Big Boo's Haunt
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Big Boo's Haunt is a three-story mansion located in a small cage. It is the fifth course in Super Mario 64 and Super Mario 64 DS. Unlike most other courses, Big Boo's Haunt is not accessed via a painting. Instead, Mario must travel to the castle's courtyard (after he has collected twelve Power Stars) and defeat a Big Boo. The Boo will drop a small cage containing the course. Mario shrinks upon entering this cage.
Big Boo's Haunt is inhabited by none other than Big Boo himself. There is a small shack on the side of the mansion that has a lift to the basement. In the center of the basement is a strange large merry-go-round. There is also the Mad Piano (a piano that when the player gets close that attacks by trying to bite Mario since it has teeth). Big Boo's Haunt is also home to Mr. I.
The Rooms
1.Foyer: The first room Mario enters as he walks through the front door. 2.Piano Room: Basically a room where the Mad Piano is.
room with a spinning floor and boo paintings around the walls. One near a doorway will shoot out fire while boos will appear out of one on the left side of the other doorway. After Mario defeats 5 normal boos, Big boo will appear again and give up another star once Mario defeats him.
3."SECRET OF THE HAUNTED BOOKS"-The third mission for the red capped plumber is on the second floor. Once Mario reaches the second floor of the Foyer, he should take the right hand door on the left side of the room. This will lead him into a library. As Mario heads around the library, small books (not to be confused with books with teeth that attack Mario in other rooms). Once the plumber has rounded the corner, he will come to a wall with three books jutting out of the wall. If Mario punches or kicks them in a specific order, the wall will move away revealing a door. If he hits the books in an incorrect order, a small book will attack him and the books will reset. Once he enters through the door, he will see a Power Star.
4."SEEK THE 8 RED COINS"
5."BIG BOO'S BALCONY"
6."EYE TO EYE IN THE SECRET ROOM"
7."COLLECT 100 COINS" (The seventh star in every level)
8.*"SWITCH STAR IN THE BASEMENT"*
Differences of the DS
In Super Mario 64 DS, Mario could find King Boo (Although large boo with a crown, he was still named "Big Boo" (even though the game was released after Luigi's Mansion)). At the top floor of the mansion, there is (in a Luigi painting that leads to the Big Boo Battle.
*Since there are eight stars in each level of Super Mario 64 DS instead of seven*
(150 in the entire game instead of 120)the "Seventh" Star is "SWITCH STAR IN THE BASEMENT".
Trivia
Whenever Mario killed a ghost in the first star mission, "GO ON A GHOST HUNT", of the level, Big Boo (or King Boo) would deliver the message, "Ghosts...don't...die! Can you get out of here ALIVE?" After the last ghost is killed, he sends another message "
The Power star for "Secret of the Haunted Books" Is located in the same room as the Mad Piano, just up higher.
Big Boo's Haunt is a particularly scary course not only because it is full of Boos but also because it is basically a abandoned mansion which seemed to have been habited before.
