It's so cool to see how some of the challenges we both had different ways of overcoming. Great Job!

There is a bubble-like mechanic, but it might only work in online multiplayer. You can press L and R at the same time to turn into a ghost.

its less that the mario level designers dont want you to do coinless runs and more that they want to place coins in the most enjoyable positions.

20:48 Hard agree on this one. I know people say that the Koopalings are "overused" and all that, but ironically enough I feel like if they appeared in this game they would've benefited the most from the sheer creativity of the Wonder Flowers... It probably wouldn't have been much, but a hell of a lot better than having to fight Bowser Jr. every time...

Edit: IT MIGHT SEEM CRAZY WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SAY

11:25
I'm pretty sure Nintendo does know about coinless challenges. There's are some Challenge Mode stages in New Super Mario Bros. U which penalize you for collecting coins, including the infamous "Don't. Touch. Anything."

I love the videos where there's just sprinkles of impossible challenges that get overcome in unconventional ways. Also the sudden abrupt cut to WW2 footage before the Hoppycat section absolutely killed me

I love to see a “how many coins does it take to get all wonder seeds?” Challenge! This was great.

Ah yes, the pivotal battle of WWII where cmee defeated the imperial japanese navy... with no coins. Truly a hero.

14:50 Here from the future to say that @Gamechamp3000 has successfully passed this particular section coinless, by standing on the very edge of the pipes!

13:31 okay so i tried this level coinless for myself and found that you actually can stand on the edge of these pipes, but it's just BARELY possible.

the trick is that you need to groundpound, since having any momentum while landing will inevitably lead to you either falling off the pipe or grabbing the coins. i was able to beat the level coinless by jumping off the tallest pipe to the left while playing as yoshi and having the floating high jump badge, and jumping after groundpounding so i don't pick up the coins on the pipe below.

Nico was able to use a shell and fire flower to kill the condarts simultaneously.

I appreciate the usage of the piranha plant parade theme as it is my favorite thing in the whole game THEY SING AND WALK WHAT BETTER THING COULD THERE BE

Once you get to the open area of Pipe Rock Plateau you can utilise a glitch to get out of bounds and skip to the Petal Isles. You can use that same glitch again to skip Worlds 2 and 3. So the mandatory coin in World 2 is, in fact, skippable.

Unfortunate in a way - your solutions to the seemingly unskippable coins in World 3 were so clever it feels a shame to make them redundant 😢

funny enough, I play as Luigi and generally default to the floating high jump badge when I don’t need/don’t know if I’ll need another

Maybe I'm wrong but there might be one way to beat the second castle without  collecting any coins.
However, it's a bit "cheesy". Plus: It requires playing online with friends.

While playing online, you can turn into a ghost (either by "dying" regularly or by pressing L + R). You could use this ghost mode to fly past difficult areas. You could use it to fly through those pipes and avoid those coins. :-D

Givin how fast this came out this challenge is either  suprr easy or a fail

You can beat Wubba Ruins without the wonder flower if you use the drill hat and precise wall jumps/safety bounce to get to the secret area you’d otherwise need the Wonder effect for.

15:00 Or is there.

A glitch was discovered where you can skip W2 entirely, so you could technically use that, but it might not have been found by the time of recording.

18:50 - that area of Color Switch Dungeon just needs precise jumps, but it's 100% doable.
However, HUGE props on doing 25:13 in single-player!!!!

-Paintspot Infez
Wasabi!

Rip overworld purple coins but knowing that you can beat the game without a single coin collected while inside a level is cool