Editing Big Star Door

{{distinguish|★ door}}
{{item infobox
|image=[[File:Star Door Mario 64 sprite.png|100px]]
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario 64]]'' ([[List of games by date#1996|1996]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario 3D All-Stars]]'' ([[List of games by date#2020|2020]])
}}
[[File:SM64 Screenshot - Star Door.png|thumb|220px|Screenshot of Mario using a Power Star to open a Big Star Door, from ''Super Mario 64'']]
'''Big Star Doors''',<ref>(February 5, 1998). [https://web.archive.org/web/19980205065516/http://www.nintendo.com:80/n64/super_mario64/faqs.html Super Mario 64 FAQs]. ''Nintendo: Super Mario 64 Strategy'' (Internet Archive: Wayback Machine). Retrieved February 23, 2018.</ref> or '''Star Doors''', are a special sliding type of [[★ door]] in ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' and ''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]''. Like other ★ doors, they restrict progress to certain parts of the [[Peach's Castle|Mushroom Castle]] until the player has the necessary number of [[Power Star]]s. Unlike normal ★ doors, however, Big Star Doors cover passages that are always required to open to complete the game. In the remake, only [[Mario]] can unlock a Big Star Door, but once it is unlocked, any character can enter it.
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Four Big Star Doors exist in the games:
# The first floor door leads to [[Bowser in the Dark World]]. Eight Power Stars (12 in the DS version) are required to open it.
# The second door is in the basement and requires 30 Power Stars to be opened. [[Dire, Dire Docks]] and [[Bowser in the Fire Sea]] are behind it.
# The third door is on the floor above the second floor lobby at the top of the stairs. 50 Power Stars are needed, and behind it are [[Tick Tock Clock]], [[Rainbow Ride]], and [[Over the Rainbows|Wing Mario Over the Rainbow]].
# The last door leads to the [[Bowser in the Sky|final battle with Bowser]]. It does not require any Power Stars to open, but it has an [[endless stairs|endless staircase]] behind it unless Mario has at least 70 Power Stars (80 in the DS version). In the remake, if anyone other than Mario attempts to open the final door, that character will still encounter the endless stairs, regardless of the number of Power Stars.

In the Super Mario Mash-Up Pack in ''[[Minecraft]]'', there is a painting of a Big Star Door.

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=ほしのドア<ref group=note>Specifically, it is referred to as おおきな　ほしのドア (''Ōki na Hoshi no Doa'') twice and おおきなほしの　ドア (''Ōki na Hoshi no Doa'') [[tcrf:Super Mario 64 (Nintendo 64)#Blanked-Out Text|unused]], meaning "Large Star Door", though due to spacing and one instance of ほしのドア (''Hoshi no Doa'') in context, "''ōki na''" does not seem to be part of the name itself.</ref>
|JapR=Hoshi no Doa
|JapM=Star Door
|ChiS=星星之门
|ChiSR=Xīngxing zhī Mén
|ChiSM=Star Door
|Ita=Porta Stella
|ItaN=''Super Mario 64 DS''
|ItaM=Star Door
}}
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[[Category:Mario Pinball Land objects]]
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[[it:Porta Stella]]