Can you hide a balloon that is impossible to pop in Super Mario Odyssey?

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word soup: super Mario odyssey on a nintendo switch with super Mario 64 music and glitches in metro kingdom. not speedrunning or minimum captures

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Nintendo relied on the honour system of the glichers and because of the glichers Nintendo were able to Ballance simple balloon madness with a system to check impossible balloons

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i mean, those arent really that creative of solutions, those are very basic, like with the automatic balloon placement. its way easier to store the last place of mario touching the ground then to calculate the position of where it would be suitable, and the deletion of extra missions is done in almost every game

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Throughout Mario odyssey, there are large piles of coins. Some of these piles can only be collected once per game, and ,upon future revisits, only give around 10 coins. Perhaps if you collected one of these coin piles for the first time while hiding your balloon, you could get so much extra time that it would be impossible to make it to your balloon.

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In theory? Like the hidden one in lost kingdom

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someone could still make a new save and get those same coins in order to pop the balloon

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LBW is on a separate scene, so are those coin piles even there?

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LOVED THE VIDEO!! Ive been having the same question for a while, even if it isnt possible its fun to think in some weird hiding spots like the ones you mention

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Yes. Hide it right before the severs go down, it is now impossible to pop. So, wait a few years, maybe a decade or two.

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This is a really nice thought! As far as inbound spots go I can really only think of using glydon infinite height glitch to get the balloon onto the sand painting island (it’s possible) as even if you know how to do the glitch it still needs to be done very quickly. In terms of oob spots though there are some more obscure clips, or traversing any oob collision beyond just getting the clip

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Another quality video, glad I subscribed! My little brother and I used to spend hours trying to find devilishly difficult balloon spots when the mode first came out. Haven't played Odyssey in ages, though.

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Using far away coins to get far away, and making the seeking-timer go down, so they cant reach the coins

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[@mastermewtwo5503]

Aside from clipping through walls, the best spots you could potentially hide balloons are various "impossible" jumps that are difficult to complete. Lakeside Kingdom has probably the most well known one (you would activate blocks with a scarecrow, then time wall jumps and Cappy dives to potentially get to the painting), and the Snow Kingdom also has a difficult jump to a painting near the Odyssey.

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I know what you could try and lost Kingdom. You could place the Bloom right when you touch the purple lava. Whatever you want to call it and maybe it will make the balloon impossible to pop. Cause you place it right when you die. So if anyone tries to pop it, they will just die before they can pop it. Cause you like do it right before. And maybe you could use the sling slot to a sling to fling away from the ground. So you're really far away from the land and then right when you touch the lava, place it so you have to use the sling shot to get to the place. I think it might be able to work like. I played super mario artist be for and I think that'd be able to work

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Such an interesting topic. I'm really glad about your results because it could make balloon world unplayable in a kingdom with impossible moons

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Nice try! It's worth noting that despite the claim, (at least now) balloons do not immediately disappear when popped. In practice last weekend, I found some of the same names and balloons appearing again and again, with no break in between for replacement.

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In SMO you can only warp if you’re on the ground. If you hit poison or lava and open the map at the exact right time you can warp; this suggests that the poison/lava is considered ground and maybe you could hide a balloon super far away in lost kingdom with glydon.

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