Mario Hoops 3 on 3 Nintendo DS Unlockables

Alternative Costumes

These are alternative costumes for a character. To use these, hold a direction of the control pad (up/right/left/down) while you drag the player into the basketball ring. A different direction may mean a different costume (eg. Yoshi can have 5 colors)

• Finish Mushroom Cup (silver prize)
  Peach's alternative costume
• Finish Flower Cup (silver prize)
  Daisy's alternative costume
• Finish Hard Flower Cup (silver prize)
  Yoshi's alternative costume
• Finish Hard Star Cup (silver prize)
  Flyguy's alternative costume
• Finish Hard Rainbow Cup (silver prize)
  Ninja's alternate colors
• Finish Hard Rainbow Cup (gold prize)
  White Mage's alternative costume
• Finish Hard Rainbow Cup (bronze prize)
  Black Mage's alternate costume

Hard Mode

Complete the Rainbow Cup in the Normal Tournament to unlock Hard Mode.

Saikyou (Strongest) Difficulty

Complete the Rainbow Cup in Hard Tournament to unlock Saikyou Difficulty under exhibition mode. It the number "6", under the COM level.

Third Dribble Race

Beat the two existing records in dribble race: Peach Castle (45sec) & Sunshine Road (55sec), to unlock the 3rd dribble race: Rainbow Road (1min)

Unlock Different Basketballs

Completing certain tasks get you different basketballs.

• Complete Training Mode
  Blue and Silver Ball
• 2000 points on profile
  All Silver Ball
• Use all special moves in a tournament
  Star Ball
• Get Gold in Mushroom cup
  Yoshi Egg
• Get Gold in Flower Cup
  Watermelon
• Get Gold in Hard Flower Cup
  Dice Ball
• Get Gold in Hard Mushroom Cup
  Cheep-Cheep Ball
• Get Gold in Hard Star Cup
  Goomba Ball
• Collect 5000 points in profile
  Gold Ball
• Get Silver In Hard Mushroom Cup
  Soccer Ball
• Play Rainbow ship on exhibition without coins and win
  Black and Red Ball
• Play Bowsers Castle in exhibition mode for the first time
  Purple and Orange
• Play Daisy's Garden in exhibition mode
  Yellow and Green
• On any tourney match,win by ONLY using charged shots
  Red white and blue ball
• Win 5 times in wireless exhibition
  Rainbow ball
• Lose 5 times in wireless exhibition
  Pumpkin ball
• Get a gold trophy in Star Cup
  Spiked ball

Unlock Stages

These are the fourth stages of the cups that can be unlocked

• In exhibition, between the times of around 4-6pm play noko noko beach and win by over 200 points.
  Sunset Beach (Mushroom Cup)
• Dunk 3 times in the last court of flower cup (daisy garden), and a panel appears, and from that get a blue seed.
  Malboro Garden (Flower Cup)
• Win by 800 points in a match in star cup.
  Gira Gira Desert (Star Cup)

Unlockable Characters

In order to unlock any of these characters, which you can later use on your team, perform the task specified after its name.

• Complete the Star Cup.
  Bowser
• Beat Rainbow Cup
  Ninja
• Finish Mushroom Cup (bronze prize)
  Paratroopa
• Finish Flower Cup (bronze prize)
  Dixie Kong
• Finish Hard Mushroom Cup (bronze prize)
  Birdo
• Finish Hard Flower Cup (bronze prize)
  Boo
• Finish Hard Star Cup (bronze prize)
  Flyguy
• Finish Star Cup (Silver prize)
  Moogle
• Finish Rainbow Cup (Silver prize)
  White Mage
• Finish Rainbow Cup (Gold prize)
  Black Mage

Unlockable Cups

Perform the specified task in order to unlock the Cup stated.

• Complete the Mushroom Cup, which is initially available.
  Flower Cup
• Complete the Flower Cup.
  Star Cup
• Complete the Star Cup.
  Rainbow Cup

Unlockable Levels in Coin Hunters Mode

Originally there are 2 stages available for this wireless mode:
Mario Classic 1-1
Mario Classic 8-4

To unlock 2 more (Mario Classic 2-2 & Forest Stage) , you have to play and win 5 coin hunter games in a row (meaning don't lose, and don't turn off your DS) and then the next time you turn on your DS, you should have a message saying you have unlocked the two levels.