Super Mario 64/Hazy Maze Cave

Location: Basement. Go through the door with the star on it, and jump in to the pool of metal.
Description: Cave level with yellow mist (purple in the DS remake), falling boulders, and a black hole.

Hazy Maze Cave is the sixth course in Super Mario 64. To access this area, you must have beaten Bowser in the Dark World and gotten the basement key.

Star 1: Swimming Beast In The Cavern

Super Mario 64 DS

Go to the underground lake. Dorrie will be wearing a Wario cap. Grab it, go to the island and punch the rock. It will shatter to bits and a power star will be revealed. Grab it.

Go to the underground lake (go left, round the black hole, past the rocks and down the elevator) and get on Dorrie's (the sea monster's) back. Do a Ground Pound to make him lower his head, and hop onto it. When you're on its head, face the direction you want to go, and it will swim that way. Guide Dorrie to the center island and jump up onto to it to snag another Power Star.

To earn two (2) more stars go to the square room. Once in, jump into the dark water. You can then be transported into a water room. If you are Mario or Wario, grab the myster box and go to the island with the star (or get every singIe red coin in the room(8)). Once you've reached the star it becomes one of the Secret Stars. If you go to the the underground stream and turn right then walk into edge of the course you will be taken to the outside of the castle.

Star 2: Elevate for 8 Red Coins

At the start, go down the treacherous right-hand path. If you have the Metal Cap, you have nothing to worry about. When you reach the end, jump over to the door and go through it. Then, slide down the pole in the next room. Make a right and you'll find a staircase. Go up it and you'll find an elevator. It has four arrows. Hop onto one and the elevator will move in that direction. Guide it to the three blocks floating in mid-air and punch them to break them, exposing the red coins (there are small barriers in the way that make you slide off the elevator, so be careful).

Next, take the elevator to a platform in the upper-left corner of the room to find another red coin. Guide the elevator to a pole nearby as close as possible to it or walk-kick up to the pole and climb up it to a platform on the left.

Hop onto the second elevator here and ride it. This elevator will move on a set path. On the way up, punch the block in the way of the path and snag the fifth red coin, then time it carefully and grab the sixth red coin on the small platform above the elevator path. Watch out for the Swoops, and grab the last two red coins on a nearby ledge.

The Power Star will appear below. Grab your prize!

Star 3: Metal Head Mario Can Move!

You'll need to have completed the Cavern of the Metal Cap for this Power Star. Go down to the Underground Lake and break open the green cap block there. Grab the Metal Cap and run down the path and follow it underwater to a switch. Stand on the switch to open the gate to the Abandoned Mine. If you have not yet completed the Cavern of the Metal Cap, the switch can be triggered using a Ground Pound onto it from the ledge next to it. Go in the mine, and whatever you do, avoid the Scuttlebug. Another one will appear if you kill one and then the next and so on. Do a long jump two times to get across the platforms to reach the star.

Star 4: Navigating The Toxic Maze

It is a good idea to have completed the Cavern of the Metal Cap to make getting this star much easier.

When you enter the level, go to the right again. Navigate past the gaps, and jump over the gap at the end. Go through the door and slide down the pole. Go down the second hallway on your left, which should be green, and enter the wooden door at the end. Follow the path and drop down into the small hole at the end.

You are now in the Toxic Maze. The gas in the maze is poisonous to Mario. If the Health Meter drops too low, be sure to get onto higher ground and look for coins, or an enemy to defeat. The Metal Cap will protect Mario from the gas, so wear it at all times when possible. Start here by going past the green cap block (use it if you have unlocked it), and take a right. You will come to an intersection, take a left and go around the corner past the door. Keep following the path and look up occasionally for a steel door up on a ledge, since it's difficult to see it from the ground. Once you hop up onto the ledge and go through the steel door, watch out for Swoops and fireballs from the Chomp Heads, and take the elevator at the end to reach the star.

Star 5: A-maze-ing Emergency Exit

Go into the Toxic Maze for this star. Use the Metal Cap if you have it. Find the blue coin box in the Hazy Maze. Ground Pound it and follow the trail of blue coins. Where the pillar of blue coins is, backflip up to the hole in the wall and go through the steel door. Follow the hall way until you get to the elevator. Take the elevator up. Go through the door. Up here, you will have to swing across the bars to get to the star (jump up and hold ) or do a Long Jump from the last step and get to the star. Don't fall or the black hole awaits you. If you can make it across safely, grab the star!

Star 6: Watch For Rolling Rocks

Super Mario 64 DS

Take Wario into the level and head down the left path, following the mesh beyond the door to reach the ramp with the rolling boulders. Wario can break the boulders with his attacks, so wait for the boulders to roll towards you and jump kick them. After breaking four a power star will appear. A much easier way is to have Wario break the black block in this area and grab the giant mushroom inside. With this power-up you can simply stand in front of the rocks and they will break, also giving you the star.

Go to the black hole area and jump over to the falling rocks. Go up the path where they fall and take a right to where the door to the Underground Lake is. Don't get hit by any rocks, because they pack a wallop! When you reach the door, wall-jump up the two walls by it. You'll reach a small alcove with the star inside.

Star 7: Underground Switch Star (Nintendo DS)

As Wario, go to the Hazy Maze entrance. There is a Black Brick. Punch it and step on the Star Switch. The Star will appear near the pole to the checkered platform. Quickly run to that area and grab the Star.

The Green Switch

In the underground lake area, ride the Dorrie over to the platform, and enter the double doors. You will find another pool of metal identical to the one used to enter Hazy Maze Cave in the first place. Jump in the pool of metal. You will be transported to another cavern, and you will be given a Metal Cap. As Metal Mario, you can walk underwater. Go to the left and you will see the Metal Cap switch. Step on the switch and the Metal Blocks will become solid. See Cavern of the Metal Cap to find out about the Red Coins.

Star 7: 100 Coins

This one isn't the easiest nor hardest. Try collecting some red coins, which are worth two coins. In the toxic maze you can find the grey square rock that gives you the blue coins. The spiders give you three coins. Try killing the bats, which give you one coin. The two Mr. I's are very tricky to beat so you might as well leave them alone.

Coin Locations

The following is a list of where to find all 139 coins in Hazy Maze Cave.

Yellow Coins — 78 coins

Line of coins to the right of start (5 coins)
Line of coins before the maze entrance (5 coins)
Line of coins on the wire grid (5 coins)
Line of coins near the falling rocks (5 coins)
Ring of coins next to elevator leading to lake (8 coins)
Line of coins leading to the "Navigating the Toxic Maze" star (5 coins)
Eleven Swoops (11 coins)
Six Scuttle Bugs (18 coins)
Four Snufits (8 coins)
Ring of coins surrounding the "Swimming Beast In The Cavern" star (8 coins)

Red Coins — 16 coins

Eight red coins, see above (16 coins)

Blue Coins — 45 coins

Seven coins from the blue block inside the maze (35 coins)
Two Mr. Is (10 coins). The Mr. I in the corner of the room where they are both found is incredibly difficult and generally worth skipping in a 100 coin run.