GCN Cheats

This page contains a list of cheats, codes, Easter eggs, tips, and other secrets for Paper Mario RPG for GameCube. If you've discovered a cheat you'd like to add to the page, or have a correction, please click EDIT and add it.

Invincible Mario

Start by earning a bunch of tokens in the Pienta Parlor are. Put all of those tokens toward the Power Rush and Last Stand abilities. Next, enter Roughport Sewers and find the NPC who offers to swap your level-up ability. Make the substitution so that all of your HP is now BP. If you have done it correctly, you'll have around 5HP and a bunch of BP. Next, equip all of the Power Rush and Last Stand abilities. Finally, equip 1 Defense Plus. Your attack will be boosted as high as 99, depending on your number of Power Rush abilities, and Last Stand in conjunction with the 1 Defense Plus ability will essentially nullify all damage received. Now you can confidently take on anyone, because you are essentially invincible.

Submitted by: PlaysterX

Reclaim Your Stolen Coins

You know the dude that stole your coins at the beginning of the game? Well to get them back you need to go into that hall with graffiti then go left. Enter the door, talk to him then you get your coins back. YAY!

Submitted by: great4332

Amazy Dayzee Farming

In the forest section of Twilight Trail after you go blow the hay off the pipe with Flurrie, there will be a section with two Crayzee Dayzees. This is where you will farm for them. Encounter the second Dayzee near the west exit to check if an Amazy Dayzee appears. If not, run from the battle and exit to the west and then go back to encounter it again. Repeat this until you find one.

When you do find one make sure you have one or two Sleep Stomp Badges equiped, a Charge Badge for Mario, and Power Bounce. If you fail at making it fall asleep, run from the battle and encounter the same Dayzee without exiting. When it is asleep, charge Mario up for two to four turns and have the partner appeal or give Mario FP items if needed. Then use power bounce to kill it.

After killing the Dayzees you can exit to the west and then exit through the tree and into the forest. When you return to the section with the two Dayzees they will respawn for you to try again.

Submitted by: Bluemoon1001

Old Characters

You can meet or hear about five characters that were in the first Paper Mario game on the N64. To hear about these characters, witness or do the following: listen to the letter that Koops reads off in Hooktails Castle, talk to Koops’ father, read Lumpy’s journal, and talk to the Boo at Podley Heights after beating the game.

Reacquiring Stolen Coins

At the beginning of the game, you will get robbed by a blue bandit on the west side of town. He will steal half of your coins. After this happens, all may seem lost, but it’s not. Head back to the town square and into the back alley adjacent to it. Make a right and go through the door, and you will find the blue bandit. Simply by speaking to him, he will return what he stole from you.

Hint - Star Point Farming

Well actually, When you try it it gets annoying. After the demon you can easilly get 40 star points. Go to Twilight Trail, in the forest. Make sure you have very powerful jump power, enough to inflict at least 15 damage per jump. Have someone like Flurrie upgraded fully as well. You will need Bobbery to be able to upgrade anyone twice. He blows up a wall in Hooktail Castle which leads to an up arrow, which you take to Merlin and he can then upgrade partners twice. You also need to be able to make 20 damage in one turn (regardless if you have a partner or no partner).

Either way, you are fighting a Crayzee Dayzee. If a gold one appears at the back, do a spring jump on it. Try do the same. If you defeat the gold enemy (the Amayzee Dayzee), you earn 40 star points! If no Amayzee Dayzees appear, go through the slot thing part and fight the next Crayzee Dayzee.

If none appear, then go to the next place, and fight that one. Keep going back and forth between those enemies and eventually you will be able to find an Amayzee Dayzee. If you find one and beat it, then move on to the next one. I must warn you that Amayzee Dayzees not only hit hard, but they also run away as its first chance.

Submitted by hayden_785

Hint - No Ticket Passenger (Chapter 6)

Having trouble finding the unticketed passenger? First, go to the conductor he will ask you a question you click "call me blanket pi" then, go to the fourth cabin hide in the shadows with your partner, the shadow siren.

Wait for 10 seconds in the shadows and a ghost will appear. He will ask you to find his diary. Accept the mission and go to the storage room at the back of the train. Talk to the counductor and he will let you enter.

You have to go to the place where two boxes don't touch one another. Press R to get skinny and walk between the boxes. Go around to where you find his diary. Go back to cabin 4, talk to the ghost and give him his diary. He then gives you the blanket. Go back to the conductor, talk to him he will give you a mushroom.

Submitted by Power Sol Inc., laurendancing

Hint - Secret Shop & Ally

In The Great Tree in Boggly Woods, there is a Secret Shop that you can find. To find it, go into the room that has a Hard to get Badge (I forget how I got it and what it was called). Pretty much it's out of reach. Plus, the room should have 2 Piders in it. Anyways, drop down below and head to the far left, near the Save Block. At the Wall, use Flurrie's Wind Blow Ability to blow away a Piece of Paper, covering the Entrance. Now enter. The Shop contains Regular Mushrooms for 3 Coins, Honey Syrups for 5 Coins, HP Drains for 10 Coins, Mysteries for 3 Coins, Mini Mr. Minis for 8 Coins, and Ice Stroms for 15 Coins.

Also, just to cheer you up, I think this only happens in Chapter 2, but, when you're in the Shop, go behind the two Stumps in the Lower Left corner of the Shop and you'll meet Jabble, Punio's Lost Friend, the Jabbie. If you don't hurt him, he'll join your Party (Sorry to disappoint you kiddies, but he's not a Partner. But I think he fights against the Jabbies for

 you with the other Punies. And he doesn't even count in your Group (What I mean is that you'll have 101 Punies total in the Game. But, when Jabble joins, it'll still be 101. Not 102.) Get it? Ok. 

Peach In A Ruffle

When you are doing Peach's part you can go left of her bedroom and take a shower and her hair style will be different. NOTE: when you leave the room her hair will be back to normal.

Unlockable Games

• Boat Parlor Game: Do the "I must have that book" Sidequest By Toodles
• Paper Parlor Game: Do the "Save My Daddy!" Sidequest By Pine. T Jr.
• Plane Parlor Game: Do the "Try and find me!" Sidequest By Koopkook
• Tube Parlor Game: Do the "Important Thing!" Sidequest By Frankie

Timing For Styles

To get help on landing those Stylish moves, get the badge called "Time Tutor" or "Timing Tutor" or something similar to that. With that badge equipped, when you are in battle, if there is an opportunity to add a little Style to your attacks and moves, a little "!" speech bubble will appear above your character at the moment you should press the A Button.

The Secret Behind the Title

The big ship you see there has pulleys and chains. Well, back in the old days during pirate time, Captains would keelhaul shipmates by tying them to pulleys and lowering them in the water. Thus, leading the pulleys to the other side of the ship, scraping the shipmates on the bottom of the ship. Many pirates died from lack of air and injuries back then. That is why the name is Keelhaul! Torturous don't you think!

Pianta Parlor Prizes

Cake Mix: 6 Piantas
Super Shroom: 10 Piantas
Maple Syrup: 14 Piantas
Power Rush P: 34 Piantas
Power Rush: 34 Piantas
Power Smash: 34 Piantas
Power Jump: 34 Piantas
Refund: 34 Piantas
Super Appeal: 34 Piantas
Hammer Throw: 50 Piantas
Multibounce: 50 Piantas
Quake Hammer: 67 Piantas
Tornado Jump: 67 Piantas
Jammin' Jelly: 67 Piantas
Ultra Shroom: 67 Piantas
HP Plus: 100 Piantas
FP Plus: 100 Piantas
HP Plus P: 200 Piantas
Gold Bar x 3: 234 Piantas
Money Money: 234 Piantas

Hint List

• You can skip atomic boo then come back for him later
• If you have zap tap on, enemies like fuzzies and swoopulas can’t hurt you.
• To get information that you need to pay for eg. how to get to don pianta, stories, old wonkey. You can save, then listen to them, then reset to keep your cash.
• You can’t have more than 999 coins.

Whack a Mole

In chapter 5 on Keelhaul Key, walk to the northwest of the camp. Talk to the mole and hit him with your hammer he will leave behind a bump, get the bump. You can leave the area and go back there again to repeat this. Or, after you finish the pirate’s grotto you can enter the grotto through the hole in the mountain and exit, then whack the mole again and again. This way is a lot faster. You can sell them in different places for different profit.

• The shop in the Rougeport plaza - 55 coins.
• The shop next to Pianta Parlor - 64 coins
• Excess Express - 100 coins
• Every other shop will only give you 50 coins.

Submitted by Aljo

Shadow Palace Maze

In the shadow palace you will eventually run into a hallway with 4 doors and many stairs. This is a maze. All of the rooms look the same except for one thing: the torches. Follow the position of the flame (and the door nearby) to get through the maze.

Free Tattle

Go to Profesor Frankly's office and press the big green button (A) at his garbage and info about a random enemy and is transferred to your tattle log.

Infinite Shop Points

First you will have to have given Zest T. her new contact lense. Then buy a lot of mushrooms at the shop in RoguePort for 5 coins each. Then cook them all into Shroom Frys at Zest T.'s. You can sell the Shroom Frys back for 5 coins, the same price you paid for the mushrooms. Using this you can gain free shop points. Note: This trick only works once you have Zest T.

Extra Clothes

There are 3 extra cloths Mario can wear, his only changes marios clothing color, not his physical appearance.

• If you collect the W Emblem badge from Charlieton, the traveling salesman, equip it to change into Wario's clothes.
• If you collect the L Emblem badge from Poshley Sanctum, equip it to change into Luigi's clothes.
• Equip both the W and L Emblem badges to change into Waluigi's Clothes.

Submitted by KoopsBobbery

In the game, there are two Emblem badges. They are the W Emblem, and the L Emblem. Finding these badges is tough. Equipping the W Emblem will make Mario use Wario's Costume. Equipping the L Emblem will make Mario use Luigi's Costume.During Chapter 4, Charlieton (The BIG guy in Rogueport Plaza, South of the cook's house.) will sell the W Emblem for 360 coins.

It is rumored that equipping the W and L Emblems at the same time will unlock Waluigi's costume, but it's a rumor, so don't get mad if it DOESN'T work. <P>Submitted by Chase Traitan

Easy Money

Once you've gotten to PetalBurg in the First Chapter you can use a trick to make easy money. First go to RougePort and buy as many sleepy sheep as you can carry, making sure to fill up your storage box aswell. When your pockets and storage box is full, head over to PetalBurg. Once at Petalburg, go into the Item Shop to sell your sleepy sheep for a 2 coin profit per sheep. Make sure you remember to withdraw and sell all the sleepy sheep you stored. To increase productivity, on the way back to rougueport, stock up on turtley leaves, again filling up the storage box, and sell them at the item shop where you picked up the sleepy sheep to gain 2 coins per leaf.
Hint: After getting Taste T. you can cook the leaves into koopa tea for an extra 1 coin per leaf.

Turn into NES Mario

Just like in the first Paper Mario, there is an easter egg to revert Mario from paper to 8-bit sprite. Only this time it works on your partners too! In the X-Naut Base in Chapter Seven. Find the room with the swinging grate on Sublevel 2. Stand under it and use your Ultra Jump to jump up into the air vent. Press R and slide through the grate on the far right. You'll land in the changing room where Peach disguised herself, inside one of the stalls. When you pull back the curtain, you and your partner will be a sprite. This change does not affect game play and will wear off when you leave the room.

Ms. Mowz

Take the trouble center quest that is given by a person marked as “???”. Talk to Ms Mowz above the item shop. She'll ask for an elusive badge in Hooktails castle. Go to Hooktails castle to where you fought Hooktail and walk around until a?! appears over you and blow with Madame Flurrie to get the badge. Once you get the badge, go back on top of the cook’s shop and the mouse thief will join your team.

Style

Directly after a hammer attack, or at the highest point after a jump attack, tap A again and Mario will do a stylish trick earning him more star points. This works for his allies as well. Tap A directly after doing Koops shell throw and he will spin on his back earning more style.