Awful retcons ftw. Also, I've finally beaten this game. It was good, but nothing mind-blowing.

Bowser is the Brad,and Angelina of the Video Game world.

I'm just kinda quoting myself since I was ignored.

Do you already have all star coins? If not try collecting all star/moon coins

Why would they stop shining for that though? I thought it was only if you use the White Tannoki suit.

No I meant the shine again after you collect all the coins, but maybe it was only if you didn't use the suit.
I played it and saw the suit, and got no sparkle at the end, but the sparkle came back when I collected all coins, but maybe it doesn't come back if you used it, IDK since I never used it

Wow I just StreetPasses someone who had only 232 coins in there coin rush and they used the tail... The was such an easy win for me...

A ridiculous coin farming exploit has been discovered in World 3-4.
How ridiculous? You can get 15,000 coins with no input after the initial setup, which itself is very safe as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gAZuW7Ykho

Once you have your 15,000 coins, you can double it at the flagpole (easy with Raccoon Mario), and end your run by dying, for a rapid 30,000 coins.
Doing this requires that you have a Gold Flower in your inventory, so you need to have beaten the game first. Once you have it though, you can get 30,000 coins in under three minutes.

I just maxed out coin rush thanks to that 3-4 hint

There are at least four other ways to do get 30,000 coins, starting with 2-4, Mushroom-1, Flower-3 or Star-1.
But 3-4 is by far the easiest, fastest and most lucrative. It is genuinely broken.

If the 30,000 coin limit were not in place you could reach a million coins, or even 9,999,999 coins in very short time.

In a way the coin limit means inhibiting competitive players - but seeing glitches like that shows you why it's actually important that they included it. >.<
Although DLC is going to be a lot less appealing if you've already got the max coin rush score anyway. :/

It's a damned shame because outside of this ridiculous exploit, my best score has been 27,163 x2, before the final multiplier goes into effect.
So technically 54,326, but limited to 30,000.

If no limited was in effect I could expect to earn 180,000 coins per run!
22,500 in the first level, then times two, times two, times two...woo!

I feel cheap by using those easy coin ways. I managed to get almost 16,000 on the Star pack. Getting 30,000 coins for your record sucks out all the competition and fun into Streetpassing with people.

That exploit's insane.
I've been going the normal way, with 11,000 my max on a coin rush. I also have 190,000. Its not much.

Also, @HarmoKnight, my shiny stars came back! Apparently I had died a bunch of times on a level, had the white tanooki suit pop up, and then I had exited out of the game before I finished the level. So basically it took away my shiny stars until I beat that level without using the suit (its strange because that level was already beaten) oh well. All is good now.

@emmaan that's good, glad shiny came back

Actually I'd argue the 30,000 limit is what takes the fun out of it.
You can't achieve truly astounding records that could STILL be broken by better players.

Although the existence of this exploit has broken Coin Rush mode now. I just tried, I got 27,673 coins before grabbing the flagpole with one second left on the clock.
If there were no coin limit, I could earn 221,000+ coins in this run now, not account for coins earned in the next two levels.

I also maxed out the score in non coin rush mode for 3-4

God, Mario must have buns of gold to not get his tush ripped to pieces by that shell. D:

Technically, he does.

Yes! 1million coins! With pretty rainbows too!