Sparkling Waters

Complete walkthrough for the Sparkling Waters world in New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, including all Star Coins, secret exits, and tips for Waterspout Beach, Tropical Refresher, Giant Skewer Tower, and Haunted Shipwreck.

This guide covers the Sparkling Waters world in New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, detailing walkthroughs for Waterspout Beach, Tropical Refresher, Giant Skewer Tower, and Haunted Shipwreck, including the locations of all Star Coins and secret exits.

Sparkling Waters-1: Waterspout Beach

1. Navigate the geysers, avoiding rocks thrown by Hickit Crabs. Star Coin #1 is on top of the geysers.
2. Use a frozen Cheep Cheep to reach Star Coin #2.
3. Grab the red ring to run across geyser spouts for red coins.
4. Hit the checkpoint flag.
5. Proceed past a blocked pipe and go down a pipe under a narrow bridge.
6. Defeat the Clampy to get a 1-up.
7. Exit the pipe and use a Ground Pound on a POW Block at the end of a rainbow to make Star Coin #3 and other coins fall. Grab it quickly before it falls into the water.
8. Make your way to the exit using the geyser spouts.

Sparkling Waters-2: Tropical Refresher

1. Enter the pipe and swim. Use golden pipes to drop coins or activate mechanisms.
2. Get the Fire Flower to defeat most enemies. Giant Urchins cannot be killed by fireballs.
3. Obtain the red ring between two moving golden pipes for red coins.
4. Collect Secret Coin #1 from a gap between pipes.
5. Hit the checkpoint flag after a coin-producing pipe.
6. Past a Giant Urchin, coins form a path to a ? switch. Activating it drops coins, including Star Coin #2.
7. Go down the pipe under the next Giant Urchin to get an Invincibility Star. Hit the ? Block outside for another star if still invincible.
8. Enter the next pipe to kill the Giant Urchin and reach Star Coin #3.
9. Exit the pipe and defeat enemies, including Spiny Cheep-Cheeps, to reach the exit.

Sparkling Waters-Fortress: Giant Skewer Tower

1. Enter the pipe and swim upwards, avoiding giant skewers.
2. To get Star Coin #1, wait for the first skewer to retract and enter the opposite wall.
3. For red coins and the red ring, use the same strategy with the second skewer but enter its wall, go up, and wait for the next skewer to retract.
4. Star Coin #2 is shortly after the red coins.
5. A red pipe will emerge from the left, spewing coins.
6. Continue upwards past more skewers. Form a bridge by jumping into the upper right corner if needed.
7. Get the 1-up in the next brick.
8. Enter the wall to the left of the green pipe and go up the red pipe to find a P switch that makes blue coins appear. Collect them.
9. Hit the checkpoint flag below before heading back up.
10. Past Dry Bones, find a hidden POW block on the floor. Pick it up and throw it to knock down Star Coin #3.
11. Carefully make your way to the door.
12. Boss Fight: Boom Boom
    • Phase 1: Stomp on Boom Boom.
    • Phase 2: He will hop and perform a spinning air attack.
    • Phase 3: He will perform two hops and a spin attack.
13. Make your way to the exit.

Sparkling Waters-Ghost House: Haunted Shipwreck

1. Avoid poltergeist blocks that steer towards you and crash, revealing a coin.
2. Beware of fake doorways that turn into coins. The first is in the upper left.
3. Ride the poltergeist blocks to the upper right. Watch out for Boos.
4. Do not Ground Pound the bricks; instead, drop down to the right, go through a fake wall, and wall jump to the top for a 1-up.
5. Climb the pole and stay along the top. A false wall under the door hides Star Coin #1. Leap through the floor and enter the door.
6. Swim through Circling Boos and poltergeist blocks, avoiding Fishbones, to reach Star Coin #2 above the water.
7. Leap out of the water, go through a false wall, and enter the door.
8. Go through a big false wall. Star Coin #3 is in the upper left.
9. The door at the end is fake. The real door is above it; use a wall jump or glide jump (with Flying Squirrel Suit) to reach it.
10. Enter the real door, go left into a pipe, and proceed to the exit.

Secret Exit to Sparkling Waters-Leaf: Skyward Stalk

1. To find the secret exit, look for unreachable coins near the normal exit.
2. Find a hidden opening section with a Boo near a sign. The path is not up there.
3. Jump into a hidden section to the left of the Boo's location. This section is difficult to wall jump into.
4. If successful, you will find a green door leading to many coins and a red pipe.
5. Go up this red pipe to reach the secret exit.