Super Mario Bros.

NES/Famicom

sandro4912 1 Dec 2024 12:40

All of the coin collector ones are horrible. But this one is horrible beyond belief.

I'm so tired if warping to world 8 and fuck it up again somewhere because I cannot play it perfectly.

Surprised nobody talks about the 2 coins and the pipe in 8-1. I manage to screw half the runs collecting the coins and than not be able to enter the pipe anymore.

And the 8-2 block its just too hard to not fuck up over and over again.

If this would be 110 we could skip it and just loop in the castle. Which would make this still hard...

sandro4912 1 Dec 2024 21:36

Finally got this. Had to loop for 8 coins in the castle. I only risked collecting 3 coins from the famous block in 8-2.

Beside that all other blocks yielded 15-16 with perfect jumps.

Really horrific experience.

dsto3ds 3 Dec 2024 11:25

Tip: You can get the coin block near the pipe in the 2nd room and loop it by going right and resetting the room until you get the achievement.

sajkee 7 Jan 2025 10:00

Better way for me in 8-2: do same trick as for Shell Shock achievement (Make 2 shells smash into each other). Just jump to both beetles when they close and push them to different sides.
Also, thx Luissi for cool strat :)

SYKEKO 9 Jan 2025 06:51

This cheevo is RNG hell, you can plot 8-1 safely you want to exit that level with 64 coins or so. 8-2 has the beetle part and its better to take less coins then take a hit and kill your big mario. I went into the castle needing 8 coins and was able to so it without a time crunch.

RetrogadoAdoro 15 Feb 2025 21:10

FINALLY I GOT IT! Whoever made this achievement is the devil himself, the coin block with the buzzy beetles and bullets is PAIN.

OmniMitch 20 Feb 2025 19:43

Finally did it. I got my last coin fgrom the 8-4 loop with like 40 "seconds" left on the clock. I am shaking

AlyxMeadow 7 Mar 2025 03:25

OmniMitch, we had to do the 8-4 loop ourselves. Luckily, after many prior failed attempts, we had enough coins where we only had to loop seven times in 8-4. Had time for another 2-3 loops had we needed to.

So glad we followed your lead on that one. There is no way we would have gotten Mastery 15 without your help.

SpectralOrion 21 Mar 2025 16:37

I originally thought the fourth one was irritating. But this one was plain sadistic. Thankfully, it was over by the end of 8-3 and I didn't need to use 8-4's loop.

sandro4912 21 Mar 2025 17:00

Looks like you are really a master. I needed to loop many times. Its very hard to get enough coins out of the dreaded block in 8-2.

SpectralOrion 22 Mar 2025 17:41

@sandro4912: lol,I don't know about that. Probably the biggest contributor of me getting those coins is constantly playing through 1-1, getting the fire flower, and using the warp zones. Just so I could have a fire flower from 8-1 and onward. Big Mario can easily get more coins than small Mario from those 10+ coin blocks, which is what really helped. But the hardest part is trying not to lose the fire flower for most of the run (especially during the infamous Bullet Bill block). But after one successful run of completing 8-2 without losing the fire flower, the rest was cake.

sandro4912 22 Mar 2025 17:46

Yeah I did that too. Without fire flower its just to damn hard. Still needed to loop.

PassolargoProds 24 Mar 2025 22:59

Dude, I actually didn't find this difficult. What do we have, a game that's almost 40 years old? I found other coin collectors difficult, but this one, specifically from world 8, just makes me lazy...

-Anyway, the tip about getting a game over in world 4 is to use a soft reset if you fail in world 8, by pressing A+start on the title screen. This helps a lot. It only takes 1 minute to get to 8-1 if you're quick. 4-2 has very accessible power-ups.

-Another thing that might help is that in 8-1, when you get to the two coins, leave Mario in the middle of the screen and jump while slowing down. If you do it right, you won't lose the pipe. If he's too far to the left, be careful so the screen doesn't take the pipe away.

-About 8-2, I personally don't think it's worth luring the Koopa-troopa to the awful block to deal with the buzzy-beetles, because depending on the situation, you end up wasting a lot of time if you're unlucky.

-I think it's simpler to stun both buzzy-beetles and make them collide with each other, then stay on the right side of the screen, so that it takes away the cannon on the left.

***In short, if you're 110/120 in the castle, you can easily get 10 coins if you keep up the fast pace in the loop.

darly 26 Mar 2025 00:04

The two most helpful tips in this thread are definitely setting your A+Start shortcut to 4-1 and the crouch jump buzzy beetle strat for 8-2 offered by @Luissi (basically stand to the right against the bill blaster and crouch jump laterally onto the beetle. You'll bounce on them both and land safely beside them. Get to hoppin' for those coins before they wake up.)

I got to 8-4 only missing three coins. 117/120.

Without those strats it probably would have been endlessly frustrating.

DARKAR007 12 Apr 2025 06:23

Al fin lo logré! En el 8-2 en el bloque difícil me pego al cañón derecho ..piso un escarabajo y lo empujó a la izquierda para que lo elimine mientras me subo al cañón. Luego calculo el rebote para dejarme caer a la izquierda y así lo piso y quedo justo debajo del bloque para empezar a brincar rapido.

supersonicjc 23 Apr 2025 07:17

got to 8-4 needing 5 coins, tried to do at the same time as deathless and was making it so much harder for me, 8-2 coins under the beetle was horrible but some looking and you can get through there with no harm done, well fought for chevo

ChiiniiTheComet 1 May 2025 18:26

I feel so proud that I figured out the 8-4 loop trick by myself

I felt like a fucking genius I tell ya

mrstealyoursock 23 May 2025 00:59

Go into World 8 as Fire Mario from 4-2, use whatever method works for you to keep the buzzy beetle at bay in 8-2, loop in 8-4 for the coin block

MrDynamite92 23 May 2025 21:53

I'm currently struggling every time I get to the coin block in 8-2, and my last attempt today ended because I was rushing for my last 14 coins in 8-4. A few of the previous worlds even worked, regardless of whether you're good at multi-coin blocks or using the turbo button. But this is at the limit of my mindbreak :)

32bitCrush 8 Jun 2025 05:06

So, after getting 15 coins from every other coin block in 8-1, 8-2, and 8-3, I only managed 5 coins from the one with the buzzy beetles. So, in the castle, I only had to respawn the coin block 6 times.

I had about 137 seconds left. So, I'd say you could get fewer than 5 from the buzzy beetle block in 8-2. Maybe only 2?

Good luck to all future challengers. This was my last achievement before mastery and it was the hardest. Read the hints here and watch the videos. You can do it!