runs across the screen so you can get some tips
  • A 194 piece puzzle can be created by holding down the 1 button before selecting any piece amount
  • You can e-mail a JPG file to your Wii Message Board (around 1MB limit)
  • In Wii Bowling, you can throw your ball into other people’s lanes
  • If you put mp3s in your SD card along with your photos, you can change the background music during a slide show to one of your mp3s
  • When the message board records your play time, if you don’t exit to the Wii Menu before you power off the machine, it records the play time as “other”. If you properly exit to the menu and then shut off it will record it as the correct game
  • You can rearrange almost anything on the Wii…like the channels and messages by just holding the A and B
  • The plasma burn in reduction kicks in the second the Wiimote shuts down.
  • When you get an e-mail, not only does the disc drive light up and pulsate blue, but your Wiimote sends out a little chirp
  • When you’re in the Mii channel and you don’t use the Wiimote for a little bit and your Mii’s start walking around, if you then suddenly use the Wiimote, all the Mii stop and follow the ‘hand’ for about 3 seconds
  • When typing messages, and you need to go back and edit the message(while still typing) instead of deleting letters, just point to where you want to edit to move the type cursor.
  • In Wii Sports Bowling, when you press up on the Directional Pad, it will zoom in on the lane. The zoom in sound is the exact same sound from Super Mario 64 any time you moved the camera.
  • Co Op Jigsaw puzzles in Wii photos
  • You can place the sensor bar upside down and it doesn’t reverse the directions of your movement
  • In Wii Bowling, you can release on the back swing and throw the ball backwards. It scares all the Mii’s behind you
  • Classic controller has analogue shoulder buttons. With the GC “click” at the bottom.

I hope you enjoyed that! Have fun!

Wii Hints, Tricks, Tips and Cool Blue Light Effect

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

This is my first blog on what will be a very useful blog for Wii owners.

These hints and tips have been sourced from various areas of the internet, I have credited invididuals where appropriate.
1. Press the home button on the main menu. Next click on the controller image. You can adjust the wii-mote volume and rumble functions.

2. Hold a and b down and you can move the windows on the main menu around.

3. In order to add someone to your friend’s list you BOTH have to enter each other’s Number ID and Console Nickname to be able to send messages and Mii’s.

4. Want your plain-looking Wii to have some style? Add a blue light around you CD drive anytime the console is on by doing the following:

Go to your email from the home menu, and add your personal computer email address to your address book. Wait ~1 hour for the email (mine took at least this long) Reply to the email from your computer. In a few minutes, you will have an email waiting for you on your Wii. Don’t read it! As long as it remains new, you have a pretty blue light!

5. In wii sports bowling, you can release on the back swing and throw the ball backwards. It scares all the miis behind you.

6. Email A Wii: You can email any Wii that you know the Friend code for. The Email address will be w(Wii Number here)@wii.com. For Example: w123456789012@wii.com

7. Get rid of Generic Teammates/Spectators: The Wii will automatically use the other Miis in your Plaza as teammates and spectators in certain Wii sports games. Create friends and family, and you can get rid of the generic Miis.

8. Register and Extend Warranty: Register your Console on Nintendo.com, get a free 90 day extension to your warranty.

9. Get Free Nintendo Power: Register 3 Nintendo products on Nintendo.com, and get 3 months of Nintendo Power free.

10. Extra Parts: There are two parts to the Wii in your box that you may either not find, or never know what they are. The first is a Clear Disc piece. This piece fits under your Wii stand to Stabalize it’s balance. The second is a Small(1″ - 1.5̸ ;) plastic Piece. This piece is the stand for the Sensor bar. It puts some disntance between your TV and the bar. In theory, that should give you a better angle reception.

11. Get Miis in your parade: Setting your Miis to Mingle, and having your friends do the same thing will soon have Miis walking around in your parade. Your friends’ Miis will wonder over to your console and parade around, so long as they are set to Mingle. You can then grab them and send them to your Plaza so you have a copy.

12. In Zelda, the direction Link spins when doing a spin attack depends on which way you spin your nunchuck.

13. In Wii Sports Bowling, when you press up on the Directional Pad, it will zoom in on the lane. The zoom in sound is the exact same sound from Super Mario 64 anytime you moved the camera.

14. If you go to the Channel section in your menu you can choose to save VC games on a SD card.

15. In LOZ:TP if you keep it at the start screen for an extended period of time, it plays an extremely extended trailer that they didn’t show to the general public.

16. On hole 3 of Wii Sports Golf, there is a small section of fairway at about a 45 degree angle to the left from the tee box. It is a small patch surrounded by Out Of Bound-ness. If you can land your ball on there, you can easily make it on the green in 2, to to Eagle the course.

17. Wii Video 9 - Wii Video Converter

Wii Video 9 is a free video conversion application developed by Red Kawa. It allows you to convert your computer video files (like avi, divx, mpeg, etc.) into the specific video formats that are playable on the Wii.

Wii Video 9 can also be combined with Videora, another software application, and together they can let you automatically download and convert video for your Wii using BitTorrent and RSS technology.

18. In the Wii menus, turn your wrist and the hand cursor will also turn.

19. from Varelse: While your Wii is powered down you can press any button on your Wiimote and lights will flash. The number of lights flashing is the amount of charge left in your battery (1 is least charge, 4 is most charge).

20. In Wii Bowling, if you aim right to any lane near you, you can throw your ball there, but you won’t hit any pins unless you aim right.

21. Zelda. You can skip cutscenes in Zelda by hitting the - button. You must have at least seen the cutscene once, however.

22. Black Ninja Wii Bowling easter egg YouTube - Wii Sports Bowling Easter Egg

23. When you purchase a virtual console title and Mario runs across the screen, if you happen to get fire flower Mario, you can shoot fireballs with the A button.

24. Omie When looking at your messages press a+b and you can move the messages around. If you have a lot of messages then you can arrange them in this manner or you can just delete them.

25. Order a nice wii sports case from here: eBay: Wii Sports White DVD Case - Store your game in style (item 320053039034 end time Nov-29-06 18:24:43 PST)

26. In the Photo Channel, you can catch the evil cat that runs across the screen to get tips! It appears in the Fun option, and you can grab the cat with the A and B button.

27. You can have a 194 piece puzzle by holding down the 1 button before selecting any piece amount.

28. when you get an e-mail, not only does the disc drive light up and pulsate blue, but your Wiimote sends out a little chirp

29. when you’re in the Mii channel and you don’t use the Wiimote for a little bit and your Mii’s start walking around, if you then suddenly use the Wiimote, all the Mii stop and follow the ‘hand’ for about 3 seconds.

30. If you hold the SYNC button down on the Wii for 15 seconds, it will clear all synced Wii Remotes from the console.

31. Hold the B button and point to the direction you want to go in the Mii channel and you can scroll around the screen. You can see all the Miis without arranging them.

32. from zorilla. Press down on the control pad while watching a video to change the voices, if you change the mood on a video the sounds will be affected too.

33. With Wii forecast, you can rotate the globe on a different axis by turning/twisting the remote.

34. if the weather shows rain when you check it, you will hear the sound of rain and the same for thunder.

35. The weather channel will affect your in-game weather on Wii games. http://forums.nintendo.com/nintendo/…age.id=2808300

36. from Inibriator on IGN: Hit left and right on the dpad in the Weather Channel Globe to change the icons between the various options.

37. from +Maniacal=Maniac+ You Can Use The Right Analog Stick On The Classic Controller To Navigate The Wii Menu.

38. from Snoopwiius I have just found when on the main menu on Wii Play were you select which game you want to play you can click on various places on your Mii and he/she will perform different poses and facial expressions.

39. from scorpio369 In the globe view in the weather forecast channel, if you grab the world and give it a quick flick the world will go spinning (it works better if you zoom out with the - button) you can only really spin it east or west cause it gets stuck on the poles. This has no real value unless you wanted to choose some random city in the world.

40. from kwarp If you’re winning in Wii Sports Baseball by 4 or 5 points, the pitcher on the other team will start sweating.

41. from avidlinuxuser On the Beta Version of Opera, there are two files. One is in the Wii channel for the browser itself. The other is in the same area as game saves. If you delete the file, it clears the cache and cookies resulting in keeping the experience snappy.

42. from albino_vulpex When viewing photos in the photo channel, press B to create a pixilated circle for censoring The size of the circle depends on how close your remote is to the TV.

43. from joeydarkfire Wii Tennis: When you get to the screen (in 1 player) where there is a picture of 2 yous and 2 “?” press on them and they will change between “?” and u so u can play against yourself or just watch a match.

44. from duckols In bowling when the bowling game is loading you can press different directions on the D-pad to change the color of your ball.

45. from doctorecs In Wii boxing you can have your character do poses by moving your hands around. Example, put both hands up in the air as if you just won a victory.

46. from kiobot In Wii Play: On the game selection screen poke your Mii’s arms, legs, face and torso with the (A) button and see what happens…

47. from razoola In Wii Play, leave the main game select title page on and do nothing. After a while you character Mii’s will fall asleep and the music will change to a more nite nite twinkley sound.

48. from riviet In tennis, hold the two button during the warning screen right until the positions screen loads up for a blue court (the one from training).

49. from Carbon the number of coins mario gets when downloading VC games is the same as the number of blocks of memory it takes up.

50. from ToadIsDoingMagicMushrooms After beating the Boxing champ - Matt - you can get silver boxing gloves. To wear - Hold (1) when the screen goes black before a match.

51. from dialtone75 Press 2 while pitching in Wii Sports Baseball and you’ll pitch side-armed.

52. from Zorilla When loading WII NEWS grab the cat that appears at the top of the loading screen to get some tips.

53. from Braniac If you click on the loading cats on the news channel each one will make a different pitched noice a bit like a miaow. They act as a kind of keyboard.