Dragon Coin
- "Peach Coin" redirects here. It is not to be confused withPeach Medallion.
| Dragon Coin | |||
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 Artwork fromSuper Mario World | |||
| First appearance | Super Mario World (1990) | ||
| Latest appearance | Minecraft (Tricky Trials) (2024) | ||
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- “The big coins are Dragon Coins. If you pick up five of these in an area, you get a1 UP.”
- —Message Block inYoshi's Island 3,Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2
ADragon Coin is a largecoin that first appears inSuper Mario World. It has a picture of aYoshi's head and torso imprinted on it.
History[edit]
Super Mario World /Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2[edit]
InSuper Mario World, at least five Dragon Coins appear in mostlevels, although places such ascastles,Ghost Houses, andfortresses 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 8,000points, respectively, and collecting all five in a level awards the player anextra life.Yoshi's Wings can be used to access certain auto-scrollingCoin 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 aWarp Pipe to a new area causes all remaining Dragon Coins to disappear ifMario orLuigi has already collected at least five of them, making the remaining ones unobtainable.Chocolate Secret is unique for having only one Dragon Coin.
For theGame Boy Advance version, Dragon Coins were given a slightly bigger role. They appear in levels that did not originally have them, including Chocolate Secret now having the standard set of five Dragon Coins, 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, andYoshi eats it and lays anegg, which hatches into a giant coin imprinted with a portrait ofPrincess Toadstool, resulting in all of the Dragon Coins in the game being replaced byPrincess Coins.[1] In theNintendo Power Advance guide forSuper 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 Toadstool's likeness.[2]
The Dragon Coin's collection sound effect was reused for theAdvance Coins inSuper Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3, theStar Coins in theNew Super Mario Bros. games, and thecolor coins inSuper Mario Run. InNew Super Mario Bros., the sound effect is internally labeled "SE_OBJ_GET_DRAGON_COIN."[3]
Game & Watch Gallery 4[edit]
InGame & Watch Gallery 4, a Dragon Coin is used to represent five KOs in the Modern version ofBoxing.
WarioWare: Get It Together![edit]
InWarioWare: Get It Together!, Dragon Coins appear in themicrogameSuper 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 asJimmy T.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie[edit]
InThe Super Mario Bros. Movie, a display box containing a Dragon Coin with the same appearance as itsSuper Mario World sprite can be seen in the antiques shop.
Minecraft[edit]
InMinecraft, in the Super Mario Mash-Up Pack, the paintingPrairie Ride added in the Tricky Trials update is replaced by a Dragon Coin.
Unused appearances[edit]
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island[edit]
Dragon Coins wereoriginally going to appear inSuper Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, where they were going to be a currency along with regular coins for some of theBonus Challenges.[4] They were possibly replaced byflowers. The sprite for them is not present in theGame Boy Advance port at all.
Profiles[edit]
Super Mario World[edit]
- Wii U Virtual Console manual description:Collect five Dragon Coins in a course to earn an extra life.
Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2[edit]
- 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[edit]
Super Mario World (Coin Heaven)
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (unused)
Front of aWendy's Kids' Meal bag from 2002
The cutscene of all collected Dragon Coins becoming Princess Coins, inSuper Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2
Cover ofSuper Mario Wisdom Games Picture Book 1: Search for the Dragon Coin
Super Mario Wisdom Games Picture Book 1: Search for the Dragon Coin
Super Mario Wisdom Games Picture Book 1: Search for the Dragon Coin
Super Mario Story Quiz Picture Book 5: Mario's Amusement Park
Minecraft painting
See also[edit]
Names in other languages[edit]
| 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 Drago[8] | Dragon Coin | |
| Moneta del Drago[9][10] | Coin of the Dragon | Super Mario World | |
| Moneta drago[6][11] | Dragon coin | Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2,Super Mario World on Virtual Console | |
| Yoshi Coin[12] | - | Game Boy Advance: La Rivista Ufficiale | |
| Portuguese(Brazilian) | Moeda Dragão[?] | Dragon Coin | |
| Spanish | Moneda Dragón[6] | Dragon Coin |
- Princess Coin
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italian | Princess Coin[12] | - |
Notes[edit]
- Yoshi's Safari and every game of theYoshi's Island series feature coins with a Yoshi's head on them rather than the normal coin design. The coins on theMario Kart 8 Deluxe version of the courseYoshi's Island also features this design, as the course is heavily inspired bySuper Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. The coins inYoshi's Crafted World feature a depiction of aYoshi's Egg instead; however, the larger10 Coins depict Yoshi's head, similar to Dragon Coins.
- ThePlessie Medals found in theBowser's Fury campaign ofSuper Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury bear similarities to Dragon Coins.
References[edit]
- ^"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 inSuper 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). ISBN0-7615-3913-1. Page 103.
- ^Winter 2002.Nintendo Power Advance Volume 4.Nintendo of America (American English). Page 18.
- ^TCRF.New Super Mario Bros. § Sound Effects.The Cutting Room Floor (English). Retrieved February 18, 2019.
- ^Proto:Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island/ys romX 0/Bonus Challenges.The Cutting Room Floor (English). Retrieved October 30, 2021.
- ^1990.スーパーマリオワールド (Super Mario World) instruction booklet (PDF).nintendo.co.jp (Japanese). Page 8. Retrieved February 21, 2025.
- ^abcd2002.Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 European instruction booklet (PDF).nintendo.com. Retrieved February 21, 2025.
- ^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.
- ^Sebastian Haley, Meagan Marie (October 2017).Playing With Super Power: Super NES Classics (Multiplayer.it Edizioni). Translated by Christian Colli. Italy:Multiplayer Ed. (Italian). ISBN9788866312833. Tab 47.
- ^Super Mario World instruction booklet.Nintendo (Italian). Page 7.
- ^Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Page 61.
- ^Super Mario World (Virtual Console). Page 7.
- ^abAndrea Minini Saldini (July 2004).Game Boy Advance: La Rivista Ufficiale 3 (Allegato) - Tutti i trucchi GBA dalla A alla Z. Milan:Future Media Italy (Italian). Page 60.
