Super Mario 64/Hazy Maze Cave

Hazy Maze Cave is located in the basement of Peach's Castle. To access this area, you must have beaten Bowser in the Dark World and gotten the basement key.

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, falling boulders, and a black hole.

Star 1: Swimming Beast In The Cavern
Go to the underground lake 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.

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. 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 capblock 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.

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 A) 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
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: 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.