I'm been doing a casual first playthrough as of recently, and had a bit of an oddity with collecting the Shine Sprite in Pirates Grotto in the room with the save block (The one that is in front of a ledge you can walk on top of, said area also had a stream running on top of that ledge.)

Basically, what happened was, since I didn't know how to get it I attempted a ground pound, which obviously failed, might have tried hammering it, but what I did to get it was walk off the ledge on the left side of the block, and somehow collected it. I wasn't aware the invisible block was in that room till much later and noticed this wasn't used in the current WR for 100%, so I'm assuming its either known and inconsistent or this is new. This was on the US release of the game. Unfortunately I can't really remember what else I did if anything I did beside walking off the ledge next to it.

Is this the thing you're talking about?

Ok, so I did miss it then. And also looked at a completely different run. Sorry for that then.