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Getting Mrs. Mowz
In chapter 4, go to the trouble center on the east side of Rougeport. Take on the trouble "Elusive badge" from ???. Mrs. Mowz meets you near the badge shop. Go to Hooktail's room. Stand near the very center and use Flurrie's power. You'll find a chest. Open it and take the badge to Mrs. Mowz. She will then join your party.
Submitted by: All-knower Added: 14 Nov 2004	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Beating The Monster Of Creepy Steeple
After beating him on top of Creepy Steeple, he steals your body and name. You must find his real name to defeat him. His name is Doopliss. If you go back to Twilight Town, he will ambush you and ask you to say his name. If you try to write his name, the "p" is not there. You will be forced to fight him. Run. When in Twilight Town, help Vivian find the bomb. You can not leave because your name has been stolen. Give the bomb to Vivian and she will join your party. Go back to Creepy Steeple (after running from Doopliss) and climb down the well. Move to the next room and push the wall. Hide using Vivian's power and sneak under the door. Keep following the trail until you find a room with a bird and 4 chests. Open the 4 chests and take what's inside dissapear when there is a ... sign above you. He will say the monster's name: Doopliss. Go back to him and say his name. You must have had opened the yellow chest in the room that contained a "p". He will run back to the steeple. Go there and Vivian will find out you are Mario. You will fight Doopliss, and if you win, you get your body, name, and crystal star back.
Submitted by: All-knower Added: 14 Nov 2004	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

See Bow And Bootler From Paper Mario 1
To see Bow and Bootler the Boos,you'd have to beat the last boss first, then go to Poshley Heights and you will see them standing in front of The Poshley Sanctum.
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Break In Hooktail's Castle
Get two stones which is Sun Stone and Moon Stone from the fuzzy's home. Defeat the Gold Fuzzy and get out of there. Place the stones on the rocks with holes, two switches will appear. Use Koops' holding ability to hit the first switch and use your jump or hammer to hit the other switch. A pipe will appear. Go in to it and go to Hooktail's castle.
Submitted by: Game Master 4000 Added: 16 Nov 2004	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Crystal Stars And Boot/Hammer Upgrades
1st: Hooktail Castle 2nd: The Great Tree (SUPER BOOTS) 3rd: Glitzville(SUER HAMMER) 4th: Twilight Town 5th: Keyhaul Key 6th: Poshley Hights(ULTRA BOOTS) IN ROUGEPORT, HIT THE BIG CHEST OFF THE PODIOUM-LIKE THINGY FOR ULTRA HAMMER) 7th (and last!!!): THE MOON!!!
Submitted by: mew009 Added: 26 Nov 2004	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Crystal Star Bosses
1st: Hooktail 20 Hp 2nd: Magnus 30 Hp 3rd: Macho Grubba 60 Hp (yeah, he's bad) 4th: Doopliss ??? (sorry, never tattled it) 5th: Cortez 20 Hp (I thought this was the hardest so far but Flurrie can blow away the weapons using Gale Force, and he revives too!!!) 6th: Smorg ??? (never tattled it either-not really a Crstl Str boss, but on the train, yes) 7th: Magnus 2.0 70 Hp Note: If you've never tattled a boss like hooktail or red bones, look in the trash can in Frankly's book-infested home.
Submitted by: mew009 Added: 26 Nov 2004	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Easy Leveling Up
After Chapter 5, if you go into the sewers of Rougeport, you'll find an enemy called Koopatrol (they look like turtles in armor). When you fight a koopatrol, try to get it's life down to 1 or 2 withour killing it and it will call another koopatrol. If you continue this, you could basically battle non-stop koopatrols, and earn star points for every one that you defeat.
Submitted by: Badkarma529 Added: 27 Nov 2004	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Waluigi Costume
If you want mario to look like waluigi, put on the luigi emblem and the wario emblem at the same time. Mario should look like waluigi.
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Luigi Clothes
To get Luigi's clothes, go to where you get the sixth crystal star. From here, do a spring jump up to a pole on the left side. Do another spring jump to reach a ledge with the Luigi Emblem.
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Wario Clothes
To get Wario's clothes, go to the central area of Rougeport with 360 Coins. There should be a merchant with a large mustache. He sells something called a Wario Emblem from time to time. It is a badge that requires no badge points to wear.
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Lottery
You know you can get a lottery number on the west side of town. Well when you get a number, instead of waiting a whole day, just set your Gamecube date up one day. Just keep trying until you win.
Submitted by: backyardking24 Added: 09 Dec 2004	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Jr. Troopa Appearance
To see Jr. Troopa from Paper Mario 1 check the e- mail you got from Zip Toad. Scroll down to the very bottom of the e-mail until you can see his picture. On the picture look at top left of it and you will see a picture of Jr. Troopa flying in the background.
Submitted by: MarioGolfer2002 Added: 20 Dec 2004	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Fight Bonetail
To fight Bonetail, go to the 100th floor of the Pit of 100 Trials. He's probably harder than the last boss unless you happen to grow a level before reaching him. Bonetail is the oldest of the Hooktail brothers. Bonetail is just bones and he has 200HP. Be sure to bring alot of items the can heal FP or HP.
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Get A Peachy Peach
To get a peachy peach, sleep in the inn in Twilight Town. When you wake up you will see a peachy peach on the table.
Submitted by: MarioGolfer2002 Added: 20 Dec 2004	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

8-bit Mario And Partners
In the X-Naut Fortress, go in the ventilation shaft in sublevel 2 and drop through the far right vent into the dressing room. Open the curtain of the stall you fall into and Mario and all his partners will become 8-bit (they will look as they would on an 8-bit system like the NES) until you leave the room.
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In Creepy Steeple
When you first enter the creepy steeple there will be no enemys. Turn into a tube and move upwards, there will be a hole in the wall that you can go through. In the room you will find 2 chest, one will have a cookbook(which can be used in a trouble). If you try to open the doors a boo will appear. He will say he is friends are gone and won't let you in the door. Go to the statue of the star and push it so that a hole appears.Go down the hole and to the left. Open the chest and 200 boos will come out. Go up the hole and talk to the boo, say you won't hurt him. Then all the boos will try to attack you. Use your hammer swing a couple times on them then they will turn into Atomic Boo which has 40hp. Defeat him and leave through one of the 2 doors. Hit the switch so the stairs are close to the side of the screen. Go through the door and get the key, then hit the other switch so the stairs are on the oppisite side they were on.Use the key in the door go up the stairs and fight doopliss.
Submitted by: gameboyguy Added: 20 Dec 2004	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

See The Owner Of The Trouble Center
Slide through the crack in the house on the east side of Rogueport. Then use Flurrie's Gale Force to reveal a hidden door behind the Trouble Center. When you go in it you will see the owner of the Trouble Center.
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Parakarry Appearance
At the begining of the game, you will see Parakarry from Paper Mario 1 delivering your mail.
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Showering Peach
In any event where you control Peach, go to the bathroom right next to her room. When you see the ! in front of the shower press A then she will take a shower. When she comes out, she will have a different hair style. It will go back to normal once you leave the room.
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Toadette Appearance
Every time you find a big chest with either boots or a hammer in it, you will see Toadette from Mario Kart Double Dash teaching you how to use them.
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Get Missing Tattles
If you didn't tattle on bosses like Hooktail, just go to Professer Frankly's house and you will see something in the yellow garbage can. Go to it and press A when the ! appears. Now you have the tattle for the enemies you've missed.
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Level Up Your Partners For The Second Time
Go into Hooktail Castle in the spikey room. Go to the far right of the room and take out Bobbery. Have him blow up the crack in the wall and go in it. Inside the wall you will see a blue block. Hit it and a chest will appear with an Up Arrow in it. Take it to Merlon in Rogueport. This will allow you to level up your partners for the second time when you find more shine sprites.
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Luigi's Adventure Friends
As you go through the game, you will see Luigi somewhere in Rogueport with a friend. Luigi will talk about his adventure. These are the list of his friends he went on an adventure with: Blooey the Blooper Jerry the Bob-Omb Torgue the Buzzy Beetle Hayzee the Crazy Dayzee Screamy the ???? Blooey the Blooper(again)
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Ultra Hammer
Once you know how to do Spring Jump, go to Rougeport. Go in front of the inn and walk to the right intill your under a gaint box. Use your Spring Jump under it and it will fall off. Then you open it and get the Ultra Hammer. That will also be the last time you see Toadette!!!
Submitted by: smarty guy Added: 04 Jan 2005	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Puzzles In The Thousand Year Door
Once youv'e beaten Gloomtail, go back to the room with all that water and those bomb dogs. There will be 2 statues of those dogs on each side of the room on a pipe. Use your bomb-omb person a make him blow those statues up. Go in each of them and hit the blue box at the end of the other side of the pipes. The boat mode thing will appear under the statue of the stars. Sail to the tower building. Go in and go to the first door on your left. Hit the far left box 3 times and the far right box 2 times and get the key. Go to the next door on your left and enter it. There should be 4 boxs, 2 red and 2 gray. Use your Ultra Hammer on the gray box on the far left then exit that room. Then go to the next door. I think its a room with nothing in it so take out Fluire and use her to blow away something in the middle and take the key. Go to the next door and enter it. There should also be nothing in there but walk straight to the other side of the wall and keep walking.(you will automatically walk through the wall)Get the key and go upstairs. Go to the frist room to the left and there will be those koopa skeletons. You must beat them in this order: the koopa with the green shoes, the red koopa, the red shoed koopa, then the completely blue one. And thats all I remeber so far. ;)
Submitted by: smarty guy Added: 04 Jan 2005	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

The Confusing Hallway In The Palace Of Shadow
In the Palace of Shadow in that hallway that sends you back to the previous room if you go the wrong way may be stressful. Well, all you have to do is follow the direction of the lit candles. Once you've finished this, you won't have to do this anymore.
Submitted by: MarioGolfer2002 Added: 05 Jan 2005	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Free Sleep
For free sleep, you can either sleep in the beds in Glitzville, your bed on the Excess Express or you can just try finding inn coupons which allow you to sleep for free in inns throughout the game.
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M&L: SS Reference
Before you get Bobbery as your partner, he will ask you to get him some Chuckola Cola to cure him after being attacked by embers. Chuckola Cola is the same drink from the GBA game Mario and Luigi which was used to turn Queen Bean back to normal from a monster.
Submitted by: MarioGolfer2002 Added: 14 Jan 2005	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Stronger Battle Enterances
Instead of using your regular ol' Normal Jump or Hammer attacks while hitting a foe before a battle, you can use the special Jump and Hammer attacks too. For example, if you ground pound an enemy before battle, you'll enter the battle with the ground pound attack. (Note:You can't do this with the spring jump move.)
Submitted by: koolkidchris Added: 19 Feb 2005	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Beat Hooktail Without The Cricket Badge
Before you enter the tower put on your Power Smash badge or your Power Jump badge. Then keep using it and you will beat the dragon in no time.
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How To Defeat Blooper
You need to be able to go to this sewer (not the main sewer) and jump on Blooper's thing. He will say something and you need to fight him. Defeat his things and he will fall down from the top of the stage. If you have the Power Smash, you'd might as well use this (have a lot of BP or FP!)a lot in this fight. (Tattle with Goombella for details) Have either 95 or 99 star points there. If they ask you what you want up, reply 'HP'. Then you can also go to Petal Meadows.
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How To Get Space Food
To get space food you can go to Fahr Outpost and sleep in the inn. Every time you wake up there will be space food on the table. It replenishes 5hp.
Submitted by: lipchick Added: 23 Jun 2005	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Bubble Float
After getting Crystal Star number 2, go to the secend door and enter it. That pool at the bottom (bubbles will come up) you can jump in the pool and you float up for a bit!
Submitted by: michealey Added: 09 Jul 2005	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Who Is The Evil Spirit In The Thousand-year-door?
The evil spirit will only apear once you defeat leader of the X-nauts. Oops! I've said to much. But the name of the evil spirit is the Queen of Shadows. She uses Princess Peaches body for power. She has 150hp. At the start she 10 damage. Once you get her down to 100hp she gets bigger and she does 24 damage. I think if you get her do down to 50 she absorbs the audience and she restores ALL of her health. She knows the Shadow Sirens. They are her servants. When she grows she gets hands and they can suck up your hp. One of her attacks she gains 3 hp & fp.
Submitted by: pup47 Added: 26 Sep 2005	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Ms. Mowz In Trouble Center
In story mode, you will get six characters (Goombella, Koops, Madame Flurrie, Yoshi, Vivian, and Admiral Bobbery). However after Chapter 4, go to the Trouble Center and take the chore of the mystery person. You will figure out that it is the mouse thief and when the mission is over you get the partner Ms. Mowz. Also after Chapter 4, a trouble in the Trouble Center that has the recipient, ???. It is Ms. Mowz. She needs a badge in Hooktail Castle. In the room where you fought her, in the middle is an invisible chest. Use Flurrie. Give the badge to her, and she will join your party.
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Doubledip Badge In Fahr Outpost
When you first enter Fahr Outpost through the blue pipe, go to the right until you see a tree and jump in front of the tree to reveal a double dip badge.
Submitted by: virtualfreak Added: 09 Dec 2007	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Boat Mario
In chapter 5 go to the pirate grotto and go into the chamber with the big boat and go into the crack in it. Next, go up to the black chest and talk to it and then a blue flame will appear, battle it to get the black which will open the black chest. Then go through the practice session of being boat Mario.
Submitted by: virtualfreak Added: 16 Dec 2007	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

How To Make A Couples Cake
To make a couples cake, you need a snow bunny item and a spicy soup item, then go to Zess T's house and mix them. Note: you need to have solved Zess T's trouble at the trouble center.
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Glitz Ville , Great Blow Aways
When your in the storage room in the Glitz Pit use Flurrie's powers to blow away the boxes covers.
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Important Facts
When talking to someone, if a word is in red print, that means that it is important an you should remember it.
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Speech Backtrack
Sometimes, when some one is talking and their past the 1st speech bubble, press "Z" and you will go back to the first bubble
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Happy Lucky Lottery
In the happy lucky lottery a new number is drew at midnight. its a good idea to change the clock to tomorrow so you have a better chance of winning right? WRONG!! if you change the clock to yesterday lucky will find out. he will ask you if you did it. if you say yes he will have this HUGE FIT! and you will have to buy a new ticket for 500.
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Strange Sack
On the 50th floor in the pit 100 trials, the treasure chest has a strange sack in it. The strange sack allows you to hold up to 20 items.
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Who Runs The Trouble Center?
Wanna know who runs the trouble center? Use paper mode to slide through the crack between the trouble center and Bobbery's house. Once behind, use Flurry to blow away the invisible thing thats covering the back door of the trouble center. Go through the door and you will find out who runs the trouble center. Its Goose from the gang of robos! Shh don't tell anyone!
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Every 10th Floor Of Pit Of 100 Trials
Every 10th floor of the pit of 100 trials has a treasure chest containing something. See whats inside each one!
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Maximum Coins You Can Hold At A Time
The Maximum coins you can hold at once is 999.
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Yoshi Colors
When you pick your name for the Yoshi, name it the color you want it like "Orange" and it will turn that color but if you think that's stupid name him after something that color like "Fireball" and since fire is orange he will turn orange.
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Broken-Neck Mario
When you are under a small ceiling do an ultra- jump. When he hits the top pause the game then un-pause, it looks like he has a broken neck.
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The Legendary Treasure
In the are of the sewers by the Thousand Year Door, is the legendary Pit of 100 Trials. As you can imagine, there's 100 battles. The last one is against Bonetail, Hooktails oldest brother, with 200 hp and an attack of 8. When you beat him, he upchucks a box with the legendary - Return Postage badge. This badge is like an upgraded Zap Tap badge, and gives an enemy half of the damage it gave you on direct attacks.
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