Super Mario Bros.
Console icon NES/Famicom

  • Collect 120 coins in World 5 without losing a life

    1,301 (990) of 54,860 โ€“ 2.37%

    1.80% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    2.37% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode
  • Created by Salsa on: 12 Sep, 2016 02:20
    Last modified: 12 Aug, 2023 10:51


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    QRS666 3 Apr 2023 11:16
    Got it after 20 tries...stupid rng cheevo. It all depends on luck from the second coin box :/ In other words you can get all the coins available in the world and still not get the cheevo.
    12 Aug 2023 10:51
    suspect15 edited this achievement's description.
    blackrook29 2 Oct 2023 19:39
    video link in here is theee worst. guy misses tones of coins in the sky heaven thing and still gets the cheevo? i missed 1 or 2 coins up there and got nothing.
    blackrook29 2 Oct 2023 20:19
    again relying on a glitch to give more coins i got all coins in coin heaven by 5-4 i had 115.
    blackrook29 2 Oct 2023 20:31
    got it, dont listen to the above saying can be big mario on that block. small mario get more coins. need to also do the turbo button trick from previous world. these cheevos are silly. cant wait to be done with this game.
    blackrook29 2 Oct 2023 20:40
    it popped why is it not showing on website or my profile?
    yellowJennifer 27 Oct 2023 18:16
    No glitches or lucky RNG is needed at all. The way multi-coin blocks work on SMB1 is peculiar. You just need to wait for it be still again and you can always get the same number of coins from any block. (depending on the frame rule, requires frame perfect input for 16 coins, 15 coins is very doable if you know how it works)
    Sawadadiego 27 Feb 2024 04:54
    There is a coin heaven in 5-2 that is a must.
    15 Mar 2024 16:35
    wolfman2000 edited this achievement's logic.
    Krowgur 28 Jun 2024 02:49
    ok here's how you do this fellow folk. get to World 5-1 with bigness. Take the 3rd pipe for the secret area. Make sure your turbo is setup and get 15 or 16 from the rightmost multicoin block. then in 5-2 there is a secret coin block next to the row of 5 coin blocks that the hammer guy is on. it's like ----- - Then use that block to hit the brick up and to the right and there is a vine there. you absolutely must be small while entering this or you will not have enough coins. Now here in coin heaven is the hard part. I made a save state here to practice it as it is really hard to get the coins whilst being small. You don't have to get all of them but you must get almost all. I don't know the exact number but missing say 3 is fine. after you exit heaven there are two blocks near the ground that only small Mario can reach. Again use turbo on the left block for maximum coins. You need 89 coins in the achievement popup counter after this block. After this collect every coin you see till near the end of 5-4 and you should get the achievement.
    Luissi 14 Sep 2024 19:47
    I did it starting as small Mario. It's harder because you can't pick many coins at the first multi-coin block, only 10 or 11 afaik. Even then, I had 2 coins to spare at the end of 5-4. For me, going in the coin heaven as big Mario was way easier to get everything. Without it, I always lost many coins. Hardest part is passing the first hammer bros. on 5-2 without getting hit. What I did was doing a full jump forward from the last block of the high row of blocks before he spawns. It's not guaranteed though. In the multicoin block where you duck, it's best to jump in the rhythm instead of mashing, unless you use turbo, or maybe mash very fast.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XCLa0jtLOI
    yellowJennifer 14 Sep 2024 19:55
    Any multi-coin block works the same no matter what. You can get 1 to 16 coins on all of them. 16 is not only frame perfect, but also depends on other facts.
    Luissi 15 Sep 2024 03:49
    That's very interesting. It explains why I never got more than 15 coins in any multi-coin blocks. But I think it's not possible to get that many coins on those that have a distance of five blocks above the ground, for example, that first one in 4-2, since it takes more time to reach it and fall. My record was 11 coins on these, so maybe a 12 (or 13?) could be possible if the jumps are perfect. Also, if you're small Mario, it seems impossible to get at least 14 coins even in the ones that are four blocks from the ground, because Mario's head hitbox also get's a bit more far from the block in this case.
    yellowJennifer 15 Sep 2024 12:09
    Sorry, you're absolutely right, I mean you can get up to 16 coins from the ones that are high up enough for you to hit em perfectly when they stop "bouncing up"
    Canor 14 Oct 2024 06:28
    Coin heaven as small Mario was absolute hell when I tried. Being big is way easier and makes zero difference on the coin block just after compared to small Mario. As long as you don't hit a multi-coin block its timer doesn't start, so make sure you're centered with the block properly before starting the crouch-jumps. If you're not centered just get pushed out and try again to slide under.
    guysir 11 Nov 2024 02:39
    Careful! Sometimes one of the lifts doesn't load in on 5-3.
    sandro4912 30 Nov 2024 21:37
    I finally got this with 122.

    This is absolutely insane. It should be lowered or moved to a coin subset.

    To give you an idea how crazy this is:

    - Go in as fire mario into 5.1. Yes I did 1-1, 1-2, 4-1, 4-2 for every attempt. Beat world select to level 4-1 would also work

    - I got 16 coins out of the block in 5-1

    - I did coin heaven big. Collected every last coin. Cannot imagine to pulls this of as small mario.

    - The next coin block ended like 10 runs for me. I either got kicked out left or right. You have to be perfectly in the middle and not mash to fast ducking to not get kicked out.

    - I still got kicked out early but my counter was on 90 at this point.

    - Rest is easy

    Thanks to the duck block and the "requirement" to go big into coin heaven this was until now the most annoying of the coin ones...
    nickcat1 21 Jan 2025 01:53
    The first number is the minimum coins required at the end of the level. The second is the obtainable coins in that level. This assumes you get 15 coins per block and you miss 3 in the sky. This leaves 4 missable coins. Note, you should have at least 74 coins after exiting the clouds.

    Level 5-1: 21 (25+)
    Level 5-2: 91 (70+)
    Level 5-3: 114 (23)
    Level 5-4: 120 (6)
    SpectralOrion 21 Mar 2025 06:57
    Can confirm that you don't need to be small Mario for level 5-2. Collected every single in 5-2's coin heaven as big Mario and still ended up with 97 coins at the end of 5-2. I got the achievement after collecting all 5-3 coins. Didn't even need the extras in 5-4.
    Mimicoz 28 Apr 2025 22:24
    at 120 the achievement does not come out, I had to collect 140 in bowser's level and luckily it came out.

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