Mario Hoops 3 on 3 (Mario Slam Basketball) Cheats and Unlockables (Nintendo DS)

Mario Hoops 3-on-3 (also known as Mario Basket 3on3 in Japan and as Mario Slam Basketball in Europe) is a basketball video game developed by Square Enix for the Nintendo DS. This game is the first in which Mario and Final Fantasy characters appear together as playable characters, and the second Mario game developed by Square, the first one being Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. The music is composed by Final Fantasy sound editor Masayoshi Soken. It is the first Mario basketball game ever to be released.

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)

Black Mage's alternate costume - Finish Hard Rainbow Cup (bronze prize)

Daisy's alternative costume - Finish Flower Cup (silver prize)

Flyguy's alternative costume - Finish Hard Star Cup (silver prize)

Ninja's alternate colors - Finish Hard Rainbow Cup (silver prize)

Peach's alternative costume - Finish Mushroom Cup (silver prize)

White Mage's alternative costume - Finish Hard Rainbow Cup (gold prize)

Yoshi's alternative costume - Finish Hard Flower Cup (silver prize)

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.

All Silver Ball - 2000 points on profile

Black and Red Ball - Play Rainbow ship on exhibition without coins and win

Blue and Silver Ball - Complete Training Mode

Cheep-Cheep Ball - Get Gold in Hard Mushroom Cup

Dice Ball - Get Gold in Hard Flower Cup

Gold Ball - Collect 5000 points in profile

Goomba Ball - Get Gold in Hard Star Cup

Pumpkin ball - Lose 5 times in wireless exhibition

Purple and Orange - Play Bowser's Castle in exhibition mode for the first time

Rainbow ball - Win 5 times in wireless exhibition

Red white and blue ball - On any tourney match,win by ONLY using charged shots

Soccer Ball - Get Silver In Hard Mushroom Cup

Star Ball - Use all special moves in a tournament

Watermelon - Get Gold in Flower Cup

Yellow and Green - Play Daisy's Garden in exhibition mode

Yoshi Egg - Get Gold in Mushroom cup

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

Gira Gira Desert (Star Cup) - Win by 800 points in a match in star cup.

Malboro Garden (Flower Cup) - Dunk 3 times in the last court of flower cup (daisy garden), and a panel appears, and from that get a blue seed.

Sunset Beach (Mushroom Cup) - In exhibition, between the times of around 4-6pm play noko noko beach and win by over 200 points.

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.

Birdo - Finish Hard Mushroom Cup (bronze prize)

Black Mage - Finish Rainbow Cup (Gold prize)

Boo - Finish Hard Flower Cup (bronze prize)

Bowser - Complete the Star Cup.

Dixie Kong - Finish Flower Cup (bronze prize)

Flyguy - Finish Hard Star Cup (bronze prize)

Moogle - Finish Star Cup (Silver prize)

Ninja - Beat Rainbow Cup

Paratroopa - Finish Mushroom Cup (bronze prize)

White Mage - Finish Rainbow Cup (Silver prize)

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

Flower Cup - Complete the Mushroom Cup, which is initially available.

Rainbow Cup - Complete the Star Cup.

Star Cup - Complete the Flower 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.

Check out the Mushroom Cup finals in the video footage below. One hell of a competition: