Side Quests and Activities

Cooking

Flipside Cooking

Cooking can be accomplishe by bringing items to the chefs on the 1st Floor of Flipside and Flopside. The cook in Flipside will be a destination for you whenever you get done with a chapter, as she can take a single item and (usually) upgrade it with extra power, at no cost to you! Most 10-point healing items can be upgraded into 20-point healing items, while a 20-point healing item, like a Super Shroom Shake, can be converted into a 30-point healer. Ultra Shroom Shakes, which normally heal you for 50 points of damage, can be upgraded for free into Shroom Steaks, which will heal you for a full 70 points of health.

Many non-healing items can be upgraded, as well, including attack items like Ice Blocks and POW Blocks. Typically these change them into edible items that will act in the exact same fashion as the item you had them cooked from, but with a slightly enhanced effect, such as dealing more damage.

Note that Flipside cooking can result in Mistakes, which are items that heal you for only one point of health. There are relatively few ingredients that will result in Mistakes, though, although things like Courage Shells probably shouldn’t have been cooked in the first place. However, if you attempt to cook something twice, then you’ll almost always wind up with a mistake. E.g. the aforementioned Ultra Shroom Shake: cooking it once turns it into a Shroom Steak, but attempting to cook the Shroom Steak will net you a Mistake and completely wipe out your valuable item. Save your game before attempting to cook unfamiliar ingredients!

Flopside Cooking

The Flopside cook is different than the cook in Flipside. She requires you to bring her two items, which she’ll combine into one healing item. The results are kind of hit and miss, honestly; sometimes the two items will only have the properties of one of the items, thus effectively giving you no benefit, and sometimes mixing two items together will produce an item no better than what you would’ve gotten for cooking single items at the Flipside cook. (E.g. a Shroom Cake, which heals you for 30, is made by mixing a Super Shroom Shake and a Cake Mix, but you can make a Roast Shroom Dish which heals for 30 by offering up only the Super Shroom Shake at the Flipside cook.)

You can cook without recipes, but you're more likely to wind up with a Mistake if your ingredients don't match.

That said, there are some pretty decent recipes to be had here. There are a couple of recipes that will let you make a 25-point healing item from ingredients that cost 50 or 55 coins, such as Shroom Pudding (Big Egg + Shroom Shake) and Fruity Hamburger (Power Steak and Keel Mango). (Compare to a Roast Shroom Dish which heals for 30 but which costs 80 coins at the shop in Flopside.) You can also make some decent offensive items, like the Lovely Chocolate (Mild Cocoa Bean and Fire Burst), which temporarily doubles your attack damage, halves all damage you take, and shocks enemies that touch you.

There are also plenty of recipes that simply aren’t worth your time, though, such as recipes that require you to mix two ingredients together for result A, mix another two ingredients for result B, then mix A and B together for result C, which is usually going to be no better than the aforementioned Shroom Pudding or Fruity Hamburger. Luckily, you can browse most of the recipes for yourself by finding the Cooking Disks.

Itty Bits Food Shops

Many recipes will require you to visit the Itty Bits food shops that are scattered around the land; you’ll need the Pixl Dottie to get into the doors. There are Itty Bits shops in B1 Flipside, B1 Flopside, Crag Downtown (5–1), and the base of the giant tree in Chapter 3–3, as well as in Chapter 7-4 on top of one of the buildings near Grambi's Shrine. Here’s a list of what they sell:

• Itty Bits Flopside: Fresh Pasta Bunch, Power Steak, Smelly Herb
• Itty Bits Flipside: Cake Mix, Big Egg, Honey Jar
• Itty Bits Bitlands: Peachy Peach, Fresh Veggie, Horsetail
• Itty Bits Crag Town: Keel Mango, Mild Cocoa Bean
• Itty Bits 7-4: Hot Dogs, Hot Sauce

Cooking Disks

There are at least four Cooking Disks to be found in the game world, and there are probably more than we didn’t discover. You can bring these to either of the cooking shops and upload them to the DS machines there to learn a bunch of new recipes and find out where to buy ingredients.

• Cooking Disk B: Flopside Bar. When you find the Golden Ticket in 3D mode, the cooking disc should be nearby.
• Cooking Disk R: Found on Fliptown 3F. Go behind gated section from Flipside 2F, use wiimote to find hidden blocks above the platform nearby, and climb up from there.
• Cooking Disk Y: The old folk’s home in Flopside 1st Floor. Go into 3D to find it.
• Cooking Disk G: To the east of the Crag downtown area. When you reach the save block, flip into miniature and head through the small crack in the 3D wall there. Head through the pipe and flip into 3D to find the treasure chest.
• Cooking Disk W: Flopside 3F Outskirts. Use Tippi to reveal the blocks under the pipe in the 2F outskirts, then repeat the process you used to find the Disk R by finding the hidden blocks and such.
• Cooking Disk PU: Chapter 7-4. After supersizing with a Super Star, check that screen for a pipe in 3D mode. Descend into it, defeat the enemy within, and you'll earn the disc.

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