You have infinitely more patience than I do. After I unlocked enough stars to defeat Bowser that was the end for me. I got about 10 more stars after I finished the game but just didn't have the patience to tackle any stars which I would have to play more than once to finish (which meant basically all the stars I had left). I know it meant I missed out on a huge chunk of the game but I think if I ever go back to the game I would probably prefer to start again than try and get the remaining 40 or so stars I haven't collected.

Stars that everyone else found hard that I beat in 2 or 3 lives:

- Bouldergeist Daredevil
- Dreadnought Purple Coins
- Luigi's Purple Coins
- Melty Molten Daredevil

Stars that nobody mentions that I am completely stuck on:

- Freezeflame purple coins: I get 98 and then miss the long jump. It takes 20 minutes to get 98 and then I DIE. Then I have to redo all 98 to die again. How do I do the jump?

- Ghost ship daredevil: Always die after the boss moves to top deck.

Worst level ever... I managed to beat it once I figured out you could jump into a cluster of coins and then spin or whatever to make you change direction better.

Freezeflame == All you have to do is jump straight out and land correctly. Run and jump by pressing the super jump button, Z I think when you jump. Then it should position you looking straight down and just be carefull on aligning yourself. Remember that if you shake the wiimote you can get and extra lift for reallignment. If you want an example, watch a few youtube videos I'm sure there are some.

Ghost ship daredevil == This was hard. It took me a couple of tries. Just remember that you can catch and shoot the green shells midflight all at the same time. Try to align yourself directly looking at the boss so you can catch and throw all in one motion. Also, killing off the little ones immediately is a very good choice.

The Ghost ship daredevil gave me a hard time too but it's just a matter of being very careful and knowing how to avoid being hit (not very helpful tips I know!).

I don't remember any star taking 20 minutes, is it the one where you have to go the top of a mountain?

This.Finally someone notices that star is hard I thought it was easy at first but failling time after time I realise it was hard :P

Yes. It's probably not 20 minutes, but it's so easy to fall off that you have to ascend very slowly. It's very easy to miss one even if you know where they all are. I just need to know how to do the long jump at the end - short, long, left, right? I don't want to collect 98 coins per time just to do it by trial and error.

holy shit, its luigi. Was it always luigi coz i looked at it and always assumed it was a giant 8 bit mario

@Megaman... it's Mario on the other side, the 8-bit Mario and Luigi were identical apart from the colour.

@topic... there were 2-3 other purple coin stars I found harder than this one, but Luigi's is perhaps the most epic.

I am going to draw out the route I take on that picture.... but my basic principle was to get as far away from the beginning as possible while touching very few platforms, then slowly come back.

Edit: Finally... this site dies above 5000 users it seems, I somehow managed to post this (double post, this was the same as above) when there were 6000 but from then on I couldn't get past the homepage.