Yellow Switch Palace

Template:Level The Yellow Switch Palace is a level in the game Super Mario World that contains a giant, yellow ! Switch. It's the first Switch Palace that Mario and Luigi find, as the palace is not hidden. It's on top of Kappa Mountain in the northwest of Yoshi's Island, and is accessed by completing Yoshi's Island 1. The entire level contains no enemies or powerups and cannot be replayed after it has been completed, at least not without the aid of an exploit on the GBA remake of the game.

Overview

The palace consists of two rooms, which the player has 200 seconds on the timer to complete. The first room of the Palace is a large open area with a single P-Switch. When the switch is hit, the room will get filled with about 500 Coins, and the player will have about ten seconds to collect as many as possible; however, the player is not required to hit the P-Switch to progress through the level.

A Warp Pipe will guide the player to the second room, which contains the yellow ! Switch. The player can simply jump on top of it to activate it and end the level.

Gameplay effects

Once the yellow ! Switch is activated, all the yellow Dotted Line Blocks will turn into yellow ! Blocks. During gameplay, a Super Mushroom will appear when a yellow ! Block is hit. These blocks also help the player progress through levels by filling in some gaps. The Yellow ! Blocks only appear in 21 levels after that.

Revisiting Glitch

It should be noted that, after returning here via the glitch mentioned above, the Yellow ! Switch will not be found at the end as it has already been pressed. Therefore, Mario or Luigi must manually exit the level since there is no other way out, and all 96 exits. Mario and Luigi should return to the flattened Yellow Switch Palace, then the player must very quickly press Select and Down (the timing is quite strict, so pressing them at the same time is recommended), then select Chocolate Island 3. From there, Mario or Luigi will begin a winding trek from there and back to the flattened Yellow Switch Palace, however it will display Chocolate Island 3's name instead of "Yellow Switch Palace". Press A, and then Mario or Luigi will be able to re-enter to the Yellow Switch Palace.

Levels With Yellow ! Blocks

Yellow ! Blocks can be found in these levels:

• Yoshi's Island 1
• Yoshi's Island 2
• Yoshi's Island 3
• Yoshi's Island 4
• Donut Plains 1
• Donut Plains 2
• #2 Morton's Castle
• Vanilla Fortress
• Forest of Illusion 2
• Forest Fortress
• Chocolate Island 1
• Chocolate Island 2
• Chocolate Island 4
• #6 Wendy's Castle
• Valley Fortress
• Valley of Bowser 1
• Valley of Bowser 2
• Valley of Bowser 4
• #7 Larry's Castle
• Front Door
• Star World 5