Tap-Tap The Red Nose's Fort

Yellow Yoshi opening the locked cork pipe. The cork is about to pop out of the pipe and fly off.

Tap-Tap The Red Nose's Fort is the sixth and final mini-boss castle in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island and Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3.

Layout

The majority of the course consists of finding a key through a Warp Pipe maze, as the pipe to the way out is locked (actually, stuffed with a cork). Upon entering the maze, Yellow Yoshi exits the sewers through a Warp Pipe on the ground floor.

The key turns out to be guarded by a Slime on the lower first floor of the maze on the left side. Once Yoshi defeats the Slime (which requires all of his eggs), he can take the key and travel back up to the pipe and venture on.

Yoshi will then find himself on two obstacle courses over lava, which he must cross using first a wheel of spinning platforms, then a small log. Finally after the final Middle Ring, Yellow Yoshi enters the Warp Pipe to the battle of the fort.

Kamek will scream at Yellow Yoshi for making so much progress and "resize" a Tap-Tap.

While Tap-Tap the Red Nose is jumping around the arena, Yoshi will notice that the bridge over the lava is made of unstable blocks. He then pelts them with Yoshi Eggs until a gap appears. Yoshi waits for Red Nose to jump at him, only to fall into the gap in the bridge. Yoshi then progresses onto the last four levels of the game.

Enemies

• Slimes (2x)
• Boos
• Big Boo
• Fire-Bars
• Boo Guys
• Piranha Plant
• Little Mousers
• Jean de Fillet
• Tap-Taps
• Tap-Tap the Red Nose

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ビッグカチカチの　とりで[?] Biggu Kachikachi no Toride	Big Tap-Tap's Fortress
Chinese	大咔咔堡垒[?] Dà Kākā bǎolěi	Tap-Tap the Red Nose fort
German	Stegos Festung[?]	Tap-Tap the Red Nose' Fortress
Italian	La fortezza del Grande Piombospino[?]	The fortress of the Big Tap-Tap
Spanish	Fortaleza de Metalón[?]	Tap-Tap the Red Nose's fortress

Trivia

• If Yoshi does a Ground Pound on the cork that requires a key to remove, the cork will get further pressed down.