The History of the Multi-Coin Block 

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There is also an infinite coin block in Super Mario 3D Land. However, it's in a Mystery Box within a level (W1-3), and you only have 10 seconds to bonk it as much as you can.

He said he would, and he did. We finally are getting a historical doc about a Mario block

There's also the multi coin blocks on the gba advance port of super mario world, which change depending if you are playing with Mario or Luigi, Mario's are the same but the Luigi ones spew the coins like the blocks on sm64

7:55 I'm pretty sure the NSMB2 block has 100 coins in it. Basically a free 1 UP.

I really appreciate hearing you hitting the table when you say "Set the record Straight"

In SMRPG there's an infinite coin block in Bowser's Keep. It's pretty slow but there's nothing stopping you from getting 999 coins other than your own patience.

7:45 In fact, there are a few instances where you can get 11 coins instead of 10. In Battlerock Galaxy Mission #2: Entering the Battlerock. Before using the pipe to enter the fortress There are two blocks, the right one is the coin block. Turns out the one with the coins is close enough to the ground that you can jump fast enough to get 11 coins (It's not impossible with Mario but it's really hard.) In Dreadnaught Galaxy Mission #1: Infiltrating the Dreadnaught there is a coin block on a platform to the right after climbing to the top of the destroying platforms but before taking the launch star. Jumping fast enough gives you 11 coins. In Dreadnaught Galaxy Mission #2: Dreadnaught's Colossal Cannon, when you have defeated the two octopuses, the bridge falls, the next platform has 2 blocks, the right one held the coins. guide the bob-omb under the block and jump, you should get 11 coins.

I really want to see max coins (or equivalent) TASes for other Mario games (or any other game really), these are so entertaining to watch, although I know that they are very difficult to make.

This is the most specific topic of any video game documentary and I’m all for it

i really like documentary type videos. please make more :)

Fun fact kosmic doesnt want you to know: Coin blocks gives you coins

Btw, nathaniel bandy got all the coins in a multi cone block in sm3dw in an auto scroller, and the block ran out after it was off screen. He had to ground pound on the block before it came on screen, then when it ran out, he had to quickly go on screen to avoid dying. You should watch his video (getting every coin in sm3dw)

How interesting can a video about coinblocks be? Answer: Extremely interesting

Fun fact banks have them IRL if you bring a hammer and just start finding out what brick has the most they can’t/won’t get mad at you for finding them

Yes! More of this! Do Goomba hitboxes or star timers for the games. Keep it silly man. Love ya.

In Super Mario 3D world, hitting multi coin blocks from below is way faster than ground pounding. These blocks have a special property that allows Mario to repeatedly jump as quickly as you mash the button without having to land on the ground.

That fish completely destroyed ya, lmao

Never before would I have thought to watch an almost 10 minute long video talking about coinblocks

Multi-coin blocks in Super Mario Advance 4 no longer limit the max to 11 coins like in the original SMB3; I recall getting up to 17 or 18 from ones right above large Mario's head but don't know what the theoretical max is. This made getting 44 coins in stage 1-4 a lot less strict, and getting the bonus 3up for hitting 110 coins in one of the e-Reader levels might have required getting more than 11 at least once.

Don't forget about the *OFFICIAL* 25th anniversary block!! The best of all the coin blocks

You and Mitch have really upped your RU-vid content. This was a cool video.

In SMW you can get a block down to 1 coin left (let the timer run out), and then double-hit the block (hit it with both Mario's head and a shell at the same time). This will cause the timer to underflow back to 255 and you can get more coins as if the block was new. Also all multicoin blocks in the same room use the same timer, so you can hit one to start the timer and then the next one will only have one coin by the time you get to it. You can do this in Donut Plains 2 and I think a couple other levels as well.

So recently, I was playing mario clock for some nostalgia. And I discovered that the multicoin blocks always give 10 coins, and that absolutely blew my mind. So, I just thought I would let you know.

that bullet bill something something. RAID GANG!

you got owned by that enemy that I can’t spell

7:54 "...as long as you don't take damage." I WILL HAVE COINS FOREVER! *YEET* XD

Mario Maker: "Am I nothing to you?"

ahhh needed that reminder at the start .... skipped this thinking it was the OTHER vid about the "10-Coin" block

nsmbds 1-3 has that awesome bit with the bouncy mushroom two blocks below a lineup of four multicoin blocks... not sure exactly how many coins you can end up getting from each block but i am sure that it is Very Fun (also great vid kosmic lol, loving these)

Your content is so entertaining I binge watch it for 2-3 weeks, forget everything and come back 6 months later with foggy memory to watch it again.

5:57 This level rekt me for so long back in the day. I could never beat it (and thus, all of secret star road) when I was a kid. I only beat when I was like a late teenager.

So glad you expanded again upon this idea. Plus the first statement you had was was kinda explained last video too seeing as it had to get broken up into an extra video. Lol this is fun stuff tho. I always wondered and I think strategy guides even put a limit on the blocks that were wrong. I think in world it said like 16 or something

I love these types of videos, keep up the great work

The coin cap and framerules being weird in the NES games is probably the same reason that youtube view counts used to freeze at 301, someone intended to write something like "Stop when coinsGained >= 10," but forgot the = part

you can probably hit the infinite 3d world block a ton more if you rapidfire hit it from below instad of groundpounding it. wonder how many coins could be punched out of that block within that level's time limit

7xG said, "i really like documentary type videos. please make more :)" I agree and recommend power consumption differences of the history of the multi-coin blocks.

“How interesting can a video about blocks be?” Man Minecraft RU-vid has been popping off for a decade so probably pretty interesting lol

The thumbs up in the ad was worth a like in itself. Great video, man!

Now I'm curious about the coin blocks in the original Paper Mario trilogy!

A more detailed look at the wearable coin block in 3D World would be cool. You get tons of coins by doing rolling longjumps and ground pounds and other such maneuvers.

Next up: Multi-coin blocks from other Mario games. Paper Mario series, Mario & Luigi series, among others.

'The infinite coin block. You may not like it. but this is what peak performance looks like.'

I don't know if it works like this in all the games, but in SMW all the multi-coin blocks share a single timer. Meaning if you can hit more than one, only one of them will time out. The timer then restarts for the other one as if it hadn't been hit yet. You can test this pretty easily by having two multi-coin blocks and kicking a shell that bounces between them. Mario RPG also has multi-coin blocks, including one infinite one in Bowser's castle.

Can't wait to see what you talk about next time!

"How interesting could a video about blocks be?" Well I mean Lego has actual cartoons

I needed this for my test. Thx.

Probably ought to link to a maximum coin TAS video. Also, I think it's pretty cool when you do these video essays!

you got owned by that photobooth

There were also Multi Coin Blocks in Yoshi’s Story where if you hit one 10 times, a Melon is your reward.

Only cause I'm not seeing anyone else mention it: there's an infinite coin block in SMRPG for the SNES. It is extremely not-hidden and a nearby NPC even states that it's magic and will not run out of coins. This is maybe slightly relevant I guess. : P

I'd be curious to know if Super Mario RPG has a limit based on frame rules since it's from the snes era. I'm sure others here mentioned that it also has a infinite coin block.

In Super Mario Maker 2, all multicoin blocks are hard capped to 10 coins, regardless of game style. This is necessary because there is a "clear condition" where you can optionally make someone collect all the coins in a level before finishing it, and that counter considers a multicoin block to be worth ten coins. (Launchers with coins inside are also worth ten coins.) I do not have the original SMM with me to check what its coin blocks do, but I would not be too surprised if they were also hard capped.

3:15 The timing is perfect

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Thank you Kosmic, very cool

The previous coin block video was very good and this one is great. I read most of the comments within 2 days of this upload and am also impressed with info from others. Congrats on your sponsored segment, the product is totally sensible and neutral since most humanoids can't completely transcend food consumption. If I had actual funds I would purchase that service for someone else to show gratitude for your vids. That sm land scene with the funny empty moving block seems remotely familiar to me from playing ages ago when it was a new game. Wish I could have played the real smb2, nearest I got was the all stars adaptation. Always learning new mario details from your channel, much respect and appreciation 🔳 💯

Will you cover the Mario & Luigi Games too in the next video? :)

This was a surprisingly compelling subject for a video haha

I didn’t notice it was a video from Kosmic until the very end :x

Ur a legend m8

Coin blocks have a time limit? How have I never heard about this?

Couple of Addendums: 1. In New Super Mario Bros 2, the wearable gold brick block runs out after 100 coins, not 30 2. In Super Mario 3D Land, there is an infinite Coin block in an in-level mystery box in 1-3. There is no maximum, but my personal best is around 63 coins button mashing. 3. In Super Mario 3D Land, there is also a notable coin block in 1-4's Mystery Box. I don't remember it being anywhere else in the Mario series, I could be wrong. But there's a 30-coin 3 wide ? Block in that mystery box A. Also while not a coin block, in 3D Land, there is A possible Golden Mystery Box with 15 Tanooki Suits and a P-Wing, that was the potential to wield 150 coins in 10 seconds, assuming you were wearing a Tanooki Suit when entering

fun fact: these shooting coin blocks in 3dw don't have a cap on coins, it's also on a timer

Ah yes Super Mario Bros 3, a "brand new game". This confirms speedrunners are stuck in the past.

Are there not any multi-coin blocks in SML2? Come to think of it, I don't remember ever doing a spin jump on one, and those actually hit blocks in SML2, just like ground pounding in later games.

Incredible video... but how many coins can you get out of the SM3DW coin block with TAS movement towards it and again to the flag (or death by time limit)?

at 6:15 Kosmic says Super Mario Land is the first game to have question marks on the coin blocks but just 30 seconds earlier was showing getting 32 coins out of the block with rotating question marks on it in smw 🥺

What if you dupliate SMW multi-coin block with a shell? That would mean you could get near infinite.

Infinite multi coin block :O

it is theorically possible to get at least 18 coins in Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam

Now I'm wondering what would happen if you were to find the highest amount of coins possible to get from any infinite coin block, including the time it takes for a TAS to reach the block and the timer to run out

Sweet intro, is this your new thing outside of running? Play on!

NGL thought this was Bismuth for a moment but should've known it was you

There's the coin block in 3D-World in World 3-2 that has so many coins that it is near impossible to get them all because of auto-scrolling

I feel like this is your opus (outside of speed runs)

The coin BOX from mario kart tour comes to mind but they can be pretty random but a cpu coinbox frenzy with 2 boomerangs might even out coin the infini-blocks

Glad to know I’m not the only one that has issues with Tubullar

8:55 - Nathaniel Bandy claims that the block in Chain-Link Charge has a finite but absurdly large amount of coins? (I'm not too sure about that claim, though...) Also I wonder where the other ones are besides 3-2 and 3-4?

You might not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

I wanted to see how the blocks work in Super Mario Maker 2 and even 1

Obscure multi coin block fact: If you put two or more blocks side by side that have at least one coin in each, the grouping of those objects can be called multi(ple) coin blocks This isn't obscure as much as it is a stupid pun. I hope you enjoyed this fact.

7:21 I did some testing with/without cheats a while back in NSMB regarding multi-coin blocks I think i was able to get 16 coins out without cheats, and 21 or so coins by using a moon jump cheat My memory is bad tho so that may not be accurate

people can make content out of a singular object in a game series nowadays

“Primordial multi-coin block”

I gotta say, I have so many people that I admire in the speedrunning community, but Kosmic is in my top alongside SummoningSalt and Karl Jobst. I get excited whenever you guys upload, and this type of videos are my favorites, in depth analysis and history, so much research and love put into this. Thanks so much for everything, my man!

Now I know how to impress the ladies at the next party with my superior knowledge!

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once i went into 2-1 as small mario, picked up all 4 powerups, and got hit 4 times. i picked up the first powerup, then got hit later after i 8000 kicked, so i picked up the second powerup, then i got hit by the piranha plant as i was trying to get the third powerup, so i picked it up, then i got hit by the koopa right before the 4th powerup, so i got that last powerup then got hit by the last piranha plant because by keyboard didn't sense my inputs

Next video: Maximum coins you can get from the Super Mario 3D world infinite multi coin block

There it is boii

I’m pretty sure 3D World’s Coin Box only lasts 100 coins OR if you take damage before that

2:25 But isn’t Mario two tiles off the ground in both instances?

Thank you

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No Superstar Saga?!?

1:30 husband material (courtesy of Hello Fresh®)

Rip smbj2 wr to a podo :(

There's also an infinite multi-coin block (in addition to regular multi-coin blocks) in Super Mario RPG

What is the max amount of coins you can get out of that last block before timer goes out