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{{quote|The big coins are Dragon Coins. If you pick up five of these in an area, you get a [[extra life|1 UP]].|[[Message Block]] in [[Yoshi's Island 3]]|[[Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2]]}}
{{quote|The big coins are Dragon Coins. If you pick up five of these in an area, you get a [[extra life|1 UP]].|[[Message Block]] in [[Yoshi's Island 3]]|[[Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2]]}}
A '''Dragon Coin''' is a large [[coin]] that first appears in ''[[Super Mario World]]''. It has a picture of a [[Yoshi (species)|Yoshi]]'s head and torso imprinted on it.
A '''Dragon Coin''' is a large [[coin]] that first appears in ''[[Super Mario World]]''. It has a picture of a [[Yoshi (species)|Yoshi]]'s head and torso imprinted on it.
==History==
==History==
===''Super Mario World'' / ''Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2''===
===''Super Mario World'' / ''Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2''===
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In ''Super Mario World'', at least five Dragon Coins appear in most [[level]]s, although places such as [[castle]]s, [[Ghost House]]s, and [[fortress]]es have no Dragon Coins. Collecting a Dragon Coins plays a unique sound effect, and it is also counted as one coin. The first four coins collected give 1,000, 2,000, 4,000, and 8,000 [[point]]s, respectively, and collecting all five in a level awards the player an [[extra life]]. [[Yoshi's Wings]] can be used to access certain auto-scrolling [[Coin Heaven]]s, where five Dragon Coins can be found. Six or more Dragon Coins may rarely appear in a level, with every Dragon Coin after the fifth also rewarding an extra life. In these levels, going through a [[Warp Pipe]] to a new area causes all remaining Dragon Coins to disappear if [[Mario]] or [[Luigi]] has already collected at least five of them, making the remaining ones unobtainable. [[Chocolate Secret]] is unique for having only one Dragon Coin.
In ''Super Mario World'', at least five Dragon Coins appear in most [[level]]s, although places such as [[castle]]s, [[Ghost House]]s, and [[fortress]]es have no Dragon Coins. Collecting a Dragon Coins plays a unique sound effect, and it is also counted as one coin. The first four coins collected give 1,000, 2,000, 4,000, and 8,000 [[point]]s, respectively, and collecting all five in a level awards the player an [[extra life]]. [[Yoshi's Wings]] can be used to access certain auto-scrolling [[Coin Heaven]]s, where five Dragon Coins can be found. Six or more Dragon Coins may rarely appear in a level, with every Dragon Coin after the fifth also rewarding an extra life. In these levels, going through a [[Warp Pipe]] to a new area causes all remaining Dragon Coins to disappear if [[Mario]] or [[Luigi]] has already collected at least five of them, making the remaining ones unobtainable. [[Chocolate Secret]] is unique for having only one Dragon Coin.


For the [[Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2|Game Boy Advance version]], Dragon Coins were given a slightly bigger role. They now appear in levels that did not originally have them, and the number of Dragon Coins acquired is recorded on a menu. If the player collects them all, a cutscene plays, showing all of the collected Dragon Coins falling from the sky and being stacked together; afterwards, a giant Dragon Coin appears, and [[Yoshi]] eats it and lays an [[Yoshi's Egg|egg]], which hatches into a giant coin with [[Princess Peach]]'s face, resulting in all of the Dragon Coins in the game having Peach's face imprinted on them instead of Yoshi's. Chocolate Secret now has the standard set of five Dragon Coins. In the ''[[Nintendo Power#Nintendo Power Advance|Nintendo Power Advance]]'' guide for ''Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2'', the symbol for the Dragon Coins denoting where they are located in a level is drawn with a three-tined fork instead of Yoshi's or Peach's likeness.<ref>{{cite|title=''Nintendo Power Advance'' Volume 4|page=18|date=Winter 2002|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us}}</ref>
For the [[Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2|Game Boy Advance version]], Dragon Coins were given a slightly bigger role. They now appear in levels that did not originally have them, and the number of Dragon Coins acquired is recorded on a menu. If the player collects them all, a cutscene plays, showing all of the collected Dragon Coins falling from the sky and being stacked together; afterwards, a giant Dragon Coin appears, and [[Yoshi]] eats it and lays an [[Yoshi's Egg|egg]], which hatches into a giant coin imprinted with [[Princess Peach]]'s face, resulting in all of the Dragon Coins in the game being replaced by '''Princess Coins'''.<ref>{{cite|quote='''GETTING ALL THE DRAGON COINS''' This objective usually goes hand-in-hand with the “Completing All Goals” objective, because you’ll probably do both at the same time. Nevertheless, when you collect five Dragon Coins from every area that has them, you are treated to a short cinema with hundreds of Dragon Coins falling from the ceiling. Yoshi approaches a single Dragon Coin, eats it, and...um...lays an egg that hatches into a Princess Coin. All the Dragon Coins in ''Super Mario World'' are now Princess Coins (in the same locations). You can go back and collect them all, but there is no further in-game benefit to doing so. It’ll probably impress your friends, though.|author=Stratton, Bryan|date=February 26, 2002|title=''Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2–Prima’s Official Strategy Guide''|publisher=[[Prima Games]]|language=en-us|isbn=0-7615-3913-1|page=103}}</ref> Chocolate Secret now has the standard set of five Dragon Coins. In the ''[[Nintendo Power#Nintendo Power Advance|Nintendo Power Advance]]'' guide for ''Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2'', the symbol for the Dragon Coins denoting where they are located in a level is drawn with a three-tined fork instead of Yoshi's or Peach's likeness.<ref>{{cite|date=Winter 2002|title=''Nintendo Power Advance'' Volume 4|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us|page=18}}</ref>


The Dragon Coin's collection sound effect was reused for the [[Advance Coin]]s in ''[[Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', the [[Star Coin]]s in the [[New Super Mario Bros. (disambiguation)|''New Super Mario Bros.'' games]], and the [[color coin]]s in ''[[Super Mario Run]]''. In ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'', the sound effect is internally labeled "<tt>SE_OBJ_GET_DRAGON_COIN</tt>."<ref>{{cite|author=TCRF|title=[[tcrf:New Super Mario Bros.#Sound Effects|New Super Mario Bros.#Sound Effects]]|publisher=The Cutting Room Floor|accessdate=February 18, 2019}}</ref>
The Dragon Coin's collection sound effect was reused for the [[Advance Coin]]s in ''[[Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', the [[Star Coin]]s in the [[New Super Mario Bros. (disambiguation)|''New Super Mario Bros.'' games]], and the [[color coin]]s in ''[[Super Mario Run]]''. In ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'', the sound effect is internally labeled "<tt>SE_OBJ_GET_DRAGON_COIN</tt>."<ref>{{cite|author=TCRF|title=[[tcrf:New Super Mario Bros.#Sound Effects|New Super Mario Bros. § Sound Effects]]|publisher=The Cutting Room Floor|language=en|accessdate=February 18, 2019}}</ref>


===''Game & Watch Gallery 4''===
===''Game & Watch Gallery 4''===
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===''The Super Mario Bros. Movie''===
===''The Super Mario Bros. Movie''===
In ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'', a display box containing a Dragon Coin with the same appearance as its ''Super Mario World'' sprite can be seen in the antiques shop.
In ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'', a display box containing a Dragon Coin with the same appearance as its ''Super Mario World'' sprite can be seen in the antiques shop.
===''Minecraft''===
===''Minecraft''===
In ''[[Minecraft]]'', in the Super Mario Mash-Up Pack, the painting ''Prairie Ride'' added in the Tricky Trials update is replaced by a Dragon Coin.
In ''[[Minecraft]]'', in the Super Mario Mash-Up Pack, the painting ''Prairie Ride'' added in the Tricky Trials update is replaced by a Dragon Coin.
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===Unused appearances===
===Unused appearances===
====''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''====
====''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''====
Dragon Coins were [[List of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island pre-release and unused content|originally]] going to appear in ''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]'', where they were going to be a currency along with regular coins for some of the [[Bonus Challenge]]s.<ref>{{cite|title=[[tcrf:Proto:Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island/ys romX 0/Bonus Challenges|Proto:Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island/ys romX 0/Bonus Challenges]]|publisher=The Cutting Room Floor|accessdate=October 30, 2021}}</ref> They were possibly replaced by [[Smiley Flower|flower]]s. The sprite for them is not present in the [[Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3|Game Boy Advance port]] at all.  
Dragon Coins were [[List of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island pre-release and unused content|originally]] going to appear in ''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]'', where they were going to be a currency along with regular coins for some of the [[Bonus Challenge]]s.<ref>{{cite|title={{iw|tcrf|Proto:Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island/ys romX 0/Bonus Challenges}}|publisher=The Cutting Room Floor|language=en|accessdate=October 30, 2021}}</ref> They were possibly replaced by [[Smiley Flower|flower]]s. The sprite for them is not present in the [[Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3|Game Boy Advance port]] at all.  
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==Names in other languages==
==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
{{foreign names
|Jpn=ドラゴンコイン<ref>{{cite|format=PDF|url=https://www.nintendo.co.jp/clvs/manuals/ja/pdf/CLV-P-VAAAJ.pdf|publisher=nintendo.co.jp|title=''スーパーマリオワールド (Super Mario World)'' instruction manual|language=ja|date=1990|page=8|accessdate=February 21, 2025}}</ref>
|Jpn=ドラゴンコイン<ref>{{cite|date=1990|url=https://www.nintendo.co.jp/clvs/manuals/ja/pdf/CLV-P-VAAAJ.pdf|title=''スーパーマリオワールド (Super Mario World)'' instruction manual|format=PDF|publisher=nintendo.co.jp|language=ja|page=8|accessdate=February 21, 2025}}</ref>
|JpnR=Doragon Koin
|JpnR=Doragon Koin
|JpnM=Dragon Coin
|JpnM=Dragon Coin
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|ChiTR=Lóng Jīnbì
|ChiTR=Lóng Jīnbì
|ChiTM=Dragon Coin
|ChiTM=Dragon Coin
|Fre=Pièce Dragon<ref name="SMA2_EU_manual">{{cite|format=PDF|url=https://www.nintendo.com/eu/media/downloads/games_8/emanuals/game_boy_advance_8/Manual_GameBoyAdvance_SuperMarioWorldSuperMarioAdvance2_EN_DE_FR_ES_IT.pdf|publisher=nintendo.com|title=''Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2'' European instruction manual|date=2002|accessdate=February 21, 2025}}</ref>
|Fre=Pièce Dragon<ref name="SMA2_EU_manual">{{cite|date=2002|url=https://www.nintendo.com/eu/media/downloads/games_8/emanuals/game_boy_advance_8/Manual_GameBoyAdvance_SuperMarioWorldSuperMarioAdvance2_EN_DE_FR_ES_IT.pdf|title=''Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2'' European instruction booklet|format=PDF|publisher=nintendo.com|accessdate=February 21, 2025}}</ref>
|FreM=Dragon Coin
|FreM=Dragon Coin
|Ger=Drachenmünze<ref>{{cite|author=Menold, Marcus, Claude M. Moyse, and Andreas G. Kämmerer, editors|title=''Der offizielle Nintendo Spieleberater "Super Mario World"''|language=de|location=Großostheim|publisher=[[Nintendo|Nintendo of Europe GmbH]]|date=1993|page=17}}</ref>
|Ger=Drachenmünze<ref>{{cite|author=Menold, Marcus, Claude M. Moyse, and Andreas G. Kämmerer, editors|date=1993|title=''Der offizielle Nintendo Spieleberater "Super Mario World"''|location=Großostheim|publisher=[[Nintendo|Nintendo of Europe GmbH]]|language=de|page=17}}</ref>
|GerM=Dragon Coin
|GerM=Dragon Coin
|Ger2=Drachen-Münze<ref name="SMA2_EU_manual"></ref>
|Ger2=Drachen-Münze<ref name="SMA2_EU_manual"></ref>
|Ger2M=Dragon Coin
|Ger2M=Dragon Coin
|Ger2N=''Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2''
|Ger2N=''Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2''
|Ita=Moneta del Drago<ref>{{cite|title=''Super Mario World'' instruction booklet|page=7|language=it|publisher=Nintendo}}</ref><ref>{{cite|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''|page=61}}</ref>
|Ita=Moneta del Drago<ref>{{cite|title=''Super Mario World'' instruction booklet|publisher=Nintendo|language=it|page=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''|page=61}}</ref>
|ItaN=''Super Mario World''
|ItaN=''Super Mario World''
|Ita2=Moneta drago<ref name="SMA2_EU_manual"></ref><ref>{{cite|title=''[[Super Mario World]]'' ([[Virtual Console]])|page=7}}</ref>
|Ita2=Moneta drago<ref name="SMA2_EU_manual"></ref><ref>{{cite|title=''Super Mario World'' ([[Virtual Console]])|page=7}}</ref>
|Ita2N=''Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2'', ''Super Mario World'' on Virtual Console
|Ita2N=''Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2'', ''Super Mario World'' on Virtual Console
|Ita3=Moneta Drago
|Ita3=Moneta Drago

Revision as of 07:02, April 5, 2025

Dragon Coin
Artwork of a Dragon Coin from Super Mario World
Artwork from Super Mario World
First appearance Super Mario World (1990)
Latest appearance The Super Mario Bros. Movie (cameo) (2023)
“The big coins are Dragon Coins. If you pick up five of these in an area, you get a 1 UP.”
Message Block in Yoshi's Island 3, Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2

A Dragon Coin is a large coin that first appears in Super Mario World. It has a picture of a Yoshi's head and torso imprinted on it.

History

Super Mario World / Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2

Mario climbing a Vine in Super Mario World
A screenshot of Mario finding a Dragon Coin in Super Mario World
Dragon Coin

In Super Mario World, at least five Dragon Coins appear in most levels, although places such as castles, Ghost Houses, and fortresses have no Dragon Coins. Collecting a Dragon Coins plays a unique sound effect, and it is also counted as one coin. The first four coins collected give 1,000, 2,000, 4,000, and 8,000 points, respectively, and collecting all five in a level awards the player an extra life. Yoshi's Wings can be used to access certain auto-scrolling Coin Heavens, where five Dragon Coins can be found. Six or more Dragon Coins may rarely appear in a level, with every Dragon Coin after the fifth also rewarding an extra life. In these levels, going through a Warp Pipe to a new area causes all remaining Dragon Coins to disappear if Mario or Luigi has already collected at least five of them, making the remaining ones unobtainable. Chocolate Secret is unique for having only one Dragon Coin.

For the Game Boy Advance version, Dragon Coins were given a slightly bigger role. They now appear in levels that did not originally have them, and the number of Dragon Coins acquired is recorded on a menu. If the player collects them all, a cutscene plays, showing all of the collected Dragon Coins falling from the sky and being stacked together; afterwards, a giant Dragon Coin appears, and Yoshi eats it and lays an egg, which hatches into a giant coin imprinted with Princess Peach's face, resulting in all of the Dragon Coins in the game being replaced by Princess Coins.[1] Chocolate Secret now has the standard set of five Dragon Coins. In the Nintendo Power Advance guide for Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, the symbol for the Dragon Coins denoting where they are located in a level is drawn with a three-tined fork instead of Yoshi's or Peach's likeness.[2]

The Dragon Coin's collection sound effect was reused for the Advance Coins in Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3, the Star Coins in the New Super Mario Bros. games, and the color coins in Super Mario Run. In New Super Mario Bros., the sound effect is internally labeled "SE_OBJ_GET_DRAGON_COIN."[3]

Game & Watch Gallery 4

In Game & Watch Gallery 4, a Dragon Coin is used to represent five KOs in the Modern version of Boxing.

WarioWare: Get It Together!

In WarioWare: Get It Together!, Dragon Coins appear in the microgame Super Mario World. Collecting them is not necessary to complete the microgame and has no real effect on gameplay, although the "Dragon Coin Collection" mission requires the player to collect at least four Dragon Coins in all three levels while playing as Jimmy T.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie

In The Super Mario Bros. Movie, a display box containing a Dragon Coin with the same appearance as its Super Mario World sprite can be seen in the antiques shop.

Minecraft

In Minecraft, in the Super Mario Mash-Up Pack, the painting Prairie Ride added in the Tricky Trials update is replaced by a Dragon Coin.

Unused appearances

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island

Dragon Coins were originally going to appear in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, where they were going to be a currency along with regular coins for some of the Bonus Challenges.[4] They were possibly replaced by flowers. The sprite for them is not present in the Game Boy Advance port at all.

Profiles

Super Mario World

  • Wii U Virtual Console manual description: Collect five Dragon Coins in a course to earn an extra life.

Super Mario World: Super Mario Land 2

  • European instruction manual description: Collect 5 or more on a single course to receive an extra life. (Dragon Coins may also be included in the normal coin count total.)

Gallery

See also

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese ドラゴンコイン[5]
Doragon Koin
Dragon Coin
Chinese (simplified) 龙币[?]
Lóng Bì
Dragon Coin Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2
龙金币[?]
Lóng Jīnbì
WarioWare: Get It Together!
Chinese (traditional) 龍金幣[?]
Lóng Jīnbì
Dragon Coin
French Pièce Dragon[6] Dragon Coin
German Drachenmünze[7] Dragon Coin
Drachen-Münze[6] Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2
Italian Moneta del Drago[8][9] Coin of the Dragon Super Mario World
Moneta drago[6][10] Dragon coin Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, Super Mario World on Virtual Console
Moneta Drago[?] Dragon Coin WarioWare: Get It Together!
Portuguese (NOA) Moeda Dragão[?] Dragon Coin
Spanish Moneda Dragón[6] Dragon Coin

Notes

Sprite of a Coin, from Yoshi's Safari.

References

  1. ^ "GETTING ALL THE DRAGON COINS This objective usually goes hand-in-hand with the “Completing All Goals” objective, because you’ll probably do both at the same time. Nevertheless, when you collect five Dragon Coins from every area that has them, you are treated to a short cinema with hundreds of Dragon Coins falling from the ceiling. Yoshi approaches a single Dragon Coin, eats it, and...um...lays an egg that hatches into a Princess Coin. All the Dragon Coins in Super Mario World are now Princess Coins (in the same locations). You can go back and collect them all, but there is no further in-game benefit to doing so. It’ll probably impress your friends, though." – Stratton, Bryan (February 26, 2002). Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2–Prima’s Official Strategy Guide. Prima Games (American English). ISBN 0-7615-3913-1. Page 103.
  2. ^ Winter 2002. Nintendo Power Advance Volume 4. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 18.
  3. ^ TCRF. New Super Mario Bros. § Sound Effects. The Cutting Room Floor (English). Retrieved February 18, 2019.
  4. ^ Proto:Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island/ys romX 0/Bonus Challenges. The Cutting Room Floor (English). Retrieved October 30, 2021.
  5. ^ 1990. スーパーマリオワールド (Super Mario World) instruction manual (PDF). nintendo.co.jp (Japanese). Page 8. Retrieved February 21, 2025.
  6. ^ a b c d 2002. Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 European instruction booklet (PDF). nintendo.com. Retrieved February 21, 2025.
  7. ^ Menold, Marcus, Claude M. Moyse, and Andreas G. Kämmerer, editors (1993). Der offizielle Nintendo Spieleberater "Super Mario World". Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). Page 17.
  8. ^ Super Mario World instruction booklet. Nintendo (Italian). Page 7.
  9. ^ Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Page 61.
  10. ^ Super Mario World (Virtual Console). Page 7.