Super Mario RPG Secrets

Super Mario RPG...a Game of mystery? Although the normal person would say "No, it's too easy!", if you look beyond that you will find quite a few interesting secrets.

Thanks to Lucas H., Slapshott Sniper, Bowser2784, LSM, Michael C., T. Gorrell, Chris Johnson, Kboy12686, Mark Albis, PersonalityPlus, Justin, Slapshott Sniper, Floyd Blamires, Swoop85, starfox20, Matt Hayden, Mark Albis, and Andre for some of this info!

Gameplay Links

Mario's Pad

You can take a free nap by pushing "A" near the fungi light.

Mushroom Way

You don't have to rescue Toad to fight the Hammer Bros. and get the Hammer. However, if you don't rescue him, you'll miss out on a flower tab and a honey syrup.

Mushroom Kingdom

If you return Croco's wallet to the rightful owner, something very good will happen in the future. The guy who you gave the wallet to gives you a frog coin. But that's not the secret. This time, don't talk to him. Continue playing! (You just said my favorite phrase!) After you beat Star Hill, go directly back to Mushroom Kingdom. The dude who now has his wallet will give you a Flower Jar instead!

Bandit's Way

Kero Sewers

If you re-enter the room where you fight the treasure box, and have already beaten it, you can get 50 coins out of that SAME BOX!!
See the unreachable treasure box? You know there's a Cricket Pie in there once you've reached Land's End. HOWEVER, there's a way to get up there LONG BEFORE Land's End! Let a ghost come up and attack you NEAR the ledge. Run away from battle. Jump on the flashing ghost and UP ONTO THE LEDGE! Your prize? A FLOWER...DID you think they'd just GIVE the Cricket Jam to you? Next, try entering the pipe high on the adjacent ledge. The Shy Away will say "You've hit a dead end. You better turn back now." You can fight him and, will of course, loose if you are underleveled.

Midas River

If you get all 100 coins in Midas River, then you will get a 5 frog coin bonus!!

Tadpole Pond

Go to Frogfucius and jump on his table. While standing on the table, talk to him and he will talk about how rude you are.

Rose Way

There is a screen with a few ? boxes and a shy guy on each of them. after getting all the coins, leave Rose Way and return to this screen. All the boxes will be full of coins again.

Rose Town

When you first get to rose town, there is a man who is trapped outside his house, because the steps are out. Go inside, take the treasure, go upstairs and get the hidden treasure floating above the bed. Don't hit the switch! When you get to the forest maze, go left, left, forward, right. (These directions are from Mario's view. If it where from your view, it would be up, left, left, up.) When you beat Forest Maze, go directly to the dude in the back who is still stuck outside his house. No here is the part you didn't know. Go up in his house, and hit the switch. When you come out, and commit your crime, he gives you a frog coin!!!
There is a hidden person behind the house where the man is locked out. Talk to him, and he'll mention "Yo'ster Isle" and the goomba-thumping game.
If you sleep at the Rose Town Inn right after you wake up from being hit by Gaz (it's free, since Gaz's mother is happy you played with him), Toad will come and give you a Flower Tab.

Forest Maze

To get the secret treasure, go up, left, down, down, and left...the directions the man in Rose Town gave you are from MARIO'S POINT OF VIEW.
To get out of the Forest without backtracking (if you return), then go up, right, up, up, right, up, left.
Jump on Wigglers to get coins. You get one coin for each jump, and if you jump on one 10 times, you'll get a Frog Coin!

Pipe Vault

Don't try too hard when you play the Goomba-thumping game. You'll find out that, at first, if you hit 20, you'll get a prize. Well, guess what? If you hit 30, 40, or whatever, you'll still get the same prize! That means it will be harder for you to get better prizes later.
To fight the Shy Ranger, equip Geno with the work pants and Zoom Shoes. Beat him by using sleepy bombs or the Geno Whirl.

Yo'ster Isle

Moleville

After you get the third star, and you have traded the fireworks for the shiny stone for the carbo cookie, you can give the carbo cookie to the girl on the bucket. Once she gets it, she'll run away, and you can go down the bucket (like you would a pipe) and get a free ride down Midas River!! Plus, you get to KEEP THE COINS YOU COLLECT!

Coal Mines

If you go to the room before where the cart is, and try to run through the lower door, that a Shy Guy will push the cart back, it will hit the wall, and a frog coin will pop out!

Booster Pass

Go up the first bush you see in Booster Pass, get on the opposite side of the exit, and hit "A"! It will give you a frog coin!! BTW, it's the bush to the RIGHT(not the one on the left), which kind of makes a "corner" where it is...

Booster Tower

Go to Booster's Tower. Find the room where Booster meets you for the first time on a train. Get away from the door, and go against the wall with the door. Stay along the wall, and go through the passage way on the upper left part of the screen. There, you will find a Flower Tab. Also, when you get to this part the first time, you can follow the train tracks, and go through the other passage way.
After you complete Booster's Tower, come back after you beat Valentina in Nimbus Land and go all the way to the top of the Tower, where you fought Knife and Grate Guy before. You will instead see Booster apparently trying to convince Valentina to marry him, and he says something to her, to which she replies "That's so nice", or something to that effect, and she stands by him.

Booster Hill

Did you know that if you go back to Booster Hill after you try to catch Booster and the Princess you can get more flowers? Toad tells you to leave, but if you keep running up, you can collect more flowers (until Toad tells you that they are all gone).

Marrymore

Have Mario jump on the cake that Chef Torte is making with his apprentice. They'll kick you off and scream "You fools!"
Jump on the organ in the church. Toadofsky will ask what you're doing.
Stand in front of the couple getting married in the church (behind that wooden thing) Mario nods a couple of times and raises his hands heavenward. (isn't Mario wonderful?? he's a plumber, a hero, a guardian to Mallow and a priest!!)

Star Hill

Seaside Town

Before you beat Yaridovich, if you go into the first door that you see where the spinning mushroom is, you can buy great items like an ice bomb, a fire bomb, a muku cookie, and a bad mushroom!

Sea

Sunken Ship

Go up to the Mario clone, and hit "A". It'll turn into a Greaper!! Once you fight it, it won't return until you exit the stage.
Go to the bottom part in the room where the six cannons are firing, if you jump at the right second, you hit the bullet from underneath, and it will be "defeated", which means no more bullets will be fired from that cannon. There's a way to defeat all six bullet guys, although you won't get anything from it, and once you exit the stage, they'll be back.
In the Sunken Ship, in the upper left room, you will find a pile of Dry Bones. go and talk to it.
Go to the third screen where the rats are running up and down the stairs. On the top right part of your screen are boxes shaped like an "M." Fall through the top of the "M" and you will recieve a flower.
After beating Yardiovich, return to the Sunken ship. Go though it all the way to Jonathan Jones' room. Go to the pipe next to where Johnny was standing after you beat him. Face the hole in the pipe and press A. It will list numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Choose a number and it will show a part of the Sunken Ship.

Land's End

I found out that you can get 20 coins and 1 frog coin from the Armored Ants at Land's End. Jump on their heads 3 times in a row, the first two times you do it, you'll get two big coins and the third time you hit him, you get a frog coin!!! You have to be fast and do it before they dissapear in the ground. You can also do this as much as you want.
You can buy an invinsible star for 400 coins when you first hit underground. When you see the "maze" of lizard-like things (geckits), then jump behind the crates and push "A". The person should say either "I've got a star to sell, but you don't have enough coins to buy it", or "I hear you're looking for a star. Care to buy one for 400 coins?", or something like that. When you go back later, he'll tell you that's he's going to find a better star. You can leave the underground part, come back, and buy that "better" star for 800 coins.

Belome Temple

Monstro Town

Go into the Goomba's Shop. Go up to the triplets and talk to them. They'll say something like "Can we help too?". If you buy one of those mushrooms, and use it, you'll notice these 3 things.
1. You can't give it to the person handing it out. (ex. If Bowser decides to use it, then he can't give it to himself.)
2. It will restore 30 HP, but it will turn that character who used it into a Mushroom!
3. If you go to Mushroom Boy's shop, and try to offer it to him, he'll tell you that you don't have ANY mushrooms!
Enter the second door you see (NOTICE IT HAS A KEY ON TOP OF IT!). Talk to the Thwomp (the blue thing that shakes the ground when he talks to you) 7 times, and the Temple Key will fall down!

Bean Valley

The entrance to Grate Guy's Casino is here. Go down the pipe where the golden chomp is (at the series of 6 pipes), and go to the corner that the chomp is in. Jump three times, and, if you have a bright card, a "1-up" noise will sound each time and you'll be able to exit there and enter the casino.
In one of pipe (also in the series of 6 pipes) where there is a stair case jump on the springboard on top and you'll come to a pipe with a treasure chest above it, in which is a frog coin.

Grate Guy's Casino

If you talk to Grate Guy a few times, he'll play "Look the other way" with you. Once you win it 63 times, he'll give you a Red Essance. Win 100 times, and you'll get the Star Egg.
Go to the slot machines. When the three columns are rotating you hear music in the background. Listen for the beat. You can listen for the slow beat, or the fast beat. It doesn't matter. I prefer the slow beat because it is easier. At the end of the series of beats(when the drum pattern starts over) you jump. Then wait for the next series of beats to end and then jump at the same beat you did before. Repeat this motion for the third one! If you time yourself perfectly you will get a "Frog Coin."

Nimbus Land

In Nimbus Land, after beating Birdo, keep going up until you enter the room with Valentina and Birdo. some conversation will follow between Valentina and Shy Away. after that, she will run through a door at the back. instead of following them, head back out the way you came. Mallow will stop you, saying something like 'they went that way!'. try leaving throught the same door again and Mallow will say something like 'Hello?? anybody home??'. try for a third time and watch Mario's reaction!
If you talk to King Nimbus over and over again he will keep calling Star Road something different.
After beating Valintina keep going in and out of Garro's house. The Mallow statue will keep having different expressions on his face.

Barrel Volcano

There's a semi-hidden room when you first enter. After exiting the room where the warp trampoline is, go to the bottom right, where you'll see a bunch of blocks kind of spread out. Jump on them, and enter the next room. It has 2 treasure boxes!!

Bowser's Keep

When you go to one of the rooms in Bowser's Keep the 2nd time, (I think it's the room with Croco in it when you meet him the first time) Go forward then take a left all the way to the left wall. When you're facing the wall take a left from Mario's view and go forward, you'll go to another room with 2 treasure boxes in it! Plus, the block on the lower right ALWAYS REFILLS!
In Bowser's keep, after beating 4 of the 6 doors, you will eventually come across a room with Thwomps and bullets firing at you. you can actually jump on a thwomp and ride it up. Don't get your hopes up though. Sometimes, there will still be bullets coming at you.

Smithy Factory

If you go into the last part of the Smithy Factory, and meet Toad, he'll sell you some useful items. But if you can get out of the Factory and go to the Mushroom Kingdom, he'll be there too! Exactly how many Toads ARE THERE?
If you use the Lamb's Lure on the Amoeba before it splits, then you will get 14 EXP POINTS!! This IS true because I found and tried this out myself. I'm not for sure about the Sheep Attack, though...

Other secrets

The extra game(Beetle Mania, the Game Boy) can be bought after you have all 5 party members. You get it at the Mushroom Kingdom inn, by the person in the corner.
You better have a lot of coins handy, because this costs 500 coins!
You can use an invinsible star as many times as you want!! Just use it, then die without saving the game. Your experience level will be the same as it was before you died, but you can get the star again!!
Also, this will REALLY help people level up better. When you get to the Level up screen, push "A" to get to the next screen where it shows everything increase. Push "A" once again to get to the select screen. Choose one of the three at random. Remember this... BEFORE YOU PRESS A TO CONFIRM, PRESS "B" TO CANCEL! Continue the process until you have looked behind all 3 of the bonus level ups. Then make your choice.
The shredder magic is strange. Do you know what it does?. I wondered too for a while. It's A SUPER OFFENSE DESTROYER!! It's nullify the effects of a Geno Boost, Energizer, or a Power Boost!! You can block this magic ONLY with the Safety Ring or Lazy Shell armor.
The chest-monster in Monstro Town will say "Wow, you've found them all." once you collect all 39 hidden treasure boxes. (BIG DEAL.)
To get Freebies often, wait for the item to reach the very top of its destination. Press X and hold it for about a half a second when the smoke goes off. This will work for almost any item.

web hosting • domain names
web design • online games