Flipside Pit of 100 Trials
- “DANGER! Do not enter! -Flipside City Hall-”
- —Sign, Super Paper Mario
The Flipside Pit of 100 Trials is a 100-room labyrinth in Super Paper Mario, similar to the Pit of 100 Trials seen in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. However, in this game, there are two pits – one in Flipside and one in Flopside, the latter of which is called the Flopside Pit of 100 Trials. The switch that opens the Flipside Pit is located above the entrance, which is sealed by blocks. After gaining Boomer, one can go to the lowest level on the outskirts of Flipside. After looking around with Tippi, the player can reveal a route to a bunch of blocks. They can then have Mario flip on the blocks and a secret passage will appear, which will lead to the ledge with the blue block to open the way to the Pit. (The location is also hinted at by Garson.) Alternatively, Luigi can simply hit the switch by doing a super jump.
Most rooms of the Pit are randomly generated, containing an assortment of lines of solid blocks, one entrance door that immediately disappears, one locked door, and possibly pairs of Warp Pipes on opposite sides of the room. The possible locations of each of these elements appear in each room as faint, transparent images; this, as well as the solid black appearance of the objects, is a reference to segmented liquid-crystal displays like that of the Game & Watch series. Even when solid, these objects are flat, so flipping will make Mario fall to the bottom of the room. Each room is populated with enemies, a random one of which will be holding the Pit Key that unlocks the door to the next room. The player has five minutes on each floor; if they run out of time, they will receive an instant Game Over.
Every tenth room is instead a smaller rest area with no enemies nor a time limit. In addition to the door to the next room, they contain a pipe back up out of the Pit and a large treasure chest containing a gold Catch Card of a Pixl. Flimm also has a chance to appear in these rooms, selling items for 75% of their normal cost.
The final room, Room 100, is also different, instead being a wide, windy area with abstract patterned ground that resembles sand when viewed from a side-on perspective. Wracktail is fought in this room as the final challenge of the Pit, after which another large chest containing Dashell appears. Opening this chest, in turn, will unveil the Warp Pipe leading out of the Pit.
Rooms and Enemies[edit]
The enemies start off fairly easy, gradually getting stronger as the player progresses. The list below details the enemies in the Pit and where they appear.
Rooms 1-9[edit]
- Squiglet (Rooms 1, 3 and 8)
- Goomba (Rooms 2 and 5)
- Squig (Rooms 3, 7 and 8)
- Sproing-Oing (Rooms 4 and 7)
- Gloomba (Rooms 5 and 9)
- Cherbil (Room 6)
- Poison Cherbil (Room 9)
Rooms 11-19[edit]
- Koopa Paratroopa (Room 11)
- Koopa Troopa (Rooms 11, 14, 16 and 19)
- Paragoomba (Room 12)
- Spiked Goomba (Room 12)
- Shlurp (Rooms 13 and 15)
- Bald Cleft (Room 13)
- Flip Goomba (Room 14)
- Boomboxer (Room 15)
- Tileoid G (Room 16)
- Flip Koopa Troopa (Room 17)
- Buzzy Beetle (Room 18)
- Squig (Room 18)
- Koopatrol (Room 19)
- Squiglet (Room 19)
Rooms 21-29[edit]
- Spiny (Room 21)
- Boo (Room 22)
- Gloomba (Room 22)
- Fuzzy (Room 23)
- Cherbil (Room 23)
- Boing-Oing (Room 24)
- Sproing-Oing (Room 24)
- Chain Chomp (Room 25)
- Crazee Dayzee (Room 26)
- Paragoomba (Room 26)
- Squiglet (Room 27)
- Hammer Bro (Room 28)
- Koopa Troopa (Room 28)
- Rawbus (Room 29)
Rooms 31-39[edit]
- Tileoid B (Room 31)
- Tileoid G (Rooms 31 and 39)
- Longator (Room 32)
- Growmeba (Room 33)
- Cursya (Room 33)
- Squig (Rooms 33, 35 and 37)
- Stone Buzzy (Room 34)
- Bald Cleft (Room 34)
- Choppa (Room 35)
- Ninjoe (Room 36)
- Spike Top (Room 37)
- Buzzy Beetle (Room 37)
- Magikoopa (Room 38)
- Spiked Goomba (Room 38)
- Fire Bro (Room 39)
Rooms 41-49[edit]
- Clubba (Room 41 and 48)
- Squiglet (Room 41)
- Pokey (Room 42)
- Gloomba (Room 42)
- Koopa Striker (Room 43)
- Squog (Room 44 and 49)
- Squig (Room 44)
- Cursya (Room 44)
- Tileoid R (Room 45)
- Tileoid B (Room 45)
- Flip Paratroopa (Room 46)
- Flip Goomba (Room 46)
- Ice Cherbil (Room 47)
- Poison Cherbil (Room 47)
- Cherbil (Room 47)
- Magikoopa (Room 48)
Rooms 51-59[edit]
- Flip Spiny (Room 51)
- Spiny (Room 51)
- Buzzy Beetle (Room 51)
- Pigarithm (Room 52)
- Spania (Room 53)
- Tileoid B (Room 53)
- Dry Bones (Room 54)
- Clubba (Room 54)
- Hooligon (Room 55)
- Dark Boo (Room 56)
- Tech Cursya (Room 56)
- Zoing-Oing (Room 57)
- Ice Cherbil (Room 57)
- Amazy Dayzee (Room 58)
- Crazee Dayzee (Room 58)
- Yellow Magiblot (Room 59)
- Squig (Room 59)
Rooms 61-69[edit]
- Beepboxer (Room 61)
- Heavy Cursya (Room 61)
- Cursya (Room 61)
- Dull Bones (Room 62)
- Dark Boo (Room 62)
- Boomerang Bro (Room 63)
- Clubba (Room 63)
- Tileoid Y (Room 64)
- Tileoid R (Room 64)
- Blomeba (Room 65)
- Growmeba (Room 65)
- Skellobit (Room 66)
- Ninjoe (Room 66)
- Longadile (Room 67)
- Longator (Room 67)
- Flip Hammer Bro (Room 68)
- Squog (Room 68)
- Squoinker (Room 68)
- Soopa Striker (Room 69)
Rooms 71-79[edit]
- Moon Cleft (Room 71)
- Bald Cleft (Room 71)
- Jawbus (Room 72)
- Cursya (Room 73)
- Reversya Cursya (Room 73)
- Tech Cursya (Room 73)
- Heavy Cursya (Room 73)
- Copta (Room 74)
- Ruff Puff (Room 75)
- Blastboxer (Room 76)
- Beepboxer (Room 76)
- Boomboxer (Room 76)
- Blue Magiblot (Room 77)
- Squog (Room 77)
- Chromeba (Room 78)
- Blomeba (Room 78)
- Flip Skellobit (Room 79)
- Flip Spiky Skellobit (Room 79)
Rooms 81-89[edit]
- Hogarithm (Room 81)
- Tileoid Y (Room 81)
- Red Magiblot (Room 82)
- Squoinker (Room 82)
- Pink Fuzzy (Room 83)
- Cherbil (Room 83)
- Shlorp (Room 84)
- Spania (Room 84)
- Poison Pokey (Room 85)
- Dark Boo (Room 85)
- Koopatrol (Room 86)
- Magikoopa (Room 86)
- Chromeba (Room 87)
- Reversya Cursya (Room 87)
- Copta (Room 87)
- Ninjoe (Room 88)
- Ninjohn (Room 88)
- Headbonk Goomba (Room 89)
Rooms 91-99[edit]
- Gawbus (Room 91)
- Ninjerry (Rooms 92 and 93)
- Ninjohn (Room 92)
- Ninjoe (Room 92)
- Skellobit (Rooms 93 and 95)
- Cursya (Room 93)
- Flip Fire Bro (Rooms 94 and 96)
- Squoinker (Room 94)
- Spiky Skellobit (Room 95)
- Flip Boomerang Bro (Room 96)
- Squiglet (Room 97)
- Red Chomp (Room 98)
- Blue Magiblot (Room 99)
- Red Magiblot (Room 99)
- Yellow Magiblot (Room 99)
Room 100[edit]
Prizes[edit]
| Item | Image | Location
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|---|---|---|
| Special Card (x9) |  |
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| Dashell |  |
In a chest revealed after defeating Wracktail; note that his collection is necessary to activate the pipe leading out of the pit.
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Backgrounds[edit]
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The background of the Flipside and Flopside Pits changes every 25 rooms. Each background has a mural depicting one of the Pure Hearts and a location or character associated with it, with a narrower version on one of the other walls of the room. The Flipside Pit has murals of the first four Pure Hearts, and their narrower versions can be seen by flipping.
The rest areas of the Pit do not contain either version of that section of the Pit's mural, but do change to reflect each background's differently colored bricks.
The background mural of Fracktail seen in rooms 26-50
The background mural of Merlee's Mansion seen in rooms 51-75
The background mural of Fort Francis seen in rooms 76-99
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | １００部屋ダンジョン[?] Hyaku-heya Danjon |
100-Room Dungeon | |
| French | Puits des 100 épreuves de Recto[?] | Flipside's Well of 100 Trials | |
| German | Grube der 100 Prüfungen[?] | Pit of 100 Trials | |
| Italian | Labirinto dei 100 livelli[?] | Labyrinth of the 100 levels | |
| Korean | 방 100개의 던전[?] Bang Baekgae-ui Deonjeon |
Dungeon of 100 Rooms | |
| Spanish | Cien Mazmorras de Villacara[?] | Flipside 100 Dungeons |
